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8 Boy with Tape on his Face
Bound but not gagged, the Boy with Tape on his Face breaks his silence.
12 Appointment with the Wickerman
Scotland's flagship theatre company teams up with TV comic Greg Hemphill.
16 Alan Davies
The QI favourite returns to stand up after a 10 year-sabbatical.
21 COMEDY 22 Doctor Brown
The wordless wonder is proving to be a smash hit at this year’s Fringe.
27 Tony Law
Spend an hour in the nonsensical la-la-land of everyone’s favourite beardyman.
32 Felicity Ward
Pint sized Aussie comic Ward goes Freudian in her latest standup show.
36 Catriona Knox
Eternal judgement is order of the day for this sketch-trouper-turned-solo-star.
41 THEATRE 43 Boris and Sergey's Vaudevillian Adventure
There’s poker and puppets aplenty in this smash hit vaudevillian extravaganza.
45 Dirty Paki Lingerie
Cultural stereotypes are blown apart in this new one woman show from Azziah Fatima.
52 Coalition
A host of stars including Tom Tuck and Phill Jupitus take to the fore in this new politicomedy.
58 Blink
Fringe First winners Nabokov’s latest piece is a fairytale for the digital age.
60 MUSIC
60 Brazil! Brazil!
The Assembly Rooms are the new home of the South American carnavale.
62 Bongo Club Cabaret
An Edinburgh institution in its 14th year, the Bongo Club Cabaret never fails to disappoint.
64 KIDS
64 Horrible Histories
Horrible historian Neal Foster divulges which figures are next for the Terry Deary treatment.
66 The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean
Delve into the mysterious world of Josephine Bean and her book of tricks.
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MID COUNTLESS shows dealing with life, death, alcoholism, your dad, your mum, someone else’s mum, it’s about time the comedy scene was given some relief. “I’m a big fan of wordy standup,” says 32 year-old Sam Wills aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, minus the tape, “but, without wanting to criticise anybody, I’m tired of hearing all that ‘your mum died sadface’ stuff. I think it’s good to have something that’s the complete opposite.” For the enthusiasts among you, Wills’ something-of-choice is Nashua 357 duct tape imported from New Zealand. There have always been alternatives to your typical man-with-a-mic standup comedian, but now mainstream audiences are finally starting to get on board. They’re lining up, for instance, to see David Trent innovating the crap out of a projector; or Tony Law, whose lampooning of standup convention earned him Chortle’s 2012 Breakthrough Act award. Even controversial clowning maestro Doctor Brown is finally getting the recognition he deserves, having swept the board at the 2012 Melbourne Comedy Festival. It follows, then, that this should also be a big year for the silent guy with tape plastered over his gob. Change is nothing new, of course; comedy’s been shifting since the first caveman knocked himself out with a rock and his mate wet himself laughing. And silent comedy is certainly nothing we haven’t seen before. “People are like ‘oh it’s so new and different’ but I’m just clowning in front of an audience with some stuff,” Wills says smiling. “It’s more like the artform’s been given a new lease of life. Probably because the market is so saturated with standup.” The stand-out standup sets of the
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last few festivals have all been heavily thematic: Russell Kane won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for his treatise on class and grief, as did Brendon Burns for his innovative take on prejudice and the nature of offensiveness. Stewart Lee has pushed boundaries not only with the standup form but through an exploration of religious intolerance with 2006’s career-defining 90s Comedian.
But the consequence of all this is that now almost every comic in Edinburgh is shouting over each other, desperately trying to find something new to say. Enter the Boy. Firstly, there’s little in the way of emotion – no sympathy tales of a fucked up life or his hopelessness with women. “One of my rules is that The Boy is neutral, he has no motivation other than to entertain.”
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festfeature A Tim Burton-inspired creation (taken from Burton’s poem The Boy With Nails In His Eyes), The Boy is a 2D cartoon who just wants to play with his toys and get others in the room to help. Secondly, those who do help are never used for cheap laughs. “It’s so easy to take the piss out of someone,” he says. “When I was younger, a streetperformer picked me out of the crowd and embarrassed me for fifteen minutes straight. It was horrible.” With Wills, then, the notorious fear of sitting in the front row is turned on its head; participants are the stars and treated as such. “You must respect the audience,” he says firmly. “It’s a sharethe-moment kind of thing. You give them enough responsibility to contribute, without making them do anything uncomfortable. Hold this. Stand there. But they’re totally integral.” Then there’s the difference between him and others in his field: the lack of actual mime (“The closest I get is having to make sure my hand movements are clear, but that’s just so people know what to do”) or any tricks to speak of. After years as a professional street performer, he then became a props comic, using the stunts learned during his time studying at Circo Arts (a circus school in New Zealand) to supplement his standup. “I wanted a change,” he says. “And I felt it was becoming too easy to fall back on my stunts, you know, getting an easy applause for a bit of juggling. You can get magic tricks from many, especially at the Fringe.” His solution was to “do nothing.” Using audience participation and silence, his lengthy scenarios played out with props and toys taps into the timeless enjoyment of simple, back-to-basics visual humour. It’s this simplicity and, without wishing to sound pretentious, purity, that sets this year’s More Tape, apart. It’s the silence, the accessibility, the timelessness of it all. It reminds us what it’s like to be a kid, and it’s not until you leave the Pleasance Courtyard that you realise how much you needed it. “The most important thing,” Wills concludes, after giving it a lot of thought, “is that there is no message. You turn up, laugh, and nothing else.” f Pleasance Courtyard, 9:40pm – 10:40pm, 8–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £13.50
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RAISING THE
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TV comic Greg Hemphill, star of hit Scottish show Chewing the Fat, teams up with the prestigious National Theatre of Scotland. Malcolm Jack finds out what inspired this unlikely connection.
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OR GREG Hemphill, the final Fringe performance of Appointment With The Wicker Man—a comedy play based on an iconic Scotland-set 70s British horror movie climaxing creepily with a scene of fiery pagan ceremony—will permit the resumption of a different, more mundane ritual. One pertaining to the substantial furry accumulation above his top lip. “Very much so,” the Glaswegian comedy actor and writer famed for Scottish TV hits Chewin’ The Fat and Still Game nods insistently with a smile, when I ask him if his impressive chevron ‘tache—matched by meaty mutton-chop sideburns—was grown purely for his role as the sinisterly pompous Finlay Fothergill, and whether he’ll be going clean shaven again after the show’s run ends.
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“Oh my god yeah,” chips in National Theatre of Scotland Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone, sat next to Hemphill at a table in the George Street Spiegeltent outside The Assembly Rooms, the venue where the show they’ve created together will have its official Fringe opening in a few hours. “Julie, Greg’s wife who I’m very good friends with, hates me that he’s got a moustache.” “I had to grow it over the holidays,” he adds. “She was like ‘please.’” It’s a tale of sacrifice both on and off stage, as the Fringe welcomes this affectionate and funny sideways musical theatre take on Robin Hardy’s cult 1973 film starring Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward and Britt Ekland (whose naked dancing became the grubby fascination of many a teenage boy of a certain generation). With the film’s plot (Woodwards’ devout Christian policeman travels to far-flung Hebridean island in search of a missing girl, uncovers dodgy pagan goings-on to a groovy soundtrack) not to mention its chilling denouement (fire, death) being widely known, they wanted to avoid a straight adaptation. So Featherstone, Hemphill and co-writer Donald McLeary struck upon a nifty play-withina-play conceit. On a present-day remote Scottish island, amdram society the Loch Parry Players—directed by the shifty Forthergill—are preparing to stage a musical version of The Wicker Man. But after their leading man goes missing suspiciously, they’re forced at the last minute to hire in a TV cop actor from Glasgow (played by
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festfeature Sean Biggerstaff, of Harry Potter repute), setting off a sequence of events that metatextually mirror the film with increasing eeriness. Featherstone had been trying to coax Hemphill into working with NTS for years. Asking him to write and star in this play proved an offer too irresistible to turn down; The Wicker Man, by chance, is his favourite film. “I seen it when I was 16,” he says. “I became obsessed with it, and watched it about once a year after that.” It might come as a surprise to find two entities relatively removed in the cultural ladder meeting like this, Hemphill being a household name in Scottish popular entertainment and the NTS being a highbrow arts institution (“Vicky’s stepped down and I’ve stepped up and we’ve met in the middle,” jokes Hemphill). But it shouldn’t: Featherstone’s remit with NTS is to reach new audiences, and one key target group are just the kind of people who wouldn’t normally consider that the theatre is for them. People who might be interested in a play starring someone such as, say, the guy off Still Game. As the NTS’s flagship performance at this year’s festival, Appointment With… could be considered the biggest Scottish production at this year’s Fringe, and as such how Scotland has chosen to represent itself to an international audience. Lovers of “serious” theatre may baulk at the idea, but Featherstone wears the fact that the now six year-old NTS is “grownup” enough to bring something this daft and accessible to the Fringe as a badge of honour. “I think for me, it’s a sign of our confidence,” she says. “I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but I think this a sign that we no longer think that we’re defined by any one thing at any one time. We’ve just done Macbeth with Alan Cumming, that was in Glasgow and went to New York and was a huge success. It was a really serious, cerebral piece of drama. We feel absolutely right that we can follow that with this.” For Hemphill’s part, Appointment With… has been a “cathartic” return to the stage for the first time since a pantomime in 1999. The BAFTA winning Still Game ended in 2008 (Hemphill recently gave a sweary response on Twitter to constant calls for another series – he and former comedy partner Ford Kiernan have been at odds for years), but has since stayed in the “velvet cage” of television doing presenting, voiceover and writing work, in part he says because he’s “lacked the
bravery” to return to live performance. He’s glad too to be back on the Fringe, after having had a breakthrough here as a young comic in 1990 when he won a So You Think You're Funny award as part of comedy troupe the Trio Brothers. “Afterwards I remember sleeping in Exchange Square waiting for the train back to Glasgow the next morning,” he recalls, almost fondly. Featherstone and self-confessed “Wicker Man geek” Hemphill have been encouraged to see their show well-received by people involved or connected with the film. Director Hardy has been to a performance, as has the late Woodward’s son. Locally, the play has brought out all kinds of surprising and funny stories from individuals who were involved with the movie during its shooting around Dumfries and Galloway and Ayrshire in 1972. Be it actress Juliet Cadzow—who appears as Edie McCredie in the children’s TV show Balamory—who
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had an minor role as a villager, or a casting director who claimed his mum was Ekland’s bum-double. There are no plans as yet for more dates after the Fringe, but if the play drums up sufficient interest over the next few weeks then it and Fothergill’s whiskers—sorry, Mrs Hemphill—may return to tour down south. Now that Featherstone has coaxed Hemphill into finally working with NTS, will she try and do so again? “Yes, 100%,” she replies, without hesitation. “Why wouldn’t I? He is masterful on stage – charismatic and brilliant. His character is horrible, and it’s great that somebody as affable as Greg doesn’t mind being hated by the audience. A lot of people wouldn’t like that. He is vile.” Hemphill beams exaggeratedly. “You have to be vile when you have a moustache like this.” f The Assembly Rooms, 3:10pm – 4:50pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £16.00
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DUNCE Alan Davies has carved out a comfortable niche playing the idiot foil to Stephen Fry’s kindly headmaster on the hit TV show, QI. He tells Charlotte Lytton why he’s getting back into standup.
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LAN DAVIES is a rare breed of celebrity. One of the most recognised faces in British television, he shuns media attention; preferring to spend time at home with his wife and two young children. But 2012 sees a big change for the curly haired comedian as he embarks on his first standup tour in over a decade – a fifty-something date extravaganza that will take him up to the end of the year. So why the sudden change of heart? “I was pushed back into live comedy by a friend of mine who’s a promoter in Australia. When we went over there to film QI Live, I thought I’d have a go at doing some standup again. Initially, I worried I’d never think of anything funny, but by the end of it I was quite pleased with what I had.” The trip down under in late 2011 gave Davies his first taste of a solo stage performance for a decade: an experience that validated his desire to return to standup. “I never intended to take such a long break – the years just sort of slipped by,” he muses. This has certainly become a recurring theme for a number of his contemporaries, including Harry Hill, Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard, who are undertaking tours after what has been, for many of them, a 10 year standup sabbatical. “You can’t resist it,” Davies explains. “Once
you try it and get that feeling again, you think: ‘I must get back into this.’” The road to this year’s festival has been a long one for Davies, and one not without its frustrations. His most recent drama, Whites, was cancelled by the BBC last year after its first series; a decision he calls “the biggest disappointment of my career.” But as one door closes another opens, and this provided that added push for Davies to end his standup hiatus. Like many of his peers, his absence on the live circuit has been well compensated for with a strong presence on the small screen. After shooting to fame as the titular role in BAFTA winning drama Jonathan Creek, the funnyman was “in the right place at the right time” when a spot on the QI panel opened up in 2003. “It’s been a privilege to be a part of it, and sitting next to Stephen Fry makes me feel very lucky – a lot of comedians would happily take that gig. I did have a wobble with it when I wondered if I should continue as it’s on so much, and I worried I’d never get cast in anything if people constantly saw me in that. But going out to Australia gave us a shot in the arm, and using new comedians renewed it for everyone.” The Fringe is offering a kind of redemption to the 46 year-old, who is
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looking forward to the no holds barred nature of his standup show. “After a long time in television, it’s quite nice to have the freedom to talk about what you want!” A long-time fan of the festival, which he labels “the best arts event bar none,” this year will mark a more relaxed approach to his performances. “With Life is Pain, I’m more comfortable talking about things that are personal to me. I think that comes from being 46 and not 26, which is how old I was when I took my first one man show to Edinburgh. I’ve passed up that sense of ambition and being worried what people think of me, as back then I was really worried about the kind of impression I was making. That can really affect the kind of comedian you are.” Having mastered both live and televised comedy, books and radio, is there anything else left for him to do? “I’ve been saying this for years, but I’d love to do more films – something with running around and car chases. You don’t get many 46 year-olds doing that...” he laughs. And after Edinburgh? “I’ve got no work after the tour, so effectively, I’ve got about a 40 year holiday!” f Venue150 @ EICC, 7:40pm – 8:40pm, 9–14 Aug, £20.00
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Clowns. We grow out of them at about age seven, right? We’re talking proper clowns here: the kind that simply prat around on stage, silently, doing daft and crass things for our amusement. All very well when you’re a child and just watching an adult falling over is the most hilarious thing imaginable. When we grow up, we need something more sophisticated to tickle our funny bones, be it the astute, homely observations of Michael McIntyre, the PC-skirting bile of Frankie Boyle, or the self-reflective, postmodern comic acrobatics of Stewart Lee. Well, perhaps. But Doctor Brown is a clown, and he’s put together perhaps the best comedy show on the Fringe this year: the most purely, convulsively funny live experience that this reviewer has ever had. The creation of American mime artist Phil Burgers, Doctor Brown is gaining increasing cult status on the international circuit. His previous outings at the Fringe have all been minimalist, using the simplest of props: a swivel chair, a fan, a waitress’ apron. This set is even more stripped down, as Burgers appears on a blank stage dressed only in a black, Oriental-looking robe with coloured hemming, bushy beard bristling, eyes ever so slightly wild. He does in fact use props ‘borrowed’ from the audience at certain points in the show, but the humour is as much in how he attains them as in how he uses them. The body of the show consists of a series of short mimes, some of which build into a simple through-narra-
tive, some of which are left to stand alone. At first it seems that even Burgers doesn’t quite know what he is going to do: between each short segment he stands astride, black-gloved hands raised, swaying slightly, a quizzical expression on his face. Then he will dive into a roleplay of, say, a couple playing tennis, or a swimmer being chased by a shark. Through other, more involved mimes, we gradually gain a sense of a story involving bullfighting, intense sexual intercourse, paternal irresponsibility and finally, love. Burgers does an extraordinary job of building comic
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tension through unpredictability. It feels like almost anything could happen in this gig; certainly, he pushes the performer-spectator relationship much further than most other comics would dare. If you’re really not into the idea of being touched by a clown, you’d probably be best advised to stay away. But beneath the apparent physical and sexual threat, there’s a surprisingly innocent and joyous show here. Evidently in full control of his craft, Burgers judges the audience carefully, and only goes just far enough to make us squirm with sympathy for
each ‘volunteer’, without ever really humiliating them. One particularly enthusiastic man from the front row is chosen for extensive involvement in the final act, and the show becomes a jubilant celebration of the possibilities of live theatre and audience participation. Forget red noses and tiny cars: Burgers has reinvented clowning for a modern, twenty-first century audience and this year sees him at the absolute top of his game. [Tom Hackett] Underbelly, Cowgate, 9:05pm – 10:05pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50 – £11.50
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festcomedy Cariad Lloyd - The Freewheelin’ Cariad Lloyd
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Cariad Lloyd was one of the surprise finds of last year’s Free Fringe, nominated for Best Newcomer for her character comedy turn. There’s certainly still a lot here to get excited about, but Lloyd often sets her sights just a little too high and shoots over the heads of her audience. The premise is this: Lloyd has proved that she “can do comedy – that’s in the bag,” so she’s making the transition to theatre. She has to keep it a bit hush-hush though, as the Fringe authorities have seen what category she’s billed under in the brochure. It’s a neat way of framing
Asher Treleaven: Troubadour
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The relationship between high-concept and great standup comedy is a pretty amorphous one. Most great Fringe shows have, at their root, some unifying theme, an idea that holds everything together. But can the conceit kill the comedy? Asher Treleaven’s latest show is pegged onto a particularly convoluted concept: Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, a metaphysical problem solving technique in which each hat has a different meaning. Lost? Don’t worry, Treleaven devotes the first five minutes of his set to an explanation that is so long-winded and jargon-filled that, as he admits, his show “does feel like a comedy TED talk.” The six hats of different hues provide the framing device for an autobiographical hour. Treleaven wanders from his dysfunctional childhood to his newfound positive
her act, providing a strong through-line and allowing Lloyd to discuss and send up her insecurities about this ‘difficult second show.’ Perhaps she’s a little too open about this: within the first five min-
frame of mind, via various anecdotes and some impressive “sexy Diablo” learned at the clown college. Unfortunately, the hats are more hindrance than help, a thin conceit that is unable to hold together what is essentially a series of unrelated material. Which is a shame because Treleaven, a lanky, dapper Australian with wild eyes and a strong stage presence, knows his way around a gag. A routine about having an ultrasound for testicular cancer is sharp, wonderfully observed and devilishly funny. Treleaven can also think on his feet: for most comics, an audience of six punters and a baby (seriously) would be a daunting prospect, but instead he uses the almost empty room, and the infant in particular, as a prop. Treleaven is a talented comic trapped by a duff concept. Time to get his thinking hat on. [Peter Geoghegan] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
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utes she’s quoting someone who advised against “doing Moomins,” as “not everyone knows them.” This is indeed a problem; Lloyd’s idiosyncratic references are often simply too obscure.
The Dog-Eared Collective - You’re Amazing, Now Look At Me!
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There are plenty of shows at the Fringe that are badly thought through, under-rehearsed, under-written, or otherwise lacking in the kind of professionalism and commitment that a paying audience should expect. This isn’t one of them, and it’s hard to work out exactly why it fails, so fundamentally, to make almost anyone in the audience laugh. But fail it does, to the extent that even the performers themselves repeatedly acknowledge this fact on stage. Dog-Eared Collective have been together since 2005, garnering some impressive notices, and there’s no mistaking their commitment. There are enough beautifully made costumes and props brought out here to challenge a Mighty Boosh live show. The cast display an impressive range of comic accents and a relentless
When you’re on board and the clever writing finds its mark, there’s gold to be had: her piss-take of Zooey Deschanel is hilarious, so convulsively kooky that she’s literally falling over, and worried that “girls don’t like me because I guess they can see what I’m doing.” But unless you know, for example, the typical structure of a TED Talk, or the ins and outs of Scandinavian crime fiction, you may well feel a little left out. Lloyd is very definitely one to follow, but she could afford to look over her shoulder a bit to check we’re still with her. [Tom Hackett] Pleasance Courtyard, 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 8–27 Aug, not 14, £9.00 – £10.00
energy and enthusiasm. And most of their ideas seem like perfectly serviceable, surreal bases for decent sketches. On a few occasions, this promise is realised: a parody of those twee adverts for ‘friendly’ banking is spot-on in style, technically impressive and has a fairly amusing, dark twist; and the denouement, in which “terrifying” women’s curling champion Rhona Martin directs the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Glasgow, culminating in the spectacular lighting of a chip pan fire, is topical and satisfyingly bonkers. But all too often the sketches lack that crucial animating spark of inspiration to raise them above pedestrian-level wackiness. The silence from the audience is of the embarrassed variety, as the effort and self-belief of the performers is abundantly evident but, on this showing, ill-founded. [Tom Hackett] Underbelly, Cowgate, 3:50pm – 4:50pm, 8–26 Aug, not 14, £10.00 – £11.00
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festcomedy Barbara Nice: Mrs Nice
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Barbara Nice, Janice Connolly’s indomitable Mancunian alter-ego, cannot be watched passively - she will not allow it. She makes demands of the crowd at every turn, and while some of the audience clearly expected as much, others halfheartedly play along because of the unavoidable impression that not doing so would hurt Connolly’s feelings. Though her intentions may be good, it is this kind of emotional blackmail that many find to be the least attractive aspect of audience participation. Having clapped along, acted as a chorus, helped her bodysurf and played an outdoors game of ‘What’s The Time, Mr Wolf?’, audiences may be entitled to wonder how much of this show they are allowed merely to watch, rather than perform themselves. Of course, that could be considered cynical, and cynicism of any kind is off-limits at Mrs Nice. Connolly’s cartoonish characterisation of a working class wife and mother describes herself as a “fun smuggler”, bringing a bit of wholesome silliness into people’s lives (whether they want it or not). This provides an energetic hour of song, dance, group activities and observations on life as seen through the prism of Take a Break magazine. Connolly clearly has a loyal pre-existing fanbase, but for newcomers, Mrs Nice demands too much and gives too little. While her routines show a knack for comic phrasing and her good mood never flags, the overall experience often feels like being hectored by the overenthusiastic organiser of a package holiday. Unfortunately, few people would consider that comedy. [Sean Bell] The Assembly Rooms, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 8–25 Aug, not 13, £10.00
Mark Watson: The Information
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The fact information is freely available is hardly a fresh revelation, and Mark Watson is in a better position than most to discuss it. After all, he’s been the victim of bank fraud, Twitter hate and, most upsettingly, refused a mortgage after his lender Googled him and discovered he was a comic. This is the throughline as Watson returns to straight stand up, and it’s a bloody good job he did. You can often forget, what with TV appearances on uninspiring panel shows such
Bourgeois and Maurice: Sugartits
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After a three year hiatus from the Fringe, comic cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice are officially back – caked in eye shadow and resplendent in full glittery glory. As their posters attest, the pair are visually magnificent, particularly the irrepressible Bourgeois who stalks the stage in vertiginous stilettos and a skintight green-sequined one-piece. Maurice is very much the straight ‘man’ to
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as Mock The Week (he himself describes it as a “non-speaking role”) just how strong Watson is. Grinning through anecdotes as audience members text throughout the show (his contact details projected on a massive screen throughout) this isn’t mum-pleasing mainstream but an entertaining, unpredictable torrent wrapped up in loveable geeky enthusiasm. His run-ins with the internet, lying to taxi drivers and the word MILF (maybe a bit mum-pleasing, then) are spiked with just enough barbs to give him an edge many don’t give him credit for. As a running theme, it feels
a little structurally contrived as the strands come together as Watson turns his guns on Paul Goddard, the man who refused his mortgage. Watson genially explains he’d like to “destroy this man’s life” using the internet, turning his own weapon against him. It’s a fairly inspired lesson in how to turn a personal squabble into a brilliantly OTT e-crusade, while demonstrating Watson’s own secret weapon: he’s really not as safe as you think he is. [Stevie Martin]
Georgeois Bourgeois’ prancing, prowling ego, and in truth her glum passive-aggression feels a little forced alongside Bourgeois’ natural, audiencebating charm. The pair are accomplished musicians and the lion’s share of their comic power pop is slick and well delivered. At best the songs give us a surreal, offbeat take on current affairs, particularly the sadomasochistic triumph ‘tax me’ and ‘Europe,’ a metaphorical call-to-arms to a half-cut continent. The duo bill themselves as ‘bitingly witty’ but in truth
Sugartits is only ever gently satirical. Indeed, at times the hour-long set veers towards style over substance and certain songs, such as ‘Social Networks (Make Me Feel Shit),’ feel predictable and even a little lazy. Sugartits is vivacious, amusing and well constructed, but jostling for position in a festival crammed with musical comedians, it may be useful to remember that all that glitters is not gold. [Sam Friedman]
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festcomedy Tony Law: Maximum Nonsense
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Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky
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Nominated for last year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, the lad from Sunderland follows up with another tight show that will both consolidate his Fringe status and widen his fanbase. After getting the audience to throw an oversized die around the room to select who he directs his opening banter at, Ramsey then explains that this show won’t be about Lady Luck but about randomness – from always being stopped in the street by weirdos to the mindboggling fortuitousness of our existence. Some nice yarns about his parents nearly killing him by accident are among some of the well crafted routines that follow. These act as amuse bouches to the main set-piece story at
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“bad audience banter” to new levels of absurdity and gives a nod to the structural trope of talking in a low, serious voice to denote “the serious, meaningful section of the show.” All this is set beside a bit about his uncle morphing into a dragon that really throws a curveball into the works. Why? Why not. But what does it mean? Erm... He does guide the audience through his hour, though, telling us exactly why it’s funny, before throwing himself around yelling about sport for no reason at all. And it’s bloody hilarious. To be honest, it’s pointless analysing Tony Law too much. Suffice to say, whatever he’s trying to do, he’s doing it right. If you don’t get it, there are laughs to be had but you may leave feeling pretty confused. If you do get it, you’ll leave with your face aching. And that’s not hyperbole either. [Stevie Martin] The Stand, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, £8
the end which, appropriately enough since it is about skydiving, sends everyone out on a high. Ramsey’s energy and drive is truly admirable and he’s an impressive force. There are, however, a number of aspects to his act that serve to undermine some of the goodwill that he generates. He is too hurried at times, too afraid that he might not recoup his rhythm if he were to get sidetracked. Another of Ramsey’s habits is to rely too heavily on grating stock responses (e.g. “happy days”); silly verbal emoticons that have little value. But this tic should fall away with time as he continues to refine his comedy, as while Ramsey sometimes feels like the finished article, he’s not quite there yet. [Julian Hall] Pleasance Courtyard, times vary, 8–26 Aug, not 17, £8.50 – £9.50
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festcomedy Loretta Maine: Bipolar
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Loretta Maine is Pippa Evans’ most successful character from her 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated show Pippa Evans And Other Lonely People, and is now on her second solo outing. The strung-out American folkrock songstress has garnered numerous comparisons, from a more unbalanced Courtney Love to a Mike Leigh take on Dolly Parton. In short, she’s a mess. Nothing, it seems, can prise her away from swigging at a succession of mini wine bottles, mixing the grape with the venom that she spits out to the subjects of her songs, from exes to call centres. While certainly not a difficult second album, it is more of the same from Maine. Highlights of this angst-driven hour include ‘White Wine Witch,’ that sees Maine cavort the audience to warn of the dangers of a woman whose progressive drinking turns her from life and soul of the party to a harpy in three easy bottles. Clearly, this one comes from bitter experience. Some of the later numbers and banter intervals are as unfocused as Maine’s deliberately slurred diction, but those watching Maine for the first time were audibly impressed with her talents. While she bears a second listen for her existing fans, her character hasn’t been developed much further. It is great that a character showcase spawned a standalone act, but since Evans has other strings to her bow, future Fringe ventures might hopefully see her do something new. [Julian Hall] Just The Tonic at the Caves, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, 8–26 Aug, not 14, £9.00 – £10.00
Hannah Gadsby Hannah Wants a Wife
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The success of certain standup shows depends almost entirely on whether or not as, an individual, you relate to the person telling the jokes. This is one such show, a gentle meander through the current preoccupations of an academically-minded, 30-something Australian lesbian, which yields rewards if you don’t come expecting a laugh-a-minute. If you share any of Hannah Gadsby’s primary interests—art history, gender and sexual politics— you’ll find plenty to enjoy here; and even if you don’t, you may still be charmed by Gadsby’s relaxed, matey demeanour and disarmingly dry wit. Gadsby starts—promisingly or alarmingly, depending on your mindset—by introducing us to the Arnolfini portrait, that well-known 15th century painting of a couple standing in their bedroom, littered with apparently symbolic details. Gadsby acquaints us with these details using Powerpoint slides, pausing to observe, for example, that St Margaret, a
One Rogue Reporter
HHHHH Like the initial sentence of a good tabloid story, the first two minutes of Rich Peppiatt’s show tells you everything you need to know about what will follow. The ex-Daily Star journalist splices together a montage of tabloid editors giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry into press ethics. Their words are used selectively, taken out of context, edited together for maximum drama and minimum accuracy. Like a hack double-agent, Peppiatt is using the tabloid’s techniques against themselves. He knows the dark arts well.
