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Contents

17 Suzi Ruffell Her happiness is infectious and her comedy is whip-smart

The Evolution of Richard Gadd

Theatre 28 Frankenstein

He’s traded comedy for theatre but the real change might be something more profound

An electrifying beatbox remix that we never knew we needed

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus A study of the beauty and strength of ordinary people

Big Dick Energy

Cabaret and Variety

Gina Moxley tells us about penises, psychotherapy and The Patient Gloria

41 Little Death Club A fantastic collection of misfits that brings chaotic cabaret to the masses

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A Perfect Day Overwhelmed by choice? Allow Fest to guide you through a perfect day out in Edinburgh

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A brisk walk down the hill will get you to James McNicholas’ show, about his grandfather Terry “The Paddington Express” Downes, a former world boxing champion. He belts out some seriously funny jokes.

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Totally affordable, incredibly tasty and more than a little exciting, Ting Thai Caravan is perfect if you’re in the mood for some street food. More variety and quality than you can shake a chopstick at.

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Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching 8.30pm – 9.30pm Pleasance Courtyard

Ruffell focusses on the two most important things in her life: her fiancée and her mum. And she draws out an absolutely confident, hilarious hour.

Asking how his generation of peace-and-love radicals could have voted for Brexit, David Edgar’s inventive one-man show sees the 71-year-old playwright in conversation with his younger self to investigate what happened.

Richard Gadd has traded comedy for theatre at this year’s Festival — but, as he tells Eve Livingston, the real change might be something more profound

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n the internet there is a clip of Richard Gadd from 2016, fighting back tears as he accepts the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Monkey See, Monkey Do, his much-lauded exploration of his own experience of sexual assault at the hands of an industry professional. “I don’t know where to begin,” he tells the crowd. “The darkness I was in… I cannot tell you how bad it got.” Three years on, as audiences sit in Summerhall’s Roundabout for Gadd’s Fringe return—and his debut in the theatre section—the

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clip is projected onto the venue’s ceiling. Now he is telling us something of another darkness, and exactly how bad it got. Away from the comedy gigs and Twitter humour, and in the shadow of the assault which haunted him for years, Gadd began to be stalked. A middle-aged woman gifted a free cup of tea by then-barman Gadd, “Martha” went on to follow him, track down his parents and home, bombard him with calls and emails, and give him the eponymous nickname Baby Reindeer. “The main reason I did this show is that the police have come out themselves and said their

attitude to stalking and harassment is flawed, and it is,” says Gadd. “I think there’s a public duty to let people know just how bad this can be, and just how little help there is.” He recounts trying to forward a voicemail message to the police and finding that their inbox wasn’t big enough to hold it. On another occasion, he says, he presented an SD card of evidence only to be told that they didn’t know how to access its information. This is a noble aim, and it’s one which is achieved powerfully in Baby Reindeer as a tense and frustrated Gadd paces the stage, recounting gobsmacking encounters with police and pleading desperately for their help and understanding. But if the production has wider societal ambition, it’s also deeply personal, with Gadd baring his soul and trauma with unflinching intensity. “It is super close,” he agrees. “There are still parts of the show I’m embarrassed about — I can feel the scenes coming up and I feel awkward and uneasy. But every time you make a piece of art about something you’re struggling with, you learn to understand it more. It dwarfs the magnitude a bit.”

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“It was the same with Monkey See, Monkey Do,” he continues. “It was hard doing that show. But I think that within fear there’s freedom. With these two shows I’ve been facing some pretty big fears in my life, and I think I’ve found the freedom in that.”

“ It feels brave to me because I’m fundamentally terrified every time I do it” Monkey See, Monkey Do was performed entirely on a treadmill, in a feat of impressive physical endurance. Baby Reindeer uses no such gimmicks, but insofar as Gadd relentlessly interrogates his own actions and complicity, complicating what could otherwise have been a straightforward victim narrative, it also feels like its own exercise in a different type of endurance. continues

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“I had a lot of guilt about the situation,” he reflects. “and I’m trying to get better about admitting when I’m wrong. My twenties have just been so difficult, and I think it helps to put it on stage, to write about it”. Now 29, Gadd’s move from comedy to theatre perhaps isn’t as large a jump as it looks on paper. The bigger switch happened three years ago when Monkey See, Monkey Do debuted as a more theatrical offering exploring personal experiences. It was a departure from what he describes as his previous “anarchic” comedy: “very repressed shows with a loud, in your face, high stakes sort of man”. The shift reflects what Gadd characterises as “learning the hard way” in the aftermath of his assault, growing from someone who took great pride in traditional masculinity to understanding true strength as “a real, empathetic man who’s vulnerable and in touch with his emotions”. Gadd feels many things about this evolution into theatre—“nervous”, “excited”, “grateful”—but does he feel brave? He pauses. “It feels brave to me because I’m fundamentally terrified every time I do it. I’m saying things that I’ve kept repressed for so long, and things that I’ve been ashamed of”. He continues: “But I’m fully aware there are people in this world doing much greater things, so I don’t put myself on a pedestal.” In an ideal world, he says, he would take the production out to new audiences in venues where its subject matter might be even more challenging. He becomes visibly emotional as he recalls “one of the most inspiring people in [his] life”, the late performance artist Adrian Howells who taught Gadd as a theatre student. “He would go to these countries where homosexuality is banned, and set up shop in a basement somewhere in the middle of nowhere, all on his own, to meet gay men and do these intimacy workshops with them,” he explains. In one-to-one sessions, Howells would encourage participants to wrestle with humanity’s innate discomfort around vulnerability and closeness. “And he would do this in countries where he could have been killed. He was just so fearless. That’s bravery.”

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psychotherapists. Moxley’s play puts her own life alongside the patient’s, with Liv O’Donoghue playing Gloria. Through the two intersecting narratives, with meta nods and sideways smiles, the show unpicks exploitation, desire and control. Moxley performs in swaggering drag as the three therapists—Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis and Fritz Kate Wyver talks to Gina Moxley Perls—each of whom has their own artificial penis. “Why would I have men playing them?” she says about penises and psychotherapy after the show one morning. “I think we have to do in The Patient Gloria this ourselves.” Is it performing as a man that gives the part power, or undercutting it as a woman? “It’s a one of us could touch it,” Gina Moxley double whammy. It feels very powerful for us women says about the squishy rubber penis she to be on stage, saying what we’re saying,” she pauses spends her mornings swinging round the and tumbles into her barking laugh, “and having a Traverse stage. “We were hysterical at first. Now it’s dick in your hand while you’re saying it.” just like, ‘this old thing?’” Alongside Moxley and O’Donoghue, Jane Deasy The Patient Gloria, which Moxley wrote and stars lends the piece some harmonic fury on bass guitar. in, is all about dicks. She laughs: “My intention is “That was the music I left home to,” Moxley says. “It not emasculation but it is taking the piss on a fairly was the only music with women doing fuck off stuff.” grand level.” She wanted the punk-rock attitude to feed into the The play is based on Three Approaches to play. “I think there’s a real danger of women being Psychotherapy, the 1965 recordings of sessions dismissed because of anger.” But both she, and the between a patient named Gloria and three different show, are furious. “Sweetly furious,” Moxley corrects.

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It brought about a change in the artistic leadership and, after a bit of work, this play. They reclaimed their power. Power is something Moxley has felt fading over the years. “As an actor, in film particularly, I’m always at a funeral or bringing in tea. There hasn’t been one single smart thing I’ve been asked to do.” Certainly nothing sexy. “Unless I write it.” In this play, she has written her own experiences of shame and harassment, as well as talking candidly about menopausal desire. One of the most moving lines is the show is an offhand comment she made about having grown up with an abortion fund. When I ask her about it she shrugs. “We had to travel if you became pregnant, in secret, at short notice, so people, if they could, would have that in their back pocket in case you had to leg it.” “I think it was the first or second show this really straight older woman, like late seventies, was sitting down the front. She was eyeing me and I’m thinking sweet Jesus.” She clamps her hands to the chair and leans forwards. “Then all during the show she kept

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The tapes were recorded for the purpose of being shown in schools and colleges, which Gloria agreed to. What she did not consent to was for them to be shown on TV and in cinemas. “It’s like the beginning of reality TV, what they did, like Jeremy Kyle. They don’t give a sugar what the consequences are for the person.” In spite of how old-fashioned and arguably unprofessional the therapists in the tapes are—one of them comes onto Gloria—they’re still idolised within the profession, and the films are still used as teaching tools. “It’s cultish.” Performing the show at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2018 was a particularly potent start for this production, after the Waking the Feminists “hoohah”—as Moxley calls it—in 2015, where women revolted against the theatre’s pathetic gender parity.

going”—she pumps her fist in the air once—“yes!”— twice—“‘yes!’ out loud.” She puts her hand on her heart and smiles. During the show, Moxley shares her experiences with a group of younger women. “It made sense that you’re passing knowledge on to the next generation.” She also shares pieces of advice both of her parents have given her. “Oh god,” she wheezes a laugh when I ask for her own advice, “this is why I don’t have children.” She thinks for a minute before whispering the words conspiratorially. “Be in charge of your own purse. Never depend on anyone for money. You don’t have to ask for permission for anything, and then you don’t get involved with things because you can’t afford not to.” That’s one. “Read and listen to people.” Two. “Jesus.” She grins, and gives her third piece of advice. “Have sex.” SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Given everything going on—given climate change, given rising nationalism, given economic decline—could art be part of the problem? h!t Theatre’s new show comes so close to making that case that it all but accuses itself of corruption. Superficially, it’s a show about what Sh!t Theatre did on their holidays – namely, Drink Rum with Expats (4 stars). Commissioned by an old Maltese mate to create a piece for the Valetta Capital of Culture, Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole set up shop at The Pub, an English theme bar in the middle of Malta’s capital. Famed for serving Oliver Reed his final round, it’s studded with movie memorabilia and boozy salutary souvenirs. As artists-in-residence, they swapped shots for “expat chat.” Effectively, they got paid to get pissed with local piss artists. Back at home, on a replica of The Pub, the pair play holiday reps – dishing out drink, imparting basic Maltese (“zobb” / “penis”) and leading us in hearty sea shanty singalongs. We toast Reed’s prowess, laugh at ludicrous local customs and slide through their blurry holiday snaps. It’s a hoot and a half – bar the occasional news of another refugee boat capsizing offshore. Slowly, surely, the show starts to sour, seriousness setting in like a hangover creeping up unseen. As Sh!t Theatre widen their lens, past The Pub to the context beyond, they take in the dingy migrant bar down the coast and its expat crowd and the super-yachts sailing by, the site of the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia two years ago and her ongoing investigation into the illicit passport industry – €650,000 for a Maltese citizenship. Typically piecemeal and deceptively rambling, Sh!t Theatre’s show spins uncomfortably sharp connections. Without ever hammering their point home, they let us join the dots between the moneyspinning shrine to Oliver Reed, the

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inconvenient vigils to Caruana Galizia cleared night after night, and the hundreds of refugees whose deaths go unmarked. An essay in escapism and the complicity of looking the other way, a show that seems slight starts to feel seismic. Barry and Barry block the world out too. In Moot Moot (3 stars), Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill’s surreal DJ double act cocoon themselves in noise-cancelling headphones and nonsense. Dressed in matching grey suits, side partings and moustaches, they spin on swivel chairs and turn conversational circles, live on-air. Beneath a jangle of jingles and jaunty theme tunes, they bat chatter between them, broadcasting into the void. Moot Moot lifts inanity to absurdity. Barry and Barry’s back and forth falls into whirlwinds and infinite loops. Their optimistic pitter-patter eats its own tail and their links—serial killers segue into breakfast cereals—spin connections that slip beyond all sense. Trivial questions trip into existential quandries. It’s all as empty as the static between stations; incessant chatter as a kind of white noise. They keep the conversation flowing whether there’s anything worth saying or not. Imagine Smashey and Nicey stuck in a Samuel Beckett play. Bit by bit, Moot Moot turns your brain to mulch with its sound effects and singsong voices – as much as anaesthetic as a pneumatic drill. There’s a madness in it that grinds your mind down as often as it lulls you into half listening. That’s a damning cultural critique of a world broadcasting to nobody, always talking never taking calls and generating endless, empty content to hang advertising off.

They are the embodiment of greyscale masculinity. But Moot Moot is more a mode of performance than a structured show and, for all you sink into its constant purr, the lack of transformation makes it too easy to tune out. If theatre can detract and distract, Scottee schools their audience in Class (3 stars). Prowling around in front of a lace net curtain, dressed in a red Adidas tracksuit and gold heart hoop earings, they take a mostly middle-class audience to task. Why have we come to see a working class art? What were we expecting? What did we hope to achieve? Through tales of their childhood on a Kentish Town council estate, Scottee sets us trap after trap, entwining us in a tight double bind. He talks us through its hardships, and dares us to take pity without being patronising. Joking about its peculiarities, they dare us to laugh along without laughing at. As they twist a truth out of shape, toying with stereotypes and cliché, Scottee dares us to distinguish between the two. It’s an act of working class drag, maybe even minstrelsy, performed by a genuinely working class artist. That’s slippery, aware class is both performed and projected, but Class ultimately undermines its point by underlining it. A final, fairly crass cry of j’accuse, even if it includes the artist themselves, makes too many assumptions about those of us in the audience, while serving to show Scottee’s presumptions in speaking out on others’ behalves. It’s a shame. For all its quality, Class is selfdefeating: a show that exists to show itself up.

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Suzi Ruffell’s set is made from shades of pride and joy. It should be a disadvantage for her comedy that her life’s working out pretty well at the moment—engagement done, house bought, unnecessary but emotionally stabilising kitchen equipment sorted—but instead, her happiness is infectious.

In her rattle-quick, whip-smart style, Ruffell focuses on the two most important women in her life: her fiancée and her mum. She paints a tender, lovingly mocking portrait of both, dotting anecdotes with affable impressions of her gregarious mother. Stories about her fiancée lead to routines about the imminent wedding and future kids, with the lesbian perspective lending them ascerbic insights that glide alongside the natural comedy narrative. Her mum has always said that their family have natural rhythm and Ruffell certainly does. Her pacing is sharply carved, with sideways smiles chiseled into her nitpicking set about her new neighbour’s overflowing WhatsApp group.

Her humour is frank and silly, with the best part of the night diving deep inside her. Physically, that is. Deservedly approaching the female body with all the confidence of any white male comedian talking about his dick onstage, Ruffell launches into a brilliantly squirm-inducing routine about a spear-wielding doctor at a smear test. The squeals take a while to die down. Even the hailstorm outside can’t bring the mood down. “I feel like we might leave here and be the only ones left,” she whispers conspiratorially. Ruffell leads such a buoyant hour of pride and happiness—a narrative gay women aren’t given enough of in the media—I wouldn’t mind too much if we were. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

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Jen Brister: Under Privilege HHHH VENUE: TIME:

Monkey Barrel Comedy 7:45pm – 8:45pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12

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The uncertain future of an unstable world will naturally lead to existential crises and a serious consideration of whether children should be brought into the world, and how they should be raised. Jen Brister is discussing motherhood at this year’s festival. In her own way she’s made a slick comedy show, taking on society’s problems and discussing her own role as a parent as part of that big picture. In short, how can she avoid raising "two little bellends"? Under Privilege is sentimental in small doses. Brister is honest about the challenge of raising kids, from the boring repetition of stints at the playpark, the claustrophobic nature

Chris McGlade: Forgiveness HHHH TIME:

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In one respect, Chris McGlade’s latest hour is a typical Fringe offering, in that he’s mining personal trauma for his narrative. Yet the Middlesbrough grandfather isn’t your typical standup. He’s a product of the working men’s club circuit and avowed sceptic of oversensitive, political correctness. Moreover, the pain he’s exorcising is the brutal murder of his father.

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of taking a holiday, to the lack of stimulating conversation ("we have nothing in common", is how she boils it down). There’s love in this show; but Brister also considers what happens when children are raised to do whatever they want without fear of consequences. Or indeed when adults (mostly rich, white men) are bailed out of tricky situations by wealthy parents. An attack on Toby Young might be classifiable as shooting "evil looking Heston Blumenthal

lookalikes" in a barrel, but Brister is spot on with it. Brister, a gay woman, turns it back on herself, considering the middle-class luxuries she’s afforded even in a white man’s world. This is the joy of Under Privilege. Brister’s conscious the festival is an echo chamber. She isn’t afraid to be confrontational with us and knows there’s no value in low-hanging fruit. Self-aware and whip smart, this is a commanding, authoritative hour. ✏︎ Craig Angus

And his challenge has been twofold. How can he justify forgiving his father’s killer? And how can he make it funny? Performing off-mic in his intimate venue, the expressive McGlade appeals directly to his audience, imploring them to engage with his tale. Offering a comprehensive, unvarnished tableaux of a working-class family with dark Irish blood in their veins and domestic violence, criminality and marital tension lurking in the background, he nevertheless finds plentiful humour in their eccentricities and contradictions, sharp-elbowed laughter their coping mechanism when times have been hardest. McGlade’s

relationship with his late father was particularly complicated. His dad’s outward difficulty in expressing affection and crushing of his son’s adolescent dream, yet generous, forgiving nature, leading inexorably to this show being performed. McGlade has had other serious struggles in his life. And while he may not have always reacted in his best interests, his instinctive recourse to jokes in his bleakest moments is self-evidently cathartic and has gone a long way towards making him the accomplished storyteller he is now, a twinkle in his eyes reinforcing his stated optimism for what lies ahead. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Garry Starr leads a masterclass in silliness. Dressed as a gladiator with a Shakespearean ruff, Damien Warren-Smith’s character creation guides us through a series of dramatic exercises where unapologetically dumb wordplay turns the tropes of a failed actor into cackles and lettuce-covered mayhem. Following his debut solo show,

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Eleanor Morton says a few times that she’s no good at structure, but it turns out to be a red herring as the narrative threads weave in and out. Post Morton is a portrait of where she is now in life. At 27 her friends are getting married and having babies. There are tales of hen party hell and Morton’s irresponsible attitude to babysitting. She is still single, sitting about in her pants watching the wildlife eat from the birdfeeder stuck to her window and generally getting to grips

Garry Starr Performs Everything, Warren-Smith returns with his overly-confident alias. A consistently out-of-work actor, Starr faux earnestly takes us through the chapters of his upcoming new book, An Actor Pretends. The Greeks invented acting, he says, but he wants to return to the good old days of pretending. Spitting on method acting, he unloads his utterly awful tips and tricks. Delightfully groan-worthy puns are made literal as he catches an agent with a physical casting net. Each chapter leads to a new dose of chaos. Pathetically hopeful and stubbornly proud, Starr is the perfect host of anarchy. There’s a heavy focus on

with being an adult. It’s familiar comedy territory particularly for Morton’s generation. Plus there’s another niggle to her life – her sister is clinically depressed. Morton’s need, as the older sibling, to resolve her sister’s illness is an undercurrent running through the hour. Despite her youth—this is already her fifth Edinburgh show in six years—there’s no dip in quality for Morton’s prolific act. There’s bite here too, espeically on some common-sense feminism within a routine on the incredulity of male friends at the #MeToo revelations and in her views on marriage. Elsewhere there are digs at white privilege. But a particularly enjoyable inclusion in the show is her depiction of her conservationist dad, portrayed as a deadpan, practical foil to any of his daughter’s joyful sentimentalism towards animals. ✏︎ Marissa Burgess

audience participation. He may have forgotten to put it on the posters but there’s a high chance his floppy penis may at any moment waggle near your face, possibly while he hand-feeds you dinner. And beware: after a gag about absorbing his lines, you might want to be careful where his hands have been. While it makes such good use of theatrical conceits, much of the set focuses on acting for film, with boldly punny movie references and double entendres shoehorned in at every corner. His acting career may be doomed, but his comedy is gold. In this one-man show, Starr is a worthy protagonist. Why go to the cinema when you’ve got it all here? ✏︎ Kate Wyver

