ED2018 REVIEWS

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Starfish (Luna Rose Productions)26 August 2018

Prehistoric (Elbow Room)26 August 2018

Heather And Harry (Stumble Trip Theatre)26 August 2018

Keep The Change (Tout Ensemble)26 August 2018

Famous Puppet Death Scenes (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop)26 August 2018

The EU Inspector (Acting Coach Scotland)26 August 2018

East Belfast Boy (Prime Cut Productions)26 August 2018

Notorious Strumpet and Dangerous Girl (Love Is the Drug)26 August 2018

Michael Clarke: Felt (Michael Clarke)26 August 2018

Jessie Cave: Sunrise (Jessie Cave with Soho Theatre c/o Curtis Brown Ltd)26 August 2018

Sleeping Trees: World Tour (Sleeping Trees)26 August 2018

Hot Gay Time Machine (Zak Ghazi-Torbati, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss)26 August 2018

Alex Kealy: A Kealy's Heel (Alex Kealy)26 August 2018

Fin Taylor: When Harassy Met Sally (The Pleasance in association with PBJ Management)26 August 2018

Sirens (Zoo Co)25 August 2018

Kit Finnie: Mabel And Mickey (Kit Finnie)25 August 2018

Just William's Luck (Shedload Theatre)25 August 2018

Spontaneous Potter (Spontaneous Players)25 August 2018

Rory O'Keeffe: The 37th Question (Rory O'Keeffe / PBH's Free Fringe)25 August 2018

Michael Hackett: The Late Mike Show (Michael Hackett)25 August 2018

Flo & Joan: Alive On Stage (Avalon Promotions)25 August 2018

Mat Ricardo vs The World (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex)25 August 2018

It's True, It's True, It's True (Breach Theatre / Untapped By Underbelly and New Diorama Theatre)24 August 2018

In Loyal Company (Lab Rats)24 August 2018

Sowhereto Africa (Njobo Productions - FKA After Freedom Productions / African Connections CIC)24 August 2018

Russell Hicks: A Fist Full Of Ideas (Russell Hicks)24 August 2018

Raymond And Mr Timpkins Revue: Ham (Brett Vincent for Get Comedy)24 August 2018

Lead Pencil: Sex, Drugs And Toilet Roll (Lead Pencil)24 August 2018

Chris Henry: Around The World In 80 Dates (Chris Henry)24 August 2018

Aaron Calvert: Declassified (Lost Luggage Productions)24 August 2018

Other People's Teeth (Want The Moon Theatre)23 August 2018

Love Songs (Trip Hazards presents Alissa Anne Jeun Yi)23 August 2018

Tessa Coates: Witch Hunt (Berk's Nest in association with Curtis Brown)23 August 2018

Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules (NJC Presents)23 August 2018

Pelican: Fisk (Pelican)23 August 2018

Norris And Parker: Burn The Witch (CKP and InterTalent Group present)23 August 2018

Natalie Palamides: Nate (Soho Theatre)23 August 2018

Mr Swallow And The Vanishing Elephant (The Pleasance, Nick Mohammed and United Agents)23 August 2018

Manhunt (Eggbox Comedy)23 August 2018

John Lynn: Addiction Diction (Live Nation / The Stand Comedy Club)23 August 2018

Foil, Arms And Hog: Craicling (WhiteDucks and OTK)23 August 2018

Catherine Bohart: Immaculate (Chambers Touring)23 August 2018

Bennett Arron: I've Never Told Anyone This (Bennett Arron)23 August 2018

Great British Mysteries: 1599? (Great British Mysteries)23 August 2018

Vessel (Laura Wyatt O'Keeffe)22 August 2018

Polaris (Holly And Ted)22 August 2018

One Life Stand (Middle Child)22 August 2018

Narcissist In The Mirror (Rosie Fleeshman)22 August 2018

The Egg Is A Lonely Hunter (Lisa Richards)22 August 2018

The Mould That Changed The World (Charades Musicals)22 August 2018

Infinita (Familie Flöz)22 August 2018

The Story Beast: This Is Bardcore (Katie Storey Productions)22 August 2018

Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse (Fight In The Dog in association with United Agents)22 August 2018

