Lucy Pedersen
Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth
★★★★★ Smashin’
Captive Theatre romps into the Bijou tent at St. Andrew’s Square with Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth, a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy that’s heavy on charm and cheek and entirely without condescension.
The Big Day
★★★★☆ Absorbing
The Big Day by Milly Sweeney, Pure Class and New Celts’ production at theSpace on the Mile on even dates throughout the Fringe, is an extremely impressive piece of politically informed, compassionate theatre.
Goodbye Postie
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
Returning after a run in the PBH Free Fringe in 2023, Deliverance Theatre’s Goodbye Postie drops into theSpace on the Mile for Week One of the Fringe.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
★★★★☆ Appetising treat
Community group Captivate Theatre present a new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Edinburgh Academy which fills the mind with wonder.
School of Rock
★★★★☆ Dynamic
Fringe favourites Captivate Theatre bring the musical School of Rock to the Magnusson Theatre at the Edinburgh Academy, featuring a cast of talented local children.
Sweet FA
★★★★★ Sparkling
Sweet FA, This Is My Story’s tuneful evocation of women’s football during World War I, is back for a rematch at Tynecastle Park. It remains an inspiring and beautifully performed piece, which seems even more impressive and important at a second viewing.
Sweet F.A.
★★★★☆ Triumphant
History, emotion and righteous anger combine tunefully and humorously in Sweet F.A., This Is My Story Productions’ thoroughly welcome return to Tynecastle Park.
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