ED2019 REVIEWS

All reviews from Edinburgh Festival 2019

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SAGA (Stones Theatre Company)27 August 2019

E8 (The North Wall in association with The Pleasance)27 August 2019

Last Of The Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble / Complicité / Royal & Derngate Northampton)27 August 2019

dressed. (ThisEgg in collaboration with Made My Wardrobe)27 August 2019

Neither Here Nor There (Jo Fong / Sonia Hughes)27 August 2019

Jennifer Tyler: Ready Or Not (Rachel Kraftman)27 August 2019

Chris McGlade: Forgiveness (McGlade)27 August 2019

Goodbear: Dougal (DugOut Theatre and Noel Gay Management)27 August 2019

Have I Told You I'm Writing A Play About My Vagina? (Chucked Up Theatre)25 August 2019

Ladybones (Sorcha McCaffrey)25 August 2019

Byrony Kimmings: I'm A Pheonix, Bitch (Avalon Promotions)25 August 2019

Bobby And Amy (Emma Blackman Productions and Emily Jenkins)25 August 2019

Sexy Lamp (Katie Arnstein and Victoria Gagliano)24 August 2019

Black Is the Color Of My Voice (Apphia Campbell presented by James Seabright and Play The Spotlight)24 August 2019

Notes From Shetland To Shanghai (Sophie Rocks)24 August 2019

Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name (Blue Book AM)24 August 2019

Red Herring (Gardyloo)23 August 2019

Play Before Birth (Coast to Coast Theatre Company)23 August 2019

My Mum's A Twat (Showroom)23 August 2019

Love (Watching Madness) (SpeakUp Theatre)23 August 2019

HOTTER (Ellie Keel Productions and HOTTER Project)23 August 2019

The Cheap Part Of Town (Louis Rive)23 August 2019

99 (First World) Problems Feat Andy Quirk And Anna J (Free Festival)23 August 2019

Elliot Steel: Merked (Off The Kerb / PBH's Free Fringe)23 August 2019

Broken Funnies (Martin Bearne)22 August 2019

The Struggling Life Of An Artist (Hitting Heads Productions)22 August 2019

My Love Lies Frozen In The Ice (Dead Rabbits Theatre)22 August 2019

(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology Of The Odyssey (Lyrical Therapy University and Aztec Economy)22 August 2019

How To Save A Life (Glass Half Full Theatre)22 August 2019

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders (Cardboard Citizens)22 August 2019

White Girls (Laughing Mirror)22 August 2019

Free Fringe Music (National Museum Of Scotland)22 August 2019

Sunil Patel: White Knight (Sunil Patel)22 August 2019

Rhod Gilbert: The Book Of John (Blue Jeans Management)22 August 2019

Men With Coconuts (Men With Coconuts)22 August 2019

Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes (The Lost Works)22 August 2019

Frank Foucault: Desk (Frank Foucault and Shmuck Theatre)22 August 2019

A Table Tennis Play (Walrus)21 August 2019

Intolerable Side Effects (Claire Parry)21 August 2019

The Canary And The Crow (Middle Child)21 August 2019

Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome (Ingenious Fools / Furthest From The Sea)21 August 2019

Jesus Christ Superstar (Captivate Theatre)21 August 2019

Claude Bourbon: Medieval And Spanish Blues (Claude Bourbon)21 August 2019

Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman (AEG presents)21 August 2019

Doodle Pop (BRUSH Theatre LLC - Korean Season presented by AtoBiz Ltd)21 August 2019

Teach (Bread And Butter Productions)20 August 2019

Mighty (Jack Britton in association with the Pleasance and Leicester Curve)20 August 2019

Anything With A Pulse (Wonky Donkey)20 August 2019

Freddie: One Night With Freddie (Outbreak Productions)20 August 2019

Early Mornings - The Musical (Joel Goodman)20 August 2019

#Pianodrome Live Guest: Hebrides Ensemble (Hebrides Ensemble)20 August 2019

Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male (Off The Kerb Productions)20 August 2019