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Just the Tonic at The Caves 9pm – 10pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12 £8 – £9

Mat Ewins’ rise in recent years has been wonderful to witness. Previously an almost entirely cult concern he’s been playing to bigger, full rooms at the Fringe since his 2017 show Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Few deserve the audiences more. The work, much of it unseen, that goes into Ewins’ shows is astounding. Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please? is a another hour of chaotically energetic comedy. While previous shows followed a tight narrative (while openly mocking the apparent need for a "message" to

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After the debilitating toll of performing successive shows about her mental health, Sofie Hagen wanted to do a fun hour this year. But the best laid plans are for minds less capricious than hers. The Bumswing, her show title, doesn’t allude to a formative incident from her troubled childhood, but rather, to a

trivial event that has nevertheless remained vivid in her memory; while other, seemingly far more important things have disappeared. There’s a tacit understanding that standups will embellish truth in the service of a story they’re telling. But what happens when a comic can’t be sure of the truth themselves, because of tricks played on them by their recollection? At the heart of Hagen’s story is a sex holiday she took to Swansea. Agreed upon in a moment of daring spontaneity, the grim reality fell far short of her expectations. And the Danish comic rather fancies herself as a mythbuster, mocking Brits’ smug, self-satisfaction in

in an anarchic finale. You wonder if Ewins actually wants a career in TV. If he does, based both on the evidence of tonight’s show and his year-on-year consistency, surely he can have one. ✏︎ Craig Angus

their own politeness. And the pre-eminence of our Queen, with her homeland’s monarch far more rock ‘n’ roll and to Hagen’s nonconformist liking. She is reasonably adroit at conveying her brain’s discombobulation and by turns impishly and bluntly funny. Yet The Bumswing grasps for and falls short of profundity, the mental behaviour it describes so incredible and extreme that it isn’t relatable. With her finale in particular, Hagen attracts plenty of goodwill, not least as she’s a victim who doesn’t simply accept herself as such. But it’s not enough to stop this show feeling too idiosyncratic. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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be found), his latest—ostensibly a seminar on how to get rich quick—is far more tangential in nature, a loose structure on which Ewins can show off his full skill-set: mischievous videos, coding-based mischief, computer games and lo-fi CGI are all present. He’s done all of this before, but coming from such a weirdly vivid imagination it is still as hysterical as ever. There are cameos once again from fellow performers Richard Gadd and Tessa Coates. The latter’s appearance coincides with one of the biggest laughs of the night, a slab of gross-out humour that’s equally artistic and innovative. Indeed it feels like Ewins’ has doubled down on the ‘tasteless’ stuff, making a virtue of an audience complaint from last year’s show. You’ll know where you stand on this – if it’s your bag you’ll howl, if you’re easily offended you’d be better off finding something else to pass the time. A long-running joke about a children’s show commissioned and then rejected by the BBC pays off

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Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla HHH VENUE: TIME:

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To survive in the standup business, you need to be seriously adaptable. There’s an interesting bit in Sumit Anand’s debut hour, for example, where he thanks the audience as a whole for telling lies, big and small, every day. But tonight, “I can thank all of you individually,” he realises, and does. It is pretty sparse on this rainy evening, but he makes the best of it. Eventually. Anand is a rapid riser, only beginning on the burgeoning Indian circuit five years ago. He does seem slightly thrown by the empty rows here, early on—doing an impromptu survey about how we heard about the gig is an odd way

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Kelly Convey is best known in the world of comedy for her appearance on Channel 4’s First Dates, in which she was matched with a misogynist who told her that women are incapable of being funny to a professional standard. Things seem to be looking up for her now. For starters, she’s out of the

to start one—but begins to find a groove after the first laughs are prised from this damp gathering. As he suggests, with a livelier crowd the comic would be too, but tonight he’s philosophical, rattling off quotes from great minds, then rubbishing those ideas in a droll fashion. His own route through life is rather thoughtful and passive, and he bemoans the lost joys of childhood, those two simple settings, “playing, or crying.” We

adults spend two long worrying about the stuff in between. Anand is an intriguing character to spend time with, and his own quirks are apparently masochistic. As a kid he slapped himself repeatedly in the face, after father slapped him first. More recently he crashed his car into a parked one, on purpose, because why not? And then he flies here to put on a Fringe show. It’s fun watching him roll with it. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

dating game and settled in a serious relationship with which she’s clearly very happy. Secondly, she’s debuting at the Fringe with an offering that will inevitably win praise for its insightful look at class and bags of easygoing charm. Convey is a natural with a strong comedic voice. She’s consistently funny here, and isn’t afraid to go off script, so Telephone Voice is enough for now. In delivering a nostalgic work full of allusions to a misspent childhood and the family she’s grown up around, the star is clearly keen that we get to know her. She succeeds to this effect, but it feels like she’s testing the waters. It’s almost as though we’re watching a pilot. The real work will come later, hopefully by which time

she’ll have decided against doing impressions of her Jamaican next door neighbour. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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Lucy Pearman: Baggage HHH

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Lucy Pearman’s outlandish solo show wants to strip us of our burdens. Packed inside a suitcase, she needs to get through luggage allowance. Each time she tries, she’s rejected and told she’s “too much”. Over the course of the absurdist show, Pearman asks for our help, wanting to get to the “just right” marker. Weighed on the scales via the arms of an audience member, Pearman keeps stripping herself down—possessions, clothes, skin—all the while trying desperately to make herself fit measures determined by other people. For a show about fragility, this inventive hour of clowning is

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It may seem like an odd complaint to level against a standup, but Aaron Simmonds really does like to talk about himself. While the labyrinthine series of coincidences and chance

messy and destructive. The show itself is lighter than its conceit. Often blending the twee and the grotesque, Pearman is an eager host, in turn welcoming and acerbic. As we help her offload through a series of increasingly over-literal tasks, she is generous by the bucketload, and her genial manner makes us so keen to take part that one audience member accidentally goes up uninvited. Packing never quite goes to plan. Tech fizzles and breaks at every opportunity, while an

unnecessary aide in a black morph suit haphazardly helps her out with stage management. Pearman is so charming it hardly matters, but the overreliance on props in the first place gets in the way. Buried in the bag under all the jumpers and jokes is Pearman’s fear of moving away, and of leaving bits of herself behind. Though fairly on-the-nose, Baggage is handled with care. An irreverent, playful demonstration of how we’re all just holding ourselves together. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

encounters he relates to us here is admittedly anecdotal gold that few comedians could resist using as the basis of a Fringe show, Disabled Coconut is seriously lacking in universal detail. An audience will likely remember it as a list of things that allegedly happened to a man, as opposed to something in any way familiar or relatable. Ultimately, we feel little connection to the performer or his very well-told story. The show revolves around two incidents. One sees Simmonds— who has cerebral palsy—find love at a gig in a venue with poor wheelchair access. The other incident revolves around a Twitter

feud with a fellow disabled person, who trolls the performer for not being disabled enough. Both strands tie together with such ease that one can only assume artistic licence has played a part in structuring the narrative. It’s just too satisfying. What is essentially a big-hearted and unconventional love story comes across as an oddly contrived helping of exposition. Simmonds is a supremely confident and intelligent performer with authoritative delivery, but his ultimate downfall is that he’s slick to the point that we lose trust in him. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist HHH TIME:

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Daliso Chaponda isn’t angry anymore, just disappointed. The Malawian comedian despairs at the domino effect toppling all his fallen heros. When he got started in comedy he was told that if he worked hard he could be like Bill Cosby. Now, that seems like a pretty low bar to aim for. Chaponda is loud but his comedy is gentle. Blah Blah Blacklist may not have the tightness of the set that got him to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2015, but retains the cheekiness, pleasantly meandering through his new relationship, his post-colonial upbringing in central Africa which

Jenny Bede: The Musical HHH VENUE:

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In the early naughties Jenny Bede was in the obscure girl band Cherry Falls. She mentions this infrequently before leaving the full video evidence—their unorthodox cover of an eighties classic— playing as the audience leave. Only we won’t leave. Bede, at the back of the room with her bucket, is left

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“trained me for the UK”, and the stoic boringness of white church. A warm performer, his hearty laugh intersects stories of getting stuck in a national front demo—“it looked like fun”—and being a back-up to Idris Elba when papers need a black celebrity to rail against racism. While his brief set on teaching us how not to be accidentally racist feels like a grouped bunch of viral tweets, his anecdotes are far funnier. There’s nothing radical about Chaponda’s arguments, he’s

simply humorously cranky at other people’s failures. The set ramps up a little in tension when he talks about his father being arrested, delving into the idea of belief and certainty of innocence, before leaning back into an easy-going set on cancel culture and legacy. In a rare ernest moment he makes space for grey area, suggesting that none of us is perfect. Then again, he says with a wink, maybe he’s just bullet-proofing himself for the future. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

shouting: “Why are you watching this shit?” We’re meant to watch for a bit – she’s set it up that way. But there is a sense the younger Bede in the video, mocked by today’s Bede in tonight’s show, has travelled forward in time to have the last laugh. Because although Cherry Fall’s version of Fine Young Cannibals’ ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ has the comedic cringe factor of someone reading out your teenage love letters, it’s also a lot closer to the real thing—to fame— than most of us here will ever get. And so we keep watching. The story of Cherry Falls, however, remains the path-nottaken in Bede’s third Fringe show.

From the top, she demonstrates her repertoire as an actor and singer, with a piercing sting of social commentary as she lists the pigeonholed bit-parts from her CV and showreel. She frames it together with the idea that musical-man of the moment Cameron Mackintosh is here to see all the musicals she’s written. As a structural device it works fine, but it doesn’t match her talents. Bede is strongest when she loses herself in the songs, letting her vocal range sing for itself. Jenny Bede: The Musical leaves a strong impression of obvious ability, but also one where a compelling story is left loitering as the subplot. ✏︎ Ben Venables

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Eshaan Akbar has been unlucky in love. His new stand-up show, Infidel-ity, is essentially a potted history of his patchy romantic past, from first orgasm to first kiss to first girlfriend, and into the luckless, loveless life

he now claims to lead. Riffs on religion, on family, and on work are tucked in around the edges. It’s as well-rehearsed, well-structured an hour as you could wish for, but it lacks big laughs and bite. There’s little edge or excitement. Akbar is a easy, endearing performer, plying a nice line in self-deprecating, ironic arrogance and a reassuring smile. He doesn’t seem particularly phased that his Tuesday mid-afternoon crowd aren’t the most responsive or raucous. “Those were jokes,” he reassures his audience after a quick bait-and-switch quip about Islam and homophobia. “Relax a

little, have a laugh.” If there’s a point to his performance, it’s that sexual education in this society is sorely lacking and that without it, all sorts of stupid, damaging ideas filled his head. There’s a great anecdote about the first time he held a girl’s boob. She panicked, hit him, then rang up the next day to apologise. It’s just as shame he has to play it so safe. His material is safe, his punchlines are safe, his delivery is safe. It’s a show in desperate need of some spontaneity and energy. It’s polished to perfection. Paralysingly so. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

of identity and stardom, but here the jokes and insights aren’t sharp enough to get us somewhere intriguing. She mocks those conventions and fans her livelihood is dependent on, which is odd. While she insists she wants to downplay her renown, she spends a lot of time reminding the audience of it, which means the display of modesty is unconvincing. Yet a sequence about the anxieties of posting on social media could be hackneyed, but is genuinely given an edge for someone with this

particular kind of fame. In the end, though, the jokes she delivers are not as honed as they could be, with a delivery that doesn’t always make them land. And some of the content seems oddly old-fashioned too, given there’s material reliant upon such stereotypes as stingy, red-headed Scots and humourless Germans. It’s unclear what she wants to be: a rarefied raconteur inviting punters into a world likely alien to them, or a down-to-earth jobbing performer who feels she got lucky a couple of times. ✏︎ Brett Mills

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Lucie Pohl is a star if you play video games. As the voice of Mercy in Overwatch she has thousands of Instagram followers, and gets invited to fan conventions all over the world. She also dubs Kim Kardashian’s voice for German television. Yet she admits she doesn’t feel like a pampered celebrity, living in a crummy flat in New York, her fame in some contexts colliding distressingly with her mundane existence elsewhere. This conflict could lead to interesting comic explorations

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Will Adamsdale’s winning of the Perrier in 2004 lurks in the background of this show in more ways than one. It’s the tale of a middle-aged man aware that perhaps his biggest successes are in the past, and he repeatedly points towards that victory as something haunting him. But it lurks too because this show doesn’t manage to hit those heights from over a decade ago, meaning for the audience too there’s a hunger for what once was. Adamsdale trades on his middle-class, white, privileged background, and notes that he has no right to complain. But that privilege too irks him, for it

Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies HH VENUE: TIME:

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Halfway through the Fringe, and Julia Rorke seems fairly acclimatised to people wandering off halfway through her show. One particular section is clearly a tipping point—a quasi-karaoke

means he should be more of a success. All this circles around his relationships with his children, and he thoughtfully and acutely mines the unthinking cruelties that offspring often inflict upon their parents. He critiques his own masculinity, especially when he compares his lack of practical skills to the Polish builder seemingly forever in his house. It’s well-mined comic material, and it’s frustrating because it always feels as if Adamsdale is about to take it somewhere fresh and thoughtful, but it never alights on something singular. He’s in a big venue, and it seems his brand of smallscale introspection needs to be somewhere smaller, more focussed, more intimate. The halting uncertainties of his comic voice means he remains intriguing even if the material lacks force. There persists a sense of a yearning for whatcould-be for both performer and audience. ✏︎ Brett Mills

session—and it’s interesting watching one front-row couple finally decide "it’s 11.30pm, let’s catch that last bus, because we have absolutely no idea what is going on here." Or thoughts to that effect. Rorke waves them off cheerily. Not that anyone else is entirely sure what’s happening either, but the problem with leaving early is that you will never find out what Rorke does next, and what she does is often fascinating. Resplendent in sports-bra, bright green strides and matching cape, the Aussie absurdist really is having a red-hot go at capturing that elusive Fringe spirit. Ostensibly, this show is about a character called Jeneane Morris

doing people’s horoscopes, which is quite a promising premise. But she only gets an hour to express herself each day, so after an intriguing recorded intro about Julia/Jeneane’s childhood, she lets rip. For a while, it’s pretty darn entertaining, a jade flash of energetic emoting. But then Rorke drifts. While her sheer chutzpah had previously held the attention, the second half is a hot mess. There’s an awful lot of frenetic astrological gabbling. Perhaps punchlines are more apparent on better days, but tonight it feels like a Russell Grant cheese-before-bedtime fever dream that we are somehow trapped in. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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has the stage presence and confidence to ably deliver a full length show, but lacks the inspiration to surprise or excite us. After riffing on the cultural stereotypes promised by his show’s title, he can offer only tedious innuendo. At one very low point he tells us about a chain of shops found in Hong Kong named Wang King, and claims that an unopened branch bore the legend "coming soon". I mean, really. Fong then closes his set by telling us that he and his fiancée no longer have as much sex as they once did, a piece of information which is accompanied by a song exhorting her to shoot a pornographic movie with him. Good stuff. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

Opening, Arab Jew Ofir Kariyo is just off reserve duty in Israel’s armed forces where his Turkish-Yemeni heritage set him apart from his fellow conscripts. But it inspires only the broadest, clumsiest strokes of comedy about prejudice against the swarthier gentleman – prejudice which he promotes himself with a dreadful routine about his body hair. Condescending to both the Scots and the English in the room, trading in the hoariest stereotypes, he at least acknowledges the fraught situation in Israel with a few weak gags. And he tries to gee the crowd into enthusiasm. By contrast, self-styled “Jerusalem nerd” Gil Rosenberg speaks a strangled form of English and cuts a pitiful figure,

declaring that he’s not a standup then emphatically proving it. Offering a deliberately terrible song on recorder and triangle, he recounts with zero irony how he tried to chat up a pretty woman by chatting to her “ugly” friend and seems genuinely surprised by his rejection. Inevitable walkouts. Closing, American immigrant David Kilimnick speaks fondly of his adopted home and the freedom it affords him to be Jewish. But although he built a reasonably amusing head of steam towards the end by emphasising emotive Israeli greetings, he began with belligerence towards the unresponsive crowd and allowed this bitterness to colour every routine. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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If you’re thinking of going to see this debut hour from Matthew Fong, be aware that the venue is a karaoke booth with barely the capacity to comfortably hold an audience in double figures. In the best case scenario, you will be turned away from the show – a woman in tonight’s audience has made three prior attempts. In the worst case scenario, you will be forced to watch an awkward standup set at microscopic close range, a claustrophobic nightmare in which the performer can read the expressions on our faces at all times. Though he maintains that prior performances have been rapturously received, tonight we seem to laugh out of politeness more than anything else. Fong

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A showcase of Israeli standups that largely eschews Middle Eastern politics, this is nevertheless an offensively bad show. “Boycotted” suggests that it merits sufficient interest to be suppressed, when it doesn’t come close to warranting such attention.

