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

Batshit 5*****

Leah Shelton has written this play as a riposte to the pathologisation of women’s mental health. This is personal for Leah, as her grandmother, Gwen, was committed to a psychiatric hospital following the death of her son. During this painful … 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

Luke Wright: Joy 3.5 stars ***

Luke Wright is a well-loved performance poet at Edinburgh. At the top of this show he pitches himself to us as a 42 year old father from Suffolk. The show sifts through the sock draw of mulchy middle age trying … Read More

The Importance of Being… Earnest? – 4.5****’

The premise for this show is as simple as it is effective. A small theatre company (including one or two extremely minor celebrity actors) have staged a production of Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest. However, when the … Read More

The State of Grace – 4.5****

Michaela Burger brings the extraordinary tale of Grace Bellavue, Australian sex worker and activist, to Edinburgh. Far from being forced into the profession, Grace actively chose to be a sex worker, to the initial horror of her parents. She was … Read More

16 Postcodes – 4****

Jessica Regan warmly welcomes her audience into the Pleasance Bunker and her Irish charm wins us over from the start. Her early life in Ireland was spent with no postcodes (apart from in Dublin) but she has more than made … 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

Etty….In Transit – 5*****

This play is a beautiful dramatization of Etty Hillesum’s diaries, covering her younger years until her ultimate deportation to Auschwitz. Etty’s story is interspersed with video diaries of Sam Edwards, a mature model and mental health awareness ambassador whose confident … Read More

The Sound Inside 5*****

The UK premiere of Adam Rapp’s gripping and intriguing play, already nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play; a teacher and student two-hander set in the academic world of Yale University.

The play begins with Bella Lee Baird, a … Read More