After gaining significant online acclaim through social media and, in his own words, limited TV appearances, Vittorio Angelone brings his stand up set You Can't Say Nothing Anymore to the Edinburgh Fringe for a limited time before taking his show on tour across the UK. I'd never seen a queue for a show as long... Continue Reading →
The Edinburgh Fringe is well and truly underway, and as it heads into its final week, The Skarsgard Effect, playing at the Space @ Niddry Street, is fully embracing its time to shine. When triplet sisters Emelia, Linda and Natalie create a lie using chatGPT about being bastard Skarsgard children, suddenly lots of doors are... Continue Reading →
I haven't been as excited for a show in a long time. 2 Guys, 3 Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience sounded like it was made for me and boy was I correct. The Rhythm and Booze Project play some stomping blues music and serve you three superb Scotch whiskies. In a whirlwind... Continue Reading →
Having heard many good things about Game Called Chat's Smile, It Might Never Happen, I was incredibly excited to be sitting down in a packed crowd to watch 5 performers make up an entire musical in just under an hour. Smile, It Might Never Happen is the improvised musical comedy based entirely on the audience’s... Continue Reading →
I had literally no idea what to expect having been invited to a press event for the 27 Club, but what awaited was completely up my street and a blow-your-socks-off experience that is not to be missed. The 27 Club celebrates and brings to life the genius, world-affecting and momentous music of the enormously talented... Continue Reading →
Having heard lots of hype surrounding Fat Pooch's first Play Bloody Mary's I was incredibly excited to finally see the finished product. The excitement was justified and then some. Set in 1823, an Edinburgh riddled with greed and decay, Mary McKinnon is the queen of the night. Her brothel, Bloody Mary’s, is successful, her reputation... Continue Reading →
I went to see Kitty Daddy because I am one. I knew whatever awaited would have at least a small bit of familiarity or relatableness to me and that sounded like something I wanted to spend 50 minutes watching. I was correct in my assumptions, but also completely caught off guard by how moving the... Continue Reading →
Just Blokes enticed me from the title alone. Plays about toxic masculinity and male connection are not in short supply these days, but a topic that is rather relevant and necessary currently, however unfortunate that be. I was expecting a tough watch, but what I got was a darkly funny, realistic and quite gritty observation... Continue Reading →
Having heard about Nearly Weds from last Year's Fringe, I wanted to go and see what all the fuss was about. The "fuss" in question was positive feedback I heard about the show, most of which was apparent when the lights came up in theSpace Venue 45. Runaway Bride Lily and scared-of-commitment Jake both leave... Continue Reading →
Turn the Cloth peaked my interest in merely its synopsis; promising scares, music and viewpoints on tradition updated for modern audiences. 1989. The first storm of winter hits a small Scottish town, bringing with it obligation, tradition, and a spirit hungry for a wife. Bonds are tested, secrets revealed, and the ghosts of the village’s... Continue Reading →
Having seen Tartan Tabletop's fantastic live D&D show of the same name at last year's Fringe, I couldn't wait to see their debut play Amadan & Mortair Kill The King. When two loyal guardsmen accidentally kill their king, they must scramble to set things right. This play is a rollercoaster hour of non-stop gags, demonic... Continue Reading →
Having heard that Half Trick Theatre have put on some excentric shows in the past, I expected Waiting For Wonka to be a silly, goofy and hilarious satire. It was. But it also surprised me with how much depth and heart it managed to squeeze into its roughly hour long runtime. Waiting For Wonka imagines... Continue Reading →
The Tartan Tabletop gang are back after their second sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Get ready for improvised comedy at the roll of a dice as four heroes blunder their way through an adventure like no other – aided by the weird and wonderful Noblin the Goblin, played by a different guest star comedian... Continue Reading →
Come From Away took the world by storm upon its opening on Broadway on 12th March 2017. Since then it has toured the world and musical theatre super fans have streamed the hell out of the soundtrack (myself included) so when Captivate announced they were doing a production of it at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025... Continue Reading →
Hal balances light and dark very well. As he says of himself, he can be quite “nasty” on stage, but it’s always with a twinkle in the eye and a tongue in cheek. Hal is back at the Edinburgh Fringe to delve into topics like middle-age dating, parenthood, divorce, insane modern politics and social media. With... Continue Reading →
A school reunion turns into a bit of a nightmare when two estranged friends from school wind up trapped in their old teacher’s classroom. With reflections, plenty of laughs and some surprising twists, the two realise the glory days may be behind them and that their old teacher might not have been so bad after... Continue Reading →
