Three different true-life stories, three very different styles of storytelling, as witnessed by Dorothy Max Prior at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Shows in storytelling mode are very much a thing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is awash with one-person performances of one sort or another. Here, I’m sticking to three shows that tell true-life […]

A ghost house, a Wheel of Death, a pack of wolves, and a 17-strong ensemble of acrobats from 13 different countries. Four circus shows seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 by Dorothy Max Prior Circus Hub on the Meadows is always the first port of call for anyone attending the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with […]

A trio of physical theatre shows that reference or usurp variety, vaudeville and cabaret traditions, as seen by Dorothy Max Prior at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025  A&E Comedy have been blazing a trail these past few years, making feisty feminist physical comedy that’s not afraid to address topics that most shy away from, not […]

A tale of love and luck told with dolls and toy vehicles, Ulysses for children featuring pop-up books and paper cuts, and a deconstructed King Lear replete with puppets and projections. Then, there’s a beatnik poet pickled onion, a story featuring animated lesbian vampire bunnies, and a crisp-stealing flock of birds. Some of the visual […]

Dorothy Max Prior reports on the São Paulo Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Stepladders and big steel bins painted yellow and red that are converted into trolley buses, trains and planes; hats sprouting bananas and flower pots; reversible jackets, big shoes, and prosthetic noses… This is classic clowning of the sort that seems […]