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EGG
A CRACKING BREAKTHROUGH
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Your FREE Festival Guide
21 – 27 August
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Geoff Sobelle Colin Cloud Natalie Palamides Lauren Pattison Very Blue Peter Trump the Musical Clowntown
Director George Sully Co-editors Evan Beswick & Jo Caird Sales Executive Sebastian Fisher Cover Photo James Deacon
Lead Theatre Critic Matt Trueman Lead Dance Critic Donald Hutera Lead Comedy Critic Veronica Lee Artworker Silvia Razakova Production Manager Alexander Smail
Writing Team Sean Bell, Marissa Burgess, Ruby Foster, Eve Green, Martha Green, Si Hawkins, Donald Hutera, Louise Jones, Katharine Kavanagh, Laura Kressly, Veronica Lee, Alice McGuire, Brett Mills, Becca Moody, Fergus Morgan, Naomi Obeng, Daniel Perks, Francesca Peschier, David Pollock, Lewis Porteous, Jay Richardson, Matthew Sharpe, John Stansfield, Joanna Trainor, Tom Wicker, Kate Wyver Radge Media Publisher Sophie Kyle Media Sales Executives Keith Allan, David Hammond Bookkeeping & Accounts Rebecca Sweeney
Editor-in-Chief Rosamund West Picture Editor Sarah Donley Media Sales Manager Sandy Park
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Comedy 22 Barry Ferns The mischief-maker’s ‘proper’ show is pretty damn good
EGG: Richard Pictures
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Theatre 33 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Channelling Murakami, sort of
Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus
Magic with a Message
41 Void A hallucinatory multimedia voyage, via JG Ballard
Colin Cloud and Geoff Sobelle
Cabaret & Variety 43 Yummy A subversive drag showcase 75 Listings
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Lou Sanders: Shame Pig Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 7–26 Aug, not 15, £5.0 Clif Knight Sucks! Laughing Horse @ The Place, 7–9 Aug, £0.0
12:35 The Hangover Cure Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5.0 Punel Show Voodoo Rooms, 7–26 Aug, £0.0
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Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7–26 Aug, not 14, £0.0
Richard Wright: Virgin Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £5.0
Briony Redman: Sketch Artist Pleasance Courtyard, 7–27 Aug, not 11, prices vary
Tom and Ollie in: One and a Half Men Just the Tonic at The Caves, 7–12 Aug, £5.0
Naked Truth Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 7–26 Aug, £0.0
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Catch of the Day (A Sturgeon Story) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £10.0
Russell Hicks: A Fist Full of Ideas Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 7–26 Aug, £0.0
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Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.0
I Am Ross Smith Just the Tonic at The Caves, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £5.0
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Perfect Day Can’t decide what to see? We know what’s good, so let us plan a perfect day at the Fringe for you
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Skin a Cat
103-105 West Bow 12pm
Assembly Rooms 4:10pm – 5:40pm
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Bright and breezy, Hula does a great line in fresh fruit juices with exotic and outrageous blends that you never would have considered, as well as great coffee and healthy food.
The Vanishing Man Pleasance Courtyard
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Blurring the line between theatre and magic show, Simon Evans and David Aula’s play tells the story of the greatest magic trick ever performed. With spellbinding illusions and a touching story, plus a healthy dose of audience participation, The Vanishing Man will charm and amaze.
Isley Lynn’s play about a woman with a psychosomatic condition that prevents her from having penetrative sex may not sound like fun, but turns out it’s a hoot! Excruciatingly funny and heartbreakingly relatable, Skin a Cat is a candid recount of a sexual odyssey.
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The Story Beast: This Is Bardcore
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Underbelly, Cowgate
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Gingzilla: Glamonster vs the World Assembly George Square Theatre
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In her first solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, seven-foot ginger drag queen Gingzilla leaves quite the mark. With an aesthetic that recalls classic 1950s monster movies like Godzilla and King Kong, the show is an exhilarating look at gender equality and feminism.
A surreal blend of comedy, music, and poetry, This Is Bardcore is a folk horror show about the end of the world. Talking about an impending Armageddon with boundless energy and cheerfulness, John Henry Falle’s return to the Fringe is absurd and brilliant.
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Middle Eastern mezze are the order of the day at BABA, parked at the Book Festival end of George Street. A highly shareable menu packed with tasty Levantine dishes make this an ideal post-show pit stop.
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Comedy duo EGG are pushing for change in comedy, in more ways than one
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ver a 25-night Edinburgh run, how many double acts would be brave enough to improvise an “honesty section” of their show each night? Conceived as an opportunity for EGG’s Anna Leong-Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini “to say things that piss us off about each other”, the pair reprise the exercise offstage as well. “The reason we can do it is because we really love each other,” Leong-Brophy explains. “We look after each other and we’re kinder to each other than we are in our romantic relationships.” Lloyd-Saini agrees. “It’s so much healthier than our actual relationships. And our boyfriends have noticed.” Leong-Brophy smiles conspiratorially: “It would certainly be easier to find another boyfriend than another comedy partner I get on so well with.” EGG struggled with unaddressed tension when they made their under-the radar Free Festival 2016 debut, borne out of also being part of improv troupe BattleActs! and Lloyd-Saini concurrently doing a standup show. This year, their commitments are hardly less onerous, with a play, more BattleActs! and a Radio 1 podcast with the improv outfit to record. Still, they’re having a “dream Fringe”, Lloyd-Saini enthuses of their acclaimed show Richard Pictures, a very funny sketch hour about toxic masculinity and feminism in flux from mixed-race performers seeking to take up space. “Audiences really seem to be getting it and enjoying it.” Taking its cryptic title from the dick pic phenomenon, Richard Pictures explores harassment and diversity with a sure, light-handed touch. “We were so tentative in our first year,” Leong-Brophy recalls. “Not looking to make too much of a thing about being brown women. But this year, with the way everything has moved forward, everyone recognises that this is worth talking about.”
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Previews of the show “felt heavy on the antiman”, she acknowledges. “But it’s not that, it’s a pro-woman show. “Change is painful and we’re in that seismic shift where people are realising it’s inappropriate to do certain things. Women can’t pay lip-service anymore and can actually move with feminism, so that’s really exciting. My heart’s not bleeding but I’m genuinely sympathetic to anyone who’s essentially been living in a bubble their whole life and is now being told that everything they were doing was wrong. “Guys coming out to say that they didn’t realise how hard it was to be a woman, re-examining their behaviour, that can be brave. We’re not attacking guys. Because even by coming to the show, they’re shining a light.” Notwithstanding the female friend who congratulated them by admitting that she didn’t normally find women funny, a line that’s now in the show, more characteristic has been the reaction of a “girl who stopped us the other day and said: ‘As a young, mixed-race woman it’s just so important for me to see you guys.’ Because that was my experience growing up,” says Leong-Brophy. “There was no one like me on TV.” Growing up with Welsh-Indian heritage in a predominantly white part of Nottingham, Lloyd-Saini “tended to forget I was brown”, and was shocked to begin her acting career and only be offered “servile Asian roles. “Being mixed race, you sit on the edge of two worlds where you’re not quite enough of anything.” By contrast, Leong-Brophy was raised in Brent, one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Of Irish-Chinese-Malay descent, she was “colour-blind, until I got to drama school and they’d ask me to do
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something from Miss Saigon. “I’m more Irish than anything else but never get seen for Irish roles. In 10 years of acting, for the first six I was either getting breakdowns for prostitutes or someone who’s lighting incense or a lantern in a mystical manner. Always in broken English.” As a result she and Lloyd-Saini took matters into their own hands, writing for themselves or improvising for their stage time. Change is underway, slowly and uncertainly, reflected in their differing experiences of inclusion. The night we chat, Lloyd-Saini is appearing on BBC Two as part of The Big Asian Stand-Up. And working on the BBC Asian Network, “where I’m one of the only mixed-race presenters and they’ve been very lovely and welcoming”, she’s nevertheless “had my eyes opened” to how the corporation has equated “Asian” with people of South Asian origin while ignoring those with East Asian roots, a disparity it’s only belatedly addressing. “It’s nice to feel like they know we exist now. But what the hell?” Leong-Brophy fumes. “I’m not white enough to play white but I’m not Asian enough to be
included in the ‘diversity’ section? So where do I fall? The answer is between the cracks. It’s all very well living in an ivory tower of magic and whimsy where you think anyone can play anyone. But the statistics don’t reflect that. I’m Asian too, give me a break. Or put me in a Brendan Behan or Sean O’Casey play at the National [Theatre].” Radio 1 airs the BattleActs! improv podcast next month and EGG are currently developing a television sitcom. They’re already working on their next show too, with Lloyd-Saini reckoning getting pregnant “is the only way I will get out of the Fringe next year. “But Anna was like, ‘that could be the third show concept! A pregnancy show!’ So thanks for planning my sex life.” Her friend smiles. “I’m here for you babe!” / Jay Richardson VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:
Pleasance Courtyard 6pm – 7pm, 21–26 Aug £8 – £10
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Colin Cloud and Geoff Sobelle discuss the magic of “building belief” and pushing the boundaries of possibility
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eller [of magic duo Penn & Teller] says that a magic trick is a fight between your eyes and what you know to be true,” says Geoff Sobelle. “It’s a fight you have to enjoy losing.” Colin Cloud continues in the same vein: “You can be watching a piece he’s probably performed more than any magician has performed, and still feel you’re watching the art happen in that moment.” Colin Cloud and Geoff Sobelle are not magicians, but they make magic happen and, it seems, both admire the legendary magician Teller. They also claim never to have met before this interview, although they are illusionists and therefore not to be trusted. “We might have been plotting this behind your back the entire time,” comments Cloud, slightly disconcertingly. But despite their works being seemingly at far ends of some sort of magical spectrum—with Robert Lepage at one end and the “Paul Daniels’s magic set” that first turned Cloud onto comedy and mesmerism at the other—they share a similar conceptual space. In physical theatre piece Home at the International Festival, Sobelle “uses the shit out of illusion”.
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Not just in creating a house out of thin air but in creating a sense of home, something with “illusionary qualities we buy into but are not actually as concrete as we like to think”. Cloud’s Psycho(Logical) at the Pleasance, has more of the accoutrements expected of a magic show: mind reading, reveals and a dapper frock coat. Plus, as Cloud points out, he’s been on the telly, which sets up a level of expectation. “From an artistic point of view, it’s a careful balance,” he says, seeking to bring the dazzle of his performance on America’s Got Talent but also to create something he’s proud of. Because Cloud doesn’t want to trick us: “I don’t want the deception to be the thing that the audience takes away. I want them to think about the message, the relevance to themselves and how they fit into the world.” There’s a point in each of these shows where Sobelle and Cloud hand over to their audiences. Expanding the limits of what’s possible requires crossing the boundary between spectator and performer. continues
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they enjoy it and feel they are in good hands but also they’re like, ‘Jesus Christ – how long did that take?’” Cloud agrees: “When you watch a magician, you should leave feeling astounded. But I don’t really want that – I want what Geoff said, when you feel like you have watched someone work, that there is a skill and a level of understanding. To feel astonished is to put it outside of the realm of belief or possibility. I want the audience to feel that that is obtainable to them and relevant to them – to me that is crucial.” Home and Psycho(Logical) occupy what Sobelle – Geoff Sobelle describes as “psychological, invisible spaces of Sobelle agrees that “trust is crucial”. In Home, the memory”, spaces are made “more tangible” as they’re house that Sobelle builds is taken over by an invading “occupied” by both performer and audience. Making audience. “Generally, I hate audience participation,” the impossible possible—whether that be a wall says Sobelle. “That is why I wanted to try it – precisely appearing from nowhere in Home or Cloud deducing because it’s so difficult. The whole show builds to the your profession in one Sherlockian glare—has the moment where the audience comes up – they feel potential to open our minds. that they are safe, that they can cross that threshold.” “That’s a nice thing, a noble thing,” ponders So“That’s the beauty of what we do,” Cloud goes belle. “Just to try and make the world bigger for a few on. “It can be completely immersive for those watch- people.” / Francesca Peschier ing and have real, positive impacts on their thinking. That’s what I want to create, not show how clever I SHOW: HOME am just by showing trick after trick.” VENUE: King’s Theatre TIME: times vary, 22–26 Aug Cloud and Sobelle’s shows are very clever, but TICKETS: £17 also labour intensive. “I love the films of Jacques Tati, Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and Keaton, and SHOW: Colin Cloud: Psycho(Logical) magicians like Robert-Houdin, who would go to insane lengths to pull off a magic trick,” says Sobelle. VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard TIME: 8pm – 9pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14 “It’s an act of love and devotion. I really hope that TICKETS: £13.50 – £17 audiences see that care was put into the work, that
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Midway through the Fringe, and there’s buzz in the air. First up is Jordan Brookes, who cruises into this particular frame on the back of an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination last year, and a new show in which he boldly stakes his claim to being “the riskiest comedian in the business”.
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In truth, he’s not far wrong. Bleed (3 stars) is an eyeball-deep, fully committed attempt to break the contract a comic has with an audience. They perform, we watch; so goes the familiar formulation. But Brookes is having none of that. Bleed dances around a central question: who is responsible for the impact of a joke he once told? Is it him for telling it? Or is he blameless, and it’s us who drove him to seek material which “resonates” with us? In exploring this he literally climbs into our heads, deploying a neat bit of technical wizardry which will have ASMR fans melting. Brookes is going for broke, and in so doing he breaks open the toolbox, whipping out every alienating comedy device he can. There’s gags pushed way past the point of enjoyment; there’s grotesque physical comedy; there’s stories, one-liners and visual jokes; he manipuates what’s real and what’s not, and reflexively draws attention to it. He’s aiming for a Marmite show and, one senses, the walkout he aims for and scores isn’t unique to tonight’s performance. The result, though, is a prodigious, ferocious spurt of creativity that needs reigning in. A good example is Brookes’s nasty streak, which he uses too liberally, hectoring one too many people a little too fiercely. Absolutely, Bleed needs menace to work, but all we need is a flash of teeth to know they are there – not a full chewing. Compare this to Sean Morley, whose show treads similar ground in I Apologise For My Recent Behaviour (3 stars), but with a lighter touch. Morley’s focus is on who is responsible for the success or otherwise of the gig. That sounds a bit dense and, sure enough, there’s a middle section in which it does drag into particularly testing territory. But it’s otherwise consistently funny and, by the end, it’s clear that Morley has everything under control. Routines about his arrival, about crisps, about revolting soup, all line up in the service of a central idea. He is—and this is meant in the best possible way—ut-
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terly manipulative. There’s few performers who could have the audience chanting “we love you” by the end. And really meaning it. He’s an understated, weird, brilliant man. Laura Davis goes bigger still with a show—Ghost Machine (4 stars)—that tackles existential crisis, the transitoriness of the very matter that makes us, and questions why, in light of that, we choose to continue living. Unusually, she mostly does this dressed as a ghost. “People are more likely to turn out to hear the opinions of a ghost than a women,” she notes. It’s a great conceit, and one that enables her to occupy a space that is both disembodied and decontextualised, as well as constrained and imprisoned (in a sheet). What’s extraordinary is the comedy she’s able to wring from these grand topics without the aid and connection of facial expressions. It’s a beautiful, expressive show and one that approaches comedy not from the everyday confusion of the observational comic, but from befuddlement at the very nature of existence. At times the tone is unwaveringly declamatory, and the theatrical touches with torches feel disconnected. But as she moves from exposition to conversation with the audience, she makes connections that are sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes inspiring. “This is a breakup show,” announces Sam Campbell, intriguingly. “I’ve become totally divorced from reality.” He’s not wrong, either. In particular, he’s completely divorced from the generally agreed structure of a joke. There are some jokes in here, but they are generally the weakest bits. Instead, The Trough (4 stars) comprises of a series of visual oddities, u-turns, noises, and tight corners (which Campbell somehow manages to get out of). If that sounds like perfor-
mance art, then that’s a trap. “I really think of this show as a spiritual sequel to [Hannah Gadsby’s show] Nanette,” he says, wrong-footing anyone who thinks he has a message to deliver. There are bits that don’t work, but it’s all carried off with such extraordinary energy that any cracks truly are papered over. There’s one point in which we’re allowed a moment to breathe... and that’s to worship pictures of apes. It’s sketch duo EGG, though, who roll out of relative obscurity and, one hopes, towards greater public attention. Richard Pictures (4 stars), from Anna Leong-Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini, members of improv troupe BattleActs!, is an absolute blast. “Just another multi-ethnic female sketch group,” they moan at the start. Within the limitations of sketch comedy, EGG package up key truths about the experience of being a woman, and do so extremely well. What’s most attractive is the way they frame the sketches, with short segments in which they goad, cajole and—almost—gaslight each other. They deliver contradictory punchlines. They draw diametrically opposed conclusions from the same skit, a technique used delightfully to guy some of the ludicrous positions taken by men’s rights activists and their oafish allies. As performers, too, they are something else. Utterly on the same wavelength, their chemistry is potent; they step on each other’s punchlines and step into each other’s personal space; they pack an excellent repertoire of accents; they aren’t beneath a solid dad joke (or, rather, mum joke?). This is a perfect, nutritious little package containing a yolk of this year’s hot topics. /︎ Evan Beswick
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Nir Paldi and George Mann made a show to make a real-life decision – whether or not they ought to have children. Paldi’s always dreamed of a family, but Mann gave up on the idea upon realising he was gay. After 13 years together, with their party days over, they’ve settled and started to want something more. Would a child be a life change too far? Dramatising their debate, No Kids (3 stars) constantly swings back and forth: broody one minute, resistant the next. Starting a family is a big leap in the dark, a decision that deals entirely in unknowns. But theatre can help with hypotheticals. Onstage, the pair get to play at being parents, acting out a series of possible futures. In one, they raise a wunderkind who brings about world peace. Another sees their boy bullied on their behalf. Making a show is a lot like raising a child – a collaborative process that requires compromise. As co-directors of Theatre Ad Infinitum, Paldi and Mann usually work alone, each directing a project in turn. Their tastes are too different; their methods at odds. Reflecting on their back-and-forth over having kids, No Kids becomes a battle. Mann proposes cheery comic skits about male pregnancy and teenage neurosis, while Paldi prefers to swerve from hard-edged texts to high camp. The form’s smart: optimism jostles with darker doubts and parenting is seen as universal and queer. School meetings dissolve into drag routines. Lullabies knock into Kylie anthems. The show, like them, can’t seem to make up its mind. In the end, it has to: starting a family is a singular choice – yes or no, do or don’t. Compromise and collaboration simply can’t help. That makes for a full-on 90 minutes—so fitful that it can feel grating and relentless—but No Kids does earn its decision in the end. Zipping from the personal to the political, it sometimes skips through huge subjects, but No Kids feels comprehensive. The ethics of surrogacy, carbon footprints and over-population muddle with the couple's own hopes and fears – not least about replicating the mistakes made by their own dads. As Philip Larkin told us, parenting leaves scars.
