ThreeWeeks Reviews

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Every August we review a wide assortment of shows from across the Edinburgh Festival. You can access recent and archive reviews below. Every review comes with a TW rating out of five: 1/5 is bad | 2/5 is mediocre | 3/5 is good | 4/5 is recommended | 5/5 is highly recommended.

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1896 - 2026: An Epic Of Electronic Music And Its Technology (The Riventron Factory Poland) Bog Witch (Avalon & Tellus Studio Present) Edinbra Fringe Comedy (Art Of Comedy) Circus The Show (Showmen Productions) Charlie Vero-Martin: Poltergeist (WIP) ASURA: An Enlightenment Experiment (Wayne Stewart) Lawrence Dodd: This Can't Be It (Liebenspiel & Novel Petals Presents) Katie Boyle: Irish Immigrant Two Halves (Muddrag Productions) Good With Faces (Oisín Kearney, Produced By Gina Donnelly, Supported By Culture Ireland) Play Dead (Betyl Theatre) Horrorshow (Chronic Insanity) MAN!FEST: The Drag Boyband Musical (OnTheNose Productions, Chichester Festival Theatre And Pleasance) Acid's Reign (Relish Theatre) Buggers (Patrick Bone Productions In Association With Pleasance) Sinatra: One Last Shot (Richard Shelton) Nothing Personal (Ally Ryan) Simon & Garfunkel And Beyond (NIght Owl Productions) If I Can't Dance I'm Not Coming (Karl Jay-Lewin And Matteo Fargion) Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge (Amanda Dwyer) Gregor Fisher: An (Early) Evening With Gregor Fisher (Fiery Entertainment) Absolute Bus Stops Of Northern Europe And Beyond (Jim Judges) Dee Allum: Raumdeuter (Chambers Touring Ltd) Gareth Waugh: Is Pepsi OK? Julian Clary: Fully Dilated Elf Lyons Is The Woman On The Edge (Mick Perrin Worldwide In Association With PBJ Management) Chris Martin Lied To Us (Will Spence) Ele Mckenzie: Bringing It All Back Home (Country Mile Productions In Association With Parkas And Independent Talent) Rhys James: Chop Logic (Off The Kerb Productions) Will BF: Moon Team IIIV (Best Before Productions) Li Jin Hao: Falling From A Moon Camelton (Cahoots Entertainment In Association With Cahoots Theatre Company) Little Animals (Paul Ready And Fern Culture) Women Of Will (Tina Packer, Ella Loudon, Paul-Lou Lemieux) Chunxiang’s Schoolroom Prank (Jingkun Chinese Arts)  Dreamgirl (Karen Houge) Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella (Awkward Prods, Side Hustle, Eric Kuhn, Daddy's Money, David Tao) Creating A Sonic Haven: Music, Connection And Equality (Dr Claire Garabedian) Joni Mitchell: Take Me As I Am (Rainee Blake in Association with Fringe Management LLC) Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again (Underbelly And Mosaico Errante) Glob (Underbelly And Les Foutoukours) The Palestinian Circus: Step And A Half (Underbelly And The Palestinian Circus With Medical Aid For Palestinians) Tale Of The Firebird - Concerto For Violin, Fire & Acrobatic Orchestra (The Freestyle Orchestra) Alex Franklin: Kiss Me x Excel Comedy And Mathem-antics (David Benaim) Dan Rath: Help Me Please Madeleine Brettingham: Legend (Gilded Balloon) Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out (Demi Adejuyigbe / Soho Theatre) Laughing Horse Clean Pick Of The Fringe (Laughing Horse Comedy / Free Festival) Jamie Wolf: Psycho (RBM Comedy) Paul McDaniel: Harder Better Faster Paul-er (Paul McDaniel) Jill's Tupperware Party (Asparagus Mousse Productions Starring Coral Bevan And Ricky Hunt) Amazing Bubble Man (Louis Pearl) Boys Don't Dance (Marc Brew Company) The Mr Thing Show (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex) Steve Burns: Alive (Benson Drive Productions) Dracula: Lucy’s Dream (Plexus Polaire) Troubled Waters (Corinne Harragin) SLAY (Gilded Balloon And Gobby Girl Productions) Blackbox (Andy Jordan Productions And Hindsight Productions) Fempaths: Transistor Radio Hour (Fempath) Tim Biglowe: Plonka (Tim Biglowe/PBH’s Free Fringe)  The Late Utopians (COGGIA) Copycat (Worklight Theatre) Playback (Euan Munro) House Of Life (Sheep Soup) Boy In A Box (THEATRE•TASTE) A Costume Drama (Play The Field Productions) Magners