Joey Page: Perhaps Under Stars That Would Stretch Forever (An Idiot Explains The Universe In Under An Hour) (Rabbit Rabbit)22 August 2018

Athena Kugblenu: Follow The Leader (So Comedy and Broken Robot Productions by arrangement with Troika)22 August 2018

Alex Edelman: Just For Us (Phil McIntyre Entertainments presents)22 August 2018

AnimAlphabet: The Musical (Hit The Mark Theatre)22 August 2018

The Swell Mob (Flabbergast Theatre)21 August 2018

Year Without Summer (Cast Iron Theatre)21 August 2018

When The Friendship Has Sailed (Weird Sisters Theatre)21 August 2018

Testament (Chalk Line)21 August 2018

Queens Of Sheba (Nouveau Riché)21 August 2018

Living With A Dark Lord (Mighty Pen Theatre)21 August 2018

Sing Sistah Sing! (Andrea Baker)21 August 2018

Rachmaninov Vespers (Rock Festival Choir)21 August 2018

360 All Stars (Onyx Productions)21 August 2018

Struan Logan: Struan All Over The World (Struan Logan)21 August 2018

Speechless (Cambridge University Performance Technology Society)21 August 2018

Zach & Viggo And Thumpasaurus: Where Does The Love Go? (Stamptown)21 August 2018

Garry Starr Performs Everything (Damien Warren-Smith)21 August 2018

Clara Saves America (Clara Bijl)21 August 2018

Enter The Dragons (A&E Comedy)21 August 2018

Joe Sutherland: Toxic (United Agents)21 August 2018

Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf At The Door (Live Nation)21 August 2018

Andy Zaltzman: Right Questions, Wrong Answers (Andy Zaltzman)21 August 2018

Chores (Cluster Arts Pty Ltd)21 August 2018

The Little Musician (Brush Theatre LLC / Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd)21 August 2018

Seen And Heard (Becky Lou/Crowded)21 August 2018

Zoo (Anteater and Something For The Weekend)19 August 2018

Nowt As Queer As Folk (Coast To Coast)19 August 2018

Flushed (Theatre Unlocked)19 August 2018

Flesh And Bone (Unpolished Theatre)19 August 2018

Fast (Digital Drama)19 August 2018

Electrolyte (Wildcard)19 August 2018

The Welcome Revolution (Feat. Theatre)19 August 2018

Skin A Cat (Rive Productions)19 August 2018

Revelations (James Rowland)19 August 2018

Offstage (Ephemeral Ensemble)19 August 2018

Number, Please. (Paprichoo)19 August 2018

Looking For Lightning (Garth McLean - California, USA)19 August 2018

Kidding (Sounds Like Thunder Theatre)19 August 2018

Doom's Day (The Wax House)19 August 2018

Deadline (QMTC)19 August 2018

The Cat's Mother (Wildcard and Reid Productions)19 August 2018

Bummer And Lazarus (Big Egg Theatre)19 August 2018

A Fair Tale About A Fairy Trade (Human Rongs)19 August 2018

Stuart Mitchell: Gordon Ramsay's Karma Cafe (Gilded Balloon and Stuart Mitchell present...)19 August 2018

Siblings: Acting Out (Maddy and Marina Bye with Mandy Ward Artist Management)19 August 2018

The Leeds Tealights: Souls For Sale (The Leeds Tealights)19 August 2018

Grace (Bloody Livid Theatre Company)19 August 2018

Emma Sidi: Faces Of Grace (Berk's Nest in association with Curtis Brown)19 August 2018

Brain Rinse (Mike Raffone)19 August 2018

Woogie Boogie (BRUSH Theatre LLC)19 August 2018

Beowulf (Take Thou That)19 August 2018

Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play (Project Mercury)18 August 2018

