Arcola Theatre C, Chambers Street, Edinburgh until ​ August28th (3 / 5) It begins very promisingly with electro-infused pop which segues into the famous overture from Mozart’s le nozze di figaro… people crawl forward to the edge of their seats. However, this ambitious fusion of...

Chris Davis Sweet Grassmarket, Aug 8 – 27 (3 / 5) Chris Davis returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with another solo show, this time a radical condensation of the film classic Apocalypse Now. Throughout the hour he plays the various characters that drive the plot forward, re-enacting famous scenes...

Lucy McConnell Paradise in the Vault, Aug 16 – 19 (2 / 5) 26.2 miles is the distance Lucy McConnell thought she would never be able to complete in a single run. The show 26.2 is based on her personal experience of how she made it happen anyway. The story is simple and honest, with sacrifices...

Stellar Quines Underbelly Cowgate, Aug 14 – 26 (3 / 5) The Last Queen of Scotland is not a regular autobiographical recount of playwright Jaimini Jethwa’s experience of being expelled from Uganda by Idi-Amin and her upbringing in Dundee. Directed by Jemima Levick, it is told by a woman...

Hoipolloi Pleasance Courtyard, Aug 14 – 27 (4 / 5) With just a microphone and some self-triggered sound effects, Shon Dale-Jones spends an hour at a desk relating a story that seems too good to be true. As he attempts to rewrite a movie script over a weekend in 2015, he is distracted by a...

EUSOG The Mash House, Edinburgh until ​ August 28th (3 / 5) A young comic of no little ability, Jack Barry is a man on a mission. A seditious mission to convince all you squares, through his well observed and at times surreal (shades of Izzard) humour, that the legalisation of all drugs would...

Blair Simmons and Nathan Sawaya Productions (NY / California, USA) C Chambers Street until ​ August 28th 2017 Can one of the most notoriously difficult philosophers to understand be put across on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe? I’m in no better a position to tell you after seeing this...

EUSOG Paradise in Augustines (Venue 152) ​ August 4th – 12th (2 / 5) Two’s Company but Another Hundred People is an awkward mess. Company is a concept musical with score and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim. A funny, sad and heartwarming tale of a 30-something New Yorker...

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Assembly Hall, Aug 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27 (3 / 5) The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Atlantic: A Scottish Story is one part of two collaborations between the school and the American Music Theatre Project. It follows a young woman, Evie (Caroline Lyell), who...

Baxter Theatre Centre Assembly Hall, Aug 15-20, 22-27 (5 / 5) Baxter Theatre Centre’s The Fall is contextualised within the student movement demonstrations in 2015 that started at the University of Cape Town, starting with the #RhodesMustFall campaign and moving on to the fight for free...

GGIRI & WINS (Korea) C (Venue 34) ​until August 28th (4 / 5) Monkey Dance is an impressive multi-disciplinary performance featuring a live a cappella soundtrack sometimes so impressive its hard to believe its not coming out of the sound system. As well as beatboxing the show boasts some...

Fox and Hound Greenside Venues, Edinburgh ​ until August 26th 2017 (2 / 5) Tennessee Williams is well known for exposing the closeted darker elements of humanities inner psychology and interpersonal relationships in a natural way. The first of these performances is sadly overwrought. A creepy...

Hoipolloi Pleasance Dome, Aug 11 – 27 (5 / 5) One hour: one man, no set, no lights, no music, no props. And yet, Shon Dale-Jones manages to captivate the audience from start to finish with his solo show Me and Robin Hood. As with Dale-Jones’ style, the show weaves together two stories...

Genevieve Joy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall until Aug 26th 2017 (4 / 5) Trying to tie George down to a commitment, Margo finds, is like trying to squeeze blood from a cheap cigar. Genevieve Joy and Joseph Reitman sensitively portray the buzz of a highly charged dysfunctional relationship between a...