1+ week, 6+ day ago   (80+ words) Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team Crybabies: The ScaringElf Lyons is The Woman on the EdgeJoseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70Milo Edwards: CatamaranSam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage Acid’s Reign Fanny…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (134+ words) Studied haplessness makes for a brilliant, satirical, physical comedy from Geoff Sobelle and co. A graduate from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to the Edinburgh International Festival, for which he’s produced the previous big hits Home and Food, Sobelle brings a…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (504+ words) Alex Franklin discusses her stand-up and musical comedy show Kiss Me x, all about kissing and dating Honestly I got a review for an early work-in-progress version of the show that described it as ‘a pure ray of sunshine’ which…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (164+ words) The Captain sees Adam Riches at the helm of another excellent, confidently unadorned sports comedy-drama The anatomy lecture theatre at Summerhall, formerly a veterinary college, makes the perfect setting for a play about Victorian men’s ambition, hubris and faith in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (825+ words) Comedian Finlay Christie discusses his latest show Champagne Casanova To be honest, I don’t really want to tell people what to expect. I always think that answer sounds a bit artificial. If you’d like to know what my stand-up is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) festmag.com Review: Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party Adam Flood’s relentless exploration of millennial anguish is bombastic, but in need of some fine tuning Processing his millennial angst through persistent beats and thirsty AutoTune, Adam Flood’s intense…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (89+ words) Kate Dehnert’s emotional show explores the fall-out from a ten-year relationship In a culture that’s joyfully embracing the ‘unhinged’, there’s no shortage at this year’s Fringe of radically open comedies featuring performers seeming to be right on the brink. Of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) Cult favourite Joseph Morpurgo on his first solo Fringe show in almost a decade There are moments when Joseph Morpurgo regrets not being a stand-up, capable of simply plucking routines from his acclaimed but painstakingly intricate comedy shows, touring with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (157+ words) Zoe Wohlfield delivers a committed performance exploring grief as she stages a funeral for her furry best friend Zoe Wohlfeld’s dog Twinkles, we discover via a cutesy hand-drawn opening animation, has died. And with the twisty and baroque set of…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago   (563+ words) Fay Guiffo talks to us about Arcana, her debut show which comes to the Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland showcase Born in France, Fay Guiffo is a French Cameroonian musician, performer and author-director based in Edinburgh. Arcana…...