Summerhall
The Rhinestone Cowboy
★★★★☆ Direct
The Rhinestone Cowboy from Jaggy Edina is a deeply felt, visually impressive piece that has real impact.
Concerned Others
★★★★☆ Moving
Concerned Others is an inventive piece that addresses vital social issues in a way that is poignant, informed and deeply creative.
Tell Me
★★★★★ Exceptional
Tell Me from the Sadiq Ali Company, is an exceptional piece of narrative aerial artistry which explores HIV diagnoses in different eras. First staged at Manipulate this year it returns to Summerhall for the duration of the Fringe
QFWFQ
★★★★☆ Different
Qfwfq at Summerhall is a hugely entertaining and emotional show that is difficult to categorise but easy to enjoy.
Bull/Fight
★★★★☆ Intense
Bull/Fight at Summerhall throughout the Fringe is an elliptical piece of physical theatre that has real power.
Glass Child
★★★★☆ Real
Glass Child at Summerhall for the first week of the Fringe inspires not only with its openness and its disarming integrity, but also with its spectacle.
We Will Hear The Angels
★★★★☆ Atmospheric
We Will Hear the Angels is a meditation on the mysterious power of music in times of trouble; a meditation whose open-hearted empathy gradually draws the audience into a special communion.
Autobahn
★★★☆☆ Atmospheric
Autobahn by Neil LaBute, presented by Edinburgh Acting School in their downstairs studios at Summerhall, is an interesting series of playlets that never quite gets up to full speed.
Auntie Empire
★★★☆☆ Splenetic
Auntie Empire, at Summerhall for two nights as part of Manipulate, is a thoroughly dark piece of satirical clowning. It is deliberately messy and unfocused, but perhaps that lack of focus is ultimately a disadvantage.
Placeholder
★★★★☆ Powerful evocation
Set one year before the Haitian revolution of 1791, Placeholder at the EAS Studios @ Summerhall, powerfully evokes women’s lost voices in a piece that honours the lives of those who were stolen.
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