Review: Ray O’Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger
A masterclass is classic stand up comedy.
Genre: Comedy 0
Review: Guy Montgomery: Over 50,000,000 Guy Fans Can’t Be Wrong
Montgomery presents a great hour of comedy that is sure to, at the least, give you a giggle.
Review: Huge Davies: Album For My Ancestors (Dead)
A comedy music concert showcasing a man and his piano.
Review: Bitty-Bat !
Jeffers’s mastery of the character seems effortless, but the amount of skill it takes to use those arms, manage in the flowing cape costume, and control facial expressions down to the tiniest detail is something once reserved only for cartoon characters.
Review: Sonnets from Suburbia
Witty, droll and suave sonnets that will leave you simply quite astonished
Review: Panto Macbeth
All in all, Panto Macbeth does exactly what it says on the tin. The company has created a riotous and delightful fifty-minutes of Fringe, so be the wicked thing, and go their way.
Review: Eric Davidson’s Amazin Prime Parodies (26 Songs to Make the Whole World Cringe)
Parodies par excellence
Review: Four More Short Plays Loosely Linked By The Theme of Crime
Quartet of four well crafted, amusingly dark and daft plays
Review: Rose Matafeo: On and On and On
A hilarious look at the relationship between a woman and her notes app.
Review: It’s the Economy Stupid
A great bit of storytelling ,with sleight of hand magic, disguised as a cost-of-living seminar
Review: Louis Katz: Bountiful
From family to the big global stuff, Kataz packs a powerful comedy punch
Review: Antidepressed
As with any good comedy, it is littered with relatable content, the ideas that are most people’s everyday realities no matter where they’re from.
Review: Ctrl+Alt+Deceit!
A new musical by Ariella Gordon about our relationship with technology. This is a feel-good piece that challenges the idea that the internet and social media is, well, social at all – and that we humans need real relationships – not just emojis.
Review: Kelly Bachman: Patron Saint
Her presence is disarming and dry, and by the time you get three-quarter through and think you might be desensitized, she throws on her vestments and makes a knock-knock joke I genuinely worry will send me to hell for laughing as hard as I did.
Review: A Celebration of Father Ted
music, stand-up, video, slides and audience participation hosted by the comedian/actor who played Father Damo.
Review: The Techtonics : 44 Days of Liz Truss (A Cappella)
Completely ridiculous and alarmingly accurate tale of utter incompetence
Review: BI-TOPIA
Fantastic exploration of what confusion sexually is, and masculinity ought to be from an engaging and brilliant performer.
Review: The History of Electronic Music
Hilarious and educational at the same time! Nostalgic - will leave you wanting to get up and dance!
Review: Two Hearts: Til Death Do Us Hearts
A must-see show for the night owls of Old Town looking to laugh until it hurts.
Review: Eddy Hare: This One’s On Me
Hare brings a unique and personal charm to his comedy that stands out from the crowd.
Review: #40 and single – The early morning Cabaret Comedy Show
An early morning attempt to raise a smile.
Review: The Comedy Games With Coach Mon
Eyebrow athletics and high fives in this engagingly silly show
Review: Elaine Malcolmson: Joik
Malcolmson has an easy, endearing quality that lends itself well to her sense of humor.
Review: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show.
A Master storyteller completes his latest trilogy in exuberant, gripping style.
Review: Becky Goodman: The Day My Sugar Daddy Dumped Me
Becky Goodman’s show is like if you spliced Fleabag with Steve Martin standup and then added a quality that we will only be able to refer to at future Fringes as BeckyGoodmanesque.
Review: The Sex Lives of Puppets
A unique take on puppetry that is very entertaining and extremely funny!
Review: Pillock
A searing performance funny and tragic in turns about loneliness and a quest for romantic love
Review: Thor the Walrus
It’s a rare sort of comedy that lulls you with laughs and then slaps awake from your warm duvet of manufactured consent and reusable Sainsbury bags.
Review: Weathergirl
Screwball comedy taking the fast car on the highway to climate change hell as California wildfires roar near
Review: MacPlebs
A chaotic, hilarious, and utterly daft and delightful comedy retelling of a classic.
Review: ShakeItUp – The Improvised Shakespeare Show
High class, high octane improv from masters of their craft
Review: Phil Hammond and Dame Clare Gerada: Fifty Minutes to Save the NHS
Lacerating comedy and a prescription of possibility for the NHS
Review: Main Character Energy
Deceptively messy and chaotic, Wilkey's Main Character Energy is an absolute triumph
Review: How to Mate: The TED XXX Talk
Steve Porters is not to be missed, a groundbreaking drag king all around.
Review: Reuben Kaye: Live and Intimidating
Unpredictable, unstoppable, unvarnished, unafraid – the hilarious Reuben Kaye brings it home again.
Review: Art of Selling Out
Want to sell out your Fringe show? Grab a drink and a laugh with Jacki Thrapp for some unusual advice.
Review: Outpatient
A relatable exploration of mortality and finding the humour within the darkest hours of life through karaoke, running and love.
Review: Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits
It is pure joy to watch Margolyes read and enact characters from Charles Dickens and tell her stories with humour and wit.
Review: 3 Queens of New York
A comedic showcase for three very different black female comedians from three very different parts of New York City.
Review: Dave Ahdoot – Ethnically Ambiguous
This is effectively a TED talk with lots of good laughs – it lifts the lid on a world that not many have direct experience of and is held together by a big, warm personality.
Review: An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo
"This is a show we can all relate to"
Review: Natalie Palamides: WEER
Incredibly unique and pitched to perfection, yet another show that only Natalie Palamides could do.
Review: An Unexpected Hiccup
Absurdist knockabout comedy with sinister undertones showcasing local talent from established Edinburgh company Lung Ha
Review: I Know a Guy
Hilarious stand up with an unbelievable tale to believe and she convinces you, because you couldn’t make this up!
Review: Fan/Girl
This is an entertaining and upbeat evocative show that is very well written and performed.
Review: Every Brilliant Thing
The dichotomy of innocence and suicide is fascinating, dealth with much nuance, without falling into cliches or stereotypes.
Review: Gloria’s Gift
In a world where we're all so connected, how can we be more disconnected than we've ever been?
Review: The Hot Wing King
Hall, following Nottage in particular, emerges as one of the most exciting US dramatists.
Review: All’s Well That Ends Well
Don’t go expecting searing insights, but do go for a crack ensemble who will surely turn many to Shakespeare. An endearing and uplifting enterprise.
Review: Heart’s Desire/L’Amore Del Cuore
Anyone admiring Churchill, ferocious comedy or excited by a rare UK foray into Italian theatre must see this.
Review: As You Like It
A first-rate outdoor revival, and easily rivalling what the Globe have to offer.
Review: Suite in Three Keys
A once-in-a-generation masterpiece of revival. This is what we’ve been missing.
Review: The English Moor
Richard Brome’s 1637 The English Moor marks a new departure for Read Not Dead. You might say with this play it’s Read to be Dead.
Review: Sappho
A bit of theatrical democracy invoking pre-democracy crafts an exquisite irony for a rainy afternoon. Do see it.
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
A triumph of tone, of textual intercourse and tight-reined spirits. Beatrice’s star is dancing. It’ll stay fresh as the feelgood Shakespeare this summer.
Review: Six Characters In Search Of Pirandello
"There is someone in my life, and I know nothing about him" (Pirandello)
Review: Steve Parry: The Last of the Famous International Amateurs
A man in the middle of a mid-life crisis