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Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster HHHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Blowing the cobwebs off a classic isn’t easy, especially when it’s one like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that’s spawned so many adaptations and left behind just as many clichés. Yet this thrillingly lippy production really does make the old monster feel fresh again. Six charismatic young

beatboxers, under the joint tutelage of Battersea Arts Centre and the BAC Beatbox Academy, have hijacked the stage at the Traverse Theatre to give us the remix of the Gothic creature feature we never knew we needed. Their a cappella sound-storms are impressive enough (everything you hear is on the mic), but their creative take on the text also makes it richly resonant for a 21st century audience. Among the modern fears and frustrations they stitch together: social media angst, malignant narcissism, body dysmorphia, the rise of hate crime and urban alienation. And while that might make the show sound serious, How To Make A Monster is also simultaneously

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as fun a show as you’ll find at the Fringe. The scene where body parts are pilfered, for example, veers from gross and comic to soulful and sexy as each organ gets a theme song – including a bit of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ for an appendage that’s usually overlooked. Elsewhere, the showdown between doctor and creation becomes a beatbox battle, and later a bullying spotlight shines on the audience to give us a taste of what the persecuted monster is going through. All that and you get a starter lesson in beatboxing from the Academy’s co-director Conrad Murray. Sick. ✏︎ Stu Black

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Thousands upon thousands of animals and plants are going extinct every day. Many more are living with that threat. Communicating the urgency of this is the purpose of Vigil, a oneman show carried by the talented Tom Bailey. Vigil’s repetitive structure is cancelled out by a tight thematic focus, a subject of vital importance to our collective

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Jade, Connor and Nicole are three ordinary teenagers going about their schoolday in Salford. Or so outward appearances tell us, for much of the purpose of this issues-based piece of new writing produced by LUNG (whose past hits include Trojan Horse, E15 and Chilcot) and the Lowry in Salford is that the struggle people face isn’t always written on their face. This is particularly so when they’re young, and they have no life experience or support network to call upon. All three are young carers, looking after their parents because no one else is there to: Jade with her paraplegic father after an accident; Connor with his mentally unwell mother after the departure of his father from the home; and Nicole with a mother whose illness

means she no longer recognises her. To a light and uplifting pop soundtrack over the transitions, the trio of performers—Jessica Temple, Luke Grant and Lizzie Mounter, respectively—play their roles with compassion and relatable enthusiasm. Writer and director Matt Woodhead’s play balances the issues addressed with the humanity of these characters, and takes us through the everyday struggles young people in these situations face. That includes: isolation, bullying, lack of focus on their own education, and austeritydriven lack of access to financial and practical support. Yet the best of what is done here is in the way the onstage action relates to what’s happened around the play. Its verbatim script was compiled from two years of interviews with young carers in Salford, who were involved with everything from casting to design, and the piece ends with a call to campaigning action. It feels not so much like a window on the world of these young people as an invitation to step into it and do what we can to help. ✏︎ David Pollock

“laughing owl” brings Bailey’s first verbal contribution to the show, the “sulphur molly”, “Darth Vader’s giant pill-millipede” and “thespian glass mouse” are all intentionally humorous, and the pace at which the names appear and vanish quickens to the extent Bailey can’t keep pace. The shifts of tempo and an intense score ensure Vigil isn’t one dimensional, though the first half is a slow-burner. Bailey’s performance, a fusion of elegant movement and emotionally charged monologues, is a compelling one. Vigil is heavy but hard-hitting. ✏︎ Craig Angus

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futures. A projector flashes up names of species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being on the ominous sounding “red list”, and Bailey, who starts by gently swaying, progressively brings the animals to life with his subtle movement. When he becomes the “even fingered gecko” (thoroughly examining his hand with intrigue) and assumes the poise and soft-eyed glare of a deer, he’s pointing out that they are like us, we are like them. It follows that humans could theoretically appear on the “red list” too. As the show progresses the depictions gain dimensions; the

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A Table Tennis Play HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Who knew a table tennis table could double as a time machine? To watch Sam Steiner’s characters bop a ball back and forth—gadonk-donk-ga—is to fall into an unthinking trance. Minutes barely register. Time melts away. It’s a gorgeous centrepiece in a gorgeous little play. In an old

air raid shelter at her old family home, Cath’s sorting through her late mother’s stuff. Her boyfriend Cal’s helping, passing the time with ping pong and word games, but at 32-and-a-bit, Cath’s about to surpass her mum’s age to the second: a milestone as minute as it is massive. Where’s her life going? It’s two questions in one. Both are thrown into focus by 18-year-old Mia, a junior tennis pro who’s not yet learned to wear life lightly. Looking up to Cath like a long-lost big sister, her seriousness contrasts with their studied silliness. And yet, all of them are hiding behind facades, sheltering from something in this

corrugated iron cocoon. A meditation on our experiences of time, A Table Tennis Play has an Annie Baker-ish charm. Little happens, lots changes, but Steiner takes such care of his characters, allowing their anxieties, insecurities and oddities to emerge, that we follow suit. He stirs meticulous images into the mix—malt whisky that matures just as we do, vinyl records that sound better with crackles—so that meaning gradually comes to cohere. In Ed Madden’s beautifully judged, brilliantly acted production, a play that takes its time comes up like a bruise. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

they are under-utilised. The show utilises green screen and projection, with prompters for the guest performer, mimicking the way a weather report is created. There are a couple of small glitches in the tech, but this technology allows for the most interesting part of the show where Rochon and the guest performer meet in conversation, seated together on a plane. The recorded

Rochon asks big questions, and often there is not enough space left for the guest performer to reply. It is unclear how intentional this is. Still, repeatedly employing the clincher, “how does it feel to know your very existence hurts the planet you are on?”, Rochon’s questions certainly linger in the minds of her audience and her guest. With that as her goal, the show is a success. ✏︎ Emma Ainley-Walker

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Pathetic Fallacy is performed unseen by a new performer every day, a now very familiar format on the Fringe. The show’s creator Anita Rochon would perform, but she is reducing how much she flies, and so a stand-in Anita is required. For this performance, comedian Daniel Connell steps up, often adding to the laughs with his expression. Much of the play is presented as lecture, and there are interesting facts to be learned. Storms named after men lead to fewer deaths; weather reporters once drew the weather on a chalkboard. However, these extended lectures leave the guest performer sitting to the side, and throughout the whole show

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You can tell from the title that this is going to be a weird one. And so it proves, as each audience member is given a book containing both the play text and a series of illustrations that reinforce the story we are about to experience. We’re told by the actors when to turn the page – a smiley “OK” that is somehow both comforting and unnerving. It feels like a Bible class or a remedial readers’ workshop

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The impact of the climate crisis is made tangible in this quietly delectable two-hander. The attic room in Underbelly forms a kind of igloo over us as 13-year-old Margaret and her little brother Stanley glide over frosted wooden crates. In Alaska, the ice is melting and the overflowing Ninglick river

– especially when we’re asked to join in, stand up and speak lines of dialogue. The unusual format serves to distance us from the core content while also creating an atmosphere of high curiosity as to exactly what the hell is going on. It’s a clever ploy, as we inexorably get sucked into the the strange story of a family stricken by tragedy. Personal crisis blurs into epic cataclysm as we meet a trio of characters with shifting identities and attitudes, who may or may not

be able to help us make sense of the uncertainty we read on the page and see in front of us. It’s likely to be either a profound or a shallow experience, depending on how much you decide to commit. Writer Tim Crouch (who also appears as an actor) is playing a postmodern game rather than telling a clear story. He invites you to feel deeply about big themes but he is careful to withhold exactly what they might be. ✏︎ Stu Black

is forcing their community to relocate. But the move is too slow, and Margaret is fed up with her rural lifestyle. Lured by the glitzy materialism of the closest town—iPhones, central heating, Kim Kardashian—she wants to leave. Pumped for adventure in puffy coats and snow-boots, the young pair plan their escape. Awaiting the arrival of the snow geese which marks the start of spring, they play games and make us fall in love with them both. A painful thread of corrupted innocence lies just beneath the warmth of their mutual affection, as Margaret feeds Stanley a dangerous lie, packing it with ice to prevent it from bruising. But as the tundra weeps around them, the lie

threatens to show, and we spend much of the time worrying about how Stanley is going to get hurt. It’s a slow burn and while it could do with some dramaturgical tightening to make its impact hit deeper, there is a delightful softness to this play, like fresh snow about to be trodden on. Under an ethereal sountrack, Zak Douglas and Phoebe Vigor are gorgeously subtle performers, switching easily from eager children to adults, in turn stubborn and anxious. Stanley’s delight at his environment—and his fear that he is somehow the cause of it melting—almost make the ice a third character – one we desperately want to protect. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

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All of Me HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Summerhall 3:10pm – 4:20pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12, 19 £15

All of Me starts with an avalanche of apologies. Caroline Horton spits her sorries like spite. Sorry this show’s such a wreck, she snarls. Sorry it’s not ground-breaking, or sweetness and light. This show won’t sugarcoat suicidal depression. Horton smirks: Sorry, no refunds. Four weeks ago, during a deep spell of depression, Horton

supposedly junked her entire script and started afresh. “I ruined that show,” she scowls, “FOR YOU.” Instead, she’s made something unrepentant and honest: a mental health show that feels scrawled onto the stage. Scuffing round the stage braless, in shorts and scarecrow hair, Horton starts something, then lets it slip. Songs morph into self-loathing rants. Soothing soundscapes are shot down by sirens and seagulls. This is a show that continually self-sabotages. Because All of Me isn’t just an evocation of depression: it is, purportedly, a product of it as well, a mess of a show made by a mess of an artist. Frank as that is, it’s

also mighty frustrating – at least in the moment. The further I get from its gnarled nihilism, the more I’m coming round. Hung off a hard-to-grasp myth that drags Horton down into the underworld, it ducks behind the excuses it gets in early on. The more it self-destructs, the more it succeeds. Depression does that, and Horton dares to argue its case, lambasting a broken world that keeps on keeping on – neatly illustrated by a mechanical penguin toy. Glinting in the darkness, clad in a carnivalesque headdress, Horton wonders if she’s at her best at her worst. All of Me gives us both at once. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

and the central narrative, told as a myth quest is an effective way of recasting the UK’s hostile environment for refugees in a new and unforgiving light. The use of pizza boxes as signboards is fun, but some movement-based interludes retain the impression of a workshop rather than driving at dramatic ends; a “myth busting” section sits at odds with the personal storytelling and feels more like a policy explainer or research summary, shoehorned in. But that’s not what Phosphorous

Theatre are driving at. Their aim is to enable refugees to tell their stories to audiences – the company itself is part of the City of Sanctuary network. As they say, very clearly, they are here to tell their stories – “you’re not here to judge whether we’re credible or not. We’re not here to make your conscience feel better.” In that sense, the packaging is irrelevant as compared to the importance of the stories being told. We’re not here to judge, just to listen. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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“We are heroes because we have to be,” say Tewodros Aregawe, Goitom Fesshaye, Emirjon Hoxhaj and Syed Haleem Najibi in unison. All were unaccompanied asylum seeking children – from Eritrea, Eritrea, and Afghanistan respectively. Between them they speak at least eight languages, many of which they use in this clear-eyed telling of their stories: their pasts, their travels, their present lived realities, and their imagined futures. They are supported on stage by Kate Duffy, who also co-directs. It’s hard to say whether this works as a piece of theatre – there’s plenty here that might get directed out in a theatre company serving a different purpose. It’s a compelling suite of stories,

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It’s Traum as in the German for dream, not as in trauma. That is important to know, and also one of the last things mentioned in Daniel Hellmann’s solo show about his life as a sex worker and artist. Hellmann is his clients’ dreamboy, fulfilling their fantasies with personas designed to match: “Antonio”, “Leo”, “Phil”. After a brief moment of pure theatricality, Hellmann starts the show as a lecture. He describes his clients—mainly men—and their preferences with a wry, matterof-fact tone, throwing out bashful, boyish jokes that help hold off monotony when the pared-down segments stretch on too long. In between are dances, conversations,

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Traumgirl begins with a naked woman splayed over a bubble machine, projecting a live close-up video of her vulva on a three metrehigh screen that takes up half the stage. Don’t worry, it gets more intimate. A response to Daniel Hellmann’s Traumboy, Anne Welenc’s solo show explores sex work as

photo shoots, all jarring in their suddenness. The show is obviously meant to be discomforting, but it often doesn’t get there. At one point Hellmann interrogates audience members about their own prejudices against sex work. It would work better if he came up against opposing views, but plenty in the audience at Summerhall (motto: Open minds, open doors) were nodding along from the start. And why wouldn’t they? Hellmann is an extremely charismatic performer, letting his audience glimpse behind the scenes of the

show he puts on for clients. But he also puts audience members in his clients’ shoes. He offers to answer questions sent to him on WhatsApp, mimicking his back and forth messages with clients. And, more than once, he raises the possibility that like Antonio, like Phil, “Daniel” is a fiction too. It’s unsettling, yes, but also unsatisfying. Without Daniel, a man speaking the truth about sex work, the show has little holding together its disparate elements, no catharsis. Like a dream, with too much thinking on it, it falls apart. ✏︎ Frankie Goodway

performance art from a female perspective. It’s the stronger of the two, more tightly focussed on a single strand: how Kim, a GermanPolish actress decided to start working in a brothel in Switzerland. The opening few minutes feel weaker than the rest; Welenc fluffs her story a few times, and a description of how Kim’s father comes to change his mind on her first career choice lacks any sense of his reasoning. Welenc hits her stride in the second half, however, particularly in a long section about the minuteto-minute experience of a shift at a brothel. Here she’s funny and gripping as she lists all the potential kinks and extras she

can charge for: “licking, fingering, English education”. Then she moves into the audience, and the mood is deeply intimate as she holds each person’s gaze just long enough for a smile. Not everything works so well. It takes a long time for Welenc to build her rapport with the audience, and some of the deliberate strangeness doesn’t feel earned. The bubble machine, for example, is really there for a single joke that isn’t perfectly timed. But despite that, Welenc creates strong images—a red latex suit padded out of all proportion, a half naked woman wreathed in smoke—that are likely to linger. ✏︎ Frankie Goodway

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In this one woman musical satire, Frances Barber revives her role of Billie Trix from Jonathan Harvey’s 2001 musical Closer to Heaven. The new spin-off meets Trix as an overdone diva, demanding, impatient and living off her stories of show business. She says this show is like open

heart surgery but it feels more like waiting for the anesthetic to wear off. Sassy, bored and restless, the whole show is resonant of that dotty relative who doesn’t ask questions in conversations and hogs the microphone at karaoke. Trix’s story takes us from 1960s Berlin to London, Paris and present day New York. She name drops the famous faces she’s met and the ideas they stole from her. Madonna’s eyepatch? Warhol’s soup? Trump’s wall? All Trix’s ideas. She cuts a line of coke on her tambourine and dusts the rest off into the audience. With a DIY aesthetic, the

Photoshopped projections look like they were scraped together half an hour before. They glimmer behind her as she performs original europop disco music by the Pet Shop Boys, gaudy and overly-repetitive. She tells us that everyone comments on how bad she is at singing. She never takes the hint. If you loved Closer to Heaven, Musik will no doubt entertain. But for those who missed it first time round, this satire fails to stand alone. Trix wouldn’t be too offended; she’d probably just say 'You didn’t understand the artistry, darling'. ✏︎ Kate Wyver

they tell us what they’re doing and what they’ve done. “That was a really strong start,” pant Dora Lynn, Nora Alexander and Kat Cory. They list past and present theatremakers and tell them to fuck off. Euripides gets listed alongside contemporaries who “will be dead soon – that’s not a threat, just a fact of life”. They adopt some of the techniques of standup, though the mic dangles awkwardly from the ceiling, and the lead isn’t long

enough for the audience patter. The pumping soundtrack is so aggressively loud that earplugs are provided (and required). There’s no attempt to build community or uplift. We leave empty and emotionally spent. Job done. Is this an awful show or a revolutionary moment in theatre? Honestly, we can’t see the critical wood for the ghoulish trees right now. We won’t know, perhaps, until we look back in anger and awe.

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There’s a specific line in Fest’s editorial guide that reserves one star ratings for shows that are not just unremittingly bad, but offensive. If the cap fits, then pop it on. But times change, few more quickly and terrifyingly than our own, and criticism always lags behind them. One thing is very clear: In Bed With My Brother’s new show—the follow up to We Are Ian—is absolutely not a building on and refining of accepted theatrical standards. It’s an angry, destructive cri de coeur at a society that leaves an eight-month-pregnant woman with £80 in her bank account and still lets the wealthy burn millions in whatever way they see fit. Formally, this is a studied attempt to tear up convention and aesthetics. There’s no showing:

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FrontX HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Perhaps the “X” in No Way Back Company’s new production FrontX denotes its proud and urgent intersectionality. Not just “between hip-hop and contemporary dance, between the street and the stage”, as per the company manifesto, but also between race, gender, class and ability. This Belgian outfit—part of this year’s Wallonia Brussels Selection—interweaves the diversity of its cast into a bellowed statement of intent.

Lead by the charming IranianAustralian Roya The Destroya (a breakdancer with one leg), the troupe includes: SwedishMadagascan hip-hop dancer Slowmotion Phax; Kosovan performance artist, pole-dancer and boxer Hello Shelly; the Morocco-born, two-time Belgian beatbox champion Big Ben; Wallonian soprano Aurélie Castin; and street-performing b-boy Micael Anigbe, who hails from the Ivory Coast. Each is given the space to tell their own story, integrated into a showcase of their disciplines: singing, breakdancing, popping and locking. Most of the show is soundtracked by Big Ben’s extraordinary vocal versatility, as he feeds hip-hop beats and

sound FX into a loop machine. “Everything starts with the face,” explains Slowmotion Phax, as he indulges in his beloved past-time of imitating strangers – their expressions, their mannerisms, their “hidden feelings”. Hello Shelly talks of how learning Thai boxing helped her come to terms with her femininity. It’s a study, if not a celebration, of the beauty and strength of everyday people. It could very easily collapse under all this weight but it doesn’t. Like Roya The Destroya standing calmly—unassisted— on her one leg, FrontX is an unshakable thing. Homogeny is monotonous; the most beautiful harmonies emerge from truly disparate sounds. ✏ George Sully

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Charmaine Hiller’s wee gem of a poetry-driven, environmentallyconscious dance solo is a good example of how the Fringe can lead us to make unexpected discoveries of young talent in an unusual location. The setting is The Greenhouse, a pop-up venue overseen by The Pleasance and situated, fittingly, just beside the entrance to Dynamic Earth at the bottom of Holyrood Road. The Greenhouse is, essentially, a shed and the ethos behind it is sustainability. The cosy little structure uses recycled and reclaimed materials, including an opaque plastic roof that lets in natural light. Hiller dances inside it on dried grass, bits of which cling to her simple, two-piece

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Shower Scene

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A paddling pool is all that is stopping a metal shower construction from flooding the stage. Bathing in the middle of this is performer Chloe Mantripp – the great unwashed. Shower Scene is her one-woman show about sex work and climate change.

costume. She’s a sturdy, expressive mover, sensitive to her surroundings without at any point acknowledging our presence in the intimate space. But that’s fitting, too, as what Hiller is doing is thoughtfully embodying internal consciousness. She dances in a kind of rapture, responding to a mainly instrumental soundtrack that alternates with recordings of her self-delivered autobiographical poetry. She’s a good writer, observant and emotionally-nuanced, among whose subjects are memory,

romance, grief, solitude and the sensations of nature. Her dancing is likewise nicely-detailed and assured. Initially I wonder if Hiller’s choreography is perhaps too repetitive, and if she needs to expand her kinetic vocabulary by maybe introducing more abrasion into it. By the end of her rather humble, half-hour show I’ve revised that early impression, Ultimately I leave it pleased and grateful for the journey on which shes taken both herself and me. ✏ Donald Hutera

The destruction of the environment, be it one’s body or planet, is a painful thing. Through the eyes of a sex worker we see the struggle for survival and control over these bodies. She uses physical theatre, storytelling and dance to expose the parallels between the irreversible damage done to both. Where there is a metal structure, there is dance. With some innovative theatre tricks and acrobatic skill, Mantripp delivers a memorable show – at one point making use of a condom to simulate an elderly man’s heart

attack. Billed as a dark comedy, Shower Scene has a jet black humour running through its vains. There is a vivid image created by Mantripp of a body in pain, full of parasites that have overrun the system. For her the body feels alien, unhealthy and decomposing in real time. She begs to be unborn. The dissection of the body doesn’t satisfy an audience for long and the interjecting songs feel largely out of place. Shower Scene has an interesting premise but lacks the bite and shock that it needs to provide. ✏ James McColl

