Shay Mace
Kinder – which was first reviewed by Binge Fringe back at Adelaide Fringe in 2025. Following a creative reworking particularly in the show’s opening act, Binge Fringe writer Raynar Rogers described the show as “gripping, quick, intensely visual and substantial.” The piece, which explores queerness in the light of childhood and against the backdrop of rising protests against drag performers, dazzled Prague audiences, also taking home Prague Fringe’s prestigious in-house Audience Choice Award on the same night.
The theatre piece, put together by performer-writer Ryan Stewart’s production company a ry presentation, will now continue on to be performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. Directed by Tiah Bullock, our review concludes “The Kinder team have created a work of art that melds together a powerful message with an engaging drag character experience and Ryan Stewart leaves onstage a pile of wigs and a pearl of wisdom, a warning and a sense of hope that the queer community will continue to make art with or without threat.”
You can catch Kinder as part of EdFringe 2026 from August 5-30th (not the 18th or 25th) at Big Belly at Underbelly, Cowgate from 14:00 (60mins). Tickets are available through the EdFringe Online Box Office.
Image: L-R Binge Fringe’s Raynar Rogers, Kinder‘s Ryan Stewart & Binge Fringe’s Magdaléna Škerenčák.
Image Credit: Lux Praguensis
Raynar Rogers
Mike Dorey
