Archive for August, 2025
Blooming
★★★☆☆ Endearing
With a cast of Fringe first-timers, Daisy Ensemble brings Blooming to Greenside @ George Street for the final week of the Fringe.
When Billy Met Alasdair
★★★☆☆ Reassuring
When Billy Met Alasdair, from Alan Bissett at the Scottish Storytelling Centre throughout the Fringe, is an enjoyable romp through Scottish culture.
Piano Noir: Will Pickvance
★★★☆☆ Crowd pleaser
Will Pickvance’s new hour, Piano Noir is a virtuosic feat with plenty of ideas and a meta-theatrical bent. It is musically sound and immersive and clever, even if its conclusion fails to convince.
Dracula
★★★★☆ Considered
The Edinburgh Makars’ production of Dracula, at the Royal Scots Club for the last week of the Fringe, is an intelligent and atmospheric (if overlong) production, benefiting from some tremendous acting.
Intrusion
★★☆☆☆ Confusing
Intrusion presented by Locked In Thought Theatre at theSpace @ Venue 45 is a suspenseful play about your past catching up to you.
Paradok Platform: Unwelcome
★★★☆☆ Intimate
Brooke Jessop’s new play Unwelcome is a textured, immersive work drawing the relationships of a young gay man in 1980s London, against the backdrop of Section 28.
Arkle and Out
End of an era as Arkle calls time
This Fringe sees the end of an era among Edinburgh’s amateur companies, when the unique Arkle Theatre Company drops the curtain on its final production, at the Royal Scots Club on Abercromby Place.
r/Conspiracy
★★★★☆ Believable conspiracy
r/Conspiracy explores the allure of conspiracy theories and the addictiveness of Reddit. Ella Hällgren’s one woman show, which she also performs, has a full Fringe run at Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower.
A Pound of Flesh
★★★☆☆ Unjustified
Arbery Theatre brings A Pound of Flesh, a reimagining of a Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, to theSpace on the Mile for a full run of the Fringe in a production that asks: What if Portia never came to Venice?
Play On
★★★☆☆ Shakespearean escape
Erin Boulter’s Play On for Edinburgh-based Resilience Theatre Movement follows what is something of a theme at this year’s Fringe: estranged siblings forced back into each other’s company following the death of a parent.
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