MOTHER SUPERIOR
Janine Harouni’s family matters
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8 Bringing Up Baby Janine Harouni digs into her Arab roots
12 A Sense of a Feeling Christian Noelle Charles on her salon installation
21 Petts Sounds
A rude awakening for Chloe Petts
Theatre
36 Ben Target
A life-affirming tribute to a departed friend
Comedy 25 Max & Ivan
A perfect show on fatherhood and friendship
Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus
45 Party Ghost
A spooky romp through purgatory
Cabaret and Variety
48 Suhani Shah
A deft magic show that left us charmed
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Rosalie Minnitt's Perfect Day
A perfect day at the Fringe with Clementine’s Sylvanian Families
These woodland-based thespians take their fringe debut roles in Clementine very seriously indeed. That means that late-night merriment is off the table; it is in fact stated quite clearly in their contracts that sidequests, whimsical misadventures and fanciful romps are to be kept to an absolute minimum. Let these little lunatics loose in a karaoke booth and you’ll have a full-scale riot on your hands before you can cue ‘Price Tag’. (They’re all huge Jessie J fans).
Performers need to be in peak condition and no one knows that more than this
bucolic bunch, so, like the band of brothers they are, they’ll kick their day off with a light jog up the stairs and back. That’s the equivalent of Arthur’s Seat for them! On an average day, breakfast consists of four dozen eggs – Gaston-style – a whole rotisserie chicken, and a pint or four of Edinburgh’s finest mead. Each. It’s important to keep their pre-show diets light, after all. Next, it’s warm-up time. Their backstage rituals are famed across the comedy kingdom for being, well, a little unconventional. After some serious stretching led by Louis
Spence and Louis Theroux (as ever, just there to observe) the team will recreate their favourite scenes from Twilight and play a quick-fire game of Boar on the Floor. It’s unconventional but boy does it get results. They’ve offered to flyer but, between the overexcitable a cappella teens and jumpy
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Boar on the Floor
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Arthur's Seat
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improv troupes, it’s clear that the Royal Mile is no place for these little fellows. So, it’s off to Underbelly in a stretch limo for their curtain call. After another few dozen rotisseries, the show will, naturally, be a resounding success and, after three standing ovations and
at least two encores, they’ll greet their adoring fans at the stage door and graciously accept the many, many gifts, offerings and jewels thrust into their little paws.
Some of the cast, like Giles, are taking a more method approach to the show and
have been living the life of regency aristocrats for the last six months. As such, their Fringe schedule will look a little bit different to the rest of us. Giles certainly won’t be mixing with the riff raff of George Square and will most likely be found taking a toasty soak in the period town house he’s rented for the month before printing a few pithy pamphlets and then drunkenly stumbling into a local opium den.
SHOW Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine
VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 2:25pm – 3:25pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14
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Bringing Up Baby
Stand-up Janine Harouni tells Eilidh Akilade about impending motherhood, her heritage and storytelling
After a Best Newcomer nomination at the Fringe in 2019, there’s a fair bit of pressure for Janine Harouni and her sophomore show –not to mention that she’ll be heavily pregnant by the time it comes around. Tonight, she’s heading out to one of many work-in-progress gigs in the run up to the Fringe.
“I’m just trying to get all the gigs and previews that I can before the baby comes and I just lay in bed eating Nutella,” she says. "I think there's this image we all have in our heads –perpetuated by social media – that pregnancy is this magical and special time, when in reality pregnancy is weird and scary and hard and gross – and very, very funny." She adds: "I want other people to know that it's OK to not know what you're doing in pregnancy, in parenthood and in life. We're all just doing our best. Life's hard, but laughter helps."
Man’oushe will explore Harouni’s Arabic roots alongside her pregnancy, unpacking heritage and its many ambiguities. “It’s about life and loss,” she says. “It kind of parallels my life and my grandmother’s life. My grandmother – Hanan Harouni – was a classical Arabic singer and she toured the world.”
Amid this paralleling an unweaving also comes into play. Her grandmother’s sister recently did a DNA test, returning somewhat “funky” results. She’s keen to keep things fairly under wraps but, ultimately, we can expect something sharp yet tender, hilarious yet genuine.
Harouni’s debut in 2019 – Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) –explored her wrought relationship with her conservative parents, particularly her beloved
father and his support for Trump. Much of Harouni’s comedy calls back to her Staten Island upbringing, a perfectly staccato New York accent making its way into each set.
Returning to the Fringe this summer, she has, as ever, got her family’s support: her father has seemingly taken her PR upon himself amid offers to co-write (despite Harouni’s objections to both). Her love for her family is clear throughout her comedy, but her narrative choices also speak to how – and how fast – we now tell stories. “If you can do really good observational comedy, I think that’s incredible,” she says. “But I also feel like that is a dying art form because the minute you think of something about the world around us, there’ll be 15 memes about it that have existed for a year already.”
Harouni is not interested in keeping up with the endless cycle of content; it’s refreshing to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, it’s OK for us all to slow down a little and laugh while doing so. “I think once you write something personal, it’s a bit more timeless.” Remembrance and preservation of the familial has its value – however comedic the form it takes. “I also think I have a hilarious family and I’d like the world to experience them – because my therapist certainly does,” she says.
With Harouni, wit always comes with a certain warmth. “I don’t like when comedy is mean,” she says, simply. “I like to make shows that make people feel good because it’s a nice escape. And also I think it’s easy to just shit on everything around you and be cynical. It’s harder to find the good in everyone.” We don’t often align hope or kindness with virtuosity but Harouni’s ability to bring light to oftentimes dis-
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“Once you write something personal, it’s a bit more timeless”
tressing or unfortunate realities is testament to the fact that yes, indeed, hope-centred art is both merit-worthy and necessary.
Connection is certainly key. One third of comedy trio Muriel, Harouni has worked closely with Sally O’Leary and Meg Salter. For her, they’re a joy to work with. “The things that are really frustrating about writing on your own are also the things that are a relief when you write with other people,” she says.
Also starring as the coolly sharp Thalia on ITV’s Buffering, Harouni’s career is proving to be anything but singular. Navigating both the solo and the collaborative is a balancing act but it’s one she’s enjoying figuring out. Her solo
stand-up, however, is not entirely detached from collaboration. At one early work-in-progress gig for her debut show, an audience member generously offered his advice afterwards. “He then proceeded to list off the most sexually violent jokes I’ve ever heard in my life,” she says, something of a past-tense unease in her eyes. “And then the last joke he told me fit perfectly in the show.” For Harouni, the joke is certainly one of her favourites, cutting the tension at just the right time. And so, with Man’oushe, she’s similarly open to audience critique. “No matter how weird you are, I will accept your feedback because I think it’s worth it,” she says.
Harouni, it seems, meets people where they’re at and goes from there. An actor by training – although she does insist “actor” ought to be in “air quotes” – Harouni stepped into stand-up only several years ago. “I was turning 30 and I’d always wanted to try standup comedy, but I’d always been afraid of doing it. And for whatever reason, 30 was a sort of a now or never moment for me,” she says.
Now a parent-in-waiting, she’ll be finishing this year’s Fringe about 18 or 19 days before her due date. “I told my mom, who was a maternity nurse, and she was like, ‘That’s brave, because all you kids came in three weeks early.’” Harouni’s advice: book Man’oushe for early August – any later, and it’s risky. With her debut in 2019, the pandemic saw Harouni’s tour cancelled. Next year, she’ll be touring Ma’noushe in Europe, India, and the USA – and all with a baby in tow. Bringing a child into the world, of course, brings a whole host of worries. “My husband’s very funny and I’m a stand up comedian but I feel like whenever you meet the children of funny people and they’re the most boring and dry,” she says. “I’m just trying to tell myself that if my kid’s not funny, it’s OK.”
What’s clear is that Man’oushe is going to be a memorable moment. “Who knows,” she says, “the baby might come early and then hopefully get a newcomer nom.”
Perhaps, it runs in the family.
SHOW Janine Harouni: Man’oushe
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 6:20pm – 7:20pm, 2–25 Aug, not 14, 21
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A Sense of a Feeling
Glasgow based American artist Christian Noelle Charles’s Art Festival exhibition is set in the unique context of a salon installation. She tells us about her intentions for this work through the Black feminine lens
Words: mandla rae
Christian Noelle Charles has an enigmatic warm energy that makes one feel like you’ve known each other through several lifetimes. Our conversation reminds me of the Black women I share smiles and compliments with on the streets, I feel that almost instant sense of community or knowing with her.
Charles had an upbringing that intrigues me; she was introduced to art and creativity through her parents in Syracuse, upstate New York. Her mother ran a dance studio so from an early age Christian was taking “eight dance classes a week – heavily influenced by Alvin
Ailey’s techniques.” Her father was a radio DJ who now teaches Broadcasting and African American Music.
It’s easy to see how Charles went down the visual art route in her practice; her mother also worked as an Arts Manager, Curator and Grant Writer – Charles has been familiar with the work of artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Faith Ringgold from an early age. I slightly envy such a creative upbringing but, I am mostly thrilled for Charles – becoming an artist was a visible possibility for her from day one, as opposed to an upbringing where the arts and creativity don’t seem open or accessible for people who look like her. Becoming an artist isn’t something she’s had to justify to her parents – creativity runs through her bloodstream.
Her exhibition at the Edinburgh Art Festival: WHAT A
FEELING
| ACT 1 – which runs until 17 September at Edinburgh Printmakers – takes its title from the iconic song by Irene Cara featured in the movie Flashdance! The work is an attempt to show gratitude to the Black women artists, such as Cass Ezeji and Alberta Whittle who she’s built community with in a predominantly white country since moving to Glasgow from the United States seven years ago. She has immortalised them in her print work. During our conversation, Charles also acknowledges and expresses gratitude to the staff at Printmakers who have worked with her over the past year and a half to bring the
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exhibition to life. I shared in her excitement about the possibilities Edinburgh as a city creates, the doors it opens for artists to make and present on an international scale.
The exhibition space itself simulates the Beauty Salon or dressing room, where Black women are “in our space, in our bodies and cultivating self-care.” It’s called ACT 1 because it’s the first part in a series. As Charles explains, it’s “the sense of getting ready, preparing for yourself or for something big. Each screenprint is a portrait of someone getting ready but it’s also a window of opportunity, based off the structures of Black feminine contexts and challenging the status quo of how Black women always have to work hard and present themselves in a certain way or work twice as hard just to get half as far.”
Community and togetherness are integral to Charles as a person as well as an artist and it’s in this spirit that she’s throwing a Backyard BBQ – American block party style on 25 August in the Printmakers Gallery Courtyard, with a Nigerian barbecue catered and DJ sets from
Junglehussi, Mojxmma and Edinburgh Art Festival Board Member, presenter, and writer Gemma Cairney. With this event, Charles hopes to switch up the idea of “what it looks like to gather in an arts context.” Instead, she wants it “to feel more like a family reunion” so all are invited to get fed, dance with her and buy a print – Charles wants all her artworks to find loving homes.
SHOW Christian Noelle Charles: WHAT A FEELING! | ACT I
VENUE: Edinburgh Printmakers
TIME: 10am-6pm, until 17 Sep (not Mondays)
Photo: Matthew Arthur Williams
“Each screen-print is a portrait of someone getting ready but it’s also a window of opportunity”
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A range of emerging and international talent, from debut solo shows to public art works
Alberta Whittle: create dangerously
National Galleries of Scotland: Modern One, until 7 Jan 2024, times vary
An immersive exhibition which is the largest showing of Whittle’s work to date, addressing colonialism, the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, and the climate crisis. Whittle will also present a newly-commissioned performance The Last Born –making room for ancestral transmissions on 13 August, 7pm at Parliament Hall.
Lindsey Mendick: SH*TFACED
Jupiter Artland, until 1 Oct, times vary
Lindsey Mendick’s first solo show in Scotland draws inspiration from the duality in Stevenson’s gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Through crafted ceramics vases, sculptures and stained glass, Mendick subverts everyday scenes to explore binge-drinking culture and self-regret.
Platform 2023
Trinity Apse, 11-27 Aug, times vary
The festival’s annual showcase of early career visual artists, now in its ninth year. This year’s artists selected from an open call are Aqsa Arif, Crystal Bennes, Rudy Kanhye, and Richard Maguire, who are presenting works spanning race, climate change, food justice, cultural identity and more.
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Platform – Aqsa Arif, Spicy Pink Tea
Tarek Lakhrissi: I wear my wounds on my tongue (II)
Collective, until 1 Oct, times vary
A new exhibition by the French artist and poet exploring desire, language and queerness. Lakhrissi takes inspiration from the work of the late poet, essayist and performance artist Justin Chin, with the installation featuring newly commissioned sculpture and sound pieces.
Rabiya Choudhry: Give light and people will find the way (Ella Baker)
Leith Library, until 27 Aug
An illuminated artwork based on a painting by Choudhry, part of the artist’s ongoing project Lost Lighting – a series of lighting artworks for public places intended to ‘act like a vigil in the dark’. The torch motif in the work features the words of African-American civil rights activist Ella Baker, who fought for societal change for ordinary people.
Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception
Dovecot Studios, until 6 Jan 2024, times vary
An exhibition spotlighting 45 diverse women artists, showcasing a unique history of Scottish art via 70 paintings, tapestries, textiles, sculptures and photographs. Featured artists include Catherine Read, Sekai Machache, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Bessie MacNicol, Joan Eardley, Elizabeth Blackadder, Rachel Maclean and Alison Watt.
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Rabiya Choudhry, Guve Light and People Will Find The Way,
Tarek Lakhrissi, I wear my wounds on my tongue
Alberta Whittle, One Entanglement is more than blood
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Bookworms
Punchdrunk Theatre’s Artistic Director Pete Higgin and comedian Robin Ince explore the transformative power of books and imagination
Words: Ben Venables
Pete Higgin: The inspiration was a book by an author called Robert Thompson – How To Live Forever. The story is great, but it’s not one that we followed. This library comes to life and characters come out of the books at night. You can see little windows in the books. We took that as a kind of an aesthetic inspiration for something that became known as The Lost Lending Library
The idea is trying to make the children the heroes in a kind of picture book adventure that happens to them. It gets them very excited and it gets them excited about books.
Robin Ince: If we were all reading the same book and there were 40 of us in the room, we would all have a different film playing in our heads. We would all be seeing a different lead actor, and we’d all be seeing different front rooms and carriages and wild dogs or whatever. And that’s one of the things that I love about reading. The fact that once you get into a book you are very much part of it. I do think reading is about empathy. A book I bang on about a lot is Welcome to St. Hell, a comic book by Lewis Hancox, a trans man who grew up in St. Helens. It’s a powerful book and it makes
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The Lost Lending Library
you go: ‘Oh, I’m now armed with a little bit of someone else’s mind, someone’s experience, an experience nothing like my experience. Now I can begin to respond to other minds.’
Pete: We’re trying to get children excited about the potential of books, but also getting them to understand the power of their imagination. We’ve heard from schools and parents over and over again about children who are quiet, or difficult to get writing out of, bringing in pages of writing. It might not be grammatically correct. It might not be the perfectly structured story, but the children have this reason to write and they’ve got excited about writing. If we can infuse anybody about anything, whether it’s through immersive theatre or through something more traditional, the moment you capture a child’s imagination you can unlock their potential.
Robin: When you mentioned the grammatical thing I think that’s important, to try and cut down on the number of rules that people think they have to obey. I was thinking about some of the people in prisons who’ve not ever had the chance to learn about reading. A friend of mine, Alistair Fruish, found the two things that put off a lot of people in prison were long words and punctuation. So he wrote a book where people could just get into the reading and not worry about it. It’s a monosyllabic book that’s all one sentence, about a prison sentence, called The Sentence. We did a live event reading it out – it was like a shamanic spell.
Reading aloud is another thing. I have some friends who, even now their kids are teenagers, still sit together at bedtime and they read books. The rule of saying there’s a certain age where you shouldn’t be reading to your child at bedtime – none of these rules matter.
Pete: Our project, overnight, jumps into a school. Where there was once a door, there’s now a bookshelf. During lockdown, one school found themselves with a spare classroom. They built something called The Museum of Everything, which connected to our library. It’s an immersive space in their school where they continue to do lessons and learning. When I saw that, I was like, OK, I’m gonna retire now cause my work here is done!
I think it begins to invert the hierarchy and gets teachers and children standing shoul-
der-to-shoulder.It’s a gift actually. I think the more that you gift people great experiences means they feel valued. Then it’s much easier for them to get pen to paper. They suddenly want to do drama and their need to create is amplified. And it’s a fun thing watching that unfold.
Robin: It might have been Neil Gaiman who first pointed out that the library is one of the only places where you can walk in and they’re not expecting you to give over your money. It’s a space which is welcoming. There’s so much unnecessary suffering about just how narrow it’s felt that the world wants us to be. Erratic thoughts and strange imaginations, all of these things which in the rest of the world are seen as being, kind of, ‘Oh dear. You said a bit of a weird thing.’
Well, imagination is all the books on our shelves, isn’t it?
VENUE: Church Hill Theatre Studio
TIME: times vary, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 14, 20, 22
VENUE: Gilded Balloon at the Museum
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2–27 Aug
Photo: Trent Burton
SHOW Robin Ince – Weapons of Empathy
SHOW The Lost Lending Library
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Captivating memoirs, thought-provoking discussions: from new novelists to our most celebrated authors
Malorie Blackman: Writing My Story
Spark Theatre, Tue 22 Aug, 12pm
Just Sayin’ is Malorie Blackman’s memoir charting her journey from a south London bookworm into one of the UK’s most celebrated authors. In this event, Blackman speaks to novelist Alex Wheatle about her book, which delves into the obstacles of societal racism and her diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia.
Jenni Fagan: I Was Not Meant To Be Here
Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court, Fri 25 Aug, 8.30pm
In conversation with journalist Terri White, Jenni Fagan introduces her memoir Ootlin at the Book Festival, detailing her childhood experiences in the care system and how storytelling helped shape her life.
Mikaela Loach: Changing the Climate Narrative
Spark Theatre, Sat 12 Aug, 7pm
Mikaela Loach’s new book It’s Not That Radical is a fresh and panoramic look at climate action. The Edinburgh-based activist and writer is sitting down with Gemma Cairney to discuss how best we can carry out change.
K Patrick: Summer of Desire
Spark Theatre, Sun 20 Aug, 5.15pm
Mrs S is an extraordinary debut novel that unfolds over an intense summer at a girls boarding school. Author K Patrick discusses her work with novelist Harry Josephine Giles.
Bernardine Evaristo: On Never Giving Up
Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court, Fri 25 Aug, 5pm
In her memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, Bernardine Evaristo discusses the courage, honesty and hope needed for success. The Booker prize-winning writer will be chatting with Scottish playwright and poet Hannah Lavery.
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Through a Kaleidoscope
Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court, Tue 15 Aug, 8.30pm
Colson Whitehead, double Pulitzer prize-winner, returns to Edinburgh to discuss Crook Manifesto, the second novel in a series set in 1960s and 70s New York. Whitehead will be talking with writer Jess Brough.
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Petts Sounds
Words: Eve Livingston
There was a moment during last year’s Fringe when Chloe Petts second guessed herself. Early in the run of her debut Transience, which sought to challenge rising transphobia from her perspective as an often-misgendered lesbian, she walked on stage to find herself face-to-face with a front row full of “burly
Scotsmen”. Would her jokes about gender, sexuality and the complex dynamics of women’s toilets land?
“I remember really distinctly looking out at those guys and sort of profiling them, wondering if I needed to make my message more accessible or soften it a bit,” she recalls.
As she returns to the Fringe with the follow-up to last year’s hit show Transience, Chloe Petts tells us why it’s time to get bolder and brasher
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“Then I thought, no: this is what you believe, go out and do the show and trust that these are good people and they can handle it.”
They did indeed handle it, as did packedout audiences throughout the month and critics who christened Petts a rising star and one to watch. It was a good lesson in not compromising, Petts says. And it’s one she has carried through to her upcoming show, If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, which she describes as “the angry show after last year’s polite show.”
“I travelled up and down the country last year doing this show trying to tell people not to be transphobic and, if anything, it’s got even worse,” she explains. “So this show is like: you haven’t listened so I’m not going to be nice anymore. No more mister nice guy!”
Billed as “a newer, ruder approach to the big issues,” this year’s show explores Petts’ “journey with anger” and promises jokes on weddings, football fans, and people who play music too loudly on the bus. But it’s also an examination of empathy: “I’m trying to think about how we see anger societally and how useful it is; how useful it is to be angry and how useful it was to be polite,” she says.
“The whole ‘be kind’ movement makes me feel a bit like: well, sometimes you can’t just be kind, sometimes you have to fight back. So I guess it’s saying, be kind if you can but what about if you can’t?”
And if rudeness and anger have an important societal role, says Petts, they also, crucially, have a comedic one.
“There’s a misconception that talking about things like gender and sexuality means being a leftie liberal snowflake,” she says. “I think people enjoy rude humour that’s a bit on the edge, that’s not something that’s exclusive to the right.
“I enjoyed those bits in the last show so much, which is why I want to do this show where I really lean into how far I can push it.”
Petts waited two years to debut her solo hour thanks to the pandemic, but was rewarded with sell-out crowds, glowing reviews,
and a Breakthrough Act nomination at the Chortle Awards. What is it like to try and follow that reception?
