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Contents page 8 Features 8 The Wrestling II Max and Ivan's anarchic sports entertainment spectacular is set to wow the Fringe for a second time.

12 The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project This massive exploration of the divergent futures of Scotland and England looks a real Edinburgh gem.

14 Felicity Ward The Aussie comic tells Fest about using standup comedy to overcome her crippling anxiety.

page 21 Comedy Reviews 26 FanFiction Comedy A loving celebration and critique of contemporary nerd-culture.

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31 Jamie Demetriou Laryngitis be damned – this character comedy is in tip-top shape.

32 Mark Thomas The master political comedian is up to his old mischief.

page 41 Theatre Reviews

42 The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer Peerless puppetry perfection still doing the business at the Fringe.

45 Breaking News Astonishingly beautiful, virtually wordless assault on the multimedia age.

57 Captain Amazing

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A walloping kapow to the snarling face of cynicism.

page 62 Music & cabaret 62 Briefs A fabulously camp all-male burlesque romp.

page 66 KIDS 70 Comedy Club 4 Kids 11 year old Ruari Black has a whale of a time at this laugh-a-thon.

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

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Fest's Perfect Day

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19.10 The Soil Assembly George Square

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FIGHT NIGHT

A tag team on the stage, sworn enemies in the ring – Max and Ivan invite Lyle Brennan onto the mat as they hit pause on their sketch adventure for a legendary special event.

Photos: Claudine Quinn

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t isn’t real, they say. It’s pantomime dressed up in leotards, a confection of violence and melodrama for hyperactive children and culturally deprived Middle Americans.

But tell that to Max Olesker, to the old fracture lying dormant in his ankle, and to Ivan Gonzalez, the sketch partner he has led into perhaps the only form of entertainment more ridiculous than comedy.

It’s been two years since double act Max and Ivan masterminded The Wrestling, the seat-of-thespandex-pants happening in which comedians and seasoned grapplers did battle before a baying mob of 770. While Max is very much an old hand—he first fought on the wrestling circuit aged 15—Ivan and the other comics were nail-bitingly out of their depth. Yet they took home the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize for their efforts and, remarkably, no one died.

The only real mishap befell Max, who, courtesy of a somersault and an eight-foot drop, suffered a rare break that put him on crutches for the remainder of his and Ivan’s run.

On Tuesday, the duo prepare to resurrect this audacious project in The Wrestling II. Today, it’s time for a warm-up. Edinburgh being Edinburgh, the search for a functioning ring has taken us to Pollokshaws, on the south side of Glasgow. We’re at Scotland’s leading wrestling school, housed in an industrial unit and staffed by extremely large men. They’re a little bemused at the stupidity taking place in their house of pain but also, to their credit, very accommodating.

On arrival, Max, silk handkerchief in his blazer pocket, looks a little out of place. As does Ivan, who wears a moustache at 27.

But this is the everyday guise of one of sketch comedy’s most accomplished young acts. They specialise in a brand of multi-stranded, quick-cut narratives that play with genre cliches, a tendency towards parody which, they later tell me, they’re gradually shaking off.

Max and Ivan arrived on the scene with Holmes and Watson in 2011, before 2012’s heist pastiche Con Artists went to Melbourne this year and earned a u

Max Olesker

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Lyle Brennan

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festfeature t Barry Award nomination, the southern hemisphere’s answer to the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

They return to Edinburgh, then, with high hopes for The Reunion. At the gym, the pair are full of first-week enthusiasm for their show, the venue, their esteemed director—Pappy’s Tom Parry—and their move from afternoon to early evening performances.

The pair got together as students in 2007, when Max saw Ivan’s solo act, then returned from a wrestling tour in Italy having written a song for the two of them. Now their latest piece finds them acting out a rekindled high school crush, a plot they describe in the loosest possible terms as a romcom — but more on that later.

At the gym, Ivan goes off to change, leaving Max and the third member of their party to scope out the facilities.

Rishi ‘The Prince of Mumbai’ Ghosh is an old friend from Max’s fighting days in Portsmouth and a returning combatant for The Wrestling II. Whereas Max has drifted from wrestling to comedy in recent years, Rishi’s made a life of it.

His latest bout was at Pontin’s, where his displays of brutality were met with delirium by 1,200 kids wielding inflatable hammers.

Tuesday night won’t be a million miles away from that mood. Max reveals some of the treats in store: Tom Rosenthal going mano-a-mano with a proper wrestler; a six-man elimination brawl; bad blood between the duo themselves.

“That’s Ivan’s penis,” he breaks off, deadpan. “There it is.” Ivan has emerged in a Greco-Roman-style singlet that may as well be made of cling film, pairing it with ludicrous headgear designed to prevent cauliflower ears.

“Max is bringing the muscle,” Ivan informs us. “And the looks.”

Max, once dressed, breezes into the ring and drops down for some pressups, launching himself up off the canvas to clap between each. Ivan slumps bellydown next to him, just clapping.

Max scowls in the ringside mirror, slathering his shaven chest in Deep Heat. Ivan fusses with his chinstrap like a toddler made to wear a bow tie.

Max runs through some high-flying aerial attacks, launching himself off the turnbuckle into Rishi’s face. Ivan endures a few submission moves, Max choking him on the ropes and twisting his head.

It’s great fun to watch. What’s more, Rishi agrees to show me first-hand how a couple of moves work. Our photographer, prepared for this eventuality, produces a pair of putrid print leggings.

A bit of co-operation goes a long way in wrestling. Rishi demonstrates one lift, helped along by my hand braced on his leg, which in no time has me flailing over his head. Even if it does cut off the blood supply to my head, it’s maximum effect with minimal fuss. Meanwhile, the contortions of the Boston Crab hold [above right] aren’t much more comfortable than they look. Something crunches in my back, though I keep it quiet.

As Max can confirm, this suggestion of real suffering awakens some feral bloodlust in spectators. He recalls: “We had tales of strait-laced BBC executives who came along to The Wrestling without knowing why. And they were like jaded, wizened old people who see 50 shows a day.

“So they sat down and were like ‘what is this?’ Cut to 10 minutes later and one of them had his top off, holding two pints, just screaming.”

Back amid the more genteel surroundings of Edinburgh, Max and Ivan contemplate the pressing concern of another night doing The Reunion. “What we should clarify is that almost everyone in this show is based on people we legitimately went to school with,” says Max. “And we have not bothered to change any of the names,” chirps Ivan.

“The whole notion came about not from a film or a book,” Max goes on, “but a Facebook message from a girl I knew

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that said [he lisps]: “Oh my god, you guys, it’s going to be 10 years since we went to school together’.”

The sight of familiar names cropping up in the thread, old cliques re-emerging, got Max thinking. This collision of odd characters and the universal theme sounded like a winner, and—within this framework—they bring to life some steamy pupil-teacher relations, two moronic bandmates battling their creative differences and a tender love story between the loser and the dream girl.

So much do the pair seek to pile into the hour, it’s no wonder they drafted in director Parry, one third of Pappy’s — a coup scored on the set of BBC3’s Badults. With Parry’s troupe absent this year, there’s a gap to be filled.

Max and Ivan certainly share their contemporaries’ tendency to think big. Plus there’s the unlikely emotional core in both group’s arsenals; Ivan says they’ve even had tears at The Reunion.

They point out that it was in the very same venue that those giants of sketch ruled supreme last year — and if Max and Ivan go down as well as they did at Melbourne this April, they just might prove rightful heirs.

With special thanks to Source Wrestling School and CityGym. For details on events and classes, visit learn2wrestle.com MAX AND IVAN: THE REUNION Pleasance Dome, 8:20pm – 9:20pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £9 – £12.50 THE WRESTLING II - Pleasance Courtyard, 11:00pm – 12:30am, 13–14 Aug, £15

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Border Lines Photos: Claudine Quinn

Now in its second Fringe, Northern Stage at St Stephen’s is a hub for creativity and political theatre.

Yasmin Sulaiman chats to its artistic director Lorne Campbell about its new collaborative project, The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project.

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ike Summerhall and the Forest Fringe, St Stephen’s has become a byword for community and creativity at the Fringe. Run by Newcastle’s acclaimed Northern Stage for the second consecutive festival, it’s a disarmingly welcoming environment showcasing stellar theatre talents, including Fringe First winners Chris Thorpe and The Paper Birds, as well as playwright Alistair McDowall’s wellrecieved Captain Amazing.

The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project—the brainchild of its new Artistic Director, Lorne Campbell—distils this alluring ambience into an evening of poetry, politics and popular music, complete with a house band. It’s a surprisingly heart-warming spectacle that riffs on the ballad as a lyrical form, using it to start a dialogue between English and Scottish voices in the midst of the independence debate.

“I was up at St Stephen’s last year with Gary Kitching’s Me and Mr C,” explains Campbell, founder of Scottish theatre company Greyscale and a former Traverse Theatre associate director. “The feeling in the building was amazing: the sense of community among the artists, the connection with a local audience outside the current centre of George IV Bridge. But I was very aware that there were few Scottish artists involved in that conversation. So when I started at Northern Stage, I was very interested in trying to find a way that we could properly invite the Scottish artistic and theatrical community into St Stephen’s.”

This led him to the border ballad, a form that has strong roots in both the lowlands of Scotland and Northumbria.

The ballads performed at St Stephen’s this August will offer a range of interpretations. “It’s really up for grabs,”

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Campbell explains. “[A ballad] can mean an epic poem. It can mean a real piece of oral tradition, minstrelsy and song.

But it also can definitely mean Whitney Houston, Tom Waits or Take That. It’s popular song, and all that entails.”

For the first part of the evening, two of six “resident balladeers” will perform their take on the form. Over the first two nights, it’s Cora Bissett, director of Roadkill, who performs a song from her recent National Theatre of Scotland hit, Glasgow Girls; and Chris Thorpe, who delivers a dystopian vision of an England-Scotland border 20 years in the future in traditional rhyming couplets.

“It’s a challenge as a writer not to get a syllable out of place,” says Thorpe, whose show There Has Possibly Been An Incident is on at St Stephen’s. “I could have done something more abstract, or something like Cora, whose piece is much more personal and passionate. But I think the way that the guest balladeers are interpreting the theme have one thing in common: they’re true to the spirit of the ballad as a public, poetic and musical forum for analysing society, for telling stories, for spreading an idea.”

The remaining four balladeers, who will appear throughout the month in various combinations, include Lucy Ellinson, star of the Traverse’s Grounded; Third Angel’s Alex Kelly; u

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festfeature t Daniel Bye, who’s performing and directing How to Occupy an Oil Rig also at St Stephen’s; and emerging Scottish theatre-maker Kieran Hurley.

But the show’s grand finale is the formation of an epic ballad, written over the course of the The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project’s run.

Campbell explains: “The ballad begins with a foundling babe being discovered floating on the River Tweed in a Moses basket on the night of the dissolution of the Act of Union, at the beginning of an imagined no-longer-United Kingdom.

And then each night there’ll be a new guest artist who will contribute the next verse of that poem and they’ll be responsible for the next five years of the narrative. Over the 19 nights of the Fringe, we’ll go 95 years into an imagined history of this child but also of Scotland and England as separate entities.”

“As a Scotsman living in England,” he adds, “I feel strangely removed from the independence debate. I won’t have a vote, which feels weird. And that’s why I’m very precisely not talking about Scottish independence. I’m talking about the end of the union and what that means from both sides.”

The tune, first verse and refrain for the show’s grand epic ballad were written by musician Aly Macrae, and its early contributors include writers Alan McKendrick and Molly Naylor, as well as actor Tam Dean Burn. The new verses are recorded each night too, so people can see how it’s progressing without having to attend every show.

And though the format occasionally borders on cheesy, this is precisely what the director intends. “A ballad can survive many things but it can’t survive irony,” Campbell insists. “It has to say ‘I claim this.’ Teenagers with broken hearts use ballads, political song-makers use ballads. It goes to identity in a very honest and emotional way, which feels enormously timely. I think we’re in an aesthetic, political and theatrical moment where we can’t really fuck around with irony anymore. We’ve got to say ‘this is what we think’, ‘this is what we want to say.’”

The audience, Campbell says, “are the folk of the folk tale.” And they get involved too, singing along with Macrae’s soulful but catchy refrain and being invited to leave a song for the next night’s audience to sing.

“We get together in the room,” says Thorpe, “we talk and we sing about stuff. That continuity from night to night, it’s just a beautiful touch. It’s the passing down of an idea - in this case

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over the span of a few weeks, but it’s what humans have always done.”

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After years battling with anxiety and panic attacks, comedian Felicity Ward has never been better. She chats to Evan Beswick about her journey – and how Adam Hills and Toy Story 3 helped her along the way.

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h my God, my second year in Edinburgh, I had a really hard year.

“I was about three weeks in and I needed some kind of emotional nurturing so I thought, I know, let’s all go and watch Toy Story 3.

Now, I don’t know if you’ve seen Toy Story 3. The bit where they are in the lava pit, right? In my head, I said, if they go down, I am actually going to die. Because I am not in a place where I can deal with six lovable toys that I have been following for ten years... well, I was not going to say goodbye to them.”

For what it’s worth, Woody, Buzz and pals survive the lava pit – a victory, most obviously, for the virtue of toys sticking together through the toughest of times but in no small way a win for Edinburgh, too. Had they succumbed, Felicity Ward might never have returned to the city with the mad, joyous hour of stand up she has spent the past four nights ripping through. Possibly, it would not be the same confident, comfortable and engaging Australian with whom I’m sat chatting in the bonny afternoon Bristo Square sun. Most definitely, Pixar would have some explaining to do to account for having nipped in the bud success that, it would transipire, was only a year away.

“Last year was a dream year,” Ward confesses. “I’m not used to there being any carry on from the year before in Edinburgh, but this year people are coming to the show and having a good time, and I’m having a good time. So to feel you’ve made any progress in

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Edinburgh is wonderful. That’s success, even just in my heart more than anything else.”

Then again, it is perhaps no surprise that 2010’s worried newbie snaked it past another potential stopping-off point. For Ward’s route into standup is peppered with potential pitfalls – a career, indeed, that almost never happened: “I started off in sketch. I was never ever going to do standup. Ever. Like, it was an offensive idea to me.

“With sketch you can be a character, so if people are laughing at you they’re not laughing at you.

They’re laughing at a character. There’s still an element of detatchment between you and what’s on stage. But with standup the only way I know how to be funny is if I’m being honest about something, so that makes you incredibly vulnerable. I’m quite an open book when I’m on stage.”

But fate, it seems, was to intervene, contriving a chance meeting that appears to have served two functions: the first, to usher the then ex-sketch artist a step closer to standup; the second, to push Australian comedy supremo Adam Hills a step closer to beatification, cementing his reputation as the nicest man in comedy. “We went to one of [Hills’] live shows and met afterwards,” she says. “We were all sitting around having a joke... and he said if you can be half this funny, I will get you on my TV show in Australia. I was like, that’s a really nice thing to say, as if that’s going to happen. And then two weeks later I get a phone call

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saying ‘hey, we would like to invite you on the panel show’ and I’m like ‘what the fuck is going on!’.

Thrust eventually into the position of doing a 12 minute standup slot, Ward had a revelation: “Halfway through that set I went ‘oh my God, this is what I love doing’. And that was it! That was five and a half years ago.” And that, surely, was it? A straight pass through to success in Edinburgh, with only a Toy Story 3-shaped blip? Wrong again. Ward speaks openly and hilariously about her battles with anxiety, a condition which, in 2010, saw her having to conceal panic attacks on stage, nearly caused her to quit comedy, and left her convinced, night after night, that she was going to wet herself on stage – a worry that, she confirms, never actually came to fruition. “When you start to talk about the crazy shit that you do backstage or before a show... it’s actually really funny,” she laughs breezily.

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And there’s no shortage of good reasons to be breezy right now. Were this a morality tale, our hero would be guaranteed a cruise ship of a Fringe.

Anxiety-free, hauling in great reviews for a show Ward herself describes as “a joy” to do, and taking satisfaction in “improving every year” at a job she loves, this, surely, is the Australian’s moment to bask in the sun?

Or perhaps not. “I’m actually going back to Australia for a couple of days next week for a job! So that’s a weird thing. It’s good. It’s unusual. I’ll get back on the Friday and do a show that night so…we’ll see how that goes!” Think your Fringe is hard work, eh? Let’s just hope they keep it safe with the in-flight films.

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Jamie Demetriou: People Day

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festcomedy David Baddiel – Fame: Not the Musical

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David Baddiel’s first solo standup show in over a decade is a delicate balancing act. On one hand he spends it sharing anecdotes about Russell Brand and Katy Perry’s wedding in India, blethering with Madonna whilst hanging out with Ricky Gervais, and communing with Peter Gabriel.

It would easily sag into An Audience With… territory were it not for the other side of the scales.

Every braying name-drop is tempered by Baddiel con-

Daniel Simonsen: Stranger

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Last year’s winner of the Foster’s award for Best Newcomer returns to capitalise on his success. And how else but with, um, a mostlyimprovised show culminating in something akin to comedic self-harm. You have to admire Simonsen’s kamikaze gumption, though the couple in front of me might disagree, squirming to be set free as the young Norwegian holds us hostage beyond his allotted time in the seemingly desperate hunt for a funny out.

Simonsen’s thick accent combines with a gawky demeanour in an instantly amusing package – his biggest laugh surrounds a bug-eyed expression he shoots at people who walk too slow in the street. His melodious lilt is funnier still as the exaggerated voice of his inner monologue – we’re constantly flitting in and out of Simonsen’s consciousness, as he grapples with his natural awkwardness and the discomforts of social

verting it into a scalpel with which to deconstruct fame, and “the one thousand mundane ways it distorts your life”. It is like his early career—when The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Fantasy Football League were fatuously hailed as the new rock’n’roll—created a new-lad Frankenstein’s monster that he’s at once piggy-backing on, mouth agape, whilst simultaneously taking it apart.

Which is a relief, because after the first 20 minutes of jokes about Ryanair, bankers and Tom Cruise, it seems like Baddiel hasn’t updated his material at all from the last time he took to the

stage. It is when he applies a novelist’s turn of phrase (he is the author of four books) to how the prism of fame bends reality that the show rises above average standup tropes. Fame, he says, “is something we all crave but no one wants to own.”

Those who used to be on TV are treated with pity because “the assumption is that fame has given up on you, not the other way around”.

Forget rock’n’roll; on this evidence comedy could be the new sociology. [Edd McCracken] Assembly George Square, 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 31 Jul – 11 Aug, £15 – £17.50

interaction, in between more straightforwardly observational off-the-wall material.

He’s manoeuvring us into position for what looks like the gut-busting clincher with a steadily-building routine about a childhood sex fantasy, when the mic stand tilts and breaks his concentration.

A few minutes later, everything’s turned to shit.

Whether intentionally—as hinted by a running gag about how standup is the only job where, if you mess up, observers feel sad for themselves—or otherwise, an approximately quarter-hour spiral of chronic un-funniness ensues, as Simonsen tries everything from personifying his Dictaphone to scrambling through his notebook looking for new material, while counting down the minutes until the end, then curiously outstaying them. It’s one of the stranger and more memorable endings to a comedy show you’ll see, if ultimately a howling disappointment.

[Malcolm Jack] Pleasance Dome, 8:20pm – 9:20pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £8.50 – £11

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festcomedy Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

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It should be a truth universally acknowledged that this improv group is quite brilliant.

Following their debut last year, Austentatious is back at the festival and still not charging a penny, acting out yet more of a staggering 796 unpublished works understood to have been written by novelist Jane Austen and lost over the years.

This is the fictional set-up for an hour of freewheeling farce, inspired by an Austenstyle title chosen from a slew of suggestions made up by that day’s audience. And you don’t have to be a 19thcentury scholar to laugh your socks off. The six performers—accompanied by one cellist—borrow from Austen’s era and tone, but the humour is inimitably their own.

