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This year's Pleasance festival sites and performance spaces:
60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ
1 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL
150 Morrison Street, EH3 8EE
• Above • The Attic • Baby Grand • Below • Beneath • Beside • Beyond • Bunker One • Bunker Two • Bunker Three
• 10 Dome • Jack Dome • Queen Dome • King Dome • Ace Dome • Potterow Plaza
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• Cabaret Bar • The Cellar • Forth • Kidzone • Pleasance One • Pleasance Two • The Grand • The Green • Upstairs
Cromdale Theatre Cromdale Tunnel Lammermuir Theatre Lennox Theatre Lomond Theatre Pentland Theatre
18-22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA
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Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th August 2 for 1 tickets on all eligible shows!
Booking Fee
£1 per ticket on all website and telephone bookings, capped at £5 per transaction.
Some Important Notes
Concession prices (where applicable) are available to children under 18, students in full time education, registered unemployed, senior citizens and those claiming disability allowance. Pleasance staff members reserve the right to ask for materials that provide proof of status, before and after purchase. All tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable, and latecomers may not be admitted. Audience members are responsible for checking the locations of their performances across all our sites to ensure entry in good time, and as standard we recommend arriving 30 minutes before the start of the performance. All listed times are for the start of the performance, rather than doors opening. The venue management reserves the right to alter the published programme and to refuse admission. All tickets for the Pleasance programme are seated and unreserved, unless otherwise stated. Thank you.
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The Pleasance has worked in partnership with the Edinburgh International Conference Centre since 2016. We are delighted to be partnering with them again this summer. Their brilliant theatre spaces and state of the art facilities allow us to present some of the most complex and technically demanding shows on the Fringe.
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CONTENTS SHOWS BY VENUE
8&9
CHILDREN’S SHOWS
10 - 17
ALL SHOWS
18 - 85
INDEX
86 - 89
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
90 - 97
ACCESS
While a great deal of investment has been made in our facilities, the large majority of our performance spaces are built specifically for the festival. We make adjustments to give reasonable access and are constantly looking to upgrade and improve our on-site facilities, so your feedback is invaluable in helping us. If you would like to provide feedback on your experience at the Pleasance, you can: Leave us a review on Euan’s Guide Email us via access@pleasance.co.uk Phone us on 020 7609 1800 Or talk to a member of Pleasance staff during your visit to the venue.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
All of our spaces at the Pleasance are wheelchair accessible. For more information about access lifts, visit: Pleasance.co.uk/ Content/Accessibility
You can find all shows with Accessible Performances listed at: Pleasance.co.uk/ Content/AccessiblePerformances
INDUCTION LOOPS Induction loops are available at all our venues. Please let us know by email in advance of your visit if you would like to use the hearing loop system, and approach a member of our Front of House team on arrival at the venue.
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Pleasance: A pleasure ground; a feeling of pleasure or delight Welcome to the Pleasance, for our festival in 2022. We look forward to sharing an amazing month, in a glorious city, with wonderful people. There are even fewer opportunities for artists to present great work and for that reason this event remains a vital showcase. Almost all of the venue operators and artists that present on the Festival Fringe do so at their own financial risk. A risk that, in 2022, has become even greater. We would like to give a huge thank you to all of the companies, the artists and the brave individuals for venturing to be here this summer and making this festival the most wonderful show on Earth. Since 1985, the Pleasance has been a home to generations of artistic people. Our alumni form a community of supportive and creative individuals, many of whom now hold valued positions in our global industry. I would like to say a personal thank you to all of the staff at the Pleasance, as it has not been the easiest few years. However, their perseverance, ingenuity and immense good humour has ensured that we are back. Since we first came to the festival, we have worked in partnership with our hosts, Edinburgh University Students’ Association. They run the bars and catering, it is a partnership that has mutually supported EUSA and the Pleasance over the years and we are delighted to be working together again. Our thanks to the University of Edinburgh for allowing us use of their buildings.
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The festival has grown over the years because of the love and support of you, our audience, those wishing to take a chance to see great work and pay for a ticket. You are the true spirit of the Fringe and without you, the light, ignited in 1947, would have gone out decades ago. Our thanks to those that have supported our Crowdfunder campaign. We really couldn’t have survived without your generosity. Since 2019, for the comfort of our audiences, artists and staff, we have made changes to further improve our venues, particularly increasing ventilation and air handling. Within these pages is a programme of work that we are enormously proud to present. Some of the best comedy, theatre, dance, magic, music and children’s shows at the festival. We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to welcoming you.
Anthony Alderson Director, The Pleasance Theatre Trust
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The Pleasance Theatre Trust would like to thank: Our sponsors and media partners The Skinny, Fest Magazine and The List; The Fringe Society, the EICC and our EdFest venue partners Assembly, Dance Base, Gilded Balloon, Just The Tonic, Summerhall, Underbelly and Zoo Venues; our EdFest media partner The Scotsman; our partners at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Students’ Association, Centre for Sports and Exercise, Chaplaincy Centre, Royal Medical Society and Festivals Office; our technical and IT partners Black Light, Blue-i, Orbital Sound and Red61. Our charity partners Waverley Care. Our friends Andrew Sykes, Arena Seating, Chloe Nelkin Consulting, Eventotron, Integro, Jarvie Plant, Ramsay Cooper, Risk Control Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, SR Datacomms, Sue Cunningham, Theatre Futures, The Beach House, Tom Dearden, Gillian Hunt, United House, Claire Hill, Deaf Action, City of Edinburgh Council, Creative Scotland and Scottish Government. We are also extremely grateful to all of our supporters, patrons and you, the audience! We would also like to thank our Pleasance Futures partners: Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Leicester Curve, Manchester HOME, York Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Eden Court Theatre, Sherman Theatre, Les Enfants Terribles, Greenwich Theatre, The Popcorn Group and VAULT Festival. We would also like to thank our selection panel for the Generate Fund: Nikita Karia, Ameena Hamid, Adeola Akande and Olivier Pierre-Noël. Trusts and Foundations: Fringe 2022 Resilience Fund supported by Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government’s Platforms for Creative Excellence (PLACE programme), Scottish Children’s Lottery - Chance to Flourish, The Arnold Clark Community Fund, The Arts Society, The Stevenston Charitable Trust, The William Syson Foundation, Creative Scotland - Fringe Society Recovery Fund, John Ellerman Foundation, and the Arts Council Recovery Fund. Thank you to our patrons Ellie and Duncan MacKinnon, Claire and Mark Bailey, and Anthony and Claire Tait. Thank you to everyone who donated to our 2020 Crowdfunder to help us reopen the Courtyard gates. A very special thank you to Christopher Richardson, the Pleasance’s founder and patron, for starting this journey 38 years ago. And thank you to our brilliant trustees, volunteers and staff, for keeping it going today.
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Are You Being Murdered? 12:00, 13:30 Page 20
Joshua (and Me) 10:55 Page 18
Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me 13:10 Page 23
Science Adventures 11:30 Page 15
Iain Dale: All Talk 13:30, 16:30 Page 27
Fanboy 12:15 Page 20
Flanders and Swann 14:40 Page 34
Deaf Ears 12:45 Page 21
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith 13:30 Page 27
The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me 13:35 Page 27
Payday Party 14:40 Page 34
Press 12:45 Page 21
Black Is The Color Of My Voice 15:00 Page 35
Sound Cistem 13:35 Page 28
Sticky Door 16:00 Page 42
Potatohead 14:00 Page 29
Buffy: Revamped 19:30 Page 63
No Place Like Home 14:55 Page 35
The Cambridge Footlights 17:20 Page 47
Charlie Russell Aims... 15:15 Page 38
Delicious Fruit 16:15 Page 42
Fast Fringe 18:50 Page 58
Rich Hardisty 16:30 Page 79
Crybabies 17:50 Page 51
Chris Turner 20:10 Page 66
Britney 17:45 Page 50
Yuriko Kotani 19:10 Page 62
Ki & Dee 21:30 Page 76
Jamie D'Souza 19:10 Page 60
CROMDALE TUNNEL Trainspotting Live 18:00, 21:00 Page 51
LAMMERMUIR Fladam’s Hootennany! 16:00 Page 39 Fata Morgana 17:30 Page 50 Flamenco Fusion 19:00 Page 60 Dean Owens 19:00 Page 59 Adam Holmes 19:00 Page 59 Countess Of Fife 19:00 Page 59 The Sorries 20:30 Page 71 Bloody Mary: Live! 22:00 Page 80
LENNOX Cirque Berserk! 13:30, 18:30 Page 56 Ballet Freedom Ukraine 21:00, 16:00 Page 73 Jerry Sadowitz 21:00 Page 72
LOMOND Movin' Melvin Brown 17:45, 18:45 Page 58
Kai Samra 20:30 Page 70
JACKDOME
ABOVE Covid for Kids 10:30 Page 10
Fat Chance 10:30 Page 18
Fire Signs 11:45 Page 19
The Chairs Revisited 11:50 Page 19
The Rip Current 11:45 Page 19
Sikisa 20:25 Page 68 Christian Brighty 21:40 Page 78 Trash Salad 22:55 Page 82
BENEATH
The Man Who Thought... 13:10 Page 24
Tiger Lady 13:05 Page 23
20 Minutes of Action 12:15 Page 21
Brown Boys Swim 14:30 Page 31
Everythinglessness 14:25 Page 31
Pip Utton as Dylan 13:30 Page 27
Charlotte Johnson 16:05 Page 42
Luke Wright: The Remains... 15:45 Page 39
Opal Fruits 14:45 Page 34
Masterclass 17:40 Page 50
Rapsody 17:20 Page 48
Let's Talk About Philip 16:00 Page 42
Alasdair Beckett-King 19:00 Page 59
Luke Kempner 18:40 Page 54
Vir Das 17:25 Page 48
Joz Norris 20:20 Page 68
Tiff Stevenson 20:00 Page 66
Christopher Bliss 18:40 Page 54
The Comedy Reserve 21:40 Page 78
Jess Robinson 21:20 Page 75
Sean McLoughlin 19:55 Page 64
Luke Wright's Late Night... 23:00 Page 83
QUEENDOME Godot is a Woman 12:50 Page 22
THE ATTIC Who Here's Lost? 11:35 Page 18 Please, Feel Free To Share 12:50 Page 22
Colin Hoult 21:10 Page 75 Emily Wilson 22:25 Page 82
BESIDE
Speed Dial 14:20 Page 31
Fritz & Matlock 14:05 Page 29
Kafka and Son 10:20 Page 18
BOGEYMAN 15:55 Page 39
Second Summer of Love 15:20 Page 38
ROOM 11:40 Page 19
Samba Sene & Diwan 19:30 Page 64
Nick Helm 17:25 Page 48
Alison Spittle 16:45 Page 45
The Silver Bell 12:55 Page 23
Liz Jones and Broken Windows 21:00 Page 72
SK Shlomo: Breathe 19:00 Page 60
Rosie Holt 18:00 Page 51
Today I Killed My Very First... 14:10 Page 30
Tim Key 20:30 Page 72
Celya AB 19:15 Page 62
Headcase 15:35 Page 39
Fin Taylor 20:30 Page 70
Siblings 20:30 Page 71
Head Set 16:50 Page 45
Ciarán Dowd 21:50 Page 79
Aurie Styla 21:45 Page 78
Sindhu Vee: WIP 16:50, 19:30 Page 45
Shona the Musical Choir 14:10 Page 30
Stamptown 23:15 Page 84
Tessa Coates 18:05 Page 53
Mischief Movie Night 18:30 Page 55
An Audience with Milly-Liu 23:00 Page 83
Jack Tucker 23:15 Page 84
Dean Owens And The Sinners 19:30 Page 59
Bianca Del Rio 21:30 Page 75
PENTLAND
NewsRevue 20:15 Page 69 Shit-faced Shakespeare 22:00 Page 81
PLAYHOUSE Dr John Cooper Clarke 19:30 Page 63
POTTEROW PLAZA Flight 13:00 - 20:00 Page 23 Séance 13:15 - 20:15 Page 24
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BABY GRAND Blue Badge Bunch 11:30 Page 13
The Anniversary 12:00 Page 20
SHEWOLVES 12:45 Page 22
Blodlina: The Viking Musical 13:30 Page 24
PUSH 14:00 Page 29
Starship Improvise 15:00 Page 36
Closure 15:10 Page 36
Look At Me Don't Look At Me 15:00 Page 35
A Dark Place 16:25 Page 44
The Twenty-Sided Tavern 16:30 Page 44
Njambi McGrath 17:50 Page 51
Any Suggestions, Doctor? 18:30 Page 53
Jake Lambert 19:05 Page 60
Marcus Brigstocke 20:00 Page 66
Brennan Reece 20:20 Page 68
Eshaan Akbar 20:00 Page 66
Leo Reich 21:35 Page 76
The Mr Thing Show 22:15 Page 80
Sophie Duker 19:30 Page 64 Comedy Sassafras 20:45 Page 72 Tarot 22:00 Page 80
BEYOND
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PLEASANCE ONE
THE GREEN
Doktor Kaboom... 12:00 Page 15
Magic Gareth 12:25 Page 17
Cat In The Hat 10:00 Page 10
Moon Dragon 10:00 Page 10
The Importance of Being... Earnest? 13:30 Page 27
Best of Edinburgh Showcase 13:20 Page 24
Mervyn Stutter 12:40 Page 21
Moon Dragon Babies 10:50 Page 13
Arthur Smith 14:40 Page 34
Classic! 14:40 Page 31
Captain Zak 11:45 Page 15
Glenn Moore 16:05 Page 42
Boris The Third 16:10 Page 43
Superhero Academy 12:40 Page 17
Sarah Keyworth 17:40 Page 50
Tim Vine 18:00 Page 53
Captain Jake 14:05 Page 17
Angela Barnes 19:00 Page 59
Ivo Graham 19:30 Page 63
Ben Moor 14:45 Page 34
Jayde Adams 20:20 Page 68
Mark Watson 21:00 Page 75
Ben Moor and Joanna Neary 14:45 Page 34
Simon Brodkin 21:40 Page 78
Chortle Student Comedy Award Final 22:00 Page 80
The Suitcase 15:20 Page 17
The Trial 15:00 Page 36 Murder, She Didn't Write 15:00, 23:00 Page 35 Irvine Welsh's PORNO 16:50 Page 47 Sindhu Vee 18:30 Page 54 Matt Forde 20:00 Page 66 Mind Mangler 21:30 Page 76
BUNKER ONE The Land of Lost Content 11:45 Page 19 Twisted Tales 13:00 Page 23 Man Shed 14:15 Page 30 SWARM 15:30 Page 39 Kwame Asante 16:45 Page 45 Morgan Rees 18:10 Page 53 Lily Phillips 19:25 Page 62 Jake Farrell 20:40 Page 72 Red Richardson 21:55 Page 79
BUNKER TWO
Nobody Panic 23:00, 14:40 Page 83 Big Boys & Friends 23:00 Page 83
THE CELLAR EastEndless 11:40 Page 19 Blood, Sweat & Vaginas 12:55 Page 22 Period Dramas 14:10 Page 30 POLES 14:10 Page 30 Will Duggan 15:25 Page 38 Nic Sampson 16:40 Page 45 Katie Pritchard 18:05 Page 53 AAA Stand Up 19:20 Page 62
PLEASANCE TWO
The Unicorn 18:30 Page 54
Alphonse 12:00 Page 20
You're Safe Til 2024 19:45 Page 64
Made In India Britain 13:40 Page 28 Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! 15:10 Page 37 SKANK 16:40 Page 46 Project Dictator 18:10 Page 54 Hal Cruttenden 20:10 Page 68 Catherine Cohen: WIP 21:40 Page 76
THE GRAND
Smashing Shakespeare 11:05 Page 13
Pleasance Opening Gala 10:30 Page 18
Sam Lake 21:50 Page 79
Pauline 12:20 Page 21
The Smeds and The Smoos 11:00 Page 13
AAA Stand Up Late 23:05 Page 83
Fantastically Great Women... 13:30 Page 26
Breathless 15:00 Page 35 Rajiv Karia 16:25 Page 44 Helen Bauer 17:40 Page 48 Bella Hull 18:55 Page 58 Ray Badran 20:10 Page 66 Frankie Thompson 21:25 Page 75
BUNKER THREE Daddy Issues 11:35 Page 18 Ultimatum 12:50 Page 22 Badass 14:05 Page 29 Aaron Simmonds 15:20 Page 38
FORTH Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure 12:05 Page 15 Autopilot 13:35 Page 28 Oedipus Electronica 15:30 Page 38 Lucy Porter 17:20 Page 47 Tom Rosenthal 17:20 Page 47 Sheeps 19:00 Page 60 Nick Mohammed 19:00 Page 60 Patti Harrison 20:30 Page 71 Jacqueline Novak 22:00 Page 80
The Magic of Jim 17:45 Page 50
Everything Has Changed 10:40 Page 10
Michael Akadiri 20:35 Page 72
Svengali 13:45 Page 28
My Lover was a Salmon... 16:30 Page 44
Fills Monkey 16:00 Page 40
UPSTAIRS Sex With Friends 12:40 Page 21 Fiji 13:55 Page 29 Block'd Off 15:10 Page 36 The Greatest Hits of Lily and John 16:30 Page 44 Chloe Petts 18:00 Page 51 Sara Barron 19:15 Page 62 Mary Beth Barone 20:30 Page 70 Tom Lucy 21:45 Page 79 SNORT 23:00 Page 83
Nina Conti 18:00 Page 52 Tartan Ribbon 19:30 Page 64 Ben Hart 19:50 Page 65 Showstopper! 21:30 Page 77 All Killa No Filla Live 22:15 Page 80 Pleasance Newcomer Gala 23:10 Page 84 Catherine Cohen 23:20 Page 85 Get Off Comedy Fundraiser 23:20 Page 84 Jamali Maddix 23:20 Page 85
Tim Key 22:00 Page 72
Ania Magliano 16:35 Page 45 Atsuko Okatsuka 18:00 Page 51 Shelf 19:15 Page 62 Josh Jones 20:30 Page 70 Conrad Koch 21:45 Page 79
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ONE
10:00 (10:50) Paul Taylor-Mills for The Turbine Theatre
CAT IN THE HAT Experience mischief this Fringe and see the return of the acclaimed adaptation of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat! From the moment his tall, red and white striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home? Based on the much loved book by Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat is a lively and engaging first theatre experience for young children aged 3+. Originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain. Back for a triumphant fourth year, this is a show for all the family and is not to be missed!
