ED2025 Index

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Edinburgh Festival 2025 saw ThreeWeeks return to the world’s biggest cultural event once again covering great shows and great performers with previews, interviews, podcast conversations and lots of reviews.

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INTERVIEWS 2025>>

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THREES TO SEE 2025>>

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BACKSTAGE 2025>>

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TW:TALKS 2025>>

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REVIEWS 2025>>

1902 (Saltire Sky Theatre) 1966 (Talking Shadows) 1984 (Box Tale Soup) 3 White Guys Named John (Andrea Coleman) 86 (And So On Theatre) A Letter To Lyndon B Johnson Or God: Whoever Reads This First (Xhloe And Natasha) A Poem And A Mistake (Making Strange / Fringe Management) A Series Of Poorly Timed Questions (Shay Debney) Abby Howells: Welcome To My Dream (Token Events And Fine & Dandy Productions) About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course (Laughing Horse Comedy) Abracadadbod! (Jokers Comedy Ltd) Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers Afternoon Violin And Piano (Sheena Jardine and Richard Lewis) Alex Kitson: This Is Water Alex Prescot: Cosy Alfie Packham: My Apologies To The Chef Ali Affleck Presents: Billie Holiday – Sophisticated Lady (Ali AfFleck / Bedlam Swing) Alison Spittle: BIG (Show And Tell / Parkas / Independent Talent) All In (Idle Hive Studios) All Shook Up (Nelson Youth Theatre New Zealand) Alone (Alchemy Theatre / Luke Thornborough) Alright Sunshine (Isla Cowan / Pitlochry Festival Theatre / Pleasance / Wonder Fools / Tron Theatre) Amazons (Gaël Le Cornec, Guimarães Rosa Institute Award) Amelia Hamilton: Forget Me Not (Impatient Productions) American Art-Song Recital (Robbie Milner - baritone - and Ben Eames - pianist) Andy Barr: The Hotly Anticipated 4th Debut Hour From Rising Star, Andy Barr (Liebenspiel Presents) Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years (The National Galleries Of Scotland) Animal Farm (Guy Masterton / TTI) Animaura: Sonic Soul Pilgrimage (Eugenia Rosa And Zbigniew Sniegula) Anthem For Dissatisfaction (SkelpieLimmer Productions In Association With Brassneck Theatre Company) Aud The Deep Minded (Joanna Nicholson) Ayoade Bamgboye: Swings & Roundabouts (Berk's Nest in association with PARKAS & Independent Talent Group) Bach And Romance (II) (Stefan Warzycki Piano) Bad Clowns - Long Live the King! (Bad Clowns Comedy) Bad Immigrant (Jennifer Irons) BATSU! (Underbelly / BATSU! Moon) Bebe Cave: CHRISTBRIDE (BIGHEAD Comedy) Been There, Done That, Got The Symptoms! (Parky Players) Ben Moor: A Three Thing Day (Ben Moor) Bennet Kavanagh: Crank Up the Volume!! (To a Reasonable Volume) (Bennet Kavanagh) Betty Grumble: Enemies Of Grooviness, Eat Sh!t (Betty Grumble And Performing Lines) Biff To The Future (Joseph Maudsley, directed by Daniel Clarkson, presented by Seabright Live) Blaze FM (The Big House) Bog Body (Itchy Feet Theatre) Bury The Hatchet (Out Of The Forest Theatre) By A Thread (One Fell Swoop Circus) CADEL: Lungs On Legs (Connor Delves) Call Me Crazy (Good Potato Productions) Captain Narwhal's Pirates vs French Dinosaurs (Gatepost Theatre Company) Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson: Earth Prayers (Carol Ann Duffy / John Sampson) Caroline McEvoy: Train Man Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes (Berk’s Nest) Chopin’s Nocturne (Aidan Jones) Christian Dart - Gumshoe! Cinderella Ice Cream Seller – A Musical (Little Seeds Music) Circus The Show (Showmen Productions) Cirque Du Piano - 1 Piano, 3 Pianists, 6 Hands, 30 Fingers! (Moonlight) Clean Your Plate! (Compagnie Achnamara - France) COME. SEE, SAW (Alex Walker) Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl (Rebecca Perry Productions Inc.) Copla: A Spanish Cabaret (HisPanic) Count Dykula (Airlock Theatre In Association With Soho Theatre) Courtney Buchner: Big, If True Crapp’s River (Sacred Heart University Repertory Theatre Company) Creepy Boys: SLUGS (Sam Kruger and S E Grummett) Dan Clews (Night Owl Chief) And A Handful Of Self-Penned Songs (Night Owl Shows) Dan Rath: Tropical Depression