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carving of whom stands above the wardrobe and who is the patron saint of childbirth, dying in childbirth and kidney stones, was essentially “the patron saint of squeezing stuff out.” Gadsby had apparently seen this portrait printed on an anti-gay marriage pamphlet, so this is a roundabout way of introducing us to some mildly political stuff about gay politics and her current personal mission to find a wife.
This material is a little more obvious and not as strong; Gadsby is on more interesting ground when she returns to her historical musings, like pondering what era it would be best to travel to as a “time travelling lesbian.” But she’s certainly good and entertaining company for an Edinburgh hour. [Tom Hackett]
In his two years at the paper his stunts included proposing to Susan Boyle, dressing in a burka, and flashing his underwear at Muslim women. Then in a fit of frustration and selfloathing, he quit. 18 months later his mea culpa has taken the form of this show: a series of monologues and tabloid video stunts against some of the red tops’ worst offenders. Peppiatt is a likeable but not natural live performer. He is not helped by what sounds like a hastily written script. A five minute section taking the piss out of an overwrought piece of celebrity fluff from the Mail Online feels as satisfying as shooting fish in
a barrel. Or cross-examining tabloid editors at a public inquiry. It’s much of a muchness these days. Despite this, the hour is several notches above the rantings of disgruntled former employee, thanks to its topicality and most of all the videos. The muck-raking sting featuring Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun and latter-day hammer of the Scots and Scousers, is worth not only the ticket price, but several tabloid news stories alone. [Edd McCracken]
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festcomedy Jigsaw: Gettin’ Jiggy
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Carl-Einar Häckner: Handluggage
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If there’s a show you shouldn’t exit early this year – “early” being applied loosely to a performance that doesn’t so much end as slowly collapse – it’s Carl-Einar Häckner’s. Even if you’re on the verge of pissing yourself as the hour-mark nears, rest assured that by the time the long haired crackpot Swede is done showing off his painful looking hyper-literal mouth organ skills, you’ll be in good company. Häckner is best known in the UK through cabaret troupe La Clique, and Hand-
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luggage does have a vaudevillian air, employing gags, songs and knowingly crap comedy magic. It’s all performed with the gormlessly panicked facial expression of a man trying to repair his space shuttle using a toaster manual. The ‘shit tricks come good and good tricks go shit’ concept is nothing new—see Tommy Cooper—but through a mix of bumbling, screwball bewilderment and exaggerated Scandiness Häckner makes rote material fantastically his own. He crucially mistakes the word bandana for banana when working off a teach-yourself-magic cassette tape. He pushes the durability of his IKEA props to
the limit. He should probably have quit while he was ahead with the mouth organ showstopper (what drives a man to try and fit a whole harmonica in his gob?), but the rest is deliciously weird. Shambling to an eventual end after a sweet singsong and a standing ovation for the Swedish hockey anthem, Häckner stands outside the venue nervously shaking departing audience members’ hands, looking sweaty and mildly disturbed. It’s fine to go now, or better still, run. [Malcolm Jack]
An ensemble consisting of three standups (the established Dan Antapolski and up-and-comers Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine), Jigsaw came together last year and instantly garnered much praise for their fast-paced, smart take on the sketch genre. Proving they’re no slouches—it must be hard work to fill an hour when your sketches average about 30 seconds each—they’ve returned this year with more of the same. It’s a tight, well written and good-natured show, with some great concepts and plenty of passably amusing ones. Antapolski can be an offputtingly smug presence on his own, but he’s nicely sent up and complemented here by his companions. One sketch involves him apparently stepping out of character and chatting up a girl in the audience, while Luurtsema acts as his “wing man,” naively pointing out his failings in the process of trying to make him sound attractive. There’s a brilliant sketch where a banal conversation between a London rudeboy and rudegirl gets all metaphysical (“Do you know Jez? Do you know the number 42 bus? Have you known sorrow?...”), and some nice recurring themes, like a lad who tries to get his friend to do Jagerbombs at increasingly inappropriate moments. Luurtsema is a highly likeable straightwoman, who wins the audience over sufficiently to excuse her fit of uncontrollable giggles in this performance; Craine is an endearingly enthusiastic and over-the-top presence. The pieces fit together perfectly; and like a 100-piece jigsaw it’s a relatively unchallenging, but highly diverting, way to spend an hour. [Tom Hackett]
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festcomedy Felicity Ward: The Hedgehog Dilemma
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The course of hedgehog love never did run smooth. Sigmund Freud outlined the problem in his Hedgehog Dilemma, an analogy for human intimacy. In winter the animals can either huddle together, jabbing each other with their spines, or go it alone and risk freezing to death. Australian comedienne Felicity Ward was one such prickly customer who decided to get sober, leave her fiancé and venture out into the cold. Dressed in her unused wedding gown, Ward is a high-energy Miss Havisham, bounding through her most depressing moments with glee. Everything from her heartbreaks to her alcoholism are dispatched with a fizzy smile. A physical but exact performer, she has an awareness of her limbs and facial expressions that rivals a puppeteer. This is coupled with a filthy
sense of humour and eye for a telling character trait. Even without the angst, this is an exceptionally funny show that does not waste a moment. Indeed Ward has honed this hour until every sharp edge has been sanded down. In other hands this slick approach might be impersonal, but here it makes the moments of emotion more affecting, more rewarding. Hedgehog Dilemma never feels selfindulgent because Ward never stops indulging the audience, explicitly pandering to their love of stupid gags and cute animal pictures. This is sharp comedy with a loveable core. Considering the topics covered, one might expect Ward simply to curl up into a ball and play dead, but she doesn’t. Being around her should be painful, and yet she makes herself so thoroughly appealing. [Jonathan Holmes] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10:00pm – 11:00pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, £10.00 – £12.00
Pete Johansson Utopian Crack Pipe
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Forget Monkey Tennis. Pete Johansson has a killer idea for a new TV show: Gypsies versus Bears. The garrulous Canadian has developed a bear fetish of late. Not content with having them gorge upon an average two German tourists a year in his native land, he is keen for Paddington and his kin to be adopted into every facet of life in Britain, his new home. Bears on TV, bears in the police, and, most importantly bears in his new Fringe show. You see, what initially seems like a throwaway suggestion that this green and pleasant land should reintroduce bears turns out to be the basis of his entire hour. To be so deliberately one-note is a ballsy move, but Johansson is such a
confident comedian it works. Just. And to be honest, in the face of monochrome shows based solely on matters such as the Olympics or, shudder, the comedian’s love life, one about bears seems incredibly refreshing. Johansson throws his furry friends into a number of scenarios, imagining how
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much money the state would have been saved in clearing the Dale Farm travellers had bears been deployed—hence the televisual fantasy of Alan Partridge proportions—and how roaming bears would wipe out such unsavoury British pastimes such as littering and dogging. He even manages to weave a tribute
to his late mother into this bear love-in. It amounts to an ambling show that is ultimately more Yogi than grizzly: jolly and cuddly rather than threatening to chew your face off. [Edd McCracken] Underbelly Bristo Sq, 8:40pm – 9:40pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, £10.00 – £12.50
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festcomedy Jessica Fostekew: Brave New Word
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Jessica Fostekew likes words. One might think that, among standup comedians this wouldn’t be all that unusual. Yet it’s surprisingly rare to find one who takes such heartfelt and imaginative joy in language and its possibilities. Fostekew charmingly invites the audience to share her passion, and over one jam-packed hour, takes us on a consistently hilarious and surprisingly educational journey through etymology, neologisms, double meanings and nominative determinism. Cleverly acknowledging that she is teaching her audience as much as making them laugh, Fostekew treats her performance like a school lesson, albeit on the last day of school, when the games come out and everyone is giddy with anticipation for summer fun. It’s
Martin Mor: A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day
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“MARTIN MOR IS AS FUNNY AS FUCK.” Or at least that’s what Martin Mor wrote in my critic’s notepad. He’d spotted me as I was making discreet jottings and swooped down, wrestling my notepad and biro from me. “There you go,” he chuckled, ‘I’ve written your review for you now!” From then on in he kept checking I, and the rest of the audience, were enjoying themselves. For a heavily tattooed Irish man with both a physique and beard that wouldn’t disgrace Hagrid from Harry Potter, Martin Mor is disarmingly, almost charmingly, insecure. But perhaps this is appropriate given the theme of his new show. A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day explores how different people can perceive the same person in very different
an appropriate device to frame the show, as Fostekew has the bouncy energy and attitude of a precocious and endlessly mischievous schoolgirl – an energy the audience quickly finds infectious. An hour is typically regarded as the perfect length of time for Fringe standup, not too much, not too little –though there are precious few comedians who can sustain the laughs for half that time. The worst one can say about Brave New Word— which elegantly encompasses history, maths, politics, romance, childhood nostalgia, a suitcase full of props and an off-stage voice of God (who is a pervert, apparently)—is that it comes to an end too quickly, leaving us wanting more. Nevertheless, it will deservedly win Fostekew a host of new fans. [Sean Bell] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6:30pm – 7:30pm, 8–26 Aug, not 14, £8.00 – £9.50
ways. The show was inspired by two contrasting descriptions of himself he received in reviews from Edinburgh last year. One critic said he looked like, “a rapist Father Christmas,” while another complimented him on his warmth and friendliness. On display for the audience were the fruits of his investigations, including impressions of him by various artists and sketches of himself made in a life-drawing class (the results of which he’d considerably enhanced - no prizes for guessing where!). At times Mor’s material is repetitive and the pace of the show flags. But perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of his efforts to connect with each of his audience members on an individual level. In truth he’s not quite as funny as fuck, but a genial giant and skilled raconteur. [Miranda Kiek] The Stand Comedy Club II, 8:10pm – 9:10pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, £8.00
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festcomedy Catriona Knox: Hellcat
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With each audience member awaiting the result of their eternal judgement for the duration of the show, Hellcat offers the possibility of the most feel-good ending at the Fringe. Before our fate is revealed, however, we must first endure an hour’s suspense and some appropriately harrowing audience interaction. One third of sketch troupe the Boom Jennies, Catriona Knox has been forging a concurrent career as a solo performer, growing steadily in confidence and ability over the years. While her previous shows were hampered by a reliance on broad stereotypes and pop culture references, her latest offering is classy step forward. One is unlikely to find more consistent and inventive character comedy in Edinburgh this month.
Celia Pacquola: Delayed
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Listening to your best friend talk about their long distance relationship for an hour can be a trying affair, so it takes a comic of rare charisma to perform it as a standup set for strangers. Celia Pacquola certainly has that charisma. The recently emigrated Australian specializes in casual over-sharing, ugly dancing and charmingly convincing the audience that ‘You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone’ really refers to toilet paper. Yet Delayed feels like it could have benefitted from a little more time: its flourishes of greatness are not quite followed through. There’s little that links the standup set besides her recent move, motivated by a desire for personal growth and transformation. But the life-changing part of this step has been rather
While an undoubted show highlight is the melodramatic, slow burning monologue delivered by a surprisingly eloquent pre-schooler, Knox’s talents are best observed as she delivers a routine lacking in any real dialogue. Portraying a European of unspecified nationality, she relates her wedding day to us through pictorial aids, streams of clipped gibberish and expressive gesticulation. Soon surrogate parents are recruited and the situation is escalated to a brilliantly sour conclusion, the reluctant family members responding as though to a real person. A sketch based on Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico may unduly assume knowledge of the singer’s solo career, but otherwise Hellcat is an accessible and involving gem waiting to find the audience it deserves. [Lewis Porteous] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 5:40pm – 6:40pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, £9.00 – £10.00
set-back by the humiliation of a British train toilet door sliding inopportunely open and the irks of time-lord air stewards dictating her sleep patterns. And her boyfriend isn’t here. Pacquola certainly injects exuberant energy into this familiar realm of observational comedy. Her culture clash gags are eminently repeatable. But it’s slender pickings for a whole show and her use of props is sporadically brilliant enough to feel underused. A massive paper-mache hand on a stick barely has a cameo. Delayed may be a delightful showcase of Pacquola’s charm but a tighter structure and meatier material might prevent her from having to ad-lib, with admitted brilliance: “Ah groan; the laugh’s slow cousin.” [Catherine Sylvain] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7pm – 8pm, 8–27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
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Joe Lycett: Some Lycett Hot
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Joe Lycett is ludicrously debonair for his age. The charming 24 year-old is so unthreatening that an attempt to unsettle the audience of his first solo Fringe show with his bisexuality is laughable. The soothing warm atmosphere of Some Lycett Hot means when the standup begins to dictate from his weird written correspondence, it’s scorching comedy. Lycett in print possesses rattling levels of passive aggression. The disjunction between his polite Brummie lilt and the violent surrealism of his words is jarringly funny. In a letter to a parking warden Lycett claims if he’s obliged to pay the fine a child at his orphanage will die. He messages back users of Grindr, a gay dating website,
curt ripostes and increasingly esoteric questions. He bizarrely begins an email to a complaining television viewer “Dear Nick Clegg” and concludes with excessive kisses. Unfortunately these snippets occupy barely a third of Some Lycett Hot. It’s a show in which Lycett seems still to be testing the water of his comic expertise. He dabbles uncertainly in tepid observational gags about wasps and urinals, and resorts occasionally to a flippant pull-back-and-reveal. Lycett possesses an effortless onstage presence already but he could be more focused. If he’d printed out his email correspondence and just read it aloud for an hour he’d earn an extra star instantly. [Catherine Sylvain] Pleasance Courtyard, 8:30pm – 9:30pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
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The Imaginary Radio Programme: Drennon Davis Presented by The Pajama Men
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As the joke about the nation’s television goes; you don’t listen to American radio to hear what’s on. You listen to it hear what else is on and no one knows this like Drennon Davis. The San Franciscan has apparently lost decades of life idling by the wireless and gets brilliant quirky revenge with
Monkey Toast: The Improvised Chat Show
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The landscape of comedy is a well ploughed field, but Monkey Toast has succeeded in introducing a new form to the Fringe: the improv-view. Blending chat show style interviews with improvised scenes based on what has just been discussed, a conveyor belt of comedy’s fastest rising
his satirical musical comedy show The Imaginary Radio Programme. If Davis isn’t the world’s foremost radio impressionist he’s definitely tuned somewhere near the top. Music-genre parodies, drearily accurate DJs and absurd sponsor messages are broadcast solely via his beatboxing skills, looper and ukelele, while a keyboard accompanist engages in filthy duets. Indeed, a delightful immaturity is streamed through all the stations of Davis’ Imaginary
Radio, as their names suggest; ‘KLUB’, ‘K-Rap’, ‘Klas: Music for your sanity’, ‘KOCK’, and ‘KUNT: Music for pussies’. For each, the multi-talented animator provides charming artwork slides; you’ve never seen the latter station’s name next to so many cute kittens. And if words like ‘kittens’, ‘quirky’ or ‘ukelele’ make you prickle, don’t worry. Many of Davis’ broadcast bashes come complete with a universally accessible dick joke. In his Morrissey impression he cries; “I have an uncircumcised heart.
It’s more sensitive than normal hearts”. His brilliant Nic Cage impression ends up similarly cock-centered. It would perhaps be penis envy to dwell on such things too much. The Imaginary Radio Programme may just be the most inspiring show about what you can create when your entire world revolves around radio, and not just your genitals. [Catherine Sylvain]
stars take to the floor each night in a bid to create spur of the moment comic chemistry. Hosted by genial Canadian comic David Shore, Sunday night saw Loretta Maine and Nish Kumar in the spotlight discussing a range of topics from parents to prime ministers (Kumar can chronologically list every British PM from the mid 1950s to present). It was then up to the six improv actors, including Cariad Lloyd, and The Beta Males’ Richard
Soames, to devise wacky skits pertaining to the discussions between Shore and his guests. This is where the piece begins to unravel, as a number of the anecdotes upon which the improv are based are not intriguing enough to power entire scenes. Two of the skits raise decent laughs, but in an hour long show, this feels somewhat paltry. Though the premise of Monkey Toast is novel, most humour arises in
the timing and telling of jokes, and thus watching people interpret the witty asides of others seems to dilute the scope for laughs. The show is certainly enjoyable, yet one can’t help but feel there is a reason why improv and standup usually occupy separate comedic realms. [Charlotte Lytton]
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festcomedy The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape
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The Boy (aka Sam Wills) sits on a chair under spectral blue lights, gaffa-taped and blinking at an audience filing in to the tune of Danny Elfman. A voice warns that, if we are chosen, we must take part or we’ll look “like a cock.” And so The Boy begins to play. The entire Pleasance Grand is putty in his hands. Constructing lengthier routines than last year from a variety of props (loo roll, toothbrushes, hairdryers), the favourites from his Royal Variety Show performance are slotted between equally inventive new sequences, involving the audience as much as The Boy. With a point and a clap he selects participants who are both integral to the performance and
Ford and Akram: Bamp
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“Everyone needs a thing, an idea in order to get famous,” says Ford to her comedy partner Akram. Voluptuous Akram tosses her glossy hair dismissively and serenely indicates her breasts, “No worries,” she replies, “I have two things, and no ideas.” This is about as funny as the pair’s show gets. Ford and Akram are
treated with the sort of respect you rarely see at your average comedy gig. If you find yourself on stage, you’re in safe hands. The Boy commands the stage effortlessly, and though ripping the piss out of the audience would certainly get him cheap laughs, he thankfully never takes this route. As he sets the groundwork for each routine it’s, more often
than not, impossible to guess the direction he’s headed. Sometimes, just when you think it’s done, he’ll throw in a new prop, or get someone else on stage to transform the entire sequence. There may be one too many puppet-lip-synching routines (can puppets with no mouths lip synch?) but who cares when he’s firing a plunger at a toilet seat hung
from a man’s head to set up a... we won’t ruin it for you. This is comedy in its purest, simplest form: no confessional backstory, no swearing, no satire. Just back to basics inventiveness and, most importantly, fun. [Stevie Martin]
two young things, with very little idea. Thus fame may well elude them. While youth and luminously sweet smiles may render the duo very likeable (it certainly makes one feel mean to criticise them), these charms do not humour make – and the comediennes’ attempts at a brand of surreal story-telling, quite frankly, never get off the ground. Their show last year received a collection of excel-
lent reviews. Which goes to make the flaws of this year’s one seem extra-puzzling. Bamp tells the story of a fictional quest – Ford must get the made-up word ‘Bamp’ into the dictionary if she is to inherit the multi-million pound word-coinage business of her recently executed Grandmother. Failure would result in the business going to her arch enemy, who improbably turns out to be a training shoe named Phil. This rather silly
story is paired with a sloppy semi-spontaneous script; predictable comments on the fact it’s a shoe occur with alarming frequency. Who knows, perhaps the pair’s vivacity and good humour will win over future audiences. But for the moment, their material does them a huge disservice. [Miranda Kiek]
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festtheatre Leo
HHHHH You could say Leo’s performer Tobias Wegner has discovered a new dimension in physical comedy. Several dimensions might more accurately describe this dynamic show that throws you upside down, tilts you sideways and messes with your head in the most glorious, brain-tickling way. Leo is a man trapped in a box. A side-on camera gives the audience a topsy-turvy view of the goings-on inside: when Leo sits down in his box, he floats against a wall in the projected image; when he braces himself in a onehanded stand against the floor, the projection shows him leaning casually against the wall. And so the idea of distorted gravity is gradually and mischievously introduced. His tie flies to one side when
I Heart Peterborough
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A man in pink slippers and a green sequined waistcoat sits at a Yamaha keyboard adorned with stickers and a glitterball. An older man stands nearby, clad in a dirty white robe, red stilettos and heavy make-up. This father and son cabaret act—son the keyboard player, father the drag artiste—are about to relate the story of their lives, and it’s a good deal darker than their attire suggests. Writer Joel Horwood (also making his directing debut) has crafted a desperate tale of sexual and emotional anguish that is, at times, achingly sad. Michael (or Lulu, to give him his stage name) is a teenager in the Peterborough of the title when, still discovering his sexuality, he is brusquely rejected by another boy after a brief sexual encounter. Another equally fleeting dalliance
he appears to be standing upright. His hat is yanked away from him by some mysterious force. Soon, with a clown’s curiosity, he begins to explore this new gravity-defying world, vaulting and throwing himself all over the place, levitating into the lotus position when he hears Indian music, using his new-found freedom to bounce around and boogie like a spaceman. The best thing about Leo is that it fills the viewer with a childlike wonder; you can see throughout what tricks Wegner is up to but nevertheless wilfully believe in the magic version on screen. If ever you needed proof that new realms of imagination are alive and waiting to be discovered, this is it. [Lucy Ribchester] Assembly Roxy, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £14.00 – £15.00
with a young woman results in her becoming pregnant. Some 15 years later his son seeks him out after his mother has died. “I don’t like dads, I never wanted to be one” is Michael’s reaction. And so begins a fragile relationship between two damaged, needy people, neither of whom is able to be there for the other. The story is narrated in retrospect by the pair, leaving little in the way of visual action—bar a rendition of Annie Lennox’s ‘There Must Be an Angel’—meaning the piece requires considerable imagination from the audience. However, Horwood’s language is rich and the two actors—Milo Twomey and Jay Taylor—enact it evocatively, building to a conclusion which simmers with fraught emotion, the pair’s outfits masking a well of sadness. [Caroline Bishop] Pleasance Courtyard, 5:35pm – 6:45pm, 8–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10.00 – £11.00
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5 FEST BEST! Boris and Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure
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The sordid imaginative offspring of the Flabbergast Theatre group, Boris and Sergey are two Eastern European confidence tricksters who also happen to be faceless leather bunraku puppets. Bickering and cursing through a uniquely sleazy and mishap-prone vaudeville extravaganza, the
The Blind
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duo may just become the break-out comedy double act of this year’s Fringe. The show starts off as profanely hilarious, and only escalates from there. The technical brilliance on display cannot be exaggerated. Boris and Sergey are possessed with so much personality and strange, frantic anima that the audience will find themselves making eye contact with the pair, despite their lack of eyes and the presence of six black-clad puppeteers, who never once disturb the illusion.
