20,000
Leagues Under The Office
By Angus Barr
Public Transport
Roman Eagle Lodge
**
Absence
and Presence
Andrew Dawson
Aurora Nova@ St Stephens
****
All
Wear Bowlers
Geoff Sobelle & Trey Lyford
Aurora Nova@St Stephen's
***
All
My Love, All My Rage
Brendon Burns
Pleasance Dome
****
Angry
Young Man
By Ben Woolf
Pleasance Dome
****
Antonio
Forcione Quartet - Tears of Joy
Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
*****
Apocalypse
- The Musical
Feed the Ducks Productions
C Chambers Street
*****
Astrakhan
Winter
By Dic Edwards
Cambridge University ADC
C
*****
Babooshka
By Kiki Kendrick and Julie Balloo
Pleasance Courtyard
**
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Babooska
By Kiki Kendrick and Julie Balloo
Liberated Theatre
Pleasance Courtyard
****
(Reviewed by Ray Brown)
Bacon
By Pip Utton and Jeremy Towler
Pip Utton Theatre Company and the Merlin Theatre
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Balagan
Directed by Sebastiano Toma
Assembly@St. George's West
*****
Barrie's
Farewell Miss Julie Logan
Adapted by Rose MacLennan
Celtic Circle
Greyfriar's Kirkhouse
***
Basic
Training
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***
Beastly
Beauties
A devised work created and directed by Carran Waterfield
Written in collaboration with Kindle Theatre
Underbelly
**
(Reviewed by Peter Lathan)
Beastly
Beauties
Devised by Carran Waterfield
Underbelly
*
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Being
Charlie Kaufman
By Joe Gordon
Sweet on the Grassmarket
*****
Being
Earnest: It's Rather Important
An adaptation by the company from Oscar Wilde
Shore Youth Theatre Company
C Central
**(*)
Bella
and the Beautiful Knight
By Oliver Emanuel
Gilded Balloon
***
Best
of the Fest
Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
(No star rating as the show changes at every performance)
Beyond
Midnight
By Diane Samuels
Trestle Theatre Company
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
**(*)
Bicycle
Men
Written and Performed by Dave Lewman, Joe Liss, Mark Nutter and
John Rubano
Underbelly
*****
Bill
Hicks: Slight Return
Festival Highlights
Pleasance Courtyard
*****
Billy
Holiday
Conceived and devised by the company
Brian
Underbelly
****
Binkie
Beaumont and the Body Backstage
By Mark Ryan
Venue 13
****
Birth
of the Cool
Conceived and written by John Turnbull and Camilla Rountree
Ideas Australia Pty Ltd
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
Breakfast
At Audrey's
Written and Directed by John Binnie
Gilded Balloon Teviot
**
Breath(e)
By Steve Lucas
Traverse 7, Grindlay Street
**
The
Butcher and the Thief
By Robert Stocks and Tommy Luther
Blank Sheet Productions
C Central
****
Cage
By Steve Lambert
Badac Theatre Company
Pleasance Courtyard
****
Carl-Einar
Hackner
By Carl-Einar Hackner
Festival Highlights
Pleasance Courtyard
**
Carmen
Angel
By Joey Tremblay
Hill Street Theatre
****
Chamber
Made
By David Bolger and Katie Read
Traverse 6, Room 206 Caledonian Hotel
****
Charity
Begins at Home
By Mark Whitely
Hard Graft Theatre Company
Barnardo's Charity Shop, Nicholson Street
****
Chatroom
By Enda Walsh
Zoo
***
A
Clockwork Orange
By Anthony Burgess
Gilded Balloon
****
Close
Encounters
Three plays, including Gentlemen's Bairns by C.S. Lincoln,
The Rise and Fall of Deacon Brodie, by Catherine A McLachlan,
and The Riddle of Riddle's Court by John McGovern.
