Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Released Wednesday, 13th August 2025
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Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Wednesday, 13th August 2025
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Scottish Ballet's new production Mary, Queen of Scots is a punk inspired production which tells the story of the ill-fated queen through the imagination and memories of her cousin, Elizabeth I, who authorised her execution. And a Fringe production Mary Queen of Rock portrays Mary as a rock star in a world in which rock and roll is banned. We discuss why her story continues to inspire so many productions today.

Eva Victor, star of Sorry, Baby, the opening film of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, talks about her darkly comic treatment of the aftermath of a sexual assault.

Theatre critics Fergus Morgan and Neil Cooper talk us through some of the highlights of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe - from Eat the Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates X), a one-woman show by Liverpudlian actor and director Jade Franks in which she tells the story of being a misfit at Cambridge University to Lost Lear, a retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear told through the eyes of a woman with dementia.

Plus a live performance from musician Hamish Hawk, who is paying tribute to the late great poet and eccentric Ivor Cutler at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, complete with Cutler's own harmonium.

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