Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor at CC Blooms is a wildly irreverent, casually gruesome, curiously grounded look at Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers.

Fat Pooch Productions makes its theatre debut at theSpace @ Venue 45 with Bloody Mary’s, a rich, raw, riveting look inside the life and death of Mary McKinnon, a figure of notoriety and injustice in ...

Boo! by David Scott, performed by Faceless Theatre and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile, is a compassionate piece of theatre that overcomes some peculiarities with assured direction and performances.

Will Pickvance’s Anatomy of the Piano (for beginners) at the Bruntsfield Pianodrome is an engaging, informative and family-friendly piece, exploring the inner workings of this complicated and ...

Crested Fools’ A Clown’s Lullaby at the Rotunda is a display that is as pensive as it is humorous, and exactly the sort of thing that people who think they don’t like clowns should go to see.

This pair of quietly devastating dramatic monologues from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series, while written (and firmly rooted) in the 1980s, still stand up as tragicomic meditations on loneliness.

Macbeth: Blood and Bluegrass transforms the well-known tragedy into a campfire tale; the witches’ cauldron – a drum – serving as the fire, complete with folksy sing-alongs to acoustic guitars, ...

Dylan and Will Theatre transports us back to Edinburgh in 1980 with The Joker and the Thief at theSpace, a time when the city was a cheap place to stay during August and stand-up comedy was coming to ...

Combining sitcom and mythology is the kind of high-concept premise that can always find a willing audience at the Fringe. It’s Always Sunny on Olympus from Mind Yer Head and New Celts at theSpace on ...

The Tale of the Original Jekyll and Hyde (Told by a Mad Hatter from Stockport) is a quiet historical comedy from Tall History Tales, which provides a bit of respite from the hurly burly of the ...

Adapted from the Disney film, Hunchback centres on the story of Quasimodo, the bellringer of Notre Dame, an orphan child taken in by the cathedral’s Archdeacon, Claude Frollo, and his nephew, son of ...

Bittersweet and reflective, The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness is a tragicomic tale about unfulfilled dreams and ...