Drawing from folk music, Celtic myth " and a drunken night out, three plays are imbued with a deep sense of terrain Karine Polwart's Wind Resistance, which makes a welcome return to Edinburg…
From a pastry-themed holiday to a bleak take on Thomas the Tank Engine, we round up some of the fringe's strangest sketch acts Fans of sketch comedy might have to look a little harder than n…
Swedish comedian feasts on the acclaim after his food-themed quip tops list of 10 best gags from this year's fringe The surrealist Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won the Dave funniest jok…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghTeddy Lamb untangles the difficulties of relationships in a bold monologue that is bursting with love The ache of lost time is contained in this delicate monologue gr…
Summerhall, EdinburghAhmed El Attar's bruising two-hander dives into the long lead-up to 2011 in an attempt to determine what causes mass revolt What causes a people to rise up? Is it a simp…
The Hive, EdinburghA hallucinogenic trip through the desert provides the basis for a standup show teeming with ideas but lacking true cohesion Desiree Burch is out of the traps at a gallop i…
The Caves, EdinburghThe comic turns his childhood trauma into a warm and deeply reflective show laced with jet-back humour An iron law of Edinburgh shows is that your trauma is your big reve…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghKatie Arnstein uses Dorothy's yellow-brick road to map her own struggles and issue a raw reminder of the urgency of #MeToo 'We saw your boobs! We saw your boobs…
Our photographer snaps the best of this year's performances, from an Oedipal election-night drama to Rose McGowan's sci-fi-inflected fringe debut Continue reading...
Personal stories " of exile, homelessness, illness and existential terror " jostle for hearts and minds with farts and live bread-baking It will come as no great shock that much of the Edinb…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne and his superb dancers inject visceral new life into Shakespeare's overworked tragedy You've got to hand it to Matthew Bourne, choreographer extraordinaire. When…
Wharfhouse, Cropredy, OxfordshireMikron's second world war show follows two female navy recruits as they battle the enemy and colleagues "Theatre anywhere for everyone, by canal, river and r…
Summerhall, EdinburghEmma Frankland plays a winged guide to a burning world in this charged and vulnerable piece about fighting for one's survival This is a play of knives and fireballs. Mar…
Summerhall, EdinburghJulia Croft's performance art piece takes you from the edge of a black hole to the eye of the hurricane in The Wizard of Oz. It's all very confusing The stars lie by our…
It used to be that just wearing a dress and lip-syncing was enough. But now drag is mainstream, the bar for this most creative and transgressive art form has been raised It's Friday night at…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghBrookes delivers one of the coups of this year's fringe with this deconstruction of a standup set, in which you never know what he'll do next 'In all sincerity …
Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole's latest show started off exploring Brexit, then turned darker. No wonder they hand beer to the audience and down shots on stage To try and win the lott…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh The standup rails against old-fashioned ideals of femininity, the diet industry and society's policing of women's bodies. It's strong stuff. Who decides what'…
King's theatre; Church Hill theatre; the Studio, EdinburghEmotion is pared to the bone in Robert Icke's thrilling new real-time adaptation of Sophocles. Plus, folk tales that leap off the st…
A trio of performers " Harry Clayton-Wright, Louise Orwin and Rachel Mars " grapple with sexuality in disarming ways Edinburgh's collective pulse has been raised over the course of the fring…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWhen the billed act fails to materialise, front-of-house staff played by sketch duo Goodbear fill in " and prove themselves more than capable The audience has assemb…
The singular standup's new show FaceTime is a delightful, devastating and stealthy account of his domestic woes The 2004 winner of the Perrier award (as it was known then) pops up every few …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWang is back with a new no-messing, harder-nosed attitude, along with excellent jokes including some choice one-liners Phil Wang made a little piece of fringe h…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe terrific teenage dancers of ZooNation's youth company crank up a gramophone time machine and zip through styles from Charleston to hip-hop It's massively hear…
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles' classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away The play has hardly begun and already …