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Matt Trueman
For all it tells stories, theatre’s rooted in real relationships. It’s part of the art. Casts can feel like families and audiences sense that. Some already are. Across Edinburgh, you’ll find relatives sharing a stage: a mother and a daughter; a happy couple; three grandfathers and their grandsons.
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Grandparents, perhaps, have the chance to make good. In Glas(s) Ensemble’s Old Boy (3 stars), three grandfathers share a stage with their grandsons – one a toddler, one around 10, one fully-grown. Each admits to concocting excuses to drop by for a play. They coo, they fool around, they take taekwondo together – the sort of quality time that some fathers forget. Their own granddads taught them to fish and light fires. It’s as if, in old age, men rekindle a connection to the children they were. Staged on a grassy dreamscape and set to traditional Scottish folk, Old Boy asks how each sees the other: what that generation gap feels like from either end. Grandfathers appear to be a source of wisdom, a wireless connection to the world as it was – to canings, Beatles concerts and backbreaking labour. Grandsons, in turn, key them into the present with smartphone instructionals and fidget spinner tricks. In them, you start to see time as an expanse; a long line of men teaching boys to be men. Old Boy celebrates that with a note of caution: beneath the tender connection, masculine stoicism keeps being passed down. There’s a gorgeous, heartfelt simplicity to it all; the age gap is impossibly poignant, the affection all too clear. But Old Boy is intent on tugging at heartstrings, and it skirts political hardballs of wealth inequality and aging populations under strain. It’s hella
sentimental, but this is a special relationship that embodies what Scottish singer-songwriter Matt McGinn calls “those little ticks of time”. They’re precious. UNCONDITIONAL (3 stars) sees mother-daughter relationships in the same way. When Josie Dale-Jones and her mum Stefanie Mueller, a theatre-maker in her own right, set out to make a show together, they found the world changing beneath their feet: Brexit, Trump, #MeToo. Maternal love, by contrast, is constant. In trying to find a story to sum it all up and sort it all out—a refugee’s journey and a feminist fairytale—they end up telling the story of a show gone wrong. A woman storms the stage to stand against queue-jumping blokes. A five-year-old pootles around, a pensioner passes away, a homeless man stops in for shelter. Under a leaking roof, the stage starts to flood. A lot of artists I speak to feel stuck at the moment, unsure what to make in a world full of woes. UNCONDITIONAL catches that sense of stalling and suggests, subtly, that the answer is to simply give space. As mother and daughter watch on from the wings, the unfolding events stand in for their show – a show that might actually do some good. For all its glinting surrealism, it’s a disjointed piece, never quite marrying maternal love with its thesis on theatre, but UNCONDITIONAL pushes for a new approach to art – an art rooted in reality that’s capable of real change. / Matt Trueman
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Donald Hutera
“Two’s company and three’s a crowd” is generally considered a pejorative, but not in terms of live performance. If anything, having three rather than two people in a show tends to up the ante in terms of theatrical possibilities. That’s certainly the case with Casting Off (4 stars), an unpretentious and thoroughly engaging serving of intergenerational feminist circus that’s deservedly shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award. The USP of this beautifully-judged Australian production is the casting of three female performers whose ages range from 29 to 58. Debra Batton is the chattiest, wisest and eldest performer, and Spenser Inwood the youngest, sturdiest, most impatient and yet seemingly the most practical. At 41, Sharon Gruenert nimbly occupies the the bridging middle spot. Clad in hand-knitted motley, these characterful women talk—and sometimes argue, but not without affection—their way through a show that is a delightful mix of skills, derring-do and spoken text. There is no soundtrack save for what issues forth from their own mouths and throats. Their welldelivered conversation and comments are interesting and funny enough to almost distract us from just how adroit and strong they are physically. A Good Catch, as their company is called, is one to keep tabs on. They use the Spiegeltent in an unfussy, disarmingly open manner. It feels domestic but without the loss of showbiz savvy. Clearly these women bear a lot of responsibility. Collectively they list all the things they do, or need to do. And if occasionally one of them becomes a little overemotional, they can still share a laugh. They also keep busy building and climbing atop a tower of chairs and a table, executing a terrific hand-to-hand routine on a trapeze, tumbling and, yes, catching each other. Their work is charming, funny, involving, inspiring and modestly magnificent. The French Institute’s new headquarters smack in the centre of town renders access to its select roster of shows and events much easier than was previously the case. Physical theatre dominates the programme but there is one neat slice of dance. Moonlighting from Scottish Ballet, which he joined as a dancer in 2013, Constant Vigier has concocted (Mes)dames (3 stars) ostensibly as an examination of womanhood and gender equality. Reaching for such lofty themes might well seem apt when Vigier’s pop-ballet is danced by more experienced colleagues from his home company (as is said
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to be the case on weekends). The work has slightly different implications, however, when performed by the trio of youthful and apparently recent dance graduates that I see mid-week. Lisa Elton, Nicola Scholefield and Daisy Mullen-Thomson radiate both schoolgirl freshness and stylish confidence as they dance on pointe to tracks by Christine and the Queens and Perfume Genius. Vigier sets up a series of scenes in which these young women gradually seem to grow up before our eyes. Initially playing skipping games, they’re soon acting like each other’s fashion police. This smartly-crafted half-hour of dance may not be profound, but it is an unexpected and deft treat. Every year the Fringe is littered with dance-based shows you want to like more. The talented, Hong Kong-born Joseph Lee’s Folding Echoes (2 stars) is an example. His questioning solo promises to be a playful rule-breaker and, indeed, Lee does thwart some of our expectations. First he gives out long-timeno-see greetings and hugs as we enter the studio. Mid-performance he begins running on and off stage, sometimes toting a white chair and sometimes also in the dark. At one point he even crawls back on through our tiered seating area. Lee’s attempt to subvert theatrical conventions is laudable, or at least superficially amusing. But despite the clever, frisky performance tricks and post-modern theatre games, not to mention his stage presence and kinetic ability, the show doesn’t connect. It’s not incisive or deep enough. It’s as if Lee doesn’t quite know how to draw us in and keep us on side. Early on
he makes heart-shaped gestures with his hands, or alternatively places a hand on his throat; such simple, open-to-interpretation actions are identified as either love or hate. So far, so interestingly ambiguous. But twice Lee loses attention in a big way. The first time is when coloured lights flash on the chair, which Lee has set centrestage, while he balances on the balls of his feet. This lasts for the duration of a French pop song. Then, at the very end, his desire to communicate with us is hindered both by loud music and a microphone stand that’s missing its mic. Lee bolts for the nearest exit. While I don’t exactly do likewise, I have to chalk up Folding Echoes as a minor puzzlement. Akram Khan, one of the biggest names on the UK dance scene, has stated that Xenos (4 stars) is his swansong as a performer of his own full-length work. No need for tears just yet, given that Khan will be dancing the piece globally until 2020. Presented in the International Festival, this monumentally-scaled solo was created not just in recognition of the Indians who lost their lives in World War One but also as a cri de coeur against the horrors of war generally. Playing a kind of Indian Everysoldier, Khan’s sensitive characterisation enhances his detailed, often whirlwind and altogether still hugely impressive movement. His tremendously giving, committed performance is anything but generalised. Featuring superb live music by composer Vincenzo Lamagna, plus a couple of coups de theatre, the show itself is impressive if also, in truth, not as moving as it might mean to be. / Donald Hutera
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Natalie Palamides: Nate HHHHH VENUE: TIME:
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Pleasance Courtyard times vary, 1–26 Aug, not 13 £11 – £13
How do you set about embarking on a suitably worthwhile project when the Best Newcomer Award is glaring down at you from the shelf/mantelpiece/toilet? You use that gong as the industry’s tacit go-ahead to tackle the most contentious subject in comedy, by crafting this extraordinary spectacle, complete with its own inbuilt
debate. There’s even a nod to last year’s show, for the egg heads. Natalie Palamides roars onto the sizeable stage as Nate Palamino, who looks like a backwards woodsman, but turns out to be a fairly sensitive dude. Well, after a show of machismo, in which the American comic has a rad time downing cans and breaking stuff. And yes, there is some raw egg action. Soon enough we’re onto the main theme though. “May I?” asks Nate, as he suggestively approaches various audience members. Now, interactive comedy is an interesting place to discuss consent: we’ve all seen reluctant people persuaded onto stages by coercive comics and baying crowds. Long before things
get darker here, Nate persuades a front-row guy into a physical encounter that leaves him undressed and seriously messy. Did he really want to go that far? Eventually Nate gets into a more intimate situation in which the coercion is flipped, but the repercussions resonate: for him, her, and the audience, who he actively questions. Was he wrong? The responses are mixed and fascinating, volubly highlighting how complex these issues can be, and how comedy shows are a curious place to seek answers. But those discussions will continue afterwards. Hilarious, heavy, but lovingly handled, Nate is a mighty piece of work. / Si Hawkins
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Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You HHHH VENUE: TIME:
Just the Tonic at The Tron 9pm – 10pm, 3–26 Aug, not 13, 14
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The tousle-haired Ferns is probably best known at the Fringe for his fine array of stunts: printing elaborate fake reviews; staging shows atop Arthur’s Seat; creating an award named after himself. But it turns out he can conjure a pretty special show too, when he puts his mind to it.
That mind is one of the major topics here, as he considers how complex and confused we all are, really. As the title suggests, love is the overarching theme, and Ferns announces that he will eventually explain why he loves the whole audience. Which may sound sinister, but will ultimately make sense. The Dorset-born comic runs a London venue these days, and teaches compering, so the first half here is as confident as you might imagine: splendid but relatively straightforward standup. A darker undertow emerges, however. Interspersed within are audio clips of his late grandfather which were recorded for a sketch show years ago; Ferns
recalls regularly running to his house as a kid whenever his mentally unstable mother flew into a rage. Rehashing those clips adds variety, but seems slightly random. Then our genial host plunges deeper and recounts a startling memory from the more recent past, which threw everything he knows into chaos, but makes this show, and this audience, come together. It’s a remarkable and risky reveal for a comedy stage, but helps Ferns explain why he—and anyone else— needs to do this for a living. Shout it from that mountaintop: Barry Loves You is a bold talent hitting peak onstage form. /︎ Si Hawkins
Golden Age of imperial British ambition and lax bestiality law, before disclosing the site of the imminent Armageddon with breezy, Blue Peter-style cheerfulness. Appropriating the storytelling innocence of his children’s show, he presents Stephanie the Steam Engine, a mash-up of Rev W. Awdry and Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive that gets decidedly messy, with some gorgeously gross visual description. Elsewhere, there’s a slow-burn but hilarious retelling of Bruce Willis’s finest hour, a Monster
Mash parody stuck in perpetual loop and plenty of inclusive audience interaction, including a creepy game of pass the parcel. Although the cultural references are all fairly broad, it helps to be up on your genre fiction for This Is Bardcore, with a poem I took to be about Harry Potter leaving this muggle (?) clueless. Ebullient blowhard that he is though, Falle overwhelms all resistance with his dominant stage presence and bottomless reserves of good humour. /︎ Jay Richardson
The Story Beast – This Is Bardcore HHHH VENUE: TIME:
Comedy
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22
Underbelly, Cowgate 10:40pm – 11:40pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13 £10 – £11
The apocalypse is nigh, reveals The Story Beast, aka John Henry Falle. Love Island in origins, Lovecraftian in execution, he revels in his role as harbinger of doom. Though he chugs beer and sweats in an overcoat of mortal moisture, the Beast is a mythical creature, part celestial traveller, part folksy yarn-spinner, his only companion in sharing the end of our world an amiable, talking tree. The reasons for this nightmare are never properly established. But the possessed, demonstrative Beast has a lot of fun reiterating that the signs were all there. With his dramatic delivery, he spoofs Brexit Leaver anxiety to evoke a
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Rosie Jones: Fifteen Minutes TIME:
Pleasance Courtyard 8:30pm – 9:30pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
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£7.50 – £10
Rosie Jones is a prick. Her words, not mine – and hard to believe given how unfalteringly cheerful she is in her debut Fringe hour. She’s mischievous, sure, and no stranger to some dark, on-the-nose material, but when she’s giving out humbugs with a massive grin to every punter as they enter, it’s hard to see her as anything other than a source of joy. And that joy permeates her entire dextrously-crafted set. Jones is careful and deliberate with both her writing and delivery, at ease with
misdirection, callbacks and bathos. A self-aware master of defusing tension, she plays the audience like a conductor, knowing exactly how to keep us giggling—often with mouths agape—throughout the hour. She has enough disarming positivity to cheer up the room, a commendable trait even for a comic without cerebral palsy. The fact she mines her disability for comedy is neither here nor there; she doesn’t rely on it—for want of a better expression—as a crutch. Instead
it’s a crucial part of her identity, proudly and hilariously used to enhance her material on toilets, family and sex. Jones even rails against the parts of her life not sad or upsetting enough to be lucrative standup fodder. It’s a remarkably refreshing experience, and a gleefully confident debut. A depthless wellspring of joie de vivre, she’ll have any audience leaving uplifted, their perspectives wholly recontextualised. / George Sully
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Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness HHHH VENUE: TIME:
Pleasance Courtyard 6:40pm – 7:40pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
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£8.50 – £12
Last year Ivo Graham made a few Fringe ripples by devoting a chunk of his show to an unnerving ability to name every British constituency MP, which was fun but did make one wonder what exactly they do to people at Eton, his alma mater. No such freakish frippery in 2018; a year older, a year wiser, this is Graham with gravitas. The change of approach is born of necessity, as there’s a very real chance that this self-confessed man-child might be contemplating fatherhood in the near future. Motion Sickness is Graham getting real, moving beyond his schooldays and letting us in for a roam around his modern life and loves like nosy
Lauren Pattison: Peachy HHH VENUE: TIME:
Comedy
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Lauren Pattison has had a very good year. Her debut fringe hour, Lady Muck, was a critical hit, earning her a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She subsequently took that show to a sold-out run at the Soho Theatre and an acclaimed tour of Australia and New Zealand.
flat viewers (property features heavily here too). Actually Eton does still crop up occasionally, but chiefly because it emerged in his therapy sessions – another major departure. “I was at boarding school from the age of seven…”, he begins. “Let’s start there!” his analyst gleefully replies. Graham has always been a terrific wordsmith—and really shows up the comics who don’t put in so much work—but the new hour also has a powerful emotional
core. You do wonder if he looked at last year’s joint Edinburgh Awardwinning shows and actively aimed for a piece of that action: Motion Sickness is chiefly about his relationships, ended and ongoing, but also considers standup itself, notably via some medical advice that he should give it up, for his mental health. From a selfish spectating perspective, let’s hope not. Graham may just be hitting his golden years. /︎ Si Hawkins
The extremely likeable Geordie— still just 23—makes no attempt to conceal her pride. Peachy, her follow-up show, is all about her happiness, professionally and personally. Whereas most comedians wallow in their own misery for laughs, Pattison wants us to celebrate her success with her. Her set takes in her romantic triumphs of the past year—they largely revolve around dating posh boys in London—and her career triumphs. The second half is devoted to her experiences gigging Down Under. It’s confidently delivered. From the moment Pattison slips onto stage without a fanfare in socks and sequined hotpants, she’s
completely at ease with her material. Her babbling, anecdotal style isn’t exactly laugh-a-minute, more laugh-every-few-minutes, but she fills Pleasance Courtyard’s tiny attic space with such a bubbly, supportive warmth that you’re just happy to be here. Class features high on the agenda. Much of the laughs come from contrasting her working-class upbringing with her liberal London lifestyle, and from the blithe comments of her no-nonsense dad. The emotional core of the show, though, is Pattison’s struggle to become a less anxious and more confident person. If Peachy is anything to go by, she’s doing fine. /︎ Fergus Morgan
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Elaine Miller is a physiotherapist who, after experiencing an embarrassing incotinence problem, is on a mission to get everyone doing pelvic floor exercises. Part lecture, part standup, the show mingles medical facts, health advice, and very rude jokes resulting in an uplifting and informative hour. Miller’s a born storyteller who charms her crowd. Flitting from anatomical explanations (replete with models) to caustic asides at the medical profession’s historical failure to research women’s bodies, this is a powerfully political show. Her aim is to normalise this topic via humour, and there’s no doubt by the end the punters are having conversations likely to have previously been taboo.
