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Reviews

Pleasance Courtyard

Ultimatum

Incisive two-hander is minimalist in approach yet complex in execution

Eh Up Me Old Flowers
Pleasance Courtyard

Eh Up, Me Old Flowers!

Illuminating biography puts the contradictions of UK’s first primetime black comic under the microscope

An Evening Without Kate Bush
Assembly George Square Gardens

An Evening Without Kate Bush

Join the shoal as you become one of the Fish People and explore the music of the influential singer

Seayonce
Assembly Roxy

Séayoncé: Res-Erection

The fortune ball detects great music, entertaining audience participation, all the puns and some unexpected touching moments

She Wolves
Greenside @ Nicolson Square

She-Wolves

A moving and educational display of dancing prowess that loosens the male grip on history in sensational fashion

Famous Puppet Death Scenes
Assembly Roxy

Famous Puppet Death Scenes

A ridiculous, solemn and, above all, funny mockery of death, told through puppets and wacky imagination

Festival Theatre

Rusalka

Dvořák’s opera wonderfully captures movement and design, but is light on aria

Billy Boy
Gilded Balloon Teviot

Billy Boy

Humour abounds in raw account of life as a ‘bonie’ in Northern Ireland

Mighty Fall From Grace
theSpace on North Bridge

A Mighty Fall From Grace

A young man’s fortunes become entwined with the demise of the rugby league club he supports in this Fringe debut

Pete Heat
Gilded Balloon Teviot

Pete Heat: Blimey

Like all the best magicians, Heat knows that we know he’s lying to us, and delights in dancing on right on the edge of that delicate line.

Edinburgh Playhouse

The Pulse

Voice and movement combine beautifully in pulsating performance