Unsurprisingly for a troupe of skilled comedians, actors and writers, these guys know

Nathaniel Metcalfe: Enthusiast

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“That song gets in my head every fucking time I see it,” complains one of the Cabaret Voltaire staff shortly after Nathaniel Metcalfe steps offstage. It’s a fair point. An all-day earworm is one downside of seeing the Carlisle-born comic’s first full Fringe show, which he closes by singing—then playing over the PA, then singing again—one insanely catchy, rightly obscure movie theme.

Still, it’s a chirpy little number, as is our host. This particular afternoon his subterranean cave is hampered by both someone drilling outside and faulty speakers,

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how to take a pithy line and spin it in a dozen directions – mixing allusions to, say, Star Wars and superhero films with a touch of satire and a big dollop of lunacy.

They’re clever and quick but never smug.

The laughter rate is high, as even fluffed words and

wardrobe malfunctions are developed into running gags.

This is relay-race comedy, with potential jokes passed like batons between performers who have great chemistry and know how to play to each other’s strengths.

If the best things in life are free, this joyfully silly show is

but where another comic might fume and flounder, Metcalfe’s relentless positivity remains intact. Which is a prerequisite, really, given the show’s theme.

In essence his material is of the much-derided ‘mentioning old kids TV shows’ strand, but rather than just take the piss out of Art Attack, he explores leftfield new levels of fandom, becoming obsessed with host Neil Buchanan’s pre-telly rock band, Marseille, which allows for numerous props and callbacks along the way.

Visual stimuli are certainly a help when it sounds like your room is being tunneled into.

Metcalfe’s love of repetition garnered a misguided reference to Stewart Lee

among his publicity quotes.

Close, as actually he’s hugely reminiscent of a young Richard Herring: the tucked-in early-90s look, naively upbeat style, even that ‘I’m a little teapot’ spare-arm position.

No greatest hits DVD—as Herring is giving away this year—but then many of his best bits are clearly worked into this show, and skillfully so. An impressively assured debut.

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one of them. Witty, inventive and accessible, it’ll leave you wanting to come back for at least a dozen more ‘lost’ Austens afterwards. [Tom Wicker] Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13, free

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festcomedy Simon Munnery: Fylm

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There’s a lot to like here.

Munnery himself, for a start.

He’s like your mate’s stoner dad. It’s impossible not to feel indulgent towards him, whether the one-liner he’s delivered was brilliant, shocking, or just baffling.

And this is a cool idea: lurking before a camera at the back of the room, he cobbles together a film of sorts, combining footage of his looming face, cartoons complete with wobbly cardboard puppets, and shots of the bemused crowd. He has a lot of fun with this set-up, for instance contriving a way to pick on people at the front by projecting, huge and vivid, the image of his cruelly pointing forefinger.

There’s a pissing-about quality to all this. Some of it’s artful, and it’s all charming, but it’s still pissing about.

It’s as though Munnery has decided that honing his idea to the point where it’s really funny wouldn’t be in the spirit of the thing. It seems churlish, admittedly, to criticise a celebrated alternative comedian for being dilettantish, but there you are. Unless somebody steals his idea, the seeds of brilliance it contains will never sprout. By next year Munnery himself will have thought of something else.

It says a lot that the high point of the show arguably comes when Munnery leaves for a few minutes (quick wank-break, apparently), leaving the audience with Mick Moriarty, the guitarist whose strumming accompanies the whimsy. Moriarty sings one song. It’s electrifying. Simon Munnery is also capable of transcendence, but he falls short here. [Ed Ballard] The Stand, 3:40pm – 4:40pm, 1–26 Aug, not 12, £10

Rachel Parris: The Commission

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Rachel Parris is fighting the room. Not because of any audience hostility, far from it, but because The Counting House ballroom is boiling. Fortunately the actress, musician, comedian and improviser is packing sufficient witty ditties and withering lines to keep us attentive. We’re on our toes immediately as Parris adds a deft twist to even the simplest instruction: “You’ll want to join in – but don’t,” she remarks as she launches into a song.

For The Commission, Parris plays a renegade version of

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herself. She supplies music for corporate clients for a living, but here she suggests alternative compositions that she would like to send to, for example, Disney (a riposte to all that clean-livin’ fun exhibited in High School Musical) and to the X-Factor (an ego-fest spoof ballad called ‘Amazing’).

While the musical influences change (tunes include an R’n’B ode to the sexual allure of ankles, part Jay Z, part Queen V), Parris’s soprano style remains constant.

Constancy and consistency is the Parris way, her flow and poise almost too clean. The background thread on which the show

leans is a yarn about her missing a friend and former flatmate, Caroline, who has now moved in with her fiancé – for whom Parris has nothing but scorn. The hurt she is feeling brings forth a number of her own insecurities and fleshes out her character.

Perhaps there could have been more back story to join the dots of her compositions, but the conceit is disarming, and original by comparison to treading the familiar ground of a jilted songstress.

[Julian Hall] Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4:00pm – 4:55pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13, free

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festcomedy Henry Paker: Classic Paker

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Contentedness is rarely conducive to cutting-edge comedy. The amiable Henry Paker stumbled across it recently, getting engaged and now co-habiting, which forms the crux of his third solo Edinburgh show. There’s a promising routine early on about the role of box-sets in modern relationships, and a cracking gag about the word fiancé, but otherwise this happy state of affairs—oh, if there were only affairs—appears to have disastrously dulled his creativity.

Paker’s previous hours have revelled in his relationship woes, sparking off delirious flights of fancy that dovetailed perfectly with his overall air of quirky bewilderment. Those flights have now vanished into the Edinburgh ether, with a more straightforward, surrealism-free character emerging in their wake. It isn’t a character at all, in truth, just a regular chap rambling on about his domestic arrangements: shopping,

Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in Zeitgeist Limbo

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Keats, Yeats, Shelley and Auden can all rest easy. The pantheon of great poets will not need to be extended to make room for Phill Jupitus.

Nor would he want it to be.

His punkish, puckish poetry is much more at home in a mosh-pit with Spike Milligan and Ogden Nash, where clickety-clack rhythms carry the poems to their inevitable rhyming punchlines.

The show is irreverent from the start. It is listed under the spoken word section in the Fringe programme and credits Jupitus’s poetic alter-

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cooking, the cat. Sporadic spots of invention do pepper the set, and his audience interaction remains pleasingly potent, but Classic Paker is anything but. The second half is often surprisingly dull.

Perhaps the muse really has moved on, but you cannot help but wonder whether

ego, Porky, as the main act.

All of which is misleading.

This is Jupitus’s gig. A comedian by trade, he was always going err towards his natural, humorous temperament. Look elsewhere for a Steve Martin line in the sand between comedy and art.

His multifarious cultural interests, popular and otherwise, are channelled into verse. We get poems about when music fans grow up (The Fat Mods), an intense invective about Jeremy Clarkson having sex with cars (Jeremy CarFucker), and a neat answer to a poetry

the word ‘career’ has loomed large in recent months, given the imminent troth plighting.

Paker’s one problem—apart from a general lack of recognition—was always his jarring echoes of more established comics, but at least they tended to be inspirational ones. This show reeks of a

man trying to trudge down the over-trodden observational path to wider success, while neglecting his own undeniable talents. A classic error. [Si Hawkins] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6:45pm – 7:45pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £9 – £10.50

question no one asked (Why William Blake Only Wrote One Poem About Tigers – too few words rhyme with ‘tiger’).

Jupitus is a talented, focused wordsmith and seems to be having a ball. His subjects may be slight—he wisely leaves pondering Greek pottery to other dead white guys—but it is a timely reminder why the shared love of words and their multiple meanings makes poetry and comedy harmonious bedfellows. [Edd McCracken] The Jam House, 5 – 6pm, 3–24 Aug, not 12, free

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festcomedy Shit-faced Shakespeare

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The formula, for the uninitiated, is thus: take one Shakespeare play (in this case, Much Ado About Nothing), reduce to an hour, and perform. Exceeeeeept: one of the six-strong cast, chosen at random, is drunk! Absolutely booze-boffed! Totally snozzlefaced! We know this because we’re shown the amount of sauce they’ve necked before curtain-up. Tonight, our poor Beatrice has bombed a whole can of Tennent’s and two big bottles of fizzy wine.

The Shakespeare, of course, is completely incidental to the spectacle, which is no bad thing given the cast of “classically trained” actors seem to have spent a whole weekend rehearsing it. So what, exactly, are we here for?

To gawp and guffaw at a drunk person? Y’know, being drunk?

It’s the theatrical equivalent of bear-baiting; a boorish, hollering, hormonal ritual that you half expect to end with an actress pulling her pants down, defecating on stage whilst screeching snatches of Lady GaGa in between bouts of projectile vomiting. Whilst the audience cheer and call for more booze.

Clearly, there’s a market for Shit-faced Shakespeare at the Fringe. But lord knows why.

[Joe Spurgeon] C venues, 11:20pm – 12:20am, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

FanFiction Comedy

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The only prerequisite for attending FanFiction Comedy is that you have an understanding of what ‘fan-fiction’ is.

Or, that you simply be a fan of something. Scratch that – even failing those conditions, it would be impossible not to be blown away by this staggeringly impressive line-up of New Zealand’s brightest young comedy writers as they take on cross-genre nerdity.

Hosted by Nick Gibb, FanFiction showcases the original compositions of core writers Heidi O’Loughlin, Joseph Moore, Edith Poor, and Tom Furniss, with brief discussions by Gibb and

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Steven Boyce between readings. The show’s most impressive factor is not that the five-minute vignettes are gutwrenchingly hilarious, nor that it is impossible to say who is the strongest of the performers, nor even that the stories are written newly each night. What makes FanFiction uniquely brilliant is the balance that’s struck between ridicule and celebration of obsessive fandom, and the payoff a discerning audience member gets for being at least a little nerdy.

When Moore wraps up his mash-up of Home and Away and Home Alone (you guessed it: Home Alone and Away), the entire room breaks into a chorus of the soap’s theme song. Audience and

panel members alike get into a heated discussion of the plausibility of commanding a Pokemon-esque army of small mammals. There’s a unique genius to FanFiction’s ability to bring out the pathos of whoever might find themselves writing a Dora The Explorer/Jango Fett mash-up, and there is something genuinely moving about the sheer generative talent of O’Loughlin, Moore, Poor, and Furniss.

It’s only a shame that the stories change night after night. We’ll just have to keep going back for more. [Arianna Reiche] Assembly George Square, 4:40pm – 5:40pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10

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festcomedy Thünderbards

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Introducing their sketches as if they were cautionary tales, imparted from a book, Thünderbards have hit upon a simple but effective framing device for their consistently funny tomfoolery. Between the skits, Matthew Stevens is the dafter of the two, obsessed with performing something called The Bears Upstairs, while Glenn Moore is the more tightly wound, ostensibly in charge, routinely admonishing his colleague.

Once the tales begin that remains the trend, but the diversity of their characters means there’s greater crisscrossing in terms of straight man and buffoon. Forever breaking the fourth wall, their frequent cackhandedness in delivering their vignettes adds an additional layer of mirth to an already impressive Fringe debut. Their opening sketches, with a proud father arriving at the maternity ward and two lovers undergoing a protracted, painful break-up, have a similar type of punch-

line. But they’re studded with lots of nice lines and they mix it up as the hour progresses, with a sense of when to let a scene finish abruptly, when to add topper gags or when to let it fizzle out to their own embarrassment.

There’s the odd one-line

quickie, invariably disguised.

But often they take their scenarios into unexpected places, some more worthwhile than others. One, on the evolution of the Sound of Music songbook is great fun, Moore apoplectic with rage at the nonsense Stevens is seemingly

Sam Fletcher Drawn Out Jokes

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You know a show is going to be daft when “Eh Cumpari,” the world’s daftest song, is playing when you take your seat. Sam Fletcher doesn’t disappoint: with his second Fringe show he has produced a masterpiece of sustained daftness.

He sets the tone with a charming skit featuring an imaginary St. Bernard, and the daftness escalates. He shows off his speed-typing and his knowledge of the London A to Z, argues with Siri, and fields occasional calls from work, who want him to email over a report (unstarted) on the UK’s laser

industry. Fletcher’s persona is that of an endearing geek, Mr Muscle physiognomy accentuated by big glasses halfway down his nose; he stands proprietorially behind a desk and positions whimsical drawings under a camera hooked up to a screen

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behind him.

The show is structured extremely cleverly. If you could chart all Fletcher’s nonsense on a spreadsheet you would end up with an intricate mosaic of structural callbacks, probably in the shape of Morgan Freeman’s

improvising. Another, featuring a checkout assistant being asked on a date is a perfect joke with no fat on it whatsoever. [Jay Richardson] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, £7 – £8

face (he has a thing about Freeman). He reveals the extent of his ingenuity with a delirious final set-piece, accompanied by “Eh Cumpari” again, which pulls everything together like a cat’s cradle made of silly string.

A few jokes fall flat here and there; and while a few things are bound to malfunction in a low-budget show that’s absolutely reliant on an overhead projector and an iPhone, there are a couple of worrying moments when the wheels threaten to fall off altogether. But this is an absolutely delightful way to spend an hour. [Ed Ballard] Pleasance Courtyard, 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, £7.50 – £10

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festcomedy Nadia Kamil in: Wide Open Beavers!

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In her debut solo show at the Fringe, Welsh-Iraqi writer, actor and comedian Nadia Kamil mixes feminism, rap and quirky anecdotes to make some serious points while keeping the tone light enough for a growling Virginia “Were” Woolf impression and a shout out for the joys of quinoa.

Kamil is winningly self-deprecating, poking fun at herself while railing against leering truck drivers and everyday misogyny. A wry commentator on social issues, her approach is nimble and imaginative, including a pointedly funny burlesque act.

The show can slip into fussiness, with envelopes the audience have to read from at regular intervals to a jingleinduced “whimsical moment” of Kamil as a unicorn after she jokes she’s been too political.

This doesn’t quite come off and her ideas sometimes jostle for space rather than gelling together.

But this edge of chaos is also one of the set’s enjoyable features. Kamil is right there in front of the audience as flesh and blood rather than a polished stage persona.

She’s fun, a bit scattered at times but also sharp and articulate – great company for an hour. Her ethnically mixed upbringing is mentioned but it’s not an overriding feature, just one of the many aspects of her life that she discusses with amused affection.

The set sometimes strains to achieve everything it sets out to do and would benefit from being less jam-packed.

But what Kamil says is funny, fresh and frequently bang on the money. [Tom Wicker] The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 3:30pm – 4:30pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7

Michael Che: Cartoon Violence

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America’s comedy fraternity is very excited about Michael Che and on tonight’s evidence it’s not hard to see why. The nonchalant New Yorker clearly has a natural gift for standup, his slow and measured delivery helping to squeeze almost every ounce of potential from this promising debut set.

Having grown up in the projects of New York’s Lower East Side, Che roots much of his material in his own social observation. But there’s a droll knowingness to this commentary and a wry post-

Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster: Just a Normal Girl Doing a Cool Show

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Rainbows, cats, speaking in tongues and Gabrielle; just some of the key elements of precocious schoolgirl Pattie Brewster’s self-help strategy.

The creation of character comedian Amy Hoggart, Pattie’s got a lot going on just beneath the surface.

She takes us through a range of happiness-inducing exercises, interspliced with some genuinely hilarious ‘man on the street’ interview

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modern understanding of the space that exists between the personal and the political.

‘Apparently we owe China 10 trillion dollars,’ he drawls early on, before raising an eyebrow – ‘We?’.

There are also some weighty, uncomfortable topics here—about ethnic caricaturing, homophobia and urban poverty—but in truth Che doesn’t linger on anything for long and instead rattles through a multitude of disparate topics. Largely this scattergun approach works, with Che’s charm papering over any awkward transitions, and frequent to-and-fros with an adoring audience keep the room’s energy from dipping.

Yet for all his technical skill, Cartoon Violence doesn’t give us a totally coherent sense of Che’s comic voice.

A number of ideas are left frustratingly undeveloped and a skit about pornography, however dressed up in irony, retains an uncomfortable whiff of misogyny.

While undoubtedly an assured and promising debut, this feels less like a carefully honed Edinburgh hour and more like a handful of club sets hastily pasted together.

There is clearly much more to come. [Sam Friedman]

video-segments. The whole thing is tied together with a Powerpoint presentation, the likes of which you might have seen creeping into standup in recent years. Pattie’s is a deranged delight, though, eking a laugh out of every new arrow or diagram, playing with the form as a pre-teen might and enhancing the world of the character along the way.

The show as a whole is awkward but you can’t help but fall for Pattie. Hoggart deserves praise for cultivating a creepy, almost off-putting Tim and Eric vibe and sticking with it full-throttle for the

hour. It can’t be easy to alienate such small crowds but she’s doing some seriously interesting work here and there’s plenty to enjoy. Pattie as a character is well-formed: watch closely for the detail Hoggart infuses into this child-like persona. The slight tsk, the body language, it all adds to a piece of work that’s impressive in its commitment.

Pattie might not make you feel as happy as she intends, but sometimes creepy can be just as funny. [Gemma Flynn]

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festcomedy Jamie Demetriou: People Day

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Jamie Demetriou is a special talent. On the night I see his show he’s just been diagnosed with laryngitis. He’s holed away in a tiny Portakabin round the back of the Pleasance Courtyard. Sure, at the top of his register he’s a little raspy and he’s sweating up a storm. But when the lights go down on his solo Fringe debut, the unflinching commitment he dedicates to each of his four characters is mesmerising.

The humour is uproarious, violent almost, and at times delicately nuanced,

coming from intonation, a slight tic, an observation of the human condition so consummately recreated before your eyes. Sure, you’ve heard that said about character comedy before.

But have you seen Jamie Demetriou?

Then there are the characters themselves; there’s the loveable musician wrongly billed as a comedian, the deranged, big-headed nanny, the godfearing, bullied choirboy and the superficially suave absent father. In their fully realised forms they do what good character work should do: they imply an entire world, the details creep in and you are immersed totally in their story. Each is frustrated in their own way, Demetriou taking them to the brink of breakdown and often beyond, finding hilarity in the extremes of

emotion. Indeed, his range is really a sight to behold — the contrast between dark and light after viewing big-headed nanny back-toback with bullied choirboy demonstrates the spectrum contained in his imagination.

It would be callous to denigrate this show for not adhering to some overarching theme. Who cares? This is spectacular comedic work, a genuine thrill tucked away in a sweatbox, as all great discoveries should be.

[Gemma Flynn] Pleasance Courtyard, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £10.50

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festcomedy Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent

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After last year’s poignant theatrical tribute to his late father’s love of opera, Bravo Figaro, Mark Thomas has returned to the mischievous activism for which he’s best known. Between May of this year and next, he’s pledged to commit 100 acts of minor dissent, upon pain of donating £1000 to UKIP if he fails – a challenge that ensures the show is constantly evolving, with several pranks planned for his Edinburgh run.

Nevertheless, he’s already got more than enough material to sustain an hour and pique the multinationals, the dog mess droppers and the powers that be.

Inspired by the commitment and niggling irritations of his childrens’ example, gifting him a taste of his own medicine, Thomas’s acts so far have ranged from petty junk mail retribution to very publicly shaming Apple’s

flagship London store over tax avoidance. A section in which he “heckles” books by slipping spoiler notes inside still-to-be sold copies, or stickers subverting their marketing hyperbole, is perhaps rather too long and slightly too pleased with itself. But it presages his more powerful and worthier introduction of the BastardTrade kitemark, an angry alternative to the Fair Trade logo that damns companies for their ethical failings. Elsewhere, he recalls an amusing shoplifting operation in Harrods and there are important civil liberties revelations too. Who knew department stores were permitted to install CCTV cameras in their toilets?

Reiterating that it is a civic duty to stand-up for your human rights, Thomas has even gone so far as to establish bonds with police officers he’s inconvenienced or intruded upon. [Jay Richardson] The Stand, III & IV, 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 3–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Phil Wang: AntiHero

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Graduation to a long Fringe career and telly ubiquity awaits Phil Wang, a two-time major student comedian of the year award winner with a strong hint about him of that McIntyre-esque middle-ofthe-road capacity to get the whole family laughing without frightening the horses (your gran) too much.

