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ISSUE 3 – Reviews and full listings of all the best shows at the festival

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Contents page 8 Features 8 Aisling Bea The all-conquering Irish newcomer talks to Malcolm Jack about Celtic Tiger bling and the female superstars letting the side down.

12 Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up! Edd McCracken gets up close and personal with the world's most advanced felt-based lifeforms.

14 Stuart: A Life Backwards Despite the temporary absence of one of its leads, this tale of friendship and homelessness has been wowing Fringe audiences.

page 21 Comedy Reviews 23 Craig Campbell’s Thrilling Mic Hunt The action man of standup blows your hair back with a bellow of hilarity.

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31 The Play That Goes Wrong A brilliantly executed slapstick send-up of bad theatre.

36 Ahir Shah: Anatomy As compelling a show as you're likely to come across this August.

page 41 Theatre Reviews

45 How to Occupy an Oil Rig Stand up. Believe. Take action. Complex yet playful.

47 Banksy: The Room in the Elephant The unlikely tale of a homeless man's brush with the UK graffer.

55 Quietly

mag.co.uk on your smartphone of the latest reviews and see ming up near you

Conversational, intimate and heavy with history.

page 62 Music & cabaret 62 Lior A Fringe show promising nothing more than a man and his axe.

page 66 KIDS 66 Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic The magical trio from the hit show teach Fest some tricks of the trade.

page 72 Listings Your essential guide to all of the shows at the Festival

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Fest's Perfect Day

do everything that the Face it: you're never going to see or planning, you can at least festival has to offer. But with a bit of plan your perfect day… see the best. Better still, let the fest team Illustration: Dylan Gibson

11.10am Bridget Christie The Stand, until 25 Aug

Hyperactive physical comedy m and stories of everyday sexis et from the star of Radio 4's Bridg .

Christie Minds the Gap

1pm The Mussel Inn Rose Street

Devour delicious pots of mussels in this local seafood love r's favourite.

Great non-fishy options too.

3.00pm Breaking News Summerhall, 2–25 Aug,

not 12, 19, £12

otomy of An exploration of the dich where life in an age of information the technology and media bring before. world closer to us than ever

use, 11.30pm Doctor Brown: Beca Becaves and Befrdfgth , 15-20 Aug

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6.05pm Smashed Assembly Hall, until 26

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ap culture vanity, Ireland’s boom-to-bust economy, grubby sexual politics in a rural nightclub and the unbridled pleasure of hip hop dancing. If you struggle to imagine any connection between these subjects, then you haven’t yet been introduced to the whip-smart, multifarious joys of Aisling Bea. A drama-school trained Kildare lass opens a trick-box of daft accents and elastic facial expressions, before sealing the deal with an energetic fit of popping-and-locking. Pretty fly for a white girl.

Half-an-hour off stage, her mouth still moving at hyper-speed, Bea sits on Gilded Balloon Teviot’s rooftop terrace animatedly theorising about how Ireland’s peculiar obsession with booty, bling and sunbeds in her youth was a manifestation of the Celtic Tiger that roared, and later whimpered. “I do think there’s something in the underdog slowly getting wealthy and going ‘look how much money I fucking have now!’” she muses. “That’s what we did. Ireland went nuts. When I was growing up, I was orange. We all wanted to look like LA people, wear our money on our sleeves, Louis

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Vuitton bags. People my age are living in negative equity now – they’ve got these giant mortgages. It’s a loose connection, but I think it’s something with that [idea of] hip hop money.”

When she left the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) in 2009, Bea had bleached blonde hair and a fake tan, and fully expected to march into major roles in serious dramas. “I was sure I’d be given all the lead parts as the woman with the dead baby,” she jokes. A steadier, more modest ascent in the acting world followed, with parts in sketch shows and sitcoms such as Cardinal Burns and Dead Boss. But it’s a branch-off into standup comedy which seems to have really caused the penny to drop as to this 29-year-old’s talents (she also writes for TV, radio and online).

Egged on by peers, her family’s rich history in raconteuring weighing heavy on her mind (her grandfather Micheál O’Suilleabháin and grandaunt Siobháin Ní Shúilleabhaiin were both prolific Gaelic writers), Bea’s first flirtation with standup came at a poetry-night u

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t fundraiser for a friend’s play and she hasn’t looked back. Driven by a dogged work ethic, her natural capacity to crack up a roomful of people took its course, leading her to win 2012’s So You Think You're Funny?, make a well-received appearance on Russell Howard’s Good News, and eventually head up to Edinburgh for a Fringe debut among this year’s buzziest with C’est La Bea. But back to hip hop, a subject she genuinely holds very dear, and the invitation to wax lyrical upon which Bea greets with a sudden burst of chair dancing. “I bloody love it!” she beams. A wide-ranging discussion on hip hop, reggae, pop and much else in between ensues – from Major Lazer’s new album to Snoop Dogg’s movie about his conversion to Rastafarianism Reincarnated (“I really loved it until the bit when he glorified being a pimp”), turntablism documentary Scratch, and how Bea would like to put a ring on Macklemore for having the guts to guide a song supporting the legalisation of same-sex marriage into the charts.

“I wanted to put all this in the show but it would alienate half of the audience,” she says. “Like, how you had this thing called toasting, which was shouting over music in Jamaican dancehall. That’s so Irish – shouting over music. That’s all we do. Jamaican and Irish cultures are so similar.”

I try drawing a tenuous parallel between gender inequality and stereotyping in comedy and that in hip hop (Bea’s only the second woman in 25 years to win So You Think You’re Funny?). It prompts an impassioned rant about the unwillingness of certain female superstars to let their “influence over the first world” be used as a force for female empowerment. “Nicki Minaj – why not try to get the camera to point at your

face where your words come out, instead of your crotch?” Bea exclaims. “We can still see your crotch, love, don’t worry.

“Rihanna’s the worst. That ‘Blurred Lines’ song: ‘domesticate yah, I’ll rip your ass in two.’ You’re going, ‘where’s it gone that sex is about two people?’ Because that was getting there with hip hop – like Missy Elliot. She’s empowering to women, she did what she wanted to do, not ‘do what you want to me.’ Where have we gone that even women are glorifying [male sexual domination] these days?”

Bea is cautious about how female characters are represented in her standup routines – such as when she imagines a fantasy urban dance movie and the stripper is the guy and not the girl. “When your words are what you do for a living,” Bea states seriously, “I do think you should have some responsibility over them.”

“Now, if Rihanna came out with a song that’s ‘don’t touch me ‘til I say yes, don’t fuckin’ hit me unless I ask you, you should bring us out for fucking dinner, young girls you shouldn’t be pressurised into sex, young girls don’t let him do you up the ass it isn’t the norm, porn has taken off it’s going crazy, men don’t gang up on a young girl and rape her, la la la la la’... I’d go ‘yes Rihanna.’”

Could Bea ever imagine herself showing them how it ought to be done? She describes being taught some hip hop dance moves by a friend in preparation for C’est La Bea as “the best hour of my life,” but laughs off the prospect of ever embracing her inner MC. “Straight outta Kildare, comin’ at ya. Noooo!”

That’s so Irish – shouting over music. That’s all we do. Jamaican and Irish cultures are so similar.

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Man or Muppet?

They swear. They’re rude. They are the world’s most advanced felt-based lifeforms. And now they have let Fest inside them.

Edd McCracken gets up close and personal with the stars of Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up! photos: Claudine Quinn

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y life as a Muppet is short-lived. Like a bug-eyed mayfly, it lasts mere hours. It was always going to end this way: on stage, disorientated and mute, hundreds of strangers staring, body crooked as if struck with rickets, my felt-mouth agape, vomiting. Being a Muppet can mess with you.

But before the end, there is a beginning full of primary coloured promise. The invite came from the good people at Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up! - Uncensored. How would I like to find out what happens below a puppet’s waist? If I had Muppet arms, I would have flapped them wildly.

But first, a disclaimer. Technically speaking, in a very real get-it-wrong-and-legal-action-will-follow kind of way, I was never really a Muppet in the first place.

Jim Henson, father of The Muppets, is an Abrahamic figure.

After his death in 1990, his felt-based family split into three.

Disney bought the rights to The Muppets (Kermit, Fozzy Bear, Miss Piggy et al.), Sesame Street (Big Bird, Elmo, Bert and Ernie) was bought by Sesame Workshop, and his son Brian took over running The Jim Henson Company.

Puppet Up! comes from the latter stable. The show first visited Edinburgh in 2006 and is currently packing out the Assembly Hall on the Mound every night. It is the wisecracking, foul-mouthed Skid Row to the pedestrianised kid-friendly fare of Sesame Street. It mixes live puppetry with improvised comedy, taking suggestions from the audience.

Both facets are as slick and on the over-sized nose as you would expect from a troupe that trained improv comedians as puppeteers and vice versa. And now one of their top performers, Drew Massey, is bravely attempting to take someone who is neither and teach him to do both.

He arrives in the studio space with a black box. Inside lie five different puppets: Buck, Mad Men’s Don Draper cross bred with a Muppet; a red squirrel; a chubby hot dog with a tartan waistcoat; a mono-browed wee critter; and a goofy green-skinned puppet with Simon Cowell-style high-waisted trousers.

“Just put your arm in there,” says Massey, presenting me with the squirrel’s undercarriage. And like a veteran viewer of Vets in Practice, I slide my arm right in. And so it begins.

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Puppet Up! is two shows in one. The first is that you get to see the puppeteers in action. The second part happens on two big screens overhead. They are filled with a live feed from a video camera sitting high at the apex of the stage. The puppeteers arch their respective puppets over their heads so only the characters are visible onscreen. They use small monitors to see the action overhead. For such a vibrant, energetic show, it’s amazing that there are no humans in shot.

Back in the studio, my arm is inside the squirrel. Massey’s is inside Buck. We raise our alter egos overhead and into shot.

“The first thing is to get your focus,” says Massey. “If your puppet isn’t looking at something, it will look like a zombie.”

Massey’s ramrod straight arm gives his puppet life and purpose. My arm seems to have given the squirrel polio.

Its body leans to one side. Its head is at a confused angle.

This is one unfocussed rodent. I have created a zombie squirrel.

It turns out the position your arm needs to be in—straight forearm, hand above elbow—is rather unnatural. But with a few pointers from Massey, we slowly bring this varmint to life.

It is genuinely thrilling. Cue flailing Muppet arms.

Next up is movement. This is where it gets tricky. The monitors the puppeteers rely on reverses movements. In their world left is right and right is left. They live through the looking glass.

“It’s terribly confusing,” says Massey. “Sometimes it really screws with your mind. But fortunately I’ve been at it long enough that most of it I can handle through sheer kinetic memory. Once you really get past the idea that the screen is not a mirror image, the whole backwards element, that takes u

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"Early on in the Muppet Show I always saw Jim Henson as being a bit of an anarchist. Even though he did kids TV there was always so much in his work that I found subversive." t care of most of it.”

And he’s right. The redefined physics of the puppet-world soon becomes normal. Sort of. As normal as a world with talking squirrels and irascible hot dogs can be.

To make the puppets speak, Massey makes a hand movement as if flicking off water. He moves Buck’s mouth with an easy, tempered rhythm. Not every syllable is enunciated – that would look weird. It is the same cartoon logic that dictates such characters should only have four fingers.

One of the most disarming things about Puppet Up! is that the puppets swear. For Massey, who watched the Muppets religiously as a kid in California and yet now fills their kin’s mouths with expletives, does it not feel, well, transgressive?

“No,” he says. “And here’s why. Early on in The Muppet Show, I always saw Jim Henson as being a bit of an anarchist.

Even though he did kids TV and he was certainly mindful of the rules, there was always so much in his work that I found subversive. There was always an undercurrent of doing it in an off-kilter and naughty way. So it seemed like a natural thing to do. I have a feeling that if he was still alive, he would kinda dig it.”

Our puppetry crash course draws to a close. After tips on how to make the puppets funny (“It turns out it is enough to have a squirrel and a tortoise discussing very real things that makes it funny”), and on how to operate their arms like

chopsticks, it is over. Massey has been a patient teacher. I unsheathe myself from the squirrel. It’s been amazing but my life as a puppet is over.

Or is it? Later that day, I am at Puppet Up! watching Massey put everything he taught me into practice. And then, unexpectedly, I am pulled up on stage to take part in an improv skit. This is my chance to show the world what I can do. This is my moment.

I am given the green-skinned puppet. Hundreds watch as I confidently insert my arm and raise it over my head. I enter the scene on screen. And forget everything.

My puppet is a zombie gnarled by a cruel Victorian disease.

It keeps floating out of shot, confusing left for right. It speaks without moving its lips. It seems my greatest trick is to make an inanimate object die on stage.

Finally, the gracious comedians set my puppet a challenge.

They ask it to pick up some food, eat it and spit it out. Grabbing control of the arms, I mimic the motion of stuffing its green face, and then barf the imaginary food on the floor. I remember to make the appropriate gargling noises this time.

And finally, mercifully, the crowd laugh.

This is the end. I am disarmed. The experts return, and the puppets live again.

Assembly Hall, times vary, 1–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £16 – £25

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Productions

THE EXTREMISTS

From Clancy Productions, the multi-award winning company behind Cincinnati, Horse Country and Fatboy

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REAL HORROR

SHOW Six tales of terror by COLIN HOULT

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Enter a world of pure imagination and wonder with former Cirque du Soleil star clown and mime artist Julien Cottereau.

1 - 26 AUGUST (NOT 12) 12:55

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A life less ordinary Stuart: A Life Backwards has been wowing Fringe audiences with its tale of friendship and homelessness, despite the temporary absence of one of its leads, Perrier Award-winner Will Adamsdale.

Evan Beswick finds out why. photos: robbie jack

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’ve read opposite three Alexanders in three days!” laughs actor Fraser Ayres, who plays the title character in Stuart: a Life Backwards. “But it’s kept me on my toes.”

Written by Bafta-winner Jack Thorne, Stuart… is based on Alexander Masters’ award-winning 2005 book of the same name. In it, Masters charts his relationship with Stuart Shorter, a homeless man who exploded into his well-meaning liberal life.

It’s already had an acclaimed TV adaptation, starring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch. But the play’s Edinburgh run has had a shaky start. Will Adamsdale—who won the Perrier Award in 2004 for Jackson’s Way, and plays Alexander—injured his back in the first week, forcing him to withdraw. Some quick-fire cast reshuffles, incredibly, has kept the show firmly on the road until Adamsdale’s return. The Spirit of the Fringe lives on.

“Actually, one of my closest friends was homeless when I met him,” reveals Ayres. “His name was Mark, and he used to be at the Tesco Metro in Angel. And one day I was coming back from the theatre and I was like, dude, do you want some food? Nine years we’ve known each other now. So coming to this play I had my own experience of bridging that gap between those two worlds.”

And with that, the actor puts his finger on the tension at the heart of the play. There’s a memorable scene in which Stuart (played by Ayres) first enters Alexander’s house. His body racked by a severe form of muscular dystrophy, his chaotic and abusive upbringing inscribed in his unpredictable mannerisms, his edgy language, and his filthy clothing, he disrupts the earnest, middleclass tidiness enjoyed by Alexander and his wife.

It’s an awkward moment – one Ayres knows first-hand: “After four years of knowing this guy, there I am in my home with Mark and his ‘troubled background’ and my mum, the person I love more than anyone. Yeah, there was some weirdness to negotiate! And Mark was like, ‘we’ve found ourselves in a place here, haven’t we!’ And I was like, ‘we have, haven’t we Mark!’. And so there was the three of us negotiating this as my mum cooked mince and tatties! But if you brush over that moment and try and say there’s nothing happening here, then that conversation never gets to be had. And we need to have that conversation.”

“Tourism”, is the wonderful word Ayres uses to describe it, “that kind of liberalism. You know, I’m doing well so here let me help you. And that’s warm and lovely because if we didn’t do that there wouldn’t be a charity on the planet!”. But it’s uninvolved,

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detached. Like Ayres himself, Alexander Masters was forced to “get his feet wet.” “He goes from tourist to participant, and then it becomes about this relationship between them both,” Ayres explains.

It makes for a fascinating story, not least because of Stuart’s extraordinary character. Both Ayres and writer Thorne—who also wrote acclaimed TV dramas The Fades and This is England ‘88—talk enthusiastically about their love for a person who, as Thorne puts it, was “so self-aware and self-destructive – he’s vivid and brilliant and wonderful”.

The play, in reverse chronological order, charts Masters’ attempts to discover what it was that made Stuart a troubled man – and, crucially, to tell it in a way that Stuart would want.

“There’s a line in the play about Alexander capturing Stuart. He says ‘I think you were kind about me but not kind in the right way’.” It’s this challenge of “honouring Stuart”, says Ayres, that makes the character such a joy to play.

Added to that, however, is the difficulty of playing a character with a severe form of muscular dystrophy – a task which Ayres does “sensationally” according to Thorne (he’s absolutely right) but one, we suggest, which runs the risk of insensitivity.

“Do you know what, I think you may have broken the show, because I’d never thought of that! Oh Jesus!” laughs Ayres.

He describes instead giving his body certain instructions: “I began by ascertaining what the condition does to a sufferer’s body and what the effects are of that. So there are points that can’t move, that are isolated. It’s about going, ‘right, this leg can only move these ranges for the show’, and to give your body this set of given circumstances to then actually play. And that enables me to get under the skin of the condition, because you’re then imposing the condition upon yourself for two hours.”

It’s an approach clearly informed by Thorne’s experience of working with disabled actors: “I’ve worked with a lot of disabled actors playing parts, but never with a non-disabled actor playing a disabled part. If you’re telling a story with disabled characters in it, you tell it right. And telling that story well, giving an actor enough so they can work but not being too dominated by it was really important. There was quite a lot of disability awareness in the room.”

And what of Mark? “Now he’s a painter and decorator in Bristol,” Ayres explains. Be it dealing with homelessness, disability, or stepping outside of middle-class comfort zones (Ayres also runs a promotions company helping to find talent from disadvantaged backgrounds), this is a play built on a foundation of participation, and not tourism. It really shows.

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CtheFestival Canary Gold

Pudasi

A Body to Die[t] For

TKD Productions

Aria Entertainment

14 – 26 Aug 12.10pm C

12 – 25 Aug 10.00am C

31 Jul– 26 Aug 9.35pm C

1 – 26 Aug 7.20pm C too

Binka Boo Productions

ManyTracks & Theater Resources Unlimited

The Elephant and the Mouse

Tai Gu Tales Dance Theatre

Théâtre Sans Frontières/Teatro Tamaska

Who Are You Supposed To Be?

Norian Maro

Breaking the Silence

Repertory Theatre

The Road to Qatar!

SeKret

14– 26 Aug 3.40pm C aquila

31 Jul– 26 Aug 4.45pm C nova

11 – 26 Aug 5.05pm C

11 – 17 Aug 7.00pm C

Knaive Theatre

Latest TV presents Lynn Ruth Miller

Kajaani Town Theatre in association with Ace-Production

Janski Productions

1 – 26 Aug 2.05pm C aquila

1 – 26 Aug 8.35pm C too

Bin Laden: The One Man Show

31 Jul– 26 Aug 7.35pm C nova

Lynn Ruth Miller – Granny’s Gone Wild 31 – 26 Aug 6.00pm C nova

Bad Boy Eddie

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HHHH A magnetic cast and brilliantly executed slapstick in this insiderish send-up of bad theatre.

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The Play That Goes Wrong

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festcomedy Joe Lycett: If Joe Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It

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Joe Lycett opens with a great one-liner. He delivers it from offstage, saying it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the set.

It’s a fair point: the fact that this show is a roaring success owes less to the jokes, though there are plenty of good ones, more to the charisma of the man himself. A winning combination of traits—ebullience, cattiness, breezy condescension—come together in a process of comedic voodoo to produce irresistible likeability. “Oooh, you’re a student, what do you study?” he asks a blushing punter, for all the world as though this is interesting information, and seems pained that this brief conversation has to end.

His supreme confidence conceals the fact that this is a pretty slight

hour of comedy. There are stretches of filler, such as when Lycett challenges the crowd to guess the gayness ratings awarded by some dumb website to a bunch of inanimate objects. The best bits come when Lycett reads out the bitchy letters he has written in naughty moments to people and institutions which have riled him (the list is long). An exchange between a Lycett alterego and a long-suffering commissioning editor at The Sun is glorious.

All this seems to come so naturally that you yearn to see him tested, to find out what heights of bitchiness he could attain if he were put under pressure. It would be interesting to see him deal with a heckler, for instance. It’s a moot point, though – nobody’s heckling Joe Lycett. [Ed Ballard] Pleasance Courtyard, 7:15pm – 8:15pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £10

Tony Law: Nonsense Overdrive

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We are forgiven! The pardons we receive from Tony Law as he arrives on stage via the audience, greeting us in trademark nonsensical style. With mad-scientist hair and grisly get-up, his material is there to match: a completely bonkers hour of falsely observed truisms and prickly ironic musings on the middle-class (though he has most likely settled into that lifestyle quite well).

Fans of Law will not be disappointed. Loony rants involving everything from bourgeois tedium to Peruvian coffee farms, the dark side of the Moon and “owlcats” are rich with imagination and craft—under the guise of chaos—and squashed into an exquisite mosaic. Nobody is safe: Law hammers the younger generation of comedians who, you know,

“write their set down on their laptops”, while addressing that debt and insecurity will prevent that same generation from buying a house. This is iconoclasm disguised as aimlessness.

Law is like a hurricane in a teacup, bursting into life at the start of every digression.

He drags us through a labyrinthine mind, puzzling over non-sequiturs and subverting the very definition of a worthy punch line. The only time Law stutters is when he tackles the regular material, integrating jokes on family life and children too neatly, before forcing himself back into absurdity. Still, it’s a journey worth embarking on and it’s easy to get lost in space with Law, in the very irrationalities and silliness we try to avoid when analysing standup comedy. [Andrew Latimer] The Stand Comedy Club, 12:40pm – 1:40pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, £10

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The globe-trotting action man of standup has motorbiked, mountain-climbed and unsuccessfully vaulted electric fences in a bid to bring you some of the best laughs on the Fringe. Mission accomplished. This is a bellyaching hour in the company of a larger-than-life Devonbased Canadian whose ability to blow your hair back with a bellow of hilarity is backed-

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up by a wealth of worldly knowledge that alone is entertaining to behold.

Who’d have thought that Campbell knew so much about lifeboats, for instance?

His inquisition of a latecomer from Dorset who works for the RNLI leads him off on a noisy tip about the petrifying unsinkability of a certain rescue vessel. Travel and modes of transport feature heavily. Best of all, his story about riding a Japanese bullet train. He desperately strives to change

an officious ticket-inspector’s culturally hard-wired mind as to the possibility of him making a train connection at Tokyo—route from platform to platform pre-planned and tested—in under three minutes. “You RUN?” Campbell’s chat about “pureeing” his bent and bandaged finger in a climbing accident isn’t exactly the best preamble to convincing audience members to get involved with his charity bid to perform the world’s highest ever comedy show (altitude-

wise, that is) on Everest next year. But it’s a suitably earnest and adventurous end to this tirelessly fun and goodnatured show, as capped by Campbell waiting outside the door to shake people’s hands with his good fingers as they leave. Handy chance to get a nagging question answered – he did make that train connection, you know.

[Malcolm Jack] The Assembly Rooms, 8:45pm – 9:45pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, £10

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festcomedy John Kearns: Sight Gags For Perverts

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He lays out his props like a torturer’s instruments, and the crowd exchange hesitant looks. But there’s something that doesn’t quite tally with the tension in the room. A Springsteen number blares. He’s wearing a wig, a deflated horse costume and a hopeful expression.

Meet John Kearns, or at least a version of him. At last, he speaks to tell us what the show will be about. Expectation, failure and love feature among themes so abstract and grand, you’d never think he means to deliver. Yet, in a funny sort of way, he does.

Kearns knows the risks he takes with patience and taste, especially with the Free Fringe’s casual viewers.

And so the prolonged disco scat at the top of the hour is there to filter out any doubters. Today everyone stays, and they’re handsomely

rewarded as, crow-voiced and false-toothed, he natters through glimpses into a lonely life, and a strange and busy mind. One blurs into the next, sometimes at the expense of clarity, but each is somehow riveting.

Wistful daydreams about fatherhood and a viable comedy career sit next to skewed tales of living with his parents, snooping on the neighbours, and a holiday for one. His musings are rich with barked non-sequiturs and pregnant pauses, and his performance pluckily committed – right up to the cathartic release of an asinine, obscene finale.

As offbeat as all this is, there’s a sense that his mannerisms are culled from real-life weirdos. It’s an exciting mix of the mad and mundane, and the hallmark of a true original. [Lyle Brennan] The Voodoo Rooms, 5:05pm – 6:05pm, 3–25 Aug, not 14, free

Markus Birdman: Happily Ever After

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After last year’s show about Markus Birdman’s stroke, which left him partially sighted, the universe has seen fit to grant him more pain for his Fringe show inspiration – a split with his partner of 14 years. Eight months on and the heartache hasn’t healed but he is entertainingly philosophical, reflecting upon the failing marriage rate and his minister father’s blessing of a lesbian union, mocking the institution while advocating a broadening of love’s definition.

With anger management issues and his instinctive, lippy cynicism, relationship guidance was never going to work out well for Birdman.

Employing it as a launchpad

to make some sweeping statements about men and women, with his roguish, emotionally bruised and battered charm, he just about gets away with it, though generally, he focuses on personal experience. Open to the notion of one-night stands, he hasn’t returned successfully to the bachelor lifestyle – his having a young daughter makes the 42-year-

old twitchily uncomfortable about dating younger women.

But while it would be easy for Birdman to let self-pity and bitterness impinge, he’s too accomplished a standup to take his eye off the punchlines. Each endearingly rendered assessment of love faltering or dying is peppered with a raft of elegantly witty, sardonic lines, chiefly at his

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own expense. This feels like a transitional hour while he reassesses his life and options, a lot of well-delivered routines strung together without any overarching insight. Still, you feel sure he’ll come back stronger.

[Jay Richardson] The Stand Comedy Club II, 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, £8

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festcomedy Terry Clement: Din Times 8

New Art Club: Feel About Your Body

“It’s psychedelic music with swearing,” explains Terry Clement in the introduction to his show, before warning that it “could be a bad trip or a good trip” for the audience. On balance it proves to be more of the former than the latter.

The Canadian launches into a unique rendition of ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’ before switching to a poem about turtles and a short vignette using two wrestling dolls. It sets up the scattershot nature of everything that follows; only the dimming of the stage lights indicates where one section finishes and another begins. There’s nothing in the way of an narrative arc, while constant awkward tonal shifts quickly become more tiresome than amusing.

It’s frustrating because there are moments of brilliance in Clement’s set, particularly when he abandons his guitar to indulge his love of the surreal. But for every entertaining moment when he’s chatting to a banana or dancing with a jellyfish there’s an uninspired song with a title like Lick Ninja or Too Stoned to go to The Liquor Store.

His use of multimedia is frequently ingenious—particularly in a song about a spelling bee—and a couple of dark screenplays he reads out suggest there could be hidden depths beneath his bearded stoner exterior. But then he’s back to demolish any momentum with more misjudged music.

