'You're fighting for equal rights or some shit: I'm still fighting for the right to exist'. Sophie has a choice: remove her one remaining eye containing a tumour or risk cancer. Again. No brainer, right? But her parents have done everything to save this eye, in the hope she might see again. Can she do … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – I Dream In Colour
You can run from resistance but it will always catch up with you – as Sami finds out in his latest show. Join his open call for mass civil disobedience, equitable distribution of hand puppets and more! Find out once and for all: can resistance be funny? Sami returns to Fringe and this time, it's … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – PALESTINE: Peace de Resistance
Alex got sober in 2017 when she was 23. This is a show about what it's like once you get sober, discovering who you really are without substances, and what if who you really are is actually also a dickhead? Come and spend a happy hour. The debut fringe hour from Chortle Hotshot 2025, Alex … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Alex Stringer: Happy Hour
Electrifying political gig theatre – Blaze FM is a pirate radio station that keeps on kicking in the midst of court orders, injunctions, shutdowns by DTI, and outright attacks against Black music. This play with music from The Big House will take you back to the mid-2000s featuring Jungle, Grime and Drill. We had a … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Blaze FM
It's more than a word – it's a societal chokehold. A lifelong battle with scales, shapewear and shifty surgeons. But there's an alternative! Backed by a powerhouse band, multi-award-winning vocalist and cabaret performer Michelle Pearson dishes up a stunning blend of pop anthems, soaring ballads and raw, real storytelling. With stunning vocals and eye-opening interviews, … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Skinny
When Amy Mason got hacked, she lost her number, bank account and social media access. And then the hackers started sending her gifts... A surprising, somewhat filthy dive into connection, intimacy, and the perils of using your dead cat's name as your password for literally everything. Directed by Jessica Fostekew. As heard on Radio 1, … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 -Amy Mason: Behold!
Welcome to comedian Bailey Swilley's ghost tour, complete with tales of haunted tampons, magical spells and life lessons on family expectations, grief and growing up. Gimme a Sign! is a storytelling comedy, based on a family tragedy and the strange but funny antics that ensued after. Join Bailey as she reflects on the stages of … Continue reading Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Gimme A Sign!
Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
https://youtu.be/QlVJcaCk4Is Written and Directed by Seb Elder Review by Gabriel Rogers Greenside @ Riddles Court ★★★★ Third Culture Productions' debut fringe show boldly explores how grief and the climate crisis affect a young family and their friend. No Place Called Home, written and directed by Seb Elder, doesn’t stage the climate crisis at ground zero but instead in … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – No Place Called Home
https://youtu.be/WHxFMFv1iOw Created by Tom Bailey Review by Gabriel Rogers Zoo Southside ★★★★★ Tom Bailey’s Vigil is a delicate love letter to the lesser-known and more interestingly named fauna which lives or, rather upsettingly, has ceased to live on planet Earth. The show begins comically as Bailey attempts, with great success, to mimic and clown 26,000 … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Vigil
