If he hasn’t decided to talk about it, it’s probably not important. I have absolutely no information to divulge about this man after seeing Amusements and I don’t want any!

Lara Ricote's second show is a wonderful exploration of the one thing that really matters in a relationship

Jonathan Oldfield’s One Way Mirror is a warm, funny storytelling show about his real experience living with a one way mirror as his front room window. While recounting his experience of observing the world, he creates the need for reflection in the audience too.

Sam Lake’s Aspiring DILF is an incredibly accomplished and well-crafted narrative stand-up show that that takes care of everything

Drag king and nature expert Bi-Curious George takes us on a joyful journey through the animal kingdom, in all of its queer majesty.

The capitalist origins of Monopoly were not to be upheld, and so a Homeowners’ Association was started. One of the contestants on stage was at one point made to reveal actual proof of his mortgage. There was arm wrestling, partial nudity and a lot of milk.

Double act Will Rowland and Eddy Hare, who are hoping to expand their influence as the UK’s lowest energy double act to cover all of Europe, are back with a serious show, This Means War.

Lulu’s show is about addiction, recovery, mess and finding humour in everything as much as possible; Actually, Actually is as interesting and gritty as Love, Actually is not.

Rosalie is brilliant in every aspect of this show. Not only is she bursting with spirit, her delivery is hilarious and her skill as a writer, undeniable. It’s line after line of absolute bangers, each one well crafted and meticulously thought through.

Siân Docksey is not performing stand-up comedy and pole dancing. She has actually created a brand new genre, and is doing something pretty genius in the way the two combine.

Simon David is a quadruple threat: he can sing, he can act, he can roller-skate and he's wearing a skirt. He's a boy and he's wearing a skirt. He's from the North and he's wearing a skirt. One Olivier Award please!

Holly Spillar’s debut Hole is an ethereal exploration of her experiences with vaginismus, the difficulty of getting a diagnosis and of navigating sex. Or as Holly puts it at the opening of the show: “I’m looking for a pole that fits my hole.”

The icing on the cake of this show are the one-liners she pulls out of her pocket at the end — it’s an extra sprinkle of fun on a show that didn’t even really need it but it gives her the opportunity to pretend to be a lizard on the back wall of the venue.

Tatty Macleod’s Fugue is best when it goes deeper. The discovery that she’s too English for France and too French for England is something she is still wrestling with now

Recently diagnosed with dyslexia, an outcome she says is pointless now that no one is giving her a free laptop for it, in Hear Me Out Sikisa describes the hunt for her own superpower.

There’s a song for every occasion, from an abridged lesson in the history of love songs that spans Gregorian chants and Olivia Rodrigo to an on-the-spot funeral song for an audience member

Strangely, and seemingly against all odds given the distinct air of lawlessness, I do actually leave feeling like I’ve learnt something, even if this what you would get if Wikipedia was a rollercoaster at Thorpe Park

Jodie Mitchell’s Glaswegian drag king persona John Travulva is almost as much of a real, tangible character as Jodie themself.

Priya Hall is an excellent and warm storyteller, helped by the fact that she has an important story to tell.

Kathy Maniura is really, really good at pretending to be inanimate objects

Little malevolent but ultimately loveable witch Brew steals the show in Lachlan Werner’s Voices of Evil

In her show Money Princess, she has command of the stage, a sharp sense for a surreal turn of phrase and a wonderfully chaotic yet controlled style of storytelling

I Showered Before I Came enthusiastically succeeds in straddling the divide between fully dedicated clowning and, somehow, observational comedy about life’s mundanities

Sophie Zucker’s musical is about a young Jewish woman hooking up with her cousin in the bathroom at a family funeral, but there is so much more to this incisive one-woman musical comedy show.