I See You Watching review " the male gaze in full effect
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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 …