Written by Ro Bright Directed by Kitan Petkovski Review by Eve Nugent Assembly Checkpoint ★★★★ The audience is invited to sit around small circular tables at the foot of the stage in Assembly Checkpoint – an exciting, intimate atmosphere is immediately established. Upstage centre sits a silk pink screen embroidered with a red ribboned heart, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – Sugar

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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