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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 in 22 Shows

Posted by Mert Dilek | 28th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom

This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...

A Gathering of Absence: The Multimedia Performance of “Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs”

Posted by Yizhou Zhang | 21st Aug 2021 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Film, Transmedia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Abandoned Shores / Negative Photographs (Turkish: Terk Edilmiş Kıyılar // Negatif Fotoğraflar) by...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Solo Performances

Posted by Mert Dilek | 6th Sep 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Stalkers, heroes, and cult leaders. Depression, maternity, and citizenship. Edinburgh Festival...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: After the Fact

Posted by Mert Dilek | 5th Sep 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Facts can be stranger than fiction. Every year, this truism gets demonstrated afresh—and with an...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Aditi Mittal, Sumit Anand and Devang Tewari On Their Journey to Edinburgh

Posted by Malavika Balasubramanian | 3rd Sep 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Essay, India, United Kingdom

For years, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, those three performance-packed weeks in August, has been...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Female-Led Narratives

Posted by Mert Dilek | 1st Sep 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Sisterhood and female companionship were at the heart of some of the most popular plays at the...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Anthropocene

Posted by Mert Dilek | 30th Aug 2019 | Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

It should be not at all surprising that climate change was one of the hot topics of this year’s...

On The Other Side Of “Ant Street”: An Interview With Theatre Director Oliver Micevski

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 17th Aug 2019 | Directing, Hungary, Interview, Macedonia, Transcultural Collaborations

Oliver Micevski (b. Skopje, Macedonia, 1980) is one of the most creative and intelligently...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era” at Zoo Southside

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2019 | Belgium, Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Since their first understated but instantly successful visit to Edinburgh in 2008 with their...

“Europe” at The Donmar Warehouse

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...

“Garry” at The White Bear Theatre

Posted by Laura Kressly | 3rd Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK

In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...

Adapting Identities: Freya Treutmann’s “Scratches” And “Evidence Of Codes” In Edinburgh

Posted by Armando Rotondi | 3rd Oct 2018 | Adaptation, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom

The relation between identity and performance is one of the strongest topics in the field of...

“Blackthorn,” Edinburgh Fringe–Review: “Like One Day Set In A Yorkshire Farming Community”

Posted by Emily Jupp | 12th Sep 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Charley Miles’s brilliant debut play is as interwoven as the thorny bush of its title Blackthorn...

The Most Unusual Comedy Shows At The Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Posted by Alice Jones | 4th Sep 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

From shows you control with your phone to tap-dancing economics lessons, these comedians do things...

“Angry Alan” – Edinburgh Fringe Review: An Open Examination Of The Men’s Rights Movement

Posted by Emily Jupp | 27th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Angry Alan Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh ★★★★★ Playwright Penelope Skinner’s new work, Angry Alan,...

“Jayde Adams” at Edinburgh Fringe, Review: A Rafter-Rattling Hour From The Bristolian Diva

Posted by Alice Jones | 25th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom

Jayde Adams Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh ★★★ Jayde Adams is playing the Edinburgh Fringe in a...

Polish Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Posted by Kasia Lech | 14th Jul 2018 | Festivals, News, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad

The 2018 Edinburgh Fringe will be particularly exciting for those interested in Polish theatre....

Arab Arts Focus To Be Featured In Festival Off Avignon

Posted by Omar Aladin and Mariam Barakat | 11th Jul 2018 | Egypt, Festivals, France, News

Managed by Ahmed El-Attar, the Arab Arts Focus program features artists from across the Arab...

Nassim Soleimanpour and the Manila Envelope Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 18th Oct 2017 | Iran, Playwriting, Review

Seven years ago, a new play challenged the role of the actor, the playwright, the audience, and the capacity of one individual to travel. The play was White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written by the mysterious Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian writer who encouraged the audience to email him with impressions about his play.