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ZOO Playground

Only Fans for Therapy

A brave show that refuses easy answers

Summerhall

Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

ZOO Playground

Japanese Grandma Funeral

Zany clowning that will pluck your heart out of your chest

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Summerhall

Jitters

Whip-smart wedding day comedy

Royal Lyceum Theatre

HANG TIME

Disquietingly-staged theatre that seethes with stark injustice

ZOO Playground

Only Fans for Therapy

A brave show that refuses easy answers

Summerhall

The Plot

Complex conspiracy, carefully crafted

Summerhall

Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

ZOO Southside

Aliens

Wide-ranging documentary theatre draws clear parallels between a century of family history

Lambchop
Punching the Clown

Kurt Wagner makes a stylistic leap to unadorned simplicity

Sweeping Promises
You Say I Romanticize

New album mines post-punk

Margaret Glaspy
I Am Both

Fourth album is raw, hushed and beautiful

Joyeria
Decay Decay Decay

A debut album that’s fully formed

Wild Gods
The Glorious Abysmal

An eerie reckoning of an album

Richard Ayoade
Afterthoughts

Comedy star’s latest philosophical musings are nutty and pithy

Edinburgh Fringe

Greenside @ Riddle's Court

One-Man Poe

Less means more in a characterful interpretation of much-loved gothic tales

theSpace on Niddry Street

A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First

Boyish exuberance belies a wistful study of innocence lost

Assembly Roxy

Rory Cargill: Television 1

Loving TV parody elicits mixed reception

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Summerhall

Jitters

Whip-smart wedding day comedy

Royal Lyceum Theatre

HANG TIME

Disquietingly-staged theatre that seethes with stark injustice

ZOO Playground

Only Fans for Therapy

A brave show that refuses easy answers

ZOO Playground

Japanese Grandma Funeral

Zany clowning that will pluck your heart out of your chest

Hoots @ The Apex

Rhino Conservation Erotic Novel

Instagram funny guys leap convincingly from screen to stage

Bedlam Theatre

Hard Pill

Uni sex comedy is solid but fumbles

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Piano Afternoons: Susan Tomes plays Nocturnes

Sublime recitals lead the laudiences through a crepuscular ‘ballet of the moths’

St Vincent’s Chapel

Hans Zimmer’s Hollywood

When cinematic nostalgia doesn’t quite click

The Garrison

Jim E. Brown

Anything but bucolic

Summerhall

Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

Assembly Roxy

Dusk/ Night/ Dawn

Visually stunning performance art

Summerhall

Glass Child

Wonderfully moving dance theatre that shines a light on the often excluded

dance

spoken word

theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall

ADEY

Touching poetic thank-you note to a mother and a community

theSpace @ Symposium Hall

Lawrence of Arabia and ME

Fascinating insight into one of the world’s most famous Arabists

artSpace@StMarks

The Song of the Ice

A stunning audio-visial experience and a meaningful opportunity to slow down during Fringe

First Zone

Environmental drama suffers a little from a lack of narrative context

Out There

The Truth is in here. A quintessentially Welsh film that’s conceptually all over the place

Skintown

Masterful adaption from page to screen fuels this wonderful blast of ’90s nostalgia

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Lambchop
Punching the Clown

Sweeping Promises
You Say I Romanticize

Margaret Glaspy
I Am Both

Joyeria
Decay Decay Decay

Wild Gods
The Glorious Abysmal

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
A ? of WHEN

Albums

Richard Ayoade
Afterthoughts

John Robb
Punk Rock Ruined My Life & Other Stories

Byeong-mo
The Old Woman with the Knife

Merryn Glover
The Hidden Fires

James Canton
Grounded

Renato Cisneros
You Shall Leave Your Land

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Usher Hall

Puccini’s Suor Angelica

London Symphony deliver a magnificent rendition of Puccini’s one-act opera

Word

theSpace @ Surgeon's Hall

ADEY

Touching poetic thank-you note to a mother and a community

visual art

artSpace@StMarks

The Song of the Ice

A stunning audio-visial experience and a meaningful opportunity to slow down during Fringe

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Summerhall

Good Enough?

Astonishing emotional, confessional dance is more than good enough

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