Inspired by the legacy of Charles McPhee's syndicated Dream Doctor Radio Show, the amusingly named REM Doula and his team of REMniacs channel the same spirit, mixing sketches, songs and game-show parody with a quirky, surreal sense of humour to unpack the logic behind our dreams.

It's a hard tone to strike, a unique blend of educational and entertaining, but the show pulls it off, sending you out with real tools for interpreting your own dreams and a smile on your face.

★ ★ ★ ★

The grind never stops even in space.

Girlbosses and Billionaires throws a vacuous influencer, a thinly veiled Katy Perry space-tourist, an aging actress named Edna, and a hapless nepo baby into a rocket and documents the farcical outcomes of girl power repackaged as a branded space mission.

Satirising surface-level takes on fourth-wave feminism and the ethics of influencer culture, the show does a great job of skewering social politics and celebrities as deep as a puddle without slipping into lecturing or losing sight of the laughs.

★ ★ ★ .5

Based on the Restoration closet drama of the same name, Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery is a frenzied farrago of filth and ‘fucking’.

The direction, staging and visuals are all fantastic and the cast superb. Unfortunately, the source material itself, while an interesting historical curio, was neither artistically nor comically engaging enough to hold my attention for the 50-minute runtime. Had this been a 15-20 minute sketch, it could have been magnificent, but as it was, I found myself surprisingly bored by the end despite the well-executed outrageousness on display.

★ ★ ★ ★

A very silly show, with a very silly premise, Film Noir Frog is an entertaining, short, sharp blast of toad-ally ridiculous fun. If I said I was entirely able to follow the plot I would be lying, all I know is that it had a lot of laughs and somehow Dance Dance Revolution saved the day.

★ ★ ★ .5

Part bleakly dystopian satire, part interactive improv comedy, any description I give of How to Win a Gameshow will fail to do it justice. There's dancing, there's singing, there's a very tantalising cash prize..

I'm loath to say much more for fear of spoiling it, but I can't recommend this show enough. Go for a shot at the money; stay for the hope of ever leaving.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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I loved Mark’s previous Fringe outing The Best Man Show so much I saw it two years in a row, so I had high hopes for his latest expedition into the more rugged subject matter of outdoor adventuring. I’m glad to say I may have left the theatre a little soggy, but in no way disappointed.

If you like your comedy on the verge of a breakdown, this is one for you - just make sure you pick a big fern on the way in, you’ll thank me later.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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What's not to love about a pair of miserable clowns spiralling into failure, dragging the whole of Boogie Woogie Entertainments towards bankruptcy with them? Less of a sad trombone, however, and more of a slapstick farce, the plot of Sweaty Clowns hinges on a potentially career-saving gig delivering a posho party to eighty rich-kid brats as the group hurtle towards the inevitable, proverbial slow-moving clown-car crash when everything possible begins to go wrong.

★ ★ ★ .5

What Happens in the Dark runs on a clever, well-executed concept: the audience sees everything the characters, plunged into darkness, cannot - and the lights snap on and off according to what's dark to them rather than to us. It's a well-drilled hour of comedy, and kudos to the actors for commiting to an in-character, in-the-dark curtain call.

★ ★ ★ ★

A gleefully daft parody that puts a hard-boiled gumshoe on the case of modern romance, tasked with cracking his most baffling mystery yet: why Connor got left on read after a seemingly successful(ish) date. A fun, lighthearted and silly look at the modern dating landscape that is well worth catching.

★ ★ ★ ★