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
Written by Gary McNair Directed by Gareth Nicholls Review by Marina Funcasta Traverse Theatre ★★★★★ Gary McNair, characteristic in his ample vocality and stiff gait, demands attention from the moment he sets foot on stage. His Glaswegian accent booms across the theatre, leaving no doubt in our minds as to the certain Scottish edge of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – A Gambler’s Guide To Dying
Created by Roger White, in collaboration with the team Review by Eve Nugent Summerhall - Main Hall ★★★★ Obscure haze slowly fills the auditorium, ominous red lights rise, and an eery soundscape begins – the haunting atmosphere of Because You Never Asked is immediately established. Produced by Montréal-based company We All Fall Down, this show on the main stage at Summerhall is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Because You Never Asked
Written by Hannah Moscovitch Directed by Christian Barry Review by Eve Nugent Traverse Theatre ★★★★★ Lauren has asked Luke to narrate her life on her behalf – she sits quietly on a raised platform, hoping to better understand herself by observing from the outside. Luke accepts the task and opens the story by describing her recent mental … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Red Like Fruit
Written by Annie Lareau Review by Marina Funcasta Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Above all else, Fuselage emerges as a play about the past - historical events, blurred memories, and present loss are tightly bound to every word uttered by writer and actor, Annie Lareau. And trust me, there’s a lot of them. Yet, there is something … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Fuselage
Written by Alice Humphries Review by Eve Nugent Bedlam Theatre ★★★★ Set entirely in a carriage of the London Underground – complete with six seats, a map of the tube, an advert for “Musk: the everything fragrance” – this Edinburgh University Theatre Company production of ‘The End of the Line’ delivers a powerful message on … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The End of the Line
Produced by Runaway Hotel Kollective Review by Eve Nugent C ARTS - C alto ★★★★ Canadian-based theatre company Runaway Hotel Kollective presents ‘Air Heart’, a fascinating one-woman show which tracks the tumultuous and extraordinary life of Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer known for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Air Heart
