Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Clean Slate

Created by Louisa Marshall and Amber Charlie Conroy Review by Aislinn McSharry Summer Hall - Former Gents Locker Room ★★★★★ Provocative, confrontational, a fierce whirlwind of orchestrated unpredictability: Lousia Marshall and Amber Charlie Conroy's Clean Slate dissects relationships between men and women, focusing on the "weaponised incompetence" that creates unwilling housewives out of supposed equal partners.   The play starts … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Clean Slate

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 -Lachlan Werner: WonderTwunk

Created and Performed by Lachlan Werner Review by Moyra Jones Pleasance Dome - 10 Dome ★★★★★ Lachlan Werner takes the stage like an angelic vision, with his perfectly coiffed blonde hair and feathery leotard. We’re immediately transported into the world of the Wonder Twunk - a delightful fusion of twink and hunk. Co-written by Werner … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 -Lachlan Werner: WonderTwunk

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Wild Thing!

https://youtu.be/TBFTNhLOvHc Created and Performed by Tom Bailey Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Techcube 0 ★★★★ Wild Thing is the sequel to Mechanical’s 2019 hit Vigil, continuing their exploration of urgent environmental themes. As the audience enters, Tom Bailey is already moving across the space as a spiny dwarf mantis. This preset bleeds into the … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Wild Thing!

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Baby In The Mirror

Written by Sammy J Glover and Marie Sophie Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Red Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Baby in the Mirror is the debut production from Second Adolescence, co-created by Sammy J Glover and Stella Marie Sophie. It explores a theme that feels particularly prominent at this year’s Fringe: queer baby-making. The opening is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Baby In The Mirror

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Cold, Dark Matters

Written by Jack Brownridge-Kelly Directed by Roisin McCay-Hine Review by Eve Nugent C Arts - C aurora ★★★★ In the small and intimate venue of Lauriston Hall, Cold, Dark Matters ominously takes the audience by the hand, and leads them to dark, rural Cornwall in this chilling one-man show. Staged in traverse, whereby the audience … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Cold, Dark Matters

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Insider

Written by Anna Skov Jensen Directed by Johan Sarauw Review by Moyra Jones Pleasance Dome - King Dome ★★★★★ You walk into the space and come face-to-face with a man trapped in a glass box - his sleek, sterile corporate prison. You take your seat, put on headphones, and are immediately hit with the sound … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Insider

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Creepy Boys: SLUGS

Created by Sam Kruger and S E Grummett Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Red Lecture Theatre ★★★★ For a show about nothing, Creepy Boys: Slugs feels like it’s about everything. Described as a technicolour acid trip, it lives up to that label - and then some. Creepy Boys - the same duo, S.E. Grummet … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Creepy Boys: SLUGS

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Julia. 1984

Lead Producer & Created by Sofia Barysevich Written by Karina Wiedman Directed by Tanya Polosina Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★★ When you walk into the main stage at Summerhall, Big Brother is already watching you – a blinking eye, projected ominously on the stage’s backdrop, creates an immediate sense of unease. Julia.1984, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Julia. 1984

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Lost Lear

Written & Directed by Dan Colley Review by Marina Funcasta Traverse Theatre ★★★★★ Perhaps Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy, it will not surprise readers that Dan Colley’s adaptation of King Lear was nothing short of heart-wrenching. Fiercely confronting the devastating impact of estranged family dynamics and the complicated worlds of duties of care and dementia, I entered … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Lost Lear

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Gambler’s Guide To Dying

Written by Gary McNair Directed by Gareth Nicholls Review by Marina Funcasta Traverse Theatre ★★★★★ Gary McNair, characteristic in his ample vocality and stiff gait, demands attention from the moment he sets foot on stage. His Glaswegian accent booms across the theatre, leaving no doubt in our minds as to the certain Scottish edge of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Gambler’s Guide To Dying