Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Dissection Room ★★★★★ In both style and substance, PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD screams feminism. Loudly. But a messy, chaotic, hilarious kind – precisely what trio, Nora Alexander, Dora Lynn and Kat Cory, try to distance themselves from in the opening of their performance. A proper, organised three-act play, they … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Philosophy of the World

https://youtu.be/nmtgb6YvEhg Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★★ Lit with four LED lamps, the Main Hall at Summerhall is almost unrecognisable: smoke wafts from beneath the seats, Suburban Knight’s album, Nocturbulous Behaviour, blasting in the audience’s ears. And in the corner of the stage, there are three hidden bodies which bounce in unison: … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

Written by Cal Ferguson, Mhairi McCall and Lewis Lauder Directed by Jo Rush Underbelly - Cowbarn ★★★ The ambition behind Mary, Queen of Rock! is undeniable with local musical theatre company Pretty Knickers attempting to fuse one of the most famous faces from Scottish history with the swagger of rock opera. The result is a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Mary, Queen of Rock!

https://youtu.be/MHuEgoajSSA Written and Directed by María García Pleasance at EICC ★★★★★ “In every new beginning there is magic” Suzanna Rosenthal Productions presents LOLA: A Flamenco Love Story. Stepping into LOLA: A Flamenco Love Story is like being wrapped in a swirl of rhythms, vivid emotion and devotion to the Spanish culture. From the very first … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – LOLA: A Flamenco Love Story

Review by Marina Funcasta Monkey Barrel Comedy ★★★ Soresi is a daring performer: waltzing onto the stage, facing nearly a hundred nodding heads sipping from their plastic pint cups, his charisma wins us over almost immediately. To be sure, his consecutive sell-out shows are evidence enough of his success. Whether this energy is maintained throughout, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour

Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace@Surgeon's Hall ★★★ From Jonny Woo to Tom at the Farm, the abundance of coming-of-age/coming-out content this Fringe Festival has been truly remarkable. All tales are bittersweet, but the conversation seems to be expanding. At least in the theatre world.  This is of course a wonderful move forward. And Michael DeBartolo’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Tell Me Where Home Is (I’m Starting to Forget)

Review by Marina Funcasta Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★ Brooke Dunbar sets herself no easy project: notoriously tragic, the story of Macbeth is a hard one to tell without falling into ominous supernatural pot holes. One of Shakespeare’s heavier tragedies, this cautionary tale is usually met with tears and gasps. In Dunbar’s case, however, the gasps … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Macbeth for Bairns

https://youtu.be/I2Qpl2FxUD8 Written by Michel Marc Bouchard Adapted by Armando Babaioff Review by Marina Funcasta Pleasance at EICC ★★★★★ Armando Babaioff’s adaptation of Michael Marc Bouchard’s 2013 play Tom at the Farm comes to the Fringe Festival with not much to prove. Winner of several international awards since its first adaptation in 2017, Babaioff’s translation of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Tom at the Farm

Written by Hannah Caplan Directed by Douglas Clarke-Wood Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Former Women's Locker Room ★★★★★ Leaving Hannah Caplan’s debut play ‘This is not about me’, I struggled to admit that it really wasn’t. That is, about me. Tying together some classic thematic threads of the coming-of-age genre, the relatability and insight … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – This Is Not About Me