Seven Ways To Calm The F**k Down (3BUGS)18 August 2018

Power Play: The Empty Chair (Power Play Theatre and Polly Creed)18 August 2018

OTOSOTR (Anatoliy Ogay and Tatyana Kim)18 August 2018

Onstage Dating (Bron Batten)18 August 2018

Ladykiller (The Thelmas)18 August 2018

The Hit (Strangeface)18 August 2018

The Half Moon Shania (Burnt Lemon Theatre)18 August 2018

Good Vibes Only (Laughing Mirror)18 August 2018

Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful (Tina Sederholm / PBH's Free Fringe)18 August 2018

Dan Simpson: Worried Face Emoji (Dan Simpson / PBH's Free Fringe)18 August 2018

Elizabethan (David William Hughes)18 August 2018

A Clown Show About Rain (Silent Faces in association with The Pleasance)18 August 2018

WOLF (Lewis Doherty)18 August 2018

Kieran Hodgson: 75 (Kieran Hodgson)18 August 2018

Grant Busé: The Birds And The Beats (Grant Busé)18 August 2018

Dick And Dom: Dick v Dom (Brett Vincent for Get Comedy)18 August 2018

Phantasmagorical (Miss Sylvia Sceptre)18 August 2018

Hot Brown Honey (Gilded Balloon and Briefs Factory present)18 August 2018

Orpheus (The Flanagan Collective and Gobbledigook Theatre)18 August 2018

Waiting For Godot (DRUID / Garry Hynes / Edinburgh International Festival)17 August 2018

Urban Death (Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group)17 August 2018

The Providence Of Neighboring Bodies (Dutch Kills Theater Company)17 August 2018

Power Play: Somebody (Power Play Theatre and Matilda Curtis)17 August 2018

Power Play: Next Time (Power Play Theatre and Jess Moore)17 August 2018

No One Is Coming to Save You (This Noise)17 August 2018

Hug The Bunny (Pits N Clits Theatre Company)17 August 2018

Breakfast Plays: Youthquake (Traverse Theatre Company)17 August 2018

Blackthorn by Charley Miles (InSite / West Yorkshire Playhouse)17 August 2018

The Mariner's Song (KinkyFish)17 August 2018

Armour: A Herstory Of The Scottish Bard (Fearless Players)17 August 2018

007 Voices Of Bond (Night Owl Shows)17 August 2018

Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret (Melanie Gall Presents)17 August 2018

Joan Baez: A Tribute By Miss Irenie Rose (Irenie Rose)17 August 2018

Cathedral Bach By Candlelight (Peter Hill - Piano)17 August 2018

The Sauna (Teatteri Metamorfoosi in association with From Start to Finnish)17 August 2018

George Lewis: A Man, a Plan, A Girl With Fake Tan (George Lewis)17 August 2018

Alice Fraser: Ethos (Get Comedy by arrangement with Mushroom Comedy and TGA)17 August 2018

David Baddiel's Animalcolm (Story Pocket Theatre)17 August 2018

Signals (Footprint Theatre)16 August 2018

Power Play: Funeral Flowers (Power Play Theatre and Emma Dennis-Edwards)16 August 2018

The Archive Of Educated Hearts (Lion House Theatre)16 August 2018

What Girls Are Made Of (Traverse Theatre Company, Raw Material in association with Regular Music)16 August 2018

Theatre Uncut: Women On Power (Theatre Uncut)16 August 2018

Private Peaceful (Scamp Theatre)16 August 2018

Pickle Jar (Fight In The Dog and United Agents)16 August 2018

Lights Over Tesco Car Park (Poltergeist Theatre)16 August 2018

Jasper Red: Press Play (Natalie Walmsley)16 August 2018

[insert slogan here] (YESYESNONO)16 August 2018

Dreamland (Hyperdrive Theatre)16 August 2018

The Bacchae (Mermaids: The University Of St Andrews Performing Arts Fund)16 August 2018

Triptych (Gal Sabo)16 August 2018

Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist (Tilda Co)16 August 2018

David O'Doherty: You Have To Laugh (Lisa Richards in association with Chambers Management)16 August 2018

