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Comedy 24 John-Luke
Roberts
The absurdist comic at his weirdest and most moving best
Theatre
The team behind Queens of Sheba on staging black female experience
37 Angry Alan
Playwright Penelope Skinner makes her Fringe debut with this take on toxic masculinity
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8 16
The cabaret performers who make a living from being someone they’re not
Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus
48 Cold Blood
Four stars for this cinematic dance show at the Edinburgh International Festival
Cabaret & Variety
50 Briefs
Kiri Pritchard-McClean and Jayde Adams on fulfiling their musical theatre dreams
Dazzling boylesque with a political edge
Musicals & Opera
54 My Left/Right Foot
A hilarious and irreverant look at the politics of inclusion
60 David Baddiel’s AniMalcolm
The animals are the stars in this adaptation of Baddiel’s children’s book
“We need a play for black women”
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CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
12:30pm – 1:40pm
A powerful exploration of pervasive misogyny, anchored by a phenomenally unsettling performance by Adam Lazarus, this show made waves in Canada for its blunt depiction of toxic masculinity and now it’s ready to leave its mark on Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart.
Pleasance Courtyard
3:15pm – 4:15pm
A coming-of-age love story set in the Suffolk countryside, Songlines rides a wave of gentleness and empathy for teenage awkwardness. Led by two fantastic debut performances, and backed by live music from award-winning folk group Trills, Tallulah Brown’s play is witty and wistful.
41 Lothian St
6pm
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Assembly Hall
7:15pm – 8:30pm
Love, dance and scantily clad Australians – what more could you want?
Boylesque with a political edge, Close Encounters combines dazzling costumes, spectacular choreography, and top-notch set design for a show that feels as essential as it does enjoyable. Also, trust us – you’ll want to enter the raffle.
Pleasance Courtyard
9:45pm – 10:45pm
A fantastically confident—and hilarious—debut, this set is an invigorating blast of late-night laughs. Her mother, her body, and her birth are all on the table as Snedden gives a whistle-stop tour of her life. An impressive finale justifies the newcomer’s bulletproof self-belief.
One of very few Fringe shows by an all-black creative team, Queens of Sheba explores the experiences of black women living in modern Britain. Its writer, adaptor and director tell Claire Heuchan why the play is so needed
“We need a play for black women”Photos by: Guy J Sanders
It’s a rare thing for black experience to take centre stage at the Edinburgh Fringe, but the Queens of Sheba are ready for the spotlight.
The play, by theatre company Nouveau Riché, offers a whirlwind tour of black women’s lives in modern day Britain, dealing with everything from the sexual politics of interracial dating to the complexity of what it means to love hip hop as a black woman when the lyrics so often demean you. Through the Queens’ eyes, the audience sees the highs and lows of being black and female. During rousing musical numbers, there is real joy as the Queens lift each other up in sisterhood. There is also raw pain and frustration at being exposed, again and again, to misogynoir – the double whammy of racism and sexism to which black women are subjected.
Queens of Sheba is an overtly political story, but it’s also a compelling one. Ryan Calais Cameron, who co-founded Nouveau Riché and adapted the material for stage, is certain that Queens of Sheba has something to offer everyone. “No matter what race you are, what creed or colour, you understand that there’s a passion in it and a beautiful story being told, so you want to be part of this experience. It doesn’t isolate anyone. It’s not screaming at anyone or telling people off, it’s asking them to come on this journey with us.” He has managed to strike that fine balance between art and politics. “My job was making sure that it was still a play. And this play is about allowing people to have their room, allowing black women to take their space.”
Director Jessica Kennedy was influenced by seeing a production of Calais Cameron’s Timbuktu – a play about the texture of black men’s lives in modern Britain. She describes the production as the “realest, funniest thing I’d ever seen”.
But even when black British experiences are given air time, men’s stories are usually the default. Kennedy knew from the get go that she wanted to create a theatrical snapshot of black women’s lives. “I thought: we need a play for black women because we’ve got experiences that we want to share too. I don’t think a lot of people know what we go through or see our side to the story.”
The power of Queens of Sheba lies in its authenticity. The director was inspired by interviews researching misogynoir – in particular an interview with a woman involved in an incident at the DSTRKT nightclub in London, when black women were denied entry for being too dark and too fat. For this project Kennedy organised focus groups of black women to share their stories – an experience she describes as “phenomenal”. Jessica Hagan then wrote spoken word pieces inspired by those focus groups, which Calais Cameron put together for the stage.
“There is a demand here for actors and actresses of colour”
Queens of Sheba was first performed at Camden People’s Theatre in London, to audiences where people of colour were in the majority. Coming to the Edinburgh Fringe—a largely and, for some, notoriously white arts festival—could have been a risk. But Kennedy describes the Fringe as a breath of fresh air. “Our third show sold out, which speaks for itself. There is a demand for black women’s stories to be told.”
Queens of Sheba has since sold out again and Kennedy is hopeful that the play’s success will encourage other women of colour to perform at the festival. “Maybe other black or Asian actresses looking at Edinburgh will think they won’t fit in or people won’t want to see their work, but I don’t think that’s true. There is a demand here for actors and actresses of colour.”
Theatre is a powerful way to spread a message, an encouragement to the team. Kennedy is optimistic that black women will find comfort in knowing they’re not alone, and hopes other people will be encouraged to challenge racism and sexism after seeing Queens of Sheba: “I want for everyone to
stand together in solidarity against misogynoir when they see it happening.”
Calais Cameron wants to change hearts and minds too. “If you’re a white man who fetishises black women, or if you’re a black man that doesn’t respect black women, then I want you to be feel uncomfortable, to question that and realise, ‘I am doing something that’s wrong and I need to change’. I think theatre can do that – it can bring about change because it’s educational as much as it is entertaining.”
Whether or not Queens of Sheba will bring lasting change to the Edinburgh Fringe remains to be seen. But it is significant that a show with a completely black cast and creative team is making waves here. With two sell-out performances to its name, and the likelihood of more to come, Queens of Sheba has found a home here. In Edinburgh the Queens are telling their stories. And in Edinburgh, people are listening.
/︎ Claire HeuchanVENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 6:50pm – 7:50pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10-11
With tribute shows filling the Fringe programme, Tim Bano talks to performers about the challenges of interpreting famous songs and singers
“Never look behind the curtain”, is singer and songwriter Stewart D’Arrietta’s advice. When it comes to musical icons, he suggests, it’s never worth looking too hard at how they became iconic.
But it’s advice that D’Arrietta is ignoring, along with a number of artists at the Fringe this year, as they interpret the songs and styles of some of the all-time greats. From Kylie Minogue to Tom Waits the programme is filled, once again, with shows that do exactly what D’Arrietta advises against: looking behind the curtain, delving into the lives of legends, and embodying them on stage.
Still, D’Arrietta knows whereof he speaks. His show Belly of a Drunken Piano began life as a Tom Waits tribute around 2005. His voice was a perfect match for Waits’s—rough-cut, growling and smoky—and the show had a successful run in SoHo in New York.
But in 2010 D’Arrietta got a cease and desist letter from the famously litigious Waits claiming that he was being impersonated. “It was a 50-seat theater in SoHo –it wasn’t like I was playing on Broadway!” he says.
He had to create a new show, including songs by other people so Waits would back off. And when he did the first performance of the reworked show, Waits’s lawyers were there in the audience.
Had D’Arrietta deliberately been impersonating Waits? “Maybe I put a bit too much gravel into it when I was originally doing it,” he suggests, “and I don’t do that as much today. But I always spoke about him in the third person.”
Moving away from a straight Waits celebration, D’Arrietta’s show now includes interpretations of songs by Joe Cocker, Ian Dury and others.
His Leonard Cohen tribute, My Leonard Cohen, played the Fringe last year to great acclaim, but he
wasn’t planning to include any Cohen songs in this new show – not until he got the poster back from his marketing person. “She’d put Leonard Cohen’s head on it. I said, ‘Darling I’m not doing any fucking Leonard Cohen’. She said, ‘You are now’.”
Eliza Jackson’s show—the first she’s written, and her Fringe debut—tells a ghost story. Or, rather, a story about a ghost. Marni Nixon ‘ghosted’ many of the greatest singers and movie stars of all time, dubbing the voices of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and many more.
But very little is known about Nixon. So when Jackson found herself housebound after an operation last year, she decided she needed something “to keep my brain active so I wouldn’t go mad”. The Voice Behind the Stars is the result.
She describes it as “a play with songs”, imagining Nixon at home, with an interviewer and a cup of tea, chatting about her life.
“She was an incredible imitator. Deborah Kerr, who famously played Anna in the film version of The King and I, worked with Nixon for months. Nixon was in the studio, learning how to speak like the person she was dubbing, copying their singing voice. Audrey Hepburn ended up driving Nixon to the studio everyday for My Fair Lady and they would mimic each other in the car.”
Hepburn sang all of the lower register Cockney bits in the film, Jackson explains, but Nixon came in for the soaring high notes. “Nixon would jump in halfway through a line. I have spent hours trying to hear the difference and you can’t tell.”
Nixon was even able to imitate a singer’s particular vibrato style, slowing it down or speeding it up to
match. So if Nixon was such an astonishing mimic, the problem for Jackson is how to imitate the imitator.
“I lived and breathed her for about a year. I’ve broken down every line, written them out phonetically. I am having to manipulate my voice to sound like her. But at the same time it’s my take on her voice.”
Kylie, he’s captured Annie’. No, I’ve not! I even speak in an Australian accent! I think it’s because they’re being hypnotised. But I guess that’s the magic of theatre, the suspension of disbelief.”
From full immersion into a character to a light paddle in the shallows, what unites these tributes is how popular they are. So what’s the appeal? Why do they regularly sell out?
When it comes to D’Arrietta and Waits, it’s partly because Waits rarely performs live, so shows like Belly of a Drunken Piano are the next best thing.
Michael Griffiths, on the other hand, isn’t too fussed about exact imitation. His celebrations of Annie Lennox and Madonna have been incredibly successful at the Fringe—and across the world—and this year he’s turning his talents to the legend that is Kylie Minogue.
In Songs by Kylie, Griffiths tells stories from Kylie’s life interspersed with interpretations of some of her hits. “It’s a love fest. Because those songs – fuck, they’re good.”
While huge amounts of research went into the Annie Lennox and Madonna shows, which he wrote with his best friend Dean Bryant, the Kylie show didn’t take nearly as much learning. Griffiths already had “every Kylie CD. I had singles on cassette”, he says with a laugh.
Sitting at his piano, wearing a tux, Griffiths comically insists he is Kylie, or Lennox, or Madonna but actively makes no effort to sound like them. “Otherwise the audience is judging the success of the impersonation. That becomes what it’s about. I remove that entirely.”
“Now and then a reviewer will say, ‘He’s captured
For Jackson, it’s because her show has “all of the songs you could possibly want, from West Side Story to The King and I, The Sound of Music, Marilyn Monroe.”
And Griffiths suggests it’s down to the histories that get stirred up by the classic songs. “You don’t know what baggage they’re bringing.”
Besides, he adds, “someone like Kylie, and those songs – it’s just the most joyous thing.”
SHOW: Michael Griffiths: Songs by Kylie
VENUE: Assembly George Square Theatre
TIME: 5:20pm – 6:20pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10-12
SHOW: Belly of a Drunken Piano
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 6:15pm – 7:15pm, 2–26 Aug
TICKETS: £15-16.50
SHOW: The Voice Behind the Stars
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 2pm – 3pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10-11
“Those songs – fuck, they’re good”Michael Griffiths ›
‘Invigorating and totally mesmerising’
Like most friendships these days, the dynamic behind the trio of Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jayde Adams and Dave Cribb began with a love of Hamilton. The all-conquering Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway smash was blaring out of the stereo on a car journey back from a gig in Cardiff and PritchardMcLean and Cribb were singing along.
“Then we moved onto Les Mis, and then some Disney I think. Anyway, we realised we both loved musicals, and we quickly reeled off a list of loads of other comedians we knew who also did,” remembers Cribb.
“Secretly.” Pritchard-McLean interjects. “And wouldn’t it be great if they had a chance to fulfill their dreams?”
“The first name that sprang to both our minds was Jayde [Adams] for obvious reasons, so we got her on board to host with Kiri,” Cribb says. “You can’t have a camp, feelgood musical extravaganza full of costume changes without Jayde Adams,” adds Pritchard-McLean.
They took this new show idea to the Best Newcomer nominee, who also happens to own the best set of
Comedians Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Jayde Adams team up with musician Dave Cribb to bring you the surprisingly tuneful side of your favourite standups
pipes on the comedy circuit. Adams was a little skeptical at first but was soon convinced. “I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what was going to happen but I tend to say ‘yes’ to most things, and from the off, it’s been magic!”
Amusical had been running at the Backyard Comedy Club in East London before its first outing at the Fringe last year. Cribb remembers it fondly: “If you’d have come last year you’d have seen Aisling Bea in full lederhosen; a rendition of ‘Cell Block Tango’ [from Chicago] by the likes of Sara Pascoe and Ellie Taylor; with some superb acting by James Acaster; and Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Richard Gadd duetting with Michelle McManus.’
When it comes to comedians stepping outside their comfort zones, Amusical is doing something a little different from that other Fringe favourite The Wrestling Though Max and Ivan’s uproarious mash up of WWE and standup is quite the spectacle, it’s also inextricably tied to the toxic masculinity inherent in the brutal ballet of professional wrestling. Amusical on the other hand gives comedians a
relative safe space (little to no elbow dropping here) to do something they’ve always wanted to, with Pritchard-McLean and Adams alongside as pushy theatre mums offering strong words of encouragement and, in Jayde’s case, some delightful, homemade musical-inspired costumes.
Though the idea of comedians singing their favourite tunes from their favourite musicals may sound like a disaster waiting to happen, Cribb, Pritchard-McLean and Adams have all been impressed, not only with the enthusiasm that various comics have brought to the show but also their abilities. But who’s been the best?
“Hmm, I reckon Nish [Kumar]? The lad really has a set of pipes on him!’ proffers Pritchard-McLean. Adams meanwhile has a list as long as your arm: “Spencer Jones is just ‘wow’ with his Fagan, The Birthday Girls have a choreographer and are incredible, Alfie Brown has an amazing belt, Zoe Lyons absolutely stormed it, and London Hughes stole the whole show.”
Alongside the aural delights, Amusical is at heart funny people singing their favourite songs, and as such, there’s a lot of fun to be had. As Cribb, band leader of Dave Cribb and the Quavers, reminsices, “Josie Long did a rendition of the ‘[Tonight] Quintet’ from West Side Story where she played all the parts, which had me crying with laughter. It was almost impossible to keep up as a band but it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.”
They’re keeping tight-lipped about who might
be performing at this year’s gala show at The Grand, and the trio are convinced that it’s not just comedians who secretly love musicals. “Everyone has a favourite musical, even if you hate musicals,” says Adams. “There will always be one you don’t hate!” Pritchard-McLean chimes in, channeling her role as co-host of the All Killa No Filla podcast: “Yeah, it’s like serial killers. Everyone’s got a fave even if they’re not that into them generally.”
For Cribb, it’s not the musicals per se, but the communal spirit of Amusical that wins people over: “It’s right at the end of the festival for the performers, so it ends up feeling like a big school play where everyone’s really trying their hardest and blowing off steam.” /︎
John StansfieldSHOW: Amusical
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 11:30pm – 12:30am, 22–23 Aug
TICKETS: £15
SHOW: Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 8pm – 9pm, 1–27 Aug
TICKETS: £8-10.50
SHOW: Jayde Adams: The Divine Ms Jayde
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 1–27 Aug
TICKETS: £10-13
Kieran Hodgson is now a Fringe staple with an established following, having produced two Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated shows in Lance and Maestro. This new show, ‘75 (4 stars), follows in their style of detailed storytelling. Hodgson tells us the 2016 EU referendum result caused a schism in his family, so was a microcosm of British society.
But we’ve been here before, he tells us, and 2016 was merely “the cover version”; in 1975 Britain voted—by a much clearer margin—to join the European Economic Community (EEC). Why were we so keen to join then, but so divided now?
So, like the bookish nerd he is, Hodgson took himself off to a library and, helped by a kindly German librarian, he read voraciously about the politicians of the era and the arguments for and against joining the EEC.
What follows is sometimes more like a witty university lecture than a comedy show, but the laughs are plentiful, and Hodgson rolls out a vast range of impressions of British politicians of the era. Ted Heath, Harold Wilson, Enoch Powell and many more are here. Hodgson has unearthed some fascinating nuggets, not least that Heath, who took the UK into Europe, was once in charge of an execution squad in the Second World War to shoot a soldier accused of rape. Heath understood from first-hand experience what a united Europe was capable of achieving, and what depths a divided one could stoop to.
It’s not all dusty books, with Hodgson bringing history alive as he imagines The Beatles advising Harold Macmillan on British foreign policy, and French President Charles de Gaulle reincarnated as RuPaul. Or, most memorably, Labour Party infighting shown through the medium of dance in West Side Story. There’s no big finish and, as becomes clear, no real emotional danger in the show’s framing device, but the laughs keep coming. And you learn a hell of a lot about the UK’s place in Europe.
If the written word is at the heart of ‘75, then the spoken word is at the heart of Lost Voice Guy’s Inspiration Porn (4 stars), his first at the Fringe since he won Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year. Only his voice, of course, is through a synthesiser controlled by his iPad. Lost Voice Guy, aka Lee Ridley, has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak.
Lost Voice Guy detests the kind of inspirational quotes you see framed in people’s homes; those are peppered throughout the show, and mocked accordingly. Disability doesn’t make him or anybody else nobler, he says, and he makes clear: “This is not an inspirational show.” What it is is a frequently laughout-loud hour, with the one-liners faring better than the long-form jokes delivered by the computerised voice, which doesn’t do ironic or sarcastic tones.
Lost Voice Guy talks with wit and insight about his love life, and why a recent relationship failed. But he doesn’t expect or want our sympathy, as he undercuts his tale with a few knob gags, given extra frisson by being spoken in “posh old man” tones. He reuses some of his material from his run on Britain’s Got Talent, but this hour showcases Lost Voice Guy in a more rounded way. He can swear, of course, and he delights in being unPC – he takes down the “super humans” trope about Paralympians for instance, and has devised disabled versions of board games (everyone gets free parking in Monopoly).
But it’s his political material that hits home; Lost Voice Guy doesn’t hold back in his criticism of the Government’s cuts for benefits and services for the disabled. And that it’s done through his version of disability Top Trumps—is he more or less disabled than Stephen Hawking was?—shows what a talented
comic he is.
Moon is a two-man sketch group made up of Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin, who describe themselves as two proud sons of England’s provincial backwaters. Chisnall and Dolphin are keen to signal that they are not chinless-wonder, private-school types, although they met at university and are Oxford Revue alumni. But they tell us several times that they are proud provincials and this show, Moon (3 stars), comes from a dark place.
They start their hour by ordering an Indian takeaway online for the audience – someone has to have the super hot curry, of course, while far too much rice is ordered. The skit, which has its payoff at the very end of the show, forms a sort of framework for what follows: loosely (sometimes very loosely) connected sketches that range from very clever to incomprehensible. Their stag weekend skit is the show’s highlight, taking its time to set up and develop the gag, and delivering a payoff that is as unexpected as it is funny. Other sketches—a middle-class street dealer selling unusual contraband, and a reunion between a father and son—also go off at pleasing tangents.
There’s a lot of filler here, too, but Chisnall and Dolphin both act well and have mercifully little of the nice guy/nasty guy or friendship-falling-apart double-act tropes. This is a solid debut hour. / Veronica Lee
The United States isn’t exactly united right now –no thanks to the jaundiced jowlfest running the joint. The place is so riven with division, there’s crazy talk of a new civil war.
Underground Railroad Game (4 stars) looks back to the last one. Casting audiences as middle schoolers, it revolves around a (genuine) educational game that involves imparting the history of slavery by having students smuggle black dolls from classroom to classroom. “We learn about history by living history,” says an excitable teacher Stuart. “Will you reaffirm or rewrite it?”
Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard argue, pretty convincingly, that we’re unwittingly reaffirming even as we profess to rewrite. Two teachers—one white man, one black woman—enact a serious of crass skits about a Quaker helping a plantation runaway across the Mason-Dixon line. It’s a narrative that throws focus on its white saviour and, 150 years on, the teachers’ own blossoming relationship, born of a flirtatious exchange of racist tropes, echoes that uncomfortable framing. “We’re moving history forwards,” Stuart tells his other half Caroline; she’s outwardly smiling, but squirming inside.
Though it’s not helped by hype—the New York Times hailed it among the best 25 plays of the last 25 years— Underground Railroad Game offers an incisive look at persistent ingrained racism and its accompanying shame. With a sharp comedy that sticks its finger in raw wounds, it builds to a startling scene of self-flagellating sadomasochism.
Performed by a real-life couple, their bodies on show, it’s a teasing piece that toys with the edges of reality and representation and, if the knowingly presentational style grates, it blurs the boundaries between the teachers’s school skits and their sex lives. The point—and its one woven through a tight Traverse programme—is that education, like art, has real-world effects.
America’s schools are anxious places. Martin Zimmerman’s OnThe Exhale (4 stars), written in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, follows a women’s studies teacher petrified that her campus could be hit at any time. Every knock on the door brings a flicker of
Traverse Theatre, times vary, various dates between 2 Aug and 26 Aug, £21.50
Traverse Theatre, times vary, 2–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £20.50
Summerhall, 5:15pm – 6:15pm, 1–26 Aug, not 2, 6, 13, 20, £15
For some reason, America’s the focus of a lot of shows this year. It’s awful curious. Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe Americana’s just all the rage. OR MAYBE ITS BECAUSE THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDCART…
fear. Every class has its “most likely candidate”. She worries anti-gun stickers designed as deterrents will act as a trigger.
It happens nearby—at her son’s primary school— blowing her life to bits. Desperate to understand his killer’s psychology, she turns to the shooting range and finds herself seduced. Zimmerman’s writing lingers on an assault rifle’s allure: the “obsidian stare” of its barrel, the adrenaline rush of kickback. With an NRA-supporting senator in her sights, will she take up arms in order to stop others doing the same? Does that make her another destructive deterrent?
With its thrillerish tone, On The Exhale establishes its inevitable course too soon, but a scrupulous, sometimes studied script keys into the white noise of grief. Polly Frame gives it both barrels as a woman breaking apart in a taut staging by Christopher Haydon, the director of Grounded – another monologue about a woman mesmerised by a violent machine. Frankie Bradshaw’s spare set forces her to tread carefully: its fragile fluorescent lights suggest a floor strewn with bodies, but also that the Stars and Stripes are falling apart.
Our Country (3 stars) reminds us why guns are so ingrained. Back in the Wild West—a land of sharp-shooting bandits and sharp-clawed wild
bears—weaponry was once a vital way of life. In parts it still is and, like Underground Railroad Game, Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff’s off-beat verbatim pieces shows that the old ways stubbornly persist.
Saunders’ brother is a marijuana farmer out west, a place where people “have more guns than teeth”. Legalisation has triggered a “modern-day gold rush” that sits in a legal grey area overseen by corrupt cops. Beneath an outsized bedsheet fort—a childhood country of its own—she and actor Max Hersey don headphones to re-enact the siblings’ long, looping phone conversations about his troubles with the law.
It promises more than it can possibly deliver. The duo embody two sides of a split nation—coastal liberal and latterday outlaw—but Our Country becomes bogged down in personal history and strife. Fascinating as her brother is, with his authority issues and a longstanding death wish, he stands for neither an American culture, nor a Greek tragedy – no matter how often Saunders alludes to Antigone. If the show never entirely interrogates its veracity, Saunders slowly realises they’re two sides of the same coin and that life in America, with two tracks and no safety nets, can turn on a dime. Your fate comes down to the luck of the draw. / Matt
Trueman Credit: Ben Arons Photography
Anyone interested in seeing the human body in all its raw splendour ought to make a bee-line to ZOO venues. (Some)Body (3 stars) by— take a deep breath—Alyona Ageeva Physical Theatre PosleSlov from Russia, and UK-based choreographer Dam Van Huynh’s DEP constitute an unofficial double bill of nude dance.
What’s more, these two ensemble works can easily be seen back to (naked) back without breaking into a sweat running between the respective stages. The show’s creators have adopted radically different approaches to the presentation of flesh and bone. The net effect? Highly complementary.
Let’s start with the Russians. PosleSlov was one of my ‘finds’ at last year’s Fringe, the company’s work emitting a flavour—modest, devotional, at times almost artlessly artful—quite unlike anyone else’s. These qualities are present in (Some)Body, a show that comes across like living sculpture and mime given a benign, post-hippie spiritual overlay. It’s a calm and curious ceremony, unfolding as an episodic series of poetic/symbolic tableaux for an imperturbable, unrushed cast of six. For them, being unclothed is an unabashed, utterly natural state. Their movement is pretty basic, mainly consisting of statuesque poses or fairly rudimentary actions, and touch is minimal. The lighting is low-key, with an amber glow that highlights skin tones. The score, meanwhile, swings smoothly from classical to New Age-style tracks.
The pace of the performance is somewhere between hypnotic and lulling. If occasionally things seem a tad slack or amorphous, it’s plain that the cast’s focus is more on being than performing. (Revealingly, they don’t bother to cover themselves at the curtain call: their bodies are not costumes.) And there are lovely moments. When the smallest female dancer kneels centrestage three women surround her, each gathering a handful of her long brunette hair and stroking it as they sing. Although the untranslated vocal could be stronger, their unforced delivery is appealing. Afterwards the lone man in the piece, a truly handsome specimen, gently lifts the petite woman up into his arms and slowly exits. Their trusting, mutual tenderness is beautiful. Later the fellow executes brief jumps, landing with ankles crossed; his contained athleticism is gratifying. At the close he and Ageeva (a thin, articulately bony blonde with a wonderful just-hatched expression) face each other like a neo-Adam and Eve engaged in a
simple but resonant exchange of energies.
