Paradise venues
The Pirates of Penzance
★★★☆☆ Piratical
The University of St. Andrews Gilbert & Sullivan Society brings one of their namesake’s most popular and enduring operettas to the Fringe with The Pirates of Penzance.
Pippin
★★★★☆ Fulfilling
Edinburgh University Footlights’ Pippin, at Paradise in Augustines for the Fringe’s final week, has an infectious enthusiasm and energy that are impossible to resist.
Trial by Jury
★★★★☆ Spritely
Cat-Like Tread presents a spritely rendition of Gilbert & Sullivan’s one-act comic opera, Trial by Jury that entirely fulfils its brief: light, fun, and more than a little ridiculous.
Murder! At the Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard
★★★☆☆ Chaotic
Dead Parrot Collective’s Murder! At the Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard, at Paradise in Augustines for the Fringe’s second week, is a cross-genre comedy romp that is a fitting late-night Fringe entertainment – defiantly silly and performed with gusto.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
★★★★☆ Ode to Pubescence
The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group return to the Fringe with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a joyful exploration of adolescence and the pressures that get in the way of success at, Paradise in Augustines for Week One.
The Last Five Years
★★★★☆ Bittersweet
New Edinburgh-based Never Ending Theatre brings a poignant rendition of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years to Paradise in Augustines, which is pacy and arresting from start to finish.
Into the Woods
★★★★★ Dark
Bare Productions go hard on Into the Woods, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s popular mashup of fairytales, to expose its utter cruelty and the callousness of many of the favourite pantomime heroes that people the musical.
