Man in the Flying Lawn Chair

Assembly Rooms Rating: ***

Priorité A Gauche

Pleasance Dome Rating: ****

Bedbound

Traverse, Edinburgh Rating: ****

Bob Doolally’s Balls

Stand Comedy Club Rating: ***

Twentieth Century Girls

Gilded Balloon at Teviot RowRating: ***

Ross Noble

Pleasance One, Edinburgh Rating:****

Blood and Roses

C Underground Rating: ****

Gagarin Way

Traverse, EdinburghRating: *****

Dropout’s first play takes festival by storm

Ex-dishwasher compared to Behan and Beckett as satire is snapped up for transfer to National Theatre.

Taverner Consort/ Parrott

****McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

A faithful composer

Pénélope **** Edinburgh Festival Theatre

It gets under your skin

Körper**** The Playhouse, Edinburgh

Poisoned Welles

War of the Worlds Edinburgh Lyceum *

Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight

So here we are in Edinburgh, that hell hole of the North, and we have been ushered into an audience with Garth Marenghi, dream weaver, shaman, one hell of a man and the author of 24 classic horror novels including Black Fang (rats learn to drive) and The Ooze (can water die?).