The contrast with DEP (3 stars) is striking. Here we’re acutely aware of the weighted meatiness, strength and fragility of the remarkable, six-strong cast’s bodies as they grapple with each other, and struggle through the work’s desperately visceral abstract drama. DEP was inspired by ideas of death and rebirth sourced from Van Huynh’s Vietnamese heritage. This nub notion has been both impressively distilled and (over)extended to nearly an hour of running, carrying, rolling, collapsing and juddering. The dancers haul and drag each other about. Some slap their own flesh. They lay flat and jerk on the floor in what could either be some sort of apocalyptic death throes, a distressing orgasm, or both. It’s altogether challenging, blunt and frequently brutal stuff, and that includes Martyna Poznanska’s invasively loud, gruelling sound design. (And then the strobe light kicks in – yikes!) DEP has depth, but ultimately it is entirely subjective how illuminating all the sound, fury and self-indulgent suffering is.
ZOO remains one of the leading venues for dance on the Fringe, but there are healthy little pockets of activity elsewhere. Now based in Scotland, the American choreographer Éowyn Emerald has made recurrent and always welcome visits to Greenside. Her latest Fringe foray, Éowyn Emerald and Dancers (3 stars), is a mostly seamless, hour-long showcase for a cast of four—including Emerald, who is probably the one with the most fire in the belly—that plays out rather like the dance equivalent of a concept album. The dancing, set principally to a pleasingly eclectic
string of indie-rock tracks from the likes of alt-J and The Lumineers, is loose-limbed, highly tactile and sometimes intricate in its reach for virtuosity. There are a few clunky bits but the overall impact is fresh and likeable, and enough to make you wonder how Emerald would fare with a bigger playing field. At times her dances seem ready to burst the seams of a space barely able to contain them. She might also benefit from other production resources, including a proper costume budget. What the dancers wear isn’t tasteless, just merely functional.
On Emerald’s heels comes a show called Elicitations (2 stars) by a company called Hack Ballet. Ambitious the programme may be, but it’s also somewhat amateurish. The first chunk of the bill, entitled ‘To The Edge’, is described as being about “searching for adventure, following your inspiration and being pulled back towards belonging and home”. These vague motivations are at best fitfully realised by a cast of five, the choreographer Briar Adams among them. Two other pieces are offered up, both again saddled with lofty and fuzzy intentions. But there are usually discoveries of some kind to be made at a Fringe dance show. Here it was plain that it was the young Hulya Levant who was the one to watch for the sheer, concentrated pleasure she derives from dancing. Attila Andrasi, another lone male, evinces a confident sweep in his movement but too often without enough of a sense of personal character. He’s also saddled with a dreadful trouble-couple duet for him (beleaguered) and Adams (clingy). Still, they both survive it, and so do we. /
Donald Huterastars and trying to make sense of the crushing infinity of space; it’s about the Spice Girls. To be fair, it’s mostly about the Spice Girls.
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It’s futile to try to describe a show so clearly devoted to avoiding the easy salve of narrative neatness. What’s this about? It’s about horrible old crones; it’s about the Romans; it’s about humans looking up at the
This freewheeling escapism, though, is tightly and cunningly wrought. There’s a repeated conversation with God which serves as punctuation in what could be an overwhelming array of characters. And despite this cast of thousands, each is beautifully delineated. John-Luke Roberts’s vocal range, in particular, is a joy. That’s all wrapped up in a challenge he sets himself at the start that he can make us laugh at something entirely mundane. It’s no spoiler in a gushing five-star review to reveal that he more than meets this challenge. Genuinely, it’s hard to believe it’s possible until it happens.
There’s an explanatory section,
a manifesto on the importance of absurdism, which on balance Roberts keeps just the right side of lecturing. It’s totally worth the risk, providing a route into a style that could be quite alienating. Absurdity, Roberts tells us, isn’t just fun but is vital. We cling, sometimes bitterly and dangerously, onto stories because they help us comprehend the world and make us feel safe (subtext: Brexit). We can, though, be helped to question the ways we construct reality, to delight in the “laugh of not understanding, of wonder”.
John-Luke Roberts for Prime Minister would be a terrible idea. The country would resemble something between a nuclear winter and a Dalí painting. Surely, though, there’s room for a junior minister for the absurd? / Evan
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TIME: 8pm – 9pm, 2–26 Aug
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Adulting is a show about how hard it is to act like a grown up when you look like an oversized toddler.
It’s also a show about the importance of family. One recurring character is her dad, who has autism. Storrie reels off stories about
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TIME: 2:45pm – 3:45pm, 1–26 Aug, not 15
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Christianity frequently gets dissected for laughs and there’s a long tradition of comedy in Jewish culture. But of the three Abrahamic religions Islam isn’t often mined for jokes. In fact it’s often said that comics are too scared to touch it in case a fatwa wings its way over.
But Eshaan Akbar is endeavouring to change that by blasting through the common misconceptions of Islam and the Koran in Prophet Like It’s Hot
Last year’s debut show Not For Prophet introduced Akbar’s life as the son of a Pakistani father, Bangladeshi mother and with a former career as a banker. This year he delves deep into his former
sticky social situations her and her dad have got into and explains in her refreshingly upbeat style how they have affected her. She relays anecdotes of anxiety and sleeplessness, but all with a smile, as if she’s just stood in front of a group of friends.
Storrie has faced some adversities, but she never has a bad word to say about anyone. She champions the weirdness of her family; there’s no anger or resentment or shame at any moment, just honest love for them. A highlight is this comic’s clear knack for spotting idiosyncrasies of character. From
faith. Though there are gags aplenty throughout the show—and sharp, incisive ones at that— Islam isn’t the butt of the joke. Maintaining respect for the almost two billion people worldwide who are Muslim, he sheds light for the benefit of his audiences who are, let’s face it, largely white folk from Christian cultures. With this intelligent, measured response he moves through the five pillars that form its base and the commonly misinterpreted aspects
mimicking head tilts to accents, Storrie piles on the ridiculousness. But not only is this show about family and personal experience, it evolves into a discussion about the welfare of women and the importance of not being ashamed or scared to get a smear test. Storrie’s no-nonsense delivery is a breath of fresh air in this field: no preaching, just encouragement and support. It’s a laugh-out-loud, candid look at the challenges of growing up and being a woman in this day and age. She deserves, and seems ready for, a much bigger audience. / Becca Moody of modesty, Sharia law and alcohol consumption.
It’s a finely balanced show: comic, well researched and tightly constructed, before pulling back to poignantly end on a deeply personal note. The only downside is that those who truly need this enlightenment—the frothing-atthe-mouth Islamophobe or the part-time bigot who reads the Daily Mail—aren’t likely to come in the first place. Which is a damn shame. / Marissa Burgess
VENUE: Subway
TIME: 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 4–25 Aug, not 14, 21
TICKETS: FREE
Nick Doody is a fearless performer. He seems to have consciously sidestepped the relative glamour of high profile Fringe venues and instead chosen to lodge himself in the bowels of the Subway nightclub, a near unworkable space with terrible acoustics and a noisy bar. He really has to work to get the
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 9:45pm – 10:45pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £8.50-11
As a bellwether for our supposedly woke times, Suzi Ruffell is compelling. Openly lesbian, working-class and with mental health issues, she nevertheless appears to have all the charismatic stage presence and quality of material required to break through into the wider public consciousness. Might she be allowed into the select club of Oxbridge-educated gays who dominate British broadcasting? Seems unlikely, she suggests, a situation that can only further stoke her anxiety as she tries to walk the line between being alternative and mainstream.
Nonetheless, a bit less Richard Hammond on the box and more of “The Ruff Stuff” would certainly
audience—scattered across this cavernous room—on side, and it’s a pleasure watching him do so.
The premise of this show is that Doody has been invited back on the road as a support act for Dave Gorman, under the condition that he tailor his act for younger audience members attracted by his friend’s TV exposure. This prompts our hero to explore the parameters of what might prompt audiences to feel uncomfortable, not in terms of language or contentious issues, but in relation to everyday concepts and attitudes. The show’s opening piece makes
us all incredibly uncomfortable, though nothing about it could be considered offensive. Doody is making a genuine if unconventional attempt to gauge the limits of what audiences can reasonably be expected to tolerate.
As our hero readily admits, this show has a distinct work-in-progress quality to it, but that’s part of its appeal. While other shows purport to ‘explore’ their chosen subjects, only to lightly brush against them, Doody is genuinely, actively curious and prepared to risk baffled silence as he carries out his investigations.
/ Lewis Porteousfeel like progress. Even if Ruffell can mockingly dismiss the Top Gear presenter’s inexplicable description of ice cream as gay, she can’t quieten the voices in her head keeping her awake in the small hours. A people pleaser, bowing to peer pressure to join in on discomfiting wildlife excursions while touring Australia, she’s also something of a pity case, invariably placed next to the only other single lesbian at a wedding.
However, while her slick material on the blood sport cruelty
of television dating shows is as broad, populist and inclusive as it is incredulous, she’s politicised by the personal. Her burgeoning television success brings out the trolls – online, in the live arena and, even, her family. Useful idiots for the tongue-in-cheek lesbian agenda she’s pushing, they also set up her closing protest at Disney’s heteronormative bias. Nocturnal is somewhat bitty and goes for easy targets at times. But it certainly advances Ruffell’s cause to be acknowledged.
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TIME: 3pm – 4pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13
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He’s been sober for three years now but on the surface there aren’t any obvious impacts to the sheer vigour of Tony Law’s comedic delivery. A Lost Show may be a performance without alcohol but it’s certainly not a show without Law’s trademark turbulent energy.
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 7:15pm – 8:15pm, 1–26 Aug
TICKETS: £8-10
A disclaimer: at no point in her debut Fringe hour Heidi vs Sharks does Heidi Regan grapple with a great white. In fact, turning up and expecting that is virtually the only way you could be left disappointed. It’s a charming, wonderfully weird show that promises a bright future for the Aussie comic.
Following up her victory in last year’s BBC New Comedy Award was always going to be a tough ask, but she’s managed to match the hype and develop her act to new heights. Using an infantilised PowerPoint to guide us through a timeline of every shark movie ever (spoiler – it’s all downhill after Jaws), she turns her niche passion into endearing, curious standup. It’s ostensibly a whistle-stop tour through the evolution of the genre, but that’s
Referencing to aspects of previous shows as though he has no recollection of them, at times it feels as though Law is an entirely new man. He certainly has a wiser and more collected vibe in general, and the show reflects this by having much less surreal, sporadic material. Instead, he alludes to more typical conversational topics such as family and heritage in the flickers between foghorn impressions and accent switching.
Law flirts with the idea of opening himself up fully to analyse his previous downfalls, noting how alcohol affected both how he peronly half the story. She shifts into autobiographical territory with a surprisingly personal account of her own “timeline”.
The sharks are a mere conduit, you see – a comedic Trojan horse into her life. The result is a perfectly-weighted mix of silliness and heart, segueing between the merits of Shark Attack 3 and her
formed his shows, and his personal life. It’s this self-awareness that takes A Lost Show away from being just an entertaining shambles. It adds a genuine childlike positivity that could uplift the most sorrowful of souls.
He’s still got all the usual chaotic gimmicks. The reveals of some of these don’t go to plan. As a result, an exciting, unsure energy arises from simply not knowing when or how this show is going to end. Law himself suggests that he doesn’t know where this plane is going to land, but that’s the thrill of it. /
Becca Moodyfear of a privatised NHS with ease. She claims to be a slow burner, but it doesn’t take long to be won over by her endless enthusiasm. She could transpose the shark gambit into a timeline of just about anything and the core appeal of her act would remain. On this evidence, the titular contest has a very clear winner. / Matthew Sharpe
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 1–27 Aug
TICKETS: £10-13
They say that you should play to your strengths, and in new show The Divine Ms Jayde Jayde Adams has certainly done that. Creating a musical based on her life story with songs centred around the Bristol earthquake (‘Where Were You?’), tricking awards panels with emotion (‘Cry on Stage’) and body positivity (‘Beauty in Obesity’), she make full use of her fantastic set of pipes and self deprecating manner. Teaming up with Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer: The Opera) the pair have built a hilarious mock opera for the ages. There might be high production values but this is still the lo-fi Jayde that audiences love
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 1–27 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £8-10
Owen Roberts’ latest show is co-written with his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter Isabella and frankly she deserves a raise. The hour is a high concept cop-out where Roberts asks for help with writing his Edinburgh
– zero airs and graces with both an obsessive love for show business and a dismissive attitude toward the ludicrousness of it all.
She’s living her best life, and if that involves sticking her boyfriend (veteran comic Rich Wilson) in a black morph suit then so be it. This is Jayde’s show and you’re never in doubt who’s in charge. Thomas may have helped with the composition of the pieces, and
show as payback for all the times he’s nailed her homework. What he recieves in return is comedy gold from his prodigious ghost writer. Roberts mentions at one point that Isabella realised that she was doing a lot of the work for his show. Since comedy pays (slightly) more than schoolwork, she should be getting a cut of the profits. The pair eventually settled on a 90:10 split in his favour.
The problem is that she isn’t here at the Fringe and thusly can’t see how much she has undervalued herself. Isabella consistently scores the big laughs and whenever her voiceover is away too long you start to wonder when she’ll be
even Wilson pitches in with a great little number (‘More Than a Gimp in a Suit’) but Jayde is undoubtedly the star. The only downside to her down-to-earth attitude is that she creates a too-conversational tone in between belting out the musical numbers. As a result, set-ups and punchlines get lost amongst audience chatter. Still, it’s a great show. To quote the Bristolian, "Gert lush". / John Stansfield coming back with more of her surreal tangents. Roberts has crafted a decent show that delves into the collaborative and creative process more than most, but Isabella is the true star, inverting the form and constantly offering up logistical solutions to what Roberts sees as insurmountable problems.
It does feel gimmicky at times and it’s a little disengenous for Roberts to decry anything that comes from his co-conspirator, as that’s the main selling point of the whole show. But when he does show heart toward the end it is genuinely affecting. If there’s a sequel, Isabella should really negotiate a higher fee. / John
StansfieldVENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 3pm – 4pm, 1–26 Aug, not 4, 11, 18, 25
TICKETS: £10-11
One of the lesser-discussed delights of the Fringe is wandering out of a show having inadvertently acquired heaps of new knowledge. Ashley Blaker’s Edinburgh debut features more facts about ultra-orthodox Jewish life than most of us would ever casually come across anywhere else. Even those with an extensive understanding of Blaker’s subject may well emerge with new information, due to a hilarious section involving unfortunate acronyms, late on.
Until recently, Blaker was chiefly known as a TV producer, his biggest success being Little Britain Matt Lucas features in one of the enlightening passages here, about Blaker’s awkwardness taking TV meetings, while now being strictly
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@ The Pear Tree
TIME: times vary, 2–26 Aug, not 14
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Olaf Falafel—children’s illustrator and eighth funniest Swedish comedian, by his own report— found fame making six-second clips on the deceased viral video website Vine. It shows in his standup – it’s weird and wacky, and often very funny, but random and rapid-fire. Short, scattergun
bursts of comedy.
As a result, it’s very hit and miss. His hour, the gloriously named There’s No i in idiot (surely one of the best show titles going), is a jumble of absurdist one-liners, ironically twee observational stuff and audience work with a surrealist tinge.
Some of it works well. Like "Biscuitology", a recurring segment in which Falafel determines an audience member’s character based on their favourite biscuit, horoscope-style. Or his big finale, a Spencer Jones-ish summoning of the ghost of The Cure frontman Robert Smith (still alive, don’t worry).
Other bits are decidedly ropey.
forbidden to shake a woman’s hand (Lucas helps by gleefully announcing the issue in advance: “Go on, stick your hand out, see what he does!”)
He wasn’t always so observant, but has an obsessive personality, which previously led him to religiously follow Liverpool Football Club around Europe. Becoming more serious about his actual religion just sort of happened, too. The details of that transformation frequently inform and amuse, from soliciting help with light switches to not being allowed a TV when you work in it.
The show does sag when Blaker veers into more actively comedic routines; factual points with punchlines are his strong suit. But he still has that late trump card, of orthodox institutions accidently using wonderfully rude acronyms. Screening those leaflets and websites elicits a fascinating response from his audience; half howling, the other half whispering awkward explanations to each other. We’ve all learned something today. /
Si HawkinsWhen he dips his toe in the murky waters of racism, there’s a collective clenching of arseholes in the audience. His material—a riff about dolphins being racist—is okay, but only okay.
The real flaw with Falafel’s show is in its lack of fluency. This hipster pirate/forgetful circus strongman/ Neanderthal with an ASOS account (his own descriptions) hops from topic to topic, style to style, like a kid in a candy shop. He still hasn’t quite got a handle on his own material, which exacerbates things, but even if the show gets smoother as the festival continues, it’ll still be a pretty bumpy ride. /
Fergus MorganVENUE: Heroes @ The Hive
TIME: 6:20pm – 7:10pm, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22
TICKETS: £5
Stepping outside of her madcap characters this year, Marny Godden has invited us to Marny Town to take a peek at the inspiration behind some of her most lunatic ideas. It’s a look back across her life from a small girl harassing boys on the beach to finding love on a clowning course. For anyone who has seen Godden before and is worried she has become accessible, no chance. By the end you’re still largely none the wiser, but with a Godden show, wondering what the hell is going on
is all part of the fun.
Godden started off in sketch troupe The Grandees, then went on to create some larger-than-life characters. Last year’s winner was the endearing punk One Tooth, who makes an appearance here too, along with an old Jewish guy who’s fond of dancing, and the fellow clown Godden falls for.
Godden’s skill lies not just in the creation of these characters, who seem to form in a special part
of her imagination, but in selling them to a crowd. The action is so ridiculous at times that Godden lets out a giggle, but not taking herself entirely seriously is the way she creates great warmth and camaraderie in the room. A solo show this may be, but by the close half the audience have been on stage and the rest of us have been called upon to do something from our seats – it’s a group effort. / Marissa
Burgess
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 5:15pm – 6:15pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £10-11
Alison Spittle belongs to a select sub-group of Fringe comedians who are well known in their native Ireland, but have barely any profile in the UK or further afield. Spittle readily admits to having the “horn for getting on TV” and has succeeded in doing the rounds at home. Recently she got to make a sitcom for national broadcaster RTE, and much of this set relates to her experience of life in something resembling the public eye.
Spittle doesn’t take it as a given that we’ll come to the show familiar with her body of work—or even recent Irish politics—and patiently contextualises the majority of her routines. Rarely are her punchlines
VENUE: Just the Tonic at The Caves
TIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm, 2–26
Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £6
“Many breads!” hollers Alice Marshall during one of the more interesting segments of her multi-character hour, this one involving a woman of Eastern European extraction who conceals a selection of crusty items about her person. Unfortunately this show feels decidedly half-baked.
worth these briefings. She offers some valid and well articulated points about the media and the viewing public’s preoccupation with physical perfection, but the anecdotes she shares with us really aren’t especially compelling.
Whenever opportunity to explore interesting concepts arises, the comedian swiftly moves on to another topic. Having a distant family member criticise your work on social media must provoke some interesting emotions, but
we’ll never know for sure as Spittle glosses over this revelation. Similarly, discovering that your relative fame has brought you fans whose politics are diametrically opposed to yours could justifiably form the basis of a full show, yet is referenced only in passing. What we’re ultimately left with is a superficial introduction to Spittle and her career aspirations, with little material justifying the exposure she seems to be getting. / Lewis Porteous
The Strike is really a good halfhour, stretched out all too thinly; more of a comedy fajita. Marshall is clearly a hugely talented performer but is stranded with scant material here, and most characters outstay their welcome. Her haughty flight attendant is fun, and the setup for her switches is reasonably effective: lightning strikes the mythical plane, causing us to barrel through time and space.
The show hits trouble as soon as she goes behind the curtain, however. The between-scenes videos are well made, but hardly original: one random sequence features Pierce Brosnan’s infamous rant from the film Taffin, which was milked dry by Adam and Joe years
ago. Then it’s onto a hackneyed old Hollywood mini-mogul, who spends far too long rambling on before we belatedly reach the amusing but done-to-death movie re-enactment.
Bread Lady is intriguing but saddled with a curious futuristic backstory, presumably to make her accent less offensive. Perhaps most effective is Marshall’s retro housewife, who takes advice from a genuine old manual to keep her borrowed-from-the-audience husband happy. That works, but then just dissolves into dancing, and the whole show eventually fizzles out. Which is a shame, as there are promising ideas here. Let’s all just call it a work in progress and try again next year. / Si
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VENUE: Traverse Theatre
TIME: times vary, 2–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20
TICKETS: £20.50
At a desk in a darkened, neon-lit room, a woman tells her story. Her voice is captivating—oscillating peaks of gentle tenderness and boiling sexuality—and her story follows the same pattern. She has a loving wife and a young adopted son whose behavior appears to be a problem, yet she wishes to cast off these responsibilities for a raw
sexual affair with a man she meets. This woman has been bereaved three times in quick succession, and her hurt and confusion are beginning to affect her mental health. Parallel to her personal revelations, the play opens a window upon her working life, an internationally sensitive position whose moral compromises she can no longer separate from her own morality. This is a woman living on the edge and threatening to take down those around her.
Recast from its earlier presentation with writer and director David Leddy in the lone acting role, Coriolanus Vanishes crests on the waves of a nuanced and captivat-
ingly powerful performance from Irene Allen. The play was written to be performed by either a male or female actor, and it would be interesting to see Allen’s performance in a double bill with Leddy’s.
Thematically the play feels a little overloaded at times, surging between the international arms trade, parenthood, sexual betrayal, bereavement and mental health issues. Yet the design team of Becky Minto, Nich Smith and Danny Krass have done outstanding work to match Allen’s performance, and the very final second of the show offers a finale more heart-stopping than any other on the Fringe. /︎ David
PollockVENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 6pm – 7pm, 2–26 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £10-11
The show begins in joy, as four young women dance casually around the stage even before the audience have taken their seats. Within minutes, once the music has stopped, one of them has told us about her being stripped at gunpoint during a burglary while she was abroad. It’s a heart-freezing moment of human fear and sympathy but—this wonderful show
VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 3:20pm – 4:20pm, 2–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £13-14
Finally, Roger has found direction. Thanks to his new online guru, Angry Alan, he’s found a name for his oppressor, someone to blame for the loss of his job, his divorce and generally for feeling bad about himself – "gynocentric feminism". He’s ready to throw off the shackles of discrimination.
If you give a man enough rope, he’ll hang himself, which is exactly what this play, written and directed by Penelope Skinner, does. Several months after the start of #MeToo and #TimesUp, she distils every argument of the Men’s Rights Movement into a monologue that succeeds at being as depressing as it is lethally funny.
Every so often, a female voice breaks in—Roger’s girlfriend, for
seems to say from deep within its bones—it isn’t a reason for the dancing or the joy to end.
That Lydia Higginson is telling her own autobiographical story is reason enough for the audience to find their hearts in their throats, but the manner in which this touching and vibrant piece of work has been brought to life escalates it to another dramatic level. Higginson has achieved some level of viral fame through her blog Made My Wardrobe, with which she traced her attempt to dispose of her off-therail clothes and sew her own entire wardrobe in a year. She did it partly for ecological reasons and partly, as we discover, to distract herself away
from what must have been a long period of post-traumatic stress. She’s joined here by her three best friends from school: singer Nobahar Mahavi, artist and dancer Olivia Norris, and theatremaker Josie Dale-Jones, the head of producing company ThisEgg. Through a sophisticated combination of dance, song, dramatic vignettes, costume changes into Higginson’s own creations (each apparently representing an idealised self-image of her own womanhood), the audience is left with something unexpectedly lively and joyful, a declaration of strength in sisterhood and in women owning their own image and experience. /︎ David Pollock
example, or a journalist he encounters at a conference organised by Angry Alan—but it’s the ruthlessly efficient layering of one false equivalency on top of another that fires this play. Complex grievances are blamed on feminism, because it’s easier.
As played by Donald Sage Mackay, Roger is the bewildered buyer of the angry, male American Dream. As his own life slides, the wilderness of the internet acts as
a Rorschach test of distorted facts and paranoia in which he can bury himself. The real-life YouTube clips incorporated into the show are farcically tragic.
A gut-punch ending casts gloom over the possibility of an optimistic outcome for society’s current struggles. The fragility of the male ego is at work here. If, after watching this, you find yourself asking: “But what about…” look carefully at why. /︎ Tom Wicker
VENUE: The Lyceum
TIME: times vary, 3–12 Aug, not 7
TICKETS: £17
In some ways, Waiting for Godot is critic proof. Samuel Beckett’s estate takes a dim view of any deviations from the playwright’s original stage directions, resulting in productions that look and feel very similar.
Beckett’s hapless drifters Estragon and Vladimir, vainly awaiting the arrival of the titular Godot, have also become a staple of secondary school English and
drama lessons. It lends the play an air of familiarity, even if you’ve never seen it before.
But Druid Theatre’s nimble staging still finds life in the writing by avoiding the temptation for whimsy.
Director Garry Hynes catches the rise and fall of the play’s rhythms – the forlornness of its coy dance with our need for meaning.
