Assembly Rooms
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.
Tim Licata: Close up and personal
★★★★☆ Childhood magic
Local Edinburgh magician Tim Licata is back at the Fringe with Close-up and Personal at Assembly Rooms. It is a delightful show, filled with autobiographical anecdotes and magic tricks. But there’s more to it than just traditional illusions.
Polishing Shakespeare
★★☆☆☆ To speak and purpose not
Twilight Theatre Company’s Polishing Shakespeare dramatizes imagined meetings between a dotcom billionaire, the artistic director of an “esteemed American theatre company,” and the playwright they are attempting to commission to translate Shakespeare’s works into modern English.
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.
Sunshine on Leith
★★★★☆ Energetic
Toe-tapping and filled with hometown love, Captivate Theatre’s production of Sunshine on Leith at the Assembly Rooms Ballroom is fun and energetic.
Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act
★★★☆☆ An Epilogue
The scene is set. Dr Watson, having succumbed to a fatal heart attack, has just been buried, and Sherlock Holmes, his long-term partner and friend has returned alone to the Baker Street flat they shared.
TERF
★★★★☆ Thought provoking
TERF, written and directed by Joshua Kaplan, blazes into the Fringe to a cacophony of Twitter notification pings, bringing unapologetic social commentary to the stage, 280 characters at a time.
Kevin Quantum: Momentum
★★★★☆ Magic
Edinburgh’s own scientist-turned-magician has produced another thoroughly entertaining show in Kevin Quantum: Momentum at the Assembly Rooms.
What Girls Are Made Of
★★★★★ Exhilarating
Cora Bissett is nothing short of incredible in her gig-theatre show What Girls Are Made Of. It is full-throttle, high energy and, at points, it really does feel like you are front row at a gig.
Sandcastles
★★★☆☆ Endearing
Sandcastles, Steve McMahon’s warm and thoughtful new play is brought to life by a charismatic cast, directed by Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, in this Brite Theatre production at the Assembly Rooms.