“It currently feels kind of like I’m in the midst of GCSEs; I’m having all these stress dreams and it’s all I can think about,” she jokes. “I guess the difference is that it’s like doing an exam but then someone watches you do the exam and reviews you in a national broadsheet.”
But she looks, as she does often, to her favourite hobby for perspective. “I try to remember that footballers want to play in the biggest games possible and that’s the reward for the hard work; we do it for the big moments,” she says.
“So I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little stressed, a little nervous – but I think I’ve worked hard enough to give myself the best chance of having a really fun year.”
Photo: Matt Stronge
SHOW Chloe Petts: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice
VENUE:
Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 6:40pm – 7:40pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14
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Max & Ivan: Life, Choices
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:20pm – 6:20pm, 2–27
Aug, not 5, 12, 19, 26
Find a job you love and you’ll never do a day’s work in your life, so they say. What they rarely add (but should) is that if you monetise your hobby and friendship you’ll never know a single day of inner peace.
Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez, heartbreakingly, are coming to realise this. They became a double act in 2008, and detailed evidence of their mutual affection has contributed to the magic of their
storytelling-heavy live shows ever since.
But they’re older now. Let’s call it early-to-mid-30s. Gonzalez has a baby, and life for a comedy duo is a precarious existence at the best of times (which these, emphatically, are not). Olesker, meanwhile, had a lot of thinking time forced upon him when what was supposed to be a trip to paradise took a nasty turn.
And so, as the men behind the cult Fringe show, The Wrestling, assess their own character types and consider where they are in life, they look to their fathers for advice and insight. And what lives the
older men have lived. We’re guided through astonishing descriptions of some of the things they got up to, all enhanced by Max & Ivan’s customarily engaging multimedia displays, which here include everything from eye-misting photos of the past and daft photoshopping to deliberately ridiculous private data breaches from Gonzalez.
Not only is this show consistently funny, and perfectly structured and executed, but the emotional twists and turns will do all sorts of things to your heart. Bring your best friend and bring tissues. ✏︎
Ashley Davies
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Photo: Rachel Sherlock
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Katy Berry: Diamond Goddess Crystal Pussy
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TIME: 2:10pm – 3:10pm, 3–27
Aug, not 14, 22
In a dark, stuffy room that towers high above the Cowgate, a demigoddess with turquoise hair and glamorous sequins awaits. Bubbles from a handheld machine operated by a helpful assistant signal her en-
trance and from here, we are transported from this musty room to a magical moonlit group therapy session, with piano accompaniment.
Katy Berry, of Baby Wants Candy fame, is a skilled improviser, whether she’s belting out riffs or doing impressive Nicki Minaj-esque raps about the audience’s guilty pleasures. The purpose of our coming together today is to unleash our inner magic and go full goddess; to let go, manifest and move forward, thanks to the Long Island comedian’s handy step-by-step guide.
A particularly cringe-worthy story about mooning an audience as a 12-year-old during
a talent show and having an extremely unfortunate incident with some Nair will elicit intense feelings of nostalgia in anyone that has been an awkward teenager. But the point of these anecdotes is to encourage us to embrace our inner selves, whatever that may look like.
Despite the general silliness (including an appearance from a mystical Billy Joel) and references to Berry being Poseidon’s illegitimate daughter, Diamond Goddess Crystal Pussy is a show that explores identity and how internalised shame from your adolescence can follow you well into adulthood. ✏︎ Arusa Qureshi
VENUE: Just the Tonic at The Mash House
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Photo: Mindy Tucker
Susie McCabe: Femme Fatality
VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 8:35pm – 9:35pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14
Susie McCabe has never been a girlie girl. And she’s got hundreds of winning jokes to illustrate the fact in this beautiful hour in which she addresses perceptions of womanhood, along the way telling us what it was like growing up gay in the 1980s and 90s.
It’s her most personal show to date, and there are moments when you’re crying as much from laughter as from the hunger conveyed in vivid descriptions of a wee “hurricane of homosexuality”, desperate for crumbs of representation in her world.
Gags about the qualifications the Glaswegian had as a bairn/wean are just outstanding, and her descriptions of depictions of homosexuality in the 80s are painfully accurate: gay men in soaps would die from Aids after three episodes, and anything about lesbians was “art”.
Such is McCabe’s skill as a storyteller that we find ourselves laughing along at the tales from her building site days when gay was a punchline (blokes will get called Liberace for the tiniest non-macho action). But what she’s cleverly doing here is forgiving those, herself includ-
ed, who’ve disguised insecurities as banter in the past. And she approaches difficult subjects such as body image and internet trolls with a delicate touch that belies how tough things
must have been at times. There’s so much to adore about this show, which is brimming with wisdom, fun, warmth and hope. And so, so much laughter. ✏︎
Ashley Davies
Photo: Andrew Jackson
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Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail HHHHH
VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 7:35pm – 8:35pm, 31 Jul – 27 Aug
There aren’t that many comics who can crack a smutty maths joke and perform some impressive sexual miming while bringing their Masters thesis to life – all while delivering a non-stop torrent of laughs. Olga Koch can do it backwards and in heels (OK, Crocs).
Koch has had one heck of a year. In addition to her academic attainments, she’s turned 30, travelled the world, got three tattoos (one’s a prawn) and had some
surprising medical news. She’s delighted to have achieved some specific sexual breakthroughs and if you saw last year’s show, Just Friends, you’ll have a pretty good idea of one particular ambition she was hoping to fulfil.
This confident and engaging stand-up wrote her thesis on parasocial relationships, the imbalance that occurs when one person is emotionally invested in another, yet the latter has no awareness of the former’s existence. It’s a common feature of contemporary life, particularly when wellknown people reveal aspects
of themselves on social media, but so-called reply guys aren’t the only ones who succumb to it.
The true story she tells to illustrate the concept takes some interesting turns, and there’s a rare, if fleeting, glimpse of vulnerability from Koch which serves as an appreciated little twist of self-knowledge in this tasty sex-positive cocktail.
Every time you think Koch is already at the top of the game, she comes out with something even better. Imagine what she’ll give us when she turns 40. ✏︎ Ashley Davies
Photo: Rachel Sherlock
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Moses Storm: Perfect Cult
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 10:20pm – 11:20pm, 2–27
Aug, not 16
Moses Storm attempts to create the perfect cult in a show where stand-up comedy meets immersive theatre. Based on audience participation, his Fringe debut is inclusive, original, and captivating.
Storm grew up on a repurposed Greyhound bus, travelling the United States with his family to spread
the beliefs of a doomsday cult. This is extraordinary in itself, and for somebody with no opportunity to socialise during their formative years, he’s surprisingly in tune with his fellow humans.
Far from making Perfect Cult all about himself, Storm invites the audience to create the show with him, giving free rein from the offset. Anything goes, including phones, as long as everyone’s comfortable. It could easily descend into chaos but there’s not one second of the hour that he’s not in charge of the room.
Storm makes subtle references to the wounds
he’s learning to live with, but Perfect Cult is the opposite of trauma dumping. He’s here to spread light and joy, and while he openly accepts his own struggles, he also acknowledges everyone else’s.
Some of the audience interaction drags on a bit, possibly because Storm is so much more entertaining than anyone else. In a sense, he’s the personification of a successful cult leader – charming, magnetic, in charge – and at the end of the show it’s clear that the audience would, quite literally, follow him anywhere. ✏︎ Veronica
Finlay
Photo: Dylan Woodley
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Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu HHHHH
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:40pm – 6:40pm, 2–27
Aug, not 16
Ikechukwu Ufomadu is an absolute card, with one of the leanest, most polished, smoothly hilarious introductions to a Fringe debut I’ve ever seen. Taking the stage in his tight tuxedo, fiddling with the mic in an effortlessly funny bit of business, he’s a slightly stiff, impossibly formal speaker who’s forever high on his own oratory.
A clown with impeccable diction and manners, his untrammelled, joke-free soliloquy from Hamlet is gripping, powerful stuff. Yet elsewhere, whether channelling the spirits of JFK or FDR, Shakespeare or Herman Melville, he relentlessly interrogates and pulls apart the English language, finding original gags everywhere among the very syntax and lexicon, authoritatively, genially and pointlessly talking, just talking, with a joyous, mellifluous flow while radiating American sincerity, standards and bonhomie.
Unfortunately though, because the persona is so immensely compelling, the appeal then rather falls off a cliff as it emerges that this truly is all there is, that the show is essentially all surface and no substance. You can palpably feel the energy in the room dip as realisation sets in. Ufomadu does then actually
loosen things up a bit with a few musical twists and lets his mask slip ever so slightly with some audience questions. But it’s never quite enough. Baited to want to know more about
the man behind the tux, you can’t help but feel catfished. Flourishing his verbosity like a refined, gentleman swordsman, he keeps you at arm’s length. ✏︎
Jay Richardson
Photo: Zach DeZon
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Get Blessed!
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VENUE: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14
Áine Reilly is a funeral celebrant and she’s here to teach you how to be one too. Taking the form of an interactive course complete with PowerPoint, biscuits, and felt tip pens, this Fringe debut from Irish writer and comic Niamh Denyer flies by in an hour of silliness and laughs.
Reilly is a well-realised character, with money-grabbing cynic meeting Irish archetype to great effect, and Denyer an able actor and comic. She banters easily with the audience over a well-paced hour, never breaking character. Her quick-witted retorts raise as many laughs as the scripted material.
Get Blessed! pokes fun at traditional funerals, competitive celebrants, Catholic ritual and the audience’s participation, but mostly at Reilly herself. Despite the show’s funereal
subject matter, there is no darkness here, just fun and games. In the 1pm slot, it’s a light-hearted way to start a Fringe afternoon with plenty of laughs and even some colouring in.
The success of Get Blessed! relies on an audience comfortable and enthusiastic enough to participate fully in the ‘course’s’ activities, which might seem a risk for a Fringe debut. In the hands of a performer as deft as Denyer, though, it’s difficult for them to be anything else. ✏︎ Eve
Livingston
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Image: courtesy of Niamh Denyer
Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
TIME: 10:05pm – 11:05pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14
A dark sense of humour is found in those with a close proximity to death. Avital Ash’s arresting gallows humour recalls the kind of shocking jokes nurses and paramedics make to each other. It can feel good to laugh in death’s face.
Ash’s own proximity to death starts with the suicide of her mother while Ash was a baby. The title of her debut Edinburgh hour – Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note –tells us how close death is to her own thoughts.
The show is a baring of Ash’s soul, profoundly compelling and emotionally affecting. She lays out a complex relationship with her step-mother and explains how her orthodox Jewish upbringing has, at formative times, contributed to harsh and punishing labels given to her; labels misinterpreting the actions of a smart, curious child and teenager.
As the show progresses, Ash tells of drinking blackouts and
sexual assault, filling the room with palpable tension. A tension reinforced by the shame Ash feels – which seems to coil tightly around her.
The stream of early jokes become more spread out as Ash gives time to experiences which still seem raw. An hour can’t really hold everything she has to say – and the promising device of some collaborative writing with the audience doesn’t quite pay off tonight.
Yet her openness and sincerity leave a lasting impression. And her talent for a well-written joke, delivered at just the right moment, causes laughter to move through the room like a flashlight across the dark. ✏︎ Ben Venables
Image: courtesy of Impressive PR
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Theatre Reviews
Ben Target: LORENZO HHHHH
VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 11:55am – 1:00pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Many Fringe shows attempt to grapple with existential themes like care, love and grief. Few manage to explore all three in depth simultaneously while making their audiences laugh, cry and even dance along the way. Ben Target’s LORENZO is one of the few.
LORENZO is Target’s story of caring for his dying Uncle Lorenzo, as well as a tribute to the eponymous man himself. Across a life-affirming 65
minutes, Target paints a vivid picture of Lorenzo, the act of care in both its profound and mundane guises, and the unconditional bond shared between the pair. This is a oneman show with a pared down set centred largely around a carpenter’s table, but within it is all the colour and messiness of life itself.
Target is a captivating performer, the audience entranced throughout. He cut his teeth in stand-up and it shows; perfectly pitched humour underpins the story throughout but is finely balanced with moments of
emotion in which you could hear a pin drop. The result is deeply human – haven’t we all found moments of levity amid the darkness or despaired at the mundane even as our lives change around us?
By the end of the show, the audience feels as if they knew and cared for Lorenzo too, his loss and those of others felt throughout the room. On one level, this is a pitch perfect tribute to one man. On another, it is a joyous celebration of what it means to love deeply and a moving exploration of the price we gladly pay for doing so. ✏︎
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Photo: Ed Moore
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VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 8:50pm – 9:50pm, 2–27
Aug, not 14, 21
At first sight of Eva O’Connor in the Summerhall basement, she is no longer human. She pecks and flaps the wings of her costume, slowly zoning in on the audience with wide eyes, as if about to launch into some profound and enigmatic performance art. But that’s not what Chicken is – and thank God for that, O’Connor mockingly affirms. No, this is the story of a young Irish rooster going out into the big bad world and learning some hard truths along the way.
As our titular chicken relays their journey to super-stardom, we travel from Ireland to New York, with anecdotes about playing Jesus in the nativity, landing a role with Michael Fassbender and developing a ket addiction thanks to Colin Farrell along the way. There are multiple voices that are introduced across this hero’s tale, from a Glaswegian pigeon to a seedy NYC agent and with each character, O’Connor seamlessly slips in and out, anchored by the identity of the charismatic, determined chicken.
Written by O’Connor and Hildegard Ryan, Chicken is all-out comedic storytelling which provides plenty of moments of hilarity from start to finish. But in its examination of otherness, even if the ‘Other’ in this case is an Irish rooster sickened by the hypocrisy that surrounds him, it offers an allegory of the
complexities of belonging. The narration contains real heart thanks to the strength of both script and performance,
and in the end, you can’t help but unwittingly root for this drug-addicted celebrity chicken. ✏︎ Arusa Qureshi
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It’s A Motherf**king Pleasure
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VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 2:20pm – 3:20pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21
How do you review a show that’s critic-proof? That’s the challenge put forth by Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani and Chloe Palmer, the trio behind this barbed satire. If critics (and audience members) don’t leave “the disability show” with glowing reviews, they’re a “bunch of ableist cunts”, we’re told.
This isn’t the only time ableist anxieties are weaponised in this bracing (and often bracingly funny) show. We’re put off balance with an
introduction that’s purportedly designed to make anyone in the audience with a disability feel more comfortable, although the accommodating soon reaches levels of the absurd as the cast scream their lines for the hard of hearing, earplugs are handed out for those sensitive to these screams and the lights are continually raised and dimmed to oblige different levels of sight impairment.
Sandwiched between this meta-tomfoolery is a more traditional play, which involves an unscrupulous PR agency’s plans to manipulate a blind influencer into making his condition look aspirational. Before
you know it, they’re monetising the blind experience by encouraging people with 20-20 vision to test drive a cane, go on literal blind dates, or truly taste their meal by eating in a pitch-dark restaurant.
Comedy poking fun at identity politics and virtue signalling tends to be the realm of right-wing comedians, but this trio aren’t likely to appear on GB News anytime soon. Their pin-sharp show is overflowing with dark humour and righteous anger, but there’s no finger-waving. The perfect ally doesn’t exist – we’re all failing terribly, but acknowledging that is half the battle. ✏︎ Jamie Dunn
Photo: Hannah Smith
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:00pm – 6:00pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14
In Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello’s Body Show, everything is performance. Limbs and voices are props, hollow and shape-shifting; stage lights black out as the reality that the show inhabits flashes in and out of life. Here, against this backdrop of flimsy and illusion, a feral investigation into the apocalypse of our
bodies is being staged: the ones we occupy, the ones we are trapped within, the ones imposed on us. The landscape is ravaged, the doomsday clock is ticking, and it is fast becoming clear that we have lived here all along.
Weaving in a cultural fabric encompassing everything from Tom & Jerry to Come Dine With Me (“all that seems to remain are these capitalist callbacks,” Ello frets), Body Show is both a comedic triumph and a work of
remarkable anthropological scope: a relentless, frenetic collage of the nightmare of our gendered and embodied existences. It is exhilaratingly, caustically funny, but amidst its anarchy – Paul Hollywood vox pops, a lip sync of The Last Supper – sits a gutting pain, and a startling, almost unbearable tenderness in the face of such existential disaster. At the end of the world, when everything is derelict and gone, will the twisted relationships we have with our bodies even matter? It is frightening to think that they won’t; it is even more frightening, Body Show tells us, to realise they still will. ✏︎ Anahit
Behrooz
Photo: Dylan Woodley
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Dark Noon
VENUE: Pleasance at EICC, TIME: 5:00pm – 6:40pm, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23
Westerns are not just important to American cinema, their influence can be felt around the world. The ensemble of South African actors that perform this show prove it. Over 100 minutes, they draw on cinematic conventions from cowboy movies to powerfully critique the European invasion of the Americas, and position the frontier as a site of colonial violence.
The script’s strength is its stylistic complexity and nuance. After the opening, cartoonish duel, the company acknowledges that disease and famine drove many of these Europeans from their homes. While this generates sympathy, their dangerous journey across the sea evokes the Middle Passage that enslaved Africans suffered. The Black cast members rubbing talc on themselves and donning blonde wigs seems absurd, but not when considered against the legacy of blackface. The white characters can be comically stereotypical, which makes the constant shootings of Native American characters
all the more serious. Metatheatre, live video feeds and audience participation contribute well to the production’s sophisticated historical and social commentary.
The cast work together with ease and skilfully navigate the use of multiple cameras. They also assemble an entire set over the course of the show, and do their best to play to the audiences on three sides of the stage. There are sightline issues by the end once the American plains have become a thriving town. Issues like this are minor in the face of the impact of white supremacist imperialism that this show drives home. ✏︎
Laura Kressly
Photo: Sõren Meisner
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Tea and Milk HHHHH
VENUE: C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
TIME: 7:40pm – 8:40pm, 2–27
Aug, not 15
Tea and Milk’s narrator is going through it: she’s newly heartbroken, stuck in a deadend job, and is seemingly a perpetual disappointment to her mum. The one-woman-show shifts between the narrator’s home country and the UK, unpacking the complexities of a “foreign” identity, alongside all the other trials and tribulations of growing into adulthood. By the end of the hour, we have an undeniable fondness for this ever-failing yet every-trying woman and all her dry, cynical humour.
Writer and performer Edith Alibec holds the stage with a striking ease. Alibec truly embodies the character within the story – awkward dance moves and painfully exaggerated facial expressions – and she’s all the more endearing for this.
The narrative weaves itself almost effortlessly, folding back on itself and leaving us with a satisfying – and oftentimes poignant – clarity.
Scenes cut from one to another quickly and urgently, and Alibec is very clearly in control of each shift. However, as such, some weightier topics in the second half fall slightly clumsy amid the many, many quips.
A great deal of the laughs are comfy crowd-pleasers: Tinder and high school reunions and shitty wellness products. It’s funny but it’s also perhaps a little too general and well-
worn, too anonymous. And so, at times, there’s a sense of holding back, intimacy restrained for the sake of a broad appeal. But, that’s also kind of the point: Tea
and Milk follows a character using comedy to detach herself – it’s fitting that such detachment carries through in this undoubtedly moving watch. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade
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Image: courtesy of SM Publicity
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Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus Reviews
Party Ghost
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VENUE: Assembly Checkpoint
TIME: 2:55pm – 3:55pm, 2–27
Aug, not 14, 21
You’d think it would be relatively hard to find a connection between Adele, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stanley Kubrik. And yet in Party Ghost, all three are integral to the shenanigans that play out over the course of an hour. The show is a chaotic merging of a creepy birthday party, an unhinged funeral, purgatory and the cir-
cus, with some witty nods to slasher flicks and pop culture scattered throughout.
Performers Olivia Porter and Jarred Dewey are captivating in their portrayal of weird sisters and ghostly twins, running around in slapstick fashion, draped in comically simple white sheets with eye holes. At first, we’re introduced to a veiled, widowed figure (Dewey), who sobs as the audience file in, handing out cucumber sandwiches on a silver platter. As Dewey hoists himself up onto the trapeze via a noose around his neck, performing
an impressive aerial routine in sky-high heels, the gloriously absurd and macabre tone is immediately set.
From here, the duo pack in dance, burlesque, lip syncing, a balloon animal, an effortlessly cool juggling sequence and, as is customary at any successful birthday party, pass the parcel. Beyond the clowning, inventive choreography and relentless display of skill though, Party Ghost is pure silliness and gothic bedlam – perfect for any and all purveyors of the spooky.
Arusa Qureshi
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Baklâ
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VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2–27
Aug, not 14, 21
Tongues and abs and crucifixes and crushed papayas all feature in this one man show from writer, director and performer Max Percy. It’s an exploration of his sexuality and personal backstory, interwoven with the violent colonial past of the Philippines. The lithe Percy flips, often literally, between writhing butoh dance, circus rope acrobatics and a mesmerising slippery soap number, where he morphs expertly from coy to kinky before our eyes.
Power, control and shame crop up in his spliced memories of London queer sex parties or flashbacks to his indigenous Filipino ancestors being forced to abandon their traditional rituals and spiritual practices in favour of Catholicism.
The word baklâ is Tagalog for an effeminate or gay man, and he contextualises his out, confident and coquettish onstage persona by dropping in anecdotal lines about the everyday racism and homophobia that he has experienced in the UK and the Philippines as a mixed race kid. Snippets of TV adverts for skin whitening soap or America-fetishising Jollibee
fast food restaurants are a glossy reminder of the casual white supremacy that he grew up with, while bamboo whips
and safe words show how he has sought out autonomy and boundaries in adulthood.
