Shitbag – 5*****

Melbourne’s Hayley Edwards strides into the centre of the stage and immediately undercuts any expectation of polite Fringe theatre. She explains she’s just had great sex, but needs to apologise in advance — because she’s about to stink the place … Read More

Imprints – 4****

The Palimpsest Project have engineered something quietly extraordinary with Imprints — a work that sidesteps cliché and lands somewhere between live cinema, theatre, and a fever-dream scrapbook. It takes on the underlit corners of fragile memory and art of piecing … Read More

Bonding-Seabright Live presents Cyril Blake 3 1/2 ***

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“Bonding” is a tale as old as time, fathers and sons, relationships, trust, and breakdowns.  Cyril Blakes show removes the sticking plaster on the relationship between young Stephen Lewis and his dad, when the one thing they have in … Read More

Baron Vordenburg’s Guide to the Paranormal – Dark Pony Productions 3***

Baron Vordenburg is the world’s leading expert in one very specific thing – hunting and killing monsters. More specifically, vampires. And in the special seminar version of his Guide to the Paranormal, he promises to tell you how.

A play … Read More

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception – 5*****

Detectives in the 1920s are, for whatever reason, an evergreen pasture for theatre productions (just look at the Mousetrap). Adding to that ever expanding oeuvre is the not-so-neatly-named A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception from Shoddy Theatre and … Read More

Baker Street Ladies – Slade Wolfe Enterprises Limited 5*****

For over a century now, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of the celebrated master detective Sherlock Holmes have continued to inspire generations of writers to ask questions about the man. Bakers Street Ladies, a new one-woman production from Lexi Wolfe … Read More

Bad Immigrant 4****

Jennifer Irons rolls onto stage dressed head-to-toe in pink, flashing lights sparking from her roller skates, and immediately sets the tone for a surreal, playful yet deeply political hour. A Canadian-born choreographer who has lived in the UK for 25 … Read More

LA Baby – 4****

Watching LA Baby, I felt as though Ambrosine Davies was letting us peek directly into the mess and mayhem of her Los Angeles years. From the start, she comes across as someone we can instantly root for: a wannabe actress … Read More

Murder at the Fringe 2 – 4****

Another crime solving show by Edinburgh Little Theatre. I did not realise that when I booked, this company does several of these shows a day in various locations so top marks to them for managing this on a daily basis. … Read More

The Court 1 – 4****

This show is a good one for any amateur sleuths out there who wish to test their skills in questioning suspects and solving a murder. The Court centres on the case of two sisters, Mary and Cathy, where one sister … Read More