Late Night with Terry Wogan 3***

Benjamin Alborough is Terry Wogan “back from the dead”. This is a  late night Fringe show with a format which offers much promise in an Alan Partridge chat show host style parody. Unfortunately, this is improvised and as a result … Read More

Jason Byrne: Head in the clouds 5*****

Jason is back with another outstanding performance of comedy which keep the audience laughing throughout. His show “Head in the Clouds” is called such due to his teachers at school telling him to get his head out of the clouds. … Read More

Rob Auton – CAN (An Hour-Long Story) 5*****

Rob Auton steps out and introduces himself as a motivational speaker called Can. I’ve never seen Auton before, but a fellow fan tells me this is a departure — usually he takes a single word and spins it with Northern … Read More

Animal Farm   4****

Animal Farm delivers a riveting 75 minutes of solo theatre, building on Guy Masterson’s celebrated adaptation of Orwell’s novel. Performed by Sam Blythe with remarkable energy and precision, the show grips the audience from its first moments and never lets … Read More

Sugar 4****

The award-winning Sugar, written by Ro Bright and performed by Tomas Kantor, is a bold, outrageous, and irresistibly fun theatrical ride. This high-energy cabaret blends cheeky humour, impressive vocals, and a queer twist on a classic rom-com tale to brilliant … Read More

Footballers Wives: The Musical 5*****

Based on the cult show of the same name this popular 00’s show potrayed the fictional lives of footballers, their clubs and their wives. The show was full of scandal, affairs and several shockingly raunchy scenes that it is hard … Read More

DOUBLE TAKE – 4****

This is a vibrant double bill at Dance Base that sees the coming together of different generations performing in this intriguing hour of speed, symmetry and reflection. We open with Lothian Youth Dance Company (LYDC), Dance Base’s in-house company for young … Read More

Mojo and Jimmy: The Totally Awesome Magic Show – 5*****

Mojo and Jimmy: The Totally Awesome Magic Show is exactly what you need to bring a smile to that young person in your life. Before we’ve even got into the venue, we’re given a flag to wave, and that’s a … Read More

The Truth About Trees – 3***

The Truth About Trees centres around a little boy named Alfie who discovers the stories of trees through magical paper. His grandpa teaches him how paper can carry the memories of trees and their wondrous stories; it’s a sweet premise. Conflict comes … Read More

Ben Pope – The Cut 4.5****

First cut is the deepest apparently, however when it comes to surgery you want accuracy and precision as told by Ben Pope in his Fringe Show, The Cut.

Many of Ben’s show-goers have been under the knife but his own … Read More