#EdFringe2024

A Girl Gets Naked In This

A Girl Gets Naked In This

★★★★☆ Intimate and raw

A Girl Gets Naked In This from St Andrews-based People You Know, is a series of raw monologues about sex from nine young women’s perspectives. While all of the monologues are broadly about sex, they manage to cover a lot of ground – the good, the bad, and the mohawked.

Aug 26 2024 | By | Reply More
Trainspotting Live

Trainspotting Live

★★★★★ Visceral

Overstimulating, intense, shocking, and emotional, Trainspotting Live at Pleasance at EICC isn’t afraid to take it too far – and has become a sensation by doing just that.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
An American Love Letter to Edinburgh

An American Love Letter to Edinburgh

★★★★☆ Enchantingly Earnest

Equipped only with a book and a glass of water, storyteller Rick Conte masterfully intertwines the true tales of two Edinburgh visitors separated by nearly 250 years in An American Love Letter to Edinburgh at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died

Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died

★★★★☆ Inspiring

Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died, from The Joe Hill Project with Joey Shaw at C aurora, is an old-fashioned piece of political street theatre performed with clarity and focus.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Casual Encounters

Casual Encounters

★★★☆☆ Dark sex comedy

It is Saturday night and, following advice from a counsellor that he and his wife should have more sex, middle-aged Morningside banker, James, played by Ade Smith, is looking forward to his first experience of wife swapping.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Black is the Color of My Voice

Black is the Color of My Voice

★★★★☆ Stirring

Created by Apphia Campbell, Black is the Color of My Voice from Seabright Live looks back at the life of a musician, singer, and civil-rights activist on what seems to be the eve of her father’s funeral, as his death inspires her to seek clarity and redemption.

Aug 25 2024 | By | Reply More
A Bohemian Life

A Bohemian Life

★★★★☆ Joyful

The Bohemian Lyric Opera Company filled Edinburgh New Town Church with joy and show tunes for two days this Fringe with their concert A Bohemian Life.

Aug 24 2024 | By | Reply More
The Sisters Fig

The Sisters Fig

★★★★☆ Ludicrous

Porridge After Meat’s The Sisters Fig at the Assembly Roxy Snug Bar is almost impossible to describe and all the better for it.

Aug 24 2024 | By | Reply More
The Spilling Cup

The Spilling Cup

★★★★☆ Bloody lovely
“Hey, little uterus, can we work together?” Sasha’s plea to her capricious organ in Dracume Theatre’s The Spilling Cup will be a familiar sentiment to anyone who’s ever dealt with having one, and especially to those who, like her, are plagued by undiagnosed medical issues of the reproductive system.

Aug 24 2024 | By | Reply More
Land Under Wave

Land Under Wave

★★★★☆ Enchanting

The Young Edinburgh Storytellers revive their acclaimed production Land Under Wave at this year’s Fringe, and it remains an otherworldly treat.

Aug 24 2024 | By | Reply More