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10:00 (10:30) Moon Dragon
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Rhum + Clay in association with New Diorama Theatre
MOON DRAGON FOR 5 AND UNDER
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED
Bertie the Moon Dragon is having a terrible day! Nothing is as it should be. However, all is not yet lost, as with the help of the audience and some wonderful characters along the way, Bertie can ensure that the night will be saved, and all can return just as it should be. The audience interacts throughout this musical show with sensory lights, dressing up and lots of percussion to add to the story. Returning from a sell out 2019 Edinburgh Fringe.
A joyful, kaleidoscopic new show for 5 to 12 year-olds about change, why change happens and how to deal with it. Created by award-winning Rhum + Clay and made in consultation with a child psychologist. Deft and ingenious Guardian (for The War of the Worlds) All Performances Relaxed. Family Ticket Available.
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
10:30 (11:25) Professor Tom Solomon CBE presents
COVID FOR KIDS Follow the adventures of Corry the Coronavirus who causes chaos and misery around the world until brought under control by The Science Superheroes. Along the way, learn why viruses emerge, what happens in a pandemic, and how we can beat such threats. You’ll play Jason and the R-GoNoughts and dress up as a bogey in this fun action-packed show. When not on stage, Professor Tom Solomon is fighting viruses for real as a doctor, researcher, and Director of the Pandemic Institute at Liverpool. He is also an award-winning science communicator appearing regularly on the BBC. His last show at the Pleasance, Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine, had a complete sell-out run, so get your tickets while you can! Tom Solomon has hit on something rather special and unique List £6 W T
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At the Pleasance, we feel it’s crucial that all children from across Edinburgh have access to everything that our festival has to offer. In 2019, Pleasance Kids transported over 500 primary school children to the Courtyard from across the city, to see our fabulous children’s shows, meet the actors afterwards, and take part in activities in our arts and crafts tent. All of this was funded through the generosity of our patrons.
This year, we are delighted to welcome twice as many children, from schools city-wide, thanks to the generous support of The Scottish Children’s Lottery - Chance to Flourish, The Arts Society, and The Stevenston Charitable Trust. In 2022, we’re proud to start a new work experience initiative for school leavers aged 16 and over, supported by The Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund and our patrons.
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STARTING AT
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GREEN
10:50 (11:20) Moon Dragon
CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BABY GRAND
11:30 (12:30) Ingenious Fools
MOON DRAGON BABIES FOR UNDER 1'S
BLUE BADGE BUNCH ‘The disability Taskmaster!’ A hilarious rip-roaring game show with humour for all ages, where kids join in with the games and learn about disabilities! Hosted by comedian Benny Shakes, with a panel of star guests.
Returning from a sell-out 2019 Fringe, this interactive show for babies tells the story of Bertie the Moon Dragon who misses his cue to send the Moon up into the night sky. With the help of our young audience, some very chatty owls, naughty frogs, and a magnificent unicorn, can we all pull together to save the night? Audiences will interact throughout the show with age-appropriate percussion instruments and sensory props.
Great idea to raise awareness in a fun way with kids Brighton Fringe
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GRAND
11:00 (12:00) Tall Stories
THE SMEDS AND THE SMOOS Soar into space with this exciting adaptation of the awardwinning book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. On a far-off planet, Smeds and Smoos can't be friends. So when a young Smed and Smoo fall in love and zoom off into space together, how will their families get them back? A joyful tale of star-crossed aliens for everyone aged 3 and up, with music, laughs and interplanetary adventures – from Tall Stories, the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage. A magical journey to a colourful and imaginative array of weird and wonderful planets What’s Worth Seeing Perfect family viewing Beyond the Curtain £8 W T
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER TWO
11:05 (12:00) Penelope Solomon
SMASHING SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET Join Lecoq-trained actor Penelope Solomon (BBC's Goodnight Sweetheart) in a whirlwind blitz of physical theatre, puppets and potions. Includes original songs played on the ukulele and a garden trolley. Directed by Sarah Brignall. Fun, family entertainment. All aboard with the Bard! Solomon's performance makes the show Three Weeks (for Miss Broadmoor) A deliciously appealing show Scotsman (for French Kiss) Pick of the week Guardian Guide (for Tower of Bagel) Family Ticket Available. £6 W T
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STARTING AT
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BELOW
11:30 (12:30)
CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GREEN
11:45 (12:25)
Coppice Theatre
Stories Alive
SCIENCE ADVENTURES: THE POWER PICKLE
CAPTAIN ZAK AND THE SPACE PIRATES
Disaster! Professor McGuffin’s ground-breaking Sub-Nuclear Optical Transmitter (S.N.O.T.) has suffered a catastrophic malfunction and needs a new power source! What a pickle! Enter the A.C.E.S - an elite team of scientists doing science like no one has ever ‘science-ed’ before! Could lava, wind, water or 27 bananas be the key!?
Captain Zak Space Pirate needs your help! He's lost in a brokendown spaceship and only with your help answering questions, solving puzzles and singing songs can we survive the bubble attack! Zak worked as a delivery driver for the Amazin corporation but turned pirate and stole his delivery spaceship, now he's lost in a far-flung galaxy with a ship that's falling apart, he needs your help to survive! Will you be able to work together and solve the puzzles?
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BEYOND
12:00 (13:00) Doktor K Worldwide & Something For The Weekend
DOKTOR KABOOM AND THE WHEEL OF SCIENCE! So much science, so little time. Doktor Kaboom is having trouble picking his favourite science experiments, so he's bringing them all! From optical illusions to chemical reactions, a homemade hovercraft and more! Spin The Wheel of Science and together you'll choose what happens next in the show. Will we turn a water bottle into a rocket or catapult bananas across the stage? Who knows? No two shows will be the same. So, step right up, and let's spin that wheel! This show is what you want live children's theatre to be Broadway World Relaxed Performances: 10 & 17. £7.50 W T
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • FORTH
12:05 (13:05) Lee Martin for Gag Reflex
SHLOMO'S BEATBOX ADVENTURE FOR KIDS World record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo makes mad music with his mouth and has performed around the world with legends like Bjork, Ed Sheeran and Rudimental. After a sell-out UK tour, and multiple five-star reviews, Shlomo is back on his mission to empower the next generation of superstar beatboxers to find their true voice, no matter who they are. Anybody can become one of this sonic superhero's sidekicks in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises, and cool music, whether they're 1 or 101! A perfect show... sets young imaginations alight Times Mesmerising! Primary Times £8 W T
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • CABARET BAR
12:25 (13:05)
CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GREEN
12:40 (13:40)
Gareth White
Play People Productions
MAGIC GARETH'S MAGIC EYE
SUPERHERO ACADEMY: ENVIRONMENTAL ADVENTURE!
Magic Gareth returns to the Pleasance Courtyard with the all-new show Magic Eye! Expect some kick-ass magic, eyebending optical illusions and a whole load of nonsense! This brand-new show from the mind of Magic Gareth is here to make you laugh, and experience live theatre and magic at its very best! A riproaring family show for ages 5+.
Join the Superhero Academy to be part of the greatest quest of all: to save the world... quite literally! Nominated for the Primary Times Children's Choice Award 2019. Primary Times One 4 Review
Magic Gareth takes you back to believing magic exists BBC Radio WM
All Performances Relaxed. Family Ticket Available.
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CHILDREN'S SHOWS PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GREEN
14:05 (15:05) Stories Alive
CAPTAIN JAKE AND THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND Captain Jake returns to Pleasance with another tale of daring piratical dos. Hear how Jake ended up in prison, before escaping with the help of the infamous pirate Mary Reed and her crew. After an embarrassing misunderstanding he ends up marooned on the famous Forbidden Island. This interactive show is perfect for all lively pirates and their adults. A historical hysterical adventure. A must see for anyone with children One 4 Review (for Grimm's) £6 W T
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15:20 (15:55) Toby Mitchell & Co.
THE SUITCASE When a weary stranger arrives one day, carrying only a suitcase, everyone has questions. Why is he here? Where has he come from? And just what is in the suitcase? Find out in this heart-warming new show for ages 4+, adapted from Chris Naylor-Ballesteros' award-winning book by Toby Mitchell (artistic director of Tall Stories) and Verity Clayton. A touching story about friendship and the importance of kindness Love Reading 4 Kids Family Ticket Available. £6 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BESIDE
10:20 (11:25)
THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • JACKDOME
10:30 (11:30)
Theaturtle and Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance
Rachel Stockdale
KAFKA AND SON
Meet Rachel - a Northern, 20-something actress who ‘doesn’t fit’.
FAT CHANCE
Five-star international production. Franz Kafka at 36, a failed writer and timid Jewish son, wrote an extraordinary letter to his overbearing father. Winner: Outstanding Production awards in Prague, Toronto, London, Germany and South Africa.
From audition nerves, throwaway comments to literally breaking a leg, this funny, celebratory, politically powerful one-woman play explores her true-life weight gain journey from size 8 - 18. This unconventional play is for: Anyone who's put on or lost weight.
A masterpiece Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
Anyone who had free school dinners.
Immensely compelling Boston Globe £5 W T
Anyone who's tried to have it all.
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THEATRE
JOSHUA (AND ME) A one woman show about being a sibling to someone who is autistic; giving a voice to young people with responsibilities of care.
Join us for a very special preview of some of the most exciting shows in our 2022 programme and help us launch our 37th year on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
A masterclass in storytelling London Pub Theatres
The Pleasance is the centre of the cultural universe Scotsman
A joy to watch! Theatre and Other Things London
The heart of the greatest show on Earth Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
All Performances Relaxed & Accompanied By Touch Tour From 10:25. Family Ticket Available.
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10:55 (11:55) Rachel Hammond
PLEASANCE OPENING GALA
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Passing Stranger Theatre Company
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE ATTIC
11:35 (12:35) Ben Moor
WHO HERE'S LOST?
DADDY ISSUES
Two misfits take a road trip of the soul. But what are they really looking for?
Nat is a Polish immigrant and painter who works on a sex line. Dark comedy: sex, taboos, feminism, immigration, trauma. Phenomenal storytelling. Has a potential to be a show talked about for years to come Theatre 503
A dreamlike heart-warming comedy that's hilarious, cryptic, beautiful and wise, from Herald Angel Award winner Ben Moor (The Queen's Gambit, The IT Crowd).
An excellent vehicle for Krauze's versatility Stage Talk
Merciless humour, madcap ideas Scotsman (for Each of Us)
Energetic, absorbing, unabashed story London Pub Theatres
Ferociously intelligent... Hilarious and heartfelt Edinburgh Guide (for Each of Us)
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STARTING AT
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE CELLAR
11:40 (12:40)
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BESIDE
11:40 (12:40)
Obsessive Entertainment
Emul8 Theatre
EASTENDLESS
ROOM - A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Finally – the scandalous truth behind EastEnders revealed! Gasp as walk-on actor Tony Coventry lifts the lid and spills his beans! Starring James Holmes. Written By Tim Fountain. Directed by Mike Bradwell.
Woolf slices through injustice with an incisive mix of visceral integrity and ironic charm. The outstanding one-person show I’ve seen this Fringe - exquisite performance. Alexander’s fine performance is searing and visceral... a poised and provocative evening Fringe Review
Sad, moving and very funny Telegraph A delight, funny, charming, poignant Sunday Times
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
Edinburgh University Theatre Company
THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT
Second year is going to be Bobbie and Emma's year. Probably. Following a sold-out first performance at the Festival of New Theatre in Scotland, the EUTC’s Fire Signs follows two flatmates through a chaotic year, as new boyfriends and ghosts-ofFreshers-past test whether their friendship is really written in the stars.
Welcome to Dulowl, home to pubs, drugs, and unreliable buses. These bored friends are just trying to make the best of it. So, what went wrong? A provocative and nostalgic insight into life growing up in a small town. Refreshingly innovative, Madd is a new writer to watch Upcoming
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • JACKDOME
11:50 (12:50) Vagabond Productions
THE CHAIRS REVISITED
THE RIP CURRENT
Following our five-star success with Miss Julie (Three Weeks), the veterans are back with a perfect lockdown party. Picture an ancient couple, marooned in some isolated spot, inviting many imaginary guests. Sometimes life is more absurd than fiction.
A Scottish boy from Campbeltown re-discovers himself and a troubled past. Challenging conventional theatrical boundaries, whilst amplifying Scottish representation and incorporating elements of smell and touch, this show promises a unique theatrical experience.
Performed with such tenderness and feeling Scotsman Well-paced theatre, highly entertaining. A wee bit like Waiting for Godot meets The Marx Brothers Herald
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE TWO
12:00 (13:10) Theaturtle and Richard Jordan Productions in association with Pleasance
ALPHONSE The hit Canadian production from one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary playwrights, Wajdi Mouawad, and performed by Gabe Maharjan - ‘a gifted, multi-faceted actor’ (Slotkin Letter, Canada). A beautiful and timeless story for all ages about a young person’s quest to hold onto their imagination as they grow up, that’s told with loads of popcorn! One of the Top 20 Shows in the history of the Toronto Fringe Now Toronto, Canada
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A Runaway Theatrical Success Globe and Mail, Canada Family Ticket Avaliable. £5 W T
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12:00 (13:00) Salvador Dinosaur
THE ANNIVERSARY It’s Mr Bean meets The Shining! Don't be fooled. Jim and Barb are no ordinary elderly couple. Leave your preconceptions at the door and expect the unexpected. A physical comedy house party from hell! I’m not even going to mince words, The Anniversary is a physical comedy masterclass. The performances, direction, physical comedy, sets, props, puppetry - basically everything - combine to create a rollercoaster of a ride that had me crying with laughter throughout. If you are a fan of absurdist comedy, clown or dark humour, do not miss this one if it comes to a theatre near you Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane They’re hilarious! CBC Canada £9 W T
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THEATRE
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PLEASANCE AT EICC • CROMDALE 4-14 AUG 12:00 • 15-20 AUG 13:30
Arthur Bostrom presented by James Seabright
THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • 10DOME
12:15 (13:15) Worklight Theatre
FANBOY
ARE YOU BEING MURDERED?
Are we hiding from the future, in the past? Fringe First winner and lifelong nerd Joe SellmanLeava asks why his generation is obsessed with its childhood, in this nostalgic, love-hate letter to popular culture.
New murder mystery starring Arthur Bostrom ('Allo! 'Allo!) set in the golden age of BBC sitcoms, from Father Brown writer David Semple. A supporting artist's job is to be invisible and Jamie Button does his best to oblige, until he witnesses a murder on the set of a popular sitcom. Extra turns detective... as the culprit fears detection, could Jamie have spoken his last ever 'rhubarb'?
Personal and provocative Scotsman (for Labels) Brimming with intelligent energy Stage (for Monster) Family Ticket Available.
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STARTING AT
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BENEATH
12:15 (13:15) Lionheart Theatre
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER TWO
12:20 (13:20) Sophie Bentinck
20 MINUTES OF ACTION
PAULINE
The most controversial sexual assault case in recent American history. The exact words of the victim, perpetrator, and their families. This unflinching case study scrutinizes one of the most pertinent conversations of our time: women's safety.
Ever read your nan's suicide note? After sold out previews, Pauline is the funny, heartbreaking story of what happens when you dig through family secrets. Presented by award-winning writer/performer Sophie Bentinck, director Fred Wienand and producer Emma Blackman (Bobby & Amy, Fringe First Award 2019).
Boldly delves into an examination of women's safety, rape culture and patriarchal double standards All Edinburgh Theatre
Captivating Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Storytelling at its finest A Younger Theatre
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MUSICALS AND OPERA GOYA Theatre Company
MERVYN STUTTER'S PICK OF THE FRINGE
SEX WITH FRIENDS (AND OTHER TINY CATASTROPHES) A brand-new musical following six inseparable friends as they fall in love, and fall apart. There's a reason it's called Generation Z. Because it can't get much worse than this.
90 minutes of top talent in this legendary daily 'seven show' showcase. Comedy, theatre, music, cabaret, dance, circus and the indefinable; carefully researched by Merv's dedicated team.
The perfect balance of humour and heartbreak Oxford Mail
Vibrant, stimulating showcase of talent Scotsman
...tenacious and sprightly representation of a ‘Gen Z musical’ Ox in a Box
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BELOW
Black Bat Productions
DEAF EARS
PRESS
What's it like growing up when your parents can't hear? In this poignant, captivating solo show, Joe explores his life to answer the question. From his childhood to an LSD-fuelled face-off with Chicago police then to a life-changing encounter with a therapy patient. You'll laugh, be moved and gain insight into what it is to truly hear. Finalist, Standing Ovation Awards. Featured on BBC Radio 4's Four Thought. Spellbinding storytelling! Fringe Review
When two film producers learn their prestigious Civil War movie cast a white actor in a role originally meant for a Black actor, they frantically try to avoid public scrutiny by making sure the film doesn't get any awards. Genius Broadway Baby Fringe theatre does not get much better than this Violet Curtain Incredibly funny Wee Review
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12:45 (13:45)
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12:40 (13:40)
Mervyn Stutter
‘It's like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe.’