It’s almost a mercy that it’s over so quickly, with Clement filling no more than 40 minutes of his hour allocation before shuffling off to baffled looks. [David Hepburn]

I’m not entirely sure what I’m watching. Comedy duo Tom Roden and Pete Shenton are sorting out how we feel about our bodies. One-out-of-ten ratings are taken throughout the audience, sexy group dances ensue, audience members are pulled on stage, and stripteases (of both fakeout and full-frontal varieties) are performed.

It’s not quite sketch comedy, not quite standup, but a flurry of lewd, but somehow deeply good-natured comedy action, shaped very loosely around the idea of body image. Only in the show’s last moments do we understand why we’ve (sort of) been investigating the strange pathos of the body. Shenton shares a story about a health scare which does indeed make society’s hang-ups about our lumps and bumps seem trivial.

If that’s what they were going for. It’s a little unclear.

Thankfully it doesn’t matter, because Shenton and Roden are so tremendously likeable that their audience sticks with them through interpretive dance, a reenactment of

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Baconface: It’s All Bacon!

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Stewart Lee is Baconface.

Who knew? Well quite a few people, but now the cat is right out of the bag and the bacon is cooked. This gnarly veteran of Canada’s alternative comedy scene is a cipher for Lee to play one big industry in-joke on willing Edinburgh audiences. Lee almost certainly has enough devotees happy to fill Stand 2 for the run to hear him replay a routine via an alter ego, and enjoy his character’s take on the modern mores of

Roden’s conversation with his own anus, and total, unheralded nudity. It may have behooved the pair to hint more overtly at Shenton’s whammy of a story earlier on, giving us clueless audience members the promise of a coherent shape to the show’s theme. But their dynamic with one another is so lovingly

comfortable that the hour, however hastily structred, feels like hanging out with your two favourite friends.

Your two favourite friends who really like to get their arses out.

[Arianna Reiche]

standup. There is more to it than that, but not too much more for the ‘outsider’.

Surely, even though it is original material, only a Lee fan would truly derive pleasure from a routine about going to an annual fancy dress function dressed as Margaret Attwood, each time portraying a different era of her life. Though the rhythm (and, in the aforementioned example, the material) is familiar, the growling Rich Hall-like delivery is a novelty spin. Freer still is the unreconstructed Baconface’s ability to deliver lines that would look out of place—delivered straight—in

Lee’s set.

“He’s third in line to the bone,” Baconface says of Prince George as he espouses the most heinous of kiddyfiddling crimes in the name of republicanism. The single most rewarding aspect of this show is watching Lee in glee.

He relishes little improvised asides and the distancing from his trademark sullenness is liberating for all. Baconface is the comedian’s comedian’s comedian; a curio for the comedy connoisseur. [Julian Hall]

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festcomedy Bo Burnham: What

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Dripping in irony and faux self-satisfaction, Bo Burnham is the crown prince of post-modern standup.

Jolting from comic song to clever word-play, through non-sequitur and metaphor, his set is as much about the form and structure of the art as it is about the more substantive topics of religion, love and the balance between emotion and reason that pepper his routine.

For every joke in Burnham’s arsenal, there’s a follow-up – a subsidiary remark commenting on what he’s just done, how he’s just made his audience laugh.

This is self-awareness and self-consciousness taken

Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones: Wonder and Joy

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Some of us have God. Some of us have drugs. And some accept we’ll never know the baseless euphoria of either.

But is there a fourth way?

If you’re Sanderson Jones or Pippa Evans, the answer is a wide-eyed, hysterical yes. It’s within us all, accessible through a ritual that’s part primal scream therapy,

Karl Schultz: Start the Karl

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So, here’s the tricky thing.

Karl Schultz is very obviously a lovely chap. He’s energetic, fun, whimsical. He doesn’t offer up false expectations, admitting quite correctly that his act “has no calorific content”. He commits as wholeheartedly as is feasible to the

to the extreme. There’s a removed, almost academic quality to the set; a quality that borders on intellectual masturbation as comic tropes are individually and knowingly performed, sent up or explained. Burnham is fascinated more than anything with the medium of comedy, and at times this can be captivating. But at others, it’s self-indulgent.

All tied together, given purpose, put to use, this lampooning of comic cliche has the potential to say something genuinely interesting. Indeed, there’s a song several minutes in—one that equates the comedian’s perspective on life with acute sociopathy and which strays into a genuine critique of comedy’s role in

popular culture—that hints at a meaningful, thoughtful theme that could tie these disparate strands together, giving some substantive grounding to proceedings. But it doesn’t develop that way. Perhaps in keeping with this meta-comedy vein Burnham is mining, he instead tells his audience that he intends to send them away feeling nothing. And despite the flashes of brilliance, he succeeds. [Ben Judge] Pleasance Courtyard, 11:15pm – 12:15am, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £12 – £13.50

part team-building and part children’s party. Or as Jones says, “45 minutes of freaking out”. Wonder and Joy is a free taster for The Sunday Assembly, reported as an “atheist church” but played down by its creators as an “accidental” global movement. File it next to feelgood endeavours such as flashmobs and random acts of kindness, but it’s less twee and more manic – less Amelie, more One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Whether you’ll take part

isn’t in question. We are all but cattle-prodded into sharing our hosts’ fervour. Jones in particular keeps the energy soaring; he’s like an overfriendly berserker. Apparently 8ft tall, when not kicking over pints and equipment, he is leaping into strangers’ arms.

Fracking? Windfarms? Let’s just hook him straight up to the grid.

To find this the transcendental experience it’s pitched as, you’ll have to surrender completely. For some, it’s a big

ask, and there’s little to persuade the most sceptical. The duo’s considerable comedic talents are largely left at home and there’s little more to this than singalongs, icebreaking and a baffling clapping game.

But for the stubborn refusal to surrender to introversion and misery—all while refraining from preachiness—this is to be commended. [Lyle Brennan]

daftest of warm-up games (dancing like an Iranian dad at a wedding, a personal favourite). He deals very graciously with the tricky situation of a crying child on the front row, and seems genuinely mortified that he has let it phase him at all (Karl, you’re fine – no put down could have stopped that one-year-old heckler). He even, in moments of lucidity, delivers some wonderful lines.

But all that does not a comedian make, and this hour of character-based comedy is, frankly, a bit painful. Played as they are, these characters are paper thin, joke light, and more than a little self-indulgent. Material this silly could almost pass off as surreal, but that would require opening the door to chaos – a very difficult ask of a performer who reads his lines

from a notebook. Whichever road Schultz decides to travel, he’s going to need three times as many jokes, at least a modicum of rehearsal time, and a commitment to decimate the rolls of fat from this flabby set. I hope he does: really, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke. [Evan Beswick]

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festcomedy Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of You Either

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Brendon Burns has always been a comedian who revels in polarising audiences and slaughtering sacred cows. His latest show is unlikely to win him a new fanbase but is sure to delight those who have followed him since his Edinburgh debut in 1996.

This year he’s left behind the larger, more theatrical Fringe venues that beckoned following his Edinburgh Comedy Award triumph in 2007 and is working the more intimate environs of the Stand Comedy Club. It’s a venue which is a perfect fit for his brand of fiercely personal comedy.

The title of his show has a double meaning which

Ivo Graham: Binoculars

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But inter-generational war this is not: Graham is a mere eight years older than the now damp teenager, and on roughly equal physical terms.

“It’s refreshing,” says the younger kid. And thusly, doth youth speak true. Graham sure ain’t perfect—assaulting children, for one, is frowned upon by some—but he is just a little bit different.

An Oxford-educated old Etonian who won So You Think You’re Funny? at the barely sentient age of 18, Graham hits his early twenties oozing confidence. But not a brash, in-your-face kind of confidence that screams

provides the framework for an hour of tricksy and clever standup. Firstly, there’re the reasons why Burns has never made it big on television while, secondly, there’s the relatively recent revelation that the notoriously loud troublemaker has been largely deaf since childhood.

Burns is in mischievous form, taking the audience through his perceived fail-

ings with a knowing wink and a broad, larrikin smile.

His newly-minted disabled persons railcard provides him with all the ammunition he needs to rail against society’s “fake morality”, challenging the use of derogatory terms in a way Ricky Gervais could only ever dream of.

An embarrassing appearance on morning television programme Daybreak is the

only piece of straightforward standup on show. The rest of the set plays with language and expectation, flirting with offence at every opportunity but always ensuring that the ultimate victim is the “liberal white dickhead” on stage.

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indignity and desparation.

Graham’s is a cool, understated assuredness which, combined with his obvious erudition, means he can push through the thorns of nerdy self-deprecation and come out unscathed the other side. It allows for nice material to be delivered without awkwardness, and Graham pieces it together with tightness and linguistic dexterity.

If anything, Graham’s tendency is to over-write and over-rehearse, tripping over lines he has clearly laboured hard over. He can relax. In more spontaneous moments—grappling, for instance, with the volley and thunder from the “infant infantry”—his quickness and confidence make for a performance which is impossible not to enjoy. And don’t worry, Ivo: you totally nailed that kid.

[Evan Beswick] Pleasance Courtyard, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £10

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festcomedy The Play That Goes Wrong

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The show has started before we’ve even taken our seats.

A nervy stagehand and curmudgeonly lighting tech from Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are enlisting the help of audience members in prepping the stage for Murder at Haversham Manor. Duct tape is failing. The tech has lost his Duran Duran CD. As you might imagine, this is about when things start to go wrong.

Play That Goes Wrong, already a West End hit, could very well be the most enjoyable piece of comedy you’ll take in at the Fringe. Each cast member from London’s Mischief Theatre is uniquely magnetic. And watching the show fall apart (literally – watch your head) not only feeds our lust for comedy chaos, but reveals the tropes of mediocre theatre with cerebral glee. The leading lady who can’t stop pouting in the spotlight, the butler who fudges polysyllabic words – it’s with an

almost insiderish flair that that the layers of The Play That Goes Wrong’s inventiveness shine through.

The slapstick is virtually non-stop (dragging only by the slightest degree), but executed with brilliant fluency. However, the show’s

real goldmine is the subtle development of the story within the play within the play: the slow breakdown of the exhausted director (Henry Shields) performing as the intrepid inspector, and the gradual, misguided hubris of lovable doofus Cecil (Dave

Edward Aczel – Lives in a Meaningless Shed

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Forty minutes pass before the people grumbling in the row behind decide to quit this sweltering cave. What went through their minds in the interim, as Edward Aczel did his damnest to become a comedic black hole? Sweaty, squinting, doggedly failing to engage the crowd with his signature brand of abysmal non-banter, he ploughs through tedious charts, dull trivia, no-liners, and a slityour-wrists essay in musical comedy.

“Okay,” says Aczel as the grumblers depart. He grimaces. Sweat trickles down

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his forehead.

“Right.”

And everybody falls about laughing.

At this point, it’s hard not to feel for the baffled walkouts, whose only mistake was to be inadequately briefed.

They must feel like victims of a cruel hoax, one perpetrated

not just by Aczel but by the rest of the audience, by comedy reviewers, by whatever perverse nexus of groupthink and inverted logic came to ordain that a sweaty man being determinedly unfunny for an hour—a whole hour—is funny.

It’s not like they failed to

Hearn) are portrayed with fantastic artistry. Mischief Theatre’s young talent are certainly ones to keep an eye on. [Arianna Reiche] Pleasance Courtyard, 5:00pm – 6:00pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £10 – £12.50

get the joke. They just correctly identified the material as crap.

Still, once you’ve signed up to the Ed Aczel concept, this is a successful set. The laughs dry up somewhat in the middle, but what does it even mean to point that out in the context of an intentionally terrible performance?

The closest Aczel comes to breaking the spell is when he inadvertently makes a joke that’s merely sub-par, rather than existentially dire – there’s a almost passable one about Jimmy Savile, for instance.

He needs to be careful. [Ed Ballard] Underbelly, Cowgate, 6:10pm – 7:10pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £11

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festcomedy Paul Pirie: Me

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Has there ever really been a good midget joke? Who is the club circuit comedian that can be blamed for inspiring a procession of admirers to plumb these depths? Because it’s as reliable an indicator as any: if you hear a midget joke in the first five minutes, the rest of the hour is going to be rough. Paul Pirie doesn’t disappoint on that front, assaulting us with a veritable litany of poor taste. From midgets we segue to a baffling demonstration of some questionable Chinese accents. He shines his satirical lens not on the government or big banks or anyone in a position of power, instead making an effort to take down the deaf. How? Yes, with an impression of how they speak.

As always in the hack comedian roster, it’s in attitudes towards women that things step up a level. Pirie’s tales of working in Primark facilitate some genuinely saddening comments on fat women, at one point reveling in the anecdote that he told a woman she would need the Primark paper bag on her head for him to fuck her. To which, apparently, his manager said ‘nice’. That’s the thing about Pirie’s storytelling, it’s so boorish that it’s totally unbelievable. He paints himself as a real wisecracker, always ready with a quip on rape, Josef Fritzl, Jimmy Savile, aids or paedophilia. There’s strong physical humour and assured delivery that keeps some laughing and demonstrates a command of the craft, but ultimately this is tiresome work. [Gemma Flynn] Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 9:45pm – 10:45pm, 1–25 Aug, free

Casual Violence Presents: House of Nostril

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With sketch show darlings Pappy’s taking a break from the Fringe this year there’s a gap in the Edinburgh market for an anarchic group of similarly eager and spritely funsters – it’s a space that the equally dubiously-named Casual Violence seem designed to fill.

In House of Nostril the quintet (four onstage and one on keyboards) blur the line between comic play and sketch show to deliver an hour with an impressive laugh rate.

An animated introductory sequence introduces

Jonny and the Baptists: Bigger Than Judas

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Normally, one would expect a show called Bigger Than Judas might merit a warning for those who take their religion seriously. But in this case, disappointingly, there is little blasphemy worth the name in Jonny and the Baptists’ latest dose of musical comedy; the worst they have to say (or sing) about God is to speculate that He might be a member of the UK Independence Party.

The fact that UKIP turns into the evening’s most reliable comedic punchbag

the house in question; the home of a variety of Nostrils, including psychopathic father Roger Nostril, his son Charlie, strange Uncle Gideon and a series of taxidermied forebears.

A fiendish scheme is launched by dastardly Roger to defeat his unlikely mortal enemy—the CEO of Amnesty International—using voodoo dolls. Charlie has no urge to follow in his father’s footsteps and vows to derail “Project Voodoom.”

The story, which ultimately makes not a lick of sense, is really of little consequence other than as a basic framework for increasing silliness.

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formers inhabiting a stream of memorable characters, as a series of quickfire skits take the audience on a tour of the house.

Highlights are plentiful, including a tragic “poison taster,” a very odd invisible goblin and a group of cockney chimney sweeps. Even the obligatory slideshow entertains by becoming increasingly self-aware.

Add just the right amount of corpsing and you have strong foundations for House of Nostril to be a hit. [David Hepburn]

at least shows that the duo know their territory: as recent events have demonstrated, the people of Edinburgh are prone to find Nigel Farage far more laughable than most Fringe comedians. But uptempo and unapologetic political satire is just part of the Baptists’ repertoire, keeping the performance engagingly varied, if a little uneven.

The setlist ranges from unexpected parodies to surreal protest songs to ditties so short they are almost musical non-sequiturs (a rousing ballad strongly in favour of soup, for example, is one of their strongest numbers). None fall flat, but the band’s strengths are also their weaknesses,

since they demonstrate just how indebted they are to acts like Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D, two painfully obvious influences.

Lead singer Jonny Donahoe has a relentless enthusiasm which can be a little overwhelming, but thankfully couches his energetic interactions with a friendly, very English brand of quickfire banter.

Unfortunately, such Tiggerish distractions only highlight how thin and undeveloped the show feels. Audiences may be left entertained, but also unsatisfied. [Sean Bell]

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festcomedy Catriona Knox: Player

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It’s impossible to fault character comedian Catriona Knox’s ability to get the audience involved in her vignettes.

She cajoles her ‘volunteers’ with dexterity and patience, even when the latter wears thin with a gentleman whose phone rings on two separate occasions. Conversely, another man gets a near ovation for his role as Knox’s permanent stooge. He endures the experience, involving downing shots of whisky, with a smile on his face – and that wasn’t just the booze talking.

The audience interactions almost upstage Knox’s creations, who number a French teacher surrounded by Ofsted inspectors, a landlady who is about to be booted out of her pub for her questionable hygiene, a delusional woman with a fictional family and a blow-up doll languishing in a sex shop. Among the chaos of these desperate characters Knox, under the direction of Penny Dreadful Thom Tuck, doles out smart lines that give some of her creations a decent backstory and motivation. Without the audience participation, however, some of the sketches would want for impact.

This, then, is a curious, and welcome, example of a character showcase that is not produced solely with an eye for TV. Knox, who is a member of Radio 4-approved sketch outfit The Boom Jennies, and who boasts TV credits including Not Going Out, has honed her craft over consecutive years and seems to have found steady form.

She gets by with a little help from her punters, but can sometimes exist in splendid isolation too. [Julian Hall] Pleasance Courtyard, 3:15pm – 4:15pm, 1 – 26 Aug, not 13, £10

Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up!

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Puppeteers’ headshots project across two huge screens as audience members file into the packed-out Assembly Hall. With titles like The Sarah Silverman Program, Mr Show, Sesame Street, and the Men in Black franchise next to artists’ names, the big, glossy, preemptive credits seem to promise extraordinary things; no one seems entirely sure what we’re in for.

But extraordinary is precisely what we’re given.

Puppet Up! isn’t the crude, late-night alternative to Big Bird and Snuffleupagus that you might think it is – at least

not entirely. It’s an improv show that takes place in two dimensions: there are the performers we see on stage, clad in black, manipulating recognisably Henson-ish puppets. And then there are those screens, which display what you would generally see when watching televised puppetry – all bobbing, bantering puppets, their masters out of shot.

Seeing this extra axis highlights the raw artistry of Colleen Smith, Leslie CarraraRudolph, Ted Michaels, Drew Massey and Allan Trautman, all of whom appear not only to be masters of their craft, but genuinely funny people.

And although we’re treated to some reenactments of

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Henson classics (‘I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face’ with a flesh-eating Tiki puppet is a particular highlight), most of the show is high-calibre improv. Workplaces and leisure sports are shouted out like any classic improv night, with the astonishing addition of Puppet Up!’s cupboard of hundreds of technicolor puppets – animals, humans, aliens. Hot-dog creatures hold a fire-breathing cult meeting.

“Who doesn’t like a good circle-jerk?” says a bicycleriding crab.

An hour of wit, technique, and that trademark Henson dryness. [Arianna Reiche] Assembly Hall, times vary, 1–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £16 – £25

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festcomedy Faux Latino Show Pony

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Jacob Edwards has a character. Sure, it’s a character with several different names, different mannerisms, different... the names are really very different. Were this character a scorcher, that might be no bad thing. But, where character sketches usually have the get-out-of-jail-free card that no dud will be around for more than a few minutes, here there’s no escape. It’s very much a case of leaving the audience wanting less.

That character is essentially the bad comedian – whether personally troubled, self-unaware, sleazy or just plain thick, it’s the unfortunate common centre to all Edwards’s anticomedic creations. What his point appears to be is that crappy comics come in many flavours – that if comedy is a

Dayne Rathbone: It’s Me Dayne

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Unsettling anticomedy taken to the extreme, this show is emphatically not for everyone.

Dayne Rathbone is our host for the night, a boyish creep who layers on the darkness thick and fast. We’re treated to some details of his strange life through several poems, many of which include terrific lines that hit hard, most of which can barely be finished, so rapturous is the audience at his awkward delivery.

Judgement here requires context; if you haven’t got the stomach for dark humour, you might find this upsetting.

Without wanting to spoil the ending, there’s a truly shocking finale in which he crosses the line between awkward and out-and-out indecent, invading the audience’s personal space in a way that honestly ought not to be allowed.

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world of infinite possibilities, then so must be the void left in its absence.

It’s a nice idea, and the commitment to it is praiseworthy. “Roger Showbusiness” really does have a certain tragedy to him when played this convincingly; Remée Martin is genuinely repulsive.

There’s enough in evidence here to leave no doubt as to Edwards’s quality as a comic actor. But, really, it’s the same sort of thing on repeat. The writing isn’t funny enough to create straight-up laughs, or awkward enough to squeeze giggles out of the tension.

And the lack of variety means that, once this dynamic is set, it’s here to stay. Edwards has flogged this pony to within an inch of its life. He needs to stop, look up, and find a new victim. [Evan Beswick] Assembly Hall, 7:45 – 8:45pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50

On the other hand, if you like your comedy dangerous, you’ll no doubt appreciate the sacrifice he makes for his art.

Audience interaction is a key element of this show, used to great effect to elicit big laughs and to stretch the edginess.

Considered within this genre, if there’s such a thing as hack anticomedy, then he is certainly guilty in parts.

Rape, cancer and death are dished out as punchlines with inevitable frequency, along with an unnerving tone of sexual perversion.

The result is a heady mixture of hilarious and terrifying.

Acts like Rathbone are what make the Fringe such a vibrant and curious place and his bravery as a performer really is astounding. But you’ll probably be relieved when the whole thing is over. [Gemma Flynn] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7:45pm – 8:45pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

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festcomedy Bridget Christie: A Bic For Her

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Bridget Christie spends most of this set zanily lampooning examples of everyday sexism: special ergonomic biros marketed for women, for example. Later she becomes compellingly irate in a way that makes the earlier tomfoolery look lightweight.

Perhaps she decided to divide her hour this way to heighten the impact of the latter section; or perhaps audiences wouldn’t go for a whole hour of outrage. Maybe she felt more comfortable sticking, for a while at least, with the hyperactive physical comedy which has made her career a success so far. In any case, the result is an oddly undecided-feeling set.

A fantasy about Stirling Moss’s funeral goes on too long, and is freighted with so much clowning and late-night-Radio-4 wackiness that it almost—but not quite— buckles under the strain. By the middle of the set, Christie is wobbling a bit, not confident in her power to please a crowd that isn’t as restive as she seems to fear it is. But the atmosphere changes when she starts to explain, with heavy irony, why she is so maddened by the fact that her children’s favourite magazines sit right next to Front on the newsagent’s shelf. Her rant on this subject is very powerful, and the power is not diminished one jot when she then punctures the feeling of belligerence with a stab of surreal humour. Once she’s telling the story that really matters she jettisons the funny voices and elaborate goofiness, and if the laughs grow slightly less frequent, they seem more heartfelt too.

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Ahir Shah: Anatomy

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When Ahir Shah last brought a full-length show to the Fringe, he performed it in an Underbelly venue under the auspices of management agency Avalon.

With a substantial marketing budget behind him, his posters covered vast swaths of Bristo Square and drew reasonably large audiences.

The trouble was that, despite his obvious ability and hunger for success, one couldn’t shake the impression of a precocious 20-year-old being pushed too soon.

It’s therefore extremely welcome to find Shah having struck out on his own two years later. He’s had enough of the middlemen who involved themselves early on in his career and returns to Edinburgh a comparatively humble figure eager to pay his dues.

By undergoing a monthlong residency in a tiny attic as part of Laughing Horse’s Free Fringe, the comedian’s regained control of his own destiny and seems intent on starting from scratch. The result is a playful hour of unapologetically cerebral laughs that sees its creator only occasionally succumb to past weaknesses.

He retains a tendency to analyse his own material too often while discussing deliberately niche subject matter, the spectre of Stewart Lee hovering awkwardly above him. Otherwise, Anatomy is as thoughtful and compelling a show as you’re likely to come across all August. Shah has plenty of interesting things to say about personal identity and

how we engage with the world, always punctuating his theories with devastating, wordy turns of phrase.

He’s still finding his voice as a performer, yet this is somehow part of Anatomy’s brilliantly self-aware appeal. [Lewis Porteous] Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 1–25 Aug, free

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festcomedy Rhys James Prepares John Robins: Where Is My Mind?

HHHHH From a generation of comics that grew up assuming standup to be a viable career, 22-year-old Rhys James has enough attributes to make it. Confident bordering on cocky and relatively slick, but with the beta male distinction of being a rake thin, recently graduated English Literature student and the quirk of only having one kidney, he cites the obligatory childhood trauma that made him want to be a comedian.

He knows how to pen and deliver a joke, even if he’s still finding his persona. And there are plenty of solidly funny routines in Prepares, such as his pillorying of the age of chivalry and his father’s wisdom on dressing for the job you want rather than the one you have. But there’s also less inspired material, as with his workaday comparison of romantic poet John Keats and Eminem or his drawn-out musing on CS Lewis’s inspiration. Still, he capably intersperses the storytelling with snappier quips. Some are applaudably sharp, others feel like he’s trying on misogyny and race-related material for size, striving to work out if they feel right emerging from his mouth. Suffice it to say, not everything flies – but his hit rate is prodigiously high.

Happily, more of his real self emerges as the hour progresses, including some amusing tales about his missing kidney, though he’s sufficiently accomplished to effectively blur fact and fiction. Once James nails down what makes him unique, a bright future in comedy surely awaits. [Jay Richardson] Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 5:25pm – 6:10pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13, free

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”Seen on BBC Three” is not usually a badge of honour for anyone, and John Robins deserves better than being lumped in with a bunch of generic lad comedians and forced to perform in an attic which draws its ventilation direct from the heart of the sun.

Where Is My Mind? is built around Robins’s reflections on his teenage quest for masculinity and coolness, via The Pixies and a dreamlike weekend at Reading Festival.

He contrasts the memories of his awkward youth with the sudden reality of being old and still not very cool.

Robins has a natural ability to make his own life hilarious, and his intelligence and on-the-spot quick thinking shine through when he’s confronted with distractions or a bad audience reaction.

This is typified by a joke so elaborate that only two people get it – he stops the show and smugly explains the punchline. His forays into lad humour, too, are done with

Caroline Hardie: Does my Face Look Big in This?

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Ignore the spelling and it’s an apt surname, Hardie.

Caroline bounces on with nary a hint of disappointment or desperation despite a sparse midweek crowd that will be tough to extract any energy from, as responsive as the cadavers poked by this medical lecture theatre’s usual clientele. As a punter, too, the heart can sink when stumbling into such an arid environment, but mercifully our host alleviates any need to slap on the rictus grin. Apart from a saggy bit

an air of knowing incredulity that the jokes might ever be funny taken at face value.

At its heart the show builds on observation and identification with Robins’s own experiences, so when he lists the bands he was happy to miss at Reading, a keen interest in the early 2000s indie scene comes in handy to get the joke. Just shouting “Mog-

wai” should get a cheer in Edinburgh, but when Robins talks about his favourite band there is stony silence, which makes his point for him.

It’s awkward indie comedy for indie people. [Dominic Hinde]

towards the back-end, this is an enjoyably perky show by a multi-talented performer.

Hardie is billed as a character comic but her second Fringe hour is an amalgam of styles, taking in sketches, quirky visual bits, several characters and sizeable bouts of standup to link everything together.

It’s directed by the versatile Fringe veteran Thom Tuck, and certainly holds the attention, as Hardie puts herself through various physical exertions, including hitting herself repeatedly in two of her most important areas.

