Ellie Higgins sees three very different interactive shows at Summerhall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024: You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) from Irish company tasteinyourmouth; Werewolf by Binge Culture from New Zealand; and Arcade, the latest shipping container show from UK company Darkfield I sit in the sun outside Tills bookshop, expectantly waiting for someone with […]

Fay Jurriaanse explores three different shows seen during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, all centred around female voices telling mythical stories : Gruoch: Lady Macbeth at Hill Street Theatre; Do Not Look Away: The Story of Medusa at the Scottish Storytelling Centre; and Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine at Greenside When I think of Edinburgh, I […]

The acclaimed contemporary performance duo Bert and Nasi return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show, L’Addition, directed by Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment. John Dean was there for Total Theatre Magazine L’Addition is a masterclass in how to create rich, provocative meaning from a simple, playful premise. It begins with the two […]

She’s off her trolley. Nuttier than a fruitcake. A couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock. She’s ‘crazy’.  For years women have been locked up, medicated, pathologized and silenced with the label ‘crazy’. Challenging these preconceptions, acclaimed Australian performer Leah Shelton makes her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with her solo show BATSHIT, directed by […]

‘Part social realism, part science fiction, with a healthy dose of dystopia’ – 1927’s new show Please Right Back is not quite what it first seems to be, as Dorothy Max Prior discovers at the Edinburgh International Festival 2024 We enter the auditorium to see a whole-stage projection across three screens, monochrome op-art style graphics, […]