Jordan Monks
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.
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.
We Have a Dream
★★★★☆ Becoming Men
It’s never really about football, is it? As much as We Have a Dream at theSpace @ Symposium Hall explodes with the energy, crumpled flags and lager of a doomed Euros campaign, this is a piece about being a man. Or perhaps more accurately, about becoming a man.
This Play Sucks!
★★★☆☆ Hilarious
This Play Sucks! is a vampiric farcical adventure, written and directed by Sean Tennant, sure to have the whole room laughing at The Space @ Venue 45 where it runs for the last week of the Fringe.
Note Of Concern
★★★★☆ Comical
Fast Snail Productions’ Note of Concern, at theSpace on the Mile for the middle week of the Fringe, is a humorous and entertaining performance about a school reunion, which doesn’t go as planned.
Keeping in touch with PenPals
Script-in-hand performance
PenPal Productions’ Drama@TheDepot has established itself as a showcase for work by Edinburgh playwrights and performers in 2024.
Well Played
★★★★☆ Snappy
Well Played from Josie Rose Productions is the kind of work you hope to see at the Fringe: new writing performed to a high standard by up and coming artists; needs work, but is getting the opportunity to grind off its rough edges in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
Murder! At the Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard
★★★☆☆ Chaotic
Dead Parrot Collective’s Murder! At the Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard, at Paradise in Augustines for the Fringe’s second week, is a cross-genre comedy romp that is a fitting late-night Fringe entertainment – defiantly silly and performed with gusto.
Kingdom
★★★☆☆ Cheerful
Lunar Theatre Company and New Celts’ Kingdom at theSpace on the Mile has a vitality and sense of fun that wins out over a portrait over a future Scotland that does not always come off.
Strays
★★★☆☆ Toxic apocalypse
There is a fierce energy to Strays from Broken Bottle and New Celts at theSpace on the Mile that compensates for minor problems in the narrative.
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