Made In Edinburgh

The Beatles Were A Boyband

The Beatles Were A Boyband

★★★★☆ Deeply affecting

The Beatles Were A Boyband, Rachel O’Regan’s Fringe First winning play for F-Bomb Theatre, returns to the Gilded Balloon for a short run this year. Written in the wake of some high profile murders, it sadly still feels relevant a year on.

Aug 22 2023 | By | Reply More
Hamlet / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Hamlet / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

★★★☆☆ Pacy and ★★★★☆ Slick

New Edinburgh amateur company Necessary Cat make their debut performances for the last week only of the fringe with the elegantly twinned pairing of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Aug 22 2023 | By | Reply More
Kitchen Underwear

Kitchen Underwear

★★★☆☆ Enjoyable and engaging

Kitchen Underwear by Fringe debutants Hey Thanks! Theatre Collective is an enjoyable and engaging two-hander about flatmates who clearly have significant feelings for each other.

Aug 21 2023 | By | Reply More
Come Die With Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody

Come Die With Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody

★★★☆☆ Exuberant

Happy Sad’s Come Die With Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody, at Just the Tonic @ The Grassmarket Centre, is often as unwieldy and potentially confusing as its title. However, the end result is undoubtedly good-hearted and good fun.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Sir Percival and the Jabberwock

Sir Percival and the Jabberwock

★★★☆☆ Epic ambition

There is a poetic sensibility at work in Kestrel Eye Production’s Sir Percival and the Jabberwock, at Greenside @ Infirmary Street, that overcomes huge difficulties to create a fascinating result.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Enquiry Concerning Hereafter

Enquiry Concerning Hereafter

★★★☆☆ Philosophical

Enquiry Concerning Hereafter, produced by Adam Smith’s Panmure House, is a touching evocation of friendship mixed with philosophy.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
MANikin

MANikin

★★★★☆ Breathtaking performance

One of two plays that Saltire Sky Theatre are bringing to Leith Arches for this year’s Fringe, MANikin looks at society’s views on obesity and obsession with body image.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Photon StarBlaster and the Suicidal Spaceship

Photon StarBlaster and the Suicidal Spaceship

★★★★☆  Seriously creative

Bonnie and Braw’s Photon StarBlaster and the Suicidal Spaceship at C aquila shows a wonderfully large heart, and boundless imagination, in its exploration of difficult themes.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Brief Candle

Brief Candle

★★☆☆☆ Fllickering

Brief Candle, from Blushing Caligula at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, is not the first play to take inspiration for its title from Macbeth. Unfortunately, its attempts at tragic grandeur do not match up to such a reference.

Aug 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Lilies on the Land

Lilies on the Land

★★★★☆ Beautiful drama

Following on from the success of their production of David Haig’s Pressure in April, Arkle Theatre have returned to World War 2 for Lilies on the Land as the early evening Fringe offering.

Aug 19 2023 | By | Reply More