Friday, August 15, 2025
Banshee Labyrinth, EdinburghTheodora van der Beek's inventive and quirky show about a slimy bloke targets the male gaze
The clue is in the fingers. Rubbery, bulbous things, they look as if t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghTrumpeter Jay Phelps plays a devotee of Benjamin Akintuyosi's Miles Davis in this reverential tribute
Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAn authoritarian patrols the auditorium barking contradictory commands at a wannabe star in Blind Faith's uncomfortable show
The male gaze is often talked of as a pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Love is in the air on the fringe as romantic partners put their private lives in the spotlight through daft sketches, acrobatics, folk songs " and a real wedding
Some people blow their weddi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghEverything depends on the audience, so no performance is ever the same in a celebration of shared experience that's perfect for the fringe
Fringe favourite Ontroerend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghSophie Anna Veelenturf takes a nuanced personal look at how apps can prevent us falling for those whose politics we deplore
If the Guardian's Dining Across the Divid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis mix of acrobatics, feverish monologues, high-altitude accidents and apocalyptic physical comedy doesn't need to have a rationale " does it?
It is probably b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe cast are formidable in this defiant if sometimes clunky show about the ups and downs of running a community treasure
This story of a pirate radio station is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghA woman pieces together her memories of a family tragedy in Ellie Keel's atmospheric two-hander set on Skye
It starts with a shriek. A deliberate false alarm, this sets …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh The performers of Emergency Chorus play comic scenes, do a long syncopated dance and throw shapes in an odd two-hander
Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit giv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghHeadlines punctuate Henry Naylor's play about the newspaper's campaign against Elton John and the multiple lawsuits launched by the singer
Henry Naylor started out i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghAfreena Islam-Wright invites the audience into her life by interspersing her version of The Chase with tales from her British-Bangladeshi upbringing
There is no shortage o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghRuxandra Cantir's cast of gherkins, onions and carrots is conceptually funny but lacks bite
We can agree that a cabaret involving pickled vegetables is conceptually funn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
The Georgian House, EdinburghDrawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett's imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PM[SHARE]Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghVisual artist Ornagh conjures a psychedelic, mixed-reality vision preoccupied with identity, sexuality and body image
What happens when theatre meets film? It is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVictoria Melody's passion for other people's passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments
Victoria M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Queen's Hall, EdinburghAn exquisite mix of song, poetry and spoken word, Karine Polwart's show about the Royal Botanic Garden's iconic palm tree stands tall
If you thought there could not be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghThomas jumps adeptly from terrorist to drug lord in writer Ed Edwards's gripping and subtle one-man show
There is an alarming sense of cogs being wound in this prison dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]A lively, wriggly tube creature, mesmerising birds for babies and a joyful take on Joyce's Ulysses will delight young audiences at this year's festival
Assembly Rooms, 10.10am, until 24 Augu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghSibling envy, a stumbling acting career and addiction are covered in an indistinctive show by the sister of Carl
There are many urgent topics demanding our attention on th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AM[SHARE]Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Alan Bissett embodies both the expansive Big Yin and the detached author of Lanark in a thoughtful, entertaining search for their conn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
Traverse, EdinburghIn Dan Colley's evocative play, a retired actor with dementia loops through scenes from the classic tragedy
A play remains a classic for as long as it continues to yield n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghIn a poetic performance, former teenage grunge obsessive Emma Frankland takes heart from a fantasy about the Nirvana musician
There is a fashionable theory among pop rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2025
Summerhall, Edinburgh Polish company's musical take on Shakespeare's death-fixated drama is full of feeling, but its story never really sings
It begins with lines from Under the Earth I Go, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghNina Khyzhna performs a collage of poetic dance-theatre that embodies the everyday trauma of life in Kharkiv
In Pokémon lore, the distortion world i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
A tech twist on Hamlet, a glimpse into a catastrophic future and a uniquely personalised tale of societal breakdown immerse fringe audiences in the haunting uncertainty of artificial intelli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghIn Michel Marc Bouchard's play, a young man travels to his boyfriend's rural funeral and finds his family are unaware of their relationship
Socially, you know it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Traverse theatre, EdinburghHumanity and understanding permeate Gabriel Jason Dean's play inspired by a real-life relationship but awkward questions remain unasked
Families fell out over Brex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Traverse theatre, EdinburghPanto dame Dorothy Blawna-Gale is sharp-tongued and lovable but the hilarity is underpinned by creator Johnny McKnight's personal story
She stands before us in a b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghIn Bed With My Brother's story of cult band the Shaggs is a furious and funny rallying cry against patriarchy and perfection
If fringe favourites Sh!t Theatre had a mili…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the EastEnders star plays a tribute act to the Hollywood legend in this dreary drama
Rarely has the cult of celebrity alighted on someone wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AM[SHARE] 
