Written by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland Review by Orly Benn theSpace @ Niddry St ★★★★★ Fringe heroes Xhloe and Natasha return to the too-busy, too-expensive, over-saturated Auld Reekie Edinburgh Fringe with all three of their previous shows to remind us why Fringe is worth it and why we should all try to do what … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – And Then The Rodeo Burned Down
Created by Emily Carding Review by Marina Funcasta The Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★ Not a gamer myself, I can’t help but sense a childish trepidation any time a board game or card game are mentioned; keeping up with the rules, the competition, the stakes – it’s a lot to bear in mind. You can imagine … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Timonopoly
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
Written and Performed by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland Review by Marina Funcasta TheSpace@Niddry St ★★★★★ When it comes to Fringe shows, I can’t help but consider those with long titles to be a bit of a write-off. Not even fitting into the (admittedly miserly) space afforded to them by the program, I find long … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First
Direction and Performed by Tess Letham Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly@ Dance Base ★★★★★ Tess Letham captures something in what ever happened to Harmony Banks which feels almost eerily of the moment. Indulging in slow sequences, Letham transforms into an AI-inspired extra-terrestrial, mastering a vacant, automaton gaze. Deeply unsettling at points, we are made to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – What ever happened to Harmony Banks?
