4

	The Stand Comedy Club III & IV (venue website) Comedy 31 Jul, 2-11, 13-25 Aug, 3:30pm-4:30pm Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory
Recommended for age 14+ only.

Nadia Kamil has produced a silly, clever comedy show about feminism, which is a delight to watch. You might get angry about some of the injustices mentioned in the show – but it would be impossible not to leave with a smile on your face.

5

	C venues - C aquila (venue website) Dance and Physical Theatre 1-26 Aug, 12:05pm-12:55pm Reviewed by Richard Stamp
Recommended for age 12+ only.

Exposed is a joyful, youthful, sometimes riotous show, which lasts just 45 minutes but feels like it packs in far more. Themed around the instincts we sense and then suppress, it’s the Edinburgh debut for the Daventry-based Impulse Theatre Collective – an instantly-likeable young company, who sent me out into the lunchtime sunlight with a grin on my face and a renewed determination to embrace whatever life might send my way.

4

	Pleasance Courtyard (venue website) Comedy 31 Jul, 1-12, 14-26 Aug, 6:00pm-7:00pm Reviewed by Craig Thomson
Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

Colin Hoult grabs my hand as I climb into one of the Pleasance lofts, fixing me with his pointed and slightly boggly stare while he hops about barefoot. “Thank you for coming to my show!” The personal touch to hosting duties, grabbing practically everyone in the audience on the way in, puts the crowd in the right frame of mind for what is to come – a sort of giddy, nervous anticipation.

3

	Paradise in The Vault (venue website) Comedy 5-11, 13-18, 20-26 Aug, 3:05pm-3:55pm Reviewed by Richard Stamp
Recommended for age 12+ only.

First things first: just in case you don’t recognise it, the title of this show is a riff on the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion. The Protocols are a notorious hoax, which claim to be a factual record of a Jewish plan to establish hegemony over the world. The Nazi Party taught it in schools; it’s said to underpin a substantial amount of modern-day anti-semitism, and it is, of course, completely untrue. In short, this is a particularly edgy title to give to your show – and I assure you that performer Hayden Cohen, who is Jewish, knows that too.

4

	Summerhall (venue website) Theatre 2-4, 6-11, 13-17 Aug, 8:20pm-9:40pm Reviewed by Lizzie Bell
Recommended for age 16+ only.

The Higgs Boson is not your typical particle, and Higgs is not your typical show. Don't let the old lecture theatre and its wooden desks fool you: this is no dry seminar filled with facts and equations, but a tale of people, and their search for the unknown. Part lecture, part film, part interview and filled with anecdotes, Jan van den Berg's infectiously enthusiastic show will take you on a journey to the edge of our understanding. His life and experiences intertwine with scientific progress towards the elusive particle.

3

	Greenside (venue website) Theatre 5-10 Aug, 12:45pm-1:35pm Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory
Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

This is a nice little idea for a show. Dorothy, along with other Wizard of Oz characters, are part of a dysfunctional family living in suburbia. The young cast work well together and the actors playing much older characters are, for the most part, very convincing, if sometimes a little over the top.

4

	C venues - C too (venue website) Theatre 1-12, 14-26 Aug, 12:50pm-2:15pm Reviewed by Ellen Macpherson
Parents or guardians should consider the content of this show if children are attending.

On a sunny afternoon at midday, it can be difficult to convince yourself to spend an hour and twenty-five minutes inside a theatre. It might be even harder when the show on offer is one of the angriest pieces of theatre written in modern Britain. Let me assure you, however, this is a piece of theatre worth skipping lunch for, especially if you appreciate the modern classics and complex character development. John Osbourne himself would have nodded in stony appreciation. He was quite an angry man, after all.

5

	Zoo (venue website) Theatre 2-16 Aug, 9:35pm-10:55pm Reviewed by Ellen Macpherson
Recommended for age 12+ only.

Even though I studied it to death in school, this was my first time seeing a live production of A View From The Bridge. In the same space as they occupied with last year's phenomenal stage adaptation of 1984, UCLU Runaground have proved once again that they are a company to watch at the Fringe. Don't be put off by the rather odd modern visual on the flyer; this is a faithful adaptation, which has done the original work justice and would have made the playwright himself proud.

4

	Pleasance Courtyard (venue website) Theatre 31 Jul, 1-6, 8-13, 15-26 Aug, 12:40pm-1:40pm Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory
Recommended for age 14+ only.

This is an adorable show, written by Hannah Roger, and starring Alice White and Nick Blakeley as Jen and Neil – a young couple in love. We begin as they move into their first home together, and follow them for a few months of complications as things run far from smooth.

3

	Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website) Comedy 1-11, 13-25 Aug, 3:40pm-4:40pm Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory
Recommended for age 16+ only.

A burlesque cabaret about life in an office sounds a fun proposition. The ridiculous side of office life continues to provide comic rich pickings, and burlesque works best when there is more to it that pasties and pouting. This absurd character comedy duly delivers nicely on that early promise.