Making his Fringe debut with Anti-Hero, the calmlyspoken 24-year-old is already a safer ticket than many a more seasoned standup. His writing has some way to go – more smartly-smutty stuff akin to the “dicks, let’s discuss” bit than the filler-quality rou-

tine on comedy characters invented to sell to Channel 4, please Phil. But if he’s wellendowed with any one thing it’s that natural skill for making a nuance, expression, tone of voice or turn of phrase the funny part, even if the joke as

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written bombs a bit.

British comedy is hardly under-stocked with nerdy guys confessing to wanking too much, but Wang does pervy with a naïve twist, such as when he reads out a series of his own increasingly

desperate missed connection notices, culminating brilliantly with one addressed to a lady in the shower.

He finds good everyday humour in his own relatively plain biography, from explaining his curious Lloyd Grossman-esque Transatlantic accent to revealing the at times frustrating healthiness of his relationship with his parents – a refreshingly frank contrast to the larger-than-life personas fabricated by many comics. It’s tempting to award him a bonus star just for the complimentary “Wang” badge you get on the way out.

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festcomedy Joseph Morpurgo: Truthmouth

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The name may sound like a Sherlock Holmes villain but Joseph Morpurgo is an actual living person, albeit one who pretends to be numerous other people every day.

This versatile newcomer is a member of the lauded regency improv troupe behind Austentatious, but began dabbling with a solo show 18 months ago. The result is an absolute revelation.

Truthmouth is named after a theatre group with whom—the blurb insists—he embarked on an ambitious project in 2012, embodying verbatim the voices of various real-life characters.

Utter hokum of course, but a handy framework for the comic’s grand array of grotesques, lost souls, and at least one reptile. Each sketch begins with a picture of his supposed subject flashing onto the screen, often raising expectant laughs before the material has even begun.

Handy.

Sean Hughes: Penguins

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Small-scale national treasure Sean Hughes commands a friendly mid-evening audience who are willing him to do well. We’re assaulted with numerous gimmicks in the first five minutes; an over-sized buzz-wire game spelling FAIL, a box that delivers snippets of his stories, a child’s wooden block game and Hughes himself in a woollen dress. Like the crowded stage, there are various narrative threads to this show that are wedged together with the aim of alleviating our regrets, of coming to terms with failure. A cast of

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Not that he needs any help, as the quality level is quite staggeringly high.

The show begins relatively meekly, in truth, with echoes of Count Arthur Strong then some Chris Morris-alike wordplay, but soon blossoms creatively, using novel tricks and that screen to subvert the conventions of character comedy (the show is directed

by Armando Iannucci associate Natalie Bailey).

Character-wise, Morpurgo takes on fashion-conscious demons and forgotten phone-game characters, even his own technician, inhabiting them with such wildeyed intensity that it often borders on the intimidating.

There’s certainly the threat of being covered in foodstuffs at various points.

True, he does plead rather plaintively for some pennies afterwards, but it’s a small price to pay. For a free show this is sensational viewing.

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characters is introduced and interwoven through stories of Hughes’s youth and his recent breakup.

This is a busy show.

Building on his considerable standup experience, he’s stretching himself here.

He’s reaching for genuine emotion and the whole spectacle is admirable.

But there’s something wholly unsatisfying about it. The humour is

tame and shines through too infrequently. More so, there’s a certain clunkiness to these various storytelling devices. It’s delivered at a great rate, but the unstop-

pable momentum only heaps in more detail, more noise; it infuses little extra in the way of laughs, so in truth it’s only serving to dull the clarity of the piece.

What’s worse is the sense of going through the motions; it feels trite to hear Beckett dumped in amongst it all, making it almost parodic of the typical theme-heavy, emotion-laden Edinburgh show, without the bite. Rounded off with an inevitable, yet baffling section of callbacks, you can’t dislike Hughes’s comedy but it’s certainly not loveable here either. [Gemma Flynn] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, £13 – £15

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festcomedy Luke Wright: Essex Lion

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Luke Wright’s Cynical Ballads was one of 2011’s undisputed Fringe standouts, and while he can’t match that hour for conceptual perfection, Essex Lion consolidates his burgeoning reputation as a poet.

Conveying the lifting of his heart is one of Wright’s gifts, and his show was inspired by last August’s revelation of a lion sighting in Clactonon-Sea, confirming his title regardless of what the hour was going to be about.

“A fucking lion!”, expressed with both incredulity and joy, becomes the refrain for this warmly nostalgic portrait of life in the Home Counties and East Anglia.

Introducing each verse with drolly funny anecdotes, Wright has a face so babyish he’s still asked for ID buying alcohol. That’s distressing for someone who wants to cut a rakish dash in Cuban heels à la Russell Brand or

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Carl Barat, perhaps not so much the thinly-disguised Pete Doherty figure he later sympathises with. These Boots Aren’t Made For Walking revels in regret but he finds consolation in “talking” instead.

In the show’s most affecting lines, he shares panglossian memories of roguish antique dealer Lovejoy filming in his village and his first kiss, tempered only slightly by his recent rewatching of the series.

Class is a preoccupation as ever and Nigel Farage an absolute godsend, but he also proffers the cautionary tale of Posh Plumber and the familiar comic ruse of revisiting his painfully angsty, pretentiously funny adolescent yearnings. A lament for Houses That Used To Be Boozers, featuring Jenny Bede singing, is cutting but lovely. [Jay Richardson] Assembly George Square, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50 – £10.50

Josh Widdicombe: Incidentally...

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At a Fringe awash with highconcept standup, it’s rare to find a comedian without a self-conscious gimmick.

Yet that is what Josh Widdicombe is – a performer unburdened with any stylistic concern other than being funny. This is a braver move than some might give him credit for.

Widdicombe practises observational comedy of the conventional, apparently unremarkable sort; early in the show, he admits that boundary-breaking satire is not his strong suit. His preferred subjects—Super Noodles, annoying flatmates and other perils of young bachelorhood—are domestic, familiar, but rarely tedious.

In fact, it is this familiarity which serves as foundation for the warm relationship Widdicombe forges with his audience after only minutes on stage.

His main tactic is baffled overreaction to life’s

mundanity—again, not exactly unknown in mainstream standup—but when his observations are rooted in such basic shared human experience, the tactic works more often than not. Such an approach could be called unambitious, but not ineffective.

However, as relatable as it is, Widdicombe’s defiantly lightweight material unfortunately leaves the performance feeling sparse and unsatisfying as a whole. Though he’s not the fastest-talking comedian in the world, the show moves along at a fair clip, only slowed down by some uncertain audience interaction. But chatting with the front row is always a gamble, and Widdicombe should be given credit for never serving up these innocent bystanders as sacrificial lambs of comedy. There is no shortage of comedians who could learn from that example. [Sean Bell] Assembly George Square, 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 31 Jul – 15 Aug, £12 – £13

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festcomedy Adam Kay: How to Be a Bogus Doctor

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Spending any length of time in a medical scenario is an onerous, unappealing prospect, be it a doctor’s waiting room or in A&E. Even Adam Kay’s premise of churning out freshly trained quacks to take advantage of an NHS in crisis was going to be hard pushed not to press the buttons of the squeamish – especially “in a Portakabin set to the temperature of Jupiter.”

As much as there are inevitable recoils at the functioning bodily humour, there are belly laughs across a show that has a steady bedside manner. Kay takes us through four modules that are designed to turn us into mercenary medics, with short cuts that include using a vacuum cleaner to fashion a dialysis machine.

From the correct font to use for a forged medical certificate to disposing of dead patients; it’s all here.

Kay ticks every box available to squeeze the marrow out of medical mirth. It can feel

John Lloyd: Liff of QI

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It’s 55 minutes before any of this makes sense. We discover, with a subtle plug-in closing, that John Lloyd, founder of the BBC megalith QI and all-round stalwart of the corporation’s comedy mill, has a new book out – a sequel to the dictionary of new words he penned with the late Douglas Adams. In that sense, and only that sense, this disparate hodgepodge of anecdotes and avuncular musings sits quite comfortably. Less a desperate money spinner than a frothy preamble to having your stocking filler signed, this is the perfectly pleasant

a little systematic, an A-Z of medical miscellany, and the unchanging tone of Kay, a former doctor and writer for Phil Hammond (the daddy of the medicine as mirth genre), means a steady pulse for

the show throughout, and therefore nothing to get ours exactly racing. You can’t get struck off for consistency, of course, but it’s symbolic that Kay himself likens a healthy pulse to the theme tune of

ambling of a man whose currency, clearly, is enthusiasm rather than cynicism.

What Lloyd delivers is an hour-long sampler of what it’s like to spend 30-odd years as a curious, engaging and witty part of the BBC comedy gang. Tenuously linked by a sense of wonder at all we don’t know, our raconteur leaps between topics, segueing from licence fee payers’ complaints to Kiwi guide dogs without necessary excuse. “The best practical joke I know was carried out in 1973...,” he recalls. “I was shooting a Daim bar advert with Harry [Enfield]...,” starts another. These are party favourites, one suspects, well honed through repetition.

On occasion the 61-yearold strays towards oafishness, bemoaning “the sad state of education in this country”, or eulogising “the old BBC”. But there’s little by way of bad behaviour to be found here.

Soft-edged, sepia-tinged and backward-looking, this is just fine. [Evan Beswick]

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festcomedy Arthur Smith

HHHHH At last year’s Fringe, Sarfraz Manzoor won me over with a charming one-man show concerning his passion for Bruce Springsteen. This year, Arthur Smith returns to the subject of Leonard Cohen with triumphant results. All I can say is this: someone better be working on a Lou Reed Comedy Hour for 2014.

Technically, this is a continuation of Smith’s previous study of Canada’s greatest son – “Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen, Volume Two” as he puts it. Nevertheless, no familiarity with Volume One is necessary to enjoy Smith’s revelatory blend of dark, poignant music and dark, poignant comedy.

Smith is a skilled comedian, but the show would not be

nearly as successful if it relied on his comedy alone. It cannot be understated that Arthur Smith sings Leonard Cohen incredibly well. Of course,

your enjoyment of this will depend on how much you enjoy Cohen... But if you don’t like Leonard, there’s no hope for you anyway.

James Acaster: Lawnmower

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First things first: James Acaster’s show is nothing to do with lawnmowers. Zilch.

Percy Pigs, yes. Mariachi bands, most definitely. Those folk who write messages in the sky using planes? Climb aboard. But not so much as a flymo. That’s not in fact a criticism: really, who cares about the adherence or otherwise to a contrived theme? Just an observation.

And here’s another one: Acaster isn’t actually that funny. But that’s not meant as a criticism, either. Well, maybe a bit.

In fact, by far the strongest suit in Acaster’s deck is his delivery. Slow, languid and pedantic, Acaster delights in following throwaway comments or figures of speech to their logical conclusions, poring over them with a rigour and clarity they absolutely do not deserve. “I’ll level with

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More than a mention should be given to the Smithereens, Smith’s sensational troupe of backing singers, who impress on multiple fronts. Ethereal, playful and beguiling, the Smithereens are what completes Smith’s tribute, recreating the haunting atmosphere of Cohen’s music beautifully. On top of this, they are also great comedic talents, enjoying a comic chemistry with Smith and providing the punchlines to several of the best gags.

Audiences willing to take a chance on this refreshing and rewarding hour of entertainment will find that the music of despair contains many unexpected laughs.

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you,” he confides, before berating the rhyme scheme of ‘Frère Jacques’. “Look, if I’m honest...” he begins, launching into another set piece of bathos. The humour, where it does come, spreads in gentle waves. A scoff here and a titter there – never ever a roar. The delight here is in the originality of the style, not the wafer-thin substance.

Lawnmowers aside, this is a nicely structured show, too. Ostensibly a whimsical attempt to clear the name of Yoko Ono, Acaster casts out loose ends and then ties them back up in all sorts of exotic knots. These flights of fancy culminate in a single punchline – very clever, but only mildly funny. And that’s about the sum of it: there’s much enjoyment to be had here, but it’s in the journey rather than the destination.

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festcomedy Ian Smith: Anything

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A man with a dull name performing a show with a dull name in a venue with a dull name (the Pleasance Courtyard’s curious ‘That’).

And that’s even a dull introduction. These things are worryingly contagious.

Thankfully Ian Smith flags up this unfortunate predicament early in Anything, and proceeds to keep the interest high through sheer force of his likably self-deprecating personality, and—let’s not be coy—one of those regional accents that offers an immediate head-start on the standup superhighway.

Smith is from the Yorkshire town of Goole, the name of which turns out to be ripe

The Pin

HHHHH This isn’t sketch duo The Pin’s first year at the Fringe, yet they sometimes seem unsure of themselves, in or out of character. The flipside of this is a pleasing rawness in much of what they do.

Wheareas some sketches are spoiled by a lack of polish, others play well into the personas developed

by Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen (the remainder of last year’s three-piece). One is a

for comedy, ironically, particularly in its similarity to a certain search engine (try typing it in: the results must really rile the locals).

As the title suggests, this debut show is one of those ‘shoehorn in all my best material’ affairs, but does hang together nicely. Being largely anecdotal there’s an autobiographical arc, from Goole, through school, and on to his semi-successful career, the highlight of which is an obscure sitcom called Popatron which, again, proves ripe for repetitious ridicule.

Despite the air of cheery innocence it’s clear that Smith is a savvy operator,

simpleton, the other a more intelligent but deluded man aspiring to bigger things, with an unpublished play in hand and recent romantic failure on his mind.

Particular highlights include an over-confident Frank Lampard filming an advert for Gillette and Ed Miliband being awkwardly coaxed through an encounter with Barack Obama.

Perversely, the sketches are the most real elements of the show, and the comedy is increasingly found in the

flagging up a fictitious story early on (thus planting a seed to suggest that everything else genuinely happened, however far-fetched), leaping into extended physical bits to keep things fresh, and frequently breaking off from stories to make sure we’re all still on board.

This first solo hour works well, then. The test will come when he needs to conjure a whole new one. [Si Hawkins] Pleasance Courtyard, 5:45pm – 6:45pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £10

structure of the show itself as it falls apart. By the time the hour is up The Pin have shown themselves entirely incapable of performing sketch comedy, resorting to flipping through Ashenden’s childlike ideas for smartphone apps and fictional YouTube videos.

The Pin have a strong basic conceit and some good ideas to fill it with. A lot of the material would be more at home on the

radio, and you sense that given the chance the duo would succeed better on the airwaves than on the stage. It is a competent, engaging show which keeps the audience going from start to finish, built around a framework which, with a bit of work, could be developed into a compelling piece of character comedy. [Dominic Hinde] Pleasance Courtyard, 6:15pm – 7:15pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £9 – £11

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The moment when this aching, enchanting show tips over from being simply great to exceptional is easy to spot.

Towards the end, a simple white dot of light floats across a screen. And people start sobbing.

It is a testament to Australian theatre company Weeping Spoon’s skilful storytelling

that through the solitary performer melding animation, songs, puppetry and live action, you care deeply about what is essentially a bike light dangling from a stick.

But before we get to the sobbing, there is a grand adventure. The seas have risen. Most of mankind has drowned. And Alvin Sputnik has just lost his wife. Her soul has drifted to the bottom of the now endless ocean. All this in the first five minutes.

All alone in this soggy

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world, Sputnik undertakes a mission to locate an underwater cavern that could save the world. Armed with a diving suit and a finite amount of air he plunges into the inky depths. Dancing whales, strange lights, and Giorgio Moroder await.

With its mixture of derringdo, humour and sadness, ...Alvin captures the melancholy and wonder of Pixar’s finest moments—the first ten minutes of Up, the wordless opening act of WALL·E—and

creates a beautiful meditation on love, loss and longing.

And like Pixar, the show knows that it is not operatic gestures but the accumulation of little things that moves us: a submerged disco ball, a family together again, a single light in a dark ocean.

It will broadside you and blow your heart wide open.

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festtheatre Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel

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Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel looks and comes across as if it has been designed and written by a nineyear-old girl. And it has. A nine-year-old girl dressed in armour wielding a baseball bat and a Kalashnikov.

Artist and performer Bryony Kimmings hands the microphone to her fully-armed niece Taylor to expose the worrying reality for young women today, via their sexualisation, consumerism and gender projection.

The show is also a means of showcasing the duo’s fantasy creation: the titular

likeable and aspirational pop singer and paleontologist Catherine Bennett. Bennett likes tuna pasta, sings a song called ‘Animal Kingdom’ and has a boyfriend who works as a proofreader.

The performance cannot really be described as acting – it exists in a unique space between a public lecture on feminism and the fantasies of a little girl, all rendered real through the costume changes of one woman’s wardrobe of wigs, sparkly dresses and early-thirties moral crisis. There are a few cracks, including taking a while to get to the heart of the matter, but none of it ultimately detracts from what the show is trying to say.

Credible… is the sort of

state-funded feminist propaganda that sends the Daily Mail into fits of apoplectic rage. It is highly personal, heartfelt and worrying, but also supremely uplifting in its desire to create an alternative future for girls which means them not having to

put up with the same shit as the rest of womankind. Help smash the patriarchy by giving it an hour of your time.

[Dominic Hinde]

Holes by Tom Basden

to their predicament, or another “transport cock-up”, as Marie chirpily observes.

Indeed, Basden sure can drop a knuckleheaded, crowd-pleasing punchline (“there are no such things as lesbians, they’re just trying to be clever”, insists Ian), but as the wheels come off for the dysfunctional foursome, the mid-section sags under the weight of excessive Four Pints of Lager…-esque barroom banter.

Even when the screwball comedy subsides and Holes… changes tack, that off-theshelf desert island plot device resolves itself in sub-William Golding territory with a bit of whimper.

As a series of episodic encounters, Holes… is admittedly great fun, abetted by a uniformly strong cast, clearly enjoying their broadly drawn characters; as a complete piece of drama, though, it’s just a little lost at sea. [Joe Spurgeon]

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We’re not going to give away the “secret location” of Holes

by Tom Basden, save to say that you’ll need to ring-fence the best part of four hours in your congested Fringe diary for the round trip. It’s one of the more impressively-staged festival destinations, though: a two-tiered, in-the-round audience circling a lofted, sand-filled stage crowned by a huge sun, whose fiery glare gradually warms our four actors to boiling point.

A BA passenger plane bound for Sydney has crash-landed on a remote island. A quartet of survivors include Gus, Marie and Ian, all colleagues from the same inane corporation; and Erin, a teenager. How did it happen?

And can the group coalesce to stay alive?

There’s plenty to enjoy in the early exchanges as Basden/the cast exercise their comic chops via wildly polarised reactions

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festtheatre Breaking News

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The central conceit of this offering from Icelandic company VaVaVoom is immediately apparent from an introduction in which silhouetted domestic scenes are projected onto drawn Venetian blinds. Breaking News explores the dichotomy of life in an age of information where technology and media bring the world closer to us than ever before, yet we continue to experience it in relative isolation. It’s also an utterly charming piece of puppet theatre, as we soon discover when a middle blind is raised and we’re introduced to a dressing gown engaging in its morning routine.

Our faceless protagonist is seen browsing the internet, reading a paper and tuning the kitchen radio to a current affairs programme, before finally turning to television for images of disaster and suffering. When these news broadcasts simultaneously end, the character is left lifeless and dejected. Although prone to getting caught up in the pacifying distraction of sport, the gown is clearly addicted to hard-hitting headlines. As reports of bombings resume, it embarks on a fantastic journey involving a pop-up cityscape that’s astonishing in its beauty and detail.

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S. Sunna Reynisdottir and Irena Stratieva manipulate their shared piece of fabric is crucial to the show’s success.

Their graceful, choreographed movements allow its star to display the body lan-

guage of both a concerned humanitarian and jaded news anchor, while imbuing the second act with melancholic elegance.

Breaking News may not have anything particularly

original to say, but it can’t be faulted as an exercise in form.

