Mervyn Stutter has been a regular feature at the Edinburgh Fringe for over 30 years.  His Pick of the Fringe show celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, a huge achievement. Introducing the Gala he jokes that over the years some of the choices “that you might think some of the…

Satirical musical about an unusual choice of subject the terrorist bomber Ted Kaczynski in TUNEabomber. Set to an original musical score and humour scattered throughout the performance. Factual and historical context blended alongside the musical score. Finds a (remorseful) Kaczynski appealing his solitary prison sentence to the parole board (us,…

Double Emmy award-winning American actress Dorothy Lyman brings her autobiographical story Violet and Me to the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. The story of her mother and the turbulent relationship between them. Not everyone is destined to be a mother and as she looks into Violet’s life she realises that Violet was…

Luke Townson’s one-man performance in Green Tea tells the story of Reverend Mister Jennings tormented for many years by an evil spirit. Destroying his life, career, and mental stability. Turning him into a recluse. Townson transitions smoothly between each character, changing accents and pitch with ease never confusing any of…

Since the “birth” of the contraception pill the sexual freedom and liberation for females have changed dramatically. Women have had more control over when they would like to start having children as long as nature agrees. What happens when women decide that they don’t want a family and have endured…

What does a Man Shed mean to you? Is it an escape room, a bolt hole somewhere where a man can go to relax and be himself shutting out the outside world? It can be anything you choose it to be as we discover in MAN SHED a touching story…

Yuffa Fringe productions bring two plays explaining the stories of Natasha Advani Thangkhiew and Shahara’s experiences from two underrepresented Indian Identities in What Can Indian Look Like? I only saw one of the two productions, which was the story told by Natasha. Exploring the questions about what it means to…

Paradise Green in The Vaults is the perfect setting for The Mad Woman written and performed by Cara Johnston. The smaller alcove theatre platform adds dramatic effect on the belief that she is locked away underground in an asylum for her safety, and other’s safety is not particularly clear as…

Breast cancer is a club Jane Japes never thought she would join, only ladies in the “pink club” were welcomed surely. Dead Inside takes the audience on an autobiographical journey explained through stand-up and spoken word describing her traumatic life-changing experience. Japes had to choose between whether she wanted to…

Art is subjective. What one person can look at as an art piece another looks at a line of washing! Ash created the knickers line piece in her kitchen during a creative mood and it’s displayed with pride in Kitchen Underwear. Ash and Zee become flatmates in the heart of…