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	The Nightingale (venue website) Theatre 6-7 May, 9:45pm-10:30pm
Suitable for age 18+ only.  Warning: Contains strong language.

Brighton based comedy dance duo, The Two Wrongies, divided critics in Edinburgh last year - earning both glowing and baffled reviews. Our write-up from Mathilda Gregory was firmly one of the former, and we cannot wait to see this twosome again.

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	The Eagle Bar Theatre 11-13, 15-19 May, 8:30pm-10:15pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.  2-for-1 tickets for Friends of the Fringe members.

2011 was a breakthrough year for the Harbour Theatre Company: The M Boat, their sell-out reminiscence of a 1950’s brewery barge, picked up a coveted Argus Angel award (as well as a 5-star review from us at FringeGuru).  This time round, they’re back with an updated, yet still distinctively Irish tale – and we’ve high hopes for another entertaining gem from these highly talented players.

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	Sallis Benney Theatre (venue website) Childrens 6 May, 3:00pm-4:00pm, 7:00pm-8:00pm
Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.  2-for-1 tickets for Friends of the Fringe members.

We admit we’re taking a punt on this one… but we think the portents are good.  Billed as a “big-screen video game trapeze act”, Rolling on the Floor Laughing casts a young troupe of aerial artists as characters in a giant computer game – and promises to tell us of their inner hopes and fears, though an intriguing mixture of animation, circus and dance. 

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	Upstairs at Three and Ten (venue website) Comedy 18-20 May, 3:00pm-3:50pm
Parental Guidance. Under-17's must be accompanied by an adult.  Warning: Contains strong language.  World Premiere.  2-for-1 tickets for Friends of the Fringe members.

Robots shall rise, empires shall fall… and the geek shall inherit the Earth.  OK, OK, we’re not the first ones to have cracked that particular joke.  But the nerd market’s still under-served at the resolutely arty Fringe – so we were pleased to hear again from shamelessly-bespectacled wordsmith Hayden Cohen, a man who first caught our eye at the Buxton Fringe back in 2010.

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	Komedia (venue website) Comedy 20 May, 8:00pm-10:00pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.

Hidden between the numerous comedy acts building towards Edinburgh this August, you’ll find a handful of reliable shows which have already proved their worth up north.  Among them is Isy Suttie’s Pearl and Dave – which earned four stars from us last year, thanks to her unfailingly endearing sincerity and her heart-warming credibility.  Her title characters, Pearl and Dave, are essentially in the midst of a drawn-out cyber-affair… but in Suttie’s hands, they take the leading roles in a heartbreaking tale of unrequited love.

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	1 Shakespeare Street Theatre 5-7, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27 May, 2:00pm-3:00pm, 4:00pm-5:00pm, 6:00pm-7:00pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.  Warning: Contains strong language.

Over the years we’ve been reviewing in Brighton, we’ve grown to respect locally-based Wired.  They take theatre out of the theatre, into flats and houses around the city; but their inventive narratives use the building as a backdrop, never letting the setting overpower the play.  This year sees the return of Gone But Not Forgotten, which they first performed back in 2006, and we’ve high hopes for another fascinating adventure in unconventional storytelling.

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	The Warren (venue website) Comedy 18 May, 6:00pm-7:00pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.  Warning: Contains flashing lights.  Warning: Contains strong language.  2-for-1 tickets for Friends of the Fringe members.

A night in the company of a movie-loving nerd, who owns any DVD you can imagine and talks his way through them all?  Don’t panic: far from a vision of social hell, it’s the well-thought-out set-up for this popular comedy show.  You’ll be greeted by your host Oscar, who’ll invite you to commission your very own screenplay… then his team of off-the-cuff improvisers will put it into production, live before your eyes.

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	The Old Market (venue website) Comedy 6 May, 7:00pm-8:20pm; 13 May, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.  Warning: Contains flashing lights.  Warning: Contains nudity.

Here’s a real Fringe oddity – in the best possible sense – returning to Brighton after a successful debut last year.  On its face a light-hearted lampoon, Naïve Dance Masterclass pays indulgent homage to the excesses of experimental art… and celebrates, after a fashion, all those who bare their souls on stage.  Witty, eloquent, and close to unique, it’s the ideal comic counterpoint to the artier side of the Festival.

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	The Nightingale (venue website) Comedy 5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 May, 10:00pm-11:45pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.

We at FringeGuru love the quirky, thoughtfully-programmed Nightingale – but we have to admit we raised our collective eyebrow at their latest venture.  After all, the Nightingale might have brought us shows where we feasted on roast potatoes, or peered through windows at scenes unfolding across the road… but they’ve never given us someone standing behind a mic telling jokes.

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	Upstairs at Three and Ten (venue website) Literature 5-7 May, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Suitable for age 15+ only.  2-for-1 tickets for Friends of the Fringe members.

Despite the bookish Hendricks Gin programme becoming a fixture, Brighton feels a little light on literary events this year – which is why we were delighted to spot Matthew Bellwood in the Fringe brochure.  In 2011, our reviewer Mathilda Gregory was enchanted by Bellwood’s whimsical yarns, in his show Be Prepared and Other Stories.  The title story in particular was a delightful tale of challenging homophobia… through the medium of a stuffed eagle.