2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (80+ words) Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team Crybabies: The ScaringElf Lyons is The Woman on the EdgeJoseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70Milo Edwards: CatamaranSam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage Acid’s Reign Fanny…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (134+ words) Studied haplessness makes for a brilliant, satirical, physical comedy from Geoff Sobelle and co. A graduate from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to the Edinburgh International Festival, for which he’s produced the previous big hits Home and Food, Sobelle brings a…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (504+ words) Alex Franklin discusses her stand-up and musical comedy show Kiss Me x, all about kissing and dating Honestly I got a review for an early work-in-progress version of the show that described it as ‘a pure ray of sunshine’ which…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (541+ words) Salty Brine returns to the Fringe with a show that finds humour, heartbreak and humanity in unexpected places Even if you haven’t read Anne Frank’sThe Diary of a Young Girl (or at least not since it was assigned by your…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (164+ words) The Captain sees Adam Riches at the helm of another excellent, confidently unadorned sports comedy-drama The anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall, formerly a veterinary college, makes the perfect setting for a play about Victorian men’s ambition, hubris and faith in…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (825+ words) Comedian Finlay Christie discusses his latest show Champagne Casanova To be honest, I don’t really want to tell people what to expect. I always think that answer sounds a bit artificial. If you’d like to know what my stand-up is…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (238+ words) festmag.com Review: Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party Adam Flood’s relentless exploration of millennial anguish is bombastic, but in need of some fine tuning Processing his millennial angst through persistent beats and thirsty AutoTune, Adam Flood’s intense…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (89+ words) Kate Dehnert’s emotional show explores the fall-out from a ten-year relationship In a culture that’s joyfully embracing the ‘unhinged’, there’s no shortage at this year’s Fringe of radically open comedies featuring performers seeming to be right on the brink. Of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (355+ words) festmag.com Review: Mohan: A Partition Story Gifted storyteller Niall Moorjani brings their grandfather’s boyhood partition memories to life with warmth, wit and vulnerability Niall Moorjani’s storytelling hour about their grandfather, Mohan: A Partition Story, was originally performed in 2021 – but…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (563+ words) Fay Guiffo talks to us about Arcana, her debut show which comes to the Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland showcase Born in France, Fay Guiffo is a French Cameroonian musician, performer and author-director based in Edinburgh. Arcana…...