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EDINBURGH 2023: Review: END OF THE WORLD, ZOO Playground
by Katie Kirkpatrick - August 10, 2023

Ella Lovelady’s debut play End of the World really does include everything but the kitchen sink. There’s a fridge, a kettle, plenty of cupboards, a dining table, and more. This could be said of not only the set but the writing too - with everything from being a young carer to climate change to perio...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MIDNIGHT BUILDING, Greenside
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 12, 2023

Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals. Watch as a selfish hero and a heartless lover battle for the ethical high ground.Think you're a good person? Think again....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: AFTER THE ACT, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 11, 2023

'Queers in classrooms!' 'Perverts panicking parents!' – a new musical about pride, protest… and abseiling lesbians. Section 28: the landmark legislation that silenced a generation and offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SUPER, Pleasance Courtyard
by Mark Carnochan - August 11, 2023

Super feels just as artificial and hollow as the characters it is portraying....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DEATH SUITS YOU, Bedlam Theatre
by L Gourley - August 10, 2023

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. A must-see for musical theatre fans with a penchant for dark humour....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: 30 AND OUT, Pleasance Courtyard
by Katie Kirkpatrick - August 09, 2023

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
by L Gourley - August 10, 2023

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. An uplifting reminder of the importance of our everyday connections in a world tilted towards nihilism, it runs Aug 10-12 at Emerald Thea...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TALES OF A JANE AUSTEN SPINSTER, Greenside @ Nicolson Square
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

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. It’s a quick glimpse into the horror of modern romance....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY FATHER'S NOSE, Assembly Rooms
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

My Father’s Nose is a surprisingly heartwarming show about death and moving on. Douglas Walker’s comedy is shaped with hilarious non-humour and eccentric irony. His sorrow is mirrored by the stranger’s sympathy in a well-rounded journey into irrational fears and comical anecdotes. Walker offers a po...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT?, Pleasance Courtyard
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

All in all, it’s not a great play, but it’s also not a particularly bad one either. It’s tentatively poetic but commonplace, with a dash of humdrum personal reflection in the mix. Jealousy, love, pain, bereavement, it’s a to-do list of life....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHATHAM HOUSE RULES, Pleasance Courtyard
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

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. It’s a production for the chronically online, anti-Brexit internet addicts, and those who simply want to have a laugh before they’re thrown into a vor...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CASTING THE RUNES, Pleasance Courtyard
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

Box Tale Soup adapt MR James’s ghost story into a play that has the same dark feel of a Penny Dreadful episode. Elegantly directed by Adam Lenson and featuring impressive puppetry and stage tricks, it’s a production of outstanding craft and storytelling. ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE, The Space @ Surgeons' Hall
by Cindy Marcolina - August 10, 2023

Zach Hawkins is incredible with Ryan’s exuberant resignation. He waltzes through the flowing stream of consciousness with ease, handling the final shift in tone with depth and reflection....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SIKISA: HEAR ME OUT at Monkey Barrel Comedy
by Kat Mokrynski - August 14, 2023

Sikisa: Hear Me Out a brilliant hour of comedy that will leave you in stitches and in awe of the incredible woman on stage. She’s funny, she’s witty, she’s talented, and she’s not ashamed to be herself - What more could one ask for? ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: FIONA ALLEN: ON THE RUN, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 10, 2023

Double Emmy Award winner and star of Smack The Pony is doing her first ever show. Like most working mums, since her children were born she didn't have a moment for herself. Now free, she has tried new hobbies, new places, even attempting to get fit. Difficult when your spirit animal is a sloth. With...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: NICK PUPO: ADDICTED, Just The Tonic At The Mash House
by Kat Mokrynski - August 12, 2023

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
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2023

Debut hour from Geordie rising star with a show all about class, chaos and coming out. She did ask her friends if her life had been feral enough to warrant this title; they laughed and assured her it still is....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: A GAY DAD, TheSpace @ Symposium Hall - Annexe
by Stefanie Lyons - August 10, 2023

​​​​​​​Don't go into A Gay Dad with any expectations. Honestly. Don't. I had the feeling it was a stand-up show about being, well, a gay dad. And it was funny. But it was also a heck of a lot more, in many surprising ways....

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SALOME, Bedlam Theatre
by Mary Baillie - August 10, 2023

There is something surreal about watching a play banned for blasphemous biblical portrayal in an old Church. Embedded with symbolic poetry, repetitive references to the moon and the desire to kiss a severed head, Philomene Cheynet's interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé presents an unusual twist on...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SHAKEITUP: THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE SHOW, Gilded Balloon Teviot - Billiard Room
by Stefanie Lyons - August 10, 2023

​​​​​​​Going in, I wasn't sure what to expect from this show. And as it turns out, neither do the performers. With no script, no plot and no directions, the lovely group from ShakeItUp Theatre create a modern Shakespeare play in front of your very eyes. ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MOSES STORM: PERFECT CULT, Pleasance Courtyard Beneath
by Kat Mokrynski - August 10, 2023

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. Moses Storm: Perfect Cult presents a unique opportunity to audience members - For one night only, you and e...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ALISON SPITTLE: SOUP, Monkey Barrel Comedy - The Hive (Hive 1)
by Stefanie Lyons - August 09, 2023

Mental health features a fair bit in this lovely show, a hot topic with a number of comedians these days. And I'm all here for it. Especially Alison's understated, open and refreshing look at her own 'Menty B'. ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY DAD WEARS A DRESS, Underbelly
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2023

A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff. Filled with hilarious tales from her school days, it shows the difficulties of fitting in as a young person and the fears we feel about being labelled as 'outside the box'. Brimming with life and ...

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: STEPHEN BUCHANAN: CHARICATURE, Monkey Barrel
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2023

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
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2023

Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe. In communities across the country, families, loved ones, and clinicians support people suffering with substance addiction. Multi-award winners Tortoise in a Nutshell present Concerned Others, an intimate tabletop performance that shares...