Assembly Hall, EdinburghAustralian circus act Gravity and Other Myths allow the audience an up-close insight into how they mastered their extraordinary craft This may be the ideal festival s…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA man picks up a dead stranger's lanyard and gets sucked into a sinister corporate world in Bunkum Ensemble's unsettling play On the way to an interview for a j…
This year's Edinburgh festival is full of creepy shows, from a jaw-clenching haunting to sci-fi terror. Our writer braves the darkness in Auld Reekie's fringe venues for a day of fear I am a…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIndra Wilson's imaginative monologue is a touching exploration of grief and hope through space travel If you ever need an extended metaphor, just ask Indra Wilson. I…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDelivered with self-deprecating joyfulness, this is a big-hitting set exploring life as a trans woman 'Sir, are you aware those are women's clothes?" Even the m…
Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghA locked drawer that never opens, a rug that everyone walks all over … Emily Weitzman's metaphors for boyfriends are ridiculous and revelatory It's a si…
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…
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…
Lyceum, EdinburghVisually arresting moments in lanterns and silk, and Huang Ruo's haunting soundscapes, bring to life ancient Chinese creation myths in Basil Twist's production There's no d…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghCandid family snapshots meet leftist politics and wondrous prehistoric megafauna in Long's singular take on the state of the world 'The old world is dying, and the n…
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, 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…
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…
Actor who had a long career on the London stage, mentored by Lindsay Anderson, and appeared in films and popular TV series When he burst on to the stage of the new Abbey theatre in Dublin in…
Ustinov Studio, BathAllen is convincing as the bored newlywed but Matthew Dunster's version gets lost between our time and Ibsen's It is not through any shortcomings of the cast that Matthew…
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…
Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghMadeleine Rowe's physical comedy, deft vocal work and twinkle-eyed charisma takes the relationship between man and steed to extremes Academic texts have b…
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 …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe sometime Mr Swallow sidekick's hour of interiors improv is a skilful, unshowy treat 'Shall we give ourselves a night off from being funny?" There are unassu…
Soho theatre, LondonThe nonconformist TV writer, film-maker, children's author and standup is hired to find a new colour in this charismatically surreal hour Fans of the former Saturday Nigh…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonLossi the lurcher is the only cast member not playing an instrument in this show aimed at younger audiences In the movie Shakespeare in Love, the theatre …
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 Courtyard, Edinburgh Maintaining a remarkable mood of spontaneity and joy, Tothill sweeps his audience through unexpected history and cruise-ship hell Both his previous shows havin…