David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven) (Laurie Stevens, The Project People And Pierrot Productions) Dead Air (Alfrun Rose) Dear Annie, I Hate You (Wild Geese Productions In Association With HFH Productions) Derek Mitchell: Goblin (Impatient Productions) Do All The Things (A&E Comedy) Doktor Kaboom: Under Pressure (Doktor K Worldwide / Suzanna Rosenthal Productions) Dopa-Mean Girl (Louisa Ní Éideáin) Dreamscape (Andy Jordan Productions / Hindsight Productions) Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits Dyke Systems Ltd (Fag Packet) Eat The Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates x) (Jade Franks / JFR Productions) Edinburgh Renaissance Band At Home And Abroad (Edinburgh Renaissance Band) Eli Matthewson: Night Terror Elysium (Ghouls Aloud) Emma Holland: Don’t Touch My Trinkets (Impatient Productions And Jubilee Street) Exhausted Paint: The Death Of Van Gogh (Flying Solo! Presents) Falling: A Disabled Love Story (Aaron Pang) False Tongues (Brett Fishel and Artists) Fauré And La Belle Chanson (Caroline Salmon And Anne Evans) Fly, You Fools! (Recent Cutbacks) Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0 (Georgia House Productions) Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo Kids (Georgia House Studios) Fuselage (Lareau Creative / Suzanna Rosenthal Productions) Get Off (Katy Baird) Giselle: Remix (Patrick Bone and The Project People / Pleasance Theatre) GO! (Corps In Situ) God Is Dead And I Killed Him (Callum Patrick Hughes And Fake Escape) Going Soft (Action Theatre Scotland) Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) (Kate Ireland) Gross Domestic Product (Pique Theatre) Guy Williams: If You Mildly Criticise Me I'll Say It's Cancel Culture And Turn To The Alt Right (Impatient Productions and Jubilee Street) Hamlet – Wakefulness (SotG Theatre co-financed by the Minister Of Culture Of Poland) Hasta La Vista . . . Bibby! (TV’s Dave Bibby) Hilarious History (Bobby Sheehan) Hold The Line (Sam Macgregor) Hot Mess (Birmingham Hippodrome / Vicky Graham Productions) I Am The Greatest! (Rodreguez King-Dorset) Iain Dale All Talk with Jeremy Hunt Iain Dale All Talk With Joanna Cherry KC Iain Dale All Talk with Michael Heseltine Iain Dale All Talk with Rachel Reeves Imago (Corporeal Imago) Imprints (The Palimpsest Project) In The Land Of Eagles (Natalie Allison Productions And Alex Reynolds) Indian Classical Music Concert: Sarod And Tabla (Suhas Mitra And Vijay Kangutkar) Ismael Loutfi: Heavenly Baba It’s Gonna Blow! (Fishing4Chips) Jackie!!! (Blair Russell Productions) Jacob Nussey: Primed (Mick Perrin Worldwide) Jake Roche: Neporrhoids! James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum) (W!ZARD Live) James Trickey: Don’t Count On It (Impatient Productions) Jamie D'Souza: Brownie Jamie MacDonald: Toxic Bastard (AEG Presents) Jeezus! (Alpaqa - Untapped Award Winner 2025) Jessica Fostekew: Iconic Breath Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me (Joe Tracini and Norwich Theatre) Josie Long: Now Is The Time Of Monsters (IAM) Jotunger: A Viking Feast And Musical Experience (Jotunger). Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes. (Queenie Miller) Juan Solo’s Excellent Adventures In Space! (Ignacio Lopez) Judy Barker And Sally Thomas Karen Houge: DREAMGIRL KC Shornima: Detachment Style (Country Mile Productions) Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares (Soto Productions / Jenny Gersten) Lesbian Space Crime (Airlock Theatre / Soho Theatre) Lights, Music, Brass! (Whitburn Band) Lost Lear (Matt Smyth / Riverbank Arts Centre / Mermaid Arts Centre) Lou Wall: Breaking The Fifth Wall (IAM) Lovett (BoonDog Theatre) Ma Joyce’s Tales From The Parlour (Victoria Evaristo / Norkor Arts) Magical Melodies: Musical Storytelling (Ailsa Dixon) Margolyes And Dickens: More Best Bits (Miriam Margolyes) MARIUPOL (24KG Productions) Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us (Impatient Productions) Mary O'Connell: Dilly Dally Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Pierrot Productions) Max Fulham: Full Of Ham (Corrie McGuire Management) Michael Elsener: How To Live In Paradise Michelle Brasier: It’s A Shame We Won’t Be Friends Next Year (Mick Perrin) Miles. (:Delirium: / Lauren Reed Productions / Meadows Award Winner) Miss Brexit (Maria Who?) Monkeys: Our Primate Family (National Museum Of Scotland) Monstering The Rocketman By Henry Naylor (Henry Naylor) Mr Chonkers (Impatient Productions) MŮO Live (Lomond Campbell) Nerds: The Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs Comedy Musical (Paul Taylor-Mills) No Apologies (Emma Frankland) Not My Grandmother’s Daughter (Harley Walker) Nowhere – Here & Now Showcase (Fuel) Ohio (Francesca Moody Productions / piece By piece productions) Ordinary Decent Criminal (Paines Plough) Orpheus (Wright&Grainger) Paul Merton And Suki Webster’s Improv Show (Mick Perrin) Pedro Leandro: Soft Animal (BIGHEAD Comedy in association with Independent Talent Group) People We Bury Alive (Passing Stranger Theatre Company) Perfect Dead Girls (Audaciously Tenacious CIC) PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD (IN BED WITH MY BROTHER) Pickled Republic (Ruxandra Cantir) Pigs Fly Easy Ryan (Nonstop – Untapped Award Winner 2025) Quartet For The End Of Time (Kromatik Ensemble) r/Conspiracy (Ella Hällgren / Emma Ruse Productions) Rajiv Karia: Man Alive! (United Agents) Rajiv’s Starry Feelings (Astraea Theatre Company / Discover Children’s Story Centre) Red Like Fruit (2b Theatre Company) Refuse (Just Bcoz Productions) Revolver (Shared Experience) Rhys Darby: The Legend Returns (Mick Perrin) RIFT (Luna Stage / Richard Jordan Productions / Traverse Theatre) Rory Marshall: Pathetic Little Characters (Country Mile Productions) ROTUS: Receptionist of the United States (Leigh Douglas / Suzanna Rosenthal Productions) Saloon Girls (August Kiss Fegley, Alison Newton and Cast) Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer (Impatient Productions And Ebdon Management) Sam Williams: Touch Me Not (Presented By Mick Perrin Worldwide) Scaramouche Jones (Ishra Productions) Scatter: A Horror Play (Indigo Productions) Shitbag (Tiny Table Reads) SHUNGA ALERT (Gumbo / Book Of Shadowz) Siblings: Dreamweavers (Impatient Productions in association with Intertalent Comedy Ltd) Sikisa: Serving Justice SKYE: A Thriller (K Media / Summerhall Arts) Smack The Pony: Back In The Saddle Sped Kid (Adam Linn) Stampin’ In The Graveyard (Elisabeth Gunawan / KISS WITNESS) Stamptown (Stamptown / Alchemation) STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person) (Kat McGarr) Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret (Melanie Gall Presents) Stuart McPherson: Crisps And A Lie Down (A Lovely Time) Susie McCabe: Best Behaviour (Off The Kerb Productions) Tadiwa Mahlunge – Hakuna Ma Tad Tad (Show And Tell / Ebdon Management) Tale Of A Potato (Batisfera) Ted Milligan: United The Anti “Yogi” (Fringe Management, LLC) The Big Day (Pure Class Theatre / New Celts Productions) The Box Show (Junkyard Beats / Assembly Festival) The Britpop Hour With Marc Burrows (Corrie McGuire Management) The Countess Of Fife (Fay Fife, Blond Ambition And Voodoo Rooms) The Crawl (Alexander Burnett, Ellie Whittaker And Olivia Zerphy) The Cryptid Factor (Mick Perrin) The Highland Voices Gospel Choir Experience (Highland Voices Gospel Choir) The Marriage Of Alice B Toklas By Gertrude Stein (Untitled Theater Company No 61) The Mathemagician (Emily Jeffers/PBH’s Free Fringe) The Quiet Earth Beneath (Casey Jay Andrews / Jack Brett) The Unlikely Friendship Of Feather Boy And Tentacle Girl (Vee Smith And Sadiq Ali) The Unstoppable Rise Of Ben Manager (Bunkum Ensemble / Pleasance) Tilly No-Body (Andy Jordan Productions / Dr ACT) Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material (Soho Theatre / UTC) Trash Test Dummies Circus (Underbelly And Dummies Corp) Tribe: The Stone Age Spectacular (Simply Theatre Academy) Waiting For Elvis (Plush Tiger Productions) WANTED (Eleanor Higgins) Well Behaved Women (Veritas Productions / Amy Yeo) Who We Become Part 1: The Moonshot Tape By Lanford Wilson (Deep Flight Productions) Will Owen: Looking Fab At Fifty Women Of Rock (Night Owl Shows) Wrigglers After Dark (Recitals For Wrigglers) Youth In Flames (Dare Theatre) You’re An Instrument! (House of Oz / The Sonicrats) You’re Not Singing Anymore (Minnie Birch) Zara Gladman is… Aileen: Cameron’s Gap Year Fundraiser

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