EdFringe 2025 Wrap-up
…and that’s a wrap on Edinburgh Fringe 2025 for Speak the Speech! I’ve had the privilege of seeing some extraordinary theatre this season, in a Fringe full of ups and downs and the mad, mad joy that is this festival. By the numbers: -saw 40 shows (38 to review) across 15 days -published 14 reviews exclusively on Speak the Speech -published 24 reviews on All Edinburgh Theatre -wrote 22,455 words of theatre criticism across both platforms I had originally pencilled myself in to review about 70 shows, but came down with the dreaded Fringe Flu the day before the shows I was in were due to open, spent about three days in bed writing nothing just trying to stay alive to do two shows every night, and spent the rest of the month digging myself out of the backlog. This resulted in a ruthless culling of anything not yet confirmed in my diary, so there were many shows I was eager to see that I was sadly unable to attend. All this while doing 34 performances across 17 days and working...