Expect confrontational clowning, audience singalongs, and brutal honesty in TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl at Summerhall. Jessica Aszkenasy dismantles modern dating in an uncompromising hour.
Review: The Night Ali Died, Fringe 2026
The Night Ali Died proves how powerful minimalist theatre can be with sharp character work and split-second sound cues. Catch Raising Cain Productions on the Royal Mile.
Review: Alan Jay – Hell Hath No Humour Like a Gayboy Scorned, Fringe 2026
Fluent Mandarin pranks, brutal honesty, and zero self-pity. Alan Jay balances genuine darkness with charisma at Gilded Balloon Patter House.
Review: Stamptown’s Netflix special screening @ Assembly’s Palais du Variété
Having a red carpet event is a bit out of the ordinary for Fringe! It’s normally just a chaotic mish-mash blur of a month for me, but this one-off midnight screening, ahead of the premier on Netflix, felt a bit different. A bit special. The question to myself was: “Do I review the Netflix special […]
Crudi Dench Wins Inaugural £1,500 Banneret Award for Working-Class Artists at Edinburgh Fringe
Drag artist Crudi Dench has won the first Banneret Award from LAFS at Edinburgh Fringe 2026, securing a £1,500 grant aimed at tackling performer costs.
Review: The Flying Bubble Show, Fringe 2026
The Flying Bubble Show returned to the Fringe this year with a performance that felt larger in scale and more visually ambitious, while still holding onto the gentle, child‑like simplicity that makes it so appealing. Performance From the moment the first giant bubble drifted across the room, the audience settled into that familiar sense of […]
A review of MC Hammersmith: Ice Ice Nepo Baby, Fringe 2026
An absurdly impressive mix of freestyle rap, nerdy crowd work and comedy, powered by linguistic skills that barely seem biologically plausible.
Review: Crowd Work from Hell, Fringe 2026
Rough around the edges improv comedy with some jankiness I found wholesome and connecting, Yu brings together the crowd for a session of playful bullying, (not too traumatic) embarrassing stories, and glues them together into one collaborative crowd work tale.
YMMV, but I walked away feeling like I had a brief and hilarious adventure into a living murder mystery fairy tale with new friends (and co-conspirators).