✏︎ Claire Sawers
Image: courtesy of Northwall Arts Centre
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Cabaret Reviews
Suhani Shah: Spellbound
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TIME: 5:25pm – 6:25pm, 2–27
Aug, not 14
Even the most hardened sceptic will struggle not to fall under the spell of Suhani Shah. First of all, she has the air of someone who, if crossed, will step on you with her sky-high stilettos, while breaking into your mind to steal your bank PIN.
She’s slightly terrifying, and her audience loves it. Having worked the magic circuit since the age of seven, Shah handles the crowd at Underbelly with all the deft charm and winking
authority of a seasoned professional, for whom nothing throws them off. A rowdy audience member is laughingly – but firmly – put in their place. Overeager participants, too excited to follow directions properly, are guided along with almost familial exasperation. You’re in safe hands, she suggests. You can trust me. The illusion is cast before you even realise it’s begun.
That’s not to say that Spellbound is a slick production: far from it. Her box of tricks consists of a few white boards, a box of cards, and a little ball of chapati dough. Most of the
time, it’s just her on stage, describing in detail an audience member’s treasured memory, or drawing out a grandmother’s name and birthday.
On stage, Shah’s mix of mentalist acts with personal testimonial don’t always flow, but even these bumps seemingly add to the show’s verisimilitude. To say more about what happens on stage would be to ruin the magic of Spellbound, but needless to say, the audible gasps and trills of disbelieving laughter from the audience would make anyone want to believe.
Deborah Chu
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Ginava’s Messy Friends
VENUE: Assembly George Square Gardens
TIME: 5:55pm – 6:55pm, 2–27
Aug, not 15
Part podcast, part drag show, Ginava’s Messy Friends is a curious blend of behind-thescenes chatter and onstage glamour. This dichotomy really works. The conceit is that Ginava interviews each of their messy friends to ask them about their craft, inspirations and aspirations; these chats are then woven in between their solo and group performances. A discussion
about needing to make the audience happy is followed by a split-filled, Beyoncé-plus lip sync; a talk about what ‘camp’ really means precedes a kitschy performance by a ‘blind’ date beauty queen. This is a delicious mix of drag, burlesque, blurring of gender norms and uncompromisingly confronting personal trauma: a Sesame Street-esque monster binges from a trash can before purging through uncanny movement and heart-breaking poignancy. Where Ginava’s Messy Friends really excels is in
the costuming and make-up which perfectly complement how these performers use their bodies. Swirling and swaying, vogueing or hip-hop, it’s difficult to know where to focus – on the intricate and sparkling costume details, the pitch-perfect faces or the ways they command and occupy the stage. In the end, it’s easier to sit back and take it all in for the kaleidoscopic fever dream it is.
Ginava’s Messy Friends evokes a late-night dive bar in its DIY sensibilities, and delivers a show that is sometimes gruesome, sometimes plaintive, always intriguing.
Kirstyn Smith
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Music Reviews
No Love Songs HHHHH
VENUE: Traverse Theatre, TIME: times vary, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21
This piece of musical gig theatre with songs composed by Kyle Falconer, singer with Dundonian rockers The View, goes to dark places pretty quickly. It begins with a party, as Lana (Dawn Sievewright) and Jessie (John McLarnon) get together on a night out in a Dundee gay bar, but soon after this she becomes unexpectedly pregnant.
Soon after again, Jessie is called away to tour with his
band in America and post-natal depression is setting in for the isolated Lana. The names have been changed to allow for dramatic licence, but the story is based on that of Falconer and his wife Laura Wilde – co-author with Johnny McKnight of the book here –and her own experience of post-natal depression after the birth of their own children.
Sievewright and McLarnon give their characters a warm, relatable nature, although the pair are undoubtedly very good singers, who effectively carry both the rockier melo-
dies of key track ‘Stressball’ (the songs are adapted from Falconer’s 2021 solo album No Love Songs for Laura) and the sparse, slowed-down reworkings as Lana considers the worst.
Co-directors Andrew Panton and Tashi Gore hit every note perfectly, wrapping an evocative – and informative, for those who have never been there – depiction of PND’s despair within a hopeful, empowering and realistic tale of modern romance. Expect to see it back on stages again and again. ✏︎ David Pollock
Photo: Raymond Davies
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Hello Kitty Must Die
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 4:50pm – 5:50pm, 2–27
Aug, not 8, 15, 22
There’s a certain softness that is commonly associated with the character of Hello Kitty; the passive, meek anthropomorphised white cat that epitomises kawaii culture. For many, however, Hello Kitty holds negative connotations as a representation of gendered and racial stereotypes that fetishise Asian women in particular. It is these stereotypes and this denial of subservience that is explored skilfully in comedic musical Hello Kitty Must Die, which plays out like the ultimate revenge fantasy.
The story follows Fiona Yu, a 30-year-old Chinese-American woman, whose parents are desperate for her to marry, in order to fulfil the obligations of tradition. But Fiona is determined to forge her own path and does so with unexpected help from an old friend.
The strength of Hello Kitty Must Die lies in the cohesion between the five cast members, who maximise the vehemence in the songs and the cliches of their characters with very little set design or props to lean on. Though undoubtedly catchy in their arrangement, there’s often a disconnect between how quickly the story moves along and how well the songs slot into the narrative.
Still, the absurdity of Fiona’s murderous actions coupled
with the addition of weird and wonderful plot points such as Mr Happy the dildo and Pepito the parakeet make Hello Kitty Must Die a musical
worth seeing. If anything, you’ll leave with some great tunes in your head and the unfettered desire to bring down the patriarchy. ✏︎ Arusa
Qureshi
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Photo: Curtis Brown Photography
Kids Critics Mog the Forgetful Cat
Astrid,10, thinks Mog is purr-fect!
What happens in the show?
In the show Mog forgot she had a catflap but ended up stopping a burglar and then got a sore paw and attacked a vet and went home. Then there was a big wooshy thing in her garden and she got very scared and jumped through the roof. It’s Mog the musical so there is lots of singing and dancing. The costume for Mog is very good and some people are half human and half pet!
What did you like most about the show?
What I liked most about the show was when Mog got an award, twice! Once for stopping burglars and once for jumping through the roof and winning a cat show.
Was there anything you didn’t like?
I didn’t like Mr Thomas being mean to Mog because I love Mog and she didn’t mean to do those bad things. It was just an accident!
What did your grown-up think?
My grown up thought it was good but he tried to call it Moggy McMogface and then my toy Mog attacked him!
Would you tell your friends to go?
I would not tell my friends to go because they don’t like
Mog and the books are a bit short for them. It would be better for younger people and big Mog fans like me!
SHOW Mog the Forgetful Cat
VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 11:20am – 12:20pm, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 21, 22, 23
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Kids Critics Lightning Ridge
Phoebe, 10, went to a children’s show about grief that made her dad cry
What happens in the show?
There’s a mum, a dad and two children. The dad wanted to move to a place in Australia called Lightning Ridge because he wanted to find opals which even in Lightning Ridge were impossible to find (cos he’s an idiot). The younger daughter had two “imaginary” friends, as soon as the dad found out he went crazy for them and even gave one of them a birthday cake. One day they went missing and the whole town got involved in looking…
What did you like most about the show?
I liked how they didn’t have many props so they just
improvised with a lot of things like chalk, buckets, pebbles, boots and flowers. They even had a bicycle wheel.
Was there anything you didn’t like?
I didn’t like how there were so many childhood deaths. I mean, I get that they wanted to tell a story about grieving but they could have had a grandparent death instead!
What did your grown-up think?
He thought it was very sad because he cried A LOT!
Would you tell your friends to go?
I think I would tell some of
my friends because some of them would like it but not all of them because some of them would think it was as sad as I did.
SHOW Lightning Ridge
VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 11:30am – 12:25pm, 4–20 Aug, not 7, 14
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09:30
A Political Breakfast
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 9–27 Aug
09:45
Editburgh
Meeting Point @ Ibis Hotel, 9–29 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, Various dates from 9 Aug to 20 Aug
What’re You Looking At!
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
10:00
Corona Daze
theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
10:15
The Early Word Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Wiki Knows Best –Mythical Islands
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–27 Aug
10:30
Neil Harris: Codebreaker Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
First Thing (Work in Progress by Daniel Kitson)
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
10:40
Tal Davies and Hannah
Weetman: Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Iguanas
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–10 Aug
The Breakfast Club
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–27 Aug
10:45
Made in Bangladesh
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug
It Just So Happened Hill Street Theatre, 9–12 Aug
Aaaand Now For
Something Completely Improvised
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–13 Aug
11:00
Daman Bamrah: Salmon
Camera
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
The Weegies Have Stolen
the One O’Clock Gun!
St Columba’s by the Castle, 11 Aug, 18 Aug
Around the World in 80 Puns
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10–27 Aug, not 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20
Michael Kunze: Infinity Mirror
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–22 Aug, not 14
11:15
Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 19–27 Aug
3’s Comedy: Mornings
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
11:20
Glenn Moore: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–15 Aug
Rose Matafeo: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16–27 Aug
11:25
50 Midlife Crises to Try Before You Die
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
11:30
Sounds Proper Comedy’s Hot Picks
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Bucket
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Dark Knightley Rises
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
Those Who Can’t Do
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–27 Aug
Rozarina Larsen
Presents: Whitefishing
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–27 Aug
11:35
1998: A Walking Disaster – Anxiety, Absurdity, Airfryer
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:40
Luke Manning: One Manning Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–27 Aug
The Path to True Love (via Swindon)
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 10–19 Aug, not 13
British Indian Buddies
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
11:45
AL! The Weird Tribute (And How Daniel Radcliffe Got Mixed Up in This Nonsense)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:50
5 Mistakes That Changed History Assembly George Square, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:55
22
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14
12:00
Sheila’s Sister and Her Musical Cousins theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Keroseno and Finito: Cock O’Clock
Leith Depot, 9–27 Aug
Cecilia Delatori: Rock Spinster
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10–16 Aug
Chris Thorburn: Cineman
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 10–27 Aug, not 14
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy,
9 Aug
Ed Gamble: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–13 Aug
Aaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
David Sands Stand-Up Comedy
Deaf Action, 11–12 Aug
Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–27 Aug
Tiff Stevenson: WIP
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 14–20 Aug
Mark Row: A* in the Making
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Scream Inside Your Heart
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–20 Aug
Andy Bucks and Low Effort Sketches: Combined Effort
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9 Aug
Arzoo Malhotra: First Degeneration
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15
Lunch with a Cyclopath
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Sharon Wanjohi and Abbie Edwards: Screaming, Crying, Throwing Up
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
The Generation Gap (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Joe Wells: King of the Autistics
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug
Sex, Art and the Art of Survival
Frankenstein Pub, 21–28 Aug Quiz in My Pants
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–13 Aug
12:05
Pirates: You Wouldn’t Steal a Boat
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug
Corona Daze theSpace on the Mile, 20–26 Aug
12:10
Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 15 Aug
The Shit Kid
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
An American Christmas with the BXG DXG Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–28 Aug
Dinesh Nathan: Nathan Knows Nothing (WIP)
The Voodoo Rooms, 16–27 Aug
Milo Edwards: Sentimental Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 15
12:15
Big Smoke Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 15–27 Aug
Better Paul Paul
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–28 Aug, not 15
#BigDerryEnergy with Peter E Davidson
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Kathleen Hughes: One of the Girls (WIP)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–18 Aug
Steph Aritone: Excelf-esteem
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–27 Aug
American Boy
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10–14 Aug, not 12, 13
Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Seventh Pun of a Seventh Pun
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–20 Aug Harry Potter or My Girlfriend... Who Do I Love More?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–27 Aug, not 14
12:20
David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug
Table for Two?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Can You Tell Me Where This Is?
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
The Oxford Imps
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 16
Hannah Platt – Work in Progress
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 21–28 Aug
12:30
MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
PG Hits! Stand-Up Comedy That’s Everyone’s Cup of Tea
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Ageing Folks Telling Jokes
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
A Spaniard’s Guide to Learning Shakespeare
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
Jessie Cave: Work in Progress
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–13 Aug
Sarah Roberts: Worm in Progress
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 20–27 Aug
Live Podcast Hour
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Chris Cantrill: SuPeRgEnIu$ (WIP)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug
Sketch Up!
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–19 Aug, not 10
12:35
A Leftie’s Guide to Why Everyone Hates Lefties
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
Ashley Barnhill: Texas
Titanium (Show ‘Bout Gettin’ a New Skull)
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug
Colleen Lavin: Do the Robots Think I’m Funny? Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
12:40
Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 17, 21, 23
Jackman and Bones: Framed
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–20 Aug, not 14
12:45
Tarot: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–14 Aug
Is It Just Us?!
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Lee Kyle: England’s Best Comedian
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug, not 15
RGB Monster’s Format Factory
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15–27 Aug
12:50
2.7 Men – Louis George, Will Scambler and Louisa Corr
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–15 Aug
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@theSpaceUK This Time Next Year 4-19 Aug 22:40 21-26 Aug 21:10 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer 4-19 Aug 17:30 20-26 Aug 12:05 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall Until Death 4-26 Aug 22:10 My Life Online 14-26 Aug 15:00 theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall Two Gun Cohen – The Improbable True Story 7-12 Aug 19:35 theSpace on the Mile theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall BOX OFFICE 0131 226 0000 Dickie Must Die 4-12 Aug 19:15 theSpace on the Mile Chopped Liver and Unions 4-12 Aug 15:10 14-26 Aug 13:10 theSpace on the Mile Macbeth: Sleep No More 6-12 Aug 10:15 theSpace @ Niddry St
Now running across the City to Leith, Ocean Terminal and Newhaven from every 7 mins.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 16–20 Aug
Pam Ford Don’t You Dare! (Put Me in a Care Home)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–27 Aug
And Now...
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–27 Aug
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Brit-ish?
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
Coffee Kid
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
13:00
Sameer Katz: Love Is a Lie
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
The Weegies Have Stolen
the One O’Clock Gun!
St Columba’s by the Castle, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
Achtung!! The Germans Are Coming!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Alphabet Soup – Serving Hot LGBTQIA+ Comedy
Brunch
Le Monde, 9–28 Aug
Robin Ince – Weapons of Empathy
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug
Max Norman: A Pirate’s Life For Me
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Alastair Clark: Happy Ending
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Slow Progress, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Shoot From The Hip
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–28 Aug
Get Blessed!
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Last Stand on Honey Hill
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 12
Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
Board Game Smackdown
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27
Aug, not 16
The Opera Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ Home
Bar, 9–27 Aug
13:05
Joy’s Bed and Breakfast
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Australia: A Whinging
Pom’s Guide
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Hooked: Mr Sister
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Gerry Carroll – Young
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug
13:10
Fiona Ridgewell: No-Nonsense
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Deepu Dileepan: American Alien
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 9–27 Aug
Henry Ginsberg’s Hyper
Masculine Cookery Show
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 21
Best of Edinburgh
Showcase Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
13:15
Jamie Allerton Goes to the Movies
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
I’m Doing the Edinburgh Fringe With My Grandad
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 17–22 Aug
The Dead Ducks
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Gremlin Head
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 10
A Multitude of Sins: A Dog
Gone Mystery
Leith Depot, 9–19 Aug
Irish Comedy Invasion
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Ross McGrane: Get Rich or Cry Trying
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–27 Aug, not 17
101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
David Ellis – The Worst Jew
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–16 Aug
4 Funny Feckers
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Marcus Ryan – Eat, Pray, Walk
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
13:20
Seymour Mace Does Drawring
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Twenty Hamsters
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–27 Aug
A Star is Re-born!
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
David Baddiel: Talking Books – Jews Don’t Count and The God Desire Assembly George Square Studios, 9–10 Aug
Eva Bindeman: Semi Killer
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–19 Aug, not 14
13:25
Impro Poet Presents: What If History?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–15 Aug Ahir Shah: Ends
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress)
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 14 Aug
Vix Leyton: Antihero
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Alison Spittle: Soup
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 14
13:30
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen
Novel
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–13 Aug
Arguments! The Comedy Debate Show
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
Michael Porter: Love and Brain Damage
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Political Party with Matt Forde: Angela Rayner
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18 Aug
Gavin Webster: Proper Jokes
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16 Aug
The 5th Alternative Black Comedy Showcase
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–27 Aug, not 19, 26
Alfie Packham: My Gift to You
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–13 Aug
Aidan Jones: Adult Adoption
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Stephen Buchanan:
Charicature Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 19, 26
Alex and Roger Work It Out
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–27 Aug
Silent Disco Dance Tours by Silent Adventures
Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
Bad in Bed: Arthritis to Insomnia
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Bryony Byrne: A Clown
Tries to Write a Play (WIP)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 16–27 Aug
eBae: Ruby Carr (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 14–27 Aug
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 13
Aug, 20 Aug
Born in a Wheelchair
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
UK Pun Off
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 17
Aug, 18 Aug
The 5th Alternative Black Comedy Showcase
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
13:35
Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 14 Aug
Ted Milligan: The Finished Product (A Work in Progress)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–27 Aug
Dog Dies Under Porch – A Comedy!
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 16–27 Aug
Ian Smith: Crushing
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 14
13:40
The Temp
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
9–27 Aug, not 13
Chris Grace: As Scarlett
Johansson
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug
Long Long Long Live
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Mark Silcox: Women Only
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–27 Aug
Ginny Hogan: Regression
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14
The Cambridge Impronauts
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug
13:45
Spring Day: Exvangelical (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–14 Aug
129.5 Steps to Autistic Success
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Josh Elton: Mountain Jew (Plus Support)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 10–27
Aug, not 16, 23
Mark Simmons: New Jokes
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug
3rd Rock from the Pun: Darren Walsh
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 15–27 Aug
101 Psychos: We turn Insanity into Hilarity
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Colleen Lavin: Do the Robots Think I’m Funny?
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21–26 Aug
Pottervision
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
13:50
How to Cheat on Your Husband
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 14
Bridget Christie: Who Am I?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug
Stewart Lee: Basic Lee The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11–20 Aug
13:55
Harriet Dyer: Mother Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 24–27 Aug
Wild Things
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
Oddity Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead
People
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Dead Inside theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 14–23 Aug
Johnny White
Really-Really: Catland Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–13 Aug
14:00
Stanley Brooks: I Can Make Me Rich
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Arthur’s Seat Comedy Extravaganza On Top of Arthur’s Seat, 19 Aug
Daniel Downie: Jacobite
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
Aaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Comedy Caper
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–27 Aug
Mark Watson’s Churchfest
St Peter’s Church, 22 Aug
The Recovery Through Comedy Show
Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory, 12 Aug
James Barr: Chains and WIPs Excite Me
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–27 Aug
Jacob Hatton: Touchdown!
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–15 Aug
Rhiannon Shaw: Wedding Night Bedlam Theatre, 15–27
Aug, not 21
Davidson and MacArthur – The Odd Couplet
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Sandy Not Just on Sunday!
The Saltire Society Headquarters, 22–28 Aug, weekdays only
The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20
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Sam Coade and James Trickey: Floorfillers
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
14:05
Abi Clarke: Try Hard (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Awake and Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
14:10
Katy Berry: Diamond Goddess Crystal Pussy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 22
Adam Riches is The Guys
Who...
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug
Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
Tatty Macleod: Fugue
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Grotto
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
14:15
Comedians and (Similar to but Legally Distinct from) Dragons
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–27 Aug
Raymond Mearns – Old Town Comedy Walking Tour
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–28 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 25, 26
Holly Spillar: Hole
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Dickie Richards: Sexual Tyrannosaur 2023
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–27 Aug
Millwall Jew
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
14:20
Iraqnophobia (Work in Progress)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–26 Aug
How (Not) to Cope – WIP
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Big Cuck, Little Cuck
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 16–20 Aug
Rob Duncan: Baby Trains
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–23 Aug, not 12
Alex Something Is Missing Again!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
14:25
One Man 12 Angry Men
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
The Oxford Revue Will See You Now
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Thenjiwe – The Mandela Effect
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sex Job
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Rosalie Minnitt: Clementine
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Rob Auton: The Rob Auton Show
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug
14:30
Matt Hutchinson: Hostile Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Tom Crosbie: Actions Speak Louder Than Nerds
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Overthinking It
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
1 Billion Songs Please!
Hill Street Theatre, 9–27
Aug, not 15
You Don’t Know You’re
Beautiful
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Men With Coconuts
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Stand-Up Philosophy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Old Dog, New Tricks
Leith Depot, 9–14 Aug
Old Movies Saved My Life: 2
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
Mervyn’s 30th Year
Charity Gala
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug
Adam Greene and Peter
Bazely: Bi and Large – Bier and Larger
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 10–27 Aug
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
101 Comedy – Club Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Shaman You!
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–11 Aug
Five Mugs, No Tea Leith Depot, 15–27 Aug
The Durham Revue: Death on the Mile
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Simon Jay: Permacrisis
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9 Aug
The Edinburgh Fridge Show
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 12–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Ryan Wingfield: American Comedy for Brits
Boteco do Brasil, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
14:40
Mary Bourke: 200% Irish
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Phil Green: Four Weddings and a Breakdown
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 16 Murder, She Didn’t Write Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
Amy Webber: No Previous Experience
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
14:45
Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Thinky Winky
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 19, 21
The Asian Comedy Showcase!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Will BF: The Last Gun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Angus Coutts – Short King
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14 999 Problems
Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 21–27 Aug
Share
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–27 Aug
John Otway
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 16 Aug
Darius Davies:
Charmingly Offensive
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 17–28 Aug
Harry Stachini – Grenade
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–16 Aug
Billy Kirkwood: Buzzin (WIP)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 21
The Early Late Show
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Raul Kohli: Makes It Up as He Goes Along
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 16
The Young-ish Offenders
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–27 Aug
14:50
A Collection of Nothing
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 20–27 Aug
Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9 Aug
Some Laugh Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sofie Hagen: Banglord
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10–27 Aug, not 15, 16, 22, 23
Glass Crumpet’s Sketch Show
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–19 Aug
Biswa Kalyan Rath: Live Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 15
Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
14:55
Pirates: You Wouldn’t Steal a Boat
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
Will Adamsdale: Show of Just Songs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15–25 Aug
Laura Davis: Well Don’t Just Stand There
Dancing
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 15
15:00
Gabby Killick: Conversations With My Agent
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Harriet Dyer: Mother
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 23 Aug
Keroseno and Finito: Cock O’Clock
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 14–16 Aug
The Meaning of Wife
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 16 Aug
The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun! St Columba’s by the Castle, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug
Lynn Ferguson: Storyland
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–28 Aug
McClaine Beirne: Wheelie Funny
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Sam’s Scriptz!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 21
Jenn Brown: If Truth Be Told
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–19 Aug
Angel Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Jaz Mattu Emerges
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 17
Amy Matthews: I Feel Like
I’m Made of Spiders
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Susan Morrison Is Walking Funny
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Silent Disco Dance Tours by Silent Adventures
Meeting Point at Uplands
Roast Coffee Shop, 11–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24
Second Chancers
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–10 Aug
Dorks ‘n’ Orks – Live!
