TOMORROW thesps, comedians and bohemians from the furthest corners of the Earth will converge on Swindon for 10 days of entertainment galore at the amped-up Swindon Fringe Festival. Here are our five must-see double-bills this year...

Dog Show and Cinco Coisas April 3, MECA, 2pm Comedienne and puppeteer Sylvia Hunt explores the co-dependent relationship we share with our canine companions in Dog Show. It is a cabaret of tail-wagging comedy featuring animated creatures and stage trickery by puppet maestro Mr Marc Parrett.

Cinco Coisas is a solo show structured around the five basic needs of a child – place, love, support, protection and limitation. Through dance, play, clowning and improv it takes the audience on a purely human experience.

Stand-up with Joy Carter and Matt Hoss April 4, The Vic, 7pm In Spot the Difference comedienne Joy Carter explores her own adoption. Adoption is tragic, it’s sad, but it can be unbelievably hilarious. Expect musical interludes – Joy never leaves the house without her beloved flute, Bertie.

In Vegetari-Man, Matt Hoss opens up about becoming a vegetarian and how his decision sent everyone in a tizzy from his macho flatmates to his northern beef-farming family. In the show he reveals the upside of vegetarianism, calls on famous vegetarians to prove his point and raises a crucial question: can he be a vegetarian AND manly at the same time? He doubts it.

Do you Mind? and Forget Me Not – The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit April 6, The Vic, 7pm Using storytelling, puppetry and an old-school overhead projector, Do You Mind? considers how we talk about the most vulnerable parts of ourselves and how open we can allow ourselves to be in a new relationship.

In Forget Me Not, Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has just died from what appears to be natural causes. Jim, a retired police detective, smells a rat. Even though he also has dementia, he’s determined to solve one last murder.

The Ladykillers and Dominion April 8, MECA, 7pm The Ladykillers by Matt Fox is a piece in three vignettes. Listen up as a cold-blooded assassin, a victim seeking the ultimate revenge and a mother forced into an agonising decision bare their souls and ‘fess up.

Dominion tells the story of Siobhan Lock. She has cancer and is determined to find her husband, Eddie, a new partner before her time finally comes. Then, of course, there’s the matter of The Man. Only Siobhan can see him and he seems to have her best interests at heart… Gatecrash’s Improv Comedy Club and Murder She Didn’t Write April 9, The Town Hall, 7pm Trained improvisers from Gatecrash Theatre bring you a tasty comedy feast made up of audience suggestions and the wonder of the imagination. Once things have warmed up even the audience will get to give it a go.

In Murder She Didn’t Write, an improvised murder mystery comedy, you are the detective. The motives are mounting and the evidence is everywhere... but will you guess whodunnit before the suspects are called to the drawing room?

l To book tickets go to swindontheatres.co.uk or call 01793 524481.