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The set is being assembled when the audience enters the dance studio – it takes about five more minutes. Monster literally begins as a work in progress. As Yen-Cheng Liu’s voice blares out from the horn loudspeakers, a haze descends over the stage. The masked figure of Yu-Fan Liu holds a microphone to a radio and Gloria Gaynor chimes out. It’s a confusing deluge of thought, a mandate to survive that repeatedly disappears and re-emerges. Monster proceeds without the need to rush or the pressure to follow a prescribed narrative. YenCheng’s movement has a fluid— almost lackadaisical—nonchalance

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Featuring an all-star cast of circus performers from across the world, there’s a lot to like in this youthful, sexy piece about the trials and tribulations of growing up and finding love. In particular, it’s the mood this young team create, and the charismatic characterisations that sell it. Growing up is hard. We get everything far too

that slowly morphs with lithe purpose. But it doesn’t match the pace of Yen-Cheng’s sound design, which works the Monster soundscape into a frenzy. All the while, Yu-Fan sits motionless in the background. As Yen-Cheng attempts animality with a mystery wrapped sphere, the masked presence mimics the audience – a creative voyeur unable to pierce Monster’s conceptual bubble. There are intermittent glimpses buoyed by Jui-Hsuan Tseng’s lighting design, as the mystery sphere becomes a glitter

ball and reflects brilliance around the studio. And as Yen-Cheng slowly sheds his costume, there is a snippet where the audience can intimately engage with the performer. But these connections are few and far between. Monster’s inconclusive ending is a brave creative choice, one that keeps the audience surmising long after leaving. Is frustration the best emotion to end this confusing show? At least it evokes feeling, which is too often lacking throughout the production.

wrong—we’re too shy, too anxious, not strong enough or, in a nice circus twist, too bendy—for anyone to love us. And yet, somehow, we muddle through. As you might expect, it’s supported by a number of thrilling set pieces. Of note: Tom Ball’s beautiful expression of anxiety, precariously clinging to the static trapeze; Yammel Rodriguez on aerial strap, expressing the thrill of letting go emotionally; Allison Scheiler’s balletic contortions. Jess Mews fumbles a couple of times with the hula hoops, but is so charismatic as an angry young adult that she sells it all winningly. But, it’s a bit baggy. Long expositional sections—a number of scenes involve only a mimed con-

versation, shrugged shoulders or smartphone check in, #YOLO—aim to tell the story beat-by-beat, but do so unclearly. And, besides, the story is general enough that there’s no need for this granular narration. The ‘80s theme is a bit of a red herring, too. My favourite tunes from the decade do not include St Vincent, Toni Braxton or LCD Soundsystem. And despite claiming to upset the conventions of circus, it feels a bit clumsy to see a (female) hula hooper straight after a (male) Cyr wheel act. There’s plenty of troupes in this year’s programme holding up circus’ gender traditions for examination. The cast could have fun with that. And could cut out at least 10 mins work for themselves here. ✏ Evan Beswick

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which case the answer will still involve you seeing Little Death Club. This collection of weirdos, degenerates and runaways is a family both on and off stage, and one that is wholly inviting to anyone looking to be a part of it. Hosting the evening is the mistress of mayhem, Bernie Dieter. A ringleader whose songs are some of the most crowd pleasing of the evening, she brings a cohesion and order to the chaos. A true variety of acts, this incarnation of the show has the bearded lady and firebreather Kitty Bang Bang, aerialist Beau Sargent, flâneur and raconteur, bon-viveur Marcel

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Lucont, and drag queen and Songbird of South Yorkshire Myra DuBois. Backed by a “weimar-punk jazz” band, the monstrous guitar driven new metal group injects the show with a unique sound. There’s a punk attitude to the evening, kabarett in its spirit. It’s also not afraid to be tender, with an emotional duet between Dieter and Sargent that brings a tear to any dry eye. The beauty of cabaret and variety has always been the something-for-everyone attitude, Little Death Club is no exception. For fans of cabaret and the uninitiated alike, this is a must see show. ✏ James McColl

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Help! I think I might Be Fabulous is the first full Fringe hour from drag prince Alfie Ordinary. Son of a drag queen, this royal lineage continues on in fashion. An hour of songs, puppetry, glitter and comedy, he’s happy to show you why he is so fabulous. It doesn’t take long for the crowd to warm to Alfie. With a sizeable following already, new crowds are quickly brought up to speed. Kickstarting the show is a piano rendition of ‘YMCA’, sung to Alfie’s fictitious schoolmate John in a meeting with the school’s counsellor.

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In fairness to James Phelan, it’s a pretty tough crowd this evening. Saturday drunks who like to misbehave – something any magician would dread, especially in a show relying heavily on audience participation. So let’s take them out of the equation for a second. Phelan is clearly a hardworking

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In this recounting of Alfie’s formative years, the world is a queer utopia. Coming-of-age is hardest on muggle-born classmates like John, who have to hide the sequin uniforms from mum and dad at home. Next is the school-wide assembly rendition of ‘I Am What I Am’. Alfie is there to support John through this difficult

time, encouraging everyone to be their most fabulous. Joined on stage by Whitney Houston and Bette Midler, Alfie is never far from a tune or a change of outfit. He has a gentle stage presence and natural charisma that is guaranteed to win you over, wearing his heart on his sequinned sleeve. ✏ James McColl

performer, who’s dedicated years of his life to mastering sleight of hand, misdirection, cold reading and other feats of mentalism. In isolation these tricks are impressive. He certainly knows his way around a deck of cards, and he’s able to ‘mind-read’ select audience members with astonishing accuracy. But there’s a spark—that slick, confident showmanship we’ve seen in other stage and TV illusionists—missing here. For all his skills, Phelan isn’t the most charismatic magician around. This wouldn’t necessarily be a criticism on its own, but he’s a self-styled “prankster” who ends up struggling to communicate clearly with both the audience and with individuals

pulled on stage. Some tricks take a few goes to explain, which swipes at the ankles of the show’s pacing and robs some big reveals of their impact. Which brings us back to tonight’s restless audience. It’s fair to say that in more confident hands, this unruly crowd might have fallen back in line, without the entertainer needing to resort to teacherly admonishments. Plus, the hope was to write this review—out of respect to Phelan’s individuality as a performer—without mentioning his lineage, but when he calls on his uncle (the great Paul Daniels) a couple of times in the show, it feels crass and (literally) nepotistic, instead of reverent and affectionate. ✏ George Sully

Art Of Believing Flamenco HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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There’s a world of world music to explore at the Fringe, from Japanese drumming, to all-American bluegrass, to West African rap, to traditional Korean sanjo. For a hint of Spanish soul, though, you needn’t look any further than Art Of Believing, an hour of full-throttle flamenco from Andalusia-born,

Misha’s Gang: Strings on Fire HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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This ensemble of brilliant young Russian string players is not only a group of accomplished and internationally renowned classical musicians, although that alone would justify seeing them play. They manage to deliver two seemingly contradictory experiences within a single show: the grandeur of a string orchestra—reduced in number, but

Scotland-based guitarist Daniel Martinez and his seven-strong company. The show, a condensed version of a concert that has been successfully touring the UK since 2017, consists of seven songs, played in a variety of flamenco styles – opening number ‘Mar del Norte’ is a soulful taranta, ‘Jugando con el Tiempo’ a gradually building seguiriya, ‘El Portillo’ a rich, rollicking tango. At the centre of it all is Martinez. Bearded, but with boyish good looks and a soft, swift Spanish accent, he’s a remarkable musician. His left hand spiders up and down the frets of his classical guitar at lightning

speed, while his right plucks and strums with infinite intricacy. Martinez moved to Edinburgh from his native Cordoba in 2015, and, he says, is very happy here. Hence the title of the show’s fourth number, ‘Alegria En Escocia’, which translates simply as Happy In Scotland. A Celtic tinge creeps in in the following number, too, which ends with a spiralling violin solo. Martinez is joined by his company—two support guitarists, two wailing singers, and a violinist—and by his manager and fiancé Gabriela Pouso, who dances gracefully through a few songs. All eyes, though, are on him and his miraculous hands. ✏ Fergus Morgan

certainly not in impact—and the intimacy and sheer fun of a smaller and defiantly less traditional performance. To watch Misha’s Gang— assembled by the Moscow-born violinist and conductor Misha Rachlevsky into one of the very few Russian classical companies that does not rely on state funding—is to appreciate musicians who can both adapt Rossini, Mendelssohn, Copeland and more to the modest surroundings of theSpace, and transcend them. The role of a conductor is an ancient debate, and Misha’s gang will not settle it. However, they provide ample evidence that the personality of the individual holding

the baton can be reflected in the music they direct. Fortunately, Rachlevsky is tremendously able, but also infected with a mischievous quality displayed through the music itself and through his interactions with the audience, which inform but never overwhelm or distract from the beauty of his players. If one requires proof of this, there is a moment in the performance that demonstrates just how much influence a conductor can have on the music with which they are charged. The novelty of this is surprisingly worthwhile, but the gang’s repertoire should please and delight anyone, whether they be familiar with these famous compositions or not. ✏ Sean Bell

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Musicals & Opera Reviews

Reviews

How to Use a Washing Machine HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Musicals & Opera

Those familiar with the style and tropes of a certain kind of musical theatre will be acquainted with the difficulty of summoning its particular feel outside of the Broadway/West End-type surroundings it usually demands. Put bluntly, the close quarters of many Fringe venues are generally an odd fit for big performances. At worst, this can create an awkward dissonance – an attempt at the epic, squashed down into an uncomfortably intimate setting.

With this in mind, How to Use a Washing Machine first of all deserves credit for not only getting past this contradiction, but also using it to the play’s benefit. This is a story which, with intention and wit, treats the domestic, the mundane and the emphatically personal as if the squabbles of two millennial siblings were equal to the Phantom of the Opera’s machinations. This gambit pays off, due to both its rewarding earnestness and the excellent live string quartet which accompanies the drama. Returning to their childhood home

for the last time, a once-close brother and sister reflect on the unexpected, divergent and often disappointing ways their lives and have panned out thus far. Both are sympathetic, yet never at the expense of each other. Narratives themed around unrealised dreams are hardly new at the Fringe, but this play reminds us of why this concept is so rewarding. Although both characters perhaps take too long to establish themselves, leaving the resolution a little rushed, the audience will nonetheless be gratified to see it arrive. ✏ Sean Bell

The Listies: Ickypedia The Listies have the whole family laughing, says Lilac Hastings, age 10 What happens in the show? I’m not sure where to start because so much happens. It is supposed to be a show about making up new words, but I think they forgot that halfway through because then it was just craziness. Describe the show in five words Fun, funny, crazy, amazing, brilliant. Who was your favourite character and why? Matt because he is so silly. Were there any characters you didn’t like? No. What did you like most about the show? I thought it was all great. I laughed the whole way through. My younger sister liked throwing the baby snot monsters.

If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of them? There were some songs played in the background, but you don’t really notice them. What did your grown-up think of the show? My mum was laughing a lot – you could probably hear her five rows in front. It was quite embarrassing. She really liked the bubble section – she was crying with laughter. Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Definitely. Every child needs to see The Listies at least once in their life.

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What didn’t you like about the show? There is nothing to not like.

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KID CRITICS

Lilac Hastings

Reviews

KID CRITICS

Honor Hastings

The Wizard of Oz Honor Hastings, age seven, gets high fived by a scarecrow in this adaptation of Dorothy's adventure What happens in the show? Dorothy gets lost in a strange land after a storm. A good witch tells her she needs to go to the Emerald City to see a wizard called Oz so she can get home. She meets some friends on the way. Describe the show in five words Nice, friendly, good, songs, shoes. Who was your favourite character and why? The Good Witch, because I liked her dress and she was really kind.

Kids

Were there any characters you didn’t like? No.

What did you like most about the show? That Dorothy was able to find so many friends to go with her. I also liked that the scarecrow gave me a high five when he got his brain.

What didn’t you like about the show? I liked it all. What did you think of the songs and music? They were brilliant. I loved the dancing they did to the songs too. What did your grown-up think of the show? My mum said it was nice how they made the story more current by making it about sustainability and being green, but I didn’t really notice that part of the story. She enjoyed the songs and thought they had good lyrics. Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Yes. My friends have probably seen the film, but in real life it is even better. VENUE: DETAILS:

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00:00 Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories VI

The Darkness Distillery

Trans*Atlantic

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We’re Out the House

Project X – Alternative Comedy Collective

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5

00:45

10:50

Ghost Orgy

Tales of Whatever

Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, £7

The Wonder Jam Heroes @ Black Medicine, 17–26 Aug, £5

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Gaming Under the Influence Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

01:00 Late’n’Live

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–27 Aug, not 20, 21, 22, £14–£16

00:05

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–22 Aug, £12.50

Best of the Fest... Later

Currie and Brice: Kraudwerk

Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £14–£16

Comedy Village Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–26 Aug, FREE

00:10 An Evening With Lee Trundle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–26 Aug, £5

Late’n’Live

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £5

ACID! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

00:15

09:00

Scot Roast – Afterburn

BBC at George Heriot’s School

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–27 Aug, £5

BBC, 16–23 Aug, FREE

A&E Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 18–26 Aug, FREE

The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–26 Aug, FREE

The Piece: Now More (Artistically) Accessible – WiP

Comedy

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Lee Kyle – ConQuest Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £99

Snack Chat

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, £99

The Iceberg Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Jack and Barney Are in the Background Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

11:05 Rodgers with a D – The Tommy Rodgers Centenary Celebration theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £6

11:15 A Failuretale Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Comedy Auction Frankenstein Pub, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £0–£7

Ella Al-Shamahi and Susie Steed: Gold Diggers

Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Twat Out of Hell: Deluxe Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Attention, Seeker

Selling Like Hot Takes

Global Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Paradise in Augustines, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £8–£9

10:20

11:25

Freshly Squeezed Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Westdal and Hayward Need Work PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 16 Aug, FREE

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10.50

Daphna Baram: Cracking Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

11:35 3’s Comedy – Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Long Man Doing Short Jokes, Short Man Doing Long Jokes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

11:40 Harry Baker: I Am 10,000 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Neighbourhood Watch Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, £8

Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy

Meddlin’ Kids

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–26 Aug, FREE

The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret

Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk

10:10

Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10

Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe

11:45

The Improverts

Reality Sucks! HHH

Paradise in Augustines, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–18 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

Amusical Club Night

Clothesline

Unladylike

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Bedlam Theatre, 16–26 Aug, £8

Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16 Aug, FREE

Mumblebrag

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses

Morgan Rees and Riordan DJ: Coming to Terms

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50

BBC: The Afternoon Show

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, £5

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £5

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Rogue Two: Burns and Moore

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–18 Aug, FREE

A Comedy Brunch 3

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–25 Aug, FREE

11:00

10:00 BBC, 19–21 Aug, FREE

Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room

00:30

Tree Fiddy

10:40

11:30

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £10

Tales from the Balkans Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16 Aug, FREE

Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

11:50 Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

11:55 David Callaghan: Dance Like No One’s David Callaghan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Bony Tony’s Silly Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

12:00 This Is Your Trial (FF) Frankenstein Pub, 16–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7

Stand-Up Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16 Aug, FREE

The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £11.50

Black Sheep Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Let’s Get Tough Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8

Who’s the Daddy Pig?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5–£7

Amy Annette: What Women Want Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too)

Funny Feckers

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 18, FREE

Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK

Gethin Alderman is: Sublime Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aah, It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages) Heroes @ Boteco, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £5

Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10

Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Golden Path Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Michael Legge: The Idiot

HHH

The Stand Comedy Club, 16–26 Aug, £12

Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content HHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

12:05 Bony Tony’s Silly Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Cave Women: Work in Progress Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £5–£6

Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £10

❤ Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton HHHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Joe Wells Doesn’t Want to Do Political Comedy Anymore! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Listings

Rachel Creeger – Hinayni! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £9–£10

Don’t Bother Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 24, £9–£10

Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Just These Please: Suitable

Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Clash of the Tight Tens

Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

News@1066

12:20

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Peeved with Peter E Davidson

Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

David McIver: Teleport

12:15 Elliot Steel: Merked

HHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Sir David and His Animals

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Impulse Control HHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, FREE

Stuart Laws Is All In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–18 Aug, £5.50

12:25

❤ Tony Law: Identifies HHHH

And They Played Shang-A-Lang

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £10

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level

Paul Foxcroft: Debut

HHH

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Babes / Pigs in the City

In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck

12:30

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Final Cut

Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch! Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £8

Grave St Claire: Hard Bop Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£12

Deepu Dileepan: The Outsider PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Krystal Evans: Fishnets Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £3

Well, That Was Weird...

12:40 Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Big Wendy Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £7

Boycotted: Comedy from Israel H

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £7.50

The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

12:45 Richard Stott: Right Hand Man Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn’t, You Decide!)

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £7–£9

Bargain Hunt and Gather

Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Jumping Off the Bandwagon

Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, £5

12:35 Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Look Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users

Trevor Lock’s Community Circle

Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £8

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

12:50

I Think I Might Be... New Romantic!

Edy Hurst: Hurst Schmurst Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Decree Absolute Vodka Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8

DCGK’s Chicken Box Pencil Case Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

12:55 Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

13:00 Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £15–£17

Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

So Close Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive HH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–17 Aug, £5

A Little R and R PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–24 Aug, £9

MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ross Smith: Crying/ Shame Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–26 Aug, £5

Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests) Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Generation Whyyy? Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8

13:05 The Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Andrew White: Retirement Tour Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Daniel Audritt: Better Man Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5–£6

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53 MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £3

Rice and Chips Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say HH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £6

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

13:15

Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball

Girl Stuff

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–20 Aug, FREE

Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Girl Code Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Obsolete Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £10

Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, £7

Jamie Fraser and Maybe Someone Else, I Don’t Know PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

13:25

Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £12.50

Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16 Aug, £13

Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five

Will Penswick: Nørdic(k)

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 19–25 Aug, £6

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Bugle Live

13:55

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6.50

The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £16

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 16–25 Aug, FREE

13:35

Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones

I Can Cure... (With Subtext)

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe

Shut It Down Carol

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 22, £12.50

Jessica Fostekew: Hench Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–19 Aug, £15

Friend Pleasance at EICC, 16–17 Aug, £13

Richard Herring: RHLSTP The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16

Ashes: A Comedy Showdown

Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

Mix and Match Wine Package

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please! Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Charmian Hughes: What-not Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Impromptu Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Mista Lorraine

Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP)

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, £5

13:30

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £12

The Dark Side of Research

Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls

13:50

HHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Board Game Smackdown

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £6

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £5

Blazers Presents Comedy

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

How To Not Die

Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain

Jokes with Mark Simmons Podcast: Live

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Interviewing Electric Frog

HHH

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Raul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan

Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Will Rowland: Cocoon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Broken Toys Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

A Many Splendored Thing Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–18 Aug, £7

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Not My Audience! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 16–25 Aug, FREE

13:40 The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio Show theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £10

Arthur Smith: SYD Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £13.50

Alcohol-Free Craic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club, 16–25 Aug, £12

Character Building Experience Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

13:45 That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Got a Text: A Musical Parody Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Ahir Shah: Dots Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7–£8

Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Stuart McPherson: Mr. November Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Good Morning Nation Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13.50

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Steff Todd: Reality Check Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, £5

Axolotl: A Poetry Reading PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £9

Pindos Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

It Takes Three to Tango

14:00

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist

Smashing

theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50

Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply

Planet Bar, 16–17 Aug, FREE

Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir HH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £8–£9

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

14:05

Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical Parenting

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

Georgie Morrell: Eyecon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant! Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – Lightfoot James Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, Various dates from 16 Aug to 23 Aug, £5

Am I Blue Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £10

Ed MacArthur: Humoresque PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Listings

13:20

Peter Brush: Present. Tense.

