REVIEW: Sweating the Small Stuff, York Drama Soc, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
How does a show that aims to appraise and impact upon seven different rich and interesting problems manage to engage it's audience without a story?...
REVIEW: Stand-Up Philosophy, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
With an ever-changing line up, it's proven quite hard to think about putting together a comprehensive review for Stand-Up Philosophy, hosted by the irreverent Alex...
REVIEW: Rossetti’s Women, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★☆☆☆
The three muses of the Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti join together to tell the stories of their lives, and for the most part, his...
OPINION: This year’s EdFringe has reignited the festival’s fiery beating heart. Let’s not let it go to waste.
It was a huge gamble. The last announcement on the lifting of Scotland's lockdown restrictions came just days before the festival began in earnest. For...
REVIEW: On Your Bike, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★★
The plight of so-called "gig economy" workers has been played out quite publicly over the past few years in the media consciousness. From the D*liveroo...
REVIEW: Bowerbird, Luke Rollason, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
Some time after I saw his show, I met Luke Rollason while standing outside the Monkey Barrel. He mentioned his experience at a Clown Camp...
REVIEW: Moonlight On Leith, Red Cap Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
Central to the set of Moonlight on Leith is a large tapestry of the moon overlooking the ocean. This is apt, as in many ways...
REVIEW: Saving Mr Ultimate, Extra Arca and New Celts Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
An ailing comic book shop in a small Scottish town is the setting for Saving Mr Ultimate. It's also just about all that seventeen year...
REVIEW: Radio 69, The Counterminers, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
Radio 69 tells the story of a small community radio station in the fictional town of Frogsburgh in the Scottish Borders. It's a show that...
REVIEW: Screen 9, Piccolo Theatre & The Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
Screen 9 is a visceral, immersive theatrical experience which dives into the very heart of the experiences of survivors of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting....
REVIEW: Dr Whom, A Time and A Place Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
What happens when the Doctor has finally killed all the bad guys? This is the question that the brilliantly funny Doctor Whom sets out to...
REVIEW: Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her), Edinburgh Fringe 2021, ★★★★★
She's been putting together a kick ass speech for a year now. But in the moment that she meets him, she accidentally agrees to go...
REVIEW: For All The Love You Lost, Morosophy Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★☆☆
What does it mean to love? How does grief express itself? How can we forgive others, and most importantly, ourselves? For All The Love You...
REVIEW: Bromance, Barely Methodical Troupe, Edinburgh Fringe 2021, ★★★☆☆
Bromance bills itself as subverting conventional circus tricks and styles with playful techniques. There is no doubt that they are successful in this aim, as...
REVIEW: It’s Not Rocket Science, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★★
Ready for lift off? Science, feminism, philosophy and social commentary collide in It’s Not Rocket Science in all the right doses. Eve begins as a...
REVIEW: Corpsing, Red Rabbit Theatre & New Celts Productions, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
Where did all those bodies come from? Corpsing kicks off in true dark humour style - a wily undertaker's assistant dragging a binbag-clad corpse across...
REVIEW: Drown Your Sorrows!, Balderdash Theatre Company, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★☆☆
"Are you a Cowboy? Or are you just a boy?"- Drown Your Sorrows! Four bartenders are on an adventure to find the Elixir of Life...
REVIEW: Afterparty, New Celts Productions & F-Bomb Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
One of the great benefits of this year's Fringe being smaller and much more local has been the opportunity for Scottish voices to step forward...
REVIEW: Madhouse, Edinburgh Fringe 2021 ★★★★☆
"Fuck, Marry, Kill - Theresa May, Andrea Leadsom, Priti Patel.""Can I just kill myself?"- Madhouse Chaos, confusion and, often, hilarity sit at the centre of...
Binge Fringe is back for EdFringe 2021!
After what has been an infinitely turmoil-filled year for all of us in the arts community, your favourite alcohol-infused reviewers have returned for another year...