John Kearns — Tilting at Windmills 4.5****.5

Early on in Tilting at Windmills, John Kearns despairs about the fact that 2020 was supposed to be the difficult year; with the backdrop of a global pandemic, it surely couldn’t get much worse. In this show, Kearns shares the … Read More

Mark Silcox: Gold Trading Sucks, I Lost Everything 5*****

Dr Silcox is a broken man. Through bad luck and pure stupidity, he’s lost his entrepreneurial dream, and now he’s trying to reinvent himself as a self-help guru so others don’t repeat the same mistakes.

This is a riot … Read More

Alice Cooper Welcome To My Cabaret Nightmare 4****

Usually, when you get to a cabaret piano bar, you are treated to someone murdering Billy Joel. Tonight, though, Alice Cooper has entered the building. Welcome To My Cabaret Nightmare strips down his songs to their bare bones in a … Read More

1 Dazzling Cabaret 4****

Cabaret is easy to come by at the Fringe; good cabaret is harder to find, and on the resplendent stage we get the best in show, high-class, high-energy cabaret.

Host and comedian Bruce Devlin is a wonderful ringmaster, controlling the … Read More

Ollie West: Discovery (WIP) ****1/2

Ollie West clambers over chairs, a fully committed caveman, The Dawn of Man plays ,this is epic – it’s dark but there are only four of us in the room, so it will take a gargantuan performance to make this … Read More

4 Better or 4 Worse 3.5***

Well, here’s a conundrum, Muslim girl from Kazakhstan, falls for Christian boy from Macedonia, and in “4 Better or 4 Worse”, real life couple, Aisha Amanduri and Vlad Illich, navigate the potholes on this road to love and maybe wedlock.

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Handle with Care 5★★★★★

Ontroerend Goed’s Handle with Care starts with one person in the audience raising what’s on every card on every seat.

It says that once everyone is seated, we should open the box. A woman with her husband and … Read More

Extra Dry 4****

Michelle Renee Johnson’s Extra Dry is an intensely personal exploration of her relationship with alcohol, charting the journey from those first liberating drinks to the point where drinking begins to take control.

The production is staged around an illuminated bar, … Read More

The Van Gogh Shogh – 4****

It feels weird to say that a dutchman who’s been dead for over a century is a hotly trending topic in Scotland this year, and yet that is the case as the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair … Read More

Don Quixote (Is a Very Big Book) – 5*****

Cervantes’ epic novel from the 17th century is notoriously impossible to adapt, with seemingly more films being made about how difficult it is to make a film of Don Quixote than actual Don Quixote movies. So it’s a bold choice … Read More