Genre: Storytelling
Review: Lula Mebrahtu I Am – OommoO
Everything you’ve heard is true. Lula Mebrahtu is memserising, and I Am – OommoO like its creator has vast potential.
Review: Goodbye Erdogan
A deeply engaging show about a small man overwhelmed by the seismic changes in modern Turkish society.
Review: Dear Billy
love letter to the Bin Yin, from the people of Scotland, his people, lovingly curated and performed by Gary McNair.
Review: ARI: The Spirit of Korea
Unforgettable - infectiously exceptional - The glorious family story of father and daughter, Shin ki-mok and Ari.
Review: Hero/Banlaoch
The combination of imagery and physicality are all important, as is a rapport with the audience. O’Brien has all of these qualities in spades.
Review: Puddles and Amazons
A queer coming of age story, with a soundtrack partially created by the audience.
Review: Precious Cargo
Precious Cargo brings to light a key part of history that must not be forgotten.
Review: James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show.
A Master storyteller completes his latest trilogy in exuberant, gripping style.
Review: A History of Fortune Cookies
A naturally sweet and thoughtful show with the takeaway of a handmade, heart-shaped morsel enfolding your own fortune message.
Review: Super Second Rate
This show is an hour of first-rate – not second rate – stunning cello performance, beautiful singing, compelling storytelling, and humour.
Review: Why am I (still) like this?
A fascinating expose of finding out you are ADHD and female at 30.
Review: A Giant on the Bridge
Lyrical gig theatre finding the soft hidden stories from tough prison lives
Review: Queer Folks’ Tales
Entertaining, enlightening, emotive show that can not fail to make us think and feel, it’s a good thing,
Review: Half Man//Half Bull: Daedalus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
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: Half Man//Half Bull: Theseus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
Review: An American Love Letter to Edinburgh
An unassuming American storyteller comes to the stage with the story of another American in Edinburgh two hundred and fifty years earlier. Charming and informative!
Review: Abrasion
If high school health class had been this entertaining, I would have paid far more attention.
Review: The Kate Bush Story
Hannah Richards brings emotion while exuding humility, embodying the essence of Kate Bush
Review: Jessie Cave: An Ecstatic Display
The show exudes the multitude of Cave’s interests and talents as a writer, performer, illustrator and puppeteer.
Review: Women’s Writes
We’ve been lucky to sit in on the first stage of a very promising conversation collaboration, and theatre piece.
Review: Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
Nineteenth century actor and impresario is brought to life by Mark Stratford
Review: J’ai un Bleu
J’ai un Bleu manages to covey through movement what words simply cannot express. The objectification of the female form.
Review: Lived Fiction
Unique, spellbinding, groundbreaking; above all makes everyone more alive to the possibilities of being human.
Review: Divine Ride…..or Wait?
An immersive, thrilling, and thoughtful experience that calls on the artist in all of us.
Review: Gerald Dickens Performs a Christmas Carol
In stripping down everything to the text and the performer, we are reminded of the proficiency of both, and its a truly delightful thing to experience.
Review: Men Talking
The end, as it inevitably must be, is a way of recollecting emotion with emotion. An inspiring act of witness, before others, and beyond ourselves.
Review: This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Based on the writing of poet Tadeusz Borowski and the paintings of Arnold Daghani This Way For The Gas bears explosive witness to shape the pulse of that post-Holocaust world. Bill Smith, Angi Mariano and their colleagues have wrought an enormous service. In the last great reprise of 'Never' we realise we're seeing the finale of an emerging masterpiece.
Review: Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland
Through skilful storytelling we are immersed in a tale that brings to life character after character with sharp cutting whit
Review: SHOOT THE CAMERAMAN
Enthralling. Poignant. Unforgettable. Two cameras. One couple. A beautiful dance between the private and public world of this turbulent couple. Not to be missed!
Review: Furious
Daly is the Pied Piper of Edinburgh – Enchanting, witty, interactive and relatable. A one woman show that pokes fun at satirical characters from her past!
Review: Character Flaw
Heartfelt, connected and more than just a little bit touching, Character Flaw is a train ride you'll be glad you hopped on board for.
Review: Bumble’s Big Adventure
A worthy attempt at addressing the environmental impact around us and trying to teach the youngest about the natural world.
Review: Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground
Six seemingly unconnected lives are brought together during lockdown
Review: Rites of Passage
A new play from two compelling performers, fascinating, moving, and relatable.
Review: The Mitfords
The play will make you want to learn more about its subjects, and Emma Wilkinson Wright’s phenomenal performance that makes this show particularly gripping.
Review: Wee Seals and Selkies
A beautiful wee family show that manages to combine gentility with the warmth of good stories really well told.
Review: The Lost Lending Library
Theatrical storytelling, fascinating, engaging and creatively designed!
Review: Mohan: A Partition Story
The story of Indian Partition, as recounted by the 11 year old boy who bore witness.
Review: Esther’s Revenge
Moving and incredibly powerful - A must see! Representation for Esther Ada Johnson, based on true life events.
Review: The Burning of a Sicilian Whore (Blood Rain)
The tale of a seventeenth century courtesan, turned poisoner
Review: Toy Stories
A journey via 1970's model cars digs into history, family and politics, connecting across the decades with art at its heart.
Review: My First Time Was in a Car Park
Compelling story telling about the First Time and its aftermath
Review: Out of the Frying Pan
If you know Judy Upton as a playwright you might have an inkling what to expect in this debut fiction. Witty, observant, self-deprecating, very funny, full of subversive glee, with its own moral field. I’d put nothing past this extremely gifted writer
Review: Hakawatis Women of the Arabian Nights
Original, bawdy, exploratory, seductive and elegaic in equal measure. A Faberge egg, continually hatching.
Review: Pretty Beast
Vibrant performance, which runs the entire range of emotions, told with humor, poignance and searing sadness.
Review: Silence
More of a scattering of earth, ashes and love than simply groundbreaking. But caveats aside, groundbreaking it is.
Review: Tam O’ Shanter – Tales and Whisky
Burns' and other gothic poetry and stories told with a dram of whisky
Review: We Were Promised Honey!
An astonishingly well-crafted and compellingly well told piece of outstanding theatre.
Review: The Man Who Planted Trees
Charming story, masterful storytelling, entertaining and enlightening show imaginatively brought to life with beautiful sets, props and puppets.
Review: Ghosts of the Near Future
An engaging combination of heroic journey, magic show, and story-telling about life and death. Ghosts of the Near Future took place in an atmospheric fog-filled amphitheater at noon on a sunny day. A home-made brew of great integrity, creativity and enjoyment.
Review: Famous Puppet Death Scenes
"A visually appealing and brilliantly creative massacre of tiny people."
