Sunday, August 24, 2025
A cunning ruse leaves audiences facing their own privilege and complicity in Cliff Cardinal's bold theatrical creation
There is, let's be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfact…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
A Ukrainian bin man, an unseen used car dealer and every daddy's dream twink in three contrasting Fringe shows
Refuse, Assembly George Square Studios ★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Bringing the Faust legend to comment on colonialism produces bewildering results
What new light can the age-old legend of Faust selling his soul to the devil shed on colonialism in Africa, s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:32PM[SHARE]A slippery show about memory and a rug-pulling Deliveroo comedy in the latest from the Edinburgh Fringe
Imprints, Summerhall ★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Experimental digital performance art, classical insights and gay shame in three strong Fringe shows
The Ode Islands, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Two dramas on prison life offer contrasting perspectives but a similar sense of compassion
Ordinary Decent Criminal, Summerhall ★★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:03PM[SHARE]From drag to Japanese erotica via a French cookery show, three of the Fringe's more unusual offerings
Kinder, Underbelly, Cowgate ★★★Â
Drag artist Goody Prostate (yes, …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Two powerful shows consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with mixed results
The Horse of Jenin, Pleasance Dome ★★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
A joyful gay romance and an intimate one-to-one encounter in two strong Fringe shows
The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
A visually stunning stage re-adaptation of a recent gay classic plunges the audience into blood and earth
As shockingly beautiful as it is horrifyingly brutal, actor Armando Babaioff's deepl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Nothing less than the history of human civilisation is the theme of FC Bergman's visually stunning show
With the sheer density of theatrical creations jostling for attention across Edinburgh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36PM[SHARE]A deft, epoch-straddling climate six-hander and a celebration (and take-down) of the pantomime dame at the Traverse Theatre
The Beautiful Future is Coming, Traverse Theatre ★★�
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Twists in the tail bring revelations in two fine shows at the Traverse Theatre
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★
A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a p…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
James Graham's dazzling comedy-drama on the rise and fall of RBS fails to snarl
You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience " responding to knowing menti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
An intimate one-to-one encounter and an examination of brotherly love at the Traverse Theatre
I'm Ready to Talk Now, Traverse Theatre ★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2025
Three early Fringe theatre shows offer blissed-out beats, identity questions and powerful drama
Alright Sunshine, Pleasance Dome ★★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2024
From meta-theatrical mayhem to dreams of freedom and escape in three shows from the Fringe's closing days
L'Addition, Summerhall ★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2024
Jewish gangsters and ice-cold adolescents in two strong shows at Summerhall
REVENGE: After the Levoyah, Summerhall ★★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Two solo shows merge poetry, rap, spoken word and theatre to compelling effect
Ã’ran, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Boys playing girls playing boys in two joyful queer shows at the Pleasance Dome
Ni Mi Madre, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:03AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2024
A troubling take on the climate emergency and a pile of suitcases containing tall tales in two intimate shows at Summerhall
Bellringers, Roundabout @ Summerhall ★★★★�…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Unexpected twists in relationships mark out two dramas at the Traverse Theatre
The Sound Inside, Traverse Theatre ★★★★★
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2024
Mental health and food form the themes behind two strong dramas at the Traverse Theatre
In Two Minds, Traverse Theatre ★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Two strong Fringe shows merge truth with fiction - to very different ends
The Mosinee Project, Underbelly Cowgate ★★★★
In May 1950, a small US town awoke to hamme…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2024
From post-breakup blues to sweet-shop conflagrations in three early Fringe shows
Heartbreak Hotel, Summerhall ★★★★Â
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
End-of-days drama from centimetres-high clay figures, in a powerful collaboration from Scottish and Norwegian companies
In terms of conveying monumental events using small-scale means, Edinb…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2024
A shocking attack kicks off an audacious experience that makes its audience complicit, in Clare Duffy's ambitious but patchy show
There's been an incident in Edinburgh. Right near the Scotti…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2024
Gothic excess mingles with more modern themes in a one-man transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella
Evil walks among us. But it doesn't arrive courtesy of mad scientists, bubbling …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2023
Grit, authenticity and raucous comedy in a five-woman soccer show
You can keep your Cinderellas, your Aladdins, your wannabe Lord Mayors of London. The way forward with Christmas shows is cl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2023
A Faustian fable of online influence crackles with energy and attitude
You can almost feel the energy blazing off the stage in this fast, furious and fiercely funny two-hander from writer Ra…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
An all-female spin on Stoker's classic horror from the National Theatre of Scotland dares to challenge stereotypes
An all-female production of Bram Stoker's Dracula " well, kind of " that tr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:43PM[SHARE] 
