theSpace @ Symposium Hall (venue website) Theatre 8 Aug, 8:30pm-10:00pm; 9-13, 15-20, 22-27 Aug, 8:30pm-9:30pm Reviewed by Eve Nicol
Parental Guidance. Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

With more and more venues being added to the Fringe map every year, the choice of space is huge. Plush hotel conference rooms, grimy bars and disused store rooms present many options to companies. Alas, though this student group may not have the funds to splash out on the perfect space for their performance, the stark lighting and overly-clean lecture theatre in theSpace's Symposium Hall is so detrimental to the enjoyment of the performance as to make it impossible to ignore.

	theSpaces on North Bridge (venue website) Theatre 15-20, 22-27 Aug, 7:05pm-7:55pm Reviewed by Eve Nicol
Parental Guidance. Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

Kovalyov's nose is running - right out the door. This is the level of humour you get with Fat Git's adaptation of Gogol's short story about a man who wakes up one morning without a nose. It's silly, and wonderfully so.

	Zoo Roxy (venue website) Theatre 5-9, 11-16, 18-29 Aug, 6:00pm-7:20pm Reviewed by Carmel Doohan
Recommended for age 12+ only.

A scolding landlady, her promiscuous daughter, a drug dealer and an idiot run in and out of rooms, forget their trousers and count their money. Carry-On style innuendo and cartoonish action provide the plot, making this dialogue-free farce feel something like a dumbed-down Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels enacted by Punch and Judy.

	St George's West (venue website) Theatre 5-29 Aug, 12:15pm-1:30pm Reviewed by Carmel Doohan
Recommended for age 16+ only.

The actress on stage – doer-in-residence at the forest fringe, Lucy Ellinson – has never seen this script before. This piece is acted by a different person every afternoon, and each time they have to perform it cold. While this sounds like a gimmick, it's not; the writer, Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour, is not allowed to travel, so this simple arrangement is the best way for him to get his work performed in as many places as possible.

	Traverse Theatre (venue website) Theatre 22 Aug, 3:00pm-5:00pm, 7:00pm-9:00pm Reviewed by Carmel Doohan
Family-friendly. Suitable for all ages.

This project began in March 2011, when drama groups, youth clubs, universities and theatres nationwide staged these short plays and others in an uprising of protest against the coalition. Each piece responds imaginatively to the cuts the government is driving, creating visions that suggest the truths behind the political soundbites.

	Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters (venue website) Theatre 15-28 Aug, 12:15pm-1:15pm Reviewed by Ellen Macpherson
Recommended for age 12+ only.

Seeing an all-female adaptation of Julius Caesar was always a good choice for me, because even if I’d considered it a complete pile of dung, I could fully get on board with its aim to empower women in a generally misogynistic era. As it turns out, this play isn’t a complete pile of dung at all.  And I still walked out feeling like some female warrior – probably extremely obnoxious, but fun nonetheless.

	Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website) Theatre 4-14, 16-28 Aug, 1:45pm-2:45pm Reviewed by Sarah Hill
Recommended for age 12+ only.

The night before his wedding, a man wakes and spins into a blind panic. These are not regular pre-nuptial jitters, however, but something far less innocent: The Pretender is the story of a pathological liar whose guilt-ridden confessions, triggered from this moment of heightened anxiety, soon come flooding out in one long, clumsy torrent.

	Pleasance Courtyard (venue website) Theatre 23-27, 29 Aug, 3:00pm-4:10pm Reviewed by Sarah Hill
Recommended for age 14+ only.

Marriage is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. At least, that’s what they say. But for one couple, it’s all too much; enough, in fact, to send the groom crying to the arms of his female shrink, whilst his bride-to-be practices confetti-throwing at the office and plots to murder him. If That’s All There Is? is a picture of modern-living beyond neuroses; a love-hate relationship surrendering itself to full-blown hysteria.

	Leith on the Fringe @ Out of the Blue Drill Hall (venue website) Theatre 3-14, 16-21, 23-28 Aug, 4:00pm-4:55pm Reviewed by Alice de Cent
Recommended for age 14+ only.

This Twisted Tale is a modern fairytale about Chloe – a little girl with a thirst for storytelling – and her adventures with the mysterious Luce. Featuring shadow puppetry, aerial acrobatics and animation, the story follows Chloe as she changes from a child into a woman.

	Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel (venue website) Comedy 22-27 Aug, 10:00pm-11:00pm Reviewed by Alice de Cent
Recommended for age 18+ only. Venue may not permit under-18's - check with venue before booking.

Naked in a Fishbowl is a fully improvised sitcom, chronicling the lives of five friends in New York City. On their six-night Edinburgh run, they create a new episode for every show.