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festtheatre The Shawshank Redemption

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Adapted for the stage from Stephen King’s original novella, it is clear that The Shawshank Redemption is keen to escape the shadow of its ubiquitous cinema version; unfortunately, it never quite succeeds. While there are enough significant divergences to be noticeable, the play seems to be inhabiting a ready-made aesthetic that is all too familiar.

A tale of incarcerated innocence and the effect it has upon everyone else in the eponymous ‘Shank’, the play is obviously a work of passion, but relishes the clichés of prison fiction a little too much. To what extent this is the fault of the production, or King’s infamously take-itor-leave-it writing, depends

Ciara

HHHHH Ciara is a play about protection, first and foremost.

About safety mapped onto the contours of a city or a life, about the dark and dangerous regions beyond havens and wall gardens.

Ciara has built herself a sanctuary of art to hold the reality of her gangster father’s brutal way of life—a way of life he has passed on to her husband—at bay. There’s a sense in which Glasgow itself is the central character, which Ciara sees as overflowing with stupid, vicious men. “How is it that we produce so many of these men?” she asks.

Her life is described as a forest of violent masculinity, in which art, or one artist in particular, seems to offer respite. His drawing of a naked giantess sprawled over Glasgow is a recurring image of tranquil female dominance.

on your view of the megaselling author.

Kyle Secor is likable but unmemorable as Andy Dufresne, the banker who maintains he was wrongly

imprisoned; meanwhile, Omid Djalili brings both sly humour and quiet sadness to the role of Red, but unfortunately Djalili’s talent for accents does not extend as far

as America. The rest of the performances share similar virtues and faults – they gel together well, creating a convincing prison ecosystem, but the dialogue too often becomes maudlin or corny. As for Red’s frequent addresses to the audience, such exposition could not be more heavy-handed if it tried.

Still, The Shawshank Redemption is a minor triumph of staging, with a multipurpose set of revolving scenery which strikes just the right balance between stark minimalism and telling detail.

Sadly, this cannot save a play which bounces aimlessly between cartoonish grimness and mawkish sentimentality.

[Sean Bell] The Assembly Rooms, 4:50pm – 6:15pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, £16

David Harrower’s monologue ripples with well-turned phrases, and its bold, scribbly chronology makes Ciara’s story a pleasing challenge to unravel. Unfortunately, Harrower works too hard and takes too long to wrap the ends up again, leaving the conclusion feeling pat rather than suggestive.

It’s hard to fault Blythe Duff’s reserved, dryly witty performance, except that its rhythms have a tendency to emphasise the tonal repetition of Harrower’s writing.

Though its gangland saga becomes steadily less convincing, the picture of Glasgow Harrower sketches is a haunting and persistent one. Harrower paints the city as a microcosm of a world of evil men – where the soil is barren to anything good or pure. [Stewart Pringle] Traverse Theatre, times vary, 1–25 Aug, not 2, 5, 12, 19, £18 – £20

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festtheatre An Actor’s Lament

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Steven Berkoff’s actorly dystopia, it seems, has come to pass. An art world of easy sentiment peddled by barely literate, thin-voiced, straight to television nubiles. A world in which new work must toss up easy sentiment for grubbing over by the public and press – these “stuttering toerags wallowing in the swamp of self-importance”.

What, then, is the glossy take-home of this enjoyably venomous hour? Much less a new manifesto for art, the point is largely thus: that Berkoff and his co-stars, Jay Benedict and Andrée Bernard, are brilliant – and if you’re not them, you’re probably not as good.

It’s a message that is pretty well evidenced. Three actors, clearly on top of their craft, demonstrate that

hamming and carping in sure hands can indeed be an art form. Berkoff’s script, all in blank verse, shows both the considerable abilities of a dramatist able to live and breathe the Shakespearean idiom, and of that idiom to crackle with wit, allusion and linguistic pizzazz. There’s a virtuosity here that’s hard not to enjoy.

But even Berkoff can’t sustain gold for a full hour, the back-and-forth routine growing a little monotonal.

Plus the defence of irony can’t wash out spots that feel genuinely jealous and splenetic. In a month which sees enthusiastic youngsters trying, however inexpertly, to shoehorn their understanding of the world into theatrical form, this at times feels undignified – the punching of kings and queens of theatre determined to scupper the ships and raze

the villages before they are deposed.

Christ, they do it so well though. [Evan Beswick] Assembly Hall, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 1–20 Aug, not 5, 12, £18 – £20

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Knightmare Live

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Step left. Go forward two paces. Welcome to Knightmare – must-see TV in the early 90s that left kids across the country desperate to don the Helmet of Justice and conquer the game’s various fiendishly hard levels while dungeon master Treguard boomed warnings about their life force. This theatrical

Theatre Uncut

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Early in Neil LaBute’s new short, Pick One, the whole concept of this latest Theatre Uncut run suddenly looks fatally flawed. The actor Garry Beadle stares at his rapidly-learned script, apparently unsure what to say next. Thankfully that lengthy rumination turns out to be a crucial part of the plot. Such is life on the theatrical edge.

Theatre Uncut was founded in 2010 as a stage-

adaptation arrives at the Fringe on a nostalgic wave in the same month that a brand new episode has turned up on YouTube.

By rights, this shouldn’t work at all. The notion of replicating an epic, multilocation cult fantasy TV series on stage is a bit ridiculous, the show’s numerous set changes are clunky and intrusive, and a last-minute plot twist just feels tacked-on. But the whole

thing is done with such a sense of fun and love for the original that it’s hard not to get swept up in the rush.

As Treguard and the evil Lord Fear, Paul Flannery and Tom Bell send up the doom-laden atmosphere of the wench-filled original brilliantly, embracing the ludicrousness of it all. A different guest wears the helmet each day while other comics at the Fringe take the hot seat

as their guides through the dungeon. It’s scrappily joyous nonsense.

Nostalgia powers this production like a dynamo, keeping everything together even when the cracks are gaping.

It’s not high art—or even middle art—but it’s bloody good fun. [Tom Wicker]

based response to government cuts, although their system has now tightened up too, with playwrights allowed only five days to create new works. “Do we all get more right wing in hard times?” is this year’s question, hence LaBute’s sinister trio, conspiring to rid the US of an entire race. An intriguing twist occurred after his script was submitted, the company’s artistic directors casting a black actor, Beadle, as the white right-winger who ultimately condemns

African Americans. It lightens the tone considerably.

More radical is Davey Anderson’s True or False, which ponders Scottish independence via a Milgram-style electric-shock experiment, with hair-raising consequences. The Wing by Uncut veteran Clara Brennan is less successful, her penchant for monologues evident in the unrealistic—if diverting—dialogue between a xenophobic father and idealistic daughter. And Bristol’s Wardrobe Ensemble

take a wonderfully visual approach to liberal dinnerparty angst, in an unnamed piece inspired by New York company TEAM. Whatever your politics, Theatre Uncut is a courageous, often thrilling experiment, with lasting value: all of these plays will be available for rights-free performance throughout November. [Si Hawkins]

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festtheatre Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks

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Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks is all about nostalgia. Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon’s two-man play is a dewy-eyed homage to British wrestling’s golden age, cast in the form of a slapstick-ish caper about two of its great icons: the titular Big Daddy (real name Shirley Crabtree, played by Ross Gurney-Randall) and Giant Haystacks (Martin Ruane, portrayed by David Mounfield).

Crabtree and Ruane were in the first rank of sporting celebrities during professional wrestling’s 70s heyday, their long-running (scripted) rivalry drawing millions of viewers. Gurney-Randall and Mounfield do service not only as the wrestlers themselves, but the hangers-on who

helped sustain a multimillion pound industry: GurneyRandall’s glib, swaggering parody of TV boss Greg Dyke is a gem, while Mounfield’s recurring role as promoter-

cum-narrator Max Crabtree (brother of Big Daddy) is delivered with a playful disregard for the fourth wall.

But it’s as Crabtree and Ruane themselves—lumbering,

plainspoken northerners bounding around with infectious energy—that they’re most entertaining.

As a character study, Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks is fairly lightweight; fun, but not especially sophisticated.

But as a potted history of the decline of professional British wrestling, it proves unexpectedly thoughtful: the aftermath of King Kong Kirk’s death during a bout in 1987 is handled with remarkable pathos, and wrestling’s ultimate submission to repeated press attacks on its fundamental nature—as spectacle, rather than sport—provides an uncomfortably ignominious climax, as both the industry and its stars fade into obscurity. [Marcus Kernohan] Assembly George Square, 12:15pm – 1:30pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 – £12

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festtheatre

Titus Andronicus: An All-female Production

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Smooth Faced Gentlemen’s vision of Titus Andronicus: An All-female Production takes place between white walls. White canvas, white plastic – the stage that’s been set for this presentation of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy is eerily, promisingly bare.

By the show’s closing lines, those same walls are spattered

Moving Family

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Paul Charlton has been a busy man. Not content with co-writing the TV transfer of sketch show/group The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek, the writer has eked out time to knock up this pacy and poignant comedy. More than that, he’s somehow found a group of youngsters with the energy and stage presence to do it justice. The result is an insightful piece

in Roman and Goth arterial blood, the end-product of Shakespeare’s most grisly, unforgiving work.

The cast embraces the play’s trademark brutality with adrenaline-spiking passion.

Titus Andronicus is the Shakespearean equivalent of Rambo IV, and if there had been any ideas about the ensemble softening the play’s thematic blows (rape, decapitation, forced cannibalism) then they were wholly quashed by the ninth or tenth throat-slitting.

Titus…’s cast is powerful indeed – Henri Merriam’s Andronicus straddles the line between rage and madness artfully. And Francesca Binefa’s multitude of roles (including power-hungry emperor Saturninus) betrays a fluency with both material and craft rarely seen in actors under thirty. But the show is not without faults.

A costume choice demarcating Goths from Romans reads more West Side Story than 5th Century Rome. An otherwise clever device for representing

blood—with paint, and paintbrushes as swords—makes it tricky to keep track of who’s been sliced, as actors in the same drenched tunics take on multiple characters. And some performers seem to confuse ear-shattering projection for emotional depth. But innovative narrative choices and engaging brutality make it an arresting Fringe hour. [Arianna Reiche]

of theatre about youth – one that can’t be dismissed as just another piece of youth theatre.

So, two families—one posh, one less so—are yoked together when the parents decide to shack up. Their kids—two brother and sister pairings—are crammed into the back of the removal van and must thrash out their myriad differences, and it’s here we find them as they goad, browbeat and grapple for position in the new world

order. At the heart of this is the issue of race. Charlton sets up a nice dynamic between an EDL-sympathising brother and his new mixed-race half-sister as they toss back and forth the handed-down stories and fallacious logics of racial identity.

In a trice, this could easily suffocate under well-intentioned but turgid public education.

But not here: Charlton’s script is astonishingly tight, and well represented by players who leap on their cues, bantering and bickering with

real commitment.

There’s the odd moment where the drama doesn’t quite erupt as angrily or convincingly as it should. But it’s a small criticism of a piece which snaps a respectful and critical portrait of four teenagers’ imperfect attempts to grasp the warp and weft of politics, ethics and identity.

[Evan Beswick]

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paterson’s land The Fringe’s newest venue BabyO SensoryO Dance Derby The Garden John and Zinnie Harris

Gareth Williams and Johnny McKnight

Last One Out Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht

The Seven Deadly Sins Scottish Opera

9 - 26 August

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Ménage à Trois

By Claire Cunningham and Gail Sneddon

9 - 25 August Part of Made in Scotland 2013. Part of British Council Edinburgh Showcase. National Theatre of Scotland, a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland (SC234270) is a registered Scottish charity (SCO33377). Photograph of Claire Cunningham by Sven A Hagolani.

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festtheatre PEEP

Social Animals

There’s something voyeuristic about the Fringe. Everyone looks everywhere: from widespread celebrity-spotting to sitting in darkened makeshift performance spaces for 12 hours a day. PEEP, a returning pop-up venue in Assembly’s George Square Spiegeltent takes it to the extreme, offering in kind peep-shows.

Audiences (perhaps “customers” is more appropriate) sit in individual black booths with headphones and peer through a small window to a white box where a variety of performances are played out.

One of the many shows running throughout the day, Happy Endings by Kay Adshead mythologises the nature of virginity: one part pure, untouched and sacred entirety, another a modern riff on embarrassment, estrangement and impossibility.

PEEP’s curator Donnacadh O’Briain also directs many of the shows, including La Petite Mort, an earthy exploration of sexual need as one man endures impotence. These are rounded off by a fiveminute Argentine dance piece, Diego y Ulises, which turns prurience, lust and anger into ballet.

At times, this is an example of style over substance. As we sit uncomfortably partitioned, it’s the venue that presses us to ask questions rather than the shows. What is our connection with what we’re seeing? Must we internalise our expression? The fact that the actors exist only to serve us drags the notion of power between performer and spectator: it can feel like we’re being equally watched and scrutinised. It is uncertain and seedy, but bizarrely liberating, playful and exciting. Perhaps tellingly, PEEP is more an experience than a performance.

[Andrew Latimer]

Imagine the girls of Sex and the City on the pyschologist’s couch and you will have some idea of what Tiana Linden, Amy Beatty and Maranda Stappenbeck are doing in this quirky, intelligent and carefully-researched look at the knots in which we tie ourselves in constructing the image we present to others.

What starts off seeming like an inane girlish bitchfest soon turns into an absorbing look at the mechanics of our interactions with one another.

After a quick tour through the stresses and strains of the

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lives of businesswoman Sarah (Stappenbeck), put-upon single mum Rachel (Beatty) and socialite Lisa (Linden), the scenes between each of the three pairs are repeated.

However, this time its in the presence of a bizarre but hugely engaging pyschologist-cum-guardian angel who flits around the room interrupting the dialogue with an analysis of the interactions – showing us the facades we construct in our struggle to fulfil our self-images.

Ultimately, though, these facades become the women’s real selves, and each devolves into a more extreme, more unpleasant, less functional

version than at the start of the hour. With each conversation repeated for a third time— finally at triple speed with the women running round the room—the ending feels a little stage-schooly, letting down the much more delicately constructed first 45 minutes.

There is more than a little influence from Irving Goffman’s Presentation of the Self in Everyday LIfe here and it’s plain the three women have done an impressive amount of research in weaving together this funny, touching and ultimately entertaining play. [Dan Heap]

out power chords in their practice room. Tim Price’s script has nice lines: “I’m all for you getting involved in the creative process, so long as you reach the right decisions,” English Damien tells the others. Matthew Bulgo is endearing as Gruff, the bassist, though you’ve seen this guy—the loser whose frustration is destined to boil over ten minutes from the end—many times before.

The problem is that the allegory smothers the story.

Early on, the band learn that their manager has absconded, leaving them deep in debt. As a parallel to the financial crisis, this works, but

the resulting tension—can the guys pull together and write a smash hit to save themselves from prison?—doesn’t take the story anywhere, and is never resolved.

This never stops being a Scottish independence play: everything must be driven

by Barry’s decision to leave the band, even if that makes other plotlines redundant.

Ultimately, I’m With the Band offers little more than a few laughs and a moral: come on, come on, let’s stick together. [Ed Ballard]

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I’m With the Band

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A bland but successful indie band are facing burnout.

The insecure Welsh bassist is bullied by the patronising English singer; the Northern Irish drummer is stuck in an abusive relationship. Then Scottish guitarist Barry quits.

The Union suck without Barry, and Barry will never make it on his own.

To repeat, the band is called The Union. Got that?

The play zips along nicely - and noisily, structured around eleven songs with titles like ‘The Referendum’ as the characters bash

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festtheatre Hunt & Darton Cafe

tions on how to assemble a fortress using the pink and yellow cubes of your Battenberg cake.

The fun starts, though, when you order something from the cryptic set menu. When Fest visits, the starters are ‘Aeroplane’, ‘F Whistle’, and ‘Delia Dance’.

You make your selection.

A while passes, then Hunt and Darton appear and start doing performance art at you. Our main course, ‘Thoughts’, comes highly recommended. The dessert course ‘I Hate Tunnocks’ is brutal and fast. Fortunately for people who ignore the set menu, the Battenberg cake is also nice, though the fondant fancies appear to be Mr Kipling. [Ed Ballard]

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It might be possible, just about, to drop into this St Mary’s Street café, sample the Battenberg cake, pay the bill, and leave without realising that you just played a minor role in a piece of art. Specifically, this show falls under the section in your Fringe guide with the subheading Uncategorisable Immersive Pop-Up Performance Art. But you would need to be very unobservant, or else really desperate for Battenberg cake. For a start, the waitresses all wear broccoli in their hair. This is unusual for a café, possibly unique.

Sure enough, odd things happen. The waitresses— Uncategorisable Pop-Up Immersive Performance Artists Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton—fix you with intense

stares. They do not appear to have been advised by experts in customer service. On your table sits one transgender

Action Man. The menu features severely-worded guidelines for flirting with other customers, and direc-

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Je ne sais quoi

by Nathalie Joly

8-26 August at 6.15 PM Institut français / Venue 134 0131 225 53 66 / www.edfringe.com

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festtheatre Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko?

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Without a doubt, the continued imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko has punched irreparable holes through the thin veneer of Ukranian democracy. Incarcerated since 2011 on trumped up charges, the former businesswoman, academic and politician’s two hunger strikes have so far failed to focus the beam of international attention on a slowly failing state, under the increasingly authoritarian presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. Unfortunately, by joining the fight on the regime’s own battleground of propaganda and declamation, this preposterous and insupportable hagiography of a modern saint adds little to that cause.

A two-hander set in a Ukranian prison, the cast (playing Tymoshenko and her cellmate) deliver spirited, if not especially nuanced performances. But enthusiasm can’t really skate over a script quite this slushy. With commentable earnestness,

Outside on the Street

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Written in six days after escaping a prisoner-of-war camp at the end of World War II, Wolfgang Borchert’s semi-autobiographical play is a surreal exploration of trauma and guilt in a ghostly Hamburg where the dark flow of the river Elbe offers blissful oblivion.

Sergeant Beckmann returns from Siberia to find another man in his bed, his parents dead and God snivelling in a back alley. He’s a walking corpse in a society determined to bury its past.

Borchert’s writing pulses with bitter, disgusted amuse-

they plod thorough a series of turgid similes (“Ukraine was like a girl who was locked up and then set free”), paint-bynumbers characterisations (“my mother worked like a machine from dusk ‘till dawn and never complained”), and cartoon political fanaticism. “My people must have a leader”, remonstrates the fictional Tymoshenko, stripped of complexity and daubed instead in the primary colours of political heroism.

Preposterously, she sports prison-issue high heels and a pencil skirt; she is unfathomably enlightened as to her cellmate’s true identity; she fixes a broken radio with her bare hands.

An attempt to parallel the politician’s relationship with her hapless cellmate with that of her troubled country comes as a final assertion of this drama’s well-intentioned crassness. “You will believe in me until I believe in myself”, sobs the newly conscious cellmate. Unbelievable. [Evan Beswick] Assembly Roxy, 11:00am – 12:00pm, 1–25 Aug, £10 – £12

ment as he depicts fatuous colonels and laughable theatre-makers with no interest in the truth Beckmann tries to speak.

Theatre group Invertigo stage the play in a wasteland of wire-framed crates, which they shift with fluid ease into new shapes and forms.

It’s a simple and strikingly effective way of conveying the unrelenting harshness of Beckmann’s existence as he paces the streets in search of any kind of solace.

Paapa Essiedu imbues Beckmann with increasingly grinning fatalism while the rest of the talented all-male cast play instruments and cycle through different accents and mannerisms to play

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the people he encounters.

Tom Clegg is particularly good, strutting archly across the stage as a variety of grotesque male and female characters.

Director Owen Horsley’s production is slick, stylish and well-judged, making a powerful aesthetic statement. If anything, it’s too well formed. The play’s yawning bleakness is offered up to the audience as a perfectly constructed theatrical object. It’s intellectually stimulating but could do with punching us in the gut a few more times.

