Archive for August 23rd, 2026
I Love Thee, I Love Thee Not
★★★☆☆ Minimalist
Red Firefly’s production of I Love Thee, I Love Thee Not is billed as a Shakespeare Medley. Medley is a good description as the hour is essentially Shakespeare’s romantic “hits” – dialogues and soliloquies drawn from the full range of the Bard’s plays.
Arcana
★★★★☆ Fine artistry
Arcana, at Assembly Roxy, is a beautiful musical about empire, revolution, and finding ones own voice; despite its Edinburgh-based team, the roots of this production reach beyond Scottish soil and into times and places far and wide.
Hope This Helps!
★★★★★ Ridiculously Funny
Hope This Helps! Presented by Shark Bait Theatre at TheSpace @ Venue 45 is a comedic play about a Highland retreat where internet addicts go for time offline and couple bonding activities
Behind Closed Doors
★★★★☆ Brave
Behind Closed Doors from Studio Muiz at Braw Venues @ Hill Street for the second and third weeks of the Fringe, is as important as it is intense.
Nosejob
★★★★☆ Unforgettable
A sentient nose has become the world’s first trillionaire in Heads on Crooked’s Nosejob at Paradise in Augustines, a dark comedy about Internet culture and social class.
Cogito, Ergo… Something?
★★★★☆ Dark
Cogito, Ergo…Something?, written and directed by James Harvey and performed by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company at their iconic Bedlam Theatre home (“not a church”, as the helpful sign says outside) has very dark roots.
What Are You Doing After the Orgy?
★★★☆☆ Open
In What Are You Doing After the Orgy? at The Carbon Lounge, writer and performer Nikolai Phalen asks a lot of questions, quite beyond the one in the title.
Maiden | Mother | Whore
★★★☆☆ Creation
Maiden | Mother | Whore is a happening at DB1 at Assembly @ Dance Base. Theiyā Arts Dance Collective provides completed pieces of dance but this hour is as much about thought and process as it is about witnessing finished work.
Little Animals
★★★★★ Brilliant
Little Animals at the Traverse @ Lyceum Studio is an astonishing piece of theatre. It deals with urgent concerns in a way that is inventive, compassionate and beautifully performed.
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