We may have become used to dummies mocking their own ventriloquists, but puppets who force their manipulators to twist into ever-stranger contortions in order to control them is a sight to behold. ‘Flawless’ is a tough word to use honestly, but is the only suitable description for an evening’s entertainment that encompasses poker tricks, indoor explosives, an odd sense of pathos and the strangest cover of Kate Bush ever. Much credit should go to the enormous talents of the cast/
puppeteers, who not only have to act as one, but who improvise with a furious proficiency that would be beyond many less encumbered performers. More than mere marvels of puppetry, Boris and Sergey are vividly realised characters who we follow from their surreal and beautiful origin to their infernally grim reckoning. Shows this excellent don’t stay secret for long. [Sean Bell]
terrified invalids. All save for one woman, marked out in red as the lone seer and burdened with the responsibility of caring for the blind. They are all packed into a sanatorium by anonymous figures in forensic white suits and left to form their own society inside. Right, that gets the plot out of the way, which could come in handy, because the descent into bedlam that follows could frankly mean anything. The overriding feeling watch-
ing The Blind is that trying to portray dystopian chaos through physical theatre will result in exactly that: dystopian chaos. They writhe, they bang, they fumble. The soundtrack blares out apocalyptic choral music and painful, passionate songs. It has all the trappings and trimmings of a piece custom-made to shock; women with their breasts squashed against perspex windows, women being stage-raped. Only at two points does an
electrifying coherence emerge: once when a wild tango erupts on stage, blasted by red metallic confetti, the men dragging the women like dolls; and later when it is reprised, the confetti silver and the women in control. These two short interludes alone form a far better expression of the disrupted social order than the anarchy in between. [Lucy Ribchester]
Pleasance Courtyard, 11:00pm – 12:00am, 8–27 Aug, not 13, 21, £9 – £10
Old College Quad, times vary, 7–27 Aug, £13.00 – £15.00
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festtheatre A Guide to Second Date Sex
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Rachel Hirons’ very funny play A Guide to Second Date Sex has a simple but ruthlessly effective concept. A young couple, meeting for the second time in the guy’s bedroom, play out an elaborate and socially inept mating ritual, and we hear exactly what’s going on in their heads on the show’s soundtrack. Cue awful social awkwardness, crippling self-doubt and the ecstasy of success – all of which raises guffaws from the audience. In the show’s programme sheet, theatre company Dirty Stop-Out claims to specialise in rude, crude and voyeuristic comedy, and that’s a perfect description of what’s going on here. They’re unafraid to tackle the messy realities of sexual relationships; genital cleanliness and shaving both get more than a look in, often making the audience cringe in delight. And the show is unflinchingly
honest in its appraisal of the couple’s insecurities, mistrust of each other and tense negotiations of social rules. It’s funny because it’s so true. Although the writing is good, the performances let things down slightly. Amy Butterworth is confident and convincing as a hesitant Laura, and Thomas O’Connell is a likeable but bumbling Ryan, but both actors sometimes swallow their lines, or talk over audience laughter, with the result that much of what’s probably good material goes unheard. And although it’s undeniably funny, it’s not much more: this might have been the perfect set-up for a darker exploration of sex and desire, but instead things are kept on a pretty light, superficial level. Still, it’s an effective and enjoyable show – as long as you’re prepared to squirm. [Benjamin Edwards] Underbelly, Cowgate, 10:45pm – 11:45pm, 7–26 Aug, not 15, £9.50 – £10.50
The Loves I Haven’t Known
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Chris Bush and Ian McCluskey describe themselves as a bit like Flight of the Conchords, and it’s not a bad comparison. Like the Antipodean twosome, they’re armed with guitars on which they play unashamedly silly songs: for instance, a momentarily bleak note in their show, in which Ian declares that “we’re all staring into the abyss,” becomes the hilariously juvenile tune ‘Wanking into the Abyss.’ They’re also, as the aforementioned song might indicate, unlucky in love – or so they tell us. The Loves I Haven’t Known is a paean to unrequited and unexpressed love. Alternating through song and speech, Bush and McCluskey lament girls they’ve loved and admired and
to whom, for a range of reasons, they’ve never articulated their desires. These stories aren’t all their own: earlier this year, the duo asked fans on their blog to share their stories about “loves that never were,” and plan to tell different stories each night. It’s a nice touch that’s indicative of the warm community
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feeling that surrounds Bush and McCluskey, who also brought us past Fringe hit, Tony! The Blair Musical. This new show is uncompromisingly romantic, but it veers back from the precipice of mawkishness with some savage one-liners. It won’t be for everyone; a few of the songs drag and if you don’t like novelty guitar pop with a
heartfelt edge, then stay away. But The Loves I Haven’t Known is a genuine, sweetly foolish attempt to capture the comedy and anguish of letting ‘the one that got away’ get away. [Yasmin Sulaiman] C venues - C nova, 8:40pm – 9:40pm, 7–18 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
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festtheatre Dirty Paki Lingerie
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There are not many shows this critic would be embarrassed asking a box-office teller for tickets to: Chicks with Dicks, maybe; Les Miserables, probably; any Jennifer Anniston rom-com, definitely. If I found collecting my review tickets for Dirty Paki Lingerie —a name that wouldn’t look out of place on a flyer for a British National Party demo—a little disconcerting (which I did), writer and performer Aizzah Fatima’s thoughtful onewoman show about Pakistani women’s identity was worth the mortification. Dirty Paki Lingerie sets out to explore—and explode—cultural myths and stereotypes about Pakistani women, revealing how culture and tradition make different, often conflicting, claims on their lives.
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Over the course of a wellpaced hour Fatima presents the lives of seven Pakistani women, from a six year-old girl whose father has been arrested on trumped up terrorism charges to a mother in her 50s who decides to leave her unloving Pakistani husband. We meet Mrs Khan as she combs the matrimonial ads in an Urdu newspaper for a potential
suitor for her daughter. Meanwhile, Raheela, a 35 year-old professional woman on a business trip, makes eyes with an attractive Pakistani man in the airport. Without meeting they begin chatting online during the flight; she thinks she has found someone special, until he suggests they meet in the First Class bathroom. Raheela is, in his eyes, too intelligent and
too old to be any more than a passing fling. Dirty Paki Lingerie dispels taboos without dealing in ciphers and strawmen itself. Fatima has drawn each character artfully and humanely – the result is a vital, engaging piece of theatre. [Peter Geoghegan] Assembly Hall, 5:15pm – 6:15pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
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festtheatre Thin Ice
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Extreme landscapes always magnify dark tensions – think of Conrad’s jungle in Heart of Darkness or the desert in The English Patient. The same is true here in Jonathan Young’s brittle, blistering vision of the Arctic, the setting for his glacial World War II thriller. Professor Daniel Steinburg is an Austrian glaciologist, a repressed man whose composure only hints at softening when he listens to Schubert. After his body is discovered by young couple Richard and Laura, with a collection of letters and a brown dossier stuck fast in his frozen hands, episodic flashbacks carefully excavate the stories of their entwined lives, revealing a world plagued by tensions of national identity, hidden truths and unrequited love. All this is set against a backdrop of the ‘weather war,’ the Allies’ and Germany’s race for control of the Arctic in order to predict patterns in the weather. Young is a masterful builder of tension, scraping away layers of social manners to let conflicts erupt between his characters. There’s a brilliant scene where Richard coldly goads the serious Daniel with British debating rituals. Similarly the love story of Daniel and Laura is as full of pathos as it is intrigue. But there are also several threads which tantalisingly beg further exploration; the relationship between the colonised Inuit and their changing colonisers; Daniel’s fascination with the way ice packs and preserves history. Nevertheless taut storytelling and a magnetic cast draw you into this play and watching it feels almost like skin sticking to ice, impossible to pull away. [Lucy Ribchester]
“Everyone wants a message and there is none,” says Stephanie, in a powerful monologue at the end of Morning. It’s a nihilistic but neat full stop on a challenging, slightly alienating new work from renowned playwright Simon Stephens. Developed with the Young Company at London’s Lyric Hammermsith and the Junges Theatre in Basel, Switzerland, Morning is a sea of abstraction and despair. And though it has its flaws, it’s encouraging to see young actors engage in such an experimental work at the Fringe. Stephanie is a projection of everything adults fear in teenagers, and everything teenagers fear about their own lives. She’s devastated because her best friend is leaving town; she thinks everyone finds her annoying; her mother is dying of cancer. As a dramatic character she grates, but this isn’t meant to be naturalistic theatre. There’s a loose plot and the stage is cluttered with odd objects: a large empty fridge, a laptop and sound control panel, an empty fish tank. It’s a series of disparate images that don’t
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How a Man Crumbled
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fit together – but maybe they don’t have to. As he showed in Punk Rock, Stephens deals with the extreme end of young anguish, where the lofty desire to escape from life is pierced by the mundane realities of sitting exams. Morning doesn’t always work and its most dramatic plotline, in
which Stephanie brutally kills her boyfriend, is unfulfilling. But her nightmarish world is a thrilling reminder that being young, wild and free isn’t all it’s made out to be. [Yasmin Sulaiman]
a modernist cello and piano piece. Whatever it is, it is performed with style and aplomb, and there is no denying the clowning talent of the trio. George Ramsay just has to lick his lips lasciviously and he’s funny. The same goes for Sacha Plaige’s and Jennifer Swingler’s shock-eyed gurning. When they all don headscarfs and scurry around with wild abandon, the audience bursts into giggles because it seems there is no other reaction than to laugh. But it all feels disappointingly meaningless. Cartoonish tableaux are interrupted by someone giving a lecture who
in turn is interrupted by being pelted with vegetables. Fans of Kharms may find resonance with the themes and the disjointed narrative. For the rest of us, it seems a little like Clout has eaten some Samuel Beckett and some Tim Burton, both of which disagreed badly with them, and vomited them up on stage for your delectation. There’s oodles of dark comic potential lurking in this body bag of macabre renegades and by all means go and see it. Just know what you’re letting yourself in for. [Lucy Ribchester]
Traverse Theatre, times vary, 8–19 Aug, not 13, £18.00 – £20.00
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festtheatre Shopping Centre by Matthew Osborn
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Is there something inherently less authentic about the nutter who occupies the basement of an artificial street than the bum on a real one? Matthew Osborn’s new play Shopping Centre certainly creates an unfamiliar nutter: a part shellsuited geezer whose penchant for leather sofas, letter openers and the smoothness of David Cameron’s face is a little too off-the-wall to wholly convince. Following last year’s successful suburban comedy Cul-de-Sac, standup and playwright Osborn’s latest Fringe show is awash with surreal ideas. He plays Jim, a man wholly emasculated by objects. Sexually ousted by his wife for a dildo, Jim relocates to a bunker 100 metres below his favourite shopping centre to fetishise its goods full time. Sniffing his fingers with relish at the memory of stroking a
leather three-piece suite, Jim sighs: “Like being cuddled by a naked girl.” Not quite a comedy given its unrelenting bleakness, Shopping Centre is a monologue Jim delivers to the unconscious body of a security guard he’s rescued from a sale-sparked riot upstairs. Though loosely based on real events, the credibility of this riot is dubious. Jim’s tale of middle-aged couples smashing gravy boats and dinner services is barely believable. Jim possesses an intermittently arresting strangeness and his David Cameron sex fantasies raise titters. But the impressively pathetic call to arms in defence of the mall might be the only time Osborn strikes the Ballardian notes he’s aiming for in the play’s genuinely rattling finale. [Catherine Sylvain] Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
Educating Rita
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It feels appropriate that this performance of Willy Russell’s classic 1980 play is taking place inside a university building. The set is brilliantly detailed: wooden bookshelves lined with dusty tomes, with the occasional bottle of scotch hidden behind a copy of Dickens or Forster. It’s in here that Frank, a disillusioned and perpetually drunk university professor, and Rita, a Liverpudlian hairdresser who wants to “better herself,” conduct the Open University meetings and develop their blossoming friendship. Made famous by the 1983 film starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, this is an engaging staging of a three-decade old play that still feels relevant. Women may have more choices
now than Rita did in 1980, but the issues the play raises about the value of culture and the formulaic nature of formal education still ring true. Much of this production’s appeal seems to lie in its starry cast of two. Claire Sweeney’s Rita is just the right side of sweet and sassy, her descent
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into the snobberies of intellectualism neatly captured. But there’s not much chemistry between her and Matthew Kelly, who plays Frank a little too loudly and grumpily to make him a particularly likeable character. As a result, the play doesn’t quite have the frisson of excitement that it
needs to make us really care about Rita and Frank’s relationship. But it’s still a pleasant and satisfying outing, if a little unadventurous. [Yasmin Sulaiman] Assembly George Square, 5:40pm – 7:10pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, £15.00 – £16.00
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festtheatre How’s About That Then?
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In this biographical one-man play, Garry Roost does a great job of embodying legendary entertainer Sir Jimmy Saville, who died in October 2011. He really captures the voice of the performer—as well as his cringeworthy fashion sense—without descending into caricature. But although there’s much to like in this new play by Bernie C Byrnes, it eventually becomes a bit monotonous. Dressed in a pink and white shell suit, gold chains around his neck and oversized rings, Roost instantly transports the audience into Sir Jimmy’s eccentric world. From the comfort of a red, throne-like armchair, he tells us all about his poor childhood in Leeds, where he was one of seven siblings, and how he vowed to change his life after being injured in a mine explosion as a young man. The play charts his rise from Bevin Boy to Radio Luxembourg DJ, then on to Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It. The monologue, punctuated by characteristic “now then, now thens” is occasionally broken up by voiceovers from Saville’s mother, whom he famously called “the Duchess.” It’s during these moments that we see a glimpse of the man underneath the bravado. And although it’s sympathetic, How’s About That Then? isn’t a hagiography. The play doesn’t shy away from the accusations of paedophilia that dogged Saville, and Roost depicts his love of young ladies with skin-crawling sleaziness. But even at 45 minutes, it feels long and doesn’t really offer any new perspectives on the man. [Yasmin Sulaiman] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, 8–27 Aug, not 15, £11.00 – £12.00
Coalition
HHHHH Yes, Minister. The Thick of It. Veep. It’s hard to remember when comedy and politics first jumped into bed together, but the unholy marriage has produced some of the most cutting, acerbic satire of recent years. Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s new play is no exception. Set in 2014, Coalition takes you to the top of a Lib Dem-Tory alliance in Westminster (the clue is in the name). Matt Cooper, played by comedian Thom Tuck, is the likeable but ultimately supine leader of the
Rock
HHHHH It shouldn’t work, but it does. Paris-based theatre company Atelier du Plateau’s survey of early New York punk, based on the book Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, uses just an actor and a cellist (yes, a cellist), and half of it’s in French (mostly subtitled). But there’s a compelling intensity to it all as actor Pierre Baux growls his way through memories of Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and others, with cellist Vincent Courtois scraping and plucking his instrument to create a rich soundscape of
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Lib Dems. Facing mounting disquiet from within his own party and outwith following a series of climbdowns (sound familiar?), Cooper does a deal with Conservative Prime Minister Richard Macintosh (Simon Evans): in exchange for permission to publically criticise a crackdown on local government spending, the Liberal leader agrees to the building of 48 nuclear reactors. Cue much political chaos and, eventually, the meltdown of Cooper’s career. “What do you do when you’re in a hole?” Cooper rhetorically asks his much put upon Special Advisor, Claudia (Jessica Regan). “Bring in
the industrial diggers and level the entire area.” In Cooper’s case that means revealing the duplicity and vacuity at the heart of modern politics. The writing is suitably mordant—Phil Jupitius, as the wonderfully camp, Mephistophelian Minister Without Portfolio Francis Whitford, gets most of the best lines—and if the drama sags occasionally over the 90 minutes there are more than enough laughs, and political intrigue, to keep the audience engaged throughout. [Peter Geoghegan]
thudding basslines. It’s a pretty bizarre show, it has to be said, but the two performers have such energy that you’re with them right from the start. Baux is a brooding presence, muttering dark stories about drug trips lasting days and casual sex in Parisian bars, or screaming his way through Allen Ginsberg’s hallucinogenic poem The Lion For Real. He’s not always easy to understand, with a thick French accent and a tendency to swallow words, but there’s a constant sense of threat in his performance that’s entirely in keeping with the show’s themes. He does come up with
some light relief, though – a story about Sid Vicious and a vacuum cleaner brings more than a smile to the face, but it doesn’t disrupt Baux’s cool persona. Some prior knowledge of the early 1970s New York music scene might help with understanding, and some of the show does admittedly come across as faintly ridiculous; it seems to take itself a bit too seriously at times. But all in all, surprisingly enjoyable. [Benjamin Edwards]
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Institut français d’Ecosse, 10:00pm – 11:10pm, 7–18 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, £10.00
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festtheatre Slice by Mel Giedroyc
HHHHH Set in a fully-functioning kitchen (the detail’s in the Dettol) Slice examines a complete breakdown in relations between three sisters, together for the first time in years as their mother lies upstairs on her deathbed. Middle sister Victoria, brimming with resentment after nine years looking after the old battleaxe, is frantically baking a Victoria sponge (get it?) as a disembodied voice utters strict instructions, while her siblings air plenty of grievances of their own. And what grievances they are: the eldest, Madeleine, back from her voluntary exile in America, announces to Charlotte: “The only thing we’ve ever had in common is your husband.” It is beautifully realised, with each sister being played almost, but not quite, to the
point of caricature. The plot, while far from complex, is full of wonderfully subtle details: only when Victoria descends into a monologue about her disastrous 10th birthday party, for example, do we realise that we were hearing her mother’s voice intoning the sponge recipe. Some aspects of the show could perhaps be accused of being a touch trite, the jokes occasionally a little too conspicuous, but this is understandable given the need to make an impact in a short time. Despite sharing their names with cakes, the three sisters are far from saccharine and, in fact, the subtleties in the play serve to balance its more obvious moments, making it a charming and emotionally engaging piece. [Anna Feintuck] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
Angels
HHHHH It takes some time to decipher the nub of this denselywritten monologue by Ronan O’Donnell, which premiered as part of the Òran Mór’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint series last year. The words come thick and fast, delivered in a thick Scots brogue by Iain Robertson. Persevere and you’ll extricate the story of Prentice (Robertson), a security guard who’s been lenient on a serial shoplifter. When this shoplifter is found dead, Prentice is hauled to the police station for questioning. It takes him, too, a while to discover exactly why he’s there; in the meantime he’s distraught to realise the police have searched his home and found a pornographic story he’s written, Angels, featuring his idea of womanly heaven, Scarlett Johansson. Feeling violated and embarrassed in front of the
jeering, abusive police inspector, Prentice spends his time in the cells in semi-conscious confusion, thoughts of Johansson and the shoplifter entwined around each other. Alone on a bare set, with words his only prop, Robertson puts in a visceral, highly physical performance totally devoid of self-consciousness. He spits
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and savours O’Donnell’s meaty, visual language, revelling in lines like “the inspector blowdries into my face his beery breath.” But despite this charismatic performance, Angels demands perhaps too much of its audience. Director Graeme Maley has put Robertson through the wringer, and he in turn
passes this on to us. At times frustratingly impenetrable, Angels is exhausting to watch and, like Prentice realising he is free to go, the end comes as something of a relief. [Caroline Bishop] Traverse Theatre, times vary, 8–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £17.00 – £19.00
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festtheatre Misanthropy
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Sam Siggs’ self-consciously gritty new drama explores the importance of connecting to others in a confusing world, and graphically demonstrates what can happen when we fail to do so. The play can be commended for unflinchingly confronting the darkness of its subject matter, but can also be accused of revelling in it a little too much. Six young Scots, each in their own way lost in the nightmare of their tangled personal circumstances, circle the corrosive tragedy at the play’s centre: the rape of Faye (Katie Milne) at an art school party. A series of errors leads to a series of reactions, and one act of hideous violence triggers others, with the participants too self-involved or self-pitying to see the paradox. The coincidences that carry the plot are arguably necessary, but require a bigger suspension of disbelief than some of the audience may be willing to provide. Almost every scene devolves into a foul-mouthed shouting match with implausible speed, and while most characters are well-rounded— their eccentricities and neuroses sketched out through a series of blackly comic exchanges—Faye’s character is almost completely reduced to that of victim, lacking any uniqueness not linked to her trauma. Ultimately, Misanthropy’s problem is that the revelatory conclusions the characters reach about themselves have been figured out by the audience a good while earlier. And while the music of Nick Cave provides an excellent soundtrack, it also reminds us of how dark material can be addressed with much greater subtlety and effect. [Sean Bell] C Venues - C eca, 4:50pm – 6:00pm, various dates between 9 Aug and 27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Dirty Great Love Story
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There’s a natural rhythm to typical rom-com rituals: the one night stand, the subsequent awkward run-ins, and the series of self-created obstacles for the lovers. So Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna’s decision to dramatise these mostly through rhyming couplets is apt. Sparely staged and charmingly gauche, their Dirty Great Love Story leaves its audience rapt. Marsh and Bonna write and act as themselves, an everycouple, to uniquely touching effect. With little more than a
The Beast
HHHHH Winslow is just what you’d expect of a beast. He lives in a cave, he’s had run-ins with his human neighbours (one of whom once managed to capture him) and he has a liking for pretty girls. But he’s a sensitive soul who passes his time observing the human world around him with a certain degree of incomprehension, and hoping one day to find a friend. Australian actor Stuart Bowden is one half of The Lounge Room Confabulators, who brought intimate theatre
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pair of stools and a backdrop, the couple’s narrated story stokes the same emotions as any Nora Ephron movie. It’s grittier than Hollywood though. The lovers’ inner monologues as they drink up and slip up play like a poetry version of Peep Show; rich with filthy quips. The biggest laugh of the show is mopped up by a knowing reference to 200 KFC wet-wipes. The plot of Dirty Great Love Story is admittedly unoriginal. Through weddings, Christmas parties and christenings, Richard and Katie are more familiar for their onscreen contemporaries than those
to audience’s living rooms last year. His solo show The Beast, which mixes understated storytelling with live music from a cleverly looped ukelele, is a more traditional offering. It might be a bit of a slight affair, but it’s nonetheless touching in its simplicity. Bowden is a likeable and effortlessly strong performer, welcoming us into the venue and providing asides throughout the show, as well as entertaining us with some bizarre little dances. He has us enraptured as he recounts Winslow’s strange adventures in what seems at times like it could be a children’s story.
of real life. Richard’s sweet nerd recalls the IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade while Katie makes Bridget Jones-style bad decisions. But with no screens, smoke or mirrors, Marsh and Bonna also adeptly bring their idiosyncratic best friends and dubious other halves to life, so much so that they threaten to steal the show. The greatness of this Dirty Great Love Story isn’t due to any grandiose flourishes or striking originality but rather it is to be found in its simplicity. [Catherine Sylvain] Pleasance Dome, 1:20pm – 2:30pm, 8–27 Aug, not 14, £9.00 – £10.00
His writing is vivid and often witty without being arch, with some funny turns of phrase (an evening is “thick with cats”). Bowden takes his time in the telling, but that only feels right for such a fragile, quirky story. At times the show feels like it might be a bit too sickly sweet, and it’s hard to fathom any particularly profound message in it. But with its wide-eyed naivety and eagerness to please, it’s hard to criticise. [Benjamin Edwards] Underbelly, Cowgate, 8:10pm – 9:00pm, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
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HHHHH Phil Porter’s Blink is a sensitive and detailed love story. Performed by Fringe First-winners Nabokov in association with the Soho Theatre, it’s a tender look at isolation and the crippling effects of grief. Jonah lives in a rural religious commune. When his mum dies, she leaves him with a small fortune, and he moves to Leytonstone in
The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart
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Based on a novel by French author and rock singer Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart juggles an uneasy mix of the macabre, vaudevillian world of its Victorian Edinburgh setting and the thoroughly Gallic symbolism Malzieu heaps upon it. Without a doubt, it’s the latter that wins out, sentimentality beating back the darkness with Olympian perseverance. But,
London. He rents the bottom floor in a house owned by Sophie, recently bereaved after her dad died from cancer. Although they’re neighbours, modern technology helps these two lonely souls connect, and through the next hour we’re made privy to the ups and downs of their curious and unsettling relationship. We’re a long way through the play before Sophie and Jonah address a word to each
other, such is their inexperience at human communication. The actors take turns to relate what’s going on to the audience and since so much of it is told rather than shown, the style can be alienating. But these are loveable characters and the cast of two is wonderful; Harry McEntire showing particular vulnerability as the shy and naive Jonah. There’s great textural detail in the set too, which is made to look like an office
in a garden, lined with furry green Ikea rugs for grass. It’s a vivid splash of colour that, despite the sadness inherent in its narrative, reflects the play’s bright, humorous spirit. Ultimately, Porter gives us an entirely sweet, satisfying and slightly unsettling romance with a painfully realistic ending. [Yasmin Sulaiman]
for all its cloying sweetness, there’s a lot to like here. In fact, Jimmy Grimes’ Magpie Puppet Company makes a fine stab at staging the neat fable. Jack—born without a heartbeat on Edinburgh’s coldest night in 1874 and given a clockwork one instead—is performed for the most part by a puppet, and it’s here where the group, unsurprisingly, achieves greatest successes. Physically vulnerable and remarkably expressive, the clock-hearted puppet works well as a
focus for the central conceit around the fragility of the human heart and its time-old tendency to get itself broken. Worthy of mention, too, is a superbly choreographed brawl between man and puppet – a scene worth watching for its technical mastery as much as its startling aggression. Grimes and co also do a great job with the dialogue, translating the ethereal, fairytale quality of the novel’s symbolically loaded text with almost unfailing assurance. Rare moments where the dia-
logue slips into dull functionality serve to throw into relief those much more substantial passages in which it swirls with lyrical force. There’s also just enough humour, and a neat line in breaking the forth wall from the mercurial master of ceremonies, to keep those bright, sentimental colours from running into absolutely everything. [Evan Beswick]
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festmusic&cabaret Tom Thum - Beating the Habit
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Returning to Edinburgh for his first time as a solo act, human synthesizer Tom Thum is here to conquer his addiction to beatboxing. Thum is endearing in the extreme. He retains a boyish love for simply making silly noises and gets embarrassed by some of the audience’s near the knuckle suggestions for sounds to imitate. Every noise you hear is generated by Thum himself, although performing in the Underbelly allows him to borrow the lung power of the big purple cow. The audience’s seats shake with his explosive plosives. Thum is most impressive when tackling traditional beatboxing fare, imitating turntables and R’n’B with an aficionado’s attention to detail. He can produce pro-
Brazil! Brazil! Presents Latin Live
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The Fringe may feel like a world away from the South American carnavale, but you can find your very own slice of Latino heaven in the Assembly Rooms. With dancers and singers joining together from all over Cuba, Brazil and Puerto Rico, hit salsa, funk and samba tunes are expertly visited in an 80 minute extravanganza of music and colour. Suave master of ceremonies Leo Almaguer has the audience on their feet in no time, and it is a testament to the talent of the entire group that spectators become so immersed in the action. That, and the free shots of rum distributed before the interval, make for a winning formula. ‘Maria raiou’ is the star number of the show, performed to perfection by pint sized singer Paloma Gomes.
