Archive for August 21st, 2026
The Truth About Trees
★★★★☆ Charming
Apropos Theatre returns to Assembly George Square with a reworking of The Truth About Trees, their delightful play with a positive message.
Little Shop of Horrors
★★★★☆ High-energy
Sound Events Scotland presents Little Shop of Horrors, a horror-comedy musical chronicling the bloody series of events that occur after a hapless florist discovers a bizarre plant, who soon reveals its taste for human blood.
Operation Blank
★★★★☆ Existentially funny
When the end comes, will you regret the amount of your brief time on Earth you spent on Teams calls? Operation Blank at thespace @ Surgeons’ Hall makes us laugh, so we don’t cry.
Edinburgh Shanty Night vs The Fringe
★★★★☆ Seafaring sing-a-long
Beloved Edinburgh institution Edinburgh Shanty Night brings their rousing anthems to the Edinburgh Fringe at Argyle Cellar Bar in a swash-buckling, beer-sloshing musical experience.
Aderyn/Bird
★★★★★ Magical
The Harebell Teller’s traditional storytelling piece, Aderyn/Bird, is a lovingly made balm for the soul, retold this year for a limited run at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Witches Corner
★★★★☆ Defiant
Magic or misogyny? asks Witches Corner, a new sociopolitical play from Encapulus Productions that packs laughter, rage, song, and grief into an hour that questions how much has really changed for women since they were burned and hanged and stoned as witches.
Mayflies
★★★★☆ Sparkling
Grid Iron’s site-specific Mayflies is in part a massively spirited hymn to the youth culture of the 1980s. But you don’t have to have lived through that decade to appreciate such a melancholy yet defiantly bright production.
Carnegie
★★★☆☆ Informative
Returning after a successful run in 2016, Carnegie at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge is a contemporary musical inspecting the life and achievements of Andrew Carnegie from all angles.
Bombs Over Byker
★★★★☆ Pacy
Bombs Over Byker from Lucas English is a show with some big ideas, crammed into the smallest of venues at Clover Studio at Greenside @ Riddles Court.
Hame. Teeth. CLUB.
★★★★☆ Vital
Hame. Teeth. CLUB. by Kari Hall from Iona Bremner Productions and Sláinte! Theatre at the Underbelly is a hugely impressive display of writing, performing and directing.
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