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Arriving at the Fringe laden with rave reviews from her native United States, Kate Berlant’s debut hour is certainly something to behold. She breathlessly explodes onto the stage, all Californian excess and self-regard. She embodies the arrogant pomposity of this
There’s fun in seeing the women in the crowd roar collectively in recognition at jokes about incontinence pads, while their husbands look on, bemused. But the show is inclusive, and she outlines to the men how they too will benefit from exercising their pelvic muscles. All of which, of course, results in a mass workout, which is interesting given the cramped conditions. It’s gratifying that the Fringe has space for shows such as this. It
evidences the social function of humour, and how comedy can change people’s lives. While there’s multiple shows rightly querying societal problems, here’s one with practical advice (and free lube). And in giving a space for audiences often unthinkingly excluded by much on offer at the Fringe, it’s radical without shouting about it. Miller’s mission is a worthy one, and she’s got the charisma to convert you to her cause. /︎ Brett Mills
narcissistic era, where supposed concern for others is in fact nothing other than attention-seeking egotism. She’s pretentiously poetic, and flits between topics in the manner of someone who believes everyone else should be fascinated by whatever she decides is of interest. The coherence of the character is a joy, and Berlant knows how to hammer home a gag. Much of the show riffs on audience interaction, as she insists she is psychic. A list of predetermined subjects is used to elicit responses from the punters, but most of these have no relation to people in the room. A joke about being able to guess people’s names is funny the first few times, but when it’s
still being used half an hour later it’s starting to get weary. And the character’s self-centredness means she has scant interest in finding out about those who speak up, so there’s little meat to be played with. As we’re about to get somewhere, her skittish demeanour sends us down another path, so the show never fully coalesces. To be sure, there’s an energy and consistency here that’s joyous. When Berlant hits her groove you’re witnessing some of the best comedy out there. But a more solid structure would help the momentum build rather than, as now, it feeling like she’s forever on the verge of hitting her peak. /︎ Brett Mills
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Leo Kearse may be a self confessed Right-Wing Comedian but he’s keen to stress that it’s only in the small government, less state interference, low taxes way, not the straight-arm saluting, goose-stepping, nice boots type. As Kearse acknowledges himself, politically he’s very much in the minority amongst comedy performers. But it’s important to hear others’ points of view particularly in these times of increasing political polarisation - even if some of his points are deliberately ob-
noxious. There’s a moan about fat activism and even a controversial suggestion to resolve the issues surrounding #MeToo. He does let his white male privilege slip out though, saying that “we’ve won these battles” in regard to women’s, LGBTQ and civil rights, which is sadly not the case. In fact elsewhere in the set he suggests that he doesn’t really think that that’s the case himself. But overall the show is performed with his tongue firmly wedged in his cheek as he gleefully plays devil’s advocate. And there are big laughs to be
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had here, even from one of the less political jokes about a particularly gruesome diarrhoea incident. In addition Kearse allows a glimpse into how his right wing viewpoint may have evolved – it could be a simple act of rebellion. It may be a surprise to learn that he didn’t spend his entire childhood aggravating wasps but was in fact brought up by hippy parents, his dad content to poo with only a hessian curtain for a door and a mum constantly disappointed her son wasn’t gay. Maybe he’s just misunderstood. /︎ Marissa Burgess
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The venue at the Edinburgh Convention Centre is ginormous and soulless, and Reginald D Hunter seems a bit lost in it. Yet his routine repeatedly turns on notions of dislocation, so the room’s size
content and delivery aren’t as strong as they might be. There’s some mileage in a comedian humbly undercutting their own performance skills and their show’s format, but an excess of this can result in an audience on edge. The interactions between Fraser and Ethos aren’t as tight as they might be, though it’s a brave performer who gives many of the best lines to their electronic sidekick. That the
structure is convenient rather than intrinsically embedded is shown in a song towards the end whose message encapsulates much of the hour’s mood, but from which Ethos is entirely absent. In the end it’s not fully clear what this show wants to be – a thoughtful comic engagment with big philosophical ideas, or a format-heavy piece of theatre whose primary pleasures reside in its central conceit. / Brett Mills
could function as a motivator for the work an outsider has to do to be accepted. But he never truly appears to feel at home, and the resulting gig therefore fails to catch fire. It’s an odd experience. The size of the venue is testament to his appeal. He mocks the whiteness of his audience, and his gags trouble the middle-class liberalism that aims to be inclusive but is somewhat shown up by the crowd’s clear lack of diversity. This is his 25th year at the Fringe, and he thanks the UK for accepting him, and for offering him a place to live where he has a relatively low chance of being shot. He’s a
charming raconteur, who refuses to let punters off the hook, and it’s clear the audience wants to be startled and challenged. But Hunter never gets into his rhythm. He begins stories and then checks himself, wondering whether now is the right time for that tale. Clearly disappointed in the muted reaction some punchlines get, he notes some jokes work in other contexts. A final sequence—which is preceded by an offence warning encouraging those likely to be upset to leave—is rambling, and the promised transgressions never arrive. Overall this is a muted and confused show from someone we need to be much better. /︎ Brett Mills
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How would you teach AI how comedy works? This is the conceit that motivates Alice Fraser’s show, which also takes in matters of humanity and the power of words to change the world. The show functions as a double act between Fraser and her computer, Ethos, who repeatedly interrupts to request explanations of the material that’s being delivered. It’s a clever idea, and evidences Fraser’s desire to present a show that engages with large topics. She shows skill in exploring ideas of race, religion and sexual harrassment while avoiding polemic, and without sacrificing justifiable anger at social inequality. It’s a shame, then, that the
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Our Facebook feeds will outlive us. Our tweets will stick around. If “death is a story told by the living”, do our social media streams become stories told by the dead? Chris Goode and Dante or Die’s gentle site-specific piece in Jeelie Piece Café asks what we do with our digital footprints after death. Terry’s in a cafe when the consol-
atory texts start pinging through. At first, he’s not sure what’s happened exactly: “OMG, I’m so sorry”, “Thinking of you”. His ex of nine years Luka has died, leaving his online legacy in Terry’s hands. Save or delete? Log on or let go? In status updates and selfies, Terry sees their relationship unfolding all over again – and not always as he remembers it. Told through technology, User Not Found never completely answers its own central question. Rather, it circles it: how little a profile captures of a person; how readily it can replace them in one’s mind. Written in the style of status
updates, Goode’s script suggests presence as its story gets stuck in the past. How do you let go of someone who left you? It’s a reflective piece about dealing with death and living online – two different kinds of absence wrapped up in one. The form’s smart: a quiet intervention into our digital lives. Sat in a cafe, a space as communal as theatre itself, you realise you’ve spent 90-odd minutes alone, cocooned by headphones, eyes on your phone. Technology creates a false sense of intimacy— as cosy as a whisper in your ear— but User Not Found reminds us that it’s not the real thing. / Matt Trueman
Signals HHHH VENUE: TIME:
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Sitting in a tiny room of an office, working the night shift, are two women. They’re radio astronomers and their job is to calculate and source signals in space, with an ultimate goal of looking for other life. It sounds exciting, but here we see the monotony of doing the
same thing, over and over, with seemingly no breakthroughs. The pair drink tea, eat biscuits, play guessing games, eat more biscuits, discuss what could be out there, have a mouse scare, and eat even more biscuits. The conversations flit between the mundane and the out-of-thisworld. Taking place in a tiny room of an extraordinary building excludes us from higher conversations and excitement so the pair have to make do with each other. The chemistry between Eve Cowley and Immie Davies never feels forced. The relationship feels familiar,
easy to watch. It’s comforting knowing that others are out there, working monotonously just as you do – even in such a significant field. There’s a breakthrough – or is there? Palpable excitement, nervousness, anxiety over findings – what do you do when the thing you’ve worked for and wanted for so long is finally a possibility? Conversations are repeated, or perhaps they’re flashbacks? Stuck in a tiny space for so long you forget what’s happened before. The show quietly travels to its end, and finishes before you know it. /︎ Daniella Harrison
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running HHHH TIME:
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Fredrik Høyer isn’t as enthusiastic about running as you might expect. He’s an intellectual mainly interested in literature, who seems to have put together this show in tribute to Haruki Murakami’s memoir of the same title. The premise here is that, while working in a sports equipment shop at which he felt like an outcast among staff and patrons alike, our apathetic narrator was unwillingly entered into the Oslo marathon. Threatened with having the entry fee docked from his pay should he opt out, Frederik pressed ahead with his training. Here he presents us with a series of nonsense musings on the marathon and the
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events surrounding it, his frantic use of a treadmill mirroring his escalating mania. “Running is not a metaphor for life. Running is running.” So the performer tells us, but there’s no denying the unexpected profundity that seeps into this tale. In pushing himself to the extremes of his endurance, our hero gains an understanding of the untapped potential within him. That Fredrick
petulantly refuses to consider making positive changes to his lifestyle, even after the run, is part of the show’s perverse appeal. Additional highlights include reference to the bizarre life story of Norwegian national hero Mensen Ernst, one of the world’s first professional athletes, and a wilfully incoherent dissection of the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday. Recommended. / Lewis Porteous
My Left Nut HHHH VENUE: TIME:
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Michael’s dad died when he was eight years old. Several years later as a teenager, he was doing all the things teenage boys do – mostly hanging out with his mates, drinking and wanking. He was also busy hiding an embarrassing secret. One of Michael’s testicles had developed a swelling so large that schoolyard rumours about the size
of his junk earned him the nickname “Stallion”. With no father to ask for help and his mum busy raising four kids and working, he wished that it would just go away. It didn’t show any sign of disappearing, but the rumours didn’t exactly harm his reputation. With co-writer Oisín Kearney, actor/writer Michael Patrick uses buckets of humour and poignancy to not just tell a funny story about genitals, but to also look at the process of dealing with his father’s death, coming of age, and paying tribute to his mother’s strength. It’s a sophisticated and complex script crafted with plenty of surprises. Switching between
belly laugh-inducing situational comedy and unexpectedly mature insights from a young lad makes the storytelling varied and engaging. Patrick’s performance is delightfully vibrant. He has an elastic physicality and a finely tuned sense for the comedic. Merely pulling a face sends much of the audience into hysterics. His intrepid narration, though familiar to adults reflecting on their own teen years, is engaging and alive. Combined with the tonally varied script, this is an excellent show about growing up and learning to look after yourself in spite of stigma. / Laura Kressly
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In 12 seconds, Volker Gerling can capture a piece of the soul. He compiles images of his subjects into a flipbook, then generates joy simply by flicking through the pages. Portraits in Motion started in 2003, when Gerling walked from Berlin to Basel and created flipbooks of pictures of interesting individuals he met along the way. By putting these black and white stills together, Gerling plays with time and celebrates the gaps that occur between the clicks of a camera, spaces that an audience can fill in. In these moments, Gerling’s subjects reveal a hidden truth. With the exception of two boys—who
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stay unnervingly still for 12 seconds—each person inadvertently shows their true self in their expression. Married couples have love in their eyes. An elderly gentleman painfully accepts the inevitability of his imminent death. A girl is pleasantly surprised when she first sees her shaved head. Gerling shoots landscapes too, although they provide less of an emotional impact. They lack the
intensity of the flipbook series of Ariane, for example, who Gerling shows ashamed of her freckles at the age of 13, then sparkling with self-confidence six years later. Structurally speaking, Portraits in Motion lacks variety – Gerling tells a story about the flipbook he then presents. But the connection between audience, photographer and subject is instantaneous and intense. / Daniel Perks
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Antosh Wojcik has been trying to communicate with his grandfather but he’s not sure if it’s working. This time, he’s brought his drum kit. If words aren’t getting through, then maybe rhythms will. Jenek has vascular dementia. He lies in a care home, asleep much of the time. When he wakes, he can only muster a stuttering collection of noises before falling asleep again. He shows little to no awareness of his surroundings and Antosh is unable to accept that his grandfather will not get better or be able to understand him. His determination is a raw and moving grasp for connection and meaning
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There’s a lot to like in this piece, by Terry Johnson, about the life and work of Ken Campbell. For those unfamiliar with the British theatrical giant, it’s probably just best that you see the show. Johnson’s script does a great job of providing a précis of the sheer breadth of dramatic inventiveness, logistical improbability, theoretical challenge and pranksterish glee that comprised his friend and colleague’s oeuvre.
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in the midst of a slow demise that he finds nonsensical. Antosh speaks and drums in turn, with his drumming varying as his emotions fluctuate: there’s slow, barely audible tapping, ferocious smashing and everything in between. This buoyant sonic landscape carries his emotions with ease, despite his fight for acknowledgement from his grandfather. There are memories and dreams, conversation with his much more pragmatic father and a constant struggle to yank his grandfather
into comprehension. This unrelenting drive is sadly relatable. It’s a moving articulation of hope and optimism in the face of death’s inevitability, a properly Sisyphean endeavour. There are hints of the grief process under the surface as Antosh’s emotions move through a spectrum of pain, loss, anger, frustration and belief. This constantly fluctuating emotional world keeps the performance interesting despite minimal staging. It’s an effective tribute to those who have left us. /︎ Laura Kressly
The metaphor of stepping through a “gap in a chain link fence” that he opens with is totally apt. Johnson’s script, while sometimes feeling a bit like a radio play, is snappy, funny and treads a nice line between matter-of-fact description of outlandish events, and poetic reflections on their impact. It’s also inventively staged with a lounge-like setup that totally fits this hippyish bill. But it’s Jeremy Stockwell’s turn as Campbell, to Johnson’s narrator, that really wows. The eyebrows are to attention, the stare is of an intensity that is genuinely unsettling. The problem is, this never shakes the feeling of being a bit of a nostalgia trip for old actors. That’s not to say celebrating the
life of a creative powerhouse is a bad thing, but the leap is never made from obituary to what that means for us now. There’s a scene where Johnson meets Campbell, clearly past his zenith. He talks of a time, “back when there was hope. Back when I had hope.” It’s that time which forms the exciting, creative heart of this piece, and for Terry Johnson, it’s the memory of this inspirational time and this extraordinary man that keeps a fire burning inside him. But for the rest of us, those who were never Ken’s chums, the morality of this play starts to feel slightly theological, leaving us in a postlapsarian struggle to search eternally for a truth that we can never really know. I don’t buy it. /︎ Evan Beswick
Sticks and Stones HHH VENUE: TIME:
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One word does it for B; one little word in one little joke in one big corporate pitch. Intended to amuse, it instead caused offence – or it could have done, to somebody, even if it didn’t. In no time at all, she’s hauled into HR, dispatched to diversity training, ostracised and out of a job. Vinay Patel’s sly social satire
never lets that word slip, but it spins so many more that language starts to lose sense. B’s woke-aholic colleagues lecture her on “optics” and “intersectionality”, and in Stef O’Driscoll’s jaunty production, each term comes with an accompanying action – virtue-signalling made flesh. Everyone, eventually, has to dance along. It’s almost Kafkaesque. Sticks and Stones shows the way words become weapons – not just the slurs, but the truncheon terminology of the language police. Without letting B off the hook, it sympathises as colleagues start circling like sharks, professing political correctness but out to undermine.
Patel dissects how the pendulum swings back. As free-speech crusaders take up B’s cause, she buckles under what feels like bullying. Accusations of offence start to sting like insults and since language is wrapped up in identity, B starts to feel her own background’s being attacked. It’s incisive and empathetic, a play that sees both sides, but O’Driscoll’s staging lets us off the hook, spelling too much out and too eager to please. Instead of allowing language to pile up and hollow out, the dance moves overdo it and a play about being tongue-tied trips over its feet. / Matt Trueman
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This is bizarre. A play chronicling the birth of one of the nation’s favourite sitcoms, written by the show’s actual creators. Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have taken it upon themselves to pen a short— only 50 minutes—piece revealing the story behind Birds of a Feather, the TV show they conceived together way back in the late ‘80s. As you’d expect, it’s a pretty slick script, slipping swiftly between the writer’s room, the halls of the BBC and various production offices, following the sitcom from idea to first airing. There’s a stylish, scene-hopping speed to it, and a few nice performances, particularly from Nick Seenstra and Alastair Natkiel as a young Marks and a young Gran respectively. It’s let down, though, by a
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sincerely ropey production and a story that’s just not that interesting. There are few attempts to get at something deeper—the presence of working-class voices both behind and in front of the camera, for example—but these are largely sidestepped in favour of strangely self-aggrandizing, strangely straightforward storytelling. There’s zero jeopardy and zero drama.
Plus it’s not like this is the inside story everyone was dying to hear. Birds of a Feather was popular, sure, but it’s not exactly seminal stuff. Early Birds is just such a weird show. Two writers, celebrating their own achievements by repeatedly patting their own backs in a fringe theatre play. Fans of the sitcom might be interested, if there are any about, but no one else will be. /︎ Fergus Morgan
Very Blue Peter HH VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:
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Remember those uncertain days approaching the new millennium and it felt like the world was about to fall apart? Well, strap yourself in, we’re heading back in time to 1998. Relive that feeling of impending doom along with three disgruntled, wannabe children’s TV presenters who break into the BBC studios.