Citadel Arts Group
Diverse Attractions, Riddle's Court
***
Come
Again - The World of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde
Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
***(*)
(Reviewed by David Chadderton)
Come
Again - The World of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
By Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde
Assembly Rooms
****
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
The
Coming of Gowf
PG Wodehouse
Gilded Balloon Teviot
***
Complete
Hollywood (Abridged)
By The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Pleasance Courtyard
***
The
Dalmation of Faust
Two Shades of Blue Theatre Company
Augustine's
By Paul Cooper
*
Dark
Horse, Indiana
By Eric Barry
Punch Theatre
Pleasance Courtyard
***
The
Defiant Thomas Brothers
Assembly Rooms
****
The
Department
Jo Stromgron Kompani
Aurora Nova@St Stephen's
*****
The
Devil's Larder
By Jim Crace, adapted by Ben Harrison
Grid Iron (Scotland)
Traverse 4, Debenhams, Princes Street
*****
Don't
Look Back
An installation by DREAMTHINKSPEAK with the Open University, directed
by Tristan Sharps
Register House
****
Doublethink
Rotozaza
AuroraNova@St Stephen's
***(*)
The
Drowner
Lost Dog
Komedia Roman Eagle Lodge
****
Drowning
Lilies
By Simon Bartolo
Aleateia Theatre Group
Pend Fringe @ Gateway
*****
The
Drowning Point
By Nicholas Earls
C Central
****
Dublin
by Lamplight
By Michael West
Traverse 1
****
Dylan
Thomas in America
By Dylan Thomas, adapted by Gwynne Edwards
Venue 13
****
Dylan
Thomas: Return Journey
By Bob Kingdom
Assembly Rooms
****
East
Coast Chicken Supper
By Martin J Taylor
Traverse 1
**
The
Edinburgh Love Tour
By Richard Hurst and Chas. Early
Festival Highlights
Departs from Pleasance Courtyard
***
Elephant
Dodgy Clutch
George Square Theatre
*****
Enola
By Al Smith
Kandinsky
Baby Belly
***
An
Evening of Shel Silverstein
Broad Ripple Theatre
By Shel Silverstein
Greenside
**
Evidence
for the Existence of Borrowers
Kazuka Hohki
Theatre Workshop
*****
The
Evils of Tobacco
By Anton Chekhov
C Electric
**
The
Exonerated
By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Queen's Hall
*****
Faust
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theatr Nowy
Assembly Rooms
***
Fit
Piece
Unfit Productions
Pleasance Courtyard
***(*)
Five
Kinds of Silence
By Shelagh Stevenson
Greenside
***
Forbidden
Written, directed and produced by Tom Papitto
Theatre of the Insane
Holyrood Tavern
No stars
The
Forever Waltz
By Glyn Maxwell
Underbelly
****
The
Found Man
By Riccardo Galgani
Traverse 1
****
Freestyle
Love Supreme
By Anthony Veneziale
Assembly Rooms
*****
The
Girls of the 3½ Floppies
By Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio, with surtitles
by Mark Ravenhill
Traverse 2
****
Give
Up! Start Over!
By Jessica Almasy and Rebecca Chavkin
C
**
Goblin
Market
Youth Music Theatre
George Square Theatre
****
Golden
Prospects
By Craig Campbell
Skulldiggery
C Chambers Street
*****
Good
Little N***A
Written and performed by Deborah A Williams
Theatre Workshop
***
Guardians
By Peter Morris
Marwaff Theatre Company
Pleasance Courtyard
****
Guided
Tour
By Peter Reder
Traverse 5, McEwan Hall
****
Habeas
Corpus
by Alan Bennett
Edward's Theatre Company
Quaker Meeting House
***(*)
Haci
Guigo
Communa Baures & Fare
Aurora Nova@St Stephens
***(*)
Halo
Boy and the Village of Death
Devised by the Company
Scripted by Ben Arnold
Westminster School Presents
C Chambers Street
****
Heart
of a Dog
By Rogue State Theatre Company with Michael Flexer, after Mikhail
Bulgakov
Assembly Rooms
****
Heaven
Eyes
by David Almond
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
****
Hellgate:
Macbeth Unhinged
By Freya Murray
Z Theatre Company
Old St Paul's
**
Hitting
Funny
Philip Ralph
Assembly Rooms
*
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Hitting
Funny
Written and performed by Philip Ralph
Volcano Theatre Company
Assembly Rooms
*(*)
(Reviewed by Peter Lathan)
Hook,
Line & Sinker
By Mike Woodhead
Flying Pig Productions
C Chambers St
**
The
Hospital
Jo Stromgren Kompani
Aurora Nova@St Stephans
***(*)
Hospitals
and Other Buildings that Catch Fire
By Phil King
Theatre Royal Holloway
Smirnoff White Belly
****(*)
How
I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel
C Central
****
Hush
By Samantha Wright
Pleasance Dome
****
(Review by Philip Fisher)
Hush
By Samantha Wright
Andy Jordan Productions
Pleasance Dome
***
(Review by Ray Brown)
I'll
Sell the House in Which I Can Live No More
By Jerzy Zon
C Chambers Street
***
I
Miss Communism
By Ines Wurth and Mark Soper
Pleasance Dome
***
Immaculate
By Oliver Lansley
Les Enfants Terribles
Glided Balloon Teviot
****
ImMortal
2
By Firenza Guidi
The Big Top, Leith Walk
***
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
ImMortal2
No Fit State circus
Written and Directed by Firenza Guidi
The Big Top @ Out of the Blue Tramworks
****
(Reviewed by Catherine Lamm)
In
Limbo
From the story The Baby by David Almond, adapted by Claire
MacDonald
Classworks Theatre
Pleasance Dome
****
The
Jew of Malta
By Christopher Marlowe, Marco Maria Linzi, and Julio Maria Martino
Teatro Della Contraddizione
Komedia Southside
*(*)
Jump
(Where Comedy Meets Combat)
Yam Gam Inc (Soeul, South Korea)
Assemby@Assembly Hall
*****
The
Ladyboys of Bangkok
Gandey World Class Productions
Directed & Produced by Carol and Phillip Gandey
Meadows Theatre Big Top
****(*)
Laurel
and Laurel
By Bob Kingdom
Assembly Rooms
***
Life
in Show
By Catherine O'Shea
Aireborn Theatre Company
Baby Belly
***
(Review by Peter Lathan)
Life
in Show
By Catherine O'Shea
Underbelly
***
(Review by Philip Fisher)
Lifeline
Matilda Leyser
Aurora Nova@St Stephens
***
Lilita
By Tracy Keeling and Mary Cimino
The Allies Theatre Company
Underbelly
**(*)
Lilith
Act Provocateur Int.
