Greenside @ George Street
A Queen’s Way
★★☆☆☆ Awkward
Napier University Drama Society presents a limited run of Madilyne Nelsen’s new play A Queen’s Way, a medieval satire that never quite finds its footing.
58 to Go
★★★★☆ Age defying comedy
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.
Sand, Silt, Flint
★★★★☆ Resonant
Sand, Silt, Flint, from Scottish/Burmese singer and producer Fiona Soe ~Paing, uses the songs of her native Aberdeenshire to provide an arresting musical display.
SHINJUKU
★★★☆☆ Vital and timely
Production Lines’ new play, SHINJUKU, at Greenside @ George Street, dissects class and male privilege, exploring the rise of the incel (involuntary celibate) movement and how anyone can fall down this dangerous rabbit hole.
An Infinite Monkey Attempts To Write the Complete Works of Shakespeare
★★★☆☆ Shakespearean smorgasbord
Earnest, jovial, and witty, An Infinite Monkey Attempts to Write the Complete Works of Shakespeare: A Variety Show, at Greenside on George Street, is not quite what it says on the tin.
More Tales from your Queer Elder
★★★★☆ A quiet, insistent triumph
There is a pernicious myth that dancers have short careers. Lucia August comprehensively dismantles that lie in More Tales from your Queer Elder at Greenside @ George Street.
Blooming
★★★☆☆ Endearing
With a cast of Fringe first-timers, Daisy Ensemble brings Blooming to Greenside @ George Street for the final week of the Fringe.
Hi, Mum!
★★★★☆ A delightful death
Making very effective use of a small stage in an intimate venue, Pierrot Productions’ show Hi, Mum! takes the audience into a room in an undertakers where the body of Alba and Elspeth Brae’s mother lies wrapped in a shroud.
Tales From Your Queer Elder
★★★☆☆ Embodied
Lucia August returns to the Fringe with Tales From Your Queer Elder, a three-act reflection on her journey through life, dance, and existing outside societal norms and expectations.
Hysterical
★★★★☆ Timely
A whirlwind time-travelling trawl through the history of five “mad” women and the history teacher who awakened their ghosts, koi collective’s Hysterical speaks truth to hysteria, and the many ways ordinary women have been maligned for stepping out of the narrowly defined boundaries society has erected for them.
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