Illustrations by Grace McKenna Public memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has long been shaped by a U.S.-centred narrative that frames the...

Rating: ★★ Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Fringe Festival offering this year follows a female surgeon stepping into the shoes...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna I did not want to bring her to the backyard. Because it overflows with rotten tomatoes.    I was addicted...

Rating: ★★★★ Having been thoroughly impressed by previous shows put on by The University of Edinburgh's Theatre Paradok, I went into...

Rating: ★★★★ I wasn’t sure what to expect walking into Peter Sawkin’s debut Fringe Show. A bit of family-friendly fun from the youngest...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans/genes.’ It’s a tagline that’s ricocheted across social media, sparking...

Rating: ★★ SPOILER-FREE BITESIZE: Nothing itches my brain like a new take on dystopia, or using dystopia as a means for new ideas, but...

Rating: ★★★★★ On what was otherwise an ordinary Tuesday evening in Edinburgh, four members of Pussy Riot   shook Summerhall to its very...

Rating: ★★★★★ I went into this year’s Fringe feeling pretty cynical. Too many people and too many shows, most of which were starting to...

Rating: ★★★.5 ‘How can we make them look when they don’t want to see?’ The Truth About Trees from Apropos Theatre is a heartwarming and...

Rating: ★★★★ When I went to see Cody and Beau: A Wild West Story at theSpace @ Niddry Street, I had my notebook and pen at the ready...

EUSOG, Merrily We Roll Along Rating: ★★★★ EUSOG’s 2025 Fringe outing is an entertaining though at times unambitious staging of Sondheim’s...

Rating: ★★★.5 “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding; what if laughter were really tears?” The quote from Kierkegard is...

EUTC, Sins of the Mother Rating: ★★★★ ‘…you have one fucked up family, Mark.’ SPOILER FREE BITESIZE The Edinburgh University Theatre...

'Nettles', Ethel Cain (Spotify, 2025) Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Content Warning: this article mentions transphobia, homophobia, sexual violence,...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna With Coachella in April and the Met Gala in May, for the last few months my social media has been flooded...

Rating: ★ ★ ★ There are blossoms on the Meadows, the nostalgic smell of disposable BBQs is lingering in the air, and Newington’s pubs are...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna Dip your fingers in my scalp. Touch the warm patches the sun left behind. Sully the straight division,...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna I crave some sort of ghostly hereafter, History is a myth, after all. My hands swallowed and unswallowed...

Illustrations by Grace McKenna Content warning: contains The White Lotus spoilers and references to sexual assault and eating disorders....