All Reviews

Good With Faces is a two-hander in which a mother is interviewed by a social worker about the care of her son Max.

Little Animals begins with a death, but quickly becomes a story about a friendship coming apart under the pressure of the climate crisis.

The Bob Ross Effect sees Sarah-Louise Young work through grief through the mellifluous tones and wholesome innuendos of big-haired heartthrob Bob Ross.

Cathy is a show about death and belonging, centred on a newly widowed woman and a family processing the death of their husband, father and grandfather in very different ways.

Playback follows teenager Euan Munro looking back through the history of his YouTube vlog as he is groomed online, turning vulnerability, abuse, anxiety and naivety into a raw…

The Katet vs 1995 is a showcase for some of the strongest musicianship at the Fringe.

Water Colour brings together two lives shaped by pressure: a girl at art school struggling with her mental health and an aspiring chef working in a professional kitchen.

After Party gathers an elderly actress and her family for one final party before she undergoes assisted dying, with the occasion opening up years of family trauma and rivalry.

Badgers is a true-crime-style piece of gig theatre in which the search for a missing young man opens into a strange story of badgerism, magic, loss and the difficulty of letting…

Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life tells the story of Keith Alessi surviving cancer and finding meaning through playing the banjo.

Churchill’s Urinal imagines a new female Chancellor trying to remove the urinal once used by Winston Churchill from her private bathroom, with the resulting political chaos turned…

For Dolores is a two-hander about two women whose friendship becomes entangled with marriage, betrayal, murder, motherhood and class.

Supposing: follows a woman who falls down a hole and acquires the ability to see the future, with a Greek chorus delivering predictions around the growth of the far right and the…

The Singer pairs a washed-up street performer with a talented deaf musician, building a friendship around music, equity, acceptance and the expectations of an ableist society.

Bog Witch is a solo piece about anthropogenic climate change, moving from the city to the countryside in an attempt to fill what the protagonist calls the “hole in her soul”.

Nesting puts a father confronting motor neurone disease and assisted dying alongside a daughter going through IVF, with an absurdist anthropomorphic seagull appearing to embody the…

An Echo in the Void is a Black Mirror-esque thriller in which four apparent strangers wake together inside a virtual reality after an AI system designed to help with grief has…

Atomic Tales is a is a dramatic monologue about the Chernobyl disaster, told through the memories of Lyudmila, the wife of one of the firefighters sent to the plant.

Frames is an autobiographical musical journey from Jon Andrew Franklin, told through stories, original music and a loop pedal, tracing his life through Hawaii, Los Angeles and the…

Liberace and Liza is a cabaret comedy duet imagining what might have happened if Liberace and Liza Minnelli had performed together, built around numbers associated with both.

Police Cops is a semi-improvised story of revenge: a murdered brother’s death sends another brother into the police in pursuit of retribution, amid police corruption, 80s music and…

The Real Kyle McCarren is a brand new musical about the death of a twenty-one-year-old, told by his best friend and bandmate.

DIVAS is a four-woman singing show built around female-written songs, ranging from Cher to Shirley Basset, with individual solos and a four-piece band providing solid backing.

Don’t You Forget About Me starts with a neatly exhibited sequence: David Shopland recreates The Breakfast Club, using stools to stand in for its five teenagers.

Flesh is a series of movement sketches about the body and the various ways of escaping it: a hospital death, plastic surgery, an immersive virtual-reality episode and a funeral.

Prophets follows a geologist arriving on a remote Pacific island, where he encounters a religious cult and a man who appears to be a victim of abuse.

On the Eve of a new millenium, a the hundred-year-old clown Scaramouche Jones looks spends the last hour of his life looking back over a journey that spans seas, continents, and…

Silent Disco is supposed to let the audience hear the characters’ thoughts through headphones, turning a relationship story into something part play, part stream of consciousness.

The Last Drop is a domestic, absurdist parlour drama in Portuguese with supertitles, somewhere between Pinter and Beckett, built around a crack in the ceiling of a flat about to be…

Where We Choose to Stand presents itself as a theatre-dance piece about climate activism, combining a solo dancer with a few verbatim excerpts and audience participation.

Adding Up America is the personal account of Monique DeBose growing up Black/mixed race in America, using mathematics as a metaphor for the attempt to make sense of her own race…

In Depths of Wikipedia, viral social media experimenter Annie Rauwerda turns the oddities of Wikipedia into a lecture-style comedy show, drawing laughs from the strange things…

The show, flights for future generations tells the history of women aviators through objects, memories, fragments, and voiceover, turning the stage into a kind of analogue tapestry…

Most of our lives will be consumed by lists for just about everything.

ASURA presents itself as an experiment in enlightenment, built around Wayne Stewart’s creation of an AI-powered enlightenment guru.

CRUSH puts two Somali teenagers together in a therapy waiting room and lets romance develop around them.

Down in Colorado is a one-man, musical, beat-style biography, accompanied by light comedy and guitar playing.

Ludwig is a one-man music-comedy biography of Beethoven, combining dramatic monologue, stand-up and piano.

A Haunted House is a comedy mime horror built around clowning, physical performance and audience interaction.

Dracula: Lucy’s Dream is a horror puppet shadow play that pushes itself far beyond conventional theatre into the realms of a sickly ballet where light itself becomes the principal…

Dribble tells the story of Brazilians whose lives intersect through football and music, treating football as something that runs between people and lives, making them bearable and…

Midsummer!

The Pitch uses Gaelic football to explore the Irish divide, setting friendship across social and sexual boundaries against the shadow of a future United Ireland referendum.

27 Club arrives as a live rockumentary about musicians who died at twenty-seven.

Fractured is a court drama told in flashbacks, reconstructing a car accident from the sister’s perspective.

Goodbye Horses is a one-man, "unofficial" retelling of The Silence of the Lambs, built around a deliberately twisted and comic treatment of familiar material.

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Hamlet is at heart Hamlet but with one major interruption: Hamlet's actor gets paralytically drunk before the audience have taken their seats.

The Late Utopians is a dramatic monologue in which a journalist investigates underground rave culture and romance against the backdrop of an unraveling America.

Woody Sez is a four-piece musical biography of Woody Guthrie, with the storytelling and music woven together to tell a complex and winding life.