Category Archives: Colchester Fringe

Review: That’s Not Poetry by James Domestic at Colchester Fringe 2025

With so much happening during a Fringe festival, it’s a real chance to experience something [...]

Review: The Clacton Three at Colchester Fringe 2025

Winner of the Keep Colchester Cool Critic’s Award I moved to Colchester in the 1990s [...]

Review: The Monday Monologuers! at Colchester Fringe 2025

Act V are a group of people aged over 50 who come together at the [...]

Review: An Evening with Nana Funk at Colchester Fringe 2025

My final show at this year’s Colchester Fringe was An Evening with Nana Funk at [...]

Review: String Awakening! at Colchester Fringe 2025

On the final day of the Colchester Fringe, it was an absolute joy to attend [...]

Review: Horario Estelar! at Colchester Fringe 2025

Described as one of Latin America’s soapiest exports, this improvised Telenovela was a real treat. [...]

Review: MAN, A One Woman Show at Colchester Fringe 2025

I had the pleasure of watching MAN, A One Woman Show at the Mercury Theatre [...]

Review: About a Spy at Colchester Fringe 2025

Audiences are really looking to be entertained at the moment, with the state of the [...]

Review: Best Man at Colchester Fringe 2025

It’s 1979 in Essex, and two close-knit families with Irish roots are united by marriage. [...]

Review: Little Woman at Colchester Fringe 2025

Created and performed by local theatre artist Tia Winterbottom, this thought-provoking solo show at Colchester [...]

Review: #FATKARY: The Corrido of a Tragic Ex-Fat Woman at Colchester Fringe 2025

This show is what Fringe Festivals are, or should be, all about. Performed solo by [...]

Review: Screw Loose Improv at Colchester Fringe 2025

Let’s get one thing clear from the start. Improvisational comedy, or improv, is really difficult. [...]

Review: Magical Maestro at Colchester Fringe 2025

Magicians. I was brought up knowing magicians. My dad and uncle were stalwarts of the [...]

Review: Dear You at Colchester Fringe 2025

Interpretive dance, the butt of many a modern comedian’s jokes over recent years and an [...]

Review: The Chai Queens at Colchester Fringe 2025

What a privilege it is to have work like this performed at the Colchester Fringe, [...]

Review: The Toilet Monologues at Colchester Fringe 2025

A sacred space. That’s what men are led to believe about women’s toilets, a place [...]

Review: Hinohara Village at Colchester Fringe 2025

My knowledge of Japanese folk tales, folklore and traditional music was bordering on the non-existent [...]

Review: Fish Outta Water at Colchester Fringe 2025

This is a gorgeous, tender semi-autobiographical play created by Jess Ashley, offering an insight into [...]

Review: A Two Woman Hamlet at Colchester Fringe 2025

“The play’s the thing”, as Hamlet famously puts it, and here it literally is the [...]

Review: Love Is A Bruise – A Powerful Opening for Colchester Fringe 2025

It was a dramatic, tension-filled way to begin the first night of the Colchester Fringe. [...]