Lex Joyce
Tartan Tat
★★★★☆ Authentic comedy
Shark Bait Theatre’s Tartan Tat, playing theSpace @ Niddry St for the first two weeks of the Fringe, is a very funny play set in a tourist gift shop on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Take Me to Your Leader
★★★★☆ Effervescent
Unexpected things keep popping up in Take Me to Your Leader from Headrush Theatre and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile.
The Rejects
★★★★☆ Intelligently comic
There is huge promise in both the writing and the performing of The Rejects, from Shark Bait Theatre and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile.
Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Lex Joyce’s Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls debuts at CC Blooms as part of PBH’s free fringe and explores what it means to be a “man” in a modern world that is full of social media bubbles, sexualisation and toxic masculinity.
Smile (Like You’re Happy)
★★★☆☆ Diffuse
Smile (Like You’re Happy), New Celts and Sparkle Sarcasm’s production at theSpace Triplex, deals with modern and timeless concerns in a way that is often too scattergun to succeed but has considerable emotional resonance.
