I had the chance to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2019, once again to review cabaret and LGBTQ+ shows for the Scotsman.
I caught a couple of dozen shows during my week there – you can read my reviews by following the links below.
Shows in bold got five stars but everything else is recommended too (I chose my own review list and luckily chose well!).
Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing
Black Sheep by Livia Kojo Alour
Madame Chandelier’s Opera House Party
And I shared these links previously but here they are again:
A round-up of four great queer-themed shows:
Wilf | Delicious Fruit | No Place Like Home | Grandmother’s Closet plus a special mention for Ode to Joy (or How Gordon Got to Go to the Nasty Pig Party)
Mat Ricardo: The Extraordinary Gentleman
Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back
An Evening Without Kate Bush by Sarah-Louise Young
Tina Del Twist: Caravan in the Sky
The Silent Treatment by Sarah-Louise Young
Looking for Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood by Paulus aka Paul L. Martin
Fabulett 1933 by Michael Trauffner
Final Baby Girl! by Baby Lame
Other strong recommendations for shows I saw but am not reviewing:
MasterClass by Adrienne Truscott and Feidlim Cannon of Brokentalkers
Gayboys by Craig Manson and Conner Milliken
And I kept hearing great things about The Chosen Haram but wasn’t able to see it.
(I also saw a show called Love and Piss that had its moments but I couldn’t really recommend.)
