The Edinburgh Fringe, the world's biggest mixed arts festival, is over for another year.  Here at FringeGuru, we reviewed over 200 separate shows across the 4-week festival... and we found some inspiring highlights from well-known and debut companies alike.  We'll do it all over again in 2012!

The Directors of Fringe Guru Ltd would like to thank our reviewers Alice de Cent, Carmel Doohan, Mathilda Gregory, Rach Hartley-Davison, Sarah Hill, Kirsty Leckie-Palmer, Madeleine Mason, Ellen Macpherson, Eve Nicol, Hannah van den Burgh, Miriam Vaswani, Liv Watson and Lee Zhao; our sub-editors and editors Jennifer Mills and Craig Thomson; our friends at Broadway Baby, the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast, Edinburgh Spotlight, Fest, Festival Previews, FringeReview, Hairline, ThreeWeeks and What's On Stage; Neil MacKinnon and everyone at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society; the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Press Offices of all the Fringe venues for their invaluable assistance during 2011.

We've picked nine of our favourite shows from the Edinburgh Fringe 2011 for our annual Editors' Choice Awards.  Find out more about our choices >>

Theatre [Del] (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Theatre 101 (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Musicals 11 (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre 2401 Objects (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre 4.3 Miles From Nowhere (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre 7 Day Drunk (Reviewed 21 August 2011)  

Theatre After the End (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Comedy Ahir Shah: Astrology (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy Alex Horne: Seven Years in the Bathroom (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy Ali Cook - Principles and Deceptions (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre An Instinct for Kindness (Reviewed 21 August 2011)  

Comedy Andi Osho: All the Single Ladies (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Musicals Apply Within (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Musicals Arabian Nights (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy Ava Vidal: The Hardest Word (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Comedy The Axis of Awesome (Reviewed 25 July 2011)  

Theatre Babushka (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Theatre The Ballad of the Unbeatable Hearts (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Bane 1, 2 and 3 (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Bashir Lazhar (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Belt Up's Outland (Reviewed 7 August 2011)  

Theatre Belt Up's The Boy James (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Belt Up's Twenty Minutes to Nine (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy The Beta Males: The Train Job (Reviewed 6 August 2011)  

Cabaret The Bitch Doctors (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre Black Mirrors (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre Blue Beard Babes (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Bluebeard: A Fairy Tale for Adults (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Comedy Bob and Jim - Modern Urges (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Comedy Brett Goldstein Grew Up in a Strip Club (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Comedy Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre The Cagebirds (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Comedy Carl Sagan is My God, Oh and Richard Feynman Too (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Comedy Caroline Mabey's One Minute Silence (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Caruso and the Monkey House Trial (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Comedy Casual Violence: Choose Death (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Comedy Catriona Knox: Packed Lunch (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Chasing Dragons (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Chris Cox: Fatal Distraction (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Comedy Chris Ramsey: Offermation (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Kids' The Chronicles of Bitter and Twisted (Reviewed 8 August 2011)  

Music Classics at Greyfriars (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Coal Head, Toadstool Mouth and Other Stories (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Theatre Colour Me Happy (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Comedy Come Hell Or High Water This Sick World Will Know I Was Here (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Comedy The Comedy Reserve (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy The Comedy Zone (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Criminy (Reviewed 31 July 2011)  

Theatre The Curse of Macbeth (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Comedy Danny Pensive's Map of Britain (Reviewed 31 July 2011)  

Theatre Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Art David Mach: Precious Light (Reviewed 8 August 2011)  

Comedy David Morgan: Triple Threat (Reviewed 7 August 2011)  

Theatre A Day in November (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre Definitely-Not-Everyman (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Devil in the Detail (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Theatre Diamond Dick (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Dirt (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Theatre Double Act (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Cabaret Doug Segal: I Know What You're Thinking - Free (Reviewed 28 June 2011)  

Theatre The Ducks (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Dust (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Cabaret Dusty Limits - Darkling (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Dying to Help - Free (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Theatre Ed Reardon: A Writer's Burden (Reviewed 31 July 2011)  

