The Week on Stage at Edinburgh Fringe: From Blanket Ban to She/Her

A guide to the week’s theatre at the world’s biggest arts festival

Clockwise from top left: ‘Blanket Ban’, ‘Half Empty Glasses’, ‘She/Her’, ‘Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen' (Chalk Line Theatre/David Monteith-Hodge/Andy Philipson/Mihaela Bodlovic )

It’s that time of year when critics rarely get to see daylight: the Edinburgh Fringe is back.

The world’s biggest arts festival is now in full swing, celebrating its 75th year as well as a return to normality after the pandemic.

This week, Fergus Morgan gives his verdict on four of the Fringe’s biggest theatre shows, from a Fleabag-esque one-man show to a docu-play about abortion law.