Review by Mhairi Sime Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Arrive at the Edinburgh Fringe's Pleasance Courtyard expecting cheeky reflections on lad culture and you get so much more. Chloe Petts: Big Naturals is a laugh-loaded hour that is as sharp as it is warm. Join Chloe Petts on the hunt for a new role model as they … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Chloe Petts: Big Naturals
Produced by Show And Tell Review by Aislinn McSharry ★★★★ A raucous, laugh-out-loud theatrical experience, Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel is an absolute delight; Camaraderie between the audience and actors makes for an exciting delirium of Austen-inspired chaos, highlighting the unifying power of theatre. The play begins with a clarification that nothing at all has been preplanned … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Written by Alison Skillbeck Review by Moyra Jones Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★ The lace curtain is drawn across the stage. As the audience drifts in, we find ourselves in suburbia - morning or perhaps edging into afternoon. When the lights go down and Jonny Woo awakes, it’s with a bang, launching straight into an … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Jonny Woo: Suburbia
Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Techcube ★★★★ Biopics being all the rage, MILES. is an unsurprising addition to the Fringe programme. Concerning itself with the man behind the music, Oliver Kaderbhai’s script exposes this legend for all shades of his, very fallible, character. Embodied brilliantly by twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Akintuyosi, it is hard to leave … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – MILES.
https://youtu.be/C-Cv_jexIA0 Created by Mele Broomes Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly @ Dancebase ★★★★ At no point do I remember the beginning of Mele Broomes’ show: her dancers, scattered across the stage, move as if they had always been there, floating. Transfixing us from the moment we enter the room, Broomes’ ensemble appeared to the audience … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – through warm temparatures
https://youtu.be/z55G52DsoYk Written by Jessica Toltzis Directed by Eli Pauley Review by Eve Nugent Paradise in the Vault ★★★★ “Never underestimate the power of a lesbian in love”. That is the bold promise emblazoned on the Edie poster – and this moving one-woman show delivers it in full. Jessica Toltzis takes to the intimate Annexe stage … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Edie
Created by Richard Jordan Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - The Attic ★★★★ Who is Truman Capote? Where can one find Truman Capote? Where can one find someone similar to Truman Capote? Bob Kingdom asks such questions in this beautiful one-man show as he embodies – in the truest sense of the word – … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Truman Capote Talk Show
Written by Katia Haddad Directed by Guy Retallack Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ It is the summer of 1992 – one year after Ukraine has gained independence from the Soviet Union. One fateful night, the lives of Galina, an ambitious student from Moscow, and Steven, a smooth-talking Ukrainian naval officer, are crucially brought … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Maruipol
Created by Third Floor Theatre Review by Eve Nugent ZOO Playground ★★★★★ Upon entering the auditorium of Zoo Playground 1, the audience finds themselves plunged into the tank of Coral and Gil – a married pair of French angelfish, struggling to get along under the claustrophobic pressures of their new home. In hope of saving … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – TANKED
Written and Directed by Brooke Jessop Review by Eve Nugent Pleasance Courtyard - Cellar ★★★★ A warm light fades up on Andrew, sprawled across the sofa in his baggy jeans, white vest, and small hoop earrings. He is fast asleep, arm dangling, surrounded by his mess – until his boyfriend Julian struts in, passionately dancing … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Paradok Platform 2025: Unwelcome
