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LMAO naise 15/08/2023 LMAO naise 15/08/2023

Urooj Ashfaq review: A compelling personality that keeps everyone hooked

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.

LMAO naise 15/08/2023 LMAO naise 15/08/2023

Tatty Macleod review: French v. English comedy with gusto and pathos

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

LMAO naise 14/08/2023 LMAO naise 14/08/2023

Sikisa review: Triumphant, multi-talented and a twinkle in her eye

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.

LMAO naise 13/08/2023 LMAO naise 13/08/2023

Amy Webber review: Confident and inviting, a musical comedian with wide appeal

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

LMAO naise 13/08/2023 LMAO naise 13/08/2023

John Tothill review: One of the strongest comedy debuts of the year

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

LMAO naise 12/08/2023 LMAO naise 12/08/2023

Jodie Mitchell review: Becoming John Travulva is special — an hour is not enough

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

LMAO naise 12/08/2023 LMAO naise 12/08/2023

Priya Hall review: A queer celebration of family and Danish sperm banks

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

LMAO naise 12/08/2023 LMAO naise 12/08/2023

Kathy Maniura review: Goofy character comedy finds huge joy in the mundane

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

LMAO naise 12/08/2023 LMAO naise 12/08/2023

Lachlan Werner review: The best ventriloquy show you’ll ever see

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

LMAO naise 10/08/2023 LMAO naise 10/08/2023

Mary O’Connell review: A thrilling show about money, joy and success

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

LMAO naise 09/08/2023 LMAO naise 09/08/2023

Alice Cockayne review: Individuality and brilliance from a fascinating performer

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

LMAO naise 09/08/2023 LMAO naise 09/08/2023

Sophie Sucks Face review: Musical comedy is poignant and surprisingly relatable (for a show about incest)

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.