Liza Treyger: In The Weeds (Live Nation and Avalon present)20 August 2019

Ian Smith: Half-Life (Bound & Gagged Comedy)20 August 2019

Alex Hylton: Get Rich Or Die Crying (Alex Hylton)20 August 2019

Got A Text: A Musical Parody (Round Three Productions)20 August 2019

Will Mars: Phoenix (Purple Martian / Free Festival)20 August 2019

Rodgers With A D - The Tommy Rodgers Centenary Celebration (Louise Rodgers)20 August 2019

Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes A Panic Room When You Overthink Enough (Simon Caine / Sweet Productions)20 August 2019

Slime (The Herd and Absolutely Cultured)20 August 2019

The Legend Of Shadows (Point View Art Association and Shadow Legends Drama Group (Macao/Taiwan))20 August 2019

Ladies Who Lunch (Fourth Wall Theatre Company)18 August 2019

Fires Our Shoes Have Made (Pound Of Flesh)18 August 2019

Gun (Phil And Will)18 August 2019

Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play (Artists Collective Theatre - Calgary, Alberta, Canada)18 August 2019

2Elfth Night (Keane & Doyle)18 August 2019

First Time (Nathaniel Hall presented by Dibby Theatre with Waterside Arts)18 August 2019

Buzzing (Debbie Bird)18 August 2019

Dominic Berry: I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less (Dominic Berry)18 August 2019

Dieterich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri (The Limbs of Our Jesus) (Directed By Les Shankland - Director Of Music, St Vincent's Chapel)18 August 2019

Milo Edwards: Pindos (Milo Edwards)18 August 2019

Alex Black's Record Collection (Alex Black / PBH's Free Fringe)18 August 2019

Thrones! The Musical Parody (Thrones! The Musical Parody)18 August 2019

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Andrew Roach Talent)18 August 2019

Micky Bartlett: Love It! (MZA and Nunchuck Productions)18 August 2019

Matt Price: Broken Hooters And Geezers With Shooters (Bound & Gagged Comedy)18 August 2019

Jack Barry: Alien (Berk's Nest / PBH's Free Fringe)18 August 2019

Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics (Mick Perrin Worldwide)18 August 2019

Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly (Eleanor Tiernan / PBH's Free Fringe)18 August 2019

Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist (Brett Johnson)18 August 2019

A Wake In Progress (Fine Mess Theatre and Leila Sykes)17 August 2019

Manual Cinema's Frankenstein (Underbelly and Manual Cinema)17 August 2019

Arrivals (Twelve Twelve Theatre and New Celts Productions)17 August 2019

Suffering From Scottishness (Kevin P Gilday)17 August 2019

Ricky Riddlegang And The Riddlegang (Peracals Productions)17 August 2019

Last Life: A Shakespeare Play (The Box Collective and Piece of Yourself)17 August 2019

Chain Of Trivia (Russell Clarke)17 August 2019

The Art Of Skipping (Purple Door Productions Limited)17 August 2019

Brass Tracks (Brass Tracks)17 August 2019

The Golden Path (Vanessa Hammick)17 August 2019

Matt Winning: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Matt Winning)17 August 2019

Fat Blast And Crackers: 101 Sketches In 50 minutes! (The Scribbling Ape)17 August 2019

Ed Night: Jokes Of Love And Hate (Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with IAM)17 August 2019

Chris Washington: Raconteur (Phil McIntyre Entertainments Ltd Presents)17 August 2019

Amy Howerska: Serious Face (Amy Howerska)17 August 2019

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) (Fight in the Dog)17 August 2019

Erth's Dinosaur Zoo (Underbelly and Erth)17 August 2019

Wild Swimming (FullRogue / Pleasance / Bristol Old Vic Ferment)16 August 2019

Madame Ovary (WildChild Productions)16 August 2019

STYX (Second Body)16 August 2019

Solitary (Dutch Kills Theater Company)16 August 2019

Heroin(e) For Breakfast (King Brilliant Theatre / Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance)16 August 2019

Endless Second (Cut The Cord)16 August 2019

Blood And Gold (Mara Menzies)16 August 2019

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy (Wound Up Theatre)16 August 2019

Steve N Allen: Better Than (Steve N Allen / The Stand Comedy Club)16 August 2019

Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory (PBH's Free Fringe)16 August 2019

