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Review: Rocky Horror Show
An excellent revival. The strength of this cast led with a special wit by Clune makes it absolutely worth seeing however many times you have. Otherwise, just see it!
Review: The Shark is Broken
Essential theatre for anyone who enjoys new plays with more wit than several comedies. A must-see.
Review: Calamity Jane
See this for the onstage musicians and above all Carrie Hope Fletcher giving Calamity soul as well as heart. Highly recommended.
Review: The Secret Garden/Bleak Expectations
Deliciously wholesome satire, this is a deliriously-paced, superbly-acted production.
Review: Dr Strangelove
Steve Coogan reigns supreme, and a cast like John Hopkins then Giles Terera are a gift to both Coogan and the show.
Review: Perfect Arrangement
There’s never been a more urgent time for this gem of a work: a small hybrid classic that’s never been produced in the UK before. See it now.
Review: Teatro dei Gordi: Pandora
It begs questions: what couldn’t we do, if placed outside our own comfort station in life? Essential theatre. essential questions. A gem.
Review: The Last Laugh
This is a must-see. Never outstaying its welcome, you can leave this show after 85 minutes, but stay for that Q&A. I envy everyone the night I won’t be there for it.
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: Now That’s What I Call a Musical
The cast grab this by the scruff of its shoulder pads and make us love them. A must-see.
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: 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: Garry Starr: Classic Penguins
Classic Penguins is an energetic and edgy piece of theatre that truly has it all…except clothing.
Review: Ray O’Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger
A masterclass is classic stand up comedy.
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
