We’ve been raving about @melebroomes since her 2021 show Grin. She returns to #edfringe with a piece that feels like an energising balm. The room is alive on entry: musicians already present, a blue wash kissing Black skin, two women smoothing
At the centre of ‘Father, Away She Goes’ is Sarah Jones. Played by Electra Kolb, she’s a self-proclaimed narcissist, compulsive liar & failed art-school hopeful who has hit rock bottom. Throughout her story we’re torn: is
Stans may get a bad rep thanks to Eminem, but @alexis_sakellaris’ memoir of his rise to standom hits different. A STAN IS BORN! is a solo musical comedy where diva worship becomes survival strategy… Picture it: 8-year-old Alexis is sudd
Looking for a chatbot at the end of the world? @kisswitness can supply. ‘Stampin’ in the Graveyard’ drops us into a techno-wasteland where we sift through fragments of life, death, memory & imminent catastrophe. A headphone-medi
Nathan Mosher is Injured, starring (you guessed it) @nathanmosherisgoodenough, begins like countless other stand-up sets. Breakups, childhood, a few limp Taco Bell gags 🌮— all familiar, all faintly redundant. For a while, it feels like a down-
We don’t think we’ve seen a story on an #edfringe stage quite like @jendigiacomo’s Woman in the Arena: a performance-lecture from a neurodivergent Gen-X trans parent charting the long, winding road to radical acceptance. It astounds
@livpickfordx’s ‘I Killed My Roommate’ opens with a confession: she’s killed Susie, the flatmate from hell. What follows is an escalating pressure cooker of everyday micro-aggressions—slow walkers, expired railcards, pas
What’s true, what’s embellished, what’s outright invented? With @courtneybcomedy you’ll never quite know—& that’s half the fun. From the Darwin-esque discovery of her dad’s penis (yes, we’re keepi
Smita Russwll (@quite_smitten) greets us at a modest wooden table, leafing through documents, her blue-green gown already hinting at the layers she’ll shed. What follows in @oddsareshow is a memoir mythologised: a candid excavation of pregnancy
@peartheshow’s Phobia is a masterclass in slick sketchcraft, fronted by uncannily in-sync identical twins Patrick & Hugo McPherson. The premise is simple but irresistible: audience members submit their deepest fears & Pear fold them int
@bigsofa_theatre crack open the rom-com mould in ‘Eggs Aren’t That Easy To Make’, where a drunken uni pact about sperm donation resurfaces a decade later… 👻 What follows is a greatest-hits reel of romantic #comedy tropes: pa
What if you could meet your younger self — aka the kid who never got Golden Time? @kateirelandpoet’s Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) is part poetic memoir, part interactive seminar on the hidden curriculum of c
In The Lost Priest, @orchardtheatrecompany frames a man’s crisis of #faith with a barebones set: a desk, a candle, a handful of books. Gabe Seplow lights the Shabbat flame, chants in Hebrew, and begins to unpick his Jewish American identity thr
Down in the candlelit crypts of @paradisegreenuk, ‘Doom & Glitter: A Tribute to Tom Waits’ feels less like a gig, more like a séance, as @mrbrakedown conjures the Prince of Melancholy with drag-king swagger & a smoky drawl&
Today’s #BehindTheCurtain features Lily Edwards from the magic team at ‘Of Fire And Flame’…🔥 @offireandflameplay is a glorious romp with all your fave #romantasy tropes: warriors ✅ wraiths ✅ chronic pain (wait, how did
Patrick McPherson ditches the comedy sketches (& his better half💀) in #Scatter, a solo tale of a grieving man returning his father’s ashes in rural Wales only to discover an ancestral curse. We’re promised a “genuinely terrifyi
How far would you go to keep a roof over your head? 🏡 In ‘How To Kill Your Landlord’, writer Meade Conway spins the housing crisis into fatal farce: three flatmates—Joq the crypto hustler, Burke the wannabe revolutionary & Har
Prudence Play (or Sister Prudence is Not Gay!) opens with all the #confusion of its title: half-nun’s habit, half-flapper dress, tap-dancing to Britney’s ‘Gimme More’. As metaphors go, this #dream sequence isn’t subtle,
Today’s #BehindTheCurtain is giving us chills… …because #Scatter is legit the scream queen of this year’s #edfringe 👻 Patrick McPherson (half of @peartheshow) drags us #TheConjuring-style into a Welsh horror mystery that
Anna Toogood doesn’t tiptoe. In ‘Go With The Flow’ she struts onstage in a backless red dress & brings the menstrual cycle along into the spotlight: bloody, messy, hormonal & #hilarious. This is cabaret as counter-narrative&