The Very Best of the Edinburgh Festivals 2024

Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team

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Sarah Keyworth | Photo by Matt Crockett
Published 25 Aug 2024

Comedy

★★★★

Sarah Keyworth: My Eyes Are Up Here

★★★★

Alex Hines: Putting on a Show
Andrew Doherty: Gay Witch Sex Cult
Anna Akana: It Gets Darker
Caitriona Dowden is Holier Than Thou
Chloe Petts: How You See Me, How You Don't
Dan Tiernan: Stomp
Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip
Ed Night: The Plunge
Elaine Robertson: Delulu
Elliot Steel: Soft Boi Core
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble
Garry Starr: Classic Penguins
Hannah Gadsby: Woof!
Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism
Jack Skipper: Skint
Jin Hao Li: Swimming in a Submarine
Jo Caulfield: Pearls Before Swine
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe...
John Tothill: Thank God This Lasts Forever
Josh Glanc: Family Man
Kemah Bob: Miss Fortunate
Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism)
Laura Davis: Albatross
Lauren Pattison: Big Girl Pants
Lil Wenker: BANGTAIL
Lou Wall: The Bisexual's Lament
Madame Chandelier Saves Opera
Mat Ewins: Ewins Some You Lose Some
Michelle Brasier: Legacy
Natalie Palamides: WEER
#1 Son – Natasha Mercado
Olga Koch Comes From Money
Olivia Levine: Unstuck
Paddy Young: If I Told You I'd Have to Kiss You
Patti Harrison: My Huge Tits Huge Because They Are Infected NOT FAKE
Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
Phil Ellis: Come and Take the Rest of Me
Rahul Subramanian: Who Are You?
Raul Kohli: Raul Britannia
Riki Lindhome: Dead Inside
Runi Talwar
Trygve Wakenshaw: Silly Little Things

Theatre

★★★★

So Young
The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return

★★★★

A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams
A Knock on the Roof by Khawla Ibraheem
A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or GodAll the Fraudulent Horse Girls
Bark Bark
BATSHIT
Burnout Paradise
Carousel
Comala, Comala
Cyrano
DRUM
Failure Project
Good Luck, Cathrine Frost!
I'm Almost There
In Two Minds
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me
L'Addition
Main Character Energy
The Mosinee Project
Or What's Left of Us
Òran
Piskie
Playfight
Precious Cargo
REVENGE: After the Levoyah
Solve It Squad
The Shroud Maker
The Signalman
Ugly Sisters
VL
Weather Girl
Werewolf

Cabaret and Variety 

★★★★

Polly & Esther
Swamplesque
These Are the Contents of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show)

Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus

★★★★

Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight
Sawdust Symphony
The Flock and Moving Cloud

★★★★

Cosmos
Lewis Major: Lien
OH OH
Ten Thousand Hours
The Show for Young Men
Show Pony

Music

★★★★

Pop Off, Michelangelo!
Who Do Ya Love?

Edinburgh International Festival 

★★★★

After the Silence
Cat Power Plays Dylan '66

Grupo Corpo
Hamlet
Nigamon / Tunai
Oedipus Rex
The Fifth Step
The Outrun