We Had Fun – 4.5****

We had Fun is a thoughtful and deliberately uncomfortable exploration of consent, friendship and the troubling space between two very different recollections of the same night.

Oscar and Ella are work colleagues and friends. When Ella arrives at Oscar’s flat … Read More

Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life   4****

There is something particularly appropriate about seeing Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life performed at the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre itself. The performance takes place in a beautiful room in the West End’s Victorian building, and the setting has the … Read More

Fanny Bleach: The Nearly Naked Show 3★★★

Fanny Bleach is weird, and she’s determined to take you with her.

The show is incredibly creative, the costumes are outrageously good, and the whole thing is grotesque, odd and committed to its own strange little world.

Bleach finishes by … Read More

0 Hair – Bald Man Sings Rihanna : 3***

They say the secret to a successful Fringe show is making it plain and simple in your show title what it’s about. In that case, this could be the motherlode and be used in 101-to-make-and-market a successful Fringe show. … Read More

Maia Tassalini: I Was 22 and Stunning 3☆☆☆

Maia Tassallini doesn’t share her age, but she is very glam, so we can attest that at least half of the show title is true. Maia’s hero is/was Monica Lewinski, and this show contributes to a general societal re-examining of … Read More

Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral 3☆☆☆

The character Zoe Wohlfeld plays on stage is a petulant child, making demands of the audience and then reneging, only to demand again with additional clauses. She causes havoc and disowns responsibility, and wails when she doesn’t like the outcome. … Read More

Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist 4***

Some things never change during the Fringe and one of those things is Phil Nichol. Back in 2006 in a small room in the New Town of Edinburgh the original production of this show, one of 4, yes 4, Nichol … Read More

Richard Pulsford — Gold Fashioned Jokes 3⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fife resident Richard Pulsford is a busy man. Three daily shows this year at the Edinburgh Festival, he’s starting with his midday stupidity, Gold Fashioned Jokes.

“Hands up, who loves Mexican Waves?” And we are off.

So what follows … Read More

Wiesenthal 5*****

There can be few more remarkable lives to put on a stage than that of Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who devoted decades to tracking down Nazi war criminals. Tom Dugan’s Wiesenthal avoids turning that extraordinary story into a straightforward … Read More

Diva Las Vegas 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Sundaes are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry, a trio of singers who burst on to the stage with the colours of their ballgowns matching their chosen sundaes.

They are here to take us on a musical journey of divas who … Read More