EDINBURGH 2023: Review: END OF THE WORLD, ZOO Playground
Ella Lovelady’s debut play End of the World really does include everything but the kitchen sink.
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EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MIDNIGHT BUILDING, Greenside
Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: AFTER THE ACT, Traverse Theatre
'Queers in classrooms!' 'Perverts panicking parents!' – a new musical about pride, protest… and abseiling lesbians.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SUPER, Pleasance Courtyard
Super feels just as artificial and hollow as the characters it is portraying.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DEATH SUITS YOU, Bedlam Theatre
Death Suits You is an entertaining scrutiny of humanity’s psychological avoidance yet behavioural sprint towards our end with strong theatrical and comedic elements at work.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: 30 AND OUT, Pleasance Courtyard
Kit Sinclair’s 30 and Out takes a more adult approach to coming out narratives - a real life story of discovering yourself aged thirty, the show dives headfirst into queer sex, the club scene, homophobia, and relationships in a high energy hour of cabaret-style theatre.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: UNSTUCK WITH YOU, Greenside @ Nicolson Square
Unstuck With You is a poignant reflection on the significance of humanity in an empty and apathetic universe in which we take up an infinitesimal amount of space.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TALES OF A JANE AUSTEN SPINSTER, Greenside @ Nicolson Square
With light and breezy writing, Jorgensen delivers an accurate analysis of what it feels like to try to find a partner in the 21st Century in 35 delightful minutes of Regency fun.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY FATHER'S NOSE, Assembly Rooms
My Father’s Nose is a surprisingly heartwarming show about death and moving on.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT?, Pleasance Courtyard
All in all, it’s not a great play, but it’s also not a particularly bad one either.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHATHAM HOUSE RULES, Pleasance Courtyard
What seems like a silly little comedy about millennial dread at first becomes a pointedly anti-Tory invective in Louis Rembges’s Chatham House Rules.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CASTING THE RUNES, Pleasance Courtyard
Box Tale Soup adapt MR James’s ghost story into a play that has the same dark feel of a Penny Dreadful episode.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE, The Space @ Surgeons' Hall
Zach Hawkins is incredible with Ryan’s exuberant resignation.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SIKISA: HEAR ME OUT at Monkey Barrel Comedy
Sikisa: Hear Me Out a brilliant hour of comedy that will leave you in stitches and in awe of the incredible woman on stage.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: FIONA ALLEN: ON THE RUN, Pleasance Courtyard
Double Emmy Award winner and star of Smack The Pony is doing her first ever show.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: NICK PUPO: ADDICTED, Just The Tonic At The Mash House
Nick Pupo: Addicted is a powerful story about one man’s struggle with addictions; a heartfelt reflection on mistakes from the past and looking towards the future, but rarely is it a comedy.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: LOUISE YOUNG: FERAL, Pleasance Courtyard
Debut hour from Geordie rising star with a show all about class, chaos and coming out.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: A GAY DAD, TheSpace @ Symposium Hall - Annexe
Don't go into A Gay Dad with any expectations.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SALOME, Bedlam Theatre
There is something surreal about watching a play banned for blasphemous biblical portrayal in an old Church.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SHAKEITUP: THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE SHOW, Gilded Balloon Teviot - Billiard Room
Going in, I wasn't sure what to expect from this show.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MOSES STORM: PERFECT CULT, Pleasance Courtyard Beneath
Have you ever watched a Netflix documentary about a cult, listened to the stories of how this group fell apart, and wondered what it was like to be in one of those cults? Well, wonder no more.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ALISON SPITTLE: SOUP, Monkey Barrel Comedy - The Hive (Hive 1)
Mental health features a fair bit in this lovely show, a hot topic with a number of comedians these days.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY DAD WEARS A DRESS, Underbelly
A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: STEPHEN BUCHANAN: CHARICATURE, Monkey Barrel
Award-winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award and Scottish Comedian of the Year) returns to the Fringe with his unique blend of stand-up, sketch and character comedy, in this hour of daft laughs
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CONCERNED OTHERS, Summerhall
Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe.
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