Review: The Gift

How far you’d go to pursue either vengeance or to resolve one, asks just such questions of how we choose to box up our lives. The Gift is for all of us.


Review: Sam Holcroft Rules for Living

Season’s Greetings for robots. It interrogates a therapy many believe works. More than worth seeing in this first-class NVT cast and production.


Review: Twelfth Night

Tom Littler again brings an intimate, wintry music to middle Shakespeare: it’s his unique gift. Never sour, never sweet without salt, and with very few reservations, a definitive close-up Twelfth Night.


Review: My Fanny Valentine: Rebirthed

Megan Juniper is the Disney Princess of Gynaecology in this hilariously funny mix of stand-up comedy, musical theatre, and vagina facts.


Review: Other Side Comedy

A collection of up-and-coming comedians from London take the stage with great humor, stories, and jokes. 


Review: Hairspray

A memorable ensemble, in an intermittently memorable musical.


Review: Phoney

Two university students running a phone sex business for a testosterone fun.


Review: Princess Essex

The more we see of such uplifting, uproarious, yet probing works the better.


Review: The Comedy of Errors

The most intelligent Comedy of Errors I’ve seen since the NT production of 2012 and truer to the play’s temper.


Review: Dinner

The primordial soup of society at play


Review: Squires

Silliness on steroids in an hour of chaotic comedy


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: Barracking

Welcome to the elite, an invitation only establishment


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: Tartan Tat

Clever, witty badinage exposing some serious challenges


Review: Cabin Fever

The sky's the limit for this pair of talented writer/performers.


Review: NewsRevue

Sets the standard for rapid-fire, topical sketch comedy


Review: Prototype

A satirical comedy about AI and politics.


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: BI-TOPIA

Fantastic exploration of what confusion sexually is, and masculinity ought to be from an engaging and brilliant performer.


Review: Verbal Diary

Heart warming tale of friendship, betrayal and infatuation


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: Cyrano

A joyous affair with jokes and perfectly timed physical humour aplenty


Review: Identities

A brilliantly funny play that raises awareness about breast cancer.


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: 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: Jobsworth

A superb piece of new writing with a virtuoso solo performance


Review: Projection

"an hour of beautiful solo writing, brashly, boldly and skilfully delivered"


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: So Young

Every aspect of this production is outstanding


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.