Stevie Martin Vol 1 (The Pleasance)16 August 2018

Adrian Minkowicz: Tango Tales (Double The Bet / PBH's Free Fringe)16 August 2018

Kika's Birthday (Wizard Presents)16 August 2018

Kaput (Koral Chandler Presents)16 August 2018

Four Go Wild In Wellies (Indepen-dance 4)16 August 2018

Daughter (Adam Lazarus)15 August 2018

Why Even Bother (Joakim Gunby)15 August 2018

Fcuk'd (Theatre N16 and Eastlake Productions)15 August 2018

City Love (Old Joint Stock Theatre / Illuminate Theatre Company)15 August 2018

Status (Chris Thorpe, Rachel Chavkin, China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz)15 August 2018

Hunch (DugOut Theatre)15 August 2018

Camp Be Yourself (Box Theatre Company)15 August 2018

The Aspirations Of Daise Morrow (Far And Away Productions in association with Brink Productions)15 August 2018

Geek (Infinity Repertory Theatre)15 August 2018

Tabarnak (Underbelly and Cirque Alfonse)15 August 2018

Christian Finnegan: My Goodness (Live Nation)15 August 2018

Darren Harriott: Visceral (CKP and InterTalent Group Present)15 August 2018

Paul Foot: Image Conscious (IMWP)15 August 2018

Yianni Agisilaou: I, Human (A-List Entertainment and Serious Comedy)15 August 2018

How To Spot An Alien (Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd)15 August 2018

Denim: The Denim Juniors (Soho Theatre and United Agents)15 August 2018

My Kind Of Michael (Nick Cassenbaum)14 August 2018

The Basement Tapes (Zanetti Productions)14 August 2018

The Approach (Landmark Productions)14 August 2018

Orlando (Dyad Productions)14 August 2018

Tobacco Road (Incognito Theatre Company)14 August 2018

Midsummer (National Theatre of Scotland / David Greig / Gordon McIntyre / Kate Hewitt)14 August 2018

Mark Thomas - Check Up: Our NHS At 70 (Lakin McCarthy)14 August 2018

Grace by Katie Reddin-Clancy (Katie Reddin-Clancy)14 August 2018

The Last Straw (People Show)14 August 2018

Entropy (Jennifer Roslyn Wingate)14 August 2018

Blue Heart (Bathway Theatre Company, University of Greenwich)14 August 2018

Blinded (BloomBox Theatre)14 August 2018

Witches, Wee Folk And Watery Beasties (Dougie Mackay)14 August 2018

Timpson: The Musical (Gigglemug Theatre)14 August 2018

Three Colours Guitar (Three Colours Guitar)14 August 2018

Taiwan Season: Once Upon A Daydream (Sun Son Theatre)14 August 2018

SHIFT (Barely Methodical Troupe in association with Underbelly)14 August 2018

Suzi Ruffell: Nocturnal (Off The Kerb Productions Ltd)14 August 2018

Duckie (Le Gateau Chocolat)14 August 2018

Le Gateau Chocolat: Icons (Soho Theatre)14 August 2018

Fallen Fruit (Two Destination Language)12 August 2018

(even) HOTTER (Transgress)12 August 2018

We Are (Adaawe)12 August 2018

The Roseberry Trio (Kirsty Howe, Alasdair Hill, Janice Gibson)12 August 2018

Casting Off (Sharon Burgess Productions and A Good Catch)12 August 2018

The Artist (Circo Aereo and Thom Monckton)12 August 2018

Sara Barron: For Worse (PBJ Management)12 August 2018

The Kinkens (Pip Hambly)12 August 2018

Jacob Hatton: Ozymandias (Jacob Hatton)12 August 2018

Felicity Ward: Busting A Nut (Phil McIntyre Entertainments Presents)12 August 2018

Elf Lyons: ChiffChaff (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with CKP and InterTalent Group)12 August 2018

Edd Hedges: For Eva, From Forever Ago (RBM Comedy)12 August 2018

Beetlemania: Kafka For Kids (Full Sail Productions / Nick Williams Productions)12 August 2018

To Have Done With The Judgement Of God (Fear No Colours)11 August 2018

Sticks And Stones (Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd)11 August 2018