By Andy McQuade and Victor Sobchak
C Electric (Screen 4)
***(*)
A
Limited Run
RPM Arts Ltd
Gilded Balloon Teviot
*****
Linda
Marlowe - Mortal Ladies Possessed
By Matthew Hurt
Festival Highlights
Assembly Rooms George Street
***
Living
Pretty
By Ray Brown
Normal Productions in association with the Leicester Haymarket
Theatre Workshop
****
Lost
Ones
By Matthew Lenton
Vanishing Point Theatre Company
Pleasance Grand (Pleasance Courtyard)
*****
Love
Hurts
By Frank Bramwell
Heart Productions
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy
***(*)
Love
Sick
By Charlotte Riley, Dan Ford and Alex Ferguson
Underbelly
****
Lysistrata's
War: A Rock Opera
By David Hamilton and Mark D. Williams
Lake Tahoe Community College
C Too
**
Macbeth
Killing Time
By Frank Bramwell
Heart Productions
Rocket @ Demarco Roxy
****
Macbeth
The Hour
By William Shakespeare
C Chambers Street
****
MacHomer
By Rick Miller
Assembly Rooms
****
The
Magnets - Magnetude
Assembly @ St George's West
***
The
Maids
By Jean Genet
RSAMD and Pollenpot Theatre
Venue 13, Lochend Close
**(*)
Manifest
Destiny
Music by Keith Burnstein, libretto by Dic Edwards
Daniel X Opera
Assembly @ St George's West
*****
Me,
My Cello and I
By Rebecca Carrington
Assembly Rooms
***
Midsummer
Night's Dream From The East
Yohangza Theatre Company
C
*****
Milk
Festival Highlights - Pez en Raya
Pleasance Courtyard
***
Minor
Irritations
By Sam Peter Jackson
Instant Irritant Productions
Pleasance Dome
***
Missing
Persons
By Colin Teevan
Assembly Rooms
****
Miss
Julie
By August Strindberg
Act Provocateur International
C Electric
***
A
Mobile Thriller
By Renato Gabrielli, translated by Maggie Rose
The Hush Car
****
Mortal
Ladies Possessed
By Tennessee Williams, adapted by Matthew Hurt
Assembly Rooms
****
My
Pyramids
By Judith Thompson
Traverse 1
***
The
Mystery of Chung Ling Soo
By Adam Koplan and Amy Boyce
C Chambers Street
****
National
Hero
By Terry Mackay
Pleasance Dome
****
Newsrevue
24/7
Canal Café Theatre
C Electric, Edinburgh
****
NFW
By Kirsty McGovern
Gilded Balloon
*
The
Night Shift
By Mark Murphy
BAC
Traverse 2
****
(Reviewer: Rachel Lynn Brody)
The
Night Shift
By Mark Murphy
Traverse 2
***
(Reviewer: Philip Fisher)
An
Oak Tree
by Tim Crouch
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
****
The
Odd Couple
By Neil Simon
Assembly Hall
****
(Reviewer: Philip Fisher)
The
Odd Couple
By Neil Simon
Assembly Hall
****
(Reviewer: Peter Lathan)
One
Man Went To Busk
By Matthew McVarish
pendfringe@gateway
Week 0 only
****(*)
On
the Scent
Lois Weaver, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris
Curious
Smirnoff Underbelly installation in a top floor flat in Edinburgh
New Town
****
The
Opening
Written and devised by the company
Bad Penny Theatre
The Underbelly
**
Parade
Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, co-conceived
by Hal Prince
Giudecca Productions
Komedia Southside
*****
Petrograd
By Van Badham
Pleasance Courtyard
***
Pillar
Talk/Slapdash
By Edward Petherbridge
Pleasance Dome
***
The
Pitchfork Disney
By Philip Ridley
About Turn Theatre Company
Rocket @ Roxy Arthouse
***
Playing
Burton
By Mark Jenkins
Pleasance Dome
***
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Playing
Burton
by Mark Jenkins
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
***(*)
(Reviewed by David Chadderton)
Pramface
Northern Girl Productions
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****
Pricked
By Anita Sullivan
Assembly Rooms
*****
Product