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BABY GRAND
12:45 (13:45)
SHEWOLVES in association with Pleasance and Leicester Curve
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE ATTIC
12:50 (13:50) Scatterjam
PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO SHARE
SHEWOLVES
When social media expert Alex starts lying at support groups, it’s only a matter of time before reality comes knocking...
Armed with a backpack of PopTarts and a hunger to tackle climate change; Priya and Lou embark on a covert expedition into the wild. Can they overcome their differences to make their voices heard? SHEWOLVES is about forging friendships when you’re a bit weird, the power of hope and the underestimated smartness of teens. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
A darkly comic new play by Rachel Causer about our personal addictions, the never-ending pursuit of likes and our growing desire to share all. Finalist: Popcorn Writing Award 2021.
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • QUEENDOME
12:50 (14:00) Silent Faces in association with Pleasance
GODOT IS A WOMAN In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting. In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it. In 2001 Madonna released What It Feels Like for a Girl. It's 2022 and we're still waiting. Since it was written, non-men across the world have wanted to fill Didi and Gogo’s boots in Waiting for Godot. Nearly seventy years later and the playwright's estate still says no. Silent Faces explore permission, patriarchy and pop music in Godot is a Woman. Samuel Beckett? ...Thank u, next. Cheeky and geeky Guardian Richly comic Stage Captioned Performances: 17 & 24. £9 W T
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12:50 (13:50)
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE CELLAR
12:55 (13:55)
Treehouse
The Write Network
ULTIMATUM
BLOOD, SWEAT & VAGINAS
Two strangers have an hour to split £1m. Sounds easy, but what happens when one of them refuses to play fair? What is fair? Who deserves money? Why? A tense rollercoaster about class, rationality and justice.
Carolann's awakening is sudden and all-consuming. She stumbles out of her super-woman bubble to discover her sexuality is fluid, soul music is the language of her soul and menopause has definitely arrived.
Winner: Carol Tambor Incentive Award. One for the bucket list London Theatre 1 (for Bring Them Home)
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STARTING AT
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BESIDE
12:55 (13:55)
Alan Flanagan in association with Jessie Anand Productions
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER ONE
13:00 (14:00) 'Owdyado Theatre
TWISTED TALES
THE SILVER BELL
A deliciously depraved double bill that reveals the darkness under the domestic, the lengths people will go to for love and how to wash blood stains out of a carpet.
A tale as old as time: boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy punches hole in universe to get boy back. A sci-fi tale of love, loss and parallel universes.
Nasty but nicely comic entertainment... in 'Owdyado's twisted world nothing is ever what it seems Lyn Gardner
Winner: Best Actor, International Gay Theatre Festival. Put The Silver Bell on your mustsee list London Living Large Heart-warming and moving Broadway Baby £11 £10 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • POTTERROW PLAZA
HOURLY, 13:00 - 20:00 (30 MIN) DARKFIELD
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
13:05 (14:05)
Dead Rabbits Theatre
FLIGHT
TIGER LADY
Flight takes place in absolute darkness inside a 40ft shipping container. Its interior exactly resembles an Airbus 320 cabin and over 30 minutes takes audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey.
Excitement, danger and very sharp claws! Mabel Stark – a woman fierce enough not to be forgotten. A true tale of fame, love and peril about the first female tiger tamer with scars that reach as deep as her heart. Dead Rabbits Theatre prides itself on simplicity of invention. Creating a vast landscape of changing images and visual magic, Dead Rabbits take audiences on a wild ride through laughter and tears, retelling amazing true stories of the unheard and the unknown.
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JESUS, JANE, MOTHER & ME Meet Daniel Valentine, the ultimate superfan whose life has been devoted to his two favourite things, Jesus... and Jane. Daniel’s mother is a superfan too, but then one day her actions cause it all to go horribly wrong. The world premiere of a darkly funny new play, cruising with Northern heart and packed full of emotional grit, by award-winning playwright Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast, Pleasance 2019) that asks if old wounds can ever truly be healed? So beautifully written, staged and acted, it takes one's breath away Sunday Telegraph (for Heroin(e) for Breakfast) Stunning piece of theatre Scotsman (for Heroin(e) for Breakfast) £7.50 W T
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THE MAN WHO THOUGHT HE KNEW TOO MUCH
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Séance, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people, and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them.
Chaplin meets Wes Anderson meets Spaghetti Western in this award-winning cinematic caper. With live music and virtuosic acrobatics, this Lecoq-trained physical theatre company delights and stuns. Winner: LET/Greenwich Award, Carol Tambor Incentive Award, Offie nominated 2023.
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BEST OF EDINBURGH SHOWCASE SHOW Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year's Fringe comics. Hand-picked and with changing line-ups daily – take a seat, you're in for a treat! Now in its 18th successful year in the Cabaret Bar, this is the best way to start the day for comedians and festival comedy fans alike. See EdComProductions.com for daily listings and news. A perfect bite-sized flavour of the festival Three Weeks A brilliant way to discover new talent Three Weeks This delightful afternoon slot at the Pleasance is a crowd pleaser Broadway Baby
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BLODLINA: THE VIKING MUSICAL It's 900AD and two sisters are fighting for control of their late father’s domain. Set against the gathering storm clouds of imminent invasion, Blodlina is a new musical that tells the story of a tiny community bravely fighting against all odds for its very existence. Broken hearts and broken swords, romance and rebellion and all under the watchful eyes of two mischievous, interfering teenage Norse gods: Thor and Loki. Told through a unique blend of heavy metal, musical theatre and percussive sword combat, this thrilling and comedic show brings multiple theatrical disciplines together to give a pandemic's worth of entertainment in one power-packed hour. Family Ticket Available. £8 W T
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13:30 (14:50) Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studios
FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Not to be missed - the new kickass-pirational pop musical lands at the Pleasance Grand as the fantastically great women take to the stage following a hugely successful UK tour.
Celebrated dramatist Chris Bush (Standing at the Sky's Edge) and No.1 hit songwriter Miranda Cooper (Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue) adapt suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst’s award-winning picture book with original music by Miranda Cooper and Jennifer Decilveo (Miley Cyrus, Beth Ditto) and direction by Amy Hodge (Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, National Theatre).
Join our inquisitive heroine Jade as she breaks away from her class to take a peek at the not yet open Gallery of Greatness in the local museum. On her journey she is surprised to meet the incredible wonder women: Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Mary Seacole and Emmeline Pankhurst, to name just a few. From explorers to artists, scientists to secret agents, hear the stories of some of history’s strongest mothers, sisters and daughters; all independent icons who really did change the world.
Presented by Kenny Wax, one of the producers of international hit SIX, this uplifting, feel-good musical is full of remarkable stories, surprising lessons and a soundtrack played by a live band that packs a popstar punch. Be prepared to move and be moved! SIX's little sister Bouquets & Brickbats Incredibly inspirational Liverpool Echo
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SPOKEN WORD PLEASANCE AT EICC • CROMDALE
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SPOKEN WORD PLEASANCE AT EICC • CROMDALE THEATRE
13:30 (14:30)
James Seabright in association with Northbank Speakers
Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith presented by James Seabright
IAIN DALE: ALL TALK
IAIN DALE AND JACQUI SMITH'S FOR THE MANY LIVE
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audience questions and a different guest each day. Full guest line-up at IanDaleAllTalk.com. Endlessly listenable-to and peerless Andrew Marr
LBC legend and former Home Secretary host the live version of their smash-hit podcast. With all the political analysis, unfiltered opinion and outrageous smut you'd expect from this duo. For daily guests see ForTheMany.live. Iain Dale also appears in his All Talk show here at EICC this fringe.
Smart, funny, and always on it, he makes me feel happier and cleverer every time I hear him speak Jeremy Vine
Far more fun than you might expect! Observer
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13:30 (14:30) Say It Again, Sorry?
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING... EARNEST? A faithful revival of Wilde's classic play is in chaos after the actors start dropping like flies. Will you step into the spotlight, tread the boards and save the show? Edinburgh Fringe 2021 sell out and winner of Best Comedy, Derek Awards 2021. Check out this smash-hit comedy before it gets to the West End! A masterclass in comedic theatre North West End An entirely unique, unpredictable and hilarious form of audience participation Ask The Ushers Family Ticket Available. £8 W T
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13:30 (14:30) Pip Utton Theatre Co.
Emmerson and Ward Productions in association with Curve
PIP UTTON AS DYLAN
THE MP, AUNTY MANDY & ME
Fringe legend Pip Utton (Adolf, Bacon, Playing Maggie), plays Bob Dylan in a new play written by multi Fringe First-winning playwright John Clancy, and directed by Stage Best Actor Award winner David Calvitto. Sometime in the future, it's Bob Dylan's final concert and you have a backstage pass. An intimate, revealing and imagined final reckoning.
A bittersweet tale of political campaigns, sexual consent and steam trains. Dom wants to be an #Influencer but it’s hard in a small village five miles from the nearest gay. A chance meeting with his MP turns his life upside down. From the writer of Gypsy Queen. By Rob Ward.
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13:35 (14:45) Bill's Mother, Beth Shouler and Nic Doodson Productions
AUTOPILOT A gripping new play about class, power and self-driving cars from Olivier-nominated writer Ben Norris. Rowan is a geospatial engineer earning good money, and Nic is a freelance illustrator who is... not. They meet on a commission for TFL and hit it off. Mostly. But when Rowan takes a job in autonomous vehicle design, Nic's lefty principles and outspoken technophobia must take a back seat, and the tensions in their relationship begin to pick up speed. Autopilot is a deeply modern love story that asks - in the event of a head-on collision - who are we programmed to save? A captivating, entertaining and hilarious tour-de-force Adelaide Advertiser (for Norris' IdeasTap Underbelly Awardwinning show The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Family) £7.50 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER TWO
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Eve Nicol in association with Pleasance & Pitlochry Festival Theatre
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Two transgender performers say 'up yours!' to gender binary and invite you to their radical dance party! Set in nightclubs, this exuberant verbatim show examines the cisgender gaze on the transgender body. See the beauty in these bodies, and your own. Offie Award winner 2021.
A free-spirited young woman finds supernatural success on the tennis court under the hypnotic thrall of a master coach. World premiere monologue play about the savage battle for control between mentor and protege. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
We need more of this: trans stories told by trans performers with space for freedom and delight Guardian
Raw... hugely evocative Scotsman (for One Life Stand) Captioned Performance: 26.
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MADE IN INDIA BRITAIN Since leaving home in Birmingham, Rinkoo Barpaga has been determined to find somewhere to settle. Along the way he's encountered racism, discrimination and has begun asking himself: Where do I belong? Join him as he delves deep into past experiences in order to discover his true self and a place he can finally call home. Performed by Rinkoo in British Sign Language, with live voiceover provided by an actor and dramaturgy by Daniel Bailey (Bush Theatre). Recipient of the Pleasance Generate Fund for UK-based Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists. Deaf comedy breaking out into the mainstream BBC A powerful and gripping story Crystal Palace Festival A born comedian and an engaging and daring performer American Comedy Institute BSL & Captioned: All Performances. Relaxed: 3, 10, 17 & 24. £7 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • UPSTAIRS
13:55 (14:55) Clay Party
Freddie Hayes in association with Pleasance & York Theatre Royal
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FREDDIE HAYES: POTATOHEAD
The five-star thrill ride inspired by shocking real-life events, Fiji blends true crime with romantic comedy to deliver a beautiful and thrilling two-hander - as warm and hilarious as it is fascinatingly twisted... a must watch. Remarkably tender... surprisingly funny, laced with an edge of something metallic Guardian
The gloriously bonkers Freddie Hayes presents a starch-ravingmad adaptation of Faust... with puppets. Expect potatoes, puns, puppetry, stand-up comedy, video montages, dancing and karaoke. Directed by Sh!t Theatre. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships. Hilarious and beautifully crafted View From The Outside
Grippingly exciting... spectacularly unique... a deliciously dark and delightful production, served so perfectly – you’ll want seconds Reviews Hub £11 £10 W T
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PUSH This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence... and an uncontrollable urge to push. A mischievous look at (un) maternal instinct, by one increasingly knocked-up performer. Multi award-winning Popelei return to Edinburgh with the world premiere of this fiercely funny solo show, interlaced with punchy choreography and an electrifying original soundtrack. An engaging, expressive performance... as dynamic as its title suggests Guardian A searingly honest feminist perspective... I'd go out of my way to catch Popelei's next show Lyn Gardner
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The BAFTA Rocliffe Awardwinning show. Has your bum ever tried to kill you? Sarah Mills has the perfect pad, a job she doesn't hate and friends who make her feel she's living in a glossy 90s sitcom. All she needs now is a fella. But instead of finding her prince, she finds a surprise in her poo. The next two years are spent swapping dresses for hospital gowns and Lambrini for laxatives.
In this Offie-nominated dark comedy, two men with a marijuana grow try to bury the bodies of their past to find a more hopeful future. Reminiscent of the works of Beckett and Pinter Reviews Hub Intense and occasionally poetic new play exposing toxic male behaviour Stage
Heartfelt, important, and very very funny Rob Rinder MBE
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE CELLAR
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Tart Theatre Collective
PERIOD DRAMAS
POLES: THE SCIENCE OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION
Ever wondered how people in the past dealt with their periods? Comedy and cabaret collide with the history books, as Heather embarks on a mission to break the menstrual taboo and change how we think about bleeding, period.
Cora is 23, self-obsessed, and has no idea what she's doing with her life. She's also a stripper. A wild new dark comedy about best friends, loneliness, and the stigma of monetising your body.
Horrible Histories meets Sex Education as audiences are invited to let loose and have a BLOODY good time!
Mesmerising Advertiser Hilarious Girls With A Curfew Glam Adelaide
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14:10 (15:30) Neo Productions
MAN SHED
A Scottish/African group presenting original songs by composer Neo Vilakazi who is based in Edinburgh. The voices of Scotland and Africa blend in the richest of harmonies, performed by supremely talented artists, and the vocals and dancing of the choir were described as ‘simply stunning’ (Scotsman). This critically acclaimed show was first performed and sold out at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2021 - back by popular demand, get your tickets now!
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TODAY I KILLED MY VERY FIRST BIRD A South-East London gangster starts to lose his grip on reality when he's forced to look back at the traumatic childhood that made him who he is. The more he remembers, the more brutal he becomes. But just when he's offered a second chance, it might all be too late. This pacey, powerful and heartbreakingly authentic exploration of hope and despair combines immersive sound and bold storytelling to create a vivid and visceral theatrical experience. Theatre Royal Plymouth co-produce an unflinching, relentless and stomach-churning new play based on lived experience. Brownlee's Edinburgh Fringe-bound tale is clever, compelling and an absolute must-see British Theatre Guide
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STARTING AT
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • QUEENDOME
14:20 (15:35) Spies Like Us in association with Pleasance
CLASSIC! Hold onto your hats as a cast of six romp through all those classic novels you never had time to read. In 60 minutes and multiple costume changes the company race you from Wuthering Heights to Moby Dick, told at lightning speed... Expect the unexpected!
After being set a series of ingenious puzzles by a mystery caller, a Professor must fight to save his missing daughter. Whodunnit? An explosively physical comedy-thriller amongst the spires and sideburns of a 1970s university. It's Singin' in the Rain meets Hitchcock.
With no previous literary experience required, a thrilling script by Coronation Street and Emmerdale writers Lindsay Williams and Peter Kerry and direction from Joyce Branagh (seen in Belfast, directed by brother Kenneth) this brilliantly funny show is for everyone!
Truly astounding Voice Magazine One of the most impressive hours of the Fringe List £9
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14:25 (15:25) Les Enfants Terribles
EVERYTHINGLESSNESS ‘I know you think I needed to toughen up, but what I really needed was softening.’ From award-winning creators of The Trench and Alice's Adventures Underground, comes this unique solo show taking an intimate look at the insidious nature of toxic masculinity. Experience Alexander Wolfe’s original music like never before, blending sound and video design to envelop your senses and shine a light on the pressure faced by men across the UK and beyond in one of the biggest mental health crises of the 21st century. Praise for Les Enfants Terribles: Entrancing moments of delicate, intricate storytelling What's On Stage Magically inventive and involving Stage £6.50 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • JACKDOME
14:30 (15:30) The North Wall
BROWN BOYS SWIM Best friends Mohsen and Kash are gearing up for the biggest night of their lives - Jess Denver’s pool party. There’s just one problem... they can’t swim. Fuelled by halal Haribo and chicken wings, the pair throw themselves in at the deep end, tackling cramped cubicles and cold showers as they learn how to be at one with the water. Fierce, funny, and brimming with heart, Karim Khan examines the pressures faced by young Muslim men in this exhilarating new play about fitting in and striking out. Presented by Fringe First Award-winning The North Wall.
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CHARLIE HARTILL
SPECIAL RESERVE
The Charlie Hartill Special Reserve is a designated fund to support emerging theatre makers and comedians in bringing their work to the Edinburgh Fringe. The fund was established in 2004 in memory of Charlie Hartill and consists of three strands, the Theatre Reserve, the Comedy Reserve and the Generate Fund for UK-based Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists.
