Archive for August, 2026
Kafka For Beginners
★★★☆☆ Surrealist Satire
Julian Henry Lowenfeld’s Kafka for Beginners, directed here by Derek Douglas, offers an entertaining anti-authoritarian satire for any festival-goer all too familiar with sighing when they check the news.
Brassed Off
★★★★☆ Inspired
An inspired local setting and some barnstorming performances make for an assured rendition by Leitheatre of Brassed Off, adapted from the 1996 Britflick and graced by the magic touch of the Lochgelly Band.
Hamlet (an experience)
★★★★☆ Transportative
Hamlet (an experience), returns this Fringe to the Scottish Storytelling Centre, in Brite Theatre’s one-of-a-kind rendition of the Bard’s beloved tragedy that will redefine your relationship to the text.
Forge
★★★★☆ Songs of resistance
Brite Theatre and Tom Oakes take a quietly defiant stand with Forge at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, a protest in music, sound and speech.
She Burns
★★★★☆ Warming
She Burns from Best Laid Schemes at the Scottish Poetry Library is a tuneful, excellently put-together examination of Robert Burns from a female perspective.
Badgers
★★★☆☆ Complicated
Badgers at the Traverse is a carefully constructed piece whose use of different media does not always support a strong central core.
Amadan and Mortair Kill the King
★★★★☆ Sharp
Amadan and Mortair Kill the King, at Gilded Balloon’s patter house for Week One of the Fringe, is the hilarious writing debut from Alex Bathe and Josh Aitken of the hit Dungeon & Dragons live show, Tartan Tabletop.
Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force
★★★★★ Infectious fun
KQ Productions return to the Assembly Ballroom Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force, a lively new show for 2026 in which magician Kevin McMahon sets out to illuminate the science of our everyday lives using magic, along with a good dash of silliness.
An Island of Bad Ideas: The Tempest
★★★★☆ Sprightly
Edinburgh Youth Theatre return to the Fringe with another condensed Shakespeare, An Island of Bad Ideas: The Tempest, which brings Shakespeare’s tale of shipwreck, vengeance, sorcery, and love in under an hour.
Gagula: The Panto With Teeth!
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Pig’s Ear Productions are back with another panto, this year moving away from Shakespeare and into another classic art form: drag.
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