Archive for August, 2026
The Hypochondriac
★★★★★ Theatrical medicine
The Hypochondriac from Rebrand Theatre and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile is a comic triumph. Intelligently adapted and acted by a company bursting with comic potential, it is hugely entertaining, resolutely theatrical and recommended without hesitation.
Angelshark
★★★★☆ Considered
Blue Dot Theatre and New Celts’ Angelshark, by Annie White, at theSpace on the Mile is a clever and polished piece that does not shout about its values but has real heart.
After Party
★★☆☆☆ No party
After Party at the Traverse has all of the ingredients for a statement drama but ends up rather undercooked.
The Singer
★★★★☆ Ebullient
The Singer at the Traverse is a joyous, energetic piece of musical theatre that is going to win many friends.
The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle
★★★★☆ Slick
Lauriston Castle opens its doors to Fringe-goers in partnership with the Edinburgh International Magic Festival for The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle, an immersive magic experience featuring three expert illusionists.
Sand, Silt, Flint
★★★★☆ Resonant
Sand, Silt, Flint, from Scottish/Burmese singer and producer Fiona Soe ~Paing, uses the songs of her native Aberdeenshire to provide an arresting musical display.
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 1
Her Big Chance & A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
★★★★☆ Poignant
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.
Two Halves
★★★☆☆ Relentless Naturalism
Oil and water. Rugby and football. Some things don’t mix well. If Muddrag Productions, creators of Two Halves at Studio at theSpaceTriplex are to be trusted, perhaps we should be adding men and women to that list of incompatible things.
A Clown’s Lullaby
★★★★☆ Melancholy
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.
Cluedo
★★★★☆ Farcical
Cluedo, from Edinburgh Theatre Arts at St Ninian’s for the first two weeks of the Fringe, is a lively parody of the murder mystery genre, performed with pace and panache.
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