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 ★★★★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

Creepy Boys — SLUGS 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Returning after a triumphant run in 2025, Creepy Boys are back again with their show which promises to be about nothing, nothing and nothing.

The titular Creepy Boys are S.E. Grummett and Sam Kruger, two eclectic and electric performers … Read More

Good with Faces 4.5****

The spacious but hot venue within stunning Summerhall is set out with props to take you right into the living room of Anne Garrick, now a single mother living with her 5-year-old son Max.

Anne is visited by a child … Read More

Shitbag – 5*****

Melbourne’s Hayley Edwards strides into the centre of the stage and immediately undercuts any expectation of polite Fringe theatre. She explains she’s just had great sex, but needs to apologise in advance — because she’s about to stink the place … Read More