Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Clean Slate

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 -Lachlan Werner: WonderTwunk

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – What ever happened to Harmony Banks?

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?

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Wild Thing!

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!

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Baby In The Mirror

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sins of the Mother

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Panoptikum

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Cold, Dark Matters

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

Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Insider

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