Pleasance Courtyard
Chatterbox
★★★☆☆ Personal
Chatterbox is an eye-opening, extremely personal hour of storytelling by Lubna Kerr in the Pleasance Courtyard Green, in which she reflects on growing up as a Pakistani immigrant in 1970s Glasgow.
King Lear
★★★★★ Unmissable
Pip Utton is back for a thirty-first year at the Fringe with his new monodrama King Lear, at the Pleasance Courtyard for the final two weeks of the fringe only.
Talking Cakes with Peter Bakes
★★★★☆ Tasty treat
Peter Sawkins, Scottish winner of The Great British Bake Off may be no stranger to TV entertainment, but this year it’s on a Pleasance Courtyard stage that he debuts his live variety/talk show, Talking Cakes with Peter Bakes, combining his two passions: good chats and good cakes.
Lunchbox
★★★★☆ Packs a punch
Lubna Kerr presents Lunchbox, the powerful final part of her trilogy depicting her life as a Pakistani Muslim moving to Glasgow, at the Pleasance Courtyard for this year’s fringe.
The Kids Always Win
★★★☆☆ Winning streak
The Kids Always Win, a gameshow comedy for kids age 5 and over is onto, well, a winner with it’s fail-safe formula, at the Pleasance Courtyard until the end of the Edinburgh school holidays.
Pleasance Reopens
Pleasance Courtyard overcomes the Floris Effect
Pleasance Venues has announced that it is to re-open the Pleasance Courtyard from 7pm today, Monday 4 August 2025, after it was earlier shut due to the high winds associated with Storm Floris.
Kanpur: 1857
★★★☆☆ Compassionate
Kanpur: 1857 at the Playhouse Courtyard all Fringe is an audacious production, bursting with ideas, which aims for a new storytelling fusion.
At Home With Will Shakespeare
★★★★★ Sans nothing
It’s a popular image of Shakespeare: the great Bard, bent over his desk, quill flying over parchment as he composes some of the greatest drama ever put on the stage. But in At Home With Will Shakespeare, Pip Utton’s Shakespeare does not write freely…
Hamstrung
★★★★☆ Method in’t
“A fellow of infinite jest,” is how Shakespeare introduced deceased court jester Yorick, but the Yorick of George Rennie’s Hamstrung is a being as existential as the appearance of his skull at a pivotal moment in Hamlet’s crisis deserves.
Chatterbox
★★★★☆ Gentle humour
Lubna Kerr’s Chatterbox, at the Pleasance Courtyard all Fringe, builds on her difficult experiences of growing up as a child of Muslim heritage in 1970s Scotland.
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