Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / UndersignedWednesday, 13 August 2025
The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★They’ve created an affectionate but merciless send-up of Princess Di; they’ve lampooned Gwyneth Paltrow, her... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Blumkin / Shamik ChakrabartiTuesday, 12 August 2025
Lily Blumkin, Gilded Balloon @ Patter House ★★★ Lily Blumkin has always planned to be a big-time comic, she tells us. So when her parents downsized and asked her to clear out her childhood bedroom, she went through her stuff –... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Desiree Burch / Andy ParsonsMonday, 11 August 2025
Desiree Burch, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Desiree Burch is a bundle of energy as she comes on stage and gives us a warning about the subterranean venue she’s in. It’ll get hot, the Taskmaster favourite tells us – but maybe that’s just her as she going... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Phillips / Ayoade BamgboyeSaturday, 09 August 2025
Lily Phillips, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Lily Phillips is keen to tell us at the top of her show that she’s not that Lily Phillips. There’s no OnlyFans content in Crying but, dealing as it does with her experience of having a baby, it’s graphic in a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Beautiful Future is Coming / She's Behind YouSaturday, 09 August 2025
The Beautiful Future is Coming, Traverse Theatre ★★★★★Flora Wilson Brown’s epoch-straddling, climate change-themed six-hander had a run at the Bristol Old Vic before transferring to the Traverse Theatre for its Fringe residency. It shows: this is a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Jacob Nussey / Phil GreenFriday, 08 August 2025
Jacob Nussey, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Write about what you know, comics are told, and in Primed – his Fringe debut – Jacob Nussey does just that. He describes to great comic effect what it was like in the three years he worked in an... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rob Auton / Saaniya AbbasThursday, 07 August 2025
Rob Auton, Assembly Roxy ★★★★ The stage is littered with 30-odd large white cards bearing words such as “love”, “believe” and “push”. Rob Auton comes on stage and tells us he’s CAN, a former motivational speaker, and in the following... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor / Alex BerrWednesday, 06 August 2025
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Henry Naylor doesn’t hold back in his latest Fringe offering, an entertaining monologue in which he examines The Sun’s treatment of Elton John in the 1980s, an era when tabloids... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / ConsumedTuesday, 05 August 2025
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of King Lear, provocatively gender-swapped; a troublesome diva in the title role; and a near-silent understudy barely able to contribute.Dan Colley’s... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher Macarthur-BoydTuesday, 05 August 2025
Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been overweight since she was eight years... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rhys Darby / Alex StringerMonday, 04 August 2025
Rhys Darby, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Rhys Darby, the New Zealand actor and comic best known as Murray Hewitt in Flight of the Conchords, is back at the Fringe after nearly a decade away with The Legend Returns.It’s an elaborate tale about... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: I'm Ready To Talk Now / RIFTSunday, 03 August 2025
I’m Ready to Talk Now, Traverse Theatre ★★★★There are, inevitably, certain challenges when reviewing a one-to-one immersive show that’s already pretty much sold out its entire Edinburgh Fringe run (though there are rumours of some last-minute... Read more... |
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