Written by Ro Bright Directed by Kitan Petkovski Review by Eve Nugent Assembly Checkpoint ★★★★ The audience is invited to sit around small circular tables at the foot of the stage in Assembly Checkpoint – an exciting, intimate atmosphere is immediately established. Upstage centre sits a silk pink screen embroidered with a red ribboned heart, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sugar
Written and Performed by Jasmine Thien Directed by Max Percy Review by Eve Nugent Underbelly Bristo Square, Friesian ★★★ I Dream in Colour, performed on the intimate Friesian stage at Underbelly Bristo Square, is a moving semi-biographical one-woman show about a blind woman “fighting for the right to exist”. Writer Jasmin Thien draws upon her … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – I Dream In Colour
https://youtu.be/-Lpsslq9W1U Created by Wright&Grainger Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Dissection Room ★★★★★ To a sold-out auditorium, Wright&Grainger present their beautifully original show Orpheus: an innovative and modern retelling of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Performed on the funky traverse stage in the Dissection Room at Summerhall, the duo breathe vibrant new … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Orpheus
Review by Eve Nugent Assembly George Square Studios - Studio Five ★★★★ Oozing with charisma is Ismael Loutfi in his stand-up comedy titled Heavenly Baba. Across one hour, he shares the unique story of his father – a Syrian-born immigrant to the United States and devout Muslim whom Loutfi affectionately calls “the most religious man … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Ismael Loutfi: Heavenly Baba
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
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
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!
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
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
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