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 11–13 Aug
Njambi McGrath: OutKast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Fat, Femme and Crippled
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 10–15 Aug
Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
James Nokise: God Damn
Fancy Man
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
AAA Batteries (Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Dominique Salerno: The Box Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–13 Aug
15:05
200 IQ Audience Only (No Munters)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–27 Aug
15:10
Emotionally
Unreasonable
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 21–27 Aug
Serena Terry – Socially Needier
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug
Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 10–20 Aug
Ed Patrick: Catch Your Breath
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10–27 Aug, not 15, 22, 23, 24, 25
The Moira Monologues 3: Moira in Lockdown – Alan Bissett
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug
John Robins: Work in Progress
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 14, 18, 21, 25
The Gargle: Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, 22 Aug
CSI: Crime Scene
Improvisation
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug
Adam Greene and Peter Bazely: Bi and Large – Bier and Larger
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9 Aug
60 Comedy festmag.com
15:15
Alexis Gay & Friends
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Simon Munnery’s Jerusalem
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–28 Aug, not 14
St Doctor’s Hospital
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
2 Truths, 1 Lie
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–27 Aug
101 Clean Jokes in 30
Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Alyn Ashby Presents – TV Stardom for Beginners Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
Thor Stenhaug: Grateful for the Opportunity
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
A Complete Idiot’s Guide to New Zealand
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
Alex Leam: Now 40!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
15:20
Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16 Aug
Bronwyn Sweeney: Off-Brand Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Candace Bryan: Communist Dad
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Adam Flood: Remoulded
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 15
Louise Atkinson: Mates
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
Salma Hindy and Danielle Deluty: Parallel
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Helen Duff: Lullabies
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 15 Aug
15:25
Shelf: Teenage Men
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 16
15:30
Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt... More
Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Aug
Not My Audience! The Interactive Panel Show
You Control with an App!
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 26
The Silliad: Improvised Myths and Legends
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Eddy Hare: Leave It With Me
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe
Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
Peter Fleming Meets Doctor Who!
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 26 Aug
Ivo Graham: Organised Fun
Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug
The Jew Rogaine
Experience with Josh Edelman
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 9–27 Aug
Aussies Abroad Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Comrie Sf: Ultramarine
Bedlam Theatre, 15–27 Aug
1 Ball Show: 1 Lung Less
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–20 Aug
15:35
Josh Glanc: Collections 2023
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–20 Aug
Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–27 Aug
15:40
Married at First Sleight
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 15
The Stand-Up Horror Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Our Place in the World
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Bishops
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 15
15:45
Sian Davies: This Charming Man
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug
Painspotting! Choose Life, Choose Laughter!
Leith Depot, 9–17 Aug
Lizzy Lenco: Full Frontal Lobe
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 20–27 Aug
33 Years Single
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Eric Rushton: Not That Deep
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Olaf Falafel: Look What Fell Out Of My Head
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Patrick Susmilch: Texts from My Dead Friends
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Adam Riley: Late-Night Comedy in the Afternoon
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sooz Kempner: Y2K
Woman
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
AMJ: Adder
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–16 Aug
Alice-India: And in a Way, Aren’t We All?
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–13 Aug
Shagadelic: The Origins of Slang Words for Doing It
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–27 Aug
Sex and Drugs and Getting Old
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 10–19 Aug
Alex and Sharlin: White Chicks 2
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 14–27 Aug
15:50
The Duncan and Judy Murray Show
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug
Grubby Little Mitts: Hello, Hi
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 15
Bilal Zafar: Imposter
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
15:55
I’m Having Distressing Thoughts
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug
Danny Ward: A Ward Winning!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug
Alex Franklin: I Must Reach the Summit, Please God I Must Reach the Summit
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:00
Ron Placone – Balding is Punk Rock
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 16–27 Aug
Tegan Marlow: Jeans and a Nice Top x
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–27 Aug
Funny Cluckers – Best of the Fest
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–19 Aug
Ian Stone Will Make It Better
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Noam Shuster Eliassi: Coexistence My A**
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
All About Philosophy in 100 Jokes
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–27 Aug
Best Comedy Show
Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–15 Aug
Suse Steed Presents
Magic Numbers
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–22 Aug
Aaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Great Sketchpectations
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Irish Comedy Headliners
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10–27 Aug, not 14
Friend (The One with Gunther)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Philipp Kostelecky: Daddy’s Home
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jon Culshaw: Imposter
Syndrome
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 15
1001 Normal Dysfunctional Families
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug
American Cheese
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–27 Aug
Knock, Knock
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 12
Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug
Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
Mitch Benn: The Point Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
A Show for Gareth Richards
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–27 Aug
Gyles Brandreth Can’t Stop Talking!
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug
Nicola Macri: Single Entendre
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
1990 Child from Wuhan: Trauma, Love, Diarrhoea
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
16:05
Cal Halbert – Calcoholic
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Mike Rice: An Irish Work in Progress
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:10
The Dreams of You: A Volunteer Sleep Study
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10–12 Aug
Failed by Design
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Ali Woods: Working On It
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
CCTV theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
16:15
Bennett Arron: Loser PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug
Eme Essien: Fine Print Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Liz Guterbock: Geriatric Millennial Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Dane Baptiste: Bapsquire Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 14–27 Aug
Patrick Spicer: Yes Haha
What PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
3’s Comedy: Afternoons
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Zach Zucker: Spectacular Industry Showcase Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug
Fiona Allen: On The Run Pleasance Courtyard, 9–20 Aug
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug
Spencer Jones: Making Friends
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–27 Aug
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
John Kearns: The Varnishing Days
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–13 Aug
Stefania Licari: Medico Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sasha Ellen: When Life Gives You Ellens Make Ellenade
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–24 Aug
The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
The Three Golden Hairs Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug
Sid Singh: Table for One Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Chris Forbes: Court Jester
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–13 Aug
Andy Onions: PowerPointless
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 25–27 Aug
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DRAINING THE SWAMP
Is fascism once again on the march?
Does the legacy of Sir Oswald Mosley continue to feed populist, right wing movements? This provocative new play explores Mosley’s controversial life and activities, with a chilling contemporary punch.
From the perspective of the 1960’s, and the emergence of the European Union, Sir Oswald Mosley looks back on his experiences in the 1930’s. The play brings to life the meteoric political rise of Mosley as a potential Labour Prime Minister, and the subsequent founding and development of the British Union of Fascists. We see Mosley and Diana Mitford on their wedding day at Joseph Goebbels’s house in Berlin, and witness the events leading up to the infamous Battle of Cable Street, before the Mosley’s are incarcerated in Holloway Prison, during the war. Mosley ponders on his legacy and the opportunities for future political leaders to communicate with and stir the masses. It ends with his legacy in 2019.
#drainingtheswampplay
ROWLAND D. HILL AS SIR OSWALD MOSLEY, TINA THOMAS AS LADY DIANA MOSLEY, PLUS GEORGIA WINTERS, SIMON POLO-CLARKE AND DAWSON JAMES. DIRECTED BY SU GILROY
Think ‘n’ Grin: A Solo Improv Comedy Show
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Strathmore Bar, 9–27 Aug
16:20
Priya Hall: Grandmother’s Daughter
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 11
Jody Kamali: Things We Do for Love
Assembly George Square, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Nathan D’Arcy Roberts: Present/Tense
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14
JJ Whitehead – White Noise
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Laufey Haralds: Pip
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 16
Alex Martini: Life’s a Pitch
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 13–17 Aug
Ange Lavoipierre: Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:25
Earthly Blessings
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Helen Duff: Lullabies
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 14 Aug
Garrett Millerick: Never Had It So Good
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:30
60 Minutes About Scotland
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Angles of the North PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 20
Aaron Wood: Living The Dream Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–20 Aug
MATES: The Improvised 90s Sitcom
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 10
A Bookish Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Benji Waterstones: You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 12, 21
Silent Disco Dance Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands
Roast Coffee Shop, Various dates from 12 Aug to 27 Aug
One’s a Musical Comedian and One Isn’t Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Impro All Stars
Frankenstein Pub, 9–20 Aug
Tied for Second
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Gus Lymburn and Jay
Lafferty: Club Sets
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27
Aug, not 22
16:35
Eve Ellenbogen: Dead Mom Stuff
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Lulu Popplewell: Actually, Actually
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Ania Magliano: I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Nightwatchman
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:40
Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0
Assembly George Square Studios, 12 Aug
Kathy Maniura: Objectified
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Francis Breen: White
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
An Evening with Michael Fry and Killian
Sundermann
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15–28 Aug
The Comedy Arcade
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Oxford Revue Did It!
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27
Aug, not 14
16:45
Kevin Precious: The Reluctant Teacher
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Married at First Fight
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 11–13 Aug
Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Darling
Princess
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–27 Aug
Hannah Campbell and Becky Umbers: The North/South Divide Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–28 Aug
Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going?
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 16
Clive Anderson’s My Seven Wonders
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–15 Aug
An Evening with Christopher Bliss
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–10 Aug
Darran Griffiths: Inconceivable
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jokers in the Pack
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–27 Aug
Helen Duff: Lullabies
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 16 Aug
16:50
Rory o Hanlon – Happy Hour
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–26 Aug, not 14
Cults, Startups and Pornstars: How I (Almost)
Won My Dad’s Approval
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug
Isabelle Farah: Nobu and Amytis (WIP)
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 23–27 Aug
The Leeds Tealights: A Very Special Birthday Party
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Heidi Regan: Finding an Inner Peace That All Your Friends Will Envy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Alex Hylton: I Won’t Let Failure Go To My Head
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Egg: Absolutely Fine Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27 Aug
David Kay 106%
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–11 Aug 500 Comedy Fans Can’t Be Wrong
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–19 Aug
Will Hall: Mild Peril
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Very British Problems: Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–27 Aug
16:55
Raul Kohli: Raul Britannia (The Full Inglish) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Palindrome Fight!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
17:00
Marjolein Robertson: Marj
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Ronnie Golden: Allo Keith! Remembering
Barry Cryer
Le Monde, 9–20 Aug
Alcohol Is Good For You
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Aalex Mandel-Dallal: Break It Down (with Friends)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–27 Aug
Wrestling with The Champ: Smiledriver
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito
‘n’ Shake, 9–11 Aug
Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–27 Aug
Troy Kinne – Made Wrong 4042., 24–27 Aug
Alex Farrow: Wisdom of the Crowd
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Caroline McEvoy: Street Smart
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Childlike theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Hypnotist Matt Hale: Top Fun! 80s Spectacular
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
AI Jesus – Peter Bazely with Special Guest(s)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Luka Muller: Five Top Smells I Smelled Last Year (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
Frank Lavender: Be Funny
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Steve Bugeja: Self Doubt (I think)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10–27 Aug
An Irish Roast
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug, not 15
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 19–27 Aug
17:05
Ross Leslie: Unfit for a King
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Adele Cliff Can Break Your Arm
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
17:10
Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Stephen Mullan: Yeah,
Yeah, Yeah!
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Jeromaia Detto: MUSH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–27 Aug
17:15
Method Vs Madness
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 12–27 Aug
The Northern Irish Comedy Protocol
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Italian Stallion Story
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–11 Aug
Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe ‘n’ Stuff
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Furious
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Celebrity Girlfriend Draft
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Danny O’ Brien: Sweet Child O’ Brien
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
Jew-O-Rama
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–27 Aug
Scandinavian Jesus
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–14 Aug
Becoming Virgin
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug
Colleen Lavin: Do the Robots Think I’m Funny?
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
Basil Bottler: Wank In Progress
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 14 Aug
Emma and Harry
Paradise in Augustines, 21–27 Aug
4 Big Cs
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 15–27 Aug
Ashley Blaker: Normal Schmormal
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15 17:20
jD Shapiro: If It Ain’t Woke Don’t Fix It – Stories from the Hood to Hollywood
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Geoff Norcott: Basic Bloke
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–27 Aug
Angel Hodgson: Albatross
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug
Shamilton! The Improvised Hip Hop Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Gavin Webster – You Cannot Say Nowt These Days
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Max & Ivan: Life, Choices Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 19, 26
Erik Scott – Talkin’ Trash
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–27 Aug
Can You Put This in the Bin For Me?
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
63 Listings
Lucas O’Neil: Emotional Man
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!
Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug
17:25
Charlotte Fox: Ouroboros the Return
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–27 Aug
Improv Therapy
theSpaceTriplex, 9 Aug
Bee Babylon: Cancer Culture
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
17:30
Edinbra Fringe Comedy
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Grace Campbell: A Show About More Me(n)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–17 Aug
Daniel Muggleton: How the Whitey Have Fallen
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
The Gossip Gays
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24 Aug
William Thompson: The Hand You’re Dealt
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Gary Tank Commander: Gary Talks (Yous Listen)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–28 Aug, not 22
Luke Kempner in Gritty
Police Drama: A One-Man Musical
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Disabled Cants
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
NewsRevue
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Men in Quilts
Boteco do Brasil, 11–27
Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24
Stella Graham – Dragon
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 9–27 Aug
Jake Baker: Alone
Together
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jon Courtenay: Mental
Flavour
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–23 Aug, not 15
This Is Your Trial
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Improv Comedy with Box of Frogs
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Nick Doody – The Difficult Twelfth Album
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
The Magic of Terry Pratchett
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14
10,000 Ideas
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14
17:40
Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Shane Daniel Byrne: But He’s Gay...
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Scott Murphy: About a Buoy
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Tartan Tabletop in a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest (Ends Aug 27th)
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 10–27 Aug, not 16
Amrita Dhaliwal: A Lady that Fikas
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–27 Aug
Rachel Parris: Work in Progress
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–13 Aug
Mustafa Algiyadi: A Little Killing Hurts No One
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 20–27 Aug
Drew Michael: Drew’s Adventures
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Hal Cruttenden: It’s Best You Hear It From Me
Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug
Dru Cripps: Pickle Bin
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug
Kuan-wen Huang: Ilha Formosa
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Luisa Omielan: Bitter
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Glass Crumpet’s Stand-Up Show
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–19 Aug
17:45
Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 13
Billy Kirkwood: Show Me Your Tattoo
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 19, 21
James Cook: Anonymously Viral Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Ashley Manning –Candyfloss (Work In Progress)
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug
Tom GK: Chemodian
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
The Glitch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 20–26 Aug
Stuart McPherson: Love That For Me
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Maggie Crane: Side by Side
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Mr Chonkers
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16 Aug
Gary Little Still Here
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–28 Aug
Martha McBrier: Story-tastic
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Ruby McCollister: Tragedy
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 15
17:50
Troll
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Crisp Review: Live Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20
Crizards: This Means War
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14
Connor Burns: Vertigo
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 24–27 Aug
Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 15
Grace Jarvis: This Is the Last Goldfish That I Am Going to Eat for You
Underbelly, George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Emily Walsh: Dad Girl
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Freya Parker: It Ain’t Easy Being Cheeky
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Name of the Dame
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–20 Aug, not 14
Kirsty Mann: Skeletons
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Kosher Russian
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Marc Jennings: Away From Here
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 16
17:55
The Coil’s Lament
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
George-prov: An Improvised Theatrical Experience
Assembly Roxy, 25–28 Aug
18:00
24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sachin Kumarendran: Deceit
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Old Jewish Jokes
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Mary O’Connell: Money
Princess
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Troy Hawke: Work in Progress
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 20–27 Aug
Artificial Intelligence
Improvisation
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
Pick of the Fringe
The Sheraton Grand Hotel, 24 Aug
Andrew Silverwood: I Really, Really, Really Want a Zig-A-Zig Ah.. and a Nap Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Aaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick
Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Mark Watson and Mat
Ryer: The Company
St Peter’s Church, 21 Aug
Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 10–27
Aug, not 14, 16, 23
Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 15–27 Aug
Silent Disco Dance Tours by Silent Adventures
Meeting Point at Uplands
Roast Coffee Shop, 9–28 Aug
The Recovery Through Comedy Show
Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory, 11–12 Aug
Shaparak Khorsandi: ShapChat!
Pleasance Courtyard, 16–27 Aug
Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still
Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–15 Aug
Braingystics: Sieze the Mind
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Lindsey Santoro: Pink
Tinge
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 15
Women Reincarnated
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–13 Aug
18:05
Nabil Abdulrashid: The Purple Pill
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Anuvab Pal: The Department of Britishness Assembly George Square Studios, 14–28 Aug
18:10
Micky Overman: The Precipice
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 15
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug
Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Emmanuel Sonubi: Curriculum Vitae
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Tom Ballard: It is I
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Ticked-Off Einstein Telling Jokes
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Drunk Women Solving Crime
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–13 Aug
Nick Pupo: Addicted
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Ray Fordyce and His Wonderfully Spiffing Variety Show
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction Assembly Roxy, 10–28 Aug, not 14, 21
18:15
Smart and Dumber
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–27 Aug
Ben Hodge: It’s a Boy? (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Gigl Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–19 Aug
Dave Chawner: Freelosophy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Aidan Jones: The Morning After Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Marmalade
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Alex Leam: Awkward Question Time
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
18:20
Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame
Assembly Rooms, 9–13 Aug
Janine Harouni: Man’oushe
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21
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Matt Price: As Seen on CCTV
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jay Lafferty: Bahookie
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 22
Crap Ballet
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–22 Aug, not 13
18:25
Sam Williams: Himbo (WIP)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Adrián Minkowicz: Brown Privilege III
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Robin Tran: Don’t Look at Me
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
The Best of Irish Comedy
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug
Vittorio Angelone: Who Do You Think You Are? I Am!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Ollie Horn: Not Much
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
18:30
Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We’ll Be Millionaires!
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Adam Bromley: Time Traveller
Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 16–27 Aug
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show
Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 21
Not My First Rodeo...
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Bob Doolally – Still Alive
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug
Ivo Graham: Organised Fun
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
Kate Hammer: Wide Set Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 15 Aug, 22 Aug
Man of the Century
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–20 Aug
Twonkey’s Greatest Twitch
The Voodoo Rooms, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 21
A Night of the Mind
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 15–27 Aug
Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–13 Aug
In the Sh*t
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–15 Aug
The Many Colours of Comedy: A Prism Comedy Variety Show
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Fake Jews
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 16–27 Aug
44 and Flippin’ Furious
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–27 Aug
I’m Sexy and I Know It
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10–12 Aug
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
Rick Molland: Natural Born Dickhead
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Silent Disco Walking
Tours Edinburgh: Boogie
Shoes
theSpace @ Niddry St, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
Spontaneous Potter: The Unofficial Improvised Parody
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Matt Storer: Hot Nonsense
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 15
18:35
Marcus Ryan – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug
Abigail Paul: Involuntary Momslaughter
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Mark Pleases You
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 15
18:40
Sapan Verma: Shame on Me
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Neil Frost: The Door
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–27 Aug
Dolly Diamond’s Rather
Large Variety Night
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug
Reuben Solo: Palindrome
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Gareth Mutch: Belter
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Chloe Petts: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Still Surviving In Hong Kong – Cantonese
Comedy Show
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
18:45
James Nokise – Right About Now
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Stand-Up Science
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Gareth Waugh – Wouldni Be Me
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Joe McTernan: Life Advice That Won’t Change Your Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Eleanor Morton: The Ill Advised Character Show
The Stand Comedy Club, 14 Aug
Amazing Prize Comedy Bingo
9 Queen Street, 9–20 Aug, not 12, 19
Bald Man Sings Rihanna
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Irish Jokers
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–27 Aug
Spontadeity: Whomst Let the Gods Out?! (Improv)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Adam Greene and the Diet of Destiny
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug
Markus Birdman: Platinum – Free
The Liquid Room, 9–20 Aug, not 15
The Totally Improvised Musical
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–16 Aug
18:50
Jonny Pelham: Optimism Over Despair
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Madeleine Hamilton: Piping Hot
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Sara Schaefer: Going Up Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug
Improvabunga!