Radu Isac: Good Excuses For Sociopaths (Radu Isac)16 August 2019

Old Jewish Jokes (Ivor Dembina)16 August 2019

Garrett Millerick: Smile (Rabbit Rabbit)16 August 2019

Jamali Maddix: Work In Progress (IAM Presents)16 August 2019

Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary (Live Nation Presents)16 August 2019

Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves? (Carl Donnelly)16 August 2019

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical (Baby Wants Candy)16 August 2019

Grimm Tales (Grey Dog Theatre Company)16 August 2019

Tappuccino (Brunch Bunch)16 August 2019

Drone (Harry Josephine Giles, Rob Jones, Neil Simpson and Jamie Wardrop)15 August 2019

Deer Woman (Article 11/CanadaHub)15 August 2019

Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster (Battersea Arts Centre and BAC Beatbox Academy)15 August 2019

The Sensemaker (Woman's Move)15 August 2019

Normaler Than Everyone (Normaler Productions in association with Fringe Management, LLC)15 August 2019

Pizza Shop Heroes (Phosphoros Theatre)15 August 2019

Mustard (Eva O'Connor)15 August 2019

Meatball Séance (John Michael/PBH's Free Fringe)15 August 2019

How Not To Drown (Thick Skin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre)15 August 2019

Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf (Good Wolf People)15 August 2019

Fauré Requiem By Candlelight (St Andrew Camerata)15 August 2019

Devon Knows How They Make It So Musical! (Free) (Take Note Community Choir)15 August 2019

A**Hole New World (Brian Gallagher)15 August 2019

Children Of The Quorn (Megan from HR)15 August 2019

Daniel Audritt: Better Man (Daniel Audritt)15 August 2019

The Establishment: Bureau De Strange (Mad Etiquette)15 August 2019

Jacob Hawley: Faliraki (Jacob Hawley)15 August 2019

Gethin Alderman Is: Sublime (Gethin Alderman)15 August 2019

Rachel Fairburn: The People's Princess (Live Nation)15 August 2019

Sketch Thieves (Purple Martian / Free Festival)15 August 2019

Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness (Isa Bonachera)15 August 2019

Post-Mortem (Ellandar Productions and Jessica Rose McVay Productions)14 August 2019

Hatch (Rose Eye Productions)14 August 2019

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats (Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell)14 August 2019

My Best Dead Friend (Anya Tate-Manning and Isobel MacKinnon with Zanetti Productions)14 August 2019

Landscape (1989) (Emergency Chorus)14 August 2019

Death By Shakespeare (HurlyBurly)14 August 2019

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd (Francesca Moody Productions)14 August 2019

Who Is Daniel King (Ed Eales-White)14 August 2019

Kurl Up And Dye (NUTS Theatre)14 August 2019

All of Me (China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre)14 August 2019

Algorithms (Sadie Clark & Laura Elmes Productions)14 August 2019

Dido And Aeneas (Coro 19)14 August 2019

Basil Brush: Unleashed (Broken Robot Productions / So Comedy / Basil Brush Limited)14 August 2019

Guy Montgomery: I Was Part Of The Problem Before We Were Talking About It (Berk's Nest)14 August 2019

Tarot (Berk's Nest, Gein's Family Giftshop and Goose)14 August 2019

Marc Jennings: Getting Going (Marc Jennings)14 August 2019

Ivo Graham: The Game Of Life (Off The Kerb Productions)14 August 2019

Huge Davies: The Carpark (CKP and InterTalent Group present)14 August 2019

Sunshine (Stickyback Theatre)14 August 2019

The Greatest Magic Show (Showmen Productions)14 August 2019

The Long Pigs (WE3 and Cluster Arts)13 August 2019

Superstar (Nicola Wren and Something For The Weekend)13 August 2019

Funny In Real Life (Rob Rouse and Helen Rutter)13 August 2019

00 (Argonaut)13 August 2019

Umbrella Man (Teuchter Company - Colin Bramwell)13 August 2019

Square Go (Francesca Moody Productions)13 August 2019

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area (Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society)13 August 2019

Scream Phone (Swipe Right Theatre)13 August 2019

Brian Kennedy Recovery (Brian Kennedy)13 August 2019

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) - 1 (Michael Mofidian and Keval Shah)13 August 2019

