Written by Aviary Talent Review by Moyra Jones Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose ★★★ Aideen McQueen has an instantly charming stage presence. From the moment you walk into the room, the atmosphere feels warm and welcoming, as though you’re being invited into a friendly conversation rather than a performance. The show begins with McQueen pouring herself … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Aideen McQueen: Waiting for Texto
Directed by Taryn O’Connor Review by Eve Nugent Underbelly Cowgate - Buttercup ★★★ “You’ll never believe how he cheated!” is the six-word summary Britt Migs gave in her interview with Tom Inniss for VoiceMag, and it proves to be the perfect hook for her debut Fringe stand-up show Dolphin Mode. Over roughly 45 minutes, this … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Britt Migs: Dolphin Mode
Written by Joe Kent-Walters Review by Moyra Jones Monkey Barrel ★★★★★ Joe Kent-Walters is back with a new show from Frankie Munroe. Following the 2024 hit show Frankie Monroe: Live!!!, Kent Walters is back with the sequel called, yes you guessed it, Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time). And like all good shows set in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time)
Written by Ed Gamester Review by Dominic Corr Underbelly Circus Hub - The Lafayette ★★★★ There’s a moment early in Mythos: Ragnarök when Loki, played with gleeful irreverence by Ed Gamester, locks eyes with the audience and dares them not to laugh. It’s emblematic of the show’s ethos: myth meets muscle, comedy meets chaos, and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Mythos: Ragnarök
https://youtu.be/MPrFkFIyyDo Written by Jack Parris Review by Moyra Jones Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ You walk in, receive a lanyard, and are welcomed to the panel. On stage, two desks are set up where Adam Boothroyd and Mike Coxhead boredly play instruments behind their computers. It’s the perfect set-up to lay down the kind of absurd energy … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Unstoppable Rise of Ben Manager
Written by Ellie Keel Directed by Matthew Iliffe Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Tech Cube 0 ★★★★ SKYE: A Thriller, Ellie Keel’s debut play, follows the story of a family grappling with trauma, set thirty years after a life-changing incident. Annie, played by Dawn Steele, recounts the events in an interview with a crime … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – SKYE: A Thriller
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/DvEgMH3LcMI Created and Performed by Dougie Mackay and Jemima Thewes Review by Dominic Corr Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★ In A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun, ancient myth collides with ecological urgency in a richly textured hour of storytelling, shadow puppetry, and live music. Performed by Dougie Mackay and Jemima Thewes, this Fringe offering is a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun
Review by Katherine McIntyre Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★★ Sometimes, the smallest sections make the biggest noises. Tragic to see in some radical political sectors, encouraging in other respects. Spoken Word may be the smallest of the Festival Fringe’s offerings – but it’s by far the most accessible and welcoming. In a festival bursting with theatrical … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Loud Poets
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