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‘Every father is a superhero’ is just a slogan, something unfurled outside a courtroom by a tubby Spiderman as, within, a judge decides whether he can see his son on the weekend. Superhyped writer Alistair McDowall has found the truth to that phrase, or a truth, and created a one-man show that soars through the sky,

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cape flapping in the wind.

Mark is an inarticulate, unremarkable man who works in B&Q but has never bothered to decorate his own home. He becomes a father, bonding diffidently with his daughter and eventually separating from her mother. But Mark’s also a superhero. He passes the time of day with Superman and isn’t going to take any shit from nightclub bouncers.

McDowall blends fantasy,

pastiche and hard-bitten realism with total confidence and control. The breakdown of Mark’s relationship plays out during a showdown with Batman, who it turns out is a social liability, and he takes time out to tour an evil volcano lair with a snide estate agent. Mark Weinman is outstanding in the role and there’s a real sense of performer, director and text presenting a united force.

There are no side-kicks

here.

It’s a phenomenal achievement to nestle so much joyous, whimsy-free wonder in such a truthful, painful story. It’s a walloping kapow to the face of cynicism, a bittersweet reminder that everyday heroism isn’t as easy as it looks. [Stewart Pringle] Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 8:05pm – 9:05pm, 3–12 Aug, not 6, £11

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festtheatre The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults

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Such are the culturally crosspollinating times in which we live, it’s via South African writer/performer Gemma Kahn that The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults enlightens Edinburgh audiences on the largely-forgotten 12th century Japanese art of Kamishibai “paper drama” storytelling.

“Once upon a time before Pokémon, before Manga, before Hentai,” scrawls Chalk Girl (Kahn’s sneeringly unspeaking, bubblegumchewing, saucy-Japaneseschoolgirl-style-attired assistant) on her blackboard by way of an introduction to our host who narrates illustrated stories drawn on stacks of cards slid in order through a rectangular viewing frame.

Segued with Chalk Girl’s sardonic witticisms and blasts of Japanese punk music, seven individual tales are told – some ancient, some modern, each by different authors/artists and each taking a funny and/or thoughtful view on a certain interval, vestige, or vice of Japanese history and culture. They

We Will Be Free! The Tolpuddle Martyrs Story

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At a time of protests against austerity measures and financial inequality, the history of the Tolpuddle Martyrs strikes a chord – as does this new staging of the story.

Mixing Mummers Plays with folk songs, it’s a charming, family-friendly piece that presents an important bit of history inventively and enjoyably.

range from the explicitly porn-y fantasy of a man on a train station platform, to a touchingly wordless tribute to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and the gory titular story of a feudal-era master butcher with a talent for carving human flesh.

The penultimate one, eavesdropping on the exis-

tential crisis of Super Mario, is worth the ticket price alone.

Likewise at the end—neatly linking together both nationalities represented—a brief biography of Nelson Mandela, Japanese cartoon-style with a respectful flippancy, hilariously contrasts the standard hero-worshipping tone that anything about South Africa’s

first black president generally tends to take.

It’s all a bit lo-fi and in need of further development, but nevertheless, it’s clever, stylish, entertainingly realised and deserving of strong recommendation. [Malcolm Jack]

With minimal props and quick costume changes, Elizabeth Eves and Neil Gore (also on writing duties) bring to life Betsy Loveless and her labourer husband, George – one of six men arrested in 1837 in Tolpuddle, Dorset, for forming a union to raise their daily wage from a back-breakingly pitiful eight shillings. It would be three years before Betsy saw George again.

Gore and Eves (who particularly shines) have a great rapport with each other

and the audience as they gleefully act out a parade of colourful characters, from evil landowners to blustering judges. The stage is a big dressing-up box and the sense of fun is infectious.

Louise Townsend and Richard Stone’s production is full of nice historical touches, from the opening mummers play of St George killing the dragon to the Chartrist lyrics woven into John Kirkpatrick’s rearrangements of existing hymns. The sneaky legal finagling behind the men’s

arrest is explained well through rhyming verse.

The pace slackens during George’s trial as the legalese weighs down the show’s otherwise light touch and the final scenes speed choppily through time. But these are minor grumbles about a production that succeeds in being educational, heartwarming and silly in just the right places [Tom Wicker]

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festtheatre Tourniquet 2013

The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer

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I have a lengthy list of questions for the cast of Tourniquet 2013. They include: How did you avoid urinating on yourselves an hour into the performance? Who is your taxidermist? Have you ever tripped over the cling film? And is that corn starch?

My imaginary quickfire interrogation may provide the only real insight into the hour and fifteen minutes audiences experience with Belgian theatre company Abattoir Fermé. To try to convey a synopsis—something to do with an encounter, an exorcism, a vision of the afterlife— would be missing the point.

Tourniquet is one-hundred per cent pure, uncut silent Belgian experimental theatre.

With a lot of nudity. If that sounds like something you’d be up for, then it might just be the most mind-blowing bit of performance art you’ll see at this year’s Fringe. If it sounds like something you wouldn’t want to get near with a ten-foot pole then... it’s probably best that you follow that instinct.

For those David Lynch

On The One Hand

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All of life is here. The girl heading to university, the one travelling the world, the single lady starting a business in middle age, the woman realising priority seating on buses was made for her, the one remembering and forgetting her life. Their stories of aging are distinct but their narratives overlap.

In the centre of this theatrical Venn diagram is the endless, restless quest of women trying to discover who they are.

There are other themes here too, bouncing around

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fans among us, with deeprunning love for all things avant garde, Tourniquet provides a lush, immersive sensory experience; intermingling beauty and horror on the backdrop of an engaging soundscape – one which Abattoir Fermé describe as the show’s “invisible fourth character”. Modelturned-actor Kirsten Pieters’s

balance between alluring and grotesque is particularly impressive, and her eerily effortless acrobatic skills keep the show well away from edgy student theatre territory and into the supernatural.

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like bingo balls, probably too many. Like the four actors who crawl up, over, under and through a set made up of hanging chairs, baths, fridges and beds (all traditional signs for female domesticity), the ideas clamber and tumble over one another, sometimes diluting impact. For example, the roles that women are forced into—mother, wife, grandmother—are all defined in relation to other people.

Only the elderly lady breaks free. She dances on the stage while the others are cowed under chairs. Yet, it is unclear whether this is a moment of triumph (you can choose how you are defined) or

tragedy (only the woman at the edge of death and senility gets it).

It is the simple moments that hit the mark. The elderly lady claims, “Inside I’m the same person I’ve always been”. The feeling that her body has broken some pact with her soul is palpable and one of the show’s most affecting parts.

But the headlong rush to capture all of life, to say everything all at once, blunts an otherwise intricate and inventive show. [Edd McCracken]

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In late 18th century Glasgow an aging lawyer sits in his chamber. Dressed in his nightgown and cap, Enoch Dalmellington begins his gently comic monologue – a ramble through Scottish history, predictions of modernity and his own misfortune.

But Dalmellington is an unreliable narrator. His story is one of blind, bumbling foolishness which leads him to fall firstly under the spell of, then more seriously, into the debt of a wicked tobacco merchant – yet it is told with the confident vanity of the ignoramus. This is a character who cannot see the light for his own pomposity. But Dalmellington is much darker than his subservient fawning and gentle wit would suggest – indeed, his actions as events progress speak to an altogether more villainous disposition. His pursuit of his own self-interest with little care or even acknowledgement of the consequences borders on evil.

Where this production falls down is in its failure to address these moral implications.

As Dalmellington becomes darker, he is conveyed with as much sympathy and joviality as when he was merely a pathetic victim. His villainy is banal and played for laughs rather than subjected to any sort of examination, and thus the production feels flimsy and throwaway. Whether this is the product of John Bett’s cuddly performance, or a script a little too satisfied with its lyrical density, this production of Iain Heggie’s satire seems to have little to say. Unfortunately, it’s a little too staid and, crucially, insufficiently funny, to get away with it. [Ben Judge] Assembly Rooms, 1:30–2:30pm, 2 – 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £10

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As if eating a five-course meal at midnight wasn’t strange enough, theatre collective Food for Thought have arranged an evening of oddities amidst the crudités. There are plenty of dining experiences to choose from at the Fringe, and while this lacks the polish of pretty much any of them, its exuberance and good humour keep things palatable.

Sat around a table with fifteen relative strangers, in a room sparsely decorated with half a dozen peculiar objects, you’re treated to a medley of theatre, music and food.

The theatre is barely theatre, just a handful of daft skits performed by one chap in a few different jackets, but the music is welcome and often quite funny. This is surrealism by way of very weak Python, but nothing lasts for too long and there’s plenty of opportunity to natter with your fellow

captives.

The food itself is imaginatively conceived, from a rainbow of strange pâtés to a mysterious concoction of mint and ice (though the menu changes daily). Heston Blumenthal it ain’t, but it’s well-prepared and constantly surprising.

Dinner is Swerved purports to say all sorts of things about our rituals of meeting and eating, but truthfully, it achieves none of that. Despite occasional lunges at satire, it’s as frothy and pointless as a foam of pea. Nevertheless, your hosts keep the wine and the conversation flowing, and there’s something irresistibly Fringey about chowing down on “Gordon Ramsey’s blackened tongue” in the presence of three students wearing pig masks. [Stewart Pringle]

American Gun Show features no actual guns, much to the obvious annoyance of the group of shell-suited and sunglassadorned American tourists drawn in by the alluring name who fail to utter a single chuckle in the space of an hour.

But this is the point, and AGS is a show by an American about guns that just happens to makes a big deal of not having any.

The American in question is Chris Harcum, “an actor playing a comedian” from South Carolina via New York. Harcum has a highly personal story to tell about America’s relationship with handheld armaments, and he does it relatively interestingly using accounts of his daily life and his struggle to comprehend the gun culture which dominated his home town and affected him personally.

There are some dead ends and duds, and the audience participation

jars slightly with the rest of the show. The songs are just a bit awkward, and he fails to grasp that a festival audience is not a Scottish audience, but he pushes on with a very strong central idea toward a thoughtprovoking climax.

If it lost the performative left-wing desire to present a more positive view of Americans to the outside world and was less apologetic about its origins, it could be a brilliant piece of participative theatre. Harcum tries to use comedy to show the absurdity of gun culture, but as an apparently competent actor, he could afford to drop the jokes altogether and dare to tackle the issue head on.

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festdance&physicaltheatre Smashed

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Preconceptions of buskers with cutlasses and unicylces will be destroyed by a visit to see Stefan Sing in Tangram, NoFit State’s Hugo Oliveira, and above all, the team behind Smashed. Jugglers don’t come more caustically intellectual than Gandini Juggling, who have taken as their inspiration for

this sometimes brutal, two-faced show, the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.

Bausch’s work saw human desires slip through body language past decorous facades. Using the motif of juggling—the ultimate in civilising behaviour, taming the force of gravity to create beauty— this is exactly what we see here. Groomed and slicked to the nines, to tea dance music, the ensemble slide gracefully on stage, offering them-

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selves for our service. So smooth are the patterns of cascading apples they create, you have to pinch yourself every so often as a reminder of the skill on show, that sometimes seems incidental to what lies beneath.

For underneath those 1950s smiles and behind those neatly knotted ties lurk seeds of nastiness that will later erupt into a volcanic display of degradation, jealousy, bitterness and the violence of unleashed emotion. It

reflects on the audience too. As Sean Gandini dodges round the stage, distracting his colleagues in imaginative ways to try and make them drop their apples, you find yourself asking: do I really want to see someone fail? Is this funny?

As an indictment of human nature it’s vicious; as theatre, it’s brilliant. [Lucy Ribchester] Assembly Hall, 6:05pm – 7:05pm, 3–26 Aug, not 13, £12 – £14

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Amply filling the void left open when the Caesar Twins packed up and left town some years ago, Briefs are back with their testosteronecamp circus stunts and badly-behaved antics. This year they’ve taken a pair of pinking shears to the show’s formerly soft edges and replaced them with a dirtier, fetish-tinged rim, which, in its more inspired moments, is both blistering and funny.

The Briefs version of Crufts sees leashed doggieboys in leather performing acrobatic tricks for their owners, occasionally going leg-humpingly rogue, as boys in pants pretending to be dogs are presumably wont to do. Mark Winmill’s trapeze finale is magnesium-hot, with shades of those Caesar Twins. The producers would do well to hold onto him; a scene-stealer with an intense charisma and an unpredictable glint in his eye.

While the rest of the previous line-up (except compere

Anatomy of the Piano

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Will Pickvance comes across like a music teacher whose marriage has fallen apart, causing him to retreat into a childlike obsession with his piano.

Taking place in a converted veterinary lecture room, Anatomy of the piano is a deadpan dissection of the instrument which revels in its own absurdity. Where an animal cadaver should like sits an upright piano, and Pickvance does for fake piano instruction what Tim Key did for faux poetry.

Pickvance bombards the

Fez Fa’anana aka Shivannah) have gone, a fine acquisition is made in Ben Lewis, sleazy strap-artist, fondling audience heads and hoisting himself aloft with a slippery muscular grace.

But there are weak links in this year’s show. Dallas Dellaforce viciously lip-synching-

for-her-life to movie heroines pushes the savagery too far; monkey-ballerina’s dancing, and the cute geeky yo-yo schoolboy not far enough.

Even Shivannah’s banter has been largely replaced by mime and party magic, and what remains echoes last year’s jokes a little too much.

audience with junk-facts about the evolution of the piano, but he does it with such earnest goodwill that you would be taken in by some of them. Made-up terms like ‘pianocity’ and ‘radial happenings’ recall the fictional science of Look Around You with their almost-meanings.

The show is driven by Pickvance’s obvious talent as a pianist, and he deftly manipulates the piano to make his points as he strips it down, showing how much can be done with just the one instrument.

The real drawback of Anatomy of The Piano is that it is too long to sustain a demanding audience expecting constant comedy. The

final ten minutes in particular add nothing new to what has come before, but if you turn up expecting anything other than a disturbed music teacher performing a love letter to a musical instrument you’re in the wrong place.

It would be a stretch to call the show comedy at points, but it is diverting and amusing to watch. Not to everyone’s taste, but disturbing and endearing in equal measure.

[Dominic Hinde]

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Like most cabarets, if you love them already, you’ll still love them. What they definitely do is prove that burlesque has still got legs, albeit hairy ones. [Lucy Ribchester] Assembly George Square, 7:50pm – 8:50pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13, £13 – £15

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HHHHH “Something’s coming, something good,” sings the hero of Avenue Q, echoing somebody from a very different musical.

When Tony sings the same words at the beginning of West Side Story’s doomed love affair, they have a tragic quality.

Coming from the protagonist of a show about the unglamorous recalibration of expectations that people go through in their 20s, they are merely ironic. Princeton is fresh out of college, just learning that life is downhill from here. “Something’s coming, something meh,” might be more like it.

Princeton is a puppet, like half the cast of Avenue Q, the Sesame Street parody which began life on Broadway a decade ago. The formula is simple: where Sesame Street was positive, life-affirming, inclusive, Avenue Q invokes

the same chirpy tone for cynicism and gloom. So the Bert and Ernie characters are gay (ie, gayer than Bert and Ernie), while the Trekkie Monster sings about porn. It’s a lot of fun, with the tunes’ saccharine banality—sung by a beaming young cast—gleefully undercut by their subject matter.

It’s odd that Avenue Q is packing out one of Edinburgh’s hugest venues, that it has achieved such success in the UK (it has toured incessantly since 2007). It targets a grown-up, cynical generation of Sesame Street viewers, and most of the people here seem to be either too old or too young to remember it. And too British – how many people in the UK even watched the programme? A mystery. Still, this version is just fine. [Ed Ballard] Assembly Hall, 12pm – 2:05pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 – £13

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festmusic&cabaret Titty Bar Ha Ha

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I’ve never seen a burlesque show before, but I’ve learned enough from Titty Bar Ha Ha to give you a pretty thorough run-down of what it’s all about.

The air-raid sirens howl in wartime London. Hope and Gloria, upper-class ladies who were crossed in love, are now working in the basqueand-tutu business in the titular Titty Bar. To be honest, if suspending disbelief is going to be a problem, burlesque isn’t for you. Anyway, the girls drink heavily and entertain us with songs – a medley of “Bang Bang” and “Tainted Love” is genuinely brilliant, though mostly they are about saucy things like wanking.

Only go to a burlesque show if you’re OK with the idea of being forced to do embarrassing things onstage by two ladies flaunting their boobs.

Le Gateau Chocolat: I Heart Chocolat

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The spectacle of a massive, bearded Nigerian transvestite glistening in heavy make-up and a body-sock can’t fail to be a winner. Even before the former La Clique star begins to sing in a booming baritone fit to shake the part of the male anatomy he alludes to sucking on in chocolatesalty variety during his Chefoff-of-South Park-channelling opening number, and later very improbably pulls off a high-kick.

But is I Heart Chocolat the touching and outrageous hoot it could be, particularly in light of Le Gateau Chocolat’s triumphant 2011 Fringe debut? Probably not.

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Ah yes, the boobs. This is important: to enjoy burlesque, you must at least be OK with boobs. Do not go and see this show if you’ve got something against boobs.

Those two basque-wearing nightclub singers don’t just have boobs, they sing about them, and call attention to them in a way that would be eccentric in other settings.

However, you should also avoid the show if you like boobs too much. This is George Square, for heaven’s sake, not the Pubic Triangle; while songs about nipple tassles are perfectly OK in such civilised surroundings, actually revealing one would likely cause people to faint.

Burlesque, I think, probably appeals best to people in that sweet spot between not liking boobs at all, and liking them too much. [Ed Ballard] Assembly George Square, 10:30pm – 11:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11 – £13

to a disco beat with a box of chocolates, asking audience members to pick one as a prompt for the next song provides interactive mischief, but fails to yield quite the spontaneous hilarity promised. The penultimate routine where he condenses Les Miserables into a bitchily pithy five minutes is like a gay answer to One Man Star Wars, but kind of presupposes you’ve seen the film.

A more considered overarching theme—beyond the vague thread about “embracing your inner arsehole”—wouldn’t go amiss, nor would more straight-faced numbers such as his show-stopping Camille O’Sullivan-indebted reading of Nick Cave’s “The Ship Song.” Partystarting takes on all from Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie”

to Madonna’s “Vogue,” replete with gaudy costume changes—the Dalmatian suit is particularly ingenious—ensure Gateau is a guaranteed good laugh whichever way you slice it. But a spectacle with greater depth than

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Being Cerrie Cbeebies TV presenter Cerrie Burnell has written and stars in a play about a girl with one hand who dreams of being a ballerina. Caroline Black talks with her about inclusion, motherhood and ambition.

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he’s on telly, she’s my mum and she’s got one hand.”

These were Cerrie Burnell’s four-year-old daughter’s words, spoken as she played with other children in a playground in a particularly diverse part of London where many heritages, cultures and faiths come together.

Watching the children play, Burnell had just been pondering how great it was that children just get on with it regardless of all of these factors when a little girl noticed Burnell and started screaming: “I don’t like her arm!” With the attention now drawn to Burnell she could hear the other children whispering that the lady with one hand also looked a bit like “that one off the telly.” It was at this point that Burnell’s daughter stood up to loudly and proudly defend her mum – and became the kid everyone wanted to play with.

Burnell shows a mix of pride and disbelief in how her daughter coped in the situation and shrugs uncertainly, “I honestly don’t know whether I’ve made her life easier or harder by being in the public eye.”

Best known as a Cbeebies’ presenters, Burnell is back in Edinburgh with a new play The Magical Playroom that she has written and is being directed by acclaimed director, Hal Chambers (who is directing another four shows this year).

The play is about Libby Rose, a spirited little girl who dreams of being a ballerina but is told she won’t be able to fulfill this dream unless she does as the adults say and wears her prosthetic arm.

But although the play deals with a specific set of circumstances, it’s essentially about a child who wants to get her own way. What child, or parent, can’t relate to that? The energetic and wide-eyed enthusiasm that you’d expect from Burnell makes it impossible for

the young audience not to be engaged, even if they don’t necessarily understand the complexity of the subject.

