Comedy is perhaps what the Edinburgh Fringe is best known for, and with that comes the flurry of stand up comedians that flock to the city each summer, so many that it can be near on impossible to choose. You have your big names, established and most likely seen on our television screens, and the new talent just starting to make a name for themselves looking up to those big names with admiration. Then somewhere in the middle you have the names that some know and some don’t ne

The story of Noah, his ark and the animals marched in two by two is pretty well known and you wouldn’t think that, with the exception of the 2007 film Evan Almighty, it would be a story that could be converted into a comedy never mind one that is so silly, so ridiculous, so stupid in the best way that it will have you laughing out load and turning around in your seat just so you can try and take it all in. But here we are with our host Nathaniel Jones, playing Noah with a shi

A stalwart of the Edinburgh Fringe for many, many years, News Revue takes the hot topics of current affairs and turns them into comedy skits often including parody songs played out by a small cast who swap and change between characters. It’s a popular choice for fringe goers who, perhaps bogged down by the news (and let’s be honest, who isn’t at the moment), wish to see it turned on its head and to be given a chance to laugh at it. News stories being covered and joked about i

After becoming one of the hottest tickets in town during the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, the sea-faring, all singing, all dancing musical Shantify returns to Assembly’s Palais du Variete with new songs, a slightly reworked story and more energy than ever. With the story set in a fishing village, we are introduced to six young men who outside of their daily lives most look forward to their evenings in the local pub where they perform as the Barnacle Bouys, turning hit songs into se

The Edinburgh Fringe gives those wanting to use theatre and art to tell a personal story a stage (literally) and there are lots of moving, important and exciting stories out there to be told. These type of stories can be windows into the lives of the performers, glimpses into moments of their lives that touched them, meant a lot to them and perhaps even changed the way in which their lives were heading. And all of this is brought to life in My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me on Ins

What happens when you activate a super spy making machine, in the depths of the Second World War, without realising that there is a moth trapped inside the mechanism? Well, what doesn’t happen is the creation of a super spy. Instead, out steps a beast, part human part moth, 100% mystery and a creature that becomes a myth, lurking in the woods of West Virgina, hunted for years but never found. Flash forward and three friends following in the footsteps of the explorer they love

The beauty of the Edinburgh Fringe lies not only in the sheer amount of shows on offer but also in the recommendations of others. Someone may suggest seeing a show that hasn’t even come across your radar, but let me tell you, sometimes a recommendation can lead you to something great. Afronauts was a show that I hadn’t come across in the vast lists of available productions, but upon a recommendation I decided to give it a go, and it was one of the greatest surprises of the fr

With the Edinburgh Fringe, there is always so much to see, so much to choose from and I’m here to tell you that sometimes it’s just worth giving something a go, because you might just stumble across a gem that stays with you. That is exactly what happened to me during my first ever trip to the fringe in 2022 when I found a show called The Importance of Being…Earnest? By a company called Say It Again, Sorry? Since that day this show, now called simply …Earnest? Has become a hu

The local pub can often be seen as the community hub, a home away from home and a second family, and for Alan it’s where he grew up. Surrounded by his father’s nicknamed friends, as a young teenager he becomes the guard of their favourite chairs, the runner to the bar and back and their companion in the Jolly Fisherman pub. But times are changing for young Alan (Alex Hill) who delights in having the same forehead as his same named father and adores Lil the barmaid who looks o

When it comes to shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, it would be stranger and harder to find a show that doesn’t feature audience interaction then one that does, but no other features quite as much as the work of Highly Suspect who construct and perform murder mysteries where the audience are the detective and have 70 minutes to catch the killer. In Abbasolute Murder, it’s filming day for the Continental Song Contest and you are in the viewing room. The Host Hugh Eurovision, along