Review: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide

A wonderfully anarchic run through some of the very things that shocked us in the seventies musically before celebrity culture but when we had real celebrities


Review: My Mum’s a Twat

A one woman show, using her teenage voice to tell the story of being rejected by her Mum who chose a powerful cult over her family.


Review: Swim

A dreamy piece of theatre combining storytelling, live music and visuals exploring grief, swimming and friendship.


Review: Kemp’s Jig

A wonderfully told tale of a forgotten man in the history of Elizabethan theatre


Review: Fake News

A Skilled and Impactful Piece of Storytelling Theatre


Review: Wireless Operator

A moving narrative about a member of bomber command facing harsh physical and mental challenges


Review: Jessica Fostekew: Hench

Hench means; Strong, Fit and having well-developed muscles. That describes this show, perfectly.


Review: Umbrella Man

Start your Fringe day with a bang in the hands of a very talented poet and storyteller


Review: Alaska

Accomplished solo storytelling about mental health issues, with dance and song.


Review: Ane City

A poetic tale of drugs, alcohol, and adolescent angst in Dundee, Scotland


Review: salt.

We’re offered ‘salt to heal, salt to remember… above all for your wounds.’ Take it.


Review: Sary

The imaginative force, language and unsettled serenity of this work demands a sustained run.


Review: Gigantic Lying Mouth

An engaging one man exploration of lying at the end of his life, helped with video, a disembodied voice and facing the harsh truth of his own (previous) existence.


Review: A Fortunate Man

Fascinating story, well performed, creative and entertaining!


Review: Jogging

Thought provoking, physical storytelling, dramatic with creative humour!


Review: Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard!

Deliciously provocative, cynical, creative, poignant, entertaining, uplifting, impactful show. Do not miss it!


Review: My Preferred Pronoun is We

Fascinating well crafted show with depth and humor – topical, very well performed, poignant + impactful!


Review: Enough

A violent attack on the social norms which drive self-harm in its many and varied forms.


Review: Our Man In Havana

Hugely impressive physical adaptation of Graeme Greene's dark comedy


Review: KillyMuck

A brilliant and brutal portrayal of the inequity and generational desperation of the Benefits Class


Review: Gie’s Peace

Inspiring Stories of Courageous Women - An Exploration of War Through Storytelling and Music


Review: The Man Who Planted Trees

Charming, imaginative, entertaining storytelling and puppetry show, extremely well performed - thoughtful, moving story, with a noble message!


Review: Portraits in Motion

Fascinating, innovative, creative, charming and entertaining!


Review: The Archive of Educated Hearts

A glimpse into the lives of four women, through photographs, stories, and voice overs which catalogue their personal reflections along the path to living fully and letting go.


Review: Old Boy

Another winner from the Made in Scotland Showcase at this year’s Fringe.


Review: Your Bard

Did Shakespeare really write all those plays and sonnets?


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: White Girls

Clever but raw self-referential storytelling that will likely divide audiences


Review: One Woman Alien

I can predict that by the end of its run, this should be the most outstanding one-person show you’ll see in the last week.


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: The Jurassic Parks

A masterclass in storytelling using physical theatre, puppetry, song and dance, and audience interaction


Review: Metamorphosis

If you decide on one storytelling piece of theatre in this half of the Fringe, I doubt you’ll do better than experience this.


Review: No Oddjob

Nothing Odd About This Fine Job


Review: Maria

Scott has a finely-grounded tone with an acuity of insight and a lyrically-charged gift that literally pictures the un-nameable pearl-grey blanket of depression occluding Maria’s living.


Review: The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig lends himself peculiarly to a theatrical dimension. It’s over in a blink. If you’re at all near, you won’t regret the Print Room’s opalescent sliver of magic conjuring the best out of this production.


Review: Minefield

Minefield is for its unique and singularly consummate exploration of its themes, outstanding, in a class apart from any show you’ll see, perhaps even of Arias. Her work must be acknowledged here now.


Review: Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth

Wickedly mischievous, creative, joyous, boisterous, lyrical, brash, poetic, funny and entertaining show!


Review: Replay

Absorbing and masterful storytelling; a poignant coming to terms with loss


Review: The Majority

If Rob Drummond’s /Bullet Catch/ charmed and alarmed at NT’s The Shed and Brighton Festival in 2013, here Drummond starts his odyssey of political immersion in a prison cell; for throwing a punch at a neo-Nazi. Opening three days after the Charlottesville murder, the timing’s eerily prescient and more charged than even Drummond might have imagined.


Review: Model Organisms

Donkin’s artistry as writer isn’t in doubt, and Newton-Mountney’s performance is compelling. This is eminently worth seeing especially if you like dystopian narratives of the possible near-present. The story’s complete, but this journey’s just begun.