Archive for August 10th, 2025
A Woman of No Importance
★★★★☆ Assured
Edinburgh Theatre Arts provide a very well judged production of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance at St Ninian’s throughout the first fortnight of the Fringe.
Consumed
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Consumed at the Traverse is a fiercely funny domestic comedy that turns into something else entirely. If it isn’t completely successful, it’s always interesting.
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Show business excess and hard-won personal discovery coincide in Standing in the Shadows of Giants, the co-production between the Traverse and The Hale.
Lost Lear
★★★★☆ Affecting
Deeply sad, gently comic and profoundly human, Lost Lear from the Riverbank and Mermaid Arts Centres at the Traverse is an emotional affair.
The Beautiful Future Is Coming
★★★★☆ Wise
Bristol Old Vic’s The Beautiful Future Is Coming by Flora Wilson Brown at the Traverse is a beautifully performed rumination on the climate emergency and human responses to it.
Lucky Tonight!
★★★☆☆ Competitive fun
Lucky Tonight! at the Traverse is part play, part quiz, and while one part is more successful than the other, it is undoubtedly great fun.
The Dahlia Files
★★★★☆ Compelling performance
The Dahlia Files, from the Hey, Thanks! Theatre Collective, draws on an infamous unsolved murder to explore the commercialisation of violence and question the motives behind the makers, and viewers, of real-life murder podcasts.
Confessions of a Lunatic
★★★☆☆ Atmospheric
An attempt to go over familiar ground in a new way is not always wholly successful in Confessions of a Lunatic, from Nightshade Theatre and New Celts.
Screaming Into the Void
★★★☆☆ Intriguing premise
Clever writing and fine acting characterise Piece of Work Theatre and New Celts’ Screaming Into the Void at theSpace on the Mile on even dates throughout the Fringe. The result is not always focused, but is always interesting.
The Big Day
★★★★☆ Absorbing
The Big Day by Milly Sweeney, Pure Class and New Celts’ production at theSpace on the Mile on even dates throughout the Fringe, is an extremely impressive piece of politically informed, compassionate theatre.
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