Reviews
Bella Hull: Babycakes
Debut hour shows talent but is hampered by its presentation
Bloody Elle
Heart-warming girl-meets-girl solo musical told through an engaging original score
Rob Madge: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do)
Dazzling and moving mini-musical about a kid who loved musicals
Rouge
A sexy, sensational and soaring display of acrobatics and flaming passion, embracing everything you love about the circus in unexpected ways
CUMTS: SLEEPOVER
Brushes some light tonal inconsistency aside with a funny, insightful, and subversive piece of student theatre
Jessica Fostekew: Wench
Small talk, big talk and everything in between in this enjoyable hour of stand-up
Badass
Mills is a good writer, and despite a few stumbles the quality of her material is plain to see
Death Bells
Between Here & Everywhere
Third album from the Aussie transplants feels a bit more polished, but they’ve still got a few dark corners to explore
TA DA – The Ramblings of a Magician
Entertaining, impressive, and low key display from unassuming magician making his Edinburgh debut
An Idiom’s Guide to the Galaxy
Light-hearted, funny trip through an array of idioms, from ‘Bob’s your uncle’, to ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’.
Frances Chang
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Bedroom recorded debut album from Brooklyn multidisciplinary artist.
Ben Shemie
Desiderata
Suuns frontman continues to use his solo excursions to push his experimental tendencies, but the heart of a songwriter is never far from the surface