By the end her microphone stand is looking decidedly the worse for wear, as

is her hair, chiefly due to an excellent bit about blowdrying. Yes, it is unashamedly girl-centric in places, but accessible all the same.

Unfortunately—and this must be a factor, turnoutwise—Hardie has also saddled herself with one of this year’s worst show titles, which looks appallingly lazy in list form but makes a certain amount of sense when you see the poster and hear her intro. Don’t be deterred: Hardie is much worthier of your attention than it suggests. [Si Hawkins]

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festcomedy David Trent: This Is All I Have

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A disappointingly weak finish makes it a high three rather than a four for multimediaobsessed ex-schoolteacher Trent’s “difficult second album” of a Fringe show.

But you’d be well-advised to experience this satirical deconstruction of society’s ever-lowering brow and the idiotic advertising campaigns it permits: from Andrex Washlets to Pussy energy drink. Soft targets maybe, but in a world full of race-to-thebottom (no pun intended) marketing, one’s probably as good as another.

Andrex’s massively misjudged spend on a product intended to bust the “taboo” of anal hygiene is pedantically reduced to a wipes-toexpense ratio. The Pussy bit

Simon Evans: Leashed

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Dependable club comic Simon Evans has had a pretty good stab at getting together a consummate Fringe show over the last few years. Sadly he has not succeeded yet.

This is all the more frustrating given that the 48-year-old can conjure routines that endure.

His description of limp, lifeless 1970s Sundays, and his

peaks with the simple hilarity of hearing him angrily call its key funder Sam Branson a “total fucking prick.” A go at Google’s sinister, privacyencroaching Glass and their Don’t Be Evil corporate motto doesn’t work as well, but then they’re a harder and worthier target.

Second child just born, big mortgage to pay, Trent makes plain the necessity for

this show to succeed while bemoaning the stresses of putting it together. Its technological meticulousness—the Brass Eye-worthy video mash-ups really are brilliant— belies the show’s self-deprecatingly “this will do” shrug of a title for the most part, until the head-scratcher of an ending.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are surely about the most

self-parodyingly ridiculous band in rock, not to mention a cultural anachronism.

Quite why Trent reckoned lampooning their penisobsession would leave us with food for thought as we head home is hard to fathom.

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comparing them to 28 Days Later, is one such example of material that tickled a fair portion of his 35-andupwards audience tonight.

Over the course of his hour, the South Coast resident (he is still telling his signature CSI: Hove joke, if any fans were wondering) tries to overlap two themes: the unleashing of himself as an old fogey and the procurement of a family dog.

Still reading from notes (his

press night was scheduled later than most) Evans loosely loops these themes (or rather club set modules) around each other, sometimes with a rewarding salvo of jokes (for example in a section about a family holiday to Florida), sometimes filling in a gap with topper jokes that he doesn’t need, and that seem tenuous by the standards he has set himself.

Evans has always had something of the sly, or even

snide, tutor about him. Now bearded and bespectacled, the comparison to an academic could be said to be underlined. However, if anything his delivery has relaxed. While that is a welcome development, his grasp on structure and placing could, conversely, do with tightening up. [Julian Hall]

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HHHHH It’s been two years since The Wrong Crowd wowed critics and audiences with The Girl With the Iron Claws, a dark reimagining of the Beauty and the Beast story involving puppetry and physical theatre. HAG doesn’t quite recreate the magic of that splendid debut but there’s plenty to admire here nonetheless.

At the heart of the play are two strong female protagonists. Baba Yaga is a frightening witch from Slavic folklore who eats small children, while Lisa is a little girl of the company’s creation who refuses to become the old woman’s prey. Puppetry and masks are used to strong effect throughout the show, but designer and puppet director Rachael Canning’s best work undoubtedly comes in the shape of Baba Yaga herself. The witch is a truly mesmerising presence, drawing the gaze wherever she goes.

Other elements of the show are less successful.

After Lisa’s mother dies, her father remarries, bringing a stepmother and two stepsisters into her life. All three characters are overplayed, with the company falling back on crude pantomime

How to Occupy an Oil Rig

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These days, Google can furnish you with instructions for almost anything. How to boil an egg. How to assemble a bookshelf. How to cope with grief. This playful yet complex show from Daniel Bye picks up on the modern day ubiquity of the ‘how to’ guide and brilliantly applies it to acts of protest, creating a series of demonstrations, in

humour that threatens to squash the subtle storytelling going on elsewhere in the show. A later scene in which Baba Yaga tucks into plate after plate of human body parts lacks complexity too.

These bits of the show will get their fair share of laughs but compared to the comic wealth of The Girl With the Iron Claws, this is lowest common denominator stuff.

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easy and neither are second plays. Here’s to record number three. [Jo Caird]

every sense of the word.

The title itself, like the show, is a mixture of provocation, instruction and irony.

While the notion of providing simple instructions for an act with so many personal and political implications is somewhat ridiculous—and acknowledged as such—there is also a sense in which simple advice and information can play a role in demystifying political action. Reflecting the cocktail of hope and childish naivety in Lucy Crimmens’

Lego building block set, protest is both celebrated and problematised.

Bye lends the piece the same straightforward delivery and wry humour as his performance lecture The Price of Everything, while his co-performers and devisers Kathryn Beaumont and Jack Bennett add warmth to what could be a coolly detached series of statements. The desire for human interest is at once admitted, indulged and subverted, recognising the

danger of reducing knotty issues to emotive narratives without denying the possibility of stories.

And in the end, it is in the stories that the real hope lies.

Standing up for what we believe in will never be as simple as a step-by-step guide, but Bye and his collaborators suggest that talking about it is a start. [Catherine Love]

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festtheatre The Love Project

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Burrowing into one of the Underbelly’s variously dank enclaves, we’re met by a quartet of friendly faces; relaxed, convivial, attentive.

They’re sat on assorted chairs and settees. There’s a coffee table. It has some mugs and biscuits on it.

Coldplay, Laura Marling and Take That’s “A Million Love Songs” fill the air – ‘the nation’s favourite love songs’, an upstage projection informs us.

It’s so cloyingly cosy, you sense a trap: an imminent life lesson dispatched by hollow thirtysomethings washed down with a glass of elderflower pressé and a cupcake.

You’d be wrong though.

For this is a brand new verbatim piece from the team behind the superb, cross-city one-on-one caper, You Once Said Yes. And whilst this doesn’t burn the rulebook with quite the same

fervour, The Love Project is an unfussy, ably-cut piece of real-life theatre that gently warms rather than bazookas our sensibilities.

The four actors offer 16 detached accounts of love; there’s the German lesbian, a Canada-hailing primary teacher, two manic former university acquaintances, even a toddler brother-sister

pairing. Abbad, a Muslim, proffers a loopily surreal take on women and the family; atomised Londoner Kate provides painful recollections of love gone awry; and Cora and William, the couple counting 56 years of marriage, reveal a language that’s all of their own.

It’s sugary, yes, and knitted together in such a way that

It’s Dark Outside

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It’s Dark Outside—the latest offering from Perth Theatre Company (also architects of returning mega-hit The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik…)– has been receiving high praise, which, for its sublime sleight-of-hand and sloshing stream of ideas, it almost certainly deserves.

Where it falls down, for those suffering a little puppetry fatigue at this year’s Fringe, might lie in a tale that drowns in whimsy and sometimes substitutes technical muscle-flexing for coherent storytelling.

Not that there aren’t some wondrous flashes of theatricality on show, mind.

Our protagonist, a stony-

faced man of senior years, is rendered life- and pint-sized, embarking on his own Western-themed adventure as his mind and memory slowly ebb away. Retreat, it seems, is his only option. At other times, he’s projected onto a floor-to-ceiling screen in animated form, or recreated

through perspective-shifting shadowplay, which cinematically, provide some of the show’s best moments.

But amongst the stylistic snowstorm and bursts of object manipulation (the semi-opaque tent that morphs into our man’s loyal equine companion effort-

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openly exposes the joins, but the cast embody their subjects with such obvious affection and meticulousness, that this becomes a more than diverting hour unpicking that crazy little thing called love. [Joe Spurgeon] Underbelly, Cowgate, 2:50pm – 3:50pm, 1–25 Aug, not 14, £10 – £11

lessly dangles our disbelief), lies a little too much cutesy imagineering. There’s the incessant plinky-plonky piano score, for one; the misleadingly malevolent presence stalking our hero; and the image of an old man as bumbling, lonely and slipping into oblivion just feels a little too easy.

That said, it’s a show that will undoubtedly strike a chord with many, showcasing the full arsenal of PTC’s theatrical/filmic weaponry and deft human skill. A little less of the knowingly sentimental though, and It’s Dark Outside would surely burn brighter still. [Joe Spurgeon] Underbelly, Bristo Sq., 5:30pm – 6:30pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £12.50 – £14.50

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HHHHH Some stories take years to make it to the stage; when it comes to making theatre inspired by real life, distance enables objectivity and a widescreen view of events.

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cry of despair, a howl of rage and a call for revolution is the only response that will do.

Nirbhaya, writer and director Yael Farber’s play about the gang rape and murder of Delhi paramedical student Jyoti Singh Pandey last December, is such a response.

Nirbhaya tells not just the story of the brutal attack on Singh Pandey—referred to as Nirbhaya, or ‘fearless’, by the media before her name was released—but also the

personal stories of its cast members. These raw accounts of child sexual abuse, domestic violence, marital rape, gang rape and child stealing make for harrowing theatre, but there’s no question that this is necessary and important work.

The violence is artfully portrayed for the most part.

There’s a choreographic quality to much of the action, supported by assured lighting and sound design. When

it comes to the language used to describe these acts, however, Farber is unflinching. The message is clear: these are not comfortable issues but we must listen to them, discuss them, debate them, even if we don’t want to. Silence is no longer an option. It’s time to speak out.

[Jo Caird] Assembly Hall, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £14 – £16

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festtheatre The Secret Agent

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There’s nothing glamorous about the espionage imagined by theatre O in this adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel The Secret Agent. Presented as a show-within-a-show by a music hall troupe calling itself the Cabinet of Desire, the play concerns ineffective spy Adolf Verloc, a man who agrees to turn agent provocateur and blow up the Greenwich Observatory in order to prove his worth professionally.

Matthew Hurt’s script, created in collaboration with the company, is hard to fault.

Absurdity, humour and pathos are blended in just the right measure. The performances, too, are uniformly good, with Leander Deeny deserving special mention for his achingly sad portrayal of Stevie, Verloc’s autistic brother-in-law.

The show contains several beautiful images—Verloc’s wife’s response to the bungled bomb plot is particularly striking—but there’s not enough connecting these moments to sustain nearly two hours of ponderous storytelling.

Director Joseph Alford’s staging values theatrical trickery over proper pacing and all too often the show feels like an excuse to play with a particular device. The audience interaction is nicely handled, as are the moments of song and dance, but these elements rarely serve the narrative and it’s not always clear why they’ve been included.

Visually and technically, The Secret Agent is a thing of beauty. Simon Daw’s intricate set design, plus lighting by Anna Watson and sound by Gareth Fry combine to create a show with almost enough atmosphere and polish to make up for its narrative shortcomings. [Jo Caird] Traverse Theatre, times vary, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £18 – £20

Birdhouse

HHHHH Four guano-spattered women hide out in the Coronet cinema in Bodega Bay. They’re survivors of the avian infestation from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and as they quiver with fear they perform a splintered re-enactment of the bizarre recent events.

Jammy Voo are a clowning collective, though Birdhouse owes at least as much to bizarre, post-modern sketch comedy. There’s little linear narrative, with the four buttoned-up ladies shuffling between comic skits, musical interludes and puppetry.

Just as they fluttered around Tippi Hedren, birds are everywhere: with feathers and eggs emerging from the most unlikely places, and the threatening sound of wing flaps always in the air.

Birdhouse feels as much an exploration of 1960s cinema in general as of The Birds in particular. The scraps of narrative that emerge are classic tropes, and there are some terrific moments of visual invention as tiny black pegs cluster on the roof of a doll’s house, or the women take a drive complete with a shadow puppet variant on poor man’s process.

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at that the lack of any solid plot feels forgivable, though there are several intriguing strands that could be developed further. Jammy Voo successfully develop a sensation of creeping dread and paranoia, and obliquely link it to the great atomic fear that perched above America.

Birdhouse is never explicitly political, it’s having too much fun for that, but the shadows of the Cold War, 9/11 and other modern nightmares circle threateningly overheard.

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festtheatre Banksy: The Room in the Elephant

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In 2011, the artist Banksy scrawled “this looks a bit like an Elephant” onto a water tank in Los Angeles. As the water tank rocketed in value, Tachowa Covington, the homeless man for whom the tank had been home for years, was evicted. “You don’t want to know about me; y’all want to know about Banksy,” Covington realises. But, like graffiti, the bum’s story is scrawled across the front of our expectations. It’s lurid, confrontational and utterly revealing about the nature of art.

There are two revelations here: the first is that what could be turgid and inwardlooking bumph on artistic values patently isn’t that. It’s a moving drama about a victim of art who then becomes the

artist, manipulating our emotions, our sympathies and our sense of what the hell is even real or not.

The second is a simply stunning performance from Gary Beadle – an actor familiar to many as Paul Trueman in Eastenders. Without wishing to do a disservice to the longrunning soap this, surely, pro-

vides a more suitable outlet for an actor of such considerable abilities. That this piece does not implode under a weight of looping, self-referential artistic spraff is in no small part due to Beadle’s skill in keeping all the plates spinning, sculpting and sustaining a real character at the centre of a philosophical debate on the utility or

instrumentality of art. In these hands, Tachowa Covington is much more than a muse or a metaphor. He is the victim of a pleasure industry, as well as one of its most affecting flowerings. [Evan Beswick] Pleasance Courtyard, 1:00pm – 1:55pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £9 – £12

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festtheatre Major Tom

HHHHH Beauty pageants and dog shows are traditionally a rich breeding ground for comedy and satire, from Best in Show to Little Miss Sunshine. Major Tom weaves both subjects together to create a tale that is both life affirming and an effective indictment of our modern, image-obsessed society.

The starting point for performer Victoria Melody’s real-life drama—told using a combination of monologue and video—concerns the story’s eponymous hero: her lazy and loveable basset hound Tom. Early success in provincial dog shows fuels her dream of entering the prize pooch into Crufts, only for those lofty hopes to be initially dashed by the insular world of pedigree and breeding.

This doggy glass ceiling frustrates the down-to-earth Melody, who initially tries to change herself to fit into the alien Kennel Club environment. Further failure sees her decide to mirror Tom’s struggles by entering the Mrs UK beauty pageant.

The progress of human and canine through their respective challenges provides the comedic heart of the

Chalk Farm

HHHHH Recalling the London riots of 2011, the words that stick like barbs in the memory are those accusatorily hurled in the heat of rage. “Scum of the earth.” “Pigs.” “Chavs.”

While Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin’s new play might also be peppered with those words, their exploration of the riots asks for compassion rather than demonisation, understanding in place of blame.

show, as bodies are waxed, coats made glossy and weight lost. A nail-biting finish reveals the ultimate winners and losers.

Melody is a charming performer who shows a rare talent for comic turns of phrase

throughout. Self-effacing to a fault, she is happy to share the most intimate details of her journey, as Tom obliviously sleeps stage left. The commonality between the two forms of competition is constantly alluded to but

never becomes preachy – providing a satisfyingly hard centre to the frothy and funny presentation. [David Hepburn]

The riots are a backdrop rather than a focus, with the plot instead revolving around the loving but strained relationship between a single mother, Maggie, and her teenage son Jamie. In the face of blame and prejudice, Maggie pours all her hopes into her child, working hard and biting back bile for his sake. Jamie, meanwhile, is awkwardly caught between boy and man, still clutching his Batman lunchbox as his optimistic childhood fantasies slide away from him.

The pair’s story is told through a series of monologues and exchanges, weaving together old memories and fresh impressions: the view they used to share from their Chalk Farm flat, the fear Maggie feels for her son, and Jamie’s thrill of excitement during the riots.

In ThickSkin’s production, these are supplemented by imposing television screens, suggesting the omnipresence of both CCTV and the media, although the assault of images sometimes

undermines the powerful simplicity of the storytelling.

Despite flaws, the value of this piece lies in its insistence on empathy without repentance and an attempt to understand while refusing to reduce complexity in favour of easy answers. Because, as Jamie eloquently recognises, the riots were “about everything and nothing.”

[Catherine Love]

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festtheatre BLAM!

HHHHH Given its bumper success across Scandinavia, it shouldn’t be a surprise that BLAM!—a blokey, jokey, acrobatic fantasy for the Jason Statham generation—has been turning heads in Edinburgh. “Wordless European physical theatre” isn’t the easiest sell at the best of times, but that’s a misnomer belying the bucketloads of fun at the heart of this big, brash and blaring four-hander set in a soporific Anytown office.

It’s all too painfully familiar: the sterile furnishings, the drip-drip of the water cooler, the swivel-chairs, the Post-its, the monotony. Tick, tick, yawn. Then the boss turns his back and the games begin.

What follows next is a swashbuckling tour through fanboy movie favourites as

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the worker drones amp up their office games to atomic proportions. There’s a nod to Platoon, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk – the whole thing underscored by REALLY LOUD RAWK. Subtle, it ain’t.

The deeply-entrenched choreography keeps the four actors (and during the final hurrah, the entire set) moving at a clip as they exhibit some hugely impressive athletic, clowning and slapstick skills. Sweat-soaked and adrenaline-pumped, they’ve more than earned the shared high-fives and repeated crowd-posturing during the show’s spectacular finale.

It’s not high-brow, it’s somewhat plotless and it’s hardly going to shift the artistic paradigm, but for a technically immaculate show bursting at the seams with

limb-threatening gymnastics, sight gags galore and a troupe clearly in love with their own show, it’s hard to beat.

A standing ovation is the inevitable conclusion. Wham,

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festtheatre The Graveyard Slot

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Putting a 1930s radio play onstage is the unlikely premise behind this slight but entertaining show from the all-female Hecate Theatre Company.

The six performers use a keyboard, two microphones and a variety of rudimentary sound effects to tell their 50-minute “tale of ghosts and ghoulies”.

Their story whisks the audience away to join Janet de Bastion, an aristocratic sort who has returned home for her birthday accompanied by a group of friends.

The home in question is her family’s country pile where sinister events are (inevitably) unfolding. The action takes in everything from secret passages and spiritualists, to mad scientists and mysterious caves – leaving no cliché of the genre unplumbed.

The group also find time for a few spoof cigarette adverts and even a quick song.

While the plot is fun in a preposterous Nancy Drew kind of way, most of the enjoyment comes from the dazzling array of everyday objects used to make the sound effects. Slinkies, a balloon pump, tin foil and a Fringe programme are just a few of the items expertly waved, hit and manhandled to create the soundscape.

The cast read from scripts which both reinforces the radio play concept and means the actors don’t need to learn their lines. Sadly there are still a few stumbles along the way and little vocally to differentiate between some of the minor characters. This has the effect of muddying proceedings somewhat, but The Graveyard Slot is still well worth tuning into. [David Hepburn] theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 3:15 – 4:05pm, 3–17 Aug, not 4, 11, £9

Mammoth

HHHHH Adapted from her original Finnish work, Jessikan Pentu (Jessica’s Cub) by Leea Klemola, Mammoth transfers effortlessly from the Boreal landscapes of Finland to a forest in Scotland.

A cut above your average Fringe meta-play, Mammoth sees Jessica, a highly unstable woman who has undergone a nervous breakdown, hiring a Fringe space to stage a performance in the hope that it might bring her family together. It is a project doomed to fail, but rather than simply being a comedy of errors it

High Plains (A Western Myth)

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The Fringe is always brimming with ghost stories, but the creeping menace of Brian Watkins’ monologue offers spirits of a slightly different character. While mysterious, seemingly supernatural figures might prowl the wide American plains of the title, Watkins’ ghosts are also the ghosts of the mind, the episodes from the past that are yet to be laid to rest.

His unassuming narrator, played by Ben Newman, is a restless drifter and sometime construction worker with a fear of getting trapped in one

descends into something far darker. Her overly eager mother plays her teenage son, who apparently had no interest in playing himself, and her well-meaning husband tries as best as he can to accommodate her desire to regress to an idealised primitive state.

The action takes place in an upstairs room at the Pleasance Dome and a forest simultaneously. There is no fourth wall to break, and at points Mammoth seemingly operates in four different contexts on four different levels. By the time a naked and bloodied man appears inexplicably at the back of the room, the entire venue is in

a dream world on a journey to the safari park outside Dunblane.

Klemola’s script is excellent, the only drawbacks being a few jokes and references lost in translation such as the Huldra forest nymph the main character resembles, but its new Scottish face succeeds in preserving much of its original charm and rawness. You’ll struggle to find anything else quite like it.

Engaging, hilarious, disturbing and visceral theatre.

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place. Alone in a small town, he slugs from a beer bottle while sharing tales of his childhood, his work and his fraught relationship with his older brother. Childish spats give way to lasting regrets.

Slowly, through a succession of meandering anecdotes, his current, troubled predicament is unveiled.

Newman’s performance is characterised by stillness, relying on the very subtlest of shifts to move the narrative forwards. This hyper-naturalistic delicacy is impressive, but too small and subdued to remain consistently engaging for the duration of Watkins’ 50 minute monologue. The same might be said of the

piece itself, which offers glimpses into the nature of Watkins’ characters and the experience of modern American life, but never quite delves deep enough.

While Watkins’ writing nails conversational speech and conjures an intermittently haunting picture of America’s lonelier expanses, its blend of domestic drama, supernatural chiller and myth interrogation fails to cohere into a persuasive whole. Despite an intriguing opening, it leaves its audience—like its protagonist—still searching.

[Catherine Love]

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festtheatre Cadre

HHHHH One of the first statements made in Cadre endures as its most resonant: “there is no easy road to freedom.”

Omphile Molusi’s ambitious play, spanning almost 50 years, takes a fierce, unflinching look at the lasting scars of South Africa’s bloody history.

This history is experienced through the eyes of Gregory, the “cadre” of the title and a survivor more bruised than most. The word most often on his lips is “choice”, bitterly recalling his own decisions under the pressure of conflict and asking what choice anyone has in such situations.

It might be framed with the end of apartheid and the freedom that Gregory so passionately fought for, but the mournful tenor of Molusi’s play suggests that the struggle is far from over. Freedom of expression does not necessarily offer the language to tell one’s story and liberty is empty when love has been snatched away.

The whole piece is tinged with the indelible imprint of grief and powered by a set of committed performances from its cast, including a gut-wrenching turn from the playwright as Gregory.

However, the play too often feels the need to impose, at times employing unnecessary expositions of a brutality that is already all too evident.

The production works best when trusting in the power of simplicity, as with Scott Davis’ sparse yet brilliant sheetdraped design – the linen doubling as a visual motif of both division and domesticity.

When the barriers that divide are finally ripped down, the walls of home and family must also fall apart. [Catherine Love] Traverse Theatre, times and dates vary, £18 – £20

The List

HHHHH Summerhall have brought this one-woman show back for another summer after a good run last year. Quite justifiably: The List is tightly written and brilliantly performed. Maureen Beattie plays a woman who left the city for the wilderness (rural Quebec in Jennifer Tremblay’s original French script, but it could easily be the Highlands), and finds she doesn’t much like it. Her marriage suffers, she’s bored by her kids; soon she’s resorting to neurotic list-making. She also dislikes her neighbours, except one - Caroline.

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Confessions of Gordon Brown

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It is a fitting tribute that Gordon Brown, a man so desperate for the limelight during his years as a frontbencher, is the subject of a one-man show this Fringe. This piece, one that explores the behindclosed-doors-Brown we heard so much about, yet saw so little of, is a candid look at the former prime minister at his unfiltered and filthy best.

Height, hair and teeth, booms Ian Grieve in his role as the parliamentary pariah, are essential to political success: there’s no space for “baldies” or “midgets” in

gins and ends with a confession: she blames herself for Caroline’s death in childbirth.

A play about regret, then, but it also has a lot to say about what it’s like to be a woman getting older. When the unnamed protagonist complains about the “dry, drab, sterile fields” surrounding her house, her words convey more than just dissatisfaction with the scenery.

The production values are exceptionally high. The lighting unobtrusively indicates changes of mood and weather; an up-tilted spotlight makes a shadow-theatre of the curved ceiling of this vet school lecture theatre.

Special attention is paid to

sound. A few moments of violent noise—when Beattie throws herself back against the beautiful coppery screen at the back of the stage, or pushes a table aside with unnecessary force—reveal the panic beneath her airy composure.

But it’s Beattie’s impassioned performance that turns a compentent show into a moving one. She has mastered the script, and squeezes every drop of emotion from it, but has enough control to ensure she never seems overwrought. [Ed Ballard]

Brown’s government. As he paces around his office before an early morning meeting, preening, protesting and spraying expletives around the room like an over-excited puppy, this faux-confessional soliloquy moves from jovial nonchalance to bleak solemnity with ease.

Grieve is convincing as Brown, puffing out his chest and sharing the details of his self-proclaimed success with the audience. His whistlestop autobiographical tour touches upon a childhood spent in the shadow of his father to ruminations on the tattered legacy left to him by his predecessor and long-time rival, Tony Blair.

The piece does feel authentic but often lacks punch: more sincerity, perhaps, and less self-aggrandising, might make for a better balanced piece.

The show is unapologetically self-indulgent, in fact, to the point where its favourable reviews are presented to the audience before it begins.

Still, one suspects that this mix of pomp, mirth and misery would tickle its real leading man, who has finally reclaimed the spotlight he so desperately craved. [Charlotte Lytton]

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festtheatre Quietly

HHHHH Let’s boil Owen McCafferty’s Quietly down to its essentials. Two men arrange to meet in a pub. There’s a football match on telly. They talk about an incident from the mid-1970s whilst a Polish barman watches on. Then they leave.

Perfectly everyday, you might think. But this is Belfast, and the two men, from different sides of the holy divide, are facing-off over a callous act of sectarian violence that took place at the height of The Troubles.

Jimmy, now atheist, has been reeling ever since. He wants to hear Ian’s side of the story.

So how do you begin to heal decade-deep scars? Can you reconfigure the pieces of a broken, blood-spattered

past and find, if not harmony, then a handle on which to grab, and begin again?

McCafferty explores the limits of reconciliation and the inadequacy of forgiveness with some scintillating

dialogue that, at times, is devastatingly penetrative.

It’s in the waves of silence, though, that we feel the burden of history; the weight of incomprehensible action and consequence. Two men—

hard, hurt, dislocated—grappling with a past, and a self, they no longer recognise.

It’s a mighty piece of work, this, born of simplicity and enhanced by an authentic design from the piled-high bar snacks to the frothy pints poured—regularly—by immigrant barkeeper Robert.

Patrick O’Kane’s glowering Jimmy and Declan Conlon’s weary-faced Ian are well-matched opponents, their exchanges crackling with fury, desperation and wretched grief.

Intimate, talky, tight-asa-drum and pregnant with metaphor, the tone is one of simultaneous hope and circular tragedy.

Quietly makes a big noise.

