REVIEW: Space Cadet @ Just The Tonic

Reading Time: 2 minutesIsabella Pettite, or Izzy, stands on stage with a guitar, a projector displays explosions of colour in the background and Nikki Lawrence readies herself on the keyboard.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIsabella Pettite, or Izzy, stands on stage with a guitar, a projector displays explosions of colour in the background and Nikki Lawrence readies herself on the keyboard.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTom Nemec is a brilliant storyteller. Within minutes, he makes you forget you are in a small studio theatre and instead you feel you are sitting together with the audience around a campfire, listening to a relative’s life story.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelgian theatre company ‘Still Life’ offer four stunning vignettes of modern embodiment in their experimental new piece, FLESH.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 2025 Fringe First-winning Kanpur: 1857 returns for a short run in 2026.

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.

Reading Time: 2 minutestheSpaceUK held its annual Press Launch on the opening Sunday of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and what an eclectic delight it was.

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.

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.

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.

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.