Review Round-Ups

Our review round-up from the Edinburgh Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival

A summary of our critics’ coverage of the world’s biggest arts festivals

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| Edinburgh |

19 August 2024

Performers and audience members at the Edinburgh Fringe
Performers and audience members at the Edinburgh Fringe, © David Monteith-Hodge

What have our critics been wowed by at the Edinburgh Fringe? We’ll be updating this list across the month as more verdicts come in… but see what has bagged the top spots so far!

FIVE STARS

I’m Almost There – read our review

Josephine Lacey: Autism Mama – read our review

Weather Girl – read our review

FOUR STARS

The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return – read our review

Come Dine With Me: The Musical – read our review

Cyrano – read our review

Dylan Mulvaney’s F*ghag – read our review

DIVA: Live from Hell! (old review)read here

Every Brilliant Thing – read our review

Failure Project – read our review

The Fifth Step – read our review

House of Cleopatra – read our review

How I Learned to Swim – read our review

Hyper – read our review

Instructions – read our review

I Wish You Well – read our review

Jake Roche: Neporrhoids read our review

A Knock on the Roof – read our review

My English Persian Kitchen – read our review

My Mother’s Funeral: The Show – read our review

My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (old review) read here

Natalie Palamides: Weer – read our review

Nation – read our review

One Man Musicalread our review

Or What’s Left of Us – read our review

Playfight – read our review

Same Team – read our review

The Sound Inside – read our review

So Young – read our review

Trainspotting Live – read our review

VL – read our review

THREE STARS

#1 Son – Natasha Mercado – read our review

44 Sex Acts in One Week – read our review

Batsh*t – read our review

Drum – read our review

A History of Paper – read our review

House of Life – read our review

A Jaffa Cake Musical – read our review

Jobsworth – read our review

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me – read our review

Lash – read our review

A Little Inquest Into What We’re Doing Here – read our review

Main Character Energy – read our review

Silence! the Musical – The Unauthorised Parody of The Silence of the Lambs – read our review

Tones – A Hip-Hop Opera – read our review

Who Do Ya Love?read our review

TWO STARS

Bellringers – read our review

The Book of Mountains and Seas – read our review

In Two Minds – read our review

The Mosinee Projectread our review

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