They’re going to make their own version of a much-loved television show, and the audience is going to help them stick it to the institution that has left them out in the cold. If there’s one word to sum up this show, it’s chaos. Though the plot generally follows the format of Blue Peter, it takes the ‘everything goes wrong’ approach so every sketch inevitably collapses. This could be quite funny, like a version of The Play That Goes Wrong, but the humour used is nasty and vengeful rather than slapstick. It comes across as a series of mean-spirited attacks rather than any sort of positive reclamation. The late start
time ensures the audience is likely to have already had several drinks, so the insults and bodily function gags go down well. It’s much less amusing without the influence of alcohol, however. Though the story hinges on dysfunction, there’s so much that it quickly becomes overwhelming, and the performers don’t always have control of the mayhem. Overly eager audience members can easily hijack the interactive elements and join in with the bullying that some of the characters encounter. It leaves a bitter aftertaste despite some moments that are genuinely funny. /︎ Laura Kressly
awkward. Despite revisiting several established relationships there’s no chemistry between siblings, close friends or lovers. The series of vignettes could be carried off with some irony but Jana Doughty’s direction takes the play at face value, meaning the assholery of men (lying about their religion, adultery) is played sincerely but in women eating disorders and outrage are laughable “quirks”. It’s the online interac-
tions that really sting, though. The script grinds to a halt because every interaction requires a character stating their username, emails copied into a correpondance, and punctuation. I’m not talking every conversation, it’s every message in a conversation. Add this to the fact that characters recite their every emoji used like a parent desperately trying to appear relevant? Frowny face. / Louise Jones
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“I’ll give you an out call,” Tess (Abigail Sinclair) offers her friend Rachel (Catriona Bone) ahead of a date. It’s a standard element of 21st-century romance, part gossip and part excuse to leave an uncomfortable situation early. How I wished I’d arranged a similar option with my mates before heading into this revival of Laugh Out Loud (Cry Quietly). Stacie Lents’ play chronicles the ins and outs of dating – in 2008. It’s bizarre seeing how quickly attitudes have changed: a judgemental chat about online dating sites feels out of touch now Tinder’s in its sixth year, and this gulf between script and audience relatability is only widened by stilted delivery. Bone offers a glimmer of redemption in the cast but largely the tone is at best amateur and at worst,
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What gems can lie hiding in morning programming. Though titled Backup, it may as well be called Pick-Me-Up, so charming are its brunchtime 30 minutes. Be transported to a twinkling Arctic vignette, as a hardy trio of explorers traverse snowdrifts and frosted peaks in the middle of the night. Belgian puppeteers Chaliwaté Compagnie (Sicaire Durieux, Sandrine Heyraud), along with Focus Company (Julie Tenret), dub themselves “théâtre gestuel” (gestural theatre). This goes some way to capture the less-is-more characterisation that comes from
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their minute, deft movements, as they present this sweet and (mostly) wordless tale. The three performers interact in a breathtaking dance of character (reporters on the expedition), scenery (a van, a mountain, an ice floe) and effects (blizzards, bumpy terrain), so tight, efficient and inventive it becomes almost comical. There’s something of Wes Anderson in its straight-faced humour and cute, postcard-like staging. And like much other trailblazing contemporary puppetry—particularly Toby Sedgwick’s fêted Warhorse choreography—Backup exploits that benign doublethink of
seeing and ignoring the manipulators onstage, permitting wonder at both the story being evoked and the stagecraft employed to do so. Part of an as-yet unfinished larger production called Dimanche slated for November 2019, Backup is simultaneously let down, and enhanced, by its brevity. You’ll want nothing more than to stay on that wistful tundra with those adventurers, especially after the third act – but the show’s greatest strength is its economical storytelling. Start off your day with this petit-déj – it’ll be more nourishing than any bigbudget spectacle this August. / George Sully
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In a non-place, behind an anonymous roadside hoarding, Mele Broomes twitches her fingers and flexes her limbs, awakening into a purgatory of static sounds and flashing grids of interference. The show is a multimedia re-imagining of J.G. Ballards’s novel Concrete Island and, after two years in development, has arrived on the scene to be immediately short-
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Former Royal Ballet dancer Ludovic Ondiviela has been choreographing a fusion of contemporary and classical movement vocabularies since his retirement from performing in 2014. In Giselle he takes a classic ballet tale of true love and adds his own contemporary twist, which is more successful in some aspects than others. Most significantly, a murder subplot leaves the leading dancers somewhat confusingly undefined between antagonist and protagonist, and the character we feel for most is disposed of with no pause for sentiment. What’s clearly left of the original is Adolphe Adam’s music—supplemented at times with a
pre-recorded voiceover—and an ensemble of sinister virgin spectre brides who drive the second act (the show diverges slightly from history with the welcome inclusion of male dancers). Choreography that evokes horror movie zombies and Japanese ghosts on speedy tottering pointe steps is the most impactful of the 100 minutes, and the intense performance from ghostly leader Céline Le Grelle is one of the highlights. Class issues at the heart of the original are given a racial dimension in this production, with the privilege—as ever—being on the side of the young white guy. Ondiviela certainly has plenty of ideas, but too many of them are given stage room here without being properly fleshed out. Overall, the show provides a nicely designed but emotionally detached viewing experience. The dancing is accomplished but that’s not enough to make this Giselle stand out from the crowd. / Katharine Kavanagh
struggle of invisibility and fight alongside Broomes’ blackness. The show’s concept has been developed in consultation with Ashanti Harris and Adura Onashile, and moves Broomes’ character through phases of desperation, resignation and focusless anger in bursts of broken-bodied choreography, as she learns to exist in this perpetual non-life. She contorts up the links of fence, becomes an amorphous pulsating blob, or hammers her high heels against the unyielding barrier, the sound amplified and reverberating around the space. Void is an inescapably powerful piece of work, both in its message and its sense-jangling form. / Katharine Kavanagh
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listed for this year’s Total Theatre Award for Dance. A surround sound effect situates us between the passing traffic of unseen motorways, and descends into a surging crackle of error codes and disconnected signals. Projected visuals against a high mesh fence reinforce this technological no mans land in scrolling shards of acid yellow and neon purple, black and white. The costume design adds further distortion and the effect is a disorientating optical illusion as projected matrices cross Broomes’ skin. A deeper politic is foregrounded when the accompanying sound shifts temporarily to a slavery song, reframing the existential
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It is a strange thing to be bored with this many gorgeous nearly-naked people on stage doing impressive high kicks. Yummy has all the ingredients: the looks are banging, the soundtrack is popping and the dames are skilled. But in a Fringe full of subversive and awe-inspiring cabaret, the legs and the rhinestones are not enough to make this show stand out. Karen from Finance is an uncharismatic MC who neglects to introduce our performers until the curtain call. Despite surely having one of the best drag names out there, her persona is bland and she seems almost superfluous to proceedings. There are moments when it all gets wonderfully surreal and
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Simon David wants to be a star and Virgin, in which he recounts how he got to the grand old age of 23 with cherry still intact, is his attempt to make that dream a reality. Once record producers see him in action, singing his songs and telling his story, they’ll offer him a deal on the spot – or at least that’s the plan. David certainly has star quality, and if he’s ever actually in the market
dark. Jandruze’s sandwich-making routine, dragging giant foam pieces of bread across the stage in a manner which is both erotic and mildly threatening, is a club land classic. It’s queer and weird and out there. Yet, largely it’s all a bit oldfashioned – uncoordinated group numbers, a Vanessa Carlton lip sync
that goes nowhere, a go-go dancing I Dream of Jeannie routine. Even a bit of latex pony play to electronic lesbian anthem ‘Feed the Horse’ feels flat. If you are checking your watch whilst glamorous children of the night are fellating a carrot less than a metre away, you know this serving has missed the sweet spot.
for a record deal (Simon’s onstage persona is both him and not-him, a character dreamt up by David and co-writer Chris Larner), I wouldn’t bet against it happening. Camping it up in a Beyoncé-inspired leotard—all stars need a look, and he likes what Bey did in the video for ‘Single Ladies’—sashaying around in front of his long-suffering band of three and cracking terrible gags, there’s a magnetism about David that charms this Wednesday night audience. It’s not enough to make up for Virgin’s complete lack of dramatic tension, alas. David’s story—of not having sex with his first girlfriend to stay on the right side of his Christian beliefs, going to drama school, coming out as bi and falling
in unrequited love with a man—is just not all that interesting. He and Larner’s songs are catchy and enjoyable but there’s no coherence here. It feels more like a playlist than the one-person musical memoir that it’s striving to be. And David needs a more disciplined approach to improvisation. He’s naturally funny and quick, but several throwaway gags are laboured to the point of embarrassment. Similarly, a small amount of self-deprecation goes a long way; too much and you undermine your efforts. David might well become a star one day, but he’s got a few lessons to learn before he gets there.
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Henry Box Brown: A Musical Journey HHHH VENUE: TIME:
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Based on real events, Henry Box Brown – A Musical Journey tells the story of a fugitive slave’s life and his eventual escape to freedom by mailing himself to abolitionists in Philadelphia.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Ben Harney and co-created by Jack Lenz, Mehr Mansuri, and Frank Sanchez, the musical uses hip hop and gospel to show Henry Brown’s story. From being separated from his mother and taken to work in a tobacco factory, to finding and losing the love of his life, the musical covers everything that happens in Henry's life until he achieves freedom, accompanied by a soundtrack of incredible songs. The music comes into its own in the second half of the show, when we hear some group gospel numbers and an astounding a cappella portion of a song – a whoop in the
audience and a standing ovation is most definitely deserved. A standout number is ‘Twist That Tobacco’, which uses harmonies, simple choreography, and the actors creating the rhythm excellently together. The team have created a show which is a treat for the ears and the perfect showcase for these actors. Perhaps the acting is pushed to the side, and the stage looks a little cluttered at times, but Henry Box Brown’s focus is most definitely on the music to tell this important story, and these voices certainly need to be heard. / Daniella Harrison
Trump the Musical HHH VENUE: TIME:
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There are plenty of shows this year (and undoubtedly the next few years) based around political events. This year, Brexit and Trumpthemed shows are inescapable, and their titles suggest Fringe clickbait. Blowfish Theatre’s Trump the Musical, however, is a pleasant surprise, using satire to the extreme to present a colourful future of politics which leaves us partying in a Moscow sex dungeon. Set in the future, we follow Trump and his 623rd press secretary as they set off for the UK, where King Nigel Farage (!) is in charge. The Brexit deal is done and there’s a plan to sell Scotland and, with other key figures such as Putin and Kim Jong-un (both played by an outstanding Natasha Lanceley)
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looming in the background, ready to pounce, and a secret agent in the mix, nobody can predict how this story will unfold. There’s a touch of the amateur about this show: a small gold curtain hangs at the back of the stage; heads poke through it, bobbing along with the music.This aesthetic feels homemade, as if the actors have gone rummaging in a charity shop for
their costumes, like children giving their parents a show in the garden. The cast don’t take themselves too seriously, eager to have fun with the audience, and this infectious vibe spreads across the room. The songs (by Dominic Lo) are excellent, and though not always sung in perfect harmony, perfectly satirise our current state of affairs. / Daniella Harrison
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Martha Green
Stick by Me Martha Green, age five, didn’t quite get every moment of this show about friendship, but enjoyed the happy ending What happens in the show? It was acted by a man who only says one word at the end of the show. He mimes the rest. He finds some sticks. They talk to him in a special language. He becomes friends with one of he sticks but then it breaks. That was sad but it all ends happily! Describe the show in five words. Dramatic, sweet, sad, funny, curious.
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Who was your favourite character? The big stick that looked like a carrot! What did you like most about the show? The ending. I was happy for him. It was sweet. Also the beginning was fun!
What was your favourite moment in the show? When the lights came on and the main character walked out to explore and play. What did your grown-up think of the show? My daddy enjoyed it and found the facial expressions and acting really fun. Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Yes. But only my age and older. There were some bits I didn’t quite understand.
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Ruby Foster, age 9, sees a show that doesn’t quite pitch itself at the right audience What happens in the show? Patty and Dandy are two clowns who, ideally, should be our guides around Clown Town but through the show, the town withers away from our thoughts. Instead, there are songs and magic and jokes and puppets and a bit of dancing too but no story really. The message of the show," I Can Do Anything", doesn’t really come across and it finished quite abruptly. Describe the show in five words. Basic jokes and magic tricks. Who was your favourite character? I liked Dandy most because of his jokes and magic. He did a few classic tricks and a few even older jokes. I helped out with one of the tricks and couldn’t even tell how he did it when I was standing right next to him. What did you like most about the show? I liked how friendly the characters were and I enjoyed the funny magic tricks and the interaction with the audience was fun at first. What didn’t you like about the show? The age range said it was for 0-12 year olds but I think this was a ginormous mistake. It was too babyish for me and I’m not even in double digits yet. It should be for the same age as CBeebies really, six at a push. Also, the show was based too much on the audience participating and they were not really up for it.
How could it be improved? This was a pretty basic show that could have been way more crazy and silly. Given that these guys have been clowns for longer than my dad has been alive I’d have thought they might be a bit tighter. They weren’t like the clowns you would see in a circus more like children’s entertainers. What was your favourite moment? The best bits were when Dandy showed us magic tricks and no one thought they were going to work but they did and surprised the audience. These were good because they were the only unexpected parts. What did your grown-up think of it? Man, this was a tough gig! It was hard not to feel for Patty and Dandy a bit, but even if I’d been stuffed full of birthday cake this show would never have been more than average. Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? No, not friends my age anyway. I know some nursery kids that might enjoy it but only if they were ready to join in.
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Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy HHH VENUE:
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Scottish early years theatre company Ipdip are back at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh with another gently interactive show for the youngest audiences. This year they’re performing inside the visitors’ centre rather than in the gardens themselves which, while a sensible move given the unpredictable Edinburgh weather, loses some of the uniqueness of their previous offerings. Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy takes the form of a lesson in “elfology” from mild-mannered
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“elfologist” Dr Faye Greenwood, the aim being to put Greenwood’s titular tiny friends sufficiently at their ease so they’ll come out and play. Writer and performer Charlotte Allan is approachable and engaging as Dr Greenwood, making sure that every young audience member feels included as she cooks up sweet-smelling bubbles to tempt the elves out of their hiding place, leads some music making and supervises a stickering session. The little poems that act as introductions to
each of these sections, however, are overly twee and not always clearly articulated. The kids are having fun during all these sensory shenanigans, but the show’s pièce de résistance is the eventual appearance of the elves themselves via a clever bit of video in a box made by Paul Kozinski. It’s such an effective trick that my toddler spends the walk back to the bus stop through the gardens genuinely hunting for Greenwood’s little buddies. We don’t find them – I want my money back. / Jo Caird
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Peter Brush: Chasing Snails Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:00 Rik Carranza: Still a Fan Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9
Lou Sanders: Shame Pig Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Briony Redman: Sketch Artist Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7–£9
Lemons Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10
The Hangover Cure Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Punel Show Voodoo Rooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
12:40 I Am Ross Smith Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
12:45 The Edinburgh Revue’s Stand-Up Show 2018 Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE Me Plus One – Improv with Two People – Free Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE A Kinder, Gentler Comedy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £6 Zillions of Comedians (The One-Man Compilation Show) Tolbooth Market, 22–25 Aug, FREE Mickey Sharma’s Mixed Blessings Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
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Abstract Stand-Up Art C venues – C aquila, 22–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Tommy Helme: Naked Truth Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:05 Seasoned Plums Southsider, 21–25 Aug, FREE
¤ Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids! HHHH Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £12–£15
Generation Y Us? Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 21–26 Aug, FREE
African in New York – Almost Famous by Njambi McGrath Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–24 Aug, FREE
I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £10
13:10 Andy Onions – PowerPointless Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–24 Aug, £14–£16 Nathaniel Metcalfe: Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:15 Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–26 Aug, FREE Interdependent Woman Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE A Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Cassie Atkinson – Swan Songs Waverley Bar, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Camels Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
The Oxford Imps: Class of 2018 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10
Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Rinsed Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Paul ‘Silky’ White: Ziuq The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10
Sooz Kempner: Super Sonic 90s Kid HHH Globe Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE Kai Samra – Brothers (WIP) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Catch of the Day (A Sturgeon Story) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £10 The Guilty Feminist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25–26 Aug, £15
Rob Kemp’s Wheel of Shows Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5 The Weird and Whacky World of Raymond Bishop Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–26 Aug, FREE AComedyTapas Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Girlfriend from Hell Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Rory O’Keeffe: The 37th Question Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE It’s Not Cute Anymore Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Foxdog Studios: Robot Chef HHH Heroes @ Boteco, 21–26 Aug, £5 Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £9–£12 Alex Hylton: Everybody’s Different and I’m the Same Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
13:30 Tom Short and Tom Little – Small World Revolution Bar, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE Pals Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £12 Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £15 Nick Hall: Spencer Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Vince Ebert: Sexy Science. Made in Germany Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25 Aug, £13.50
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Julia Sutherland: Exposed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Lia Hatzakis – Onion Gum The Clootie Dumpling, 21–25 Aug, FREE Jeremy Nicholas: After Dinner Stories from My Disastrous Broadcasting Career Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Curried Mustard Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 23–24 Aug, FREE Mind the Gap Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE Andy Storey: Awkward
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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 MetaMafforphosis Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Robin Ince: Chaos of Delight Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–26 Aug, £12 Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE The One-Thirty Comedy Cabaret The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £6 Impromptu Shakespeare Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
13:35 Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 26 Aug, £6
Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club, 21–23 Aug, £10
Eat Sleep Shit Shag Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–23 Aug, FREE
The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club, 25 Aug, £10
The Secret Diary of Scott Mitchell, Aged 43 and 3/4 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Alex Garner – Who?! Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Jen Brister – Meaningless Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Men With Coconuts Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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13:40 Frank Carson: If I Didnt Laugh I’d Cry Assembly Hall, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 UCL Graters: Panopticon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Eleanor Tiernan: Success Without a Sex Tape Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:45 The Whole of Shakespeare theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Bruce: Just a Pretty Face Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE Jew-O-Rama Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE Odd Two Out Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE Adventures in Dementia: Steve Day Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Second Annual Black Comedy Showcase Bannermans, 21–26 Aug, FREE Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12
And They Played Shang-a-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12
13:55 Archie Maddocks: Matchstick Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
14:00 Susan Harrison Is a Bit Weepy Voodoo Rooms, 21–25 Aug, FREE Daniel Downie: 2 O’Clock Gun Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 25–26 Aug, £5 Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Claire Ford: Unboxed Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £7 Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £44.50 No Funny Business C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 21–26 Aug, £9 Adam Larter: Boogie Knights Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5 News@1066 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, FREE Secret Comedy Cabaret Tolbooth Market, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE Andrea Hubert: Holes of Joy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Croft & Pearce: Double Take Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Nicky Wilkinson: Happy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
14:05 Robbie McShane and Mary Flanigan: One of Us Is a Robot Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE A Booklover’s Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE My Finest Hour Southsider, 22–25 Aug, FREE
14:10 Cold as Icelandic Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ignacio Lopez: Nine Ig Fails Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Ella Woods: Wing Defence Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Adam Riches Is The Guy Who... Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £8 Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
14:15 Will Hall: Netflix and Will Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
¤ Heidi Regan: Heidi vs Sharks HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8–£10 Kevin Precious Unholier Than Thou: The Non-Believing Religious Studies Teacher Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE Ahir Shah: Duffer
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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Toby Adams – Tongue in My Head Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
14:20 Amy Annette: What Women Want Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–26 Aug, £10 Joey Page: Perhaps Under Stars That Would Stretch Forever (an Idiot Explains the Universe in Under an Hour) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £6.50 Katharine Ferns: Between One Ferns Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Jack Evans: Work Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Tamar Broadbent: Best Life Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
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Declan McGuigan and Iain Daniels: Malakas Nightcap, 21–28 Aug, FREE
14:25 Jessie Cave: Sunrise The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10 Please Stop! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE Harry and Chris Save the World Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–25 Aug, £5
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Goddess Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Agatha Is Missing! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
Grace theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £6
Britain, Let’s Talk About the Golliwogs Fireside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Cult Comics Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The Freedom Machine C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Juliet Meyers: Year of the Dog Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–26 Aug, FREE Luke Rollason’s Planet Earth Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5 Worst Show on the Fringe – Free! Subway, 21–26 Aug, FREE Crizards Cromedy Show Waverley Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE David McIver Is a Nice Little Man Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–26 Aug, FREE Live the Laugh Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Spiffing Personnages Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–25 Aug, FREE Ali Brice’s Lemonade Stand HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5 Peter Dobbing: Pleased With Yourself Isn’t the Same as Being Happy Sneaky Pete’s, 22–25 Aug, FREE Pottervision Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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David Mills: Focus People! Underbelly, George Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Aidan Goatley is the Vicar’s Husband Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9
14:45 Funny Cluckers – Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Dansplaining Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Mitch Benn: Doing It on Purpose The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12
Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Wil Greenway: Either Side of Everything HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
14:55 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10
Ashley Blaker: Observant Jew HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£11 Andy Zaltzman: Right Questions. Wrong Answers. The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £12
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Nathan Lang: The Stuntman Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £8
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10
We’re Sorry Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Stephen Carlin: The Opinionater Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Vice Captains Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Helen Lederer Asks Why The Fuss? Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE First World Problems Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Matt Watson and Friends Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Rosco McClelland: 29 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9
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By the Power of Greyskull Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 23–24 Aug, FREE
Speechless Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Lou Conran: At Least I’m Not Dog Poo Darren Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5–£7
Olaf Falafel – There’s no i in idiot HHH Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 26 Aug, FREE
Alphabetti Cabaretti BrewDog Lothian Rd, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Audible Presents Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Ania and Riss Are Trying Their Hardest Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Chris Chopping’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Gethin Alderman: Limelight Hispaniola, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Lucy Frederick: Even More Naked Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Gareth Richards: Prophet Whistlebinkies, 21–26 Aug, FREE
A Holy Terror The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £10
Artcoholic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6
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Róisín and Chiara: Back to Back Heroes @ Boteco, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Still Got It Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE
14:50 Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Stuart Goldsmith: End Of
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Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The Cutting Room Canons’ Gait, 21–26 Aug, FREE
15:30 Private Parts Underbelly, George Square, 23–25 Aug, £14 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–26 Aug, £13.50 Tessa Coates: Witch Hunt Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Will Mars: Candid Cafe Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE Friz Frizzle: Keyboard Warrior Globe Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 21–31 Aug, £9
Perry Air Comedy Award Ceremony Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Aug, FREE
Kirk Smith’s Stand-up Showcase Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Sam Campbell: The Trough Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8
The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Outhouse, 25 Aug, £7
Gráinne Maguire: I Forgive You; Please Like Me
Steve Bugeja: Almost
Good Manners Gone Bad Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 22–26 Aug, £8–£9
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
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The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Gareth Waugh: Oh Boy...! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Captain ‘The Butcher’ Reality Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Tony Law: A Lost Show Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £10
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Tania Edwards: Not My Dog Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Stephen Buchanan: Purpleberry Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
The Trevor Lock Experience Bannermans, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Don’t Be Terrible Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Zahra Barri is Zahra: Warrior Not Princess Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6–£8 Shot in the Dark Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7–£8
Sofie Hagen Tries Something Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–26 Aug, FREE
15:35 Charmian Hughes – Bra Trek Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £7 Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10 CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
15:40 Jane Hill – Addicted to Fun Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE Manhunt Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Sara Barron: For Worse Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £5
InsTed Talks Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 22–23 Aug, £5
Jacob Hawley: Howl Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5–£6
The Good, The Bad and The Irish Brig Below, 21–31 Aug, FREE
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Jake Lambert: Little Lost Lad Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £10
Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Johannes Dullin: Come Along and Bring a Friend! Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, FREE
Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Nick Hall: Peninsula Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
All Killa No Filla Live Underbelly, George Square, 26 Aug, £14
Cat Pictures to Music for an Hour Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5
Ken Cheng: Best Dad Ever
Ben Target: Splosh!
