Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh Sam Ward takes hints from his audience to imagine how their lives could go from here, in a bittersweet contemplation of fate There is a joke in Waiting fo…
The Hub, Edinburgh Liz Lochhead's Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensity, in this National Theatre of Scotland staging Everybody is …
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Welsh's band of unruly misfits reunite " 15 years older " in an intense, dark farce that rushes to a conclusion all too soon For all that the characters of Tra…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghA Nigerian couple seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual persecution are put to the test as the government's probing questions seep into the cracks of their relation…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghDaniel Hoffmann-Gill restages his father's funeral to give his eulogy the audience it deserves in this tender, honest show I write as someone who got a laugh…
Pitlochry Festival theatreDavid Greig's two-hander adapted from Charlotte Higgins's nonfiction book about our ancient past is a sweet meander There can't be many plays in which the emotional…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghUsing a VR headset and an empty stage, Tim Crouch puts his audience at one remove from the Shakespeare play to comment on the world and theatre itself On the back wall…
Summerhall/Traverse, EdinburghA pair of fringe plays by James Ley delve into sex parties and mechanophilia, with romance, plenty of wisecracks and a disarming feelgood cheer Who would have t…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlaywright Ben Norris takes the ethical problems with self-driving cars as a metaphor for human uncertainty As we freewheel into the era of the self-driving car…
Just the Tonic Nucleus, EdinburghExploring the late Nirvana star's life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word Kurt Cobain did not die a poetic death, says Cassie…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghIsla Cowan stars in her own play about a young professional driven by callous men and unequal status to bare her fangs Fight, flight or freeze. Those are our response…
Summerhall, EdinburghHaley McGee performs a funny and wistful solo show that chronicles turning 25 and explores the decades ahead How did Haley McGee grow so wise? You would expect a solo fr…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis epic drama charts characters from Colombo in the 50s, through the civil war, before settling in Sydney Two young lovers are considering the future after meeting a…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe impact of a divisive nature v nurture experiment on a pair of twins is the subject of Carly Wijs's captivating production It is the normality of it all that strikes …
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghCold reality intrudes on this modern-day story of emigration set in a mythical land as a stressed single mum battles bureaucracy How to dramatise the refuge…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThis semi-autobiographical tale about the impact of a damaging relationship is empathic and impassioned At first, you think this piece of gig theatre is mor…
Summerhall, EdinburghCompelling one-man play looks at the lack of understanding faced by children with a disability and makes a persuasive plea for change The real drama of Jack Hunter's one…
Traverse, EdinburghEmily Bruni stars as a mid-career actor who thinks she's landed a dream role in a stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho There is a theme emerging on this year's fr…
Traverse, EdinburghUma Nada-Rajah's farce about an MP using intolerance as her ticket to the top job is very timely, but feebly plotted It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah's…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghOntroerend Goed's new show is funny, self-referential and confusing in equal parts This is not the start of the review. The start will come later. This bit is to grab…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud's alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals "Europe has erased the H…
King's theatre, EdinburghCummings' daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin "And still my motto is: I dare," says Alan Cumming at the end of …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghChloe-Ann Tylor is excellent as a monstrous male tennis coach in Eve Nicol's drama examining control and manipulation How do you represent male power on stage …
Traverse, EdinburghTabby Lamb's delightful two-hander is both a sweet comedy and an astute exploration of digital relationships and gender identity Is it coincidence that the increasing acce…
Ashton Hall, St Stephens, EdinburghMcKellen is the only speaker in Peter Schaufuss's eccentric but witless adaptation of Hamlet as narrative ballet Might we be missing some of Hamlet's advic…