Ada has had four solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Details of those below.
Other solo shows include:
Ada Campe's New Year Compendium (Royal Vauxhall Tavern, January 2025)
Ada Campe's Christmas Cabaret (Croydon Town Hall, December 2024)
Ada's Fabulous Forebears (British Music Hall Society, March 2024)
Ada Campe: Unexpectedly Cheerful (Phoenix Arts Club livestreamed, March 2021)
Ada Campe's Grotto for Grown Ups (Poodle Club, December 2018)
Other solo shows include:
Ada Campe's New Year Compendium (Royal Vauxhall Tavern, January 2025)
Ada Campe's Christmas Cabaret (Croydon Town Hall, December 2024)
Ada's Fabulous Forebears (British Music Hall Society, March 2024)
Ada Campe: Unexpectedly Cheerful (Phoenix Arts Club livestreamed, March 2021)
Ada Campe's Grotto for Grown Ups (Poodle Club, December 2018)
Ada Campe: Big Duck Energy
The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe 2024
***** The Quintessential Review
***** NorthWestEnd.com
**** The Telegraph
**** Entertainment Now
Recommended in The Telegraph's Top Ten Comedies to see at the Edinburgh Fringe
Recommended by Bechdel Theatre
"Coming across like a mix of Tommy Cooper, Ethel Merman and one of Bertie Wooster's aunts, Ada Campe sings, cracks jokes, does magic tricks... She's such a delightfully dotty character... and her stories paint such an endearing world of fading vaudeville stars that I want to believe she's real "
The Telegraph
"Most people are skilled at one thing - comedy, storytelling, singing, magic - but Ada does them all with stunning expertise. But what stands out is how genuine each moment of the show is. It's a dynamic, heartfelt and hilarious show that I urge everybody to see."
The Quintessential Review
"She delights the audience with tricks that are as funny as they are clever... I urge you to book a ticket and see Campe live.
You won't regret it!"
NorthWestEnd.com
"A unique, sneakily clever rollercoaster ride.... a singular and fiercely original hour of entertainment."
Entertainment Now
"Big Duck Energy is bursting with magic, music & mayhem in Ada Campe's wonderfully eclectic trademark style: mixing music-hall-esque eccentricity with 21st century queer feminist sensibilities."
Bechdel Theatre
The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe 2024
***** The Quintessential Review
***** NorthWestEnd.com
**** The Telegraph
**** Entertainment Now
Recommended in The Telegraph's Top Ten Comedies to see at the Edinburgh Fringe
Recommended by Bechdel Theatre
"Coming across like a mix of Tommy Cooper, Ethel Merman and one of Bertie Wooster's aunts, Ada Campe sings, cracks jokes, does magic tricks... She's such a delightfully dotty character... and her stories paint such an endearing world of fading vaudeville stars that I want to believe she's real "
The Telegraph
"Most people are skilled at one thing - comedy, storytelling, singing, magic - but Ada does them all with stunning expertise. But what stands out is how genuine each moment of the show is. It's a dynamic, heartfelt and hilarious show that I urge everybody to see."
The Quintessential Review
"She delights the audience with tricks that are as funny as they are clever... I urge you to book a ticket and see Campe live.
You won't regret it!"
NorthWestEnd.com
"A unique, sneakily clever rollercoaster ride.... a singular and fiercely original hour of entertainment."
Entertainment Now
"Big Duck Energy is bursting with magic, music & mayhem in Ada Campe's wonderfully eclectic trademark style: mixing music-hall-esque eccentricity with 21st century queer feminist sensibilities."
Bechdel Theatre
- Interview with Beyond the Curtain: www.beyondthecurtain.co.uk/2024/05/ada-campe-big-duck-energy-interview.html
Previous solo shows
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Ada Campe: Naval Gazing
The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe 2023
Interview at
getyourcoatson.com/tag/ada-campe-naval-gazing/
Article about magicians at the Fringe:
www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/aug/14/edinburghs-superstar-magicians-on-secrets-and-surprises-you-have-to-be-very-good-at-lying
Ada Campe: Too Little, Too Soon
The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe 2022
"Song, dance, magic and comedy are just the tip of the Campe iceberg; a walking whirlwind of glitter and bright colours, she never lets an audience know her next move. Draped in her signature drag-style make-up and wonderfully outrageous outfit (complete with sequinned headpiece), this vivacious variety act lives up to her surname.... Campe’s charismatic performance has the crowd grinning and giggling, both at the performer and each other. A bouncy and kooky show with a heap of heart, Ada Campe’s queer cabaret has a strong message of family at its core."
The List
Ada Campe and the Psychic Duck
The Stand, Edinburgh Fringe 2018 & 2019
***** The Wee Review
***** ScotsGay
**** The Scotsman
"With her outlandish eye makeup, headdress and conspiratorial air, Ada Campe effortlessly draws her audience into her story. Though set in the 1980s, it’s an Edwardian-style tale of a troupe of variety performers including the mysterious Madame Canard and the duck of the title. Thanks to Campe’s dramatic delivery and enviable turn of phrase, it’s also very funny... It’s a world as convincing as it is amusing, both eccentric and deeply researched."
The Guardian recommended show
"With a spectacularly peacocky headpiece atop flowing garments, a deeply mellifluous, over-enunciated voice and a demeanour of barely contained mischief, she could pass at a pinch for a slightly bibulous Edwardian spiritualist or rambunctious Wodehousian aunt. In fact, she’s a marvellous teller of tall tales, purveyor of puns and occasional conjurer, in roughly that order.
This show shows off those skills to a tee."
The Scotsman
"Ada Campe's larger-than-life personality grabbed us by the short and curlies the instant she came on stage... there were some splendiferously wonderful bad jokes, puns, innuendos and absurd scenarios - everything in which I delight. A complete joy."
ScotsGay
"The show is a loving ride through the wonders of circus, cabaret and variety and Campe never wipes that mischievous grin from her face as she unveils her latest wonderful display of outstanding nonsense."
The Wee Review