BOOST: Watch ‘Wait, What is This’ at Colchester Fringe 2026 – “Come, have a gander at our comic two-hander!” (Ad)

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Wait, What is This? is a fast-paced comedy written entirely in rhyme. Created and performed by Lydia Keating and John Harper, the show began life as a five-minute rhyming sketch performed at cabaret nights in London, Paris and Tallinn. Audiences kept asking for more — so naturally, the pair wrote an entire 50 minutes of chaos.

Blending clown, physical theatre and rapid-fire rhyme, the show begins innocently enough with a playful demonstration of rhyming words before spiralling into an increasingly absurd world of marital role-play, counselling sessions, medication adverts, mistaken assumptions and ever-shifting realities. Just when audiences think they understand what is happening, the story joyfully pulls the rug from under them and heads somewhere entirely unexpected.

At once playful, ridiculous and strangely clever, Wait, What is This? delights in language, theatrical invention and comic surprise.

Sour Cream & Dill, reviewing the show at Tallinn Fringe 2026, called it “fast, playful and wonderfully silly,” praising Keating and Harper’s “infectious sense of joy” and saying it is “an easy show to get swept up in.”

In rhyme, the show might best describe itself like this:

Come, have a gander at our comic two-hander!
Brimming with raunchy, riotous rhyme,
A plot so chaotic, you’ll lose all sense of time.
Tangled twists meet metered bliss,
You’ll leave gasping: “Wait… What Is This?

You can catch Wait, What is This? at Colchester Fringe 2026 on Sat 31 October from 2:30pm & Sun 1 November from 6pm (50mins). Tickets are available through the Colchester Fringe Online Box Office.

Wait, What is This? – Colchester Fringe