Top Ten Show (Titles) at Edfringe 2022
We at Fringebiscuit love to work ourselves to the bone, unearthing the best and most captivating shows the Edinburgh Fringe has to offer so that you don’t have to. Well, 99% of the time. The other 1% is spent mindlessly scrolling through the Fringe programme highlighting show titles that sound cool. Because why not? Below are the top ten best Edfringe shows that sound like oodles of fun.
Note: We know nothing about these shows. Nothing. We haven’t even read the blurbs. We are wholeheartedly recommending them with zero idea of their content. To the people who say, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, this article is not for you. Go read a book. On to the shows!
1. Guide to Surviving a Masculinist Territory
Many of us navigate masculinist territory every day so some tips on how to do this successfully would be a godsend. For example, if a man catcalls you, is the appropriate response to turn around and bark (as we have been doing)? Genuinely, we need to know.
2. Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell
Nothing says #Girlboss like Trudy and Lia giving Satan a taste of his own medicine. We’re expecting an hour-long bitch-fest where the Prince of Darkness gets read. To. Filth. We want pyrotechnics, Satanic dances and a burn book so spicy you’ll need to down a bottle of Gaviscon afterwards— and we assume this show delivers.
3. The Best Ideas Happen in the Toilet
We hope this play takes place in a public toilet. Forget hygiene standards, the new Theatre of Cruelty sees us watching Richard III hatch a murder while crouched over a cracked bog. Bonus points for being able to go for a wee without missing any of the show.
4. My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse
We are firm believers that love always finds a way. So your lover is a salmon— who are we to judge? In fact, we applaud you and wish you all the best steamy, salmon-loving you can hope for. Presumably, such loving would turn said salmon into a delicious entrée, so this show is probably a (conflicted) tragedy.
5. NASTY: “big” girls being gross, mean and sexy
Seeing as this show seems to have found our (yes, communal) diary, we expect financial compensation. Or at least free tickets for life. Honestly, there’s nothing we don’t like about this show’s title, and we’ve already gone and got it tattooed across our (yes, communal) arses.
6. Let’s Try Gay
Yes! We want an all-you-can-eat buffet of gay. Give us endless rounds of gay tapas with bottomless gay sauce for dipping. This title is so simple and yet it promises so much. Like a queer smorgasbord of all things LGBTQA+, please and thank you.
7. Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)
This title alone is a dramatic journey. We’re driving along, humming Beethoven and —whoah— the parentheses open and we have taken a SHARP turn into uncharted territory. We’d like to imagine Gordon goes to a literal pig party with sows doing jäegerbombs and twerking to trap remixes of Animal Farm, the audiobook. We live in hope.
8. Godot is a Woman
Like Shrek, this title is an onion. There’s Samuel Beckett, there’s gender, but crucially, there’s Ariana Grande. Silent Faces’ nine-hour (we’re assuming) reenactment of Ariana Grande’s hit “God is a Woman” will generate more PhDs than Beckett had prejudices.
9. The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck
We greatly appreciate that Out Cast Theatre returns to Wilde’s original text, his first (and too oft overlooked) folio, if you will. We’ve heard rumours that Ian McKellen, in fact, plays the duck, so don’t walk, RUN to get tickets for this show.
10. Plan V: The Joyful Cult of Pussy Worship
No further details needed. Let’s go join a cult.