Designer Francis O’Connor’s approach to the play’s spare staging—a rock, a twig of a tree—has the off-kilter feel of a Magritte painting. The landscape is cracked and parched. It’s a desolate backdrop that heightens the humour’s unforgiving edge.
Aaron Monaghan and Marty Rea bring a sharp, intriguingly sour
VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £9-11
If you’ve ever watched a sitcom or movie and felt irritated by the lack of quality lines rationed out to the female cast, then this comedy from Roxy Dunn should prove a much needed tonic. Yes, it bears the name of its sole male character, but he isn’t the focal point of the play’s action so much as a burning effigy onto which the scabrously funny writer and star douses petrol for the best part of an hour. Timmy isn’t a battle of the sexes, so much as a decisive victory.
Events unfold as a protracted argument between a dysfunctional couple. At various stages throughout the play, they are an
item, contrite exes and co-dependent friends. Roxy’s character Judith initiates most of the dialogue, pushing and prodding her evasive and non-committal foil. We’re sympathetic toward the curiously compatible couple, even with Timmy distinguishing himself as an oblivious manchild.
A decade older than Judith, Timmy’s increasingly obstinate and undignified refusal to plan for
edge to Estragon and Vladimir. The pent-up exasperation in their performances deepens Vladimir’s growing sense of futility. With Rea’s seemingly endless legs, they also deftly handle the physical comedy.
Rory Nolan is also memorable as the puffed-up Pozzo, whose two appearances reflect the play’s cyclical nature. As the ironically named Lucky, his hapless slave, Garrett Lombard conveys the hardship but doesn’t as vividly capture his warped, scuttling dehumanisation.
Waiting for Godot can work as anything: an allegory for tawdry human history or an existential joke about storytelling. This polished production creates plenty of room for either. /︎ Tom Wicker
the future is the deserving source of his partner’s exasperation. The former’s relentless put downs are provoked by Timmy’s passivity, so always seem justified. Yet while she emerges victorious, this isn’t a moment of triumph for Judith. Both she and her love interest are left acutely aware that refusing to make choices is ultimately more limiting than committing to courses of action. /︎ Lewis Porteous
VENUE: Scottish Storytelling Centre
TIME: 6:30pm – 7:30pm, 1–11 Aug
TICKETS: £13
Too often we (and by trying to land all reviewers in this habit, I of course mean just me) say that a performer “breathes life” into a character. Not so with Moira Bell: she’s already live and kicking, a fully fledged woman from the brain of performer/writer, Alan Bissett, and an absolute joy to spend time with.
At first glance, the cigarette dangled in the crook of her hand, and the hip popped in a pair of formidable thigh-high boots paint a cariacature of tough-as-nails working-class women. What singles out The Moira Monologues from lazier contemporaries, though, is the sincerity Bissett brings to his character. Moira’s not a screeching
crone or to be poked fun at. Her world is fully formed.
Bissett’s monologues don’t centre in on any life-changing moment, either. Rather, it’s the nuances of everyday life which are captured in Moira’s broad Scots accent. As somebody who doesn’t understand the grasping need to be something more, it’s Moira’s quotidian activities that are allowed to draw focus. Granted, a brief reminiscence on
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 1:45pm – 2:45pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £10-12
Only even numbers make the room stop spinning. 10. 12. 14. 16. In an hour-long monologue, WEIRD examines the uninterruptible strain obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) puts on a person’s life. For Yasmin (Amy Rose Doyle), OCD means voices in her head and repetitive negative thoughts.
Having quit her second year of
university early because of her mental health, Yasmin heads home. Back in Bolton, she bumps into people she used to know in Tesco, and teenage insecurities resurface. Inferiority reigns as she compares herself to others, telling herself she will never be as good, pretty, smart or thin as her best friend Hazel. Yasmin’s mind turns ideas to facts and facts to threats, and her OCD feeds into an eating disorder. Her brain tells her belly that only numbers can make her feel full.
Narrating us through her school and home life as grief couples with her disorder, Doyle slips into each character she introduces us to with ease. She confidently holds our
romance lost feels somewhat rote, and it’s a shame within a series of fresh tales to find anything that comes off as predictable. Bissett uses this hurt and puts it to good use later, enabling the audience to see growth without any momentous occasion. This is her life, take it or leave it. And with jokes peppered through Bissett’s spirited performance, the audience are more than happy to take it. /︎ Louise
Jonesattention, managing to charm while simultaneously getting across her desperation. The direction is limited but the storytelling is clear. Though Lucy Burke’s writing sometimes tips into cliché, the script has delicate moments; finding out Yasmin’s younger sister has 999 on speed-dial is particularly gutting. As a debut, it shows particularly strong understanding of character. WEIRD touches on how tough it is not just for Yasmin, but for her family too, desperate to help but unable to know how. Perhaps this debut play will be the start of an important conversation for another family in the future.
/︎ Kate WyverVENUE: Pleasance Dome
TIME: 10:50pm – 11:50pm, 1–27
Aug, not 14, 21
TICKETS: £9-11
Paul O’Donnell has written a musical. A giant of a musical with celebrity casting, huge sets, confetti cannons and trombones, inspired by the mighty masterwork of Jon Bon Jovi. But Fringe slots are only an hour, so... With a charmingly self-effacing humility, O’Donnell hilariously pitches the full production to us in snippets of sound, precision dance moves and personal reflection. It shouldn’t work, but boy, it does!
O’Donnell is a deceptively accomplished theatre-maker. He has penned an unashamedly feel-good show and, what’s more, makes us realise why we need to feel good, and why audiences keep choosing the all-singing all-dancing escapism of big budget musicals. This
VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: times vary, 1–26 Aug
TICKETS: £6
The clue to this new immersive show by Darkfield, the company responsible for last year’s nerve-jangling Séance, is in the name of a missing passenger: Mr Schrödinger.
Yep, there’s a massive in-joke when you step into the container outside Summerhall and take your seat in a nicely realistic recreation of the interior of a plane. We, the audience, are all the cat in the Austrian
is not a gratuitous gimmick, but the thorough work of a superfan – complete with a philosophical underpinning so often evident in fandom creations.
If people are unfamiliar with the hyper-stereotyped tropes of commercial musical theatre O’Donnell parodies, the show’s pastiche risks coming across as just cringeworthy cultural misrepresentation – the faux-Español used by several of his narrated characters, for example, teeters on the bounds of acceptability. A familiarity with the big-budget Broadway genre will also help with some of the theatre-industry in-jokes.
Performed almost entirely by one physicist’s thought experiment, existing (in theory) in a quantum state until we’re let out again.
It’s a neat synthesis of physics with people’s paranoia about flying. Who hasn’t felt a bit like they’re neither dead nor alive until they’re safely back in an airport terminal?
A flight is also a transition between places, which the show links to the idea of alternate universes.
We’re pitched into darkness, reliant on headphones to evoke the off-kilter world of our increasingly metaphysical flight. Darkfield successfully twists standard cabin announcements into uncannily disturbing, whispered warnings.
man sitting in a nondescript chair, reading from a brown ringbinder, We’ve Got Each Other nonetheless transports us through emotional scenes and dramatic revelations. The supporting role of ‘Techie’ brings additional humour to the meta-theatrical script and, yes, we even get a sing-along moment.
Mic technique will, hopefully, strengthen as the show runs in, minimising the lip-smacking and sudden spikes of volume that distract a little from the otherwise solid delivery. When O’Donnell sings snippets of the imaginary audio-described action, extra delight is added to an already delightful hour. /︎ Katharine
KavanaghThe show also squeezes in some humorously surreal jabs at universal passenger grumbles, like an escalating chorus of bawling babies. It’s hilariously—and, you suspect, intentionally—similar to sitting next to someone complaining at the theatre.
But where Flight falters is in generating an intense enough level of anxiety to give wings to its darkly comic voyage into existential dread. There are some mild hydraulic bumps along the way, but the fear is more in the idea than in the experience. It’s definitely an entertaining ride, but one that feels a little too grounded. /︎
Tom Wicker
VENUE: Pleasance Dome
TIME: 5pm – 6:30pm, 1–27 Aug, not 8, 15
TICKETS: £11-12.50
A woman, a gay man, a Jamaican and an African-American meet in a wood. This isn’t the start of a joke, but the premise of Nichola McAuliffe’s new play. Set during World War II, they are an unlikely group: the Queen Mother, the actor Ernest Thesiger, the Queen’s butler and an African-American solider. All four have different ways of coping with injustices the world imposes on them because they had the audacity to not be born as white men.
This is a polished, naturalistic play addressing issues of privilege and oppression and how these play out in countries divided by race and class. The British characters cannot comprehend racial segregation, whereas the American soldier never encountered white people
VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 1–26 Aug, not 2, 13, 20
TICKETS: £10
Fifty years ago, the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr published A Fortunate Man, a book documenting the six weeks they spent shadowing a GP working in the Forest of Dean. It went on to become a seminal text in medicine. Fifteen years later, the doctor committed suicide.
Both a tribute to the people
who treated him like a human being. The white British characters make no mention of poverty and speak positively of the Empire in front of the Jamaican butler. An epilogue which fast forwards to the present neatly puts the scenes from the past in the context of the current American racial and political landscape, though the play suffers from too much exposition and a slow beginning.
The performances are excellent. McAuliffe plays the Queen Mother working tirelessly to heal this country and to those struggling with mental health conditions, this multimedia adaptation of A Fortunate Man fittingly honours the 70th anniversary of the NHS. Projected photos from the book show rural landscapes of rolling hills, picturesque farmhouses and a doctor at work. The serenity sharply contrasts the accidents and ailments the doctor encounters, which are narrated by two performers. The care and dedication he has for his patients, the entire population of the isolated village, is touching. It also draws attention to the pressures doctors work under today – too little time,
with a stern authority that keeps the other characters in check. She endows the woman with gravity and power that she manipulates to her own gain, from on-stage characters to those only heard through voiceovers. The soldier (Tok Stephen) is convincingly tense and angry, fed up with racism from fellow soldiers and desperate to start a revolution. His emotions and ideology clash with the others – it’s in this conflict that understanding is eventually found. /︎ Laura Kressly too few resources and too many budget cuts. If we as a society are not careful, more doctors will suffer the same fate as the doctor in this story.
Michael Pinchbeck’s staging is too busy, with some unnecessary slow motion sequences. There’s a lot to see, from a scattering of fallen leaves to a sprinkling of shredded paper, that don’t contribute much to the production. It’s lovely to look at, but adds little. The portrayal of this country doctor is warm and timely. With the NHS under increasing pressure to meet higher targets with less funding, it’s important to appreciate those who keep us well. /︎ Laura Kressly
VENUE: Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
TIME: 12pm – 1pm, 2–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22
TICKETS: FREE
John Lewis is a middle-class British retail chain. John Lewis is also a computer science teacher in America. Another John Lewis is a black congressman in Georgia who fiercely opposes Donald Trump.
The Twitter handle @johnlewis belongs to the second of these John Lewises, and his patience with tweets sent to him about late deliveries and the current American political landscape is a thing of wonder. Using real tweets from @johnlewis’s feed, satirical performer Simon Jay looks at individuality on social media in this gently funny sketch show.
Billed as a theatre show, though
VENUE: Zoo Southside
TIME: 3pm – 3:55pm, 3–18 Aug, not 8, 15
TICKETS: £12-14
Wordlessness speaks volumes in Century Song: an attempt to redress the untold history of black women in the 20th century. On a bare white stage, soprano Neema Bickersteth sings shapeless sounds and unfolds a series of expressionist gestures. Behind her, video projections roll through the decades as decor shifts, fashion mutates and art charts
much more of a series of sketches, Jay plays a range of characters. From the John Lewis behind @ johnlewis as a beleaguered teacher whose students relentlessly nag him about his Twitter account, to annoyed customers, to the retail chain’s social media team, Jay uses them to loosely consider the importance of identity online. This thematic thread isn’t fully developed, and there’s scope for more commentary that ties the sketches
together more firmly.
Jay is an engaging performer with a good sense of comic timing. He has a warm demeanour rather than a cold and spiky one. His brand of humour elicits chuckles rather than belly laughs and ends on a positive note instead of one of cynicism or despair. It’s an intimate show that makes a big theme personal, though the clever show concept isn’t totally integrated with the theme. /︎ Laura
Kresslychanging times.
It’s not an easy watch – more a performative installation or action than a piece of theatre per se. Incomprehensibility is partly the point: when a portion of history hasn’t been written down, it becomes that much harder to get your head around it. Instead, we rely on instinctive interpretation; a vague sense of what Bickersteth’s voice and body seem to convey.
Loose narrative threads start to cohere: a woman who starts in a natty servant’s dress, her hands resisting the pull to scrub the floor, transforms, Cinderella-style, for the Roaring Twenties. Sixty-odd
years on, she’s a suited city exec spinning between skyscrapers in a cyclone of work. If images of labour recur, they crisscross with leisure. One video sequence slides through the shifts in home tech: old TVs to tablets, vinyl to earbuds.
There’s a stern beauty to it all, albeit undercut by some naff computer graphics, but Century Song remains an intellectual experience, rather than the felt one it wants to be. In weaving through a century of change, it all ends up looking and sounding much the same. There’s meaning in that, mind: has anything really changed for black women?
/︎ Matt Trueman
VENUE: C venues – C aquila
TIME: 6:30pm – 7:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £7.50-9.50
Loneliness is the modern epidemic, explored with tongue-in-cheek charm in Jessica Palfrey’s When the Friendship Has Sailed . Carrie (Natalie Ann Jamieson) is a familiar figure: in her late twenties, far from home and untouched by the life events her friends have ticked off their lists. It’s a terrify -
ing conundrum: how do you make and maintain friends as an adult? Does this sweet play solve this problem? Not really, though it does provide a temporary balm.
Jamieson plays Carrie with down-to-earth warmth and a nervous energy. Her uncertain chemistry with co-worker Serena (Palfrey) starts out realistically rocky, so it’s a quiet joy to watch their relationship escalate: by its end point, the friendship feels like it’s been earned.
What’s not so down-to-earth is Carrie’s goldfish. Christina’s inner monologue is rendered glamorously by this fishy protagonist and set to music by Louis Peake. It’s a fantastically surreal first appearance when Elizabeth Edmonds sashays into
the spotlight, but by her third and final song the gag is getting tired. Peake’s lyrics aren’t particularly memorable – perfect for a goldfish’s short attention span but not exactly gripping for the show’s human audience.
Director Edwina Strobl keeps Palfrey’s script fast paced and dynamic, though the overall effect is nearer to a series of vignettes than a play with a strong throughline. Carrie’s asthma serves as a connecting thread rather than a backbone, but the real clincher is that the status quo remains largely unchallenged. Serena’s departure and her Nana’s fragility prove that even Carrie’s strongest relationships are only temporary. Loneliness is hard to shake. /︎ Louise Jones
VENUE: King's Theatre
TIME: times vary, 4–6 Aug
TICKETS: £14
On one hand, the technically exquisite Cold Blood is a beautifully animated short story. On the other hand, it is a dramaturgically considered glimpse into the world of a working animation studio. On another hand, it is a musing on the value of liveness. On yet another hand it is an exemplary display of filmed special effects, edited as the action is constructed in the
intriguingly lit shadows before us, then projected live onto a screen that covers the top half of the stage. There are a lot of hands involved in this show.
As well as operating cameras, lighting and modelbox set equipment, hands perform the unnamed characters of seven death scenes, which are tied together in the narrated tale of a waking dream. Each is puppet, dancer and actor in one – except for the times they morph into kaleidoscopic patterns against mesmerising backgrounds. As in Disney’s Fantasia, the quality of the visuals is the major focus, storytelling taking second place,
more as a linking device between scenes of noir, whimsy, Busby Berkeley-style spectacle or intimate peepshow choreography.
The show’s originators, Jaco Van Dormael and Michèle Anne de Mey, have backgrounds in film-making and dance respectively. Their sterling team of onstage collborators blurs the traditional roles of cast and crew into one.
As from a dream, some images will linger, but most of Cold Blood will soon be forgotten. This show may not affect you very deeply but there’s much to be said for the many moments of pure wonder the company provide. /
Katharine Kavanagh Credit: Julien LambertVENUE: Dance Base
TIME: 8:45pm – 10:25pm, 3–19 Aug, not 6, 13
TICKETS: £13
Former Royal Ballet dancer Ludovic Ondiviela has been choreographing a fusion of contemporary and classical movement vocabularies since his retirement from performing in 2014. In Giselle he takes a classic ballet tale of true love and adds his own contemporary twist, which is more successful in some aspects than others. Most significantly, a
murder subplot leaves the leading dancers somewhat confusingly undefined between antagonist and protagonist, and the character we feel for most is disposed of with no pause for sentiment.
What’s clearly left of the original is Adolphe Adam’s music— supplemented at times with a pre-recorded voiceover—and an ensemble of sinister virgin bride spectres who drive the second act (the show diverges slightly from history with the welcome inclusion of male dancers). Choreography that evokes horror movie zombies and Japanese ghosts on speedy tottering pointe steps is the most impactful of the 100 minutes, and
VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 3pm – 3:50pm, 2–27 Aug, not 13, 20
TICKETS: £12.50-15
The ancient stage illusion of Pepper’s Ghost has been remastered for the 21st century with projections, post-modern construction and pathos. Actors François Testory and Sarah Thom slowly and silently move around a wooden table and manipulate boxes of memories, consumately expressing sorrow and long-term familiarity whilst doing very little. Their fleshy middle-aged bodies interact with spry projections of younger selves who appear in and out of their memory boxes, playing out snippets of the relationship’s highs and lows.
Smoothly mixed renaissance
and neo-classical vocal recordings score these captured moments as the physically present pair look on. Their filmed counterparts, miniaturised and ghostly, appear on a screen of tilted perspex that reflects projections from the floor below. The younger pair shift in scale with intensity of emotion and, while we see them relive old hurts amid the landscape of table and boxes, the actors on the other side of the screen moving the props around actually see nothing.
the intense performance from ghostly leader Céline Le Grelle is one of the highlights.
Class issues at the heart of the original are given an added racial dimension in this production, with the privilege—as ever—being on the side of the young white guy. Ondiviela certainly has plenty of ideas, but too many of them are given stage room here without being properly fleshed out. Overall, the show provides a nicely designed but emotionally detached viewing experience. The dancing is accomplished but that’s not enough to make this Giselle stand out from the crowd.
/ Katharine KavanaghThe technology—and the actors’ work with it—is very clever, but this level of trickery requires a rigour of content to match. The story, though poignant, doesn’t offer any surprises and feels overly drawn out. While the drama is oblique, it seems hugely remiss of the company not to offer any trigger warning in their publicity materials that the show apparently revolves around a woman’s inability to carry a child to term.
Nonetheless, a striking show in its novelty. /
Katharine KavanaghHHHH
VENUE: Assembly Hall
TIME: 7:15pm – 8:30pm, 2–26 Aug, not 8, 13, 20
TICKETS: £17.50-19.50
Strap yourself in for the most sexcellent boylesque. Briefs have come from the future on a spaceship to let us know that in their time things are better than the mess we currently find ourselves in. People respect that absolutely everyone is “magnificent, fragile and important”, and they’re here to spread that love with us.
There’s Star Trek references, glitzy astronauts and the most talented performers you'll see on the Fringe.
The #TimesUp motif is cleverly woven throughout. An Alice in Wonderland-esque bunny hops around the stage finding ringing alarm clocks at various interludes. He’s sparkly and so are the clocks but there is a real political drive behind Close Encounters. Briefs want to change the world with their art, and the world’s largest arts festival seems like the perfect place to do it.
In true boylesque fashion, the costumes are out of this world, if you’ll pardon the pun. Everything
is bejewelled, glittery, peacock feathered, and leaves little to the imagination. In fact the show is visually stunning in every way; the sets are covered in neon lights, and the choreography is just spectacular. The acrobatic and dance skills on display are literally breathtaking, particularly the aerial hoop scene.
Love, dance and scantily clad Australians – what more could you want in a show? Also, you should definitely enter the raffle because the prize is a good ‘un. As in, you cannot imagine how jealous you’ll be of the winner. Maybe enter a few times just to up your odds.
/ Joanna TrainorVENUE: Assembly George Square Theatre
TIME: 10:40pm – 11:40pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10-12
Ivy Paige’s show harks back to old school cabaret with breathy vocals, tonnes of sequins and a healthy dose of cleavage. The name of the game is ‘edutainment’: Paige has kindly offered to pass on her seduction skills to the crowd. She’s quick to point out that to seduce is to “lead one astray” and it’s in the tangents of her set that Paige proves herself a really entertaining performer. The show itself is a nice if not particularly memorable affair but where Paige sparkles is her audience interaction. Her matter-of-fact quips undercut her brassy, sultry singing – making for a hilarious contrast of diva and good-time girl.
VENUE: Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
TIME: 6pm – 7pm, 3–18 Aug, not 7, 8, 13
TICKETS: £18-21
Lots of important things happen in the bedroom. For Courtney Act, winner of Celebrity Big Brother and a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, her top two are sleeping and eating. Sex takes third place, but she still has a lot to say on the matter.
Not to be upstaged by her audience volunteers, Paige is happy to up the ante and clamber through the crowd for the right punchline. It does mean that her standalone ballads feel static in comparison.
Paige’s voice best suits a hauntingly beautiful ballad, her hair wild as a siren’s: clearly she can manage some shape shifting to change the mood of the show as she wishes. However, it can kill the energy in the
crowd after her more raucous musical numbers. The set order creates an inconsistent mood but Paige keeps us enthralled regardless.
Paige’s talents are well established (she appeared on The Voice earlier this year) and her audience interaction a highlight. She establishes herself a welcome presence in cabaret and with time will be a force to be reckoned with.
/ Louise JonesWith intimate discussion and bold takes on frequently-covered songs, she riffs on who we are in and out of bed. A chatty introduction about the different types of adhesive used to create her look, for example, leads into her interpretation of ‘Valerie’. Act is a phenomenal singer with the ability to deliver a range of vocal styles, from soul to country to pop. Her re-writes are both funny and thematically embedded into whichever topic she’s talking about at the time – Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ becomes ‘I’m Vegan’ and Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ is now ‘Like a Version’.
Act spends a lot of time talking casually about identity, gender and
her experiences on Big Brother, amongst other things. These sections come across as partially improvised, which makes them feel genuine, but they lack a solid structure and smooth transitions. There are a few in-jokes and references that those who haven’t seen her on Big Brother or Drag Race won’t get, but not enough to alienate new audiences.
There’s a wholesomeness to Courtney Act that’s hugely appealing, and her concluding talk about the importance of labels in helping marginalised people feel less alone resonates as powerfully as her take on ‘I Will Always Love You’.
/ Laura Kressly
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 8pm – 9pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £11-13
In our modern era of “always on” awareness, no amount of yoga can negate the fact that it’s hard to find a momet’s peace and quiet. Cabaret performer Anya Anastasia and gravel-voiced musician Gareth Chin present an hour of cannot-escapism which starts with lofty expectations. Anastasia descends the stairs doning a headpiece of smartphoneended antlers, demanding her audience react. She owns the room, live-streaming her entrance and in the process creating a commanding double-presence.
That’s where The Executioners
really works, when it focuses on the sensory overload which is threatening to hypernormalise violence on a terrifying level. Anastasia mocks social activism with a bubbly persona. She plays the kind of person who Instagrams every KeepCup they own. Her continual mantra of “it’s okay” acknowledges just how ineffectual the endeavour is – and unfortunately that bleeds into the show itself.
Anastasia has a beautiful singing voice, hauntingly delicate as she performs a sincere ballad. It’s the tongue-in-cheek stuff that doesn’t quite impact the way it
could. Too often the lyrics merge into one, and with similarly quirky melodies it’s hard to really distinguish any in hindsight. Anastasia hits the familiar punchlines of slacktivism and churns out tired jokes (particularly when it comes to pop culture) as a result.
There are hints of nuance which suggest there’s a more polished show here somewhere. As it stands, The Executioners is all a bit too on the nose when it comes to social commentary: the equivalent of adding another angry react to a Facebook timeline of similar voices, rather than standing out.
/ Louise Jones
VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 6:10pm – 7:40pm, 1–27 Aug, not 8, 14, 21
TICKETS: £16
The Kirktoon Players enter the Scottish Amateur Dramatic Association’s one-act play competition every year but somehow, success always eludes them. In an attempt to shake things up—and, crucially, take advantage of a loophole in the judging system that gives extra points to shows that actively
champion diversity—this bunch of loveable and not-so-loveable misfits decide that this year’s entry will be an adaptation of the Daniel Day-Lewis movie My Left Foot. “DDL” won an Oscar for his portrayal of disabled Irish painter Christy Brown – surely the SADA play festival is in the bag?
What follows—via the medium of musical theatre, of course—is a perfectly pitched, gloriously irreverent and fantastically funny exploration of the thorny issue of how we treat disabled people in our society.
As you’d expect from one of the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre companies, access is much more than just an afterthought. BSL-interpretation, captioning and
a sprinkling of audio description are key narrative ingredients. Natalie MacDonald’s integrated signing and strong physical comedy acting in particular give director Robert Softley Gale the opportunity to comment on characters’ questionable attitudes as they’re expressing them, thereby letting this production have its comedy cake and eat it too.
