The Best of the 2022 Edinburgh Festivals

Comedy

★★★★★

Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird?

★★★★

ALOK
Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not
Bianca Del Rio: Unsanitized 
Brennan Reece: Crowded
Britney: Friends and Nothing More
Chelsea Birkby: No More Mr Nice Chelsea
Chloe Petts: Transience
Emily Wilson: Fixed
Frankie Thompson: Catts
Garry Starr: Greece Lightning
Jazz Emu: You Shouldn't Have
Josh Pugh: Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips and Beans
Josie Long: Re-Enchantment 
Joz Norris: Blink
Kate Barron: Losing Myself
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Home Truths
Lara Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF
Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!
Liz Kingsman: One-Woman Show
Lou Sanders: One Word: Wow
Mark Thomas: Black and White
MC Hammersmith: One Man Eight Mile
Michelle Brasier: Average Bear
Mr Chonkers
Olga Koch: Just Friends
Randy Feltface: Alien of Extraordinary Ability
Sam See: Government-Approved Sex
Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy
Sophie Duker: Hag
Stewart Lee: Snowflake
Susie McCabe: Born Believer
Two Hearts: We're Pregnant and the Baby is Music
Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa: Monsoon Season
Where's Your Head At?
Zach Zucker: Spectacular Industry Showcase (Made for TV)

 

Happy Meal, photo by Lottie Amor

Theatre

★★★★★

Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible Is Going to Happen
Good Grief 
Happy Meal 

★★★★

Age is a Feeling
Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical
Boy
Brown Boys Swim
Caste-ing 
Clara: Sex, Love and Classical Music
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
Ghosts of the Near Future
Hungry
Made in India-Britain
Masterclass
Never Let Go: An Unauthorized Retelling of James Cameron’s Titanic
Peaceophobia
Psychodrama
Silkworm
Svengali
The Funny Thing About Death 
The Last Return
The Not So Ugly Duckling
This is Not a Show About Hong Kong
WILF
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Six Stories, photo by KCCUK

Music

★★★★★

Six Stories

★★★★

D Ý R A
Saved
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder

The Chosen Haram, image courtesy of Summerhall

Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus

★★★★★

The Chosen Haram

★★★★

Antigone, Interrupted
He's Dead
Muse
Night Dances
Sense of Centre
Taiwan Season: Tomato 

Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales, photo by Magnus Hastings

Cabaret and Variety 

★★★★★

Blunderland

★★★★

Final Baby Girl!
Jinkx Monsoon: She's Still Got It! (with Major Scales)
Sugarcoated Sisters: Bittersweet

Counting and Cracking, image courtesy of EIF

Edinburgh International Festival

★★★★★

The Book of Life
Coppélia

★★★★

A Wee Journey
Counting and Cracking
Medea
Princess Nokia
Sharon Kam & Enrico Pace
Room
Rusalka
When You Walk Over My Grave