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Reviews

Gilded Balloon @ Patter House

Mythos: Ragnarok

A phenomenal blend of theatrical storytelling and professional wrestling

Gilded Balloon Teviot

Vermin

An unnerving experience excellently performed

Saloum

Unfeasibly cool genre mashup gives us an exciting new voice in west-African action cinema

Festival Theatre Studio

Detention Dialogues

An insightful and thought-provoking examination of the treatment of asylum seekers

A Ladder to the Stars
Gilded Balloon Teviot

A Ladder To The Stars

Utterly charming puppet-powered tale of dreams, ageing and loss by Scottish company Visible Fictions

Double Drop
Summerhall

Double Drop

Uplifting comedy culture clash about a young girl torn between Welsh arts and rave

Little Women
Assembly Rooms

Little Women

Musical adaptation of the famous book is frothy, fun and full of heart

La Merda
Summerhall

La Merda

Breathtaking physical theatre with an extraordinary central performance

Festival Theatre

A Little Life

A touching beautiful story exploring the redemptive power of male friendship

Leith Theatre

Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is passionate, funny, heartwarming and eminently relatable – a true poet for our times

Leith Theatre

Arab Strap

Cult duo seamlessly blend the old with the new, proving that boozy existentialism and withering bile will never go out of style