pulsive, exciting music with nothing more than his throat. Some of the layered tracks would sound legitimately impossible for one man to produce, were he not doing it live in front of you. Yet there is not enough of this straight performance in the show. Instead, he fills time with vocal games and imitations
that are fun but never quite become uncanny. There is also an odd focus on pre-recorded video material. Again, there is a ‘mucking about’ charm to the fake documentaries and dubbed footage, but they are overly long. The audience want to see Thum’s talent in action. It is admirable that Thum
is trying to break old habits, and wean himself off the familiar. However, with an addiction as enjoyable as his, you can’t help but hope for a re-re-relapse. [Jonathan Holmes] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6:45pm – 7:45pm, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.00 – £14.00
Accompanied onstage by a dancer in full carnavale gear (read: sparkly thong and feathered headdress), it is impossible not to lose yourself in the blistering trumpet solos and hypnotic hip shaking. The less recognisable songs, one of which was written by the group two days ago, still cause something of a stir, and the indomitable energy with which everything is performed is infectious. The lofty, chandeliered ceilings of the Assembly Rooms are the only thing slightly dampening the sultry Latino spirit of the night: in order to really evoke the feeling of the Reveillon, a steamier setting is required. But this is a small blight in what is otherwise a frenetic fusion of South American soul. [Charlotte Lytton] The Assembly Rooms, 10:45pm – 12:45am, 8–26 Aug, £16.00
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festmusic&cabaret Knee Deep
HHHHH The Spiegeltent is undeniably the Fringe’s perfect venue to stage a circus. Its velvet big-top ceiling begs to hang a trapeze, its mirrored walls are custom designed to reflect unearthly repetitions of the shapes on stage. But that is not to devalue this troupe from Australia, who give us an hour of ethereal feats that celebrate the strength and fragility of the human body. Lit by a hazy glow and wearing muted shades of blue and brown, the four-strong ensemble seem to melt onto the stage as if they have been imagined in some dream landscape, dissolving into a string of adagio balances, tumbling gracefully onto each others’ shoulders and backs. The theme of frailty emerges again and again as they pass an egg between one another during acrobatics, and at one point aerialist Lachlan McAulay makes a tiny blue
origami crane while suspended upside down. This is not the sort of circus that desperately seeks applause or is crystal-studded in razzmatazz. Instead it gets to the heart of circus’s origins and explores what the body is capable of. It is so beautiful to see the support and trust between the cast as they make ladders of one another to ascend a trapeze, or form shapes like human hieroglyphics. Emma Serjeant, the only woman in the troupe, is a powerhouse of deceptive strength. Dainty and fairy-like, she walks weightlessly across boxes of eggs, then later braces the other three men all at once on her shoulders and arms. As the hour draws to a close, it feels like the end of a delicious dream, one you don’t want to wake up from. [Lucy Ribchester] Assembly George Square, 7:35pm – 8:35pm, 8–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £14.00 – £15.00
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festmusic&cabaret Bongo Club Cabaret
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Now something of a Fringe institution in its 14th year, the Bongo Club Cabaret is enjoying one last gasp of debauched mayhem as its parent venue prepares for closure in September. Though by no means offering the festival’s only mixed bill, the night can be depended upon to showcase a diverse range of performers in a fashion true to the spirit of cabaret and variety. Few big names appear under its auspices, but the emphasis on quality control has always remained high. Presided over by the cattish Dusty Limits, tonight’s show kicks off with a magic set from profane drag starlet Myra DuBois. Hoping to break into the lucrative market of children’s entertainment, she performs with knowingly unprofessional candour and sets the tone for what’s to come. Ukulele
Anthony Rapp: Without You
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There’s no denying US singer and actor Anthony Rapp’s considerable talents. He’s got a golden, honeyed voice; he has a commanding yet easy-going stage presence; and he can move. And he more than ably displays all of those qualities in his musical show Without You. Or to give it its correct title, Anthony Rapp – Without You. For despite dealing with both the death of Rent composer Jonathan Larson while Rapp was rehearsing for the musical’s opening, and covering the illness and death of Rapp’s mother, the real subject of Anthony Rapp – Without You is (you’ve guessed it) Anthony Rapp. In form, it’s beautifully presented – a seamless stream of songs, memories and revelations, in which Rapp is supported by an excellent fivepiece band. But he seems so
toting Ria Lina makes less of an impression with her bawdy songs and mundane opinions on offence and political correctness, but at least possesses an original voice. The same cannot be said of Lois of the Lane who lip-syncs convincingly to a mash-up of familiar songs, her physical mannerisms teasing out the drama inherent in each and expressing a narrative of their own. Hell’s Belle’s elegant burlesque and a typically riotous performance from Mrs Barbara Nice follow, but it’s a closing set from Frank Sinazi that lingers in the memory. Tasteless and with scant commercial future, his paeans to the Third Reich and the Gestapo are true to everything that Bongo Club Cabaret holds sacred. [Lewis Porteous] The Bongo Club, times vary, various dates between 10 Aug and 26 Aug, £10.00 – £12.00
intent on moving us, whether we like it or not, that he ignores many things that would have brought the work some depth. There’s little on why Rent was significant in US musical theatre, and nothing on how Rapp, as a gay actor felt, in a work that deals so openly with homophobia. But when it comes to him having a tearful meeting with Larson’s grieving parents, he tells us exactly how he felt – at length. Likewise with his dying mother, there’s plenty of material on the irritation he felt at waiting in hospitals and having to eat hospital food, but nothing on what was special about her or even about their relationship. What’s important is that we feel his pain, but he seldom tells us why. With a slightly wider focus, this could have been a fantastic show. [Benjamin Edwards] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10:30pm – 11:45pm, 8–26 Aug, not 13, £15.00 – £16.00
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BLOOD, GUTS
& LEARNING Photos: Jane Hobson
Horrible Histories is renowned for its sometimes gruesome, often silly and always interesting shows and books. Caroline Black talks to its star Neal Foster about his passion for history, theatre and Tommy Cooper.
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“G
UY FAWKES was tortured so badly on the rack that when he finally came to be hung drawn and quartered, he purposefully climbed higher on the scaffold so that when he threw himself off, it would break his neck. That way he’d be dead and they wouldn’t be able to torture him anymore.” Facts like this are casually dropped into my conversation with Neal Foster who is multi-tasking as producer, co-writer, director and star of Horrible Histories Barmy Britain. It’s a very interesting conversation that not only leaves me feeling hugely unknowledgeable when it comes to the history of Britain, but one that leaves me in no doubt about his passion for two things; theatre and history. The show has been running in London at The Garrick since the beginning of the year but it’s the first time in six years that he’s been able to bring Horrible Histories to Scotland. “I wanted to make it a special treat for Scotland so have written some new sketches—one with William Wallace— especially about Scotland and Edinburgh.” When I ask what other parts of history are covered in the show, Foster takes a deep breath. “We take you from Romans through to Vikings, then into the Tudors with King Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn and then a sketch called ‘Who Wants To Blow Up The Houses Of Parliament?’ with Guy Fawkes.” He pauses for breath before continuing “Then we meet Burke and Hare and Jessie King – the infamous baby farmer from Edinburgh. Next it’s off to meet Florence Nightingale and find out what she did in the Crimea. And finish with Lord Sugar quizzing General Hague about what’s gone wrong with The Somme. It’s a sort of irreverent, silly, naughty journey through British history in the Horrible Histories style.” It’s exhausting listening to the list, even more so when you actually watch the show. I admit to him that when I left the theatre after the show I had been amazed at how much they had managed to pack into just 60 minutes. “It goes at a hell of a lick and I doubt that—in terms of a children’s theatre—there’s ever been a show that’s packed as much information into one hour as Barmy Britain seems to do. But at the same time we try and make it as fun as it can be. I call it learning by accident; you don’t realise you’re learning as much as you are. A lot of people think that they’re just jokes but everything we say is historically accurate. So it’s just
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one fact after another but told in a fun, silly way.” Foster is joined on stage by Alison Fitzjohn and the double act are great fun together, their chemistry and comic timing a big part of the show’s charm. “London’s West End is full of shows with huge sets and orchestras, but I’m a big fan of theatre,” he says almost apologetically. “I wanted to create something that was truly about the art and craft of the actor. Just a couple of actors, a basket of costumes and hats and you create everything just out of that one basket. My inspiration was Tommy Cooper. I thought: ‘What would Tommy Cooper do if you cast him in Horrible Histories?’ That’s the basis upon which the whole show works and it works really well.” I wonder whether Terry Deary—author of the original book series—who has been involved with the hugely popular CBBC television series is also involved in the creation of this show. “Terry has written
half the sketches himself and I’ve written the others.” So, will those children that are fans of the series also enjoy this show? “I think our show crosses the bridge between the two; books and TV series.” Foster appears to consider all formats of Horrible Histories with equal importance, to him it’s just important that the children are shown history and enjoy it. “The books are very concerned with things that are horrible, and our show is very concerned with things that are horrible. But at the same time the format of our show—the silliness and I suppose the cleverness of it—is similar to the TV shows. So what we find is that those that love the TV series will love the stage show. There’s enough similarity between the two because we’ve all got the same inspiration in the end: the books.” Pleasance Courtyard, 12pm – 1pm, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50 – £11.50
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By kids, for kids! It is a kids’ world out there. With more children's shows at the Festival than ever before, there’s never been so great a need for a cool, clear-eyed critical gaze. We’ve called in the experts... Monsters Got Talent Bugsy Malone
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Monsters Got Talent takes place in a big white tent that’s a bit like an igloo and a bit like a marshmallow. There’s cushions at the front for the kids to sit on, but not enough and everyone else is on uncomfortable little stools. I thought it would be people dressed up as monsters but it’s not, it’s a guy with lots of puppets. My favourite one was Lexi Dexter, the American cheerleader. Mum says adults found some of the names funny - like David Camembert and Nick Dreggs. We had to vote for which monster got through the auditions of the talent show and which ones went in the bin. Then we all voted for the winner. I liked all the monsters, none were too scary, but some little kids got a bit bored and were making a noise and being annoying. [Ailis Black]
Bugsy Malone was a good show. It was a theatre show with children as the actors. The story was about a lot of people with guns, there were girls dressed up as men and it was very funny. The children did lots of quite good singing and a woman played the piano. They had cream pies that they chucked in peoples’ faces. There was a bit that really frightened me when somebody had a gun and everybody surrounded them so we couldn’t see what was happening. Then it made a big bang and spat out paper everywhere. My favourite part was at the end. I liked it because they were standing in nice rows to take their bows. The five pink dancers were really good, I liked them because they had sparkly dresses. I liked the show and my Nanny did too. She was going ‘WOOP WOOP!’ and was quite loud. [Lois Black]
Pleasance Courtyard, 1:00pm – 1:45pm, various dates between 9 Aug and 26 Aug, £5.00
C venues - C too, 11:45am – 1:00pm, 9–11 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
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The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean
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When I first sat down my impression was that this was going to be an interesting show. The set was really well laid out and had lots of fascinating objects. The only character in the show was Dr Pat, a Scrapologist. Her role was to research the life of the person who had
made a very old scrapbook through the things inside it. While we were looking at the scrapbook there were sound effects and animations that helped to make the story come alive. Dr Pat created the story so amazingly that from start to finish the audience were mesmerised! The audience laughed at the right places and were really enjoying it. All of the time I never knew what was coming next and that’s what made it so interesting. I loved it! If you like mysteries and problem solving go and see this show. [Eleanor Smith] Traverse @ Scottish Book Trust, 11:00am – 12:00pm, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.00
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It’shard work hiking young kids to the theatre and a lot of parents willunderstandably be looking for a safe bet, a crowdpleaser that’s boundto send the kids home happy. Present are a host of familiar characters, lots of song anddance numbers, and the assurance of a professional, technicallyproficient performance. Butit crucially lacks the humour, warmth and wit of the TV show at itsbest. Italso lacks any puppetry, and arguably it’s not really, truly live. Instead we have a bunch of actors in oversized character costumes, miming to apre-recorded soundtrack of dialogue and songs. There are moments whenthe audience is meant to join in, but no opportunity for the actorsactually to involve children in a spontaneous or truly
interactive way.The stage is elevated quite a long way even from the kids at the front,and the effect is like watching a super-scale, 3-dimensional, 11.15AM (12.05PM) singalongDVD. It’s no surprise 2 - 27 AUG 2012 (not 9th) that many of the toddlers are more interested inthe more immediate distractionsAD277_Print_ChildrensShows.indd 1 of popcorn, other children and toys thatthey’d brought along, than what is happening onstage. Tobe fair, some children are inspired to get up and dance towards the endof the show, and young fans at least get AWARD-WINNING to see their favouritecharacters in the flesh (or perhaps the fur). But with so many moreintimate and more truly ‘live’ theatre experiences on offer for kids atthe Fringe, it would seem a shame to take them to one that’s as blandand constrained as this. [Tom Hackett]
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Mother Africa
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It’s almost packed out at the Assembly Hall on a glorious Edinburgh afternoon as the clownish, ringmaster figure of Papa Africa gamely attempts to whip up the polite crowd into an appropriate frenzy, before dancers in oversized Zulu-style masks strut their stuff in front of a six-piece live band. What follows is a circuslike variety show, where acrobats, singers, dancers, clowns and contortionists each take entertaining turns on stage. Each section is set very broadly in a part of Africa, with projections on the back wall showing the Savanna, the Pyramids, the South African plains. Against these backdrops we get a man in a Pharaoh costume doing handstands on a teetering pile of stacked chairs; a woman playing a traditional thumb piano and treating us to a rousing ballad; Papa Africa gently
The Night of the Big Wind
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Not one word is spoken during The Night of the Big Wind. This story is told through songs, music and the actions of the five-member cast. Or maybe should that be six. The sixth cast member is a child mannequin puppet that is masterfully worked by the young puppeteers. It’s this
mocking an audience member as he tries to teach him some traditional African drumming. The contortionist is accompanied by the image of a desert snake, and provides the most gasp-inducing and impressive of all the performances. This is a massively simplified vision of pre-colonial African culture, thrown together with a few non-native circus tricks, which some will find quite irritating. Africa is perhaps too vast and diverse a continent for this hour-long show to be anything else; but it might have been nice to furnish us with a little bit of background, at least on which part of the landmass the more traditional elements of the performance come from. But as pure, family-friendly entertainment, it’s perfectly inoffensive and often very good fun. [Tom Hackett]
As the show’s title subtly hints at, this is a show that will appeal to kids that like the words poo, bum, wee and fart. This is not the show for more precious children who don’t find bogies funny. With a thick Australian accent and a Jim Carrey-esque outfit, spending an hour with Mr Snot Bottom is a bit like being in the playground with a six year-old boy. But that’s fine. I suspect he’d see this as a compliment. From the start the audience is up close and personal. Bottom
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11:00am – 12:00pm, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, 21, 22, £9 – £10
Assembly Hall, 2:20pm – 3:20pm, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £15.00 – £17.50
puppet’s story that we see; sitting with his fisherman father, sharing his dreams and battling the raging storm that batters the Irish coastline. This is a gentle show. It doesn’t shout and scream. You can just sit back, watch and listen. The set, cast, props and music all have a very wholesome feel about them; from the origami boats to the basic beige and white costumes. Without words,
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leaps around asking questions about the size of their mums’ bums, poo-ing in Tesco and snotty bum handkerchiefs. We’re invited back to his house and briefly meet his two friends; the singing Flem and human handkerchief, Derek. This a show with no story, more just a bunch of gags and silliness. Some more memorable moments are when Flem and Bottom interact—this worked really well and gave Bottom someone to bounce off—and maybe more of this would have given the show a bit more substance. All in all it’s a pretty straight up kids standup comedy show; there are no jokes that go over the kids’ heads – and none to keep adults entertained. It’s strictly on the kids’ wavelength. And that’s fine too. Maybe multiple layers in kids’ show aren’t always needed. This is immature throughout, always gross and made the kids laugh their heads off. [Caroline Black]
creating sound becomes the important element and they do so very creatively; a large wooden wheel is spun against a thick white sheet at varying speeds to create the sound of building winds, a large metal sheet adds further depth and two musicians act as singing narrators when needed. But the great joy of this show is when we see the puppet being moved. It’s done
with such skill—and delicate sympathy—that your mind’s eye simply stops seeing the puppeteers; the boy stops being a puppet and becomes a real boy. It’s a great credit to the puppeteers that my only wish would be that we saw more of the puppet. [Caroline Black] Underbelly, Cowgate, 1:15pm – 2:15pm, 9–25 Aug, £8.50 – £10.00
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When a toilet cubicle randomly appears in Andy and Mike’s back garden it’s the start of a pantomimeesque adventure from the Cbeebies front man and his friend. The cubicle turns out to be the workshop of Andy’s Great Great Great Great Granddad, inventor Wally Bum and houses many of his silly inventions. It also houses his greatest: the Tick Tock Time Machine. The friends must travel through time to the Wild West and medieval times collecting items to save future Mike from certain, cheese related doom. Characters such as the knight Sir Pose A Lot and the amazing shrinking box allow Andy and Mike to really ham it up and provide some of the funniest moments. This show is what you’d expect and hope for, with a
stack of audience participation, easy to follow dance moves and catchy songs. The fact that scenes are broken up as the pair moves the set scenery around is a great
help in making sure the kids don’t get restless. References to Back to the Future do the same for the grown ups. But it’s the likeable pair who makes this show a bit special. Mike more than holds his own against the taller more famous one and their chemistry is obvious. The result is infectious energy that children and parents can’t help but get swept up in. [Caroline Black] Pleasance Courtyard, 11:00am – 12:00pm, 9–19 Aug, £9 – £9.50
A Q&A with Shlomo Shlomo is an internationally acclaimed beatboxer, Guinness World Record holder and has played with some modern day musical greats. Back in Edinburgh with a special kids show that showcases his vocal gymnastics, Fest asks him about that big mouth of his.
So, Shlomo, how would you describe your show? I, Shlomo, your sonic superhero, invite you to become one of my sidekicks as I show you how to create a world of funny sound effects, brilliant noises and cool music, all made using just your mouth! Is this your first Edinburgh visit? I was up last year with my first one-man show. I’m excited to be back so I can try to push my mouth and my music even further! You’re known for your adult shows— Shlomo and The Lip Factory, Ministry of Mouth—what made
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you want to create one especially for kids? There are always so many youngsters at my shows so I wanted to do something that was just for them. Kids love beatboxing. Describe the sort of kid that would love your show, and what should they bring with them? As long as they didn’t hate music, they will love it. All they need is themselves, their mouth and their mind and be ready to smile!
Any tips for kids wanting to be a human beatbox? Practise. You can practise anywhere you go. That’s the beauty of it.
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Underbelly, Bristo Square 7-26 Aug, £14 – £16
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1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
Mind Reading for Breakfast
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Sweet Grassmarket, 11-27 Aug, not 18, 25, £9
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BBC: Front Row
BBC @ Potterrow, 22 Aug, £free
10:30 1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
BBC: MacAulay and Co
BBC @ Potterrow, 10-17 Aug, weekdays only, £free
10:40 Humans v Nature: Engineering FTW
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
11:40 The Durham Revue
Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-26 Aug, not 15, 19, 20, 21, £9 – £10
11:45 Tommy Talks
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-12 Aug, £5
11:50 Graters: Julian Ignores his Friend and Talks to a Pretty Girl
Assembly George Square, 10-14 Aug, £10 – £12
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
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BBC: Loose Ends
Dancing About Architecture
BBC @ Potterrow, 18 Aug, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
11:20 Card Ninja: ReDeal
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-12 Aug, £5 – £6
FunBags present Unusual Suspects
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £5
Austerity Pleasures
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £free
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Cheese-Badger presents... Midge (a Two-Man Musical) - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Sally-Anne Hayward: The Inbetweeny Lady The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Aaaand Now for Something Completely Improvised - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
Black Monday - The Longest Laugh All Day Gong Show
The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 13-14 Aug, £10
Ivo Graham and Liam Williams Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Beast of the East - Free Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 13-17 Aug, £free
James Redmond and Ellie Taylor - Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Croft & Pearce Do It Like A Lady HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £8.50 – £9.50
Survivor - A Broad Irish Idiot
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10-11 Aug, £free
Lucy Cox: Attractive Audience Required - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Juliet Meyers: Raised By Fridge Magnets The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
BBC: Off the Ball
BBC @ Potterrow, 11 Aug, £free
Jerry Bucham: Freelance Activist
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 12, 16, £free
The Cradle of Comedy
Hill Street Theatre, 1026 Aug, £5
Introducing Stu Introducing Will - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
The Aspidistras - Hi Noon!
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 13-26 Aug, not 14, £5
Eggball
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
The Tourists - A Free Festival Sketch Show Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 19-26 Aug, £free
12:05 Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines
The Voodoo Rooms, 10-14 Aug, £free
Failure and How to Achieve It The Voodoo Rooms, 15-25 Aug, £free
Gareth Morinan Presents A Wilmops Good Improv Show The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
12:10 Simon Munnery’s La Concepta La Concepta @ Whitespace, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £11.50 – £13.50
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £8 – £9
12:15 Nick Hayman: Middle Aged, Useless and Talented! - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
The Comedian’s Comedian Live with Stuart Goldsmith
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £7.50
Stu and Garry in The Lunchtime Show
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
About Comedy Stand-up Comedy Courses
Richard Wiseman: Psychobabble
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £99
Graham Rex
Cucu-rucu-cu in the French Alps
The Canons’ Gait, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £free
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
Domestic Science
The Canons’ Gait, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Politics Now. Politics Wow! Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, not 13, £free
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Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
12:20 Crunch the News The Voodoo Rooms, 10-18 Aug, £free
Bob and Jim - Go
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
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Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Jerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks and Close Up Magic The Assembly Rooms, 14-18 Aug, £15.50
Sam Fletcher - Good on Paper Bannermans, 10-25 Aug, £free
Cirque du Charlie Chuck SpaceCabaret @ 54, 13-25 Aug, £8
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
12:45 Gordon Southern’s A Brief History of History Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-11 Aug, £12
12:50 Jenny Fawcett
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £8 – £8.50
12:55 Funk Rocket 5000
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5 – £6
Horse & Louis: The Curse of...
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £9.50
Big Value Comedy’s Lunchtime Club
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Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5 – £6
Fragments of Monotony / An Audience With Sir Dickie Benson
Whynot? , 10-25 Aug, £free
❤ Tony Law Maximum Nonsense HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £8
Tales from the Unaccepted
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-12 Aug, £free
Ted & Co The Dinner Show Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor, 11 Aug, 25 Aug, £39
Rock N Roll Politics presented by Steve Richards
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 21, £10 – £12.50
12:35 Man Feelings
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, £free
Because I Felt Like It - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 11-17 Aug, £free
12:40 The St Andrews Revue
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-19 Aug, not 14, £6 – £7
Short & Curly: A Captive Audience
Ciao Roma, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £9 – £10
Sad Faces Remember It Differently Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Jim Smallman’s Group Therapy
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5
Mr Susan’s ‘Cheeky Flippin’ Nice’ - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, not 12, £free
This Arthur’s Seat Belongs to Lionel Richie
Summit of Arthur’s Seat, 10-27 Aug, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
The Human Condition - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Anthony King: Songs of Love and Death Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9.50
The Temps
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
Amnesty’s Secret Comedy Podcast
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, £free
E4 Udderbelly Podcalf 2012
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £6
The Comedy Sandwich
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free
13:05 Frankie from the Valley - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 19, £free
Revill’s Selection - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Cracking Yolks - Free Range Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12-26 Aug, £free
Life, the Universe, Whatever...
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 16, 21, £free
They Came With Outer Script - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-11 Aug, £free
The Three Half Pints Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 10-26 Aug, not 22, £free
Mike Sheer in Undergod - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
BDOOL (Best Days of Our Lives) - Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £free
13:10 Stay at Home Dad - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-15 Aug, £free
Best of Edinburgh The Showcase Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Iszi Lawrence’s Wotnot
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Simon Munnery’s La Concepta La Concepta @ Whitespace, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £11.50 – £13.50
Bless You In Advance
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17-26 Aug, £free
Bowling and Todd +1 The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
Will Marsh’s Ruination
C venues - C aquila, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £6.50 – £8.50
13:25
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5 – £8
They’re Gonna Crucify Me
Jay Foreman’s Mixtape
Tony Jameson and Katie Mulgrew Tell Tales
The Look of an Angel on the Devil Himself
The Banshee Labyrinth, 11-25 Aug, £free
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
13:15 BBC: The Richard Bacon Show
BBC @ Potterrow, 22-23 Aug, £free
Mugging Chickens
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Afternoon Delight
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5
Working Men’s Club
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Soap Box - The Comedy Debate Slam
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, £free
Mace and Burton: Rom Com Con
The Canons’ Gait, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Kieran Hodgson: Supervillain The Voodoo Rooms, 10-25 Aug, £free
Adam Larter: Happy New Year - A Free Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, £free
This Is Soap
C venues - C, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £6.50 – £8.50
BBC: The Festival Cafe
BBC @ Potterrow, 10-17 Aug, weekdays only, £free
13:20 Three for Free
Belushi’s, 10-25 Aug, £free
California Beach Bungalow
Underbelly, Cowgate, 1926 Aug, £9 – £10
Sweet Grassmarket, 10-27 Aug, not 18, 25, £7
Bob Graham Work Ethic
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 19, 20, £free
13:30 A Coach Load of Lesley
The Voodoo Rooms, 1025 Aug, not 13, £free
Kelly Kingham: Goody Two-Shoes - Free
The Royal Mile Tavern, 10-25 Aug, £free
Back to School
Pleasance at Braidwood Centre, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £15
David O’Doherty Presents 403 Second Masterworks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £11.50
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Bridget Christie: War Donkey
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Chris Corcoran and Elis James - The Committee Meeting
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Gareth Morinan: Truth Doodler
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £9.50
Gentlemen Bears
The Hudson Hotel, 1025 Aug, £free
Ian Smith and Tom Toal Whistlebinkies, 10-25 Aug, £free
Pam Ford Salon Secrets - Free
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £free
13:40 Jessica Pidsley’s I Can Make You Thin(k)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
13:45 Josh Richards: Keith Looks Back in Anger - Free
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, £free
Control Alt Delete - The Funny Side of Computers Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Josie Long and Sam Schäfer’s Awkward Romance Mood Nightclub, 13-17 Aug, £free
George Ryegold’s God-In-A-Bag
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
The Joke Circus - Free Bannermans, 10-11 Aug, £free
Giant Talking Cat Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17-26 Aug, £free
Free Footlights
Le Monde, 10-25 Aug, not 15, £free
14:00 Hannah Gadsby Mary. Contrary.
