Written by Joe Kent-Walters Review by Moyra Jones Monkey Barrel ★★★★★ Joe Kent-Walters is back with a new show from Frankie Munroe. Following the 2024 hit show Frankie Monroe: Live!!!, Kent Walters is back with the sequel called, yes you guessed it, Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time). And like all good shows set in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time)
Created by Stolen Table and Pat Rascal Review by Orly Benn Underbelly Cowgate - Iron Belly ★★★★★ Stolen Table and Pat Rascal return to the Fringe, continuing their chain of beautifully unserious and gorgeously absurdist clowning feats to bring us Space Gravy: the freshest chain in an infallible string of good-night-outs. As all good narratives … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Pat Rascal: Space Gravy
https://youtu.be/z55G52DsoYk Written by Jessica Toltzis Directed by Eli Pauley Review by Eve Nugent Paradise in the Vault ★★★★ “Never underestimate the power of a lesbian in love”. That is the bold promise emblazoned on the Edie poster – and this moving one-woman show delivers it in full. Jessica Toltzis takes to the intimate Annexe stage … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Edie
Created by Richard Jordan Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - The Attic ★★★★ Who is Truman Capote? Where can one find Truman Capote? Where can one find someone similar to Truman Capote? Bob Kingdom asks such questions in this beautiful one-man show as he embodies – in the truest sense of the word – … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Truman Capote Talk Show
Written by Katia Haddad Directed by Guy Retallack Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ It is the summer of 1992 – one year after Ukraine has gained independence from the Soviet Union. One fateful night, the lives of Galina, an ambitious student from Moscow, and Steven, a smooth-talking Ukrainian naval officer, are crucially brought … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Maruipol
Written and Directed by Brooke Jessop Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar ★★★★ A warm light fades up on Andrew, sprawled across the sofa in his baggy jeans, white vest, and small hoop earrings. He is fast asleep, arm dangling, surrounded by his mess – until his boyfriend Julian struts in, passionately dancing … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Paradok Platform 2025: Unwelcome
Written by Alfie Jones Directed by Alice Harding Review by Orly Benn Underbelly George Square - Buttercup ★★★★ In a visual age of mass media consumption and production, Alfie Jones’s ‘This Blighted Star’ is immeasurably pertinent as a modern analysis of surveillance, mass media safety, social conspiracy, and celebrity idolatry. Jones’s play, expertly directed by … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – This Blighted Star
Review by Marina Funcasta Just the Tonic at the Caves ★★★ Witnessing the success of Adam Kay, the emergence of Dr Benji Waterhouse comes at no surprise. Breaking through the taboo of combining humour and the unknown sides of mental health, as Waterhouse himself acknowledges at the beginning of his show, humour becomes a very … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Benji Waterhouse: Second Opinion (WIP)
Written and Performed by Lucy Roslyn Directed by Jamie Firth Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar ★★★ It’s man devouring man, my dear, and who are we to deny it in here?We have all heard of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and his murderous exploits on Fleet Street. But what of his partner in crime? … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Lovett
Review by Eve Nugent Monkey Barrel Comedy ★★★★ Alison Spittle waltzes onto the Monkey Barrel stage in her puffy, multicoloured tulle suit – a whimsical armour she soon sheds to reveal a glamorous, sparkly two-piece. From the offset, she disarms the audience with her total transparency, acknowledging her large size and recent weight loss. Exactly … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Alison Spittle: BIG
