4

	Pleasance Courtyard (venue website) Comedy Until 30 Aug, 6:00pm (6:55pm) Reviewed by Trystan Davies

The Penny Dreadfuls have left the past behind and are back in the 21st century, taking their comic precision with them in a new sketch show at the Pleasance Courtyard.

4

	Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug (not 23), 3:40pm (4:40pm); 17 Aug, 3:01am (4:01am) Reviewed by Trystan Davies

Did video kill the radio star?  If The Fitzrovia Radio Hour is anything to go by, then no.  Just go back to the 1940’s, when radio waves were cutting-edge and imagination was everything. Luckily, the Fitzrovia do this for us.

2.5

	The Jazz Bar (venue website) Music 9 - 13, 16 - 20 Aug, 2:00pm (3:00pm) Reviewed by Lee Zhuo Zhao

Bach? In a jazz bar? What on Earth? It might just work, I thought. So guess how I felt when I turned up to the venue and realised I'd been misled by the title: there is no Bach.

4

	theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson (venue website) Theatre 6 - 21 Aug (not 8, 15), 9:10pm (9:55pm) Reviewed by Craig Thomson

Dildon't is a strange and twisted fantasy, a freakshow tale of sex shops, bitter rivalries and murder by rubber phallus.  If that much information puts you off, you probably don't need to read on: this show is not for you.  If these words do arouse your attention – and this, after all, is the Edinburgh Fringe, so there will be plenty of you around – then Dildon't is worthy of your consideration.