Inside Greyfriars Kirk, poet Len Pennie and composer Paul Leonard-Morgan turn personal anguish into luminous art with cinematic strings and sharp Scots banter.

Jet-lagged, exuberant, and endlessly charming, Russell Tovey brings audio drama Starlings and a welcome dose of queer optimism to the Spiegeltent for Day 12.

In Maryam Garad’s sharp one-woman thriller, an ex-con’s fixation on a wellness influencer becomes a nuanced, unsparing study of class, envy, and autonomy.

Despite formidable vocals and highly polished staging, this revue of disgruntled princesses founders on thin, relentlessly dated late-nineties satire.

In this joyous, chaotic homage to Crompton, an impossibly large cast of extroverted kids squeezes minor theatrical miracles onto a tiny Edinburgh stage.