Æ at the 2023 Summer Festivals

Sep 1 2023 | By Thom Dibdin More

All Edinburgh Theatre at the Festivals in 2023

By Thom Dibdin

The 2023 Summer festivals saw 169 shows Made in Edinburgh at #EdFringe. As a website, we managed to review almost 100 of them.

On this page there are links to the various productions – to the listings, to the reviews, and also to the reviews by the different critics who came out and reviewed for All Edinburgh Theatre.

A huge thank-you to the reviewers: Hugh Simpson, Allan Wilson, Tom Ralphs, Suzanne O’Brien, Torya Hughes, and Martin Gray for all your insight and input.

In our listings below, theatre is organised by the different statuses of the companies – Amateur, Grassroots, Youth & Student, Professional & Funded, and Theatre for children and young people.

We also carried listings for Musical Theatre & Opera, and Dance, Cabaret & Spoken Word.

So far as reviews go, we covered 100 productions in the fringe, 95 of which were made in Edinburgh. There were eight returning Made in Edinburgh shows which we had previously reviewed and didn’t review this year.

In the theatre section, we reviewed 72 shows Made in Edinburgh and and another five non Edinburgh-made shows. We reviewed 10 musicals, six shows for children, three pieces of Cabaret and Variety, three spoken word and one production in the music section. We also reviewed at the EIF and the Book Festival.