EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 1612, TheSpace On The Mile
Unsettling music and Chekov's child draw the audience in before 1612 even starts, creating the perfect environment to learn about this historic witch trial.
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EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LUCY CHURCHILL: BIG B**BS LONG LEGS, Greenside At George Street
This whirlwind show absolutely flies by in the time we wish it took to learn to love ourselves.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 113, The Space
49 and 64 are in the room.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DIRTY MONEY, TheSpace On The Mile
Following the arrest of a famous billionaire, four unlikely friends team up to break her out of prison in return for half her fortune.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LOST LEAR, Traverse Theatre
Advertised as a 'moving and darkly comic remix' of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Lost Lear retells the play through the eyes of Joy, an elderly dementia patient and former actress trapped in a perpetual memory of rehearsing King Lear for the stage.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: NOWHERE - HERE & NOW SHOWCASE, Traverse Theatre
Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Crown) redefines and reclaims the solo show in a lyrical tapestry where resistance, displacement and selfhood are delicately woven through an avant-garde aesthetic.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARY: A GIG THEATRE SHOW, Gilded Balloon Patter House
Mary: A Gig Theatre Show is a cool concept.
Review: CHICAGO, King's Theatre
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JESSICA FOSTEKEW: ICONIC BREATH, Monkey Barrel
A monster's guide to tolerance and temperance.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: A SMALL TOWN NORTHERN TALE, Underbelly
A Y2K-drenched coming-of-age comedy-drama: ASTNT follows David’s move from the city to a small Northern town where being the only Black kid means fitting in isn’t an option.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOSH ELTON: AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES, Hoots @ The Apex
Josh Elton makes an assured and highly memorable Fringe debut with Away With The Fairies, a show which captures both the unfiltered chaos of the life of a comic and the mythic absurdity which shapes it.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: AVENUE Q, Braw Venues At Grand Lodge
What did our critic think of AVENUE Q at Braw Venues At Grand Lodge?This smash hit musical is a hilarious satire of modern life starring a mixed cast of humans and puppets.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE CRAWL, 10 Dome
Two people.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHE'S BEHIND YOU, Traverse Theatre
Scottish comedy legend Johnny McKnight examines the panto dame through an inventive new lens in She’s Behind You.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CONSUMED, Traverse Theatre
Four generations of Northern Irish women gather for a 90th birthday party in Karis Kelly’s Consumed, and what unfolds is a pitch-black dark comedy with razor wit and gasp-inducing shock.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE IS COMING, Traverse Theatre
Flora Wilson Brown’s six-hander examines climate change across 250 years of real and imagined history.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STEFFAN ALUN: STAND UP at Hoot 4, Hoots @ The Apex
Welsh comedian Steffan Alun brings warmth, wit and a proudly offbeat perspective to his debut Fringe hour, Steffan Alun: Stand Up.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: TARTAN TABLETOP: A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMEDY, Bramley, Gilded Balloon, Appleton Tower
Tartan Tabletop is a Dungeons and Dragons panel show which thrives on live comedic improvisation, uncertainty and risks, which results in riotous game play.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MESSY MAGIC, Assembly Festival, Bijou
Written and Performed by Lizzie T Ollemache and David Ladderman from Rollicking Entertainment, a riot of magic, slapstick and sparkle is brought to the stage with Messy Magic, a family show which manages to be silly, but skilful.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROSCO MCCLELLAND: HOW COULD HELL BE ANY WORSE, Monkey Barrel
The winner of the 2025 Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, Rosco McClelland brings his brand new show for 2025.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACKIE!!! Gilded Balloon
Sex, drugs and coercive control.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE FIT PRINCE, Pleasance Courtyard
The King is dead and the Prince is unmarried – if he doesn't find someone soon, he must forfeit the crown! In NYC, baker Aaron Butcher is butchering his career as a family baker.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SARAH BRADLEY: JUST LIKE OTHER GIRLS, Gilded Balloon
After spending her formative years trying to be 'not like other girls', Sarah Bradley is celebrating all things feminine – from rosé to romance novels, horoscopes to hot celebrities, inconvenient crushes to crying at inconvenient times.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: INSIDERS, St John's Church
With prisons rarely out of the news, Insiders gives insight into the challenges of life in jail.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SIGNOR BAFFO, Assembly Rooms, Bijou
There is nothing quite like the delicious mix of chaos and charm that Josh Burton brings to his gleeful children’s show Signor Baffo.
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