Sophie Duker, 2017
We Are Ian, 2016
Patricia Gets Ready, 2020/21
THE COMEDY RESERVE
The Comedy Reserve supports new comic talent on the Fringe by selecting four emerging comedians and presenting them in a nightly mixed-bill show in Edinburgh. Previous recipients include Jack Whitehall, Roisin Conaty, Joe Lycett, Jamali Maddix, Darren Harriott, Sophie Duker and Nigel Ng. See this year’s Comedy Reserve line-up on page 78.
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Jack Whitehall, 2007
Molly, 2015
THE THEATRE RESERVE
THE GENERATE FUND
This year’s recipient is Rapsody, by Vision Production Company.
This year’s Generate Fund recipients are Block’d Off and Made in India Britain.
The Theatre Reserve provides one early career ensemble theatre company with the opportunity to present a fully produced run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Support includes financing, mentoring, programming options in London after the festival and more.
Find out more on page 48.
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The Generate Fund for UKbased Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists provides financing, mentorship and programming opportunities to support exciting projects that would otherwise not be able to come to the Fringe.
Find out more on pages 36 and 28.
Behind the scenes at the Rapsody cast photoshoot
Q&A
We spoke to Corey Weekes from Vision Production Company about Rapsody, the recipient of this year’s Theatre Reserve.
Tell us a bit about your theatre company? Vision Production Company is a Birmingham based theatre company dedicated to telling untold stories - giving voices to the voiceless. Our partner company, Vision Centre for Actors, provides free acting classes to underprivileged aspiring actors, but this work is null and void if their stories are not also seen on stage and screen. We aim to make real stories of the working class embedded into the theatre and film industry. What does receiving the Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve mean to you? Being the recipients of the fund is an honour that we don’t take lightly. It has made it possible to give Rapsody the resources we feel the show deserves. The fact that the Pleasance has recognised the quality of the work, rather than brushing it to the side, is humbling. We know this story deserves to be main-staged, and to have the backing of such a prestigious fund makes us feel proud and gives us hope for the future of the industry. What makes Rapsody such an important piece of theatre? Rapsody is a raw look at inner-city life in Britain today. It’s important because it is a working class story told by working class people. It isn’t a poverty porn project, it is a real reflection of real people within our society who are shunned and stigmatised. During the show, the characters confront the realities of our modern-day class system through live rap, trap and drill. We show them to be the complex human beings they are and not just caricatures, as can so often be the case in theatre. The music in the show is also very current, where we feel theatre can sometimes be a few years behind the trends. What’s next for you, Rapsody, and your company? Following our run in Edinburgh, we hope to tour both nationally and internationally. We also have more original plays written, including Counting Sheep and From the Bando With Love that we will look to put on next. We have short films written, so next on the agenda is to make them happen, as we have done with Rapsody.
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MUSIC PLEASANCE DOME • ACEDOME
14:40 (15:40) TFH, Pleasance and Something for the Weekend
COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • CABARET BAR
14:40 (15:40) Arthur Smith
MY 75 YEARS AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE
FLANDERS AND SWANN Songs and wit from those timeless musical comedy legends, Flanders & Swann, direct from London’s West End! The international award-winner returns with all the favourites from Hippopotamus to Gnu, plus some hidden gems. As seen on Friday Night is Music Night (Radio 2). Muddy marvellous Evening Standard
A love letter to the playground of the imagination that is the Edinburgh Fringe on its 75th birthday. Recalling some of his triumphs, disasters, love affairs and many arrests in Auld Reekie in August. Leonard Cohen, Hamlet, Colditz, Dante, dementia, Arthur's Seat, Gary Lineker and the Leith police all feature in this moving hour of revelations, songs, poems, gags and bad costumes.
Impressive... a delight Times
There are Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith Times
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14:40 (15:40) Common Wealth and Darren Pritchard
BEN MOOR: PRONOUN TROUBLE
In a cost of living crisis, what do you do to survive? Eat, heat? Or throw a Payday Party! Six artists share their real-life stories and talents in the hope of getting paid by you, the audience. Payday Party is the most glamorous LEGAL political party you will go to. Song, dance, rap, spoken word and live music are thrown into the cauldron of despair to cook up a survival cake Marie-Antoinette would be proud of.
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COMEDY
Miscellaneous subjects that crossed my mind while listening to a lecture about Chuck Jones’s Hunting Trilogy (1951-53), (which was nevertheless really good). Topics include seasons, launderettes, and pareidolia. A funny, heartful, fact-adjacent hour about film, friendship, and other important matters. Moor's work has been described by the FT as ‘a guaranteed cure for all forms of disillusionment.’
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Ben Moor and Joanna Neary
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14:45 (15:45)
Holly Beasley-Garrigan in association with Pleasance and Bristol Old Vic Ferment
BEN MOOR AND JOANNA NEARY: BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK
OPAL FRUITS A solo show about class, nostalgia and five generations of women from one council estate in South London. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
Jenny and Burton are two novelists stuck within a book event they no longer control. An absurdist Beckettian parody of awkward live author talks, with numerous sideplots and digressions, presented by two offbeat comedy talents.
Utterly compelling Lyn Gardner One to Watch A Younger Theatre Plays to See
Joanna Neary is ‘superbly funny’ (Guardian); Ben Moor is ‘brilliant and bonkers’ (Idler).
Breaking the Fourth Wall All Performances Captioned.
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • 10DOME
14:55 (15:55) Alex Roberts & Co.
THEATRE PLEASANCE AT EICC • CROMDALE THEATRE
15:00 (16:10)
Play The Spotlight and James Seabright
NO PLACE LIKE HOME Winner of Les Enfants Terribles Award 2022.
BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY VOICE
A tragic odyssey into gay club culture; this award-winning solo show fuses spoken word, music, dance and video art. Get ready to laugh, cry and dance with somebody who loves you.
Apphia Campbell's solo show inspired by the life of Nina Simone, and featuring many of her most iconic songs performed live. Sold-out Edinburgh, UK tour and London.
Developed with Camden People’s Theatre with support from London Performance Studios. In partnership with Galop UK.
Goes beyond impersonation Times Nothing short of sensational Broadway Baby
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Laura Horton in association with Pleasance & Theatre Royal Plymouth
LOOK AT ME DON'T LOOK AT ME
BREATHLESS
Look At Me Don't Look At Me delves into the life of PreRaphaelite artist and muse Lizzie Siddal and her relationship with Dante Rossetti. A two hander featuring piano, synth, two microphones, a shakey egg and 14 original songs. At only an hour long, this barebones cabaret has profound things to say about biography, desire, illness and art. It is extraordinary Stage
Nuanced, comical and intelligent A Younger Theatre (for Labyrinth Diet) Captioned Performance: 26. £7
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15:00 (16:00) RashDash
Breathless is a funny, honest and stylish exploration of the knifeedge of hoarding, from the joy to the addiction and suffocating shame. From Laura Horton’s, Plymouth Laureate of Words, own experience of clothes hoarding. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
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15:00 (16:10) & 23:00 (00:10) Degrees of Error
MURDER, SHE DIDN'T WRITE A classic murder mystery is created on the spot in this ingenious and hilarious show from The Bristol Improv Theatre’s resident company, Degrees of Error. You become Agatha Christie as each night an original murder mystery play is created based entirely on audience suggestions. So grab your magnifying glasses and don your deerstalkers for a never-seen-before (and never-to-be-seenagain) evening of murder, mayhem and making it up. And don't forget our late night versions of the show on Sundays at 11pm. Gender swapping? Mystery guests? Multiple victims? Come along to find out! Laugh out loud funny Voice Magazine Hilarious... The show is a riot Scottish Daily Mail £14 £12.50 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • KINGDOME
15:00 (16:00) Something for the Weekend
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BABY GRAND
15:10 (16:10)
Ink & Curtain in association with Pleasance and Manchester HOME
STARSHIP IMPROVISE
CLOSURE
Starring members of Mischief Theatre, Showstopper! and Austentatious. Smash-hit TV show Celestia 7 ran for 15 seasons. Some of the cast became international celebrities, others faded into obscurity. Now, headlining a sci- fi convention, they share your favourite episodes. An homage to everything from Star Trek to Galaxy Quest, Starship Improvise will boldly go where no improv comedy has gone before.
Why be the bigger person when you can be the last one standing? Mia invites Alex and Laura to a dinner party, but not all may be leaving alive. Closure wields dark comedy and vicious catharsis to explore feminine rage, women's rights, and - more importantly women's wrongs. Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BEYOND
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THE TRIAL You’re suddenly under arrest; no warning; no explanation. Welcome to Josef K’s 21st birthday party. Enter into a thrilling kaleidoscope of action where nothing is as it seems, privacy has been abolished and Big Brother is always watching. Celebrating 25 years the ‘breathtakingly skilful’ (Scotsman) Young Pleasance return with their unique re-imagining of Kafka’s absurdist masterpiece in their trademark ensemble and physical visual style. An absolute triumph British Theatre Guide Young Pleasance are always one of the hottest tickets at the Edinburgh Fringe 730 Review Captioned Performance: 13. £12 £11 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • UPSTAIRS
15:10 (16:10) Wooden Arrow Productions, El Gordo Theatre and Pleasance
BLOCK'D OFF Working-class means many things now. Everyone knows the stereotypes, but it's time to hear their voices. A father putting his hopes on his daughter's future. A couple of dealers attempting to flee the country. A tutor manipulating his way to normality. A florist always running from brutality. Another young boy, stabbed too close to home. This is a story about people trapped in the cycle of deprivation. Based on real stories and real lives, Block'd Off is a hardhitting one-woman play exposing what it's like to be workingclass in London today. Recipient of the Pleasance Generate Fund for UK-based Black, Asian and Global Majority Artists.
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE TWO
15:10 (16:10) Simon Fielder Productions
EH UP, ME OLD FLOWERS!
Perhaps his material would nowadays be considered questionable. But perhaps if you had lived his extraordinary life in a white man’s world – coal miner, professional footballer, cabaret singer, comedian – you’d have done the same.
In the 1970s the biggest comedy show on television was ITV’s The Comedians. It took bow-tie comics from the Northern club circuit, put them on the screen for the very first time, and made them into overnight sensations. And the breakout star, the one who shone brightest of all... was Charlie Williams.
Now, however, in retirement, Charlie faces an uncomfortable visit from a mysterious stranger who demands that he justify himself...
Charlie was the first black comedian to become a household name. With his toothy grin, his infectious laugh and his incongruous thick South Yorkshire accent – ‘Tha’s right, love, right accent, wrong colour!’ – he paved the way for many who followed in his footsteps, such as Lenny Henry and Gary Wilmot.
£12 £10.50
By Chris England (An Evening with Gary Lineker).
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Starring Tony Marshall (Casualty, Only Fools and Horses, Life on Mars).
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BELOW
15:15 (16:15) MISCHIEF
Gag Reflex in association with Andrew Roach Talent
CHARLIE RUSSELL AIMS TO PLEASE
AARON SIMMONDS: HOT WHEELS
Charlie wants to do a show in Edinburgh, but all she can think about is what she wants people to think of it and ultimately, of her.
Aaron gained a nickname based solely on being in a wheelchair. However, there's much more to him than his disability. Annoyingly it's a really cool nickname. As seen on The Russell Howard Hour.
So, she’s going to create a show that will please absolutely everyone, by trying to hit as many Fringe show tropes and styles as you can imagine within an hour.
Superb storyteller Scotsman
That’s doable, right? Ages 14+
Talented comedian who has the audience in the palm of his hand Broadway World
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE ATTIC
15:20 (16:20) Pants on Fire
WILL DUGGAN: ICEBERG Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Chortle Award loser Will Duggan, comedy's favourite miserable scamp, is going to figure out why we aren't all walking around constantly screaming in fury. But with jokes.
Carol Tambor Award winners present one woman's firsthand nostalgia trip through the early 90s UK rave scene. Louise wonders how she went from ecstasy-taking idealist to respectable, disillusioned schoolgate yummy mummy.
Rises to the challenge and really delivers Guardian
Exemplary storytelling Stage
Effortlessly, brutally funny Joe.co.uk
A shining example of what theatre is British Theatre Guide
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE CELLAR
15:25 (16:25) Impatient Productions
SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • FORTH
15:30 (16:45) Pecho Mama in association with Pleasance
OEDIPUS ELECTRONICA An electrifying re-imagining of the ultimate love triangle. Mother. Father. Son. An emergency diagnosis crushes Jocasta's dreams of becoming a mother and sends her spiralling into freefall. Pecho Mama's radical reinvention of the myth is an intoxicating whirlwind of ecstasy and devastation. A powerhouse psychological thriller, marrying London's domestic grit with a searing live electronica score. From Pecho Mama, the team that brought you Medea Electronica. Cool as f*ck London City Nights Awe-inspiring Broadway Baby Jaw dropping Cub Magazine £7 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER ONE
15:30 (16:30) Liv Ello
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BESIDE
15:35 (16:35) Blue Gravy Productions
SWARM
HEADCASE
There are over 250,000 different species of flies. And you're one of them.
Actor and writer Kristin Mcilquham can't seem to finish a list. Get an agent. Get a boyfriend. Call her dad...
SWARM is an experimental, dark comedy exploring the connection between expressions of white privilege and the behaviour of flies. Using character comedy, clown, stand-up and spoken word, SWARM subverts the language used to dehumanise those who are othered to reflect on our increasingly individualistic society. But it's all a bit silly, really.
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As Kristin approaches the big 4-0 she is forced to confront (kicking and screaming) some of the unfinished business in her life and why she just can’t seem to tie up any of her loose ends. A funny and moving true story about the aftermath of her father’s brain injury and the impact that’s had on their relationship, her life, and well, pretty much everything really. £12 £11
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
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PLEASANCE AT EICC • LAMMERMUIR THEATRE
Fladam
LUKE WRIGHT: THE REMAINS OF LOGAN DANKWORTH
FLADAM'S MUSICAL COMEDY HOOTENNANY! Fladam (Florence Poskitt and Adam Sowter) are ‘the most amazing hilarious musical comedy duo’ (Harry Whittaker, BBC Radio York). The madcap musical offspring of Morecambe and Wise, Victoria Wood, and Elton John, performing irresistibly catchy comic songs.
The Fringe First and Stage Award winner performs gut-wrenching, exhilarating writing about broken trust and lost love in the age of Brexit. Winner: Saboteur Award, Best Show. Sensational writing... mesmerising Guardian
Squelchy faces as ripe for comedy as Thora Hird or Victoria Wood Charles Hutch Press
Great! Hurtling, headlong hour Stage £7.50
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • QUEENDOME
15:55 (17:05) Lagahoo Productions in association with Pleasance
BOGEYMAN In 1791, a voodoo ceremony begins the Haitian Revolution, to end enslavement on the island. In the present, a man is haunted by ghosts in his city. A thrilling tale of hope, rebellion and connection within a broken system. A fantastic night of festivity and foolery Guardian (for Splintered) An explosion of a show Stage (for Splintered) Joy, discovery, celebration and pain all together Evening Standard (for Splintered) Captioned Performance: 20. £7.50 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GRAND
16:00 (17:00) Fills Monkey, Little Bros. and Something for the Weekend
FILLS MONKEY: WE WILL DRUM YOU
A fun-packed drumming extravaganza! Loud, creative, frenzied and immense fun Broadway Baby
A worldwide sensation from Montreal to Beijing, Fills Monkey return with an exhilarating new show. Blending pure joy and comedy with extraordinary musicianship, these two exceptional drummers fuse musical styles from rock to heavy metal, and Latin to jazz. Creating percussive heaven they also play tribute to their favourite artists: AC/DC, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, U2, Phil Collins and more.
Exhilarating Three Weeks Overflowing with humour and invention Wee Review Fills Monkey is packed with skill, humour and love of music Mumble Music
Their drumsticks are magic and their irresistible beats go straight to the heart! A fun-packed experience to delight the whole family.
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It doesn’t matter if you are 10 years old or 110 years old, this show caters for anyone and everyone Edinburgh Guide
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EDINBURGH
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
We work with theatres across the UK to identify and support exceptional artists and companies, local to them, to bring work to the Fringe. Each of our partners is a leading national producing house, with a commitment to supporting and developing new artists. Together, we hope to make a substantial contribution to develop the next generation of leading theatre makers and companies across the country.
MAN SHED
by Right Lines Productions Eden Court, Inverness Page 30
SVENGALI
by Eve Nicol Pitlochry Festival Theatre Page 28
POTATOHEAD by Freddie Hayes York Theatre Royal Page 29
CLOSURE
by Ink & Curtain HOME Manchester Page 36
SHEWOLVES by Shewolves Leicester Curve Page 22
AN AUDIENCE WITH MILLY-LIU
by difficult|stage Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Page 83
BREATHLESS
by Laura Horton Theatre Royal Plymouth Page 35
OPAL FRUITS
by Holly Beasley-Garrigan Bristol Old Vic Ferment Page 34
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BENEATH
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Helen Wood & Something For The Weekend
Nadine Dorries Productions
CHARLOTTE JOHNSON: MY DAD AND OTHER LIES
LET'S TALK ABOUT PHILIP When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother's suicide.