[Joe Spurgeon] Traverse Theatre, times vary, 1–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £17 – £19

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How to be a Modern Marvel®

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festtheatre Making News

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Another day, another scandal at the BBC. The head of news falls on his sword and, much to her surprise, deputy producer Rachel Clarke is appointed in his place. It’s not a good day to take over though, with the website going down and the suggestion that a clandestine cult with ties at the highest level of the corporation is somehow responsible. Rachel must decide what to do, and fast: in this era of 24-hour news there is no time to waste.

The cast (actor-comedians one and all, including Phill Jupitus, Sara Pascoe and Hal Cruttenden) do their best with Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s stilted dialogue, but there’s precious little drama to the piece.

Making News is modelled on sitcoms like The Thick of It and Twenty Twelve but

without crackling satire this format falls flat. Lines are delivered as if anticipating a laugh – sometimes they come and sometimes they don’t, but either way, there are no surprises. Jokes about the Liberal Democrats and the horrors of being sent to Salford abound. Close your eyes and you could be listening to The Now Show.

The far-fetched plot hinges on the fact that two of the main characters—Rachel and veteran broadcaster Jonathan McVey—are dithering idiots, but both are so witless that their very presence stretch the bounds of credibility. The rest of the news team are more believable but all are eminently forgettable. This is cynical theatre that feels like it was written in a hurry. [Jo Caird] Pleasance Courtyard, 1:00pm – 2:15pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £12 – £15

Champ

HHHHH The Fringe showcases a range of South African talent this year, offering a further piece of artistic exoticism. But the Rainbow Nation looks decidedly monochrome in this dark comedy about three struggling actors reduced to dressing up as bears in a South African shopping arcade.

In an expletive-riddled hour, things go from depressing to hopeless as the men return to the locker from the factory floor, where they are paid to sing songs to South Africa’s spoiled nouveau riche and sacrifice their dignity at the altar of the country’s brave new World Cup world of strip malls and brutal capitalism.

At its best points, it is supremely funny, and some swear words come out turbocharged in a South African accent, whilst at its worst it

needs more concentrated acting to keep up with its zippy and well-conceived script. It also appeals to anyone who has ever found themselves living a different life to the one they signed up to, and desperate men are wont to resort to desperate measures. Such measures

include getting blind drunk and pouring a cup of piss over a brat.

To an audience unfamiliar with some of the country’s nuances, what should be good jokes fall a bit flat, but the refusal to move the action away from South Africa gives it a richness. With an all-white

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cast it also makes an implicit point about how class can be as much of a divide as race. A good guide to adding insults to personal injury. [Dominic Hinde] Assembly Roxy, 2:30pm – 3:45pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, £14 – £15

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From Where I’m Standing

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There are a fair number of shows in Edinburgh this year using technology to move beyond the confines of limited and temporary theatre spaces, but From Where I’m Standing really showcases the potential of audio and visual innovation as it moves between past, present and future.

We start with the 1997 general election, a new dawn and an enviably naïve teenage Blair fan about to leave school. Somewhere in the present a terrorist attack in Mumbai on the

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British embassy hospitalizes its main suspect, the former teenage love of the idealistic schoolgirl and father to a daughter navigating her own existential maze in 2028. The future is a place in which human interaction has become a lifestyle choice and social media has eaten itself.

The thematic link between all these time periods is an obsession with the nature of humanity, both in terms of its potential for good and a fatalistic idea of innate evil. We see a terrorist’s daughter obsessed by the idea that her baby might inherit her own father’s capacity for unspeakable cruelty. Then there is traveler

in India unable to come to terms with the fact that the man who saved her life also killed a score of others, and the first rumblings of dissent in a Southampton schoolroom by a gifted but directionless boy looking for something against the backdrop of New Labour’s promised utopia.

This is a play that deserves a bigger stage and asks serious questions about the nature of compassion, humanity and the point at which we now find ourselves. [Dominic Hinde]

The idea here is absolutely an interesting one. Billed as plays with “no gender. Endless possibilities,” Papercut Theatre have commissioned a team of writers to produce short plays without specifying the genders for any of the characters.

Those decisions are for the director alone.

16 plays rotate throughout the run, with a different four every afternoon: today’s selection comprises ‘Blame’

by Peter Cant, ‘Spineless’ by Tobias Wright, ‘Chemotherapy’ by Stephen Sharkey and ‘Gorilla Banana’ by Lisa Carroll.

Without exception, these are nicely written and engaging little playlets.

A short dialogue between the recipient of a face transplant and its former owner raises interesting questions about identity (“you must wear my mask and I will wear you”), and is lent a sinister edge by an on-the-ball young cast.

A longer sketch featuring a revolting chap who may well qualify as the worst boss in the world is deliciously over the top without being indulgent.

But, in all of this, it’s unclear what the capacity for gender-bending really adds.

Roles are either cast along conventional lines (a male boss and female assistant), or are simply irrelevant. I worked hard to derive an engagement with gender on the basis of a female doctor treating a male patient. There’s just nothing interesting there. A blokey charmer chasing down his “prey” is cast as a feller – to do otherwise would have been quite a stretch. Either that’s the point, or this is a missed opportunity. It definitely feels more like the former. [Evan Beswick]

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festdance&physicaltheatre Sluts of Possession

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Firstly, ignore the title and Edfringe programme blurb.

Sluts of Possession is not, as you might be forgiven for assuming, a show about sex.

Rather it’s a subtle exploration of our relationship with tribal and faith-based non-Western cultures, as expressed through dance, audio material and archival film footage.

As filmmaker Louis Price’s video projections flicker on the wall and floor of the space, duo Rosie Kay and Guilherme Miotto perform a series of hypnotic dance sequences. Film fragments of Polar expeditions, Tibetan ritual dances and tranquil mountain scenes are interspersed with quivering maps and scribbles resembling cave paintings. Kay and Miotto bring a vibrant, almost animal quality to proceedings, their instinctive choreography pulsing through the room.

Sometimes the dancers appear independent of the images – they go about their business, and it is for us to choose which element of the show to make the object of our focus. Elsewhere, however, they dance with the projections, interacting with the images as they move

Status Anxiety and Piece of Mind

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In a break with theatrical tradition, choreographer Emma Jayne Park wants us to keep our mobile phones on during Status Anxiety, the first half of this double bill.

This is so we can “tweet and Facebook and tell everyone about it while it’s happening”. The team have also set up a communal Facebook page on a laptop inside the theatre, where ‘Like’,

into and out of the projector beam. In one sequence their silhouettes loom large on the screen, obscuring the footage going on behind them and becoming anthropological subjects themselves. The effect is uncanny.

As the show draws to a close we are left with more questions than answers: what does our fascination with the ‘other’ say about us? Are our lives the lesser for having lost touch with the sorts of dance and ritual we observe

in Price’s films? What has replaced them? Sluts of Possession offers no answers.

[Jo Caird]

‘LOL’ and ‘Comment’ are projected onto a screen, inviting interaction. Florent Gonthier looks crestfallen when no-one jumps in to praise his “seven percent body fat” abs, then later loses his rag after a sinuous passage of break-dancing doesn’t get the attention he thinks it deserves.

Park’s piece uses creative tricks to explore the way social media can bloat egos and dampen human interaction. The cast’s hiphop training lends a creepy

silkiness to their movements, and there are some clever observations on the way we build Hollywood-style narratives into romantic relationships. It’s intelligent, quirky theatre, but feels slightly like an assembling of parts rather than one fluid whole.

Ashley Jack’s Piece of Mind cast may be young but their slick posturing is filled with serious menace in this exploration of sociopathy.

The lights flicker on and off as they confront us with

sour-eyed poses. One by one they curiously probe the chairs they are sitting on, break into patterns and come together like fractured parts of the same threatening creature.

Hip-hop dance is no longer the property of beatbattles; here, savvy young choreographers are showing what else it can do. [Lucy Ribchester]

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festdance&physicaltheatre Am I

HHHHH The problem faced when creating a piece about sex trafficking, especially one not involving words, is how to invoke the atmosphere of victimhood and the setting of the sex industry without crossing the line into either titillation or helpless chaos. This isn’t always achieved in Am I, a piece with noble intentions let down by long passages of very literal choreography that do little more than show us the obvious truth: that sex trafficking is both dehumanising and degrading to its victims.

LCP’s dance piece, choreographed by Joanna Puchala, starts promisingly. With the aim of blurring the boundary between trafficker and victim, Wayne Wallen begins in a dim, green-lit solo, a hunted quality flashing up and down his limbs as he scratches and swerves.

Women appear, hidden behind their hair; a three-headed woman in one case, whose disconnected hands stroke downwards with menacing tenderness. Another stretches and rolls with ambiguous lethargy; is she resigned to her fate? Forced to put on a brave face?

From hereon in, things begin to fray, and the unsettling confrontational edge that infuses the opening is replaced by messy ensemble sequences full of yanking, clutching, whimpering and undressing.

Puchala has gone to lengths to create an authentic aesthetic, but as the women perform in synchronisation for their watching pimp it feels dangerously close to a pornography of subordination.

Dance has the power to speak in symbols; recreating verbatim pain and humiliation does nobody any good here. [Lucy Ribchester] Spotlites @ Merchants’ Hall, 8:35–9:20pm, 3–10 Aug, £8.50

La Poème

HHHHH Eggs seem to be the prop du jour this Fringe, playing a starring role in many a circus show as emblems of fragility, symbols of femininity and so forth. But Jeanne Mordoj is the only performer to graciously give hers a curtain call, at the end of La Poème.

The egg deserves it too, although really it’s Mordoj herself who makes this short compelling clowntheatre piece a treat.

Her way of moving pitches rippling fluidity against bashful awkwardness; her elastic facial

East, A Woman Shifting on Time Axis

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Sometimes the beauty of choreography is enough, and that is what ultimately rescues East, A Woman Shifting on Time Axis from being so steeped in unexplained depths of Taiwanese and Chinese mythology as to be almost inaccessible.

There is narrative here; you can feel it in the shifting relationships, changing dynamics and recurring characters. But the monologue that forms part of the soundtrack hasn’t been translated from Manda-

expressions pop and surge as she crams egg after egg into her mouth, or halt as shells drop embarrassingly from beneath her demure floral skirt.

Mordoj is a contortionist and juggler, and both skills come into play during the show, although as in many of this year’s circus pieces, the skills hover atop something deeper.

Here it’s an exploration of female identity, through a body which sometimes lets Mordoj down (those pesky incontinent eggshells) and sometimes entertains her with its surprise textures and movements. As she slides an egg yolk slowly

rin, and the poetic snippets of text that introduce each scene feel either too deep in metaphor, or too literally translated to be intelligible.

It’s frustrating feeling there is another layer you can’t quite grasp; a layer where, as a company member told us afterwards, ‘woman’ is symbolised by the colour red, and a man with a curling snake clasped to his hips is both the male and female spirit.

But, if you surrender to the natural rhythms that ebb and flow through the dance—the watercolour palette, the slow, luminous moons floating in the sky, the calligraphic precision of the dancers’ hands,

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down one arm, only to eat it, spit it out and slide it back down the other, sensuality and revulsion become two sides of the same coin. Which is what makes this piece, despite its constant challenging strangeness, surprisingly delightful.

Slowly the dynamic shifts from comic to elemental, and as Mordoj creates white face paint out of her broken eggshells, it feels as if she is turning herself inside out to show us what lies beneath. [Lucy Ribchester] Summerhall, 7:45pm – 8:20pm, various dates, £11

and the energy that grows through them into a powerful fluid finale—there is much to be enjoyed. And not just on the surface, but from the sensory response the piece invokes.

Hui-Chen Tan’s choreography is rich with beauty and beguiling grace, and Zhu-Wei Wen and Hsiao-Yuan Lin’s early duets are full of young love. All it would take is a few additional carefully chosen programme notes to unlock the glory of this piece.

It surely deserves it. [Lucy Ribchester] Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 2:20 – 3:05pm, 5–11 Aug, £10

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festdance&physicaltheatre La Donna è Mobile

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RemoteControl may have devised this scalpel-sharp piece on an isolated Norwegian island, but they’ve certainly found the perfect home for it in Summerhall’s clinical green-lit Demonstration Room.

When we enter, a woman is standing in a see-through evidence bag neatly tied with a bow. She is, we are told by a troupe of mincingly earnest doctors, Subject A. She’s also a little bit savage.

Spitting black bile into her zip-lock container, she is finally unleashed to roam and claw, the bag becoming a plastic divider behind which she can be observed.

Part of the impact of this piece is its surprise, but without spoiling the torrent of fascinating, sensual and

disturbing images that follow, RemoteControl let loose the archetypal wild woman; her spirit gradually possessing those around her until a new creature is

hammered out. Themes of rebirth and reclaiming the body flicker in electric fronds round the choreography; they fit, loll and slowly curl into ugly shapes.

The company’s starting point was a series of 19th century photographs of women suffering from “hysteria”, and uncomfortable echoes arise throughout of the past treatment of women in asylums, their bodies scrutinised, electric-shocked, stripped of autonomy.

Benign eccentricity cuts an entry point through which we can peep into RemoteControl’s world, but behind the humour lies a confrontational, barbed edge and a bucketload of attitude. Not that we would wish exile on anyone, but please let this company maroon themselves again to see what they come up with next. [Lucy Ribchester] Summerhall, 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 2–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £9

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festmusic&cabaret Lior

HHHHH It’s rare for a Fringe show to promise nothing more than a man and his axe. “I’m thinking of calling this show ‘A Moment Away from the Madness,’” jokes Israeli-Australian songwriter Lior. And why not? Lior’s songs—tranquil ruminations on the singersongwriter’s usual stock in trade (coming of age, tangles with love)—certainly provide respite from the manic footfall.

While his clean-cut appearance and wholesome, 5-a-day demeanour might more readily see him billed as a prospective teen-pop radio-hit—Australia’s answer to John Mayer!—Lior’s dexterity and technique reveal a formidable artistic heritage.

Sat comfortably behind his acoustic guitar, an intricate finger-picking style and unique chordal progressions soon evoke the tone of Nick Drake.

And ‘tranquil’ doesn’t necessarily mean innocuous.

That worry is put to rest with Lior’s take on “Satisfied Mind” – “made famous by Scotland’s own John Martyn”.

His tightly curled mop may encourage such comparisons, but when that white electric guitar is hung from

Vegas Underground

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Each night at Assembly George Square, nostalgia invades the stage. Evoking the era of stars like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Vegas Underground is a trip back to the golden age of the rat pack and the glittering Las Vegas show, attempting to whisk its audience from a characterless Edinburgh auditorium to the neon-decked glamour of the entertainment capital.

his shoulders, the resemblances to a Live at Sin-é era Jeff Buckley are striking. And his vocals could give the Hallelujah singer a run for his money, too. Turns out there’s a tsunami raging behind that inoffensive croon. On “Satisfied Mind,” Lior lets it roar.

Lior performs with the presence of somebody used to performing with more pairs of eyes staring back at him – modest successes in his native Australia have earned him that privilege.

With three albums and more than ten years touring and

recording experience, Lior can count himself as one of the most professional, purely musical acts throughout the entire Fringe. [Sam Cleeve]

The performers behind this musical time travelling are singers Peter Grant and Rebecca Poole, and pianist Danny McCormack, backed by a full eight-piece band.

Together and separately, they perform a mixture of well-known classics—think “Hit the Road Jack” and “Call Me Irresponsible”—and their own vintage-inspired tracks.

Each night they are also joined by a special guest, on this occasion genuine Vegas veteran and singing impressionist Bob Anderson, who

uncannily conjures everyone from Sammy Davis Jr to Tom Jones.

There’s little doubting the talent of the performers, whose blasts of brass and velvety tones instantly recall a lost time, while McCormack’s frenzied attack on the piano keys is a spectacle all of its own. The framing, however, all feels a little forced. Grant and Poole have an easy onstage chemistry, but their banter between songs is occasionally strained, while everyone

involved seems to be trying rather hard to have a good time.

Las Vegas, meanwhile, feels more like a handy label than a location the show ever comes close to conjuring. Like Anderson, making a living from shrugging on the identities of the greats, Vegas Underground can never be more than smiling imitation.

[Catherine Love]

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festmusic&cabaret Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum

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Blowing kind-of-melodically into a curled fist is nothing special nowadays, but Australian Tom Thum—accompanied by his musical partner Jamie MacDowell—turns beatboxing into an artform in this joyously inventive and energetic hour.

At first sight, there is something deceptively (perhaps deliberately) ramshackle about the pair. Their website is just a Facebook page; they shamble onto the stage after doing their own announcement and introduce one another in an endearingly awkward manner. All this, though, belies what is a technically hugely accomplished performance that must have taken years to perfect

Though starting with some standard beatboxing, Thum moves onto a veritable orchestra of instruments— trumpet; saxophone; trombone; strings; kazoo and, for the locals, the bagpipes—and sounds ranging from a Berlin acid house rave, through a ship’s foghorn to a scratchy, warbling Victrola. Each song is a progressively more complex, culminating in a sublime jazz club number where Thum seems to be channeling Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone and Fats Domino all at the same time.

Perhaps aware of his show-stealing potential, Thum relinquishes the stage every now and again so that MacDowell has an opportunity to display his intricate songcraft—ending with a beautiful and touching tribute to a close friend— which perhaps not as striking

as Thum’s beatboxing, does slow the frenetic pace down nicely and take the show in some unexpected directions.

Thum and MacDowell exude boyish charm aplenty and their immense likeability takes the edge off

what might have been an alienatingly overly-polished exposition of their musical talent. [Dan Heap] Underbelly, Cowgate, 8:50pm – 9:50pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13, £10 – £12.50

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festmusic&cabaret Freak Show

HHHHH The freaks we are about to gawp at are “mad, magical, and just plain monstrous,” says a smarmy circus barker with a shit-eating grin. If only.

These young thesps are from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, who are also doing Avenue Q up on the Mound. They struggle manfully to energise this misconceived show. These are freaks lacking proper freakiness; they’re mostly just a bit sad. Where’s the fun in that? The Unbreakable Man lollops around, apparently lobotomised but clearly as frangible as the next man.

The next man turns out to be the Missing Link – another ordinary-looking bloke. At least give him some cartoony sideburns or something.

Each freak sings a drab song, accompanied by a small group of musicians, about how difficult it is being a freak. The other freaks watch or dance emotively.

If I go to a freak show I don’t expect to see emoting.

I want to see some freakiness.

Frustratingly, the show passes up a good opportunity to end on a high, after the best of the musical numbers: the enjoyably raucous waltz sung by the World’s Most Beautiful Woman. Everybody claps and gets ready to leave.

Not so fast, audience!

The circus barker’s voice emerges from the other side of the stage, repeating the lines from the start. Now we’re backstage, watching the fractious freaks complain about their lot. It ends with a song about how it’s wrong to judge people for being freaks or something. That’s right, things got meta. Did they have to? [Ed Ballard] Assembly George Sq., 3:20pm – 4:20pm, various dates, £11

Christine Bovill’s Piaf

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Interspersing performances of Édith Piaf’s best-loved songs with biographical accounts from her life, Christine Bovill’s complete and utter adoration of the great French chanteuese is what most resonantes with the audience tonight. While anybody with a passing familiarity with Piaf’s life might not learn anything new here—perhaps, as Bovill suggests, you saw 2007’s La Vie En Rose—it’s the passion and authority with which Bovill talks about performer that captivates.

Bovill hops freely and nonchronologically between

Lady Carol Betwixt and Between

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that Lady Carol’s Betwixt and Between is a one woman show. And really, it is. But you can’t help but feel there’s something of a split personality about tonight’s performer. One the one hand, we’ve Lady Carol—the sultry, caramel-voiced cabaret singer. On the other, we’ve the Lady Carol who offers anecdotal tales from her life with a chirpy, kindergarten teacher-like bouyancy.

That disparity within the Dubliner persists throughout the show. The songs—varied

different periods of the Frenchwoman’s life, covering everything from Piaf’s childhood and her rise to fame, to her excessive character and her tragically destined love affairs. But she’s not some bored university lecturer who’s told it all countless times before. Nor is she as souless as Wikipedia. For one thing, her interpretations of Piaf’s songs (‘L’Hymne á l’amour,’ ‘Milord’ and ‘Autumn Leaves’) try their utmost to emulate Piaf’s sheer emotional gravitas, and they certainly come close. But it’s also the little details. Bovill talks fondly of her encounter with the writer of many of Piaf’s best-known songs at

last year’s Fringe. And as she’s talking about the plane crash and untimely death of Piaf’s greatest love (world middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan) a convoy of (rather loud) planes pass overhead, forcing the Glasweigan to stop momentarily. “Something spooky’s going on… I think Edith is with us now.”

It’s the little moments that convince you that Bovill’s love for Piaf (“obssession,” as she puts it) is far from artificial. Bovill’s Piaf is a passionate, heart-warming tribute to a life-long idol. [Sam Cleeve]

cover versions sung in a deep, poweful and unique alto voice—are a large part of the engrossing mystery surrounding Lady Carol as a musical performer. That affecting voice magnifies the sombre lilt of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing in the Dark,’ and the potency of English folk song ‘Sam Hall,’ for instance. A shame then, that she should only be accompanied by her own rudimentary ukelele and mandolin playing. It feels as if the enigmatic performer has let her bubbly, over-zealous alter-ego play along with her, and something doesn’t quite add up. It’s half Tom Waits, half Sesame Street.

Those anecdotes,

meanwhile, range from the pedestrian (becoming an aunt; travelling the world) to the bizarre (ruminations upon the idea that crescent moons resemble toenail clippings), and despite her happy-golucky demeanour, there’s a wonderfully peculiar, warped sense of humour to them all.

With each tale providing a convenient thematic segue into the proceeding song, the show has a forward momentum that—despite the best attempts of a persistently faulty microphone lead—is hardly disrupted throughout the performance. [Sam Cleeve]

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Now THAT’S magic!

Who doesn’t want to learn how to do magic tricks!? Kids editor Caroline Black and some of her kid reviewers met up with the magical trio from the hit show Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic to learn some tricks of the trade.

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ased on the hit TV show and featuring some of its favourite magicians, Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic is a spectacular for all the family.

Katherine Mills, James Went and John Archer have been performing to sold out crowds with their busy, funny and loud show that has loads of audience interaction and jaw dropping tricks.

It’s not the sort of traditional magic show that you’d remember from your own youth but it’s not in the style of the new breed of street magicians either.

It’s probably somewhere in between Paul Daniels and Dynamo. For kids. So instead of a feathered female assistant being sawn in half by a suited male magician, we have a young guy being laser-ed in half by a girl wearing skinny jeans.

If the success of this and the hugely successful CBBC TV show are anything to go by then kids seem to agree that it’s a perfect blend of comedy, entertainment and magic. Mills, Went and Archer are some of the most popular magicians from the TV show and it’s clear they have a young following. “Katherine is really cool and orders the boys about but James did the best trick,” Eleanor Smith tells me. Lois Black agrees but her favourite is Archer, “John is the silly one who had a really funny face and made me laugh lots.”

This trio are all well-established magicians and performers in their own rights; Mills represents the contemporary face of modern magic with a naturally laid back style, Went specialises in close up tricks and Archer, well, he’s the most experienced member of the team and an established comic and writer – the linchpin of the show, and who kids seem to be naturally drawn to.

So, did the kids enjoy learning some of their tricks? “I’ve tried magic before at home after watching Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic on TV but it was great

seeeing it so close up and slowly as it helps you know what to do” says Eleanor “But I still don’t know they did some of the tricks on the show, some of them were just real magic.”

Being a bit older, it seems, is helpful when learning magic tricks. Phoebe Black, the youngest of Fest’s reviewers, struggled to master the pen trick because her hands were so small, “It was really hard and I kept dropping my pen. But it sort of stuck there anyway because my hands were a bit sticky.”

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All of the magicians agree on one thing: practise, practise, practise is the only way to get better at magic tricks so the kids will need to keep it up if they’re to treat their families to a Christmas day magic show. Lois loved showing her dad the magic penny trick when she got home: "He was amazed. I can’t wait to show my friends when I go back to school.”

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festkids Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs

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I think all kids would love this show! It is one of my favourite books and right from the start I thought the show was brilliant.

The story is about a boy called Flinn who loves dinosaurs, especially T-Rexes.

One day at school, Flinn and his friends go into the art cupboard and suddenly find themselves plunged into an exciting adventure with pirate dinosaurs.

There are only four actors playing all the different characters, and they really made me laugh. They did brilliant singing and dancing (and scooter-ing). Sometimes we could all join in, and a few times the actors ran around in the audience.

All the clever lights, sounds and props they used were cool, and I loved the bits when the magic takes them out of, and back into, the cupboard. There was always lots of fun stuff going on, like bubbles flying, snow falling and animal puppets. The

dinosaurs were amazing!

My favourite part was when Flinn throws poo stew over Mr T’s head, and also when he has the funny fight with the triceratops!

I loved everything about this show. At the end, it felt like I had been on the magical adventure too. [Archie Lamb, age 5] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £11 – £12

The I Hate Children Children’s Show

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This is an interactive magic show but there was also a really cool guy who played the guitar.

The main guy looks like Al from Al’s Toy Barn in Toy Story but was very funny and an excellent magician. He did tonnes of tricks (probably about 15) with help from lots of children.

I’m not too sure whether he does hate children. He was pretty mean to some kids but he did tell us all to clap when new kids went on, so I think he was just pretending.

I really enjoyed the show

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and my favourite trick was the rope trick because the rope got stuck in his body, then up his nose and then in his ear!

You will enjoy this show if you like magic and want to see an awesome magician close up. [Ben Cotter, age 6] Pleasance Courtyard, 11:50am – 12:50pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, £8 – £10

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festkids Aliens Love Underpants

HHHHH I have this book at home.

The story is about a little boy called Timmy who wants to be a spaceman when he grows up. His mum’s pants keep disappearing from the washing line and he thinks it might be aliens stealing them.

Then he finds some aliens in his bedroom and they are hiding in his bed and in his drawers.

The aliens were all puppets and one was really big. I liked the tiny yellow alien that stole the pants from the drawer.

My favourite bit was when the aliens all went in the space ship with Timmy to Planet

Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic

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I really enjoyed this show.

When I first entered Udderbelly it was really big compared to other venues. The show started with only two of the three presenters on stage, Katherine and John (he’s the funniest). But then, by magic, they made James appear.

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Janet. It was also funny when we saw the Queens pants and my big sister laughed at a shop called Pants R Us. The singing was good but I didn’t really have a favourite song. I didn’t like that it was a bit too long. [Phoebe Black, age 4] Pleasance Courtyard, 11:30am – 12:30pm, 7–22 Aug, not 14, £10 – £12

Each presenter took turns at doing amazing tricks and there were some funny bits too. People in the audience got to take part but it wasn’t just the front row like some shows I’ve watched. I was really lucky and helped James to make a table float in mid-air! There is a big screen so that everyone can see the tricks close up too.

My magic highlights were

James’ King of Diamonds card trick and when Katherine used a laser in a trick.

This was the best magic show I’ve ever seen and it was sold out when I went. If you want to get tickets buy them now. [Eleanor Smith, age 10] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 1:10pm – 2:10pm, 1–25 Aug, £11.50 – £12

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Julien Cottereau Forget red noses and painted-on smiles, irresistible French clown Julien Cottereau’s family show Imagine Toi has been described as hilarious and inspiring.