Share The Craic presents Ashlee Bentley: Wallflower Gearóid Farrelly: No Pressure Huge Davies: Sleep Paralysis Princess (Stamptown Proudly Presents) The Distance (Global Creative, Grace Dickson Productions and Nic Doodson Productions) The Toe Poke (James Lowman) Churchill's Urinal (Seabright Live Presents Rosie Holt, Additional Material By Stewart Lee) Marc Burrows In The Ten Best Songs Of All Time Peregrinations (Dutch Kills Theater Company) Father, Away She Goes (Pierpoint Productions) Choose Your WIP: A Choose Your Own Adventure Comedy Show + Jacob Williams: Space Peace (Painted Myself In A Corner) David Hoare: How To Live To 100 Goodbye Dandelion (Maddie And Marcus Rice, Charlotte Pleasants And Underbelly) A Play On Words (Twilight Theatre Company) Crybabies: The Scaring (Francesca Moody Productions in association with Plosive Live) Rory Marshall: Thank You For The Opportunity (Country Mile Productions In Association With United Agents) Fiona Allen: White Lies Geoffrey Asmus: Patriautism (Country Mile Productions) Jess Fuchs: Feral (Country Mile Productions) The Umbrella Man: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination (Martin Fitzgerald) St Mary's Cathedral: Lunchtime Recitals (Various Performers) DUST (Charlaina Thompson And Yellow Brick Theatre Company) One Million Words (Ivo Müller And Blau Produções) A Microscopic Odessey (Mycelium Theatre Company) Fractured (Shona Graham / BJA Productions) Spraywatch: A Beautiful Rescue (Low Fat Productions) Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity (Ayo Adenekan / Brass Tacks Comedy & United Agents) Gyles Brandreth: Up Memory Lane! (Bound And Gagged Comedy) Impromptunes – The Completely Improvised Musical Man Sings The Same Song Over And Over Again For An Hour (Conk And Quiet Riot) Jack Docherty: Butterfly (Gilded Balloon) Bebe Cave: Swoon (BIGHEAD Comedy) Nuns! (Dog Complex Theatre) The King Of All Birds (Martha Knight Supported By Culture Ireland) The Last Audition (Paul Shearman) Don’t You Forget About Me (Fake Escape) Departure Is My Homecoming (Feast On Waste Land) BearGirl (Hey Thanks! Theatre Collective) Extra Dry (Michelle Renee Johnson And A/Park Productions) The Jolly Fisherman (Kick It Anywhere) The Bowie Story (Night Owl Shows) Max Fulham: Memory Foam (Corrie McGuire Management) Improv Comedy With Box Of Frogs Chelsea Birkby: Is In Full Control The Entire Time Overtone (A North Wall Production Presented In Association With Humphrey Battcock) Nesting (Trolley Problem) James Rowland: Team Viking (James Rowland) Anna Thomas: How To Juggle A Ferret (Blue Book Artist Management) Jane Eyre Convention (Theatre Caddis) KEVIN!!!!! (Recent Cutbacks) My Life Is A Sonnet (Eric Weiner Inc in association with Fringe Management LLC) The Trials Of Magnus Coffinkey (Give Or Take Productions) FLIGHT (Darkfield) Bliss (Susan Edelstein Productions, ATG Productions and Gavin Kalin Productions) Afronauts (Underbelly, Circus Zambia And Wake The Beast) By A Thread (One Fell Swoop Circus) Endometriosis: The Musical (Ripped Nylons Productions) Mothman: A Romance Musical (Finger Guns and Liebenspiel Present) Adam Flood: Life And Death Of The Party (PBJ Management) Smashing Shakespeare: Brave Macbeth (Captivate Theatre) Slugs (Patrick Bone Productions) Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It (Xhloe and Natasha, Soho Theatre and SoHo Playhouse) Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? (Adam Lenson) A Cat In A Box (Tom Nemec) Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret (Melanie Gall Presents) Spencer Jones: Dogs (Soho Theatre) Josh Pickar: Getting Off (Suzanna Rosenthal Productions) Sasha Nezlobin: I’m Fine Sammy J: Hero Complex (Buxstock Comedy Management) John Logie Baird The Musical (Robin Cairns) Two Little Pigs (Patrick Bone Theatre) Truthmachine (Counterpilot In Association With Cluster Arts) Long Way Home (Layla Warren) Dungeons And Shakespeare (The Best Medicine Productions) Solo From The Pit (Elias Faingersh / Teater KEF) Dom McGovern: Prize Hog (United Agents)

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