Yes, a prosthetic arm is—literally— being waved about, but the children aren’t that interested in it after the initial curiosity. It’s a plastic arm. Got it. Move on. Some of the most enjoyable scenes for the young audience are when we see Libby Rose stomping about stage in the huff, shouting “NO!” at her parents or being threatened with the time out on the naughty step.

For Burnell, that’s the wonderful thing about young children, and one of the reasons why she loves performing for them: they are naturally inclusive. “Everyone always goes on about diversity and ‘Oh look, so and so’s different so let's celebrate that’ when actually real inclusion is when no one even notices that you’re different.”

Burnell is a driven—and very busy— lady. It took over a year to write the script for The Magical Playroom, her first children’s book is out in September (called ‘Snowflakes’), she spends half the week working on Cbeebies, is an active Book Trust Ambassador, does work with other charities and—in between all of that—is a mum. She works hard and certainly has no interest in getting anything for nothing. You can see that she is determined to champion inclusion and get people to think about their own behaviours and beliefs when it comes to diversity and that’s not something new.

During her early career Burnell read for a role in Grange Hill that was described only as ‘amputee’ (“I know I’m not an amputee but, hey, I needed a job!”). The character had been written purely as an apparent figure of fun, their prosthetic arm falling off when shaking peoples’ hands. “It was just awful. So I said to this room full of people, ‘How

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many amputees do you know?’ And there was just silence.”

After telling the hushed room her own experience with using prosthetics—It’s well documented that Burnell was “made” to wear one until she turned nine and then refused—she didn’t get a call for three weeks. Her friends told her she should have kept quiet until she got the job. “But I just couldn’t. I had to say something.” When they eventually called back they’d had a re-think and asked if they could write a new character, based on her.

So, what next for her? More Cbeebies, more writing, a second book in the pipeline, and with her daughter starting school after the summer holidays, she feels “ready to fly”. Burnell might not see herself as a trailblazer, but—for at least one generation—she is showing children that if you believe in yourself and your dreams you can do just about anything.

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festkids Little Howard’s Big Show for Kids

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I’d never seen Little Howard on TV so didn’t really know what to expect.

It was very clever. There was a massive screen so Little Howard was able to talk to Big Howard like a real person. Mum said there were some ‘technology glitches’ but I didn’t notice.

The show was about proving to an evil Government Inspector that Big and Little Howard were funny and entertaining.

Little Howard thought that it was a Bug Show so did a carnival of insects.

I don’t think it’s funny to pretend to kill or blow up insects so didn’t like these parts.

Big Howard doesn’t think he’s funny but he was.

He did some silly magic and sang songs and involved the audience.

My favourite parts were when he talked about poo and hit himself with a frying pan.

You will enjoy this show if you like Little Howard and silly jokes. [Ben Cotter, age 6] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 2:45pm – 3:45pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £10 – £12

Rapunzel - May The Force Be With You!

I Believe in Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo

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The show is basically about the good side of the force defeating the bad side. It has a sad start because Rapunzel was taken by bad witch Darth Vadia. It was scary too as the witch gave me the creeps and there was alot of smoke.

It got really funny when we met Trapper the alien as he kept on bumping into things. The venue is quite small so you could see the actors. It’s really interactive and I enjoyed pretending to be an X-Wing fighter. It was cool because I also got to help Duke Skylord build up more force to defeat the dark side! The best bit was when Darth and Duke were fighting with lightsabers and we joined in.

It was brilliant and exciting

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and had a happy ending. It’s definitely about Star Wars though, so I don’t think my little sister would have liked it. My Mum says that if you don’t want to pay extra for light sabers, you should take your own or wait till the bit at the end where they give you a foam one to borrow. [Ben Cotter, age 6] Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 11:30am – 12:30pm, various dates between 30 Jul and 25 Aug, £7

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I’ve never read the Michael Morpurgo book I Believe in Unicorns so I didn’t know what to expect from this show. I found it tricky to know when the performance began but then it draws you in and you take part in the telling of the story.

There are two main characters in the show: Tomas and Franny. They tell the story together. At first Tomas doesn’t like anything to do with books. When Tomas visits his village library the unicorn lady shows him the power of storytelling and books.

The set was piles of books and if you bring a book along it gets added too. During the

show they use animation, sound effects and lots of surprise props hidden in books which help you picture the story. The pop-up paper models were very impressive!

This show is unlike any show I’ve seen before and I really enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone who loves books. [Eleanor Smith, age 10] Pleasance Courtyard, 11:45am – 12:40pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £9

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Comedy Club 4 Kids

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Comedy Club 4 Kids was really cool as it is different standup comedians all in one show.

Howard Read was really funny and he made my Mum cry with laughter. I loved when he talked about younger brothers and sisters – my little sister didn’t laugh so much then. Howard played the ukulele and sang some very funny songs, I especially liked the “lullaby” about MONSTERS, bats and bed bugs.

Bec and Tom were next and they told lots of jokes about a big pile of laundry.

Bec had an amazing story book that had a backing track to it. She moved the mouths of the people, figures and dinosaurs because the story was about them. It was so clever. I wish I could see it again.

James was the guy who introduced the other acts and filled in between them too. He worked really well with the audience and was really good at making funny comments and stories about things. He got the audience to help him to write a letter to his mum and dad and said he would actually post it to them. I hope it doesn’t actually get to them because it made him sound crazy.

If you don’t have much time to see lots of shows, go to this one and see three acts in one! [Ruari Black, age 11½] Underbelly, Bristo Square, 3:20pm – 4:20pm, 2–25 Aug, £9 – £10

The Showstoppers’ Family Hour

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When I went to see the show I was very excited! I had read the flyer and thought it would be fun.

This show is an improvised musical for all ages. The stage was small and it had six actors on it when we arrived—4 men and 2 women—who were singing as you took your seat.

The audience get to choose all the details of the story. The theme chosen was ‘In Space’. “Welcome Aboard” was the first song and we then chose a hero for the

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story. He was The Keyboard Man aka Admiral Akbar. The next character we chose was a visitor from another planet who was Horse Head Lady. They fall in love and so the story continues with the characters being very funny and going on an extremely big adventure. They make up all songs as they go along!

It was a good show because lots of kids got to join in and the actors made it really funny. It was enjoyable because they did really silly things like using cardboard boxes as props, things like space helmets and space ship screens.

The only improvement would have been to have more props on stage to improvise with but I would recommend The Showstoppers to my friends. [Minnie Stephenson, age 7] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, 2–13 Aug, £10

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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 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

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

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

13:10 Katie Mulgrew: Your Dad’s Not Funny 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

The Blank Slates Chiquito, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Matthew Collins: Puzzled Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free Soup The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £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

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10

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!

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

14:05

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 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 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 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

15:05

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 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 Susie McCabe: An Uncivil Partnership New Town Bar, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £8 Awkward Hawk - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free Don’t Drop the Egg Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50

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 The Stand Comedy Club, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Dave Griffiths: C U In Court Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8 Men With Coconuts The Canons’ Gait, 13 Aug, £free 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

15:45 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 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 The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 11, £free Casual Violence Presents: House of Nostril Pleasance Courtyard, 4-25 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Ain’t It Awkward - Harriet Dyer and Freddie Farrell Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free Joseph Morpurgo Truthmouth Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free 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 Chris Henry Isn’t Musical!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, £free In Bits Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

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

15:55 Ross vs Violich - Pistols at 3.55pm The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

16:00

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

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

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

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

Doctor Brown: Bexperiments Underbelly, Cowgate, 13 Aug, £7 I Am Happy!

Le Monde, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10 LOLympics Live - Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 12-17 Aug, £12.50 – £14.50 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 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 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 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 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 Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £8 – £10 Red Bastard Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 7, 14, £7 – £13

16:45 Yianni in Think Big The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Lenny Peters - Lost in Nonsense Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

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 - Drawnout Jokes 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 Ellie and Oscar Share a Time The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free Ladyboner C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

16:55 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

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 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

17:20

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

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 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

17:05

Slap and Giggle: Recharged Opium, 14-24 Aug, £free

Yori Yori Love Chat Luisa and Pat Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-10 Aug, £free

Flyerman 2 - This Time It’s Funny! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 13, 20, £5 – £7

The Comedian’s Comedian Live With Stuart Goldsmith Gilded Balloon Teviot, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9

42: My Life, My Universe, My Everything Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £free

Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £9

Two Tickets to the Gum Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Adam Kay: How to Be a Bogus Doctor 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

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

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

17:15

Zoe Lyons - Pop-up Comic The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, £9 – £10

All Our Friends Are Dead Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free

Cambridge Footlights: Canada Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50

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

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

17:10 Stephen K Amos Talk Show Pleasance Courtyard, 21-24 Aug, £12 – £13

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

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

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

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

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

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14-25 Aug, £free

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comedylistings 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

Ian Smith - Anything Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free

Pat Cahill: Start Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

Pekka and Strangebone’s Comedy Showpiece The Voodoo Rooms, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

17:40 Will Franken: Concert to Benefit the Victims of My Father Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10 Kieran Hodgson - Flood Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 15 Aug, £6 – £10

17:45 Comedy and Cupcakes Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3-25 Aug, £free

Sam Lloyd: Fully Committed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6.50 – £12.50 At Wit’s End C venues - C aquila, 1126 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Diane Spencer: Hurricane Diane Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Gordon Southern: The Kerfuffle Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £12 Chastity Butterworth & The Spanish Hamster Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 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

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

17:50

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

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

Harry Deansway: Wrong Way Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9 Ivo Graham: Binoculars Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Maureen Younger: The Outsider - Free Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £free Old Men Can’t Jump Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9-18 Aug, £free

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 Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, £free

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comedylistings Birthday Girls: 2053 HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Four Screws Loose in Screwtopia!

Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10.50

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

Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £7 – £10

Mixed Doubles Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9.50

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

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

18:05 All-Nude College-Girl Revue or How I Made It Through the LSE SpaceCabaret @ 54, 19-24 Aug, £6 – £7 Aidan Goatley is On the Mend The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, £free Pun Run The Canons’ Gait, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £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 The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- Live Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 – £14 Comedian? No. Just Italian Free Fringe George, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

Ruth E. Cockburn Doesn’t Even Smoke Madogs Cocktail Bar & Grill, 3-24 Aug, £free

Griff Rees Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Edward Aczel - Lives in a Meaningless Shed Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Gangshow Just The Tonic at the Caves, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £7 – £9

18:15 The Pin HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £11 Sean McLoughlin: Backbone Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free Rory and Tim: On the House The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 13, £free Chris Henry Stands Up Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-25 Aug, £free

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

18:20 Keith Farnan: Fear Itself HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

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 WitTank presents The School Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12 Dobbing and Hamdi The Cabaret Voltaire, 3-24 Aug, £free Rod Woodward: Funny Turn Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8

18:30 BBC: It’s Not What You Know BBC@Potterrow, 6 May, 6 Aug, £free Nik Coppin - Mixed Racist (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £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 Rob Carter: Murder (and other hobbies) HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10.50

Free Footlights The Dram House Upstairs, 3-24 Aug, £free Chris Dangerfield: How I Spent £150,000 on Chinese Prostitutes Heroes @ The Hive, 5-24 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [G] The Banshee Labyrinth, 15-16 Aug, £free Good Breeding Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Psychic Fayre Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £14.50

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

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

18:40 Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [B] The Banshee Labyrinth, 5-6 Aug, £free Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [A] The Banshee Labyrinth, 3-4 Aug, £free Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [H] The Banshee Labyrinth, 17-18 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [F] The Banshee Labyrinth, 13-14 Aug, £free Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [Z] The Banshee Labyrinth, 23-24 Aug, £free Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [D] The Banshee Labyrinth, 9-10 Aug, £free Sarah Millican - Home Bird The Stand Comedy Club, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £11 – £12 Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, £free – £10

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [J] The Banshee Labyrinth, 21-22 Aug, £free

Luke and Harry’s Journey to Sex Colony 01 Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-24 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £5 – £10

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [I] The Banshee Labyrinth, 19-20 Aug, £free

Gareth Morinan Is Playing the Numbers Game [C] The Banshee Labyrinth, 7-8 Aug, £free

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comedylistings 18:45 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 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

Romesh Ranganathan Rom Com HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10.50 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

Rowena Haley: There’s More to Life Than Chips Southsider, 3-24 Aug, £free

Joe Bor Is Jasper Cromwell Jones Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £5 – £11

Al Murray - The Pub Landlord: The Only Way is Epic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16-17 Aug, £19.50

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 David Morgan - Pretty Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

James Acaster Lawnmower Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

❤ Jamie Demetriou: People Day HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Sex Guru Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50 – £12.50

Matt and Ian’s Improv Show Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

The Beta Males in ...

Superopolis Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11.50

Phil Kay Verbal Diary Heroes @ The Hive, 1-11 Aug, £5

Henry Paker: Classic Paker HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Tony Dunn Against the Psychopaths Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-13 Aug, £free

18:50

Chris Stokes Tells It Like It Possibly Could Potentially Might Be Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9

Mat Ricardo: Showman Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £9.50

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

Charlie Chuck’s Grande Night Out theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20-24 Aug, £8 Fernando - Taste the Difference Sweet Grassmarket, 12-24 Aug, not 14, 18, 21, £5 Rob Delaney Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20-21 Aug, £19.50

Damian Clark in G’Damo!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £10

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

Graham Clark: Afraid of the Clark Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide to Dating Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-24 Aug, £free

The G Spot New Town Bar, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6

Joe Lycett - If Joe Lycett Then You Should’ve Put a Ring On It Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

19:05 Chris Martin: Passionate About the Pointless Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12 Shelf Life: Lotta Quizeen’s Guide to Managing the Modern Home theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8 Jerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks and Close Up Magic The Assembly Rooms, 19-25 Aug, £15.50 A Midwife Crisis theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £6

19:10 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

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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

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

Tales from the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Jimeoin: Yes,Yes, Whatever...?!

Venue150 @ EICC, 9-18 Aug, £15 – £17.50

Andrew Maxwell: Banana Kingdom Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £15

Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 3-25 Aug, not 12, £10

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comedylistings Paul Foot: Words Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £12 Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans - Wonder & Joy 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 Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Jenny Eclair: Eclairious 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 Big Value Comedy Show - Early Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 John Gordillo: Cheap Shots at the Defenceless The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10 The Appalling Carly Smallman HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10 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 Bruce Fummey - The Jacobites and Bonnie Prince Charlie Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

❤ David Baddiel Fame: Not the Musical HHHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 11 Aug, £7.50 – £17.50 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 Elegant Nymphs Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £4 – £8

Jason Manford - First World Problems Venue150 @ EICC, 2025 Aug, £17.50

Inn, 30 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £free

The Prima Party Scrapbook Sweet Grassmarket, 1-18 Aug, £8

Ronny Chieng: The Ron Way Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

19:45 Laughter On the Outskirts - Free Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 1-25 Aug, £free Rik n Mix Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £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 Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10.50

19:40

Mark Dolan - You’re Awesome!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £5 – £10

Tony Law: Night-Time Nonsense Overdrive The Assembly Rooms, 25 Aug, £12

Standing Up For Something La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, £free

Daniel Rigby: Berk in Progress Assembly Checkpoint, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £5

Slaughterhouse Live Just The Tonic at the Caves, 19-22 Aug, £10

Tom Wrigglesworth: Utterly at Odds with the Universe Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12 Fred MacAulay: 25 Fringes The Assembly Rooms, 1-23 Aug, not 14, £14 – £15 Jon Bennett: My Dad’s Deaths Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50 Bobby Mair - Obviously Adopted HH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 Pick Me Up Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10 Chris Mayo’s Identity Crisis Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50

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 Stay at Home Dad Citrus Club , 3-20 Aug, £free It’s Me Dayne 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 Tanyalee Davis - Big Trouble in Little ‘Gina The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Waking Up to Myself!

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19:50

Thrice Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £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

The Shambles C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

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

20:00

BBC: The News Quiz BBC@Potterrow, 8 Aug, £free

BBC: Clare in the Community BBC@Potterrow, 16 Aug, £free

Bob Doolally: A Life in Football The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 12 Aug, £10

Sara Pascoe vs the Truth HHH Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12

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

Beard Envy Dragonfly, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

19:55

Bourke and No Hair Bristo Bar & Kitchen, 3-24 Aug, £free Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 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

BBC: Jazz House BBC@Potterrow, 7 Aug, £free Employees of the Month: Glenn Moore and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 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 Thespianage theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £5

20:10 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 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 Caroline Rhea Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £10 – £14.50

Michael Fabbri: Buffering Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 1-25 Aug, £free

Terry Clement: Din Times 8 Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11

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

Rob Deb BigBang Theory of Life Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-17 Aug, £free Tom Rosenthal Благодаря HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

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comedylistings 20:20 The News at Kate 2013: My Professional Opinion Ciao Roma, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free Tom Craine: Crying On A Waltzer Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10 Mr Winchester: Classic Entertainment!

Pleasance Dome, 19-25 Aug, £10.50 – £14 Bob and Jim - Two Stars Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £6 – £10 Daniel Simonsen: Stranger 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 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

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!

Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £10 – £15 Daniel Sloss: Stand-Up Venue150 @ EICC, 2-25 Aug, not 21, £10 – £17.50 Paul McCaffrey: Name in Lights Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, £6 – £10 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

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

20:45 Bench Bites Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-25 Aug, not 10, 11, 19, £free Evolution of iMaAN Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free Free - 99 Club StandUp Selection - Cowgate Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Kai Humphries Shameless Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £12 Bronston Jones: Life’s Short. I’m Not! - Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free Blind Mirth Improv Comedy Paradise in The Vault, 13-26 Aug, not 19, £6 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

Christian O’Connell: This Is 13 HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 20 Aug, £7 – £13.50

Abandoman: Moonrock Boombox HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £14.50

John Robertson - The Dark Room Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10

Patrick Monahan Cake Charmer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 7 Aug, £5 – £12

Best of Waterloo Comedy Club - Ralph D’iamond Hosts Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-6 Aug, £free Craig Campbell’s Thrilling Mic Hunt The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £9 – £10 Death by Murder Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £7 Jay Foreman: No More Colours Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11

20:50 Akmal Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £12.50 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

21:00

Big Value Comedy Show - Late Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £10

Neil Delamere: Smartbomb Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £12

Pajama Men - Just the Two of Each of Us Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10 – £15

Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £5

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 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 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

Alistair Green Is Jack Spencer: Sex Addict Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £8.50

Greg Proops Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 14 Aug, £9 – £14.50

Adventures On Air – Free!

Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £free

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

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 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

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comedylistings 21:20 Alan Committie: Fully Committied Assembly Roxy, 5-26 Aug, not 12, £11 – £12 Seann Walsh: The Lie-in King Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £7.50 – £13 The Essential Tom Stade: 12 Nights Only!

