EDINBURGH 2026 Review: REMEMBER, REMEMBER!, Pleasance Dome
This might be the next Fringe hit musical. Runs until 30 August.
This might be the next Fringe hit musical. Mel Brooks marries Monty Python to give birth to the rightful heir to the throne vacated by Six. The Gunpowder Plot receives the Operation Mincemeat treatment, with a generous dash of blasphemous revisionism and plenty of scrumptious anachronisms. This irreverent comedy musical is sizzling hot fun from start to end. Stephen Fry narrates, Alex Pritchett directs. Kluane Saunders, Tom O’Kelly, Lucy Buncombe, and Ross Tomlinson write and deliver an alternative version of history, spicing it up with sass, wit, and absolute fire.
It’s a hyper-specific brand of humour, but it will appeal to the TikTok generation as much as it will to older millennials. Set “literally ages ago”, it features references to a broad scope of entertainment, starting from musical theatre (Robert Catesby is “Bobby baby”) and going all the way through to Katie Price, featuring nods to celebrity icons and quintessential pop culture moments.
The songs are superb examples of finely tuned hilarity. Funny and catchy, the lyrics keep twisting into innuendos with positively preposterous implications. They’re quick, snappy, and unapologetically silly. Expect to unlearn everything you were taught in school. The show is sometimes so random that it ends up making perfect sense. The cast is tireless and the material is relentlessly amusing. Put this at the top of your list; you’ll thank me later.
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