This is a review of Frankie Thompson's fringe show "Horrible Things" at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, praising it as a wildly inventive mix of clowning and performance art. The reviewer highlights Thompson's use of lip-synced audio clips and audience-involving stunts to satirise male figures and behaviour, giving the show a high rating for its comic invention and precision.

Sketches range from a lip-synced recreation of a childhood interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg to skits on the "whips' office" and Cliff Richard, plus an interactive segment set to Frank Sinatra's 1980 album Trilogy: Past Present Future, in which men from the audience are pulled on stage. The reviewer notes occasional dips when the theme wanders but says the show consistently returns to sharp, unsettling comedy, likening its effect to exorcism rather than medicine. It runs at Pleasance Courtyard until 30 August, then transfers to Soho Theatre, London, from 9 to 21 November.