Written by Indra Wilson Co-directed by Cora Bissett and Niloo-Far Khan Review by Orly Benn Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose - Big Yin ★★★★ The care and generosity of Indra Wilson’s performance begins in the queue entering Gilded Balloon’s ‘other yin’, where patrons are handed silver-star stickers to use in acts of personal remembrance and celebration … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Float
Written by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland Review by Orly Benn theSpace @ Niddry St ★★★★★ Fringe heroes Xhloe and Natasha return to the too-busy, too-expensive, over-saturated Auld Reekie Edinburgh Fringe with all three of their previous shows to remind us why Fringe is worth it and why we should all try to do what … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – And Then The Rodeo Burned Down
Written and Performed by Jasmine Thien Directed by Max Percy Review by Eve Nugent Underbelly Bristo Square, Friesian ★★★ I Dream in Colour, performed on the intimate Friesian stage at Underbelly Bristo Square, is a moving semi-biographical one-woman show about a blind woman “fighting for the right to exist”. Writer Jasmin Thien draws upon her … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – I Dream In Colour
https://youtu.be/-Lpsslq9W1U Created by Wright&Grainger Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Dissection Room ★★★★★ To a sold-out auditorium, Wright&Grainger present their beautifully original show Orpheus: an innovative and modern retelling of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Performed on the funky traverse stage in the Dissection Room at Summerhall, the duo breathe vibrant new … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Orpheus
Review by Eve Nugent Assembly George Square Studios - Studio Five ★★★★ Oozing with charisma is Ismael Loutfi in his stand-up comedy titled Heavenly Baba. Across one hour, he shares the unique story of his father – a Syrian-born immigrant to the United States and devout Muslim whom Loutfi affectionately calls “the most religious man … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Ismael Loutfi: Heavenly Baba
Review by Dominic Corr Just the Tonic at The Caves ★★★★ More than many recent years, the ties of spoken word and storytelling have found themselves at the heart of the Festival Fringe’s theatre/comedy circuits, winning awards and accolades. Storytelling is Theatre. And Theatre is storytelling. Writer, performer, and stand-up Edward Tripp delves into the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Edward Tripp: No Man is an Ireland
Written by David Finnigan Review by Dominic Corr Pleasance Dome ★★★★ Well, this is one way to get your five a day… With a name that captures the imagination, 44 Sex Acts in One Week at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe deconstructs the boundaries and playfulness of conventional theatre—given life by Fringe First winner David Finnigan, this … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – 44 Sex Acts In One Week
Written by Charlotte Anne-Tilley, Review by Dominic Corr Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose ★★★★ Any audience with a passing familiarity with Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s writing will have expectations of some cleverly balanced humour and a whole heaping dollop of clowning antics. Serious Theatre from Serious People, despite the name, delivers whole-heartedly on the satirical comedy, with an appropriately … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Serious Theatre from Serious People
https://youtu.be/QlVJcaCk4Is Written and Directed by Seb Elder Review by Gabriel Rogers Greenside @ Riddles Court ★★★★ Third Culture Productions' debut fringe show boldly explores how grief and the climate crisis affect a young family and their friend. No Place Called Home, written and directed by Seb Elder, doesn’t stage the climate crisis at ground zero but instead in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
https://youtu.be/WHxFMFv1iOw Created by Tom Bailey Review by Gabriel Rogers Zoo Southside ★★★★★ Tom Bailey’s Vigil is a delicate love letter to the lesser-known and more interestingly named fauna which lives or, rather upsettingly, has ceased to live on planet Earth. The show begins comically as Bailey attempts, with great success, to mimic and clown 26,000 … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
