Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It – 5*****

White-hot clown duo Xhloe and Natasha are no strangers to success at the Edinburgh Fringe with a hat trick of consecutive Fringe First Awards for Outstanding New Writing for their previous shows “And Then The Rodeo Burned Down” (2022), … Read More

Horrorshow – Chronic Insanity 4/12 ****

Set on the Isle of Wight against the backdrop of the 2009 financial downturn, Doug Deans’s Horrorshow is a funny, energetic and ultimately touching coming-of-age tale about friendship and the terrifying prospect of being left behind.

Ollie (Joe Matty) is … Read More

Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life – 4.5 ****/5

No stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe, Keith Alessi’s one man show about the healing powers of music and community is back again for its 5th year and it has lost none of its sparkle.

For those only aware of the … Read More

Come Back Home-4****

Fadi Murad gives an emotional and mesmerising performance in Come Back Home, a deeply personal exploration of grief, memory and displacement.

Using a combination of video, music and spoken word, Murad takes us through the devastating experience of losing his … Read More

We Had Fun – 4.5****

We had Fun is a thoughtful and deliberately uncomfortable exploration of consent, friendship and the troubling space between two very different recollections of the same night.

Oscar and Ella are work colleagues and friends. When Ella arrives at Oscar’s flat … Read More

The Plot 3***

The Gunpowder Plot is surely one of the richest episodes in British history for a playwright to get their teeth into, and Emma Howlett’s The Plot takes an imaginative approach to the familiar story. Set in the aftermath of the … Read More

Mysteries of the Picts 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I arrive at Mysteries of the Picts completely unprepared.

I have no towel. I have no swimwear.

I’m not overjoyed when I discover I can rent two towels for £5 and a pair of trunks — although the money is … Read More

Thermodrama – 4****

Thermodrama takes four very different characters and places them together in the pressure-cooker environment of a sauna, with intriguing results.

Pete is a muscular young man obsessed with fitness, convinced that his punishing routines and regular sauna sessions will extend … Read More

HAM 5*****

HAM, from Hotter Project, takes Shakespeare’s Hamlet and gives it a gloriously unconventional makeover. Performed and created by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, the show is a riotous collision of Shakespeare, meat, veganism, climate change and some wonderfully anarchic physical … Read More

Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour 4★★★★½

At the start, it feels like we might just be trapped in purgatory.

There’s a clock counting down. Conk starts singing, he’s warm funny expressive – earnest even.

Still, I do not look forward to the next hour. I’m … Read More