0 Reviews for the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe (In order from most enjoyable to least)

 

Welcome to the 2026 version of my Fringe reviews.  I am a 73-year-old retired Computer Science lecturer from the University of California in Davis who thinks even a bad play is better than no play at all.   You can see my schedule at 2026 Schedule.htm.  I expect to see between 150 and 175 shows this year.  This year my wife, Debbie is here.  Unlike me, she has an excellent memory, and has acted and directed.  While my ratings of enjoyment will not be affected by her, my reasoning may be. To facilitate seeing eight to ten shows in a day, I try to devote each day to a venue, or at least a small geographic area.  The biggest problem is that comedy dominates the Fringe evening programming.

 

This year I have created a separate page that has my thoughts on reviewing as well as access to all of my reviews from the past, Reviewing and Archives.htm. 

 

Because the Fringe website no longer allows search results to be downloaded as csv files, I wrote a C++ program, main.cpp that parses the html files results from the saved files produced from searches on edfringe.com, and stores the information in a .csv (comma separated file), named AllShows2026.csv   I also converted AllShows2026.csv to an Excel file, AllShows.xls.  Each includes information about 3690 shows.  The coding for the availability of each show for each day is: 0=No show, 1= Sold out/cancelled, 2= Available, 3= 2-for-1, 4= Preview, 5= Free Fringe.  Please note that all of these files were created before the Fringe started and won’t be updated during the Fringe.  They will not indicate that a show is Sold out!

 

You can change the sorting column of the table below by first clicking anywhere in its header.  Each succeeding click in the header sorts the table by the column clicked.  Succeeding clicks of a column will reverse the previous sort order.  Sorting by the Date column on the right allows returning viewers to see my most recent reviews.

Fringe Festival Reviews

 

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