Reviews
Reviewing is at the heart of what we do. Here you’ll find all the reviews that our wonderful team have written. If you want to find something more specific, why not pick a genre of show instead from the menu.
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Review: The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show, Pleasance Courtyard
Five shorts presented without any cutting of corners. The perfect opener to another day at the Fringe and a chance to catch new work by exciting new writers.
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Review: The Late Utopians, Underbelly Cowgate
A play that could be a podcast, its words and delivery are so beautifully presented.
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Review: Planet of the Grapes, Pleasance Courtyard
Anarchic, pocket-sized puppet nonsense you’re gonna love!
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Review: Peregrinations, Assembly Roxy
A visually arresting, sensitive exploration of the experience of migrants and refugees, without words but with a huge voice
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Review: Unfinished Business, New Diorama
A thoughtful exploration of teenage life, technology and human connection, set some 75 years in the future but ever relevant to the present, delivered with energy by its young creators.
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Review: 00:45:00, theSpace
45 minutes to decide who lives and who dies, and the audience is very much complicit in these life-and-death decisions. It's a clever idea, but it needs better execution.
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Review: Terry’s Been Murdered!, Hen and Chickens
An imaginative, thoughtful and entertaining re-examination of how the murder mystery genre might unfold without one crucial component. Packed full of fun and surprises.
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Review: Steve Burns: Alive, Underbelly Cowgate
Steve Burns is a masterful storyteller. This room at Underbelly is full of adoring fans, but you can hear a pin drop as he speaks from a huge video screen behind the iconic Thinking Chair from TV children’s show Blue’s…
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Review: Desperate Wee Gay Boy, Underbelly Cowgate
A glorious, crude riot of a show as Ollie trawls through a night of hedonistic behaviour.
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Review: Do Better: A Dramagedy, Olive Studio at Greenside @ George Street
A deeply moving show that uses magic and laughter to find a path forward through grief.