58 to Go
★★★★☆ Age defying comedy
Greenside @ George Street (Venue 236): Mon 24 – Sun 29 Aug 2026
Review by Tom Ralphs
Liminal Visions’ 58 to Go, at Greenside @ George Street deals with something that large parts of its audience will either be experiencing – or have come out the other side of: Growing Old Syndrome.
At the grand age of 27, Ed worries that life has already passed him by and attempts to do something about it before it’s too late.
Gregor Campbell and Jordan Monks. Pic: Alistair Maxwell.
Jordan Monks is superb as Ed, capturing the sense of confusion of a man who has recognised that his perfectly normal middle management, middle class life is exactly that: perfectly normal and nothing more. Hitting the panic button, he tries to cram everything into the start of the far longer period he may have left on earth.
As Ed takes on a variety of new hobbies with varying levels of danger attached to them, Monks also shows his skills as a physical performer, particularly in a scene where he almost literally throws himself into a tennis match.
Gregor Campbell takes on a variety of roles, from Ed’s tennis partner to a young retired scally who made his fortune building the rave style nightclub he now inhabits, and Ed’s boss in his 9 to 5 job.
In the latter two roles, Campbell gets the opportunity to show his tremendous ability to create caricatured comedy characters. He takes the recognisable mannerisms, expressions, accents and movements of both stereotypes and exaggerates them to just the right extent to make them both very funny and instantly recognisable.
unenviable task
Playing opposite them, Lorna Panton often has the unenviable task of being the voice of reason against the madness around her. Where she is given the chance to let loose with a cameo as a mad surgeon offering blood transfusions, she takes it with aplomb, showing her own skills as a comedy performer able to steal a scene and maximise the laughs contained within a script.
Jessie Syme’s direction is excellent throughout, combining physical theatre with believable characterisations that make the production three dimensional and bring Alistair Maxwell’s script to life in a production that is both incredibly funny – but also very well observed as it builds to a closing section that underpins the humour with a slightly more serious message.
Running time: One hour (no interval).
Greenside @ George Street (Jade Studio), The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street EH2 2PQ (Venue 236).
Monday 24 – Saturday 29 August 2026.
Daily: 12.40pm.
Tickets and details: Book here at EdFringe.com.
Instagram: @liminalvisions
Linktree: @liminalvisionstheatre.
Jordan Monks and Lorna Panton. Pic: Alistair Maxwell.
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