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
18:55
The Disney Delusion
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Alexandra Haddow: Not My Finest Hour
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug
Mark Bittlestone: Poofs “R” Us
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–19 Aug
Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
19:00
Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Pete Heat: Huge
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Gail Porter: Hung, Drawn and Portered Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Broad Strokes Improv
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 22–27 Aug
Sex, Art and the Art of Survival
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 15–20 Aug
Abigail Rolling: Shit
Lawyer Alchemist | George Street, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug
Michelle Brasier: Reform
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Amelia Bayler: I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug
Marcus Brigstocke: Cheese and Whine
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–13 Aug
Susan Riddell: Wonder Woman
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Police Cops: The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Phil Kay – Funny Walks
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 12–26 Aug, not 14
Sophie Santos… is Codependent
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Annabel Bashford: Clink
Clank Clonkerty Clonk
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 13–17 Aug
Deage Paxton: Impersonable – Free Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Fast Fringe
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug
Paul Black: Nostalgia
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–19 Aug
Victoria Scone: Jam
Packed
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug
John Otway
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 14 Aug
Simon Evans: Have We Met?
Assembly Rooms, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Andy Parsons: Bafflingly Optimistic
Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27
Aug, not 21
Raymond Mearns is Alive in the Hive Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Janey Godley: The Not Dead Yet Tour
The Stables at Prestonfield, 18–21 Aug, weekdays only
Tom Houghton – Work in Progress
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
Lorraine Hoodless: Fuzzy Duck
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
19:05
Daniel Foxx: Villain
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Mark Nelson: Bits & Pieces
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
Bad Play
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Samantha Day: The Booby Trap
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 12–27 Aug
SalFUNNI’s Laughterparty
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–11 Aug
19:10
Liam Withnail: Chronic Boom
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
2023: The End Of The Beginning Of The End –Vladimir McTavish
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Gaslighting Is My Love
Language
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–13 Aug
Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Siân Docksey – Pole Yourself Together! Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22
Laurie Stevens: Sticky Floors (Work in Progress)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 15–27 Aug
19:15
Micky Bartlett: Let Me Start from the Start
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 16
Sam See: Government Approved Sex
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Underbelly’s Big Brain-Tumour Benefit Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15 Aug
Ed Gaughan: Words and Music
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–28 Aug, not 21
Dad, Playboy and Me... Not Your Average Slideshow
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug
Anu Vaidyanathan: Blimp
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–19 Aug, not 14
Matty Hutson: Don’t Hold Back
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Best of Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–27 Aug
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Scary Times
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 14
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Absolute Onions: Improv Comedy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug
Michael Herd: Deep Shanghai’d
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 17–27 Aug
Bryan Berlin: Running Scared
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
A Gay Dad
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–12 Aug
Chloe Radcliffe: Cheat
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Alvin Liu: First World Eyebrows (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–16 Aug
Laughing Horse Fringe
Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 22–27 Aug
19:20
Paul Foot: Dissolve
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 15
The Kinsey Sicks: Drag
Queen Storytime Gone Wild!
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Paddy McDonnell – Live
Underbelly, George Square, 9–16 Aug
Juliette Burton: No Brainer
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug
Chris Kent: Back at It Assembly George Square, 9–14 Aug
The Friendship Recession
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 21
Kate Dale: Up to Scratch
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–20 Aug
David O’Doherty: Tiny Piano Man
Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 15
Matt Goldich: What If This Is The Best I Can Do?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–27
Aug, not 15
The Power of Yep
Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 15
19:25
Richard Cobb: Couple’s Massage
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 22
Accident Avoidance Training Workshop –Intermediate Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug
Louise Young: Feral Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Josh Baulf: Bulldog
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 12, 13
19:30
Craig Hill: This Gets Harder Every Year!
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22
Colin Etches: Attention Deficit
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt...
More
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 15
Rosie Jones – Triple Threat
Pleasance Courtyard, 11–12 Aug
Andrew Frank: Ecstatic Blasphemy Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14
2 Funny Feckers
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Ew Girl, You Nasty
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 9–27 Aug, not 15
So You Think You’re
Funny – Grand Final
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24 Aug
Sofa SoFunny So Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Anthony Schuman: Failures in Fatherhood
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21
Celya AB: Second Rodeo
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Improv Cage Match
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–26 Aug, not 14
Sara Pascoe: Success Story
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18 Aug
2023 Asian Daddy, Dead: Pitch-Black Humour Guaranteed!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Tania Lacy: Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 14
Rhys James: Spilt Milk Pleasance Courtyard, 14–20 Aug
Aaaaand Up Front Are Webster, Bourke and Bragg
Frankenstein Pub, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Silent Disco Dance Tours by Silent Adventures
Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug
Comedy in the Dark
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Alex Kitson: Fired Up! Ready to Go! (WIP)
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
A Slice of Elvis
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug
Deaf Action Presents: The Gavin Lilley Show
Deaf Action, 19–20 Aug
Ray Bradshaw – Work in Progress
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 16
Jack Whitehall: Settle Down
Edinburgh Playhouse , 20–21 Aug
Danny Bhoy – Now Is Not a Good Time
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–27 Aug
Daniel Sloss: CAN’T
Edinburgh Playhouse, 9–10 Aug
Coor Cohen: Ignorant American Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21 19:35
Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
Krystal Evans: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 15
19:40
Janitor/Manager and How to Have an Affair Without Really Trying
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug
Darren Harriott –Roadman Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Las Vegas in Edinburgh theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Jack Traynor and Daniel Petrie: Introducing Two of Scotland’s Most Exciting New Stand-up Comedians
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 16, 23
Sheila’s Sister and Her Musical Cousins
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–19 Aug
Mark Ritchie: As Seen Near a TV Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Chelsea Hart – Damet
Garm: How I Joined a Revolution
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Fearghas Kelly: Tip of the Ice-Fearg Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–28 Aug, not 17
Kate Smurthwaite: Fire Snake
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Ignacio Lopez – Nine
Ig Fails
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–27 Aug
19:45
Jocks, Geordies and Aussies
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 19, 26
Little Ward of Horrors
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Myq Kaplan: ImPerfect Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Best of Adelaide’s Fringe
Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 16–27 Aug
Push, Mrs Johnson!
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–27 Aug
Murder Inc
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–20 Aug, not 14
Angela Bra: MicroRAVE
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Culture Savage
Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba, 10–27 Aug, not 21
Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile, 9–26
Aug, not 13
Michael Shafar – Well
Worth the Chemo
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Myles and Dan Just Might Break a World Record Tonight
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Becky Fury: Identity
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Geraldine Hickey: Of Course We’ve Got Horses
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Rik Carranza Presents Clash of Fandoms
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–15 Aug
Alistair Barrie: Woke in Progress
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–19 Aug
Suggestions of the Unexpected
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–27 Aug
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman...
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
BriTANicK: Work in Progress
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug
19:50
Blind Mirth Presents: Your Mum (And Other Playground Insults) theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–26 Aug
Karen
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Sikisa: Hear Me Out Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 21
The Spark Project Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug
Lou Wall vs The Internet Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Palatable Gay Robot Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
30 Minute Musicals: Top Gun Assembly Checkpoint, 9–14 Aug
Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back Assembly George Square Gardens, 15–27 Aug, not 21
Laser Kiwi: Rise of the Olive Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 16 Aug
19:55
Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird?
Assembly Rooms, 23–24 Aug
Reginald D. Hunter: The Man Who Could See Through Shit – A Work In Progress
Assembly Rooms, 11–20 Aug
20:00
Raul Kohli: Kohl and The Gang
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Bumble Me Tinders!
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Matt Forde: Inside No. 10 Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
Parsons and Emslie: Always a pleasure, never a chore, be good to yourself, alright?
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–27 Aug
Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Balance
Bedlam Theatre, 9–13 Aug
The Retreat
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Sh!t-faced
Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug
Myra DuBois: Be Well
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Leith Comedy Festival Presents...
The Biscuit Factory, 10 Aug
William Stone: Lofi Jokes to Study/Relax to Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Jeromaia Detto: MUSH
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug
Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Robin Grainger: An Audient with Robin Grainger
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Carl Donnelly – The Dead Dad Show
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 23–27 Aug
A Cut Above
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
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Patrick Hastie – My
Grandpa’s Grandpa’s Dad
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Anna Piper Scott: Such an Inspiration House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Jarred Christmas: Silly Billy
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Talkies: Improvised Classic Hollywood Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–27 Aug
10 Songs for Geeks, with Jollyboat
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug
String V SPITTA
Pleasance Courtyard, 18–26 Aug
Martin Mor Is a Deadly
Eejit
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–20 Aug
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding: Power Gay!
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live! Paradise in The Vault, 9–12 Aug
20:05
David Quirk – Astonishing Obscurity
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Dylan Rhymer: The Dark Side of the Room
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
20:10
Greta Titelman’s Exquisite Lies
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
André de Freitas: What If Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Fever Peach: Intense
Goblin Nightmare
Woman
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Pear: But Braver
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
20:15
Simon David: Dead Dad Show
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jacob Henegan: Mostly Killer (Some Filler)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Glenn Wool: The Tardigrades Picnic
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ The Beehive Inn, 9–28
Aug, not 15
Bruce Fummey: Stories of Scotland
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 14 Aug, 21 Aug
Buffy Revamped
Pleasance at EICC, 10–27
Aug, not 16, 21
Wage Against the Machine
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’
Gait, 9–27 Aug
Best in Class
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Comedy for the Curious
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Jo Caulfield: Razor-Sharp
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Anti Self-Help Show
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
20:20
Dan Rath: All Quiet Carriage Along the Inner Western Line
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Sunanda Loves Britney
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–27 Aug
Laura Ramoso: FRANCES
Pleasance Dome, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–27
Aug, not 16
Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–22
Aug, not 13
Bristleburg Town Hall
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug
Eden Sher: I Was On A Sitcom
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 14, 15
Josh Jones: Gobsmacked
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Su Mi: Banana Beard
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 13–17 Aug
Patti Harrison: My Huge Tits Huge Because They Are Infected Not Fake!
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 14
The Best of Scottish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Michael Welch: Ethnic Reveal Party
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 15
Childlike theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
3am Brain
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 16
20:25
Six Chick Flicks... Or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches While Writing a Notebook on the Titanic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14 Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug
20:30
Annabel Marlow... is this okay??
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Olivia Xing: Party School
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Horatio Gould: Sweet
Prince
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Tom Lawrinson: Hubba Hubba
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Bailey J Mills: Unfiltered + Scummy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–11 Aug
Luisa Omielan: God is a Woman The Musical
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
For Your Entertainment
(Charity Comedy Night)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14 Aug
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase 2023!
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug
Baga Chipz: Material Girl
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9 Aug
John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15
Tom Stade: Natural Born Killer
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Fannies One Night Stand!
The Stand Comedy Club, 14 Aug
Connor Burns: Vertigo
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 16
An Evening of Mayhem with Megan Stalter
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–27
Aug, not 24
Jack Docherty in David Bowie and Me: Parallel Lives
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 21
Matt Hobs: Moontalker
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
Nikki Osborne is Bad
Barbie
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25–28 Aug
Amos Gill: The Pursuit of Happy(ish)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–24 Aug
Nish Kumar: Them Changes (Work in Progress)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10
Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug
Nathan Cassidy: Fifty Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 14
Jerry Sadowitz proudly presents... Last Year’s Show!
The Queen’s Hall, 23–25 Aug
George Zacharopoulos: Wonderland
Pleasance Dome, 9–28
Aug, not 15
100% C*ntintental
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–27 Aug
Simon Brodkin: Xavier Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Alice Fraser: Twist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
20:35
Marc Adams: BMW
Bavarian’s Most Wanted
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Susie McCabe: Femme Fatality
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Larry Owens Live Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Julia Stenton and Firuz
Ozari: Wolves
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Robin Ince – MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15
John Hastings: The Times
They Are A John Hastings
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
Perrin Pang – Here Lies theSpaceTriplex, 9–12 Aug
20:40
Elf and Duffy: Heist
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–15 Aug
Christopher Hall: Self Helpless
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Robbie McShane: It’s All This These Days
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 14, 15
Luke McQueen and Mark Silcox: Songs With My Father Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 21–27 Aug
Davidson and MacArthur – The Odd Couplet
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
The Briefing with Melissa McGlensey Assembly Roxy, 9–13 Aug
Preppers – A Comedy
About the Apocalypse(s)
Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 16–19 Aug
John Franklin: My Dad’s Advice
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Tamsyn Kelly: Crying in TK Maxx
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Pablo Escobar Doesn’t Need a Second Job
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Jason Byrne: The Ironic Bionic Man Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Henry Ginsberg: Cuddle
Slut
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 21
JARUJARU: Arigato 2023 Assembly Roxy, 16–27 Aug
20:45
Lights Up! The Improvised Musical theSpace on the Mile, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Comedy Reserve at the Courtyard
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
Initial Consult
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Stuart Mitchell: Cost of Living (WIP)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–28 Aug
The Last Stop
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 12–18 Aug
Sigmund the Viking: Valhalla Calling
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug
Lost in Translation
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Character Building
Experience
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
101 Comedy – Club Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
Aidan Greene: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Stutter! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Five Mugs, No Tea
Leith Depot, 17 Aug, 21 Aug
Richard Stott: Dear Lord…
What A Sad Little Life Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Cobin Millage: Lewis Capaldi is Invited and Absolutely No One Else (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 14
20:50
LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
John Robins: Howl
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt
Assembly George Square, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Ben Ashurst: Three Cheese Straws for a Pound
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 15–27 Aug
Peter Flanagan: Meditations
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 14 Orange Juice
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–10 Aug
Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No!
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Jazz Or A Bucket of Blood
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
20:55
Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–20 Aug
Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21–26 Aug
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Jonny & The Baptists: Ten Thankless Years
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–15 Aug
Cabaret Impedimenta
Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–20 Aug
Julia Masli: CHOOSH!
Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–27 Aug
Sophia Cleary: It Gets Worse
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sex-Ed Revisited
ZOO Playground, 13–19 Aug
21:00
Mark Watson: Search Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 17, 21, 22
Rosco McClelland: Bring Out Your Dead Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 9–27 Aug, not 16
Europe’s Most Wanted!
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug
Steve N Allen: Alzheimer’s? I Can’t Even Remember How to Spell It
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Paul Currie: Shtoom
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 16, 23
Ashley Barnhill: Skullduggery
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–27 Aug
What Would You Do If That Was You?
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–27 Aug, not 10
Mr Chonkers Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug
Phil Kay: Silent DiscoVery... (Walking Tour)
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 13–26 Aug
Aaron Wood’s Comedy Club
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–20 Aug
Alexander Bennett: I Can’t Stand the Man, Myself
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000 Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Frank Sanazi’s Comedy Blitzkrieg
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 20, 21, 22
Big Value Comedy Show
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug
French Bashing by a Frenchman!
Paradise in Augustines, 9–19
Aug, not 13
Patrick Monahan: Exclusively
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 16
Sascha LO: Brat
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 21
Rizal Van Geyzel: Arrested Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Vanlord
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Burdwurld
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Joe White: Ethiopian and Still Not Hungry Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
21:05
Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show Assembly Rooms, 11–26
Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24
AAA Stand-Up Late
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug
Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
David Ian: (Just a)
Perfect Gay
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Dirty Laundry: Spin Off
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
Femme Natale Theatre
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug, not 21
21:10
This Time Next Year theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15
21:15
Adults Only Magic Show Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 21
The Shambles
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Dan Jones: This Seems Ambitious Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
Monét X Change: Life Be Lifein’
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10–15 Aug
Foil Arms and Hog: Hogwash
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 22–26 Aug
10 Songs: The Best of Jollyboat
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–27 Aug
Jo Griffin: The Power Hour Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15 Laughing Horse Fringe
Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Rope-A-Dope Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
5 Headliners for £10
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–27 Aug
Escape Velocity
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Mat Ewins: Mr TikTok Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug
21:20
Tim Murray is Witches
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
The Chocolate Scot
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Two Little Dickheads: Slot Fillers
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–27 Aug
Jim Smith – The Hills Have Ayes
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug
The Duncan and Judy Murray Show
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug
Eddy MacKenzie and Liam Farrelly: Little and Large
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Zoë Coombs Marr: The Opener
Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27 Aug
AAA Stand-Up
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
21:25
Lara A King – Midlife at the Oasis
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibition
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
21:30
Skye Scraper: The Life and Times of a Drag
Queen Accountant Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15 Dubai Fling: Ali Al Sayed and Mina Liccione
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 14 Off With Your Head
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 14 Aug, 21 Aug
Teardrops on My Dildo Bedlam Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Mawaan: Songs About Birds (WIP)
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–13 Aug
Scotland’s Best Comedians at the Fringe
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Lawrence Chaney –Overweight and OVER IT!
Ian McKellen Theatre, Saint Stephens Stockbridge, 21–27 Aug
Filthy Funny Females
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 15
The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug
An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar...
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21 War on Woke
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 17–27 Aug
Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Brian Gallagher: Something, Somewhere, Some of the Time Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 14
21:35
Abandoman: Future Fest
Underbelly, George Square, 9–20 Aug, not 14
Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Aaaaaand now!
Teknicolour Smoof
Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
21:40
Aude Lener – On Edge
theSpaceTriplex, 9–12 Aug
Comedy Reserve at the Dome
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
Awake and Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Don Biswas – The Revolution Will Be Disorganised
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Garry Starr: Greece
Lightning
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–27 Aug
My Last Two Brain Cells
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Mark Black: Chindiana Jones
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–13 Aug
Healing King Herod
Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–27
Aug, not 21
Paul Chowdhry: Family-Friendly Comedian
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Manbo
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–14 Aug
Arkem Mark Walton: Fractal Bumhole!
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 13–16 Aug
Kiran Deol: Joysuck
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–28 Aug
The Mr Thing Show
Underbelly, George Square, 26–27 Aug
Huge Davies: Whodunnit Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Charlie Lewin: Cockatiel
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 15
Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug
Leo Mohr: The Bilboquet Theory
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–22 Aug
Kwame Asante: In Stitches
Pleasance Courtyard, 16 Aug
How to Live a Jellicle Life: Life Lessons from the 2019 Hit Musical Cats
Pleasance Dome, 17–27
Aug, not 21
21:45
Emotionally Unreasonable Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 9–13 Aug
The GottaGo Room: An Escaping-a-Room Thingy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
666 Black Widows: The Web of Dark Comedy Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Vida Slayman in Comedy of Terrors theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Chris Turner: Vegas, Baby! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Breaking Up with Jesus theSpace on the Mile, 9–19
Aug, not 13
Snake Oil
Laughing Horse @ Home Bar, 14–27 Aug
Connor Burns: Vertigo
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 11–13 Aug
Martin Urbano: Apology
Comeback Tour Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Leila Navabi: Composition Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 11
Al Porter: A Work in Progress
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 15–27 Aug
21:50
Comedy for corporates: work-life balance is for losers
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 15–20 Aug
Flat and the Curves:
Divadom
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug Found Our Funny Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Ed: The New, Totally Unofficial, Ginger-Inclusive Parody
Sketch Show
ZOO Playground, 9–19 Aug
Yoshi Obayashi’s Adult Content
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Luke Rollason: cheep cheep (WIP) Pleasance Dome, 11–13 Aug
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Jodie Mitchell: Becoming John Travulva
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 16
Footlights: Leftovers theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Bipolar Badass Paradise in The Vault, 9–27
Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Wham Bam Thank You
Mam (Work in Progress)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–13 Aug
That Don’t Hurt My Feelings None Assembly Rooms, 21–27 Aug 21:55
Chelsea Birkby: Silly Sausage (Pain) (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–27 Aug
Elliot Steel: Love and Hate
Speech
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Free Medical Advice
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Cara Connors: Straight for Pay
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
How to Eat a Bear
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Adam Rowe: What’s Wrong With Me?
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21
Enjoy an
Album Live with Liam
Withnail and Christopher
Macarthur-Boyd
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug
25 Years of Red Raw
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–27 Aug
Chelsea Birkby and Jamie D’Souza: Good Girls
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–13 Aug
How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 11, 15
22:00
Blood on the Clocktower: Live
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–27 Aug, not 24
Laughing Stock
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 13
Ralph Brown: Ralpha
Male
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ Waverley Bar, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sh!t-faced
Shakespeare®: Romeo and Juliet
Pleasance at EICC, 9–26
Aug, not 21
Sounds Like...