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £9.50 – £10.50
Bristol Revunions: Destination Adventure
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £8.50
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comedylistings The Early Edition
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £11 – £13
Dixon of Fogg Green - Free
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 19-26 Aug, £free
Funny Women at the Fringe
Assembly George Square, 10-17 Aug, £10 – £12
Luke and Harry’s Dot Dot Dot Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
Fliss Russell - Life is Fliss
Dragonfly, 10-25 Aug, not 16, £free
Lara A King - People Pleaser
Under Your Feet
Southsider, 10-25 Aug, £free
Helsinki
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, 23, £free
Amused Moose Laughter Awards Top Ten Semi-Final The Bongo Club, 17 Aug, £10
AAA Batteries (Not Included) - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
No Poofs No Piano
theSpace on the Mile , 10-18 Aug, not 12, £5
Assembly George Square, 18-26 Aug, £10
14:15
Sandi Toksvig Live: My Valentine
It’s Not Us, It’s You - Free
Pleasance Courtyard, 1723 Aug, £10 – £14
The Two O’Clock Show
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
This Arthur’s Seat Gala Belongs to Lionel Richie
Summit of Arthur’s Seat, 18 Aug, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
All the Fun of the Unfair 2012
Siglo, 10-25 Aug, £free
14:05 Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final The Bongo Club, 19 Aug, £12
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
BEASTS
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
Phil Buckley - Simple Things - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Gagging for Attention
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £3
Activism Is Fun
Globe, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
BBC: Comic Fringes BBC @ Potterrow, 18 Aug, £free
Nutters of the British Isles: The Complete Field Guide - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £free
Best of the Fest Daytime
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12.50
Roland Rides The Rail’s! (again) - Free
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10-27 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
The Stand Comedy Club, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10
14:20 Eleanor Tiernan Rogue
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Silky: Nut Allegory
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Tom Lauri: Good With His Fingers
Sweet Grassmarket, 11-27 Aug, not 18, 25, £7
The One Hour Plays Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9.50
Eric’s Tales of the Sea - A Submariner’s Yarn Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10.50
Jack Jerome’s Journey of Life
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8
14:25 Once Upon A Time...
Paradise in The Vault, 1019 Aug, not 13, £7.50
14:30 Sarah Jones: Does Not Play Well With Others
C venues - C aquila, 1927 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Angela Barnes and Matt Richardson
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £free
The Birmingham Footnotes Drop Their Trousers
Base Nightclub, 10-11 Aug, £free
Jessie Cave: Bookworm
Tennyson Hanbury’s Condensed Cabaret
In Vino Veritas - Free
This Comedy Mob Belongs to Lionel Richie
And Still Rarely Rong
Barbara Nice: Mrs Nice HH
Bec Hill is More Afraid of You Than You Are of Her!
Belushi’s, 10-25 Aug, £free
The Scott Monument, 25 Aug, £free
The Assembly Rooms, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £10
Square Eye Pair
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50 – £9.50
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
14:35 Convicted
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Ian Fox - Shutter Monkey (The Comedy Show With Pictures) - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
The One-Eyed Men’s Friendship Formula - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, £free
The Edinburgh Revue Stand Up Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, not 16, £free
Reshape While Damp
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-12 Aug, £free
The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
14:40 Billy Kirkwood’s - Show Me Your Tattoo 2012
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Vinegar Knickers: On The Edge Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 16, 17, £8 – £9.50
10 Films With My Dad
The Voodoo Rooms, 1025 Aug, not 14, £free
14:45 American Girlfriend: Laura Levites
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £free
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Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
Whistlebinkies, 10-25 Aug, £free
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £8 – £9
Santa’s Dead and We Have Killed Him Opium, 10-11 Aug, £free
Slap and Giggle: Retrial
Opium, 12-25 Aug, £free
Best of Waterloo Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18-26 Aug, £free
Someone, Somewhere
The Royal Mile Tavern, 10-25 Aug, £free
14:50 Hennessy & Friends: A History of Violence Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Fran Moulds: Significant Human Error
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
15:00 Bristol Improv for Hire
Whynot? , 10-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
comedylistings What a Weird and Wonderful Festival! The Voodoo Rooms, 25 Aug, £free
Visual Aids
Rush Bar, 10-18 Aug, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Ship of Fools: Children of Twelchford
Bannermans, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Mitch Benn: Reduced Circumstances HHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
The Cradle of Comedy
Destiny Church Gorgie, 10-26 Aug, £5
2012: An Improv Odyssey
Rush Bar, 19-25 Aug, £free
Rachel Stubbings Is Stubbing Out Problems
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
RadioHead Redux 2012
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
No Pressure to Be Funny Venue150 @ EICC, 18 Aug, £10
BBC: Crossing the Media BBC @ Potterrow, 26 Aug, £free
Gemma Arrowsmith: Defender of Earth Le Monde, 10-25 Aug, £free
15:05 Men of Character - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, £free
Kaput
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 – £13
Tim Honnef - Life
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-18 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8
15:10 My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
It’s Grimm Up North
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £6 – £8
Jamie Demetriou’s People Day (and Special Guests)
Dragonfly, 10-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Parris and Dowler Know What They’re Doing
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
15:15 Comedy Brass - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
BBC: The Unbelievable Truth BBC @ Potterrow, 13 Aug, £free
Kieran and Joe: Friends of Steel
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Stand-Up at the Jekyll & Hyde - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Katherine Ryan: Nature’s Candy HHH Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 26, £9.50 – £10
Ford and Akram: Bamp! HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £9.50
Luke Milford Things I Like
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
BBC: Front Row
BBC @ Potterrow, 15 Aug, £free
Cirque du Charlie Chuck
theSpace on North Bridge, 10-11 Aug, £8
Plenty More Fish (But I Don’t Have a Fish Fetish)
The Fiddler’s Elbow, 1025 Aug, £free
The Intimate Strangers
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £9.50
The Oxford Imps
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1027 Aug, £10.50 – £12
Forget Therapy - Just Drink - Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
15:20 The Comedy Manifesto
Ciao Roma, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Kevin Tomlinson: Crazy Little Thing Called Love!
Just The Tonic at the Caves, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 – £11
Kevin Tomlinson: Seven Ages!
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 11-25 Aug, not 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £10 – £11
Four Screws Loose in #screwtheworld Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 11, £9 – £10
15:25 The Silky Pair: Happy to Help (Plus Special Guests) Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £6
15:30 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, £14
Dave McNeill: Canoe Ride 3000 Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £10
No Turn Unstoned
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, £free
Chris Henry: We Need to Talk!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 24, £free
LOLympics Live - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
Patterson and Ranganathan
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, £free
Max and Ivan Are... Con Artists Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
The Expeditionary Force in The First Supper
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 10-12 Aug, £free
Ladies and Gentlemen - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Michael Legge: What a Shame
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Helen Keen: Robot Woman of Tomorrow HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Ladies Live Longer: Ladylike
C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
Tom Goodliffe: All in Good Time
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £6 – £7
Thea-Skot’s Miss Adventures
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
Phil O’Shea
Belushi’s, 10-25 Aug, £free
Sharron Matthews Superstar: Gold
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50 – £14
Owen Niblock: Codemaker
The Voodoo Rooms, 1025 Aug, not 13, £free
RH: Live
15:45
BBC: Four Thought
Munfred Bernstein’s Cabinet of Wonder
C venues - C aquila, 1227 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 BBC @ Potterrow, 20 Aug, £free
Nick Page: My Glorious Hypothetical Life As a Eunuch
The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £8
Liam Mullone: A Land Fit For F*ckwits The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Monumental Information’s Product of the Year 2017
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 16-26 Aug, £free
15:35 Bruce Hammers’ Bananapocalypse
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5 – £6
Through the Looking Screen Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £10 – £11
Peter Antoniou’s Psychic Circus
Sweet Grassmarket, 10-26 Aug, not 18, 25, £8
15:40 An Indie Boy’s Guide to Sex and Girls Chiquito, 10-25 Aug, £free
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50 – £9.50
Fark
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 16, £free
Discograffiti - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 11-26 Aug, £free
Simon Munnery: Fylm-Makker
The Stand Comedy Club, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10
I Am Google
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Sean Hegarty and Tom O’Mahoney Live - Free
15:50 Dec Munro’s Got Chutzpah
The Royal Mile Tavern, 15-25 Aug, £free
Mark Cooper-Jones: Geography Teacher - Free The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-24 Aug, not 14, 20, £free
Loughborough Players: Athletes of Comedy GHQ, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
Quiz in My Pants
The Cabaret Voltaire, 1025 Aug, not 14, £free
The Dog-Eared Collective: You’re Amazing, Now Look at Me HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
15:55 Niall McCamley: Lemon Jousting and Other Shenanigans
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Dolly Mixture
The Voodoo Rooms, 1025 Aug, not 15, £free
16:00 Jody Kamali: Dirty Filthy Rich - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard, 1625 Aug, £13 – £14.50
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Mae Day HHH
David Mills is Smart Casual - Free
Matthew Crosby is Matthew Crosby in Matthew Crosby (The Show)
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-27 Aug, £free
The Tim Vine Chat Show Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £14 – £15
Sarfraz Manzoor: The Boss Rules
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Free Improv Show - The Discount Comedy Checkout Base Nightclub, 10-18 Aug, £free
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £12
The Quadrantines Opium, 10-25 Aug, £free
Kierkegaard Comedy Show Danish Institute, 10-19 Aug, £10
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding: How Dare You! The Hudson Hotel, 1225 Aug, £free
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comedylistings This Barry Ferns Belongs to Lionel Richie
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £free
Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in 27 Years On The Jam House, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
Pun Run
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, £12
The Cambridge Footlights: Perfect Strangers
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, £9 – £10
Fred Cooke: Standing, tilted
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
The Oxford Revue Prattle Royale Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Back to School
Pleasance at Braidwood Centre, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £15
Beard
Assembly Hall, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £8 – £10
Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow HH
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Rob Auton: The Yellow Show
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Constant Craving - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
BBC: Just a Minute BBC @ Potterrow, 14 Aug, £free
6 Foot Silly - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 26 Aug, £free
Occupied
53 Frederick St Guest House, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
16:05 Matt Forde: Eyes to the Right, Nose to the Left
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
16:10 Shirley and Shirley Unleashed
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
16:15 Deborah Frances-White: Cult Following
Assembly Roxy, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
John Hastings: UnRelentless
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, £free
Genevieve Swallow is Sharing Le Monde, 10-25 Aug, not 15, £free
Gerry Howell: Glorious Invention
Bannermans, 10-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free
The Pigeon Hole Presents: Stand-Up Comedy - PBH’s Free Fringe Mood Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, £free
Making Life Taste Funnier
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Rory O’Hanlon: A Bit of Craic in the Afternoon
Rush Bar, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 16, 17, £free
Do Not Adjust Your Stage Whynot? , 10-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
16:20 An Austrian and Someone from Slough
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Half of Next Year’s Show - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Gráinne Maguire: Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £8.50 – £9.50
Gravity Boots
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
16:30 The McLough-Hess Monster
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Lead Pencil
The Fiddler’s Elbow, 13-25 Aug, £free
Itch: A Scratch Event Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £8
Thomas Nelstrop: Great(ish) Hits HH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
McNeil and Pamphilon
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Aberdeen vs. Glasgow vs. The World II - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, £free
Asher Treleaven: Troubadour HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
Kevin Dewsbury: In...Sane - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 13-26 Aug, £free
Fresh Faces at the Free Fringe
Southsider, 10-25 Aug, £free
BBC: In Tune
BBC @ Potterrow, 24 Aug, £free
Morgan & West: Clockwork Miracles Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Jim Smallman: Let’s Be Friends
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1026 Aug, not 14, £9
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Presents - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-12 Aug, £free
Chris McCausland: Not Blind Enough Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
Paul Dennis’s Inappropriate Bits - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £free
16:40 David Longley: My Favourite Things HHH
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Holly Burn: The H Club
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
Otto Kuhnle: Ich Bin Ein Berliner
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Mary Bourke: Hail Mary!
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
16:45
Jem Brookes: Thumbs Up - Free
Firenado! The Sketch Show
Not Treasure Island
Passion, Pints and Potatoes - An Irish Guide to Life
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £5 – £6
Computer Programmer Extraordinaire
Globe, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
16:50 Fat Kitten vs. the World
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50 – £9.50
Jackson Voorhaar’s One True Love(s) - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Lewis Schaffer: No YOU Shut Up! - Free
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Erich McElroy: The Brit Identity Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- All New Show 2012 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
Cariad Lloyd - The Freewheelin’ Cariad Lloyd HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Jigsaw: Gettin’ Jiggy HHH
Base Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
The Leeds Tealights: Sexy Chubby Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £9
The Noise Next Door: Bring The Noise
Lights! Camera! Improvise!
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10-14 Aug, £free
Fat Kitten Goes Speed Dating
The Voodoo Rooms, 10-14 Aug, £free
Michelle de Swarte Belushi’s, 10-25 Aug, not 15, £free
16:55 Discover Ben Target Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
No Country for Old Men
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1118 Aug, £free
Leads & Stern
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Bad Musical
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
BBC: The Unbelievable Truth BBC @ Potterrow, 13 Aug, £free
Yianni: Numb and Number - Free
Born to be Mild
Simply the Jest presents Middle Class Tripe
End of the World Show 2012
The Canons’ Gait, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Chiquito, 10-25 Aug, £free
Alan Hudson’s Not So Secret World of Magic
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £9
17:00 Ferris Bueller’s Way of...
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Dissecting Comedy - Free
Britain’s Got F*ck All Talent!
The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £7
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German Comedian
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £13 – £14
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Dropkick Murphy’s, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free
The Voodoo Rooms, 1625 Aug, not 22, £free
Angus and Cameron: Village Idiots - Free
The Pin
Buffs Club (RAOB), 10-13 Aug, £free
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The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-18 Aug, not 13, £7
Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free
The Pauly Show Episode One
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £10
The Tim and Pat Show
The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
The Great Big Comedy Picnic - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
John Robertson - The Dark Room - Free Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-27 Aug, £free
comedylistings Geoff Norcott Avoids a Double Dip The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 19-25 Aug, £7
Diane Spencer: Exquisite Bad Taste
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
One Rogue Reporter HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Jarlath Regan: The Audacity of Hope and the Inspirational Stupidity of Perseverance
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
17:05 Blind Date Ruined My Life Sweet Grassmarket, 10-26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7.50
Stephanie Laing and Martin Croser: Greens! The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-17 Aug, £free
Rosie Thorn and The Patsy Cornish Saga theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21-25 Aug, £7
Rory & Tim: Good for Nothing The Voodoo Rooms, 1025 Aug, not 13, £free
17:10 Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £11 – £12
Monkey Poet - Potty Mouth The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Ben Verth: Alsatian and Chips
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, not 16, £free
Josh Widdicombe: The Further Adventures of... Extra Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £11
The Tim Vine Chat Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £14
Sheeps - Dancing with Lisa
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
17:15
17:30
Man 1, Bank 0
Nik Coppin’s Caricatures - Free Festival
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11-26 Aug, £10.50 – £12.50
The Thinking Drinkers Guide to Alcohol
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50 – £9.50
Lucy Porter - People Person HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Do Not Trust the Animals - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-27 Aug, not 16, £free
BBC: Dilemma
BBC @ Potterrow, 16 Aug, £free
Gadd and Winning: Well, This is Awkwarder Opium, 11-25 Aug, £free
Birth Order
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
David O’Doherty Presents 403 Second Masterworks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £11.50
Christian Reilly: This Is Not A Love Song Whistlebinkies, 10-18 Aug, £free
17:20 Laurence Clark: Inspired
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11
Bad Bread: 2012 The Survival Guide Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Hanks and Conran Pigs in Blankets
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7.50
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-27 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden Going Gaga
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10 Aug, £12
Sean Hughes - Life Becomes Noises Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £13 – £14
Phil Mann’s Full Mind Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Benny Boot: Def-Con 4
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
Nick Helm: This Means War!
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £13.50
Lost Voice Guy and Jeff Lantern - Not Afraid of Tablets Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15 Aug, £free
Scientist Turned Comedian: Tim Lee
Assembly Roxy, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
The SomeNews Live Show - Free Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Cammy’s Teatime The Jazz Bar, 22-26 Aug, £5
Folken Britain
Le Monde, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
BBC: Just a Minute BBC @ Potterrow, 14 Aug, £free
Jennifer Carnovale - Scraping the Barrel - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
James Christopher: Bring Me the Head of Russell Kane - Free
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
The Great Puppet Horn Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10.50
17:35 Milo McCabe: Kenny Moon This Is Your Life Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10
Ryan Withers - One Woman Showe - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, £free
17:40 ❤ Catriona Knox Hellcat HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
The Three Englishmen: Squares
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 11, £9 – £9.50
17:45 Garrett Millerick: Which One’s Fergal?
The Magical Adventures of Pete Heat Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 10-27 Aug, £10 – £12
Ladystache
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 15-26 Aug, £free
Billy Watson - Sex, Drugs and Marriage - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Chris Brain: A Better Place
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50 – £9.50
Maff Brown’s Parade of This
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £7.50 – £9
Trevor Lock’s Amateur Sex Tape Theory
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, £5
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £11 – £12 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Josie Long: Romance and Adventure
Matthew Highton’s End of the Road
Ed Eales-White: Champions
Globe, 10-25 Aug, £free
The Beta Males in... The Space Race
BBC @ Potterrow, 26 Aug, £free
3 Days Off Jesus - Free
Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
Ben Hustwayte & Jack Campbell: Get It On
Stephen Carlin: Pandas vs Penguins HHH
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Aaaand Now for Something Completely Wireless - Free
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, £10
BBC: The Kitchen Cabinet
Well Done You - Free
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, £free
The Best of Irish Comedy
Dirty Thirties
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Chris Dangerfield: Sex Tourist
C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
The Fitzrovia Radio Hour
Hill and Weedon
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-14 Aug, £free
Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking
Nick Mohammed is Mr Swallow: 2012
Southsider, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
The Kids We Used To Be - Free
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
18:00 Big Value Comedy Show - Early
Siglo, 10-26 Aug, £free
Chris Stokes: An Opera Written On Napkins
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
17:50 Wil Hodgson: Kidnapped By Catwoman
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Test Tube Comedy
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 18, 19, £11.50 – £12.50
Loretta Maine: Bipolar HHH
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
The Full Irish
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10-26 Aug, £free
All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, £free
Fresh Faces at the Free Fringe
Belushi’s, 10-25 Aug, £free
Rob Beckett’s Summer Holiday
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £12
Ciao Roma, 10-25 Aug, £free
The Six O’Clock Club
Gavin Webster: Bill Hicks Wasn’t Very Good
Suzi Ruffell: Let’s Get Ready to Ruffell
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Kilderkin, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £free
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
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comedylistings Susan Calman: This Lady’s Not for Turning Either
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
The Axis of Awesome: Cry Yourself A River HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 1019 Aug, £14 – £16
Jimeoin - What?!
Venue150 @ EICC, 10-26 Aug, not 21, 22, 23, 24, £13.50 – £15.50
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
18:05 George’s Marvellous Medics theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £6
Stewart Lee - Carpet Remnant World The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
Oliver Dean and His Fantastic Ego! Live theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £3
Sammy J and Randy The Inheritance
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £13 – £15
Black Country Cider Lions - Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10-26 Aug, £free
Richard Wiseman: Psychobabble The Canons’ Gait, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £free
18:10 Rick Shapiro: Rebirth
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £13 – £14
Basic Training
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 19, £11 – £12
Michelle Wormleighton - Bewildered Chiquito, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Chris Dugdale’s 2 Faced Deception
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, £11 – £12
Adam Strauss: Varieties of Religious Experience The Royal Mile Tavern, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
18:15 Inspired - Life 101
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Sajeela Kershi: Regret-Me-Nots
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Helen Arney - Voice of an Angle HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
Thatcher’s Death Party
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, £free
Matt and Ian’s Improv Show
Sweet Grassmarket, 10-27 Aug, not 18, 25, £8
Greg Proops
Assembly George Square, 16-25 Aug, £15 – £16
Frimston and Rowett: Huge Mistakes
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8
BBC: The Philosopher’s Arms BBC @ Potterrow, 21 Aug, £free
Gordon Southern’s A Brief History of History Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12-26 Aug, £12
Michael Workman - Mercy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Nick Beaton Does Not Play Well With Others
The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £7 – £8
A Betrayal of Penguins - Harmed and Dangerous Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-11 Aug, £10
Jack Barry and Patrick Turpin: Your New Mild Friends
Buffs Club (RAOB), 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Billy The Mime
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £10
You Are Being Lied To 2012
Base Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
18:20 Norwegians of Comedy
GHQ, 10-19 Aug, £free
WitTank HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £9.50
Caimh McDonnell: The Art of Conversation
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 15, £6 – £7
2 Facedbook 3
The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
Marek Larwood Typecast
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
NewsRevue
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £15
Carl Hutchinson: Acceptable?
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £6 – £7.50
18:25 Stuart Mitchell Presents ‘It’s Just a Phrase I Am Going Through’
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, £free
Harrison Greenbaum: What Just Happened? CANCELLED Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Alfie Brown: Soul for Sale Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
18:30 Sex Ed: The Musical! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £9
Peter Edwards: Love Everyone
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free
Spring Day: Learn How to Take a Punch - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Damian Kingsley: Work in Progress - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 12-26 Aug, £free
Rookie Mistakes
The Street, 15-25 Aug, £free
The Top Secret Comedy Club
Whistlebinkies, 10-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free
Denise Scott Regrets
Assembly Hall, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
The Durham Revue
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £9 – £10
Would You Let Your Daughter Marry A Weegie? The Hudson Hotel, 1025 Aug, £free
Distract and Conquer Amarone, 10-25 Aug, £free
Max Fletcher: Delicious
Opium, 10-25 Aug, £free
Daniel Sloss - The Show
Venue150 @ EICC, 10-26 Aug, not 22, £13.50 – £15.50
❤ Jessica Fostekew: Brave New Word HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9.50
BBC: John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme
BBC @ Potterrow, 18 Aug, £free
Mark Nelson - Under the Radar
Would Like to Meet - Free
Charmian Hughes: Charmageddon!
Andrew Bird’s Global Village Fete HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Totally Tom
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
The Harri-Parris - The Leaving Do Zoo, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9
Chortle Presents: Fast Fringe
Pleasance Dome, 10-25 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Kerry Gilbert Triumphs
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8.50
18:45 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, £free
Aidan Killian: Free to Obey - Free Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-27 Aug, not 21, 24, £free
Absolute Improv!
C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Bus-ting to Laugh - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Alexis Dubus: Cars & Girls
Assembly Roxy, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Totally Wired! Reunion Farewell (Welfare) Tour - A Sperm’s Tail and Other Tales - Free
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 19-26 Aug, £free
18:35 Ian D. Montfort Unbelievable
Phill Jupitus - You’re Probably Wondering Why I’ve Asked You Here...
18:40
18:50
Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show
Alistair Barrie: Urban Fogey
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £12 – £14
Fingers Piano Bar, 10-18 Aug, not 13, £free
The Stand Comedy Club, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £12
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11
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Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 15-26 Aug, £free
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1025 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
Stories from the Middle
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-14 Aug, £free
19:00 Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay’s Bum Notes Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £12 – £13
Bob Slayer: He’s A Very Naughty Boy
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
Jim Campbell: Nine-Year-Old Man
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Itch: A Scratch Event Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £8
BBC: Tonight With Rory Bremner BBC @ Potterrow, 22 Aug, £free
Barry Castagnola in Where’s Barry Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
5-Step Guide to Being German 2.0 - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Trevor Browne - I Think ... I Am
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
101 Comedy Club - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
Aaron Twitchen’s Quarter Life Crisis
Southsider, 10-25 Aug, £free
comedylistings Seymour Mace: Squeg!
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Elis James: Speaking As a Mother... Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £12
Celia Pacquola Delayed HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Funny’s Funny: Fantastic Fringe Finale - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music The Queen’s Hall, 21-24 Aug, £22.50
Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister Look at the State of Scotland The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
1000 Years of Scotland’s Dark Past
The Edinburgh Dungeon, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £10.50
Karma Comedian Stella Graham - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Josh Widdicombe: The Further Adventures of...
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 23, £11 – £12
❤ Daniel Simonsen Champions HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50 – £10
Tom Deacon: Deaconator
Pleasance Dome, 10-25 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
This Time It’s Personal
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Giacinto Palmieri: Pagliaccio
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, £free
Heroes of Alternative Fringe
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 27 Aug, £5
Henry Rollins
The Queen’s Hall, 10 Aug, £15
19:05 Sploshy: A Sketch Show
Ciao Roma, 11-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
19:15 Perfectly Bananas
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-27 Aug, £free
Charlie Baker Freshly Baked
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
Andrew O’Neill and Marc Burrows Do Music and Comedy and Hideous Murders The Canons’ Gait, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
The 7:15pm StandUp Show - Free Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, £free
Stinky Show
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
A Theory of Everything - Free
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 10-15 Aug, £free
AAA Stand-Up
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £9 – £10
Light Relief
C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
Marlon Davis: Enter the Davism Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
Manners Costs Nothing
Globe, 10-18 Aug, £free
Upstaging: A Modern Guide to Acting for Gentlemen and Gentleladies - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Trevor Noah: The Racist
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Barry Morgan’s World of Organs HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50 – £13.50
David O’Doherty: Seize the David O’Doherty
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £15
Bobby Carroll: Low Voltage - Free The Royal Mile Tavern, 10-25 Aug, £free
19:25 Songs, Stories and Downright Lies Paradise in The Vault, 21-27 Aug, £8
19:30 Catch Comedy Presents: Edinburgh Fringe Showcase Cafe Camino, 13-17 Aug, £free
Künt’s on Daytime TV - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 11, £free
Ted & Co The Dinner Show
Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £46
Bob Doolally’s Euro Crisis
The Stand Comedy Club, 13 Aug, £10
Yorkshire Comedy Cabaret IV: Jokers, Born and Interbred - Free
Base Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
❤ Carl-Einar Häckner: Handluggage HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
Born to be Mild
The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 19-25 Aug, £7
Craig Hill - Jock’s Trap!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50 – £14.50
Bungo Menebla!
19:20
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 13-26 Aug, £free
John Robins: Incredible Scenes!
The Funeral of Conor O’Toole
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
Frisky & Mannish: Extra-Curricular Activities Assembly Hall, 16-26 Aug, not 20, 21, 22, £16
DeAnne Smith: Livin’ The Sweet Life Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Paul Foot - Kenny Larch Is Dead
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £10.50 – £12
Thomas Hardie Presents: Where’s Thomas, Hardie? The Voodoo Rooms, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Tim FitzHigham: Stop the Pigeon
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £11 – £12.50
Owen O’Neill: Struck By Lightning
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, £13 – £15
Stuart Goldsmith: Pr!ck Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Big Value Comedy Show - Middle
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
BBC: London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony Screening BBC @ Potterrow, 12 Aug, £free
Comedy Gala 2012: In Aid of Waverley Care Festival Theatre Edinburgh, 23 Aug, £25
Horne and Key and... Pleasance Dome, 14 Aug, £12
Mace and Burton: Heartbreak Hotel
Buffs Club (RAOB), 10-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
19:35 Big In Dubai!
