PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement, The Space at Surgeon’s Hall.One of the most – delightful? – aspects to getting older is observing how all your once reliable organs and bodily functions start to let you down. Amy Veltman’s PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement follows Amy’s internal monologues with her body parts as their demands for recognition and help become more insistent. Amy doesn’t like to overshare, which, of course, can be an unnecessary complication if you genuinely need medical attention. But this isn’t a dry and dusty health warning; Amy’s warm, informative and funny show reassures us that improvement is always possible – even if your morning self-help routines mean you’re raring to start the day by 2pm. She has a marvellous way of putting an audience at ease with her confiding delivery – and there is some very funny use of video footage and comedy songs to help sweeten the pill of how to keep our bowels and pelvises (pelves?) healthy! 3 stars.

The Insider, Pleasance Dome.Inspired by the true story of the international tax fraud in the mid-2010s which saw the theft from European treasuries amounting to well over $60 billion, Anna Skov Jensen’s gripping The Insider returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following its successful run in 2023. Encased in a Perspex box, we observe our witness, a young tax lawyer, being questioned by the German authorities, as well as reliving scenes from how he was recruited into the scheme and the ways in which he assisted in its development. The audience watch the play wearing headphones, which feed us a precise and unsettling soundscape of vivid background noise and enhanced conversation; it’s genuinely impossible to describe in words just how effective Sun Hee Engelstoft, Peter Albrechtsen and Marcus Aurelius Hjelmborg’s sound design really is. And there’s an extraordinary central live performance by Christoffer Hvidberg Ronje that takes your breath away. An outstanding, thrilling and riveting production. 5 stars.

Maybe This Time, Greenside @ George Street.Ryan needs to get a girlfriend; could Lucy be the one? His mate directs him along the toxic masculinity method of chatting someone up, but that really isn’t Ryan’s style. When they meet, despite his awkwardness, Lucy seems quite taken with this wannabe rockstar-cum-superstud, but his reticence to talk about his family is a stumbling block. A fairly straightforward tale of boy meets girl and f*cks it up, sadly it’s neither well-written nor well-performed, with the exception of Holly Stewart as Lucia. It’s also pitched at far too loud and raucous a sound level for a small acting space, and the whole performance is just too over-the-top; if ever there was a lesson in less is more, this is it. And, as far as the content of the play is concerned, I’ve never seen a greater overreaction to having to mention that one’s mother has died. This is in the natural order of things. Get Over It. A disappointing production with a few embarrassing moments where you have to watch the stage with your hands over your eyes. 1 star.

For the Plot, Greenside @ George Street.We all know about these low-grade wannabe celebs who’ll do anything on TV just to be famous, from degrading themselves on naked dating programmes to arguing the toss over a paternity test on Jeremy Kyle. Anoushay Okhai’s For The Plot takes as its premise a new TV show where members of the public reveal their secret crushes on someone they know, just for the fame and misfortune. It’s a good idea for a play that reveals the depths to which people will stoop, going along with all sorts of well-constructed lies about themselves, just to make them look interesting and gain a small column on some TV fansite somewhere. Microwave Meals’ production contains some entertaining characterisations and a few funny lines, although the acting is patchy and the writing uneven. But there is a germ of a good idea here, and this could be worked up into a more successful and substantial longer show. 2 stars.