Comedy Edward Aczel Doesn't Exist (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Theatre Encounters: Theatre Uncut (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Theatre Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Reviewed 21 August 2011)  

Theatre Fetch (Reviewed 8 August 2011)  

Comedy The Fitzrovia Radio Hour (Reviewed 16 June 2011)  

Comedy Footlights in 'Pretty Little Panic' (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Theatre Force Quit (Reviewed 8 August 2011)  

Comedy Four Screws Loose Present 'Screwed-Over-Again!' (Reviewed 28 August 2011)  

Comedy Francesca Martinez: What the **** is Normal?! (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Free Run (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Musicals FRESHER the Musical (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy Frisky and Mannish: Pop Centre Plus (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy The Fudge Shop (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy Funt (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Comedy Gareth Richards: It's Not the End of the World (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Theatre The Girl With the Iron Claws (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Theatre Go to Your God Like a Soldier (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Comedy The Great Brain Robbery (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre Happiness (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre The Historians (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Theatre Hitler Alone (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Musicals The Hot Mikado (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre Hotel Medea (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Hotel Methuselah (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: The End is Nigh (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy I am Google (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Theatre Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (Reviewed 7 August 2011)  

Theatre If That's All There Is? (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Musicals The Improvised Musical (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy Imran Yusuf - Bring the Thunder (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre The Infant (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre Ink (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Kids' Inventions Going Bang (Reviewed 7 August 2011)  

Comedy Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave (Reviewed 7 August 2011)  

Kids' The Jabberwocky (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Comedy Jack Mink: Making Light (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Comedy Jack Whitehall and his father Michael - Back Chat (Reviewed 13 July 2011)  

Comedy James Acaster: Amongst Other Things (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy Jimmy McGhie: Artificial Intelligence (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy Joe Bor: In Search of the Six Pack (Reviewed 6 July 2011)  

Comedy Joe Wilkinson: My Mum's Called Stella and My Dad's Called Brian (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy Joey Page - Sparklehorse Superbrain (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Comedy John Robins: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Reviewed 6 August 2011)  

Comedy John Scott: Totally Made Up - Totally Free (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Comedy Josie Long: The Future Is Another Place (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Theatre Julius Caesar - Free (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Theatre Kafka and Son (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre Lights, Camera, Walkies (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Art Lineage: Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Kids' List Operators for Kids do Compooters (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Livewire Theatre's Frankenstein (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre Look Back in Anger (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre Lysistrata the Musical (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Kids' Mable Mackintosh and Her Enormous Pants! (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre A Machine To See With (Reviewed 29 August 2011)  

Music The Magnets (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Theatre Malfi (Reviewed 28 August 2011)  

Theatre The Man of Mode (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Comedy Matt Forde: Dishonourable Member (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy Matt Tiller: Just Du-et (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy Matthew Highton's Shadowed Vagary (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Comedy Max and Ivan Are Holmes and Watson (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Comedy McNeil and Pamphilon: Which One Are You? (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Medea (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe (Reviewed 24 June 2011)  

Theatre A Midsummer Night's Dream (Reviewed 28 August 2011)  

Theatre Mojo (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Kids' The Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business (Reviewed 6 August 2011)  

Musicals Monteverdi: Flame and Frost (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Comedy Morgan & West: Crime Solving Magicians (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Cabaret Movin' Melvin Brown: 'A Man, A Magic, A Music' Live! (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy Music Box (Reviewed 21 June 2011)  

Theatre My Best Friend Drowned in a Swimming Pool (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre My Big Gay Italian Wedding (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Naive Dance Masterclass (Reviewed 23 June 2011)  

Comedy Naked in a Fishbowl (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Naz Osmanoglu: 1000% Awesome (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Comedy Neil Dougan - Rough Rared (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Music Nick Keir (Reviewed 7 July 2011)  

Theatre Nobody's Home: A Modern Odyssey (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Comedy The Noise Next Door – Their Finest Hour (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Theatre The Nose (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Theatre Now is the Winter (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Musicals Nunsense (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Theatre Oedipus by Steven Berkoff (After Sophocles) (Reviewed 21 August 2011)  