The Polis (A Police Tribute) (The Polis)13 August 2019

Raven (Chamäleon Productions in association with Aurora Nova)13 August 2019

Elements Of Freestyle (ISH Dance Collective)13 August 2019

Glenn Moore: Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore (Avalon Management)13 August 2019

Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice (Off The Kerb Productions)13 August 2019

Mark And Haydn: Llaugh (StraightUp Productions)13 August 2019

Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon (Rabbit Rabbit)13 August 2019

Jen Brister (Jen Brister)13 August 2019

Olga Koch: If/Then (Berk's Nest in association with Hannah Layton Management)13 August 2019

Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Get Comedy Ltd)13 August 2019

Obsolete (Tepid Productions)13 August 2019

Chris Parker: Camp Binch (Berk's Nest)13 August 2019

Ahir Shah: Dots (Ahir Shah)13 August 2019

I'm OKayfabe (Fake Heat)13 August 2019

AJ Holmes: Yeah, But Not Right Now (Stamptown)13 August 2019

Sparkle (Annie Cusick Wood, Honolulu Theatre Production supported by Catherine Wheels)13 August 2019

Valentina's Galaxy (Frozen Charlotte Productions)13 August 2019

Captain Jake And The Search For The Red Queen (Stories Alive)13 August 2019

Cabaret Of Curiosities (Tatwood Puppets)13 August 2019

Trying It On (Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate)11 August 2019

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular (Soho Theatre, Johnson & Mackay and United Agents)11 August 2019

Boar (Lewis Doherty, The North Wall and Nottingham Playhouse)11 August 2019

Shit (MILKE and Dee & Cornelius)11 August 2019

Only Bones 1.0 - Thom Monckton (Kallo Collective In Association With Aurora Nova)11 August 2019

Lovely Girls (The Hiccup Project)11 August 2019

Knock Knock (Hot Coals Theatre)11 August 2019

If It Didn't Matter (Cup and Dagger)11 August 2019

The De Nova Super (A Brilliant Everything)11 August 2019

Witch Hunt (A&E Comedy)11 August 2019

Swim (Liz Richardson in association with the Pleasance and HOME)11 August 2019

Standard:Elite (Hidden Track)11 August 2019

Piano_Play (Charlie Russell Productions)11 August 2019

Piramania! The Swashbuckling Pirate Musical (Sloshed Theatre)11 August 2019

Global Grooves, Ancient Voices (Autorickshaw)11 August 2019

The Carpenters Songbook (Night Owl Shows)11 August 2019

Southern Nights: The Story Of Southern Soul (Night Owl Shows)11 August 2019

Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy (Nick Elleray / Free Festival)11 August 2019

Crystal Rasmussen Presents The Bible 2 (Plus A Cure For Shame, Violence, Betrayal And Athlete's Foot) Live! (United Agents)11 August 2019

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat (Off The Kerb Productions)11 August 2019

Catherine Bohart: Lemon (Chambers Touring)11 August 2019

Rhys Nicholson - Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations (Underbelly in association with Casarotto Ramsey Management)11 August 2019

The Listies: Ickypedia (The Listies)11 August 2019

I, Piano (Adrian Hornsby)11 August 2019

One Duck Down (FacePlant Theatre)11 August 2019

First Piano On The Moon (Will Pickvance)11 August 2019

With Child (Claire Pointing)10 August 2019

Leave A Message (Jessica Rose McVay Productions and Bad Thursday)10 August 2019

Ticker (Fight in the Dog in association with United Agents)10 August 2019

HoneyBee (Eleanor Dillon-Reams)10 August 2019

Fix Us (Bareface)10 August 2019

Conversations With Van Gogh (Echoes Theatre)10 August 2019

Blodeuwedd Untold (Jo Blake / Pleasance / Royal & Derngate Northampton)10 August 2019

Between Us (Rachel E Thorn and Alex Keen)10 August 2019

The Empathy Experiment (Rose Condo / PBH's Free Fringe)10 August 2019

Elton John: Rocket Man Live! (Liquid Lunch Productions)10 August 2019

You And I: A New Musical (Colla Voce Theatre)10 August 2019

Rob Auton: The Time Show (Show And Tell in association with Avalon Management)10 August 2019