Mickey Sharma – Pervert!

Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12

14:10 Andy Field’s Funeral Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Internationally Unknown Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

14:15 Once an Emo, Always an Emo Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE

Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists! Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

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13:10

Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 16 Aug to 26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Classic Joke Club Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Two Mums – One Cup Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 17–22 Aug, FREE

14:20 ❤ Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Evil Queen Rules! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Darius Davies: Persian of Interest Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

14:25 SHTF – Stuff Hits The Fan Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Nina Gilligan – Broad Shoulders Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £7

Robin Grainger: Dog Complex HHH

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

14:30 Plans Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Comedy

101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack HHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

It’s All Going To Be OK – Free Festival

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Agatha Is Missing! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Colin Chadwick: Quick Thinker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 16–24 Aug, FREE

14:45

Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved

Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

15:00

Mistaken

Oxford Revue – Free

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems

Cyclopath

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

BadFamiliar by Matt Davis

Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!

I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £10

A Booklover’s Comedy Show

15:05

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50

Socially Awkward Penguin

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Sets in the City – Free

Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party HHH

Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £5

The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £7

Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool

Cool Jokes/Hot Takes

Improv On Demand PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–24 Aug, FREE

14:40 Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–24 Aug, FREE

❤ Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Still Got It!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 16 Aug, FREE

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Rob Kemp – Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer

Confessions of a Taxi Driver

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Audible Live

14:50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Madame Señorita: Espousa Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, £5

Alternative Comedy Cabaret - CANCELLED PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

CANCELLED - David Ephgrave: Niche Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Markus Birdman – Last White Christmas PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, £5

Will Mars: Phoenix

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £12

Stand-Up Philosophy – Free

My Uncomfortable Wardrobe

Gráinne Maguire: Guys... It’s Problematic

Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere

Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

14:35

Christopher Bliss: The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–24 Aug, £7

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–25 Aug, £5

Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–19 Aug, FREE

The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

100% Cotton Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £10

Lucy Frederick: Famtastic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Izzy Mant: Polite Club

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Rob Auton: The Time Show HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Bloom Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Emer Maguire: Hilarious Humans

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

Random Bag Check PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

15:10 Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

15:15 Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics H

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Barely There Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour

Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP)

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £5

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Sense of Tumour Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

I’m Here, All Weak Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 16 Aug, FREE

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

My Finest Hour PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £8

Shit Socialist Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £7

Will Duggan: Class Two

15:20 Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 16–26 Aug, £12

Peter Fleming: Have You Seen? Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

Pottervision The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 17, £10

❤ Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More

HHHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

Glitter Business Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Sarah Lee: Half a Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 21 Aug, £5

❤ Jonny Pelham: Off Limits HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5–£7.50

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, £5

15:30 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50

Michael Fabbri: Rebooted Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Children of the Quorn™ Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £5

George Fouracres: Gentlemon HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 18, £8.50–£10.50

Paul Savage: Shame Spiral PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8–£10

Could It Be Magic?

Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover

Best in Class

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8.50

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £6

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show

Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–24 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, FREE

BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 20 Aug, FREE

Listings

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–24 Aug, £5

Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Sh*t Hipsters Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Motherhood: A Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Cowboys, Country Music and Queers Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50

Immoral Maze Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 16–25 Aug, FREE

15:35 Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth

15:40 Adele Cliff: Undershare Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

Sundeep Bhardwaj: Father Figure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber Echo Bravo Heroes @ The Hive, 16–24 Aug, not 20, £5

Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Limmy: Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–18 Aug, £16

15:45 So What? Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Not Quite Mass

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

15:50 Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree HHH

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £6

Too Ugly for Love Island

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £5

Vince Atta: Massive Attack

Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–18 Aug, £10

Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived HHH

(L)awfully Wedded

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £13–£15

16:00 Ruby Wax: How To Be Human

All Together Irish

Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–24 Aug, £10

HHH

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 19 Aug, FREE

Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon Planet Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Dog Tales PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 18–23 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £14

Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog HH

Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything

Science Idiot

15:55

Greg Proops: The Smartest Man in the World

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £7

Myra DuBois: Dead Funny Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, not 22, 23, £10–£11

FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up

Pleasance Courtyard, 18–24 Aug, £16–£18

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Bart Freebairn: Maximum Delicious

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50

Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes

Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, George Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala

Working Class Zero

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£8.50

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 16–25 Aug, £5

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 16–18 Aug, £8

Sketch You Up!

Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege

Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert

Chris Betts vs the Audience

Musical Comedy Guide Showcase

Aboriginal Comedy Allstars

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £9

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

2 Truths, 1 Lie

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, not 22, FREE Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

Nicky Wilkinson: Game On

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £12

HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £8

It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20 Aug, £5

Lucie Pohl’s Immigrant Jam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £10.50

The Latebloomers: Scotland! Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Crybabies: Danger Brigade Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, £5

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

❤ Glenn Moore: Love Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £16.50

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, £8

Maureen Younger: Out of Sync PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

BBC: Susan Calman’s Fringe Benefits BBC, 17 Aug, FREE

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Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)

Dr Lara Love: Love Leans In

Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?

Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP)

Lucy Pearman: Baggage

George Egg: Movable Feast

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 18, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £8

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Gusset Grippers

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12.50

Samantha Pressdee: Covered PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £10

Esther Manito: Crusade

HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

16:05 Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–23 Aug, FREE

Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 16–25 Aug, FREE

16:10 Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen: Get a Room Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All

Comedy

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Twonkey’s Ten Year Twitch Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

16:15 Christopher KC: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Rice

HHH

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Cerys Nelmes’ 80s Gameshow Mash-Up Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE

James McNicholas: The Boxer HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy HHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Ferris Bueller’s Way Of... PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Lola and Jo: Escape

HHH

Talk a Big Game Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist With Dyspraxia 2 Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–18 Aug, FREE

16:20 The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12.50–£13.50

Auto-Correbt: Sight Unseen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £9

Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

16:25 Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

11+

Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him

Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!! HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

❤ Olga Koch: If/Then HHHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

Martin Pilgrim: I Write Jokes Not Tragedies Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad. Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, £5

Google Me Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6.50

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £12

Miller and Salmon: Genesis

The Three Deaths of Ebony Black

16:35

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues

Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Club Sets Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash

Sid Singh: American Refugee

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Great Outdoors

Thomas Green: Tweak

Steve Rannazzisi – Please Forget

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire – Blindfold Cliff-Edge Unicorn Brexit Britain Bogus Prime Minister Democrageddon American Elections Cricket World Cup General State of the World Specials

Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7

Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic

Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £14–£15

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

16:30

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Culture

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Giants Are Fjörd

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

HHH

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–26 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, FREE

AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 18–25 Aug, £5

Rosco McClelland – Magic Belly Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–17 Aug, FREE

16:40 West End Producer – Free Willy Assembly Checkpoint, 16–26 Aug, £12–£14

Oleg Denisov: Russian Troll Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, £5

theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

16:45 A**Hole New World Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 17–26 Aug, £5

Aaaaaaaaand Now! Roger Swift’s Machine Pun Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Haha Cool Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

The Mars & Lee Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ali Brice: Bin Wondering

Bumper Blyton

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16–25 Aug, £5

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Jenny Bede: The Musical

Take and Fade Away

#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–24 Aug, £9

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y

Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow’s Office

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

❤ John Kearns: Double HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

HHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, £5

Bristol Revunions: Party Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £5

Joe McArdle is: Theo McCabe Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy

Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £8

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £13–£15

Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam HHH

Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 16–24 Aug, FREE

16:50

Lucy Farrett: Lois

Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Mark Simmons – One-Linerererer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Skydive to Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Age Fright: 35 and Counting PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £11.50

Pussies

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 17, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 24, FREE

Generation Whyyy?

Garrett Millerick: Smile

Imagination Workshop, 16–22 Aug, £8

Rory O Hanlon – Confidence PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, FREE

16:55 Jane Hill: All I Want Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

17:00 Nobody Likes You When You’re 33 Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £7

Geeks, Stand Up! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £7

Lenny Sherman: Have Fun Frankenstein Pub, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Irish Comedy Invasion Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Darcie Silver – I Know You Are

HHH

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–24 Aug, £10

Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

17:10

Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Cally Beaton: Invisible

17:25

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

How to Hide a Body in New York

The Explainers

Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s Sake HHH

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Comedy Freak Show

Which Princess Are You?

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

17:30

Absolute Zero: Jez Watts Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Jacob Hawley: Faliraki

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12.50

Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Joel Dommett: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 18–24 Aug, £8

Stand Up for Your Planet Assembly Hall, 19 Aug, £19

Iain Stirling: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–17 Aug, £8

Men With Coconuts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Mark and Haydn: Llaugh

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

17:20

Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair

Jim Campbell: Beef

Juliette Burton: Defined

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 16–25 Aug, £5

17:15 Simply Filthy Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £5

Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £13–£15

Maria Shehata: Hero Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, FREE

17:05

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6.50

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes

The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me

Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable

Ian Smith: Half-Life

Alison Spittle: Mother of God

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £11–£13

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Maisie Adam: Hang Fire HH

Ben Van der Velde – Fablemaker

Made in Spain 2

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £6

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–18 Aug, £10

Dan Cardwell: Recall

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs

Planet Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep Assembly George Square Studios, 16–24 Aug, £12–£14

Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Linda: Easy Killing Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £11–£13

John-Luke Roberts: After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!! Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£12

Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 24, £10–£11

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–24 Aug, £5–£6

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

James Barr: Thirst Trap

Ashley Storrie: Hysterical

17:35

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Funny Women on the Fringe

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Francesco De Carlo: Winning Hearts and Minds

❤ Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention HHHH

Assembly Roxy, 19–23 Aug, £11

Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Jimmy McGhie

Planet Verth

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 16–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–24 Aug, FREE

17:40

Goose: Ctrl+T

I’m Coming

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £8

Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £8

Andrew O’Neill – We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts

Privates: A Sperm Odyssey

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, £5

❤ Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!

Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me HHH

HHHH

Hyper-Nice

Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5–£7 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Neil O’Rourke: Thump PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Witch Hunt Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames Pleasance Dome, 16–24 Aug, £12.50–£14

Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec

HHH

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

17:45 Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Sam See: Coming Out Loud Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

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Hero Worship

Listings

Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind

10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew

Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £11–£13

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–24 Aug, FREE

I’m Afraid of Americans

Jamie Dalgleish: Humans Are Evil

❤ Fern Brady: Power and Chaos HHHH

C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Sarah Keyworth: Pacific

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £6

18:00 Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 22 Aug, £190.50

Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock Supper With Salt’n’Sauce Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

James Bran: Hack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8

Monster Gay PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do? Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £12

The Sacrifice

Scott Gibson: White Noise

Mark Cram: Centaur PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

18:10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 16–24 Aug, not 22, FREE

NewsRevue

Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £8

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £15.50–£17.50

Catherine Bohart: Lemon

Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £13–£17

Assembly Hall, 16–18 Aug, £15

Notflix: Originals

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Stephanie Laing: Quitter

Hesitation Remarks

Milton Jones: Milton Impossible

Luke McQueen: Bad

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £15

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13

17:55

Viking Millennials

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 16–24 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 19–25 Aug, £5

Jake Baker: No Success Like Failure

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Katie Pritchard: Storm Stud

David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley

Jack Carroll and Friends

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 16–24 Aug, FREE

The Great Health Con

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–20 Aug, £12

Caitlin Cook: Death Wish

Annie McGrath: Shepherd

Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face

Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

James Meehan – Never Better

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

17:50

Dave Fensome: ADHDave

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Fred MacAulay in Conversation

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11.50

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Faking It

Dummy

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21 Aug, £15

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11.50

Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete’s Foot) Live!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16 Aug, £5

For He’s a Jolly Goodfellow

Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 16–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, not 18, FREE

Michael Brunström: World of Sports

Ed Gamble: Work in Progress

18:05

The Great British Bake Offenders

A Time Slot with Ger Staunton

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–25 Aug, £5

Football, Feminism and Everything in Between: Live with Alastair and Grace Campbell

The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Comedy

Mike Newall: Re:Newall

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7–£10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £9

The Next Next Big Thing

Tom Parry: Parryoke!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Kelsey De Almeida: I’m Very Different People (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Bad Clowns: Cult Classic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol

I Predict a Wyatt!

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Shaggers

18:25 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £13

Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Never Again Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made Along the Way Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

18:30 Rhys James: Snitch Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£13

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50–£15

Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Improvengers: Pretendgame

18:20

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £8

Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This

Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist HHH

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, £5

AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–24 Aug, £10

Kate Lucas: Is Selling Herself

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £12–£14

Richard Fry: O Starry Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–18 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6

Phil Ellis: Au Revoir

Hayley Ellis: Nobody Puts Hayley in a Corner

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, £5

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £12

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–18 Aug, £5

Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £12

18:15

Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter

Alexander Fox: Snare

Terry Alderton: Bingo Bango

Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban

Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £8

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10

Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24

Larry Dean: Fandan

Trans Vision Scamp

The Last Supper: 7 Deadly Sins

Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £12

Nick Offerman: All Rise

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–18 Aug, FREE

You May Also Like Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £17

Will Adamsdale: Facetime HH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Love/Hate Actually Imagination Workshop, 16–26 Aug, £10

Harriet Braine: Les Admirables HHH

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

George Rigden: Spooning with Uri Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5–£6

Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

❤ Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty HHHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £8

Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Fanny’s The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £9

Fred Cooke: Fred Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Aussiental

Pleasance Courtyard, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £14–£15

Eric Lampaert: Yum Yum Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jay Lafferty: Jammy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 18–23 Aug, FREE

Listings

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

Gary Little – Kidding Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, £5

Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15

Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Comic Relief Live Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug, £16.50

Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £11.50–£14

30 Minute Musicals Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked Before Bedlam Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

Kieran Hodgson: Maestro Pleasance Courtyard, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15

Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £14–£16

Bad Aunts Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Mocking a Murderer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Kieran Hodgson: Lance Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £14–£15

18:35 Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Lenk Is Trash Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12.50

❤ Stevie Martin: Hot Content HHHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

18:40 Siblings: The Siblinginging

Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour

Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–24 Aug, FREE

English Speaking Comedy Borsch Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Liam Withnail: Homecoming

Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death)

18:45

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £7

The Joy of Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Fast Fringe

Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman

Lucy Porter: Be Prepared Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £16

Bananas Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Harry and Chris: This One’s for the Aliens Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–24 Aug, £10–£12

Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £14–£16

Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13

MARVELus: Awww Snap! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Catching Up Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, £7

Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu

Alex Kealy: Rationale

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Shattered

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10 Pleasance Dome, 16–24 Aug, £8–£11.50

Improvised Director’s Cut

Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £8.50

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...

Aunty HH

The Stand Comedy Club, 16–24 Aug, £12

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Good, the Bad and the Irish Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

The Ticked Boxes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Eh? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Lateef Lovejoy – Life, Times and Society’s Crimes Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16 Aug, FREE

18:50 Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Fraser Gibson: Self-ish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–25 Aug, £7

Chris Parker: Camp Binch Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£11

60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Jackman and Bones

Raymond Mearns – Confessions of a Control Freak! Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–18 Aug, £5

Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture

19:00

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £5

Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8

Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £13–£15

❤ Kai Samra: Underclass HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Vikki Stone: Song Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£12

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing HHH

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £10–£14

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder HH

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Rosie Jones: Backward

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £10–£13

Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy Punchlines

BBC, 21 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab

Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£16

Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Spamalot Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £13.50

❤ Sophie Duker: Venus HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7–£9

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 16–25 Aug, £5

Adam Flood and Blake AJ: Joke Boys PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate Bastards Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

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Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Henning Wehn: Get on With It

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe

Ivo Graham: The Game of Life

Matt Hoss: Here Comes Your Man

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Sasha Ellen: Pickle

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Rotten

Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!

Randolph Cliff, 28 Aug, FREE

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 16–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12

Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Sarah Kendall: Paper Planes HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

19:05 Shakespeare! The Panto

Comedy

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

About Time / Bully

Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well HH

BBC: Front Row BBC, 16 Aug, FREE

Pierre Novellie: You’re Expected to Care HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Stephen Carlin: Pickwickian Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary

The Secret Policeman’s Tour

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, £5

Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25

Bring Back the 80s

Ari Eldjárn: Eagle Fire Iron

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £8

Eric Andre: The Legalize Everything Tour

Daniel Sloss: X

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time

Amy Howerska: Serious Face

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–24 Aug, £12–£14

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tommy Tiernan: Paddy Crazy Horse

Jokers in the Pack

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–24 Aug, not 22, £17.50

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Johannes Dullin Plays the Devil Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Brain Rinse

AAA Stand-Up

19:15 Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

The LOL Word Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £7

James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–26 Aug, £5

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

Martin Mor – Instigator Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Rob Copland: Strange Jam

Three Menopausal Maids theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Business Casual

Family Secrets PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Expelled from Eton Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–17 Aug, FREE

Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Christianity and Me

The Community Centre!

Jake Farrell: Limits

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£12

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Edinburgh Playhouse , 16–17 Aug, £20.50

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £9–£10

Adam Rowe: Pinnacle

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Drag Queen Stole My Dress

Martin Bearne and Joe McTernan: Milk and Two

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £7.50

Straight Outta Estonia

Ew Girl, You Nasty

Where Are You Really From?

The Queen’s Hall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £16.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£12

19:10

The 2 Mouthed Men Show Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–17 Aug, £8

19:25 Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

19:30 David O’Doherty: Ultrasound

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £15

An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–24 Aug, FREE

I, Tom Mayhew

Jack Rooke: Love Letters

Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5–£10

John Robins: Hot Shame Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £14–£15

Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25

So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final

19:35

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50

Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–24 Aug, £5

Assembly George Square, 16–26 Aug, £15–£16

Arson in the Queen’s Swans

101 Comedy Club – Free

Steve Bugeja: Single Mum

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6–£8

Alex Black’s Record Collection

Neil Delamere: End of Watch

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 18, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free

Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom

Best Boy in Ireland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

Sad Acts Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

19:20 Craig Hill: Bottoms Up! Pleasance at EICC, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£18.50

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress

Steve Bennett – Everything is F*cked

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, FREE

On It Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Harry Stachini – Tigers Don’t Cry Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

19:40 Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Andrew Maxwell: All Talk Underbelly, George Square, 16–25 Aug, £13.50–£15

Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Paul McCaffrey: Lemon

Sean Patton: Contradickhead HH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £11–£13

Brown Panther – Ruven Govender Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be Less Racist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £10

Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, not 23, £10–£11

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £8

Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch

Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Goddess

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16–24 Aug, £7

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £7.50

❤ Desiree Burch:

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Desiree’s Coming Early!

