Category: Comedy
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4 stars – irony and high stakes Julia and Dan are splitting up, and every day they step into the divorce office and sit next to their lawyers, Samantha and Katherine. New details of their story emerge through each dialogue, together with hints about how their relationships have evolved in time.
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4 stars – a lighthearted but well captured portrait of an all-girls houseshare. Three housemates (and close friends) in their 20s are hosting a birthday party for one of them, when the birthday girl’s new situationship-about-to-have-the-talk shows up and turns the night around. Accommo-dating, a short and sweet one-act play managed to be clever, funny,…
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3 stars – an entertaining improvised comedy hour with varying levels of performance. A 60-minute longform improv show is a tough task to master even for a very well-versed ensemble of some of the funniest quick-thinkers who can read just about any room. With three heroes, a dungeon but no dragons, Mistakes Were Made provided…
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4 stars – but very close to 5! In this comedy, Lairs and May could be each other’s nemesis, but they develop a (not-so-balanced) friendship. Lairs is a Chinese student who stems from a rich family and has just moved to London. May is a sound, practical person, she looks Asian but was born in…
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4 stars – Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show The Sydney duo Hot Department certainly deliver what they promise: heat from straight to finish. It doesn’t take them long to start undressing and by the end nothing is off the table and not much on…
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5 stars – brilliantly written and performed tale of a 1930s wannabe starlet Bebe Cave’s solo show pays homage to her favourite topic in the world: neurotic actresses (her own words). While Bebe has been performing at the Fringe and elsewhere in the UK with her sister Jessie Cave since 2014, this is her first…
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5 stars – irresistible If Arturo Luíz Soria wants to talk about himself, about his past and his traumas, he does it in a very subtle way, by interpreting a version of his mother. Elisabete is a woman in her 70s, as the performer declares in the very beginning of the show, and from that…
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4 stars – turbulent and energetic though sometimes confusing Buckle up, spectators, fans of psychedelics, microdosers, scientists and those otherwise curious, for Sarina Freda is about to take you on board of her turbulent ride of acid-induced highs and lows, near-death experiences and resolutions. In her hour-long one-woman show, she blends comedic and tragic storytelling…
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5 stars (4 for the show +1 for her unscripted quick wit). Objectively speaking, by which I mean listening to the woman next to me right after the show, it feels impossible not to find the comedian Catherine Cohen hilariously funny. The audience was unanimously bursting into laughter approximately every minute during her hour-long, fast…
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4 stars – pretty funny Gianna Milici has a lot of energy and talent – this is the first thing to be said about this show. Part stand-up comedy, part musical show, Pretty Delusional is a solid creation and a showcase of the young performer’s multiple abilities.
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