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–25 Aug
Cam Gavinski: Bonheur
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Chris Cantrill: SuPeRgEnIu$ (WIP)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug
John Robertson’s The Dark Room
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
The Poor Rich Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Wet Hot American Stand-Ups
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–13 Aug
The Bite, Late-Night (A Mouthful of Fringe
Mayhem)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–27 Aug
Julian Stern Keeps Trying Hill Street Theatre, 9–13 Aug
Matt Storrs: Portly Lutheran Know-It-All
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–27 Aug
A Little More Conversation a Little
Less Action Please
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Bill O’Neill: The Amazing Banana Brothers
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
A Tinderella Story: Swipe, Wince, Repeat
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–10 Aug
Creepy Boys
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Shiny Things – Improv Party
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Dan Tiernan: Going Under Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Folk’n’TikTok
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–27 Aug
2 Slut Drops and a Chicken Burger – Kirsty
Munro
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro Pleasance Courtyard, 21–23 Aug
Nick Mohammed presents The Very Best and Worst of Mr Swallow Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug
Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–27 Aug
Lots of Feelings: Most Improved Award Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
22:05
Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 14
22:10
Drag Queens vs Vampires Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Free Footlights
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The St Andrews Revue
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14 Red Rum: Glue or Glory
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug
Dan Lees: The Vinyl Countdown
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–20 Aug, not 14
It’s All Gravy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
22:15
Mike Rice – Hand of a Sinner
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Comedy Queers
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Hysterical Artefacts
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Sophie Sucks Face
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Atomic Comic Meltdown
Just the Tonic Nucleus, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug
Best of So You Think You’re Funny?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 24
Awake and Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton
theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
Nathan Cassidy: Amnesia
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 14
So You Think You’re Funny? Competition
Heats
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–15 Aug
Rachel Morton-Young: Organised Chaos
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 15 50 – End of the Road?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Kelly McCaughan: Catholic Guilt
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Witching Hour
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 9–27 Aug
Mark Thomas: Gaffa
Tapes
The Stand Comedy Club, 13–24 Aug, not 18, 19
Faces of Glasgow
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17 Aug
Annie and Angela’s Disco Divorce Party
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
22:20
Alice Cockayne: I Showered Before I Came
Underbelly, George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Moses Storm: Perfect
Cult
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Andy Roach – Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Joe and Rory: Television 1
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14
AAA Stand-Up
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug
One Room Sleep One Night
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–27 Aug, not 14
Dahn Rozario: White People Need to Relax
Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Watch List
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug
Petting Zoo Comedy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–20 Aug
22:25
Catnip! Greatest Hits
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Mr Chonkers
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15 Aug
Andrew O’Neill – Geburah
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
22:30
3’s Comedy: Late Nights
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
The All Irish After Party
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Joe Jacobs –TurboFleshSuck5000
The Voodoo Rooms, 15–20 Aug
Lachlan Werner – Voices Of Evil
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 15, 23
Ciarán Bartlett: Machine
Gun of Filth
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 11
RVG’s International Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Dane Simpson: Didgeridoozy Assembly George Square Studios, 9–13 Aug
Catherine Cohen: Come For Me
Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27
Aug, not 22, 23
The Stand Late Club
The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug
Baked Shakespeare: As You Like It
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 21–27 Aug
22:35
Mad Ron: Crime School Assembly George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Seriously Funny Comedy Show
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
22:40
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–13 Aug
Dungeons ‘n’ Bastards: An Adam Riches
Gameshow
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–27 Aug
This Time Next Year
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Attack of the 36 Triple-G Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Comedy in the Dark – Late
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
22:45
North Americ*nts
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug
Scott McPherson: Life
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 15–20 Aug
Hate ‘n’ Live
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14 BATSU!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21 Red Flag(s) theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 27 Aug
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Nocturnal Animals
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed) theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Touching Tips (with Friends)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 14
22:50
Jordan Brookes: Snakes for Cats to Watch (Work in Progress)
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug
Bristol Revunions presents Ready to Board
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug, not 20
Philipp and Phriends: A Late Night Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug
Craig Wilson: Comedy Ninja (WIP)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
22:55
Ibrahem Al Hajjaj: From Riyadh to Edinburgh theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Footlights: Leftovers theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
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Listings
Best of the Fest: The New Class Assembly George Square Studios, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24
23:00
Adam Kay: Undoctored – This is Going to Hurt...
More
Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
You Dress Funny – Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug
The Prince Andrew Tate
Appreciation Hour
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug
Dog Park
Pleasance Courtyard, 10 Aug, 17 Aug
The Improverts
Bedlam Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Nick Helm’s Hot ‘N’ Heavy Weekend
Pleasance Courtyard, 11–12 Aug
Ivo Graham: Organised Fun
Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
This Is Your Trial (Unleashed)
Hootenannies @ The Apex, 9–28 Aug
Yoshi Obayashi’s Adult Content
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
All Killa No Filla
Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug
A Retrospection
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Trash Salad
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–15 Aug
The Wild Geeze
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11–28 Aug, not 21
How to Write a Eulogy That Kills
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Stamptown Comedy Night
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23
Aaaaargh! Tear This Flyer Into Tiny Little Bits and Weep in the Green Room as You Realize Your Hatred Only Makes Him Stronger
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15
23:05
This Isn’t Working Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
The Late Great Rompers x Cowtools
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 10–20 Aug, not 14
23:10
Tarot: Hive Mind Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug
A Terrible Show for Terrible People
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
23:15
Jeremy Flynn: In Like Flynn
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 21–27 Aug
Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed) theSpace on the Mile, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Marc Burrows in the Glom of Nit
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!
Underbelly, George Square, 24–25 Aug
Edinburgh Comedy
Allstars
Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug
Blackout
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–20 Aug
Alex Owen-Hill Asks
Himself ‘Is It ADHD?’
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Big Zeus Energy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–13 Aug
Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Erin McKinnie and Fearghas Kelly: Stragglers
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Best of Northern Irish
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
I Consent Assembly George Square Studios, 9–10 Aug
The Confessional
Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26
23:20
Some Laugh Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–24 Aug
Act Normal
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–24 Aug, not 14
Gig Pigs Live in Edinburgh Pleasance Courtyard, 16–17 Aug
Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14
It’s Christmas Time
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–22 Aug
Siblings and Family Friends
Pleasance Dome, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug
Attack of the 36 Triple-G Woman
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
23:25
Jay Handley – The White
Jesus Chronicles
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug
Adult Film Club
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15–16 Aug
Paul F Taylor: Head in the Clouds
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 16
23:30
Stu Murphy: Debut Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron), 9–27 Aug, not 14 BattleActs!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–27 Aug
The Gong of Edinburgh: Comedy Gong Show
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug Late’n’Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Mick McNeill: Taking the Michael Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Kenya Handle It?
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–27 Aug
Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Super Bowl
Pleasance Dome, 15–16 Aug
Not Another Quiz Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug
Comedians’ DJ Battles
Assembly George Square Studios, 11 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug
BeComedy UK Presents: No Limits
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–20 Aug
Marcus Dean – Foreigner
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–27 Aug, not 14
I See Three
Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia, 14–27 Aug
Absolute Chaos
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug
Jazz Emu’s Pleasure Garden
Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug
23:35
Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–27 Aug
The George Lucas Talk Show
Assembly George Square Studios, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
23:40
Ben Fallaci: Shower Chair
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
Drag Queens vs Zombies
Underbelly, Cowgate, 25–26 Aug
23:45
Late Night Comedy Death
Camp
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Jessie Nixon: Damsel
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
23:50
Party Assembly George Square, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
23:55
Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24
RODEO!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug
Mr Chonkers Presents: Piggy Time
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–19 Aug
RODEO!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10–12 Aug
The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug
The Drunk and Heckle Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
King of the Table
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18 Aug, 25 Aug
23:59
The Midnight Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug
00:00
Late with Kate
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’
Gait, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Best of Edinburgh Fringe
Comedy: Late Show
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 10–28 Aug
Abbas Wahab: Gracefully
Balding
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10–28 Aug
00:05
Irish Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–28 Aug
Viggo Venn: British Comedian
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug
Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–16 Aug
00:15
Vibe Shift
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18–28 Aug
Queen and Sober
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–17 Aug
00:25
African-ish
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–28 Aug
00:30
(o) (o)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Comedy Striptease
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23 James Allen and Annabelle Devey: At Least You Tried
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–19 Aug
00:45
Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–28 Aug
White Bear Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–28 Aug
01:00
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
Vibe Shift
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–14 Aug
Anna Beros – Creampie Curious
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–28 Aug
The Jam Society
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24–25 Aug
01:15
Long-Distance Roommates
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–28 Aug 01:35
I’m Positive!
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 9–14 Aug 01:50
Mark Dean Quinn: Is This Enough
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
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ECLIPSE AT SUMMERHALL
Trailblazing stories by extraordinary artists that will take you across the UK and around the world.
Featuring new work from Eclipse Artistic Director Lekan Lawal and a season of interdisciplinary productions supported by a third expanded iteration of the Eclipse Award.
ECLIPSE THEATRE PRESENTS: ECLIPSE AWARD WINNERS:
Lekan Lawal & Eclipse
Theatre Company: PILOT
3–27 August
Lekan Lawal & Eclipse
Theatre Company: SOON
4–27 August
BLINK Dance Theatre: ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS
2–13 August
Faizal Abdullah: SIAPA YANG BAWA
MELAYU AKU PERGI?
(WHO TOOK MY MALAY AWAY)
2–10 August
Mwansa Phiri: waiting for a train at the bus stop
2–27 August
Subira Joy: KILL THE COP INSIDE YOUR HEAD
22–27 August
Lula Mebrahtu: OommoO
3–27 August
Jian Yi: WEATHERVANES
3–27 August
@eclipsetcl @eclipsetheatreuk
09:45
The Feed theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug 10:00
Mirandolina Hill Street Theatre, 14–19 Aug
Gusla
Summerhall, 22–27 Aug
Shakespeare for Breakfast
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
A Funeral for My Friend
Who Is Still Alive theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
The Wizard of Oz theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug
NASSIM
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug
ADULTS
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 27 Aug
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug
Pieces of Us
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Bloody Elle
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug
Horizon Showcase:
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 18 Aug, 26 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance)
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
Funeral
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug
10:05
Can’t Wait to Leave theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug 33 to 04
theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug
10:10
The Island Hill Street Theatre, 9–13 Aug
Who Killed My Father Summerhall, 22–27 Aug
The Adventures of Supernova de Loutherbergh theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug Wait!
Summerhall, 9–19 Aug, not 14
10:15
The Trials of Galileo Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Macbeth: Sleep No More theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Alan Bennett’s Cocktail Sticks Greenside @ Riddles Court, 15 Aug, 19 Aug
The Father Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–23 Aug When It Rains Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–12 Aug
10:20
OTMA theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Das Weben Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Confessions of a Teletubby theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16, 25
10:25
The Fish Bowl Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Five Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
10:30
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Memento Mori Bitches Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 9 Aug, 26 Aug
10:35
The Misunderstanding theSpaceTriplex, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug
Dreams of Anne Frank theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
10:40
Adaptation: Enough Already theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–19 Aug
What If theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
10:45
Breaking Open theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 9–27 Aug
10:50
Breaking the Castle Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16
Coconut theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
10:55
Chasing Butterflies
Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
11:00
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 10 Aug to 27 Aug
Frankenstein theSpace @ Venue45, 11–19
Aug, not 13
1000 Miniature Meadows Pleasance Courtyard, 12–28 Aug
Cathedral Song School Tours
St Mary’s Cathedral, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug
O Tusitala: Tellers of Tales
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh, 20 Aug, 27 Aug
Steve Richards Presents: Rock’n’Roll Politics
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13–26 Aug
Thrown
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 19
Aug, 25 Aug
Cooked
Bedlam Theatre, 22–27 Aug
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 24–25 Aug
Sacred Arts Festival
Visual Art at St Vincent’s Stockbridge 3
St Vincent’s, 19 Aug
Sacred Arts Festival
Visual Art at St Vincent’s Stockbridge 2 St Vincent’s, 18 Aug
Athena
Greenside @ Infirmary
Street, 9–12 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance)
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
PLEASE LEAVE (a message)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–24 Aug, not 14
Wiesenthal
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Big Kid Kindergarten
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–25 Aug
Heaven by Eugene
O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 27 Aug
11:05
Call Me Elizabeth
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug
Hickory
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Ludomachy! The Summoning of Games
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–27 Aug
Am I Nuts!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
11:10
Towering Issues
theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
The Wreck of the Queen
Thomasina
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Julius Caesar Must Die
theSpace on the Mile, 18
Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug
11:15
Alba
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–13 Aug
Prick
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
The Wizard of Oz
theSpace @ Niddry St, 26 Aug
Shadow Kingdom
Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug
Animal Farm
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Collar
theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
Hole
Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug
11:20
Things To Do in Mull
theSpace on the Mile, 10
Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug
Build a Rocket by Christopher York
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–13 Aug
La codista / The queuer
Zoo Southside, 9–17 Aug, not 14
...And This Is My Friend
Mr Laurel
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 16
Funeral
Zoo Southside, 18–27 Aug, not 21
11:25
He Wears It Well Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Donut Dollies
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
My Dad Wears a Dress
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
At That Time, Byeon
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Marmalade
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug
11:30
Tending
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Temping
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Twelfth Night
theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug
Mother Mama Mommy
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
The Death & Life of All of Us
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 21
Overlooked theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Some Sonnets and a Bit of Bach
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Is it Art?
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–19 Aug, not 13
I Am Mark
Charlotte Chapel, 18–19 Aug
11:35
1518
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Île
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 16
Appraisal Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
DNA
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Ophelia
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
11:40
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 15 Aug to 27 Aug
Loft Clearance
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Tomorrow’s Child Assembly Checkpoint, 9–28 Aug, not 15
There’s a Leak! theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Coconut theSpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug
Adaptation: Enough Already theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–26 Aug
Crawling Up the Walls
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9 Aug Rewind
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:45
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can’t See Our Noses
Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS
Summerhall, 9–13 Aug Sing, River Pleasance Courtyard, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Casting the Runes
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Gulls theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug
11:50
Polko
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
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this is a scam.
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Blueprints
Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 21
How to Bury a Dead Mule
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 21
14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Four Letter Word and Adrift
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
The Return
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–15 Aug
Burned Out theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Sofar
Paradise in Augustines, 14–19 Aug
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 12–13 Aug
11:55
Rites of Passage
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–12 Aug
Ben Target: LORENZO Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
12:00
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
In Conversation with…
John Nicolson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Tana
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–20 Aug
Lights! Donkey! Action! Paradise in Augustines, 9–12 Aug
In Conversation with…
Tom English
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug
JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
In Conversation with…
Tom Kitchin
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug
Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16
In Conversation with…
Aamer Anwar
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug
In Conversation with…
Billy Kay
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug
In Conversation with…
Tom Robinson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug
In Conversation with…
Lesley Riddoch
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug
Klanghaus: Darkroom
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
In Conversation with...
Andy Burnham
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug
In Conversation with…
Ray Bradshaw
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug
CREEKSHOW
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15
In Conversation with…
Bobby Bluebell
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug
In Conversation with…
Jack Monroe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug
Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker
Man
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito
‘n’ Shake, 12–19 Aug
Raising Kane
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Pavementology Meeting Point, East Princes Street Gardens, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23–25 Aug
Them
Pleasance Dome, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Getting to Grips with Migraine
The Royal Scots Club, 18–19 Aug
In Conversation with…
Joanna Cherry
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug
In Conversation with…
Anas Sarwar
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug
The Court Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Enquiry Concerning Hereafter
Panmure House, 12 Aug, 19
Aug, 26 Aug
In Conversation with…
Ken Loach
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting
(Audio Installation and Performance)
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
Letter to Boddah
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–26 Aug
In Conversation with…
Tam Cowan
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug
In Conversation with…
John McDonnell
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug
In Conversation with…
Jeremy Corbyn
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug
12:05
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
The Stand Comedy Club, 10 Aug
Coconut
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Skies in the Cloud
theSpace on the Mile,
14–19 Aug
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 10 It’s a Mystery!
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–19 Aug
Uisge
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug
How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–26 Aug
12:10
Stanislaus and James theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–22 Aug
The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Tennessee, Rose Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
The Parliament of Poets
artSpace@StMarks, 12 Aug Here You Come Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Letter to Boddah theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13 Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 15
12:15
Victor, Vi and the Volvo Paradise in The Vault, 9–11 Aug
The Signalman theSpace on the Mile, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug
My Neighbours Are Kind of Weird?
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 14–27 Aug
The Last Bantam theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20 Pressure Cooker theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug Into the Ruins of Modernity
artSpace@StMarks, 11 Aug
Sex Diaries of an Ex-Catholic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Sectioned
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–14 Aug Dirty Words
Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
12:20
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, 23, 24
Layers
Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sunsets
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14
That is the Question
theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
It’s Magic, but is it Art?
Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20
Spin Cycles Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
Mystery House
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
12:25
Artist/Muse
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Happier Daze
theSpace on the Mile, 10–26 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
12:30
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Truly Madly Baldy
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 21
Alice Hawkins –
Suffragette
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug
Nation
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
The Birth of Frankenstein
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Animate Lands: Mythic
Celtic Tales
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–10 Aug
Klanghaus: Darkroom
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Wishbone
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
The Importance of Being
Nihilists
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
The Hearth
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 11–27 Aug, not 14, 18
Anything That We Wanted To Be
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Self-Raising Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Terrence the T-Rex Bedlam Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
June
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
WONDER DRUG: A Comedy About Cystic Fibrosis
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28
Aug, not 14, 21
Brain Freeze
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Blue Dragon
Just the Tonic Nucleus, 15–27 Aug
12:35
Lena Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 15
Tom Brown’s Schooldays theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–26 Aug
Alan Bennett’s Cocktail Sticks
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
12:40
The Van Paemel Family Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Silly Little Things
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–27 Aug
Everything That’s Me Is Falling Apart Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
And Then The Rodeo Burned Down theSpace @ Venue45, 18–19 Aug
Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground Assembly Rooms, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Man Shed
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine?
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Dugsi Dayz
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Frigid
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Witches
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Boudica
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
12:45
Sir Percival and the Jabberwock
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Mirrored Metamorphosis Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–19 Aug
Four
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 15
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21 30 and Out
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
Blueballs theSpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug
The Burden of Truth
Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug
77 Listings
Be Home Soon
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
The Academy Trust
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Picasso: Le Monstre
Sacré
Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 22
Decay Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug
Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story
Palmerston Place Church, 26 Aug
12:50
Violet and Me
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Twenty People A Minute theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Robert Garnham, Bouncer
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug
MUSIC
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
The Mrs Dewinters
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–26 Aug
Where is Love
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
12:55
Secret Storytellers
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Molly
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Break Up With Your Boyfriend
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16
Before the Drugs Kick In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
13:00
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Chatham House Rules
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
In Everglade Studio
Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995 Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Agent November: Indoor
Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Líam Rudden’s Silence in Court
Stables Pavilion, Musselburgh Links, 16–17 Aug
Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP
Pleasance at EICC, 12 Aug
Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir John Curtice and Brian Taylor
Pleasance at EICC, 13 Aug
The Ice Hole: A Cardboard Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
Eccentrics Unite! The Guerilla Autistics and Neurodiverse Show –Year Nine
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Macbeth
Paradise in Augustines, 9–12 Aug
Iain Dale: All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon MSP Pleasance at EICC, 10 Aug
Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Impact
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 15
How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker
Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21
Memories of the Early 1950s
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Klanghaus: Darkroom Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Rooms, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sanctuary
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 19 Aug
ADULTS
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 20
Aug, 23 Aug
NASSIM
Traverse Theatre, 25 Aug
Wind in the Willows Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug
Making History by Stephen Fry
St Ninian’s Hall, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
Bloody Elle
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug
Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug
Nick Wilty: Veteran Comedian Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug
Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir Vince Cable Pleasance at EICC, 9 Aug
Iain Dale: All Talk with Humza Yousaf MSP Pleasance at EICC, 11 Aug Sean and Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug
13:05
Burning Down The Horse Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Aionos
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21 Cat Sh!t Crazy theSpaceTriplex, 9–19 Aug, not 13 Brothers
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–26 Aug
The Ghost of a Smile theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug
13:10
Dazzling theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–22 Aug
The Hunger Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 15 Chopped Liver and Unions
theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Poppy
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–13 Aug
The Last Show Before We Die
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 19 Aug
An Interrogation
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
England & Son
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 19, 22
The Stall theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
13:15
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Her Green Hell
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Chance
Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug
Temporarily Yours
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21 Oh My Heart, Oh My Home.
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Collie’s Shed Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–20 Aug
Pressure Cooker
theSpace on the Mile, 14–20 Aug
In Memoriam
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Curses
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
DNA
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
What Happened to Agnes
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 14–27 Aug
Ringer
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Shortlist
Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 15
The Grandfathers Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug Choo Choo! (Or... Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? (Cos I Have))
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
What If
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Love’s Labour’s Lost theSpace on the Mile, 22–26 Aug
13:20
Once Upon A Crime –Gruesome Grimm Tales! theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug
Ants
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Pilot
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Devil’s Passion Assembly George Square Studios, 12–27 Aug, not 21
The Brilliance of Broken Glass
Underbelly, George Square, 9–28 Aug
13:30
Poof!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Lie Low
Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Better Days
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 14
In Loyal Company
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
The Stand Comedy Club, 10 Aug
Thrown Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15
Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug
Attila the Stockbroker –The Left-Wing Economic Establishment!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
Klanghaus: Darkroom
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Groomed
Pleasance Dome, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Summer Camp for Broken People Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 10
Santi and Naz
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 23
Dough Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
1953: The Race for the Summit
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 23–27 Aug
Heaven by Eugene O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 24 Aug
I Am Mark
Charlotte Chapel, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug
13:35
Cowboys and Lesbians
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 16
The School for Scandal theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
13:40
Intimacy theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–26 Aug
I’ve Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Little White Pig, 9–27 Aug, not 14
13:45
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – Murder at the Movies
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Lie Low
Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug
Super
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Cat Sh!t Crazy theSpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug
Clown Sex
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 21
Waiting for Champagne
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 18–22 Aug
I’m the Greatest Starr
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 23–27 Aug
Photon StarBlaster and the Suicidal Spaceship
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 14–27 Aug
A Gefilte Fish Out of Water C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–13 Aug
The Last Flapper Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Split Lip
Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug, not 15
13:50
Buff
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 15, 22
How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World – With a Piano! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
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2 - 27 August 12:30pm
Award-winning artistic director of Graeae Theatre shares her story of growing up Deaf in a family with a secret. A blisteringly honest, reflective, and often laugh-out-loud funny one-woman show.
