EdFringe 2026 Review: The Last Drop
“Its combination of Gothic unease, camp melodrama, dark comedy and psychological intrigue creates an absorbing
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EdFringe 2026 Review: Desperate Wee Gay Boy
“…an unapologetically brash and distinctly Scottish night at the theatre.” Unapologetically cheeky, Desperate Wee Gay
EdFringe 2026 Review: The BBC’s First Homosexual
“A fascinating glimpse into the BBC’s past and a poignant reminder of how far gay
EdFringe 2026 Review: Pilate: The Lost Gospel
“Maxwell Caulfield’s complex and authoritative performance makes this a particularly absorbing one-man portrayal of one
EdFringe 2026 Review: A Ghost Among the Living
“A dazzlingly sinister love letter to Poe.” Fringe veterans Box Tale Soup return to the
EdFringe 2026 Review: Hess
“A commanding and deeply unsettling performance that lays bare the enduring dangers of political fanaticism.”
EdFringe 2026 Review: Kinder
“A joyous and deeply moving solo show that brilliantly blends camp comedy with a heartfelt
EdFringe 2026 Review: This Is Not America
“Jack Stokes delivers a performance of truly spellbinding impact in this razor-sharp exploration of the
EdFringe 2026 Review: Turn the Cloth
Glasgow-based Cutty Sark Theatre bring queer-leaning horror Turn the Cloth to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
EdFringe 2025 Review: Motorhome Marilyn
Serving up a delightful slathering of Hollywood Gothic is Motorhome Marilyn, currently delighting audiences in
EdFringe 2025 Review: Scatter – A Horror Play
Horror is always hard to come by at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, so fans of
EdFringe 2025 Review: The Bacchae
Blending music and storytelling, The Bacchae presents impressive Scottish theatre as Ewan Downie’s production takes
EdFringe 2025 Review: DIVA
A mesmerising one-woman performance that blends operatic power with intimate storytelling, DIVA is a moving
EdFringe 2025 Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act
A masterful solo performance breathes new life into the world’s most famous detective, as Sherlock
EdFringe 2025 Review: An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo
Ned Blackburn writes and leads An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo,
EdFringe 2025 Review: Tom at the Farm
Michel Marc Bouchard’s Tom at the Farm comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe through the
EdFringe 2025 Review: Our Brothers in Cloth
Impeccable performances and a story that both grips and unsettles take centre stage in Our
EdFringe 2025 Review: The Real Australia
Play On Productions bring The Real Australia to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, delivering a bawdy
EdFringe 2025 Review: The Other Mozart
The legacy of Mozart boasts a timelessness still celebrated centuries after the composer’s death, yet
EdFringe 2025 Review: Dropped
The cutthroat nature of youth football is explored in the staggeringly powerful Dropped from writer-performer
EdFringe 2024 Review: The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return
Sam Edmunds’ The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return takes to the
EdFringe 2024 Review: Leni’s Last Lament
Performer Jodi Markel leads solo show Leni’s Last Lament which delves into the playwright Gil
EdFringe 2024 Review: Queen
Queen Victoria’s legacy as the second-longest reigning British monarch is explored in the fascinating and
EdFringe 2024 Review: Rebels and Patriots
Floating Shed, an Israeli-Palestinian-British production company, brings their timely Rebels and Patriots to the Edinburgh
EdFringe 2024 Review: 1984
George Orwell’s 1949 published classic 1984 continues to prove a prescient and worryingly relevant text