Bedlam Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5
Dom O’Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 22–26 Aug, £5
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Stand-Up Showdown: Improv Apocalypse! Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £12
Daniel Muggleton – Mouth Breather Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Jason Neale: Happy to Help Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21–26 Aug, £5
Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Men With Coconuts: Improvised Bond Subway, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Katie Pritchard: Tsunamiramirami 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 21–25 Aug, FREE
Jenny Collier: A Few Good Jen Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–26 Aug, £5
Davey Reilly: Disposable Camera Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–23 Aug, £12.50
Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–26 Aug, FREE
Trumpageddon H Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Adrian Minkowicz: Tango Tales Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Alistair Barrie – The InternationAL Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Whispers in the Cosmos Fireside, 21–25 Aug, FREE Nevermind the B*llocks, Here’s Markus Birdman Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE
15:50 ❤ Bethany Black: Unwinnable HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £10 Camilla Cleese and Steve Hofstetter: Produced by John Cleese Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
15:55 Richard Soames: Let’s Make a Movie Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
16:00 All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE Robin Morgan: Honeymoon Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–26 Aug, FREE Schalk Bezuidenhout: Leopard Print Heroes @ Boteco, 21–26 Aug, £5 Edd Hedges: For Eva, from Forever Ago Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Brown Guys, Grey Skies The Clootie Dumpling, 21–25 Aug, FREE Maxine Jones: My Way 62 Whistlebinkies, 21–26 Aug, FREE Flo & Joan: Alive on Stage
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Special Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £8 Battle of the Superheroes – The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Myra Dubois: We Wish You a Myra Christmas
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Underbelly, George Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Des Kapital: Mao That’s What I Call Music! Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8 Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24–25 Aug, £14
James Hancox: Sports for the Unsporty Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12.50 Ruby Wax: Frazzled Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £18–£20
16:05 The Ashes: A Comedy Showdown Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 22 Aug, FREE Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 The Leeds Tealights: Souls for Sale Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £9
16:10 Bumper Blyton Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 John Lynn: Addiction Diction The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10 Enter the Dragons Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11
16:15 ¤ Catherine Bohart: Immaculate HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10.50
That’s My Story Podcast Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE Jim Tavaré: From Deadpan to Bedpan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE DF Comedy Jam Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE Dave Maher Coma Show Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Matt Hutson: Brittle Boned Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Comedy Fam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–22 Aug, £11 Benet Brandreth: A Hero for Our Times Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
16:20 Sameena Zehra: Existerhood Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £8 Bendy House Improv Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £8
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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Paul Williams: Santa Fe Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
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Phil Zimmerman – Sixty-Seven Arseholes (Free) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 22–26 Aug, FREE Paul Savage: DoGooder Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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James Farmer – Scaredy Cat Voodoo Rooms, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Nick Elleray: It’s Been Emotional Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Love Letters to Rappers Sweet Novotel, 22–23 Aug, £9
Maisie Adam: Vague Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9
Kit Sullivan: Lad Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Tom GK – Hearing Loss: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6.50–£7.50 Bitter and Twisted Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Immigrateful Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Heroes @ The Hive, 25 Aug, £7
Graham Fellows Completely Out of Character Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Matt Rees: Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
The Good, The Bad and The Irish Brig Below, 21–31 Aug, FREE Phill Jupitus: Sassy Knack
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The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £12
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Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10 Adam Hess: Seahorse
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Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves (Work in Progress) Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10.50
Hurricane Vs Robot Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
The Good Life Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Emslie and Cooke: Light and Shade Southsider, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Gyles Brandreth: Break a Leg! Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £16–£19
Ross Brierley: Accumulator Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Tudur Owen: Undemanding Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–25 Aug, £5
Anna Morris: Bombastic Voodoo Rooms, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
ImproQuo On Demand Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
AART TV Live! Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £8.50–£11
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Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Show Pleasance at EICC, 26 Aug, £14
¤ Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother! HHHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Adele Cliff: Sheep
Free Stand-Up Will Never Die Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Louise Reay: Eraserhead Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Father in the Hole Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–25 Aug, £8 Hannah and Charlie: Making It Canons’ Gait, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Short & Curly: Young at Start Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7–£10
Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
George Egg: DIY Chef Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £10–£12
A Broad Abroad C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £11–£13
Viv Groskop: Vivalicious
The Kagools: Kula Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £8
Bad Clowns: Hostage Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Mark Simmons – One-Linererer Banshee Labyrinth, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Josh and Lou: Working Classy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Bilal Zafar – Lovebots Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
Jamie Dalgleish: From Buckfast to Middle Class The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £8
Suzanne Lea Shepherd: You’re Okay! Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE Sean McLoughlin: Hail Mary Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Ed Night: An Aesthetic Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, £10.50
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Luke Kempner: House of Faces Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10–£12 Show Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Gusset Grippers HHH Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Great British Mysteries: 1599? Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£11 William Andrews: Willy Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £9–£12 Now That’s Who I Call Archie Henderson Globe Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE Daniel Nicholas: Travaux En Cours Bourbon Bar, 21–25 Aug, FREE Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 22–25 Aug, FREE Joe Foster: Let’s Get Cynical Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
16:50 Yes, That Nick Page, Apparently. Winner of English Comedian 2017 Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–25 Aug, £10 I Can Make You Feel Good. By Comparison. Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Tri-Nations Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–26 Aug, FREE
16:55 The Show Between Shows Show BrewDog Lothian Rd, 22–25 Aug, FREE Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 21–26 Aug, £12
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Tom Taylor: Abridged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Sam Russell: Lucky Bastard Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £7
17:00 Sister Mary’s Playtime @ Teatime Frankenstein Pub, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Alex Love: Stop the Press, I Want to Get Off Kilderkin, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Matt Winning: Climate Strange Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
2 for Joy Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Appropriately Inappropriate Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £6.50–£8.50
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50
#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear? (The Best Of Jollyboat) Subway, 21–26 Aug, FREE Tessa Waters: Fully Sik Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21–26 Aug, £5 A Very Brexit Musical Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 21–26 Aug, £5 Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Steve Bennett: Irish Comedian of Last Year Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–26 Aug, FREE Charm Offensive Sneaky Pete’s, 21–25 Aug, FREE Andrew O’Neill: I Am a Rich Man and I Have Many Sons Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE Adam Vincent: Stuck in the Suburbs With You Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE Another Time Slot With Ger Staunton Waverley Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE World Cup of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 21–26 Aug, FREE Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £13–£15 Jeffrey Baldinger: Living in a Hyperbolic Chamber Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Liam Withnail: Homeboy Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5
¤ Garrett Millerick: Sunflower HHHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £6 Arnab Chanda: Stories from Arnab Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Checkpoint, 21–26 Aug, £8 Rory O’Hanlon – Comedy Hour Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Luke McQueen: Monster (The Person Behind the Comedian) HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5
17:05 Jim Campbell: Trampoline Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5–£6 Helen Lederer: I Might as Well Say It Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 Fanny’s @ Five The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £9
17:10 Henry Paker: Man Alive Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE I’m Your Man – Letters of the World’s Most Ambitious Job Applicant theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 Old Movies Saved My Life theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £8
17:15 Alison Spittle: Worrier Princess HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
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Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Stephen Bailey: Our Kid Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Chris Betts vs the Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21–26 Aug, £5
¤ Mawaan Rizwan: Juice HHHH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
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Godley’s Cream 20 Years and Counting Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
¤ Sunday Service With Ola HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 26 Aug, £14
#1 Comedy Great Fun Best Show Jez Watts Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Big Shop Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Jon & Nath Like to Party Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Christian Reilly: Gig Economy Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable Optimist
Christian Elderfield: Bolloxed Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Stand Up: Edinburgh Fireside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Athena Kugblenu: Follow the Leader HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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Carey Carey Quite Contrary Whistlebinkies, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Oliver Coleman: Delicious The Coffee House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £11–£13
Alcohol Is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE Jessica Michelle Singleton: Codependent Arising Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE Bark and B theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club C venues – C royale, 22–27 Aug, £8–£10 Alistair Williams: Great White Male Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £7
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Chris Laker is Dead – Free Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Graham Dickson: Timber Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Lucy Porter: Pass It On Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £12–£16
Keara Murphy: Furious! #MeToo Time’s Up! No Bawbaggery Allowed! Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
John Pendal: We Are Family Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
The Full Irish Bannermans, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Imran Yusuf: Saint, Sinner, Sufi The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
Ian Smith: Craft HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £9–£11
Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £13.50
Jimmy McGhie Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE
The Establishment: Fool Britannia Heroes @ Boteco, 22–26 Aug, £7
Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel
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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
17:20 Luca Cupani: God Digger
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Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Zach Zucker: Human Person HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Ahir Shah: Duffer Underbelly, Cowgate, 25 Aug, £12 Best of English Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £12–£15
Alice Marshall: The Strike
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Good Grief Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE Comedy Freak Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Assembly George Square Studios, 14–27 Aug, not 15, £9–£10
17:35 Joanne McNally: Wine Tamer Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Josh Berry: Voice Thief Assembly Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
17:40 Made in Spain Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5
¤ Laurence Clark: An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting
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Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 The Oxford Revue: Wasted Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Laura Davis: Ghost Machine Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
17:45 Say It Ain’t Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Sparkle Deli Southsider, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Keith Fox is... Here and Now? 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 21–25 Aug, FREE Sindhu Vee: Sandhog Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £10 George Lewis: A Man, a Plan, a Girl With Fake Tan Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 A New Political Comedy Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–26 Aug, £5 Suzi Ruffell: Nocturnal Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £11 Russell Hicks: Love Song for the Viciously Ambitious
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Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Red Richardson: Seeing Red Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 California Backstage C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 NewsRevue Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £14.50–£16.50
17:50 Robyn Perkins: 10,000 Decisions Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Clay Nikiforuk: Fun to Be Around Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £7
Jake Lambert: Little Lost Lad Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10
Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £49.50
This Sentence is the Title of the Show Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Evelyn Mok: Bubble Butt
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £13–£17
17:55 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10 Scott Bennett: Leap Year Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Singalong Sitcom Quiz The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10 Harriet Kemsley: Slutty Joan Voodoo Rooms, 21–25 Aug, FREE
18:00 Jamali Maddix: Vape Lord Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £8 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10 Synchronised Swimming – The Dry Version Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12 The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Outhouse, 21–25 Aug, £7 Stevie Martin Vol. 1
Ed Gamble: Blizzard Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £12 Frank Lavender: Gotta Laugh Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Egg: Richard Pictures Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£10
Simon Caine: Sex, Drugs and Other Things I Never Do Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10
Twonkey’s Night Train to Liechtenstein Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 23 Aug, £190 Stuart McPherson and Donald Alexander Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9
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Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £13
Darren Walsh: Massive Punt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5–£7
Notflix Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12.50
Beta Test 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 24–25 Aug, FREE
...What the Frick?! Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
InsTed Talks Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21 Aug, £5
Andrew White: Coming of Age PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–27 Aug, £5
James Meehan – Gaz Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 News@1066 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, FREE Dave Green: Melt Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE Stephanie Laing: Quitter Nightcap, 22–27 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE Shady With a Chance of Sunburn Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £7 Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £12.50
Plumbing the Death Star Live Outhouse, 26 Aug, £15 Brennan Reece: Evermore Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Kriss Foster: Thimble Map Globe Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE Henning Wehn: Get on With It Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–26 Aug, £12.50
18:05 Struan Logan: Struan All Over the World Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE It’s All My Mother’s Fault! theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £7–£8
18:10 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Tales Part II Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–25 Aug, FREE Ivor Dembina Show Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–26 Aug, FREE Quiz in My Pants Subway, 21–25 Aug, FREE Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Aidan Greene: Stutter Island Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE The Travellin’ Man Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE Dominic Holland – The Glory Year Voodoo Rooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Rob Auton: The Talk Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Rich Wilson’s Still Relevant Sneaky Pete’s, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Telling the Wrong Man He Had Cancer and Other Hilarious Stories theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Hal Branson: Mbolo Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Sagar Dreamcast Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
18:15 The Russian Comedy Experience La Vida, 21–25 Aug, FREE Maddie Campion: 20 Uses for a Lovedoll Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
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¤ Jacqueline Novak: How Embarrassing for Her HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
The Travelling Sisters: Toupé HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 Fat Chance The Coffee House, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £12 Gordon Southern: A Man for Two Seasons Frankenstein Pub, 22–27 Aug, £6
Stand-Up Power Hour Fireside, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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James Cook: Sarcasmic Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Julian Deane - Joke Addict Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE
18:20 Marny Godden: Marny Town HHH Heroes @ The Hive, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £5 Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £10 Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt. Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11 AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11.50 Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £9–£11 Hayley Ellis: Once, Twice, Three Times a Hayley Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Gavin Webster: I Am Stand-Up Comedy
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The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £10
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Glen Davies – Gagging Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £9
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sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE I Can’t Do This theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £9–£10
18:30 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane McDonald? Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–26 Aug, FREE Lucy Pearman: Fruit Loop Monkey Barrel, 21–27 Aug, £6 Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £13–£15 Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 21–26 Aug, £5 Jim Smith: Back to the Teuchter! The Stand Comedy Club, 21 Aug, £10 Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21 Aug, FREE Stuart Mitchell: Gordon Ramsay’s Karma Cafe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Henry Café: Quiz Machine Whistlebinkies, 21–24 Aug, FREE Darius Davies: The Art of the Troll Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £12.50–£14.50
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#AA: Absurdly Asian 2018 by Jinx Yeo Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £6
Sid Singh: American Bot Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
Gary Little: Big Mouth Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE
18:40 ¤ Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£12
Butterfly C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Rik Wolters – Heroic Failure The Clootie Dumpling, 21–25 Aug, FREE
David Earl Is Brian Gittins: Don’t Feed the Monkey Man Heroes @ Boteco, 21–26 Aug, £7
The Fresh Prince of Comedy – Kyle Legacy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE Jay Lafferty: Wheesht! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10 Duke Pop Bedlam Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £8 Brett Blake: Reckless Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–26 Aug, FREE Tony Slattery’s Crimes Against Improv The Stand Comedy Club, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £14
18:35 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12 The Biscuit Barrel Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £7 Police Cops Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £12 Matt and Ollie Are... Dads! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Chris McCausland: Speaky Blinder Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
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Siblings: Acting Out HH Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Mike’s Back Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Conor Drum: ...If Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies. Kind of. 2018 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Aaaaaaaaand Now It’s Time for... Roger Swift’s Pun-U-Matic (The Second Leg) Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–26 Aug, FREE
25 Years of Stand-Up: Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10 Elf Lyons: ChiffChaff Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Clara Cupcakes – The Worst Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 The St Andrews Revue Presents: Bears! Assembly Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9
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Yuriko Kotani: Moreish Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21–26 Aug, £5
Kevin Matviw: Self Defence for Cowards Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Best of Irish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £12–£15
Aaron Simmonds and the Person That He Loves Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
One Woman Sex and the City Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12
Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £7.50–£11
Kai Humphries: Team Smug Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£13.50
Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
18:45 The Committee: Improvised Comedy Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE EdinBra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Daniel Cook: Carpet Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£10 I Love You Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 21–26 Aug, FREE James Veitch’s Work in Progress Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Bennet Kavanagh and Chris Jones: Two Guys Talking Shite Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE Strictly Carl Donnelly!
