Professional musician Tom Veck’s one-man performance at the Edinburgh Fringe called What the Veck is a musical comedy looking at life, current affairs and the things people throw away with a comedic outlook. A confessed skip jumper, who enjoys having a look at what is in there and whether he…

INTERNAL by Tania Tuusa tells the story of shy 20-year-old Melanie. Trapped in her self-doubt and internal self-deprecating monologue. Where she doesn’t believe she is worthy of love or being in love. The internal monologue can cause so much damage to somebody if they have listened to all the wrong…

Waiting for a Train at the Bus Stop by Mwansa Phiri is one of the rare gems this year in Summerhall this Edinburgh Fringe. One of those performances that moves you on all levels. Combining spoken word and poetry the two methods are so well blended that you don’t feel…

LAYERS by Doublet is a touching story set during ten minutes of the same family day repeated about five to six times as it builds up a family picture adding a new member in each scene. Conversations and things that are said in the safety of the family dynamics progress.…

The Good Dad by Gail Louw is a dark drama based on real events reported in 1988. The shocking story of a father using his power over one of his daughters and manipulating and turning her against the rest of the family for his own pleasure and perverse needs. Sarah…

BIRTHMARKED written and performed by Brook Tate tells the sad story of how he became excluded from Jehovah’s Witnesses for openly talking about his sexuality. His fate is decided by three of the elders who happened to be two window cleaners and a plumber, the exact description used in the…

IMPACT follows the heartbreaking events which took place after the devastating air crash in 1988 when the landscape of Lockerbie was changed forever when the Pan-Am flight 103 blew up over the quiet Scottish Town. Amy Engelhardt sets the story to music and dialogue. Working through the timeline chronologically with…

Medico offers a first-hand look at what it’s like to be an NHS Doctor from an Italian migrant perspective and what it means to be British, by award-winning comedian and real-life Dr. Stefania Licari. Humour is an essential asset to possess when you’re working in some of the bleakest situations,…

First-time Fringe performers Camilia O’Grady and Daniel Grice bring to the stage We’re All Mad Here looking at the realities and stigma faced by children with dyslexia and dyspraxia, the names in themselves a minefield with those who have the conditions. To a child fitting in with family and siblings…

Holly Spillar takes the audience on a journey unlike many others this year at the Edinburgh Fringe in her performance of HOLE. A one-stop performance explaining her experience of having vaginismus. Reclaiming her body and sexual desires. Spillar uses a combination of spoken word and music to describe indepth her…