EdFringe 2024
Same Team
★★★★★ Unmissable!
The combined frenzy of the Fringe and the Paris Olympics couldn’t be a more apt time to stage Same Team at The Traverse Theatre, directed by Bryony Shanahan and written by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse with the women of Street Soccer Scotland.
The Ruffian on the Stair
★★☆☆☆ Falls short
For the second of their Fringe productions, EGTG revive The Ruffian on the Stair, a little-known Joe Orton play, sixty years after it debuted as a BBC radio play.
A Singular Deception
★★★☆☆ Medical mystery
Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group mark their 70th year with A Singular Deception, a new play by company member Hilary Spiers which is the first of two shows at the Royal Scots Club for Week One of the Fringe.
Dragon Shows for Babies – Tale of the Ice Dragon
★★★★★ Spellbinding
Enchantment and entrancement for babies and adults make Tale of the Ice Dragon a must-see show, filled with magical creatures, movement, song and, most important, sensitivity and heart.
Godfather Death: A Grimms’ Musical
★★★★★ Inspiring
Godfather Death: A Grimms’ Musical by The Avison Brothers at The Space @ Surgeons Hall for the first two weeks of the Fringe is an inspiring adaptation of a little known fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.
Ripper: The Musical
★★★☆☆ Chilling
Ripper: The Musical presented by East Lothian company Reconnect Theatres at Hill Street Theatre for the whole Fringe, is a chilling musical based on the killings of Jack The Ripper.
The Steamie
★★★★★ Hilarious & heartfelt
Stage Door Entertainment brings Tony Roper’s classic play The Steamie to the Fringe with heart, humour, and honesty.
Mary, Queen of Rock!
★★★★★ Gloriously loud
A celebration of loud women, Pretty Knickers Productions’ original musical, Mary, Queen of Rock! at the Assembly Rooms Ballroom all Fringe is special from the first note. The female-led Scottish theatre company have produced a standout.
The Faustus Project
★★★★★ Fiendish
Imaginative physicality, wry hi-jinks and a fiendish twist are a winning brew in Half Trick’s The Faustus Project, a romp through Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan drama, Doctor Faustus.
Ne’er The Twain
★★★★☆ Couthie comedy
Edinburgh People’s Theatre have been doing the Fringe since it first started, and this is not the first time they have put on Alan Cochrane’s Ne’er the Twain. However, both play and company come over as commendably fresh and very funny.