Fest asks the former Cirque du Soleil star how children react to his “silent story with sounds.”

What can we expect from Julien Cottereau: Imagine Toi? Audiences can expect to see the best show they’ve ever seen in their life. It’s a modern fairy tale and a moving poem! I am alone on an empty stage with my character and have to rock the house with tenderness and fever. As soon as I see that there are people in front of me watching my steps and waiting for something, I will do my very best to entertain them, find friendship and love, and get revenge!

If you had to label your art, how would you?

First a clown. One who uses the mime and sound technique to express himself more directly, more instinctively and personally.

My technique comes from circus and the street but it takes place in a theatre ‘cause I want to tell a story.

How important are children to your performance?

Children are my passport to many things. If I hear them asking the adults questions I know I may not be clear enough. If I see them sleep there’s a good chance that I may be boring… To be honest, when there are no children in the audience I get a bit bored myself.

What does performing in Edinburgh mean to you?

For me it’s the best zoo ever. The quality of the other shows is inspiring.

The artists, the public, the reviewers… everybody raises their work to a special level.

I dig it.

What did you want to be when you were little?

Not a doctor or a fireman but understood, listened to, loved, not alone. I wanted to be someone else many times, funny, handsome, popular, clever and HAPPY! This year all kids shows will be reviewed by our tenstrong Kid’s Review Panel; Fest Force! If you were a superhero who would you be?

I would be SUPER 8 so I could talk for eternity, filming life as it is now but with eyes from the past! Or I could transform dreams into reality in a snap of my fingers.

Assembly Roxy, 12:55pm – 2:05pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, £12 – £14

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11:00 Planet of the Japes Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 2-4 Aug, £free

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Joe Munrow: Jazz Monkey Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

BBC: Shaun Keaveny BBC@Potterrow, 23 Aug, £free Daily at the BBC BBC@Potterrow, 2-25 Aug, £free

10:15 Bespoke Comedy for the Discerning Family Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-11 Aug, £free

10:30 The Improv of Being Earnest theSpace on North Bridge, 21-24 Aug, £5 BBC: MacAulay & Co BBC@Potterrow, 5-23 Aug, weekdays only, £free ❤ Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up! Uncensored HHHH Assembly Hall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £16

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11:40 The Twins Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-18 Aug, not 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, £4 – £6 The Birmingham Footnotes Disagree Just The Tonic at the Caves, 2-11 Aug, £5

11:50

Ray Fordyce’s Brunchtime Banter Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

UCL Graters: Crab Salad Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9.50

BBC: Loose Ends BBC@Potterrow, 17 Aug, £free

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11:05 Alexander Bennett’s Afraid Of The Dark Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-25 Aug, £free Dark Side of the Sun theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £6

11:10 Bridget Christie - A Bic for Her HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £10

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An Arab Woman’s View of Life Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-3 Aug, £free

Shall We Just See This One? Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-12 Aug, £free

Death Ship 666! - The Titanic Parody Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4-25 Aug, £free

Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £8

Pretty On the Inside The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £7 Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH’s Free Fringe Henry’s Cellar Bar, 3-24 Aug, not 15, £free Big Value Comedy’s Lunchtime Club Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £3 – £6 M.P.H.: A Comedy Compendium Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free Princess Savage Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Surname and Surname Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free The God Particle Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

Tristan Garrel Cambridge Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-17 Aug, £free In Cahoots Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, £free Our Father Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 14-25 Aug, £free The Donfather Just The Tonic at the Caves, 2-9 Aug, £6 Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 The Human Condition Free Show Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free Do a Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-13 Aug, £free Gusset Grippers Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, £free

12:05 Crunch the News The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, £free

12:10 Mike Wozniak - Take The Hit The Stand Comedy Club II, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8 Domestic Science The Canons’ Gait, 3-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

12:15 Funny Women Pop Up Fringe Le Monde, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10 Joby Mageean: Condiment Soup Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 1-15 Aug, £free JAM Comedy Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-11 Aug, £free MI4 Espionage - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3-25 Aug, £free Remember That I Love You Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

12:20 Stick Man Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 12-25 Aug, not 15, £free Ellievision Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-24 Aug, not 15, £free In the Words of Meat Loaf...

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Staple/face: Bathtime With Tom’s Dad The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £free

12:30 Patrick Turpin: Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy, Asking Him to Love Her Bannermans, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free

Suman Biswas: Free After Amateur Transplants Whynot? , 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £free The Bravery Test Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 6-25 Aug, £free The Lunchtime Ferret Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9-18 Aug, £free Smells Like Shit ...

Tastes Like Chicken Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4-8 Aug, £free The Lunchtime Special Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £3 – £6 Worst Show On the Fringe - Free Bristo Bar & Kitchen, 3-24 Aug, £free About Comedy: StandUp Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, Various dates from 3 Aug to 24 Aug, £99 Absolute Improv Workshop theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 5 Aug, £195 Double D’s with Jenna Wimshurst and Caroline Bridgwater Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-5 Aug, £free Bog Standard Britain The Royal Scots Club, 16-17 Aug, £10

12:40 Steve Richards’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics 2 Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12.50

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comedylistings ❤ Tony Law: Nonsense Overdrive HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10

12:45 The Human Centrepiece Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

Frimston and Rowett: A Sketch Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, £free Giraffe: Sketchy Comedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £9.50 Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7

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Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-3 Aug, £free

Ghosts of the Happy and High-Spirited Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free

Ben Champion: Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £9

Charles Booth: We Cool?

The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Lebensmüde - a Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, £free Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 3-25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £9.50 – £10.50 Benefit Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 5-17 Aug, not 11, 12, £7.50

12:50 Helen O’Brien: Bronagh’s Big Weekend Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

12:55 The Bear Pit Comedy Podcast podcast Southsider, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free Sofa Specific Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

13:00 Barry on Arthur’s Seat Summit of Arthur’s Seat, 3-25 Aug, £free

Dahle and Jones on a Plate - Free The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 19, £free BBC: Front Row BBC@Potterrow, 15 Aug, £free

Matthew Collins: Puzzled Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free Soup The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Austerity Pleasures Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free Big Comedy Lunch Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Martin Croser - Funny Bone China The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free

Dan & Dan Live: The First Sign of Madness The Canons’ Gait, 3-24 Aug, not 13, 20, £free

Damn Danes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-7 Aug, £free

Cookstown Sizzling Comedy Club Presents the Irishtorats of Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free

Late Night Laughs at Lunch - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £free

When I Grow Up Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £9

13:05 Revill’s Selection - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

13:10 Katie Mulgrew: Your Dad’s Not Funny HHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £6 – £7 Holland and Barker: How to Be... A Man. The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Jessie Cave and Jenny Bede: Ain’t too Proud to Beg Henry’s Cellar Bar, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10

The Blank Slates Chiquito, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

13:15 Alistair Green: Ping Pong Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 2-25 Aug, not 13, £free

This Is Soap: The Improvised Soap Opera C venues - C, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50 53 Minutes about 52 Sheep (60 Minutes Long) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 8-24 Aug, £free Afternoon Delight Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, 17, 18, £2.50 – £5 Josh Ross and Sunil Patel Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-26 Aug, £free Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

13:20 Kindness The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Baconface - It’s All Bacon! HHH The Stand Comedy Club II, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £5 Amnesty’s Secret Comedy Podcast Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £7 Best of the Fest Daytime Assembly George Square, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £12.50

13:25 Jonny Donahoe: Class Whore Underbelly, Bristo Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £6 – £8.50 Rob Lloyd: Who, Me Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9

13:30 Afternoon Delight Just The Tonic at the Caves, 17-18 Aug, £5 Frost and Ireland: Beautiful Mess Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12-20 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50 Thünderbards HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £5 – £8 ❤ Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Amused Moose Laugh Off Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 11 Aug, £10 Cecilia Delatori: Quick, Quick, Slough!

Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free Nick Bowling Laughs in the Face of Death for 45 Minutes and Then Asks Him Politely to Leave Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15-25 Aug, not 21, £free The Hill and Weedon Fan Club Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-14 Aug, £free Thpethial Le Monde, 15-25 Aug, £5 – £10 Catherine Semark: Shadow Ape The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, £free Lead Pencil Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Multi-Levelled Morons - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free

13:40 CatSoup: Out of the Bag SpaceCabaret @ 54, 20-24 Aug, £4 Does My Face Look Big In This Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 19 Aug, £6 – £9

13:45 The Barnes Identity Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-11 Aug, £free Unprepared For Life Whynot? , 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Will Sidgwick Presents Will Sidgwick - Live Pilgrim, 2-22 Aug, £free Alex and Alexis Should Not Be Friends The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Afternoon Delight Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 17-25 Aug, £free Hannah Gadsby: Nakedy Nudes Assembly Checkpoint, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £6 – £11 An Improvised Improv Show - Free Show Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-25 Aug, £free PC, Mac and Me: The Funny Side of Computers Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 2-25 Aug, £free Mark Olver: Dancing About Architecture Assembly Checkpoint, 5-22 Aug, not 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, £8 Nick Hall: Live!

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comedylistings A Complete and Comprehensive History of the Roman Empire in Less Than an Hour With Jokes Bannermans, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Daly’s Comedy Club @ The Edinburgh Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

13:50 Quest For Comedy!

Paradise in The Vault, 5-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £7.50

14:00 This Arthurs Seat Gala Belongs to Lionel Richie Summit of Arthur’s Seat, 17 Aug, £free Lucy Frederick - In Pursuit of Cool Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Eric’s Tales of the Sea A Submariner’s Yarn Just The Tonic at the Caves, 2-25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10.50 BBC: The Richard Bacon Programme BBC@Potterrow, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £free Sarah Hendrickx: Time Traveller Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, £free My Name Is Sue Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12-26 Aug, £13.50 – £14.50 The Durham Revue: Friends Without Benefits Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10 BrainSex Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7 – £12 BBC: The Culture Studio BBC@Potterrow, Various dates from 5 May to 14 Aug, £free Barry Castagnola: The Donny Donkins ‘As (hopefully soon to be) Seen On TV’ Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 Instant Sunshine Pleasance Dome, 2-10 Aug, £10

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14:25

Three Half Pints theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8

10 Films with My Dad The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, £free

14:10 Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast The Stand Comedy Club, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

14:15 Gagging for Attention Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £2 – £3 The Edinburgh Revue: Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1-26 Aug, not 14, £free Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 8-11 Aug, £13.50 – £14.50 Rob Collins: Jesus Christ Flew Into the Cuckoo’s Nest Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free Zapp and Dembina Comedy After Lunch / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Raph ‘n’ Simon Solve a Murda The Dram House Upstairs, 14-24 Aug, not 20, £free The Coin-Operated Girl - A Sex Workers Real Life Revelations of Frivolous Fornications!

The Dram House, 2-24 Aug, £free

14:20 Tony Jameson Football Manager Ruined My Life The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £7

Bob Graham - Animal Person Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £free Love Chiquito, 3-13 Aug, not 8, £free Be Careful What You Wish For with Alice Lashman Madogs Cocktail Bar & Grill, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Captain Alan of Canary Wharf Chiquito, 14-24 Aug, £free

14:30 Amy Wright’s Occupation El Barrio, 3-23 Aug, £free Silky: It Was This Show Or Have Kids The Stand Comedy Club II, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8 Xaablargh the Conqueror’s Guide to Humons Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 19-25 Aug, £free Phillip and Marjorie’s Marriage Preparation Course for Regular People and The Gays The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 11, 14, 21, £free ❤ Arthur Smith HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 3-18 Aug, £10 – £12 Charlie Smith: Too Tall for the Ride Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-13 Aug, £free Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final City Edinburgh, 18 Aug, £12.50

Patrick Morris: Standing Up and Saying Things Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free Sy+ Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Women of an Uncertain Age Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £5 – £9.50 DillyDolly Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14-25 Aug, £free Full of It: The True or False Game Show - The 2 Fat F*cks on Holiday Tour 2013 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Ian Fox - Shutter Monkey - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

14:35 Nathaniel Metcalfe: Enthusiast HHH The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

14:40 Mr Susie’s To Earth With Love Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £3 – £6 Marcus Brigstocke presents Unavailable for Comment Underbelly, Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £8 – £13

14:44 Adam Larter and Ali Brice: Plumpy’nut Heroes @ The Hive, 3-25 Aug, £5

14:45

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketch Show Opium, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free The Little Wheel Sketch Show Citrus Club , 17-23 Aug, £free First World Problems - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3-25 Aug, £free Greener on the Other Side Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-26 Aug, not 15, £free Gary Colman Grind - Free Whistlebinkies, 3-24 Aug, £free Gráinne Maguire’s One Hour All Night Election Special Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 16 Aug, £6 – £10 Obie: A Comedian’s Guide to Improving Your Memory.

Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Collier and Cox: Single, No Return Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 Dressing Down Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Raph Shirley: A Portrait of a Provincial Dickhead Bristo Bar & Kitchen, 3-24 Aug, not 17, £free Three Men and a Saucepan - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free

Now I’m 64! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8

14:50 John Williams: My Son’s Not Rainman Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8 Shirley and Shirley: Carnage Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 17 Aug, £6 – £11

15:00 Dan Willis: The Walking Dead Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 2-25 Aug, £free Showcatcher Assembly George Square, 6-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50 – £10

The Maydays: Confessions Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Joz Norris Has Gone Missing Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

The Lost Letters of Cathy G Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

Max Fletcher - Fail Beter The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 14, 20, £free

The Peculiar Case of Kemsley and Todd The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 19, £free

AAA Batteries (Not Included) - Free Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, £free

Here She Be Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, £free

❤ Mitch Benn is the 37th Beatle HHHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10

Laura Levites: Selfhelpless Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £9

Aaaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, £free

Atella the Pun Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Bristol Improv Presents... / PBH’s Free Fringe Whynot? , 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

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Laugh Support Machine - Free Base Nightclub, 3 Aug, 24 Aug, £free

God, Greed and Football Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 13, 19, £4 – £6

How to Make a Killing in Bollywood Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 10 Aug, 11 Aug, £5 – £11.50

Toby Explains the Universe The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 20, £free

Secrets of the Elders of Zion Paradise in The Vault, 5-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7

15:10 Charmian Hughes: Odd One In The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Stuart Laws Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until You are Dead (1hr Show) Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 15, 22, £free

15:15 Eric and Little Ern Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £6.50 – £12.50 Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 5-25 Aug, £free Unmanageable Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Neil Hickey: Escape Artist Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

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comedylistings BBC: The Unbelievable Truth BBC@Potterrow, 15 Aug, £free Catriona Knox: Player Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10 The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £5 – £10

15:20 The Oxford Revue: With Bits Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10 Short & Curly - A Ripe Pear Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free The St Andrews Revue Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7.50 Tania Edwards: The Art of War Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9

15:30 Wardens Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 14, £8.50 – £13.50 Ellis & Rose: Big in Denmark Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, not 19, £5 Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive HHH Globe, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Men With Coconuts City Edinburgh, 4-23 Aug, not 10, 13, 17, 18, £free Nadia Kamil in: Wide Open Beavers! HHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £6 – £7

Comedy Death: True Horror Stories from the Circuit The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Eleanor Thom: I Am Bev HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10 Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh!

So It Goes - John Fleming’s Comedy Blog Chat Show Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 19-23 Aug, £5 Are You a Technophile?

- Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Mark Stephenson: Half Man Half Amazing The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, £free The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Bonanza / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

15:35 Britain’s Got F*ck All Talent! 2013 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7

15:40 The News at Kate 2013: World Inaction The Canons’ Gait, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free Michael Legge - Free Wi-Fi The Stand Comedy Club II, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8 Simon Munnery: Fylm HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10

Susie McCabe: An Uncivil Partnership New Town Bar, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £8

Dave Griffiths: C U In Court Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

Awkward Hawk - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free

Men With Coconuts The Canons’ Gait, 13 Aug, £free

Don’t Drop the Egg Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Roll It in Sequins Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10

Philip O’Shea Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 2-25 Aug, not 23, 24, £free

That Pair: Never Liked Her Anyway Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-23 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

This Is Your Trial Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 5-9 Aug, £free – £500

The Good, the Bad and the Morally Ambiguous Chiquito, 3-24 Aug, £free

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15:45

Ross vs Violich - Pistols at 3.55pm The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Poetic Justice The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, £free But It’s My Birthday!

Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, not 3, 14, £free

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Making Faces: Calm and Collected Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9-25 Aug, not 14, 20, £free Subtlety with Ed Mayhew Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-8 Aug, £free

Rob Auton: The Sky Show The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Robin (A One-Man Comedy) Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

Kriss Foster and Friend Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10 Chris Fitchew in Jack of All Trades Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £5 – £11

15:50 Quiz in My Pants The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Adam Strauss: The Mushroom Cure Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10 The Tim Vine Chat Show Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £free – £17

Karl Schultz: Start the Karl HH Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £5

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 12-17 Aug, £12.50 – £14.50

❤ Joseph Morpurgo Truthmouth HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

In Bits Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

❤ Rachel Parris: The Commission HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

LOLympics Live - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

Ain’t It Awkward - Harriet Dyer and Freddie Farrell Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

Chris Henry Isn’t Musical!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, £free

Sunday Fundraiser New Town Bar, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £free

I Am Happy!

Le Monde, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

Casual Violence Presents: House of Nostril Pleasance Courtyard, 4-25 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Stella Graham - A Pint of Stella Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free

How Do I Get Up There?

The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7

The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 11, £free

Matt Forde: The Political Party Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 16 Aug, £6 – £10

The Human Being’s Guide to Not Being a Dick About Religion The Dram House Upstairs, 11-24 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Ben Verth: What Is This Place?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 30 Jul - 25 Aug, not 8 Aug, 15 Aug, £3 – £5 Bec Hill: Bec by Popular Demand HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 – £8 Funeral Addict Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free Licence to Laugh Comedy Club - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3-25 Aug, £free Michael J Dolan: Nothing Will Ever Be Alright Again, Ever Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9

Sandi Toksvig My Valentine Pleasance Courtyard, 3-11 Aug, £14 Gein’s Family Giftshop Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Nick Helm: One Man Mega Myth HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £7 – £14

16:05 Farce Noir Presents...

The Big Sheep HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10

16:10 Fraser Millward’s Masquerade!

Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50 Peter Antoniou: Comedium Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £5 – £7 Ben Van der Velde’s Chain Letter HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £11 Who’s Driving Adam? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5-10 Aug, £6

16:15 Vampire Hospital Waiting Room - Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19-25 Aug, £free Bec Hill and Patrick Monahan’s Hour of Fun! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £10 Twins The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 19, £free Funny Bones and Wisdom Teeth Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £free

Ahir Shah: Anatomy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free Demitris Deech Isn’t Sick!

Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-26 Aug, £free A Tiny Gang in Some Sketches They Wrote Whynot? , 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Gerardine Coyne: Venus in Fuzz Bannermans, 4-23 Aug, not 10, 17, £free John-Luke Roberts: Broken Stand-Up The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free Morgan and West: A Grand Adventure Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Talking to Strangers on Buses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

16:20 Paul Savage - Cheerful Shambles Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free Gyles Brandreth: Looking For Happiness Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £10 – £17 ❤ Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster: Just a Normal Girl Doing a Cool Show HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

16:25 Stewart Lee - Much A-Stew About Nothing The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £10

16:30 Dan Cook: Community Service HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10 Katie Goodman: I Didn’t F*ck It Up Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £10 Sad Faces Threw a Party Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50 The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- Live Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 – £14

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comedylistings Chris Kent: Second Fix Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 2 Aug, 13 Aug, £5 – £9.50 Gamarjobat (ga-ma-jobat) Rock Out! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £6 – £13 BBC: In Tune BBC@Potterrow, 16 Aug, £free Live Bait Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £free Croft & Pearce Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £5 – £9 Flipper Committed Suicide Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free Hannah Gadsby: Happiness is a Bedside Table Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 – £11

16:35 AntiGraham Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £12 Jack Jerome Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, £free

16:40 John Lloyd: Liff of QI HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £13 Alan Hudson: Magician or Superhero?

Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £11 Peter Searles: Bolivia & Beyond The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 19, 20, 21, £8 ❤ Fanfiction Comedy HHHHH Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10

Tamar Broadbent: Almost Epic Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50 Bob Slayer: Worldwide Bawbag Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-31 Aug, not 21, 27, 28, £5 The Only Way Is Downton Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £6.50 – £11

The Oxford Revue Presents - Free The Canons’ Gait, 3-25 Aug, £free

17:00 BBC: Comic Fringes BBC@Potterrow, 12 Aug, £free Milo McCabe: Schiz Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10.50

Fin Taylor - Cramp Globe, 3-24 Aug, £free

Upstairs Downton Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, £5

Jody Kamali: Livewire - Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Alan Irwin: The Idiot Wind - Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Shhhh - An Improvised Silent Movie Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7

Going Dark!

The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Danny Ward - Pressure Point Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-25 Aug, £free Jigsaw - Jiggle It Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £12 ❤ Sam Fletcher Drawn-out Jokes HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £10 Darren Walsh: I am a Giant Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, £free – £5 BEASTS Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10

16:50 Sally-Anne Hayward Hey Follower!

The Stand Comedy Club II, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8 Darts Wives Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 12 Aug, £6 – £11

Red Bastard Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 7, 14, £7 – £13

Ellie and Oscar Share a Time The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

16:45

Ladyboner C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Yianni in Think Big The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free

16:55

Lenny Peters - Lost in Nonsense Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Manos Kanellos: Greekonomics Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £4 – £7

It’s Not Really There El Barrio, 3-23 Aug, not 12, £free Lewis Schaffer Is Free Until Famous - 20th Year Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free The Real MacGuffins Come Again Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10 Zoe Lyons - Pop-up Comic The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, £9 – £10 Yori Yori Love Chat Luisa and Pat Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-10 Aug, £free 42: My Life, My Universe, My Everything Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free All Our Friends Are Dead Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free Adam Kay: How to Be a Bogus Doctor HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £6 – £12 Chaos and Order - A True Story Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-28 Aug, not 16, 17, £free

The Leeds Tealights: The Ultimate Indoor Experience Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9 The G Spot New Town Bar, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6 Geoff Norcott Occasionally Sells Out Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9 ❤ The Play That Goes Wrong HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £12.50 BBC: The Unbelievable Truth BBC@Potterrow, 15 Aug, £free Drei, Zwei, Eins mit Flange Krammer Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, £free Aberdeen vs Glasgow vs The World - Final Round - Free Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, £free Christian Schulte-Loh: Attack of the 50 Foot German Comedian Base Nightclub, 3-24 Aug, not 13, 20, £free Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

17:05 Flyerman 2 - This Time It’s Funny! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 13, 20, £5 – £7 Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £9 Jessica Fostekew: Moving The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, £free A Lighthearted Alternative to Culture - Free Mood Nightclub, 3-13 Aug, not 5, 12, £free Sarah Campbell: Isn’t It Fun???

The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, not 15, £free

ComedySportz @ Laughing Horse Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18-25 Aug, £free

❤ Sight Gags for Perverts HHHH The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 14, £free

I Wanna Be Like You Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16-17 Aug, £free

Stephen K Amos Talk Show Pleasance Courtyard, 21-24 Aug, £12 – £13

17:10

The Tim Vine Chat Show Pleasance Courtyard, 19-20 Aug, £13

Life Winner Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free

Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 1-18 Aug, not 6, 13, £6 – £13

17:20

Lucy Porter – Northern Soul The Stand Comedy Club, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £9 – £10 Mae Martin: Slumber Party HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10.50

17:15 Bruce Fummey - Gaelic in the Afternoon Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £3 – £5 Gravity Boots Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9 Matthew Highton’s It Came from the Mud HH Whistlebinkies, 3-25 Aug, £free Split Shift Opium, 3-13 Aug, £free Present and Correct Citrus Club , 3-23 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Rosie Wilby: Is Monogamy Dead?

Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £5 – £9 Slap and Giggle: Recharged Opium, 14-24 Aug, £free The Comedian’s Comedian Live With Stuart Goldsmith Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9 Two Tickets to the Gum Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Cambridge Footlights: Canada Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Gower Hour La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Paul Gannon Aint Afraid Of No Ghost Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 Funny Women Pop Up Fringe Le Monde, 15-25 Aug, not 17, 24, £10

17:25 Phil Ellis: Unplanned Orphan HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Rhys James Prepares / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-26 Aug, not 13, £free

17:30 Benny Boot: As Seen On TV Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £11 Heavy Petting / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 16-25 Aug, £free Mark Restuccia - The Diary of a Serial Internet Dater Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50 McDaniel and Callaghan Pilgrim, 3-24 Aug, £free

Who Ya Gonna Call?

The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

The Exciting Adventure of an Uninteresting Man Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 7, £free

Pam Ford - Happy In Your Skin?

Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £free

The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun The Jazz Bar, 3-25 Aug, £6

Jarlath Regan - Djarlo Unchained The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10

Tom Webb’s Wedding Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, £free

Adam Belbin - The Other Half of Next Year’s Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

David Mills: The Gospel Truth Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £5 BBC: Just a Minute BBC@Potterrow, 13 Aug, £free

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comedylistings Sion James and Friends - Free!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14-25 Aug, £free Sucker Punch Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-13 Aug, £free A Danish Bagpipe Comedian Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-15 Aug, £free Brothers and Sisters...

It’s The Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolfe III Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7.50 – £13.50 Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50 How to Be Awesome at Everything Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-25 Aug, £free

James Christopher: What Are You Doing Here?

The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Knightmare Live HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 14 Aug, £7 – £11.50 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Pekka and Strangebone’s Comedy Showpiece The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Chastity Butterworth & The Spanish Hamster Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

17:45 Comedy and Cupcakes Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3-25 Aug, £free Ian Smith - Anything HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Pat Cahill: Start HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Sam Lloyd: Fully Committed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6.50 – £12.50

17:40

At Wit’s End C venues - C aquila, 1126 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Will Franken: Concert to Benefit the Victims of My Father HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10

Diane Spencer: Hurricane Diane Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Kieran Hodgson - Flood Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 15 Aug, £6 – £10

Gordon Southern: The Kerfuffle Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £12

A Pile of Wit C venues - C aquila, 1-10 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50 Sympathy for the Revill Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

17:50 Not Suitable for Drinking Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free Phil Wang: Anti-Hero HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Slightly Fat Features Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £13 Mary Bourke: Muffragette HH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8

18:00

Inn, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £free

Stephen Carlin: Gambling Man Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £6 – £12

Old Men Can’t Jump Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9-18 Aug, £free

Susan Calman: Always (A Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-12 Aug, £10

Tim Renkow and Dave Millett Are Meandering With Purpose Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, £5

Adam Hess and David Elms HH Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, £5

Alexei Sayle The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £12

Total Hero Team The Dram House Upstairs, 3-17 Aug, £free

Colin Hoult: Characthorse Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Harry Deansway: Wrong Way Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9 Ivo Graham: Binoculars HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Maureen Younger: The Outsider - Free Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive

Gavin Webster: Don’t Give Any Money to Comic Relief and Other Opinions The Stand Comedy Club II, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8 Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

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comedylistings Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Aidan Goatley is On the Mend The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, £free

Rory and Tim: On the House The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 13, £free

Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, £free

Pun Run The Canons’ Gait, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £free

Chris Henry Stands Up Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, £free

Birthday Girls: 2053 HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 Mixed Doubles Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9.50 Matt Okine: Being Black & Chicken & S#%t Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £12 Over It - Death, Anorexia, and Other Funny Things Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3-25 Aug, £free Yianni in Think Big (The Big One) Venue150 @ EICC, 25 Aug, £10 Scott of the Antarctic: The Musical The Dram House Upstairs, 18-24 Aug, £free David Kay The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 19 Aug, £10 Kevin Dewsbury Out Now Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Four Screws Loose in Screwtopia!

Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10.50 Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £7 – £10 If the Queen Can Have an Official Birthday, So Can I, and These 22 Days Are It The Canons’ Gait, 3-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

18:10 4Play Comedy Chiquito, 11-17 Aug, £free Festival of the Spoken Nerd - Full Frontal Nerdity Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £12

Nathan Cassidy: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free At It @ 6.15 Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free Murder, She Didn’t Write Sweet Grassmarket, 1225 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 No Moral Compass Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

All-Nude College-Girl Revue or How I Made It Through the LSE SpaceCabaret @ 54, 19-24 Aug, £6 – £7

Sean McLoughlin: Backbone Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Free Footlights The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, £free

Good Breeding Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Dobbing and Hamdi The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, £free

Chris Dangerfield: How I Spent £150,000 on Chinese Prostitutes Heroes @ The Hive, 5-24 Aug, £free

Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Psychic Fayre Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £14.50

Rod Woodward: Funny Turn Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

David Sedaris - An Evening With David Sedaris Venue150 @ EICC, 17-24 Aug, £20

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [E] The Banshee Labyrinth, 11-12 Aug, £free

Twice as Nice Comedy hosted by Sam Deards Dropkick Murphy’s, 3-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

Fat Chav Le Monde, 16-25 Aug, not 17, 24, £5 – £8.50

WitTank presents The School Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

18:30

Nik Coppin - Mixed Racist (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Gangshow Just The Tonic at the Caves, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £7 – £9

18:05

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [G] The Banshee Labyrinth, 15-16 Aug, £free

Comedian? No. Just Italian Free Fringe George, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

Edward Aczel - Lives in a Meaningless Shed Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11

Bollywood Rejects Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, £free Flhip Flhop Assembly Checkpoint, 19-26 Aug, £10 – £12 Mick Ferry: Has Been Found Wanting Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [I] The Banshee Labyrinth, 19-20 Aug, £free

Tickling Jock: By Night Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 7 Aug, 21 Aug, £12

Mike Newall: Six Weddings Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

BBC: It’s Not What You Know BBC@Potterrow, 6 May, 6 Aug, £free

Griff Rees Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

The Pin HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £11

Rob Carter: Murder (and other hobbies) HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10.50

Keith Farnan: Fear Itself HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- Live Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 – £14

Ruth E. Cockburn Doesn’t Even Smoke Madogs Cocktail Bar & Grill, 3-24 Aug, £free

18:15

18:20

I’m Fine, You? The Street, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £free Australia is F*cked Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free

Rick Kiesewetter: Chink Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, £free The Thinking Drinker’s Guide to Alcohol The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10 ❤ Aisling Bea: C’est La Bea HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10.50 Javier Jarquin: Joke Ninja Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £10 NewsRevue 2013 Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 14 Aug, £9 – £16

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [F] The Banshee Labyrinth, 13-14 Aug, £free

18:40

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [Z] The Banshee Labyrinth, 23-24 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [B] The Banshee Labyrinth, 5-6 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [D] The Banshee Labyrinth, 9-10 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [A] The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-4 Aug, £free

Sarah Millican - Home Bird The Stand Comedy Club, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £11 – £12

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [H] The Banshee Labyrinth, 17-18 Aug, £free Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [J] The Banshee Labyrinth, 21-22 Aug, £free

Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, £free – £10 Luke and Harry’s Journey to Sex Colony 01 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-24 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £5 – £10

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comedylistings Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [C] The Banshee Labyrinth, 7-8 Aug, £free

18:50

18:45

Romesh Ranganathan Rom Com HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Tig Notaro: Boyish-Girl Interrupted Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16-25 Aug, £14 – £15 Chris Griffin and Patrick Mulholland: Contrast and Compare Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free New Art Club: Feel About Your Body HHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £14 Janey Godley Is Ungagged Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 15 Aug, £5 – £12 Anti-Clever Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Benjamin Crellin: Comic of Duty Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-25 Aug, £free Killing Miss D Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-15 Aug, £free Offal Comedienne Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 17-25 Aug, £free How to Be Rich and Thin Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Henry Paker: Classic Paker HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Mat Ricardo: Showman Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Lee Camp: Destruction!

Distraction! Evolution?

HHH Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £12

18:55 Steve Bugeja Tries Hard Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

19:00 BBC: Just a Minute BBC@Potterrow, 13 Aug, £free Ardal O’Hanlon The Assembly Rooms, 12-18 Aug, £15 Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23-25 Aug, £15 James Acaster Lawnmower HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12 Sex Guru Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50 – £12.50 The Beta Males in ...

Superopolis Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11.50 Tony Dunn Against the Psychopaths Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-13 Aug, £free

Chris Stokes Tells It Like It Possibly Could Potentially Might Be Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9 Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 Joe Bor Is Jasper Cromwell Jones Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £5 – £11 The Noise Next Door: Soundhouse Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £7 – £14 Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister Look at the State of Britain The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £8 – £9 Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

Rob Delaney Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20-21 Aug, £19.50 Rowena Haley: There’s More to Life Than Chips Southsider, 3-24 Aug, £free Al Murray - The Pub Landlord: The Only Way is Epic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16-17 Aug, £19.50 Damian Clark in G’Damo!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £10 Graham Clark: Afraid of the Clark Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 The G Spot New Town Bar, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6

19:05 Chris Martin: Passionate About the Pointless Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

David Morgan - Pretty Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

Shelf Life: Lotta Quizeen’s Guide to Managing the Modern Home theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8

❤ Jamie Demetriou: People Day HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Matt and Ian’s Improv Show Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

Jerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks and Close Up Magic The Assembly Rooms, 19-25 Aug, £15.50

Phil Kay Verbal Diary Heroes @ The Hive, 1-11 Aug, £5

A Midwife Crisis theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £6

Charlie Chuck’s Grande Night Out theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20-24 Aug, £8

19:10

Fernando - Taste the Difference Sweet Grassmarket, 12-24 Aug, not 14, 18, 21, £5

Seymour Mace Presents, Marmaduke Spatula’s F*ckin’ Spectacular Cabaret of Sunshine Show.

The Stand Comedy Club II, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8

TO N Y DUNN THE AGAINST

19:15 Ant Dewson: Now That’s What I Call Musical Comedy - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Lost in the Eighties The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Severe Blether Warning Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 1-26 Aug, £free Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide to Dating Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-24 Aug, £free ❤ Joe Lycett - If Joe Lycett Then You Should’ve Put a Ring On It HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Working Men’s Club Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Mr Ambiguousness The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free Away An’ Bile Yer Heid Globe, 3-24 Aug, £free Marlon Davis: Crackin’ Up Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £11 Rhys Mathewson - The Best £10 You’ll Ever Spend Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10 Tales from the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Andrew Maxwell: Banana Kingdom Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £15

AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £11 Casual Violence: Om Nom Nominous - Free The Voodoo Rooms, Various dates from 3 May to 17 Aug, £free

19:20 Vikki Stone - Definitely Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 14 Aug, £7 – £12 David O’Doherty: David O’Doherty Will Try to Fix Everything Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £15 Amazing Charity Comedy Gala theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 18 Aug, £15 Craig Hill - Tartan About!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50 – £14.50 Lights! Camera!

Improvise!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11 Bulletproof Jest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6 – £7

19:30 Adam Hills: Happyism Assembly Hall, 15-25 Aug, £13 – £14 Comedy Gala 2013: In Aid of Waverley Care Edinburgh Playhouse, 22 Aug, £25 Jimeoin: Yes,Yes, Whatever...?!

Venue150 @ EICC, 9-18 Aug, £15 – £17.50

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comedylistings ❤ Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent HHHH The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £10

Bruce Fummey - The Jacobites and Bonnie Prince Charlie Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Paul Foot: Words Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £12

❤ David Baddiel Fame: Not the Musical HHHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 11 Aug, £7.50 – £17.50

Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans - Wonder & Joy HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 1-24 Aug, not 14, 21, £free The Wireless Podcast - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Iain Stirling: At Home HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Jenny Eclair: Eclairious HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-17 Aug, £13.50 – £14.50 Lee Nelson Live Assembly George Square, 12-24 Aug, £17.50 Paul F Taylor Presents The Greatest Show In The World Ever The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

I Am the Tag Team Champions Studio 24, 24 Aug, £7 Milton Jones On The High Road Assembly Hall, 2-14 Aug, not 5, 6, £16.50 Sean Hughes Penguins HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £7.50 – £15 Bookshop Comedy Encore to the End of August Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 27-31 Aug, £5

19:35 Rory O’Hanlon: Don’t Drink Don’t Smoke The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Luke Toulson: I Don’t Know How I Feel About My Kids - Free The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, £free

Big Value Comedy Show - Early Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

Elegant Nymphs Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £4 – £8

John Gordillo: Cheap Shots at the Defenceless The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10

19:40

The Appalling Carly Smallman HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10

Daniel Rigby: Berk in Progress Assembly Checkpoint, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £5

Tim FitzHigham: Challenger Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £7 – £12.50 Will Mars: Americana Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Lords of Strut Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £8 – £13 Matt Lacey: Classroom Warrior - Free The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 13, 19, £free Alistair McGowan: Damn Labels!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 18 Aug to 25 Aug, £13.50 – £14.50

Tony Law: Night-Time Nonsense Overdrive The Assembly Rooms, 25 Aug, £12

Tom Wrigglesworth: Utterly at Odds with the Universe Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12

Chris Mayo’s Identity Crisis Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50

Tanyalee Davis - Big Trouble in Little ‘Gina The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10

Reginald D Hunter: In the Midst of Crackers Pleasance Courtyard, 9-24 Aug, not 13, 19, £15 – £17

Improvabunga - Some Sort of Improv Show theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £5 – £7

Jason Manford - First World Problems Venue150 @ EICC, 2025 Aug, £17.50

Waking Up to Myself!

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 30 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £free

Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £12

20:10

The Prima Party Scrapbook Sweet Grassmarket, 1-18 Aug, £8

19:45

Thrice Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Rik n Mix Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Beard Envy Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

The Colour Ham Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-24 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £5 – £11 Rock and Dole Opium, 3-24 Aug, £free 2 Irish Men Walk into a Bar - In a Yurt Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Faux Latino Show Pony HH Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10.50 Mark Dolan - You’re Awesome!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £10 Standing Up For Something La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, £free Slaughterhouse Live Just The Tonic at the Caves, 19-22 Aug, £10 Instant Order: Trial By Audience The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Paco Erhard: Djerman Unchained Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Jon Bennett: My Dad’s Deaths Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Stay at Home Dad Citrus Club , 3-20 Aug, £free

Pick Me Up Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

Ronny Chieng: The Ron Way Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

Laughter On the Outskirts - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, £free

Fred MacAulay: 25 Fringes The Assembly Rooms, 1-23 Aug, not 14, £14 – £15

Bobby Mair - Obviously Adopted HH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

19:50

It’s Me Dayne HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £5 – £8 Panto-monium: An Adult Pantomime for Gentlemen and Gentleladies Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

19:55 The Shambles C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

20:00 BBC: Clare in the Community BBC@Potterrow, 16 Aug, £free Sara Pascoe vs the Truth HHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12

Lewis Schaffer Is Better Than You Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 Paul Zerdin: No Strings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £12.50 Dr Professor Neal Portenza’s Interactive Goat Hour: There are no goats and the show is only 54 minutes long, excluding the bonus minute The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, £free BBC: The News Quiz BBC@Potterrow, 8 Aug, £free Bob Doolally: A Life in Football The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 12 Aug, £10 Norman Lovett - Old and New The Voodoo Rooms, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10

BBC: Vic Galloway BBC@Potterrow, 5 Aug, £free

Richard Herring - We’re All Going to Die! Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £7 – £14

Bourke and No Hair Bristo Bar & Kitchen, 3-24 Aug, £free

BBC: Jazz House BBC@Potterrow, 7 Aug, £free

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

Employees of the Month: Glenn Moore and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, £free

So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15 Terry Alderton: Season 4 HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £13.50 Tommy Holgate: Good Spirits Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, £5 A Panda Suit, Pythagoras and Plenty of Puns Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-22 Aug, not 13, £3 – £5 Can You Put This in the Bin for Me? - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 16-25 Aug, £free Michael Fabbri: Buffering Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-25 Aug, £free

Playing Politics Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50

20:05 Eric Davidson Brigadoom theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £10 Jim Campbell: Stupid Animals Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11

Nish Kumar - Nish Kumar is a Comedian HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £11 Julia Sutherland - Fat Chance The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 5 Aug, 19 Aug, £8 Lost Voice Guy - A Voice of Choice The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £8 Matt Green - Alive Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Simon Evans: Leashed HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £6 – £12 Jeff Mirza: Meet Abu Hamsta and Paki Bashir-From Allah with Love Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £5 – £10

20:15 Gareth Richards: Gareth Goes Electric Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Light Relief Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £8.50 Yannis Pappas - The Happy Place Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 – £11 Lee Kern: Bitter Twitter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £9.50 Suzy Bennett - Dancing On Thin Ice Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £11.50 Wagapaga Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18-25 Aug, £free Miracles Etc Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £12

Thespianage theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £5

Caroline Rhea Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £10 – £14.50

Terry Clement: Din Times 8 Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11

Rob Deb BigBang Theory of Life Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-17 Aug, £free

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comedylistings Tom Rosenthal Благодаря HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

20:20 The News at Kate 2013: My Professional Opinion Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free Barnardo’s Big Comedy Benefit The Assembly Rooms, 12 Aug, £20

Tom Craine: Crying On A Waltzer Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!

Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £10 – £15

Mr Winchester: Classic Entertainment!

Pleasance Dome, 19-25 Aug, £10.50 – £14

Daniel Sloss: Stand-Up Venue150 @ EICC, 2-25 Aug, not 21, £10 – £17.50

Bob and Jim - Two Stars Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £6 – £10

Paul McCaffrey: Name in Lights Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, £6 – £10

Daniel Simonsen: Stranger HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50 – £11 Brian Appleton’s History of the World in 3 Darts Pleasance Dome, 5-11 Aug, £10 – £12 Martin Mor - How Do You Like Your Blue-eyed Boy Mister Death?

The Stand Comedy Club II, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £8 Max and Ivan: The Reunion Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50

20:25 Addy Time The Canons’ Gait, 3-25 Aug, £free

20:30 ❤ Alex Horne: Lies HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Age Against the Machine Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £free Benjamin Partridge: An Audience With Jeff Goldblum The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Livid Failure The Dram House Upstairs, 12-24 Aug, £free Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14 Phill Jupitus and Deborah FrancesWhite: Voices in Your Head - The Phill Jupitus Experiment HH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £14 Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay Is Going For A Number One Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £7 – £14 Alistair Barrie: Universal Adapter The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free Norwegians of Comedy The Dram House Upstairs, 3-10 Aug, £free BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2013 Edinburgh Heats BBC@Potterrow, 20-21 Aug, £7 Carl Donnelly: Now That’s What I Carl Donnelly! Volume V Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10 A-Z of Backpacking - Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free An Evening with Elaine C Smith Palais de Glaces Spiegeltent, 7 Aug, £25 Joey Page: Reality Is Outside, Paradise Is In Your Brain HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

20:40

Abandoman: Moonrock Boombox HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £14.50

Christian O’Connell: This Is 13 HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 20 Aug, £7 – £13.50 John Robertson - The Dark Room Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10 Hope & Gloria The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, £free My Name Is Christian Grey Chiquito, 12-24 Aug, £free Jimmy McGhie: Delusions of Candour Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Omid Djalili Live The Assembly Rooms, 13-25 Aug, £17.50

Bench Bites Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-25 Aug, not 10, 11, 19, £free

Kai Humphries Shameless Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £12

Jen Carnovale: Not a Person Person - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Japanese ‘Locky’ Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 7-25 Aug, £free The Jocks and Geordies Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 2-25 Aug, £free Toby Adams - Routine Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, £free Wilkinson Ford: Webmasters Base Nightclub, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Big Value Comedy Show - Late Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

Craig Campbell’s Thrilling Mic Hunt The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Death by Murder Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £7

Akmal Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £12.50

Free - 99 Club StandUp Selection - Cowgate Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

Blind Mirth Improv Comedy Paradise in The Vault, 13-26 Aug, not 19, £6

Best of Waterloo Comedy Club - Ralph D’iamond Hosts Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-6 Aug, £free

20:50

Evolution of iMaAN Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

Bronston Jones: Life’s Short. I’m Not! - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

Patrick Monahan Cake Charmer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 7 Aug, £5 – £12

Adventures On Air – Free!

Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £free

Jay Foreman: No More Colours Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11

20:45

Alistair Green Is Jack Spencer: Sex Addict Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50

Andrew Lawrence There Is No Escape Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6.50 – £13.50

20:55 Abigoliah Schamaun: Subtle Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 Bruce Dingerdik’s Top End Tour Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 18-26 Aug, £7 Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-24 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £10 Bob Doolally: A Life in Football The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 19 Aug, £9 David Kay The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 20 Aug, £10

Pajama Men - Just the Two of Each of Us Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10 – £15 Scott Capurro: Islamohomophobia The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10 Tumi Morake in HerStory Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £12 Wayne Thallon: Procreation Just The Tonic at the Caves, 6-25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10 Dear Ray The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, not 19, £free ❤ Henson Alternative’s Puppet Up! Uncensored HHHH Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 – £25 Jason Byrne’s Special Eye Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10 – £19.50 Josh Widdicombe: Incidentally... HHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 15 Aug, £10 – £13 Dead Famous Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, £free Spring Day: Learn How to Take a Punch - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £free

21:00

Best of So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-18 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, £6 – £10.50

Will You Hold My Hand?

Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10.50

Assemble: The Lovely Men - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 3-17 Aug, not 15, £free

Tom Binns Does Ivan Brackenbury and Others Heroes @ The Hive, 1-25 Aug, £5

Gary Lynch - Dark Charisma Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £free

Greg Proops Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 14 Aug, £9 – £14.50 Rocky Horror Night Frankenstein Pub, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £free Beardyman: One Album Per Hour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15-21 Aug, £13 – £14.50 Neil Delamere: Smartbomb Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £12 Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £5 The Fringe Comedy Academy: Class of 2013 The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 13 Aug, £6 The G Spot New Town Bar, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6

21:05 Stand Up Sat Down theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £3

21:10 Marcus Brigstocke: ‘Je m’accuse - I am Marcus’ Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £14 Alfie Brown: The Revolting Youth Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £11

21:15 Anil Desai’s Another Night at the Movies Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Charlie Baker: Baker’s Dozen Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £11 Gerry Howell: Seriousnessmus The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free 101 Comedy - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free From Beer to Paternity Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 4-25 Aug, not 20, £free Freda Chats Shittington Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Henning Wehn’s Authentic German Christmas Do Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £7.50 – £11.50

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comedylistings Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyoncé Do?!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-11 Aug, £7 – £13 Alan Davies: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15-26 Aug, not 20, 21, £13

21:20 Alan Committie: Fully Committied Assembly Roxy, 5-26 Aug, not 12, £11 – £12 Seann Walsh: The Lie-in King HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £7.50 – £13

Markus Birdman - Happily Ever After HHH The Stand Comedy Club II, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8 The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Howard Read: Hide and Speak HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12 John Robins - Where Is My Mind?

Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £11.50

Jonny & the Baptists: Bigger Than Judas HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 ❤ Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of You Either HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12

21:45 Alex Kealy and Friends Kilderkin, 3-24 Aug, not 15, £free David Quirk - Shaking Hands With Danger (AUS) HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50

The Essential Tom Stade: 12 Nights Only!

The Assembly Rooms, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £15

Mikey Avern: Absurd Projections Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-17 Aug, not 13, £3 – £5

Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £9

Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores Southsider, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £free

❤ Pete Firman Scoundrel HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £8.50 – £15

❤ Rich Hall HHHH Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £14

I Think So I’m Ready Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Ed Byrne – Roaring Forties Venue150 @ EICC, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £17.50 – £19.50

Brett Goldstein Contains Scenes of an Adult Nature Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11

Bruce Fummey - My Afro Celtic Angst Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Dana Alexander: Is This Really Happening?

The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8 Liam Mullone: Game Over Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9.50

21:25 Colin Geddis: Comments Disabled Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

21:30 The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Venue150 @ EICC, 12 Aug, £20 Horse & Louis’ Comedy Bingo! - FREE Laughing Horse @ New Empire Bingo, 16-17 Aug, £free KelFi & FiKel Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Carl Hutchinson: All the Rage Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Jem Brookes: Puntitled Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free

Gareth Richards: Gareth Goes Electric Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 – £10 Lloyd Langford: Galoot Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £11.50 Russell Kane: Smallness Pleasance Courtyard, 8-22 Aug, not 9, 10, 16, 17, £10 – £17.50 Suman Biswas: Still Alive After Amateur Transplants Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 18-25 Aug, £11

21:35 Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XVII The Canons’ Gait, 3-24 Aug, £free Mark Smith: The Most Astonishing Name in Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

21:40 George Ryegold: Adulterated Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50 The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape Pleasance Courtyard, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 13, £12 – £13.50

Ginger Nation The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Peacock & Gamble: Heart-throbs Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £11 Paul Pirie: Me Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 1-25 Aug, £free PowerCouple Stand-up Comedy from Stephen Bailey and Gary John Senior Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Alan Sharp: As Seen On...

The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-24 Aug, £free ❤ Gary Delaney 2: This Time It’s Not Personal HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12 Luke Benson: Legendary Feet Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10

21:50 Claudia O’Doherty: Pioneer Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £11.50 Alfie Moore - Viva Alf’s Vegas HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

The Quint Fontana 2013 Comeback Special The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free Glenn Wool: This Road Has Tolls HHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £14

22:00 Alex Williamson Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 31 Jul to 9 Aug, £5 – £11 Gay Straight Alliance Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-26 Aug, £free Katerina Vrana: Feta With The Queen Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £free The Sitcom Trials Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, £10 Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Venue150 @ EICC, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £17.50 Darius Davies’ HBÖ Special Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 2-25 Aug, £free Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Künt and the Gang Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, not 11, £free So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 4 Aug to 14 Aug, £10 ❤ Felicity Ward: Irregardless HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £13 A A and A Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4-22 Aug, not 9, 10, 16, 17, £free #LazyTitle Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free Carey Marx: Intensive Carey Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Foil, Arms and Hog Late Night Irish Sketch Comedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Loyiso Gola: The Professional Black!

Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7 – £11

Storytellers’ Club Pleasance Courtyard, 16-17 Aug, £10

22:15

WeGotTickets New Talent Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14 Aug, £5

Dave Bailey and Friends Comedy Hour Paradise in The Vault, 5-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Davey Connor Live!

But Not in Your Living Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 12 Aug, £5 – £9.50

Jennifer Wong: Laughable The Dram House Upstairs, 3-22 Aug, £free Best New Sketch Act 2013: The Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £10 Dr Ettrick-Hogg and Guests - Stand-Up Show- Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16-26 Aug, not 20, 21, 22, £13 Late Night Gimp Fight Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Michael Che: Cartoon Violence HHH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10 The Alternative Comedy Experience The Stand Comedy Club, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10 Adrienne Truscott’s Asking for It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!

Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 BBC: Radio 4 Extra Stand-Up Show BBC@Potterrow, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, £free

Pete Cain: Everybody Out! The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Clare Harrison’s 15 Inches of Fame Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-26 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £free Eat a Queer Foetus 4 Jesus Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14-25 Aug, not 23, £free Greg Proops: The Smartest Man In The World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 15 Aug, £13 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £free Woolly Mammoth Panic Attack Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - In Space Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 21 Aug, £5 – £11 Simply the Jest Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

22:05

22:20

Magpie & Stump Are Chairman Lmao and the Lolitburo theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £6

❤ Liam Williams HHHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9.50

22:10 Listen, Lancelot...

Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, £free Abominations theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £9 Rory McGrath and Philip Pope in Bridge Over Troubled Lager Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, £8 – £13

The Dog, the Witch and the Wardrobe! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £6.50 – £10 Barry From Watford: Shooting from The (new) Hip Pleasance Courtyard, 12-25 Aug, £7.50 – £10 Musical Comedy Awards Showcase Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23-24 Aug, £14 Shirley Gnome Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £9.50

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22:35

The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 2-25 Aug, not 13, £12

Gary Myers: The Psychopathology of Everyday Laughs Just The Tonic at the Caves, 14-25 Aug, £2 – £6.50

Jerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks and Close Up Magic The Assembly Rooms, 23-24 Aug, £17.50

22:30 The Showstoppers’ Improvised Musical Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-25 Aug, not 22, £10 – £13.50

22:40 Simon Donald - Butch Straight Poof The Stand Comedy Club II, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8 Paul Zerdin: No Strings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £10.50

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 12-13 Aug, £8.50

Rubberbandits Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £14

Doc Brown Pleasance Courtyard, 19-25 Aug, £10.50 – £14

Viv Groskop: I Laughed, I Cried Le Monde, 18-19 Aug, £8

Fisting for Biscuits Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free Scott Agnew - Something’s Gotta Give The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8 The Horne Section Live in a Cow Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £7 – £14 ❤ Adam Buxton: Kernel Panic HHHH Assembly Hall, 2-5 Aug, £16 Hardeep Singh Kohli: Hardeep Is Your Love Pleasance Courtyard, 14-18 Aug, £10 – £12 The Wrong Side of the Door Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 2, 24, £6 – £10 ❤ Trouble With Comedy HHHH Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £free Al Lubel is Mentally Al HH Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 Shane Mauss: Mating Season HH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £12 The Underdogs Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 5-18 Aug, £free Recovering Catholics Anonymous(& other crosses I’ve had to bear) Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 3-26 Aug, £free

Edinburgh Comedy AllStars Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £15.50

Benny Davis: The Human Jukebox Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Cariad & Paul: A TwoPlayer Adventure Pleasance Dome, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, £9 – £9.50

Guilt & Shame: Addicted to Everything HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free – £9

Chris Martin: Passionate About the Pointless - EXTRA SHOW Pleasance Courtyard, 16-18 Aug, £12

22:50

AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £11

Bad Bread: Glove Contractually Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

Garrett Millerick: Does it Matter?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50

School Night Pleasance Courtyard, 5-21 Aug, not 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, £12 Super Organic Me - Free Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant and Arts Venue, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Joy of Sketch Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, £10

23:00

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh!

Free! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23-24 Aug, £free

The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses Sweet Grassmarket, 24-25 Aug, £7

22:45

Jordan, Jesse, Go! Pleasance Courtyard, 22-23 Aug, £9

Dave Callan: The Psychology of Laughter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £5 – £10

A to Z Improv Comedy - Free Kilderkin, 3-24 Aug, £free

McNeil & Pamphilon Go 8-Bit! Pleasance Dome, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10 BBC: Late Junction BBC@Potterrow, 13-14 Aug, £free

Humza Arshad presents Diary of a Badman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11-25 Aug, £11 – £12

Alistair Greaves and Si Beckwith: All Aboard for Funtime!

Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 20, £free

Rhys Nicholson: Dawn of a New Error Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £11.50

Eric Hutton’s Favourite Songs - Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 13, 14, 19, £free

The Comedy Zone HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

Mrs Manning Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Billy McGuire Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free Mat Ewins: Once Upon a Time in the Jest Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £9 David Trent: This Is All I Have Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12 Eleanor Conway’s Comedy Rumble Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Russ Powell: Powell to the People Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 3 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Rich Hall’s Hoedown Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15 The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £10 Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Pleasance Dome, 1-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £8 – £14

Paul Currie: The Sticky Bivouac Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

23:10 Voices in Your Head Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 1 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 – £10

23:15 Shaggers - Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, £free The Equal Opportunities Act 2010 Presents... Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, £free

The Wrestling II Pleasance Courtyard, 13-14 Aug, £15

The Canadians of Comedy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 19 Aug, £5 – £10

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 7 Aug, £5

AAA Batteries (The Symposium) - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, £free

Al Murray The Pub Landlord’s Compete For The Haggis Independence Special!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17-18 Aug, £15 Bo Burnham: What Pleasance Courtyard, 9-19 Aug, not 13, £12 – £13.50 Sexual Freaky Friday Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, £free Trevor Noah: The Racist Pleasance Courtyard, 22-24 Aug, £14 What Happens Next?

Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17-25 Aug, £free Sugar, Spice ... All Things Nice?

Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-3 Aug, £free

23:20 The New Wave Pleasance Dome, 8-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £10 Iain Stirling: At Home Extra Shows Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 1 Aug to 23 Aug, £6 – £10 Shit-faced Shakespeare H C venues - C, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Do The Right Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 18-21 Aug, £9

23:30 Will Seaward: Socialist Fairytales!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10

Stupid Hair and Skinny Jeans - Ryan McDonnell Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-26 Aug, not 8, 9, 10, 14, 19, £free BattleActs! Improvised Comedy - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3-22 Aug, £free Obie: Hostage: A Captive Audience Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 30 Jul - 25 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £free The Stand Late Show The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £15 Jobby Hunter Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, not 15, £free Hedluv and Passman: Two Cornish Rappers and a Casiotone Two: This Time It’s Similar Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £11 Let Me Entertain You Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

23:40 Shelby Bond: People Pleaser Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7 Wil Hodgson - Leave the Landing Light On The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8

23:45

Doctor Brown: Because, Becaves and Befrdfgth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15-20 Aug, £15

Josh Smith - From Top to Bottom Show Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 16-17 Aug, £free

Rob Deering’s Beat This Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, £5 – £10

Robert Taylor is The Musical Misfit Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-15 Aug, £free

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society The Stand Comedy Club, 6-22 Aug, not 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, £10 Stu and Garry in The Catchily Titled Improv Show The Stand Comedy Club, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

Afterhours Comedy Assembly Roxy, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50 Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Underbelly, Bristo Square, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £7 – £13.50 Kearse and Marrese: Raw and Uncut Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

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comedylistings Sex With Animals Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Dave Callan: The Psychology of Laughter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14-26 Aug, £10

Sanders and Co Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, £free

23:50

Björn Gustafsson Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-12 Aug, £5 – £10.50

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows Underbelly, Bristo Square, 3 Aug, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £7 – £14

Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Sit in a Fifty-Seater Around Midnight and Provide the Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches The Stand Comedy Club II, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 13, 19, £8 The Broken Windows Policy The Stand Comedy Club II, 5 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

23:59 The Assembly Rooms The Very Best of the Fest The Assembly Rooms, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £15 The Room Assembly George Square, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Bookshop Midnight Mayhem Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, £5

Do We Need You After The Apocalypse? The Game Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15-17 Aug, £10 – £11 Baby Wants Candy: The Graduation Show Assembly George Square, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10 Comedy Countdown Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19-25 Aug, £7.50 Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £15

00:00 Just the Tonic Comedy Club’s Midnight Show Just The Tonic at the Caves, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £12

Marcel Lucont À La Carte Throughout Edinburgh, 9-17 Aug, £free Spank Underbelly, Cowgate, 3-26 Aug, £10 – £15.50 The Distraction Club The Voodoo Rooms, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

00:15

Angelina Jolie Touched My Neighbour’s Goat Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13-26 Aug, not 20, £free That Funny Blind Guy Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 3-28 Aug, not 14, 27, £free Midnight Madness Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-26 Aug, £free

00:20

The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £6.50 – £7.50 Questions on Ducks Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-26 Aug, £free

Real Men Have Beards Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19-26 Aug, £free

Fate, Dutch Courage and the Fingerless Gloves Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 18-26 Aug, £free The Brethren of Levity - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

00:30

A Lol-along-a Luc Valvona - Free Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, £free

One of Us Might Be Famous - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free

Get Involved Charabang!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3-26 Aug, not 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, £12

The Revolution Will Not Be Improvised Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13-23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £free

Shit of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4-26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

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00:45

Late Show Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £12 – £14

Wits End Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-12 Aug, £free

00:55

Man Feelings Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 2-17 Aug, not 16, £free Spanktacular Underbelly, Bristo Square, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £15.50

Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3-27 Aug, £10 – £15 Big Spoon, Little Spoon Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-18 Aug, not 5, 12, £free Paul Dennis: Almost Blunted Purpose - Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 2-26 Aug, £free Barry’s Audio Tour of the Fringe Outside the Tron Kirk (Hunter Square), 3-4 Aug, £free

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theatrelistings 08:00 Twenty-Six Marathons in Twenty-Six Days The Royal Mile, 1-26 Aug, £free

09:00 Breakfast Plays: Clean Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £14 Limbo Whitespace, 5-8 Aug, £9 Breakfast Plays: A Respectable Widow Takes To Vulgarity Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £14

09:15 The Rimers of Eldritch Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 Sleeping Beauty and the Spinner Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5 Midsummer/Jersey Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

09:20 The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5 The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 The Making of Something Awesome Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

09:30 Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5 Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 What I Heard About the World Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 20-24 Aug, £12

❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20 Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 10 Aug, £free Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 Hunt & Darton Cafe HHH Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues - C, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50 The Secret Agent HH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £13 – £20 Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20 ❤ Theatre Uncut HHHH Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7.50 BiDiNG TiME - walks and talks Summerhall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £free I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £13 – £20

10:05 Tea at Five theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 11-17 Aug, £6 – £7

10:15 Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5 The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 Vernon God Little theSpace on Niddry St, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £5 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, £5

10:00

Chops theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

Catastrophe / Rough for Theatre II / Breath The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

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The Morning After Season: The Pink Bedroom theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 24 Aug, £5 – £7

The Diary of Anne Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 5-8 Aug, £8

10:45

Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Black T-shirt Collection Pleasance Courtyard, 19-24 Aug, £10.50 – £13.50

The Morning After Season: Wuthering Heights theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 2 Aug to 23 Aug, £5 – £8

Blaggards Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Story Shakespeare: Pericles C venues - C too, 12-17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 The Laramie Project theSpace on Niddry St, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £10 – £12.50 Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10 Goose Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, £8 Taiwan! Here I Am Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 20-24 Aug, £7

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Buckingham’s Finest The Royal Scots Club, 6-10 Aug, £8

BiDiNG TiME - walks and talks Summerhall, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £free

Snap theSpace on the Mile , 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

10:50

11:00

Playwriting Workshops Sweet Grassmarket, 19-20 Aug, £20

Chatroom theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £6

4.48 Psychosis theSpace on the Mile , 2-6 Aug, £7

The Hawke Papers Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 5-25 Aug, £free

10:30

A Glee Inspired: Romeo and Juliet C venues - C, 1-13 Aug, not 7, £8.50 – £10.50

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Rough Magic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

L.O.V.E. HH Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £8 – £12

Junk C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50

Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

Kind Zoo Southside, 2-17 Aug, £5 – £9

Happy Days The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Edinburgh Christadelphian Church, 9 Aug, £free

Everyman Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

10:20

All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19 Snap Out of It! C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 These Halcyon Days Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 18, 19, £12 – £13 Arcadia Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £8 Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19 ❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £12 – £19

The Price of Everything Hill Street Theatre, 14-25 Aug, £12

Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko? HH Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, £8 – £12

The System Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £7

Ode to the Insignificance Festival Square, 20-21 Aug, £free

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19

11:05 Tea at Five theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £7 Going For Gold theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5 Love in the Past Participle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £7 We’ll Stuff You Once You’re Dead theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5 Synergy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5-10 Aug, £6

11:10 A Reason to Smile theSpace @ Venue45, 19-24 Aug, £5 Working on a Special Day Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12

11:15 The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 The Scarlet Letter and Other Betrayals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £7 The Rimers of Eldritch Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

Midsummer/Jersey Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5 The Tempest in the Firth of Forth Summerhall, 6-8 Aug, £17 – £20

11:20 Bedtime Solos by Jakob Holder Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 – £12 The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 The Making of Something Awesome Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 The Fabric of Heaven Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5 The Silence of Friends Greenside, 5-8 Aug, £7 Small Steps in Random Directions Just The Tonic at the Caves, 12-25 Aug, not 13, £3 – £4

11:30 The Trojan Women C venues - C nova, 3-8 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50 Waves Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-23 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Anoesis Summerhall, 3-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £8 – £14 Pigeon English Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50 The Waiting Room Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £8 – £12 When We Embraced HHH Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3 Aug, 4 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, £8 – £11 Bitch Boxer Pleasance Courtyard, 18-25 Aug, £10.50 The Ghost of Twin Oaks Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

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Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 Celebrating 40 Years of the Fringe Firsts Pleasance Courtyard, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £5 The GB Project Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 8-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £11

11:35 Grated Expectations theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £6 Shake the Dust theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £3.50 – £6 Rabbitskin by Dominic Grace theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £8

11:40 Austen’s Women Assembly George Square, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, £12 – £13

11:50 Handmade Tales Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, not 14, £8 Growing Pains theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-24 Aug, £6

12:00 The Snow Cabinet Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 20-24 Aug, £8 The Story of Little Dombey National Library of Scotland, 7-21 Aug, £12 I Guess if the Stage Exploded...

Summerhall, 19-24 Aug, £10 Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9 Nostalgia for Reality Quaker Meeting House, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9

A Hundred Minus One Day theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £8.50

The Knight of the Box Near The Station Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, £free

11:45

Magic Number Six theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £7

You Should Ask Wallace Venue 13, 18-21 Aug, £8 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Pip Utton: Churchill The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 20, £9 – £10

The Emperor Jones; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You; Rhyme ’Em to Death New Media Scotland, 13 Aug, £4

Hanging Bruce-Howard C venues - C nova, 11-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

The Butterfly Room theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-17 Aug, £7

Gotcha C venues - C nova, 1426 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

House/Lights New Media Scotland, 11 Aug, £4

Mansfield Presents Lovers’ Vows Paradise in Augustine’s, 5-17 Aug, not 11, 12, £8.50

Voluntary Departure Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £10

Rumstick Road New Media Scotland, 10 Aug, £4 Finding Libby Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, £5 – £11 Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 10 Aug, £free ❤ Missing HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 8-11 Aug, £13.50 – £15 Subject to Requirement Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18-25 Aug, £free The ‘Lockerbie Bomber’ C venues - C, 31 Jul - 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 The Inventor and The Escort Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £5 – £10.50 The Zero Hour Venue150 @ EICC, 2024 Aug, £12 Murder, Marple and Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16-25 Aug, not 19, £9.50 – £10.50 The Cardinals Greyfriars Kirk, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

Tracy Venue 13, 3-9 Aug, £8

The Wild Wood of Widdershin Just The Tonic at the Caves, 17-18 Aug, £6

Graceland Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Motherland Summerhall, 20-23 Aug, £12

Chaucer: Hold Up Your Tale C venues - C nova, 6-10 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50

Relationshit Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £5

To You, The Birdie!

(Phèdre) New Media Scotland, 12 Aug, £4

Everything’s Elsewhere C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 13 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

12:05

Gordon Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 16-25 Aug, £free South Downs theSpace @ Venue45, 19-22 Aug, £7 Titus Andronicus C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Men HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10

Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong with Jaye Griffiths Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12

Penelope theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £9

Canary Gold C venues - C, 14-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Penny Dreadful theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £3 – £5

12:15

The Laramie Project theSpace on Niddry St, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £5

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5

Rough Magic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, £5

Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Rules of the Game theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8 Sex, Drugs and Toilet Rolls theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5 In Holy Matri-moany theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5 Love in the Past Participle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7 A Womb With a View theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £6 – £7

12:10 Specie Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Ball at Hawking’s New Town Theatre, 2-12 Aug, £6 – £12 Beeston Rifles Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10 Dustpan Odyssey New Town Theatre, 1425 Aug, £6 – £13

15 Minutes C venues - C aquila, 3-10 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50

Vernon God Little theSpace on Niddry St, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

Wing It, Dusty theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £5 Inside Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

The Tempest in the Firth of Forth Summerhall, 9 Aug, £20

Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks HHH Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7 – £12

12:20 Revolution Society Pleasance Dome, 13-25 Aug, not 20, £8 – £10

Chops theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5 Operation: Love Story La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, £free Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10

No Holds Bard Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12 Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, £5 The Penelopiad Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5

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theatrelistings 12:25 Head Over Heels Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Leaving Iowa Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

Nobel Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 18, £7

Our Fathers Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £12

Mrs Moneypenny Returns AGA Showroom, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, £15

The Uncanny Valley Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 18 Aug, £6 – £11

A Hundred Minus One Day theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £8.50

A Cut in the Rates by Alan Ayckbourn and Gray Matter by JD Farr Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19-25 Aug, £free

Preen Back Yer Lugs!

Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12

Ali J Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10.50

12:30 ❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20 ❤ We Will Be Free! The Tolpuddle Martyrs Story HHHH The Assembly Rooms, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £14 – £15

12:35

Herons Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 21, £5 – £8

Genesis/Golgotha Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £14

❤ How to Occupy an Oil Rig HHHH Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £11 – £14 Shake the Dust theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £6 Road Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £8

The Ants Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5

12:40

The Pearl HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Rockaby / Act Without Words I / That Time The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Killing Roger Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

Kaffa!

SpaceCabaret @ 54, 6-10 Aug, £7

Threeway HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £16

Howie the Rookie Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £12 – £13

Tejas Verdes Just Festival at St John’s, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £7 – £14

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18

Happy Never After Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50

La Merda (The Shit) Summerhall, 14-25 Aug, £12

Snooze Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-8 Aug, £free

Glory Days theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £8

Cheesed Off Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19-25 Aug, £free

The Extremists Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Double Booked Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Something Fishy Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 – £10 The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 The Greatest Liar in All the World Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10 The Librarians theSpace on North Bridge, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £7

12:45 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, £free Dorothy Greenside, 5-10 Aug, £6.50 XY Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Ben Franklin: The Rogue who Invented America Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12 Safe theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £10 Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20 The Early Hours Paradise in Augustine’s, 20-24 Aug, £2 – £5 The Secret Agent HH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20

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theatrelistings Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £16

The Portrait Firm Summerhall, 12-24 Aug, not 15, 20, £10

Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 9 Aug, £free

Martyr’s Crossing Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 6-9 Aug, £5

12:50 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Look Back in Anger C venues - C too, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £11.50 Way Back Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10 And They Played Shang-a-Lang The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £10 Monkey Poet - Love Hurts Actually The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

12:55 The Lost Gatsby theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8

13:00 Indian Peter’s Coffee House Valvona & Crolla, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £12 Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Edinburgh Christadelphian Church, 8-9 Aug, £free The Sign of Four Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

❤ Missing HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2-25 Aug, not 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, £8.50 – £15 One Last Thing Sweet Grassmarket, 5-18 Aug, £8 Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11 Charlie Dupré Presents... The Stories of Shakey P Just The Tonic at the Caves, 5-25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10 ❤ Banksy: The Room in the Elephant HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £12

Eugenie Grandet Assembly George Square, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £12 Making News HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £15

13:05 Going For Gold theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5 Let’s Get Things Straight... theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5 Punchline theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £5 – £11 Goodbye Sun and Bear C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Take Care theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £6.50 The King and Queen of the Universe C venues - C aquila, 1-23 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Pants On Fire’s Pinocchio HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50

The True Story of Ah Q (Physical Theatre) theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £12

The Way You Tell Them Summerhall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 15 Aug, £7 – £10

Between theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £8

Beating McEnroe Summerhall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 16 Aug, £7 – £10

13:10

Not the Messiah Pleasance Courtyard, 1-24 Aug, £6 – £10 Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Jordan Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £8 – £12 Tell Me A Secret C venues - C nova, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £13 Journey to X theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £7 The Prawn King theSpace on the Mile , 5-10 Aug, £7 Damned C venues - C nova, Various dates from 31 Jul to 26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Internal Affairs theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-16 Aug, £6.50 The Sugar and Honey Cook-Along! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 FOX theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £6

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5

Big Boys Don’t Cry Paradise in The Vault, 13-26 Aug, not 18, 19, 25, £8

Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

The Walls SpaceCabaret @ 54, 12-17 Aug, £8

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19

13:30

Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love Sweet Grassmarket, 1-26 Aug, £6 – £8 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 The Dumb Waiter New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £8

13:20 PussyFooting C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

13:15 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

I Could’ve Been Better Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £6 – £11

Scotsman Best of the Fest Assembly George Square, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

Mask Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, £8

The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

Sleeping Beauty and the Spinner Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19

The Dragon and George theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5

Hindsight HHH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Sid and Valerie Summerhall, 19-25 Aug, £10 Outside on the Street HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £10 Choose Your Own Documentary By Nathan Penlington Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £11

From Where I’m Standing Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

The TEAM Makes a Play theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 2-10 Aug, £8

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £12 – £19

❤ Rites: A Children’s Tragedy HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 1-17 Aug, £6 – £9.50

❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19 Sh!t Theatre’s JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013 Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-24 Aug, not 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, £5 Stand Up, Woman Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free The Canterbury Tales theSpace on Niddry St, 5-10 Aug, £7

13:25 The Shape of Things theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £8.50

Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer HH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

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theatrelistings Four Walls Bedlam Theatre, 6-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6 Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 ❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19 Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 The Surrender HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £14 The Way to Keep Him Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 20-24 Aug, £5 Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £13 ❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

High Plains (A Western Myth) Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 The Rain That Washes Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, not 7 Aug, £6.50 – £11 Sympathy Pains Pleasance Dome, 18-26 Aug, £8 – £10

13:45

Whodidit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £6 – £8 Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Sleight of Mind theSpace on the Mile , 5-9 Aug, £3

13:55

The Babysitter Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

Anoesis Summerhall, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £14

Morning and Afternoon Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £12

14:00

Histoire d’amour King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 Aug, £12

The Confessions of Gordon Brown HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7 – £12.50

Positive Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 13-26 Aug, not 19, £6.50 – £7.50

Graceland Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

13:40

The Tree and the Abbey Lauriston Halls, 15 Aug, £7

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

London Road, Sea Point HHH Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

The Ghost of Twin Oaks Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

Say It Again, Sam Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £8

Take Two Every Four Hours Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Embers King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 25 Aug, £10

Chorus Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £7

13:35

The School of Night’s Spontaneous Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14-25 Aug, £11 – £12

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Body Odours theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £4 – £7

❤ Missing HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 3 Aug, £15

¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Bygone Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £9

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £18 Solstice Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Out to Lunch Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Road Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £8

13:50 Endgame The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 Journos theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £7

The Ghost Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 15 Aug, £6 – £12

Wyrd C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Tejas Verdes Just Festival at St John’s, 2-26 Aug, not 3, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, £7 – £14

❤ The List HHHH Summerhall, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, 20, £12

The Boy Who Lost Christmas Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Breaker Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £7.50 – £13

❤ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer HHHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 11 Aug, £8 – £15

Captain Gingerbeard Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 7, £free

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 10 Aug, £free

Cape Wrath Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £11

A Long Road Home Palmerston Place Church, 16-17 Aug, £5

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience B’est Restaurant, 2-27 Aug, not 3, 10, 17, 24, £43

A Long Road Home Central Hall, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £5 Open Wide Tour The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Play for September Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9

Clown for Hire Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13

Minnie and Mona Play Dead Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11.50 Ring Pleasance Dome, 19-24 Aug, £10.50 – £13.50

Our Glass House Summerhall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £free

14:05 Island State C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Let’s Get Things Straight... theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5 Puss-in-Boots theSpace on North Bridge, 2 Aug, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £6 – £7 The Company of Wolves theSpace on North Bridge, 3 Aug, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £6 – £7 Bad Boy Eddie C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £10.50 – £12.50 Death by Shakespeare theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8 The Violinist theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £8

The Major SpaceCabaret @ 54, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7 Harder Please theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £3 – £5 Sex, Drugs and Toilet Rolls theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5 You All Know Me - I’m Jack Ruby! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £7

14:10 Sock Puppet Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11 Fourplay theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 23 Aug, £6 – £7.50 A Tiny Tempest C venues - C, 18-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Impromptu Shakespeare Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £9.50 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Here’s Connie theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £5

14:15 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 Hirsch Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £12.50

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theatrelistings Northanger Abbey Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £9 Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Rough Magic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

Kierkegaard Comedy Show - with Claus Damgaard C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11

The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, £5

The Trials and Tribulations of Mr Pickwick Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

The End: An Apocalypse Anthology Sweet Grassmarket, 12-13 Aug, £7

The Tempest in the Firth of Forth Summerhall, 12-15 Aug, £20

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5 Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 Questioning Aslan Edinburgh Elim, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £11 Sleeping Soldiers C venues - C, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 The House Beautiful C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5 Bridge to an Island C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Chops theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Chariot Edinburgh Elim, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £11 Much Ado About Nothing C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5 Sex Lives of Others Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £12

14:20 God Bless Liz Lochhead The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £14 – £15 Robert Golding Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £5 – £12 Sandpits Avenue Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, not 20, £8 The Lady Vanishes Paradise in Augustine’s, 20-24 Aug, £8

The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey Summerhall, 17-25 Aug, £14 The Penelopiad Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

14:25 Head Over Heels Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5 Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £9.50

14:30 David Copperfield St Ninian’s Hall, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12 The Ants Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5 The Oldest Man in Catford New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £11 – £15 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Longing for Grace Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12 An Actor’s Lament HHH Assembly Hall, 1-20 Aug, not 5, 12, £12 – £20 Quad The Hub, 27 Aug, £6 Beckett and Contemporary Art: Make Sense Who May The Hub, 28 Aug, £6 On Behalf of Nature Royal Lyceum Theatre, 18 Aug, £10 All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15

Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Tasting Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £15 Sailor Beware Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 10 Aug, £7

An Afternoon of Playback Theatre Sweet Grassmarket, 12-17 Aug, £8 Fantastical Adventures in the Mundane Sweet Grassmarket, 19-26 Aug, £7

14:40

The Odyssey of Dave Quaker Meeting House, 12-17 Aug, £7.50

Can You Hear Seagulls?

Sweet Grassmarket, 3-11 Aug, £8.50

The Reluctant Doctor Quaker Meeting House, 19-24 Aug, £7

❤ Mammoth HHHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12

Pint Dreams Pleasance At The Antiquary, 22-25 Aug, £6.50 – £7.50 Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Mayfield Salisbury Church, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10 Lifting the Mask theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 4 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 – £7.50 Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10 Romeo/Juliet C venues - C too, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £8.50 – £10.50 Extreme Withdrawal Is Manifest Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9-18 Aug, £free I Need a Doctor: The Unauthorised Whosical Adventure Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £11 Phil Nichol: The Weary Land HHH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Solomon and Marion Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 – £16 The Bread and the Beer Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10 The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Pleasance At St Thomas of Aquin’s High School, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £14

14:35

Champ HHH Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15

The World Has Gone Mad Mood Nightclub, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

Good Things by Liz Lochhead St Serf’s Church Hall, 17 Aug, £9

Omega HHH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £14 – £15

If Room Enough Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £11 – £14 Shakespeare: Olde Words – New Worlds Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9 Economy of Thought Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £14 Jack and Jill and the Red Postbox Sweet Grassmarket, 5-11 Aug, £8 Where the White Stops Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £11 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

14:45 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 The Trench Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12.50 Bite the Bullet The Assembly Rooms, 16-25 Aug, £10 Children of Mine Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £8

Mother F Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £9.50

14:50 The Love Project HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £11 The Year I Was Gifted Sweet Grassmarket, 2-25 Aug, not 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £8 My Pregnant Brother Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10 No Direction Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £15 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11

Hide and Seek Central Hall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 10 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50

What I Want to Say But Never Will Sweet Grassmarket, 13-18 Aug, £8.50

Itch: With a Twist Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £8

Timeline Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £10 Look Back in Anger Greenside, 4-10 Aug, £9

15:00 Metamorphosis King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Aug, £12

The Secret Garden SpaceCabaret @ 54, 14-24 Aug, £8 Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9 Holes by Tom Basden HHH Assembly George Square, Various dates from 4 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £20

Afghan Days Babylon Nights The Royal Scots Club, 6-17 Aug, not 11, £10

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Four Walls Bedlam Theatre, 2-5 Aug, £4 – £6

Shylock with Guy Masterson Assembly Hall, 12 Aug, £15

On the Line: Media La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, not 8, 20, £free

Seven Ages (featuring Kevin Tomlinson) Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

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Theatre Uncut: Dalgety & Fragile by David Greig Paterson’s Land, 20-24 Aug, £10

The Liz and Dick Show theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £10

Alice in Wonderland C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Close to You Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £5 – £8

Dark Vanilla Jungle Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6.50 – £11

14:55

Mercy Killers Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, £5 – £10

Eilish O’Carroll: Live Love Laugh Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 14 Aug, £10 – £17

Blazing Grannies St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, 17-26 Aug, £free

Conversations Not Fit for the American Dinner Table Bedlam Theatre, 12-24 Aug, £9

Indian Peter’s Coffee House Valvona & Crolla, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, £12

Spandex Greenside, 20-24 Aug, £8

Adam Smith, le Grand Tour Institut français d’Ecosse, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £10

Sentinels Bedlam Theatre, 5-11 Aug, £9 The Bespoke Overcoat Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £8.50 Calotype Central Hall, 17 Aug, £9

Who’s Afraid of Rachel Roberts?

Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12 Don Quijote Summerhall, 16-24 Aug, £12 ❤ Breaking News HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 Wot? No Fish!

Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £12 A Night to Dismember Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9

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theatrelistings On the Beach by John Osborne Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £11 Ruskin Live Scottish National Gallery, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, £10 The Weaver Venue150 @ EICC, 4-24 Aug, £12 Yellow Pears Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £8

15:05 In Holy Matri-moany theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5 We’ll Stuff You Once You’re Dead theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5 Easter Eggs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £5 Something There That’s Missing theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £5 – £8 Duvet Dave theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2 Aug, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, £5 Bassett theSpace on North Bridge, 5-10 Aug, £8

15:10 The Winter’s Tale theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6-10 Aug, £5 Best Kept Secrets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

15:15 The Tempest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8 – £9 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Piracy! Comedy on the High C’s theSpace @ Venue45, 18-24 Aug, £9.50 The Savage Planet The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-11 Aug, £free Waist - Free The Fiddler’s Elbow, 12-24 Aug, £free Bright Lights C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Collected Stories New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £10.50 – £13.50 I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20 Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 Bath Time Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £5 – £10 Nick: An Accidental Hero Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12 ❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

15:30 Book of Blakewell Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, £6 – £10

Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20 The Secret Agent HH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5

Each of Us Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £10 Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 ❤ Stuart: A Life Backwards HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £14

15:20

¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5

Forever C venues - C too, 18-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

Hag HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

The Bitches’ Box Assembly George Square, 1-23 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £10

The Way You Tell Them Summerhall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

The Making of Something Awesome Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5 ❤ Moving Family HHHH Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10

The Wedge CANCELLED Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £8 Beating McEnroe Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £10

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Trash Cuisine Pleasance Courtyard, 19-26 Aug, £12 – £15

The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

Cape Wrath Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £11

The Graveyard Slot HHH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 3-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £7.50 – £9

15:25 The Walls SpaceCabaret @ 54, 2-11 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8

Pigmalion Zoo C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

Below the Belt Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £11

White’s Lies Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 14, £10 – £16.50

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £17 – £19

15:40 Who Are You Supposed To Be? C venues - C aquila, 1426 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Auld Edinburgh Tales Sweet Grassmarket, 12-26 Aug, £8 Fault Lines theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 23 Aug, £6 – £7.50 Act Without Words II / A Piece of Monologue / Play The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 Diablo C venues - C aquila, 1-13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11

15:45 Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20 A Matter of Life and Death C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £12 ❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19 The Picture of Dorian Gray C venues - C, 19-24 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50 Lexi Heart, The Singing Magician- PBH Free Fringe Cafe Camino, 3-24 Aug, £free

15:50 Bobby Gould in Hell theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 4 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 – £7.50 Honest Iago and Three Other Choice Villains from Shakespeare theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £9

15:55 I’ll Be Seeing You Paradise in The Vault, 5-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8

16:00 Three Women Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7 Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9

Annoying the Neighbours Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

Mrs Moneypenny Returns AGA Showroom, 9-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £15

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

A Poem for My Sister Royal Over-Seas League, 15-16 Aug, £10

Burton’s Last Call Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-24 Aug, £free

A Family Beyond The Army Sweet Grassmarket, 12-25 Aug, £8

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theatrelistings Diary of a Madman Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £8 ❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 – £19 I Knew a Man Called Livingstone National Library of Scotland, 7-21 Aug, £6 – £10 Hound Dog Sweet Grassmarket, 2-11 Aug, £8.50

Silence in Court New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, £10 – £12.50 Ten Out of Ten Assembly Hall, 5-26 Aug, not 19, £10 – £12 Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 14-26 Aug, not 18, 19, 20, 25, £16 ❤ Nirbhaya HHHH Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 – £16 The Fifth Duck Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-9 Aug, £5

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

16:05

Of Dice and Men: UK Premiere Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 21 Aug, £10

The Suicidal Tendencies of Sheep and a Dog Called the Hoff theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £7

❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19 Angus: Weaver of Grass Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19-25 Aug, £10 ❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19 Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Edinburgh Christadelphian Church, 7-9 Aug, £free The Islanders Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11 ❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

All Or Nothing theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7

Cut! Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £6 – £12 Concrete Duvet theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7 Sandel theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 11, £10 – £12 The Fanny Hill Project Zoo, 2-26 Aug, £5 – £8 If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank By Tom Stoppard theSpace @ Venue45, 12-17 Aug, £7 Cain theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £3 – £7 Very Still and Hard to See Greenside, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £10

16:10 Devil in the Deck Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £9 Deimos theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £10 Pip Utton - Adolf The Assembly Rooms, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, £15 Undone Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13 Voices Made Night HHH Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15 It’s Not What You Know... theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £7 She Was Probably Not a Robot Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 – £10 The Beginning Pleasance Courtyard, 18-24 Aug, £9 – £12

Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 Expiration Date Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 20, £8.50 Safe theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £10 The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Revisited Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50

Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief Sweet Grassmarket, 2-11 Aug, £8 Inspector Norse Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £10 Signs of Our Occupy theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5.50 – £7.50 Losing the Plot New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £12 – £15

The Boss of It All Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £13

Pendulums Bargain Emporium Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50

The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

The Veil (Le Foulard) Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50 – £11

This Was the World and I Was King C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £9

A Happy Side (As Well) Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £8

❤ The Boy Who Kicked Pigs HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 14 Aug, £6 – £11.50

Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 20-21 Aug, £5

Laugh Your Farce Off Pleasance Courtyard, 15-17 Aug, £9.50

Slapdash Galaxy: 3D Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £7 – £13

Melmoth the Wanderer HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, £14 – £15

16:20

Bonanza Summerhall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £12

Pint Dreams Pleasance At The Antiquary, 22-25 Aug, £6.50 – £7.50 Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10 Rough Theatre Paradise in The Vault, 5-11 Aug, £6 Family Tree Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £10 Bonanza Summerhall, 2-11 Aug, £6 – £12 How to be a Modern Marvel® HHH Institut français d’Ecosse, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £10 Are You Sitting Comfortably?

C venues - C nova, 1126 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Contractions C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

16:25 Track 3 Bedlam Theatre, 4-24 Aug, £10 Head Over Heels Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Leaving Iowa Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5 I Heart IKEA Zoo Southside, 2-14 Aug, £5 – £9 Jewel theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5

16:15

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

The Three Lions HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £8 – £15

Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

For Their Own Good Summerhall, 19-24 Aug, £10

16:30

The Ants Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5 Lauder!

Summerhall, 2-16 Aug, not 6, 13, £12 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 Leonce and Lena Venue150 @ EICC, 4-24 Aug, £12 Whistleblower C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

16:35 ❤ The Six Wives of Henry VIII HHHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 6 Aug, 13 Aug, £8 – £12

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theatrelistings Tango Theatre: Woman of Shadow, Woman of Light C venues - C aquila, 1826 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Roughs Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £9 Buoy C venues - C aquila, 1-17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

16:40 The Sleeping Trees’ Odyssey Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7.50 There Has Possibly Been an Incident Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £11 – £14

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Little Foot Paradise in Augustine’s, 5-10 Aug, £5 – £6 The Cow Play C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Faileontology Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10 Breaking the Silence C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Landfall theSpace @ Venue45, 19-24 Aug, £8 Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £13

16:50

16:45 ❤ Major Tom HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12 Fantasy No. 10 - The Beauty of Life Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £10

Krapp’s Last Tape The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 Rave Generation Paradise in Augustine’s, 20-26 Aug, £7.50 Chaos By Design theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5

The Shawshank Redemption HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £15 – £16

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

17:05

16:55

76 Million People and Me Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 11-15 Aug, £free

Jack, Or the Submission theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £7

Broken Holmes theSpace on the Mile , 20-24 Aug, £8

Europa, Our First Migrant Italian Cultural Institute, 23-24 Aug, £8

17:00 Newton Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 31 Aug, £8

Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9

All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15

Another New World Cafe Camino, 3-24 Aug, £free Caught in the Net The Edinburgh Academy, 6-10 Aug, £10 ❤ Circa: Wunderkammer HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £12 – £18.50

A Laughing Matter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £6

Laughing Wild theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £6 Repertory Theatre C venues - C, 11-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 The Way of the World theSpace @ Venue45, 12-17 Aug, £7.50

Titus Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 20-26 Aug, £8

I (Honestly) Love You C venues - C aquila, 1-13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 9 Aug, £free

Eleemosynary theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8

Soddin’ Flodden Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2-17 Aug, not 12, £8.50

Consequences theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £8

Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 9-11 Aug, £16

The Canterbury Tales theSpace on North Bridge, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £9

The Emma Packer Show - What’s the Point in Living If You Can’t Cha-Cha-Cha? Mood Nightclub, 14-24 Aug, £free

17:10 Darren Maskell: A Woodlouse Trapped Underneath a Glass Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19-25 Aug, £free The Circus of Terror Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free The Actor’s Nightmare theSpace on the Mile , 5-16 Aug, not 11, £7

17:15 Sans Salomé theSpace on Niddry St, 2-24 Aug, £8.50 – £11 The Rimers of Eldritch Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

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theatrelistings Dumbstruck HHH Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10

God of Carnage Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6 – £9

Italia ‘n’ Caledonia Valvona & Crolla, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, £12

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

Of Dice and Men: UK Premiere Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 21 Aug, £10

Captive Minds theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £6

Sanctuary Just Festival at St John’s, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £8

❤ Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel HHHH Pleasance Dome, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £7 – £13

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

Sleeping Beauty and the Spinner Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 Ballad of the Burning Star Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £7.50 – £13 Midsummer/Jersey Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5 The Gypsybird Speaks C venues - C, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 The Pyramids of Margate Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12

17:20 The Autumn of Han theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £5 – £11 Made for Each Other Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 20, £8 The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Hope Light and Nowhere Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £11 Mansfield Presents Lovers’ Vows Paradise in Augustine’s, 3-4 Aug, £7.50 The Vanish Inquisition Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10.50 The Fabric of Heaven Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £5

17:25 Raiders: The Whisky Trader Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-20 Aug, £8 I’ll Be Seeing You Paradise in The Vault, 3-4 Aug, £8

17:30 Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?

Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12 American Gun Show HH Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 – £9 Birdhouse Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12

Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5 Around Miss Julie C venues - C nova, 11-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £18 Whispering in the Dark Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, £8 Human and Other Things C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 It’s Dark Outside HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £14.50 My Village and Other Aliens Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £8

17:35 Speak No Evil Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-14 Aug, £6.50 The Boadicea of Britannia Street New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £9 – £14

17:40 The Edge of Our Bodies theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £10 Dick Whittington theSpace on North Bridge, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £7 I Want to Tell You Something Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £5 – £8

17:45 The Three Little Pigs Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15 A Funny Valentine Valvona & Crolla, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, £12 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 ❤ If These Spasms Could Speak HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9

Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Tasting Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 6-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, £15 Static - Free The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, £free The Bunker Trilogy: Morgana C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £11.50 – £13.50 Villains, Heroes and Adventurers: Whisky Tasting Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £15 Grimm Ever After Paradise in The Vault, 13-18 Aug, £7.50 The Collision of Things Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6.50 – £11 The Life and Times of Victor Biktrakarawitz Paradise in The Vault, 13-18 Aug, £4.50 Itch: With a Twist Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, £8 Pianoforte, My Life Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 4-10 Aug, £12

17:50 Head Over Heels in Saudi Arabia Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 11-26 Aug, £8.50 Measure for Measure Zoo Southside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £7.50 DNA Zoo Southside, 11-17 Aug, £7.50 Shadow On Their Wall Paradise in The Vault, 3-11 Aug, £6 – £7 The Smallest Light Zoo Southside, 18-26 Aug, £8

17:55

21st-century Poe Paradise in The Vault, 5-11 Aug, £7

❤ BLAM! HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £8 – £15

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20

The Hat, The Cane, The Moustache C venues - C too, 1-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

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How to Avoid Making an Entrance of Yourself Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £2.50 – £5 ❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £17 – £19 Laquearia Summerhall, 2-9 Aug, £10 Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

Don’t Disturb the Driver theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 – £10

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19

Ohio Impromptu / Rough for Theatre I / Not I The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5

A Writer’s Lot theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £7

The Trilogy Paradise in Augustine’s, 3-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10

Artaud: a Trilogy C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Humans Inc C venues - C, 8-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Killers HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £14 – £15

18:15

A Brief History of Beer Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-20 Aug, not 12, £free Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, £19 Risk Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21-25 Aug, £free Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5 The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

Mucus Factory Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 12 Aug, £free

As You Like It The Royal Scots Club, 12-17 Aug, £12

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £12

18:20

The Tree and the Abbey Lauriston Halls, 15 Aug, £7

Something Beginning With Paradise in The Vault, 20-24 Aug, £7

Splatter theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £7 – £9

Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18

❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20

The Penelopiad Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5

According to Oscar Mayfield Salisbury Church, 5-9 Aug, £8 Hide and Seek Central Hall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 10 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50 Meal Ticket Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10

18:05 Baddies theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £9 How Hard Do You Hum When You Cum? theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 23 Aug, £5

Life theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £5 – £11

Northanger Abbey Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £9 Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 The Secret Agent HH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20

18:25

Freeze!

Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 19, £5 – £9 The Principle of Uncertainty Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £10

Leaving Iowa Pilrig Studio, 7-8 Aug, £5

18:30 Gym Party Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, £10

Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

Melodic Dystrophy theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £5

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

18:10

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Beijing Cake theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5 – £8

Find Me theSpace on North Bridge, 6-8 Aug, £5 – £7

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His Majesty, the Devil – a Play With Music HH Quaker Meeting House, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £8 – £9.50 My Favourite Madman Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-10 Aug, £6 – £8

Our Friends, The Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £8

Sugar Kane SpaceCabaret @ 54, 9-17 Aug, £10

A Killer Story Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £7

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19 Holes by Tom Basden HHH Assembly George Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £20 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

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theatrelistings Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 ❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa theSpace on Niddry St, 2-24 Aug, £8.50 – £11

Kafka’s A Report to an Academy Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6

(As/Des)cent Sweet Grassmarket, 1-11 Aug, £9

Juliet: A Dialogue About Love C venues - C, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Chalk Farm HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, 19, £6 – £11.50

Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £13.50

Executed for Sodomy: the Life Story of Caterina Linck C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

For the Trumpets Shall Sound C venues - C aquila, 1-17 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Love Struck Central Hall, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £7.50

Katie Mag C venues - C aquila, 1826 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Pint Dreams Pleasance At The Antiquary, 22-25 Aug, £6.50 – £7.50

Oh My Irma Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19 Morag and Keats C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Romeo and Juliet The Royal Scots Club, 5-10 Aug, £10

18:55 Forest HH Sweet Grassmarket, 1-11 Aug, £7.50 The Dumb Waiter New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £8

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18:35

First Love Royal Lyceum Theatre, 28 Aug, 31 Aug, £8

Timeline Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £10

Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 29 Aug, £8

Recalculating Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 12-26 Aug, £8

Embers King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 24-25 Aug, £10

The Complete History of the BBC (Abridged) Sweet Grassmarket, 12-25 Aug, £7 – £9 On the One Hand HHH Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £11 – £14

18:40 Hidden Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10.50

18:45

Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Edinburgh Christadelphian Church, 7-8 Aug, £free Calotype Central Hall, 14-17 Aug, £9 Othello - Two Men Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 20-24 Aug, £7 Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £13

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

The Goddess of Walnuts Paradise in The Vault, 3-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £6

Medea Whitespace, 13-24 Aug, not 19, £8

Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £16

Next Door Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

‘33 (a Kabarett) Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12

Love Struck Palmerston Place Church, 14-15 Aug, £7.50

Lockerbie: Lost Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £5 – £10

In the Kingdom of the Blind Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £9

The Hard Man The Wee Red Bar, 19-26 Aug, £8

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Kubrick3 Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50

A Circus Affair Zoo, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £9 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, £13

On Hold theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £6 Vinegar Tom C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 13 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Gorbella theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7

Masters of Drip The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 13, 21, £free The Last Picasso theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7.50 Wyrd C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

19:15 At The Illusionist’s Table The Scotch Malt Whisky Society - 28 Queen Street, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, £49 Nehru: His Inner Story Paradise in The Vault, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £free – £8

19:05 The Winter’s Tale theSpace on North Bridge, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £9

Sleeping Beauty and the Spinner Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Jerry and Tom theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £8 – £10

No Place Like Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 18, £4 – £9

After Ever Happily theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £7 Punk Rock theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £8 Black Rubix Theatre Presents: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £5 Faustus and the Snakes theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £9 A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace on North Bridge, 2 Aug, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £9

The Wolf and the North Wind: A Contest in the Sky Paradise in The Vault, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £free – £8 Questioning Aslan Edinburgh Elim, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, £11 Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Chariot Edinburgh Elim, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £11 Sappho ... in 9 Fragments theSpace @ Venue45, 8-10 Aug, £12

The Mad Hatter Bum Party theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 23 Aug, £5

19:20 What Where / Footfalls / Come and Go The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

Maddy’s Many Mouths theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8

Daughters theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8

19:10 A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 10 Aug, £4.50 – £8.50 The Bridge That Tom Built C venues - C nova, 1426 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Red Hanrahan theSpace @ Venue45, 2 Aug, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, £7

The Fabric of Heaven Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5 The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults HHH Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13

The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

19:25 The Revenge of the Gargantuan Poo Monster Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £5

19:30 The Tragedy of Coriolanus The Edinburgh Playhouse, 20-21 Aug, £10 Hamlet Royal Lyceum Theatre, 10-13 Aug, £10 All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15 Chris Dugdale - Magic and Mischief!

Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £12

Titus Andronicus: An All-female Production HHH Bedlam Theatre, 2-24 Aug, £7 – £9 David Copperfield St Ninian’s Hall, 5-17 Aug, not 11, 15, £12 Free Money Magic Show Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Oresteia C venues - C, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Don Quijote Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £12 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 All Roads Lead to Rome Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £2.50 – £5

Good Things by Liz Lochhead St Serf’s Church Hall, 3-16 Aug, not 4, 11, £9

Come Blow Your Horn Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 7-17 Aug, not 11, £10.50

Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

Phone Whore: A One Act Play With Frequent Interruptions Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free

Notes from Bermondsey Street C venues - C, 19-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Sailor Beware Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 5-10 Aug, £7 South African Delights Sweet Grassmarket, 18-22 Aug, £8.50 Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5 The Tea Diaries Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 2-3 Aug, £8 Silence in Court New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, not 18, £10 – £12.50 Shattered!

Cafe Camino, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 29 Jul - 1 Sep, £14 The Ghost of Twin Oaks Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5 ¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 Whatever Gets You Through the Night The Queen’s Hall, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £13.50 – £16.50

The Bacchae Holyrood Park Information Lodge , 22-24 Aug, £free Times Square Tourist theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £5 The Diary of Anne Frank Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, 7-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £10 The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Pleasance At St Thomas of Aquin’s High School, 6-25 Aug, not 7, 11, 14, 21, £10 – £14

19:35 Eve: A Balancing Act Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 11-17 Aug, £8.50 Look Back in Anger Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £9 Bin Laden: The One Man Show C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Barry Brennan’s Bi-Monthly Dungeons and Dragons Sessions – A Geek Tragedy Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 3-10 Aug, £8

Dying On Stage Lauriston Halls, 13-17 Aug, £5

19:40

Pre:View Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50

Agamemnon Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £6.50

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theatrelistings Two is the Beginning of the End Sweet Grassmarket, 19-25 Aug, £8.50

On Behalf of Nature Royal Lyceum Theatre, 16-17 Aug, £10

We, Object theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 20, £5 – £10

Leaving Planet Earth Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 10-24 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50

Your Problem With Men Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £15

Histoire d’amour King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 15-17 Aug, £12

Wonders of Magic Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 13-16 Aug, £12 Creaturamia...

Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 21-25 Aug, £10 Brush C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

19:45 Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Mayfield Salisbury Church, 3-23 Aug, not 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £10 Graceland Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, £5 The Bloody Ballad Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10 – £14

20:00 An Anonymous Life... and Some Sketches Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-25 Aug, £free Faulty Towers The Dining Experience B’est Restaurant, 1-27 Aug, not 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, £46.50

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VOstBil Institut français d’Ecosse, 13-18 Aug, £10 ❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £13 ❤ Solfatara HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £8 SingleMarriedGirl theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £6 – £10 The Devil and Billy Markham Royal Over-Seas League, 15-16 Aug, £10 Feral HHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £9

20:05 Pole Factor theSpace on the Mile , 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 Strangeways theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7.50 A Conversation With My Father Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 14-24 Aug, not 20, £8 – £11 ❤ Captain Amazing HHHHH Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-12 Aug, not 6, £8 – £11

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

Comedy, Evolved theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5-10 Aug, £8

Original Sin/PBH’s Free Fringe Cowgatehead, 19-25 Aug, £free

Missing Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10.50

Touched... Like a Virgin Le Monde, 15-25 Aug, not 17, 24, £10

20:10

Motherland Summerhall, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £12

Dirty Water theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 12, 18, £8

Our Glass House Summerhall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £free

A Note of Dischord theSpace @ Venue45, 12-17 Aug, £7

The Tin Ring Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £14

20:15

Metamorphosis King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 10-11 Aug, £12

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5

Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

Creepie Stool Just Festival at St John’s, Various dates from 16 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Metamorphosis Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-10 Aug, £7.50

Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

Kiss, Cuddle, Torture Just Festival at St John’s, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £10

Running With the Firm Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £7 – £10

Pugni Di Zolfo (Fists of Sulfur) – History of Caruso Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 21, £5 – £8

H to He (I’m Turning Into a Man) Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

Donal O’Kelly’s Brace Fionnuala and Skeffy Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12 The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Cinderella Lives!

Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £8 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5 Fanny Whittington Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7

20:20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest theSpace on Niddry St, 2-24 Aug, £8.50 – £11 In Real Life (IRL) theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £5 – £8 The Penelopiad Pilrig Studio, 7 Aug, £5 Diary of a Madman Quaker Meeting House, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £8 – £9.50 Comedy, Evolved theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £12 Higgs Summerhall, 2-17 Aug, not 5, 12, £10 4.48 Psychosis C venues - C nova, 1426 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Globophobia Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £5 – £8

20:25 Cherry On Top C venues - C, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Entertaining Mr Orton C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

20:30 A Funny Valentine Valvona & Crolla, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

The Ants Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5 The Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £11.50 – £13.50

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20:40

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

The Worst of Scottee Assembly George Square, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, £12

Italia ‘n’ Caledonia Valvona & Crolla, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £12

Substance C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Serotonin Syndrome Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-17 Aug, not 5, 11, 12, £5 – £8 ❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 The Exception and the Rule theSpace on the Mile , 2-10 Aug, not 4, £3 – £7 ❤ Anna HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £10

Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £8

Popaganda Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £2.50 – £5

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19

Waiting for Godot The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

First Love Royal Lyceum Theatre, 29-30 Aug, £8

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, £17

Titus Andronicus theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £12 The Fantasist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21-26 Aug, £11 – £12

Paradise Zoo, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £5 – £8

I’ll Go On Royal Lyceum Theatre, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug, 31 Aug, £8

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 9 Aug, £free Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20 Penthesilea Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £10

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Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23-25 Aug, £15

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, £19 Six Characters in Search of an Author C venues - C, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 ❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £12 Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £18

Cadre HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20 Fade Bedlam Theatre, 2-24 Aug, £5 – £8 ❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £17 The Crawl Frankenstein Pub, 2-16 Aug, not 4, 11, £8.50

God of Carnage The Royal Scots Club, 12-17 Aug, £12

Kabul Venue150 @ EICC, 4-24 Aug, £12

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £17 – £19

Unrequited Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £5.50

The Man Who Thought the Moon Would Fall Out of the Sky Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 20 Aug, £14

Agnes of God The Royal Scots Club, 5-10 Aug, £10

Biding Time (remix) Summerhall, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £12

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

Boys C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £8.50 – £10.50

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❤ Quietly HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19

Singin I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim Just Festival at St John’s, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £12 The Secret Agent HH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20 The Project Zoo, Various dates from 2 Aug to 26 Aug, £5 – £8

20:35 Fast Film Noir theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £9

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After What Comes Before Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6 – £8 The Break-Up of Cause and Effect C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Squally Showers Zoo Southside, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £12 Bring the Happy Live Meeting Point - Forest Fringe @ The Drill Hall, 19-23 Aug, £10

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Safe theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £10

Fleabag Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

The Vacuum Cleaner theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 Project Lolita theSpace on the Mile , 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 The Cherry Orchard C venues - C aquila, 1-17 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Vessel theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 – £9

21:10 Life Sentence theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8 On Hold theSpace on North Bridge, 3 Aug, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £5 – £6 The Givers theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5 – £8

21:15 ❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19 Midsummer/Jersey Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

Dirty Laundry Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50 Bluebeard theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8.50

21:30 Mejnun theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19-24 Aug, £6 – £8 The Witness Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8 Loving Dick The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Squidboy Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £10 33 HH Zoo, 2-17 Aug, £9

21:35 A View from the Bridge Zoo, 2-16 Aug, £5 – £9 The Ballad of Agnes Bean theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £17

Rodney & Julie J theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £6

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

This Is My Box Sweet Grassmarket, 1-18 Aug, £8.50

The Rimers of Eldritch Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

21:20 The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

Billy With His Boots On Zoo, 18-26 Aug, £10 7-tik 3 Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 19-26 Aug, £5

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Beyond Therapy theSpace on the Mile , 2-10 Aug, not 4, £7

(As/Des)cent Sweet Grassmarket, 19-25 Aug, £9

The Making of Something Awesome Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Two Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-14 Aug, £8.50

Bonk! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £7 – £8

Red Noses theSpace @ Venue45, 6-10 Aug, £5 – £9

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War of the Waleses theSpace @ Venue45, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7 – £9

21:45 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

22:10 Nothing to Be Done theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £8

21:50 The State vs John Hayes C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Overcoat C venues - C, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, not 7 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 She Dances With Fate New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £11

21:55 Kindred Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £7

Macbeth theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £8

The Phantom of the Fringe Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-26 Aug, £7

Hooked Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8

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Whatever Gets You Through the Night The Queen’s Hall, 20-25 Aug, £13.50 – £16.50

Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

22:00 Dark Matter Summerhall, 15-24 Aug, not 18, £12 Red Riding Hood Greenside, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7.50

Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5 Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

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The Bunker Trilogy: Macbeth C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £11.50 – £13.50

Water Stain Venue150 @ EICC, 4-22 Aug, £12

Boris & Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £14

❤ Beats by Kieran Hurley HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2-11 Aug, £9.50 – £13.50

The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £11 – £14

The Mid-Knight Cowboy C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

22:05 It Goes Without Saying Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12 In Tune With Dementia theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £8 In Tune With Dementia theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8

The Seer Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Bent C venues - C too, 11-17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

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C venues - C, 3-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Dear Friend, Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £7

Buzzcut Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £free

Forever 27 New Town Bar, 4-15 Aug, not 9, 10, £7

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

League of St George C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Party Piece Bedlam Theatre, 2-24 Aug, not 12, £5 – £8

A Marriage Proposal C venues - C too, 9-10 Aug, £10.50

Super Tuesday theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-24 Aug, £8

Can’t Buy Me Love Greenside, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £7

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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches C venues - C aquila, 1117 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

22:25 Head Over Heels Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

Boredom Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, Various dates from 3 Aug to 24 Aug, £5

23:05 Timeline Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £10

23:10 Your Problem With Men Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £10 Boris & Sergey II Perilous Escapade HH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 21 Aug, £6 – £11

23:15 Brand New Ancients Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £18 – £20

23:20 ❤ Tourniquet 2013 HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £6 – £12

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Engels! The Karl Marx Story theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-17 Aug, £7

Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

Gabe Day theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8.50

Brand New Ancients Traverse Theatre, 21-22 Aug, £18

Midnight at the Rue Morgue: The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe SpaceCabaret @ 54, 2-24 Aug, not 11, £10

22:45 Novemberunderground Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10.50 Real Horror Show Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £13 Jekyll & Hyde HH Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12

23:00 Dog Sees God The Outhouse, 7-10 Aug, £8 Cartwheels C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Funeral Replacement Service Necrobus, 1-26 Aug, £5 – £7.50

Dinner is Swerved HHH C venues - C nova, 3-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £14.50 – £16.50

23:45 [Life] - An Everyman’s Tale Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 4-17 Aug, £free

23:59 The Trial Just The Tonic at the Caves, 7-11 Aug, £10

00:30 Funeral Replacement Service Necrobus, 6-27 Aug, £7.50

01:15 Vanity Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13-26 Aug, £free

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The Fest Guide to…

Throwing a party Step 3: Invite lots of handsome and beautiful friends.

Being able to pack out the room shows that you are popular and cool. Like us. Also, stick a Blushbooth in there to record how handsome and beautiful everyone is.

Step 1: Find yourself a brilliant party planner (in our case the lovely Hannah Putsey) and send her off on a mission to find a venue. Electric Circus, with their fantastic staff, is highly recommended.

Step 2: Find yourself some alcoholic beverages to give to the punters.

Not only are they tasty, but they make you very popular. Molinari sambuca and 10 Saints beer fit the bill nicely.

Step 4: Find an expert compère able to shout over the din of people chatting away.

Like Martin Mor.

Step 5: Put on a fantastic showcase of Fringe acts, including Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, The Soil, Phil Nichol, Airnadette, Sotho Sounds, Hot Dub Time Machine, Boris & Sergey, Fantoosh Fact Art, Luke Wright, Rob Auton and John Osborne.

The Payoff: A great time had by all.

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