My Dad is the most important man in the country* but this isn't about him. This show is about ME, Charlotte Johnson. You might think you know me because you read something about me somewhere, but only about 20% of that is true. In my debut hour, get to know the REAL Charlotte Johnson before I become the next big thing. *Due to ongoing parliamentary investigations, information may be out of date at the time of going to print. Intriguing New European
A candid, darkly comic and gripping new play written and performed by Fringe veteran Helen Wood (National Trust Fan Club; The OS Map Fan Club) and Gregor Hunt, and directed by 2022 Olivier Award nominee Derek Bond. Supporting Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide. £8 W T
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16:00 (17:00) Katie Arnstein in association with Pleasance
STICKY DOOR ‘The 2014 plan is simple. I'll find one man for each month. 12 in total. A football team and a sub #squadgoals.’ An award-winning storytelling show with songs about sex, shame and cystitis written and performed by someone who's experienced all three. Shortlisted for Evening Standard's Future of Theatre Award. From the multi-award-winning team of the critically acclaimed Bicycles & Fish and Sexy Lamp. Arnstein is an incredible performer who seems primed for greatness Guardian Astonishing Broadway World Captioned Performance: 24. £7 W T
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16:05 (17:05) Strip Light Productions
Plaster Cast
GLENN MOORE: WILL YOU STILL NEED ME, WILL YOU STILL FEED ME, GLENN I'M SIXTY MOORE.
DELICIOUS FRUIT Ayden and Lizard want to be cool, sexually-liberated queers. But the cis-straight world is a real boner-killer. Verbatim sex stories and anarchic punk songs cum together in an orgiastic rebellion against shame. Pick of VAULT Festival Award winners Plaster Cast dance, sing and f*ck through the sticky mess of sexuality. What can queer sex do for you? For us?
The Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee, Mock the Week and Absolute Radio star blows his word limit on another stupid title. Guardian, Chortle, Scotsman & Herald
A Younger Theatre (for Sound Cistem)
Comedy masterclass Times £7 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ONE
16:10 (17:10) Something for the Weekend
BORIS THE THIRD True* story. Total farce. When Boris Johnson was 18 he played Richard III in his school play at Eton. Apparently, he wasn’t prepared, didn’t learn his lines, and the result was utter chaos. Boris the Third is a comedy imagining of what that play might have been like. Will young Boris play the clown, charming his critics, or will he be remembered as the villain? A possible origin story for one of the most colourful and divisive figures in modern British politics. This is one illicit party you won’t want to miss. Written and directed by Olivier Award winner Adam Meggido (co-creator, Edinburgh favourite Showstopper! The Improvised Musical) and starring Mischief Theatre's Harry Kershaw, as Boris. *May not be true. For Adam Meggido's previous work: A dizzying, dazzling display of meta-theatrical brilliance Stage (Director - Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Olivier Award nominee for Best New Comedy) The precision timing behind the gags and slapstick is the constant joy of Adam Meggido’s razor-sharp production; you have to be meticulous to create this amount of chaos Evening Standard (Director - Peter Pan Goes Wrong) I've seldom been to the theatre and laughed so much Sun (Director - Magic Goes Wrong, Olivier Award nominee for Best New Comedy) A terrific new helping of comedy Telegraph (Director - Magic Goes Wrong)
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16:25 (17:25) Boreas Productions
A DARK PLACE World premiere. A black comedy on mental health based on a real event. Sam turns up on Ash's doorstep pulling his wheelie bag - it seems like he's decided to move in. The evening ends in a way no-one would ever imagine or believe - except it happened. Flashbacks show how Sam got to this point, and illustrate Ash and Sam's relationship over the years.
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER TWO
16:25 (17:25)
Berk's Nest in association with United Agents
Tritone Theatre
THE GREATEST HITS OF LILY AND JOHN
RAJIV KARIA: GALLIVANT Rising star Rajiv Karia wants to be friends. You should support your friends doing their highly anticipated debut hour. As seen on Lazy Susan (BBC Three) and Comedy Central Live. Speaking gently, joking hard.
Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks. His depression has spiralled and he’s recording a final goodbye. When Lily bursts in uninvited, he lies and says he’s writing a play. A play with live music. About... a dressage horse. A bitterly honest and tenderly ridiculous account of modern life and love.
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16:30 (17:30) Bradán
RICH HARDISTY: SILLY BOY
Irish gig theatre call to arms. Humanity ruins everything. But humanity's just a dodgy sidebranch of fish evolution. Join us, and return to being fish.
In his highly anticipated debut, Rich (Channel 4, BBC, Netflix) takes us on a journey through the interesting, hilarious and sometimes shocking things his brain is capable of. Rich tries to convey what mental illness looks and feels like, celebrating the beauty and silliness of it all. Raw, open and honest but most importantly... funny!
With live music and audience interaction, we use salmon to investigate global industrial food production, ecological destruction, and our own place in this overwhelming timeline. Staging Change x VAULT award winner. £6.50
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Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with PBJ Management
MY LOVER WAS A SALMON IN THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • KINGDOME
16:30 (17:40) Session Zero & Something for the Weekend
THE TWENTY-SIDED TAVERN Welcome to The Twenty-Sided Tavern, where laughter flows like ale and the story is yours to control. Every night is a new adventure where you choose the characters, what paths they take and how hilarious their hijinks will be. Battle monsters, solve riddles and be rewarded with a unique ending based on how the game is played. Grab your friends and your smartphone and embark on the journey of a lifetime that might involve dungeons, might involve dragons and is guaranteed to be unlike anything you've ever experienced... A raucous comedic ride full of unexpected twists and turns onStage Pittsburgh The story, actors, visuals, music were all spectacular! Can’t wait to see it again Audience member The most fun theatre experience ever! Audience member £8 W T
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STARTING AT
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER THREE
16:35 (17:35)
COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE CELLAR
16:40 (17:40)
Country Mile Productions in association with Avalon Management
Country Mile Productions in association with Avalon Management
ANIA MAGLIANO: ABSOLUTELY NO WORRIES IF NOT
NIC SAMPSON: MARATHON, 1904 32 athletes entered the 1904 Olympic marathon. Only 14 finished. In his Edinburgh Fringe debut, Nic Sampson (co-writer of Starstruck, BBC3, and star of The Brokenwood Mysteries, UKTV) presents this unbelievable true story of stupidity, cheating, wild dogs and rat poison.
50% Polish, 50% Italian, 100% legend. Ania Magliano's debut show tackles the stuff that matters: Lush, horse girls and buying a cat off Gumtree. Winner: Leicester Comedy Festival, Best New Show 2022. Already has the cool, calm and collected stage presence of a standup veteran Guardian
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16:45 (17:45) Strip Light Productions
ALISON SPITTLE: WET
KWAME ASANTE: LIVING IN SIN Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and NHS doctor Kwame presents a hilarious and heartfelt introspective on the place of religion in life, love and medicine. Calmly assured, impressive performance Scotsman
Spittle comes across as a kind of genius Irish Times
Classy, laugh-out-loud stand-up Chortle
A real alchemist turning the mundane and absurd alike into comedy gold One 4 Review
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Impatient Productions and Blue Book Artist Management
Alison loves to do star jumps in the water. She also likes to watch people fight in chip shops. Her two worlds collide as a fight breaks out in aqua-aerobics. As heard on BBC's Wheel of Misfortune and The Guilty Feminist.
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Victoria Melody
Chambers Touring
HEAD SET
SINDHU VEE: WORK IN PROGRESS
Award-winning Victoria, the female theatrical Louis Theroux, embarks on the difficult business of being funny, embedding herself into the world of amateur stand-up comedy. Her show explores how comedy can bring peace to our disordered and messy brains.
Refreshing, clever stuff Bruce Dessau
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Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Sindhu Vee returns with a new hour. As seen and heard on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, The Tez O’Clock Show, QI and The Guilty Feminist podcast.
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE TWO
16:40 (17:40) Future Artists
SKANK
Clementine Bogg-Hargroves returns to the Pleasance with the 2021 sell-out and Offies nominated one-woman show SKANK, The Times Critics' Choice of EdFringe '21 .
SKANK was recently published by Playdead Press in 2022. A tour-de-force performance Number 9 Reviews
‘Wasn’t I supposed to be famous and successful by now?’
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Kate could be a successful writer, if she could just concentrate. Instead, she needs to recycle this bean can, shag sexy Gary and stop obsessing about her inevitable untimely death.
A painfully accurate slice of life Broadway Baby
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BEYOND
16:50 (18:00) Easier Said Than Done Ltd.
IRVINE WELSH'S PORNO The world premiere stage adaptation inspired by the sequel to cult classic Trainspotting. 15 years after Trainspotting, what has become of Renton, Sickboy, Spud and Begbie? Disturbing, shocking and extremely funny. Contains swearing and dialogue referring to drug use, sex and violence. As if you'd expect anything else... Age recommendation 12+ Read the script for Porno and I was mightily impressed. Excited to see this in Edinburgh this August Irvine Welsh Family Ticket Available. £8 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • ACEDOME
17:20 (18:20)
COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • FORTH
17:20 (18:20)
The Cambridge Footlights
United Agents
THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL TOUR SHOW 2022: ARE WE THERE YET?
TOM ROSENTHAL: MANHOOD Despite everything that's happened, Tom is still talking about his penis. Beaky boy from Friday Night Dinner and Plebs on how he spent his life trying to avenge the theft of his foreskin. Directed by Jon Brittain. A striking show, raising questions and laughter in equal measure Guardian
Buckle up as we hit the road for a tour of life itself, visiting more sketch-shaped destinations than a travel agent could dream of. Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) for a holiday filled with laughs, quirky characters, and sand in uncomfortable places.
A thoughtful and often hilarious take on a disturbing subject List This is essentially an hour’s worth of dick jokes. It is funny, though Metro
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17:20 (18:20) Bound and Gagged Comedy
LUCY PORTER: WAKE-UP CALL A brand-new stand-up show from the Fringe favourite. As heard on radio's The News Quiz and The Now Show. TV appearances include Would I Lie to You, QI and Live at the Apollo. Wake-Up Call is a show about revelations, realisations and epiphanies - both large and small. Subjects covered include: Bin collection schedules, the novels of Jean Rhys, cats, school fair booze tombolas, the Scottish Enlightenment, pressure washers and Huel. It’s an exuberant, silly show with some wisdom sprinkled on top. Impeccably punch-lined anecdotes... genuinely delightful Telegraph A treat from start to finish Herald £10 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
17:20 (18:20) Vision Production Company and Pleasance
RAPSODY Join Elz, Jams, Toni and Jaime, living in a hostel and battling impossible odds, as they confront the realities of our class system through live rap, trap and drill. The voice of the voiceless speaks in rhyme. Rapsody is a raw look at inner-city life in Britain today. Recipient of the Pleasance Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve. Previous praise: Electrifying @TheatreReviewsUK An intense energy... compelling to watch Love London Culture Captioned Performance: 22. £7 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • QUEENDOME
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BUNKER TWO
Berk's Nest in association with Blue Book Artist Management
NICK HELM: WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?
HELEN BAUER: MADAM GOOD TIT
Critically acclaimed and multiaward-winning comedian Nick Helm embarks on a show so insightful, so honest, so legitimate that it will fix all of society’s problems and lead the way to a new plane of existence. This is the future. The future is now.
2019's Best Newcomer nominee, star of BBC Three and BBC Radio 4 and your favourite self-aware stand-up returns with a show about self-confidence, selfesteem and self-care. As seen on Live at the Apollo.
A true mastermind Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
A personality that will fill a stadium Sunday Express
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17:25 (18:25) Soho Theatre
VIR DAS: WANTED Vir Das, fresh off the back of an Emmy nomination for his latest Netflix stand-up special, brings his brand new Wanted world tour to Edinburgh - a show about freedom, a journey into foolishness and a perspective that takes you across the world. Don’t miss India’s biggest English-speaking comic - a global phenomenon who has performed on six continents, has four Netflix specials, and can be most recently seen in the Judd Apatow movie The Bubble. Listed in Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch. No artist embodies the globalization of stand-up like Vir Das New York Times There is a mixture of audacity and humility in Das's comedy Boston Globe £7 W T
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YOUNG PLEASANCE
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF
PLEASANCE
Our award-winning theatre company offers dynamic professional theatre opportunities for aspiring creatives, aged 16-21, both on and off the stage. Young Pleasance specialises in original large-scale ensemble theatre, with high production values. The company has launched the careers of performers, writers, directors and technicians across the globe.
Celebrating 25 years at the Fringe, the ‘breathtakingly skilful’ (Scotsman) Young Pleasance return this year with their unique re-imagining of Kafka’s absurdist masterpiece, The Trial, in their trademark ensemble and physical visual style. Find out more on page 36.
The Hampstead Murder Mystery, 2015
Rites, 2013
A Grave Situation, 2019
Alice Unhinged, 2016
#MyWay, 2014
The Red Shoes, 2018
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17:30 (18:30) Ines Wurth Presents
FATA MORGANA Fata Morgana: a hallucination from the mad sensational life of Nico. Andy Warhol’s muse. Jim Morrison's lover. This multimedia performance explores the whimsical anima of model and performance-artist, Christa Päffgen, aka Nico. The decided priestess of gothic rock, Andy Warhol’s superstar muse and sometime singer for the Velvet Underground. A journey through Nico’s volatile relationships with her father, her son, and her lover/poet-mentor Jim Morrison, her initiation into fashion and the avant-garde, and struggle with addiction. A psychedelic trip that seduces us to descend the rabbit hole of the twilight of Nico’s world. An intimate hallucinatory encounter into the essential nature of an artistpoet-icon. £6 W T
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THEATRE PLEASANCE DOME • JACKDOME
17:40 (18:40) Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott Present
Chambers Touring
SARAH KEYWORTH: LOST BOY
MASTERCLASS Featuring the savagely comedic feminist discourse of Adrienne Truscott with the slippery dramaturgy of Brokentalkers, Masterclass parodies the ‘great male artist’ to within an inch of his life, uncovering truths about privilege.
If comedy equals tragedy plus time, then boy, this is going to be good. As seen on Live at the Apollo and Dark Horse (Amazon Prime Special). Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee. Powerful, poignant and achingly funny Herald
The show begins in the form of a cockamamie masterclass performed by fed-up feminist Adrienne Truscott and all-around good guy Feidlim Cannon. It's fun. It's familiar. But there is something more at play. £7 W T
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A comic who’s here for keeps Times
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BELOW
Country Mile Productions in association with United Agents
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THE MAGIC OF JIM
BRITNEY: FRIENDS AND NOTHING MORE
They've let him indoors! Jim's interactive energising magic has been an annual fixture around the Pleasance Courtyard for many years. Join Jim for his first indoor residency! Embodies all that's best about the Fringe Fringe Guru
Fresh from their universally adored BBC Three pilot, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson return to the Fringe with a sketch show about love. But which of these two girls will you fancy more? Ferociously funny i-magazine Charming, joyous and offbeat Chortle
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STARTING AT
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • 10DOME
17:50 (18:50)
COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BABY GRAND
17:50 (18:50)
PBJ
Bound and Gagged Comedy
CRYBABIES: BAGBEARD
NJAMBI MCGRATH: BLACK BLACK
Join Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees Crybabies on a scifi infected narrative sketch adventure about finding home, forbidden love, magic, mystery and massive regret.
Comedian grannies, mudfloor comedy clubs, white-face audiences, broke aristocrat orgies with angry Afrikaans, soldiers searching stiffies, civil disobedience are ingredients for mirth. Njambi's hot on the heels of her comedian grandmother in colonial Kenya.
Highly impressive Guardian High concept farce of the first order Telegraph
Smart and sardonic Guardian Important voice Times
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • UPSTAIRS
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Show And Tell
Avalon Promotions
ATSUKO OKATSUKA: THE INTRUDER
CHLOE PETTS: TRANSIENCE
When confronted with a home intruder, Atsuko realises that her unconventional upbringing may have actually prepared her for just this moment.
Join rising star Chloe Petts, as she presents her debut show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Expect ruminations on the darts and her (strictly non-romantic) love for the men who watch it.
Atsuko made her late night standup debut on The Late Late Show With James Corden, and was named a Comedian To Watch by Vulture and Top 10 Comedians to Watch by Time Out LA. One of the best in the biz Vulture
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18:00 (19:15) & 21:00 (22:15) PLEASANCE EICC • CROMDALE TUNNEL
Katie Storey Productions in association with Hatch Talent
King's Head Theatre and In Your Face Theatre presented by James Seabright
ROSIE HOLT: THE WOMAN'S HOUR
TRAINSPOTTING LIVE Immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic, in a bespoke venue unique to the show. A compelling and unforgettable live experience, this is a noholds-barred ticket to a ride you won’t soon forget. Five sell-out Fringe seasons! Choose life. TrainspottingLive.com
Social media sensation and Chortle Award winner Rosie Holt debuts an hour of character comedy based on her smash-hit satirical videos, as seen millions of times online. If she can stay in character long enough, she'll have a Telegraph column and a seat on Question Time by teatime James O'Brien
Must see for fans of the original Daily Telegraph Better than either the book or film in my opinion Irvine Welsh
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NINA CONTI: THE DATING SHOW
The quick-thinking queen of ventriloquism presents her pioneering, dating-infused show. Finding true love can't be promised, but big laughs are guaranteed.
Outstanding! High-level comedy craftsmanship Times
Following a sell-out West End run and nationwide tour, the Live at the Apollo star and British Comedy Award winner is bringing her newest smash hit to the Fringe!