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

John Pendal: Monster

HHHHH

Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–25 Aug, FREE

This is Mark Ritchie: Honest to God Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, not 23, £10–£11

Acting Natural Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

19:50 Scummy Mummies Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

❤ Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders HHHH

19:45

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £11–£14

Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best

Still Life by Noël Coward

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–18 Aug, £10

❤ Jen Brister – Under Privilege HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7–£8

Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Andrew Roper – Break Point Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 24, FREE

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

19:55 Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–24 Aug, not 17, FREE

Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Dave Green: Guest Bed Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

20:00 Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now l’m Here

❤ Susie McCabe:

Passport and Prozac

Domestic Disaster

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Godley on the Fringe

HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

❤ Josie Long: Tender HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

20:15

The Best of Scottish Comedy

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7–£10

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang

Huge Davies: The Carpark

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£10

Ben Pope: Dancing Bear

HHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14.50

Aaron McCann: Happy Enough? Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £8–£9

Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£15

#Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’ Criminals PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC

Insane In The Men Brain Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £7

❤ Diane Chorley: Modern Love HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 22–26 Aug, FREE

❤ Garry Starr Conquers Troy HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Javier Jarquin is Boring AF Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £15–£16

BBC: The Now Show

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12–£15.50

BBC, 22 Aug, FREE

Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor)

Heroes @ Boteco, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Edinburgh Playhouse , 18–19 Aug, £17

Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, £9

Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

The Dots Imagination Workshop, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £8.50

Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Lolbot Wars Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–25 Aug, £10–£13

An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Thunderc*nt

The Salon

Traitor

❤ Max & Ivan: Commitment HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £10–£13

Chris Washington: Raconteur

Matt Parker: Humble Pi

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Andy Barr: The Ruby Heroes @ Black Medicine, 16–25 Aug, £5

❤ London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

An Evening with Savvy B The Stand Comedy Club, 19 Aug, £9

The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £13.50–£16.50

Viggo the Viking HHH

Eddy Brimson: Life Coaching for Arseholes

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £5

20:25

Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10.50

Half the Man – Michael Livesley Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tami Stone – My Funny Bits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £7

Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–24 Aug, FREE

20:05

The Pursuit of Happiness

Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–24 Aug, £8

Marc Jennings: Getting Going

Naomi Karavani: Dominant

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £7

Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice

Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite! PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £10–£12

20:30 Sunil Patel: White Knight Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John Pleasance at EICC, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £22.50

Sara Barron: Enemies Closer Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Connie Wookey: Denied Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Lewis Costello x Hayden Dean Allmark Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner

20:10

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £13–£14

Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss

Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £5

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Megazoid

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Suzi Ruffell: Dance

Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For

20:20

HHHH

Bald Man Sings Rihanna

Manhunt 2: Big Mood

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist

Bedlam Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Australian Beauty

Tom Cashman – XYZ

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Brodi Snook: Handful

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £13–£14

theSpace @ Niddry St, Various dates from 16 Aug to 31 Aug, £15

Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

Bitch and Nerd Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Like Everyone’s Watching

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£11

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £14

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Arnab Chanda: Boy From Earth

Listings

Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£10

Tony Cantwell: Live Feed Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £6

Concerning Bennet PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £13–£14

Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Sleeping Trees: Silly Funny Boys Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 16–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12

Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Canadian Club Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £6

Tiziano La Bella: Yes We Can’t

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Cool Story Bro Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ed and Joz’s Deleted Scenes Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’ Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Pope’s Addiction Clinic Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, £5

Ian Lane – Paperweight Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves

Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 16–25 Aug, FREE

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–25 Aug, £10

Assembly George Square, 19–25 Aug, £16–£18

Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

There Will Be Cake

Gary Lamont: Fancy a Stiff One?

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–22 Aug, £14

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

❤ Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk HHHH

Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe

Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, £5–£10

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Omid Singh: Beginning To End Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6.50

❤ Tom Ballard: Enough HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7–£10

A Long Time Coming Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £7

Sex Shells

Spring Day: When Push Comes to Shove – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

21:10 Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50

Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–20 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

Justin Matson: Try Harder

Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £7–£9

Pete Heat: Massive Wizard

BBC, 19 Aug, FREE

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations

All-Star Comedy Cabaret

Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Andrew Sim: Am I Queer Enough?

Alice Fraser: Mythos

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, £5

Double Denim: Adventure Show Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Jimeoin: Ramble On! Pleasance at EICC, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£18.50

Sam Lake and Chloe Petts: Household Essentials Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £7

20:35

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19 Aug, £12

Emancipation

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Headless

Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks

Daniel Cook and Rose Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups

Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £5

20:45

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £7

Comedy

Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit HHH

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!

20:40

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £5

Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices Frankenstein Pub, 16–25 Aug, £10

Dino Wiand – Half Trans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Actually, Totes Amaze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 16–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 16–24 Aug, £10

Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 16–25 Aug, FREE

20:50 Tony Cowards: Stepdad Jokes Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, £9

Naomi McDonald: Copycat Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Phil Jerrod: Unrelatable Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

20:55 Tony Basnett: 28 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Jack Barry: Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

21:00 Matt Richardson: Imposter Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £5

Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE

Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–21 Aug, £12.50–£14

Ronni Ancona and Lewis MacLeod: Just Checking In Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–17 Aug, £15.50

Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 16–25 Aug, £16–£18.50

Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Good Evening Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

❤ Laura Davis: Better

Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 16–25 Aug, £5

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, £17–£18.50

Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Blindingly Obvious C venues – C cubed, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Foil Arms and Hog – Swines Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £14.50–£17.50

Frank Skinner Live

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 22, £11.50–£12.50

Assembly George Square, 16–18 Aug, £17.50

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

(No) Money in the Bank

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£14

Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £16–£17

❤ Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please? HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8–£9

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Phil Nichol: Too Much Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–18 Aug, £7

Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25 Aug, £20

The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £16

21:05 Legs

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £15

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5–£8

Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days

Goodbye Mr President

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, £12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Dead Than a Coward

HHHH 21:15

All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

BattleActs! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Tiff Stevenson: Mother

HHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £10

Angus Brown: Everest Imagination Workshop, 16–25 Aug, £5

The Adventures of the Bearded Lady Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Wait... Let’s Have Fun! Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7

Leo Kearse: Transgressive HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13

Even More Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Nick Doody: I Will Milk You PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

63 NUWORKS

COUNTER CULTURE ‘WOW! WHAT A SHOW!

Listings

THAT BASTARD BRECHT

theatre made in australia

‘for anyone looking to break ground in theatre today’

FREAK SHOW

FAWK!

www.nuworkstheatre.com

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Needle Dicks Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE

John Robertson: The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required! Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Micky Bartlett: Love It! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

21:20

Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £12–£13

Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £11–£12

The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

21:25 Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £10

Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party! HHH Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 16–25 Aug, £8

Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain

Secret Dinosaur Cult Live

Improvisers Assemble!

Bedlam Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

Vote Dr Phil?

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £5.50

Austentatious presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care Underbelly, George Square, 19 Aug, £12.50

Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15

A Mad Ron Rhodes Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £14–£16

Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella Underbelly, George Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14.50–£15.50

Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour

21:30

The Death Hilarious: Razer

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Spontaneous Potter

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Len Blanco: Firing Blancs

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–24 Aug, £5

Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour

Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Johnny White Really-Really: Unending Torment!

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Nina Conti: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £12

Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 16–25 Aug, £5

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£14

99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free

Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Underbelly, George Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Better Than Dying Alone

Tom Walker: Very Very

Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice

HHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £12–£13

Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–24 Aug, £7

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

The Comedy Reserve

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £7.50–£10

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 16–24 Aug, £12–£15

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 20, £12

Brown Guys, Grey Skies PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–21 Aug, £11.50

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin Pleasance Courtyard, 16–24 Aug, £12

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

❤ Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again? Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £5

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You

Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

21:40 ❤ Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Goodbear: Dougal Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£13

The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15.50–£17.50

Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–26 Aug, FREE

21:45 ❤ Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Stephen Carlin: Post Rational Carlin Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Anything F*cking Goes... Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter

21:35

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 21, £5–£10

Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Carte Blanche with Uncle Charlotte and Aunt Scott Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £7–£9

Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink! Assembly Roxy, 16–24 Aug, £12–£14

21:50 The Stevenson Experience: Takes One to Know One Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Dan AG: Sloth Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, £5

Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Totally Plucked Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

21:55 Radical Honesty Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Frank Foucault: Desk Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £8

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❤ Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness HHHH

22:00

Holly Morgan: Is a Witch. Get Her!

The Nasty Show Australia

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 16–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12

Grant Busé: Touché Busé Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show Heroes @ The Hive, Various dates from 18 Aug to 25 Aug, £5

Bumble Me Tinders – Dating Horror Stories Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14

Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Jimeoin: Ramble On... Some More!

Comedy

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £7

Best of Musical Comedy Awards

Joe Sutherland: Sour PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Shit-Faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass

David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

The Antique Jokes Show

22:25 The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Omar Ibrahim: Awokening Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

22:30

Free Footlights

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6.50

Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Chubby White’s Variety Night

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50

22:15

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

The Best of Northern

Comedy Shorts

Russian Roulette

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Madame Komondor Will See You Now Sweet Grassmarket, 16–24 Aug, not 21, £7

Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 16–17 Aug, £10

The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes

Marcel Lucont: No. Dix

Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 19–20 Aug, £14

22:05

Comedy Striptease

The Stand Comedy Club 2, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £8

Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript!

The Stand Comedy Club, 16–25 Aug, £12

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £11–£14

I’m OKayfabe

22:10

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Funny for a Girl

This Is Your Trial

Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy

Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25 Aug, £11

Pleasance at EICC, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final

theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £6.50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £5

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £8

Frankenstein Pub, 16–26 Aug, £7

Jayne Edwards Is Top Bodybuilder Brian

The Shambles

Cülture Elité

Hard Truths – An Improvised Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £8

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

MOTHER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Spa Day Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to... Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 22, £10.50–£11.50

Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–23 Aug, FREE

Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £10

Scot Roast Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, £5

❤ Dreamgun: Film Reads HHHH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

22:20 Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Danny O’Brien: Reformer Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 18–22 Aug, £10

Daz Black Live

Whose Mind is it Anyway? Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Hate ‘n’ Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £5

Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £17.50

Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 16–25 Aug, £6

Thrones! The Musical Parody

Comedy Night at the Museum

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £15–£16

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50

Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years

Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff

Mr Thing

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

JJ Whitehead: Five Times I Lied to Myself

Bob Slayer: Wrote the Copy for This Show in March When He Didn’t Have the Foggiest Notion of What Might Happen on Any Given Day in August, He Still Doesn’t Really, but At Least He’s Found This Snappy Title

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £7.50–£9.50

Bobby Mair: Cockroach

Andrew Doyle: Exodus

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16–25 Aug, £5

General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe Just the Tonic at The Tron, 16–25 Aug, £6

Stay Loyal to the Royals theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 16–25 Aug, £5

An Audience with Yasmine Day

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–25 Aug, £10–£14

Princess Party

Fright Bus Service

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Necrobus, 16–25 Aug, £13

Never Heard of It

Laser Kiwi

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £13–£15

Imaginary Porno Charades

The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £8

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Bad Boys Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Alfie Brown: Imagination HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7–£10

22:35 Coconut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–25 Aug, £12

Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Liza Treyger: In the Weeds

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Tarot Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

22:55

23:10

The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included)

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Niteskreen Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £7

Divet Show: The Greatest Divas

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50

23:00

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Serena Flynn: Baubo Goddess of Filth Heroes @ Black Medicine, 16–25 Aug, £5

Misspelled Youth

Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Pamela’s Palace Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Two Little Dickheads: Kapow! Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15

Police Cops: Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 17 Aug, £13

The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Inside the Comedian

A Night of Wikipedilove

Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug, £9

Fright Bus Service

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug, £10

❤ Diane Chorley: Down the Flick HHHH

WiFi Wars’ Video Game Takeover!

Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

Snort HHH

Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Woman’s Cock (and Other #1 Hits)

Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again

theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–26 Aug, not 19, 20, FREE

2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang

Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward

Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13

Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50

BBC: British-Born Chinese HH

Amusical

Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 16–26 Aug, FREE

Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

23:20 ❤ Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro HHHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–25 Aug, £5

Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold

Tim Key

Nancy Clench: Agony Aunt

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Twist...? She’s Gorgeous

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£11.50

Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £7

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–17 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 18–22 Aug, FREE

Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

FootDarks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–18 Aug, £11

The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

Assembly Hall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£15

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–25 Aug, £5

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £16

Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me?

Stout, Pale and Bitter

Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

23:55

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

Comedy Queers

Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies HH

23:45

Underbelly, George Square, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50–£15

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16–25 Aug, £5

Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog

AAA Stand-Up Late

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Sam Nicoresti: UFO

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In

23:40

The Stand Comedy Club, 18–22 Aug, £12

Questing Time

Kevin McGahern: Taking Off

HHHH

Donald Alexander: The Great

Political Animal

Southampton Stand-Up Showcase

22:50

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

❤ Catherine Cohen: The

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

23:30

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–26 Aug, £5

The Paddock

Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £5

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, £5

Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form

Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?

3 Rule-Abiding Rebels

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3 Americans Get Too Personal

22:45

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Francis Boulle and Friends

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £11–£12.50

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £5

FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Necrobus, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £13

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Reeks of Desperation

Luka Muller’s Gong Show

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) HHH

Jay Handley – White Jesus 2: Resurrection

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–25 Aug, £5

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

After Hours Mirth Meltdown

23:25

Spontaneous Sherlock

Medium Rare Improv

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 16–25 Aug, £6

Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, FREE

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11

22:40

23:15

Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due

Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing

AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon

Shaggers

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–20 Aug, £9–£10

Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 18–25 Aug, £5

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £12.50–£15

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11 theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £6

Anxiety Club

Conversation Garden on Love Island (A Decide Your Own Misadventure)

Best of the Fest

Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, not 20, 21, £5

110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22 Aug, £15

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–21 Aug, £5

Claptrap

Jonny’s Panel Show (Really Good)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Ross Drummond and Harry Monaghan: The Orb Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 16–18 Aug, £5

Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Assembly George Square Studios, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 16–25 Aug, £5

23:35 The Russian Comedy Experience Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–25 Aug, £6

Listings

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Snog Marry Avoid

Underbelly, Cowgate, 18–19 Aug, £10

Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–23 Aug, £10

The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £5

Spank! Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £13

fest-mag.com

Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me

09:00 Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...] Traverse Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

09:50 Chatroom

Ladies Who Lunch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16 Aug, £9

Downton Shabby

Guys, Dolls and Pies

The Life of Reilly

Holy Sh*t

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Assembly George Square Studios, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £13–£15

theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance

The Cat’s the Thing

Shadows

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Custom House, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Rattigan’s Nijinsky

10:10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18–24 Aug, £5–£10

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £13.50–£14

Skylight

Cherie – My Struggle

Hustlers theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £7.50

09:55 Headhog Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £7

Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

10:00 ❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £5

The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £9

The Importance of Being Earnest theSpace @ Venue45, 19–22 Aug, £8

Where to Belong Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9

10:15

Imagination Workshop, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

10:40 The Wasp

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £12

21 Futures by Olly Hawes

10:45

White Girls

A Midsummer Night’s DROLL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £8–£9

Post-Mortem HHH

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Happy Hour HH

Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £9

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Hustlers

The Witch of Wall Street

Play Before Birth

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Umbrella Man Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Dark Play or Stories for Boys theSpace on the Mile, 19–21 Aug, £6

Audacious Mr Astley

10:55

10:20

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £7

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £7 The Old Dr Bells Baths, 16 Aug, FREE

Where Do Fairies Come From?

Love/Sick

CACW – Cony’s Collection

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£12

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £7.50

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7

theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Zed Word

Invisible Us Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £7

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10

11:15 ❤ Funny in Real Life HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–18 Aug, £9.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

The Shark is Broken

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

Great Grimm Tales Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

The End Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £7

Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late

11:20

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–24 Aug, £7

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, £21

On the Other Hand, We’re Happy

❤ Burgerz HHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £15

Back of the Head with a Brick

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

❤ Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed

HHHH

Zoo Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14

Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £10

Daughterhood

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16 Aug, £11.50

The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £10

Ladybones Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

The Heresy Machine

Never None (but She)

A Shadow of Doubt

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Something Else theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £10

Looking for Wolverhampton’s Latin Quarter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Fear Here and Terror There theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

11:25

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 16–17 Aug, £9

Baby, What Blessings

Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters

Three, Two, One...

11:05 theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 18, £9–£11

Enough

Hyde and Seek

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

The Trial

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

Your Home, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £100

I’ll Tell You This for Nothing

She Shall Not Be Moved

11:00

Status

Fox Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow

TalkFest – Anatomy of a Play: How Not to Drown

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£9 Assembly George Square Studios, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£15

You’re Safe ‘Til 2024

Chatroom

Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12

Shadow of the Rose

Arthur HHH

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £10

The Believers Are but Brothers

10:25

10:30

Pleasance Dome, 16–17 Aug, £9

11:10 Jammy Dodgers

theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

Assembly George Square, 17–24 Aug, £12–£13

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10.50

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

theSpace @ Venue45, 16–17 Aug, £12

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Tales from the Garden

theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 16–24 Aug, £12.50

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

Buzz

Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £10

10:50

Man Number Five

The Place You Once Forgot

Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019

Qing Snake

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Borchert: A Life

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Theatre

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Heroin(e) for Breakfast

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £8

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £7

10:05 Baby, What Blessings

Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £8

11:30 ❤ Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

We Apologise for the Inconvenience PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16 Aug, £12

I Am Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Sweet Novotel, 16–18 Aug, £7

Krapp’s Last Tape

Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 19, 21, £10

Jehovah’s First Witness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

How to Save a Rock Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–23 Aug, £8–£10

Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £12–£13

11:35 Red Herring ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Seasoned Professionals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £7

Love (Watching Madness)

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 18, £7.50–£10

The Village Fate theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £7

Listings

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Trump Lear Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Empathy Experiment PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Shrew theSpaceTriplex, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£10

11:45 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12

A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–26 Aug, £10–£11

11:50 Psycho Drama Queen ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

Nearly Human Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £9–£12

The Merry Wives of Seoul C venues – C south, 16–17 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Ivory Wings Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Frog’s Legs

Sinatra: Raw

Written With Crayons

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12.50–£13.50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50

11:55

Being Norwegian by David Greig

The Old Dr Bells Baths, 16 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Venue 13, 16–24 Aug, £10

Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim

The Mariner’s Song Paradise in Augustines, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Ian McKellen On Stage

12:00

Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40

In Conversation with... Barbara Dickson

A Game of Death and Chance

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50

Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £12–£14

In Conversation with... Patrick Harvie The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50

In Conversation with... Tom Devine The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12.50

Birth Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

The Female Role Model Project Bedlam Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £11

In Conversation with... Ian Rankin The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50

Fires Our Shoes Have Made HHH

C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

In Conversation with... Elaine C Smith The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50

That’s How I See It PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16 Aug, £11.50

Dr Korczak’s Example

Illegal

In Conversation with… Archie Macpherson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12.50

Dangerous Adventures Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE

(Can This Be) Home Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–19 Aug, £12

12:05 Cyst-er Act Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

COMPOST theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

Mengele Assembly George Square, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12

box.

