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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turn The Screw, Tickety-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 ...

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.

Sun 23 Aug 2026 Review by Rebecca Mahar. Lauriston Castle opens its doors to Fringe-goers in partnership with the Ed ...

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.

[Parent]ified at The Speakeasy is an underground and understated one woman show with great promise, written by Cosette Bolt and starring Rhona O’Donnell. This year at the Fringe, new community theatre ...

An Opportunity in Kind, one of two Fringe shows by Edinburgh-based The Optimiserables  at theSpace on the Mile, manages to strike a remarkably authentic note in spite of its rather absurd narrative.

Our Town Needs A Nando’s is dynamically directed by Milly Sweeney, an impressive feat for her directorial debut. The small space comes alive immediately, and the actors move through the fast-paced ...