Utterly hilarious - a comic at the top of her game Independent Uproariously funny! Her audience leaves entertained, amused and very, very impressed Chortle
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Head-spinningly clever, it's genius Telegraph Joyfully funny chaos... it's a hoot! Guardian Captioned Performances: 19 & 26. £10
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18:00 (19:00) Bound & Gagged Comedy
TIM VINE: BREEEEP! Tim Vine returns with his new stand-up show. A mountain of nonsense. One-liners, stupid things, unlikely songs, wobbly props. (Plus utter drivel.) Tim's like the manager of a sweet shop where all the sweets are replaced by jokes, and he serves them in the order he chooses. So, it's like a sweet shop where the manager just throws sweets at you. Winner of Dave's Best Joke of the Fringe 2010 and 2014. Star of The Tim Vine Chat Show (BBC Radio 4) and numerous TV appearances. Enjoy the foolishness. A symphony of silly Times An absolute marvel Scotsman
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BESIDE
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Live Nation in Association with Corrie McGuire Management
Berk's Nest in association with Curtis Brown
KATIE PRITCHARD: DISCO BALL
TESSA COATES: GET YOUR TESSA COATES YOU'VE PULLED
Party with carnage-wielding, mayhem-manifesting, awardwinning, human disco ball Katie Pritchard in her debut musicalcomedy hour, as she tries to figure out 'who she is' while possibly dressed as a pavlova.
After two sell-out Fringes, Tessa Coates is beside herself with excitement to be back with a brand-new show. As seen on Mae Martin's Feel Good, Rose Matafeo's Starstruck, Hypothetical and heard on her own BBC Radio 4 comedy special.
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • KINGDOME
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Bound & Gagged Comedy
MORGAN REES: BI AND LARGE
ANY SUGGESTIONS, DOCTOR? THE IMPROVISED DOCTOR WHO PARODY
Debut hour from Welsh funnyman Morgan Rees. As people went in during Lockdown, Morgan came out. Adding to his already eccentric family, what could go wrong?
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Fast gags, unexpected swerves and rolling stories Sunday Times
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE TWO
18:10 (19:20) Rhum + Clay
PROJECT DICTATOR Their choice? To die on stage – or off it. Beautiful and bonkers – the clown show about totalitarianism you never knew you needed. Informed and inspired by conversations with international artists living under authoritarian regimes. Rhum + Clay return to the Edinburgh Fringe after 2019's sellout smash hit The War of the Worlds (four stars, Guardian) and 2018's total sell-out and The Stage Award-winning Mistero Buffo (five stars, Stage). Vivid, athletic and sensational What’s On Stage Stingingly relevant Stage £8 W T
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BEYOND
Chambers Touring
THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GREEN
18:30 (19:30) Ox Productions
SINDHU VEE: ALPHABET
THE UNICORN
A show about the hair we want, the friends we have and living the vast difference between virus and viral. Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee. As seen on Live at the Apollo, QI and Sex Education.
‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy... just a very lonely unicorn.’ An unmissable new play from Offie Award finalist Sam Potter, about a young woman trying to find a balance between her sexuality and what society expects of her, performed by Georgina Fairbanks.
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COMEDY
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
Avalon Promotions
LUKE KEMPNER: MACHO MACHO MAN
CHRISTOPHER BLISS: CAPTAIN WORDS EYE
Star of Spitting Image, Steph's Packed Lunch and with over 10 million views of his online videos, comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner has found out he is to become a father, but can he be the macho macho man he believes he needs to be?
Shropshire’s worst writer, Christopher Bliss, leaves Shropshire for the fifth time in his life to bring his fifth show to the Edinburgh Fringe. This is how character comedy should be done Chortle Deliciously fun Guardian
Daily Telegraph
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COMEDY PLEASANCE AT EICC • PENTLAND THEATRE
18:30 (19:30) MISCHIEF
MISCHIEF MOVIE NIGHT
Mischief return to the Edinburgh Fringe stepping back to their comedy roots with Mischief Movie Night, the improvised movie live on stage!
Over 100,000 households tuned in from over 45 countries to watch the live streamed version in lockdown, now see Mischief's Olivier nominated improv delight live on stage.
Starring them, directed by you, every show is different with you suggesting a genre, location and title, and Mischief hilariously bring the show to life, complete with rewinds, directors cuts, thrilling live music and DVD extras that will have you howling with laughter.
The funniest theatre troupe in Britain Telegraph
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DANCE, PHYSICAL THEATRE AND CIRCUS PLEASANCE AT EICC • LENNOX THEATRE
18:30 (19:30) & 13:30 (14:30) Cirque Berserk!
CIRQUE BERSERK!
Move over Hugh Jackman... This is the greatest show! Daily Star
Direct from the West End, Britain's biggest theatre-circus spectacular and sell-out smash hit returns. Featuring all your favourite Cirque Berserk! acts plus some sensational new ones!
Thrilling, death-defying, glorious... makes you wish you were a kid again so you could run away and join the circus Daily Express
Showcasing the finest in traditional circus thrills and skills, Cirque Berserk! brings this treasured form of live entertainment bang upto-date in a jaw-dropping spectacular created especially for the theatre.
Great for kids and even better for adults! Sun Fearless – you’ll believe pretty much anything is possible Scotsman
Combining contemporary cirque-style artistry with adrenaline-fuelled stunt action, this astoundingly talented international troupe includes over 30 fearless acrobats, aerialists and daredevil stuntmen. Don't miss the world's most hair-raising circus act: the legendary motorcycle Globe of Death! £12
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Thrilling family entertainment – outclasses Cirque du Soleil List
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PLEASANCE
LONDON
Our year-round home in Islington, North London, is a hub of Fringe theatre, comedy and cabaret. With a packed programme, Pleasance London gives both established and emerging artists a platform to take risks, develop their work and grow new audiences.
We have three performance spaces in London, each offering something very different. Our Main House has cabaret-style seating with bar service to your table, where household comedy names perform alongside touring and co-produced theatre and cabaret. Our Downstairs space hosts new writing and showcases the best emerging theatre talent, while The Studio gives comedians a space to hone their craft through our Work in Progress and Edinburgh Preview seasons. Our busy theatre bar, where pizzas are available from our partners at Yard Sale, is the perfect place for pre and post-show drinks. Visit us at 5 Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF.
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18:45 (20:00) & 17:45 (19:00) Movin' Melvin Brown
MOVIN' MELVIN BROWN: A MAN, A MAGIC, A MUSIC The living legend and world-class entertainer returns to Edinburgh with a Broadway version of his five star Black Music journey (50s-90s) through his incredible, fascinating life in song, tap dance, story and comedy. Featuring the songs of Ray Charles, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Michael Jackson and Prince... with new songs. Described as 'the last of the great song and dance men', his award-winning entertainment career spans over five decades of singing, tap-dancing and storytelling with the best: BB King, James Brown, Stevie Wonder... Sold out performances include Edinburgh, Nice Jazz Festival, Sydney Opera House, Zurich, Toronto andTokyo. People's Choice Award, Vancouver & Toronto Festivals. Voted Best Rhythm 'n' Blues Artist, LA Radios. Performances on 18th & 19th August at 17:45 (19:00). Magical! NY Theatre Rare treat The Age Grooviest Renaissance man Broadway Baby Exceptional, sheer brilliance Scotsman
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FAST FRINGE
BELLA HULL: BABYCAKES Have you ever wanted to hear a harrowing true story that really makes you think? Well neither has Bella Hull and that’s why her debut show is full of stupid, stupid jokes. Contains never-before-heard gossip and scenes of a gorgeous nature. Viewer discretion advised if you're a little bitch. As seen on BBC1, BBC3, ITV2, and Channel 4.
Check site for daily line-ups. A brilliant concept... for variety and value for money, it's a nobrainer Broadway Baby
A disarmingly cheeky style... someone I look forward to seeing more of Arts Desk
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Country Mile Productions in association with Avalon Management
So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in a frenetically paced showcase. A different, gloriously entertaining bill every day, handpicked by leading comedy website Chortle.
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STARTING AT
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MUSIC
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PLEASANCE AT EICC • LAMMERMUIR THEATRE
COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • JACKDOME
19:00 (20:00)
Adam Holmes
Mick Perrin Worldwide
ADAM HOLMES: HOPE PARK
ALASDAIR BECKETT-KING: NEVERMORE
An old soul on young shoulders, acclaimed Edinburgh-born singer-songwriter Adam Holmes combines masterful songwriting and a mellifluous, enchanting voice. This show will mix his original songs with favourites from the Scottish trad songbook. Folk music with a kind of tough elegance Guardian Musical medicine Scotsman A raw, honeyed voice... affecting and potent Folk Radio UK
Multi award-winning stand-up Alasdair Beckett-King unravels life's shallowest mysteries. A true Renaissance man, Alasdair is 500 years old. As seen on Mock the Week and the internet. Magnificent, wonderful and hilarious Wee Review Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • CABARET BAR
Off The Kerb Productions
COUNTESS OF FIFE
A gloriously down-to-earth, straight-talking and extremely funny comic Guardian Well thought out, quick-fire oneliners are delivered by a down-toearth and likeable stage persona Broadway Baby
Evocative perfect storm of country punk noise Ginger Quiff
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Insurgent alt country outfit led by The Rezillos’ Fay Fife. Think of the Cramps meeting Johnny Cash in an unholy alchemy of country, punk and gospel. Four piece band, original songs, Fay’s gloriously powerful vocals and Allan McDowall’s singing guitars. Righteous and mischievous... in rollicking cowpunk mode Scotsman
Angela Barnes (Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and The News Quiz) is trying to live her best life, and it's really bloody hard.
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The Countess Of Fife
ANGELA BARNES: HOT MESS
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PLEASANCE AT EICC • LOMOND THEATRE
Dean Owens
Dean Owens & The Sinners
DEAN OWENS: FROM LEITH TO TUCSON
DEAN OWENS AND THE SINNERS
Songs and stories from Dean's extensive back catalogue, combining desert noir and roots with the unfettered enthusiasm of a rock'n'roller and the sympathetic delivery of folk's best storytellers.
Award-winning Scottish troubadour and band (with special guest Kirsten Adamson) conjure a sepia-stained cantina with songs from his acclaimed new Sinner's Shrine album. A unique blend of Scottish roots and Americana, with added desert noir. Best UK Act Americana UK
Sings with a dark majesty that matches the gigantic emotional pull of his songs Mojo
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MUSIC PLEASANCE AT EICC • LAMMERMUIR THEATRE
19:00 (20:00) Clearwood Media
Berk's Nest and Nick Mohammed in association with United Agents
FLAMENCO FUSION
NICK MOHAMMED PRESENTS THE VERY BEST AND WORST OF MR. SWALLOW
The guitarists Duo, who came to wider public attention for their free Gigs In Your Garden to thank key and frontline workers for their tireless work during the pandemic, make their Fringe debut with an exhilarating live show.
Mr. Swallow returns with a mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material. Star of Ted Lasso, Intelligence, Cats Does Countdown.
Known for playing songs you know in ways you probably don't in a style fusing flamenco, pop and classical, Duo's music is played regularly on Scala Radio and BBC Radio 2 and has captivated audiences across the world.
Split-your-sides hilarious Evening Standard
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Guardian
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SK SHLOMO: BREATHE: THE PLAY THAT BECOMES A RAVE
Has it really been ten years since Sheeps first performed in Edinburgh? No. It has been 12. Sheeps remain Al Roberts (Stath Lets Flats, Starstruck, Feel Good), Liam Williams (Ladhood, Pls Like) and Jonno (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen).
In a breathtakingly theatrical display of bravery and virtuosic performance, the acclaimed beatboxer recreates the impromptu rave in his living room that saved him from the brink of suicide.
A gloriously silly show... It left me light-headed with enjoyment Guardian
A play that turns into a rave? Yes please! Felix, Basement Jaxx
The future of British comedy Skinny £6
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19:00 (20:10)
Gag Reflex supported by The Royal Albert Hall in association with Pleasance
SHEEPS: TEN YEARS, TEN LAUGHS
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Join rising star Jamie D'Souza as he performs his debut stand-up show about the terrible teen emo band he was in and his first school crush. He's definitely over it. Seen on BBC3's Laugh Lessons. I guarantee anybody at the Fringe will enjoy Mumble Comedy
One 4 Review
Tight and funny set... slick, jokefocussed comedy Chortle
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JAMIE D'SOUZA: STOP DRAWING WILLIES ON MY POSTER
A show about identity, social issues, the culture wars, and epilepsy, but don’t worry there’s also jokes. Plenty of jokes. Fresh from supporting Michael McIntyre and Romesh Ranganathan, Jake Lambert returns with another 'highly entertaining hour' (One 4 Review).
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JAKE LAMBERT: LIMINAL
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The cost of presenting shows in Edinburgh has increased dramatically in 2022, particularly with regards to accommodation. Without support, the future of our festival continues to be at risk. If you would like to help secure the future of the Pleasance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and allow us to continue supporting artists, please consider donating to our brand new Crowdfunder campaign.
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19:10 (20:10) Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with PBJ Management
COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE ATTIC
19:15 (20:15)
Show And Tell in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management
YURIKO KOTANI: KAIJU ABOUT
CELYA AB: SWIMMING The stunning debut hour from one of comedy's most exciting breakthrough voices, about moving from Paris to Birmingham, finding yourself, and learning to swim at 25. Chortle Best Newcomer winner 2022 and star of BBC’s New Comedy Award. Tour support for Maria Bamford, The Guilty Feminist and St Vincent.
BBC New Comedy Award winner, Japanese Londoner Yuriko Kotani, was about to have a fresh start in life. Then 'kaiju' appeared. Featured: Russell Howard's Stand Up Central, Paul Hollywood Eats Japan (Channel 4), Mandy (BBC Two).
Great jokes, both classy and funny. A thoroughly engaging presence... a fine talent Chortle
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Berk's Nest in association with Hannah Layton Management
SARA BARRON: HARD FEELINGS
SHELF: HAIR One musical comedy double act. One highly anticipated debut hour. One bizarrely life-changing haircut.
Star of Live at the Apollo, Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee Sara Barron returns with a new hour of stand-up on smart sex, dumb kids, conception, rejection and wine-in-a-can.
Founders of The LOL Word and over 1 million views on BBC Three. Musical Comedy Awards finalists, 2020. Funny Women finalists, 2019.
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AAA STAND UP
LILY PHILLIPS: SMUT
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand new line-up. Alex Kitson: Award-winning comedian from Devon. Steffan Alun: As seen on BBC, the Welsh optimist fizzes with energy. Vitaly Volkov: Deadpan, deadly and very funny.
Debut hour from sarky Londoner and New Comedy Award finalist (BBC One). She wanted to write a show about feminism, but ended up with a bunch of jokes about her dog's vadge.
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COMEDY PLEASANCE AT EICC • CROMDALE THEATRE
19:30 (20:40)
Brendan Murphy presented by James Seabright
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ONE
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IVO GRAHAM: MY FUTURE MY CLUTTER
BUFFY: REVAMPED Seven seasons. 70 minutes. One Spike. Cult 90s TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as told through the eyes of the one person who knows it inside out: Spike. New parody from the award-winning Brendan Murphy (FRIEND - which recently won Best Play at the Worldwide Comedy Awards). BuffyRevamped.co.uk
Three years' worth of (Eton) mess to address from the prank victim/ tripe factory/Dave's 2019 Best Show and Joke nominee. Seen on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and British as Folk. A hugely enjoyable hour of standup comedy Times Suddenly has star-in-the-making coming off him like steam Telegraph
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19:30 (21:40) Glynis Henderson Productions in association with Pleasance
DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE: I WANNA BE YOURS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS In celebration of his new autobiography I Wanna Be Yours, the people’s poet Dr. John Cooper Clarke’s live show is a breathtaking rollercoaster of poetry, spoken word, off the wall chat, riffs and wicked stories drawn from his incredible life. Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon and The Bard of Salford – Dr. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon and one of Britain’s most beloved and influential writers and performers. Joined by special guests and for one night only, JCC returns to the Fringe with his ‘mesmerisingly brilliant’ (Louder Than War) new show! Still as funny as f**k Louder Than War
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19:30 (21:00) Samba Sene & Diwan
COMEDY Berk's Nest in association with Avalon Management
SAMBA SENE & DIWAN
SOPHIE DUKER: HAG
Exuberant fusion of funky mbalax/Afrobeat rhythms with undercurrents of ska and rock led by charismatic Senegalese singer Samba Sene; impassioned vocals, infectious guitar licks, irresistible dance grooves.
Sophie Duker (Best Newcomer nominee 2019) returns to crack jokes, break hearts and roast gammon. As seen on Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster and practically everything else.
Exuberant, richly layered Scotsman
Laugh-out-loud funny Telegraph Extremely funny Scotsman
Not to be missed Broadway Baby
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TARTAN RIBBON COMEDY BENEFIT The best night of comedy on the Fringe returns! Join us for a raucous night of laughter, raising much-needed funds for Waverley Care – Scotland's HIV and Hepatitis C charity. The Tartan Ribbon has become a much-loved staple of the Fringe each year. Previous acts include Michael McIntyre, Russell Howard, Katherine Ryan, Tim Vine, Jason Byrne and loads more big names. Following two years of affected services, raising both money and a smile for Waverley Care has never been more important. It's guaranteed to sell out, so book your tickets early! Line-up to be announced. £15 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • BENEATH
19:55 (20:55) PBJ Management
SEAN MCLOUGHLIN: SO BE IT
YOU'RE SAFE TIL 2024: DEEP HISTORY
International micro-star Sean McLoughlin returns with his best stand-up show. Tour support for Ricky Gervais.
In the last hours of 2019, David Finnigan's best friend prepared to make a break for home with his family before fires cut off the highway. A story of deep time and desperate consequences.
A hugely accomplished hour of stand up Time Out
Finnigan’s power over the audience is palpable Time Out
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CABARET AND VARIETY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GRAND
19:50 (20:50) Lee Martin for Gag Reflex
BEN HART: WONDER
Age Guidance: 12+
West End star and multi-award-winning magician Ben Hart returns to Edinburgh with Wonder.