The score, by Richard Thomas (music and lyrics), Claire McKenzie (music) and Scott Gilmour (lyrics) is full of hummable, feel-good tunes that give each member of this excellent ensemble a chance to shine without ever falling into sentimentality. If ever a show deserved a post-Fringe run, this is it. /
Jo Caird
VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 7:15pm – 8:30pm, 1–26 Aug,
not 13
TICKETS: £13-15
Asgard looks incredibly trendy these days. Designer Amy Jane Cook has created a sci-fi city scape with Star-Trek-esque sliding doors, cladding the inhabitants in athleisurewear. This is, after all, the land of Norse gods, where you’re nothing without a semblance of strength. Enter a weedy Thor (Harry Blake), whose weapon of choice is the cor anglais, and scaly befeathered Loki (Alice Keedwell), whose appearance is mocked before she gets a chance to prove her worth. It’s a far cry from the rippling abs of Norse mythology via Marvel,
instead cutting a new path to unite the nine worlds ahead of Ragnarok. Blake and Keedwell’s show delivers fresh music, memorable vocals and an admirable ensemble of actor musicians. Laurie Jamieson in particular has the villainous joy of playing conniving giant Thiassi, a role he absolutely relishes. The show’s at its best when we see the cast en masse: Jennifer Fletcher is the mind behind the show’s “simple but effective choreography”. Interestingly, in a show that
celebrates peace and poetry, it’s the battle scenes that stand out. Compared to Fletcher’s busy army choreography, Thor and Loki’s meeting feels anti-climactic. Blake plumps for a deadpan performance but after 75 minutes the effect is grating. It’s clear that it’s Loki we should be rooting for: Keedwell is sincere and vulnerable, giving Loki’s character arc a powerful punch. Too bad Blake needs the enchanted hammer to achieve the same power on stage.
/ Louise JonesVENUE: theSpace @ Jurys Inn
TIME: 2:10pm – 3pm, 3–25 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £8
Female-led collective Fearless Players have turned their focus to Rabbie Burns with a new musical that argues that behind this great man were two great women.
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 12:05pm – 12:55pm, 1–27 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £8.50-9.50
Early 20th century movie star
Buster Keaton’s most iconic moment was standing stock still while a house fell down on top of him. Much the same thing happens with When You Fall Down, James Dangerfield’s sung-through, oneman musical homage to Keaton. Dangerfield stands tall-ish, but his show collapses around him.
In seven, isolated segments, Dangerfield, impersonating the actor with waistcoat and white face, presents moments from Keaton’s career. We see him as a wide-eyed rookie in the movie biz in 1917, singing a hymn to the film camera. We see him supporting his
shines a light on the poet’s widow, Jean Armour (Lori Flanagan) and lover, Nancy Maclehose (Lydia Davidson). The show spends more time in the company of Jean, skewing audience sympathy towards the faithful widow, grandmother to Sarah (Bethany Tennick), a girl far from home who’s awaiting the arrival of her father from overseas. Tennick plays Sarah with realistically child-like enthusiasm, and she shares a wonderful chemistry with Flanagan. There are some truly touching moments between the two, further strengthened by a strong script that weaves Burns’s poetry into the songs.
We see Nancy singing Burns’s pal Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle during the Virginia Rappe affair in 1921. We see him struggling with alcoholism in later life, as the industry evolves around him.
There are some nice moments, particularly when clips of Keaton’s films—the house collapsing in Steamboat Bill, Jr., the train crash in The General—are projected onto a screen at the back of the stage. But as an attempt to intimately explore the life of an icon, When You Fall Down doesn’t come off at all.
words before her fateful meeting with Jean. Seeing her isolated provides ample space for Nancy’s viewpoint to be established: we are invited to see beyond her reputution as a mistress. That said, it doesn’t make the two women any less awkward when they meet. Director Melanie Bell keeps the women’s first and last meetings static: a thousand things left unsaid clutter the stage around them.
Contrast this with Jean and Nancy’s tea party, a lively jig of a sequence. Here’s where the show thrives, not by placing Burns on a pedestal but by celebrating the women he left behind.
/ Louise JonesThat’s not because of Dangerfield’s performance – he’s a perfectly capable actor and singer. And it’s not to do with his composing – the songs are saccharine but serviceable. It’s to do with the musical’s bizarre structure. Each short snippet of Keaton’s life is a song, with almost no dialogue at all in between. It’s as if we’re watching a normal musical, but with the narrative bits taken out. So it all ends up disjointed and incoherent.
/ Fergus Morgan
Martha Green, age five, finds magic and excitement in this adaptation of the book by Raymond Briggs
What happens in the show?
There was a little girl. She’s visited by a bear. The bear comes in through her window and pees and poos on her floor! She got cross with the bear. It does have a happy ending though.
Describe the show in five words. Fun, snowy, cold, exciting, magical.
Who was your favourite character, and why?
Tilly, the little girl. She wanted to be a pop star when she grows up, like me.
What did you like most about the show? The bubbles, snow and ice. They were great.
What was your favourite moment in the show?
When the daddy bear met his cub. The baby bear was really cute.
What did your grown-up think of the show?
She loved it too but got told off for taking photographs!
Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?
Yes, I will. I think they’ll enjoy it.
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 12pm – 1pm, 1–27 Aug, not 20
TICKETS: £9-12
VENUE: Pleasance Dome
TIME: 10:40am – 11:40am, 1–27
Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £8.50-11
The plot of AnimAlphabet—a kids’ musical created, surreally, by two members of noughties pop-rock sensations The Hoosiers—doesn’t really hang together when you start thinking about it.
A troupe of animals on a tropical island are desperately seeking out every note in the scale of C
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 11:30am – 12:45pm, 1–19
Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £11-12
Story Pocket Theatre’s new adaptation of comedian David Baddiel’s children’s book, AniMalcolm, is a fun, musical adventure.
Malcolm is grumpy. It’s his 11th birthday but instead of the super-duper laptop he asked for, his animal-crazy family have given him a chinchilla – and he doesn’t care about animals. At least, that’s before a school trip to a farm, where a chance encounter with a magical goat sees him transform from boy to beast.
As Malcolm—via some nicely handled on-stage help—turns variously from tortoise, to cat, to pig, he learns the importance of not judging based on appearances. It’s an al-
major, all so they can get their band back together and defeat the dastardly duck that’s hunting them down one by one and silencing them. Think Jungle Book crossed with And Then There Were None Exactly. So many questions.
Questions like: what specifically is the science behind this note-collecting policy? Like: is this portrayal of a chilled-out Rastafarian frog who loves his ribbit-reggae slightly iffy? Like: what is motivating our Donald Duck/Darth Vader supervillain? Like: how do the blokes that wrote 'Goodbye Mr A' end up doing silly songs for a children’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe?
None of this really matters,
though, because Mark Hooper’s production for Hit The Mark Theatre is easily chirpy and cheerful enough to paper over the cracks espied by the more analyticallyminded under-five. There’s a large, colourful set populated with large colourful characters, all of whom have a bouncy, bubbly tune to sing along to.
Colin the Country Cockatoo, our hero, has a twangy ballad. Geoff the Geordie Jazz Giraffe has a standard to croon. And our rapping donkey pal has a stone-cold belter of a hip hop anthem. It’s all good, friendly, family fun. Plus it’s signed throughout, which is cool.
/ Fergus Morganways worthwhile message for kids, not hammered home too heavily.
Adam Fletcher-Forde’s adaptation of the book is clear and unfussy, although, compressed, it feels overly episodic. There’s a Dad-style, endless joke about kids’ obsession with text acronyms, while some of the humour aimed at adults lands awkwardly. But dropping your lead character into “Orwell Farm” is a neat pun.
There aren’t many surprises as to how the other farmyard inhabitants are characterised, but the cast are bright and fun. The
pair of tortoises (who, with their shell-patterned backpacks, look like geriatric teenage mutant ninja turtles) are the best.
Fletcher-Forde and co-director Julia Black make good use of Jacqueline Trousdale’s versatile set as Malcolm makes his way to the chimp cage, where a pile of poo gleefully awaits. Matthew Hamper brings boundless energy to the erstwhile animal agnostic, fully committing to each transformation. He’s only slowed down by the blandly upbeat score. Less singing, more tortoise, please.
/ Tom Wicker
Best of the Fest
Assembly Hall, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, £14-15
You’ve Been Fringed
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Daniel Kitson: Good for Glue The Stand Comedy Club, 10–27 Aug, weekdays only, £8
Goodbye... I’m Leaving
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–27 Aug, not 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, £5
Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories V Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–28 Aug, not 14, 23, £10-10.50
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £7.50
Stranger Friends Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 10–15 Aug, FREE
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 6: Big O Makes It in New York... or, Does She? – Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 16–27 Aug, FREE 00:05
Black White With a Hash Brown
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–27 Aug, FREE 00:10
Relatively Normal Waverley Bar, 9–27 Aug, FREE
Niteskreen
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–27 Aug, not 14, FREE
Carl Donnelly Speaks to Dead People Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 19–23 Aug, £6
Bob Slayer: NeverMind the BusStops Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 11–18 Aug, £5
110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 10 Aug, £5
00:15
Sam Campbell: The Trough Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £6
Hate ‘n’ Live Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–27 Aug, FREE
Electric Frog
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Late-Night Lucky Bag
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–27 Aug, FREE For Robin Williams: A Benefit Gig in Aid of Mind and SAMH
Assembly George Square Theatre, 12 Aug, £15
00:20
Sameer Katz: Treesonous Thoughts
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27
Aug, FREE
00:25
Cool Story Bro
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–27 Aug, not 16, FREE
00:30
The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 9–27
Aug, £8
The Late Night Evil Show
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–27 Aug, FREE
What’s Mark Zuckerberg Got to Do With It?
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
00:45
Comedy Queers / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, FREE
Late Night Comedy Death Camp
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–27 Aug, not 21, FREE
Simon Jablonski – Love
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 16, FREE
Rule of Three
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–27 Aug, FREE
01:00
Late’n’Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–28 Aug, £12.50-16
Oxford Revue: Free
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug, FREE
Diamond Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, FREE
Pigs in Residence
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, FREE
The Spice Girls Lied to Us Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–16 Aug, FREE
01:10
Bob Slayer: NeverMind the BusStops
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 11–18 Aug, £5
01:30
Late-Night LOLs
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–27 Aug, FREE
09:00
Clicking Comedians Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, FREE
09:30
A Political Breakfast Natural Food Kafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, FREE
10:00
On Earth As It Is
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Mystery Meat (Showcase) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
10:20
Lee Kyle – Kicking Potatoes Into the Sea Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 19, FREE
Present and Correct Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
10:40
Jake Donaldson: Help! I’m Trapped in the Body of an Adequate Comedian!
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
10:45
Improvable and the Chapter of Secrets
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE
A Comedy Brunch 2
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
10:50
Sad Clowns theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–10 Aug, FREE
11:00
The Full Irish Whistlebinkies, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Desperately Seeking Motivation (The Beginning)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Orwell That Ends Well: The Musical
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £99
11:10
Mirth in the Morning With Rhodders
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE
11:15
Gráinne Maguire: What Has the News Ever Done for Me?
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Angry Face Emoji
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Benet Brandreth: A Hero for Our Times
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–22 Aug, £9.50-10.50
11:20
Jacob Hatton: Ozymandias
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
11:30
The Kinkens
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
11:35
Twat Out of Hell
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 21, FREE
Rory Jones: Return of the Wizword
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
11:40
David Callaghan: Dead Man’s Chest
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Succubus Fringe Edition
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
11:45
The Museum of Tat Roadshow
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
11:50
Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, £5
11:55
Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 15, £8-10
12:00
Sanderson Jones: That’s the Spirit!
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25
Aug, £5
Justin Matson: Fatter Than You Think HH
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Alex Farrow: Allow It
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, FREE
David Ephgrave: My Part in His Downfall
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
The Cambridge Impronauts: A Series of Improvable Events
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10-10.50
The Delightful Sausage: Regeneration Game
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, £5
Best in Class / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the One-Liner Show – Free Entry
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Christian Talbot: Desperately Seeking Approval
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Some Like It Holt
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Ryan Ward and Joe Molander: Natural Born Performers
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–26 Aug, FREE
(No) Money in the Bank
Sweet Novotel, 13–19 Aug, £7
Aidan Goatley’s 10 Films With... Podcast Sweet Novotel, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £10
Wedding Guest Extraordinaire: Sarah Southern Waverley Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Fred MacAulay in Conversation
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–26 Aug, £10.50-12.50
Andrew Sim: You Gotta Find Joy
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Trying to Be Good
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
It’s No Job for a Nice Jewish Girl
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £11.50
Chris Thorburn: Cineman The Coffee House, 16–24 Aug, FREE
Anesti Danelis: Songs for a New World Order Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–18 Aug, FREE
12:05
Here Be Improv theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £3.50
Sarah Iles: Ghosted
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Hoo-Ha!
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 13, 20, £5
Eleanor Morton: Great Title, Glamorous Photo The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – 90s Edition
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 22, £9
12:10
Nerd Time’s a Charm Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ollie Horn Made Some Funny Friends in Japan
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Bread and Geller: Prime Time
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Bennett Arron: I’ve Never Told Anyone This Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Cam Spence and Jodie Mitchell: The New Babes Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE 12:15
Oxford Revue: Free
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 12–21 Aug, FREE
Better Sweet Novotel, 9–12
Aug, £5
Just These, Please
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 20, £9-9.50
Clash of the Tight Tens
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Space Doctor
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £10-11
Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Welcome to the Pungle Whistlebinkies, 13–26
Aug, FREE
A Piece of Cake!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Olaf Falafel – There’s no i in idiot HHH
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Fopical With Peter E Davidson
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–20 Aug, FREE
Karoshi
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, FREE
Jack and Claire / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Wildly Unprepared BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–11 Aug, FREE
12:20
Australia: A Whinging
Poms Guide
Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
The Ashes: A Comedy Showdown
Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE 12:30
Lou Sanders: Shame Pig Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Phill Jupitus: Freeviously Bannermans, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Lemons
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 10–26 Aug, FREE
Afternoon Delight
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Peter Brush: Chasing Snails
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Paul Duncan McGarrity – A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Richard Pulsford: Uns-Pun
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Clif Knight Sucks!
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9 Aug, FREE 12:35
Punel Show
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Hangover Cure
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 12:40
I Am Ross Smith
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
The Ladies Loo Chronicles theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £7.50
12:45
Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 16, 23, £12
The Edinburgh Revue’s Stand-Up Show 2018
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ The Beehive Inn, 9–27
Aug, FREE
Mickey Sharma’s Mixed Blessings
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
A Kinder, Gentler Comedy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6 12:50
Playlight Robbery
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 14–26 Aug, £5
Richard Wright: Virgin
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Russell Hicks: A Fist Full of Ideas
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Tom and Ollie in: One and a Half Men
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–12 Aug, £5 12:55
Bodily
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
13:00
Sketch Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Abstract Stand-Up Art
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Sooz Kempner: Super Sonic 90s Kid
Globe Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Kai Samra – Brothers (WIP)
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Rik Carranza: Still a Fan Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8-9
Camels
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Briony Redman: Sketch Artist
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 11, £7-9
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Naked Truth
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Catch of the Day (A Sturgeon Story)
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Rinsed Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE
Bark and B theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £8
The Guilty Feminist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25–26 Aug, £15 13:05
African in New York –Almost Famous by Njambi McGrath
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Generation Y Us?
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
13:10
Andy Onions –PowerPointless Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £7
Nathaniel Metcalfe: Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Dan Kelly’s Madras Years
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–16 Aug, FREE
Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15–24 Aug, £14-16
13:15
A Work in Progress
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Rob Kemp’s Wheel of Shows
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Cassie Atkinson – Swan
Songs Waverley Bar, 10–26 Aug, not 16, 23, FREE
AComedyTapas
Opium, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Angel Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Oxford Imps: Class of 2018
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10
The Family Guy
Sneaky Pete’s, 9–12
Aug, FREE
Live Your Best Life
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–18 Aug, FREE
Interdependent Woman
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Paul ‘Silky’ White: Ziuq
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Old Jewish Jokes
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Tom Short and Tom
Little – Small World Daylight Robbery, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101
Clean Jokes – Free Entry
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Weird and Whacky World of Raymond Bishop
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–26
Aug, FREE
Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids!
Pleasance Dome, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £12-15
13:20
Rory O’Keeffe: The 37th Question
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26
Aug, FREE
I Want an Irish Passport
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £9-12
Foxdog Studios: Robot
Chef Heroes @ Boteco, 10–26
Aug, £5
The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
Girlfriend from Hell
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
It’s Not Cute Anymore Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Alex Hylton: Everybody’s Different and I’m the Same
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
13:30
Nick Hall: Spencer Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Jeremy Nicholas: After Dinner Stories from My Disastrous Broadcasting
Career
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10.50-11.50
Julia Sutherland: Exposed
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Seymour Mace Gets Sucked Off by God
The Stand Comedy Club
3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12
Mind the Gap Stand-Up
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Jon Culshaw and Bill
Dare: The Great British Take Off
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £15
Board Game Smackdown
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Pals
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 15–26 Aug, FREE
Andy Storey: Awkward HHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Impromptu Shakespeare
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Johnny Irish
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, FREE
MetaMafforphosis
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 23, FREE
The One-Thirty Comedy Cabaret
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 16, £6
Revill’s Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Lia Hatzakis – Onion Gum
The Clootie Dumpling, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, FREE
Vince Ebert: Sexy Science. Made in Germany
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Dad’s Army Lunch Hour
Pleasance at EICC, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 18
Aug, FREE
Robin Ince: Chaos of Delight
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 15–26 Aug, £12
Curried Mustard
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, FREE
Fred MacAulay in Conversation
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–14 Aug, £10.50-12.50
Ron the Plumber Meets
God-Cilla
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–17
Aug, FREE
Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9 Aug, £12
13:35
Alex Garner – Who?! Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Stu and Garry’s Fringe Improv Show
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–11 Aug, £5
Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win (Work in Progress)
The Stand Comedy Club, 14–23 Aug, £10
The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club, 25 Aug, £10
(No) Money in the Bank Sweet Novotel, 9–12 Aug, £7
Men With Coconuts Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, FREE
In Conversation With Standard Issue
The Stand Comedy Club, 12–13 Aug, £10
Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 26 Aug, £6 13:40
UCL Graters: Panopticon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Eleanor Tiernan: Success Without a Sex Tape Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Frank Carson: If I Didnt Laugh I’d Cry Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11 13:45
Jen Brister – Meaningless Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Eat Sleep Shit Shag
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–23 Aug, FREE
Jew-O-Rama Opium, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Odd Two Out Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE
Bruce: Just a Pretty Face Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Adventures in Dementia:
Steve Day
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
The Second Annual Black Comedy Showcase
Bannermans, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15–26 Aug, £12
The Whole of Shakespeare theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8
The Secret Diary of Scott Mitchell, Aged 43 and 3/4
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18–26
Aug, FREE
Getting Higher
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–16 Aug, FREE
13:50
And They Played
Shang-a-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 9–26
Aug, £12
13:55
Archie Maddocks: Matchstick
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
14:00
Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26
Aug, not 22, £5
Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
Andrea Hubert: Holes of Joy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £9-10 No Funny Business
C venues – C aquila, 12–27
Aug, £7.50-9.50
Croft & Pearce: Double Take
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £10-11
Claire Ford: Unboxed
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £44.50
Nicky Wilkinson: Happy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick
Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE Day Drinking With Yanks and Hosers
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–19
Aug, FREE
Adam Larter: Boogie
Knights
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Tom Brace: Brace Yourself (It’s Magic Time!)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18
Aug, £8-10
Daniel Downie: 2 O’Clock Gun
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ The Beehive Inn, 9–26
Aug, not 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £5
Susan Harrison Is a Bit
Weepy
Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 11–12 Aug, FREE Bagged
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–12 Aug, £11.50
A Comedy Show on Top of Arthur’s Seat On Top of Arthur’s Seat, 18 Aug, FREE
14:05
My Finest Hour Southsider, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
A Booklover’s Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Robbie McShane and Mary Flanigan: One of Us Is a Robot
Three Broomsticks, 18–25 Aug, FREE
14:10
Adam Riches Is The Guy Who...
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, £8
Cold as Icelandic
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Ella Woods: Wing Defence
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 14–26 Aug, £5
Mark Silcox: I Can Cure...
Ciao Roma, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ignacio Lopez: Nine
Ig Fails
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–26 Aug, £5
Sasha Ellen: No Man’s Land
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–12 Aug, £5
14:15
Will Hall: Netflix and Will
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Ahir Shah: Duffer
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Kevin Precious
Unholier Than Thou: The Non-Believing Religious Studies Teacher
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Toby Adams – Tongue in My Head
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Cult Comics
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Seven-Day NHS: Naughty Health Stories
theSpace on the Mile, 10–12 Aug, £9
Grace
theSpace on the Mile, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6
14:20
Joey Page: Perhaps Under Stars That Would Stretch Forever (an Idiot Explains the Universe in Under an Hour)
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6.50
Jack Evans: Work
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Tamar Broadbent: Best Life
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Henry Three Broomsticks, 9–19 Aug, FREE
Katharine Ferns: Between One Ferns
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Amy Annette: What Women Want
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 20, 21, 22, £10
14:25
Harry and Chris Save the World
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Jessie Cave: Sunrise
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
TwentyTwelve – Free
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 11–18 Aug, FREE
Please Stop!
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 19–26 Aug, FREE
Samantha Pressdee: Pulling it Together (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–10 Aug, FREE
14:30
David McIver Is a Nice
Little Man
Opium, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
101 Comedy Club – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Pottervision
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Luke Rollason’s Planet Earth
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Spiffing Personnages
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
The Freedom Machine
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!
Subway, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ali Brice’s Lemonade
Stand HHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Agatha Is Missing!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Live the Laugh Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Juliet Meyers: Year of the Dog
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Peter Dobbing: Pleased With Yourself Isn’t the Same as Being Happy Sneaky Pete’s, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Crizards Cromedy Show Waverley Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Britain, Let’s Talk About the Golliwogs
Fireside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Grace the Former Child: The Bi-Polar Express Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–13 Aug, £5 14:35
Alphabetti Cabaretti
BrewDog Lothian Rd, 15–25 Aug, not 20, FREE
A Holy Terror
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10 14:40
David Mills: Focus People! Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Aidan Goatley is the Vicar’s Husband
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £9
Artcoholic
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Speechless
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Róisín and Chiara: Back to Back
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Audible Presents Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, FREE
Kerry Godliman: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 9–11 Aug, £10
14:45
Matt Watson and Friends
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Not Quite Mass
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
First World Problems
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Gareth Richards: Prophet Whistlebinkies, 9–26 Aug, FREE
¤ Eshaan Akbar: Prophet Like It’s Hot HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Funny Cluckers – Best of the Fest – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Still Got It
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, not 12, FREE
Nathan Lang: The Stuntman
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 15, £8
Rosco McClelland: 29
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8-9
Chris Chopping’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Clootie Dumpling, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Olaf Falafel – There’s no i in idiot HHH
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, FREE
By the Power of Greyskull
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, FREE
Helen Lederer Asks Why The Fuss?
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE
14:50
Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
Lucy Frederick: Even More Naked
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Stuart Goldsmith: End Of Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, not 16, FREE
Dansplaining Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Wil Greenway: Either Side of Everything
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50-11.50
15:00
Women Aren’t Funny theSpace @ Venue45, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
Andy Zaltzman: Right Questions. Wrong Answers.
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 15–26 Aug, £12
Ania and Riss Are Trying Their Hardest Tolbooth Market, 9–25
Aug, FREE
¤ Tony Law: A Lost Show HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Angelos and Barry: A Matter of Life and Death
Le Monde, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £8
Good Manners Gone Bad Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 21, £8-9
The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun
Outhouse, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £7
Captain ‘The Butcher’ Reality
Three Broomsticks, 9–25
Aug, not 14, FREE
Vice Captains
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £10-11
Don’t Be Terrible
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Liam Jeavons: Never Heard of HimCANCELLED
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–23 Aug, £6
Ashley Blaker: Observant Jew HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £10-11
AAA Batteries (Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Stephen Carlin: The Opinionater
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £9.50-10.50
The Cutting Room
Canons’ Gait, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Trevor Lock Experience
Bannermans, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Gareth Waugh: Oh Boy...!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
KEITH. Presents KEVIN.
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–19 Aug, not 13, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Laughing Horse Free
Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden: Historical Objects
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14 Aug, £14.50
Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, £12 15:10
The Golden Path theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–11 Aug, £5 15:15
Afternoon Family
Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–31 Aug, £9
Zahra Barri is Zahra: Warrior Not Princess Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
We’re Sorry Canadian Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Gráinne Maguire: I Forgive You; Please Like Me HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £8.50-9.50
Kirk Smith’s Stand-up Showcase
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Newcastle Revue: Tyne of Your Life
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Tania Edwards: Not My Dog
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
15:20
Nick Hall: Peninsula Ciao Roma, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Cat Pictures to Music for an Hour
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £5
¤ Simon Munnery: The Wreath HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12
Lou Conran: At Least I’m Not Dog Poo Darren
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-7
Johannes Dullin: Come Along and Bring a Friend!
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26 Aug, not 22, £5
Barbara Nice: Raffle Heroes @ The Hive, 13–19 Aug, £7
15:25
Mitch Benn: Doing It on Purpose
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £12
15:30
Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 20, FREE
Rory Bremner and Jan Ravens
Underbelly, George Square, 13–19 Aug, £18-20
Tessa Coates: Witch Hunt
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £7.50-10
Steve Bugeja: Almost Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6-8 Shot in the Dark
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, not 22, 23, £3.50-8
Beard: Baby Come Back
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-12
Will Mars: Candid Cafe
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Sofie Hagen Tries
Something
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, FREE
Friz Frizzle: Keyboard
Warrior
Globe Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Ken Cheng: Best Dad Ever Bedlam Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £10
Dom O’Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 21, £5
Private Parts
Underbelly, George Square, 23–25 Aug, £14
The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 23, FREE
Stranger Things Have Happened
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £12
All Killa No Filla Live Underbelly, George Square, 12 Aug, 26 Aug, £14
InsTed Talks
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 22–23 Aug, £5
Kathy Lette’s Girl Talk
Underbelly, George Square, 9–11 Aug, £15-16
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, FREE
Perry Air Comedy Award
Ceremony
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Aug, FREE 15:35
Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
CSI: Crime Scene
Improvisation
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Charmian Hughes – Bra Trek
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
15:40
Manhunt
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Sara Barron: For Worse
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Jacob Hawley: Howl
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-6
Jane Hill – Addicted to Fun
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
The Miles Jupp Interviews
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–12 Aug, £14
15:45
Davey Reilly: Disposable Camera Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ben Target: Splosh! Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Stand-Up Showdown: Improv Apocalypse!
