Ludwig: Unfinished Business 4****

The show combines music, storytelling and comedy to create an affectionate and entertaining portrait of a remarkable musician. Rather than presenting a conventional biography, it allows its central character to look back on a life shaped by music, ambition and … Read More

Operation Blank 4****

George Grant’s Operation Blank is an ambitious piece of absurdist comedy that takes the familiar frustrations of the modern workplace meeting and places them against the rather more pressing backdrop of an international catastrophe.

A junior government minister finds himself … Read More

Viggo Venn: Only One 4★★★★

Viggo Venn pops a cardboard version of himself out to open the show to the audience. Wiggling his fingers, he gets us to cheer, and immediately draws us into his playful game.

This is clearly a tight little set that … Read More

Ania Magliano:Peach fuzz 4★★★★½

Ania Magliano delivers a highly accomplished hour of comedy. Traversing her dress senseand how that affects her sexuality, her indoor boyfriend and how he’s similar to her phone charging . Pigs and her strange affinity with Churchill. She’s very very … Read More

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Hollywood 5*****

As someone who grew up in Glasgow in the ’80s and ’90s, I never imagined I would ever give anything involving Margaret Thatcher 5 stars except maybe reruns of her funeral. However, here we are, and this show gets an … Read More

Fiona Allen – White Lies 4****

Fiona Allen, possibly best known for Smack The Pony, returns to Edinburgh with this offering, an Insite to her neighbours, and wanting to have the perfect white lie to enable her to escape a particular party. With precision of the … Read More

It’s Always Sunny On Olympus 4****

Henry Theakston and Aaron Khachaturian have created a hugely enjoyable slice of mayhem in It’s Always Sunny on Olympus, a gleefully irreverent take on the Greek mythology

The Olympians have defeated the Titans, but there is little time to … Read More

Three Drams Walk Into a Bar…. 4****

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) club at the Vaults in Leith is a perfect place for a whisky tasting; it’s like stepping back in time in the heart of old Leith. The staff are welcoming and friendly, and the … Read More

Gridlock 5*****

Gridlock is a play written by Kathryn Mincer about a charming couple, Alexa and Thomas played by Annika Foster and Ibrahim Bakhait, who’s seven-year relationship has fallen into Gridlock. Ironically the play begins with Alexa and Thomas stuck in their … Read More

Burce Tutku Tuncali- Perfectly Imperfeckt! 3.5***

The lovely Burce Tutku Tuncali is a Turkish born stand-up comedian, writer and actress that has been performing for over 9 years now debuts at the Edinburgh fringe.

Burce confidently begins the show with a little introduction and gets to … Read More