Archive for August 17th, 2026
Shakespeare’s Dead Dames
★★★☆☆ Conflicted
Aberdeen’s Academy of Expressive Arts brings a company of Senior and HNC students to the Fringe in “their first production that’s not a musical”: Shakespeare’s Dead Dames, directed by AEA founder and Principal, Shanna Logan.
Four Walls and a Roof (EIF)
★★☆☆☆ Oddly flat
Four Walls and a Roof, at the Studio Theatre at the International Festival, deals with important themes in a way that seems designed to infuriate as much as involve.
Boys Don’t Dance
★★★★★ Breathtaking
Director/Choreographer Marc Brew’s breathtaking coming of age story Boy’s Don’t Dance at Assembly @ Dance Base is anti-venom for toxic masculinity, tracking the early life of a boy as he develops his sense of self alongside his love of dance.
Steak Out
★★★★☆ Meaty
Steak Out from Ruaraidh Murray at the Gilded Balloon throughout the Fringe, is a funny, oddly touching and very well constructed piece.
Cathy
★★★☆☆ Excellently performed
Cathy from the Traverse is a bleakly funny play that has an excellent central performance but struggles to convince entirely.
The Reunion
★★★★☆ Sparkling
GaggleHouse (Scotland)’s The Reunion at C aurora is a cheerfully funny romp that is often surprisingly affecting.
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
★★★★★ Bangin’
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor at CC Blooms is a wildly irreverent, casually gruesome, curiously grounded look at Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers.
Platformed
★★★☆☆ Thought-provoking
Platformed, part of the Characters of Edinburgh Festival by Leith-based company Active Inquiry at the Out of the Blue Drillhall, asks who Edinburgh’s real heroes are.
The Court 3
★★★☆☆ Fun in justice
Edinburgh Little Theatre presents The Court 3, in which the year is 1591 and folk healer Agnes Sampson is being put on trial for witchcraft in Scotland – with the audience acting as jury.
Bloody Mary’s
★★★★★ Riveting
Fat Pooch Productions makes its theatre debut at theSpace @ Venue 45 with Bloody Mary’s, a rich, raw, riveting look inside the life and death of Mary McKinnon, a figure of notoriety and injustice in Edinburgh’s history.
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