GHQ, 10-11 Aug, £free
Jen Brister - Now and Then Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
The Mysterious World of Clovis Van Darkhelm The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
19:40 The Not Quite Quartet
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £8.50
Raymond Mearns - Rock’n’Roll Comedian - The Therapy Sessions
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, not 13, £free
Adam Hills: Mess Around
Assembly Hall, 10-19 Aug, £12 – £13
Andrew Ryan: Ryanopoly
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8.50
❤ Mark Watson: The Information HHHH
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
Alan Davies - Life is Pain
Venue150 @ EICC, 10-14 Aug, £20
School of Comedy
Assembly Hall, 20-26 Aug, £10
Rhod Gilbert: The Man With the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo
Venue150 @ EICC, 15-26 Aug, not 20, 21, £20
Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 17, £8.50 – £9.50
19:45 The History Girls Present: A Summary of Things So Far Assembly Hall, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Dan Willis: A Comedian’s Life
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Michael Downey Standing Up Again
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
Saskia’s Surprise Party
Amarone, 12-25 Aug, £free
Brides of Comedy
C venues - C aquila, 1027 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
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Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-13 Aug, £free
Nick Sun: Potty Time!
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Catie Wilkins: Joy Is My Middle Name Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Lloyd Langford: One Day in the Life of Lloyd Owen Langford
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Can You Put This in the Bin for Me? - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 14-26 Aug, £free
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- All New Show 2012 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
Claudia O’Doherty The Telescope Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
People Person
Opium, 10-25 Aug, £free
Fred MacAulay: Legally Bald 2
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
19:50 Pattie Brewster’s Friendship Venture (For Some Friends)
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 20, £free
The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, £5
Seann Walsh: Seann to be Wild
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 23, £11 – £12
Tiffany Stevenson: Uncomfortably Numb Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
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comedylistings Nice People Have Ruined My Life
Dragonfly, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Hello Everybody!
Povs and Hefter Uncensored
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-16 Aug, £free
Sweet Grassmarket, 16 Aug, £5
Bairns’ Night
20:00
Jimeoin - What?! Extra Shows!
Bob Downe ... Smokin’
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 23, £12.50 – £14
Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £12
Naz Osmanoglu: Ottoman Without An Empire HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £9.50
Rhys Darby - This Way to Spaceship Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £17.50 – £18.50
Des Clarke: Final Destination
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £13 – £14
Lie. Cheat. Steal. Confessions of a Real Hustler Zoo, 10-27 Aug, £10 – £12
Derek Ryan: Time Lord - Free
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Reshape While Damp
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17-26 Aug, £free
Kumail Nanjiani
Assembly Roxy, 14-27 Aug, £11.50 – £12.50
Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah
Edinburgh Playhouse, 15 Aug, 23 Aug, £24
Air Guitar Can Save the World
Mood Nightclub, 10-18 Aug, £free
Andrew Doyle: Whatever It Takes HHH
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £6.50 – £7.50
Patrick Monahan – Shooting From The Lip!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10.50 – £12.50
The Assembly Rooms, 13 Aug, £20
Venue150 @ EICC, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £13.50
Sound & Fury’s Doc Faustus Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Kev Orkian in Concert - The World’s Favourite Foreigner theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13-25 Aug, £10
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Vikki Stone: Hot Mess
Al Pitcher – Tiny Triumphs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Martin Mor: A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday HH
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Steve Gribbin: Viva Gribbostania!
So You Think You’re Funny? FINAL
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Hyde and Lyons
20:15
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £15 Mood Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 15, £free
Tom Stade Totally Rocks! Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £11.50 – £13
The Fringe Comedy Academy: Class of 2012
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 20 Aug, £6
Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!
Venue150 @ EICC, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15.50
Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-25 Aug, £free
20:05 All About the Craic
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, £free
Eric Davidson - The Only Way is Eric’s
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 10-11 Aug, £10
Nothing to Show
theSpace on the Mile , 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50
20:10 Hannah Gadsby - Hannah Wants a Wife HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
❤ Thom Tuck Flips Out HHHH
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 12, £10 – £11
Return of the Lumberjacks (Back by Poplar Demand) The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
Gearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
FNT Live presents... The Jingling Lane Family Singers
C venues - C aquila, 1027 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
The Ferret’s Free Live Comedy Podcast
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-11 Aug, £free
Jo Caulfield - Thinking Bad Thoughts
The Stand Comedy Club, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Joel Dommett Nunchuck Silver Medallist 2002
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £10 – £12
❤ Richard Herring: Talking C*ck - The Second Coming HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, £14 – £16
BBC: Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section BBC @ Potterrow, 19 Aug, £free
Sean Hughes Stands Up Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £13 – £14
Rob Deb - the Dork Knight Triumphant - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Alan Francis Expands
Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
James Acaster Prompt HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £10 – £12
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
A Good Catholic Boy Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-26 Aug, £free
Kemsley and Callaghan: Keeping Their Cool
20:25 Look at This Massive Picture of My Face The Canons’ Gait, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Bellylicious the Sequel - Confessions of a Belly Dance Diva Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 10-11 Aug, £10
20:30 Abigoliah Schamaun: Girl Going to Hell
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £free
GirlBand Improv - Free
Phil Walker: Is This It?
Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Lewis Schaffer: No YOU Shut Up! - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Rob Deering - The One HH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
Two for None
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12-26 Aug, £free
20:20 Mick Miller and Jimmy Cricket
Pleasance Dome, 18 Aug, £12
Amused Moose Comedy Awards Showcases
Pleasance Dome, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Nish Kumar - Who Is Nish Kumar?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Danielle Ward - Speakeasy / Playdead
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Pappy’s: Last Show Ever!
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £14
The News at Kate 2012
Ciao Roma, 10-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Cardinal Burns
Pleasance Dome, 20-25 Aug, £10 – £11
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Danny McLoughlin - The Truth, the Half-Truth and Nothing Like the Truth
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Nathan Cassidy: Free Pound The Royal Mile Tavern, 10-25 Aug, not 15, £free
Pat Burtscher’s Patopotamoose
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
The Cradle of Comedy
Destiny Church Gorgie, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
20:35 Stephen Bailey and Zoe Iqbal - Subject to Change - Free
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10-12 Aug, £free
Shappi Khorsandi: Dirty Looks and Hopscotch
The Chris and Paul Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Tim Roast’s Animals - Free Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £free
Simon Amstell: Numb
The Bongo Club, 20-26 Aug, £16.50
Nina Conti: Dolly Mixtures
Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £13 – £14
Playing Politics
Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Sarah Kendall - Get Up, Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
Carl Donnelly: Different Gravy HH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
LOLd on a Minute! Sweet Grassmarket, 12-26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7
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20:40 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
Roisin Conaty: Lifehunter
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
The Ejaculate Conception
C venues - C nova, 19-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Pete Johansson Utopian Crack Pipe HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12.50
20:45 Unstable Fables Greenside, 13-18 Aug, £7
Devvo Dole Queue Hero is Free
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-26 Aug, £free
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It’s the Monster StandUp Show - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
Pick of the Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn,
comedylistings 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Chris Martin - Spot the Difference HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £12
Magnus Betnér Live The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 16, £10
Sex Money Death The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £7
An Audience with the King The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Luke Benson Backseat Hero Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
We Love Comedy Base Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, £free
Alpine Horn with Flange Krammer - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
Newcastle University Comedy Society Showcase / PBH’s Free Fringe
Buffs Club (RAOB), 10-25 Aug, £free
Matt Price: Fugly. The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
Andrew Lawrence is Coming to Get You
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £11 – £12.50
20:55 Musical Comedy Awards Showcase
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-11 Aug, £14
20:50 Lord Nelson Presents...
GHQ, 17-25 Aug, £free
Max Dickins: This Will Only Take A Moment... The Cabaret Voltaire, 10-25 Aug, £free
The Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band presents Oliver Pissed Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, not 21, £free
Heath Franklin’s Chopper in A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life
The Super Serious Show
Des Bishop Likes to Bang
Checkley and Bush’s Comedy Riot!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-19 Aug, £11 – £12
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 – £12
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £13
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
Al Murray - The Pub Landlord: The Only Way is Epic (Special Previews)
Assembly George Square, 13-25 Aug, £12 – £14
21:00 No Pants Thursday: T’il Death Do Us Party
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £8.50
Chris Kent - Plugged In Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Dear Dan Brown...
Dragonfly, 10-24 Aug, £free
Heroes of Alternative Fringe
Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 10-21 Aug, £5
Hurt and Anderson: Scenes of a Vignetteish Nature - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 16, 21, £free
The Fairytale Forest Ukrainian Club, 16-20 Aug, £8
Big Value Comedy Show - Late
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Russell Kane: Posturing Delivery The Assembly Rooms, 13-24 Aug, £15
Alan Anderson: Whisky For Dafties
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, £9 – £12
One Track Minds - Free
Amarone, 10-25 Aug, £free
Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It’s the Greatest Show on Legs Alternative Fringe @ The Hive, 22-26 Aug, £5
❤ Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional HHHH Assembly Hall, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £16 – £17.50
The Pajama Men’s Improv Show
Assembly George Square, 10-12 Aug, £15
Henning Wehn: Henning Knows Bestest
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13 Aug, £6
Teeth In Eggcups
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12-16 Aug, £free
Glorified Disasters
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, not 14, 15, £free
Neil Delamere: DelaMere Mortal
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
You Have Nothing to Fear...
Opium, 10-25 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
BBC: Radio 2 New Comedy Award BBC @ Potterrow, 11 Aug, £7
Phil Nichol Rants!
The Assembly Rooms, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
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comedylistings Dr Ettrick-Hogg’s Manly Stand-Ups - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
21:05 Doctor Brown Befrdfgth
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50 – £11.50
Magpie and Stump in Lolitary Confinement theSpace on the Mile , 20-25 Aug, £5
Luke Toulson - Luke Who’s Talking
Underbelly, Cowgate, 1026 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
Andrew Maxwell: That’s the Spirit
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £15 – £16
Obsession - A Life With Magic
Zoo, 10-18 Aug, £10
St Andrews Presents - Blind Mirth Improv Comedy
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £7
21:10 Pete Firman Hoodwinker
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £12 – £15
Jonny & the Baptists Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Darkness Rising
theSpace on North Bridge, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Barely Legal: The 18-Year-Old Democracy
Assembly Roxy, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £13 – £14
Marcus Brigstocke: The Brig Society
Assembly Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £12 – £14
21:15 The Colour Ham
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-12 Aug, £10.50
Kevin Shepherd: Thus Spoke Kev - Free
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Bob Doolally’s Euro Crisis
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 21 Aug, £9
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, £free
Stephen K Amos Work in Progress
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10
Owen and Bettesworth: Sung and Unsung
Sweet Grassmarket, 1026 Aug, not 18, 25, £7
Henning Wehn: Henning Knows Bestest
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 15-26 Aug, £8.50 – £11.50
Rory Scovel: Illuminati Only CANCELLED
Assembly Roxy, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £11.50 – £12.50
Sam Simmons About the Weather Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10.50 – £11.50
Sara Pascoe - The Musical!
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
21:20 Sexytime!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Logic for a 5 Year Old theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-11 Aug, £3
Frenemies
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-11 Aug, £free
Reginald D. Hunter - Work in Progress... and Niggas with John Gordillo Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, not 13, £13
Always Be Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 12-26 Aug, £free
Jason Byrne: People’s Puppeteer HHH Venue150 @ EICC, 10-12 Aug, £19.50
Paul McCaffrey: Pills’n’Thrills and Belly Laughs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Geoff the Entertainer The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Jimmy Carr: Gagging Order
Venue150 @ EICC, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £18.50
Elaine Malcolmson: Relevant Experience
The Stand Comedy Club II, 20 Aug, £8
Markus Birdman – Love, Life and Death The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8
Danny Buckler: The Phantom
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
21:25 Truth
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
21:30 And Now for a Nice Evening With Wallan Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9.50 – £10.50
Applause
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 15-26 Aug, not 16, £free
Jeff Leach: Boyfriend Experience Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10
Michael Mittermeier: A German on Safari
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
Jarred Christmas: Let’s Go MoFo
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, £10.50 – £11.50
Dan Wright: Michael Jackson Touched Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Don’t Like Each Other - Free
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-14 Aug, £free
Swedenborg, the Devil and Me
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12-26 Aug, not 19, £free
Dan and Tom: Two for the Price of None Southsider, 10-25 Aug, £free
Steven Davidson: Gamesmaster
The Constitution, 10-12 Aug, £6.50
Armageddapocalypse: Threat Level Dead
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £8.50 – £9.50
Simon Evans: Friendly Fire
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
The Jocks and Geordies
Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, £free
Word:Play
theSpace on the Mile , 14-18 Aug, £6
Graham Whistler: Stand-Up, Fall Down - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-27 Aug, £free
The Blanks’ Big Break HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 23, £12 – £14
Mark Restuccia: How to Succeed at Internet Dating
Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Venue150 @ EICC, 13 Aug, £22
The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
Dodger’s Comedy Presents... - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-11 Aug, £free
Conor Drum - A Sense of Humour Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £free
21:35 Gareth Morinan Presents the Saturday Debates (1+2)
Ciao Roma, 11 Aug, £free
Gareth Morinan Explains Why David Cameron Should Be Fired for Crimes Against Short People (Among Other Things) Ciao Roma, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £free
Bogan Bingo / Free Festival
Pretending Things Are a C*ck
Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XVI
Chilly Gonzales
The Canons’ Gait, 10-25 Aug, £free
Alan Sharp: Careful What You Wish For
Gareth Morinan Presents the Saturday Debates (3+4)
The Banshee Labyrinth, 10-25 Aug, £free
Hannibal Buress: Still Saying Stuff
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Ciao Roma, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £free
Gareth Morinan Pitches a Better Version of Life’s Too Short (Starring Gareth Morinan) to BBC, HBO, C4, ITV, Sky, etc
Ciao Roma, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, £free
21:40 John Shuttleworth: Out of Our Sheds
Pleasance Dome, 13-20 Aug, £10 – £12.50
❤ The Boy With Tape On His Face More Tape HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £13.50
Iain Stirling: Happy to Be the Clown?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Josh Widdicombe: The Further Adventures of... Extra Show
Pleasance Dome, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 22 Aug, £11 – £12
Michael Winslow Noizeyman
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £14.50
Peacock & Gamble Don’t Even Want To Be On Telly Anyway HH
Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
21:45 Gareth Richards: Introvert - Never Been To Disneyland HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Eat a Queer Fetus 4 Jesus - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
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Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10 The Queen’s Hall, 26 Aug, £14
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 21, £10 – £10.50
My Damage is My Gift! - Free
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 10-25 Aug, not 13, 14, £free
Abandoman - Party in the Key of C Major Pleasance Dome, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 26, £13 – £14
Marcus Ryan: Home and Away - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
Laughing Horse’s Funny Fillies
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, £free
The Best Of Scottish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club, 10-26 Aug, £12
❤ Hal Cruttenden Tough Luvvie HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £11
I’m High On Life: What Are You On?
C Venues - C eca, 10-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
21:50 All My Friends
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10-26 Aug, £free
Jayde Adams is Master of None
Sweet Grassmarket, 1324 Aug, not 18, £9
Colin Mars: A Life Full of Lemons
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50
Paul Chowdhry What’s Happening White People Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Alfie Moore - I Predicted a Riot
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £10 – £12
comedylistings 22:00 Paul T Eyres: T.Eyres of a Clown / Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-27 Aug, £free
❤ Brendon Burns, Home Stretch Baby HHHH
Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, not 16, 23, £12.50 – £14.50
How the World Wags
C venues - C aquila, 16-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Art of Procrastination
Paradise in The Vault, 1019 Aug, not 13, £6
Late Night Gimp Fight
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £12.50 – £14
❤ Felicity Ward: The Hedgehog Dilemma HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Storytellers’ Club
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £10
The Late Night Shack Show The Shack Comedy Club & Nightclub, 10-25 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Back to School’s Disco
Pleasance at Braidwood Centre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
Stand Up for Freedom
Venue150 @ EICC, 15 Aug, £18
Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music The Queen’s Hall, 24 Aug, £22.50
News Smash
C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Liam and Owen - A Cracking One Off Show!
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1026 Aug, £free
Casual Violence: A Kick In The Teeth
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8
Bad Advice - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
22:05 I’m Not Crying in the Bathroom: I’m Crying in the Supply Closet theSpace on the Mile , 13-25 Aug, not 19, £8 – £10
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare
C venues - C, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
The Wonderful World of Wilfredo Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £9.50
22:25
22:10
Mick Foley: Prisoner of Raw
Believe - Starring Shane Dundas from the Umbilical Brothers
Jimeoin - What?! (Whatever...)
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £12 – £14
It’s Grimm Up North
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 10-25 Aug, £6 – £8
Car Crash Comedy 2012
The Assembly Rooms, 10-11 Aug, £15
The Assembly Rooms, 24 Aug, £15.50
Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 10-25 Aug, £free
Jerry Sadowitz: Adults Only
22:15
Marcel Lucont: Gallic Symbol
Learning to Pray in Front of the Television
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 13-20 Aug, £8
David Whitney Struggling to Evolve Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Google / Complex
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, £free
John Robertson: The Old Whore Assembly Hall, 10-26 Aug, £5
KWAT: Greetings from KWAT
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £10
Fat Whore
The Assembly Rooms, 1026 Aug, not 13, £10
22:20 The Sitcom Double Bill
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £9 – £10
Paul Ricketts - Ironic Infinity Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 23, £6.50 – £7.50
Mark Little: THEbullsh*tARTIST
Assembly George Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £15 – £16
The Assembly Rooms, 17-18 Aug, £17.50
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
22:30 Simon Donald’s School of Swearing
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 13-14 Aug, £8
Terry Alderton
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £10.50 – £12
Dan Mitchell - Free Egg
Assembly Roxy, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
Cheap Laughs (Are Better Than No Laughs) - Free
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, £free
Comedy Film Nights
Hill Street Theatre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug, £5 – £8
Jon Richardson Funny Magnet
Assembly Hall, 16-19 Aug, £14
Who’s Your Daddy?
Assembly Hall, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
John Scott - Totally Fed Up
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Best of So You Think You’re Funny? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-11 Aug, £10.50
The Joy of Sketch
Pleasance Courtyard, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12
Dead Cat Bounce... Howl of the She-Leopard Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
❤ The Imaginary Radio Programme: Drennon Davis Presented by The Pajama Men HHHH
Assembly Roxy, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Greg Proops Podcast: The Smartest Man in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £13
Künt and the Gang - Free
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-26 Aug, not 11, £free
Foil Arms and Hog - Late Night Sketch Comedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
So You Think You’re Funny? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12-15 Aug, £10
Rubberbandits
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £12 – £14
James and Amy: Dysfunctional Legends
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-25 Aug, not 12, £free
Ian Shaw - A Bit of a Mouthful HH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £10
22:40 The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Boo Lingerie Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1026 Aug, £9 – £10
Comic Strip
Assembly George Square, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £15
22:45 Andrew O’Neill is Easily Distracted
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
Michael Pope is Gay for Pay - Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 10-26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free
Davey Connor, Lucy Beaumont and Ed Patrick - The Big Comedy Showcase Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £9.50
22:35
The Comedy Zone
Dana Alexander: Breaking Through
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
The Good, the Bad and the Irish!
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 10-26 Aug, not 16, £free
The Boom Jennies: Mischief
Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Tom Cottle’s These Twisted Folk
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £9
Marcus Brigstocke: The Brig Society EXTRA SHOW
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-25 Aug, £free
Scottish Comedian of the Year 2011 - Jamie Dalgleish
Underbelly, Cowgate, 1026 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
What Would Beyoncé Do? - Free
Things We Did Before Reality
Demitris Deech: Stop, Collaborate and Listen - Free
James Dowdeswell: Urban Wurzel
The Special Reserve Comedy Benefit
Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £13
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £12
Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year
Idiots of Ants ANThology
Pleasance Courtyard, 2325 Aug, £11 – £12
David Trent - Spontaneous Comedian
Pleasance Courtyard, 22-23 Aug, £10
Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £free
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
The Dirty Uncle Comedy Roadshow - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14-17 Aug, £free
An Evening with Jay Sodagar Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-13 Aug, £free
Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £free
22:50 Eddie Naessens: The Thing Is This... Ciao Roma, 10-25 Aug, £free
The Shambles
C venues - C aquila, 10-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Tania Edwards - Killer Instinct
Late Night Laughs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £10.50
Splitting the Bill – Michael Workman & Tommy Little
Mark Watson’s Edinborolympics
Pleasance Courtyard, 1026 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1026 Aug, £9.50 – £12
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
23:00 Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 15 Aug to 21 Aug, £8
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Steve Shanyaski’s Life-Survival Bible Pleasance Courtyard, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
Ward and Bartlett’s Double Impact
Globe, 10-18 Aug, £free
AAA Stand-Up Late
Pleasance Courtyard, 1027 Aug, £9 – £10
Japanese TerminatoL
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 10-26 Aug, not 15, £free
Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches Pleasance Dome, 22-25 Aug, £12 – £14
BBC: Comedy Presents
BBC @ Potterrow, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 23, £12
Eric Hutton: Every Other Show in the Fringe Sucks - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10-26 Aug, £free
BBC: Late Junction BBC @ Potterrow, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £free
Shaggers - Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-25 Aug, £free
Garrett Millerick: Sensible Answers to Stupid Questions
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £8.50 – £9.50
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-26 Aug, £free
BBC: Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret
BBC @ Potterrow, 13-16 Aug, £free
Rob Deering’s Beat This
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
23:05 Monkey Toast: The Improvised Chat Show HHH
Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Absolute Stripping!
theSpace on North Bridge, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50 – £9.50
Heavy Petting
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16-26 Aug, £free
Barbershopera: The Three Musketeers HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50 – £12.50
Back and to the Left in the Turkish Prison
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10-15 Aug, £free
23:10 Humphrey Ker is... Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
Pleasance Dome, 10-14 Aug, £12.50 – £15
23:15 Tim Key - Masterslut Pleasance Courtyard, 23-25 Aug, £14
I Am, I Am
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
The Horne Section Live at the Grand!
Taylor Glenn Reverse Psycomedy
Eleanor Conway’s Midnight Rumble
23:40
23:59
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
Scott Agnew: Tales of the Sauna The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
❤ Eddie Pepitone’s Bloodbath HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £10
Ro Campbell: Midnight Meltdown
The Stand Comedy Club II, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8
Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 10 Aug, 18 Aug, £9.50
Guardian Reader
Frisky & Mannish: 27 Club
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £10
Pappy’s Flatshare Slamdown Pleasance Courtyard, 12-13 Aug, £8.50
Do The Right Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 13-14 Aug, £8.50
Simon Evans: Friendly Fire Extra Show Pleasance Courtyard, 17-18 Aug, £12
23:30 LOL-ocaust
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Battle Ducks: Activate! C venues - C nova, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Tim Key - Masterslut Pleasance Dome, 16-21 Aug, £14
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £16
Best of the Fest
Assembly Hall, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £14 – £15
A Little Perspective with Imaan
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
23:20
COMX
Morgan & West: Lying, Cheating Scoundrels
Al Murray the Pub Landlord: The Guv’s Olympic Pub Quiz
Pleasance Courtyard, 1022 Aug, £10 – £12
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £10
The Assembly Rooms, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £15
23:45 Assembly George Square, 16-18 Aug, £15
The Death of Comedy
Where Once Was Wonder by Daniel Kitson
The Stand Comedy Club, 12-26 Aug, not 17, 18, 24, 25, £10
The Stand Late Show
Assembly George Square, 20-22 Aug, £12
The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Joe Munrow: One Big Joke - Free
Adam Hills: Mess Around
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Guilt & Shame: Up All Night
Underbelly, Cowgate, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9.50
Denis Krasnov’s Hour of Intellectual Filth Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £9
23:50 Live At The Electric: Live At The Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 17-19 Aug, £10
23:55 The Humble Quest for Universal Genius Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-11 Aug, £10
The New Conway Dimension
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1127 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Becks Dugs and Rotten Hole
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 15-19 Aug, £free
School Night
The Assembly Rooms The Very Best of the Fest
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-26 Aug, not 14, £8 – £9
Voices in Your Head
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Assembly Hall, 17-18 Aug, £13
Setlist: Stand-Up Without a Net
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 10-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, £9 – £11
Edinburgh Comedy Tour www.walkingheads. net, 10 Aug - 2 Sep, £free00:00
Liam Grahame Olsen: Half Pint - Live Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16-19 Aug, £free
Unknowable Tantrum Wind
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 11-14 Aug, £free
Gay Straight Alliance Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 20-27 Aug, £free
Me My Selfish Self
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20-25 Aug, £free
Just The Tonic at the Caves, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Midnight Comedy at Genting Club Fountainpark Genting Club Fountainpark, Various dates from 14 Aug to 23 Aug, £free
Joz Norris is Matt Fisher: Überperson - Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 11-13 Aug, £free
Life’s Short. I’m Not! - Free
Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 11-27 Aug, £free
Spank!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 11-27 Aug, £13.50 – £15.50
Julie Jepson Personal Triumph
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 11-13 Aug, £free
Leaves on the Line
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 11-13 Aug, £free
Just the Tonic Comedy Club’s Midnight Show Just The Tonic at the Caves, 11-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £10
Midnight Hour
The Canons’ Gait, 11-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
DeadBadgers Sketchy Bits
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14-27 Aug, £free
00:15 Harriet Dyer (Plus the Odd Pal) - What a Palaver! Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10-27 Aug, £free
The Late Show
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, £12.50 – £14.50
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00:20 The Beta Males’ Midnight Movie Theatre
Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £10
00:25 The Room
Assembly George Square, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £8
00:30 The Improverts
Bedlam Theatre, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50
BattleActs! Presents...
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-28 Aug, £free
Hedluv and Passman: Two Cornish Rappers and a Casiotone Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10-28 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
00:40 After Hours Comedy
Pleasance Dome, 10-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £10.50 – £11.50
00:45 Leo and Stephen Go Down On You!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
00:50 Spanktacular!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £15.50
01:00 Not the Adventures of Moleman
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 10-27 Aug, £free
Late ‘n’ Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1028 Aug, £13 – £15
01:15 Setlist: Stand-Up Without a Net
Just The Tonic at the Caves, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £11
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Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Kaya - Dream Interpreter
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £9 – £11
Dream Plays (Scenes From a Play I’ll Never Write)
And No More Shall We Part
Suzanne
Shakespeare for Breakfast
Traverse Theatre, 14-26 Aug, not 20, £12
Here! Internet Cafe, 7-27 Aug, £5
09:15 Birds on a Wire
theSpace @ Venue45, 11 Aug, £5
Grimaldi: King of the Clowns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, 11 Aug, £5
The Hole
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters
Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 7 Aug to 26 Aug, £18 – £20
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £6.50 – £8.50
Theatre Uncut
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6.50
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Morning HHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £20
theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5
10:05
The Iliad, The Odyssey and All of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5
09:20 What the Heart Remembers: The Women and Children of Darfur theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug, £5
09:30 One Minute Birdwatching - Free
West Princes Street Gardens, 7-9 Aug, £free
Platero Y Yo
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, £5
09:45 After Orpheus
theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, £5
10:00 Born to Run
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £13 – £20
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro!