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12

Lobster

Normaler Than Everyone

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

In Conversation with... Humza Yousaf

Sleeping Giant

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12.50

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £9–£11

Marrow

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Wingmen

Her

Haggis, Neeps and Burns

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–21 Aug, £11.50

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £10

In Conversation with... Val McDermid

Judas

12:10 In PurSUEt theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £9

Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

Boulder HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £12

Medea Speaks theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

The Anxiety Experiment The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

dressed. Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15

M.E.H Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Avalanche theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Madame Ovary Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £8–£12

12:15 Me and My Doll Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

My Mother’s Shoes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

A Mother theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7

Planet Bar, 16 Aug, FREE

#HonestAmy

Best Girl

A Game of Death and Chance

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Cotton Fingers Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14

Testament of Yootha Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£9.50

Lucrece theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Devil of Choice Assembly George Square Studios, 16 Aug, £14

12:20 Fix Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16–24 Aug, FREE

12:25 Parasites theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

Bull theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

12:30

Mandy Picks a Husband

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

A Talking Therapist’s Blues

Assembly George Square, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Taiwan Season: Fish

Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Morning Glory

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £7–£9

Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £12–£14

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12.50

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

The Fishermen

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

A Poet’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–19 Aug, FREE

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

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11:40 One Starts in a Barber’s. One Starts in a Bar.

My Darling Clemmie

Cream Tea and Incest

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Sea Sick

Wild Swimming HHH

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11

❤ A Table Tennis Play HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Dickens for Dinner C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 16–17 Aug, £9

My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

The Pat Hobby Stories Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

The Perfect Body PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

❤ Bobby & Amy HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8–£9

A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, 16–23 Aug, weekdays only, £12.50

Algorithms Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Landscape (1989)

HHH

ZOO Playground, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, £13–£15

12:50

The Seven Second Theory

The Claim

12:35 Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s Life Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

F. Off Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Plebs Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £7.50

Nazis Need Jews PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Eventide

Come Out from Among Them Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £10

❤ Frankenstein:

Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, £12–£14

Ripped Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life Drawing

theSpaceTriplex, 16–18 Aug, £9

The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10

Life Is No Laughing Matter Summerhall, 16–18 Aug, £10

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Madame George by Keir McAllister HHH

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, not 19, £11–£12 The Lyceum, 16 Aug, £20 Sweet Novotel, 16–18 Aug, £7

Tynecastle Park, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £24

How Not to Drown

HHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

❤ Vigil HHHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

40 Shades of Green Tour

Pearls

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Wireless Operator

The Man From Verona

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11.50

Paradise in The Vault, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £5

Fishbowl

LUVU2

A Game of Death and Chance

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £14–£17.50

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £11–£12

13:10

13:20

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

After You Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Beach Body Ready Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8–£10

Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12

In Loyal Company Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

❤ Orlando HHHH

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £11

Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £11–£13

Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Piano_Play Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

A Man’s a Man The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £14

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

Prefer Not To Say

13:15

Quintessence

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50

Unicorns, Almost Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Paradise Lodge

Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £7.50 Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £10

❤ Collapsible HHHH

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

13:25 Pals

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Assembly George Square, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £13–£15

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16 Aug, £11.50

Before the End HHH

Lucille and Cecilia HH

Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self

A Game of Death and Chance

I Don’t Want to Talk About It

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 16–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

The Accident Did Not Take Place HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£13

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Holy Land

Rose McGowan: Planet 9

12:55

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

A War of Two Halves

Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant

theSpace @ Venue45, 16–17 Aug, £10

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£12

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

ZOO Playground, 16–17 Aug, £6

Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16–£17.50

Noir Hamlet

The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie?

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £10

Narcolepsy

Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends

12:45

EAST

Dream of a King HH

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

The Old Dr Bells Baths, 18 Aug, FREE

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

12:40

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £9

The Safari Lounge, 18–20 Aug, £10

1:1

Rust HHH

theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £8

CACW – Cony’s Collection

Knock Knock

Careless Love CANCELLED

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

Almost, Maine

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man

How to Make a Monster

Red Dust Road

Cicada 3301

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain

HHHHH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Sad Eyes to Smile With

Theatre

SOLD

Shaving the Dead

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £9

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

13:00

Assembly Hall, 16–18 Aug, £21

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Romeo & Juliet Assembly George Square, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£15

13:30 Of Mice and Men

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

Creative People Need Data!

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £8

Don’t You Smile at Me!

Noir Hamlet

13:05

Letter to Boddah

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £10

Zoo Southside, 16–26 Aug, £10

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10.50–£12.50

Do You Ever Get Scared?

Chain of Trivia

Too Pretty to Punch

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £10

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

C venues – C cubed, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Fight Song

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £9 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

Don’t Believe Your Ears! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9

Fake News Kills World! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9

Venue 13, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £12

Walk the Oars

theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold

Bear Pit

Voice of Authority

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

One Good Beating

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–18 Aug, £10

Special Measures theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10 PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £11.50

GEORGE Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

MOOT MOOT Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

69 Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box

13:55

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9

This Thing in Here

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9

13:35

Votes for Women!

Jew...ish

Smoke

Disgust for Dummies

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£10.50

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Brendan Galileo for Europe

Unveiled

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

For All I Care Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14

Can Google Really Translate? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £9

Long Live the Cat Ladies?

Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £8

13:40 The Grand Scheme of Things Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Mourning Overnight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9

13:45

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS!

Ice Ice Iceland

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Not Quite

Catching Comets

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8–£9

Before the Wall Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13

How to Save a Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Awhile with Seamus Heaney The Royal Scots Club, 16–17 Aug, £10

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, £21

❤ Burgerz HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25

Daffodils

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

Enough Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

The Presented

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8 theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £10

I Run Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10.50

Sense and Sensibility theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

B’Witches PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP)

Art Heist HHH

❤ Coma HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Chalk (A Silent Comedy)

The Things I Never Told You

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £11

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

14:00

I, AmDram

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience

The Last Five Years

Imagination Workshop, 16–26 Aug, £52

If This Is Normal ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15

Atlantis

Wet

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £8

C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50

Hughie

Blood and Gold

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £13.50

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12

Medea Electronica

MARA

Pleasance Courtyard, 19–26 Aug, £12

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Scotlandsfest

Citizens of Nowhere?

Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16

A Very British Lesbian

Sexy Lamp

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot

Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £7–£9 PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £11

Just a Number theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

I’m Just Kidneying Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, £7

She Can’t Half Talk Bedlam Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £8

Churn Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist

The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £7

Level Up theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

Who Killed Bambi? theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8.50

14:10 Moon Walk theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

Narukami Thunder God theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12

Dream of a King HH theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £9

Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8.50

Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £9

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 16–24 Aug, FREE

10:31, MCR theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £7

Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8–£9

My Mate Dave Died C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

14:15 Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour

HHH

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10

The HandleBards: The Tempest

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–18 Aug, £15

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People

Like Animals HHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Einstein Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £8–£10

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

13:50

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun

Leave a Message HH

Broken Funnies

IvankaPlay Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 16–26 Aug, £62.50

Watching Glory Die

She Sells Sea Shells

theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord

Ben Hur

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £12

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9

A Game of Death and Chance

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show

Are Children Wild Enough?

Bedlam Theatre, 16 Aug, £10

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £17.50

The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £7

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Going Slightly Mad

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £12–£14

The 27 Club

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Alaska Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

@SimCos3000 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Steve Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10

The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11

On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £15–£17

Murder on the Dancefloor Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Manifesting Mrs Marx Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £12

Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17

14:20 Before 30 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £11

The Mackerel Eaters Heroes @ The Hive, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Loving the Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Chaika: First Woman in Space HHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Black Holes Zoo Southside, 19–25 Aug, £14

Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19–23 Aug, £5

Ane City Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Happiness Project Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

14:25

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 16–26 Aug, not 19, 20, £5

Goodbye Charles – Free

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

35,000

Animal Farm (Bond)

C venues – C south, 18–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £10

14:05

A Game of Death and Chance

The Experiment

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

Pronoun

Délicieux theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £5

The Gray Cat and the Flounder Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 16 Aug to 22 Aug, £12–£14

Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

Jc Says Finally 1951–2019 Paradise in Augustines, 19 Aug, £4

Taboo Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Listings

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £10

We Want You to Watch theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Monsoon Season Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

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❤ Coma HHHH

Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, £10

14:30 Deer Woman HHH

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £11

A Voice C venues – C cubed, 18–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Mythos: Heroes Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 17 Aug, £12

More Myself Than I Am PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £11.50

Talk C venues – C cubed, 16–17 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £9

Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 16–17 Aug, £7

Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17 Aug, £12

Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 17 Aug, £20

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

Tumours Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Like Me Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £8

Mémoires d’un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie) St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Power of Music 2 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8

These Streets Paradise in The Vault, 19–21 Aug, £10

Theatre

Beat Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£13.50

Passengers

Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

Mama’s Eggnog PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50

Men Chase Women Choose Summerhall, 16–18 Aug, £8

Power of Music 1 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 19 Aug, £8

Spliced HHH

Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £21

Power of Music 3

14:45 Thunderstruck Assembly Checkpoint, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

❤ Roots HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £10

beep boop HHH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11–£12

A Partnership Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

A Game of Death and Chance

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Happily Never After Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

❤ Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

Ex-Batts and Broilers

14:35 Anti-Depressed?

Ideology and Hair Gel

This Island’s Mine theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £8

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Spray HHH

Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, £12–£14

Two of a Kind C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, £12

14:50 A Womb of One’s Own

HHH

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 22, £10–£12

Do Our Best HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl

14:55

Venue 13, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £12

The Heresy Machine

14:40 Bi-Cycle Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

When the Birds Come

HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Macbeth theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Fake News

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £9

Alan Ayckbourn’s No Knowing theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12

15:00 The Wrong Ffion Jones Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sales Pitch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Raised Voices theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £5

300 to 1 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Jumping the Barriers

HHH

The Studio, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £20

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10

Conscious theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £7

Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £5

St Patrick’s Church, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

The South Afreakins

Wrestling Mania!

STYX

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 17, FREE

Oedipus

theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9 Zoo Southside, 16–17 Aug, £14

The South Afreakins: The Afreakin Family

King’s Theatre, 17 Aug, £15

theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

The De Nova Super

The Visitors

Assembly George Square, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Myra Imagination Workshop, 16–24 Aug, not 21, £10

Zombie Zoo Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

The National Trust Fan Club Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12–£13

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Buds of May Be Scottish Arts Club, 16–17 Aug, £15

The Trial Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

A Holy Show Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Vessel

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8.50

15:10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

Blodeuwedd Untold Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

FATTY FAT FAT Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8–£10

Definitely Louise

HHH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £8–£9

The Suitcase, the Beggar and the Wind PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE

Naughty Boy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

The Burning Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £11–£13

Nights at the Circus ZOO Playground, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

15:20 Woman! Pilot! Pirate? Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

The Professor Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11–£13

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry Tadlock

All of Me HHH

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Endless Second

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

The Dandelion Patch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

A Wake in Progress Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Hatch HHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Leopold Vindictive theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

The War of the Worlds

Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £13–£15

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Beyond: Sugar Mice

Roots theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

15:15

Paradise in Augustines, 16 Aug, £8

In Her Corner theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £15

A Grave Situation

15:25

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £10

The Wind in the Willows

The Sensemaker

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £11–£15

Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’ Caesar HHH

I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor

Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £10

Yerloo Underground

Jottings from the Queen of Sheba

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Inka

15:05

theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £12–£13

St Ninian’s Hall, 17 Aug, £12

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Late Lunch with Biggins

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, not 19, 25, £13.50–£14.50

Jekyll and Hyde

Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare

I’m Woman

Anguis HHH

Church Hill Theatre, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–18 Aug, £9

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£12

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £9

Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Westminster Hour

Drowning HH

TERRAtory

Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang

David Benson – Cato Street 1820

Shattered

What Girls Are Made Of

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £10 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £8

Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress)

Anything With a Pulse

St Vincent’s, 16 Aug, FREE Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £10

St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8 Assembly Hall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £17.50

The Poetry of God and War

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Suddenly Last Summer

Toby Belch (Is Unwell)

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£12

Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

theSpace @ Venue45, 19–24 Aug, £8

Tea?...(With Milk) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–18 Aug, £11

Listings

The Royal Scots Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £8.50

Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £12

Pink House PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £12

With Child Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

A Complicated Man Bedlam Theatre, 16–20 Aug, £10

SWIM Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Arrivals theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

15:35 Leverage

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

Toothbrush

How to Be Brave

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £5

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel

If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs HH

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–25 Aug, £14–£16

15:40 Fulfilment Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

The Struggling Life of an Artist C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £11

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £15

Regeneration Game Workshop

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £15–£16.50

Home Just Festival at St John’s , 16–17 Aug, £10

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £11–£13

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Since U Been Gone

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £10

Assembly Roxy, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Citizens of Nowhere?

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

HHH

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16

Mouthpiece

Black Is the Color of My Voice

Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £13–£14

The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £13

(Ab)solution H

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £5

Bible John HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland

15:45

A Game of Death and Chance

Under Milk Wood

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10

Gladstone’s Land, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin

A War of Two Halves

C venues – C cubed, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Tynecastle Park, 16–26 Aug, £24

Barry

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Cauliflower

Pink Lemonade

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

Assembly Roxy, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12

Scotlandsfest

A Game of Death and Chance

Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5

All Work, No Play Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, £8

Gladstone’s Land, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £8

HHH

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, £21

15:50

How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

❤ Burgerz HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew

❤ Coma HHHH

❤ The Red HHHH Well That’s Oz Venue 13, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £12

Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£14

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

16:10

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

Mary’s Room

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, £8

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego

The Try-Hards

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£12

16:05 Trips and Falls theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £9

Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £7

theSpace @ Venue45, 16 Aug, £5

Brandy

❤ Trying It On HHHH

The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20

16:00

Luminescence

Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 19–24 Aug, £10

James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2019: The Award Ceremony

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £8

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £9–£12

Summerhall, 16–17 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 16–18 Aug, £10

Bottoms Up!

Miijin Ki

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £8

Assembly Rooms, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12

Confirmation

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

This Time Will Be Different

Moby Dick

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

15:55

To Be or Not to Be? Purgatory Is the Question

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £12–£14

Alfie and George CANCELLED

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

Scottee: Class

To Move In Time The Feminazis

Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12

Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £8

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

Unknown Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £7.50

Predictably Irrational theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £10

Such Filthy F*cks Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

E8 Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, £10–£13

Julius Caesar Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

Chagos 1971 ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, not 22, £10

Ticker HH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

PAMALA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £7

fest-mag.com

15:30 The Glass Elephant

16:15 The Djinns of Eidgah Sweet Grassmarket, 16–18 Aug, £10

Inflatable Space HH

Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12–£14

The Castle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £8

First Time Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14.50

Enough Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Apollo: Take 111 HH

Zoo Southside, 16–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £10

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

The Nights by Henry Naylor HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £13–£14

Westminster Hour Part 2 Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The Incident Room

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £12.50–£14.50

Northanger Abbey French Institute, 16–24 Aug, £12

Getting to Know Katie Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

❤ Typical HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12

Faultlines Carrubbers, 16–17 Aug, £9

Boswell

16:45 Synesthesia the Musical Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Arguing On-Air C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

❤ Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD HHHH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£9

Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

❤ CONSPIRACY HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Fragility of Man Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £11.50

16:50

Progress

Shit

ZOO Playground, 16–17 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors

The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch Ness Monster

Tally Ho, Secret Several!

C venues – C south, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less

A Game of Death and Chance

Gun

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Attila the Stockbroker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE

Pathetic Fallacy HHH

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11

Candy Factory Wee Red Bar, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Contact Light

Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today

Leith Depot, 16–17 Aug, £5

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Paradise in Augustines, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, £15

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

16:25 Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £12

Love and Sex and All Things In-Between theSpace on the Mile, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Unmeetables theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–18 Aug, £10

Want Some More theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £10

16:30 Honey HH

ZOO Playground, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The Legacy of William Ireland PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50

subsist Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9

Bedlam Sweet Grassmarket, 16–18 Aug, £7

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Yellow ZOO Playground, 18–26 Aug, £10

8:8 HHH

Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

16:55

16:35 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Dorian Gray

Sary

theSpace on the Mile, 19–23 Aug, £5

Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £7

17:00 Sharon Stacy Statue Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7

Polaris

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

Scottish Poetry Library, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, £8

16:40

Morning Glory

Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £6

The Last of the Pelican Daughters HH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 17, £11.50–£13.50

Fags, Mags and Bags Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

Drunk Lion HHH

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 16–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Gone Full Havisham Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–25 Aug, not 18, 19, £10–£12

That Bastard Brecht

Bedlam Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £11

Standard:Elite

Choose Your Own... Improv! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Lest You Forget

Order from Chaos Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

Superstar Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £8

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10

Keith Moon: The Real Me

My Mum’s a Twat

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Scotlandsfest

Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)

Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5

Mr Nice Guy theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £6

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

I Am Mark Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–17 Aug, £10

At This Stage

8:8 HHH

A Game of Death and Chance

Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Attila the Stockbroker

The Letter

theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8

Parakeet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

Four Woke Baes

theSpace @ Venue45, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Paradise in Augustines, 22 Aug, £15

17:10

❤ Coma HHHH

Not Black and White

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Your Home, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £100

17:05

If I Die on Mars

Fawk

Apologies to the Bengali Lady

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Tartuffe

Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Freak Show

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £10

Planet Bar, 16 Aug, FREE Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

17:25 Woyzeck

17:30

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

The National and ELT Short Play Winners

17:15

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10

Arthur HHH

16:20

Bleeding Black HHH

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Giant Wolf Theatre – Playback

Sweet Grassmarket, 19–22 Aug, £10

Arlecchino Torn in Three

Silence in Court

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £7

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £11

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Imagination Workshop, 16–26 Aug, not 20, 22, £45–£47.50

Number, Please.

