https://youtu.be/XTLRwxzwyCA Directed and Set Design by Yaron Lifschitz Choreographed by Yaron Lifschitz, Bridie Hooper & Circa Ensemble Composed by Gluck Libretto by Calzabigi The Edinburgh Playhouse ★★★★ Rising from the pits of Hades and defying both mortal realms and gravity—literal and emotional—Orpheus and Eurydice at the Edinburgh Playhouse is a breathtaking fusion of opera and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – Orpheus and Eurydice, The Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Ailsa Dixon Review by Dominic Corr Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ As the world burns, and finds itself in the grasp of men, it is all too often the women who have ‘seen’ what is coming, as all too often, they were the ones who saw it in the past. Ailsa Dixon brings a haunting … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Cassandra
Written by Lubna Kerr Review by Dominic Corr Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ For a lot of us, lunchtime at school was bliss. Pals, away from class, and a handful of snacks which would bring euphoria with the inevitable crash. For a lot of us though, there was one ruler of this domain: the bully. Lubna Kerr’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Lunchbox
Written, Directed, Composed & Performed by Karine Polwart Composed & Sound Desigb by Pippa Murphy Review by Katherine McIntyre Raw Materials ★★★★★ An elegant and astonishing stand-out for this year’s festival season, in Raw Materials Windblown, Karine Polwart delivers a luminous, lyrical tribute to the long-silenced Sabal palm of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden. Performed at … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Windblown
Written by Gabriel Jason Dean Directed by Ari Laura Kreith Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre ★★★★ There’s a quiet, persistent tremor running through RIFT, Gabriel Jason Dean’s play at the Traverse Theatre for the 2025 Travfest season. It’s not the kind that splits the earth open, but the kind that unsettles the ground beneath … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – RIFT
Created and Performed by Lucy Beth Review by Dominic Corr The Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★ A bold reclamation of voice, Lucy Beth’s Ma Name is Isabelle offers agency to a woman long silenced in the traditional bothy ballad Bogie’s Bonnie Belle. Told entirely in Doric, the dialect of North East Scotland, Beth’s solo performance is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Ma Name is Isabelle
Written by Clare Fraenkel Directed by Lowri James Review by Dominic Corr ZOO Southside ★★ Someone has finally found the sole-benefit of Brexit: Clare Fraenkel’s I Was German, a deeply personal and historically rich piece, is born out of Fraenkel’s journey to reclaim German citizenship following Brexit. As a piece of theatre, it unfortunately struggles to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – I Was a German
https://youtu.be/dgdNV1YKGgY Created by Theatre of Widdershins Review by Dominic Corr The Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★★ Theatre of Widdershins’ Snow White Rose Red Bear Brown, performed at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, is a triumph of intimacy, imagination, and enchantment. In a festival bursting with spectacle, this quietly dazzling show reminds us of the elemental power of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Snow White Red Rose Bear Brown
https://youtu.be/_LX1-xBvoRA Directed, Dramaturgy and Set Design by Stef Aerts, Joé Agemans, Thomas Verstraeten & Marie Vinck (FC Bergman) Review by Dominic Corr The Royal Lyceum Theatre ★★★★ In a festival season brimming with bold statements and theatrical invention, Works and Days by Belgian collective FC Bergman stands out as a masterwork of visual storytelling and … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – Works and Days
Book by Rae Binstock Music & Lyrics by Brandon James Gwinn Direction and Choreography by Paul McGill Written by Dominic Corr Gilded Balloon - Big Yin ★★★ Midnight at the Palace, playing at the Gilded Balloon Patter House, is an unruly tribute to the legendary drag ensemble The Cockettes—those glitter-drenched, gender-bending pioneers of 1960s San … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025 – Midnight at the Palace
