Created by Michael Galligan Review by Christian Maddock ★★★★ The humble banana is often regarded as one of the more mundane fruits, it being so cheap and readily available. However, this show manages to inject a sense of life, zaniness and occasionally, panic, into the world's most-popular yellow fruit. The show opens to a techno … Continue reading Banana – Zoo Southside
Written and Directed by Cesca Echlin Performed by Abby McCann Review by Josie Rose Embleton ★★★★ An exploration of fantasy and reality, love, connection, and seduction, Looking for Giants invites its attentive audience to listen to this engaging one-woman story of imagination. Cesca Echlin’s debut solo play from emerging theatre company That What’s Wild begins as a … Continue reading Looking for Giants – Underbelly, Cowgate
Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Directed by Sally Lyall Musical Directed by Colum Findlay and Fraser Hume ★★★★★ Cutting to the chase – the talent and determination of the entire Captivate Theatre team has always carried a guarantee of solid entertainment and an absolute beacon of brilliance for the Edinburgh grassroots community. … Continue reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame -Edinburgh Academy
Nathan wants to live in the moment but the past has a way of finding him. This hotly anticipated return to the Fringe, from an exciting new voice with a unique perspective, takes on the vital contemporary issues: modern masculinity, racial identity and bizarre song choices in McDonald's. Winner of the BBC's prestigious Felix Dexter … Continue reading Have a Gander – Nathan D’Arcy Roberts: Presents
Produced by Show and Tell Group Review by Mhairi Sime ★★★★ The tenth year of Austentatious at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is marked by a dependably talented cast and entertaining storytelling. Show and Tell presents a completely improvised tale daily, in the tone of Jane Austen, with each show as a previously untold (and never … Continue reading Austentatious – McEwan Hall
https://youtu.be/PZqYNCTjelI Written and Directed by Mia Jerome ★★★ We’ve got a job to do folks: and it might just be the most important one we undertake this Festival season. You see one of the new apprentices, Perry (Simon Maeder), at the Lost Lending Library, has gone and done the unthinkable: he’s lost the ruddy thing. … Continue reading The Lost Lending Library – Church Hill Theatre
Written and Performed by Sinéad O’Brien ★★★★ Often, the discussion of loved ones with mental illness sparks a sense of storytelling and catharsis. Less often, though, are tales about the act of caring for them, and the struggles we encounter. The pangs of guilt, the harsh realities. Even rarer is how much we love them … Continue reading No One Is Coming – George Mackay Brown Library at The Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written and Performed by Alex Hill Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★★ It’s the Euros 2020: the biggest football event for England in 55 years. The atmosphere is untamed, nearing explosive. Especially for Billy, who, feeling a sudden wave of buzz, either from his 24th pint, a third gram of cocaine, or, of course, the nationalism … Continue reading Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse For England – the Space @Niddry St
Songs by Kyle Falconer Book by Laura Wilde and Johnny McKnight Directed by Andrew Panton and Tashi Gore ★★★★ Music touches us in a way few other expressive mediums do: yes, even theatre. We fall in love to music; it’s our first port of call when we break up or when we’re sad or need … Continue reading No Love Songs – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/UrQphDbxNG0 Written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Directed by Oisín Kearney ★★★★ The very notion of taking an absurdist humour and approach to sexual consent, work-place-harassment and believing those who come forward is not only an ill-advised pr nightmare; but frankly dangerous in the wrong hands. Good thing Lie Low is written with such disarmingly acute humour, and … Continue reading Lie Low – Traverse Theatre
