Bunny 

4⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

As soon as Craig Manson’s Bunny sashays on to stage as Bunny in gold sequins dress, blonde wig and ripped fishnets. Singing an Edinburgh based parody of Hairspray’s opening number Good Morning Baltimore, you know you are in for a good time. 

The show suddenly takes a darker turn when Bunny explains just how difficult it is to get funding as a singular actor / performer in Scotland. Yet other companies seem to hoover up all the cash, the fictitious Theatre 360. By chance Bunny meets the director of 360 staggering home from a National Theatre of Scotland launch full of cheap wine and She swiftly pushes him in to the Clyde and offs him.

This starts a bloody murderous sequence of events where a famous Scottish Movie Star gets slaughtered while Bunny cooks steaks. 

She has a go at performance art as it seems to swallow up huge portions of arts funding and as she said “You can do what you like, as long as you call it art”

This culminates in a blood splattering death. 

Will Bunny finally get revenge on Creative Scotland, (the funding body here) well you will have to buy a ticket and find out. 

Craig is a fabulous performer filling the space with his character Bunny. The show is hilarious and dark in equal measure, I often found myself thinking this feels like a John Waters film. I could see Devine in the Bunny part tearing through the celebrities. 

This cabaret should really be at the beating heart of the Fringe, where it’s now so prohibitively expensive to bring a show shows with very little budget can be totally buried. 

Ending on a version of Rocky Horror Show’s closing number Superheroes, you know what you have just watched is fringe theatre at its best, chaotic and very much on point. 

I would say, I would have preferred a slightly tighter ending and rather than a 60 minute run time 6 or 7 minutes could be shaved off. 

You will have a fabulous time in the hands of Bunny.