REVIEW: Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes, Lisa Richards, EdFringe 2026, ★★★

After showing a clip of Joe Biden saying “your stutter does not define you”, Aidan Greene emerges and jumps straight into addressing his stutter. It’s very much the elephant in the room and talking about it straight away sets everyone at ease and allows Aidan to get into the material and the show properly.

Stuttermilk Pancakes is about how Aidan has coped with his stutter throughout his life and how his relationship with it has changed as his life as progressed. From being an outgoing, confident child, to finding himself avoiding things to stop his stutter becoming an issue. He’s realised in more recent years he’s no longer shy about and that, if it is to define him, he’s going to allow it to be on his terms.

The show uses multimedia throughout and although it definitely adds at points, there are times where it’s not necessary and doesn’t compliment the humour. You find yourself looking at a screen when the images are something that the audience could conjure up in their minds, for example the opening visuals to Pokémon. It helps at certain points, but ultimately feels overused.

Unfortunately for Greene (and what felt ironic for a show about a speech impediment), the mic cut out around twenty minutes in. Greene handled this well, however, and continued the rest of the show without it. Kudos to him as many others would have tried to get it fixed, slowing the momentum of the show.

The main body of Stuttermilk Pancakes, where Greene begins to unravel his changing relationship to his stutter, at times feels stilted and long-in-the-tooth. The jokes themselves are good, but as he talks about shying away at school and trying to find various solutions to help fix or reduce his stutter, these don’t always feel fully formed, and the point gets lost.

Greene talks at one point about the first representation of a person with a stutter in the mainstream in his life. This, unfortunately, happened to be Professor Quirrell. Although the analogy about how his stutter disappears fits into the theme of the show, the slightly elongated section on Harry Potter feels ill-judged in the current climate and maybe a nod to the reference rather than spending five minutes there might have been better.

Overall, Stuttermilk Pancakes is a wholesome show. Greene’s stutter is a part of him in the same way anything else is. Embrace it and you’ll come out a stronger and a better person.

Recommended Drink: Anything that makes you feel comfortable in yourself. For me, that’s an IPA.

Catch Stuttermilk Pancakes at Dexter at Underbelly Bristo Square until the 31st August (not 18) at 17:45 (60 mins). Tickets are available through the EdFringe Online Box Office.