All I knew about Mother, Maiden and Crone was that it was a show about the witches from Macbeth but if were in the queer scene in Edinburgh, what came next over 60 minutes was a true delight. The show follows Mother, the in house drag queen of Limbo Bar & Kitchen, it’s important we... Continue Reading →
Settling into my familiar seat in the Pleasance Grand, 70 minutes of pure entertainment magic awaited as 750 excited viewers took their seats in anticipation. Having seen this show before many times, Showstoppers is one I make sure to catch each year at the fringe, as it is yet to disappoint. The story of this... Continue Reading →
Destiny Church hosts Handiwork’s Christian musical that makes its Scottish debut on the 23rd August, before heading on tour around parts of England. It Is Well With My Soul is a musical about Philip Bliss, the man who wrote the music for the famous hymn of the same name. After returning home from the civil... Continue Reading →
Squeezing into the slightly cramped space at Greenside’s Olive Studio, the space isn’t quite the size I expected to see Koi Collective’s newest outing at the Edinburgh Fringe. However, having seen their first foray into fringe life in 2022, I knew that the next 50 minutes would be filled with laughs, surprises and exciting theatre. ... Continue Reading →
The term 'Hot Girl Summer' is all the rage nowadays, but somehow I knew that what was in store from Isla Fairfield’s one woman show would somehow stand out from the crowd. It’s clear from the off that Fairfield is no stranger to the stage or the spotlight. She bounces around the stage effortlessly for... Continue Reading →
Queueing in a secondary line for 20 minutes past the advertised start time had me worried to begin with, but the sheer sprawling size of the gathering crowd shows just how vast Jazz Emu’s reach has gone across today’s Fringe audience. Once we eventually took our seats in Pleasance one, and having seen some really... Continue Reading →
Running away to the Circus at The Studio at Paradise in Augustine’s for “Murder! At The Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case Of Detective Ace Dekkard” feels like a long sentence. And it is. But it’s worth it for the Dead Parrot Collective’s sophomore outing at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. When famed travelling... Continue Reading →
Immersive from its opening seconds, Werewolf performs in the round and in amongst its audience for a long "containment" in the small space of the Former Women's Locker Room at Summer Hall. Werewolf sets itself up as an apocalyptic safe room against a disease outbreak. We meet 3 wardens, there to make sure things go... Continue Reading →
Kev Campbell Was He is a one man show written and performed by Alexander Tait, playing at the Space @ The Symposium Hall. In a nightclub toilet in the heart of Glasgow, a graffiti attempt goes horribly wrong and takes eighteen-year-old Kev Campbell on a journey of self-discovery where he must face the role he... Continue Reading →
One In Four is playing at the Space @ Surgeon’s Hall and puts 4 new roommates together who are actually all aliens yet under the impression that the other three are human. Dixon Cashwell plays the first roommate the audience encounters. He is jittery and complete uncomfortable in his human body. Cashwell plays this insane... Continue Reading →
Godfather death is a dark, gothic musical for fans of Grimm tales, lovely music and strong performances playing at The Space @ Surgeon’s Hall. When a 13th child is born to a poor family, neither God nor the devil are accepted to be the child’s godparent by the mother, Death ends up being chosen and... Continue Reading →
Shake it up is an Improv Shakespeare Show that is laugh-a-minute fun, taking place at 1pm at Guilded Balloon Patter House at the Edinburgh Fringe. The cast request suggestions of lines to deliver throughout the show and ask one member of the audience their name and a country: “Emma of Mongolia” was the setting for... Continue Reading →
Settling down in the tiny, slightly cramped Hollywood Room at the City Cafe I was kindly given the end of a bench as one of the last people to sit down ready to hear the tails of woe induced by (or perhaps not) Jesus on the lives of two comedians. This show’s formula is something... Continue Reading →
With what feels like an infinite amount of shows to view at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, settling in to a small little venue to see Dorothy Lyman's one woman show felt like a nice, and needed, change of pace from the hustle and bustle going on outside in the Pleasance Courtyard. 'Violet and Me' is... Continue Reading →
Larry Dean entertains audiences at Monkey Barrel Comedy in this Year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a work in progress show. Having watched quite a bit of his stuff online, I was very excited to finally see Dean in the flesh in front of an eager Fringe crowd. Dean starts with some humble, polite audience interaction with... Continue Reading →
After seeing Raw Toast’s debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, I knew I had to see what they had in store this year. With Raw Toast member Lewis Aitken in the writer’s chair for this outing, and returning Director Matthew Attwood, it seemed like a solid base for a good 50 minutes of comedy. When... Continue Reading →
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