Lucy Pearman: Baggage (United Agents)10 August 2019

Double Denim: Adventure Show (Hey Boss)10 August 2019

Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 (Century)10 August 2019

Connie Wookey: Denied (Constance Wookey)10 August 2019

Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu (Archie Henderson)10 August 2019

Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag (Hatch Talent)10 August 2019

Splash Test Dummies (Underbelly and Dummies Corp)10 August 2019

Beetlemania: Kafka For Kids (The Kafkateers)10 August 2019

Wrath Of Achilles (Bedivere Arts Company)9 August 2019

Wireless Operator (Silksheen Productions)9 August 2019

Definitely Louise (Bethany Heath)9 August 2019

Collapsible (Ellie Keel Productions and High Tide)9 August 2019

Can You See Where I'm Coming From? (Melanie Branton / PBH's Free Fringe)9 August 2019

Whose Mind Is It Anyway? (Whose Mind Is It Anyway?)9 August 2019

Sukh Ojla: For Sukh's Sake (Noel Gay Presents...)9 August 2019

Micky P Kerr: Kerr In The Community (Brett Vincent for GetComedy)9 August 2019

Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute (CKP / Intertalent)9 August 2019

Buffering (Jenny Laville and Pauline Eyre)9 August 2019

Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist (Ben Verth)9 August 2019

Alex Williamson: Sin On My Face (Alex Williamson)9 August 2019

Andy Field's Funeral (Andy Field)9 August 2019

The Red (Corduroy Productions and Something For The Weekend)8 August 2019

Don't Be Terrible (Standard Man Productions)8 August 2019

Monsoon Season (Thieriot Productions and All For One)8 August 2019

Cream Tea And Incest (Peracals Productions)8 August 2019

Birth (Theatre Re in association with Glynis Henderson Productions)8 August 2019

Beach Body Ready (The Roaring Girls, Absolutely Cultured, Pleasance, York Theatre Royal, Hull Truck)8 August 2019

Art Heist (Poltergeist / Untapped by Underbelly and New Diorama Theatre)8 August 2019

Chords To Dream Of Love With (The Folk Orchestra Of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School Of Zhejiang)8 August 2019

DNA (Casus Circus and Cluster Arts)8 August 2019

Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo (Mick Perrin Worldwide)8 August 2019

Rory O Hanlon - Confidence (Rory O Hanlon / PBH's Free Fringe)8 August 2019

Jessica Fostekew: Hench (Jessica Fostekew)8 August 2019

Bible John (Bible John and The Pleasance)7 August 2019

America Is Hard To See (Life Jacket Theatre Company)7 August 2019

House Of Hundred (Yesim Ozsoy Galata Perform Tiyatrosu - Turkey)7 August 2019

IvankaPlay (Snowy Owl)7 August 2019

Fingers And Thumbs with Andy Gunn (Andy Gunn)7 August 2019

Ayman Jarjour, Syrian Guitarist (Ayman Jarjour)7 August 2019

Blueswater Presents: Blues! (The Blueswater)7 August 2019

Backbone (Underbelly and Gravity & Other Myths)7 August 2019

Will Duggan: Class Two (Will Duggan)7 August 2019

Just These Please: Suitable (Just These Please)7 August 2019

Rosie Jones: Backward (Off The Kerb Productions)7 August 2019

Adam Rowe: Pinnacle (CKP and Intertalent)7 August 2019

Crybabies: Danger Brigade (Crybabies in association with PBJ Management)6 August 2019

Beep Boop (Crowded Outlet / Something For The Weekend)6 August 2019

Renaissance Music From Scotland And England (Byrd International Singers)6 August 2019

Sing Me A Song: The Robert Louis Stevenson Show (Neil Adam And Judy Turner)6 August 2019

Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts – Free (St Mary's Cathedral)6 August 2019

Cello On Fire (Peter Hudler)6 August 2019

YUCK Circus (Underbelly/YUCK Circus)6 August 2019

Róisín And Chiara: Get Nupty (Róisín And Chiara)6 August 2019

Ross Smith: Crying/Shame (Ross Smith)6 August 2019

Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert (Joe Bor)6 August 2019

Olaf Falafel: Knitting With Maracas (Olaf Falafel)6 August 2019

Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster (Berk's Nest / Avalon)6 August 2019