Darkfield – Arcade – 3***

Darkfield’s Arcade offers a fascinating and unique immersive experience, but it may not be for everyone. Set within a completely dark shipping container, you navigate a world reminiscent of 1980s arcade games, making choices that shape your journey. However, while … Read More

VL 5*****

Another riotous comedy by the Fleabag team, written by the award-winning writers of Square Go and two of Scotland’s finest playwrights, Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair, about two young boys trying to cope with the hormonal atmosphere of a small-town … Read More

Bellringers – 4.5****

Atticist Theatre Company bring this dystopian drama to Edinburgh. Written by Daisy Hall, this engaging story is the tale of Aspinall and Clement (beautifully played by Paul Adeyefa and Luke Rollason), who are two young men who have the responsibility … Read More

Surrender 4****

A new play by writer and co-director Sophie Swithinbank, author of the multi award-winning Bacon, this is a one woman play performed by Phoebe Ladenburg, taking on the role as the mother.

When the play opens, the mother is sitting … Read More

Weather Girl 5*****

As California burns, and water is dangerously scarce, Stacey the weather girl from Fresno, heads to the local TV station at 4am every day to give upbeat and cheerful weather forecasts between mind numbing daytime shows. As the wildfires approach … Read More

Adam Riches: Jimmy 4****

Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Adam Riches, takes on the character of Jimmy Connors, the self-proclaimed greatest tennis player in the world, in a fast-paced, physical hour of theatre in the very warm and intimate Techcube Zero at Summerhall.

As we … Read More

James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show 3***

This show deals with the idea of time and how to use it, especially if you don’t have very much of it. An Edinburgh show seems to be the perfect metaphor for this particular kind of existential dread. An hour … Read More

I’m Almost There 4.5****

A beautiful piece of musical theatre conceived by Audible, the award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, I’m Almost There is a modern love story told in song and dialogue with piano, harp and bass guitar accompaniment.

New Yorker, Todd … Read More

Failure Project – 5*****

Yolanda Mercy is the writer and performer of this often witty and occasionally heart wrenching play, which is the story of Ade Adeyami, a London based, hardworking black female playwright teetering on the edge of being successful. Her play ‘Day … Read More

John Hegley: Do Horses Have Teeth, Sir? 4****

John Hegley is a master of his craft. You would expect this, given the length of his career, and his commitment to that craft, but his verve and uncomplicated delight in what he does are perhaps less assumed. Mr Hegley … Read More