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Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
18:50 Chris Kent: Looking Up Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Josh Pugh: The Changingman Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
19:00 Chris McGlade: Northern Monkey Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Vulvarine: A New Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 Wip It! Southsider, 21–25 Aug, FREE The Oxford Revue: Group Work Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
¤ Mark Watson: The Infinite Show HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £12–£16 Two Faced Bitchin’ PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–22 Aug, £6
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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £16–£19
¤ Justin Moorhouse: Northern Joker
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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Ivan Aristeguieta: Juithy Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11–£13
Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss
Gary Meikle – Before All This Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Catherine Bohart: Immaculate Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, £10.50
Pleasance Dome, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£13
AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11.50
Kimono My Comedy Show 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 21–25 Aug, FREE
Paul Foot: Image Conscious HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Alan Ayckbourn’s Farcicals theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8–£10
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A Complete Waste of Time PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–27 Aug, £7
Brett Goldstein: What Is Love Baby Don’t Hurt Me Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12 Milo McCabe: 1001 Moments With Troy Hawke! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Anuvab Pal: Empire
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11–£13 Fin Taylor: When Harassy Met Sally Pleasance Dome, 25 Aug, £10 Daphna Baram: Sugarcoating Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7 Raymond Mearns Is in the House Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE Lauren Pattison: Peachy
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £9–£12 Rice Krispies With Ketchup Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Dilruk Jayasinha: The Art of the Dil Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Andy Barr: Neustadt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 21–26 Aug, £5 Daniel Sloss: X Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£17.50 Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10–£14
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The Amours of Lillie Langtry theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Aatif Nawaz: Instant GrAATIFication The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £9 Cream Tea and Incest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8.50 Who’s the Daddy Pig? Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
19:10 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Allan Havey Stands Up Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £9 Brain Rinse HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12 Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Russ Peers: Hereditary Peers Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
19:15 ¤ Angela Barnes: Rose-Tinted HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£12
Trump’d! C venues – C, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Kemah Bob: Bob and Buds Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Globe Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE Nick Dixon: Marriage Material Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Olga Koch: Fight Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£9 Pierre Novellie: See Novellie, Hear Novellie, Speak Novellie Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 Post-Coital Risotto BrewDog Lothian Rd, 22–25 Aug, FREE Martha McBrier – Fur Coat Nae Knickers Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE It’ll Probably Be Alright Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
19:20 Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Voodoo Rooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE (No) Money in the Bank Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £7 Craig Hill: C’mon the Lads! Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£18.50 Funny Women on the Fringe Assembly Rooms, 21–24 Aug, £10
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theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £7–£8 Piff the Magic Dragon and the Dog Who Knows The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £16
Sean Morley: I Apologise for My Recent Behaviour Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Daniel Simonsen: Work in Progress Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5 Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Phil Cooper: One Phil Over The Cooper’s Nest Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5 Sally-Anne Hayward: Comedienne-ess Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
19:25 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE Mr Lorraine theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5 Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 22–26 Aug, FREE
19:30 Henry Ginsberg: Molesting the Corpse of Traditional Masculinity Since 1987 Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE Mr. Swallow and the Vanishing Elephant Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£14.50 David Tsonos: Walking the Cat Two Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Beach Hunks: Leg Day Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Subway, 22–25 Aug, FREE Mickey Sharma – Filthy Club Comic Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Leo Kearse: Right-Wing Comedian HHH Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Amnesty International UK and the Guilty Feminist Presents The Secret Policeman’s Podcast Edinburgh Playhouse , 24–25 Aug, £26.50 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £13.50
Glenn Wool: Wool’s Gold II (The Iron Pirate) Monkey Barrel, 21–25 Aug, £7.50
Gareth Berliner: I Paid for 50 Minutes of Your Time Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Kate Smurthwaite: Clit Stirrer Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–26 Aug, FREE Is This the Worst Quiz / Game Show Ever? (Edinburgh Regional Championships) Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou Sneaky Pete’s, 21–25 Aug, FREE David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £15–£16 The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 26 Aug, FREE Neil Delamere: Controlled Substance Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Loose Brie Solve Everything Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience The Coffee House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Daliso Chaponda: What the African Said Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–26 Aug, £15–£16 The Ballad of Sarah Callaghan Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–25 Aug, FREE Daisy Earl and Sukh Ojla Fireside, 21–26 Aug, FREE So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £15 Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £12.50 Tom Ward: Popcorn Lung
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Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £7 Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 22–26 Aug, £17.50 Alexander Bennett: Housewives’ Favourite Waverley Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Empathetically Challenged Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–25 Aug, £5 Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £10 Satanic Rites of Robin Ince The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £12 Holly Morgan: Madonna or Whore? Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
19:40 Ed Gamble: Blizzard Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE Masud Milas: Masud Abides HHH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–25 Aug, £5 Chris Stokes: We Don’t Need Roads Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £5 Jo Caulfield: Killing Time The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10 Adam Rowe: Undeniable Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Mandy Knight: The Dark Knight Voodoo Rooms, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Matt Price: Last Night a Weegie Saved My Life Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12
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Lead Pencil Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Phil Ellis Is Ready for the Big Time Heroes @ The Hive, 21–26 Aug, £5 Caution: Deadline Ahead – A Comedy About Procrastination C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
19:45 The Trouble With Being Born Romanian Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Jocks, Geordies and Aussies Whistlebinkies, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer Dance Base, 22–26 Aug, £11–£13 Chris Forbes: Prophecy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 Andrew Roper – What Is Best in Life? Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Al Murray’s Three Night Stand (Definitely Not a Work in Progress) Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21 Aug, £19.50 Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE A Pair of Jokers Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Problem With Faye Treacy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5–£6.50 Stand Up, Weather Girl! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Holy $#!% It’s Music and Comedy With Matt Griffo Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10 The Curious Incidents of the Gay in the Night-Time Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
19:50 Micky Bartlett: Crucifying Fergal Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
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Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £15 sick advice™ surgery Cranston Caravan Club, 21–26 Aug, FREE Alice Fraser: Ethos HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
20:00 Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £14–£15 Pete Firman: Marvels Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£15 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £15 Eau de Munro Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 John Robertson: The Dark Room Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11
¤ Ashley Storrie: Adulting HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Aidan Goatley: 10 Films With My Dad Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £10
Robin Clyfan: The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
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Joe Sutherland: Toxic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Simon Evans: Genius 2.0 Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £13–£14
Andrew Lawrence: Clean Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Linda Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Tom Houghton: The Honourable Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Jarred Christmas: Remarkably Average
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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 22–26 Aug, FREE Nathan Cassidy: If I Caused the Financial Crash of 2008 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5–£7 Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down Monkey Barrel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Chris Henry: Around the World in 80 Dates Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Garry Starr Performs Everything Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Frank Foucault: Shoes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
20:15 BattleActs! Improvised Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Tolerate Nightcap, 21–26 Aug, FREE Steen Raskopoulos: Stay Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Patrick Monahan: #Goals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £13–£14 Sheraz Yousaf: The Pursuit of Manly-ness Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Single Comedians Trying To Impress You Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Stella Graham: Uncivilized Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£14 Pelican: Fisk Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £8 Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE Ross Hepburn Is Beetlejuice’d Sweet Grassmarket, 22–26 Aug, £8.50 WOLF Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Pin: Backstage Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£12.50 Late Night Disco Fight CC Blooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Fred Cooke: Fredinburgh Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Brendon Burns Mansplainin’ Heroes @ Boteco, 21–26 Aug, £6.50
No Success Like Failure Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Russian Roulette Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 22–26 Aug, £8
Sam Nicoresti’s Bedtime Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 21–26 Aug, £5
20:05 ¤ Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton HHHH
Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£12
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Fred MacAulay and John Moloney The Stand Comedy Club, 21–26 Aug, £14 Hot Mess: Bezzie Mates Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6
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Robert White and His Particularly Silly Organ Pleasance Dome, 21–23 Aug, £12 Flo & Joan: Alive on Stage Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £12 George Michael Is Greek Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Jamie MacDonald: Blinkered Assembly Rooms, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Witt ‘n Camp: Swag
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The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
Sisters: On Demand Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Tom Lucy: Reluctant Millennial HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
Calling My Tribe Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12–£14
Mark Nelson: Irreverence Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug, £12.50–£14.50
Dream On – Kirsty Munro / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Bald Man Sings Rihanna Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Eddy Brimson: Fidgety Tits Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
An Imp-Revised History of the World Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Ismo: Words Apart Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10
James Nokise: Talk a Big Game The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £10
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The Liverpool Revue theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £6
Lewis Schaffer: What Have You Heard? HH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Jack Barry: Tango Globe Bar, 21–24 Aug, FREE Gareth Mutch: Wants Mutch More Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Bronston Jones: God Bless ‘Merica 4 – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE Reginald D Hunter: An American Facing the Beast and Niggas Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £15.50–£17 Look, it’s Tom Little, Alright? Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This HHH Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5 Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Bryony Twydle: Flamingo Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
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Matt Forde: Brexit Through the Gift Shop Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £12–£14
Chris Washington: You Beauty! Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
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Jordan Brookes: Bleed Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£13
Time Out With Ross Voss Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
John Hastings: Float Like a Butterfly, John Hastings Like a Bee Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11
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The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue: Ham Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50 Marjolein Robertson: It’s Time Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Jess Robinson: No Filter Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£14.50 Ben Pope: Baby Sasquatch HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£10
Ethnic Cleansing – Ruven Govender Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–26 Aug, FREE Gary Tro: Idoit Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £7 The Thinking Drinkers: Pub Crawl Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £13–£15
20:40 Jimeoin: Result! Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£18.50 Harmon Leon’s American Horror Story Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Paul Currie: Hot Donkey Heroes @ The Hive, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £5 Fitting Image Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5 Sèayoncè Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6
Def Comedy Space Jam Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £13.50–£16
Jacques Barrett is The Confident Profiler Sneaky Pete’s, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Comedy Boxing: New Challengers Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE
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Church of Phil The Clootie Dumpling, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £9.50 Heard the One About Identity Theft? With the Real Bennett Arron The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £9
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Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users – Level 2 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £8
Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready! HHHH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
Zach Zimmerman: Started as a Bottom, Now I’m Here Fireside, 24–25 Aug, FREE
Lolly Jones: Fifty Shades of May Assembly Roxy, 21–24 Aug, £8–£10
Ashley Haden: We All Die C*nts Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Interruption Show Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Love Like 90s R’n’B Fireside, 21–25 Aug, FREE Stand Up and Slam Subway, 21–25 Aug, FREE Dreamgun: Film Reads Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Spontaneous Potter Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 LoveHard: Tales from the Elsewhere Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Improv Cage Match Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Christian Finnegan: My Goodness Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£13 The Great Irish (Finnegans) Wake Off Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–26 Aug, FREE Fake TV Frankenstein Pub, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Jordan Gray: People Change Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Unhinged Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE Jack Docherty: Miekelson and McGlashan – Serious Men Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £15.50–£16.50
Phil Nichol: Your Wronger Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £8
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Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Bob Slayer Is Bob Slayer (The Eponymous Show) Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Trevor Feelgood’s Weird Surreal Alternative Showcase Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Hal Cruttenden: Chubster
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £11–£15
Jerry Sadowitz: Make Comedy GRATE Again! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–26 Aug, £16.50 The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £15
Helen Duff: How Deep Is Your Duff? HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 22–26 Aug, £5
Terrible Sex Tips: Live and Uncut Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £10
Luxury Split Bill Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Ollie Horn Made Some Funny Friends in Japan Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Bob Doolally The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21 Aug, £10
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James Loveridge Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £5 Eleanor Conway: Walk of Shame 2 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Abigoliah Schamaun: Do You Know Who I Think I Am?! Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Jason Byrne: You Can Come in, But Don’t Start Anything Assembly Hall, 21–26 Aug, £17–£19.50 Andrew Maxwell: Shake a Leg Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £14–£15
David Correos: The Correos Effect Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–26 Aug, £5–£10 The Lesbian Whisperer Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Boy With the Pearl Necklace The Street Bar, 25 Aug, £8 Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 6: Big O Makes It in New York... or, Does She? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE Go Slay Dragons! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The LOL Word Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE Funny Dubz Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12.50
Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Kate Berlant: Communikate HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
Prom Kween Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–26 Aug, £13–£14
Max and Ivan’s Prom Night Assembly High, 24–25 Aug, £16
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Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £14–£15
This Is Your Trial Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10 Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Assembly Hall, 23–25 Aug, £17.50 Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 22–25 Aug, £12
21:15 Good Evening Edinburgh, It’s Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 22–26 Aug, FREE Bumpkins Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 21–25 Aug, FREE The MMORPG Show – Scruffy Looking Nerd Herder Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Spring Day: Strong Codependent Woman – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The Man Presents: Women Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro Heroes @ Boteco, 22–26 Aug, £7
21:25 Lily Lovett and Patrick Monahan: Date Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 The 2 Mouthed Men Experience theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £8
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Rahul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Gran The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–25 Aug, £10
Tom Stade: I Swear To...
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Ed Night: An Aesthetic
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
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Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15–£16 Myq Kaplan: All Killing Aside HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £11–£13 Geraldyne: Improv from Music Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Dan Attfield: Futureproof Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
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Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22–26 Aug, £12–£13 Darren Harriott: Visceral
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Prune 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 22–25 Aug, FREE Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ingrid Dahle: Wingrid Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21–26 Aug, £5
Link and Lorne: Terrestrial Is the Bestrial The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
Eli Matthewson: The Year of Magical F*cking Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Moon Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug, £15
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Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £14.50–£15.50
50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does the Love Go? Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12
Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12
Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £6–£7 Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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Matthew Highton – Insufficient Memory Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
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Abandoman (AKA Rob Broderick) – Pirate Radio
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£13 Sindhu Vee: Sandhog Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £10
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Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf at the Door Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£10 Marc Jennings: Jokes ‘N’ That Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 21–26 Aug, £12–£15 Jake Howie: Read My Lips Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Alfie Brown: Lunatic Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £7 Rob Oldham: Worm’s Lament Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Tamsyn Kelly: You’re Welcome Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 Madame Señorita: QUEST!ON Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 21–26 Aug, £5 Daniel Connell: Mr Personality 1988 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11.50 ‘Aaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault? Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–26 Aug, FREE
21:35 The Infamous Five Sketch Show theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8 Big Value Comedy Show – Late Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £10 Bumble Me Tinders Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Australia: Origin of F*cked Ciao Roma, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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The Improvised Panto! Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £8 Sleeping Trees: World Tour
Hangry Americans Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £11–£13
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Fin Taylor: When Harassy Met Sally Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
The Tape Face Show
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £13.50–£17
Tracy’s Leaving Party: Hot Young Things Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Yianni Agisilaou: I, Human Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10 Caustic Comedy Nights C venues – C aquila, 21–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Adele Is Younger Than Us Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11
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Coach Coach 2: Coach Harder HHHH Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug, weekdays only, £11–£15 George Rigden: George-ous Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£10 Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller Pleasance Dome, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £11–£15 Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Kwame Asante: Teenage Heartblob HH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10
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Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£9
Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 22–26 Aug, FREE
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Dean Hendry: Smells Like Dean Spirit Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Alun Cochrane: You. Me. Now. The Stand Comedy Club, 21–26 Aug, £12
Chris Turner: We’re Where We Were Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Jon Harvey: TreasuRETROve Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
LJ DA FUNK in... When Will These Fascist Bastards All Be Lined Up and F*cking Shot?!? Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 22–26 Aug, FREE
She Wolf Voodoo Rooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face? HHH Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7
The Edinburgh Revue Is All at Sea Canons’ Gait, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 21–27 Aug, FREE Ari Shaffir’s Renamed Storyteller Show Heroes @ The Hive, 23 Aug, £5
21:55 The Mad Craic Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Jimeoin: Roast Chicken Result! Pleasance at EICC, 24–25 Aug, £15.50
Dan Nightingale: Sex, Drugs and My Nanna’s Bungalow Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–25 Aug, £5
Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £12
22:00 Damian Clark: Extra Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £13.50–£14.50
The Godfather of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE The Nasty Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Neil O’Rourke and Patrick Spicer: Cool Dude Island Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Australian Beauty Opium, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £11
Unbecoming Ramon Rivas HHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 21–26 Aug, £10
Pop Ditz Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Hot Gay Time Machine Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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Iain (Stirling) Does Jokes (With Pals) Pleasance at EICC, 22–24 Aug, £12
Mark Dean Quinn: You Win You Lose Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
David Callaghan: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; Shoes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Pleasance at EICC, 25 Aug, £15
Dirty White Boys: Manners Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Snowflake It ‘Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Be More, Do Better but Don’t Change Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Shit-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Dragprov Revue Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £7
Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela HH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £7 Woman Up Comedy Improv theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 Two Hearts: Edinburgh World Tour Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Alex Williamson: So Wrong, It’s Wrong Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 The Neighbours Are Worried Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Home Sweet Home Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Claire Sullivan: I Wish I Owned a Hotel for Dogs Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10 Njambi McGrath and Guests Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–24 Aug, FREE Head Sets Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Danny O’Brien: Lock-In Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Tori Scott Is #Thirsty Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Tetchy (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
22:20 John Robertson: Sweaty, Sexy Party Party Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Two Little Dickheads Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 The Shambles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £5 Wigwam Wonder Jam Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
Anthony Jeselnik: Funny Games Assembly Hall, 22–23 Aug, £18.50 David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £16 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 21–26 Aug, £13 Rik Carranza presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10–£11.50 52 Days Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–26 Aug, £4
¤ Denim: The Reunion Tour HHHH Assembly George Square Gardens, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £13–£14 Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £16 The Stevenson Experience: Spot the Difference Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£11.50 Micky Overman: Role Model Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Swipe Right Love and Other Comedy Songs Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£14.50 Georgia Tasda Means Business CC Blooms, 21–23 Aug, FREE
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Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10–£12
Ladylike: A Modern Guide to Etiquette Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £12
The Homesick Submarine Broadcasting Company The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–26 Aug, £9
22:30 Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £14–£15
Plumbing the Death Star Live Assembly George Square Studios, 25–26 Aug, £15
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Neal Portenza’s Final Edinburgh Show Will Be a Bad Magic Show on a Bus. BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Netflix and Amazon Prime Are All Welcome Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 21–26 Aug, £7 The Bear Pack Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Three’s Company, Where’s Our Crowd? An Improvised Show theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £6–£7 Found Footage Festival: After Dark Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Willis & Vere: Comedians After Hours Live Underbelly, George Square, 23–26 Aug, £10–£11
Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9.50 Kitchen Party Action Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
¤ Ciarán Dowd: Don Rodolfo HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10
Michael Clarke: Felt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Garry Starr Performs Everything Underbelly, Cowgate, 21 Aug, £10
Michael Hackett: The Late Mike Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 24–25 Aug, £13 Judah Friedlander: America... Still Number One Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–22 Aug, £14.50
Lenny Sherman: Make the World a Better Place Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5 Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Getting Away Scott Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Laughterthoughts: A Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Grant Busé: The Birds and the Beats Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Witch Hunt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5
Thomas Green: Doubting Thomas Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 24–25 Aug, £15
Falling With Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 23–25 Aug, £12.50–£15
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Roman Fraden: Back in the Closet Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10
Clingfilm Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10
Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–26 Aug, £9–£10
Bongo’s Bingo The Jam House, 24 Aug, 31 Aug, £15
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Declan McGuigan and Iain Daniels: Malakas Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Mat Ewins: What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21 Aug, £5
Late Night Bedlam Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Showcase with a Twist: You Decide the Material! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11.50
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Norris & Parker: Burn the Witch Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£9.50
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Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Ben McCarthy: Nevermind Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £15
¤ The Story Beast: This Is Bardcore HHHH
Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £12
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The Piece Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11.50
The Moa Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12
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Eleanor Colville: Late-Night Pick and Mix Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–26 Aug, FREE
AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Andy Field the Love Tonight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Famous First Words Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–25 Aug, £10
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Agenda Benders: Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £6 Douglas Walker Presents: Of Christmas Past Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In! Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£14 Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £12.50–£15 A Beginner’s Guide to Bondage Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24–25 Aug, £15
22:55 Plenty of Linguine at Home Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £7.50
Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club Pleasance Dome, 21–22 Aug, £13
Berlin Survivors’ Comedy Club Frankenstein Pub, 21–26 Aug, FREE Gloria Hole Presents: The Clinic Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7
Late Night Nonsense: Variety Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Tim Key: Megadate Pleasance Courtyard, 23–26 Aug, £14–£16
The Lampoons: House on Haunted Hill Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £9–£11
Jem Brookes: Schizophonic Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Anna Mann’s Late Night Cheese and Sex Party Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14
Jon Long – Troubadour Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Avocado: Definitely Maybe Not Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10.50
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–26 Aug, £5
The Free Association: Jacuzii Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Jay Handley: White Jesus Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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The Crooners Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Tape Facebook Live! Pleasance Dome, 22–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 26–27 Aug, £12.50
Happy Zappy Hour! For Troopers Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Comedians Against Humanity Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 Huge News Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel, 21–26 Aug, £5 Questing Time Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8.50–£10
Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–26 Aug, £5 John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10 Secret Mountain Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9 Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug, £13
Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23 Aug, £15 Bearne the Midnight Oil Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–27 Aug, FREE Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular! Underbelly, George Square, 21–22 Aug, £15 Bronston Jones: Spilt Milk – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE Rahul Kohli: Kohl and the Gang Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25 Aug, FREE
23:35 BEASTS Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £5
Wishful Drinking Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Thinking Drinkers: Pub Crawl Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25–26 Aug, £15 Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane? Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
23:55 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 24–25 Aug, £13 Last Orders Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–26 Aug, £5 Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Spank! Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50
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23:59 Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug, £8
23:40 Oleg Denisov: Doublethink
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Just the Tonic at The Tron, 21–26 Aug, £5 Mr Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10 Wikipedilove Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £9
Drugstore Culture: Live Assembly George Square Studios, 25–26 Aug, £10
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00:00 Werewolves Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22–27 Aug, £10
00:25 Not All Men Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
09:00 Breakfast Plays: Youthquake Traverse Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12 Barry’s Fringe Audio Walking Tour Outside the Tron – Hunter Square, 21–31 Aug, FREE
09:30 Bruford Warm-Up Mornings Summerhall, 21–23 Aug, £4
10:00 ¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Another One HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
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After the Cuts HH Summerhall, 23 Aug, £15 Meek Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21.50 Ganymede Paradise in Augustines, 21–25 Aug, £10
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Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £21.50
Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50
¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50
10:05 Good Things Come to Those Who theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7
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10:35 Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10
10:45 Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 The Electra Legacy Paradise in Augustines, 21–25 Aug, £15
How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia
Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
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10:20 A Collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Too Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £8 Your Alice Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £9
10:30 Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Leith Dockers Club, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, £7.50 Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £9 Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5 The Best Play Ever theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 22–27 Aug, £12–£12.50
In Addition Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Lights Over Tesco Car Park
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Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £8.50–£11
Our Man in Havana Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50–£10
Inferno theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
The Fetch Wilson Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10
Proxy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
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Island Town Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £15–£17
Alabama God Damn Pleasance Dome, 22–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Spoiler Alert Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8.50
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £20.50 Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 23–24 Aug, FREE
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Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £20.50 Under the Fig Tree Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £8
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50
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Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £20.50
Pomona theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £10
The Turn of the Screw Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
Treasure Island theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8
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Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50 Zoo Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
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Old Boy Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24–26 Aug, £10
Lonely TWOgether Beijing Version theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12
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Holy Sh*t Paradise in The Vault, 21–24 Aug, £8
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Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8–£10 Elise Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Fallen Fruit Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
11:30 Orlando HHH Assembly Roxy, 22–27 Aug, £12–£13 Sticks and Stones
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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23 Aug, £15 WHITE Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£10 ...And This Is My Friend Mr Laurel Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50
Are There More of You? Assembly Hall, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12.50 Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2018 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–25 Aug, £12
She Taught Me How to Breathe Again Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10 How to Spot an Alien
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Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5
Eglantyne Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 25–26 Aug, £10
Sparks HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
11:35 Walk Swiftly and With Purpose theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £9.50 The Interview theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7 How to Be Amazingly Happy! HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10
11:40 The WWI Wardrobe Project Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £10 An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 Trump Lear HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 All the Lights Are On
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11:45 Finding Fassbender Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 See-Through Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 1984 Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £10
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Warhol: Bullet Karma Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
The Canterville Ghost PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–22 Aug, £5 Leviticus ZOO Charteris, 22–27 Aug, £10–£12
Nine Foot Nine Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign Assembly George Square Studios, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13
In Conversation With... Arnold Brown The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12
Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
In Conversation With... Jonathan Watson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £12
Raise the Roof Quaker Meeting House, 21–24 Aug, £5
After the Cuts HH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £15
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In Conversation With... Mike Russell The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £12
A Necessary Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £9.50 Alma, a Human Voice
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Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
11:55 Brawn theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 Tetra-Decathlon HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Lonely TWOgether Taipei Version theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12
12:00 In Conversation With... KT Tunstall The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £12
Dangerous Giant Animals Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–26 Aug, £9–£10 @JohnLewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted
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In Conversation With... Archie Macpherson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12 In Conversation With... Ruby Wax The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12 A Christmas Carol HH Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £13–£15 Daniel Cainer: Old Dog, New Shtick! Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12 Dominoes Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £10 Tits ‘n’ Teeth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
12:05 The Edge of You theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10 Into the Blue theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8
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Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Stupid Cupid Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Scary Story Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £8
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
¤ Unsung HHHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Heroine Assembly Hall, 22–27 Aug, £10–£12 Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7
Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £11–£12 3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10 Offstage HH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10 Just William’s Luck Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
12:15 Uninvited C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger’s) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£9.50 I’ll Have What She’s Having Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Heimatmann Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE Kokoda Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
12:20 Marsistan Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £7.50 Let’s Inherit the Earth Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Kit Finnie: Mabel and Mickey Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
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Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8
Vivarium Bedlam Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £10
Henriad – Histories of Betrayal Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–25 Aug, £8
Beaker’s Place theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8.50
A Substitute for Life Assembly Hall, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11.50
Courtroom Play: A Courtroom Play HH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
12:40 The Half Moon Shania
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Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10
¤ Daughter HHHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £11
Mengele Assembly George Square Theatre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
Haggis, Neeps and Burns
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Hill Street Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12 Good Grief theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Yen C venues – C cubed, 21–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
12:35 147Hz Can’t Pass Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £7
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
All Change Assembly George Square Theatre, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, £10–£12
Gate 64 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
A State of Mind Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5 No One Is Coming to Save You Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 Simon Callow in De Profundis Assembly Rooms, 21–26 Aug, £17–£19 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7
Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10
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That Daring Australian Girl Assembly George Square Studios, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, £12–£13
An Evening With Miss Wong Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12 Tarzanne HH theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £10 Gratiano Assembly Rooms, 22 Aug, £10 Matthew 19:14 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9.50
12:45 Sisterhood Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 Busking It Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7–£12.50 Fronting Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£11
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Fcuk’d Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10 Everything Is Going to Be KO Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 UnSpoken C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, 21–24 Aug, £12.50
¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50
12:50 Jumpers for Goalposts theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50
The Trip PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 25–26 Aug, £7
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Ladykiller Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11
Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
12:55 Shovel Paradise in The Vault, 21–22 Aug, £2.50
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Guerilla Aspies Year Four – Autism. Amusement. Conversion. Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Chwedl: Fairytales from Wales PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 23–27 Aug, £6
Keep the Change ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10 Born on a Monday Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £7 The Monster in the Hall theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
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Polaris Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 ¤ Love Song to Lavender Menace
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Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £7–£8
Twelfth Night Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £15 Familiar Stranger Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–24 Aug, £8 Meek Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £21.50 Propeller HH Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £7–£9
¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70
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Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21.50 Welcome to Night Vale Summerhall, 24–26 Aug, £35 About Lady White Fox With Nine Tales... Assembly George Square Studios, 22–27 Aug, £12–£13 Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
In Loyal Company Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11.50
Vessel Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
Sinatra: Raw Frankenstein Pub, 21–27 Aug, £7.50
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
¤ Blackthorn by Charley Miles HHHH
The Red Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8
Diary of an Expat Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21.50 Power Play: Somebody
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Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 22–25 Aug, £12 Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7 Boxes PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–22 Aug, £5 A Play, A Pie and A Pint Le Monde, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £12.50 Marie Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11 Gie’s Peace Scottish Storytelling Centre, 24–25 Aug, £9 Dummy Bourbon Bar, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
13:05 DUPed Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £8 Never Vera Blue Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Dickens for Dinner C venues – C, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £14–£15
13:10 Who Cares? Natural Food Kafe, 22–25 Aug, FREE Don Juan Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12 Jericho Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
¤ Signals HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 Little Sparks theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £8 Do You Think That’s Wise? – The Life and Times of John Le Mesurier Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–26 Aug, FREE Panopticon theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
13:15 The Burning Gadulka Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 21–26 Aug, FREE
¤ My Left Nut HHHH
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE The First Love Project C venues – C, 21–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Don’t Kill Your Darlings ZOO Charteris, 21–26 Aug, £10
Red and Boiling HH Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £12 Dangerous Giant Animals Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21 Aug, £9 The Quest: A Fantasy Musical theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £9.50 Dolly theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7
13:20 The EU Inspector theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7 Darlings C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 The Hit Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
¤ The Fishermen HHHH
13:30 Will Pigs Save Our Bacon? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9 Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 Footballers Have Feelings Too The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9 It’s Not a Sprint HH Pleasance Dome, 22–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Spy Who Doped Me The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £9 The Dark Side of Fluorescence The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9
¤ Baby Face HHHH
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £9 Never Say Die? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9 Yer Aul’ Da The Royal Scots Club, 21–25 Aug, £10
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £13–£14
Gypsy Queen Assembly George Square Studios, 22–27 Aug, £10–£12
Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £5
13:25 ¤ The Approach HHHH
Assembly Hall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13 Erewhon Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Don Quixote Assembly Roxy, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8–£10
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50 May Contain Neanderthal The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9
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Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £20.50 Door-to-Door Poetry Bourbon Bar, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Grace Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and His Narcissistic Mother Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
Brexit HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£16.50
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £20.50
The Cat’s Mother Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7
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Zoo Southside, 21–26 Aug, £10 WEIRD HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12 The Marilyn Conspiracy Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £15–£18
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50
A Robinson Crusoe of the Soul Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5
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The Spider Glass theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £8
Diagnosed Paradise in The Vault, 21–25 Aug, FREE
You Only Live Forever Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11
Last Tango in Little Grimley Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £5
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Evros | The Crossing River Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 (sorry) Assembly George Square Theatre, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £13–£15
13:40 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE A Clown Show About Rain Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Tonight With Donny Stixx theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Camp Be Yourself
Falkland – The War the World Forgot Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12 Medea Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–25 Aug, £7
14:00 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 21–27 Aug, £49.50
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Gulliver Returns HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Olorine C venues – C too, 21–23 Aug, £7.50–£8.50
The End of Eddy The Studio, 23–26 Aug, £11
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
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Thom Pain: (Based on Nothing) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £5
An Act Of Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £10
BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 My Mate Dave Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £7
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11
The Sisters of CastleKnock House C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
VELVET HH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12.50
Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry Banshee Labyrinth, 22–26 Aug, FREE The Half Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £7–£12.50 Starfish C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Eight Bedlam Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £10 And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10 Taking it Badly theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £9 The Poets’ Republic – Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6 City Love C venues – C cubed, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
14:15 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Integrity theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10 The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug, £11
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
14:10 Jet of Blood ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10 Chimes at Midnight theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 A Sight of Abject Pity and Ruin theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £5
¤ The Vanishing Man HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£13
In Their Footsteps theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £8
Heaven Burns Assembly Roxy, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Man Down HHH Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £12
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A World Beyond Man Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £6
¤ What I Talk About
Drip Feed HH Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12–£13
When I Talk About Running
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ZOO Charteris, 22–26 Aug, £10 In Loyal Company Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Aug, £9 UNCONDITIONAL Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 The Bench Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
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Duck Gutters theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £10
Casanova Dreaming theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £9
Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
Feed Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
Spaces Sweet Grassmarket, 22–26 Aug, £9
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
Pricks HHH Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £8.50–£11
All That Remains Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
Awakening Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
Bite-Size Plays Presents: Neverwant Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £9.50–£11
Bowjangles: Excalibow Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7
Decibels Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £9
Dracula Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12.50 Impact Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 I, Sniper theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7 The Song of Lunch Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £11–£14.50 Ailsa Benson Is Missing Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11
14:25 Nitro theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50 Losing My Mindfulness Natural Food Kafe, 21–25 Aug, FREE Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50 Chase Scenes HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11 3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
14:40 Ruth Cockburn – Love Letters from Blackpool Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £9 Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–27 Aug, £12 Sticks and Stones
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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17 Wired Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12 One Woman Alien Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8 The Pieman Cometh: A Cautionary Football Tale Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £13–£14
Love Songs Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
14:45 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 The Big Time C venues – C royale, 21–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 A Self-Help Guide to Being in Love With Jeremy Corbyn Bourbon Bar, 21–25 Aug, FREE The Egg Is a Lonely Hunter Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 In for a Penny Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Not Yet Suffragette Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 The Canterville Ghost
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The Prisoner The Lyceum, 25 Aug, £17
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£13
Rainforest Dreams Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
Benny Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Bonqrz Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Island Town Roundabout @ Summerhall, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £15–£17 The Providence of Neighboring Bodies Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Power Play: Funeral Flowers HHH Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 22–25 Aug, £12
14:35 I Love You... But theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
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Chemo Barbie HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
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Fallout Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE
14:50 The Straw Man Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12 Nina’s Got News by Frank Skinner Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £14–£16
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The House Assembly George Square Studios, 22–27 Aug, £11–£13 Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12.50 Once Seen on Blue Peter Assembly Rooms, 21–26 Aug, £19.50–£22.50 Orpheus Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11 The Unknown Soldier Assembly Rooms, 23 Aug, £10 The Rockford File Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£11
¤ It’s True, It’s True, It’s True HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12 Sophie, Ben and Other Problems Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
14:55
Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
Congratulations You B@$t@*d theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £5
❤ South Bend HHHH
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 22–27 Aug, £13–£14 Extro-Terrestrial Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £7 Me, Myself and AI Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £7 Hamlet (An Experience) Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10 Quines Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £9 Alternative Bedtime Stories Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £7 It’s Alright, Everything’s Okay HH Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £6–£7
15:10 Other Voices Spoken Word Cabaret Banshee Labyrinth, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Bride of the Gulf C venues – C cubed, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
¤ Songlines HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 The Unsung Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9
Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
Susan Macbeth Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Drowning Our Babies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
Woyzeck Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50–£10
Terra Is a Warm Gun theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10
Much Ado About Nothing theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £10
Drenched Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11
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Conflict of Interest Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 The Last Straw Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £10 Really Want to Hurt Me Assembly Hall, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 Midsummer The Hub, 25 Aug, £32 HOME King’s Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £17
¤ User Not Found HHHH
Traverse at Jeelie Piece café , 22 Aug, £20.50
After Today PQA Venues @ Riddle’s Court, 22–27 Aug, £10–£12.50 Drifting Towers C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Ken HHH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £11–£14.50 An Algorithm Named Kevin theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £5–£7 The Poetry of Sticking an Egg Up a Hen’s Butt! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Pleasantries of Peasantry theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
¤ Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner
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Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Free and Proud Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £12–£13
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Grace Notes theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10
The Imagicarium of Mr Dickens theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
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Welcome to Night Vale Summerhall, 24–26 Aug, £35
Tobacco Road HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£12.50 Narcissist in the Mirror Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Unspoken Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7–£12.50 Toby Thompson: For the Record Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £13–£14
15:25 F**k You Pay Me HHH Assembly Rooms, 22–26 Aug, £10–£11 Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24–25 Aug, £12 Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–23 Aug, £12
15:30 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8 Dietrich: Natural Duty Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12 Familiar Stranger Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–24 Aug, £8 Marmite Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10 Ad Libido Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £8–£10.50
Walk the Oars Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £9
Sitting by Katherine Parkinson Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £14–£16
Dreamland Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10
Trojan Horse Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
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Henry HHH Pleasance Dome, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Lu-ting the Merman Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £10
Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £13–£14
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Outside Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10
Phill Jupitus Is Porky the Poet in Living in a World Where They Throw the Ducks at the Bread Voodoo Rooms, 21–26 Aug, FREE Face 2 Face theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10
Misha Glenny: McMafia Assembly Checkpoint, 21–26 Aug, £14–£15
Off-Kilter Dance Base, 21–26 Aug, £13
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6 Passionate Machine
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ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10
15:35 Metamorphosis of One C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Sirens Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Choking to Death on a Currant Bun theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £9
15:40 Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy Natural Food Kafe, 21–25 Aug, FREE No Kids Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug, £10.50–£13.50 Don Quixote Unbound Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £10 I Love You Mum... I Promise I Won’t Die! theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £8
¤ The Extinction Event HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£13 Flushed Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
¤ The Greatest Play in
the History of the World...
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Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50 Drunk Lion Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £20.50
Luke Wright, Poet Laureate Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Flattered Fireside, 21–25 Aug, £7
15:50 Chihuahua Assembly Roxy, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
15:55 Come Die With Us Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £8.50 Stand and Deliver C venues – C, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
16:00 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
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InValid Voices Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12
15:45
Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Dysney Disfunction
Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Wings Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Urban Unrest Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £7.50
¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50 A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £10 James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean) C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Power Play: Next Time
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Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 22–25 Aug, £12
Not in Our Neighbourhood Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Meek Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £20.50
¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50
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The Laramie Project theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10
Roman Candle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9.50
Tremor HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £14–£16
The Welcome Revolution Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10
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Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21.50 Harpy HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £12–£13 You Are Frogs Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £12 Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £21.50 Sob Story theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50 Looking for Lightning
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C venues – C royale, 22–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Kin Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Rocket Man Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, 21–26 Aug, £12
16:05 It’s a Dog’s Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–24 Aug, £10.50 Gayface theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £10
Eat Your Heart Out Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £10
Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £20.50
Fan Girl theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10
Alan Bennett’s Green Forms theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–25 Aug, £12
The River Was a God Banshee Labyrinth, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
¤ Timmy HHHH
Willis & Vere: A Serious Play About World War II Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11
Strangers: Pairs Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Diamond by Beryl Richards Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £14–£16
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Huff HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11
In Loyal Company Pleasance Dome, 22 Aug, £10.50
¤ The Greatest Play in
Where the Hell is Bernard? Assembly George Square Studios, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50
¤ Skin a Cat HHHH
Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12 Birth Control Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £7 A Generous Lover Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Last Hive Zoo Southside, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10 Nutshells theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £8
16:15 BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Portraits in Motion
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Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12
the History of the World...
