EDINBURGH 2023: BroadwayWorld's Edfringe Reviews

For over a decade BroadwayWorld has been covering the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a local team of dedicated reviewers who know the festival inside out. 

This page will be updated daily throughout August with our latest reviews and you can also view our pre-festival coverage including guest blogs and interviews and follow us on Instagram for show takeovers and daily content from our team! Reviews and news will also be posted on our Twitter account @BWWScotland 

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Adults

Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand The Man, Myself

An Interrogation

Bacon

Ben Target: Lorenzo

Buffy: Revamped

Casting the Runes

Chatham House Rules

Christkirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical

Colin Cloud: After Dark

Crizards: This Means War

Daniel Foxx: Villain

Distant Memories of the Near Future

Four Felons and a Funeral

Friend (The One With Gunther)

Garrett Millerick: Never Had It So Good

Gunter

High Steaks

How to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit musical 'Cats' 

IMA

Jazz Emu’s Pleasure Garden

Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have

JM Coetzee's ‘Life and Times of Michael K’

Josh Weller: Age Against the Machine

Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder

Kieran Hodgson: Big in Scotland

Krystal Evans: The Hottest Girl At Burn Camp

Lucas O’Neil: Emotional Man

Mrs President

My Last Two Brain Cells

Oh My Heart, Oh My Home

Perfect Pairing

Police Cops: The Musical

Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine

SCOTS (pre Fringe run)

Sid Singh: Table For One

Sing, River

Solve Along A Murder She Wrote

Stamptown Comedy Night

Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers

Tea and Milk

Temping

The Last Show Before We Die

The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much

Tim Murray Is Witches

We'll Have Nun Of It

What Girls Are Made Of

Whisky and Witches Presents Mythical Beasts

Wonder Drug

Yes – Ya – Yebo! 

#SINCE1994

2020 the Musical

30 and Out

Abbey's Box

Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone

After The Act

Alison Spittle: Soup

A Gay Dad

An Afternoon With Anton Du Beke and Friends

Ania Magliano: I Can't Believe You've Done This

Anything That We Wanted To Be

Be My Guest

Best In Class

Big Fish

Billy Kirkwood: Show Me Your Tattoo

Blue

Blues and Burlesque

Can't Wait To Leave

Caroline Rhea: I Identify As A Witch

Character Flaw

Chevalier – Hobbyhorse Circus

Chloe Petts: If You Can't Say Anything Nice

Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson

Chris Turner: Vegas, Baby! 

Chrissie & The Skiddle Witch

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Scary Times

Come Dine With Me

Cowboys and Lesbians

Dark Noon

Dazzling

Death Suits You

Deuteronomy

DNA

Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time

Gail Porter: Hung Drawn and Portered

Godcatcher

Grow

Hello Kitty Must Die

Highly Suspect Murder Mystery

Honeybee

Ice Hole: A Cardboard Comedy

I'm Having Distressing Thoughts

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

Katy Berry: Diamond Goddess Crystal Pussy

Kevin Quantum: Momentum

King of More: #FOMO Clinic

Klanghaus: Darkroom

James Rowland: Piece of Work

Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Balance

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

Jingle Street

Joe and Rory Present Television 1

Lachlan Werner - Voices of Evil

Lady Dealer

Larry Owens Live

Les Millénniables

Let The Bodies Pile

Liam Withnail: Chronic Boom

Lie Low

Lindsey Santoro: Pink Tinge

Looking For Giants

Louise Young: Feral

Mad Ron: Crime School 

Magic Gareth: Level Up!

Maggie Crane: Side By Side

Marc Jennings: Away From Here

Mark Nelson: Bits & Pieces

Madeleine Hamilton: Piping Hot

Mog The Forgetful Cat

Monet X Change: Life Be Lifein'

Moses Storm: Perfect Cult

My Dad Wears A Dress

My Father's Nose

Ollie Horn: Not Much

On Your Bike

Palindrome: The Musical

Paul Merton's Impro Chums

Philipp Kostelecky: Daddy’s Home

RENT

Rhy James: Spilt Milk

Roger McGough's Money Go Round

Salome

Sasha Ellen: When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade

Scaredy Fat

Science Adventures: Deep Sea

Sean and Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It (pre Fringe run)

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare for Breakfast

Shane Daniel Byrne: But He's Gay

Shoot From The Hip

Showstopper

Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?)

Sofie Hagen: Banglord

Sophie Santos Is...Codependent

Sophie Sucks Face

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

String V Spitta

Sunshine on Leith

Susan Riddell: Wonder Woman

Susie McCabe: Femme Fatality

Tales Of A Jane Austen Spinster

The Adventures of Supernova de Loutherbergh

The Black Blues Brothers

The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show

The Durham Revue: Death on the Mile

The Fish Bowl

The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue

The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose

Them

The Vaults Tour

The Way Way Deep

Thunderstruck

Tom Moran Is A Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar

Tomorrow's Child

Tones: A Hip Hop Opera

Vanya is Alive

Violet and Me

Vita and Virginia (Abridged)

Walking Home

We Must Do This More

Yoga With Jillian

Zach Zucker: Spectacular Industry Showcase

Aionos

Alan Turing- A Musical Biography

Alexandra Haddow: Not My Finest Hour

Alone

Alphabet Soup

Angela Beevers: How to Write a Eulogy That Kills

Annabel Marlow: Is this okay...??

Babs For Life

Blowhole

Breaking the Castle

Buff

Certain Death and Other Considerations

Ceyla AB

Chasing Butterflies

Child of Sunday

Chris Thorburn: Cineman

Concerned Others

Dizney in Drag: Once Upon A Parody

Dr. Bonk’s Macarbaret

Dusk: A Bite-Size Love Story

Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It

End of the World

Eulogy

Fielding Edlow: Gaslighting Is My Love Language

Frank Skinner: 30 Years Of Dirt

Frankenstein

Heaven

I Hope Your Flowers Bloom

Île

I Love You, Now What?

Kiran Deol: Joysuck

Kuan-Wen Huang: Ilha Formosa

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

Lawrence Chaney: Overweight and Over It!

Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon

Museum Late: Fringe Friday

Mystery House

Newsrevue

Nick Pupo: Addicted

Nobody's Talking About Jamie

Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail

Oscar at the Crown

Pitch

Potty The Plant

Public The Musical

Sad

Salty Irina

Sooz Kempner: Y2K Woman

Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change

Temporarily Yours

The Beatles Were A Boyband

The Climate Fables

The Half Moon

The Leeds Tealights: A Very Special Birthday Party

The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

The Opera Diva’s Boudoir

The Night Children

The Slightly Annoying Elephant

The Strongest Girl In The World

The St Andrews Revue

TINK

Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] 

Unstuck With You

Waiting For A Train At The Bus Stop

Without Sin

Woven

1000 Miniature Meadows

1984

24, 23, 22

Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps

Bed: The Musical

Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly

Breaking Open

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation

Love Is Blue

Midnight Building

No Love Songs

Olivia Xing: Party School

Pleasure Little Treasure

Seance

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Sugar and Blood

Super

The Dead Ducks

The Invisible Man

The Mitfords

The Oxford Revue Will See You Now

Titus Andronicus

Eigg the Musical

Hollywoodn't

Not Our Crime, Still Our Sentence