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Lost in Translation
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Intimacy
theSpace @ Venue45, 11–19 Aug, not 13
Walk
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
The Real William
Shakespeare... As Told by Christopher Marlowe Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Nail Polish
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
White Butterfly
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
13:55
Good and Gaslit
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Five Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Constrictor
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
VESSEL
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Constellations
theSpace on the Mile, 10–26 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
Violets and Vinegar
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Rise
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug
14:00
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
MEMBER
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Life with Oscar Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Steamie Loretto School Theatre, 26 Aug
7 Years: A Love Story
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Traditional Tales of Scotland
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–27 Aug
Sealed Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Sacred Arts Festival
Poetry at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral
St Mary’s Cathedral, 18 Aug
Klanghaus: Darkroom
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
FOOD
The Studio, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug
The Madwoman Paradise in The Vault, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20
The Queen of England
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–26 Aug
Looking for Fun?
Bedlam Theatre, 9–13 Aug
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Others
Central Hall, 9 Aug
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 25 Aug
Blub Blub
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars
Pleasance Dome, 10–27 Aug, not 15, 22
The Great Ruckus
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 14
Dominic Frisby: Gold
Panmure House, 9–20 Aug, not 14
Witch? Women on Trial
The Lost Close, 9–28 Aug, not 14
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–20 Aug
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker and Merryn
Somerset Webb
Panmure House, 26–27 Aug
Home
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28
Aug, not 16
And the Beat Goes On theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
The Climate Fables
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–19 Aug, not 13
14:05
Ctrl theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug
Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out! Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug
Being Sophie Scholl theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 16, 20, 23
Thirst
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 14, 21
Nuclear Children
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
It’s a Woman’s World theSpaceTriplex, 14–20 Aug
14:10
Blood of the Lamb Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Only Hitmen and Scammers Make Phone Calls theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug 24, 23, 22
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
A Working Title theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
The Parliament of Poets artSpace@StMarks, 10 Aug The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
14:15
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Heart of the Mind and A Useful Tragedy theSpace on the Mile, 22–26 Aug
With the Devil’s Assistance
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug
A Shetland Folktale Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22
Exit 20:20
Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20
MEAT
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 28 Aug
HoneyBEE
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug
Jane/Norma
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Can’t Stop Carrying On theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19 Aug, 22 Aug Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10–13 Aug Into the Ruins of Modernity
artSpace@StMarks, 9 Aug
Death by Shakespeare
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug One Way Out Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Banana
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Hear Us and Hasten
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug
iHands: A Life Less Lived theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug 17 Minutes
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
14:20
Breed or Bust
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Beasts (Why Girls
Shouldn’t Fear The Dark)
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Be My Guest Assembly George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Bitter Lemons
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16
Candide
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Spin
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 10–27 Aug, not 21
The Humans
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
The Invisible Man theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
14:25
The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Manifest Destiny’s Child Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Attendants
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
14:30
Paul Zenon in Monkey Business
Le Monde, 9–27 Aug
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 26
Aug, 27 Aug
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Church of Princess Cassandra
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Sad-Vents
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
The Curious Case of Osgood Mackenzie
The Royal Scots Club, 15–19 Aug
Merry Wanderers
theSpaceTriplex, 9–12 Aug
Temping
Assembly George Square
Studios, 9–27 Aug
The Chairs Revisited
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Brothers: War Poems and Chronicles
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–13 Aug
Sanctuary
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 17 Aug
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Titanic: The Last Hero and The Last Coward
Charlotte Chapel, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug
As Far As Impossible
The Lyceum, 13 Aug
Sudha Bhuchar: Evening
Conversations
Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 Aug
Life is a Dream
The Lyceum, 26–27 Aug
Help! I Think I’m a Nationalist
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Attenborough and His Animals
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 10–26 Aug, not 16, 23
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Charlotte Chapel, 10 Aug
Mrs President
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Salty Irina
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, 26
Lo Siento Mi Espanol Es Tremendo Mal
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 9 Aug
Graham in the Green Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 26
A Midsummer Dream in Auld Reekie
Inverleith St Serf’s Church
Centre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
Maureen
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Whisky Galore
Mayfield Salisbury Church, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
14:35
Gusla
Summerhall, 9–20 Aug, not 14
The Half Moon
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Looking for Giants
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–13 Aug
Declan
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–27 Aug
Horizon Showcase: The Talent
Summerhall, 22–27 Aug
Shadow Boxing Assembly George Square Studios, 9–20 Aug
14:40
Paradok Platform
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14
England & Son
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 26 Aug
14:45
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Crash and Burns: A New Comedy
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Indoor Kids
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–20 Aug
The Serpent’s Tooth Paradise in The Vault, 9–19 Aug, not 13
iCON
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
81 Listings
The Grammar of Witchcraft C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 21–27 Aug
Concerned Others
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
(James) Blunt
Instrument
Paradise in The Vault, 21–22 Aug
14:50
Best Man
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14
waiting for a train at the bus stop
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Terminal: A Play About 0 Planes, 1 Person, and a 6-Hour Delay Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Sit or Kneel
theSpace @ Venue45, 14–26 Aug
Soldiers of Tomorrow
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Blowhole Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 16
Rockbeth theSpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug
14:55
Dual Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug, not 22
The Dead of Night
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Old Bridge Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
The Typewriter Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
We Are, in Fact, the Problem
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Singing Sands Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–26 Aug
The Mind of a Narcissist theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Luke Wright’s Silver Jubilee
Pleasance Dome, 9–15 Aug
What Can Indian Look
Like?
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Persephone
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Kitchen Underwear
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
15:00
60 Minutes of Mood
Swings
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
Black Is The Color Of My Voice
Pleasance at EICC, 14 Aug, 15
Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug
Agent November: Indoor
Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
A Preoccupation with Romantic Love
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–11 Aug
Wild Onion
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Sensuous Governing
Summerhall @ Danish Consulate, 9–20 Aug, not 14 We Must Do This More
The Royal Scots Club, 19 Aug
Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 16, 20, 23
Why Am I Like This?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Guffy
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28 Aug, not 16, 23
Under the Mirrie Dancers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–27 Aug
Sophie
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–22 Aug
Midnight Building
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23–25 Aug
Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
SAD
Summerhall, 9–13 Aug
Blizzard
Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21
Kerouac: And All That Jazz Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
Showgirls and Spies
Pleasance Dome, 9–13 Aug
15:05
Victorine: The Artist’s Model
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Goodbye Christopher Robinson
theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug
Lear Alone
theSpaceTriplex, 9–19 Aug, not 13
15:10
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug
4/4/4: 4 Real Asians, 4 White Men, 4 Fake Asians theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Stark Bollock Naked Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 22
What Goes on Without Me theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug
Chopped Liver and Unions theSpace on the Mile,
9–12 Aug
Marie Lloyd Stole My Life Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 15 Aug to 25 Aug
A Teacher’s Lament Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–26 Aug
Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 15
15:15
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23
The Portable Dorothy Parker theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
André and Dorine
Assembly Rooms, 9–20 Aug, not 14
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Nightmare
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 26 Aug
Can’t Stop Carrying On theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug
Edmonds
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 10, 14, 17, 24
Helios
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Stall theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–22 Aug
iHands: A Life Less Lived theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15 Aug, 17 Aug
What the Thunder Said PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–15 Aug
Watson: The Final Problem
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21 The Wonderful Everyday theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
15:20
Alone Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 17, 21
52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 13
Park Bench
theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug
The Other Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug
Dead End Job theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug
15:25
The Stall theSpace @ Niddry St, 20 Aug
15:30
All Aboard! at Termination Station
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 14, 21
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project
Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
A Dram O’ History
The Lost Close, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Boy Out The City
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Salomé
Bedlam Theatre, 9–13 Aug
Seventy-Eight Thank Yous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 16–20 Aug
I Believe in One Bach
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 19–27 Aug
Flickering Seasons
St John’s Church, 10–25
Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23
Bacon
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Trainspotting Live
Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
Revelations of Rab McVie
Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug
15:35
End of the World
ZOO Playground, 9–19 Aug
Park Bench
theSpace on the Mile, 15
Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug
I Love You, Now What?
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 14, 21
Billy and The Situation
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–27 Aug
Godot is a Woman
Pleasance Courtyard, 16–27
Aug, not 21
The Rejects theSpace on the Mile, 10–26
Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
Dead End Job
theSpace on the Mile, 14
Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug
15:40
Unforgettable Girl
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 16
Nobody’s Talking About Jamie
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Strays
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25
Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Beautiful Evil Things
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug
15:45
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Wallace Hill Street Theatre, 21–27 Aug
The Flea Hill Street Theatre, 14–20 Aug
The Quest to Save
Neverland: Peter Pan and the Lost Souls Epic Tale theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug
Pitch
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–28
Aug, not 16, 23
Alfie and George Hill Street Theatre, 9–11 Aug
15:50
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug
For Better, For Worse
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 13–27 Aug
This is a Chair
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
2nd Picture of Dorian Gray
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–12 Aug
The Knot theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–26 Aug
15:55
Garage Warriors theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
God Done Opened the Sky!! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
The Kids with Nae Hame C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22 Meat Boy theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
#MeToo, a one-woman show C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 14–20 Aug
Cruelty
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–13 Aug
The Psychic Tests
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 21–27 Aug
16:00
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith’s For the Many Live with Sir Ed Davey MP Pleasance at EICC, 12 Aug
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith’s For the Many Live with Mark Drakeford MS Pleasance at EICC, 10 Aug
82 Theatre festmag.com
Deaf Action Presents:
Faslane by Amy Helena Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20 Aug
Lady Dealer Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Central Hall, 9 Aug
Let the Bodies Pile by Henry Naylor
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug
Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
I Hope Your Flowers
Bloom
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10–27 Aug, not 13, 16, 20
Thrown
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16
Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug
Attila the Stockbroker –The Left-Wing Economic Establishment!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–20 Aug, not 12, 19
Expecting by c21 Theatre Company
Deaf Action, 17–19 Aug
Sanctuary
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 18 Aug
ADULTS
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug
NASSIM
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug
Wind in the Willows
Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 25 Aug
Hayfever
theSpace @ Venue45, 11–26
Aug, not 13, 20
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith’s For the Many Live with Peter Tatchell
Pleasance at EICC, 9 Aug
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith’s For the Many Live with Kate Forbes MSP
Pleasance at EICC, 11 Aug
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug
MANikin
Leith Arches, 9–22 Aug, not 10, 17
Meet Me by The Stranger
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Help Yourself
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis Charlotte Chapel, 12 Aug
Hollywoodn’t
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
Bloody Elle
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug
Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug
Enquiry Concerning Hereafter
Panmure House, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Gaze
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug
Brain Freeze
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Iain Dale and Jacqui
Smith’s For the Many Live with Ian Blackford MP Pleasance at EICC, 13 Aug
16:05
Abbey’s Box
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
The Bad Daters
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Varmints
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug
Scaredy Fat
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Macbeth by the Sea
theSpace on the Mile, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Don Quixote
Assembly George Square Studios, 10–15 Aug
After Shakespeare
theSpaceTriplex, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Pretending to Fly
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–26 Aug
16:10
The Rampant Rise of Willy of Normandy
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug
Women
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 10–12 Aug
Vanya Is Alive
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–12 Aug
Sound Clash: Death in the Arena
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 21
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 23–24 Aug
16:15
OommoO
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Second Helping: Two Dead Lovers, Dead Funny
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–27 Aug
Lie Low
Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
What You Will
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10 Aug
J.E.N.
Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20
The Night Children
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–12 Aug
Everything That Annoys Me, and You
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Paper Walls
theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug
Heaven by Eugene
O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug
16:20
Everyone’s Worried About Eve
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Marlon Solomon: How to Be an Antisemite
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 11
Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?)
Summerhall, 9–13 Aug
Queer Street
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–22 Aug, not 13
All the Glorious Moments In Between
theSpace on the Mile, 22
Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug
A Trilogy: bag-theSpace @ Surgeons Hall,
11 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug
A Trilogy: box.
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall,
10 Aug, 15 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug
A Trilogy: blood (line)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug
SHOWSTOPPER
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
The Strongest Girl in the World Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–19 Aug, not 13
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug
If You Were to Die Tomorrow
Paradise in Augustines, 14–19 Aug
16:25
Sherlock Holmes The Last Act
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
We’re All Mad Here Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug
16:30
Bowjangles: Dracula in Space
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug
Agent November: Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
The Insider
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Gie’s Peace
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug
Fool’s Gold
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 16
The Relationship Plays: Married Life and Sibling Rivalry
Paradise in The Vault, 9–12 Aug
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug, not 15, 16, 21
Twinkle
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Journey to the West
Ian McKellen Theatre, Saint Stephens Stockbridge, 9–12 Aug No One Is Coming
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10–20 Aug, not 16
Breakup Addict
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug
Kill the Cop Inside Your Head
Summerhall, 22–27 Aug
Paper Walls
theSpace on the Mile, 14
Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug
Save the Princess
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
HIGH STEAKS
Summerhall, 9–13 Aug
Lost Soles Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug, not 14
16:35
All the Glorious Moments In Between theSpace on the Mile, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug
Hive Assembly Roxy, 9–15 Aug
Of Moonset and the Milky Way Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 21
16:40
The Four Worst Things I’ve Ever Done
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–13 Aug
The Importance of Being... Earnest?
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
16:45
Rosaline and Juliet
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
16:50
Giving the Gift of Offence with Martin Rowson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12–14 Aug Saturn Return Pleasance Courtyard, 9–13 Aug
The Lost Lending Library Church Hill Theatre Studio, 23–24 Aug
16:55
Mr Fox Paradise in The Vault, 9–12 Aug
The Museum Trip
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Soul Mate theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
Gate Number 5 C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 20–27 Aug
17:00
Good Grief: Five Deserts in Search of My Father. A One-Man Show by Writer Jon Lawrence Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 12
They May Have Even Eaten Ham! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Klanghaus: InHaus Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Conversations We Never Had, as People
We’ll Never Be C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 21–27 Aug
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Conversations with Mandela
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 9–13 Aug
Bards at the Barracks
Army @ The Fringe, 22–25 Aug
Dark Noon
Pleasance at EICC, 10–27
Aug, not 16, 23
The Threepenny Opera Festival Theatre, 20 Aug
Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14
The Booth
Bedlam Theatre, 9–13 Aug
Titanic: The Last Hero and The Last Coward Charlotte Chapel, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug
Tomorrow Is Not Promised
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–13 Aug
Move
Bedlam Theatre, 22–27 Aug
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23–24 Aug
Getting to Grips with Migraine
Listings
The Royal Scots Club, 16–17 Aug 85
Dahlia Wilde: Oh My God Particle Show!
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Tickbox 2
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Junk Monkey
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 20
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
It Won’t Be Long Now Army @ The Fringe, 15–20 Aug
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug
Nova Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Soulmates: (Not) Found Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle, 9–20 Aug
The All-Terrain Podcast
Live
The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 13–17 Aug
17:05
Jacob Storms’ Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams
Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 22
When Kurt Met Thora
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
Blue Assembly George Square, 10–28 Aug
Kingdom
theSpace on the Mile, 10–26 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25
All is Pink in West Berkshire County
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–26 Aug
Unveiled theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10–12 Aug
A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – Murder on the Disorient Express theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Collar theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
17:10
Graveyard of the Outcast
Dead theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
The Caravel theSpace @ Venue45, 22–26 Aug
Nearly Lear theSpace @ Venue45, 10–19 Aug, not 13
The Courteous Enemy
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
BUTCHERED
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–20 Aug, not 14 Stuck In The Mud theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–12 Aug
The Abrupt Son theSpace on the Mile, 10–19
Aug, not 13
17:15
The Only Punk Rocker in the Village theSpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Attachment: The Leech Show
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Nan, Me and Barbara
Pravi
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Spend the Night with Tiffany Black
Paradise in Augustines, 9–19
Aug, not 13
Tre
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
Awake, Gay and Writing a Play
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 9–27 Aug, not 19
Sea Words
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
17:20
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
Pleasance Dome, 9–28
Aug, not 14
The Way Way Deep
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27
Aug, not 14
Dom – The Play Assembly Rooms, 9–27
Aug, not 21
2-Faces
Greenside @ Infirmary
Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
I Killed My Ex
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–19
Aug, not 13
Strategic Love Play
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Burnt Lavender
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Character Flaw
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Assemblywomen
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–13 Aug
Lucy and Friends
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–23
Aug, not 14, 21
The Lost Lending Library
Church Hill Theatre Studio, 10 Aug, 19 Aug
Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21–26 Aug
Knuckles Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
17:25
Pleasure Little Treasure
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–13 Aug
Peephole Greenside @ Riddles Court, 21–26 Aug
Extreme (The New Norm) Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–19 Aug, not 13
17:30
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Temping
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Vino Veritas
theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Expecting by c21 Theatre Company
Deaf Action, 20 Aug
Walking Home
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Brain Hemingway
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Kaye Adams: How to be 60 Live!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug
Thorns
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
The Imitator Assembly Rooms, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 21 Come to Our Show
(Please)
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 14–20 Aug
How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
17:35
Party Scene: Chemsex. Community. Crisis. Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22
Scent
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
The Quality of Mercy: Concerning the Life and Crimes of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
The Further Misadventures of Martin Hathaway: Shipwrecked Off Heramathea’s Cove Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10–11 Aug
The Stronger Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
17:45
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Last of the Soviets
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Thunderstruck
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 28 Aug
Yippee Ki Yay the Die Hard Parody
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23 Distant Memories of the Near Future Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Hipsteria by Josefina Lopez
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug
Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 27 Aug
Something Educational
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story
Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug
Land Under Wave
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug
17:50
What If They Ate The Baby?
theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–19 Aug
Fool’s Paradise
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Three Men in a Boat
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–13 Aug
17:55
The Baron and the Junk Dealer Assembly Roxy, 9–24 Aug, not 15
Wendy, My Darling
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Ivories
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
18:00
Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out!
Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Call Mr Robeson – A Life, with Songs
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, Various dates from 9 Aug to 19 Aug
Wasteman
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–28 Aug, not 17
Alice Hawkins –Suffragette
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14–17 Aug
Hamlet
The Royal Scots Club, 21–26 Aug
The Birds, a New Musical Comedy!
Central Hall, 9 Aug
A Migrant’s Son House of Oz, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 21
Just An Ordinary Lawyer
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, Various dates from 10 Aug to 20 Aug
‘78 Things I Don’t Want to Tell You About the Love of My Life
Outhouse, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Exile for Two Violins
French Institute in Scotland, 9–13 Aug
Horizon Showcase: FORGE
Lyceum Roseburn, 23 Aug
James Rowland: Piece of Work
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, 26
Bolts of Melody
French Institute in Scotland, 16–20 Aug
Making History by Stephen Fry
St Ninian’s Hall, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 22 Aug
Piece Of Me
Central Hall, 9 Aug
Deaf Action Presents: Faslane by Amy Helena Deaf Action, 19 Aug
18:05
What You Will
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 11 Aug
Survivors theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug
Constrictor theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
On the Evils Of Tobacco theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
The Ballad of Truman Capote theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Nevernatal theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug Does My Fanny Look Big in This?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
This Is Not A Play (It’s A Pathetic Cry For Help) Assembly George Square Studios, 9–13 Aug
Certain Death and Other Considerations
ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
18:10
On the Rail
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Top of the World theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13 Hersterectomy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug
Lost and Found
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 10 Aug to 27 Aug
18:15
The Standard Short Long Drop theSpaceTriplex, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
The Ocean And The Star theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 9 Aug to 15 Aug
86 Theatre festmag.com
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Mister Shakespeare Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug
18:20
Grown Up Orphan Annie
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15
Meat Cute
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 23–27 Aug
Square Peg
Paradise in Augustines, 9–19 Aug, not 13
18:25
(...)Prty Grl Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
My Father’s Nose Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug
The Last Vagabonds Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Maybe Things Are Okay
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Take The Bins Out Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–12 Aug
American Man
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
18:30
The Death of Molly Miller
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
MacBeth
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Teacher’s Pet Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug
The Lifespan Tour
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20
KING Assembly @ Dance Base, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 19, 20, 21
Moderation
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Thrown
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug
Lilies on the Land
The Royal Scots Club, 14–19 Aug
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 10–26
Aug, not 16, 21
Draining the Swamp
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 16–27 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting (Audio Installation and Performance)
Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 23–24 Aug
True Spirit Pathway
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Hot as Hell Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 28 Aug
Heaven by Eugene O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16
Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug
18:35
The Lady of the Loch
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
ORFARM – Animal Farm
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Notes to Future Self theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
18:40
The Society for New Cuisine
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14 How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read (In About 50 Minutes)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Meat Boy
theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
Paved with Gold and Ashes
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
18:45
crackers
The Royal Scots Club, 9–12 Aug
Everything Under the Sun Army @ The Fringe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Heaven by Eugene O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug
18:50
Bad Teacher
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–13 Aug
Candide
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–26 Aug
Bangers
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Colonel Anne: Jacobite Heroine
theSpace @ Venue45, 11–19 Aug, not 13
18:55
Playing Latinx Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Optimistic: Elizabeth Holmes
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 17
Salamander Assembly Roxy, 9–16 Aug
1984
Assembly Roxy, 18–28 Aug Hi, I’m Zoë...
