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JON STAPLEY is a freelance writer, journalist and sub-editor who has been to the Fringe as a performer, a punter and a reviewer probably more times than is healthy. A former actor and occasional drummer, he passes a lot of time these days writing about photography, books and theatre. He reviewed for ThreeWeeks at Festivals 2014, 2015 and 2016. [Biog updated Aug 2016]

Drone (Harry Josephine Giles, Rob Jones, Neil Simpson and Jamie Wardrop) 15 August 2019 Deer Woman (Article 11/CanadaHub) 15 August 2019 Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf (Good Wolf People) 15 August 2019 Sketch Thieves (Purple Martian / Free Festival) 15 August 2019 Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness (Isa Bonachera) 15 August 2019 Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats (Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell) 14 August 2019 My Best Dead Friend (Anya Tate-Manning and Isobel MacKinnon with Zanetti Productions) 14 August 2019 Landscape (1989) (Emergency Chorus) 14 August 2019 Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd (Francesca Moody Productions) 14 August 2019 Kurl Up And Dye (NUTS Theatre) 14 August 2019 All of Me (China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre) 14 August 2019 Algorithms (Sadie Clark & Laura Elmes Productions) 14 August 2019 The Long Pigs (WE3 and Cluster Arts) 13 August 2019 Umbrella Man (Teuchter Company - Colin Bramwell) 13 August 2019 Square Go (Francesca Moody Productions) 13 August 2019 I'm OKayfabe (Fake Heat) 13 August 2019 Cabaret Of Curiosities (Tatwood Puppets) 13 August 2019 Lucy McCormick: Post Popular (Soho Theatre, Johnson & Mackay and United Agents) 11 August 2019 Standard:Elite (Hidden Track) 11 August 2019 Catherine Bohart: Lemon (Chambers Touring) 11 August 2019 Whose Mind Is It Anyway? (Whose Mind Is It Anyway?) 9 August 2019 Bible John (Bible John and The Pleasance) 7 August 2019 House Of Hundred (Yesim Ozsoy Galata Perform Tiyatrosu - Turkey) 7 August 2019 IvankaPlay (Snowy Owl) 7 August 2019 YUCK Circus (Underbelly/YUCK Circus) 6 August 2019 Róisín And Chiara: Get Nupty (Róisín And Chiara) 6 August 2019 Struan Logan: Struan All Over The World (Struan Logan) 21 August 2018 Speechless (Cambridge University Performance Technology Society) 21 August 2018 A Fair Tale About A Fairy Trade (Human Rongs) 19 August 2018 Stuart Mitchell: Gordon Ramsay's Karma Cafe (Gilded Balloon and Stuart Mitchell present...) 19 August 2018 Brain Rinse (Mike Raffone) 19 August 2018 Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play (Project Mercury) 18 August 2018 Alice Fraser: Ethos (Get Comedy by arrangement with Mushroom Comedy and TGA) 17 August 2018 Jasper Red: Press Play (Natalie Walmsley) 16 August 2018 Camp Be Yourself (Box Theatre Company) 15 August 2018 Geek (Infinity Repertory Theatre) 15 August 2018 Christian Finnegan: My Goodness (Live Nation) 15 August 2018 My Kind Of Michael (Nick Cassenbaum) 14 August 2018 The Last Straw (People Show) 14 August 2018 Timpson: The Musical (Gigglemug Theatre) 14 August 2018 (even) HOTTER (Transgress) 12 August 2018 The Myth Of The Singular Moment (Jim Harbourne) 11 August 2018 Entropy (Talon Theatre) 11 August 2018 Bad Clowns: Hostage (Bad Clowns Comedy) 11 August 2018 Adam Riches Is The Guy Who... (Plosive Productions / Tigco) 11 August 2018 Questing Time (Monkey Toast) 10 August 2018 Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller (Fight In The Dog) 8 August 2018 Last Resort (2Magpies Theatre) 19 August 2017 The Inevitable Quiet Of The Crash (Leoe & Hyde in association with FoxTale Productions) 19 August 2017 £¥E$ (LIES) (Ontroerend Goed) 18 August 2017 Assessment (Shows On A Shoestring) 18 August 2017 The Delightful Sausage: Cold Hard Cache (The Delightful Sausage) 18 August 2017 The North! The North! (Christopher Harrisson) 17 August 2017 What Would Cathy Do? (40 Watt Pearl - Australia) 17 August 2017 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game (Total Party Kill! in association with Sweet Venues) 17 August 2017 The Great Ridolphi (The Last Great Hunt) 17 August 2017 Princes Of Main: New Year's Eve (Princes of Main) 17 August 2017 JoJo Bellini: Crash-Bang Cabaret! (JoJo Bellini / The Stand Comedy Club) 17 August 2017 Pornography by Simon Stephens (The Lincoln Company) 15 August 2017 Stiff Dicky (JunkBox Theatre) 15 August 2017 Kafka And Son (Theaturtle, Threshold, Richard Jordan Productions in association with the Pleasance) 15 August 2017 The Hero Who Overslept (Bravebeard Productions and Fringe Management) 15 August 2017 Pity Laughs: A Tale Of Two Gays (Straightup) 15 August 2017 Wild Bore (Soho Theatre and Malthouse Theatre) 15 August 2017 Amy Conway's Super Awesome World (RiotBox Productions) 15 August 2017 How To Win Against History (Áine Flanagan Productions and Seiriol Davies present) 15 August 2017 Britney In: John (Country Mile Productions) 13 August 2017 Butt Kapinski (Kapinski Enterprises and The Pleasance) 12 August 2017 xx (Poltergeist Theatre) 17 August 2016 The Surge (The King's Players) 17 August 2016 My World Has Exploded A Little Bit (Natural Shocks) 17 August 2016 Life According To Saki (Atticist) 17 August 2016 I'm Doing This For You (Never Mind the Noise / Haley McGee) 16 August 2016 Cosmic Fear Or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia (Empty Deck) 16 August 2016 Oh My Dad: Christ On A Bike (Chris JS Wilson) 16 August 2016 World Without Us (Ontroerend Goed / Theatre Royal Plymouth / Vooruit / Richard Jordan Productions / Summerhall) 15 August 2016 Wonderman (Gaggle Babble / National Theatre Wales) 15 August 2016 Often Onstage (Figs In Wigs) 15 August 2016 Shit-Faced Shakespeare (Magnificent Bastard Productions) 15 August 2016 Agent Of Influence: The Secret Life Of Pamela More (Fluff Productions) 14 August 2016 The Improv Musical (Music Theatre Warwick) 14 August 2016 Company (The Lincoln Company) 14 August 2016 Me, Myself And ISIS (Banana Collective / PBH's Free Fringe) 14 August 2016 Two Man Show (RashDash) 12 August 2016 Team Viking (James Rowland) 12 August 2016 Swansong (DugOut Theatre) 12 August 2016 Last Dream (On Earth) (Kai Fischer in association with National Theatre Of Scotland) 12 August 2016 The Humble Heart Of Komrade Krumm (Babolin Theatre) 12 August 2016 Ada/Ava by Manual Cinema (Underbelly Productions and Manual Cinema) 12 August 2016 Barbarians (Ben Van der Velde / Free Festival) 12 August 2016 Deal With The Dragon (First Sprout Theatre) 10 August 2016 Escape From The Planet Of The Day That Time Forgot (Company Gavin Robertson) 9 August 2016 Heartbeats & Algorithms (Jenny Lee) 27 August 2015 Pramkicker (Old Trunk) 27 August 2015 Foxfinder (Master Of None) 27 August 2015 Stuart Bowden - Wilting In Reverse (Stuart Bowden) 27 August 2015 Japan Marvelous Drummers (NPO Kawasuji Japan Marvelous) 27 August 2015 Pajama Men - 2 Man 3 Musketeers (Assembly Festival in association with Soho Theatre) 27 August 2015 Markus Birdman – Grimm Realities (Markus Birdman / PBH's Free Fringe) 27 August 2015 Lucy Frederick – In The Wild (Vivienne Smith Management) 27 August 2015 Ivy Paige - Filthy Rich (Bound & Gagged) 27 August 2015 UKIP! The Musical (Hell Bent Theatre Company) 25 August 2015 Festival Of The Spoken Nerd - Just For Graphs (Phil McIntyre Entertainments) 23 August 2015 Clare Plested - The Essential Collection (Clare Plested / PBH's Free Fringe) 23 August 2015 Dead Man's Cell Phone (UCLU Runaground) 22 August 2015 Luke Toulson - Grandpa, Hitler And Me 22 August 2015 The Dead Secrets Present... The Curiositorium (The Dead Secrets) 22 August 2015 Croft & Pearce – There's Always Something (Vivienne Smith Management) 22 August 2015 Massive Dad 2.0 - Step Up 2 Massive Dad (The Pleasance) 20 August 2015 zazU - A Fête Worse Than Death (zazU Comedy) 20 August 2015 Wasted (No Prophet Theatre Company) 19 August 2015 Crash (Traverse Theatre Company) 19 August 2015 The Final Act (RopeWalk Productions) 19 August 2015 Drum Tribe (Drum Tribe) 19 August 2015 Murder, She Didn't Write (Degrees Of Error) 19 August 2015 Giraffe - Raisin' The Hoof (Giraffe) 18 August 2015 The Domino Effect (Mulberry Theatre Company) 31 August 2014 WitTank - Old School Secrets (Avalon Promotions Ltd) 31 August 2014 Jamie MacDonald - That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, The Stag And The Ugly (Jamie MacDonald) 31 August 2014 Odd Shaped Balls (Chris Sheridan) 20 August 2014 Ernest And The Pale Moon (Les Enfants Terribles / Pins & Needles) 20 August 2014 Dido And Aeneas (The About Turn Theatre Company) 20 August 2014 Inheritance Blues (DugOut Theatre) 17 August 2014 Ennio Marchetto - The Living Paper Cartoon (Glynis Henderson Productions Ltd) 17 August 2014 The Chronic Single's Handbook (Randy Ross) 17 August 2014 Tricity Vogue - Songs For Swinging Ukuleles (Tricity Vogue / Free Festival) 17 August 2014 The Sons Of Pitches - Boiler Alert! (The Sons Pitches) 16 August 2014 The Hat Pack (New Town Theatre) 15 August 2014 Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant English Windmills! (Hiroshi Shimizu / Free Festival) 15 August 2014 The Reviewers (Charlesworth And Holland Productions) 14 August 2014 Laika - A Space Dogyssey (Double Edge Drama) 14 August 2014 The Alleycats - Contemporary A Capella (The Alleycats) 14 August 2014 Martin Pilgrim - Diary Farmer (Martin Pilgrim / La Favorita Freestival) 14 August 2014 Katie Mulgrew - Happily Ever After (Avalon Promotions Ltd) 14 August 2014 Catriona Knox Thinks She's Hard Enough (in association with United Agents) 14 August 2014 Show 6 (Secret Theatre Company) 12 August 2014 Don't Let Go (Manic Chord Theatre) 12 August 2014 Gone Native (Nicholson and Gore) 12 August 2014 Lights! Camera! Improvise! The Improvised Movie (Mischief Theatre) 12 August 2014 Ivy Paige - Kiss And Sell (Bound & Gagged Comedy) 12 August 2014 Josie Long - Cara Josephine (Josie Long with Show And Tell) 11 August 2014