Cabaret Oliver Meech: Live Brain Surgery - Free (Reviewed 25 July 2011)  

Theatre On the Bench (Reviewed 21 August 2011)  

Theatre One Under (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Musicals Operation Adelmo (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Theatre Ophelia (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Musicals Orpheus and Eurydice (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Music Out of the Blue (Reviewed 11 July 2011)  

Comedy The Pajama Men: In the Middle of No One (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Theatre Paper Tom (Reviewed 31 July 2011)  

Comedy Paul Sinha: Looking at the Stars (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Theatre Perffection (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Phil Nichol: The Simple Hour (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Art Photographic Exhibition: Edinburgh and Beyond (Reviewed 12 August 2011)  

Comedy Piff the Magic Dragon: Last of the Magic Dragons (Reviewed 4 July 2011)  

Comedy Pope Benedict: Bond Villain (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy Prepare to Be Tuned (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre The Pretender (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Theatre Recursion (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Musicals The Ring of Stones (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre Riot (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Theatre Roar (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy Roisin Conaty: Destiny's D*ckhead (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre The Room of Unlimited Possibilities (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Comedy Rosie's Pop Diary (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Russell Kane: Manscaping (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Sara Pascoe vs the Apocalypse (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Comedy Sarah Archer - Bumfluff and Brimstone (Reviewed 28 August 2011)  

Theatre The School of Night (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Dance The Seagull Effect (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Musicals The Selfish Gene: The Musical (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Comedy Set List: Standup Without a Net (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Theatre The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Comedy Seymour Mace: Happypotamus (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre Shakespeare for Breakfast (Reviewed 29 June 2011)  

Comedy Shakespeare's Monkeys (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Theatre Show Me the World (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Sink or Spin (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre Sleeping Beauty (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre Sodom (Reviewed 29 August 2011)  

Theatre Sold (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Dance Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy Steve Hall's Very Still Life (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones (Reviewed 22 June 2011)  

Theatre The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Comedy Strong and Wrong get Funked Up - Free (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Super Crazy Fun Fun - Free (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Theatre Superbard and the Sexy Quantum Stories (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Musicals Sweet Charity (Reviewed 22 August 2011)  

Theatre The Table (Reviewed 13 August 2011)  

Theatre Taketh Me Away (Reviewed 16 August 2011)  

Theatre Theseus is Dead (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre Thirsty (Reviewed 9 August 2011)  

Theatre Thirty Two Teeth (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Theatre This Twisted Tale (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD (Reviewed 8 August 2011)  

Theatre Those Magnificent Men (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Cabaret Three Balls and a New Suit (Reviewed 17 June 2011)  

Comedy Tiffany Stevenson: Cavewoman (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy Tom Bell Begins (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Comedy Tom Deacon: Can I Be Honest? (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Comedy Tom Goodliffe: The Good Liffe (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Comedy Totally Tom (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Theatre Translunar Paradise (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre Trog and Clay (an imagined history of the electric chair) (Reviewed 27 August 2011)  

Comedy The Two Wrongies (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Theatre Vertigo (Reviewed 10 August 2011)  

Comedy Vinegar Knickers: Sketchy Beast (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre Waiting For Alice (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Musicals Wasted Love (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Comedy Wendy Wason's Flashbacks (Reviewed 15 August 2011)  

Theatre What Goes Up (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Theatre What It Feels Like (Reviewed 19 August 2011)  

Theatre Whistle (Reviewed 23 August 2011)  

Theatre White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Reviewed 26 August 2011)  

Comedy Wil Hodgson (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Kids' William (Reviewed 24 August 2011)  

Comedy WitTank (Reviewed 25 August 2011)  

Theatre Witzelsucht and Moria (Reviewed 31 July 2011)  

Comedy Worbey and Farrell: Well Strung! (Reviewed 14 August 2011)  

Comedy The World According to Damien Crow (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Theatre Wrens (Reviewed 11 August 2011)  

Musicals You Want Me To Do What?! (Reviewed 17 August 2011)  

Theatre You Will Be Rare (Reviewed 20 August 2011)  

Musicals The Zoo (Reviewed 15 August 2011)