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Nerds review – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates go toe-to-toe in a rollicking rap battle

www.silverguide.site – The two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft…
Nerds review – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates go toe-to-toe in a rollicking rap battle

Tim Key: Loganberry review – blissfully funny set from a standup in total control

www.silverguide.site – Key’s total command of his style, seemingly up in arms about being called middle-aged, is an expert game of cat-and-mouse…
Tim Key: Loganberry review – blissfully funny set from a standup in total control

I’m Ready to Talk Now review – unsettling bedtime story for an audience of one

www.silverguide.site – Oliver Ayres tucks you in for an intimate account of his diagnosis with a severe and chronic immune condition, and the effect of transphobia…
I’m Ready to Talk Now review – unsettling bedtime story for an audience of one

‘It’s a brigade of old gits!’ Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh

www.silverguide.site – At a festival so often dominated by bold young talent, it’s veteran performers stealing the spotlight this year. We meet them – from household names to octogenarian newcomers…
‘It’s a brigade of old gits!’ Miriam Margolyes, Andy Linden and the older performers storming Edinburgh

Luke McQueen: Comedian’s Comedian review – lord of mischief gatecrashes the popular podcast

www.silverguide.site – The tricksy standup uses AI to create his own episode of the long-running interview series on which he’s never been invited…
Luke McQueen: Comedian’s Comedian review – lord of mischief gatecrashes the popular podcast

The Burns Project review – Scotland’s national poet in all his glory and contradictions

www.silverguide.site – Drawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett’s imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love life…
The Burns Project review – Scotland’s national poet in all his glory and contradictions

Bad dates and bath bombs: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2025

www.silverguide.site – The festival’s best joke award may have been binned this year, but the one-liners keep on coming. Here are our favourites…
Bad dates and bath bombs: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2025

‘TikTok is like an old-school variety show’: what’s behind the surprising boom in ventriloquism?

www.silverguide.site – The once musty old art of voice-throwing is back in vogue on stage and online. Its new hip practitioners – plus 1980s TV mainstay Roger De Courcey – explain why their vocal tricks and errant dummies are wowing audiences again…
‘TikTok is like an old-school variety show’: what’s behind the surprising boom in ventriloquism?

Ohio review – spine-tingling folk harmonies and life’s big questions

www.silverguide.site – Abigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing…
Ohio review – spine-tingling folk harmonies and life’s big questions

The Ode Islands review – a nightmarish head trip unlike anything on the fringe

www.silverguide.site – Visual artist Ornagh conjures a psychedelic, mixed-reality vision preoccupied with identity, sexuality and body image…
The Ode Islands review – a nightmarish head trip unlike anything on the fringe

Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak review – a champion of eccentric hobbies and people power

www.silverguide.site – Victoria Melody’s passion for other people’s passions is in full bloom in a show that finds delight and inspiration in English civil war reenactments…
Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak review – a champion of eccentric hobbies and people power

Circa: Wolf review – snarling, sexy circus show is wildly entertaining

www.silverguide.site – Brisbane’s Circa are consummate pros, achieving acrobatic feats edged with animal instincts…
Circa: Wolf review – snarling, sexy circus show is wildly entertaining

‘Use your other senses’: pioneering show for the blind hits Edinburgh

www.silverguide.site – Paulo Palado’s pitch-dark production opens up possibilities by putting visually impaired and sighted in the same position…
‘Use your other senses’: pioneering show for the blind hits Edinburgh

Windblown review – haunting elegy for a felled 200-year-old natural wonder

www.silverguide.site – An exquisite mix of song, poetry and spoken word, Karine Polwart’s show about the Royal Botanic Garden’s iconic palm tree stands tall…
Windblown review – haunting elegy for a felled 200-year-old natural wonder

Choir review – sweet harmonies and slapstick in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s musical heartwarmer

www.silverguide.site – A stressed out community choir rehearse pop hits ahead of a TV appearance in this uncharacteristically feelgood comedy from the usually hard-hitting Bhatti…
Choir review – sweet harmonies and slapstick in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s musical heartwarmer

Lily Phillips: Crying review – laughing through the toxic positivity around childbirth

www.silverguide.site – Amusing vignettes about arrogant consultants and undignified poos keep things light as Phillips documents a harrowing hospital experience…
Lily Phillips: Crying review – laughing through the toxic positivity around childbirth

Red Like Fruit review – this shocking tale of sexual violence is a puzzle

www.silverguide.site – In Hannah Moscovitch’s powerful play, a journalist’s triggered memories of abuse are voiced by a man…
Red Like Fruit review – this shocking tale of sexual violence is a puzzle

Ordinary Decent Criminal review – Mark Thomas powers through tense prison drama

www.silverguide.site – Thomas jumps adeptly from terrorist to drug lord in writer Ed Edwards’s gripping and subtle one-man show…
Ordinary Decent Criminal review – Mark Thomas powers through tense prison drama

Niusia review – hard family history lessons and taboo-busting humour

www.silverguide.site – Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor…
Niusia review – hard family history lessons and taboo-busting humour

Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People review – ‘best joke of the fringe’ winner serves up silliness

www.silverguide.site – The character comic returns with another daft set of surreal characters and sharp one-liners – this time stuck in an open-all-hours cafe…
Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People review – ‘best joke of the fringe’ winner serves up silliness
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