REVIEW: Flesh @ Zoo Southside
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelgian theatre company ‘Still Life’ offer four stunning vignettes of modern embodiment in their experimental new piece, FLESH.
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REVIEW: Michael John Ciszewski: Mother, Superior @ Bedlam Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesPitched as an invitation to pray with him, fittingly inside the Bedlam theatre - a converted church, in the hope that his mother can be made a saint; we are taken down memory lane, a selection of Michael John and his mothers ‘greatest hits’ so to speak.
REVIEW: Alfie Dundas: First Class Panic @ Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the male heir of a wealthy family doing comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe, Alfie Dundas maybe doesn’t have the most unique position in the festival.
REVIEW: Kanpur 1857 @ Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 2025 Fringe First-winning Kanpur: 1857 returns for a short run in 2026.
REVIEW: Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities @ C ARTS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAny attempt to bring Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities to life is laudable. His whimsical, imaginative neo-fables exist in the hinterland between philosophy, science and fantasy, making them indisputably difficult to translate into any other medium.
REVIEW: Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play @ Greenside
Reading Time: 2 minutes'Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play' comes to the Edinburgh Fringe from New York with director Ash Malloy and playwright/one-woman star of the show Sara Malinowski.
REVIEW: We Will Hear The Angels @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesMagnetic North brings us their latest offering, We Will Hear the Angels. It is a slow piece that purposefully builds to a final moment of community.
REVIEW: Man Or Bear @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe performers enter, and begin to tell their story. It is a heartbreaking story of women from several different generations all receiving abuse from men in different ways. The title, playing on the internet trend of Man or Bear, amplifies this heartbreak.
REVIEW: You and Me (or Whoever Comes next) @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe play follows Keron, on his journeys with careworkers, highlighting the hardships of reliance on strangers and the unending merry-go-round of said people entering his life.
REVIEW: A Microscopic Odyssey @ Pleasance
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a story about something so small, A Microscopic Odyssey is certainly one of the biggest successes of this year’s Fringe. Directed by Hope Wishart, this perfect little piece practically explodes with life, love, and everything that’s right about human nature.