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AI: The Waiting Room – An Audiovisual Journey 2.5**
August 5, 2025 | one4review
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the latest technology to land on our doorsteps, and it was only a matter of time before it appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. However, like a lot of technology, its susceptible to breaking down. To … Read More
300 Paintings – Sam Kissajukian 4****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
Sam Kissajukian’s 300 Paintings is an extraordinary blend of stand-up comedy, live art critique, and deeply personal storytelling. In just five months, Kissajukian, without any formal art training, produced over 300 paintings during what he later recognised as an undiagnosed … Read More
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor 4****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
Henry Naylor returns to the Fringe with Monstering the Rocketman, a gripping one-man show based on the real-life 1987 libel battle between Elton John and The Sun. In a sold-out Ace Dome, Naylor plays a fictional journalist, one … Read More
86 And So On Theatre 3***
August 4, 2025 | one4review
86, presented by And So On Theatre in collaboration with Oor Theatre, is a lively, ensemble-driven piece set in the Windsor Arms Bistro on a chaotic New Year’s Eve. Six weary staff members, called in unexpectedly to cover an extra … Read More
An Ode to the Casting Director – Sophie Fisher 4.5****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
Sophie Fisher’s ‘An Ode to the Casting Director’ is a captivating solo performance that brilliantly captures the surreal highs and crushing lows of life as an aspiring actor. In a sold-out, intimate venue at the Gilded Balloon’s Patter House, … Read More
Troubled – Suzy Crothers 4.5****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
You’re welcomed into Troubled, not just with a warm smile, but with a cup of tea and a Tunnock’s Tea Cake, and this immediately sets the tone for the hour ahead: intimate, generous, and deeply human. Suzy Crothers holds the room in her … Read More
The Lolita Apologies 4****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
In the small Hill Street venue, a young woman named Alex energetically bursts onto stage, determined for retribution for a collection of cultural misunderstandings of a classic novel. ‘The Lolita Apologies’ is a one-act play in which Alex reckons … Read More
Sam Blythe – Method in My Madness (A One-Man Hamlet) 4****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
An excellent one-man Hamlet that’s part homage, part breakdown. Sam Blythe walks in silently and begins the tightrope between tribute and psychodrama, offering a stripped-back, emotionally textured, and slightly surreal take on Hamlet. It opens in near silence — a … Read More
Julia. 1984 – 4.5****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
Julia 1984 is a bold reimagining of George Orwell’s 1984, with themes of surveillance, power, and personal betrayal. Set against a sparse but meticulously designed backdrop—a shadowy room split by slatted lighting and an ever-watching eye projected onto a … Read More
Delusions and Grandeur – 4.5****
August 4, 2025 | one4review
Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur is an unflinchingly honest and darkly comic take on the complex, often invisible cost to one’s existence as a professional artist. Before a note is played or a line delivered, Hall welcomes the audience with … Read More
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