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Alistair Barrie – The InternationAL Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Nevermind the B*llocks, Here’s Markus Birdman
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Men With Coconuts: Improvised Bond Subway, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Angry Boater
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
Adrian Minkowicz: Tango
Tales
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Whispers in the Cosmos Fireside, 15–25 Aug, FREE
Scott Gibson: Anywhere but Here
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10-11
Bilal Zafar – Lovebots
HHH
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Aaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Katie Pritchard: Tsunamiramirami
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Naomi McDonald: Stardumb Fireside, 9–14 Aug, FREE 15:50
Bethany Black: Unwinnable
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Camilla Cleese and Steve Hofstetter: Produced by John Cleese
Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, £10-12.50
One-Man Pride and Prejudice
Assembly George Square Studios, 10 Aug, 12
Aug, £14
One-Man Stranger Things
Assembly George Square Studios, 9 Aug, 11 Aug,
£13-14
15:55
Richard Soames: Let’s Make a Movie
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
16:00
Brown Guys, Grey Skies
The Clootie Dumpling, 9–25
Aug, FREE
All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £9-10
¤ Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn
HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £9-10
Maxine Jones: My Way 62
Whistlebinkies, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Leopard Print Heroes @ Boteco, 13–26
Aug, £5
Josh and Lou: Working Classy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12–26 Aug, FREE
Trumpageddon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £11.50-12.50
Edd Hedges: For Eva, from Forever Ago
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8-10
Daniel Muggleton – Mouth Breather
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Jenny Collier: A Few
Good Jen
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Mark Simmons –One-Linererer
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Flo & Joan: Alive on Stage
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 11, £11-12
Myra Dubois: We Wish You a Myra Christmas
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 18, £10-11
James Hancox: Sports for the Unsporty Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12.50
Battle of the Superheroes – The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Des Kapital: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 15, 22, £8
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18
Aug, £13.50-16
Jason Neale: Happy to Help
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, £5
Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26
Aug, not 14, 21, £5
Any Suggestions, Doctor?
An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Robin Morgan: Honeymoon
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Ruby Wax: Frazzled Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £18-20
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, 26
Aug, FREE
Stephen K Amos Talk Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–25
Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £14
Phil Kay: Lighter Hour
HHH
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–12 Aug, £10
Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–23
Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £12.50
HUB Fresh
Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, FREE
16:05
The Leeds Tealights: Souls for Sale
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
16:10
Adele Cliff: Sheep HHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Paul Williams: Santa Fe
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-10
John Lynn: Addiction Diction
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
Bumper Blyton Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £9-10
Enter the Dragons Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-11
Viv Groskop: Vivalicious HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Father in the Hole
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Hannah and Charlie: Making It Canons’ Gait, 15–26 Aug, FREE
Arthur Smith: Syd Pleasance Dome, 9–19 Aug, £10-12.50
Brexit Stage Left Canons’ Gait, 9–14 Aug, £5
16:15
¤ Catherine Bohart: Immaculate HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8-10.50
Louise Reay: Eraserhead
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Jim Tavaré: From Deadpan to Bedpan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
That’s My Story Podcast
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Matt Hutson: Brittle Boned Opium, 12–25 Aug, FREE
Will Penswick: Dank Verse
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–16 Aug, FREE
Benet Brandreth: A Hero for Our Times
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug, £9.50-10.50
DF Comedy Jam
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE
Dave Maher Coma Show
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Dad’s Army Afternoon
Tea Hour
Pleasance at EICC, 9–18 Aug, not 15, FREE
Juliette Burton: Butterfly Effect
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–15 Aug, £9-10
I’m Your Man –
Letters of the World’s Most Ambitious Job Applicant theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Comedy Fam
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–22 Aug, £10-11
Laughing for Palestine with Frankie Boyle
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13
Aug, £15
16:20
Sameena Zehra: Existerhood Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £8
Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother!
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9.50-10.50
Shhh – An Improvised Silent Movie
C venues – C, 9–18 Aug, £9.50-11.50
John Hegley: New and Selected Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-13
Bendy House Improv Sweet Novotel, 13–26
Aug, £8
16:25
Blaise White Changes the World
Three Broomsticks, 9–18 Aug, not 13, FREE
16:30
Phill Jupitus: Sassy Knack
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12 Free Stand-Up Will Never Die
Three Broomsticks, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Emslie and Cooke: Light and Shade
Southsider, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Short & Curly: Young at Start
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £7-10
¤ Sindhu Vee: Sandhog HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £8-10
The Kagools: Kula
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8
Maisie Adam: Vague
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, £9
AART TV Live!
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £8.50-11
Ross Brierley: Accumulator
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Shaggers (Free Festival)
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Graham
Fellows Completely Out of Character
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–26 Aug, FREE
Hurricane Vs Robot Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Gyles Brandreth: Break a Leg!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £16-19
Bad Clowns: Hostage Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £5
Immigrateful Bar Bados Complex, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves (Work in Progress)
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
James Farmer – Scaredy Cat
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 24, 25, FREE
Love Letters to Rappers
Sweet Novotel, 22–23
Aug, £9
George Egg: DIY Chef Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £10-12
Barry Cryer and Ronnie
Golden: Historical Objects
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13 Aug, £14.50
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Show
Pleasance at EICC, 26 Aug, £14
16:35
Paul Savage: DoGooder Ciao Roma, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Tudur Owen: Undemanding
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Sixty-Seven Arseholes (Free)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–26 Aug, not 21, FREE
Paul Revill: Revillationships
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–14 Aug, FREE
16:40
Anna Morris: Bombastic Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Tom GK – Hearing Loss: The Musical
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6.50-7.50
Kit Sullivan: Lad Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26 Aug, not 16, 22, £5
Nick Elleray: It’s Been Emotional
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
16:45
Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-10
Jamie Dalgleish: From Buckfast to Middle Class
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8
Joe Foster: Let’s Get Cynical
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, FREE
William Andrews: Willy Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-12
Show Up
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Suzanne Lea Shepherd: You’re Okay!
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Sean McLoughlin: Hail Mary
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Now That’s Who I Call Archie Henderson Globe Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Adam Hess: Seahorse
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £9-10.50
Gusset Grippers
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Great British Mysteries: 1599?
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8-11
Matt Rees: Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8-10
Daniel Nicholas: Travaux En Cours Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Luke Kempner: House of Faces
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £10-12 16:50
Tri-Nations Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
I Can Make You Feel Good. By Comparison.
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Yes, That Nick Page, Apparently. Winner of English Comedian 2017
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 16:55
Sam Russell: Lucky Bastard
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12
Tom Taylor: Abridged
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
17:00
Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée C venues – C royale, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £6.50-8.50
Steve Bennett: Irish Comedian of Last Year
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Arnab Chanda: Stories from Arnab
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26
Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Jon & Nath Like to Party
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Charm Offensive
Sneaky Pete’s, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Luke McQueen: Monster Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £5
Liam Withnail: Homeboy
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
World Cup of Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts
Musical Parody
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £13-15
Rory O’Hanlon – Comedy Hour
Opium, 9–25 Aug, FREE
2 for Joy
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Tessa Waters: Fully Sik Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £10-12.50
Jeffrey Baldinger: Living in a Hyperbolic Chamber Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–26 Aug, FREE
Another Time Slot With Ger Staunton Waverley Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 19, FREE
¤ Garrett Millerick: Sunflower HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Matt Winning: Climate Strange
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Oliver Coleman: Delicious
The Coffee House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Sister Mary’s Playtime @ Teatime
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Alex Love: Stop the Press, I Want to Get Off Kilderkin, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 22, FREE
Adam Vincent: Stuck in the Suburbs With You Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 21, FREE
Andrew O’Neill: I Am a Rich Man and I Have Many Sons Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, FREE
Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Checkpoint, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £8
A Very Brexit Musical
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Big Shop Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear? (The Best Of Jollyboat) Subway, 9–26 Aug, FREE Appropriately Inappropriate Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
It’s a Joke Life Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–13 Aug, FREE 17:05
Fanny’s @ Five The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9 Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Helen Lederer: I Might as Well Say It Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10.50-11.50
Jim Campbell: Trampoline
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-6
17:10
Prophets of Imperfection theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £7-9
Old Movies Saved My Life theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
I’m Your Man –Letters of the World’s Most Ambitious Job Applicant theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £8
Henry Paker: Man Alive Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
17:15
Jimmy McGhie Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Christian Elderfield: Bolloxed
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ian Smith: Craft HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12.50
Carey Carey Quite Contrary Whistlebinkies, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Hardeep Singh Kohli: You-topia Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, £11-13
Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101
Clean Jokes – Free Entry
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Alison Spittle: Worrier
Princess Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £10-11
¤ Laura Lexx: Trying HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £8.50-9.50
Alcohol Is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Stephen Bailey: Our Kid Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable Optimist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
#1 Comedy Great Fun Best Show Jez Watts
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Bark and B
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–25 Aug, £8
Jessica Michelle Singleton: Codependent Arising
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–12 Aug, £15
¤ Sunday Service With Ola HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £14
17:20
Zach Zucker: Human Person
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–26 Aug, £10-11
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-13
Luca Cupani: God Digger
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, £9-10
Christian Reilly: Gig Economy Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, FREE
T2 Brainclotting theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £7
Chris Betts vs the Audience
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
Best of English Comedian of the Year
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-15
Viggo Venn: Pepito
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–14 Aug, £10-11
The Fresh Prince of Healthcare theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £7.50
17:25
Alistair Williams: Great White Male
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8-10
17:30
The Establishment: Fool
Britannia
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Comedy Freak Show
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £13.50
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
John-Luke Roberts: All I Wanna Do Is [FX: GUNSHOTS] With a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and Perform Some Comedy! Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Alice Marshall: The Strike HH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Graham Dickson: Timber
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50-11.50
Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £9-11
John Pendal: We Are Family
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Athena Kugblenu: Follow the Leader
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Lucy Porter: Pass It On
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £12-16
Good Grief
Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Mawaan Rizwan: Juice
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8.50-10.50
Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma
Chamedian
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
The Full Irish
Bannermans, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Imran Yusuf: Saint, Sinner, Sufi
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, £10
Godley’s Cream 20 Years and Counting
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Tash Goldstone: Jellybean Opium, 9–12 Aug, FREE
Keara Murphy: Furious! #MeToo Time’s Up! No Bawbaggery Allowed! Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–26 Aug, FREE
17:35
Josh Berry: Voice Thief Assembly Hall, 9–26 Aug, £10-11
Joanne McNally: Wine
Tamer Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8.50-9.50
17:40
¤ Laurence Clark: An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting
HHHH
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-12
Laura Davis: Ghost Machine
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
Made in Spain
Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
The Oxford Revue: Wasted Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Asian Ellen DeGeneres
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–12 Aug, FREE
17:45
Zoe Lyons: Entry Level
Human
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £11.50-12.50
Red Richardson: Seeing Red
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-9.50 NewsRevue
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £14.50-16.50
George Lewis: A Man, a Plan, a Girl With Fake Tan Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
Russell Hicks: Love Song for the Viciously Ambitious Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE California Backstage
C venues – C south, 9–27 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Say It Ain’t Show
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Jacqueline Novak: How Embarrassing for Her Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £9.50-12.50
Keith Fox is... Here and Now?
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Sparkle Deli Southsider, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 20, FREE
A New Political Comedy Show
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Stand Up for Shelter
Underbelly, George Square, 15 Aug, £12.50
17:50
Robyn Perkins: 10,000 Decisions
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12
Clay Nikiforuk: Fun to Be Around
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
17:55
Scott Bennett: Leap Year
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Harriet Kemsley: Slutty
Joan Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Singalong Sitcom Quiz
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
18:00
Brennan Reece: Evermore Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-11
¤ Ari Shaffir: Jew HHHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Dave Green: Melt Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Notflix
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £11-12.50
Andrew White: Coming of Age
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 21, £5
Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £12.50
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Natalie Palamides: Nate Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-13
Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £49.50
Stephanie Laing: Quitter Nightcap, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Twonkey’s Night Train to Liechtenstein Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26 Aug, not 22, £5
Synchronised Swimming – The Dry Version Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12
Jamali Maddix: Vape Lord Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8
Egg: Richard Pictures Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7-10
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £13-17
Unexpected Inheritance PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–18 Aug, £8
Kriss Foster: Thimble Map Globe Bar, 9–26 Aug, FREE The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Outhouse, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £7
Shady With a Chance of Sunburn
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
James Meehan – Gaz Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Stuart McPherson and Donald Alexander Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
Frank Lavender: Gotta
Laugh
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 18, FREE
Darren Walsh: Massive
Punt
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-7
Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Henning Wehn: Get on With It
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £12.50
Evelyn Mok: Bubble Butt
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8-10
Stevie Martin Vol. 1
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £8-10
Simon Caine: Sex, Drugs and Other Things I
Never Do
Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Jake Lambert: Little Lost Lad
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
...What the Frick?!
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 13–26 Aug, FREE
Beta Test
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 24–25 Aug, FREE
InsTed Talks
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–21 Aug, £5
Pick of the Fringe
The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 23 Aug, £190
Plumbing the Death Star Live
Outhouse, 26 Aug, £15
Plumbing the Death Star Live
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 14 Aug, £15
Gyles Brandreth: Break a Leg!
Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, £19
18:05
It’s All My Mother’s Fault! theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7-8
Struan Logan: Struan All Over the World
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Three Menopausal Maids
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £8
18:10
Rob Auton: The Talk Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Telling the Wrong Man He Had Cancer and Other Hilarious Stories
theSpace @ Symposium
Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Sagar Dreamcast
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Hal Branson: Mbolo
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, £5
18:15
Stand-Up Power Hour
Fireside, 9–25 Aug, FREE
James Cook: Sarcasmic
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
The Russian Comedy Experience
La Vida, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Gordon Southern: A Man for Two Seasons
Frankenstein Pub, 9–27
Aug, not 14, 21, £6
Fat Girl Slim... Chance
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26
Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
The Travelling Sisters:
Toupé HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 15, £10-11
Quiz in My Pants
Subway, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Travellin’ Man Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Northern Power Blouse –Up Your Promenade
Waverley Bar, 9–18 Aug, not 15, FREE
Ivor Dembina Show
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Comedy in the Dark
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Dominic Holland – The Glory Year
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Maddie Campion: 20 Uses for a Lovedoll
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Shaggers (Free Festival)
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Rich Wilson’s Still Relevant
Sneaky Pete’s, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Joke Addict
Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Aidan Greene: Stutter Island
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Fat Chance
The Coffee House, 9–26
Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 25, FREE
Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Tales Part II
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Scott Gibson: Tales from the Battlefield Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, £10 18:20
Glen Davies – Gagging
Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £9
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, £10-11.50
Rose Matafeo: Horndog
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-11
Hayley Ellis: Once, Twice, Three Times a Hayley
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Marny Godden: Marny Town HHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Absolute Improv!
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–25 Aug, £10
Glenn Moore: Glenn Glenn Glenn, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Gavin Webster: I Am Stand-Up Comedy HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10 Who Do You Think You Are?
Barbara Brownskirt. Assembly Rooms, 14–25 Aug, £10-11
Big Trouble in Little Monkey’s Daycare theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £7
18:25
Sid Singh: American Bot Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
I Can’t Do This
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9-10
18:30
#AA: Absurdly Asian 2018 by Jinx Yeo
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Darius Davies: The Art of the Troll
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ed Patrick: Comedians’ Surgery
Pleasance Courtyard, 11–12 Aug, £12.50
Gary Little: Big Mouth
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27 Aug, FREE
Brett Blake: Reckless
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Henry Café: Quiz Machine Whistlebinkies, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE
Terry Alderton: The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £12.50-14.50
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane McDonald?
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–26 Aug, FREE
The Fresh Prince of Comedy – Kyle Legacy
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 14–26 Aug, £5
Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £13-15
Lucy Pearman: Fruit Loop
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £6
Butterfly C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Rik Wolters – Heroic Failure
The Clootie Dumpling, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jay Lafferty: Wheesht!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 20, £10
Stuart Mitchell: Gordon
Ramsay’s Karma Cafe
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9.50-11.50
Twisted
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15–21 Aug, FREE
David Kay
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–12 Aug, £12
One More Cup of Coffee, and Then We’ll Save the World
Quaker Meeting House, 14–18 Aug, £8
Duke Pop
Bedlam Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8
The Eve Complex
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–18 Aug, not 12, FREE
Andrew Silverwood: Reformed Terrorist
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Tony Slattery’s Crimes Against Improv
The Stand Comedy Club, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £14
Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos
The Stand Comedy Club, 15–19 Aug, £17.50
Robert White and His
Particularly Silly Organ Pleasance Courtyard, 9–10 Aug, £11-12
Marriage and Mayhem
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–10 Aug, FREE
Rob Rouse
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–12 Aug, £5
Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 13 Aug, £6 18:35
The Best of Irish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £12
Police Cops Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, £12
Chris McCausland: Speaky Blinder
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12
Matt and Ollie Are... Dads!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
The Biscuit Barrel
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £7
Russell Howard – Work in Progress
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–12 Aug, £5
18:40
David Earl Is Brian
Gittins: Don’t Feed the Monkey Man
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Siblings: Acting Out Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50-12
Best of Irish Comedian of the Year
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-15
Fast Fringe
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, £7.50-11
Yuriko Kotani: Moreish Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
HUB Fresh Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, FREE
18:45
I Love You
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 13–26 Aug, FREE
James Veitch’s Work in Progress Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Mike’s Back
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Strictly Carl Donnelly!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Aaaaaaaaand Now It’s Time for... Roger Swift’s Pun-U-Matic (The Second Leg)
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies. Kind of. 2018
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £10.50-11.50
Kevin Matviw: Self Defence for Cowards
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Aaron Simmonds and the Person That He Loves Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Kai Humphries: Team Smug
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10.50-13.50
EdinBra Fringe Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Bennet Kavanagh and Chris Jones: Two Guys Talking Shite Opium, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Conor Drum: ...If Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Daniel Cook: Carpet Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £7-10
The Committee: Improvised Comedy Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Geoff Norcott: Traditionalism
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–19 Aug, £10-12
Ayesha Hazarika: Girl on Girl
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug, £11-12
Scott Gibson: Tales from the Battlefield Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12 Aug, £10
Scott Gibson: Tales from the Battlefield Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £10
18:50
Elf Lyons: ChiffChaff
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-10.50
Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50-11.50
Chris Kent: Looking Up Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8.50-9.50
Clara Cupcakes – The Worst
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Josh Pugh: The Changingman
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
The St Andrews Revue
Presents: Bears! Assembly Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8-9
25 Years of Stand-Up: Vladimir McTavish
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
18:55
One Woman Sex and the City
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-12
19:00
I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 25, £10-13
Dilruk Jayasinha: The Art of the Dil Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12
¤ Mark Watson: The Infinite Show HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 12, 24, 25, £12-16
Andy Barr: Neustadt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
Raymond Mearns Is in the House Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27
Aug, not 13, FREE
Matt Price: Last Night a Weegie Saved My Life
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £11-12
Daniel Sloss: X
Pleasance at EICC, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50-17.50
Justin Moorhouse: Northern Joker
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, £12-13
Wip It!
Southsider, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Two Faced Bitchin’
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–22 Aug, £6
Paul Foot: Image Conscious
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50-12.50
Anuvab Pal: Empire HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £11-13
Vulvarine: A New Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £10-12
Chris McGlade: Northern Monkey
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Milo McCabe: 1001
Moments With Troy
Hawke!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Daphna Baram: Sugarcoating
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, £7
Lauren Pattison: Peachy
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-12
A Complete Waste of Time
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, £7
Rice Krispies With Ketchup
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Oxford Revue: Group Work
Three Broomsticks, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Sheeps: Live and Loud
Selfie Sex Harry Potter
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 10, 11, 25, £10-14
Brett Goldstein: What Is Love Baby Don’t Hurt Me Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 24, £10-12
Nina Conti Is Monkey
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £16-19
Kimono My Comedy Show 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Underbelly’s Big Brain
Tumour Benefit
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13 Aug, £20
Tales of the Unacceptable
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20 Aug, £5
19:05
The Amours of Lillie Langtry
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Aatif Nawaz: Instant GrAATIFication
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
Cream Tea and Incest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50
19:10
Russ Peers: Hereditary Peers
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Limmy’s Vines
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–12 Aug, £16
Brain Rinse HH
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10-12
Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Allan Havey Stands Up Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9
19:15
Bisha K Ali and Kemah
Bob: Bish and Bob Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE Gary Meikle – Before All This
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
¤ Heidi Regan: Heidi vs Sharks HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8-10
Pierre Novellie: See Novellie, Hear Novellie, Speak Novellie Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10-12
Olga Koch: Fight Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £7-9
Alan Ayckbourn’s Farcicals
theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8-10
It’ll Probably Be Alright
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, not 16, 17, FREE
Nick Dixon: Marriage Material
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Angela Barnes: Rose-Tinted Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8.50-12
AAA Stand-Up
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, £9-11.50
Musical Comedy Guide
Showcase
Globe Bar, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Trump’d!
C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £11.50-13.50
Martha McBrier – Fur Coat Nae Knickers
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Martin Mor is Blocked
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ivan Aristeguieta: Juithy Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £11-13
19:20
Craig Hill: C’mon the Lads! Pleasance at EICC, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £12.5018.50
Sean Morley: I Apologise for My Recent Behaviour
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26
Aug, not 22, £5
Phil Cooper: One Phil Over The Cooper’s Nest Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £5
Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Piff the Magic Dragon and the Dog Who Knows The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–26 Aug, £16
Sally-Anne Hayward: Comedienne-ess
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 13, £5
Funny Women on the Fringe Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10
Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Lost Matriarch 2 theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £7-8
(No) Money in the Bank Sweet Novotel, 20–26 Aug, £7
Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £17.50
19:25
Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Mr Lorraine theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5
19:30
Is This the Worst Quiz / Game Show Ever?
(Edinburgh Regional Championships) Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou Sneaky Pete’s, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 22–26 Aug, £17.50
Gareth Berliner: I Paid for 50 Minutes of Your Time
Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Henry Ginsberg: Molesting the Corpse of Traditional Masculinity Since 1987
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Daisy Earl and Sukh Ojla Fireside, 16–26 Aug, FREE David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £15-16
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £13.50
Neil Delamere: Controlled Substance
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £11.50-12.50
Mr. Swallow and the Vanishing Elephant Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £11.50-14.50
Leo Kearse: Right-Wing Comedian
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
SHAnd Up Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13 Aug, FREE
The Ballad of Sarah Callaghan
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Kate Smurthwaite: Clit Stirrer
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Loose Brie Solve Everything
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £12.50
#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity
Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Alexander Bennett: Housewives’ Favourite Waverley Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Beach Hunks: Leg Day
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Glenn Wool: Wool’s Gold II (The Iron Pirate)
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £7.50
Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience
The Coffee House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
David Tsonos: Walking the Cat Two Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Gamarjobat
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–18 Aug, not 14, £11.50-12.50
¤ Nick Doody: PG HHHH
Subway, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Mickey Sharma – Filthy Club Comic
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Tom Ward: Popcorn Lung
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Daliso Chaponda: What the African Said
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–26 Aug, £15-16
So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £15
The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE
Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration
Porn
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14 Aug, £12
Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration
Porn
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, £12
Comedy Gala 2018: In Aid of Waverley Care Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £25
19:35
Holly Morgan: Madonna or Whore?
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-12
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Empathetically Challenged
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Satanic Rites of Robin Ince
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 14–26 Aug, £12
The C Bomb Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £10
Jim Smith: Back to the Teuchter!
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–12 Aug, £10
19:40
Chris Stokes: We Don’t Need Roads
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Masud Milas: Masud Abides HHH
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Jo Caulfield: Killing Time
The Stand Comedy Club
3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Caution: Deadline Ahead – A Comedy About Procrastination
C venues – C aquila, 9–27
Aug, £8.50-10.50
Lead Pencil
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £9.50-10.50
Adam Rowe: Undeniable
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Ed Gamble: Blizzard
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £10-12
Mandy Knight: The Dark Knight
Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Phil Ellis Is Ready for the Big Time
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
19:45
Andrew Roper – What Is Best in Life?
