REVIEW: The Bank Where Your Ex Works, No Plan Needed, EdFringe 2022 ★★★☆☆
It’s the story of a bank heist, in which the target is a double date with your ex-partner and their new lover. What can go...
REVIEW: Monsoon Season, Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Vidura drip-feeds us the story of his life, of eating disorders, of being an immigrant in multiple countries, going to a dodgy medical school in...
OPINION: Supporting New Writing – TheSpaceUK Platforms 3 New Pieces of Writing at EdFringe 2022
TheSpaceUK has long been a springboard into Fringe glory for emerging artists, while equally hosting those with long-established careers. New Writing platformed at the venue...
REVIEW: You’re Dead, Mate, Très Rascal, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★★
Imagine finding out you’re dead right in the middle of New Year’s Eve with your girlfriend by your side. What a party pooper! Luckily, You’re...
REVIEW: Asides from the Elbow, LS6 Theatre, EdFringe 2022 ★★★☆☆
Asides from the Elbow is a melodramatic sit-com style comedy-drama set entirely in the smoking area of a pub, also called The Elbow, in a...
REVIEW: Bogeyman, Lagahoo Productions & The Pleasance, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Emily Aboud’s tale of living in the modern world on the shoulders, backs and broken bones of the victims of colonial imperialism is an inspired,...
REVIEW: Sugar, Mabel Thomas, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★★
Sugar tells the story of one woman’s trip from an ambitious childhood to becoming a Sugar Baby aged 18. For the uninitiated, ‘Sugar Babies’ are...
REVIEW: Americana: A Murder Ballad, Pepperdine Scotland & Morna Young, EdFringe 2022 ★★★☆☆
Content Warning: Gun Violence Americana is a play about gun violence in the United States, except when it isn’t, when it’s actually also a piece...
REVIEW: Bye Bye Baby, Aireborne Theatre, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Warning: Spoilers What comes after the club? Ask any Uni student and the answer is universal - chips, an Uber and maybe a deep chat...
REVIEW: Hot Mess, Fusebox Theatre, EdFringe 2022 ★☆☆☆☆
Warning: Spoilers Hot Mess traces the lives of twins Polo and Twitch, who at birth only had one heart between them. Ignoring the point that...
REVIEW: Got Legs Presents: Waddle, The Room Above Bristol, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★★
Waddle is absolute top tier late night Fringe material. The sketch comedy troupe have put together a tapestry of pop culture satire which clings to...
REVIEW: Creeps and Geeks, Sasha Ellen, EdFringe 2022 ★★★☆☆
She’s the Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon-Master taking on creepery and geekery at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Self-admittedly, Ellen is well qualified to talk about...
REVIEW: The Trial, Young Pleasance, EdFringe 2022 ★★☆☆☆
Warning: Spoilers Young Pleasance promised a “re-imagining” of Kafka’s classic story The Trial. It’s a hard feat to completely re-engineer the plot of the story...
REVIEW: The Beatles Were a Boyband, F-Bomb Theatre, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★★
Content Warning: Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Assault. Did you know The Beatles didn’t become popular until teenage girls noticed them? F-Bomb Theatre have played an ace...
REVIEW: Swell, Tom Foreman Productions, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Swell is a remarkable piece of worldbuilding theatre set in a world that is ironically crumbling and falling apart - not at all distant from...
REVIEW: Joshua (and Me), Rachel Hammond, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Joshua (and Me) is a one-person performance centred around a family growing up in Blackpool. Hannah, our main character and focus for the piece, begins...
REVIEW: War of the Worlds (On a Budget), Lamphouse Theatre, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
War of the Worlds (On a Budget) is an absolute riot - it must be said to start off. The concept is explained neatly in...
REVIEW: The Graveyard, St. Andrews Mermaids Performing Arts Fund, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★☆
Vignettes from the shipwreck of the Batavia are the central offering of The Graveyard, tackling isolation, abandonment and stir-craziness in this dizzying, sometimes absurd piece....
REVIEW: Beg For Me, Rosa Maria Alexander, EdFringe 2022 ★★★☆☆
The brazen concept of Beg For Me is to unpick the relationship between violent misogyny, consent and the radicalisation of people into the so-called 'Alt...
REVIEW: Bluewater, Grace Quigley, EdFringe 2022 ★★★★★
Bluewater is a show driven by a sense of both unfettered queer epiphany and youthful political angst. Layered in 2000s nostalgia, Grace Quigley's one-person performance...