Seductive, beautiful, funny, haunting and original. He fools us and there’s no one else we’d rather watch onstage Penn & Teller
Alongside his sold-out Fringe shows, Ben has performed for royalty, had dozens of UK and international TV appearances, including his own series on BBC Three, The One Show, BBC One’s Now You See It, Pure Magic; and was a Britain’s Got Talent finalist. Using only the simplest of props and the minds of the audience, Hart conjures a show that is always amazing, sometimes shocking and shines a light into the darkest corners of your imaginations...
A Master Dynamo Makes sceptics become believers Broadway Baby Highly impressive hour of technical excellence and irresistible charm... devilishly clever Scotsman Master of sleight of hand and a captivating host List
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ESHAAN AKBAR
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE: ABSOLUTE SHOWER
As seen on Mock the Week, QI and others, Eshaan Akbar comes to Edinburgh for 13 nights only. His agent wants him to tour next year, so Eshaan needs to see if he has any jokes or thoughts worth touring.
Multi award-winning comedian Marcus brings a blisteringly funny hour of stand-up. This joyful show celebrates the personal triumphs and small victories of the past couple of years... while acknowledging it has, in so many ways, on so many days, for the most part, been an absolute shower of shit. Charming, hilarious and utterly refreshing. Don't miss this incredible show Sunday Mirror
He'll have some of his best bits (they're very funny to be fair) and some new bits (their funniness TBC by you, the audience). Watch him put the ‘work’ in ‘work-inprogress’ as he gears up for his debut tour in spring 2023.
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MATT FORDE: CLOWNS TO THE LEFT OF ME, JOKERS TO THE RIGHT
TIFF STEVENSON: SEXY BRAIN
Matt Forde (Spitting Image, Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg) lashes out left, right and centre with ferocious, up-to-the-minute satire. And silly voices.
Critically acclaimed stand up, writer and actor Tiff Stevenson (Mock the Week, The Office, Game Face, ABC's The Weekly) invites you to spend an hour with a woman and her self diagnosed Sexy Brain.
Our foremost satirical stand-up... whatever your politics, you'll find excellence here Sunday Times
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CHRIS TURNER: RAP GOD
RAY BADRAN: SWEET BABY RAY
Award-winning performer with 40 million+ YouTube views, Chris Turner presents his most ambitious show yet. Jaw-dropping freestyle rap and hilarious standup combine for an hour of highoctane musical comedy.
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PLEASANCE
PATRONS
As a charitable organisation that receives no regular public subsidy, we are hugely grateful for the support we receive from our Pleasance Patrons. Our Pleasance Patrons directly ensure we are able to continue offering new opportunities to emerging artists.
Pleasance patronage comes in a range of suggested levels of donation, from Yellow to Platinum, all of which offer unique and exciting benefits dedicated to bringing you closer to our work and the artists we support. With your backing as a Pleasance Patron, we can continue to inspire, develop and nurture the next generation of creatives. If you can, we’d love your help. Email patrons@pleasance.co.uk to chat to us and find out more.
Freeman by Strictly Arts, 2018 - Recipient of the Charlie Hartill Theatre Reserve
Ad Libido by Fran Bushe, 2017 - Associate Artist
Young Pleasance, 2016
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HAL CRUTTENDEN: IT'S BEST YOU HEAR IT FROM ME After 21 years, 224 days, Hal's single again. It's all going to be fine. Instead of getting the therapy he clearly needs, he's made a cracking show about it. He's lost enough weight to almost get his wedding ring off and, while he may be flying solo, he's far from alone; he's got his grown-up daughters, his dogs and his divorce lawyer. The fickle finger of fate has turned Hal's life upside down but he's sticking a finger right back at it. Funniest he’s ever been Times The comedy gift that keeps on giving Scotsman £9 W T
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JAYDE ADAMS: MEN, I CAN SAVE YOU
BRENNAN REECE: CROWDED
Brand-new show from multi award-winning Jayde Adams, star of Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two), Crazy Delicious (Channel 4, Netflix), Snackmasters (Channel 4) and her own Emmy-longlisted Amazon Prime special, Serious Black Jumper.
Finally allowed to reconnect with human people again, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Brennan has forgotten how to do it and needs your help. As seen on Live at the Apollo. Hilarious Chortle
It's a must see Metro
Wonderful Scotsman
Times Telegraph
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JOZ NORRIS: BLINK
SIKISA: LIFE OF THE PARTY
Legendary magician Joz Norris has perfected the hardest magic trick of all time - making an entire audience blink in unison.
Sikisa is the hostess-with-themostess, the life and soul and the party don’t start ‘til she walks in. Join her for an epic house party and highly anticipated debut hour.
From the winner of the Comedians' Choice Award for Best Show 2019. Co-starring Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ben Target. Joyously silly Evening Standard
As seen and heard on Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club (ITV), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2) and the Off Menu podcast. Three-time Leicester Comedy Festival Awards nominee and BBC New Comedy Award Finalist.
A sort of absurdist Simon Amstell... He really captures the spirit of creative live comedy Guardian Totally brilliant Chortle £6 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE AT EICC • PENTLAND THEATRE
20:15 (21:15) Canal Cafe Theatre and Emma Taylor
NEWSREVUE
NewsRevue is delighted to return to the EICC to parody politics in a post-pandemic world.
Makes the viewer grateful for freedom of speech Edinburgh Evening News
This multi award-winning institution is flawlessly delivered by four outstanding performers at lightning speed and expertly accompanied by an on-stage musical director.
Satirically brilliant Guardian
From Covid to climate change, disgraced royals to the Queen's jubilee, Putin to Partygate, NewsRevue will bang to rights those in the public eye and allow you to laugh at the awful reality of current events.
Catch NewsRevue now before they exit the stratosphere Broadway Baby Sensational! Sky News BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW
‘Not even a pandemic could knock NewsRevue off its perch as the standard bearer for musical sketch comedy.’ (Fringe Review, on 2021's sell-out show.)
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FIN TAYLOR: DADDY SELF-CARE Edinburgh's favourite Guardian-approved naughty boy is back! And he's bringing with him a brand-new hour of painfully funny stand-up for 2022. Since his last visit to the Fringe, he's got married, had a kid and watched on with bemusement as comedy evolves into a platform for Generation Z to earnestly discuss their selfdiagnosed mental health conditions. So plenty to work with. As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Mash Report and more. Gleefully provocative, explosively funny Guardian
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Show And Tell
JOSH JONES: WASTE OF SPACE
MARY BETH BARONE: SILLY LITTLE GIRL
Debut stand-up hour from Mancunian ray of sunshine, Josh Jones. Since appearing as part of the Pleasance Reserve in 2019, Josh has made numerous breakthrough TV appearances and has recently supported Jack Dee, Rob Beckett, Suzi Ruffell and Russell Kane on tour. As seen on the dance floor and 8 Out of 10 Cats (E4), Late Night Mash (Dave), Dating No Filter (Sky Max), Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club (ITV) and Comedy Central Live.
Eagerly anticipated debut hour from the creator and star of Comedy Central’s Drag His Ass, and co-host of the podcast Obsessed, alongside Benito Skinner. Follow Mary Beth's journey from aspiring young starlet through to the present day, exploring growing up in the 90s, her dating history, and of course, The Cold War. A rare comic... deeply intelligent and honest Vulture
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KAI SAMRA: NATIVE Following his critically acclaimed debut and Soho Theatre Live Amazon comedy special, award-winning comedian Kai Samra is back with a brand-new hour about race, class, immigration, youth homelessness, India and, more importantly, 2010 indie-rock bands. A charismatic man with a great story Chortle It's genuinely exciting to imagine what Samra will achieve Edinburgh Festivals Magazine A star in the making Radio Ha-Ha He is going far Evening Standard £6 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • FORTH
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PATTI HARRISON One of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch 2019, Patti Harrison makes her highly anticipated Edinburgh Fringe debut. As seen and heard on I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, The Lost City, Made For Love, Together Together, Shrill, The Tonight Show, Bob’s Burgers, Bojack Horseman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and more. Poised to become the most visible working trans comedian in America Rolling Stone Unforgettably ridiculous Guardian The mainstream is now her oyster Chortle
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MUSIC PLEASANCE AT EICC • LAMMERMUIR THEATRE
20:30 (21:30) The Sorries
SIBLINGS: SIBLAGE
THE SORRIES
Character comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina Bye are back and physically bigger than ever. Watch clown, physical comedy and relatively high-level acting unfold before your tearfilled eyes. Prepare for a raucous hour of absurdist sketch comedy from two hot twins (not twins but can be for casting purposes).
With 14 years at the Fringe and a sell-out run in 2019 under their belts, the duo return with a selection from the much-loved Scottish songbook. Deliciously infectious... Riotous fun Three Weeks Authentic, lively and... hugely enjoyable Broadway Baby
Totally absurd Broadway Baby Ferociously funny Guardian
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Rising stars of British comedy Mail on Sunday £6 W T
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20:30 (21:30) & 22:00 (23:00) PBJ Management
TIM KEY: MULBERRY
Highly anticipated debut hour from comedian and junior doctor. No Scrubs sees Michael traverse the challenges of life within and outside the NHS. As seen on BBC Comedy Awards 2021, LadBible and ITV2.
The greatest stand-up response to lockdown so far Times
A sharp-witted everyman... charismatic and in effortless control Chortle
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MICHAEL AKADIRI: NO SCRUBS
Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Witchfinder, Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme) is back with an all-new show. Ruminations about the great indoors with a bit of stamping around. Velour tracksuit, continental lagers, some ‘poetry’.
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JAKE FARRELL: SKY
COMEDY SASSAFRAS
How far would you go for the people you love? Join Soho Theatre's Young Company alumni Jake Farrell as he finds out in his debut show.
A sassy ass show hosted by Richard and Greta: risque alter egos of multi award-winning, Fringe favourites Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen.
As heard on Penguin's Edinburgh Fringe Unlocked.
These two gorgeous characters welcome you into their delightfully filthy world, and introduce very special guests nightly.
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Liz Jones And Broken Windows
JERRY SADOWITZ: NOT FOR ANYONE
LIZ JONES AND BROKEN WINDOWS
Jerry Sadowitz returns with his whacky impressions of Greta Thunberg, Frankie Boyle and deep vein thrombosis. He also promises to do less hate fuelled swearing and focus more on faux liberal pish in order to appeal to the middle class and their disposable income and personalities.
Gutsy, jazzy, bluesy, roots rock from an Edinburgh band who sound like they’ve been lurking on the dark side of Memphis; with blistering guitar, sparkling percussion and classy, smoky vocals. Original songs delivered with fiery panache.
Please note that I might just do card tricks and say NOTHING for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick.
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DANCE, PHYSICAL THEATRE AND CIRCUS PLEASANCE AT EICC • LENNOX THEATRE
21:00 (22:15) & 16:00 (17:15) Freedom Ballet of Ukraine
BALLET FREEDOM
This world-renowned contemporary dance company journey from Kyiv to Edinburgh with a spectacular new show.
Credits include working in Macau with Franco Dragone, legendary director of Cirque de Soleil, and sharing the stage with Dita Von Teese, Queen of Burlesque Cabaret.
Their intimate, sensual ballet is adapted from their hit show Boudoir and directed by Elena Koliadenko.
This spectacular mix of dance, eroticism and costumes must be seen OK Magazine
This is a story about the moment in life when you come to terms with your love, your loss and your life - when you can finally see yourself in the mirror. It is full of intrigue, passion, drama, sex and beauty.
Freedom ballet from Kiev present a fast paced play about the burden of lust and love Abendzeitung
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13 perfect bodies in a smoking hot show BILD Magazine
Freedom Ballet celebrate their 20th anniversary with this stunning premiere performance in Edinburgh. They have performed over 5,000 performances and featured in some of Europe’s most iconic television programmes.
Intoxicating rhythms, wild emotions, sensual dance, stunning lights and sound create a stunning show Die Welt
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STARTING AT
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21:00 (22:00) Impatient Productions and Blue Book Artist Management
MARK WATSON: THIS CAN'T BE IT After an enormous UK and Australia tour and an Amazon special, the Taskmaster runner-up and accidental YouTube cult leader brings his most popular show so far back to where it began in last year's magical mini-Fringe. After unwisely taking a life expectancy test on an app, Mark considers where his life has got to, and what to do with the rest. An extremely high joke count. Unlike anything else I've seen in 20 years of covering the Fringe... witty, warm, perfectly judged Telegraph Legend of Lockdown winner, 2021 Chortle Times £9 W T
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE ABOVE
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COLIN HOULT: THE DEATH OF ANNA MANN
JESS ROBINSON: LEGACY Watch star of Spitting Image and multi award-winning impressionist Jess Robinson save the world in under an hour! As seen and heard on The Last Leg and The Guilty Feminist.
Colin Hoult (After Life, Netflix) is Anna Mann: actress, singer and welder (gotta have a back-up) in this, her final hour. You'll leave screaming 'f*** off, I love it!'
Slick impressions, super powered ballads Guardian
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FRANKIE THOMPSON: CATTS
BIANCA DEL RIO: UNSANITIZED
Anarchic one-woman adaptation of Cats (the musical) by 'acclaimed clown' (To Do List) Frankie Thompson. (Not about cats. Not a musical.) This clown ballet lip-syncs us through the distractions that help us cope with our increasingly dystopian reality.
Everyone's favourite ‘clown in a gown’, Bianca Del Rio, is returning to the stage. She's vaxxed, she's waxed, and she has more attitude than ever. The pandemic may be ending, but Bianca is just getting started. Fierce, funny, and fabulous, she sandblasted her name in the annals of pop culture on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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CABARET AND VARIETY PLEASANCE DOME • ACEDOME
21:30 (22:30) Paul Taylor-Mills for The Turbine Theatre
KI & DEE - ON THE SESH What started out as a living room lockdown bit of fun has quite frankly gotten out of hand. Ki and Dee are housemates and best friends who went viral during lockdown by singing silly little songs about their silly little lives (mainly their sexual frustrations, hideous dating histories, pulling all nighters in their 30s and Jack Grealish’s thighs). And now, after their sold-out London run, the gals are throwing one hell of a house party especially for Edinburgh that you don’t want to miss (until the fear kicks in at sunrise). It’s BYOB, shoes off at the front door and no plus ones unless they look like Timothee Chalamet . Part stand-up comedy, part mental breakdown, Ki & Dee: On The Sesh will be anything but boring. Best Podcast of the Week Guardian £9 W T
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MIND MANGLER: MEMBER OF THE TRAGIC CIRCLE Do not miss this hilarious new comedy from Mischief (Magic Goes Wrong and BBC1’s The Goes Wrong Show), starring Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer. Join the Mind Mangler as he returns to the stage following a reasonably good two-night run at the Luton Holiday Inn Conference Centre (Suite 2b). His new solo spectacular is predicted to spiral into chaos as he attempts to read your mind. Working with these guys was a mistake Penn & Teller Can't read an autocue, never mind a mind Financial Times Captioned: 18. BSL: 16. Audio Described: 22. £10 W T
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LEO REICH: LITERALLY WHO CARES?!
CATHERINE COHEN: WORK IN PROGRESS
At long last, self-diagnosed important young genius Leo Reich is ready to share some of his notoriously perfect opinions with the community at large. Join this ‘gloriously shallow’ (Chortle) hunk for an hour of comedy that is ‘not just funny, but rich with a sense of self-awareness’ (Scotsman). Or don’t! Who cares!
Following her Netflix special The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous, Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Catherine Cohen returns to the Edinburgh Fringe to work on a brand new comedy cabaret show. The Guardian’s Top Comedy Show of 2019. Cohen is a star in the making Telegraph
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21:30 (22:40) The Showstoppers and Something for the Weekend
SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL
The Olivier Award-winning (Best Entertainment and Family Show) West End hit returns to the Fringe!
If this is what improv can do, you wonder why anyone bothers writing anything down Times
The masters of musical improv create a brand new musical comedy from scratch every night in this multi award-winning show.
Had me weeping with laughter Mail on Sunday
Audience suggestions are transformed on-the-spot into an all-singing, all-dancing, hilarious story. Whether you fancy something in the style of Chicago in the Castle, or Matilda on The Meadows - you suggest it and The Showstoppers will sing it!
The best musical improvisation group we’ve ever come across Time Out Critics’ Choice The top musical improvisers in the business... Compulsory Fringe viewing... Just book in time Broadway Baby
A Fringe favourite and a sell-out phenomenon; your Edinburgh experience is simply incomplete without it! Book early.
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Has everything you want from a blockbuster musical – it just happens to be made up on the spot Metro
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CHRISTIAN BRIGHTY: PLAYBOY
AURIE STYLA: GREEN
Introducing Lord Christian Brighty, the country's most notorious rake. Forget Bridgerton. Forget Austen. This is the greatest love story you'll ever laugh at. Best New Show nominee, Leicester Comedy Festival 2022.
One of the UK's most charismatic comedians is bringing his latest show to Edinburgh for his Fringe debut. Question is, what does being Green actually mean? Get your belly laughs finding out. As seen on: Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club (ITV), Don't Hate the Playaz (ITV2) and Mo Gilligan's Black British and Funny (Channel 4).
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THE COMEDY RESERVE The Comedy Reserve is back for its 16th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with another four brilliant new acts, hand-picked by the Pleasance and supported by the Charlie Hartill Special Reserve Fund. This year's line-up features: Abi Clarke, Dee Allum, Katie Green and Tadiwa Mahlunge. This is your chance to discover the most exciting comedy newcomers before they become household names, from the show that helped launch the careers of Jack Whitehall, Roisin Conaty, Joe Lycett, Jamali Maddix, Darren Harriott, Sophie Duker, Nigel Ng and 57 others!
