Well, this was disappointing – a hard lesson in what happens when awkward ‘anti-comedy’ goes badly wrong. By acting as if investing any modicum of effort or energy into their show would be some sort of artistic betrayal, the normally charming Irish comic Maeve Higgins and her Australian sidekick Nick Coyle are left with a painfully [...]

Were there a prize for most dedicated commitment to props at this festival, Claudia O’Doherty would win hands-down, with hours of arts-and-crafts graft going into the realisation of her escapist fantasy. The premise is that she is the sole surviving member of Aquaplex – a top-secret undersea colony where she was born and raised among brilliant scientists, [...]

Daniel Kitson is notable by his absence from this year’s festival – but have no fear, fans of quietly whimsical romances involving fragile, lost souls: Sarah Collins and Justin Kennedy have picked up the gauntlet to produce a two-hander so close to Kitson’s theatrical work, it’s almost a cover version. As if to underline the [...]