Genre: Solo Show
Review: Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk
Timandra Harkness is an intelligent and interesting performer, calmly steering us through a show exploring the concept of risk taking, that didn't need to work hard to keep our attention.
Review: Deer Woman
A rightfully angry production that gives voice to a story that needs to be more widely heard
Review: Umbrella Man
Start your Fringe day with a bang in the hands of a very talented poet and storyteller
Review: Best Girl
Sparse lyrical writing and a beautifully nuanced performance from a mother and daughter team
Review: Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott
The erratic path of true love: A simple tale told at a cracking pace with depth, style, and biting wit.
Review: TEACH
Compelling, meaningful, poignant, dynamic, entertaining, well-crafted and well-performed solo play
Review: Taboo
A chilling glimpse into the world of a little known but influential woman from the Nazi era.
Review: Woke
A solo evocation of a community struggle that alights the energy of the nights and the unbending desire for freedom.
Review: Turn the Night
An innovative solo performance framed in the context of a karaoke night where underlying tensions get exposed and examined.
Review: Marie
A solo piece of contemporary theatre that brings Mary Queen of Scots down to face her nemesis in a fantasy piece of comedic tragedy that is subtly dark and highly entertaining.
Review: Baby Face
An uncomfortable night facing uncomfortable truths with comfort coming when you have the decency to condemn the truly indecent
Review: Justin Matson: Fatter Than You Think
Entertaining, compelling, provocative - and very funny!
Review: The Immaculate Big Bang
Entertaining, poignant, animated and humorous show with relatable topics!
Review: Enough
A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.
Review: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
Review: That Woman! Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
A deliciously gossipy peak into the 20th century’s most famous love affair
Review: KillyMuck
A brilliant and brutal portrayal of the inequity and generational desperation of the Benefits Class
Review: How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia
There are no words to describe the power or impact of this show
Review: Gie’s Peace
Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music
Review: Next Time
A powerful new drama which bears witness to the devastating effects of domestic violence without sensationalising them.
Review: Narcissist in the Mirror
Razor sharp writing and performance. If you’re going to see one play about millenial anx, see this one.
Review: DUPed
Solo exploration and expose of the worst of the DUP in a relaxed performance style that draws you in and makes you truly think.
Review: Achilles
Fusing dance, physical theatre, prose, and raw, dynamic acting Ewan Downie breathes new life into the ages old tale.
Review: A Christmas Carol
"I urge you to go and rediscover something you thought you knew all too well, and join the standing ovation at the end."
Review: Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful
An intimate and polished performance from an accomplished storyteller and poet.
Review: HUFF
A gut-wrenching tale of Indigenous brothers caught in a torrent of solvent abuse in the wake of the death of their mother.
Review: Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
Moving adaptation of grandmother's book on life in wartime Berlin
Review: bloominauschwitz
A riff on James Joyce’s Ulysses exploring Bloom’s Jewish heritage as he time travels through the 20th century.
Review: Canoe
Well crafted, performed and directed, spirited, polished, entertaining and moving show!
Review: Helen Lederer: I Might as Well Say It
Fast paced, entertaining show with delicious dollops of wit, envy and self deprecation peppered here and there!
Review: The Unknown Soldier
A poignant reminder of the aftermath of war and the unsung heroes it leaves behind.
Review: A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery
Not Just for Comic Fans, Modern Guide Inspires the Underdog Hero in All of US
Review: That Daring Australian Girl
This is an empathetic and heartfelt account of a life that has been, until now, ‘hidden from history.’
Review: There But For the Grace of God (Go I)
A rare instance of an actor knowing exactly how to direct himself. It’s a super-Fringe show well worth reviving, and Welsh clearly puts his life into it.
Review: An Evolution of a Sexual Bean
The Funny and Empathetic Show Our Inner Teenagers Needed to See
Review: She Wolf
So what did Harvey Weinstein and the fifteenth century European ruling classes have in common? Exactly. A lot. English has achieved a phenomenal amount. She co-ordinates everything as she directs and manages her own minimal props.
Review: Pigspurt’s Daughter
Guardian obituary, 2008. ‘Ken Campbell was one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in British theatre of the past half-century.’ It just happens that his daughter Daisy is both that and far more. She’s one of the most cunning crafters of comedy and storytelling in the anti-business
Review: This Restless State
If it comes near you – visit the website – do try and see this pungently-paced meditation on upheaval. This Restless State breathes across its zones as a play with real potential that simply needs a little more daring, a little less peeling back.
Review: Sara Pascoe: Lads Lads Lads
A one woman comedy stand up: break up sex, incest and being too 'tampony'.
Review: Large Trash Print
This very fine 2007 work by Jonathan Brown strikes a blow for tolerance and inclusivity now as it did a decade ago. Brown’s superlative writing and acting is ridiculously confined to this city.
Review: In Memory of Leaves
On a moored barge Natasha Langridge re-enacts her own In Memory of Leaves updated from a run last year to include this year’s tumultuous events. This is a fine, necessary work inevitably in progress. Let it settle in the water a bit more, and glitter.
