EdFringe 2024
Dear Billy
★★★★☆ Devotional
Gary McNair presents a remount of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Dear Billy, A Love Letter to the Big Yin at the Assembly Rooms on George Street for a ten date run at the fringe.
Planetarium Lates: You Are Here
★★★☆☆ Humbling
Planetarium Lates: You Are Here at Dynamic Earth, takes the audience on an immersive and dizzying journey through the universe. In the comfort of your own seat, travel to infinity and beyond, breaking the laws of physics to find out where we are exactly in the galaxy.
Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
★★★☆☆ Uncompromising
Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a challengingly complex update to the Greek myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.
The One Couple Show
★★★☆☆ Original
The One Couple Show is an autobiographical love story between Pirita Tuiski and Thabo Mokolobate, detailing their lives before and after they met, playing ZOO Playground for the first two weeks of the Fringe.
Stepping Out
★★★☆☆ Feel good
Leitheatre has been performing on the Fringe for 40 years and this year’s show, Stepping Out at Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, is of an appropriate vintage, although its plot is in no way dated.
A History of Fortune Cookies
★★★★☆ Sweet treat
A History of Fortune Cookies written and performed by Glasgow-based spoken word artist Sean Wai Keung at Summerhall, is one of those unique and unexpected performances that one may only find at a festival like the Fringe.
Divided
★★★★☆ Delicate
In Divided, Kate Macsween and Michael Reddington play the parents of recently transitioned Saul, in this (mostly) two-hander about family, gender, and the deeper commitments behind unconditional love.
Untitled
★★★☆☆ Detached
Mon Espoir’s Untitled at theSpace @ Symposium Hall is an intriguingly uneven work. Its depiction of difficult emotions and the workings of memory is always interesting, if sometimes difficult to process.
Brothers
★★★★☆ Heartfelt
Raised Voices’ Brothers, at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall for the last two weeks of the Fringe, has a praiseworthy emotional clarity.
Will Pickvance: Wonky
★★★★☆ Inviting
Will Pickvance: Wonky, at Summerhall Old Lab throughout the Fringe, is a charming, inventive and diverting show, guaranteed to cheer up even the most jaded Fringe-goer.
