REVIEW: Frozen Love: A Buckingham Nicks Story EdFringe 2025 ★★★★★

Frozen Love: A Buckingham Nicks Story really does make you wish time to be frozen for one more hour because the amazing potential this story has to be a full West End hit is immense! Celebrating 50 years since Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac, this story explores what happened before. From the moment they meet in high school and the sparks of first passion and love to the continuous manipulativeness on both parties as the years go on. 

This truly heartfelt story brings you up close like a fly on the wall to the recording booths and photo studios they spent the early years in and the intimate spaces of their flat (which intricately designed by Tilly Penn creatively uses a flight case and plenty of wood), we hear every argument, every phone call and how they pick themselves up from every knock that seemed to be never ending.

Georgie Banks as Stevie Nicks and Jake Byrom as Lindsey Buckingham deserve every chemistry credit known to man, the writer-actormuso duo have definitely poured their souls into this piece and onto stage. Their voices blend effortlessly with both Banks and Byrom and you can be sure to find your favourite songs somewhere in this piece. 

Georgie’s gentleness at the start allows us to watch the shift in real time as Stevie becomes more confident in herself as well as her voice knowing she can settle for someone so much better and having the bravery to get out. But when she faces the choice of the offer, the seconds that linger are tense, even though you know what happens, you can’t help feel for her. 

Byrom’s Lindsey Buckingham is at 100 from the start, from drug use to pure anger and rage the can flip from screaming in grief and rage to singing gentle ballads the next minute with ease and his entire being and core is Buckingham at the mic.

The show isn’t afraid to make you uncomfortable with several scenes featuring drug use, strong language, death of a family member and partial nudity (alluding to one of the photo shoots for an album cover), the scenes that follow can be distressing for some audiences but you can tell on stage the safeness both actors feel between them.

You can see Frozen Love: A Buckingham Nicks Story at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall until the 16th at 20:30. Tickets are available through the EdFringe Online Box Office.