Baby Reindeer is one of the biggest television hits of the year – wowing viewers around the world who have streamed it in their millions on Netflix.
The show is based on the incredible real-life experiences of writer and performer Richard Gadd, who now seems destined for stardom, which originally played out on stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - in Summerhall’s Roundabout venue.
It’s just the latest show to achieve great success after enjoying a run in Scotland’s Capital during August.
Here are 10.
It’s just the latest show to achieve great success after enjoying a run in Scotland’s Capital during August.
![A modern retelling of the six wives of Henry VIII told in the form of a singing competition is the unlikely premise of Six, which premiered at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a cast of students from Cambridge University. Since then it has become a theatrical phenomenon, playing in both London's West End and New York's Broadway, as well as embarking on multiple successful tours.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/25/14/48/gh%20casatle%20%2829%29.jpg.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
5. Six
A modern retelling of the six wives of Henry VIII told in the form of a singing competition is the unlikely premise of Six, which premiered at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a cast of students from Cambridge University. Since then it has become a theatrical phenomenon, playing in both London's West End and New York's Broadway, as well as embarking on multiple successful tours.
![Thought by many to be one of the all-time greatest British comedies, Fleabag started as life as a one-woman stage play, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It premiered in Edinburgh in 2017, becoming a word of mouth hit at the festival. Snapped up by the BBC, the two series won numerous awards, including a Bafta, six Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. Waller-Bridge has gone on to become an in-demand writer and actor, recently appearing opposite Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones film.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/25/14/43/flea.jpg.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
6. Fleabag
Thought by many to be one of the all-time greatest British comedies, Fleabag started as life as a one-woman stage play, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It premiered in Edinburgh in 2017, becoming a word of mouth hit at the festival. Snapped up by the BBC, the two series won numerous awards, including a Bafta, six Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. Waller-Bridge has gone on to become an in-demand writer and actor, recently appearing opposite Harrison Ford in the latest Indiana Jones film.
![Created by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, Stomp first appeared in Edinburgh at the Assembly Rooms in 1991. The idea of producing percussion with a range of household object was a winner, selling out performances and being names the Daily Express's Best Show of the Fringe. Since then they've appeared everywhere from The Muppet Show to President Bill Clinton's Millenium celebrations, launched numerous global tours, created their own IMAX film and have had a Broadway residency for more than 25 years.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/25/14/29/GettyImages-1150630102.jpg.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
7. Stomp
Created by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, Stomp first appeared in Edinburgh at the Assembly Rooms in 1991. The idea of producing percussion with a range of household object was a winner, selling out performances and being names the Daily Express's Best Show of the Fringe. Since then they've appeared everywhere from The Muppet Show to President Bill Clinton's Millenium celebrations, launched numerous global tours, created their own IMAX film and have had a Broadway residency for more than 25 years.
![Kiwi musican comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement brought their show Flight of the Conchords to Edinburgh for three consecutive years from 2002-2004. A BBC radio series followed, then global fame thanks to an HBO American television series. It won them a Grammy and seven Emmy nominations.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/25/14/59/gh%20casatle%20%2830%29.jpg.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
8. Flight of the Conchords
Kiwi musican comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement brought their show Flight of the Conchords to Edinburgh for three consecutive years from 2002-2004. A BBC radio series followed, then global fame thanks to an HBO American television series. It won them a Grammy and seven Emmy nominations.