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £18
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theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
10:15 Dearly Departed
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
The Browning Version
theSpace on the Mile , 7-11 Aug, £8
10:30 Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17
❤ Blink HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19
Going Green the Wong Way
Venue 13, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £8
The Crucible
Greenside, 20-25 Aug, £8
Angels HHH
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19
All That is Wrong HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £17
The Adding Machine Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Fables Here and Then
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
Pleasance Dome, 7-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10.50 – £11.50
Bullet Catch HHH
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £17
Mess
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19
10:45 Romeo and Juliet
theSpace @ Venue45, 21-25 Aug, £5
Machinal
theSpace on Niddry St, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £5
Oh, What a Lovely War
theSpace on Niddry St, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
11:00 Killing Time
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6
The Stranger
Summerhall, 10-25 Aug, not 22, 23, £12
Afghan Days Babylon Nights
The Royal Scots Club, Various dates from 8 Aug to 17 Aug, £9
Invisible People
Around Edinburgh, 7-11 Aug, £1
Allotment
Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10
Story Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well C venues - C too, 13-18 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
11:05 All the Things I Never Said
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
Under the Ladder
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
Anon(ymous)
C venues - C, 7-11 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
11:10 The Ride of the Bluebottles
theSpace on the Mile , 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7 – £9
The Two Most Perfect Things
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £13
11:15 Forever Young
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13-24 Aug, not 19, £6
Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30
theSpace on Niddry St, 13-18 Aug, £7 – £9
SOS Courtship
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
Birds on a Wire
theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5
11:20 I Never Saw Another Butterfly Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
Chicken Bones for the Teenage Soup
Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Moth to the Flame
Dream On
The Property Known As Garland
11:25 Last Supper
Greenside, 7-11 Aug, £6
Miss Marchbanks
Paradise in The Vault, 7-18 Aug, not 12, 13, £8.50
Paradise in Augustine’s, 7-8 Aug, £8
11:30
All in the Timing
Seeing Double: Figures
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5
Sir Gawain, the Yellow Knight
Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
Normal
Paradise in Augustine’s, 9-11 Aug, £8
The Hole
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £5
The Iliad, The Odyssey and All of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, £5
11:35 Life Is Too Good To Be True HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-13 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
John Peel’s Shed by John Osborne Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-12 Aug, £10 – £11
Bye Bye World
Underbelly, Cowgate, 1526 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Two Dogs
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-18 Aug, £5 – £11
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £10
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Miss Julie
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, £5
Captain Ferguson’s School for Balloon Warfare
The Cactus Gulch Opry House
Apocalypse or Bust!
11:40
Paradise in Augustine’s, 14-18 Aug, £8
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, 11 Aug, £5
What the Heart Remembers: The Women and Children of Darfur
Grimaldi: King of the Clowns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug, £5
Platero Y Yo
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7 – £8
For the Love of Willie Quaker Meeting House, 13-18 Aug, £7
Plastic Beach
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £7
The Price of Everything
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 7-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Seeing Double: Vision
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7 – £8
Pleasance Bytes
Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £4
Candida
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12 Sweet Grassmarket, 8-17 Aug, £10
Beyond Hillsborough Quaker Meeting House, 7-11 Aug, £8
11:45 Oddlie
Venue 13, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £8
Hell’s Bells by Lynne Truss Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 9, 10, 13, 20, £8 – £9
Female Gothic
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £12 – £13
Thin Ice HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9 – £10
The Ash Girl
theSpace @ Venue45, 13-16 Aug, £8
11:50 Built for Two
theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £6
12:00 Puellae (The truth about chips and other things) Summerhall, 7-15 Aug, £10
As Ye Sow
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11.50
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theatrelistings An Audience With the Duke of Windsor - Bob Kingdom Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, £10 – £11
A Few Good Men
C venues - C eca, 12-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Bigmouth
Summerhall, 19-26 Aug, £5 – £10
Theatre Tasters - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 7-12 Aug, £free
I Shall Be Remembered - The Story of Madame de Pompadour
Venue150 @ EICC, 15-19 Aug, £12
The Merry Wives of Osaka C venues - C too, 13-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Allotment
Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10
Churchill
The Assembly Rooms, 11-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Comedy Playhouse Balloon - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 7-26 Aug, £free
The Knowledge Emporium
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-12 Aug, £free
Firing Blanks
Zoo, 19-27 Aug, £9 – £10
Double Edge’s Apples
Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-18 Aug, £8 – £9
Hunt & Darton Cafe Hunt & Darton Cafe , 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
BOX
C venues - C nova, 7-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
❤ Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain HHHHH
Les Impossibles
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50 – £11.50
Sweet Grassmarket, 8-12 Aug, £9
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 – £20
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
What’s He Building in There? Zoo, 7-18 Aug, £8
Tam O’Shanter
Assembly Hall, 7-26 Aug, not 8, 13, 20, £14 – £15
The Template for Lack of Conversation Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 7-18 Aug, £free
12:05 Wild Allegations
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £6
The Jhiva of Nietzsche
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
In Tents
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
Salt and Pepper
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
12:10 Continuous Growth Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £11
12:15 Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £14 – £16
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Shirtwaist
Razing Eddie
And No More Shall We Part
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Almost, Maine
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
King Lear
Zoo, 12-18 Aug, £7.50
Virginia Ironside: Growing Old Disgracefully
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 8-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 – £11
Wonderland
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5
12:20 Oh, What a Lovely War
theSpace on Niddry St, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £5
The Mermaid of Zennor
C venues - C too, 20-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
Summerhall, 11-18 Aug, £10
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, £18
The Bravery of Miss Anne and Other Tales of Splendorous Adventure The Voodoo Rooms, 21-25 Aug, £free
Machinal
theSpace on Niddry St, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
12:25
Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-18 Aug, £8 – £9
Medieval Miracle, The Fall Of Man
Paradise in The Vault, 7-8 Aug, £5
Ma Biche et Mon Lapin
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-24 Aug, weekdays only, £5
The Fantasist HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £8 – £9
Born to Run
30 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
As You Like It
Pilrig Studio, 9 Aug, £5
Lord of the Flies
Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-27 Aug, £8.50
Miss Julie
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18 Zoo, 19-27 Aug, £5 – £8
All Turn! - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13-26 Aug, £free
Soldiers’ Wives
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Killing Time
Romeo and Juliet
Spaghetti Junction
Bedlam Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 Bedlam Theatre, 13-18 Aug, £7
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C venues - C, 12-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Picnic Apocalyptic
A Servant to Two Masters
theSpace on the Mile , 7-11 Aug, £6
Would Be Nice Though...
Pleasance at Essential Edinburgh, 7-18 Aug, £8 – £9
Deadly Medley
Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5
And No More Shall We Part Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £18
Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £free
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £10 – £11 theSpace on Niddry St, 7-11 Aug, £8
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
Round ‘ere
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Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £8.50 – £9.50
My Elevator Days
Bedlam Theatre, 7-11 Aug, £8
The Death of Chatterton
The Exonerated US Beef
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Zoo, 7-11 Aug, £7.50
Dearly Departed
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 21-25 Aug, £8
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £20
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All That is Wrong HHH
Land of the Dead / Helter Skelter
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, £19
Greenside, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9
Dubrovski
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £7
12:40
The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart HHH
The Musicians
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £7.50
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10
Jubilate! by Rosalind Adler Pleasance Courtyard, 14-25 Aug, £8 – £9
Utopia (Beyond the Words) and Clothes
FAT
theSpace on the Mile , 14-18 Aug, £7
Pleasance Courtyard, 9-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £9
Bullet Catch HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £17
The Silencer - David Calvitto Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
The Turn of the Screw
12:45 Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19
❤ Best in the World HHHH
Monkey Poet’s Murder Mystery
Uncoupled
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £6.50 – £8.50
Angels HHH
The Banshee Labyrinth, 7-25 Aug, not 14, £free
Allotment
Bullet Catch HHH Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17
Platero Y Yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez Valvona & Crolla, 7-27 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, £12
Mess
Quick! Save the Pizza!
Six and a Tanner
The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 10, 13, £15
❤ Slapdash Galaxy HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11.50
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Detention
Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-17 Aug, £8.50
Letter to the Man (from the Boy) Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £9.50
Photographing the Dead
Paradise in The Vault, 14-27 Aug, not 19, 20, 26, £7
The Spirit of Frances Wright (Love is an Action Verb)
❤ Blink HHHH
Sweet Grassmarket, 9-24 Aug, not 18, £8
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
Shakespeare Didn’t Write This
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19
13:15
Bound
You Don’t Know Me
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
13:05
Frontline
24h
Married With Snails
❤ Slice by Mel Giedroyc HHHH
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-18 Aug, £8
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-27 Aug, not 18, 25, £8
Under the Ladder
Textually Transmitted
The Trench
Proof
Everything Else Happened
Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £4
The Fiddler’s Elbow, 1319 Aug, £free
Eat $h*t: How Our Waste Can Save the World
12:50
Social Husbandry Inc - Breeding a Brighter Society Since 2012
The Institute
13:00
Princes Mall, 25 Aug, £free
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £7 – £10
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
C venues - C, 12-18 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
13:10 Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 25, £10 – £12
Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £17
My Wrestle Mania
Locked In
Punch & Judy
Hanafuda Denki (A Tale of Fantastic Traditional Playing Cards)
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19
C venues - C, 7-11 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
The Bongo Club, 21-25 Aug, £6 theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
Mess
Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-18 Aug, £10
Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-18 Aug, £8 – £9
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £17
C Venues - C eca, 13-18 Aug, £5.50 – £7.50
Theseus and the Minotaur: A Love Story
Evil
Double Edge’s Spring Awakening
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7
Just
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 7-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14
12:55
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
Poe’s Last Night - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 7-26 Aug, £free
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro!
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20
Trojan Women
Cancer Time
Wild Turkey
Birds on a Wire
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 7-18 Aug, £9 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £6
Venue 13, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £8 theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5
Acts of Contrition
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £10
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
Church Hill Theatre, 17-20 Aug, weekdays only, £5
Marat / Sade
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Say You Love Me
Cafe Camino, 7-12 Aug, £free
Him
theSpace on the Mile , 21-25 Aug, £7 – £8
Spring Awakening (After Wedekind)
Paradise in Augustine’s, 14-18 Aug, £8
Educating Ronnie HHH
Assembly George Square, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
All in the Timing
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
Sir Gawain, the Yellow Knight
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
The Miller’s Tale: Wahala Dey Oh!
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Night of the Big Wind
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-25 Aug, £8.50 – £10
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5
Unlucky for Some
Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £free
Love Child
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
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theatrelistings 13:20 ❤ Dirty Great Love Story HHHH
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
13:30 The Economist
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
The Lad Himself HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-26 Aug, not 11, £9.50 – £12.50
Camille Claudel
Pleasance Courtyard, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50 – £9.50
As You Like It
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7.50 – £9
Dirty Barbie HHH
Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £7 – £9
The Canterville Ghost
Greenside, 7-10 Aug, £5.50
And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses HHH Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £15
The Good Person of Szechwan
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20-25 Aug, £5
One Minute Birdwatching - Free
West Princes Street Gardens, 7-9 Aug, £free
Big Sean, Mikey and Me HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, £10
Hamlet and Other Theatrical Nightmares
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Simple Matters HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 8-26 Aug, not 14, 20, £10 – £11
You Obviously Know What I’m Talking About HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £11
Give and Take
Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Ruthlessness
C Venues - C eca, 12-27 Aug, not 20, £7.50 – £9.50
Carnival of Crows
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free
13:35 Country Air - A Contemporary Ghost Story Paradise in The Vault, 7-11 Aug, £5.50
Romeo and Juliet Greenside, 13-18 Aug, £7
13:40 Botallack O’Clock
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9
Pretty When I’m Drunk
theSpace on the Mile , 21-25 Aug, £5
13:45 End to End
Bannermans, 12-25 Aug, £free
Antigone
theSpace on the Mile , 7-11 Aug, £4.50
Stand Up, Woman - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13-16 Aug, £free
Perle HHH
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Urban Fairytale
theSpace @ Venue45, 20-25 Aug, £8
The Two Worlds of Charlie F
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-11 Aug, £12.50 – £15
I Shall Be Remembered - The Story of Madame de Pompadour Venue150 @ EICC, 7-12 Aug, £12
Wrong Place, Right Time
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7-12 Aug, £free
Unmythable
Zoo, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £10
After Orpheus
theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5
Theseus and the Minotaur: A Love Story
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £10
Undateable
Whynot? , 7-12 Aug, £free
13:55 Othello - The Remix
Pleasance Courtyard, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50 – £15
Ellipsis
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 1325 Aug, not 19, £5
Listen! The River
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £5 – £8
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Meine faire Dame ein Sprachlabor
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, 17-18 Aug, £30
Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, not 17, 18, £8
Mon Droit
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 16, £10 – £11
Crypted
❤ Coalition HHHH
The Edinburgh International Circus Festival
14:00
The Tempest
A Donkey and a Parrot
Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
My Sister
The Fiddler’s Elbow, 8-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
True Colours
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21-25 Aug, £5
Bottleneck HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Mayday Mayday
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £11
Uninvited
Endure: A Run Woman Show
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Flâneurs
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, 15 Aug, £35
C venues - C nova, 12-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 15, £10 – £11
Executive Stress / Corporate Retreat
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
2008: Macbeth
C venues - C nova, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
13:50
Irreconcilable Differences
Poison
C venues - C nova, 11-27 Aug, £12.50 – £14.50
The List
❤ Hand Over Fist HHHH
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, not 15, £8
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £9.50
Couleur Café
Assembly George Square, 9-19 Aug, not 13, 14, £7
Shakespeare’s Queens: She-Wolves and Serpents C Venues - C eca, 7-25 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Summerhall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 20, £12 Pleasance Dome, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £13.50 – £14.50 theSpace on Niddry St, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £8
Baby With the Bathwater
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £10
Martin Dockery: Wanderlust
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Anything But (A One-Woman Play) Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £8 – £9
Forgotten Heroes
C venues - C nova, 19-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
The World’s Greatest Walking Tour of Edinburgh Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, £8 – £9
The Half
Assembly George Square, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £12 – £14
Exterminating Angel - An Improvisation Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £11
Ocean Terminal Big Top, 7-26 Aug, not 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £free
Grace!
St John’s Church, 8-18 Aug, £10
Werther’s Sorrows
Zoo Southside, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Proof
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Kin
The Playhouse on the Fringe, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
B’est Restaurant, 7-28 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £43 – £46.50
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Mies Julie
Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £14 – £16
theatrelistings Salome By Oscar Wilde
Zoo Southside, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £8
The Celebrity
PASS (Performing Arts Studio Scotland), 22-25 Aug, £8
14:05 One Night Stand
theSpace on the Mile , 13-18 Aug, £7.50
The Yellow Wallpaper
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £5
Salt and Pepper
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
Comedy Playhouse - Shopping for Bacon - Free Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 7-26 Aug, £free
Letters, Boxes and Other Things That Shouldn’t Be Opened C venues - C nova, 7-11 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
Iron Assumptions
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
Now.Here
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15-26 Aug, £free
The Adult History of Great Britain Part 1 - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7-14 Aug, £free
Panning for Gold - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 8-26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
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theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £7.50
Blake’s Doors
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £5
When Alice (Cooper) Met (Prince) Harry Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7-26 Aug, £free
14:10 Whale Tale
❤ The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Rosie Wilby - How (Not) To Make It In Britpop
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
Pilrig Studio, 9 Aug, £5
The Exonerated Love All
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £8 – £10
Satan’s Playground
14:15
Sherlock Holmes and the Sound of the Baskervilles
Assembly George Square, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £12
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Palmerston Place Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
Sedition
Zoo, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £8
Almost, Maine
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10
Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-27 Aug, £9.50
14:25 How Much is Your Iron? and Dansen Sweet Grassmarket, 11-17 Aug, £7
3.2 Seconds
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £8
14:30
Village of Idiots
Ne’er the Twain
Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story
Trouble in the Tolbooth
Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £5
Edinburgh Elim, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-26 Aug, £10 – £12
Angels in Heels
The House of Shadows
Scotsman Best of the Fest
Visiting Time Cancer Time
Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5
14:20
The Wheelchair on My Face
Quaker Meeting House, 13-18 Aug, £7
A Streetcar Named Desire
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £7
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £7
Ronnie and the Other World
St Peter’s, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 11 Aug, £7
Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £8
The Bongo Club, 10-14 Aug, £8
Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
C venues - C aquila, 13-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Gulliver’s Travels King’s Theatre, 19 Aug, £12
Primer for a Failed Superpower The Hub, 24 Aug, £6
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Deadly Medley
Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5
Strawberry Sauce
C venues - C aquila, 7-11 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Adolf
The Assembly Rooms, 13 Aug, £12
Fables Here and Then
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
Comedian Dies in the Middle of Joke Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
Three Words
The Bongo Club, 7-8 Aug, £7
14:35 The Importance of Being Earnest Greenside, 13-18 Aug, £7
Am I Good Friend?
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £12
The Cabaret Voltaire, 8-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
Teach Me
Biloxi Blues
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £12
MacBeth in Scots
St Ninian’s Hall, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Tartuffe
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
Becoming Conocido Venue 13, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £8
Operation Stork
St Serf’s Church Hall, 18 Aug, £9
Miriam Margolyes Dickens’ Women
Pleasance Courtyard, 8-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £16.50 – £17.50
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-10 Aug, £9
CountryBoy’s Struggle
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
21A - Free
GHQ, 8-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £free
14:40 This Way Up
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
The Static
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 20, £10 – £11
Once in a House on Fire
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 11-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £14
Probably the Greatest Goal Ever Scored (and Other Tales) Sweet Grassmarket, 20-24 Aug, £7
Tea is an Evening Meal
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 7-10 Aug, £10
The Sewing Machine
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £13 – £14
14:45 Thread
Assembly St Mark’s, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Kes
Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-27 Aug, £8
Winston on the Run Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9 – £10
❤ Dylan Thomas: Return Journey - Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins HHHH Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, £10 – £11
Krapp’s Last Tape
The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10
The Good, the Bad and the Extraterrestrials Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 7-26 Aug, £free
14:50 Double Edge’s Almost Nothing to Do with Frogs Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-18 Aug, £8 – £9
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theatrelistings The Smoking Boy
Greenside, 7-11 Aug, £9
Jigsy HHH
The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £15
Nikotine
Paradise in The Vault, 14-19 Aug, £8.50
The Prize
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7-26 Aug, not 15, £11 – £12
The Cagebirds
C Venues - C eca, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Chapel Street HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Peter Panic
Pleasance Dome, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10
Besides the Obvious
C Venues - C eca, Various dates from 7 Aug to 27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
14:55 Be My Baby
Paradise in The Vault, 7-12 Aug, £6.50
Self-Criticism
Paradise in The Vault, 21-25 Aug, £6
A Man for All Times: W. E. B. DuBois
Villains, Heroes and Adventurers
Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 7-25 Aug, not 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, £15
Ruskin Live!
Scottish National Gallery, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10
Miss Havisham’s Expectations
Miss Julie
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £5
Bullet Catch HHH
Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-24 Aug, weekdays only, £5
Recent Tragic Events
Rodney Bewes as A Boy Growing Up. An Entertainment from the stories of Dylan Thomas
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £16
Remember Me
The Day the Sky Turned Black
SOS Courtship
The Stranger
Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19
15:20
15:05
The Darkroom
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7.50 – £9.50
C venues - C nova, 14-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Summerhall, 21-26 Aug, £6
Macbeth Unsexed! C Venues - C eca, 7-11 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
The Fastest Train to Anywhere C venues - C nova, 7-12 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
Pages from the Book of...
Summerhall, 10-24 Aug, £10
Bullet Catch HHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, £19
The Dead Memory House HHH Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, £10
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12 Summerhall, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £12
The School of Night Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
Karen’s Way: A Kindertransport Life
theSpace @ Venue45, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £10
All the Things I Never Said
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £5
Journos
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £6.50
Not My Cup of Tea
Peep HHH
theSpace on the Mile , 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50
Oedipus - The Hour
Iron Assumptions
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6 Paradise in Augustine’s, 7-19 Aug, not 13, £7.50
Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour
15:10
15:00
Valvona & Crolla, Various dates from 18 Aug to 26 Aug, £12
True Colours
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21-25 Aug, £5
Tokyo Trilogy
C Venues - C eca, 13-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
Appointment With The Wicker Man HHH The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £16
Titanic Sinks Titswilly
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-18 Aug, £6
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15:15 Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
❤ Blink HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
Murder, Marple and Me
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9.50 – £10.50
The Cactus Gulch Opry House
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Angels HHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £17
All That is Wrong HHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, £19
Porphyria
Zoo Southside, 7-20 Aug, £7.50
Rubber Dinghy
Zoo Southside, 21-27 Aug, £8
Sir Gawain, the Yellow Knight
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
Ma Biche et Mon Lapin
I, Tommy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 15, £10 – £11
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50 – £9.50
Traverse Theatre, 7-23 Aug, not 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, £12
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 13-19 Aug, £8
Githa
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-16 Aug, £5
As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title.
On the Edge
Sweet Grassmarket, 19-24 Aug, £9
Mess
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £17
Cover
Maurice Roëves: Just a Gigolo
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £15
Eurydice
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Still Life (or Brief Encounter)
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 12, £9.50 – £11.50
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Molly Naylor and the Middle Ones: My Robot Heart Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9 – £10.50
15:30 As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title. Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12
Treasure Island
C venues - C too, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £11.50
Outward Bound
Nothing Is Really Difficult
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Remember Me
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £8
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5
Assembly George Square, 8-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10 Summerhall, 21-26 Aug, £6
Excuse Me, I’m Trying to Please You
The Softening of MAO-A
Chicken Bones for the Teenage Soup
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Summerhall, 11-26 Aug, £8 – £10
15:25
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
The Idiot at the Wall
Angels HHH
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, £9
Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17
theatrelistings As You Like It
C venues - C, 7-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Oliver Reed: Wild Thing Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 15, £10 – £11
Cleansed theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £7
NOLA Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
How a Man Crumbled HH Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, not 17, 18, £10
A One Man Hamlet
C venues - C aquila, 7-11 Aug, £10.50 – £11.50
Hamlet and Other Theatrical Nightmares
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
Serve Cold Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 7-27 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £8
❤ Blink HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £17
Apocalypse or Bust! Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Still Home Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 23-24 Aug, £10
15:35 Sophie Shadow
Paradise in The Vault, 1426 Aug, not 20, £9
15:40 Tumble Circus: This Is What We Do For a Living
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £12 – £14
Dirty Hands
Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 19 Aug to 26 Aug, £8
After the Rainfall
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £12 – £13
❤ Punch HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 9, 16, £10 – £11
A Clockwork Orange
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-25 Aug, £8
The Indescribable Phenomenon Greenside, 20-25 Aug, £9
16:00 B*tch Boxer HHH
Mother to Mother
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £15
Dream/Life
Edinburgh
Zoo, 7-18 Aug, £8
Nights at the Circus theSpace on Niddry St, 8 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Kemble’s Riot HH
True Colours
The Erpingham Camp
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12 theSpace on Niddry St, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
A Modern Town HH Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10
Fabled
15:45
East - by Steven Berkoff
Allotment
Elephant Man
Attempts on Her Life - Free
Paradise in The Vault, 7-11 Aug, £8
Dead Man’s Cell Phone HHH
C venues - C, 7-11 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50
As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title. Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £12
Waiting for Stanley
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
15:50
Douglas House, 19-25 Aug, £8 theSpace on Niddry St, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £10
It’s So Nice
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-24 Aug, weekdays only, £10
Sparkleshark
St Peter’s, 25 Aug, £6
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 20, £14 – £15
Mother Tongue
The Bongo Club, 7-25 Aug, not 17, 19, £5 Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £10
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21-24 Aug, £free
Lingua Frank
The Playhouse on the Fringe, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £10
Angus: Weaver of Grass
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16-26 Aug, £10
How’s About That Then? HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £11 – £12
Spring Awakening (After Wedekind)
Summerhall, 7-15 Aug, £9
Tagged
Italian Cultural Institute, 10 Aug, £5
Inlingua Edinburgh, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £12
The Eighth Day
24h
Paradise in Augustine’s, 19 Aug, £8 C Venues - C eca, Various dates from 7 Aug to 27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Superheroes
Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £7
Rod is God
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 24, 26, £9.50 – £12
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £13.50 – £14.50
Justine and Tony
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Assembly Hall, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £14 – £16
Woza Albert!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21-25 Aug, £5
Peep HHH
Request Programme
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Summerhall, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, £5
Divine Words
theSpace on Niddry St, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Strange Hungers Summerhall, 18-19 Aug, £10
Gods
Venue 13, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £8
The Knowledge Emporium
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 13 Aug, £free
Irish Shorts Two
Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, 7-18 Aug, not 12, 13, £6
16:05 Anna.
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 13-18 Aug, £6.50
You Left Me in the Dark theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £8
A Cry Too Far From Heaven theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £8.50
Fat Joe’s Chicken Shack
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £5
An Evening With Dementia
theSpace on the Mile , 7-25 Aug, £9
Maria, 1968
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
16:10 The House of Shadows
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £7
Me Before Marilyn theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 20-25 Aug, £6
Ellipsis
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-11 Aug, £5
Subliminal Nonsense theSpace on the Mile , 21-25 Aug, £10
Richard III
theSpace @ Venue45, 7-11 Aug, £5
I Am a Moon
theSpace on North Bridge, 8-9 Aug, £7
Party Time
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-18 Aug, £7
Strong Arm
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
The Sun is Not for Us theSpace on North Bridge, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, £7
16:15 Thread
Assembly St Mark’s, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Paul Dabek Presents Thurston
The Voodoo Rooms, 7-25 Aug, £free
Sister Annunciata’s Secret
Hill Street Theatre, 15-26 Aug, £5 – £11
Lady M
C Venues - C eca, 7-18 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
2.20pm @ Just the Tonic at The Tron. £8/£6
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theatrelistings An Eggcellent Adventure
Lauriston Halls, 7-9 Aug, £5
Juana in a Million
Pleasance Dome, 7-26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9 – £10
Almost, Maine
Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
Village of Idiots
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
Punk Rock
theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £9
Cubicle Four
Paradise in The Vault, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
A Streetcar Named Desire
Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5
Sleep to Wake: Robert Browning Remembers Elizabeth
16:30
16:45
Three by Poe
Joyced!
