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 Freya McCall Review by Marina Funcasta Bedlam Theatre ★★★ A writer, a psychology professor and a doctor walk into a bar and… are greeted by the devil? In this fifty-minute interrogation, Jim, Mark and Pearl are forced to bargain for their life; or, as our seamy, satanic storyteller puts it, their afterlife. Whether … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sins of the Mother
Concept, Choreography, Direction, and Dramaturgy by Lenka Vagnerová Review by Marina Funcasta ZOO Southside ★★★★ Panoptikum promises physical theatre but delivers a magnificent showcase of eerie idiosyncrasies and haunting illusion. Hypnotising from the moment they enter onstage, the ensemble of dancers from Lenka Vagnerovná company are devilishly disturbing in their switching disguises. From sword fights, to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Panoptikum
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
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
Produced by Vilma Pitrinaite Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly @ Dance Base ★★★★ For such a short show, this seriously packed a punch. From the sound, to the movement, to the breath work, Vilma Pitrinaite attacks her work with a ferocity which is hard to capture with mediums that aren’t as tangible as the body. … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – When You’re Alone In Your Forest Always Remember You’re Not Alone
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
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