The Myth Of The Singular Moment (Jim Harbourne)11 August 2018

Meek (Headlong)11 August 2018

In For A Penny (Gilded Balloon and Otago Theatre Present...)11 August 2018

Entropy (Talon Theatre)11 August 2018

Darlings (Palomar Theatre)11 August 2018

Angry Alan (Francesca Moody Productions)11 August 2018

All The Lights Are On (ACE-Production / From Start To Finnish)11 August 2018

Ah Dinnae Ken (Student Theatre At Glasgow - STAG)11 August 2018

Kiri Pritchard McLean: Victim, Complex (Live Nation in association with PBJ Management)11 August 2018

Bad Clowns: Hostage (Bad Clowns Comedy)11 August 2018

Alice Snedden: Self-Titled (Berk's Nest)11 August 2018

Adam Riches Is The Guy Who... (Plosive Productions / Tigco)11 August 2018

Waves (Alice Mary Cooper in association with Independent Arts Projects)11 August 2018

The Squirrel Plays (Part Of The Main)10 August 2018

The Cloak And Dagger Show (Three Door Productions)10 August 2018

The Flop (A Hijinx Production in association with Spymonkey)10 August 2018

Drenched (Third Man Theatre)10 August 2018

Don't Kill Your Darlings (Det Andre Teatret / The Other Theatre)10 August 2018

Six (Kenny Wax / Global Musicals)10 August 2018

Belly Of A Drunken Piano (Go Productions)10 August 2018

The Shakuhachi Experience (Markus Guhe)10 August 2018

Jan Tait And The Bear (Ensemble Thing)10 August 2018

Rose Matafeo: Horndog (Berk's Nest in association with Avalon Management)10 August 2018

Questing Time (Monkey Toast)10 August 2018

Stick By Me (Andy Manley, Ian Cameron and Red Bridge Arts)10 August 2018

Splash Test Dummies (Underbelly)10 August 2018

Paddington's First Concert (Jimmy Jewell Limited)10 August 2018

The Gruffalo, The Witch And The Warthog With Julia Donaldson (Julia And Malcolm Donaldson)10 August 2018

The Sorries (The Sorries)9 August 2018

A Really Short Introduction To Scotland's Piano Music (Christopher Guild)9 August 2018

Nick Elleray: It's Been Emotional (Nick Elleray)9 August 2018

Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton (Laughing Stock Productions)9 August 2018

David Kay (David Kay / The Stand Comedy Club)9 August 2018

Wil Greenway: Either Side Of Everything (NJC Presents)9 August 2018

Jordan Brookes: Bleed (Fight In The Dog)9 August 2018

Graham Dickson: Timber (Graham Dickson)9 August 2018

zazUtinany (United Agents)9 August 2018

The Bear (Pins And Needles Productions)9 August 2018

Stupid Cupid (Unrestricted View / Liz McMullen)8 August 2018

Island Town (Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd)8 August 2018

Dangerous Giant Animals (Christina Murdock)8 August 2018

Sediment (Company 2)8 August 2018

Rob Auton: The Talk Show (Rob Auton)8 August 2018

Gráinne Maguire: I Forgive You; Please Like Me (Live Nation in association with Troika)8 August 2018

Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller (Fight In The Dog)8 August 2018

Courtney Act: Under The Covers (Courtney Act)8 August 2018

The Snow Queen (Theatre N16 and Eastlake Productions)8 August 2018

Love Song To Lavender Menace (James Ley)7 August 2018

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story (James Dangerfield)7 August 2018

BARK! The Musical... How The Little Dog Found His Voice (Swansong Productions)7 August 2018

Ukelele Death Squad (Ukelele Death Squad)7 August 2018

Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts - Free (St Mary's Cathedral)7 August 2018

B Minor Mass (Ludus Baroque)7 August 2018

Trollbadour (Grant Sharkey)7 August 2018

#Pianodrome Live (Sound Mirror)7 August 2018

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits - The Story Of The Capital's Music (Edinburgh Music Tours)7 August 2018

Rhys Nicholson: Seminal (Underbelly and Phil McIntyre Management)7 August 2018

Circa: Wolfgang (Underbelly and Circa)7 August 2018