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Stand Up, Weather Girl!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
The Problem With Faye
Treacy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-6.50
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
A Pair of Jokers
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Chris Forbes: Prophecy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £10-11
Holy $#!% It’s Music and Comedy With Matt Griffo
Zoo Southside, 19–27
Aug, £10
Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Curious Incidents of the Gay in the Night-Time Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 15–26 Aug, FREE
Tom Walker: Honk Honk Honk Honk Honk
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-11
The Trouble With Being Born Romanian Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer Dance Base, 22–26 Aug, £11-13
19:50
Micky Bartlett: Crucifying Fergal
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, £10-11
19:55
Alice Fraser: Ethos Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
20:00
The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The Pin: Backstage
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 20, £9.50-12.50
Patrick Monahan: #Goals
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £13-14
Linda Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Pelican: Fisk Bedlam Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £8
¤ Ashley Storrie: Adulting HHHH
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Late Night Disco Fight
CC Blooms, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Dream On – Kirsty Munro / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10-14
Jarred Christmas: Remarkably Average Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
Aidan Goatley: 10 Films With My Dad
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £10
Pete Firman: Marvels Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £11.50-15
Ross Hepburn Is Beetlejuice’d Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50
Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Witt ‘n Camp: Swag Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Bitter and Twisted
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–26
Aug, FREE
Sheraz Yousaf: The Pursuit of Manly-ness Tolbooth Market, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, £8-10.50
Russian Roulette
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 21, £8
Brendon Burns Mansplainin’
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–26
Aug, £6.50
WOLF
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £10-11
Robin Clyfan: The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Steen Raskopoulos: Stay Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11.50-12.50
John Robertson: The Dark Room
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, £10-11
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
An Imp-Revised History of the World Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, £14-15
Tolerate Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops
Tolbooth Market, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Nathan Cassidy: If I
Caused the Financial Crash of 2008
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5-7
Potatoes, Pies and Haggis
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 12–19 Aug, FREE
Eau de Munro
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 21–26
Aug, FREE
The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
Pleasance Courtyard, 14
Aug, £12.50
Comedy from Salford Uni Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Comic Relief Live Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50
20:05
Fred MacAulay and John
Moloney
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £14
Hot Mess: Bezzie Mates
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Demi Lardner: I Love
Skeleton
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Is That Right Aye?
theSpace on the Mile, 9–14 Aug, £9.50
20:10
Me Talking, Mostly Paradise in The Vault, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £9.50
Tom Houghton: The Honourable Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, £8-10
Garry Starr Performs
Everything
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Frank Foucault: Shoes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Joe Sutherland: Toxic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Chris Henry: Around the World in 80 Dates Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Andrew Lawrence: Clean Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, £10-12
20:15
Stella Graham: Uncivilized Three Broomsticks, 9–25 Aug, FREE
James Nokise: Talk a Big Game
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
We Should Know Better
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Single Comedians Trying To Impress You Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
No Success Like Failure Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
¤ Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8-12
Fred Cooke: Fredinburgh Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8.50-9.50
Tom Lucy: Reluctant Millennial Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
Eddy Brimson: Fidgety Tits
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 22, £5
BattleActs! Improvised Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Sam Nicoresti’s Bedtime Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 15–26 Aug, £5
Sisters: On Demand Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 11, £7.50-10
Sam & Tom: Interview Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 9–13 Aug, £5 20:20
Ismo: Words Apart Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50-10 Calling My Tribe Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-14
George Michael Is Greek
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not
13, FREE
Robert White and His Particularly Silly Organ
Pleasance Dome, 20–23
Aug, £12
Simon Evans: Genius 2.0 Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not
13, £13-14
Here Be Improv theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 13–18 Aug, £3.50
BEASTS: Best of BEASTS
Pleasance Dome, 16–19
Aug, £11-12
John Kearns: Don’t Worry They’re Here
Pleasance Dome, 9–12
Aug, £11-13
The Best of Scottish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £15
Bald Man Sings Rihanna
Ciao Roma, 9–25 Aug, not
13, 20, FREE
Mark Nelson: Irreverence
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug, £12.50-14.50
Accessibility Gala
Pleasance Dome, 13 Aug, £9
20:25
The Liverpool Revue theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £6
Jamie MacDonald: Blinkered Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 11, £10.50-11.50
20:30
Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 25, £7.50-10
Time Out With Ross Voss
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Bryony Twydle: Flamingo Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Gareth Mutch: Wants
Mutch More
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Ben Pope: Baby Sasquatch
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £7-10
Lewis Schaffer: What Have You Heard?
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Reginald D Hunter: An American Facing the Beast and Niggas
Pleasance at EICC, 9–26
Aug, not 14, 20, £15.50-17
The Raymond and Mr
Timpkins Revue: Ham
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £10-12.50
Bronston Jones: God
Bless ‘Merica 4 – Free
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Joke Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Jordan Brookes: Bleed
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £10-13
Jack Barry: Tango Globe Bar, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £5
John Hastings: Float Like a Butterfly, John Hastings
Like a Bee
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, £8.50-11
Rosie Jones: Fifteen Minutes
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
Jess Robinson: No Filter
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50-14.50
Marjolein Robertson: It’s Time Bar Bados Complex, 9–25
Aug, not 14, FREE
Chris Washington: You Beauty!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £8-10
Matt Forde: Brexit Through the Gift Shop
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £12-14
Look, it’s Tom Little, Alright?
Tolbooth Market, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor)
Pleasance at EICC, 14
Aug, £16
20:35
Ethnic Cleansing – Ruven Govender
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The Thinking Drinkers: Pub Crawl
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £13-15
Gary Tro: Idoit
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7 20:40
Paul Currie: Hot Donkey Heroes @ The Hive, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Matthew Highton –Insufficient Memory Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 22, £5
Fitting Image
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Pamela DeMenthe
Presents: Sticky Digits
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, £5
Sèayoncè
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Jimeoin: Result!
Pleasance at EICC, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.5018.50
20:45
Accident Avoidance
Training for Cutlery Users – Level 2 Quaker Meeting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Dreamgun: Film Reads Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Christian Finnegan: My Goodness
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-13
Interruption Show
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 12–26 Aug, FREE
Love Like 90s R’n’B Fireside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
The Great Irish (Finnegans) Wake Off Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Stand Up and Slam Subway, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
LoveHard: Tales from the Elsewhere
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ashley Haden: We All Die C*nts
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Improv Cage Match
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Def Comedy Space Jam
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Fake TV
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Spontaneous Potter
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £10-11
Common People
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–11 Aug, FREE
20:50
¤ Fringe Wives
Club: Glittery Clittery
HHHH
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12
Mat Ewins: What Sorry?
My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Lolly Jones: Fifty Shades of May
Assembly Roxy, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £8-10
Jordan Gray: People Change
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Heard the One About Identity Theft? With the Real Bennett Arron The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, £9
Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show
theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9.50
20:55
Luxury Split Bill
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
21:00
Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Go Slay Dragons!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 12–26 Aug, FREE
The Lesbian Whisperer
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Unhinged
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Church of Phil The Clootie Dumpling, 12–25 Aug, FREE
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 6: Big O Makes It in New York... or, Does She? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 14–26 Aug, FREE
Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 23, £14-15
Phil Nichol: Your Wronger HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, £8
Abigoliah Schamaun: Do You Know Who I Think I Am?!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £9-10
Andrew Maxwell: Shake a Leg Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £14-15
Jack Docherty: Miekelson and McGlashan – Serious
Men
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £15.50-16.50
Foil, Arms and Hog –Craicling Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £13.50-16
Jason Byrne: You Can Come in, But Don’t Start Anything
Assembly Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £17-19.50
Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
James Loveridge
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Hal Cruttenden: Chubster Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £11-15
David Correos: The Correos Effect
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9-10
Helen Duff: How Deep Is Your Duff?
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–26
Aug, not 21, £5
Bob Slayer Is Bob Slayer (The Eponymous Show)
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Eleanor Conway: Walk of Shame 2
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, not 12, FREE
Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-13.50
Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £5-10
Comedy Boxing: New Challengers
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Harriet Braine’s Apocalibrary
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–19 Aug, FREE
All Hail the Rat King! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £6
The Boy With the Pearl Necklace
The Street Bar, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
Joz Norris Has No Show
This Year, but Mr Fruit Salad Does Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 18–19 Aug, £5
Show And Tell at The Queen’s Hall
The Queen’s Hall, 11 Aug, 20 Aug, FREE
Max and Ivan’s Prom Night
Assembly High, 24–25 Aug, £16
21:05
Rhys Nicholson – Seminal Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £11-12.50
Free Footlights
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Eric Davidson – Words of a Blether theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, £10
Prom Kween Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £13-14
Trevor Feelgood’s Weird Surreal Alternative Showcase
Three Broomsticks, 15–25 Aug, FREE
21:10
This Is Your Trial
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8-10
Jerry Sadowitz: Make Comedy GRATE Again!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £16.50
Terrible Sex Tips: Live and Uncut
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £10
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £12
The Bugle Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £15
Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Assembly Hall, 23–25 Aug, £17.50
Bob Doolally
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–21 Aug, £10
Standard Issue: Stands Up
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–14 Aug, £12 21:15
Tom Stade: I Swear To...
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £15-16
Janeane Garofalo: Put a Pin in That
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £13-14
The LOL Word
Three Broomsticks, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Kate Berlant: Communikate Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12.50
Good Evening Edinburgh, It’s Sam Kissajukian
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The MMORPG Show –Scruffy Looking Nerd
Herder
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 16–26 Aug, FREE
Match
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–15
Aug, FREE
Murray Hill: About to Break
HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10.50-12.50
Ed Night: An Aesthetic
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Bumpkins
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick
Murphys, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Funny Dubz
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Dan Attfield: Futureproof
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
So You Think You’re Funny? Sketch
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20
Aug, £10
Spring Day: Strong Codependent Woman – Free
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Myq Kaplan: All Killing Aside
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-13
Scott Gibson: Tales from the Battlefield
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13
Aug, £10
21:20
Eli Matthewson: The Year of Magical F*cking
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home
Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £14
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £11-12
Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does the Love Go?
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £11-12
50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
The Man Presents: Women Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Ingrid Dahle: Wingrid Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, £5
Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, £10-11
Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro Heroes @ Boteco, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6-7
Get Silly With Willy – The Cannelloni Experience theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–11 Aug, £6
Gary Delaney: Gagster’s Paradise Pleasance Courtyard, 9–11 Aug, £13-14
21:25
Lily Lovett and Patrick Monahan: Date Night
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 15, £5
Rahul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Gran
The Stand Comedy Club
3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Blind Mirth
theSpace on the Mile, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £7
The 2 Mouthed Men
Experience
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 20–25 Aug, £8
The Last Sesh theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £8
21:30
Prune
52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–25 Aug, not 12, 21, FREE
Tamsyn Kelly: You’re Welcome
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10-11
Jake Howie: Read My Lips Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5 ‘Aaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault?
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Moon HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Abandoman (AKA Rob Broderick) – Pirate Radio HHH
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £14.50-15.50
¤ Jayde Adams: The Divine Ms Jayde HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £10-13
Madame Señorita: QUEST!ON Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf at the Door
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11 Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £12
Link and Lorne: Terrestrial Is the Bestrial
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15–26 Aug, £10
Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-15
Daniel Connell: Mr
Personality 1988
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £10-11.50
Rob Oldham: Worm’s Lament
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, £9-11
Darren Harriott: Visceral HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £8.50-10
99 Club Stand-Up
Selection – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26
Aug, not 21, £12-13
Amused Moose Comedy
Award: Grand Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–20 Aug, £14
The Comedy Reserve
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50-10
Alfie Brown: Lunatic Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7
Cosmic Comedy Berlin
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Mark Steel: Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright Assembly Rooms, 9–12
Aug, £13-14
Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 12–13 Aug, £14 21:35
The Infamous Five Sketch
Show
theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
Bumble Me Tinders
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Big Value Comedy
Show – Late
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10 21:40
Sleeping Trees: World Tour Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-13
Alun Cochrane: You. Me. Now.
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12
Caustic Comedy Nights
C venues – C aquila, 9–26
Aug, £11.50-13.50
Jon Harvey: TreasuRETROve Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9-10
The Improvised Panto! Paradise in The Vault, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £8
The Tape Face Show
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £13.50-17
Tinderella and the Seven Deadly Sins theSpaceTriplex, 13–18
Aug, £9
Criminal Pleasance Dome, 9–12
Aug, £9-10
Adele Is Younger Than Us Pleasance Dome, 21–25
Aug, £10-11
Yianni Agisilaou: I, Human Pleasance Dome, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £8-10
Elsa Pleasance Dome, 16–19
Aug, £10-12
21:45
Hangry Americans Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15–26
Aug, FREE
Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Bar Bados Complex, 9–25
Aug, not 13, FREE
Wheely Wheely Wheely
Wheely Wheely
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Kwame Asante: Teenage Heartblob HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £8.50-10
Fin Taylor: When Harassy Met Sally
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £8-10
Chris Turner: We’re Where We Were Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £8-10
¤ Alice Snedden: Self-Titled HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £7-9
Dean Hendry: Smells Like Dean Spirit
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
George Rigden: George-ous Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
LJ DA FUNK in... When Will These Fascist Bastards All Be Lined Up and F*cking Shot?!?
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller Pleasance Dome, 9–26
Aug, not 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, £11-15
¤ Suzi Ruffell: Nocturnal HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8.50-11
Adam Riches Is Coach Coach 2: Coach Harder Pleasance Dome, 11–27
Aug, not 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, £11-15
Full Velvet Jacket (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–14 Aug, FREE
21:50
Be More, Do Better but Don’t Change Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Tracy’s Leaving Party: Hot Young Things
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
David Callaghan: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; Shoes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15–26 Aug, FREE
The Edinburgh Revue Is All at Sea
Canons’ Gait, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–14 Aug, FREE 21:55
Dan Nightingale: Sex, Drugs and My Nanna’s Bungalow
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, £5
The Mad Craic Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–26 Aug, FREE 22:00
Damian Clark: Extra Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10-11
Mark Dean Quinn: You Win You Lose Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Australian Beauty Opium, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Hot Gay Time Machine
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £13.50-14.50
Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
The Never Ending Cycle
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Shit-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £10.50-12.50
Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face?
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, FREE
The Nasty Show
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Imaginary Porno Charades
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25
Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Neil O’Rourke and Patrick Spicer: Cool Dude Island
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Pop Ditz
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £5
Escaping Trump’s America
Frankenstein Pub, 9–27
Aug, FREE
The Godfather of Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Snowflake It ‘Til You Make It
Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Dragprov Revue Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £7
Improvised Improv Outhouse, 12–16 Aug, £10
Bob’s Not My Uncle and Other Devastating Truths Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £5
Jimeoin: Roast Chicken
Result!
Pleasance at EICC, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £14.50-15.50
Frank Leigh We Don’t Give a ****
Kilderkin, 9–14 Aug, FREE
The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange Heroes @ The Hive, 15 Aug, £5
Ari Shaffir’s Renamed Storyteller Show Heroes @ The Hive, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £5
Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor)
Pleasance at EICC, 17 Aug, £17
Iain (Stirling) Does Jokes (With Pals)
Pleasance at EICC, 22–24 Aug, £12 22:05
Unbecoming Ramon Rivas HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10 22:10
Two Hearts: Edinburgh World Tour
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela HH
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7 Dirty White Boys: Manners
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
She Wolf
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
And Another Thing! An Improvised Show Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8-9
Woman Up Comedy Improv
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
22:15
Njambi McGrath and Guests
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
The Neighbours Are Worried
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Danny O’Brien: Lock-In Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
Head Sets
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Claire Sullivan: I Wish I Owned a Hotel for Dogs
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Home Sweet Home
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Tetchy (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 12, FREE
Alex Williamson: So Wrong, It’s Wrong Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11.5012.50
Life Coach (Age 14)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Tori Scott Is #Thirsty Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £9.50-10.50
Lee Harvey Oswald Mosley
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–10 Aug, FREE
22:20
Two Little Dickheads
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
John Robertson: Sweaty, Sexy Party Party
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10 Wigwam Wonder Jam Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10-12
The Shambles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
22:30
Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–19 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, £10-12
Denim: The Reunion Tour Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 25, £13-14
The Stevenson Experience: Spot the Difference
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, £8.50-11.50
Georgia Tasda Means Business
CC Blooms, 9–23 Aug, FREE
Swipe Right Love and Other Comedy Songs
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25
Aug, not 14, FREE
Rik Carranza presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, £10-11.50
So You Think You’re
Funny? Semi-Finals
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–15
Aug, £10
Death Ray Cabaret
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Thrones! The Musical Parody
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £14-15
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, 9–26 Aug, £13
52 Days
Laughing Horse @ City
Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Best of Red Raw
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £4
Micky Overman: Role Model
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £7.50-10
Scottish Falsetto
Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10.50-12.50
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-14.50
Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 13–14 Aug, £11
Judah Friedlander: America... Still Number One
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–22 Aug, £14.50
What the... Feminist?! theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £7
Bona Fide
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–10 Aug, £10
Zoe Lyons: Entry Level
Human
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13 Aug, £12.50
22:35
The Homesick Submarine Broadcasting Company
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
Ladylike: A Modern Guide to Etiquette
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–27 Aug, £10-11
zazUtinany
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–12 Aug, £9-10
Plumbing the Death Star Live
Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £15
22:40
Found Footage Festival: After Dark
Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10-11
Neal Portenza’s Final Edinburgh Show Will Be a Bad Magic Show on a Bus. BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Netflix and Amazon Prime Are All Welcome
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–26 Aug, £7
Three’s Company, Where’s Our Crowd? An Improvised Show
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 19, £6-7
Willis & Vere: Comedians After Hours Live
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £10-11
The Bear Pack
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 20, £11-12
Andy Field the Love Tonight
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
The Story Beast: This Is Bardcore
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
22:45
Ciarán Dowd: Don Rodolfo Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £8-10
Norris & Parker: Burn the Witch
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £8-9.50
The Moa Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £11-12
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, £10-11.50
Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £8-9.50
Shaggers (Free Festival)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ben McCarthy: Nevermind Paradise in The Vault, 9–26
Aug, not 12, 19, £15
Michael Clarke: Felt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £5
Kitchen Party Action
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Famous First Words
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £10
Michael Hackett: The Late
Mike Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Bongo’s Bingo
The Jam House, Various dates from 9 Aug to 31
Aug, £15
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £13
22:50
A Beginner’s Guide to Bondage
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Agenda Benders: Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £6
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £12.50-15
Werewolf: Live
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 21, £9-10
Douglas Walker Presents: Of Christmas Past
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-11
The Stand Comedy Club at New Town Theatre
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
The Noise Next Door’s
Comedy Lock-In!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £10.50-14
Barry Crimmins – A Tribute
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–17 Aug, £15
22:55
Plenty of Linguine at Home
Paradise in The Vault, 9–26
Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50
23:00
Questing Time
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–24
Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, £8.50-10
Eleanor Colville: Late-Night Pick and Mix
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 18–26 Aug, FREE
Avocado: Definitely Maybe Not
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8-10.50
Clara Saves America
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Clingfilm
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 13, 20, £8-10
Anna Mann’s Late Night Cheese and Sex Party
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £12-14
The Free Association: Jacuzii
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £8.50-10.50
Huge News
Gilded Balloon Rose
Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope
Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25
Aug, FREE
The Lampoons: House on Haunted Hill
Pleasance Dome, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £9-11
Late Night Nonsense: Variety Show
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Comedians Against Humanity
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-12
Birthday Girls: Late-Night Comedy Party
Pleasance Courtyard, 16–19 Aug, £12
AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £9-11.50
Late Night
Bedlam Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £10
The Crooners
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10-12
Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches
HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 16, £5
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder
Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, 26 Aug, £12.50
Drugstore Culture: Live Assembly George Square Studios, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25
Aug, £10
Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club
Pleasance Dome, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £13
Berk’s Nest Mid-Fest
Comedy Special Pleasance Courtyard, 13–14 Aug, £14
Goose: Golden Eggs Assembly George Square Studios, 17–19 Aug, £12
23:05
Doctor Whosical Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10–11 Aug, £12.50
The Piece Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Harry Poppers and the Deathly Swallows Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £12.50
23:10
Berlin Survivors’ Comedy Club
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Witch Hunt
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Falling With Style
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Gloria Hole Presents: The Clinic Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £7
23:15
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Jem Brookes: Schizophonic Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Jay Handley: White Jesus Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Jon Long – Troubadour
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Tim Key: Megadate Pleasance Courtyard, 16–26 Aug, not 21, 22, £14-16
23:20
Secret Mountain Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9
Tape Facebook Live!
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £10.50-11.50
Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £5
There Will Be Cake
Pleasance Dome, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £14-16
The Ladies Loo Chronicles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £7.50
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
Pleasance Dome, 10 Aug,
17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club
Pleasance Dome, 23–24
Aug, £13
23:30
Thomas Green: Doubting Thomas
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8-9
Bearne the Midnight Oil
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–27
Aug, not 13, 14, 20, FREE
Bronston Jones: Spilt Milk – Free
Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Roast Battle Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Roman Fraden: Back in the Closet
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 15, £10
Revenge of the New World
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Rahul Kohli: Kohl and the Gang
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Laughterthoughts: A Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Lenny Sherman: Make the World a Better Place
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Edinburgh Comedy Allstars
Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £12.50-15
Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23 Aug, £15
Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!
Underbelly, George Square, 21–22 Aug, £15
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 12–13 Aug, £17
All Killa No Filla Live Underbelly, George Square, 19–20 Aug, £14 23:35
BEASTS
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
23:40
Oleg Denisov: Doublethink HH
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Mr Thing
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 23, £10
Wikipedilove Paradise in Augustines, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9 23:45
One of Them, One of Us Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Grant Busé: The Birds and the Beats
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-10
Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Showcase with a Twist: You Decide the Material!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE Wishful Drinking Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE
Getting Away Scott Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 19, FREE
Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9-10
The Stand Late Club
The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15–16 Aug, FREE 23:55
Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £7 Spank!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, £13.50-15.50
Last Orders
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £5 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £13 23:59
Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
Werewolves
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–27 Aug, not 16, £10
09:00
Barry’s Fringe Audio Walking Tour Outside the Tron – Hunter Square, 9–31 Aug, FREE
The Odyssey of Homer Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £6
Breakfast Plays: Youthquake Traverse Theatre, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £12
09:30
Bruford Warm-Up Mornings Summerhall, 9–23 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £4
09:55
Goodbye Rosetta theSpace @ Niddry St, 15–19 Aug, £10
10:00
Shakespeare for Breakfast
C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
Nigel Slater’s Toast Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
Another One Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 20, £10
What Girls Are Made Of Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50
Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21.50
Meek Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50
Mark Thomas – Check
Up: Our NHS at 70 Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50
Theatre Uncut: Women on Power Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, £8
Curio (A Cabinet of Curiosities)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £5
A Midsummer Night’s Droll
theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £10
A Midsummer Night’s
Droll
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £12.50
Ganymede
Paradise in Augustines, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
10:05
Monday at Golden Oak High
theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–18 Aug, £9
Good Things Come to Those Who
theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7
Bottled Up theSpace on North Bridge, 13–18 Aug, £10
Swap Shop theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £9
Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £7 10:10
See Rock City and Other Destinations
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £7.50
10:15
How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Bottled Up theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £10
Henriad – Histories of Betrayal Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–18 Aug, £8
10:20
Panchkanya Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug, FREE
MAD Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £8
A Dog’s Tail Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £8
Your Alice Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £9
As It Happened (Contemporaneous Notes)
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £7
A Collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Too Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £8
10:30
Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, £5
Orestes Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £8
The Best Play Ever theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8
Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location
Leith Dockers Club, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12-12.50
Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £9
The WWI Wardrobe Project
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £10
10:35
Almost, Maine theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–11 Aug, £5
Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £10
10:40
Reigen
theSpace @ Venue45, 13–18 Aug, £8
The Laurel and Hardy Story theSpaceTriplex, 13–18 Aug, £10
10:45
That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 13–18 Aug, £15
Female Transport Theatre Bath Bus, 9–11 Aug, £7
Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12
Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
The Electra Legacy Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £15
Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £9
10:50
In Addition
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
The Mariner’s Song
Paradise in The Vault, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
Lights Over Tesco Car Park
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 15, 22, £8.50-11
As It Happened (Contemporaneous Notes)
theSpace on North Bridge, 13–18 Aug, £7
Lonely TWOgether Beijing Version
theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12
10:55
Pomona
theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10
Treasure Island
theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8
11:00
Zoo Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9.50-11.50
Under the Fig Tree
Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £8
Our Man in Havana Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50-10
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–12 Aug, £9-10
Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50
Paper Dolls Paradise in The Vault, 9–11 Aug, £10
The Meeting
theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–18 Aug, £7
Class HHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50
Risk
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–15 Aug, FREE
The Pew With a View
St Patrick’s Church, 9–11 Aug, £5
The Turn of the Screw
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
¤ The Greatest Play in the History of the World...
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50
Alabama God Damn
Pleasance Dome, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 21, £8.5010.50
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £20.50
The Taming of the Shrew C venues – C south, 12–18
Aug, £8-10
Proxy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8-9
Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, FREE
Old Boy
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50
11:05
Walk Swiftly and With Purpose
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £9.50
11:10
Good Women
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–19 Aug, not 11, FREE
Punching Judy theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–18 Aug, £10
Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorised Shakespearean Parody of Ghostbusters theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £9
Hecate Paradise in The Vault, 13–18 Aug, £12
Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2018 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–25 Aug, £12
Two by Jim Cartwright (Clueless Presents) theSpace on North Bridge, 13–18 Aug, £8-10
Chatroom theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £8
Are There More of You?
Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-12.50
11:15
Eglantyne
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-10
Inferno theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
Treasure Island C venues – C, 9–11 Aug, £8.50-9.50
The Ladder
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–12 Aug, £8-9.50
Death, Dating and I Do theSpace on the Mile, 14–18 Aug, £7
Swap Shop theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9
Big Love
Central Hall, 13 Aug, £5
11:20
Someone Somewhere by Sam Potter theSpace @ Niddry St, 9 Aug, £8
Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2018 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13–18 Aug, £12
Intro to Chicano History:
101
Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5
Brollies and Bumbershoots
Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5
Holy Sh*t
Paradise in The Vault, 20–24 Aug, £8
11:25
The Antiscians
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
Spoiler Alert
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6-8.50
Definition of Man HHH
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8-10
First Dates
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £10
Elise
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £9-11
Fallen Fruit
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
11:30
How to Spot an Alien Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £10
Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion
Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, £5
Sparks HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12
She Taught Me How to Breathe Again
Zoo Southside, 12–27 Aug, not 15, £10
...And This Is My Friend
Mr Laurel
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £10-12.50
The Fetch Wilson
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8-10
Doors Opening
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £9
Shadow Hour Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5
Island Town
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £15-17
Orlando
Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12-13
Sticks and Stones
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £15-17
WHITE
Pleasance Courtyard, 15–27 Aug, not 20, £7.50-10
11:35
The Interview
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £7
Coccinellidae
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £5
Walk Swiftly and With Purpose
theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9.50
How to Be Amazingly Happy!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 14, £8-10
11:40
Tarzanne
theSpaceTriplex, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
No Sanction Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
King Arthur – The Panto Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £5
The WWI Wardrobe Project
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £10
All the Lights Are On HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Trump Lear Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-11
11:45
1984
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £10
The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug, £12-13
Entropy
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £9
Raise the Roof Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £5
Nine Foot Nine Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 16, £10-12
That Daring Australian Girl Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 10 Aug to 27 Aug, £12-13
Warhol: Bullet Karma Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £8.50
See-Through Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5-10
Eight
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £10
Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-12
Finding Fassbender
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-10.50
11:50
The OS Map Fan Club theSpaceTriplex, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £9
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8-10
Alma, a Human Voice HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
A Good Enough Girl?
