'Constantly energetic & oddly thought-provoking': THE MONSTER IN THE HALL " Edinburgh Fringe ★★★
Cheerfulness in the face of adversity characterises The Monster in the Hall by Capsize Collective and New Celts at The Space on the Mile.
Cheerfulness in the face of adversity characterises The Monster in the Hall by Capsize Collective and New Celts at The Space on the Mile.
A truly harrowing tale of survival is told in Heroine, a one-woman show from Scene Change Productions making its world premiere this Fringe.
Emerging out of what appears to be primordial soup, dancers Mickael Henrotay-Delaunay and Ismael Oiartzabal weave a tale of friendship and derring-do
Any preconceptions about a play depicting five-a-side football should instantly be put aside for Tom Wells's Jumpers For Goalposts.
Tough lawyer Nina returns to her rooms to await the verdict on a particularly brutal case of child abuse " the chilling
Stuck at the top of a stepladder, her little finger trapped in the hinge, Clare is about as disempowered as it is
Cleverly entertaining but carrying a strong social bite, Nichola McAuliffe’s Revenants has a hint of the drawing room drama about it. In
The legend of King Arthur is given a thoroughly modern retelling in Grail Project from Californian physical theatre ensemble Theatre Movement Bazaar.
Sweet and true, Handfast by Edinburgh-based company Nutshell at Summerhall, is the wedding day you deserve.
Michael Daviot's Don Quixote Unbound at Sweet Grassmarket is a wonderfully involving, enchanting and thought-provoking example of the arts of storytelling and theatre-making.
The idea that your life flashes before your eyes as you die is given a distinctly contemplative air by Finnish company Teatteri
Antigone presented by Amplify Time and New Celts at TheSpace on the Mile, attempts to bring the concerns of Ancient Greece to the contemporary arena. If unresolved tensions in the script mea…
Nasty truths lie behind the cartoonish nature of The Laird's Big Breaxit in the Library at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Nitro by Glass Knuckles and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile may never live up to the explosive promise of its title but has an energy and vigour that covers its faults effectively.
There is an air of freshness and fun to Cambusdonald Royal from Edinburgh People's Theatre at Mayfield Salisbury Church.
Strange Town Theatre Company take us to a war-town Warsaw in Steve Small's raw and powerful staging of David Greig's Dr Korczak's Example.
The sincerity, emotional directness and beautiful staging of A War of Two Halves deserves to transcend sporting allegiances. This Is My Story and Nonsense Room's site-specific performance do…
An important piece of LGBT history is explored in Eighties gay romantic comedy, Love Song to Lavender Menace, which returns to Edinburgh this Fringe.
There is dark foreboding to Tim Hardy’s performance of Simon Brett’s monologue, directed by Alison Skilbeck. It’s as if a woman in
Not everyone appreciates the importance of Edinburgh to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Of course, people think of the city as packed with venues and backdrops, but few know the scale of work…
There's no faulting David Carberry's ambition in his attempt to create a commentary and response to Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground through
Bill Bankes-Jones’ Pagliacci transports Leoncavallo’s rural Italian tragedy to a tent in Paisley. A performing troupe arrive to stage a commedia dell'arte
Heart-warming and bursting with pop songs, The Band perfectly captures teenage fandom as Take That's songs shine in this brand new musical.
It was the midnight of the 20th century, the day in 1942 when 15 Nazi bureaucrats met in the Wannsee suburb of Berlin to coordinate the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem" " murder on an …
Yes, the show is cheesy and a little bit over the top at times, but it is also really uplifting. If you're looking for a fun, feel-good, romantic musical to see this summer, then An Officer …