Archive for August, 2025
Bean team for Jack
Cast announced for “King’s Panto” at Festival Theatre
Capital Theatres is returning to what it knows for the cast of Jack and the Beanstalk, as the panto plays its final stint at the Festival Theatre before returning to the refurbished King’s in 2026.
Three Queens from the Opera
★★★★☆ Delightful
Michael Scott presents Three Queens from the Opera, playing a limited five show run at Stockbridge Church, is a delightful musical parody revue of operatic royalty.
All #EdFringe 2025 Made in Edinburgh reviews
All Æ’s reviews of Made in Edinburgh productions at the 2025 Fringe
Here, because it might be useful, is a big alphabetical list (with links) of all our reviews of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 that were Made in Edinburgh.
Paradok Platform 2025 Presents Russian Roulette
★★★☆☆ Brimming with potential
Russian Roulette, one of three pieces of new writing from Edinburgh University’s experimental theatre company Theatre Paradok, is an interesting, dystopian look at relationships and systems of oppression it runs at the Bedlam for the final five nights of the Fringe.
Book Festival 2025 – the final round-up
McDermid play and other performances
The final few days of the Book Festival featured several more theatre-adjacent events, with one of the most eagerly anticipated being And Midnight Never Come, Val McDermid’s play about Christopher Marlowe, which was given a script-in-hand performance in conjunction with Pitlochry Festival Theatre, directed by Philip Howard.
Date, Desire, Divorce
★★☆☆☆ Thin
In Date, Desire, Divorce, Malcolm Windsor writes four new short plays about dates, break ups and reconciliations amongst older couples. Unfortunately, the result, at theSpace on the Mile for the Fringe’s final week leaves much to be desired.
Chickens
★★★★☆ Relentlessly ambitious
Jay and Weronika are returning from holiday as Chickens opens. The pandemic looms like a bad dream. And they soon begin a descent into poultry-fuelled domestic madness that goes to the heart of heterosexual dynamics.
More Songs For A (Brave) New World
★★★★☆ Charming
Richard Lewis dances into the Speakeasy at the Voodoo Rooms for a full run of the Fringe with More Songs For A (Brave) New World, a new set of musical parodies sure to make you laugh, groan, and look for more.
Pantomeo and Juliet
★★★☆☆ Star-cross’d
Pig’s Ear Productions, the group responsible for last year’s Panto Macbeth are back with another heavily abridged and somewhat embroidered Shakespeare in Pantomeo and Juliet, at Riddles Court for the last week of the Fringe.
This Play Sucks!
★★★☆☆ Hilarious
This Play Sucks! is a vampiric farcical adventure, written and directed by Sean Tennant, sure to have the whole room laughing at The Space @ Venue 45 where it runs for the last week of the Fringe.
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