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
Created by Stolen Table and Pat Rascal Review by Orly Benn Underbelly Cowgate - Iron Belly ★★★★★ Stolen Table and Pat Rascal return to the Fringe, continuing their chain of beautifully unserious and gorgeously absurdist clowning feats to bring us Space Gravy: the freshest chain in an infallible string of good-night-outs. As all good narratives … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Pat Rascal: Space Gravy
Produced by Show And Tell Review by Aislinn McSharry ★★★★ A raucous, laugh-out-loud theatrical experience, Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel is an absolute delight; Camaraderie between the audience and actors makes for an exciting delirium of Austen-inspired chaos, highlighting the unifying power of theatre. The play begins with a clarification that nothing at all has been preplanned … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Written by Alison Skillbeck Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★ The lace curtain is drawn across the stage. As the audience drifts in, we find ourselves in suburbia - morning or perhaps edging into afternoon. When the lights go down and Jonny Woo awakes, it’s with a bang, launching straight into an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Jonny Woo: Suburbia
https://youtu.be/z55G52DsoYk Written by Jessica Toltzis Directed by Eli Pauley Review by Eve Nugent Paradise in the Vault ★★★★ “Never underestimate the power of a lesbian in love”. That is the bold promise emblazoned on the Edie poster – and this moving one-woman show delivers it in full. Jessica Toltzis takes to the intimate Annexe stage … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Edie
Created by Richard Jordan Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - The Attic ★★★★ Who is Truman Capote? Where can one find Truman Capote? Where can one find someone similar to Truman Capote? Bob Kingdom asks such questions in this beautiful one-man show as he embodies – in the truest sense of the word – … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Truman Capote Talk Show
Written by Katia Haddad Directed by Guy Retallack Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ It is the summer of 1992 – one year after Ukraine has gained independence from the Soviet Union. One fateful night, the lives of Galina, an ambitious student from Moscow, and Steven, a smooth-talking Ukrainian naval officer, are crucially brought … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Maruipol
Created by Third Floor Theatre Review by Eve Nugent ZOO Playground ★★★★★ Upon entering the auditorium of Zoo Playground 1, the audience finds themselves plunged into the tank of Coral and Gil – a married pair of French angelfish, struggling to get along under the claustrophobic pressures of their new home. In hope of saving … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – TANKED
Written and Directed by Brooke Jessop Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar ★★★★ A warm light fades up on Andrew, sprawled across the sofa in his baggy jeans, white vest, and small hoop earrings. He is fast asleep, arm dangling, surrounded by his mess – until his boyfriend Julian struts in, passionately dancing … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Paradok Platform 2025: Unwelcome
Written by Alfie Jones Directed by Alice Harding Review by Orly Benn Underbelly George Square - Buttercup ★★★★ In a visual age of mass media consumption and production, Alfie Jones’s ‘This Blighted Star’ is immeasurably pertinent as a modern analysis of surveillance, mass media safety, social conspiracy, and celebrity idolatry. Jones’s play, expertly directed by … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – This Blighted Star
