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Edinburgh festival

6 August 2024

  • Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle

    Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle review – heady mix of uneasy laughs, sexual candour and Titanic spoof

  • Stuck in a world of machismo and misogyny … l to r, Scott Fletcher as Max and Gavin Jon Wright as Stevie in VL.

    VL review – electrifying comedy about teenagers’ race to lose ‘virgin lips’

  • Cumulative power … Grupo Corpo perform in Edinburgh.

    Grupo Corpo review – the Brazil of Gilberto Gil and Umbanda in music, mood and motion

  • Nation YESYESNONO performer and writer Sam Ward, Roundabout @ Summerhall, The Fringe, Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland UK 03/08/2024 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    Nation review – chilling vision of a town gripped by fear and hatred

  • ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

  • Chris Thorburn: Cineman review – heard the one about Sex Times at Spring Break High?

5 August 2024

  • Katie Norris: Farm Fatale.

    Katie Norris: Farm Fatale review – this cat-lady comedy becomes a moggy melodrama

  • Madeleine Potter and Eric Sirakian in The Sound Inside.

    The Sound Inside review – fiction spills into real life for two unworldly writers

  • Susie McCabe performing during the Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night, at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019

    Susie McCabe begins Edinburgh run less than two weeks after heart attack

  • Deadpan … l to r, Jessica Whitehurst as Roxanne and Virginia Gay as Cyrano.

    Cyrano review – Virginia Gay has a nose for romance in gender-swap update

  • Carmen review: magnetic performances ramp up the showstoppers

  • Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures

  • Penthesilea review – three tribes go to war in gripping, grungy battle

  • Hannah Gadsby: ‘The Edinburgh fringe might make your dreams come true – or it will give you scurvy’

  • All eyes on Auld Reekie: Edinburgh festival 2024 begins – in pictures

  • Rachel Fairburn: Side Eye review – devilish, seven-headed humour

  • In Two Minds review – a tender look at mothers, daughters and mental illness

4 August 2024

  • My English Persian Kitchen

    My English Persian Kitchen review – a theatrical feast

    The real story of food writer Atoosa Sepehr, who fled her abusive husband in Iran, is retold with the warm familiarity of a friend – while cooking up a fragrant dish live on stage
  • Filled with emotions … Christopher Jordan-Marshall, Gavin Whitworth and Emma Mullen in A History of Paper.

    A History of Paper review – a poignant love story folds into silence

    In this story by Oliver Emanuel, posthumously presented with songs by Gareth Williams, a couple’s romance is told through the paper trail it leaves
  • Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!!

    Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! review – one hell of a host

    The BBC New Comedy award-winner resurrects a cadaver of an idea as a Rotherham working men’s club MC with a devilish twist
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