By Mark Ravenhill
Traverse 2
****
The
Race
Gecko
Aurora Nova@St Stephen's
*****
The
Red Shoes
After Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Stephe Harrop
Touch My Toes Theatre
C Central
**(*)
Ren-sa
Darren Johnston array
Aurora Nova@St Stephens
****(*)
Rhod
Gilbert's 1984
Pleasance Courtyard
***
The
Road to Boothby Graffoe
The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh
****
The
Road to Pisa
Festival Highlights - The Black Sheep
Pleasance Courtyard
***(*)
Russian
Beauty
By Victor Sobchak
C Electric
**
Saint
Oedipus
Wierszalin Theatre, Poland
Theatre Workshop
*****
School
Ties
By the Brothers Kaufman
C
*****
Screwmachine/Eyecandy
By C.J. Hopkins
Assembly Rooms
*****
Seb
Lime
NUTS
C Chambers Street
****
Shi-Zen,
7 Bowls
Lume (Brazil) and Tadashi Endo (Japan)
Aurora Nova@St Stephen's
*****
Sisters
By Declan Hassett
Assembly Rooms
****
Sleep…less…ness
Do-Theatre
AuroraNova@St Stephens
***
Snuff
By Davey Anderson
Arches Theatre Company
Traverse 2
***
(Reviewer: Rachel Lynn Body)
Snuff
By Davey Anderson
Traverse 2
***
(Reviewer: Philip Fisher)
Some
Explicit Polaroids
By Mark Ravenhill
Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group
Diverse Attractions
***
Something
Dark - Lem Sissay
Apples and Snakes
Theatre Workshop
****
Squeezebox
By Anne Randolph
Assembly Rooms
***
Stories
For the Wobbly Hearted
by Daniel Kitson
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
*****
Stuck
up a Tree
By Rachel Lynn Brody
Royal Botanical Gardens
****
Subverse
(Show A)
(Plays by Steve Hughes, Benjamin Young, Adrian Page, Jihan Crowther,
Rebecca Wojciechowski, Peter Norgate, Adrian Page, and Dawn King.)
LOST Theatre Company
C Central
*****
Sweet
Love Adieu
By Eyan J-W Smitht
Abandon Theatre
Komedia Southside
****
Swift
Devised and performed by Jeffrey Mayhew
Assembly Rooms
****
(Reviewed by Peter Lathan)
Swift
By Jeffrey Mayhew
Assembly Rooms
****
(Reviewed by Philip Fisher)
Switch
Triptych
By Adriano Shaplin
The Riot Group
Assembly Rooms
****
Telling
Tales
NE66 Productions
Roman Eagle Lodge
**
Terrorist!
The Musical
Devised and performed by Bad Penny Theatre
Smirnoff Underbelly (Big Belly)
***
Terry
Pratchett's Maskerade
Wonderland Productions
C Electric
**(*)
A
Thousand National Shocks
By TEAM
C Central
*
The
Threepenny Opera
By Bertolt Brecht, with music by Kurt Weill
Cambridge University Broadway Savoyards
C Too
***
(Reviewed by Peter Lathan)
The
Threepenny Opera
By Berthold Brecht
The Cambridge University Broadway Savoyards
C Too
****
(Reviewed by Rachel Lynn Brody)
Trad
By Mark Doherty
Assembly Rooms
**
Tropea:
Couch Potatoes' Paradise
Laroque Dance Company/Helene Weinzierl
AuroraNova@St Stephens
***
Ubu
By Alfred Jary, translated and adapted by Martin Danziger and the
company
Theatre Modo
Baby Belly
*****
Untitled
Napier Drama Society
St. Augustine's
***
The
Waiting Room
By Isabel Wright
Pend Fringe @ Gateway
*
We
Love You Arthur
By Fiona Evans
Northern Firebrand and New Writing North
Assembly Rooms
****
Where
Spirits and Fairies Dwell
Kawasemi-Za
Story by Yoshiya Yamamoto and Izumi Masumura
C
***
The
Witching Hour: Late Night Ghost Stories
Panda Theatre Company
The Pleasance
***(*)
Yeehad!
The Musical
The Greater Los Angeles Performance Arts Project
By William Whitehurst
C Electric
****
Yin-Yang
Mu Mu Productions
George Square Theatre
*****
You
Might as Well Live
By Christian Spurrier
Pleasance Courtyard
***
Zoo
Story
By Edward Albee
Zoo Productions
Gilded Balloon Teviot
****(*)
