With a song in their hearts, it's another year of Scottish, UK, and World premieres, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe continues to be a home for the musically gifted and the biggest entertainers across the globe. Here we take a look at some of the musical highlights of this August's season. From now until August kicks … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Musical Mayhem
Returning with another year of Scottish, UK, and World premieres, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe continues to be at the forefront of the world's home of art and culture. Here we take a look at some of the theatrical highlights of this August's season. Featuring big budgets and familiar names, debut writing pieces, and a few … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Top Theatre Trips
https://youtu.be/XSNI7IZqhkQ Written and adapted by Manjeet Mann Directed by Tessa Walker Review by Jack Quinn Pilot Theatre: Touring ★★★★ Run, Rebel, adapted from Manjeet Mann’s award-winning verse novel, is a gripping exploration of rebellion and self-discovery, delivered with unflinching honesty at Theatre Peckham. Directed by Tessa Walker and produced by Pilot Theatre, this production offers … Continue reading Review: Run, Rebel – Theatre Peckham, London
Written by Lyndon Chapman Review by Jack Quinn Underbelly Cowgate ★★★★ Navigating the liminal spaces between humour and despair, Lyndon Chapman’s Is the Wi-Fi Good in Hell? is a raw, deeply personal exploration of trauma, identity, and the relentless search for belonging. Set against the backdrop of a society that often overlooks those on the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Is the WiFi Good in Hell
Written and Directed by Ois O'Donoghue Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall Former Women's Locker Room ★★★★ In the intimate, sweat-drenched confines of Summerhall's Former Women's Locker Room, HYPER by Ois O'Donoghue and Jaxbanded Theatre envelops the audience in an intense, visceral experience that blurs the line between performer and spectator. This play is not for … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – HYPER
Review by Florence Carr-Jones Monkey Barrel Comedy ★★★★ Audiences enter to see ‘ZOë COOMBES MARR’, which is jarringly displayed on an inverted Word doc. Then as Sweet but Psycho starts blaring, Zoe Coombs Marr bursts onto the stage. The show starts with a disgustingly in-depth description of Coombs Marr’s “vomit reel,” which is chaotic and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Zoe Coombs Marr: Every Single In My Entire Whole Life
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
Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
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