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Reigen theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8 Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 Aug, £12 Achilles Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 Attila the Stockbroker – Ancient and Modern Bannermans, 21–24 Aug, FREE
16:20 Your Bard Assembly Hall, 21–27 Aug, £12 Working Class Hero Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 Son of Jim Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £10
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Brenda’s Got a Baby theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £10 Nazanin’s Story C venues – C, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Hymns for Robots C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Stardust Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11.50 Blackout Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
16:25 Bottom Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 A Joke Assembly Rooms, 22–26 Aug, £14–£16
16:30 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6 A Fortunate Man HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–27 Aug, £12
¤ Games by Henry Naylor HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £12.50–£13.50 Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £13–£14
¤ Build a Rocket HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
Testament ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10
16:50 A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10
16:55
Rise of a Humble Poet Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 21–26 Aug, FREE Who Will Separate Us? Leith Depot, 24–26 Aug, £5 Doom’s Day C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
The Flop Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Grail Project Bedlam Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £10
17:00
16:35
A&E theSpace @ Venue45, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Crave theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £7 Can’t Stop Can’t Stop C venues – C royale, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Flies Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10.50–£13.50 Revenants HHH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12.50
16:40 Pigeon Man Apocalypse Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Loyalty theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
Rights of Passage C venues – C too, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Henry V – Lion of England Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£13
Don’t Tell Me Not to Fly Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £17–£19.50
Hamlet – Horatio’s Tale Assembly Rooms, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13
¤ Pickle Jar HHHH
16:45
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Slacker-in-Law Bourbon Bar, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Old Souls PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–27 Aug, £8
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 23–25 Aug, £9
Departure Date theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £9
Roxy Likes Cats Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–25 Aug, £7
1902 Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £12
bloominauschwitz Just Festival at St John’s , 21–25 Aug, £12
The Bacchae Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
Live Before You Die Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE
17:15
Loop Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Loki, the Scottish Rapper: Poverty Safari Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12 Same Old Same Oldies theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15 BBC Pop-Up Radio Drama Studio at Summerhall Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £6 It Is a Truth... PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–27 Aug, £6 The Laird’s Big Breaxit Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–27 Aug, £10 War With the Newts Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Providence Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11 Freeman HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£11
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17:05 Hunch Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
17:10 Nowt as Queer as Folk theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
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Bare Knuckle Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £10
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Honey’s Happening Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £11 Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £12.50–£14.50 Our Country Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £15 Henchmen Sweet Grassmarket, 22–26 Aug, £8 This Is Yorkshire theSpace on the Mile, 21–24 Aug, £6 Re: Production Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12 Welcome to Self Co Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE That Woman! Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £11–£12 Kids Play theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £9
17:20 The March theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7 Remember Scarborough theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7.50
Sod’s Law Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
17:25 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Lucille and Cecilia C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 The Insignificant Life and Death of Colin McKenzie Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9 Jasper Red: Press Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £6.50
17:30 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
Universal Dad: Searching for Pop Three Broomsticks, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 24–25 Aug, £10
Antigone na h’Éireann Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £10
Power Play: The Empty Chair HH Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 22–25 Aug, £12
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Year Without Summer Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8
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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 A Hero of Our Time C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Everything Not Saved
Early Birds HH PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £6
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17:35
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £14
The Swell Mob Assembly George Square Studios, 24–26 Aug, £14
A Beginner’s Guide to Populism theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £9
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
Eat Me C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
17:55
Rat Race theSpace @ Venue45, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Electrolyte Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12
17:40 The Journey Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £9–£11 Mis(s)treated – Free Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 21–26 Aug, FREE Showmanship C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
17:50
Maz and Bricks by Eva O’Connor Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £10
18:00 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Beep theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe Blackwell’s Bookshop, 23 Aug, FREE
Playhouse Creatures Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £10
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
¤ Revelations HHHH
The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £12
Book Shambles Live at the Fringe with Robin Ince Bannermans, 21–23 Aug, FREE
17:45
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
Shell Shock Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12
¤ The Political History of Smack and Crack
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Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £14–£15
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, FREE
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
European Citizen Popsong Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £10
The Forecast ZOO Charteris, 21–26 Aug, £10 Clouds Lauriston Halls, 21–25 Aug, FREE
¤ The Wedding Reception HHHH The Principal, 22–27 Aug, £42–£45 18:05 Bulgarians, Buggery, Brokeback and Beyond theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–24 Aug, £10.50 In Your Own Sweet Way theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Deadline theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 The Hollywood Effect theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
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Listings
73
How to Do Acting (Properly) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 First Snow / Première neige CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £15 Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist ZOO Charteris, 21–23 Aug, £14
18:15 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
From Today Everything Changes theSpace on North Bridge, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
18:25 I Am Not Your Woman Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8 Por Favor Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8 KillyMuck Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11 DollyWould Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
18:30
Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £20.50
The Way Out Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–25 Aug, £7
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Nightmare Fuel Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 25–26 Aug, FREE Nomad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1 Nick and Nina Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE When the Friendship Has Sailed HH C venues – C aquila, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Twa Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–27 Aug, £12
Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £20.50
Midsummer The Hub, 23 Aug, £32
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Familiar Stranger Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–24 Aug, £8
18:20
The Gin Chronicles in New York artSpace@StMarks, 23–26 Aug, £12
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50
Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
Elsie Thatchwick Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10 Extremism theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Kill the Beast: Director’s Cut Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50 Queen of the F*cking World: The Second Coming The Street, 21–25 Aug, FREE The Basement Tapes Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12 Bullingdon Revisited Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 21–26 Aug, FREE
18:35 Those Worrisome Sleeps Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £8.50 Volpone Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £14
18:40 Seven Ways to Calm the F**k Down Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £7 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE OTOSOTR Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 O, FFS Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £8.50 Lost in Thought Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Dan Simpson: Worried Face Emoji Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE F*ck Off. Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £5
18:45 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £1
¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70
Do You See What I Hear? C venues – C too, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
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Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50
18:55 Drip Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £14–£15
¤ Games by Henry Naylor HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £12.50
19:00
Neil Hilborn Summerhall, 23 Aug, £15
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Cock, Cock... Who’s There?
¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast
Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21.50
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50
The End of Eddy The Studio, 21–26 Aug, £11
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¤ The Greatest Play in
the History of the World...
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Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £13–£14 Shakespeare in the Garden: As You Like It C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £20.50
18:50 Hysterical C venues – C, 21–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Like Drowning theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £9
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Cezary Goes to War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £10 Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
The Poets’ Republic – Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5
¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Early Birds – Q&A with Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 23–24 Aug, FREE 19:05 Jennifer Lack: Narratively Satisfying theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £8
The Midnight Soup Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £15
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
Picasso’s Women The Fruitmarket Gallery, 22–26 Aug, £13 Vivian’s Music, 1969 Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £7 Brand-New Jew, a DNA Comedy Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Meek Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50
Love on Blue Canvas, 1890 theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
19:10 Addiction: The Untold Story theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £10
¤ Queens of Sheba HHHH
I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller Le Monde, 22–24 Aug, £15
The Squirrel Plays C venues – C cubed, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Blinded Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £7
Hatty’s Last Stand The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 24–25 Aug, £7
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Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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The Island Just Festival at St John’s , 22–23 Aug, £12
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The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 22–24 Aug, £11
You Only Live + Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
A Sockful of Custard Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50
We’re All Mental! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £10
Entropy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12
Hotel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £8
Bitter Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £5
The Next Big Thing HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–25 Aug, £10–£12
Owen O’Neill: Ten Songs to Die For Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £11
Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15
19:20 Mistero Buffo Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £12–£13 The Actor’s Nightmare theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8 Thief Hill Street Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12
Handfast HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
19:45
Extinguished Things Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11.50
The Myth of the Singular Moment Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11
19:30
Janis Joplin Full Tilt
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £49.50–£55
Assembly Rooms, 21–26 Aug, £16–£17.50
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Closed Doors Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
Overpriced Zeitgeist Bar Bados Complex, 21–25 Aug, FREE Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Plaza Suite The Royal Scots Club, 21–25 Aug, £12 1902 Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £12 Aye, Elvis by Morna Young
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Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £12.50–£13.50 The Prisoner The Lyceum, 22–26 Aug, £17 Heather and Harry ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £8
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19:40
19:25
Skeptics on the Fringe Banshee Labyrinth, 21–26 Aug, FREE
My Kind of Michael Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11 Uncanny Things Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10
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Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play ZOO Charteris, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12
Thaw Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–27 Aug, £12 Midsummer The Hub, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £32 How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £10 Job-Cher PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £11.50 HOME King’s Theatre, 22–25 Aug, £17 ¤ User Not Found
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Traverse at Jeelie Piece café , 21–26 Aug, £20.50
De Fuut Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
Moonlight On Leith Bar Bados Complex, 22–25 Aug, FREE Shakespeare Catalysts Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, FREE The Swell Mob Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £13–£14
19:50 Let’s Talk About Porn C venues – C, 21–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
19:55 Earnest & Wilde: Let’s Face the Music (and Franz) C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
The Rise of Donald in 40 Downfalls Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £4 The Last Burrah Sahibs Woodland Creatures, 21 Aug, £5 The Dame The Dome, 21–25 Aug, £12 Enough Quaker Meeting House, 21–24 Aug, £10
20:05 Greg Byron: Wordshow Assembly Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11 Number, Please. theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £6 Crack/ed theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10
20:10
Why Even Bother C venues – C royale, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
#YesAllMen The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10
¤ Status HHHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £15
Freak theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7.50 Epiphany theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 22–24 Aug, £7 Silence in the Archive The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10
20:00 Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Rainbow Baby theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £6 Big Boys Don’t Cry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10 Abolish Childhood! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10 Laura theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £9 When Is Lying Good? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10
20:15 To Have Done With the Judgement of God C venues – C too, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 War With the Newts Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
20:20 Tabou Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £7 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £15–£17 Fast theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £9 Antling theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10
20:25 The Bacchanals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £12 Bristol Improv Presents Story Slam BrewDog Lothian Rd, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Adult Orgasm Escaped from the Zoo C venues – C cubed, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 The Gin Chronicles in New York artSpace@StMarks, 22–26 Aug, £12
¤ Our Boys HHHH PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £6 Famous Puppet Death Scenes HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £11 Sunbathers C venues – C south, 21–25 Aug, £10.50
Body Shop Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9
20:55 Until You Hear That Bell Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Call of the Void Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 22–23 Aug, FREE Romeo and Juliet ZOO Charteris, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12 This Is Just Who I Am Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
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Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
Frau Welt HHH Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £12–£13
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 25 Aug, £55
Aphrodite and the Invisible Consumer Gods ZOO Charteris, 22–27 Aug, £10
Improvised Therapy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
20:40 The Time Machine theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £9 A Librarian theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £9 Lines Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8 Sex, Drugs and a Cup of Tea Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8
20:45 Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £20.50 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
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Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15 Pamela’s Palace The Principal, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £15 2nd Coming. Again. PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–23 Aug, £10 East Belfast Boy Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £16 Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) Summerhall, 23–26 Aug, £15 Eleanor Westbrook: Big Berg La Vida, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £20.50 Forbidden Stories French Institute, 22–25 Aug, £14
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50
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Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6
I Am Orestes and I Am Electra Too Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £10
Canoe theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
Am I F#*kable? Sweet Novotel, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
In Pursuit of Andromeda Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £9–£10
Where It Hurts HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
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Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 21–22 Aug, £10
The Fun Club Presents... Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £8.50
Upcastle Downcastle theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7
21:10 Shackleton’s Stowaway theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £9–£10 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
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The Island Just Festival at St John’s , 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 Twelfth Night Paradise in The Vault, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
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The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £12
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(even) HOTTER Bedlam Theatre, 22–27 Aug, £10
Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug, £21.50
Urban Death Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £8.50
Valerie Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £12
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 24–25 Aug, FREE
Prehistoric Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10
A Ghost’s Tale Outside Johnston Terrace Nature Reserve (by the red telephone boxes), 22 Aug–2 Sep, £12
Onstage Dating Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
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A Midsummer Night’s Droll theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £15
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £20.50
21:25 Bitches in the Ford KA theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
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That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 21–25 Aug, £15
Flight HHH Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £6 Loud Poets: The Fantastical Game Show Spectacular Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–27 Aug, £12 This Script and Other Drafts Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–22 Aug, £10
There She Is Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug, £6
Silence HHH Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £13–£15
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50
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21:45 One Life Stand HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £14–£15 Girl World theSpaceTriplex, 21–25 Aug, £5.50–£8 White Feminist Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE Modern Horror Stories Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
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Corydon Ovium Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–26 Aug, FREE Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £15 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Pangea Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8 Midsummer The Hub, 23 Aug, £32 Meek Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50
¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70
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Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21.50 Drunk! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £6 High School English Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50
The West Port Bloodbath Fireside, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
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Contractions theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £8
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The Creation Myths of China Zoo Southside, 23–26 Aug, £12
Horror Show theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £9
Talking to the Dead – A Séance Sweet Novotel, 24–26 Aug, £12 Mr Saxon’s Excellently English Evening of Entertainment theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8
22:15 Nele Needs a Holiday: The Musical Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £10 Carmen: A Gender-Flipped Film Noir Fantasy Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE
22:20 Hillary’s Kitchen theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10
22:25 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Frieda Loves Ya! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
22:30 Famous Puppet Death Scenes HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 25 Aug, £11
Fagin and the Star City Rebels theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–23 Aug, £7
23:30 Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas (Workin-Progress / Open Rehearsal) Summerhall, 25–26 Aug, £5
22:50 We’ve Got Each Other
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Pleasance Dome, 22–27 Aug, £9–£11 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE
The Shallow Entertainment Tour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £9–£10
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22–26 Aug, £15–£16
The Charisma of Evil: Why Are We Obsessed by Serial Killers? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £9
The Dip theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8–£9
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23:40 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE
23:00 Welcome to Night Vale Summerhall, 23–24 Aug, £35
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23:10 ¤ Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard! HHHH
Professor Novak Presents: Cabinet – A Victorian Séance Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £9–£10
23:15 Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre Cranston Caravan Club, 21–27 Aug, FREE Very Blue Peter HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
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10:00 Absolute Legends (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Sing-a-Long a Musical (3+) Hill Street Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £8 Finding Peter (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9 Woogie Boogie (3+) Summerhall, 21–26 Aug, £9
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Villain: DeBlanks (5+) theSpace @ Venue45, 21–25 Aug, £8–£10
10:15 Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–24 Aug, FREE The Big Balloon Singalong (0+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 23–26 Aug, £8–£9
10:20 Tomfoolery’s Beans on Toast Show (3+) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
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10:40 AnimAlphabet: The Musical (0+) HHH Pleasance Dome, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Eliza’s Big Adventure! (3+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £6.50
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Bubble Trouble (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 25–26 Aug, £7
The Lion and the Mouse (0+) Stockbridge Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 A Cockroach and Furry Blurry Fluffy Things (5+) Venue 13, 21–25 Aug, £10
Kids’ Birthday Bash! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–26 Aug, FREE Brainiac Live! (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £12–£15 Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus (5+) French Institute, 21–27 Aug, £10 Poppets Adventure (0+) PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, FREE Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower (0+) C venues – C, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 25 Aug, £9 Signor Baffo’s Restaurant (3+) The Principal, 21–27 Aug, £12
Around the World with Bessy – Part One and a Half: Bessy Goes Busking! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 21 Aug, £10
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Harmony – The Mumbai Experience (8+) Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 23–25 Aug, £7
The Gruffalo, the Witch and the Warthog with Julia Donaldson (3+) Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
A Good Enough Girl? (8+) Assembly George Square Theatre, 22–27 Aug, £11–£12
The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–26 Aug, £8
Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Paddington Bear’s First Concert (0+)
The Puppets’ Orchestra and the Children’s Ball (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 24–26 Aug, £7.50 What The Moon Saw (3+) Zoo Southside, 21–26 Aug, £9 Meet the Little Prince! (8+) Assembly George Square Theatre, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–26 Aug, £11–£12
11:30 Defrosted (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–22 Aug, FREE
11:35 Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band (0+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
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Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) HHH Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 21–26 Aug, £5
Balloonatics (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 25–26 Aug, £10
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Romeo and Juliet (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10
The Snow Queen (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9
11:10 Reach for the Stars (5+) Hill Street Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £8
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The Adventures of Sam Swallow (3+) C venues – C too, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
‘Signor Baffo held the kids’ attention like the Pied Piper’ MummyKimmy Blog, EdFringe 2018
12:00 The Bear (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £9–£12 Show Up, Kids! (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Arr We There Yet? (5+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12.50 The Dragon and the Whales (3+) Assembly Roxy, 21–27 Aug, £8–£9 Shakespeare for Kids: Under the Greenwood Tree (3+) C venues – C south, 21–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Chores (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–26 Aug, £7–£9 Tales from the Fireside (3+) Fireside, 21–25 Aug, FREE Huggers (Free Festival) (0+) Fireside, 21–26 Aug, FREE Children’s Underground Ghost Tour (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 21–31 Aug, £7 Science Magic (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
12:15 All Hail the Poetry King! (8+) Bourbon Bar, 21–25 Aug, FREE Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE The Little Musician (3+) Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
12:30 Stick by Me (3+) Dance Base, 21–26 Aug, £9 Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 21 Aug–1 Sep, £12
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Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
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Andrew Roper’s Superheroes for Kids 3 (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Doktor James’s Bad Skemes (5+) HHH Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7
Dan the Man (Kidz Comedian) – All the Things I Want to Be When I Grow Up (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 22–25 Aug, £8
Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–26 Aug, £10
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Circus Sonas Family Show (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:00 Children’s Underground Ghost Tour (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 21–26 Aug, £7 Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) HHH Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 21–26 Aug, £5
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Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 21–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
13:15 Fun Kids Radio’s Epic Roadshow Adventure (3+) HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug, £10–£11
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Captain Cauliflower and Marvin the Mischievous Moose (3+) HHHH Assembly Roxy, 23–26 Aug, £8–£9 Science Magic (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
13:25 This Is Your Trial (FF) (5+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–26 Aug, £10
13:30 The Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £11–£12 Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze (5+) Assembly Roxy, 22–27 Aug, £8–£9 Kaput (3+) HHH Assembly George Square Gardens, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £11–£12 Mr Fizzywigg’s Story Factory (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 21 Aug–1 Sep, £12
13:35 The New I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £10
Circa: Wolfgang (3+)
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Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14 Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 25 Aug, £9 Wee MacNessie (0+) St Giles’ Cathedral, 21–25 Aug, FREE Nutty Noah: You Might Die! (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £8–£10 Huggers (Free Festival) (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) HHH Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 21–26 Aug, £5
14:10 Four Go Wild in Wellies (3+) HHH Dance Base, 21–26 Aug, £9
14:25 Waiting For It (8+) Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £7
2-27 August The Principal Edinburgh George Street Hotel, EH2 2PB (v119)
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The Famous Five (5+) C venues – C, 21–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
14:50 Wilde Creatures (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £11
15:00 Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time (8+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes (5+) St Patrick’s Church, 25–26 Aug, £5
15:15 The Story Beast: Myths, Monsters & Mayhem (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–26 Aug, FREE
16:00 Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes (5+) St Patrick’s Church, 22–24 Aug, £5
17:00 Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus (5+) French Institute, 21–27 Aug, £10
17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11 I Have Always Been a Storm (5+) Tolbooth Market, 21–25 Aug, FREE
17:50 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10
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The Bean Counter (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9.50
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