Written by Sophie Fisher Review by Aislinn McSharry Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose ★★★★★ A one-woman play detailing the trials and tribulations of casting calls, acting aspirations, and general social survival in the face of all this, Sophie Fisher's An Ode to the Casting Director is hilarious, heartfelt, and completely captivating. Dismal auditions of hoarse battle cries, to … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – An Ode To The Casting Director
Review by Marina Funcasta Monkey Barrel Comedy ★★★ Soresi is a daring performer: waltzing onto the stage, facing nearly a hundred nodding heads sipping from their plastic pint cups, his charisma wins us over almost immediately. To be sure, his consecutive sell-out shows are evidence enough of his success. Whether this energy is maintained throughout, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour
Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace@Surgeon's Hall ★★★ From Jonny Woo to Tom at the Farm, the abundance of coming-of-age/coming-out content this Fringe Festival has been truly remarkable. All tales are bittersweet, but the conversation seems to be expanding. At least in the theatre world. This is of course a wonderful move forward. And Michael DeBartolo’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Tell Me Where Home Is (I’m Starting to Forget)
Directed by Taryn O’Connor Review by Eve Nugent Underbelly Cowgate - Buttercup ★★★ “You’ll never believe how he cheated!” is the six-word summary Britt Migs gave in her interview with Tom Inniss for VoiceMag, and it proves to be the perfect hook for her debut Fringe stand-up show Dolphin Mode. Over roughly 45 minutes, this … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Britt Migs: Dolphin Mode
https://youtu.be/MPrFkFIyyDo Written by Jack Parris Review by Moyra Jones Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ You walk in, receive a lanyard, and are welcomed to the panel. On stage, two desks are set up where Adam Boothroyd and Mike Coxhead boredly play instruments behind their computers. It’s the perfect set-up to lay down the kind of absurd energy … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Unstoppable Rise of Ben Manager
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
Review by Marina Funcasta Scottish Storytelling Centre ★★★★ Brooke Dunbar sets herself no easy project: notoriously tragic, the story of Macbeth is a hard one to tell without falling into ominous supernatural pot holes. One of Shakespeare’s heavier tragedies, this cautionary tale is usually met with tears and gasps. In Dunbar’s case, however, the gasps … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Macbeth for Bairns
https://youtu.be/I2Qpl2FxUD8 Written by Michel Marc Bouchard Adapted by Armando Babaioff Review by Marina Funcasta Pleasance at EICC ★★★★★ Armando Babaioff’s adaptation of Michael Marc Bouchard’s 2013 play Tom at the Farm comes to the Fringe Festival with not much to prove. Winner of several international awards since its first adaptation in 2017, Babaioff’s translation of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Tom at the Farm
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
Written by Hannah Caplan Directed by Douglas Clarke-Wood Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Former Women's Locker Room ★★★★★ Leaving Hannah Caplan’s debut play ‘This is not about me’, I struggled to admit that it really wasn’t. That is, about me. Tying together some classic thematic threads of the coming-of-age genre, the relatability and insight … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – This Is Not About Me