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Paradise in Augustine’s, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8
Walk Like a Black Man
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Gilbert and Sullivan in Brief(s) Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £10 – £12
Gob Shop
Sapphire Rooms, 8-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £7
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
Formby
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £11 – £13
Rainbow
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, £9
Right Honourable Member
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 16, 17, £8.50 – £10.50
Dating George Orwell - Free
Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 7-18 Aug, £free
Wojtek the Bear
Best Served Cold
Would Be Nice Though...
Peter Piper - The Man Behind the Legend
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £11 – £12
theSpace @ Venue45, 13-18 Aug, £7
Hill Street Theatre, 7-13 Aug, £10 – £12
Pleasance at Essential Edinburgh, 7-18 Aug, £8 – £9
16:20
Deadly Medley
16:50
Shopping Centre by Matthew Osborn HHH
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Boy In a Dress HHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10
Doll
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £4
A Thousand Shards of Glass Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21-25 Aug, £14
25: 13 Red, 12 Blue
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
16:25 Hervé - A Collection of Songs, Dances and Stories Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £10.50 – £11.50
Metamorphoses: Fables from Ovid
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £9
Maurice’s Jubilee
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50 – £15.50
The Hand-Me-Down People C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
Pilrig Studio, 9 Aug, £5
Gilded Balloon at Third Door, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9 – £10
A Dirty Martini
Zoo Southside, 12-27 Aug, £8.50
The Adding Machine Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
Fables Here and Then
Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Swamp Juice
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14-27 Aug, £11 – £13
Thinking of you - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free
16:35 Little Women
theSpace @ Venue45, 20-25 Aug, £8
What I Heard About the World Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 8-19 Aug, not 13, £14
Superheroes
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £7
Princes Mall, 7-25 Aug, £free
C Venues - C eca, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Misanthropy HH
C Venues - C eca, Various dates from 7 Aug to 27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Adolf
The Assembly Rooms, 14 Aug, £12
Bhagwaan Dhoondo - An Indian musical interactive theatre performance Lauriston Halls, 27 Aug, £free
Primer for a Failed Superpower The Hub, 24 Aug, £6
Nothing Is Really Difficult
Assembly George Square, 8-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10
My City Saturday
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 25-26 Aug, £7
A Brief History of Scotland - We Done Loads!
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-24 Aug, not 18, £9.50
There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Oscar Pike
Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £7
The Edinburgh International Circus Festival Ocean Terminal Big Top, 7-26 Aug, not 15, 20, £free
❤ Glory Dazed HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 15, £10 – £11
Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade
Zoo, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £8
Allotment
Queue
Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £10
Made for Each Other - Free
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-17 Aug, £8
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 15-26 Aug, £free
Hearts on Fire
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18
Rémy
16:55
Paradise in The Vault, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £6
The Submarine Show
24h
C venues - C too, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
17:00 The Girl With No Heart
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, not 13, £8
True Colours
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21-25 Aug, £5
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Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Skye
Greenside, 20-25 Aug, £5
The Harmonettes Go Into Orbit Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
17:05 A Grave Reunion
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £7.50
Swordy-Well
theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £7
Burns: Rough Cut
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-25 Aug, not 19, £8
The Complete History of the BBC in 60 Minutes
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-19 Aug, not 18, £9
Threads
theSpace on the Mile , 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50 – £9.50
A Sky Burial
theSpace on North Bridge, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £7
A Soldier’s Song
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £13
17:10 Town: a Spirited Story
C venues - C, 7-11 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50
The Letters of Jane Austen
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8
Marcel Pursued By the Hounds by Michel Tremblay
theSpace on the Mile , 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £6
Playing Fate
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £6
17:15 A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £7
❤ Dirty Paki Lingerie HHHH Assembly Hall, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £9
Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes Whitespace, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
All in the Timing
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
Words and Women
The Street, 7-25 Aug, £free
After the Accident by Julian Armitstead theSpace on the Mile , 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £6
We Are Not Here Summerhall, 11-16 Aug, £11
You Don’t Know Me Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
SOS Courtship
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, £5
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £14
Sealand
Zoo, 7-27 Aug, £9
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
theSpace on the Mile , 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £6
Marat / Sade
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
17:20 I Never Saw Another Butterfly Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
Exit Stage Left
Greenside, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £5
Bane 1, 2 & 3
Pleasance Dome, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Her Right Mind
Greenside, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7 – £8
Dad Doesn’t Dance theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £8
One Hour Only
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £11
The Yarn
theSpace @ Venue45, 7-11 Aug, £7
Chatroom
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £8
17:25
We Are Chechens!
Nikotine
The Cactus Gulch Opry House
Excess
Summerhall, 8-9 Aug, £10
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
Paradise in The Vault, 7-12 Aug, £8.50 C venues - C nova, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50
theatrelistings Translunar Paradise Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 – £12
Ma Biche et Mon Lapin
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-24 Aug, weekdays only, £5
Tea with the Old Queen
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Don Quixote! Don Quixote! HH
Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9 – £10
17:30
The Madness of King Lear
theSpace on Niddry St, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
Mess
❤ Blink HHHH
Morning HHH
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £17
Give and Take
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Born to Run
theSpace on Niddry St, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, £10
Monkey Bars
Summerhall, 11-26 Aug, £8
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £17 Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, £18 Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £18 Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £19
Script in Hand
Icarus: a Story of Flight HHH
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
Romeo and Juliet Cafe Camino, 7 Aug, £free
Angels HHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, £19
All That is Wrong HHH
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £17
99.9 Degrees
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £7.50 – £9.50
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, £18 – £20
Hamlet and Other Theatrical Nightmares
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Minotaur
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £11.50
Summerhall, 7-18 Aug, £9
Legs 11
Summerhall, 19-26 Aug, £10
17:35 I Heart Peterborough HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 8-27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 – £11
Swan Song
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £8.50
17:40 Educating Rita HHH
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £15 – £16
Bitesize Chekhov
Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 7-15 Aug, £7.50
17:45 Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 – £17
Unplugged
Mess
Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17
Morning HHH
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £18
17:55 Villains, Heroes and Adventurers
The Dead Memory House HHH
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro!
24h
Romeo and Juliet
Peep HHH
18:05
Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, £10
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1 Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
Elephant Man
Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £15
Amusements
Love and Understanding
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £free
18:00
Princes Mall, 12-16 Aug, £free
Angels HHH
Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19
Nights at the Circus theSpace on Niddry St, 10 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £10
All That is Wrong HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, £17
Leonce and Lena
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Italia ‘n’ Caledonia
Valvona & Crolla, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
Bullet Catch HHH Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19
Platero Y Yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez Valvona & Crolla, 25 Aug, £12
Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour
Valvona & Crolla, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £12
Divine Words
theSpace on Niddry St, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
C venues - C aquila, 11-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (Aurores)
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug, £35
Dracula
PASS (Performing Arts Studio Scotland), 21-25 Aug, £7
The World’s Greatest Walking Tour of Edinburgh Pleasance Dome, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, £8 – £9
And No More Shall We Part
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20
Allotment
Assembly Inverleith Allotments, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £10
The Trial
Desperately Seeking the Exit - Free
Here’s What I Know About Humans, By Lulu the Dog
Unneeded Baggage Princes Mall, 7-8 Aug, £free
Sinful - Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7-26 Aug, £free
The Six O’Clock News
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 7 Aug, £7
Katianna Was Here
Leith on the Fringe @ Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 16-18 Aug, £8
Blackbird
Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 1724 Aug, £7
The Picture of Dorian Gray Princes Mall, 19-25 Aug, £free
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Princes Mall, 7-11 Aug, £free
The Royal Scots Club, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £12
Reynard
Mr Carmen
Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 13-15 Aug, £8
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £14
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 – £20 C venues - C too, 12-18 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
The Society of Ethical Cat Burglars theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 13-18 Aug, £9
Lust in Translation
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £5
Built for Two
theSpace on the Mile , 20-25 Aug, £6
The Complex: Oedipus
theSpace on the Mile , 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £7 – £9
The Disintegration Loops
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £5
The Complex: Electra theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 7 Aug to 18 Aug, £7 – £9
Stick Stock Stone Dead
theSpace on the Mile , 20-25 Aug, £10
18:10 Happy
Greenside, 20-25 Aug, £5
Influence
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-11 Aug, £6
The Music Box
Paradise in The Vault, 1427 Aug, not 20, £7
Salome
theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £8
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theatrelistings Pierrepoint - The Hangman’s Tale
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-24 Aug, not 18, £8.50
18:15 Repertory Theatre HH C Venues - C eca, 7-18 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
Moth to the Flame
Paradise in The Vault, 7-8 Aug, £8
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £20
Wonderland
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £5
Doctor Faustus
The Royal Scots Club, 7-11 Aug, £10
National Theatre of Scotland Presents Love Letters to the Public Transport System By Molly Taylor The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Hinge Presents: Scooped
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
And No More Shall We Part Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, £18
Festen
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £7
18:20 30 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5
Double Edge’s Flames Over New Jersey Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-18 Aug, £8 – £9
The Pride
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12.50
The Taming of the Shrew
Sweet Grassmarket, 1324 Aug, not 18, £7.50
18:25 We Got Rhythm
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £8
Mr Braithwaite Has a New Boy C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9.50 – £11.50
Quick! Save the Pizza!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £8
Twentysomething Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 7-19 Aug, £8
Tissue
Bedlam Theatre, 20-25 Aug, £6
18:30 Nothing Is Really Difficult
Assembly George Square, 8-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10
This Land: The Story of Woody Guthrie Zoo Southside, 7-18 Aug, £12
The Election: A Silent Comedy
Bedlam Theatre, 7-18 Aug, £7
Tartuffe
Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5
Do You Still Throw Spears at Each Other? - Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 7-11 Aug, £free
Fables Here and Then
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Belt Up Theatre’s A Little Princess HHH C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £10.50 – £12.50
All About Dickens
Mayfield Salisbury Church, 7-10 Aug, £9
Black Comedy
Quaker Meeting House, 7-11 Aug, £7
The Boat Factory
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £11 – £13
Rubies in the Attic Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 13, 20, £12 – £13
Macbeth on Inchcolm Island Summerhall, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £25
Bareback Ink
Whitespace, 22-24 Aug, £free
18:35 Dirty Blood
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £8
18:40 1984
Zoo, 7-27 Aug, not 8, 15, 19, 22, £8
The Weigh In
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £5 – £7
Oh, The Humanity and Other Good Intentions Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-25 Aug, not 13, 21, £10 – £14
Unhappy Birthday
Assembly George Square, 7-26 Aug, not 12, 13, 20, £10 – £12
A Real Man’s Guide to Sainthood Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 9, 10, £9.50 – £10.50
18:45 Deirdre and Me
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £9.50 – £11.50
Thread
Assembly St Mark’s, 7-26 Aug, not 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, £10
Tea With Terrorists - Free
Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, 7-18 Aug, £free
Moondial
Whitespace, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, £8
That Face
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 7-9 Aug, £7
Don Juan
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Defunct Pig - Free
Mood Nightclub, 12-13 Aug, £free
18:50 The Wind in the Willows
Paradise in Augustine’s, 14-19 Aug, £8
The Lonely One
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11
Back to the Future The Pantomime Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-27 Aug, £9.50
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19:00 Going Green the Wong Way Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £8
Remember Me
Summerhall, 21-26 Aug, £6
The Mungo Boys
Lauriston Halls, 9-11 Aug, £6
La Línea
Lauriston Halls, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, £7
Caesarean Section Essays on Suicide
Summerhall, 9-20 Aug, not 14, £11
Ben Okri’s The Comic Destiny Scottish Storytelling Centre, 14-26 Aug, £10
Secret Weapons
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 22-26 Aug, £6
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Peep HHH
Heaven’s Gate
Divine Words
19:10
You Don’t Know Me
theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
One Month Early theSpace on North Bridge, 13-18 Aug, £7.50
Hunger
Paradise in Augustine’s, 14-27 Aug, not 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, £10
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco / Can Cause Death
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Macbeth on Inchcolm Island Summerhall, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £20
Meat
Paradise in The Vault, 7-19 Aug, not 13, £6
XXXO
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £9 – £10.50
Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 17, £6
19:15
Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass
Elephant Man
National Library of Scotland, 15-25 Aug, not 17, £12
19:05 How to Start a Riot
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Solve
theSpace on the Mile , 20-25 Aug, £6
Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
theSpace on Niddry St, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
The Assembly Rooms, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £15
The Most Dangerous Toy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £8
Dragged Up
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £5
Winfamy
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 16-26 Aug, not 21, £free
Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story
Edinburgh Elim, 15-24 Aug, not 19, 20, £10
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
19:20 4.48 Psychosis
theSpace on Niddry St, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
I Never Saw Another Butterfly Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
The Indescribable Phenomenon
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
Summerhall, 7-13 Aug, £10
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Palmerston Place Church, 22-24 Aug, £10
Small Narration
The Intervention HHH
Summerhall, 12-24 Aug, £11
We Are Chechens!
C venues - C nova, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
Lysistrata - The Sex Strike
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £5
Songs of Lear
Greenside, 13-18 Aug, £9
A Woman Inside
Food For Thought
Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, £5
Machinal
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50
theSpace @ Venue45, 7-11 Aug, £9.50
theSpace on Niddry St, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £10
theSpace on the Mile , 21-25 Aug, £7 Summerhall, 13-23 Aug, not 20, £9
Nights at the Circus theSpace on Niddry St, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, £10
All in the Timing
Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
Sir Gawain, the Yellow Knight
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5
More Light
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
The Hole
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £5
Chicken Bones for the Teenage Soup
Mixed Doubles
The Edinburgh Academy, 20-24 Aug, £8
Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Musical - Free
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 7-15 Aug, £free
Nggrfg
theSpace on the Mile , 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
19:25 Presidential Suite: a Modern Fairy Tale C Venues - C eca, 7-18 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
The Last Fairytale
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-26 Aug, not 18, 25, £8.50
A Middle-Aged Man’s Uncertainty Theory C Venues - C eca, 19-27 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50
Montmorency
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 16, 17, £9.50 – £11.50
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theatrelistings 19:30 2008: Macbeth
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Various dates from 11 Aug to 18 Aug, £35
Wonderland
Royal Lyceum Theatre, 29 Aug - 1 Sep, £10
Villa+Discurso
30 Days to Edinburgh
Summerhall, 26 Aug, £8
Ghetto
Greenside, 21-25 Aug, £6
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £18
The Hub, 20-21 Aug, £25
The Tragedie of MacClegg
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It)
Request Programme
King’s Theatre, 24-25 Aug, £free – £12
Meine faire Dame ein Sprachlabor
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, £30
Sparkleshark
St Peter’s, 21-25 Aug, £6
Three Cities
Sweet Grassmarket, 13-26 Aug, not 18, 25, £8
Remember Me
Summerhall, 21-26 Aug, £6
The Proposal
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
MacBeth in Scots
St Ninian’s Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £10
Operation Stork
St Serf’s Church Hall, 7-17 Aug, not 12, £9
The Original Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
Outside the Beehive Inn, 7 Aug - 2 Sep, £10
Blithe Spirit
Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 8-18 Aug, not 12, £10.50
Paradise in The Vault, 22-26 Aug, £5 Inlingua Edinburgh, 7-19 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12
Dancing at Lughnasa Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, 8-26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10
People Show 121: The Detective Show
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, £10
Ne’er the Twain
St Peter’s, 7-17 Aug, not 12, 13, £10
Trouble in the Tolbooth
Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 7-11 Aug, £7
Treasure in Clay Jars
Mayfield Salisbury Church, 20-21 Aug, £free
Soddin Flodden
Paradise in The Vault, 14-19 Aug, £8
Apocalypse or Bust! Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
19:35 A Dastardly Fiction
19:40 People Like Us
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
19:45 ‘Allo ‘Allo
Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 7-11 Aug, £10
Fukushima - A Silent Prayer of Poetry Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 15-19 Aug, £10
Bullet Catch HHH Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £17
Mess
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, £19
19:50 Death Boogie
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12
Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths HH Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £8
Faust/us
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-12 Aug, £9
Hearts on Fire
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
20:00
Greenside, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £9.50
Gulliver’s Travels
A Geisha Samurai
Watt
Paradise in The Vault, 7-12 Aug, £12
King’s Theatre, 17-20 Aug, £12 Royal Lyceum Theatre, 11-14 Aug, £10
Waiting for Orestes: Electra
Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £17
King’s Theatre, 11-13 Aug, £12
❤ Blink HHHH
Elephant Man
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £17
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-24 Aug, weekdays only, £10
20:05
Return of the Close-Up Magician
The Tale of Nada
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-25 Aug, £7.50
C venues - C nova, 19-27 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Those People My Parents
Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-11 Aug, £8.50
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
Dare I Say It?
Greenside, 14-18 Aug, £5
theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £8
Interruption
C venues - C nova, 7-18 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
20:15 Midnight at the Boar’s Head
Zoo Southside, 7-27 Aug, not 15, £9 – £10
Village of Idiots
Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5
Me and Mr C
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 8-25 Aug, not 13, 21, £10
Gotcha!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £6 – £7
Monkey Bars
Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, £17
❤ Blink HHHH
Billy Liar
Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17
Ocean Terminal Big Top, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £free
Three Tall Women
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £18
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
How to Climb Mount Everest
The Edinburgh International Circus Festival
theSpace @ Venue45, 13-18 Aug, £8
B’est Restaurant, 7-28 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, £49
theSpace on North Bridge, 20-25 Aug, £7 – £10
Bullet Catch HHH
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, £18
24h
theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £8
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
20:10 The Beast HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
In a Handbag, Darkly theSpace on North Bridge, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £6 – £8
Mess
Firebird
Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 1325 Aug, not 19, £7
Grit
HURT
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, not 12, £9
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £7.50
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! A Streetcar Named Desire
Pilrig Studio, 9 Aug, £5
Wonderland
Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5
One in Three
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
Thread
Assembly St Mark’s, 7-26 Aug, not 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, £10
The Trojan Women
Quaker Meeting House, 7-11 Aug, £7
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, £5
Angels HHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £19
North London Collegiate School present
World Premiere of new Drama & Dance.
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theatrelistings And No More Shall We Part
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 – £20
All That is Wrong HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, £17
Bullet Catch HHH
And No More Shall We Part Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £20
The Adding Machine
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
Panga
theSpace @ Venue45, 20-25 Aug, £8
Almost, Maine
Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
20:20 30 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5
The Exonerated
Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5
20:25 Tranquility, Serenity, Calm Zoo, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £7.50
20:30 Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us
The Royal Scots Club, 7-11 Aug, £10
Romeo and Juliet Venue 13, 19-25 Aug, £8
Tartuffe
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
“You leave the theatre
Mod Girl
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Pornography
20:50
The Company of Wolves
Hinge Presents: Ordinary Things
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, £17
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £18
20:35
Hill Street Theatre, 7-26 Aug, not 14, £11 – £13
Platero Y Yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez Valvona & Crolla, 21 Aug, £12
Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour
Valvona & Crolla, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
Zelda
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £10
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
theSpace on the Mile , 7-11 Aug, £7
Sex, Lyres and Audiotape
theSpace on the Mile , 13-18 Aug, £5 – £7
20:40 Dracula: Sex, Sucking and Stardom
Greenside, 20-25 Aug, £10
Paradise in The Vault, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £9
Morning HHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £18
Sancho Panza 2012
theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Awkward!
theSpace on the Mile , 20-25 Aug, £6 – £7
Born to Run
20:45
Proof
Puellae (The truth about chips and other things)
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £20 The Royal Scots Club, 13-18 Aug, £12
Summerhall, 19-26 Aug, £10
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £18
Rhinoceros
Venue 13, Various dates from 11 Aug to 18 Aug, £8
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Summerhall, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £10
with the intent to live in
Future Tales (Sierakowski)
Summerhall, 15-26 Aug, £10
Morning HHH
Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, £18
Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro!
Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, £18 – £20
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £7
Practice, Memory and Song
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £7
Kiss Me and You Will See How Important I Am HHH C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50
Pinch in Love
Paradise in The Vault, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
20:55 One Man Star Wars Trilogy
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13-27 Aug, not 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, £15 – £16
The Night Porters
Paradise in Augustine’s, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £14
One Man Lord of the Rings
Sparkleshark
St Peter’s, 24 Aug, £6
Defunct Pig - Free
The Hudson Hotel, 14-25 Aug, £free
Confessions of a Grindr Addict
Assembly Hall, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £11 – £12
Closer
Zoo Southside, 14-26 Aug, not 18, 20, £8.50
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Rites and Regulations
Zoo Southside, Various dates from 7 Aug to 13 Aug, £9
21:05 Looby Loo: No Strings Attached
C venues - C nova, 7-19 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50
Vitamin
Zoo, 20-27 Aug, £8
Trojan Women
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 26 Aug, £15 – £16
Hardcore Pawn With Mick, Lewis and Shaun
21:00
Swan Song
Planet Lem
Old College Quad, 16-26 Aug, £7 – £15
The Blind HH
Old College Quad, 7-15 Aug, £13 – £15
Bring the Happy
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 21 Aug, £14
The Rape of Lucrece Royal Lyceum Theatre, 22-26 Aug, £20
theSpace on the Mile , 7-8 Aug, £5 Sweet Grassmarket, 11-17 Aug, £8.50
Belt Up Theatre’s Outland
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £10.50 – £12.50
Macbeth
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
21:10 Peaceful
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 20-25 Aug, £7
21:15 The Sh*t / La Merda Summerhall, 7-26 Aug, not 17, 18, £10
You Don’t Know Me Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
Marat / Sade
Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5
21:30 Give and Take
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Tenderpits
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50
Hitler Alone
Inlingua Edinburgh, 9-23 Aug, £14
Monstrous Acts
C venues - C aquila, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50 – £10.50
Riot Squat
Whitespace, 22-26 Aug, £9
21:35 The Bloody Chamber
theSpace on the Mile , 13-18 Aug, £8
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
It’s My Wonderful Life
21:40
Wuthering Heights
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £6.50
The Indescribable Phenomenon
Greenside, 7-11 Aug, £9
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theatrelistings 21:45 Hinge Presents: Dorian
Hill Street Theatre, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £7 – £8
The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen
C venues - C, 7-27 Aug, not 16, 17, £8.50 – £10.50
22:00 The Ugly Sisters
Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 8-25 Aug, not 13, 21, £14
That Old Noir Magic - A Film Noir Jazz Journey Into Night, in Story and Song Greenside, 14-18 Aug, £12
Rock HHH
Institut français d’Ecosse, 7-18 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, £10
Grim(m) - Unreal Stories for Real Times Greenside, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, £7
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
22:10
22:20
This is Who I Am!
Piatto Finale
theSpace on the Mile , 7-10 Aug, £5
Peaceful
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 13-18 Aug, £7
Wrecked
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Call Me!
Sweet Grassmarket, 7-26 Aug, not 13, 18, 25, £7.50
Question No One
theSpace @ Venue45, 20-25 Aug, £8.50
22:15 Settimana
Assembly Roxy, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £14
Dracula
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-18 Aug, £7.50 – £8
Beatle Mal’s Legendary Band
Paradise in The Vault, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Guild of Cheesemakers
Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5
Jack: A Ripper’s Tale
Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 8-19 Aug, £6
Summerhall, 14-18 Aug, £20 Paradise in The Vault, 21-27 Aug, £6.50
22:05
The Sidcup Family Portrait
Enter the Woods
Dirty Pretty Money
theSpace @ Venue45, 13-18 Aug, £7.50
The Awesome Show
Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5
theSpace on the Mile , 7-11 Aug, £8 – £9
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £9
Dearly Departed Of Mice and Men
theSpace on Niddry St, 20-22 Aug, £8
Zoo, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £8
Centralia
Zoo, Various dates from 7 Aug to 27 Aug, £8
22:25 Leather
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £10.50
Broken
Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 7 Aug, £5
The World Over
Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man? Old College Quad, 7-13 Aug, £13 – £15
Pool of Blood
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-11 Aug, £6 – £7
The Barwell Prophecy
theSpace @ Venue45, 7-11 Aug, £10
Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour
Valvona & Crolla, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12
The Table
Pleasance Courtyard, 11-14 Aug, £14
24h
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
Accidental Olympian theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-9 Aug, £8
Daughters of Lot
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £5.50 – £7
Beats
Traverse Theatre, 14-26 Aug, not 20, £12 – £19
❤ Boris & Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 21, £9 – £10
02:00 24h Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
03:00 24h Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
04:00 24h Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
theSpace on North Bridge, 13-25 Aug, not 16, 19, £6
22:40
23:05
05:00
Quantum Battlestar Deep-Space Voyager Tardis Wars: The Million-Dollar Space Epic
Assembly George Square, 7-27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £14
A Dastardly Fiction
24h
22:45
SpaceCabaret @ 54, 7-25 Aug, not 19, £12
Paradise in Augustine’s, 21-27 Aug, £9.50
22:30 Adele’s Heart
theSpace on North Bridge, 7-11 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50
Re-Animator The Musical
A Guide to Second Date Sex HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 7-26 Aug, not 15, £9.50 – £10.50
Belt Up Theatre’s The Boy James
The Blind HH
C venues - C nova, 7-27 Aug, £10.50 – £12.50
All an Act
23:00
Old College Quad, 16-27 Aug, £13 – £15 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7-18 Aug, not 12, £7
Carmen Funebre
Old College Quad, 14 Aug, £10
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues
Bedlam Theatre, 7-25 Aug, £8
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Who’s Dorian Gray?
Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 7-26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free
Tales from Edgar Allan Poe
C Venues - C eca, 7-27 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50
Greenside, 13-18 Aug, £9.50
Strip Search
23:15 Medea Hardcore
Assembly Roxy, 7-26 Aug, not 8, 13, 14, 20, 21, £12 – £14
00:00 24h
Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
Couleur Café
Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
06:00 24h Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
07:00 24h Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
08:00
C venues - C nova, 12-28 Aug, £12.50 – £14.50
How May We Be of Service?
01:00
Everywhere, Anywhere, 12-17 Aug, £free
24h
24h
Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £1
Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £1
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6:00PM – JUST THE TONIC AT THE CAVES, 0 – £10.00 7:00PM, 2–26 AUG, NOT 14, £5.0
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