EdFringe 2025
Karine Polwart: Windblown
★★★★★ Beautiful
Karine Polwart: Windblown, presented by Raw Material at the Queen’s Hall for five days only, is a magnificent combination of music, storytelling, poetry and theatre.
And They Played Shang-A-Lang
★★★☆☆ Exhilarating
And They Played Shang-A-Lang at Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge for the whole run of the Fringe, wonderfully navigates the highs and lows of growing up in Edinburgh in the 1970s.
A Woman of No Importance
★★★★☆ Assured
Edinburgh Theatre Arts provide a very well judged production of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance at St Ninian’s throughout the first fortnight of the Fringe.
Consumed
★★★☆☆ Energetic
Consumed at the Traverse is a fiercely funny domestic comedy that turns into something else entirely. If it isn’t completely successful, it’s always interesting.
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Show business excess and hard-won personal discovery coincide in Standing in the Shadows of Giants, the co-production between the Traverse and The Hale.
Lost Lear
★★★★☆ Affecting
Deeply sad, gently comic and profoundly human, Lost Lear from the Riverbank and Mermaid Arts Centres at the Traverse is an emotional affair.
The Beautiful Future Is Coming
★★★★☆ Wise
Bristol Old Vic’s The Beautiful Future Is Coming by Flora Wilson Brown at the Traverse is a beautifully performed rumination on the climate emergency and human responses to it.
Lucky Tonight!
★★★☆☆ Competitive fun
Lucky Tonight! at the Traverse is part play, part quiz, and while one part is more successful than the other, it is undoubtedly great fun.
The Dahlia Files
★★★★☆ Compelling performance
The Dahlia Files, from the Hey, Thanks! Theatre Collective, draws on an infamous unsolved murder to explore the commercialisation of violence and question the motives behind the makers, and viewers, of real-life murder podcasts.
Confessions of a Lunatic
★★★☆☆ Atmospheric
An attempt to go over familiar ground in a new way is not always wholly successful in Confessions of a Lunatic, from Nightshade Theatre and New Celts.
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