Review: Nina Conti's In Your Face, Criterion Theatre

I take my hat off to Conti's courage - involving a single punter in your act is one thing but being outnumbered four-to-one on stage is a recipe for disaster, a disaster she averts with much in the way of skill and humour. She deserves, though, more than a mere critic's praise.

Nina Conti, comedy review

Nina Conti blurs the line between between puppet and puppet-meister with her co-star Monkey.

Video: Nina Conti on what makes a good ventriloquist

Comedian Nina Conti's new show, In Your Face, sees her use masks to transform audience members into live ventriloquist dummies.

Her original puppet, Monkey, still features heavily in the show but the majority of In Your Face is improvised.

Nina spoke to BBC News about the key ingredients to becoming a successful ventriloquist.

Nina Conti review

The comedian chucks out the art form's creepiness for a thrilling interactive set in which her most essential prop barely features.

Review - Nina Conti: In Your Face

In the West End's Criterion Theatre, Nina Conti's ventriloquist act In Your Face is a hilarious mix of deadpan ventriloquism and side splitting audience participation.

Nina Conti & Sarah Kendall interview

'I send her rather rude, blunt text messages'

First Edinburgh Fringe shows go on sale

A total of 18 shows have gone on sale today, also including festival stalwart Absolute Improv! and camp musical Eurobeat, which returns to the Pleasance Grand after nine years. Also among the comics confirming their shows are Nina Conti, Susan Calman, Daniel Sloss, Dr. Phil Hammond and Jimeoin.

Interview: rarely asked questions - Nina Conti

Ventriloquism looks like it is having what you might call its rock and roll moment.

Nina Conti interview

Nina Conti is never alone. Which is a remarkable thing given the ventriloquist's most famous comedy partner is an acerbic and insouciant monkey who'd rather be atop Hampstead Heath -- "probably reading Proust" -- than onstage.

Radio Times review

A lightly sparkling edition of the stand-up showcase, although without too much disrespect to the comics on the bill, a Christmas Apollo doesn't mean a host of bigger names. Josh Widdicombe, after a year of ubiquity that's included sitcom and topical comedy as well as stage work, gets a very warm welcome for a decent observational routine about going home for Christmas to a single bed. Before him are the ribald Tanyalee Davis and Hal Cruttenden, who's always a little edgier than his camp, cuddly persona suggests.

The host is ventriloquist Nina Conti, doing her now-familiar improvisation using audience members as dummies.