EdFringe 2026
Steak Out
★★★★☆ Meaty
Steak Out from Ruaraidh Murray at the Gilded Balloon throughout the Fringe, is a funny, oddly touching and very well constructed piece.
Cathy
★★★☆☆ Excellently performed
Cathy from the Traverse is a bleakly funny play that has an excellent central performance but struggles to convince entirely.
The Reunion
★★★★☆ Sparkling
GaggleHouse (Scotland)’s The Reunion at C aurora is a cheerfully funny romp that is often surprisingly affecting.
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
★★★★★ Bangin’
Burke’n’Hare: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor at CC Blooms is a wildly irreverent, casually gruesome, curiously grounded look at Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers.
Platformed
★★★☆☆ Thought-provoking
Platformed, part of the Characters of Edinburgh Festival by Leith-based company Active Inquiry at the Out of the Blue Drillhall, asks who Edinburgh’s real heroes are.
The Court 3
★★★☆☆ Fun in justice
Edinburgh Little Theatre presents The Court 3, in which the year is 1591 and folk healer Agnes Sampson is being put on trial for witchcraft in Scotland – with the audience acting as jury.
Bloody Mary’s
★★★★★ Riveting
Fat Pooch Productions makes its theatre debut at theSpace @ Venue 45 with Bloody Mary’s, a rich, raw, riveting look inside the life and death of Mary McKinnon, a figure of notoriety and injustice in Edinburgh’s history.
About A Bogle
★★★☆☆ Folklore comes alive
Tying Scottish folklore in with folk songs, About A Bogle from Scotch Bonnet Productions follows two young musicians on their trek across the Isle of Kilmarc to perform at a music festival.
Macbeth: Blood and Bluegrass
★★★★☆ Invigorating
Kiwi outfit The Barden Party return to the Fringe with their foot-stomping, heart-pounding musical rendition of Macbeth at Surgeons’ Hall in preparation for what is bound to be a triumphant tour of Scotland.
The Burnings
★★★☆☆ Dramatic
The Burnings presented by Edinburgh Little Theatre at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge is an emotional and historical play, about the East Lothian witch trials held in North Berwick in the last decade of the 16th Centre.
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