• Feral
    Feral

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – a boisterous stand-up comic to watch. Jess Fuchs is a natural comedic talent: she’s got the timing, the quick wit, the self awareness, and the ability to turn anything into material. The 32-year-old Aussie stand-up comic immediately commands the room in a warm, hilarious and unpretentious way, making it impossible not to like…

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  • Very Hot. Very Messy
    Very Hot. Very Messy

    ⭐⭐⭐ – hot, messy and all over the place. Georgia Polly-Taylor’s one woman show Very Hot. Very Messy is, best described by her own words, a ‘comedic carnage spectacle’. It’s so full of props, gags, pop culture references, and – last but not least – a glittery toilet wrapped in purple boa, it’s enough to…

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  • No Hard Felix
    No Hard Felix

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – A genius tale of toxic masculinity. No Hard Felix is a one-man show by Northern Ireland-born actor Mark Ryder who takes us for a hilariously silly yet vulnerable ride with his alter ego, Felix. Felix, a man in finance, trust fund, (almost) 6ft 5, blue eyes, is the type of guy we all…

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  • Brighton Psych Fest 2026 cooks up a musical storm
    Brighton Psych Fest 2026 cooks up a musical storm

    Only in its third year of existence, the little southern sister of Manchester and Edinburgh Psych Fest returns to Brighton’s aplenty grassroot venues to gather local and international names from the psychedelic and alternative rock scene. And boy oh boy, did they cook up a storm of energetic tunes, riffs, synths and visuals.

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  • Sand
    Sand

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ truly mesmerising. A couple and their younger double; a house near the sea and the catastrophe of coastal erosion. As slowly and inexorably as the rising of sea levels and the succession of heavy rains, dementia erodes the memory and capabilities of one of the protagonists.

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  • Sid Singh: Love Bombing
    Sid Singh: Love Bombing

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Funniest stand-up this Fringe! Sid Singh brings us a show about politics and how he had a date with his stalker (and put her to the test… with politics, of course).

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  • I AM JOHNNY
    I AM JOHNNY

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clever drag parody. If Johnny had a profile on a dating app, I imagine it like this: a selfie of his face (from below), a selfie in the gym flexing muscles, a selfie in the gym leaning against the machine and tilting up his chin; description: ‘Just a simple guy from the North. AKA…

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  • The Body I Left in Susquehanna National Forest
    The Body I Left in Susquehanna National Forest

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Queer absurdist dark comedy AKA such a strange, funny play. Like the title promises. Patrick and Claire are still wearing accessories from their wedding ceremony and are driving to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. It’s late, it’s dark, they are tired, and the car ends up in a ditch, not before having hit something.…

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  • Democrazy
    Democrazy

    ⭐⭐⭐ Fun (and a little lesson on being a citizen). A tourist sunbathes in Bali and projects the Western stereotypes that make us enjoy those kinds of holiday so much: soft sand, blue sea, fresh exotic drinks, you name it. All this, while we completely and willingly ignore the struggles of the locals. And especially,…

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  • Puttana / W***e
    Puttana / W***e

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful and intimidating performance. Laura is not yet 24, she still owns a huge teddy bear, and she gets paid for sexual services. This makes her a sex worker. Right? A whore, like someone calls her… On a stage populated by microphones, Laura tells her story in a scattered and violently poetical way.

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  • Constellations
    Constellations

    ⭐⭐ A minimal constellation. A man and a woman meet at a barbecue. Roland is a beekeeper; Marianne is a quantum physicist. Their meeting is the event that opens a range of possibilities, in multiverse theory. In one universe, they go home together, in the other they don’t. In a universe they get married, in…

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  • Creep
    Creep

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A hilarious lowdown of creepy screenshots. One of the hottest Fringe shows this year – a fully sold out run with newly added dates gone before you blink twice – is a one-woman piece by Harriet Richardson, a multidisciplinary performance artist, who opens by humbly admitting she’s not a comedian nor an actress and…

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