The Assembly Rooms, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £15 Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £9

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 Mikey Avern: Absurd Projections Just The Tonic at Bristo Square, 1-17 Aug, not 13, £3 – £5 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 Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £14

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

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

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

The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Venue150 @ EICC, 12 Aug, £20

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XVII The Canons’ Gait, 3-24 Aug, £free

Horse & Louis’ Comedy Bingo! - FREE Laughing Horse @ New Empire Bingo, 16-17 Aug, £free

Mark Smith: The Most Astonishing Name in Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £10

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 Markus Birdman Happily Ever After 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

21:40

21:45

22:00

Alex Kealy and Friends Kilderkin, 3-24 Aug, not 15, £free

Alex Williamson Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 31 Jul to 9 Aug, £5 – £11

David Quirk - Shaking Hands With Danger (AUS) HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 Ginger Nation The Dram House, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free I Think So I’m Ready Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Bruce Fummey - My Afro Celtic Angst Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 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 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

George Ryegold: Adulterated Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Claudia O’Doherty: Pioneer Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £11.50

The Boy With Tape On His Face: More Tape Pleasance Courtyard, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 13, £12 – £13.50

Alfie Moore - Viva Alf’s Vegas HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £6 – £12

Jonny & the Baptists: Bigger Than Judas Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of You Either The Stand Comedy Club, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12

The Quint Fontana 2013 Comeback Special The Voodoo Rooms, 3-25 Aug, not 13, £free Glenn Wool: This Road Has Tolls Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £14

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

Jennifer Wong: Laughable The Dram House Upstairs, 3-22 Aug, £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

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

Darius Davies’ HBÖ Special Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 2-25 Aug, £free

Michael Che: Cartoon Violence The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

The Alternative Comedy Experience The Stand Comedy Club, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £10

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 WeGotTickets New Talent Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14 Aug, £5

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

22:05 Magpie & Stump Are Chairman Lmao and the Lolitburo theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £6

22:10

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

22:20 ❤ Liam Williams HHHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9.50 The Dog, the Witch and the Wardrobe! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £6.50 – £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

22:15

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

22:25

Dave Bailey and Friends Comedy Hour Paradise in The Vault, 5-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 2-25 Aug, not 13, £12

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comedylistings 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 Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 12-13 Aug, £8.50 Doc Brown Pleasance Courtyard, 19-25 Aug, £10.50 – £14 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 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

22:35 Gary Myers: The Psychopathology of Everyday Laughs Just The Tonic at the Caves, 14-25 Aug, £2 – £6.50

22:40

22:50

Simon Donald - Butch Straight Poof The Stand Comedy Club II, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £7 – £8

Bad Bread: Glove Contractually Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Paul Zerdin: No Strings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £10.50 Rubberbandits Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £14 Viv Groskop: I Laughed, I Cried Le Monde, 18-19 Aug, £8 Edinburgh Comedy AllStars Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 1 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £15.50

22:45 Dave Callan: The Psychology of Laughter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £5 – £10 Humza Arshad presents Diary of a Badman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11-25 Aug, £11 – £12 Rhys Nicholson: Dawn of a New Error Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £11.50

Garrett Millerick: Does it Matter?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £9.50 Joy of Sketch Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, £10

23:00 The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses Sweet Grassmarket, 24-25 Aug, £7 Jordan, Jesse, Go! Pleasance Courtyard, 22-23 Aug, £9 A to Z Improv Comedy - Free Kilderkin, 3-24 Aug, £free Alistair Greaves and Si Beckwith: All Aboard for Funtime!

Laughing Horse @ The White Horse, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 20, £free Eric Hutton’s Favourite Songs - Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 13, 14, 19, £free

The Comedy Zone 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

Rich Hall’s Hoedown Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15

Mat Ewins: Once Upon a Time in the Jest Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £9

The Noise Next Door Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £10

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

Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Pleasance Dome, 1-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £8 – £14 The Wrestling II Pleasance Courtyard, 13-14 Aug, £15

Russ Powell: Powell to the People Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 3 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 7 Aug, £5

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 Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £free – £9

Chris Martin: Passionate About the Pointless - EXTRA SHOW Pleasance Courtyard, 16-18 Aug, £12

AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £11

Sexual Freaky Friday Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 1-25 Aug, £free

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-25 Aug, £free

Trevor Noah: The Racist Pleasance Courtyard, 22-24 Aug, £14

School Night Pleasance Courtyard, 5-21 Aug, not 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, £12

What Happens Next?

Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17-25 Aug, £free

Super Organic Me - Free Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant and Arts Venue, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £free

Sugar, Spice ... All Things Nice?

Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-3 Aug, £free

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh!

Free! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23-24 Aug, £free

The New Wave Pleasance Dome, 8-24 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £10

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 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 Canadians of Comedy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 19 Aug, £5 – £10 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

23:20

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

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

23:30

Shelby Bond: People Pleaser Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7

Will Seaward: Socialist Fairytales!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £5 – £10

Wil Hodgson - Leave the Landing Light On The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £7 – £8

Doctor Brown: Because, Becaves and Befrdfgth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15-20 Aug, £15 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 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 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

23:45 Josh Smith - From Top to Bottom Show Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 16-17 Aug, £free Robert Taylor is The Musical Misfit Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-15 Aug, £free 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 Sex With Animals Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

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comedylistings 23:50 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

Björn Gustafsson Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2-12 Aug, £5 – £10.50 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

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows Underbelly, Bristo Square, 3 Aug, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £7 – £14 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

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 Late Show Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £12 – £14

00:30

00:45 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 A Lol-along-a Luc Valvona - Free Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, £free Man Feelings Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 2-17 Aug, not 16, £free

00:00

Bookshop Midnight Mayhem Heroes @ Bob’s Bookshop , 1-26 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic Comedy Club’s Midnight Show Just The Tonic at the Caves, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 – £12

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

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

Angelina Jolie Touched My Neighbour’s Goat Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13-26 Aug, not 20, £free

The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £6.50 – £7.50

Spanktacular Underbelly, Bristo Square, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £15.50

00:55 Shit of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4-26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

01:00

One of Us Might Be Famous - Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 2-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free

Wits End Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2-12 Aug, £free

The Room Assembly George Square, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Questions on Ducks Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 2-26 Aug, £free

Real Men Have Beards Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19-26 Aug, £free 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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10:00

Twenty-Six Marathons in Twenty-Six Days The Royal Mile, 1-26 Aug, £free

Catastrophe / Rough for Theatre II / Breath The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

09:00

❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20

Breakfast Plays: Clean Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £14

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 10 Aug, £free

Limbo Whitespace, 5-8 Aug, £9

Ciara HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18

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

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 Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £13 – £20 Cadre 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

The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

10:05

The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

Tea at Five theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 11-17 Aug, £6 – £7

The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

10:15

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

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 Chops theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

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Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5 The Morning After Season: The Pink Bedroom theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 24 Aug, £5 – £7 Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 The Morning After Season: Wuthering Heights theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 2 Aug to 23 Aug, £5 – £8 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 Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Rough Magic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8 Aug, £5

10:20 Kind Zoo Southside, 2-17 Aug, £5 – £9 Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

10:30 Playwriting Workshops Sweet Grassmarket, 19-20 Aug, £20 Snap theSpace on the Mile , 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7 The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £10 – £12.50

The System Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £7

10:35 The Diary of Anne Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 5-8 Aug, £8

10:45 Black T-shirt Collection Pleasance Courtyard, 19-24 Aug, £10.50 – £13.50 Blaggards Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, £free Junk C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

10:50 Everyman Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10

11:00 The Hawke Papers Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 5-25 Aug, £free BiDiNG TiME - walks and talks Summerhall, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £free Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9 ❤ 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

Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10

These Halcyon Days Assembly Hall, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 18, 19, £12 – £13

Goose Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, £8

Arcadia Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £8

Taiwan! Here I Am Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 20-24 Aug, £7

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

The Price of Everything Hill Street Theatre, 1425 Aug, £12

Quietly Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £12 – £19

Who Wants to Kill Yulia Tymoshenko?

HH Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, £8 – £12 Ode to the Insignificance Festival Square, 20-21 Aug, £free All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15 Happy Days The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 A Glee Inspired: Romeo and Juliet C venues - C, 1-13 Aug, not 7, £8.50 – £10.50 ❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19 Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Edinburgh Christadelphian Church, 9 Aug, £free 4.48 Psychosis theSpace on the Mile , 2-6 Aug, £7 Buckingham’s Finest The Royal Scots Club, 6-10 Aug, £8 ❤ 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

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 L.O.V.E. Assembly Roxy, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £8 – £12 Chatroom theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £6 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 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

11:15

Pigeon English Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £9.50 – £10.50

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

The Waiting Room Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £8 – £12

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theatrelistings 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

11:45 You Should Ask Wallace Venue 13, 18-21 Aug, £8 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Tracy Venue 13, 3-9 Aug, £8

¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5

Graceland Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Celebrating 40 Years of the Fringe Firsts Pleasance Courtyard, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £5

Relationshit Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 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 A Hundred Minus One Day theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £8.50

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

The Knight of the Box Near The Station Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 2-25 Aug, £free

The Inventor and The Escort Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, £5 – £10.50

Magic Number Six theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £7

The Zero Hour Venue150 @ EICC, 2024 Aug, £12

Pip Utton: Churchill The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 20, £9 – £10

Murder, Marple and Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16-25 Aug, not 19, £9.50 – £10.50

The Wild Wood of Widdershin Just The Tonic at the Caves, 17-18 Aug, £6

The Cardinals Greyfriars Kirk, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

Motherland Summerhall, 20-23 Aug, £12

12:05

To You, The Birdie!

(Phèdre) New Media Scotland, 12 Aug, £4

Chaucer: Hold Up Your Tale C venues - C nova, 6-10 Aug, £8.50 – £9.50

The Emperor Jones; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You; Rhyme ’Em to Death New Media Scotland, 13 Aug, £4

Everything’s Elsewhere C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 13 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

House/Lights New Media Scotland, 11 Aug, £4

Hanging BruceHoward C venues - C nova, 1126 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Rumstick Road New Media Scotland, 10 Aug, £4

Gotcha C venues - C nova, 1426 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Finding Libby Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, £5 – £11

Mansfield Presents Lovers’ Vows Paradise in Augustine’s, 5-17 Aug, not 11, 12, £8.50

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

Men HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £6 – £10 Penelope theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £9 Penny Dreadful theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £3 – £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

Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

In Holy Matri-moany theSpace on North Bridge, 12-17 Aug, £5

Vernon God Little theSpace on Niddry St, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

Love in the Past Participle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

A Womb With a View theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £6 – £7

Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks HHH Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7 – £12

12:10 Specie Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50

Chops theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

Ball at Hawking’s New Town Theatre, 2-12 Aug, £6 – £12

Operation: Love Story La Tasca , 3-24 Aug, £free

Beeston Rifles Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10

Pirates and Mermaids: A Fairytale for Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £8 – £10

Dustpan Odyssey New Town Theatre, 14-25 Aug, £6 – £13

Gordon Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet , 16-25 Aug, £free

The Butterfly Room theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-17 Aug, £7 Voluntary Departure Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 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

South Downs theSpace @ Venue45, 19-22 Aug, £7 Titus Andronicus C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 15 Minutes C venues - C aquila, 3-10 Aug, £6.50 – £8.50

Canary Gold C venues - C, 14-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

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

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theatrelistings Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 17 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 The Tempest in the Firth of Forth Summerhall, 9 Aug, £20

12:20 Revolution Society Pleasance Dome, 13-25 Aug, not 20, £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

12:25

Herons Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 21, £5 – £8

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

Our Fathers Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £12

Nobel Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 18, £7

12:35

The Extremists Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13

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

Mrs Moneypenny Returns AGA Showroom, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, £15

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

Genesis/Golgotha Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £14

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

Cheesed Off Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19-25 Aug, £free

Head Over Heels Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Leaving Iowa Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

❤ 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

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SpaceCabaret @ 54, 6-10 Aug, £7 Tejas Verdes Just Festival at St John’s, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £7 – £14

The Ants Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5 The Pearl Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9.50

How to Occupy an Oil Rig 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

12:40 Rockaby / Act Without Words I / That Time The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

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

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Killing Roger Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

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

The Greatest Liar in All the World Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £10

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

The Librarians theSpace on North Bridge, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £7

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theatrelistings 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 Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20 Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £16 Cadre Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20 Martyr’s Crossing Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 6-9 Aug, £5

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 The Portrait Firm Summerhall, 12-24 Aug, not 15, 20, £10 Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 9 Aug, £free

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 Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £7 – £12 Pants On Fire’s Pinocchio HHH Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10.50 The Way You Tell Them Summerhall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 15 Aug, £7 – £10 Beating McEnroe Summerhall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 16 Aug, £7 – £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 Eugenie Grandet Assembly George Square, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £12 Making News Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £15

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 The True Story of Ah Q (Physical Theatre) theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £12 Between theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £8

13:10 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 TEAM Makes a Play theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 2-10 Aug, £8 The Dragon and George theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5 The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £13

12:50

❤ Missing HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2-25 Aug, not 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, £8.50 – £15

13:05

Journey to X theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £7

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

One Last Thing Sweet Grassmarket, 5-18 Aug, £8

Going For Gold theSpace on North Bridge, 19-22 Aug, £5

The Prawn King theSpace on the Mile , 5-10 Aug, £7

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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

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19 Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love Sweet Grassmarket, 1-26 Aug, £6 – £8

The Sugar and Honey Cook-Along! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

The Dumb Waiter New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £8

FOX theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £6

13:20

13:15

From Where I’m Standing Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 I Could’ve Been Better Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £6 – £11 Mask Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, £8

PussyFooting C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Scotsman Best of the Fest Assembly George Square, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 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

❤ Rites: A Children’s Tragedy HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 1-17 Aug, £6 – £9.50

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

13:25

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5 Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

The Shape of Things theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £8.50 Big Boys Don’t Cry Paradise in The Vault, 13-26 Aug, not 18, 19, 25, £8 The Walls SpaceCabaret @ 54, 12-17 Aug, £8

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theatrelistings 13:30 ❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £12 – £19 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 Quietly 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

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

High Plains (A Western Myth) Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £11

Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

The Surrender HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £14

The Rain That Washes Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, not 7 Aug, £6.50 – £11

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 ❤ Missing HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 3 Aug, £15

13:45 The University of Westminster Presents... Body Odours theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £4 – £7 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

The Ghost of Twin Oaks Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

The Confessions of Gordon Brown Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7 – £12.50

¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Chorus Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £7

Social Animals La Tasca, 1-16 Aug, £free

Graceland Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

13:35

The Canterbury Tales theSpace on Niddry St, 5-10 Aug, £7

Say It Again, Sam Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £8

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £18

Four Walls Bedlam Theatre, 6-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6 Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

13:40 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

Bygone Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 12, £9 London Road, Sea Point HHH Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15

Sympathy Pains Pleasance Dome, 18-26 Aug, £8 – £10

Stand Up, Woman Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer HH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 1 Aug, 12 Aug, £9 – £10

Journos theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £7

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

13:55 Morning and Afternoon Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £12

14:00 Embers King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 25 Aug, £10 Histoire d’amour King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 Aug, £12 Positive Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 13-26 Aug, not 19, £6.50 – £7.50 ❤ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer HHHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 11 Aug, £8 – £15

Solstice Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 10 Aug, £free

Out to Lunch Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

A Long Road Home Palmerston Place Church, 16-17 Aug, £5

Road Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £8

A Long Road Home Central Hall, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £5

13:50

Open Wide Tour The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Endgame The Hub, 31 Aug, £4

Play for September Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £9 The School of Night’s Spontaneous Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14-25 Aug, £11 – £12 The Tree and the Abbey Lauriston Halls, 15 Aug, £7 Sleight of Mind theSpace on the Mile , 5-9 Aug, £3 The Babysitter Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10 The Ghost Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 15 Aug, £6 – £12 Tejas Verdes Just Festival at St John’s, 2-26 Aug, not 3, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, £7 – £14 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 Captain Gingerbeard Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 7, £free Cape Wrath Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £11 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience B’est Restaurant, 2-27 Aug, not 3, 10, 17, 24, £43 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 Take Two Every Four Hours Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £10.50 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Anoesis Summerhall, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £14 Clown for Hire Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £13 Wyrd C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 The List Summerhall, 3-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, 20, £12 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

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theatrelistings 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

The Tempest in the Firth of Forth Summerhall, 12-15 Aug, £20

The End: An Apocalypse Anthology Sweet Grassmarket, 12-13 Aug, £7

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 8 Aug, £5

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5

The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey Summerhall, 17-25 Aug, £14

Questioning Aslan Edinburgh Elim, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £11 Sleeping Soldiers C venues - C, 31 Jul 10 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

14:10

The House Beautiful C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Sock Puppet Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £11

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

Fourplay theSpace on the Mile , Various dates from 3 Aug to 23 Aug, £6 – £7.50

Bridge to an Island C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

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 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

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 Kierkegaard Comedy Show - with Claus Damgaard C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

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 Champ Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15 Good Things by Liz Lochhead St Serf’s Church Hall, 17 Aug, £9

The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11

Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Tasting Valvona & Crolla Scottish Foodhall@Jenners, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £15

The Trials and Tribulations of Mr Pickwick Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7 Aug, £5

Sailor Beware Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 10 Aug, £7

The Odyssey of Dave Quaker Meeting House, 12-17 Aug, £7.50 The Reluctant Doctor Quaker Meeting House, 19-24 Aug, £7 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 The World Has Gone Mad Mood Nightclub, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free Omega HHH The Assembly Rooms, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £14 – £15 An Afternoon of Playback Theatre Sweet Grassmarket, 12-17 Aug, £8 Fantastical Adventures in the Mundane Sweet Grassmarket, 19-26 Aug, £7

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14:40

14:50

Can You Hear Seagulls?

Sweet Grassmarket, 3-11 Aug, £8.50

The Love Project Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 14, £6 – £11

Mammoth Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 25 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6 – £12

The Year I Was Gifted Sweet Grassmarket, 2-25 Aug, not 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £8

If Room Enough Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £11 – £14

My Pregnant Brother Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £10

Shakespeare: Olde Words – New Worlds Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £9

No Direction Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 13, £8 – £15

Economy of Thought Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £14

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

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

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14:55 The Liz and Dick Show theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £10 What I Want to Say But Never Will Sweet Grassmarket, 13-18 Aug, £8.50 Timeline Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £10 Look Back in Anger Greenside, 4-10 Aug, £9

Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

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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

Metamorphosis King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Aug, £12 Afghan Days Babylon Nights The Royal Scots Club, 6-17 Aug, not 11, £10 Four Walls Bedlam Theatre, 2-5 Aug, £4 – £6

Mercy Killers Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, £5 – £10

Indian Peter’s Coffee House Valvona & Crolla, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, £12

Alice in Wonderland C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

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

Spandex Greenside, 20-24 Aug, £8 Eilish O’Carroll: Live Love Laugh Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 14 Aug, £10 – £17 Close to You Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £5 – £8

Sentinels Bedlam Theatre, 5-11 Aug, £9 The Bespoke Overcoat Greenside, 12-17 Aug, £8.50 Calotype Central Hall, 17 Aug, £9

Mother F Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £9.50

Adam Smith, le Grand Tour Institut français d’Ecosse, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 – £10

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theatrelistings Blazing Grannies St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, 17-26 Aug, £free

❤ Breaking News HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Dark Vanilla Jungle Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6.50 – £11

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

Theatre Uncut: Dalgety & Fragile by David Greig Paterson’s Land, 20-24 Aug, £10 Long Distance Affair (make possible an impossible trip) Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £6 – £11 Conversations Not Fit for the American Dinner Table Bedlam Theatre, 12-24 Aug, £9 Hide and Seek Central Hall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 10 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50 Itch: With a Twist Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £8 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 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 Who’s Afraid of Rachel Roberts?

Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £12 Don Quijote Summerhall, 16-24 Aug, £12

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 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

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15:10 The Winter’s Tale theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6-10 Aug, £5 Best Kept Secrets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £8

The Walls SpaceCabaret @ 54, 2-11 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8 Below the Belt Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £6.50 – £11

The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

15:15

Twelfth Night: Unplugged Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

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

Each of Us Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £6 – £10

The Secret Agent Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18

Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 21 Aug, £5

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

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

Collected Stories New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £10.50 – £13.50

Easter Eggs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £5

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20

Something There That’s Missing theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £5 – £8

Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Bassett theSpace on North Bridge, 5-10 Aug, £8

The Graveyard Slot theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 3-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £7.50 – £9

15:25

You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18

Bright Lights C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Duvet Dave theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2 Aug, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, £5

❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

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

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5

15:20 The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5 The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 The Bitches’ Box Assembly George Square, 1-23 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 – £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 You Once Said Yes Underbelly, Cowgate, 12-25 Aug, £18 The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

15:30

❤ Stuart: A Life Backwards HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7 – £14 ¡Bocón!

Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 Forever C venues - C too, 18-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Hag Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11 The Way You Tell Them Summerhall, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 The Wedge CANCELLED Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £8 Beating McEnroe Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £10

Pigmalion Zoo C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 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, 14-26 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

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Trash Cuisine Pleasance Courtyard, 19-26 Aug, £12 – £15

Cadre Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20

Cape Wrath Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 9-24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £11

A Matter of Life and Death C venues - C, 11-17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

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theatrelistings Annoying the Neighbours Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Burton’s Last Call Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 1-24 Aug, £free Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £12 Quietly 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 Mrs Moneypenny Returns AGA Showroom, 9-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £15 A Poem for My Sister Royal Over-Seas League, 15-16 Aug, £10 A Family Beyond The Army Sweet Grassmarket, 12-25 Aug, £8 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 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 Of Dice and Men: UK Premiere Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 21 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 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 Assembly Hall, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 – £16 The Fifth Duck Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-9 Aug, £5

16:05 All Or Nothing theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7

Quietly Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

The Suicidal Tendencies of Sheep and a Dog Called the Hoff theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £7

Angus: Weaver of Grass Scottish Storytelling Centre, 19-25 Aug, £10

Cut! Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £6 – £12

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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

❤ The Boy Who Kicked Pigs HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 14 Aug, £6 – £11.50 Laugh Your Farce Off Pleasance Courtyard, 15-17 Aug, £9.50 Melmoth the Wanderer HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, £14 – £15

16:15

Cain theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £3 – £7

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

Very Still and Hard to See Greenside, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £10

Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

16:10

Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

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

Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 20-21 Aug, £5 Slapdash Galaxy: 3D Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 14 Aug, £7 – £13 Bonanza Summerhall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £12 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5 Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

16:20

Expiration Date Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 3-24 Aug, not 12, 20, £8.50

Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief Sweet Grassmarket, 2-11 Aug, £8

Safe theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £10

Inspector Norse Assembly George Square, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £10

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Revisited Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50

Signs of Our Occupy theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5.50 – £7.50

The Boss of It All Assembly Roxy, 1-26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 – £13 The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5

She Was Probably Not a Robot Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 – £10

This Was the World and I Was King C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

The Beginning Pleasance Courtyard, 18-24 Aug, £9 – £12

A Happy Side (As Well) Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £8

Losing the Plot New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £12 – £15 Pendulums Bargain Emporium Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 24 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50 The Veil (Le Foulard) Pleasance Dome, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50 – £11 Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £9

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theatrelistings 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

16:30 The Three Lions HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £8 – £15 For Their Own Good Summerhall, 19-24 Aug, £10 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 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 Tango Theatre: Woman of Shadow, Woman of Light C venues - C aquila, 18-26 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50 Roughs Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £9 Buoy C venues - C aquila, 1-17 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

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17:00

Major Tom Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12

Newton Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Fantasy No. 10 - The Beauty of Life Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £10

Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated Pleasance Courtyard, 1-25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6 – £9

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 Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £13

16:50 Krapp’s Last Tape The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 Rave Generation Paradise in Augustine’s, 20-26 Aug, £7.50

16:40

Chaos By Design theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5

The Sleeping Trees’ Odyssey Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £7.50

The Shawshank Redemption HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £15 – £16

There Has Possibly Been an Incident Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 3-24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £11 – £14

16:55 Broken Holmes theSpace on the Mile , 20-24 Aug, £8

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 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 76 Million People and Me Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 11-15 Aug, £free Europa, Our First Migrant Italian Cultural Institute, 23-24 Aug, £8 Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 31 Aug, £8 All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15 Titus Paradise in the Kirkhouse, 20-26 Aug, £8 Bedding Out Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 9 Aug, £free Soddin’ Flodden Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2-17 Aug, not 12, £8.50

Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 9-11 Aug, £16

17:05 A Laughing Matter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £6 Jack, Or the Submission theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £7 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 I (Honestly) Love You C venues - C aquila, 1-13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Eleemosynary theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 Consequences theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £8 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

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 Dumbstruck Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 14, £6 – £10 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 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

Darren Maskell: A Woodlouse Trapped Underneath a Glass Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 19-25 Aug, £free

17:20

The Circus of Terror Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £free

Made for Each Other Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 20, £8

The Actor’s Nightmare theSpace on the Mile , 5-16 Aug, not 11, £7

The Emperor Wolf Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

The Autumn of Han theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £5 – £11

2-4 (previews), 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 August 13:45 (40 mins), £7.50/£5 (Concession) Greenside Studio 2 (venue 231), edinburgh fringe 2013

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theatrelistings 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

The Boadicea of Britannia Street New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £9 – £14

17:40

The Collision of Things Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6.50 – £11

The Edge of Our Bodies theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £10

The Life and Times of Victor Biktrakarawitz Paradise in The Vault, 13-18 Aug, £4.50

Dick Whittington theSpace on North Bridge, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £7

Itch: With a Twist Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, £8

Cadre Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £18

Pianoforte, My Life Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 4-10 Aug, £12

According to Oscar Mayfield Salisbury Church, 5-9 Aug, £8

Northanger Abbey Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £9

Hide and Seek Central Hall, Various dates from 3 Aug to 10 Aug, £7.50 – £8.50

Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

I Want to Tell You Something Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £5 – £8

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I’ll Be Seeing You Paradise in The Vault, 3-4 Aug, £8

The Three Little Pigs Assembly George Square, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £10 – £15

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A Funny Valentine Valvona & Crolla, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, £12

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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 God of Carnage Greenside, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6 – £9 Of Dice and Men: UK Premiere Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 21 Aug, £10

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 21st-century Poe Paradise in The Vault, 5-11 Aug, £7 I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20 Italia ‘n’ Caledonia Valvona & Crolla, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, £12

Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aug, £5

Captive Minds theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £6

Around Miss Julie C venues - C nova, 1126 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

❤ Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel HHHH Pleasance Dome, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £7 – £13

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 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

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

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 BLAM! Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £8 – £15 The Hat, The Cane, The Moustache C venues - C too, 1-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

18:00 Sanctuary Just Festival at St John’s, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £8 Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 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 Mucus Factory Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 12 Aug, £free

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Just The Tonic at the Caves, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £5 – £9 The Tree and the Abbey Lauriston Halls, 15 Aug, £7

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 Our Friends, The Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £8 Melodic Dystrophy theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £5 Sugar Kane SpaceCabaret @ 54, 9-17 Aug, £10

18:10 Beijing Cake theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5 – £8 Don’t Disturb the Driver theSpace on North Bridge, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £8 – £10 Ohio Impromptu / Rough for Theatre I / Not I The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 A Writer’s Lot theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £7 Artaud: a Trilogy C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 1 Aug, £12

Life theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 18, £5 – £11

Something Beginning With Paradise in The Vault, 20-24 Aug, £7

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❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £18 – £20

The Penelopiad Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5 A Killer Story Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £7 His Majesty, the Devil – a Play With Music Quaker Meeting House, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £8 – £9.50

The Secret Agent Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £18 – £20

My Favourite Madman Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 2-10 Aug, £6 – £8

Freeze!

Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 19, £5 – £9

18:25 Leaving Iowa Pilrig Studio, 7-8 Aug, £5

The Principle of Uncertainty Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £10 Return to the Forbidden Planet Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50

18:30 Gym Party Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, £10 ❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 1-25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free Find Me theSpace on North Bridge, 6-8 Aug, £5 – £7

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

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £17 Quietly Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

The Trilogy Paradise in Augustine’s, 3-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £10

Chalk Farm Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, 19, £6 – £11.50

A Brief History of Beer Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1-20 Aug, not 12, £free

Executed for Sodomy: the Life Story of Caterina Linck C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £7.50 – £9.50

Humans Inc C venues - C, 8-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, £19

Killers HH The Assembly Rooms, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £14 – £15

Risk Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21-25 Aug, £free

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Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 9 Aug, £5

As You Like It The Royal Scots Club, 12-17 Aug, £12

The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

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Splatter theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £7 – £9

Love Struck Central Hall, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £7.50 Pint Dreams Pleasance At The Antiquary, 22-25 Aug, £6.50 – £7.50 ❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19

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theatrelistings 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

18:35 Timeline Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £10 Recalculating Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 12-26 Aug, £8 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 Crimes Against Comedy The Edinburgh Dungeon, 2-26 Aug, £10.50 Medea Whitespace, 13-24 Aug, not 19, £8 Next Door Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50 Love Struck Palmerston Place Church, 14-15 Aug, £7.50 In the Kingdom of the Blind Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £9 The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa theSpace on Niddry St, 2-24 Aug, £8.50 – £11 (As/Des)cent Sweet Grassmarket, 1-11 Aug, £9 Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8 – £13.50

18:55 Forest HH Sweet Grassmarket, 1-11 Aug, £7.50 The Dumb Waiter New Town Theatre, 2-25 Aug, not 12, 13, £8

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

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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

The Winter’s Tale theSpace on North Bridge, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £9

Nehru: His Inner Story Paradise in The Vault, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £free – £8

Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 29 Aug, £8

Jerry and Tom theSpace on the Mile , 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £8 – £10

Sleeping Beauty and the Spinner Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, £5

Embers King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 24-25 Aug, £10

After Ever Happily theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12-17 Aug, £7

No Place Like Zoo, 2-26 Aug, not 11, 18, £4 – £9

Punk Rock theSpace on the Mile , 12-17 Aug, £8

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

19:00 First Love Royal Lyceum Theatre, 28 Aug, 31 Aug, £8

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 The Goddess of Walnuts Paradise in The Vault, 3-18 Aug, not 12, £5 – £6 Ulysses Paterson’s Land, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £16 ‘33 (a Kabarett) Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12 Lockerbie: Lost Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £5 – £10 The Hard Man The Wee Red Bar, 1926 Aug, £8 Kafka’s A Report to an Academy Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-17 Aug, not 11, £6 Juliet: A Dialogue About Love C venues - C, 31 Jul 10 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 A Circus Affair Zoo, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £9

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 Mad Hatter Bum Party theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 23 Aug, £5 Maddy’s Many Mouths theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £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, 14-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 Kubrick3 Pleasance Courtyard, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £6 – £12.50 Red Hanrahan theSpace @ Venue45, 2 Aug, 3 Aug, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, £7 On Hold theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £6

For the Trumpets Shall Sound C venues - C aquila, 1-17 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

Katie Mag C venues - C aquila, 18-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 2 Aug, £13

Vinegar Tom C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 13 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Masters of Drip The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 7, 13, 21, £free

Gorbella theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £7

Oh My Irma Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £11

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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

19:20 What Where / Footfalls / Come and Go The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 Daughters theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19-24 Aug, £8 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

All That Fall The Hub, 25-26 Aug, £15

Don Quijote Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

Chris Dugdale - Magic and Mischief!

Assembly George Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6 – £12

Sonica Presents Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism Summerhall, 12-25 Aug, not 14, 21, £14

Good Things by Liz Lochhead St Serf’s Church Hall, 3-16 Aug, not 4, 11, £9 Hamlette Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5 Notes from Bermondsey Street C venues - C, 19-26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

Come Blow Your Horn Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 7-17 Aug, not 11, £10.50

Sailor Beware Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 5-10 Aug, £7

Phone Whore: A One Act Play With Frequent Interruptions Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 1-25 Aug, £free

South African Delights Sweet Grassmarket, 18-22 Aug, £8.50

The Bacchae Holyrood Park Information Lodge , 22-24 Aug, £free

Speak Truth to Power Church Hill Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

Times Square Tourist theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £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 Dying On Stage Lauriston Halls, 13-17 Aug, £5

The Yellow Boat Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

Pre:View Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £6.50

19:25

Titus Andronicus: An All-female Production HHH Bedlam Theatre, 2-24 Aug, £7 – £9

The Revenge of the Gargantuan Poo Monster Greenside, 2-17 Aug, not 11, £5

All Roads Lead to Rome Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £2.50 – £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

19:40 Agamemnon Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £6.50

David Copperfield St Ninian’s Hall, 5-17 Aug, not 11, 15, £12

Two is the Beginning of the End Sweet Grassmarket, 19-25 Aug, £8.50

The Tragedy of Coriolanus The Edinburgh Playhouse, 20-21 Aug, £10

Free Money Magic Show Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 1-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £free

We, Object theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 11, 20, £5 – £10

Hamlet Royal Lyceum Theatre, 10-13 Aug, £10

Oresteia C venues - C, 31 Jul 17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

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Your Problem With Men Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £15

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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

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Good Mourning!

VOstBil Institut français d’Ecosse, 13-18 Aug, £10 ❤ The Events HHHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £13

The Ants Pilrig Studio, 5 Aug, £5

Pandora’s Box Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 The Imaginary Invalid Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, £5

Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, £19

The Devil and Billy Markham Royal Over-Seas League, 15-16 Aug, £10

Fanny Whittington Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7

I’m With the Band HH Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £18 – £20

Feral HHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 13, 20, £9

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Italia ‘n’ Caledonia Valvona & Crolla, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £12

SingleMarriedGirl theSpace on North Bridge, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £6 – £10

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

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience B’est Restaurant, 1-27 Aug, not 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, £46.50

❤ 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 Missing Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 12, £6 – £10.50

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Touched... Like a Virgin Le Monde, 15-25 Aug, not 17, 24, £10

Dirty Water theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 12, 18, £8

Motherland Summerhall, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, £12

A Note of Dischord theSpace @ Venue45, 12-17 Aug, £7

Our Glass House Summerhall, 13-25 Aug, not 19, £free

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The Tin Ring Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, £14

A Play With Words and Blind Love Pilrig Studio, 6 Aug, £5

Metamorphosis King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 10-11 Aug, £12

Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 14, £free

On Behalf of Nature Royal Lyceum Theatre, 16-17 Aug, £10

Circle Game Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

Leaving Planet Earth Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 10-24 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50

Donal O’Kelly’s Brace Fionnuala and Skeffy Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £6 – £12

Histoire d’amour King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 15-17 Aug, £12

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

Pugni Di Zolfo (Fists of Sulfur) – History of Caruso Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, not 12, 21, £5 – £8

The Bunker Trilogy: Agamemnon C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £11.50 – £13.50

❤ Solfatara HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £8

An Anonymous Life... and Some Sketches Laughing Horse @ Edinburgh City Football Club, 1-25 Aug, £free

Original Sin/PBH’s Free Fringe Cowgatehead, 19-25 Aug, £free

Cinderella Lives!

Venue 13, 3-24 Aug, not 12, £8

The High-Schooler’s Guide to the Galaxy Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

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

Paradise Zoo, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £5 – £8 Waiting for Godot The Hub, 31 Aug, £4 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

Higgs Summerhall, 2-17 Aug, not 5, 12, £10

❤ Anna HHHH Summerhall, 2-25 Aug, not 12, £10

4.48 Psychosis C venues - C nova, 1426 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

God of Carnage The Royal Scots Club, 12-17 Aug, £12

Globophobia Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, £5 – £8

❤ Long Live The Little Knife HHHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £17 – £19

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

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

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The Secret Agent Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £18 – £20

A Funny Valentine Valvona & Crolla, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

The Project Zoo, Various dates from 2 Aug to 26 Aug, £5 – £8

Creepie Stool Just Festival at St John’s, Various dates from 16 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

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Kiss, Cuddle, Torture Just Festival at St John’s, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £10

Fast Film Noir theSpace @ Venue45, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £9

H to He (I’m Turning Into a Man) Hill Street Theatre, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £12

20:40 Titus Andronicus theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, £12 The Fantasist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21-26 Aug, £11 – £12 The Worst of Scottee Assembly George Square, 1-24 Aug, not 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, £12 Substance C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

20:45 ❤ 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 Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, £18 Kabul Venue150 @ EICC, 4-24 Aug, £12 Unrequited Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £5 – £5.50 Agnes of God The Royal Scots Club, 5-10 Aug, £10 Fight Night HHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £17 – £19

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Popaganda Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, 2-25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £2.50 – £5 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 Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23-25 Aug, £15 Cadre 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 The Man Who Thought the Moon Would Fall Out of the Sky Northern Stage at St Stephen’s, 20 Aug, £14 Biding Time (remix) Summerhall, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £12

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

21:00 I’ll Go On Royal Lyceum Theatre, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug, 31 Aug, £8

Metamorphosis Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-10 Aug, £7.50

First Love Royal Lyceum Theatre, 29-30 Aug, £8

Running With the Firm Zoo Southside, 2-26 Aug, £7 – £10

Eh Joe Royal Lyceum Theatre, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £8

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❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, £17

Boys C venues - C aquila, 1-26 Aug, not 12, £8.50 – £10.50 Quietly Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £17 – £19 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

Dirty Laundry Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50

21:45 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

21:50

In Tune With Dementia theSpace on North Bridge, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £8 War of the Waleses theSpace @ Venue45, 12-24 Aug, not 18, £7 – £9

The State vs John Hayes C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 12 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

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21:30

Overcoat C venues - C, 31 Jul - 17 Aug, not 7 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

Macbeth theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £5 – £8

Mejnun theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19-24 Aug, £6 – £8

She Dances With Fate New Town Theatre, 1-25 Aug, £11

A Marriage Proposal C venues - C too, 9-10 Aug, £10.50

Life Sentence theSpace on the Mile , 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8

The Witness Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8

21:55

Bent C venues - C too, 11-17 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50

On Hold theSpace on North Bridge, 3 Aug, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £5 – £6

Loving Dick The Fiddler’s Elbow, 3-24 Aug, not 13, £free

Can’t Buy Me Love Greenside, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £7

Squidboy Assembly Roxy, 31 Jul 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £6 – £10

League of St George C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50

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33 HH Zoo, 2-17 Aug, £9

❤ Grounded HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £17 – £19

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The Phantom of the Fringe Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 1-26 Aug, £7

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

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The Givers theSpace on the Mile , 19-24 Aug, £5 – £8

Midsummer/Jersey Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5 Shadows Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 ❤ Have I No Mouth HHHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £17 The Medicine Showdown Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 The Rimers of Eldritch Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5

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Bluebeard theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8.50

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 Rodney & Julie J theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-10 Aug, not 4, £5 – £6 This Is My Box Sweet Grassmarket, 1-18 Aug, £8.50 Billy With His Boots On Zoo, 18-26 Aug, £10 7-tik 3 Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall, 19-26 Aug, £5

The Brothers’ Grimm Spectaculathon Church Hill Theatre, 6 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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Kindred Greenside, 2-10 Aug, £7

Dear Friend, Greenside, 19-24 Aug, £7

22:00 Dark Matter Summerhall, 15-24 Aug, not 18, £12 Red Riding Hood Greenside, 5-24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7.50

Nothing to Be Done theSpace on North Bridge, 19-24 Aug, £8

22:15 Super Tuesday theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20-24 Aug, £8 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 Miles & Coltrane Blue: (.)

C venues - C, 3-26 Aug, £9.50 – £11.50 Shakesperience Church Hill Theatre, 7 Aug, £5 Argonautika Church Hill Theatre, 6 Aug, £5 Rabbit Hole Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

The Bunker Trilogy: Macbeth C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, £11.50 – £13.50

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Boris & Sergey’s Vaudevillian Adventure Underbelly, Bristo Square, 31 Jul - 26 Aug, not 13 Aug, £7 – £14

Beats by Kieran Hurley 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

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

Water Stain Venue150 @ EICC, 4-22 Aug, £12

The Mid-Knight Cowboy C venues - C nova, 31 Jul - 10 Aug, £8.50 – £10.50 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

22:30 Party Piece Bedlam Theatre, 2-24 Aug, not 12, £5 – £8 Buzzcut Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, Various dates from 2 Aug to 25 Aug, £free The Seer Underbelly, Cowgate, 1-25 Aug, not 13, £6 – £10.50 Forever 27 New Town Bar, 4-15 Aug, not 9, 10, £7 Hooked Sweet Grassmarket, 1-25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8 Whatever Gets You Through the Night The Queen’s Hall, 20-25 Aug, £13.50 – £16.50 Boredom Pleasance Hunt and Darton Cafe, Various dates from 3 Aug to 24 Aug, £5

22:40 Engels! The Karl Marx Story theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13-17 Aug, £7 Gabe Day theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 2-17 Aug, not 4, 11, £4 – £8.50 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

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

23:30 Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 Brand New Ancients Traverse Theatre, 21-22 Aug, £18 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…

Making a Hands-free Microphone with Pat Cahill Mic stands are for amateurs. Pat Cahill shows us how to make one of his signature mic holders - so your hands are free for, you know, comedy stuff.

PAT CAHILL: START UNTIL 25 AUG, NOT 12, 5.45PM - 6.45PM, PLEASANCE COURTYARD

The payoff: Step 1:

The finished article - 1 × hands-free mic.

Gather together everything you need.

Step 2:

Coat hangers can be wire or coated. Coated is good for all weathers.

Unless it’s aluminium or zinc-plated, wire ones will rust over time. But it all depends on what kind of patina you’re after. Some people like shabby chic.

Step 4:

Step 3:

Stretch your coat hangers. It takes four to eight hours, depending on your upper body strength.

And also girth.

This the amount of tape you need.

5 1.5cmx2m strips, that’s essential. Five strips of exactly the same height and size otherwise it’s just lunacy.

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