Pizza Shop Heroes – Phosphoros Theatre – 4****

Phosphoros Theatre bring this crowd pleaser of a show to Edinburgh telling the story of 4 child refugees from Eritrea, Albania and Afghanistan – Tewodros Aregawe, Goitom Fesshaye, Emirjon Hoxhaj and Syed Haleem Najibi – and their treacherous journey to … Read More

Tom Kitching: Welcome to my Barn 3***

Mind your head on the dilapidated electric fence, don’t disturb the owl, and join Mr Kitching in his barn populated with a variety of farm-yard characters, including Steven, the trans-species sheep/cow, Mr Christmas the turkey, and a blade of grass. … Read More

Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas 3***

Standing room only for this meandering show which has three introductions: one as the audience was ushered in (sort of like a free extra bit), one to return Mr Falafel to the stage, and one to open the show proper … Read More

John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away 4****

John Kearns is such a virtuoso performer that an audience is irrelevant. Some performers (and this is no criticism of those) respond to receptive, enthused, alert audiences and are inspired or goaded to up their game, feed the reciprocal cycle … Read More

Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content 3-and-a-half ***

Luke Rollason is delivered to the stage in a box. He needs to be plugged in before we can access the content. And as with much content on social media, you need to interact in some way – answer the … Read More

Mark Simmons:- One-Linerererer 4****

In the forty words that you are allowed to put in the Fringe brochure to describe your show Mark Simmons has elected to just put the word joke 40 times. Is that lazy? Don’t think so as it is an … Read More

Splash Test Dummies 5*****

The Splash Test Dummies are back with an hour of circus tricks, belly laughs and downright silliness. The Australian trio are as wonderful as ever, and I don’t think I’ve seen children laugh so much at a show since the … Read More

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs 3***

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs tells the story of three school children who, while rehearsing for their school play, are magically whisked away to a world where dinosaur pirates are mean, hungry and very real. Our trio – Flinn, … Read More

360 Allstars 4****

360 Allstars is a high energy, physical performance urban circus. The 360 comes from the fact all the art forms show rotation and the Allstars because the performers are headhunted from all around the world.

The show begins with Gene … Read More

Tiff Stevenson: – Mother 5*****

For more than a decade Tiff Stevenson has been performing her shows to large and enthusiastic audiences, all seemingly with consummate ease, tip-top writing and stage presence in abundance. As always there is more to her than just getting a … Read More