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SIMON BRODKIN: SCREWED UP World-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creator returns to the Fringe with a blistering new stand-up show ripping into his ADHD diagnosis, I’m A Celebrity rejection, barmitzvah humiliation, five arrests and one sex party. Simon's last Fringe show (100% Simon Brodkin) was completely sold out and selected by The Guardian and Evening Standard as one of their Best Comedy Shows. Hilarious Scotsman There aren't many better comedians Telegraph Stupid tosser Boris Johnson
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Off The Kerb Productions
CONRAD KOCH: WHITE NOISE
TOM LUCY: MELT After sell-out runs in 2017 and 2018, Tom Lucy is back with a new hour of razor-sharp comedy. As seen on Stand Up For Live Comedy, Roast Battle, Stand Up Central, Dating No Filter and many more.
In this highly anticipated debut hour, South Africa's top ventriloquist chats racism, apartheid and colonialism with his 'politically astute, satirically minded' (CBC) puppet Chester Missing. Conrad and Chester are double Emmy nominated. As seen on Comedy Central.
Watch him live and you'll understand the excitement Guardian There's been a lot of buzz around Tom Lucy and it's easy to see why Sunday Post
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21:50 (22:50) Katie Storey Productions in association with Avalon
CIARÁN DOWD: KING RODOLFO It’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo rises from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land. Now, with his enemies at the gates, King Rodolfo is forced to look back on his glorious reign, presiding over one of the most bloody, violent and sexy periods in history. An epically funny action-adventure and follow-up to the smash-hit Don Rodolfo. Total sell-out 2018 and 2019. Winner: Edinburgh Comedy Award 2018, Best Newcomer The funniest show you will see this year Telegraph A riot from beginning to end... a cult hit Chortle £6 W T
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RED RICHARDSON: SHOTS FIRED
SAM LAKE: CAKE
Red Richardson is one of Britain's best up-and-coming comedians. Join him as he tells the story of the most terrifying day of his life.
Debut hour from a nice young man with a 'thoroughly engaging larger-than-life personality' (Chortle). A love story about reassessing your goals when things don’t go as planned. And it’s funny. As seen on All 4 and Dave.
Utterly brilliant, honest, ridiculous, engaging, hilarious. Red is the best type of one off original. He is a master Harry Enfield
Makes for fantastic company... A thoroughly engaging largerthan-life personality Chortle
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BLOODY MARY: LIVE! Teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the mic to rehab her 'bloody' image in a gleefully vicious stand up special. Olivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show Guardian
Hundreds entered, 11 survive - now one rising stand-up star will be crowned Britain's funniest student. Previous finalists include Joe Lycett, Simon Bird, Chris Ramsey, Phil Wang, Laura Lexx, Iain Stirling and Jamali Maddix. Who'll be next?
It’s definitely entertaining, definitely enthralling and definitely showed Mary in a new light... Olivia Miller is brilliant Behind the Arras
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TAROT: CAUTIONARY TALES
The most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see. New York Times Critic’s Pick, extended six times Off-Broadway, with multiple sold out shows in London.
Come learn life lessons from five people still doing sketch in their thirties. A new show from Tarot, creators of 2019's fifth-best reviewed show and stars of Radio 4 sketch show, Soundbleed.
Exudes both wit and wisdom... thoroughly deserving of its standing ovation Evening Standard
Bark-out-loud funny... the whole show is startlingly live Guardian
Remarkable... never stops being audaciously funny Guardian £16 £14 F S S M T W T
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JACQUELINE NOVAK: GET ON YOUR KNEES
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THE MR THING SHOW The cult, comedy-TV-show show is back! Become part of the multimedia mayhem as Tom, Owen, Puppet Steve and a crew of Things assemble a live, interactive TV show every night.
The hilarious and outspoken pair will host a late night show full to the rafters of Legends. So come along and watch as they overdress, overshare, over swear and if they remember, talk about true crime.
A comedic riot Telegraph This anarchic, multimedia show has cult in its genes Chortle Well-executed tech and sublime humour Scotsman
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Comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean bring their smash hit true crime podcast, All Killa No Filla, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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22:00 (23:00) Shit-faced Shakespeare
SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out Fringe phenomenon is back with their hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with an entirely shit-faced cast member. What could possibly go wrong?An ambitious husband and wife, a trio of witches, a startling prophecy and a bloodstain that just won’t wash out. So far, so Shakespeare. So what happens when you add a drunk actor to the mix?
A great night out to get properly Pucked up. It's what Willy would have wanted Time Out I have no idea how they do it, as there wasn’t a soul in the audience who wasn’t in stitches from start to finish Broadway Baby This was laugh-out-loud funny and was a brilliant example of just how creative the team behind the show are Spy in the Stalls
Shit-faced Shakespeare seeks to introduce a new generation of theatre-goers to the works of the Bard by reviving the raucous, interactive and vibrant nature of Elizabethan theatre with a very modern twist. Remember to enjoy Shakespeare responsibly. Prithee follow us on Instagram @shitfacedshakespeare. £11
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PLEASANCE COURTYARD • PLEASANCE BELOW
Rosa Garland
EMILY WILSON: FIXED
TRASH SALAD
Sold-out run: Off-Broadway (2022).
Sex. Love. Lettuce. Join gorgeous clown Trash Salad on a genrebending burlesque adventure into her compost heap: a joyful, dirty clown opera about the messy parts of queer intimacy, that's made audiences 'laugh, cry and nearly piss.'
NY comedian Emily Wilson shares her humiliating and outrageous experience as a finalist on The X Factor USA at the disastrous age of 15. Original, fresh, and insanely funny Please Don't Destroy
Hilarious Spy in the Stalls
Funnier than everyone you know Heidi Gardner - SNL
A masterclass of clowning The Play's the Thing Captioned Performance: 22. Relaxed Performances: 4, 16 & 22.
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Edinburgh Deaf Festival is an accessible celebration of deaf culture, language and heritage. Celebrate our unique culture with deaf-led performances, including a deaf rave, family-friendly magic shows, book clubs, exhibitions and so much more. Our events will accessible in BSL and English. This is a festival for everyone.
Find out more at: edinburghdeaffestival.co.uk
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THEATRE PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE ATTIC
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difficult|stage in association with Pleasance and Sherman Theatre
Berk's Nest & Jack Rooke in association with Curtis Brown
AN AUDIENCE WITH MILLY-LIU
BIG BOYS & FRIENDS Big Boys and Friends is a silly comedy-cabaret mixed-bill from Channel 4's Big Boys: comedian Jack Rooke and character comic Jon Pointing, featuring pals from the worlds of comedy, cabaret and Costa Coffee (Waverley Station branch).
A one-man cat-drag late-night comedy about an infamous feline movie star. Come join Milly-Liu (if you dare), but be warned, she will throw you around like a half dead mouse and FFS DON’T MENTION DAVID ATTENBOROUGH! Orville the duck said: ‘She made me cum, twice... And I'm not even a cat!’
Effortlessly charming comedy Guardian (for Jack Rooke)
Recipient of the Edinburgh National Partnerships.
Deliciously daft character-comic Guardian (for Jon Pointing)
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NOBODY PANIC: LIVE Writers and comedians Stevie Martin (Breeders, Late Night Mash) and Tessa Coates (Feel Good, Starstruck) co-host their smash-hit podcast Nobody Panic live.
Banger after banger after banger. Rock'n'roll poetry at its visceral, inventive best. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You might even pull.
They tackle life’s biggest (and smallest) questions to help you become a functioning adult without screaming all the time.
Fierce, romantic, witty Stage
No topic is too great or too trivial, because we’re all in this together, guys. So nobody panic.
Scotsman, List, Time Out & Skinny Guardian, Telegraph & Mirror
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LUKE WRIGHT'S LATE NIGHT DANCE FLOOR FILLERS (POEMS)
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Bound & Gagged Comedy
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AAA STAND UP LATE
2019's sell-out improv show is back! A rotating cast of New Zealand’s best comedians (including Rose Matafeo, Laura Daniel, Nic Sampson, Eli Matthewson) perform an hour of improvised comedy, with help from their comedy friends.
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand-new line-up. Jack Campbell: Sharp, charismatic English Comedian of the Year. Michael Carter: Classic Scouse wit and contemporary observations. Ben Clover: Award-winning stand up. Comedy gold Evening Standard
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GRAND
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PLEASANCE NEWCOMER COMEDY GALA A one-off comedy extravaganza! For the past 37 years, the Pleasance has been the home of new comedy talent in Edinburgh. Check out some of the most exciting new comedians at the Fringe as they make their Pleasance debuts in this late night comedy party. Best of all, tickets are free! Line-up to be announced.
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COMEDY PLEASANCE DOME • QUEENDOME
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COMEDY Stamptown
STAMPTOWN COMEDY NIGHT
JACK TUCKER: COMEDY STANDUP HOUR
New York Times Top Comedy Pick.
Hello Edinburger!! It is meE Jack TUcker and I am coming back to mAke you laUGh at mY JOkes!! Bahahahaha!! Just like thaT!!
Fresh off sold-out shows at Netflix is a Joke, Soho Theatre, Glastonbury, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Off-Broadway in NYC, and Just For Laughs, the greatest show on Earth returns to Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Chortle
The best curated and most enjoyable experience at the Fringe Fest
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23:20 (00:20) Get Off Live Comedy
GET OFF COMEDY FUNDRAISER Get Off Live Comedy is an industry born and funded independent HR that aims to eradicate sexual harassment in the industry we love. This fundraising gala is part of a number of incredible benefits that have taken place this year to support the initiative. Get Off are indebted to the phenomenal acts who have already given their time and talent, including: Russell Howard, Nish Kumar, Sara Pascoe, Daliso Chaponda, Stephen Bailey, Rachel Fairburn and many more. Expect a corker. Line up includes: Sindhu Vee, Mark Watson and Sikisa, with more acts to be announced on what promises to be an outstanding night of comedy. If you love live comedy and hate sexual harassment, this is for you. £15 W T
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STARTING AT
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COMEDY PLEASANCE COURTYARD • THE GRAND
23:20 (00:20) IAM
JAMALI MADDIX: KING CRUD TEST Jamali Maddix is the critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice's Hate Thy Neighbour, a regular on the new series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky) and was one of the most anarchic Taskmaster (Channel 4) contestants the show has ever seen. Jamali is back at the Fringe and will be tackling more home truths and universal issues. A master of the craft, this latest show is not to be missed. Sunday Times Independent Chortle
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CATHERINE COHEN: THE TWIST...? SHE’S GORGEOUS The twist…? She’s back. Join New York sensation, Catherine Cohen, as she brings back her 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award winning show turned Netflix special for one final show. The smash-hit comedy cabaret show about living, laughing, loving and losing your debit card five times in one year returns! Cohen is a star in the making Telegraph Cohen’s performance is a force of nature Chortle Can’t-take-your-eyes-off-it-entertaining Guardian £16 (£15) W T
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No Place Like Home
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COVID FOR KIDS
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BLOOD, SWEAT & VAGINAS
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AUTOPILOT
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SOUND CISTEM
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THE MP, AUNTY MANDY & ME
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MADE IN INDIA BRITAIN
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SVENGALI
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FIJI
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FREDDIE HAYES: POTATOHEAD
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PUSH
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BADASS
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CAPTAIN JAKE AND THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND
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PERIOD DRAMAS
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POLES: THE SCIENCE OF MAGNETIC ATTRACTION
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SHONA THE MUSICAL CHOIR
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TODAY I KILLED MY VERY FIRST BIRD
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MAN SHED
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SPEED DIAL
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EVERYTHINGLESSNESS
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BROWN BOYS SWIM
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CLASSIC!
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FLANDERS AND SWANN
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ARTHUR SMITH: MY 75 YEARS AT THE...
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NOBODY PANIC: LIVE
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PAYDAY PARTY
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BEN MOOR
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OPAL FRUITS
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME
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BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY VOICE
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BREATHLESS
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LOOK AT ME DON’T LOOK AT ME
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MURDER, SHE DIDN’T WRITE
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STARSHIP IMPROVISE
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THE TRIAL
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BLOCK’D OFF
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CLOSURE
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EH UP, ME OLD FLOWERS!
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CHARLIE RUSSELL AIMS TO PLEASE
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AARON SIMMONDS
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SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE
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THE SUITCASE
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WILL DUGGAN
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SWARM
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HEADCASE
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LUKE WRIGHT: THE REMAINS OF LOGAN...
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BOGEYMAN
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BALLET FREEDOM
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FILLS MONKEY: WE WILL DRUM YOU
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FLADAM’S MUSICAL COMEDY HOOTENNANY!
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LET’S TALK ABOUT PHILIP
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CHARLOTTE JOHNSON: MY DAD AND OTHER LIES
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BORIS THE THIRD
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DELICIOUS FRUIT
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A DARK PLACE
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RAJIV KARIA
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IAIN DALE: ALL TALK
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MY LOVER WAS A SALMON IN THE...
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RICH HARDISTY
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THE GREATEST HITS OF LILY AND JOHN
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THE TWENTY-SIDED TAVERN
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NIC SAMPSON
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SKANK
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ALISON SPITTLE
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KWAME ASANTE
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HEAD SET
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IRVINE WELSH’S PORNO
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SINDHU VEE: WIP
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LUCY PORTER
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RAPSODY
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THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS...
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NICK HELM
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VIR DAS
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FATA MORGANA
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HELEN BAUER
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MASTERCLASS
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BRITNEY
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MOVIN’ MELVIN BROWN
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CRYBABIES
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CHLOE PETTS
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NINA CONTI
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ROSIE HOLT
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TIM VINE
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TESSA COATES
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MORGAN REES
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PROJECT DICTATOR
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ANY SUGGESTIONS DOCTOR?
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CIRQUE BERSERK!
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MISCHIEF MOVIE NIGHT
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THE UNICORN
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CHRISTOPHER BLISS
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LUKE KEMPNER
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MOVIN’ MELVIN BROWN
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FAST FRINGE
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BELLA HULL
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ADAM HOLMES: HOPE PARK
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DEAN OWENS: FROM LEITH TO TUCSON
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FLAMENCO FUSION
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NICK MOHAMMED
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SHEEPS
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SK SHLOMO: BREATHE
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JAMIE D’SOUZA
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YURIKO KOTANI
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CELYA AB
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SARA BARRON
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SHELF
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AAA STAND UP
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LILY PHILLIPS
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BUFFY: REVAMPED
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DEAN OWENS AND THE SINNERS
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DR. JOHN COOPER CLARKE
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SAMBA SENE & DIWAN
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SINDHU VEE: WIP
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SOPHIE DUKER
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TARTAN RIBBON COMEDY BENEFIT
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YOU’RE SAFE TIL 2024: DEEP HISTORY
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BEN HART: WONDER
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SEAN MCLOUGHLIN
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MATT FORDE
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CHRIS TURNER
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SIKISA
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FIN TAYLOR
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KAI SAMRA
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MARY BETH BARONE
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PATTI HARRISON
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SIBLINGS
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TIM KEY
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COMEDY SASSAFRAS
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BALLET FREEDOM
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JERRY SADOWITZ
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LIZ JONES AND BROKEN WINDOWS
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MARK WATSON
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TRAINSPOTTING LIVE
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COLIN HOULT
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JESS ROBINSON
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FRANKIE THOMPSON
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BIANCA DEL RIO
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KI & DEE - ON THE SESH
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MIND MANGLER
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SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL
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LEO REICH
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CATHERINE COHEN: WIP
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CHRISTIAN BRIGHTY
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SIMON BRODKIN
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THE COMEDY RESERVE
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CONRAD KOCH
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TOM LUCY
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CIARÁN DOWD
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SAM LAKE
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RED RICHARDSON
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BLOODY MARY: LIVE!
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CHORTLE STUDENT COMEDY AWARD FINAL
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JACQUELINE NOVAK
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SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE
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TAROT
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TIM KEY
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ALL KILLA NO FILLA LIVE
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THE MR THING SHOW
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EMILY WILSON
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TRASH SALAD
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AN AUDIENCE WITH MILLY-LIU
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BIG BOYS & FRIENDS
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NOBODY PANIC: LIVE
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LUKE WRIGHT’S LATE NIGHT DANCE FLOOR...
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MURDER, SHE DIDN’T WRITE
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SNORT
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AAA STAND UP LATE
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PLEASANCE NEWCOMER COMEDY GALA
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JACK TUCKER
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STAMPTOWN COMEDY NIGHT
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CATHERINE COHEN
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GET OFF COMEDY FUNDRAISER
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JAMALI MADDIX
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See individual show listings for Accessible Performance type: Audio Described, BSL Interpreted, Relaxed, Captioned, Touch Tour. All our spaces are wheelchair accessible.
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Thank you to all our partners...
The Pleasance has been hosted at the Courtyard and Dome by Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) and The University of Edinburgh. We would like to thank all at EUSA and the University’s Festivals and Estates offices, The University Chaplaincy and The Centre for Sports and Exercise. We are also hosted in the Dome by the Royal Medical Society. We have worked in partnership with EUSA for almost 40 years. Whilst we build and programme the theatres, EUSA run all of the bars and catering. It is an extremely valuable partnership and we are grateful for their continuing support. This year, we’ve got incredible food on-site from The Beach House, Pizza Geeks, Mint, Luxford Burgers, and Barnacles & Bones, plus a Stewart Brewing Craft Beer Bar in the Rear Courtyard.
Pleasance is proud to be supported by:
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The best curated shows on the Fringe, from Assembly, Dance Base, Gilded Balloon, Just The Tonic, Pleasance, Summerhall, Underbelly and Zoo Venues