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It’s not hard to see why Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play Spring Awakening remains so popular over a century later. The haunting and brut... Read more »

While an anti-capitalist protest takes place on the ground around a high-rise bank, a group of bankers six floors up decide to bet on whether or not the crow... Read more »

Fringe First Award-winning playwright Jonathan Holloway has not given himself an easy task. On top of adapting one of the most well-known and influential sto... Read more »

Eleven year old Harri (David C. Johnson) lives in a deprived inner city council estate with his mother and sister having recently moved from Ghana. Faced wit... Read more »

James Joyce: the master of modernist literature, the hero of Dublin, the man whose work is respected, feared and reviled in equal measure by every English li... Read more »

The landscape and history of American politics is one ubiquitous with corruption, backstabbing, conspiracies and colourful characters who can lead nations wi... Read more »

For a depressingly large chunk of the population, musicals are represented by BBC talent shows featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber on a throne, and the suggestion ... Read more »

Before I begin, I must offer this disclaimer: Angels in America is my all-time favourite play. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning 'gay fantasia on ... Read more »

The very nature of the Fringe forces companies to downsize, to get creative and to turn a little into a lot. Over at the Gryphon Venues, the Box Tale Soup du... Read more »

In the first part of Aeschylus’s trilogy The Oresteia, the King of Argos Agamemnon returns home after a decade fighting in the Trojan wars, only to be ... Read more »

A demented American televangelist minister has declared to his many followers that the world is about to end, so club owners Charlie and Kate do the sensible... Read more »

When pearl diver Kino’s son falls ill, he frantically searches for a bounty to pay for the doctor and discovers ‘the pearl of the world’ th... Read more »

As the audience take their seats in the crescent shaped spectator area of the former vet school’s dissection room at Summerhall, gazing down at the per... Read more »

Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen decided to write the kind of musical that they would want to see, a show that would, in the words of one of the cult musical&rsquo... Read more »

Theatre Movement Bazaar, who brought the sell-out hit Anton’s Uncles to the Fringe in 2011, return to the world of Chekov with this dramatic and exhila... Read more »

Adapting and updating Greek tragedy is always a tough task, especially when it comes to Aeschylus’s trilogy of a fractured family’s bloodbath of ... Read more »

Albion Forlorn describes itself in its marketing as “a torch song for the state we’re in” but it was impossible to find anything in this sl... Read more »

The bunker of the play’s title is undoubtedly the star attraction of Jethro Compton’s immersive offering to the Fringe. The cramped performance s... Read more »

The audience to John Osborne’s latest piece, On the Beach, enter the intimate venue at the Pleasance Dome to a video of vintage footage from seasi... Read more »

Yulia Tymoshenko is a former two-time Prime Minister of Ukraine, previously one of the wealthiest and most controversial businesswomen in the country, and a ... Read more »

As Zimbabwe’s political opposition challenges Robert Mugabe’s recent victory in the presidential elections, it feels timely and necessary to take... Read more »

Before I begin my review, I must note two things: one, a trigger warning that this show contains close-up scenes of attacks and rape, and two, my star rating... Read more »

The award winning Theatre Ad Infinitum, fresh from last year’s Fringe smash Translunar Paradise, return to the Pleasance Dome with something risky and ... Read more »

Typical. You wait years for someone to bring Titus Andronicus to the Fringe then all of a sudden there are three of them, each offering a different spin on S... Read more »

Robert Caligari is a sick, twisted little boy stuck in a boring English town populated with a variety of grotesque individuals. He likes to kick pigs, mainly... Read more »

Immersive theatre company Immercity have a new piece, and it couldn’t be timelier. In the month that Chelsea Manning is sentenced to over 30 years... Read more »

Set to the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, Chalk Farm is a two-hander piece by Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, in collaboration with Thick Skin. It focuses... Read more »

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf is a staple of many a bedtime story, but this production, brought to the festival as part of the Assembly’s ... Read more »

If you were strolling through Leith later in the evening, winding down from a hectic day of Fringe activities in the city centre, you may have spotted an exc... Read more »

It’s never easy to perform in the shadow of an all-time classic. Certain expectations are immediately present in the minds of the audience and it can b... Read more »