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Writer: Daniel Bye Director: Richard Bonham Designer: Emma Tompkins Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: Harrogate Studio Theatre can always be relied upon to present unique, thought provoking and memorable shows. The Price of Everything certainly continues this ilk. Writer and performer Daniel Bye arrived at Harrogate with, in his own words, a “performance lecture” on [...]

Reviewer: Luke Walker The Public Reviews Rating: Presented with a banner of bullet points near the beginning, Greg Davies’ stand up show has much to get through in the time we have with him. As he declares “Once a teacher – always a teacher”. Davies’ intriguingly entitled show, called The Back of My Mum’s Head, sells out [...]

Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: The recession must have hit the pub trade. Al Murray, the UK’s favourite pub landlord is moonlighting as an inspirational speaker. During his current tour – ‘ The Only Way is Epic’ – he tries to motivate his audience to tackle the mess our leaders have made of his beloved country. [...]

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: With all Bill Bailey’s appearances on panel shows such as ‘QI’ and ‘Have I Got News for You’, it’s sometimes easy to forget how brilliant he is at stand-up comedy. Combining culturally relevant humour with a heap of whimsy, and some great feats of musicianship, ‘Qualmpeddler’ is the latest in Bailey’s [...]

Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Once again Simon Brodkin brings everyone’s favourite ‘Sarf London’ geezer to an appreciative crowd in Salford, and this time he’s brought along some friends – three more of Brodkin’s ‘Well Funny People’ fresh from his latest BBC Three show. Having enjoyed Brodkin’s last Lee Nelson show in 2011 I was looking [...]

Reviewer: Matt Yeoman The Public Reviews Rating: An air of expectation and curiosity hung over the audience as we waited for the start of Take The Cake Production’s inaugural evening of stand-up. Starting a few minutes late it soon became apparent that this was a sell-out event – not bad for a performance group who are only just [...]

Reviewer: Laura Ord The Public Reviews Rating: The aloof, tweed wearing, Tory supporting Simon Evans is back at the Lowry with a hatred of football, the working class and even his own children. After a slow introduction of how the show will be structured, Evans begins gently and speaks about the London Olympics 2012. He has a knack [...]

Writer: Andy Parsons Reviewer: Laura Ord The Public Reviews Rating: Too cheap to employ a warm up act, a backstage announcer or set designer, Parsons is back on his own with an enjoyable and quality two hour show of classic inoffensive comedy. As a regular panalist on Mock The Week, Parsons is fast becoming a household name as [...]