REVIEW: Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It ★★★★★ | Edfringe 2026

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Summerhall

Let's get one thing out of the way.

Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It wins my award for best show title at this year's Fringe.

Thankfully, the show itself is every bit as bonkers.

Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland play two teenagers in a struggling Appalachian town who crash their truck into a stop sign and decide upon the only sensible explanation:

Bigfoot did it.

One fake sighting leads to another, the lie spreads through the town and before long everyone is completely losing their minds over a creature that doesn't exist.

Or does it?

With little more than a stop sign, a Bigfoot puppet and their own ridiculous amount of energy, Xhloe and Natasha somehow create an entire town.

The pair switch between teenagers, officials, townsfolk and assorted oddballs at lightning speed, using physical theatre, clowning and razor-sharp choreography to make two performers feel like twenty.

And they're astonishingly good at it.

There's also a banging 90s soundtrack featuring the likes of B*Witched, Vengaboys and Aqua, because apparently Bigfoot rampaging through Appalachia wasn't chaotic enough already.

At times the storytelling moves so quickly that keeping track of exactly who is who and what is happening requires concentration.

But underneath the absurdity is something considerably smarter.

What begins as two teenagers telling a stupid lie becomes a story about misinformation, conspiracy, fear and how quickly a struggling community can be persuaded to blame the wrong thing for its problems.

It's clever without forgetting that it's also supposed to be entertaining.

Wild, inventive and technically brilliant, this is exactly the kind of show that makes the Edinburgh Fringe so exciting.

Believe the hype. And possibly Bigfoot.

★★★★★ – 5/5