Edinburgh 2007: Talk of the town

The Scottish play on stilts ... Polish theatre company Biuro Podrozy are presenting Macbeth: Who Is That Bloodied Man? at the Old College Quad. For Lyn Gardner, the show was "one long and exhilarating blast of images wrapped around thundering music, licking flames and wafting smoke". Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Edinburgh favourite Will Adamsdale is at the Traverse with a new one-man show, The Human Computer. Lyn Gardner described Adamsdale's act as "a deliciously low-tech take on the hi-tech world of computers". Although she thought it needed further development, she concluded that its "rough-and-ready quality is part of its charm". Photograph: PR

David Greig's Damascus, starring Dolya Gavanski and Paul Higgins, is on at the Traverse. It's the story of a Scottish salesman unexpectedly delayed during a trip to the oldest inhabited city in the world. Lyn Gardner enjoyed the opening of the play, but felt that Damascus "fails to go anywhere after the interval"; she diagnosed clunky characterisation but applauded the performances. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Maxie Szalwinska was impressed by Caroline Williamson's "understated, wounded performance as the girl gradually sealing herself off from the world" in Limbo, which is at Edinburgh's Underbelly. Photograph: PR

Based on a novel by Luke Sutherland (that's him in the background above), Venus As a Boy at the Traverse stars Tam Dean Burn as a London rent boy. Lyn Gardner enjoyed its warm glow, labelling the play "a cracked fairytale that cleverly mixes magic realism with gritty reality". Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Raoul Heertje, Marc Marie Huijbregts, Theo Maassen and Hans Teeuwen are appearing as the Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective at Assembly @ Edinburgh Comedy Room. Brian Logan hailed Teeuwen as "the most thrilling find of the festival so far". Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Denis Conway and Garrett Lombard are appearing in Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce at the Traverse. Lyn Gardner summed up the play as "The Waltons ... rewritten by Joe Orton with an added dash of Beckett's despair". Photograph: PR

Brian Logan was impressed by Stewart Lee's Edinburgh set, which is built around his musings on being named the 41st best stand-up comedian ever. "He bashes you about the head repeatedly, forensically and painstakingly with a single punchline," wrote Logan. Photograph: Steve Ullathorne /PR