Assembly George Square
Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £11-12
A Necessary Woman
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–26 Aug, £9.50
11:55
Evren
Venue 13, 9–11 Aug, £9
Tetra-Decathlon
Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £12
Individual Medley Sweet Grassmarket, 9–19 Aug, £7
You’ve Got To Be Kidney Me!
Venue 13, Various dates from 12 Aug to 18 Aug, £9
Lonely TWOgether Taipei
Version
theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12
Noël Coward’s Still Life
theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £9
Brawn
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £8
12:00
Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £8
Tits ‘n’ Teeth
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
In Conversation With...
Archie Macpherson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Donald Findlay
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £12
Cat-in-a-Box
C venues – C aquila, 12–18 Aug, £7.50-9.50
The Archive of Educated Hearts
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
In Conversation With...
Ruby Wax
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Henry Winter
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Emily Thornberry
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Barbara Dickson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12
Unsung
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
The Accordion Shop
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–17 Aug, £5
In Conversation With...
Paddy Hill
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Darren McGarvey
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £12
Daniel Cainer: Old Dog, New Shtick!
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, £11-12
A Christmas Carol
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £13-15
@JohnLewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted HHH
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
The Magic Hour
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–12 Aug, £5
Dangerous Giant Animals
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 21, £9-10
Leviticus
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10-12
Agent November
Investigates: Rob Berry
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Dominoes Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
The Lucky Durhams
theSpace @ Venue45, 14–18 Aug, £10
The Canterville Ghost
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–22 Aug, £5
In Conversation With...
Jonathan Watson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £12
Scary Story
Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £8
The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)
Sweet Grassmarket, 13–19
Aug, £8
In Conversation With...
Mark Thomas
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Mike Russell
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Rory Bremner
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12
Heroine Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 21, £10-12
In Conversation With... KT Tunstall
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Judy Murray
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12
A Voice C venues – C aquila, 9–10 Aug, £8.50-9
After the Cuts Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
Laura theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £7
In Conversation With...
Val McDermid
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Arnold Brown
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12
In Conversation With...
Richard Leonard
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12 12:05
Into the Blue theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8
Alfred Hitchcock’s Writers’ Room theSpace on North Bridge, 13–18 Aug, £8.50
Waiting for Ofsted theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–18 Aug, £10
The Edge of You
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 21, £10
12:10
Offstage HH Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8-10
Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, £11-12
Stupid Cupid Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, £9-12
Just William’s Luck Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
12:15
Didi and Gogo
C venues – C royale, 9–11 Aug, £8.50-9.50
Uninvited
C venues – C royale, 19–27 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Kokoda
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-9
Banana Boys theSpace on the Mile, 14–18 Aug, £8
Heimatmann
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, FREE
There’s a Leak
C venues – C, 9–11 Aug, £8.50-9.50
On Their Own Ground
C venues – C royale, 12–18 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Molière’s The Miser C venues – C, 12–18 Aug, £7.50-9.50
The Merry Wives of Seoul
C venues – C south, 12–18 Aug, £8-10
Swap Shop theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £9
Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger’s)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-9.50
I’ll Have What She’s Having Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9-11
12:20
Marsistan Sweet Novotel, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £7.50
Mengele Assembly George Square Theatre, 10–26 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, £10-12
Let’s Inherit the Earth
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12
Gate 64
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Yen
C venues – C cubed, 9–25 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Haggis, Neeps and Burns Hill Street Theatre, 9–26
Aug, £12
All Change Assembly George Square Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 27 Aug, £10-12
Good Grief theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8
Kit Finnie: Mabel and Mickey
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £9-10
12:25
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Vivarium
Bedlam Theatre, 9–27
Aug, not 16, £10
Beaker’s Place theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50
A Night of Dark Intent
theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–15 Aug, £5
A Dangerous Woman theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–11 Aug, £8
Courtroom Play: A Courtroom Play
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9.50-12.50
12:30
Simon Callow in De
Profundis Assembly Rooms, 9–26
Aug, not 13, 20, £17-19
Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 9–26
Aug, £5
The Archive of Educated Hearts
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Comedy of Errors
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–14 Aug, £10-12
Fcuk’d
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, £8.50-10
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9-10
Titus Andronicus
Paradise in The Vault, 13–18 Aug, £10
A State of Mind
Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10-11
Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Le Monde, 9–27 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £12.50
No One Is Coming to Save You
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £8-10.50
The Abode
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–16 Aug, £10-11
The Women of Lockerbie
C venues – C, 9–14 Aug, £8.50-10.50
¤ Daughter HHHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £11
The Selkie: A Song of Many Waters 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 9–15 Aug, FREE
12:35
147Hz Can’t Pass Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
The Big Lie theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 13–16 Aug, £5
DNA
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £7.50
Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8
Henriad – Histories of Betrayal Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £8
A Beginner’s Guide to Populism
theSpaceTriplex, 13–18 Aug, £9
A Substitute for Life Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11.50
12:40
The Half Moon Shania Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10
My Name Is Dorothy Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Tarzanne theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10
Gratiano Assembly Rooms, 12 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £10-12
An Evening With Miss Wong Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 15, 19, 20, 22, £10-12
Matthew 19:14
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50
Pyg Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £8
12:45
A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12.50
Kill the Boy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9 Aug, £7
Statements
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–17 Aug, £8.50-9.50
Sisterhood Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50-11
Busking It Pleasance Courtyard, 15–27 Aug, £7-12.50
UnSpoken
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
Everything Is Going to Be KO
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50-11
Fronting Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8-11
The Duke Pleasance Courtyard, 9–13 Aug, £5 12:50
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
The Monster in the Hall theSpace on the Mile, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
Jumpers for Goalposts theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £9.50
Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Born on a Monday Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7 Keep the Change ZOO Charteris, 12–27 Aug, not 20, £10
The WWI Wardrobe Project Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £10
The Arsonists Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £8
12:55
Love Song to Lavender Menace Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £7-8
Polaris Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
13:00
Power Play: Somebody Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
The Archive of Educated Hearts
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £7-8
Flight HHH Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, £6
About Lady White Fox With Nine Tales... Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £12-13
Nigel Slater’s Toast Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £21.50
Guerilla Aspies Year Four – Autism. Amusement. Conversion. Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE
Chwedl: Fairytales from Wales
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 23–27 Aug, £6
Twelfth Night Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £15
What Girls Are Made Of Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50
Diary of an Expat
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Meek
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 25
Aug, £21.50
Mark Thomas – Check
Up: Our NHS at 70 Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21.50
Underground Railroad Game
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
Ladykiller Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 14, £9-11
Stealth Aspies – Autistic People Speaking
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–16 Aug, FREE
Agent November
Investigates: Rob Berry
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Gie’s Peace
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9
The 39 Steps: A Disaster in a Radio Studio!
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–17 Aug, £5
Extremism
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–12 Aug, £5
Romeo and Juliet
Assembly George Square Gardens, 15–19 Aug, £15
Marie Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-11
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £24
Propeller
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 21, £7-9
Dummy
Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Boxes
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–22 Aug, £5
In Loyal Company
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £9-11.50
The Trip
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 25–26 Aug, £7
The Time Machine
theSpace @ Venue45, 13–18 Aug, £9
13:05
Dickens for Dinner
C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-10.50
Never Vera Blue
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Alice
theSpaceTriplex, 9–11 Aug, £8
Out of Control
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £6
Agenda theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £6
Crave
theSpace on North Bridge, 13–18 Aug, £7
Vessel
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
DUPed
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Manx Fairy Tales and Legends
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £10
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14-15
13:10
Don Juan
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-12
Jericho
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–26 Aug, £6.50-11
Who Cares?
Natural Food Kafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 21, FREE
Ouroboros
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–14 Aug, £10-11
Little Sparks
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Signals
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-10.50
Uke Belong to Me
Paradise in The Vault, 9–11 Aug, £7.50
Do You Think That’s Wise?
– The Life and Times of John Le Mesurier
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Panopticon theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £7
13:15
Dangerous Giant Animals Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE My Left Nut Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
The Burning Gadulka Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
What Makes You a Woman theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £7 Dolly theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7
The Grimm Truth theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–18 Aug, £7.50
The Red Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £8
Don’t Kill Your Darlings ZOO Charteris, 9–26 Aug, £10
Queens of Sheba
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15 Aug, £10
The First Love Project
C venues – C, 19–26 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Sinatra: Raw Frankenstein Pub, 9–27 Aug, £7.50
The Quest: A Fantasy Musical theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £9.50
Big Love
Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5 Red and Boiling Venue 13, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
13:20
The Hit Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10
Gypsy Queen Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10-12
Jinrou TLPT
Paradise in Augustines, 9–11 Aug, £15
Darlings
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
Intro to Chicano History: 101 Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5
Brollies and Bumbershoots
Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5
As We Like It Paradise in Augustines, 14–18 Aug, £8
The EU Inspector theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
The Fishermen Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50-12.50
Katie & Pip Summerhall, 9–12 Aug, £10
13:25
Erewhon Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
¤ The Approach
HHHH Assembly Hall, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £12-13
The Black Dahlia Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £6
Don Quixote Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £8-10
13:30
Adventurers Wanted:
Rebellion
Sweet Novotel, 9–26
Aug, £5
It’s Not a Sprint
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £9-11
On the Exhale
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50
The Archive of Educated Hearts
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Wrecked
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, £13-14
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, £6
May Contain Neanderthal
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9
Footballers Have Feelings Too
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £20.50
Fibre Optics Can Save the World!
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 11 Aug, £9
Class HHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £20.50
School of Batman – Live!
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 12 Aug, £9
Ditch the Classroom; Speak in Tongues!
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 13 Aug, £9
The Spy Who Doped Me
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 26 Aug, £9
Brexit
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50-16.50
Stop Making Sense
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £9
Yer Aul’ Da
The Royal Scots Club, 21–25 Aug, £10
The Cat’s Mother
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £9-10
What Keeps You Sharp?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £9
The Dark Side of Fluorescence
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9
Jings Crivvens Help Ma Boab
Eric Liddell Centre, 14 Aug, FREE
All News Is Fake News!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £9
Mungo: Legend of Glasgow’s Saint St Patrick’s Church, 11–12 Aug, £8
Never a Soft Touch
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £9
¤ Baby Face HHHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
¤ The Greatest Play in the History of the World... HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50
Will Pigs Save Our Bacon?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50
Chemo Barbie HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
Shadow Hour
Central Hall, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, £5
Door-to-Door Poetry
Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
The Naked Blind Data Show
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9
Monolinguals, Where Are You?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9
Disgust for Dummies
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £9
Politics of the Tooth Fairy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9
13:35
(sorry)
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £13-15
Evros | The Crossing River
Summerhall, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £8-10
The Servant of Two Masters
C venues – C, 9–11 Aug, £9-10
The Spider Glass theSpaceTriplex, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
You Only Live Forever Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-11
Twelfth Night: The Ship of Fools
C venues – C, 12–18 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Come to Daddy Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £8
13:40
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Camp Be Yourself Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9-10
The Dark Philosophers theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £8
A Clown Show About Rain Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50-11
Tonight With Donny Stixx
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50-11.50
Bad Dog
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
Olorine
C venues – C too, 19–23 Aug, £7.50-9.50
13:45
J’n’R
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £10
My Mate Dave Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £7
The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and His Narcissistic Mother Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £12
The Marilyn Conspiracy Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £15-18
Zugunruhe Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £10
A Robinson Crusoe of the Soul
Sweet Novotel, 13–26 Aug, not 17, 22, £5
WEIRD HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £10-12
BaseCamp
C venues – C south, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9.50-11.50
Grace
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-9.50
Billy Bremner and Me
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–12 Aug, £12
Babes Against Bullshit theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £6
Bad Shakespeare
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £8
The Sisters of CastleKnock House C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
An Act Of Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
13:50
Scratch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £8.50
Diagnosed Paradise in The Vault, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Your Alice
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £9
Osric Omand and the Story of Hope
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £8
Blink Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 13
Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £8.50 Medea
Greenside @ Nicolson
Square, 23–25 Aug, £7
Last Tango in Little Grimley
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £5
Falkland – The War the World Forgot
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10-12
14:00
And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8-10
Gulliver Returns
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
Bummer and Lazarus
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £9
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26
Aug, £6
Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–19 Aug, £11.50
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
Feed
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 15, £9-12
Starfish
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
The Principal, 9–27 Aug, £49.50
City Love
C venues – C cubed, 9–27
Aug, £8.50-10.50
All That Remains
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 16
Aug, 21 Aug, £8
The End of Eddy
The Studio, 23–26
Aug, £11
The Half Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7-12.50
Behind Our Skin
C venues – C aquila, 9–10 Aug, £8.50
Bowjangles: Excalibow
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12
Agent November
Investigates: Rob Berry
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
FanDango Bedlam Theatre, 9–11 Aug, £10
Happimess theSpace @ Venue45, 14–18 Aug, £8
Jings Crivvens Help
Ma Boab
Eric Liddell Centre, 14 Aug, FREE
Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe
The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, FREE
Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 22, FREE
The Only One in the World Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9 Aug, £7
Eight
Bedlam Theatre, 20–27 Aug, £10
Taking it Badly theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £9
Dancing With Mrs Murphy
Leith Dockers Club, 13–16 Aug, £10
VELVET
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £11-12.50
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £8.50-11
Hocus Pocus
The Studio, 11–12 Aug, £11
A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
The Poets’ Republic –Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5
Annie Brassey Paradise in Augustines, 13–18 Aug, £8
14:05
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
The Vampire of Barcelona theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £7
Community theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £5
14:10
The Vanishing Man Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9.50-13
A Sight of Abject Pity and Ruin theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £5
Words Is Words Is Words theSpace @ Surgeons
Hall, 13–18 Aug, £6 Chimes at Midnight theSpace @ Surgeons
Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Jet of Blood
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10
Tom Duke – Psychiatrist to the Paranormal! theSpace @ Surgeons
Hall, 9–11 Aug, £6
Side Effects
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–18 Aug, £8
14:15
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ZOO Charteris, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, £10
The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug, £11
The Bench
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £10
Pricks Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £8.50-11
Integrity theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10
UNCONDITIONAL Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50-11
Casanova Dreaming theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9
Bite-Size Plays Presents: Neverwant Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9.50-11
Treasure Island theSpaceTriplex, 13–18 Aug, £10
14:20
I, Sniper theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Dracula Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-12.50
The Song of Lunch
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-14.50
Ailsa Benson Is Missing Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Impact
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-11
Goons
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–14 Aug, £10-11
The New Electric Ballroom theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £6
14:25
Nitro theSpace on the Mile, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
Chase Scenes HHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9-10
Losing My Mindfulness
Natural Food Kafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
In Their Footsteps theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8
Decibels
Paradise in The Vault, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £9
The Lucky Durhams
theSpace @ Venue45, 19 Aug, £10
Spaces
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 14, 21, £9
Antigone
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £9.50
14:30
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, £13-14
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, £6
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Wired
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 10–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Legacy: The Story of Martin Luther Palmerston Place Church, 18 Aug, £10
Power Play: Funeral Flowers HHH
Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
Cambusdonald Royal Mayfield Salisbury Church, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £12
The Famous Five C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
The Man Who Planted Trees
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–27 Aug, £12
Of Rags and Bones
Quaker Meeting House, 9–11 Aug, £9
The Pew With a View St Patrick’s Church, 9–10 Aug, £5
The Steamie Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 18 Aug, £12
Rainforest Dreams
Paradise in Augustines, 20–26 Aug, £8.50
Jings Crivvens Help
Ma Boab
Eric Liddell Centre, 14 Aug, FREE
¤ Waiting for Godot HHHH
The Lyceum, 11 Aug, £17
TalkFest 2018: 02 Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, £5
The Providence of Neighboring Bodies
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
The Prisoner
The Lyceum, 25 Aug, £17
A Fistful of Mondays Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 11 Aug, £8
Island Town
Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug, £15-17
A World Beyond Man Quaker Meeting House, 20–25 Aug, £6
One Woman Alien Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £8
The Pieman Cometh: A Cautionary Football Tale Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12
Sticks and Stones
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 10–25 Aug, not 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, £15-17
The Front Page St Ninian’s Hall, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £12
Drip Feed HH Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £12-13
The Power of Music 1 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 9 Aug, £8
14:35
Man Down
Venue 13, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Heaven Burns Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-11
Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers theSpaceTriplex, 9–11 Aug, £12
Duck Gutters theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10
DNA – Alexandra David-Néel theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £11
I Love You... But theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Awakening
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Other People’s Teeth
C venues – C aquila, 9–19 Aug, £8-10
14:40
Ruth Cockburn – Love
Letters from Blackpool Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 20, £9
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-12
Love Songs
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 15, £10-11
And Then There’s Me... theSpaceTriplex, 9–11
Aug, £10
Not Dead Yet!
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £8
14:45
The Egg Is a Lonely Hunter
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
The Big Time C venues – C royale, 9–25
Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
Fallout
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–26 Aug, FREE Not Yet Suffragette
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Bonqrz
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Benny
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £10-11
In for a Penny Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9.50-10.50
A Self-Help Guide to Being in Love With Jeremy Corbyn Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
The Canterville Ghost Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £10-13
14:50
Sophie, Ben and Other Problems
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-11
Once Seen on Blue Peter Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £19.50-22.50
Nina’s Got News by Frank Skinner
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, £14-16
The Rockford File Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50-11
Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12.50
Orpheus Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £11
The Unknown Soldier Assembly Rooms, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, £10-12
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12
The Straw Man Assembly Rooms, 10–25 Aug, not 11, 16, 18, 20, 23, £10-12
The House Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 21, £11-13
14:55
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Drowning Our Babies
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Free and Proud Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £12-13
Much Ado About Nothing
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £10
15:00
South Bend
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £13-14
Hello Georgie, Goodbye
Best
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
Conflict of Interest
Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26
Aug, £6
It’s Alright, Everything’s
Okay
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £6-7
Hamlet (An Experience)
Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £10
Agent November
Investigates: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Quines Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £9
De Fuut
Summerhall, 9–12
Aug, £10
Animal Management
Sweet Novotel, 9–12
Aug, £8
Waiting
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £8
Witches, Wee Folk and Watery Beasties
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–12 Aug, £9
The Last Straw
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Dreamland
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10
Walk the Oars
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £9
Woyzeck
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 23, £7.50-10
Your Alice
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £9
Alternative Bedtime Stories
Sweet Novotel, 13–26
Aug, £7
Jings Crivvens Help
Ma Boab
Eric Liddell Centre, 14
Aug, FREE
HOME
King’s Theatre, 25–26
Aug, £17
After Today
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 21, £10-12.50
The Aspirations of Daise
Morrow
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–12 Aug, £13-14
Drifting Towers
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
The Anglican Tradition of Poetry
St Vincent’s, 17 Aug, FREE
Really Want to Hurt Me
Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-11
Drenched
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £9-11
Midsummer
The Hub, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £32
BaseCamp
C venues – C south, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9.50-11.50
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, 14 Aug, £24
Extro-Terrestrial
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £7
La Maladie de la mort
The Lyceum, 18–19 Aug, £17
Painted Love
Valvona & Crolla, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £10
Century Song
Zoo Southside, 9–18 Aug, not 15, £12-14
Me, Myself and AI
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £7
15:05
Grace Notes
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Tipping the Velvet theSpace @ Niddry St,
9–11 Aug, £8
The Big Lie
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–11 Aug, £5
Congratulations You Bastard!
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £5
Phill Jupitus Is Porky the Poet in Living in a World
Where They Throw the
Ducks at the Bread
Voodoo Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
Queen of the Air
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £9
Puffin Island
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £9
Face 2 Face
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Framed!
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
15:10
Pig Circus
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £10 Bag for Life
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £8
Bride of the Gulf
C venues – C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9.50-11.50
Life on Venus
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 13–18 Aug, £7
Other Voices Spoken
Word Cabaret
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Nutshells
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 13–18 Aug, £8
15:15
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan
Doyle
theSpace on the Mile, 9–18
Aug, not 12, £8
Toby Thompson: For the Record
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9-12
Tobacco Road HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9.5012.50
Unspoken Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7-12.50
The Unsung
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9
Susan Macbeth
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 15–26
Aug, FREE
Sitting by Katherine Parkinson
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £14-16
Narcissist in the Mirror Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 19, £9-11
Trojan Horse Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12
Terra Is a Warm Gun theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10
The Imagicarium of Mr Dickens
theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8
¤ Songlines HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-12
15:20
The Poetry of Sticking an Egg Up a Hen’s Butt! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Ken Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11-14.50
An Algorithm Named Kevin theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £5-7
The Pleasantries of Peasantry theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
Romeo and Juliet theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8-10
To the Ocean theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–19 Aug, £5
Brollies and Bumbershoots
Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5
Lu-ting the Merman Paradise in Augustines, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10
Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £13-14
15:25
F**k You Pay Me Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10-11
Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–23 Aug, £12
Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24–25 Aug, £12
15:30
Wrecked
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, £13-14
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26
Aug, £6
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
Outside Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-10
Marmite
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £9-10
Talking Heads – Bed Among the Lentils
St Cuthbert’s Church, 13–15 Aug, £10
Henry Pleasance Dome, 11–26
Aug, £10-12
Ad Libido
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 21, £8-10.50
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17
Aug, £24
Shadow Hour
Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5
Passionate Machine
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £10
Dietrich: Natural Duty Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-12
The Red Shoes
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, £7.50-10
Off-Kilter
Dance Base, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £13
The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 16
Aug, 21 Aug, £8
Ciara
The Royal Scots Club, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £10
The Search for a Black-Browed Albatross Pleasance Dome, 9 Aug, £10
Misha Glenny: McMafia
Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £14-15
Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age
Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5
15:35
Choking to Death on a Currant Bun
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9
Metamorphosis of One
C venues – C royale, 9–27
Aug, £7.50-9.50
Sirens
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50-11
15:40
Little Potatoes
Paradise in The Vault, 9–11
Aug, £10
Wakey Wakey theSpaceTriplex, 9–11
Aug, £5
Van Gogh Find Yourself
#vgfy
Natural Food Kafe, 9–25
Aug, not 10, FREE
No Kids
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 21, £10.50-13.50
The Extinction Event Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9.50-13
I Love You Mum... I
Promise I Won’t Die! theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8
Flushed
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
The War of Jenkins’ Ear theSpaceTriplex, 9–11
Aug, £5
Don Quixote Unbound
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, £10
Dysney Disfunction
HHH
Assembly Rooms, 9–25
Aug, not 14, £10-11
15:45
Luke Wright, Poet
Laureate
Bar Bados Complex, 13–25
Aug, FREE
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Wings Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26
Aug, FREE
Flattered Fireside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Urban Unrest Paradise in The Vault, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £7.50
Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
Drunk Lion
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Not in Our Neighbourhood
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-11
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50
¤ The Greatest Play in the History of the World...
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50
15:50
Chihuahua Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 10, 13, 20, £10-11
15:55
Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Stand and Deliver
C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Come Die With Us Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, £8.50
16:00
Looking for Lightning
C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8.50-10.50
Nigel Slater’s Toast Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50
InValid Voices
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 10–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Rocket Man
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 11–26 Aug, FREE
Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 9–26 Aug, FREE
James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean)
C venues – C aquila, 19–27 Aug, £9.50-11.50
Stella
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–16 Aug, £12
What Girls Are Made Of Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50
Agent November
Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Underground Railroad Game
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50
Meek
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
Mark Thomas – Check
Up: Our NHS at 70 Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £21.50
Kin
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, 11–26 Aug, £12
The Welcome Revolution Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10
Expendable Chapters
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £8
Harpy
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-13
Slacker-in-Law
Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Alice Hawkins –Suffragette
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13–17 Aug, £8
Ripper
theSpace @ Venue45, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
Sob Story
theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £9.50
Eat Your Heart Out Paradise in Augustines, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
You Are Frogs
Venue 13, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
Roman Candle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £9.50
Power Play: Next Time
Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2018: The Award Ceremony
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, £7
Once in a Generation...
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–10 Aug, FREE
16:05
It’s a Dog’s Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 18, £10.50
The Laramie Project theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10 Hug the Bunny Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
You Down There and Me Up Here Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £7.50
Apocalypse Cow theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £9
Gayface theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Tremor HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14-16
16:10
Where the Hell is Bernard?
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9-11
Party Night - CANCELLED theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 20–25 Aug, £8
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Skin a Cat Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10-12
Achilles’ Heel: TLC Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £8
A Generous Lover Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Strangers: Pairs Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £10
Last Hive
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 25, £10
Dib Dib Dead theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £9
Eat Your Heart Out Paradise in Augustines, 20–26 Aug, £10
Creating Rumours Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £10
Birth Control Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £7 Nutshells theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £8
16:15
Reigen theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £8
Ah Dinnae Ken theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £7-8 Portraits in Motion Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £20.50
Class HHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50
Lost Lore theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 14–18 Aug, £10
A Broad Abroad C venues – C royale, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
Achilles Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Alan Bennett’s Green Forms theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–25 Aug, £12
¤ The Greatest Play in the History of the World... HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £20.50
Attila the Stockbroker –Ancient and Modern Bannermans, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Huff
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11
Step Mama Drama!