Laughing Horse @ Eastside, 20–27 Aug
19:00
Klanghaus: InHaus
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug Whisk(e)y Wars
Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly, 9–13 Aug
Dimanche
Church Hill Theatre, 15–19 Aug
Temping
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Tipples, Tales and Traditions with Edinburgh Gin Edinburgh Gin Distillery, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, 28 Aug
And Then The Rodeo Burned Down theSpace @ Venue45, 20–26 Aug
Pleading Stupidity
Pleasance Dome, 9–28
Aug, not 15
Growler
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
Sugar and Blood
ZOO Playground, 9–11 Aug
Havisham
ZOO Playground, 13–27 Aug
ADULTS
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug
NASSIM
Traverse Theatre, 27 Aug
Almost Adult
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 26 Aug
Messhead Paradise in Augustines, 21–27 Aug
Murder in the Cathedral
Old Saint Paul’s Church, 28 Aug
Two Strangers Walk into a Bar...
House of Oz, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
April Small: Bloody Medea!!
BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–27 Aug
Our Anxious Measurements
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Bloody Elle Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug
Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 24 Aug
The Mariner’s Song
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 16–20 Aug
Kravitz, Cohen, Bernstein and Me
Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14
The Rotting Hart
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–13 Aug
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug
Pride and Prejudice
Musselburgh Racecourse, 26 Aug
19:05
Shimmer theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Il Burattino theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
19:10
Three Sisters and Them theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20
19:15
A Working Title
theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
The Gaffer
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–13 Aug
Dickie Must Die theSpace on the Mile, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12
Aug, 14 Aug
A Good Panto Die Hard
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 14
Drumming Up Poetry theSpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug
Deaf Action Presents: Red Aphrodite by Amy Murray
Deaf Action, 12–13 Aug
Horizon Showcase: Birthmarked Assembly Rooms, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 20
Yellow Corners theSpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug
What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don’t See When Your Eyes Are Open
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 21
Rhubarb and Custard
Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug
Afghanistan Is Not Funny by Henry Naylor Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11–18 Aug
Tituba
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–27 Aug
Self Actually theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13–14 Aug
Lovefool
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Norma theSpace on the Mile, 15–19 Aug
Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story Palmerston Place Church, 23–25 Aug
19:20
Bang ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug
GUSH
Assembly George Square, 16–28 Aug, not 22
Quitting Comedy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 9–27 Aug, not 22
Unstitching theSpace @ Niddry St, 14–22 Aug
Train Lord theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
19:25
Otto & Astrid’s Joint Solo Project
Assembly George Square Gardens, 10–27 Aug, not 16
Love, Monty Paradise in The Vault, 9–12 Aug
19:30
Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype – An Evening with John Cambridge Blackwell’s Bookshop, 9–10 Aug
A Fairie Tale
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 17, 18, 23
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
The Beatles Were a Boyband
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–27 Aug
The Steamie
Loretto School Theatre, 23–26 Aug
Never Trouble Trouble (Till Trouble Troubles You)
Tynecastle Park, Various dates from 11 Aug to 27 Aug
Tales of Edinburgh Horror
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug
The Threepenny Opera Festival Theatre, 18–19 Aug
Sacred Arts Festival
Poetry at Greyfriars Kirk
Greyfriars Kirk, 15 Aug
Titanic: The Last Hero and The Last Coward
Charlotte Chapel, 9 Aug, 12 Aug
Trojan Women
Festival Theatre, 9–11 Aug
As Far As Impossible
The Lyceum, 11–14 Aug
Bits ‘N’ Pieces
Leith Arches, 11–26 Aug, not 17, 24
Life is a Dream
The Lyceum, 23–26 Aug
Making History by Stephen Fry
St Ninian’s Hall, 9–18 Aug, weekdays only
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Charlotte Chapel, 11 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug
A Midsummer Dream in Auld Reekie
Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 9–18 Aug, weekdays only
Bear with Me: A Polar Bear in Scotland
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9 Aug, 23 Aug
Whisky Galore
Mayfield Salisbury Church, 9–18 Aug, weekdays only
A Comedy of Tenors
The Royal Scots Club, 21–26 Aug
I Am Mark
Charlotte Chapel, 10 Aug, 14 Aug
88 Theatre festmag.com
19:35
Locusts theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Modern Witches
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
When Worlds Collide Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Did You Eat?
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
Swan Song
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
Two Gun Cohen – The Improbable True Story theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
19:40
When We Died Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21 97+ theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug
Tartuffe, the Imposter: A Feminist Reimagining theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Tea and Milk
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Not Our Crime, Still Our Sentence
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–17 Aug, not 14
19:45
Wildcat’s Last Waltz Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 12
DARLING BOY
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–16 Aug
Satan vs God
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–27 Aug, not 14
19:50
The Fear
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
A Manchester Anthem Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
In Loving Memory of Mary Mort
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20
“The Ayes Have It! The Ayes Have It!”
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–13 Aug
19:55
The Steamie theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
20:00
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Agent November: Indoor
Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
We Must Do This More
The Royal Scots Club, 18–19 Aug
Shakesperimental Bedlam Theatre, 15–27
Aug, not 21
Family Matters
Central Hall, 9 Aug
FOOD
The Studio, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
Plague Stone Party: Farewell, Tor BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt, 18–22 Aug
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Royal Scots Club, 21–26 Aug
Tales of a Jane Austen Spinster Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–12 Aug
A Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone French Institute in Scotland, 9–14 Aug
Horizon Showcase: A Crash Course in Cloudspotting Summerhall (Offsite) @ Institut Français d’Ecosse, 22 Aug
Mark Twain’s The Stolen White Elephant Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20
20:05
Runaway theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
20:10
Report to an Academy Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Unveiled theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 16, 20, 23
20:15
The Alpha Podcast theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
Two Cats on a Date ZOO Playground, 9–27 Aug, not 16
Captain Avaritia’s Carnival of Wonders theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–26 Aug
Gold! theSpace on the Mile, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Loving the Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug
20:20
Andronicus Synecdoche presented by Song of the Goat Theatre
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Bullring Techno Makeout
Jamz
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Goodbye Uncle Fudgey
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 15
Cola Boy
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–19 Aug
Please Love Me Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
20:25
And Then The Rodeo Burned Down theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–17 Aug, not 13
Hysterical Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
20:30
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Robyn Yew
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Ctrl Room :_
Army @ The Fringe, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Temping
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
The Importance of Being
Earnest
The Royal Scots Club, 14–19 Aug
Agent November:
Outdoor Escape Game –Major X Ploe-Shun
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug
Love is Blue
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Welcome to The Big Show
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
An Oak Tree
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
20:35
Trust
ZOO Playground, 9–19 Aug
A Perfectly Average Glimpse into a Perfectly Average Day
ZOO Playground, 20–27 Aug
Bill’s 44th
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–27 Aug, not 14
20:40
Four Cut Sunflowers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20
20:45
Eulogy
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
I’ve Never Met Anyone Quite Like You Before theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
A Preoccupation with Romantic Love
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 19–27 Aug Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–12 Aug
How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Puppets
Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug
F*ckboy Fairytales
Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
We’re All Mad Here
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 10–26 Aug, not 16, 21
Good Morning, Faggi
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Pinched
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Lino
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–19 Aug, not 13
20:50
Peer Gynt: A Jazz Revival
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug
1 Tent, 4 Girls
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Garry Bonds’ Balanced Breakfasts
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug
Chicken
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Blanket of the Dark
theSpace @ Niddry St, 24–26 Aug
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
20:55
House of Life
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug
21:00
Séance
Pleasance Dome, 9–28 Aug
Klanghaus: InHaus
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Club Life
Summerhall, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
Call Me Suicidal Greenside @ Riddles Court, 15–19 Aug
Agent November: Indoor
Escape Game – Murder
Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Séance: Live Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 15
Thrown
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug
Queer Folks’ Tales
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug
Loud Poets: Best of Fringe
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug
Mohan: A Partition Story
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 14–15 Aug
The Leading Lady Club Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug
Is This the End of Edward J Payne?
Paradise in Augustines, 21–27 Aug
Shadows of Angels Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
Shakers
The Royal Scots Club, 9–12 Aug
Your Children Will Follow Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
Heaven by Eugene O’Brien
Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug
21:05
The Mystery of Dracula
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–27 Aug
21:10
Gunter
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Ginzel’s Little Cordoba: A Double Bill theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
21:15
What If They Ate The Baby? theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
A Year and a Day theSpace on the Mile, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Internal theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug
The Good Dad (A Love Story)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
A Night With Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–25 Aug
21:20
Brief Candle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20
Culture for the Many The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug Crash and Burn theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–22 Aug
Vita and Virginia (Abridged) theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
Mythos: Ragnarok Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug
21:25
Deuteronomy Zoo Southside, 9–19 Aug
21:30
International House of Vape: Redefining Theatre
Experience Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–24 Aug
Drop Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
The Grandmothers Grimm Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug
21:40
The Last Show Before We Die Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Bampots
Pleasance Dome, 9–15 Aug
Frighthouse Presents: The Wheel of Misfortune theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
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21:55
She Kills Monsters
theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug
Grief Lightning: A Satire in 78 Slides
Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21
Ramalama Ding Dong Summerhall, 9–13 Aug
22:00
Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder
Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–27 Aug
Do You Remember the First Rhyme?
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 11–13 Aug
Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug
Reflected
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug
ADULTS
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18
Aug, 26 Aug
NASSIM
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19
Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug
Bloody Elle
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug
Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 25 Aug
Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show Hill Street Theatre, 14–27 Aug
Sean and Daro Flake It ‘Til They Make It Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 20 Aug
Eating Rhode Island Central Hall, 9 Aug
22:05
Rock Bottom Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug
22:10
Until Death theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Green Bird Greenside @ Riddles Court, 9–12 Aug
22:15
The Tragedy That Befalls the Dastardly Crew of the Kakapo theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Break the Chains theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, not 13
Slash Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
That is the Question theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
Ay Up, Hitler! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13
Collar
theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug
22:20
Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–22 Aug, not 13
Horizon Showcase: Little Wimmin Zoo Southside, 21–27 Aug
22:30
Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman and Paddy...?
Paradise in The Vault, 9–19 Aug, not 13
The Thin Place theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–26 Aug
B Dolan – Modified Warrior
The Voodoo Rooms, 22–27 Aug
An(dre)a Spisto: El Dizzy Beast
Assembly George Square Studios, 15–27 Aug, not 21
22:40
Shakespeare Up Late: A Right Royal Visit
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 14
22:45
May Contain Traces of Nuts.
theSpaceTriplex, 9–12 Aug
Babs for Life
C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 15
22:55
That is the Question
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
23:00
Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out! Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug
HEART
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 24–26 Aug
Asexuality!
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 18, 25
LATER
Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 19 Aug
Purgatorio theSpaceTriplex, 14–26 Aug
He Kept Me Safe
theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–19 Aug
May Contain Traces of Nuts.
theSpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug
23:05
The Fruity Prince Paradise in The Vault, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20
23:10
Punk
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug
Secreting
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug
23:20
Green Bird Greenside @ Riddles Court, 14–19 Aug
23:25
Magic for Animals
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
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Whipped Up! (0+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20
09:25
The Twits (3+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
09:30
Bumble’s Big Adventure (3+)
C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 14–17 Aug
09:40
24 Solar Terms (0+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug
09:45
Taiwan Season: World in a Word (3+)
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
10:00
CeilidhKids at the Fringe (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 17, 22, 24
Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake (0+)
theSpaceTriplex, 9–20 Aug
Down the Hatch! (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
Sea Dragon forUnder5s (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–20
Aug, not 16
Plague, Poo n’
Punishment (8+)
The Lost Close, 9–28 Aug, not 14
10:15
Maths at the Museum (5+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–15 Aug
10:20
Peter Pan (3+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–12 Aug
10:25
Beware the Jabberwock (5+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–18 Aug
10:30
Vampire’s Ball: Ultimate Halloween Party! (8+)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Wriggle Around the World (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 16–26
Aug, not 20, 23
A Girl Called Grace (3+)
The Royal Scots Club, 14–18 Aug
Cartoooon!! (0+)
Assembly Roxy, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
Grow (0+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23
Magic Gareth: Level Up! (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–20
Aug, not 16
Baby Bingo (and Toddlers Too) (0+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug
The Bubblegum
Gumdrop Show (0+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10–19 Aug
The Bubble Show (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–20 Aug, not 16
Saturday Morning Magic (8+)
Scottish Arts Club, 19 Aug
10:35
Rubbish Romeo and Juliet (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28
Aug, not 16, 18, 19, 20
Green Fingers (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 9 Aug to 15 Aug
10:40
Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 12 Aug to 27 Aug
10:45
Bubba-Licious (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
10:55
Mario the Maker Magician (3+)
Underbelly, George Square, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:00
Smithy’s Scavenger Hunt (8+)
Panmure House, 9–11 Aug
Science Magic: Messy Mayhem (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Tales From a Haunted Bookshop (8+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–20 Aug, not 16
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 9–28 Aug
A Chinese Bestiary (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug
Drag Queen Story Hour (3+)
Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug
Wee Seals and Selkies (5+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 27 Aug
Sea Dragon Babies (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 9–20 Aug, not 16
Arts and Crafts Family Workshop (0+)
The Royal Scots Club, 9–11 Aug
Glom Glom and the Musical Monster Millipede (0+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–14 Aug
Beetle (3+)
House of Oz, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 13, 17, 20, 24
11:10
Not a Load of Bumfuzzle and Faradiddle (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug
11:15
Lost in the Woods (5+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 15
The Spanish Gentleman Juggler (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug Story Builders (5+)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24 Pinocchio! The Panto (3+) theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug
11:20
Artiste (3+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–20 Aug Mog the Forgetful Cat (3+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 21, 22, 23
11:30
Smashing Shakespeare (3+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–15 Aug
JUDITH KERR’S
Bubba-Licious (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–27 Aug
Who Stole My Hammer? (5+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+)
Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 9–27 Aug
Cheekykita: Octopus in Space (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 10–20 Aug, not 14 Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
Blue Badge Bunch: ReRamped (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug, not 16
Lightning Ridge (8+)
Summerhall, 9–20 Aug, not 14
11:40
Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider) (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16, 22, 23
Ballot-tastic (8+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–12 Aug
Mr Sleepybum (5+)
Assembly George Square, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
11:45
Jon – The Music Man (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 13
11:50
First Piano on the Moon (Revisited) – Will Pickvance (5+)
Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
11:55
Roger McGough’s Money-Go-Round (5+)
Assembly Rooms, 9–21 Aug, not 10, 17
12:00
A Bee Story (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
The Crazy Puppet Magic Show (5+)
Frankenstein Pub, 9–20
Aug, not 12
The Armadillo and the Human Skin (5+)
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 12 Aug
The Unimaginable (3+)
Central Hall, 9 Aug
DIVE (5+)
Assembly Rooms, 9 Aug
Doktor Kaboom and the Wheel of Even More
Science! (8+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 18
Plague, Poo n’
Punishment (8+)
The Lost Close, 9–28 Aug, not 14
Science Adventures: Deep Sea (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–20
Aug, not 16
Chevalier – Hobbyhorse Circus (3+)
Assembly George Square Studios, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21
12:05
Trash Test Dummies (0+)
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21
12:15
Science Magic: Crazy Gadgets (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
La Petite Gerda (5+)
Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 9 Aug to 15 Aug
12:30
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 9–28 Aug
Abracadabra With An Apple Magic Show (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–15 Aug
Amazing Bubble Man (0+)
Underbelly, George Square, 9–28 Aug
Circus Sonas Family Show (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–20 Aug
Ancient Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer (Into the Woods) (5+) artSpace@StMarks, 14–19 Aug
12:40
James and the Giant Peach (0+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–19 Aug, not 13
12:45
Comics vs Kids: The Super Showdown (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 14–20 Aug
Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–13 Aug
13:00
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug Strictly Barking (3+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–20 Aug, not 16
The Listies Make Some Noise (3+)
House of Oz, 9–20 Aug, not 10, 17
The Slightly Annoying Elephant (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
13:05
Improvised Rubbish Shakespeare – The Incomplete Works (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 9–28 Aug
13:15
Ancient Coins of Forgotten Kingdoms (8+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22
Shelf: The Kids’ Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 16
13:20
FailFailFailFailWin (0+) Assembly Checkpoint, 9–15 Aug
13:30
Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+)
Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 9–27 Aug
Brotipo (5+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
Inside The Robot: Kids vs Chaos! (5+)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–20 Aug, not 14 Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons With Dragons (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–20 Aug
13:45
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
ComedySportz (8+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–16 Aug
THE FORGETFUL CAT SUMMER FAMILY FUN FOR 3+ 92 Kids festmag.com
14:00
Kings and Queens (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 16–26
Aug, not 23
Game On: Boss Level (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (3+) Central Hall, 9 Aug
14:15
The Alphabet of Awesome Science (5+)
Underbelly, George Square, 9–28 Aug, not 14, 21
14:30
The Greatest Magic Show (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–28 Aug, not
16, 21
FlamenKids (0+)
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 13 Aug, 20 Aug
Gallus Stooshie’s Cool Ceilidh (0+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11–13 Aug
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
Madame Chandelier’s Opera Party for Kids (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–15 Aug
14:45
Here Be Dragons (8+)
Paradise in Augustines, 9–12 Aug
14:55
Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful
Children (8+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–21 Aug
15:10
Journey to the West: In Search of the Way (5+)
Paradise in Augustines, 11–12 Aug
Children of Eden Jr (5+)
Paradise in Augustines, 9 Aug
15:15
The European Extravaganza! (3+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–12 Aug
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
15:30
Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+)
Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 9–20 Aug
15:55
Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 21, 22, 23, 24
16:00
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot , 9–20 Aug
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (3+)
Central Hall, 9 Aug
The Railway Children (0+)
C ARTS | C venues | C aurora, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:20
Teach Rex Live – A Dragon’s Tale (3+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug
Alice’s Adventures (3+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug
Taiwan Season: The Way Back (5+) Summerhall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21
16:25
The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show Strikes Back! (5+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–27 Aug, not 14
16:30
101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... And Other Really Old People (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 9–27 Aug
Folklore Galore (3+)
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug
Folklore Galore (3+)
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug, 15 Aug
16:45
Family Portrait (0+) ZOO Dovecot 10 Aug, 17 Aug
17:15
Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+)
9 Queen Street, 9–20 Aug, not 12, 19
17:30
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot 10 Aug, 17 Aug
The Dark Room for Kids! (8+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15
18:15
Family Portrait (0+)
ZOO Dovecot 10 Aug, 17 Aug
18:40
Teach Rex Live – A Dragon’s Tale (3+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug
19:45
Grandfather Frog’s Tales of the Meadow (0+) theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug
11.20am 03-27 AUG (not 16, 21, 22, 23)
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‘A MIAOW-VELLOUS MUSICAL TREAT’
Fringe Dog meets Fiona Allen
Edinburgh’s canine critic meets the Smack The Pony star
cynical cats say comedians come to edinburgh to get on the telly, but you’re a comedy star of the small screen! what is it about startin’ stand-up now that gives you the belly rub you need?
Comedians receiving belly rubs... now that’s an image. Better than being heckled, I suppose. For me it’s the challenge of something new. I’ve never attempted going on the road doing stand-up or writing a show. Always had itchy feet, and looked at the horizon and not what’s in front of me.
i must ask you a question of paramount importance: do you have a dog? Yes a cockapoo. A breed of dog named by a committee of hormonal teenage boys. He’s got no manners, and was asked to leave puppy training class for naughty behaviour but he’s so much fun. If I could get him to operate the washing machine he’d be perfect.
how would your dog describe your show ‘on the run’? He would run excitedly around the garden barking at wildlife that had already fled ages before this apex predator came out to inspect his patch. He would then lie on his back, wriggle and scratch himself. Then he’d describe it as my recent journey onto this stage, my thoughts on family, marriage, sex robots, passive aggressive school mums and supermarket dress codes. Summation of the show along the lines of ‘why aren’t you talking about me more!’
what is trickier to manage: three children, a marriage and career – or your majestic cockapoo?
Slightly loaded question! Mr Majestic over a list that sounds like a penance for bad behaviour. Might have been fairer if you at least pretended there was a contest. They are all a challenge in their
separate ways. Couldn’t do without any of them though!
just as a cockapoo is a beautiful blend of cocker spaniel and poodle, has being a sketch writer helped you write stand-up routines – or are the two art forms more like cat and dog? They are the same on one level in that they attempt to create humour out of everyday situations. The difference being as a stand-up you are both narrator and all the characters and you can’t shift location... well actually you can but only if you paint the picture for the audience.
SHOW Fiona Allen: On The Run
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 2–20 Aug
Photo: Natasha Pszenicki
94 festmag.com Fringe Dog
Image: courtesy of artist
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