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

Review by Mhairi Sime Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Arrive at the Edinburgh Fringe's Pleasance Courtyard expecting cheeky reflections on lad culture and you get so much more. Chloe Petts: Big Naturals is a laugh-loaded hour that is as sharp as it is warm. Join Chloe Petts on the hunt for a new role model as they … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Chloe Petts: Big Naturals

Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Techcube ★★★★ Biopics being all the rage, MILES. is an unsurprising addition to the Fringe programme. Concerning itself with the man behind the music, Oliver Kaderbhai’s script exposes this legend for all shades of his, very fallible, character. Embodied brilliantly by twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Akintuyosi, it is hard to leave … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – MILES.

https://youtu.be/C-Cv_jexIA0 Created by Mele Broomes Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly @ Dancebase ★★★★ At no point do I remember the beginning of Mele Broomes’ show: her dancers, scattered across the stage, move as if they had always been there, floating. Transfixing us from the moment we enter the room, Broomes’ ensemble appeared to the audience … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – through warm temparatures

Written by Madison Mayer Composed by Aila Swan Directed by Emory Kemph Review by Mhairi Sime ★★★★ Go along expecting a sparkly and fun cabaret, and you’ll find something sharper. Bombshell, presented by Cross the Pond Theatre, follows three showgirls, who mix feminist pop musical energy with sharp topical bite as they perform in a struggling nightclub … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – BOMBSHELL

Created by Hani Dance Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly @ Dancebase ★★★★★ Inlet is, to put it simply, a beautiful show. In what feels like an unfurling, we witness our dancers evolve from primitive to civilised states. The word unfurling is ironic, though, seeing as their bodies quite literally become bound up - by costume, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Inlet

Direction and Performed by Tess Letham  Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly@ Dance Base ★★★★★ Tess Letham captures something in what ever happened to Harmony Banks which feels almost eerily of the moment. Indulging in slow sequences, Letham transforms into an AI-inspired extra-terrestrial, mastering a vacant, automaton gaze. Deeply unsettling at points, we are made to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – What ever happened to Harmony Banks?

Written by Freya McCall Review by Marina Funcasta Bedlam Theatre ★★★ A writer, a psychology professor and a doctor walk into a bar and… are greeted by the devil? In this fifty-minute interrogation, Jim, Mark and Pearl are forced to bargain for their life; or, as our seamy, satanic storyteller puts it, their afterlife. Whether … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sins of the Mother

Concept, Choreography, Direction, and Dramaturgy by Lenka Vagnerová Review by Marina Funcasta ZOO Southside ★★★★ Panoptikum promises physical theatre but delivers a magnificent showcase of eerie idiosyncrasies and haunting illusion. Hypnotising from the moment they enter onstage, the ensemble of dancers from Lenka Vagnerovná company are devilishly disturbing in their switching disguises. From sword fights, to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Panoptikum