A Payment Unkind

Wrath of Achilles

Suffering from Scottishness

My Best Dead Friend

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Confetti and Chaos (Formerly The Wedding Reception)

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £5

Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time

Theatre

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Pianodrome at The Pitt, 19–24 Aug, £10

Mirror Canon

Everything I Do

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8–£12

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 19–21 Aug, FREE

17:20 Bull

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Pleasance Dome, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£12

❤ Bryony Kimmings: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

HHHH

theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £15–£17

Adrift

Checkpoint

Venue 13, 16–17 Aug, £7

Conversations With Van Gogh

Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £10

CACW – Cony’s Collection

Zoo Southside, 16–25 Aug, £7–£10

Stockbridge Church, 16 Aug, FREE

Electrolyte

High Trees

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £13–£14.50

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Hallowed Ground – Women Doctors in War

The Golden Fly

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

17:35 The Long Road theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Isabelle C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree C venues – C south, 16–17 Aug, £11.50

There Is No Problem (Here) theSpace on North Bridge, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Hello? Hello. theSpace on North Bridge, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

17:40 Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

Numbers C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Hitman and Her PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50

18:00 Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £12

Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1

Can You See Where I’m Coming From? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

A Game of Death and Chance

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Perfect Sweet Novotel, 18–24 Aug, £8

A Short Cut to Happiness ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

17:50 Souvenirs Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £10

Degrees of Guilt theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

baby-go-round

Rock’n’Roll Girls theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50

18:10

Trainspotting Live

The Last Bread Pudding

Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £19.50

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

Subject Mater

Nancy’s Philosopher

Unicorn Party

Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £14

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 19–21 Aug, £10

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, not 18, £10

Being Frank

A(Poke)alypse Now – Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m Still Here

theSpace on North Bridge, 16 Aug, £9 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 16–24 Aug, not 17, FREE

Thief by Liam Rudden

8:8 HHH

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Between Us theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £9.50

Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

❤ Who Cares HHHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £12

18:25 Love and Misinformation

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8

18:35 Heir Heads theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9

Intolerable Side Effects Zoo Southside, 16–26 Aug, £10

Pops HHH

Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Hitler’s Tasters HH

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £12

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £11

If Mouth Could Speak

18:40

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £8

Losing My Mindfulness

theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12

Civilisation

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

18:15

❤ Baby

The 900 Club

HHHHH

Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £5

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£16

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10

Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind

FemFringe

Questions for Quiz Shows

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £8.50

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13.50

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Summerhall, 17 Aug, £6

Uncensored Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

My Name Is Irrelevant

theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug, £8

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies

Cruise to Hell

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Ghostly Tales

theSpace @ Venue45, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance

Mark Can’t Rap

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–23 Aug, £11

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, £13–£16

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Good, The Bad and The Brexit

Auto-Nation

Electric

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £9

Noise Boys

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 16 Aug, £8

❤ Daddy Drag HHHH

Vinyl Encore

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £12

Alice Hawkins – Suffragette

17:45

theSpace on the Mile, 23–24 Aug, £5

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £10

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

18:05 This Play Is Not About Me

Everything I See I Swallow Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £13

Dada, Surrealism, Bowie and Pop: The Puzzle of Avant-Garde Art Scottish Arts Club, 17 Aug, £15

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 16–26 Aug, £24

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Garlands Summerhall, 19 Aug, £6

Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Liminality

Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 16–17 Aug, FREE

A Game of Death and Chance

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, £5

SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £7

Confessions of the Romantically Challenged Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

18:30

Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)

Enough

Frankenstein Pub, 16–25 Aug, £10

Trainspotting Live

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £21 Venue150 at EICC, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50

That’s What She Said

Mouthpiece

Scottish Poetry Library, 16–17 Aug, £9

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

Last Life: A Shakespeare Play

Low Level Panic

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Royal Scots Club, 16–17 Aug, £10

Play Before Birth

18:20

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor HH

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Assembly Rooms, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

Quaker Meeting House, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £6

Trans Pennine

In the Shadow of the Black Dog HH

theSpace on North Bridge, 17 Aug, £9

Assembly Rooms, 16–23 Aug, £10–£11

Torch Town Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Trust the Teenagers theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £6

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

18:55 ❤ Tokyo Rose HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

Marie Lloyd Stole My Life theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, £9

Kemp’s Jig theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, £9

Macbeth HHH

C venues – C south, 16–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Who Is Daniel King Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

19:00 ❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Songs in the Key of Cree CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 16–18 Aug, £11

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Dead Equal

C venues – C cubed, 16–17 Aug, £11.50

Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £12

18:45

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

Minor Disruptions

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Drawn and Quartered

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 18, £10

Miss AmeriKa Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £13

Metamorphosis Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £10

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Buzzing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £10

Gregory’s Girl Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £13

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

How Not to Drown

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Green & Blue

❤ Burgerz HHHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Marx in Soho

18:50

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50

The Graveyard Shift

Nancy’s Philosopher

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15

Grit

Static

Venue 13, 16–17 Aug, £7

ZOO Playground, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

fest-mag.com

Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold

Listings

Stand-Up Poet Imagination Workshop, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11

Jock Tamson’s Bairns

19:20

The Wild Unfeeling World Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11

From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood

Trans Pennine

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show

theSpace on North Bridge, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£11

The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 16–26 Aug, £62.50

Milkshake

Suddenly Last Summer

Meatball Séance

theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

Hill Street Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £12

Oh Yes Oh No HHH

1902

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Worldwidewestern French Institute, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

19:05 McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Jewbana theSpace @ Venue45, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9.50

44 Inch Chest theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

19:10 ❤ Sex Education HHHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Just Like a Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Drone HHH

Summerhall, 16–17 Aug, £14

Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12

19:15 HoneyBee Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 19–21 Aug, £11

Theatre

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8

Laughing Horse @ Ghillie Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Neither Here Nor There Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £10

Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £10

Chameleon ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £9

8:8 HHH

Blockbusters Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10

theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

St Ninian’s Hall, 16–17 Aug, £12

Being Frank

The Brooklyn Scotsman

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

19:25 Pick Up

Wee Red Bar, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £12

Perfect Wedding The Royal Scots Club, 19–24 Aug, £12.50

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50

Mythos: Gods

Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna

❤ Roots HHHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £10

Midges theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £7

Shadow

Festival Theatre, 19 Aug, £25 Church Hill Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £25

The Long Pigs Assembly Roxy, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£16

19:35

C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50

2 Clowns 1 Cup

19:30

And Then They Died

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £52–£57.50

Mythos: Men Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 16 Aug, £12

Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22 Aug, £6

The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 16 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 16 Aug, £12

Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 17–18 Aug, £20

The Afflicted HHH

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £14

❤ Coma HHHH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17 Aug, £9

Yours Sincerely HHH

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

Conversations With Myself

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular

C venues – C cubed, 16–17 Aug, £10.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14

Being Frank About Sinatra

Waiting for Godot

Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £11

leaves Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

The Canary and the Crow

Bost Uni Plues Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16 Aug, £9

Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 16–31 Aug, £16

19:40 Arlecchino Torn in Three

19:55 Clouds theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £10

Who Did I Think She Was?

SHINE HH

Zoo Southside, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Fudge Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Assembly Rooms, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£11

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £15

School Gays theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £11

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50

Cactus

Doubt

The Domestic

Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £15

ZOO Playground, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £9–£10

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £6–£8

20:10

Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness

Dumbing Down Trauma?

Assembly Rooms, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£11

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10

It’s Beautiful, Over There

What Are You Wearing?

Venue 13, 16–24 Aug, not 21, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Traumgirl HH

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

HHH

The Studio, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £20

The Examination Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£13.50

HOTTER

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae

20:15 Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu by Kirsten Vangsness

20:00

19:45

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £11–£12

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

Sugar

❤ America Is Hard to See HHHHH

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Blame It on the Algorithm!

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Oedipus

Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £19.50

Butterflies

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10

Takin’ It Easy, 1916

2Elfth Night

Trainspotting Live

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £12

Are You a Problem Addict?

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

Sweet Novotel, 16–24 Aug, not 21, £7

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, FREE

20:05

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7

A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

Stanley HH

In Your Wet Dreams

The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–25 Aug, £10

19:50 The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £5 King’s Theatre, 16 Aug, £15 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

There She Is PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £20

Hair of the Wild C venues – C at SESH Hairdressing, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50

Summerhall, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12

Fake News Kills World! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10

Does Sex Still Sell? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

Sex, Drugs and Bilingualism The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

Art is Shit

The Brunch Club HH

Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 16–24 Aug, not 20, £9–£12

Up and Away theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £8

20:20 Reservoir Dugs theSpace @ Venue45, 16–17 Aug, £10

The Good Scout HHH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £12

Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite Bite of Cheese and Puns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10

Section 28: The Legacy of a Homophobic Law

The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

House of Hundred

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS!

C venues – C aquila, 16–17 Aug, £12.50

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10

Don’t Bank on the Bankers The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

Traumboy HH

Summerhall, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12

HHH

Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Hindsight HHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £11

20:30

tEMPORARY sANITY

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £11.50

Before

❤ Coma HHHH

Dance Base, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £13

Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, £7.50

Consumers

Bullarena

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £7

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £10

PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 16–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

SAGA

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

The Passion of the Playboy Riots

Mouthpiece

The Collection of Professor Novak

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £12–£12.50

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 16–26 Aug, not 21, 22, £47.50–£52

Seamonster, the Story PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 19 Aug, FREE

❤

Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £9

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 16–26 Aug, £24

The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £7 Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship

Employ Me, You Cowards!

Summerhall, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Scottish Poetry Library, Various dates from 16 Aug to 23 Aug, £7

20:50 Father HH

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £12

The Bald Soprano Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

Bitch, Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £12

20:55 Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality

HHH

Summerhall, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10

Paradise in The Vault, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £10

21:00

Contractions

Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50

The Taming of the Shrew The Royal Scots Club, 16–17 Aug, £10

20:35 The Last Bubble theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

Broken English theSpace on North Bridge, 19–23 Aug, £10

20:40 Hold On Let Go Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Skylar MacDonald’s Fact Machine C venues – C aquila, 16–17 Aug, £10.50

20:45

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–19 Aug, £16

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Cadaver Synod Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £8.50

Enough Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, £21

James Rowland’s Team Viking Summerhall, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

The People’s Boat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, £12–£14

How to Mend the World (With a Student Play)

Summerhall, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12

theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Blind Date HHH

CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £5

21:20 The Populars Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Nine Months

Musik HH

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £15–£16.50

C venues – C cubed, 16–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger

21:45

theSpace on the Mile, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £12

Night Walk for Edinburgh

The Passion of the Playboy Riots

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £12

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

There’s Something Missing

Our Saviour

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Sound Cistem ZOO Playground, 16–26 Aug, £10

Misfit Warrior theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, £10

21:30 Night Walk for Edinburgh

theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £8

Brandi Alexander HH

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50

21:50 Before the Revolution Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22

Mental Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Pits Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

21:10

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £10

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £12

I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron

More Fool You: Part I

21:55

Zoo Southside, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Trainspotting Live

Bit of Sunshine

Paradise in Augustines, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50

Surveillance

Venue150 at EICC, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50

theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Father of Lies

Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle

❤ Coma HHHH

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9–£11

The American’s Dream

Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21

Pleasance Dome, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Absolutely Reliable!

The Last King of Porn

Summerhall, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50

Summerhall, 22 Aug, £12.50

❤ Burgerz HHHH

21:40 Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Zoo Southside, 16–26 Aug, £10

Hearty

James Rowland’s Revelations

Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 19, £15

A Rock’n’Roll Suicide!

James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love

Footnotes HH

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £15

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Summerhall, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

More Fool You: Part II Paradise in Augustines, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

21:15 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 17, 19, £15

The Grandmothers Grimm Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £9

Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £15–£17

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9 Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Homer to Hip Hop: A History of Spoken Word PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16 Aug, FREE

Time Please PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

Everyman theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £9

21:35 amendments: A Play on Words theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

22:05

Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–23 Aug, £7

To Fall in Love

Don’t Frighten the Straights!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Paradise in Augustines, 16–25 Aug, not 18, £9

Die or Run

❤ Working On My Night Moves HHHH Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £12

22:10 Mojo

How to Mend the World (With a Student Play)

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

theSpace on the Mile, 16–17 Aug, £8

Tang

22:00

No Fun and Games

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £8 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5

My Father the Tantric Masseur Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

22:15

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Searchers

C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10.50–£11.50

Solitary

One

You Have a Match

Shakespeare Up Late!

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12

Listings

theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Said and Done

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £10

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20:25 Nothing to Hide

The Nana Schewitz Pass-Me-Over Party

The Mannequin

Night Walk for Edinburgh

Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £15

22:20 Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £7

22:30 Night Walk for Edinburgh

Theatre

Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, Various dates from 16 Aug to 23 Aug, £15

Monogamy PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–26 Aug, £11.50

TGIF theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£9

Steve Lamacq: Going Deaf for a Living

22:35

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 16–24 Aug, not 21, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, £15

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

theSpace on North Bridge, 16–17 Aug, £8

Svetlana Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £12–£13

Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

22:40

Dissident Sausage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £7–£8

22:45 ❤ Boar HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

22:50 The Bacchae Paradise in The Vault, 16–17 Aug, £9

22:55 The Slinks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £10–£11

Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)

23:00

Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Tricky Second Album H

Redacted Arachnid C venues – C aquila, 16–17 Aug, £11.50

Tess theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £12

Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, £11

Don’t Be Terrible Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £9–£11

The Ladies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

23:05 FemFringe

23:15

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5

Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale)

23:10

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Inferno, Kid

Dissident Sausage

Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £7.50

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–17 Aug, £8

Dead Parents Society

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £8

Defying Logic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug, £17.50

Murder Ballads Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £10

A Clockwork Orange Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–22 Aug, £8.50

Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £10

23:20 Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10

23:25 Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £9

23:30 Hot Flush Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £9–£10

23:50 Beauty is Pain Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £8–£8.50

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (5+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 16–17 Aug, £10

Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

Window (0+) Paradise in Augustines, 16–17 Aug, £6

Microbodyssey (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £9.50

Looking Down on Me (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 16 Aug, FREE

10:20 Sparkle (3+) Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10

10:30 Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Celeste’s Circus (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £8

I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£11

Little Top (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 16–17 Aug, £8

So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs...?! with Dr Ben Garrod (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug, £11

Moonbird (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10

Spec-tacular (3+) PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50

Comète (5+) Assembly Checkpoint, 16–26 Aug, £9–£11

Children’s Silent Disco (5+)

Romantic Romeo (5+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (0+) C venues – C south, 16–17 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 16–17 Aug, £8

Assembly George Square Studios, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Rocket Girl (5+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

11:00 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 16 Aug, £5

10:40 The Bubble Show (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

10:45

City of Edinburgh Tours, 16–26 Aug, £8

Games With James (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Ned and the Whale (3+)

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+)

Down with the Poetry King! (8+)

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–25 Aug, not 20, 22, FREE

Slime (0+)

Tappuccino (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£8.50

Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show (5+)

Treasure Island (5+)

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 16–17 Aug, FREE

Sunshine (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10

Bicycle Boy (5+)

Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Rave & Behave (5+) Pleasance Dome, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £11–£12

The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (5+) Assembly George Square Studios, 16–17 Aug, £12

Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+)

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (3+)

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–19 Aug, £10–£13

Carrubbers, 16–17 Aug, £7

A Long Road Home (3+) Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–18 Aug, £9.50

The Bureau of Untold Stories (3+) Museum of Childhood, 16–18 Aug, FREE

11:05 Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+)

11:20

11:10 Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–18 Aug, £11

Little Wings (5+) theSpace on North Bridge, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–23 Aug, £9–£11

Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+)

Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show (3+) Imagination Workshop, 16–18 Aug, £10

11:40

Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+)

Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+)

Dream Machine (5+)

Summerhall, 16–18 Aug, £12

The Fablesmiths (5+)

Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+)

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

First Piano on the Moon: Will Pickvance (5+)

C venues – C viva, 16–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+)

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–18 Aug, £9

Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+)

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 16–23 Aug, FREE

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 16 Aug, FREE

The Jam House, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £14.50–£15.50

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+)

Baby Loves Disco (0+)

Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+)

The Greatest Magic Show (3+)

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+)

Assembly George Square, 16–18 Aug, £12

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)

11:15

Rhyme Marmalade (5+)

One Duck Down (3+)

Shark in the Park (3+)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–23 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £7–£8

Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10

Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+)

theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 16–18 Aug, £9

City of Edinburgh Tours, 16–26 Aug, £10

Flamenco for Kids (0+) C venues – C viva, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

10:50 Doodle Pop (3+)

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–17 Aug, £7

11:45 Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+)

11:25

VIKING (8+)

Joyce (3+) Assembly Roxy, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

11:30 Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–25 Aug, £10–£12 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–18 Aug, £11

11:50 Brave Macbeth (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £10

When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 16–24 Aug, not 18, FREE

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10:00

Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 16–25 Aug, FREE

11:55 Danny the Champion of the World (3+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 16–17 Aug, £12

12:00 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 16 Aug, £5

Chores (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

The Showstoppers’ Kids Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £11

Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–18 Aug, £9

Mr Fibbers Presents: Back in Tune (8+) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16–18 Aug, £6

Little Baby Bum (0+) Assembly George Square, 16–18 Aug, £13

The Listies: Ickypedia (5+)

Circus Sonas Family Show (0+)

PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Shakespearience (5+)

Little Top (0+)

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Pleasance at EICC, 16–17 Aug, £8

Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)

Double Bubble Trouble (0+)

Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 16–26 Aug, £12

Sweet Grassmarket, 16–18 Aug, £7

A Massaoke Night at the Musicals (All Ages) (3+)

Feast of Fools (5+)

Edinburgh Corn Exchange, 17 Aug, £18

Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+)

15:00

Assembly George Square, 16–25 Aug, not 21, £11.50–£12.50

13:00 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Splash Test Dummies (5+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 16–24 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+) Pleasance at EICC, 16 Aug, £18

Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)

Assembly George Square Gardens, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £8–£10

Soundplay Dome (0+)

Alice and the Little Prince (5+)

Me and the Mask – Commedia dell’Arte (5+)

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £9

City Art Centre, 16 Aug, £5

Italian Cultural Institute, 22 Aug, £8

Bicycle Boy (5+)

13:45

Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 16–26 Aug, £12

I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+)

Story Builders (5+)

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, £10–£12

Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure! (3+)

Lauriston Halls, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, £8

Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

13:05 Legend of Shadows (0+) C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

13:50 Our Teacher’s a Troll! (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £6

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £9

Wind in the Willows (3+) Inveresk Lodge Garden, 17 Aug, £10

15:05 14:00 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 16 Aug, £5

The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12

Ned and the Whale (3+)

15:15

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–18 Aug, £9

The Happy Prince (0+)

Huggers (3+)

Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+)

12:10

The Amazing Bubble Man (0+)

Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+) Assembly George Square Studios, 16–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

C venues – C aquila, 16–26 Aug, not 19, £10.50–£12.50

Underbelly, George Square, 16–26 Aug, £11–£12

ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 16–17 Aug, FREE

12:30 Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)

14:15

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

Captain Jake and the Search for the Red Queen (0+)

13:25 12:20

Kids

Children are Stinky (3+)

13:15

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–18 Aug, £12.50

Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything (5+)

Pleasance Courtyard, 16–18 Aug, £9.50

Pleasance at EICC, 16 Aug, £18

Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–25 Aug, FREE

15:35 Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids (0+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–18 Aug, £11

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£9

14:30

15:50

Sail Away! (0+)

The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+)

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)

Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+)

Stockbridge Church, 16–17 Aug, £8

Assembly Rooms, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16–24 Aug, £11–£12

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)

13:30

Wriggle Around the World (0+)

16:00

Heat Transfer Printing Workshop (12+)

Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 18 Aug to 24 Aug, £8

Soundplay Dome (0+)

City of Edinburgh Tours, 16–26 Aug, £8

Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+)

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–18 Aug, £8

Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)

I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+)

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–26 Aug, not 21, £9–£10

16:10

The Maths Magic Show 2019 (8+)

White Stuff, 17 Aug, £15

The Red Balloon (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £8

Junior Jungle Rave (3+) Underbelly, Central Hall, 17 Aug, FREE

City Art Centre, 16 Aug, £5

The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–25 Aug, £9

16:30

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 16–25 Aug, £10.50

ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–17 Aug, FREE

17:00 Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+) Lauriston Halls, 16–24 Aug, £4

17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–24 Aug, £10–£11

17:35 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

18:40 Alice in Wonderland (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 16–17 Aug, £8.50

Edinburgh Festival #4: Matt Winning

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What’s going on at the Fridge? Top Shelf: Leftovers. There’s a

veggie pasta there. A feta salad. 30 per cent of all food worldwide is wasted causing ridiculous amounts of unnecessary greenhouse gases. So a real solid start and on brand for my climate change show. Four stars.

Middle Shelf: A real busy one this. A single onion, cheese, lettuce, orange juice. No real coherence. Absolute mayhem. Irn-Bru saves it though. Three stars.

Bottom and drawers: Here we SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard 4:25pm – 5:25pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12 £8 – £10

have both soya and almond milk. Grapes to stay healthy. Then lots of fresh vegetables below. Mushrooms. Tomatoes. A solid finish. Should be four stars but since it’s Fest it’ll get three.