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10
Aug, £8
Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–21 Aug, £12
BaseCamp
C venues – C south, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £9.50-11.50
Diamond by Beryl Richards
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £14-16
¤ Timmy HHHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £9-11
The Quest: A Fantasy Musical theSpace @ Venue45, 19 Aug, £9.50
16:20
The Genius of Charles Dickens
Sweet Novotel, 9–11
Aug, £8
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Brenda’s Got a Baby
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Stardust
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 20, £9-11.50
Fan Girl
theSpace on the Mile, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
Son of Jim
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Willis & Vere: A Serious Play About World War II
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Blackout
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Working Class Hero
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Your Bard Assembly Hall, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £12
Nazanin’s Story
C venues – C, 19–26 Aug, £8.50-10.50
The River Was a God
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Hymns for Robots
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-10.50
16:25
A Joke Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14-16
Badgered
C venues – C cubed, 12–18
Aug, £8.50-10.50
Bottom
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
16:30
Wrecked
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–27 Aug, £13-14
¤ Build a Rocket
HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, £9-12
A Fortunate Man HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
This Script and Other Drafts
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20 Aug, £10
Games by Henry Naylor
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 15, £12.50-13.50
Who Will Separate Us?
Leith Depot, 24–26
Aug, £5
Rise of a Humble Poet
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Doom’s Day
C venues – C south, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £8.50-10.50
Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Pigs in Blankets
Paradise in The Vault, 9–18
Aug, not 12, £10
16:35
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Crave
theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £7
Can’t Stop Can’t Stop
C venues – C royale, 9–27
Aug, not 13, 17, 20, 24, £7.50-9.50
The Unbinding
C venues – C cubed, 9–11 Aug, £9.50-10.50
Who Killed Franz
Ferdinand?
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £7
Cry God for Harry, England and St George! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–11 Aug, £8
16:40
Henry V – Lion of England
Assembly Rooms, 10–25
Aug, not 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £12-13
Pigeon Man Apocalypse
Three Broomsticks, 9–25
Aug, not 16, FREE
Hamlet – Horatio’s Tale Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug, £12-13
Loyalty
theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
¤ Pickle Jar HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10-11
The Wardrobe theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £5
16:45
Testament
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £10
16:50
A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10 No Home Like This Place
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17 Aug, £10
16:55
The Flop Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Grail Project Bedlam Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £10
17:00
Flies Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 20, £10.50-13.50
The Laird’s Big Breaxit Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
A&E theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Revenants HHH
Pleasance Dome, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £11-12.50
Agent November
Investigates: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
BBC Pop-Up Radio Drama Studio at Summerhall Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6
Live Before You Die
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, FREE
Old Souls
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8
War With the Newts Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £12
Don’t Tell Me Not to Fly Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, £17-19.50
Loki, the Scottish Rapper: Poverty Safari Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £12
1902
Wee Red Bar, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £12
Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 23–25 Aug, £9
Providence Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Same Old Same Oldies theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Freeman HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 10, £8-11
TalkFest 2018: 02 Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, £5
Rights of Passage
C venues – C too, 20–26 Aug, £8.50-10.50
It Is a Truth...
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, £6
All These Things Zoo Southside, 15–16 Aug, £20
17:05
Hunch Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10.50-12.50
Macbeth theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £8
Blue Heart
C venues – C too, 9–18 Aug, £9.50-11.50
17:10
Departure Date theSpace on the Mile, 9–25 Aug, not 19, £9
Hansel and Gretel
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug, £8
Bare Knuckle Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £10
bloominauschwitz
Just Festival at St John’s , 9–25 Aug, not 12, 16, 19, £12
Nowt as Queer as Folk
theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
17:15
Kids Play theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–25 Aug, £9
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
Outcast
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–12 Aug, £8
Umbrella Man
Scottish Poetry Library, 13–18 Aug, £8
The Isle of Muck Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Sympathy for the Devil Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £9
Welcome to Self Co
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 15–26 Aug, FREE
Re: Production
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10-12
This Is Yorkshire theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6
Henchmen
Sweet Grassmarket, 14–26 Aug, not 21, £8
Honey’s Happening
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
Rabbie
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–14 Aug, £15
Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions
Pleasance Courtyard, 13–27 Aug, £12.50-14.50
That Woman! Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £11-12
Our Country
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
Big Love
Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5 17:20
Roxy Likes Cats
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £7
Chamberlain... Peace in Our Time
Greenside @ Nicolson
Square, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11
Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £11
Hoard by Bim Adewunmi
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, £14-16
Remember Scarborough
theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7.50
Loop
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
The Bacchae Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Brollies and Bumbershoots
Central Hall, 13 Aug, £5
The Promise
Venue 13, 9–10 Aug, £7
Good Vibes Only
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Dear Lucy...
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £9
Woodbine Willie: Poet and Padre
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–16 Aug, £11
Power, Fame and Sex
Venue 13, 14–18 Aug, £10
Antigone
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £7
The March
theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £7
Sod’s Law
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
17:25
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Jasper Red: Press Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6.50
Lucille and Cecilia
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
When You Cure Me
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11
Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £9
The Insignificant Life and Death of Colin McKenzie Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £9
17:30
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
The Political History of Smack and Crack
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14-15
Power Play: The Empty Chair
Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
Universal Dad
Three Broomsticks, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Shell Shock
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 10–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12
Electrolyte
Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £9-12
Grimm Tales
theSpace on the Mile, 9–11
Aug, £6
Playhouse Creatures
Venue 13, 20–25 Aug, £10
Year Without Summer
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 15, 22, £8
Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age
Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5
17:35
Eat Me
C venues – C aquila, 9–27 Aug, £8.50-10.50
A Beginner’s Guide to Populism
theSpaceTriplex, 20–25
Aug, £9
Action Man
Paradise in Augustines, 9–11 Aug, £10
¤ The Woman and the Canvas HHHH theSpaceTriplex, 9–11
Aug, £12
17:40
Revelations Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
The Journey Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, £9-11
Artificial theSpace on North Bridge, 9–19 Aug, not 12, £12
Mis(s)treated – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 14–26 Aug, not 20, FREE
Beep theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £8
Showmanship
C venues – C royale, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £8.50-10.50
Punching Judy theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £10
17:45
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
A Hero of Our Time
C venues – C royale, 19–27
Aug, £8.50-10.50
Bucket Men
C venues – C royale, 9–18
Aug, £8.50-10.50
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, £11
The Chore of Enchantment
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £9.50-10.50
Painted Love
Valvona & Crolla, 24–25
Aug, £10
17:50
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Everything Not Saved HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £14
17:55
Di & Viv & Rose (In an Hour) by Amelia Bullmore C venues – C cubed, 9–14 Aug, £8.50-10.50
Margo: Half Woman, Half Beast Assembly Rooms, 9–18 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Maz and Bricks by Eva O’Connor
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £10
18:00
¤ The Wedding Reception HHHH
The Principal, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 20, 21, £42-45
Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe
Blackwell’s Bookshop, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
Antigone na h’Éireann Paradise in The Vault, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
What Listening to 10,000 Love Songs Has Taught Me About Love
Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 9–12 Aug, FREE
Agent November
Investigates: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 9–27 Aug, not 12, £12
Rat Race
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17
Aug, £24
European Citizen
Popsong Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
The Forecast
ZOO Charteris, 13–26
Aug, £7-10
Hocus Pocus
The Studio, 10–12 Aug, £11
A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
¤ dressed.
HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £10-11
Clouds
Lauriston Halls, 21–25
Aug, FREE
Wu Song – The Tiger
Warrior
C venues – C, 12–18 Aug, £11.50-13.50
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £11.50
18:05
The Hollywood Effect theSpace on North Bridge, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
How I Brought Peace to the Middle East: A Tragicomedy theSpace on the Mile, 9–12 Aug, £6
In Your Own Sweet Way theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8
Bulgarians, Buggery, Brokeback and Beyond theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 18, £10.50
18:10
[insert slogan here]
ZOO Charteris, 9–19 Aug, £12-14
Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist
ZOO Charteris, 20–23 Aug, £14
First Snow / Première neige
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £15
How to Do Acting (Properly) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8
18:15
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
Where Are they Going Theatre Company Present
12:00 Noon
Nomad
theSpace @ Surgeons
Hall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Class HHH
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50
Laugh Out Loud (Cry Quietly)
The Royal Scots Club, 13–18 Aug, £12
Conchies!
Quaker Meeting House, 13–18 Aug, £8
Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe
The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 25–26 Aug, FREE
In the Glare of the Neon Yak Bar Bados Complex, 11–17 Aug, FREE
Spring Awakening
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £7
¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50
Nightmare Fuel
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
18:20
Dick Barton: The Tango of Terror
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–11 Aug, £5
The Threesome
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–18 Aug, £10
Trans Pennine
theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Aug, £10-11
From Today Everything Changes
theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
18:25
KillyMuck
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Por Favor
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8
DollyWould Summerhall, 14–26
Aug, £10
I Am Not Your Woman Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8
18:30
Bullingdon Revisited
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 11–26 Aug, FREE
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £1
The Basement Tapes
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Elsie Thatchwick
Zoo Southside, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £10
Medea Electronica
Pleasance Courtyard, 14–19 Aug, £9-11.50
Twa
Scottish Storytelling
Centre, 12–27 Aug, not 20, £8-12
Queen of the F*cking
World: The Second Coming
The Street, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 18, FREE
C venues – C aquila, 9–27
Aug, not 14, £7.50-9.50
¤ The Moira Monologues HHHH
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–11 Aug, £13
The Gin Chronicles in New York
artSpace@StMarks, 10–26
Aug, not 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, £12
Kill the Beast: Director’s Cut
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10-12.50
Brothers in Arms
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Nick and Nina
Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
You Are Cordially Invited...
Quaker Meeting House, 9–11 Aug, £8
Skirt
The Royal Scots Club, 9–11 Aug, £10
Midsummer
The Hub, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £32
The Way Out Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £7
Extremism theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8
18:35
Volpone
Paradise in Augustines, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £14
Those Worrisome Sleeps Sweet Grassmarket, 20–26 Aug, £8.50
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
Seven Ways to Calm the F**k Down
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7
F*ck Off. Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £5
Dan Simpson: Worried Face Emoji
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
The Glass Menagerie Sweet Grassmarket, 13–19 Aug, £8.50
menoPAUSE
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–11 Aug, £10
Lost in Thought
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11 O, FFS
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50
OTOSOTR
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10-11
18:45
Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, £1
bad things happen here
Paradise in The Vault, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
An epic love leaves enduring marks...
Shakespeare in the Garden: As You Like It
C venues – C south, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8.50-10.50
¤ Ulster American HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50
Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–27 Aug, £13-14
¤ The Greatest Play in the History of the World... HHHH Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £20.50
Cock, Cock... Who’s There?
Summerhall, 10–26 Aug, not 20, £10
Missing Hypnos / Free
Frestival
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 11–12
Aug, FREE
On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £20.50
A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–19 Aug, £5
18:50
Mission: Her theSpace on the Mile, 9–11 Aug, £8
Hysterical
C venues – C, 19–25 Aug, £7.50-9.50
Queens of Sheba
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10-11
The Cat’s Mother
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, £9
Like Drowning theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £9
Blinded
Venue 13, 11–25 Aug, not 13, £7
National Killing Day
theSpace on the Mile, 13–18 Aug, £8
Do You See What I Hear?
C venues – C too, 21–27 Aug, £9.50-11.50
The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
C venues – C too, 12–19
Aug, £9.50-11.50
18:55
Sugar Baby by Alan Harris
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–19 Aug, not 14, £14-15
1-2-1 This Sex Is Real
C venues – C royale, 9–18
Aug, £8.50-10.50
Drip
Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £14-15
19:00
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26
Aug, £6
Nigel Slater’s Toast Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50
What Girls Are Made Of Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50
Agent November Investigates: Major X
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £15
Underground Railroad Game
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, £21.50
Picasso’s Women
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 13–26 Aug, not 21, £13
Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70 Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50
Meek Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £21.50
Brand-New Jew, a DNA Comedy
Sweet Grassmarket, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 21
Aug, 26 Aug, £7
The Midnight Soup
Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £15
Deadly Dungeon Murder Mystery
The Edinburgh Dungeon, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £17
The End of Eddy The Studio, 21–26 Aug, £11 Neil Hilborn Summerhall, 23 Aug, £15
I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller
Le Monde, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, 20, 21, £15
#Hypocrisy
Scottish Poetry Library, 9–12 Aug, £7
Cezary Goes to War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 16–25 Aug, not 20, £10
Vivian’s Music, 1969 Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £7
The Poets’ Republic –Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5
Hatty’s Last Stand
The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 24–25 Aug, £7
19:05
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE
King John
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £5
Jennifer Lack: Narratively Satisfying theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Love on Blue Canvas, 1890
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £8
19:10
The Squirrel Plays C venues – C cubed, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £9.50-11.50
Addiction: The Untold Story
theSpace @ Venue45, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5.50-10
19:15
The Screwtape Letters
Palmerston Place Church, 22–24 Aug, £11
The Next Big Thing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 21, £10-12
Entropy
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £11-12
Dr Korczak’s Example
Just Festival at St John’s , 10–11 Aug, £12
The Meeting
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £7
Connected Lives
Just Festival at St John’s , 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £8
The Island
Just Festival at St John’s , 22–23 Aug, £12
19:20
The Actor’s Nightmare
theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8
Breathing Corpses
theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 9–11 Aug, £8
10 Steps to Happiness
Sweet Novotel, 9–19 Aug, not 14, £8.50
Intro to Chicano History:
101
Central Hall, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, £5
Thief Hill Street Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £12
Mistero Buffo
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12-13
Red Peppers theSpace on the Mile, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8-9
19:25
Extinguished Things
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50
That’s So GCSE theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £7
19:30
Flight HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, £6
An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art
Cranston Caravan Club, 9–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Plaza Suite
The Royal Scots Club, 20–25 Aug, £12
Skeptics on the Fringe
Banshee Labyrinth, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Legacy: The Story of Martin Luther Palmerston Place Church, 14–17 Aug, £10
A Trilogy of Horrors
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–12 Aug, £10
That’s What She Said Scottish Poetry Library, 16–18 Aug, £10
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
The Principal, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 16, 18, 22, 25, £49.50-55
Pre-View
Traverse Theatre, 13
Aug, £7
Cambusdonald Royal Mayfield Salisbury Church, 9–17 Aug, weekdays only, £12
My Kind of Michael Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11
Heather and Harry
ZOO Charteris, 9–27
Aug, £8
1902
Wee Red Bar, 10–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £12
Talking Heads – Bed
Among the Lentils
St Cuthbert’s Church, 13–15 Aug, £10
Henna
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–19 Aug, £10
The Steamie Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £12
Overpriced Zeitgeist
Bar Bados Complex, 9–25
Aug, not 14, FREE
¤ Waiting for Godot
HHHH
The Lyceum, 9–12
Aug, £17
The Prisoner The Lyceum, 22–26
Aug, £17
Dancing With Mrs Murphy Leith Dockers Club, 14
Aug, £10
A Fistful of Mondays
Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 9–11
Aug, £8
Aye, Elvis by Morna Young Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 10–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50-13.50
Living With a Dark Lord
Paradise in The Vault, 13–18 Aug, £10
The Front Page St Ninian’s Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, 16, £12
Uncanny Things
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10
19:35
Owen O’Neill: Ten Songs to Die For Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 20, £11
You Only Live +
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £10
Filth
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
Hotel
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £8
Thaw
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8
Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play
ZOO Charteris, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12
19:40
Handfast HHH
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, £12
Cry for the Moon
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8
Cepacia – Love Takes His Breath Away
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £10
19:45
Trainspotting Live
Venue150 at EICC, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
De Fuut Summerhall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10
How My Light Is Spent
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
Istanbul: You’ll Never Walk Alone
Zoo Southside, 9–18 Aug, not 15, £10.50-12
The Myth of the Singular Moment
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11
Janis Joplin Full Tilt Assembly Rooms, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £16-17.50
Ur – Medëa
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
The Junkies
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–18 Aug, not 13, £14-15
Closed Doors
Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
19:50
Let’s Talk About Porn C venues – C, 19–25 Aug, £7.50-9.50
10:00
BambinO
The Edinburgh Academy, 9–19 Aug, not 13, FREE
Kids Do Forth on the Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–11
Aug, £10
Finding Peter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8-9
Sing-a-Long a Musical Hill Street Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26
Aug, £8
Woogie Boogie Summerhall, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
Absolute Legends
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 15, FREE
Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Seaside Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–11 Aug, £5
10:05
Villain: DeBlanks theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8-10
The Wizard of Oz theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £8
10:10
Strings for Kids: Misha’s Gang Presents theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–14 Aug, £9-10
10:15
The Big Balloon Singalong Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £8-9
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–14
Aug, FREE
Africa Weird and Wonderful Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
10:20
Tomfoolery’s Beans on Toast Show Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8
A Chinese Bestiary theSpaceTriplex, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £5
10:30
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, £6-9
Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 17–18
Aug, £8
Alice in Wonderland
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11
Aug, £5
Bubble Trouble
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26
Aug, not 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £7
A Cockroach and Furry Blurry Fluffy Things
Venue 13, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Better Together HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19
Aug, not 13, £8-10
Cat in the Hat
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19
Aug, £10.50-12.50
Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 13–16
Aug, £8
John Hegley: Morning
Wordship
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19
Aug, not 13, 14, 15, £10
The Lion and the Mouse Stockbridge Church, 20
Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £8
MamaBabaMe Pleasance at EICC, 9–17
Aug, not 13, £8
10:40
AnimAlphabet: The Musical HHH Pleasance Dome, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8.50-11
Eliza’s Big Adventure! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
10:45
Penguinpig Assembly Roxy, 9–19 Aug, not 10, £8.50-9.50
Games With James
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–19 Aug, not 15, FREE
11:00
Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower
C venues – C, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
Fantastic Magic Show for Kids
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Signor Baffo’s Restaurant
The Principal, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall
Assembly George Square Gardens, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £7.50
Brainiac Live!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £12-15
Meet the Little Prince!
Assembly George Square Theatre, 9–27 Aug, £8-9
Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy
Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Princess Pumpalot: The Quest for the Purple Super-Farting Bean
Le Monde, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £8
Kids’ Birthday Bash!
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Waves
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–15 Aug, £9
The Showstoppers’ Kids Show Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19 Aug, £8.50-10
Around the World with Bessy – Part One and a Half: Bessy Goes Busking! Stockbridge Church, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, £10
Bambino Beats
Summertime Boogie – On the Farm Stockbridge Church, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, £5
Poppets Adventure
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5
The Puppets’ Orchestra and the Children’s Ball
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 9 Aug, £8
The Gruffalo, the Witch and the Warthog with Julia Donaldson
Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, not 15, £11-12
Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus
French Institute, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £10
What The Moon Saw Zoo Southside, 12–26 Aug, not 15, £7-9
Baby Loves Disco
The Jam House, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £9
11:05
The Snow Queen
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8-9
One Giant Leap for June
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
11:10
Reach for the Stars Hill Street Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 26 Aug, £8
11:15
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 16, 21, 23, FREE
Harmony – The Mumbai Experience
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 23–25 Aug, £7
11:20
Paddington Bear’s First Concert
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11-12
11:30
Defrosted
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–22 Aug, not 16, FREE
Kika’s Birthday
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–13 Aug, £7.50-10
David Baddiel’s AniMalcolm HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £11-12
Love’s Labour’s Lost
The Royal Scots Club, 9–11 Aug, £10
BambinO
The Edinburgh Academy, 9–19 Aug, not 13, FREE Story Builders Lauriston Halls, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £8
The Lost Things
Pleasance at EICC, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £10
Dick Whittington – The Panto
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–11 Aug, £10
Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Seaside Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–11 Aug, £5
11:35
Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 16, 22, £8
11:40
Beowulf HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–17 Aug, £10-11
Balloonatics
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £9-10
11:45
Romeo and Juliet Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £8.50-10
The Adventures of Sam Swallow
C venues – C too, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
11:50
A Dragon in the Family Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19
Aug, £8-10
12:00
Show Up, Kids!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Shakespeare Shorts –Much Ado About Nothing
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9
Aug, 11 Aug, £8
Science Magic
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Brave Macbeth
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–19 Aug, £9
Shakespeare for Kids: Under the Greenwood Tree C venues – C south, 9–27
Aug, not 13, £7.50-9.50
Tales from the Fireside Fireside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
The Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27
Aug, not 20, £9-12
Singing Hands Summer Spectacular
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug, £12
Children’s Underground Ghost Tour
City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–31 Aug, £7
The Dragon and the Whales Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8-9
Huggers (Free Festival)
Fireside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Shakespeare Shorts – The Taming of the Shrew theSpace @ Niddry St, 10 Aug, £8
Arr We There Yet?
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-12.50
Chores Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7-9
12:10
The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8
12:15
Grumpy Pants Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Little Musician Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10-11
All Hail the Poetry King! Bourbon Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
12:25
The I Hate Children
Children’s Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–19 Aug, £11
12:30
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 9 Aug–1 Sep, £12
Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £8.50-11
Greeks, Gorgons and Giggles
Lauriston Halls, 9–10 Aug, £4
Stick by Me
Dance Base, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
Beauty and the Beast theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £9
FunnyHappyStuff.co.uk Presents String Theory HHHH
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Eaten
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–19 Aug, not 15, £9
12:45
Andrew Roper’s Superheroes for Kids 3 Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE The Bean Counter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–26 Aug, £9.50
12:55
Grimm’s Fairer Tales
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19 Aug, £8-10
13:00
The Bureau of Untold Stories
Museum of Childhood, 12
Aug, FREE
Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy
Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Splash Test Dummies
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £11.50-12.50
Children’s Underground
Ghost Tour
City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–19 Aug, £7
Dick and Dom: Dick v Dom HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–12 Aug, £12.50-14.50
Stoel (Chair)
Zoo Southside, 9–14 Aug, £12
13:10
Roald Dahl’s The Twits theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £9
13:15
Science Magic
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Captain Cauliflower and Marvin the Mischievous Moose
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, 22, £8-9
ComedySportz UK
Fireside, 9–15 Aug, FREE
Fun Kids Radio’s Epic Roadshow Adventure
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–27 Aug, not 13, £10-11
13:20
Doktor James’s Bad Skemes
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £7
13:25
This Is Your Trial (FF)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
13:30
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience
Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 9 Aug–1 Sep, £12
The Amazing Bubble Man Underbelly, George Square, 9–27 Aug, £11-12
Mr Fizzywigg’s Story Factory
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
Kaput Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £11-12
Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze Assembly Roxy, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8-9
MamaBabaMe
Pleasance at EICC, 9–17 Aug, not 13, £8
13:35
The New I Hate Children Children’s Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–25 Aug, £10-11
13:45
Dan the Man (Kidz Comedian) – All the Things I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Grandma’s Gonna Kill Us Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–19 Aug, FREE
14:00
The Garden of Delight
Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 9–19 Aug, not 15, 16, 17, £7
Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy
Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Duckie HH
Summerhall, 9–12 Aug, £12
Nutty Noah: You Might Die!
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–27 Aug, £8-10
Story Builders
Lauriston Halls, Various dates from 10 Aug to 18 Aug, £8
Story Builders
Lauriston Halls, 9 Aug, £8
Bambino Beats
Summertime Boogie – On the Farm
Stockbridge Church, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £5
Circa: Wolfgang HHH
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12-14
Huggers (Free Festival)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Wee MacNessie
St Giles’ Cathedral, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Baby Loves Disco
The Jam House, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £9
Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Seaside
Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £5
14:10
Four Go Wild in Wellies Dance Base, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £9
14:30
Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
Circus Sonas Family Show
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Time Machine
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–19 Aug, not 15, £10
The Lion and the Mouse Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 13 Aug to 19 Aug, £8
14:50
Wilde Creatures Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug, £9-11
15:00
Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 21, £8.50-10
The Reluctant Dragon Inveresk Lodge Garden, 18 Aug, £9
The Bureau of Untold Stories Museum of Childhood, 12 Aug, FREE
The Lost Things Pleasance at EICC, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £10
Gary Dunn: Jokes and Tricks!
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–10 Aug, £8
Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes
St Patrick’s Church, 25–26
Aug, £5
15:15
The Story Beast: Myths, Monsters & Mayhem Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £8.50-10
Charlotte’s Web Theatre Bath Bus, 9–11
Aug, £7
Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
15:45
Game On 2.0
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–19 Aug, FREE
16:00
Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes
St Patrick’s Church, 22–24
Aug, £5
16:10
The Battle of Frogs and Mice
Assembly Roxy, 9–19
Aug, £10
16:30
ComedySportz UK
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–15 Aug, FREE
Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 19
Aug, £8
Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Opera Mouse Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £8-10
16:35
Denim: The Denim Juniors Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £9-10
16:40
The Storyteller’s Apprentice theSpaceTriplex, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £9
17:00
Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus French Institute, 9–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £10
17:30
I Have Always Been a Storm Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
The Dark Room (For Kids!) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £10-11
17:50
Comedy Club 4 Kids Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, £8.50-10
18:30
The Jungle Book Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–18 Aug, £8.50
19:10
Mouse Music! St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 9–11 Aug, £12
We’ve put four acts into the Fest Face Generator™ and yanked our huge lever (fnar fnar) to mash them together. Can you work out which features belong to which act at the festivals? Tweet us @festmag with the hashtag #FestFaceGenerator with your guesses for the chance to win a pair of tickets to a show of your choice at the Pleasance. (Absolutely no peeking at the answers – which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. Seriously, we’re watching you.)
Top to bottom:
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall, Assembly George Square Gardens, 11am – 12pm;
Nina Conti Is Monkey, Underbelly, Bristo Square, 7pm – 8pm;
