Inside: Poltergeist Theatre If You’re Feeling Sinister
Josie Long
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Super Sunday
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Bookeeping & Accounts
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20 Josie Long
Social worker turned standup Isma Almas on her adventures in adoption
Poltergeist Theatre attempt to steal us a painting from the National Gallery of Scotland
Eve Nicol and Paul Brotherson on adapting Belle and Sebastian's second album in a unique way
Time ordered listings and a handy map to help you make the most out of your festival
A stellar, heartwarming work about the ecstasy and anxiety of motherhood
Theatre
This production demands that the audience challenge their views of one of society’s horrors
Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus
46 Super Sunday
This big, all-male Finnish circus show neatly balances testosterone and tongue-in-cheek
Cabaret and Variety
50 Reuben Kaye
A cabaret that explores the endless creative possibilities of bad taste
54 Camille O'Sullivan
A hypnotic, almost hymnal evening of Nick Cave songs
Kids
58 Slime
Follow the sticky, surreal trail of a slug
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Doctors often develop a dark sense of humour to survive their jobs, and the same may be true of social workers. Seeing first-hand the effects of austerity, deprivation and callous bureaucracy, surely the only responses are laughter or tears.
“You see really bad situations and you see people at their worst.” says Isma Almas, a former social worker turned up-and-coming stand-up. “And also it takes the risk away from comedy – it puts comedy into perspective. Even if I die on my arse on stage, in the bigger scheme of things I’m still okay.”
Almas brought her debut to the Fringe back in 2009, and now returns a decade later with the same wit and charm and a bucketload of new material. In that time she’s been exercising her comedy chops in a more ad-hoc fashion, as well as raising
Isma Almas returns to the Fringe and tells Jenni Ajderian about her adventures in adoption
two daughters and working in foster care. Expertly crafted to bring both laughter and tears, her new show About A Buoy: Adventures in Adoption brings exceptional storytelling to an often overlooked subject. Almas decided to adopt a child with her partner, and their story brings to light the racism and homophobia present in an already difficult process.
“The show’s about inequality. It’s about adopting my son, who’s black, the racism that I experienced as a kid, and the racism that he has experienced. It’s about gender and sexuality, parenting, and all of us trying to fit in, and find our place.”
In adopting their two-year-old, Almas and her partner had to dive head-first into the world of adoption, which sounds completely bizarre to outsiders.
“There used to be a magazine where you could look at pictures of kids and then get in touch with the social worker – it’s a little bit like a catalogue.”
This kind of set-up might have you cringing already. Fortunately, things have changed: “Now there’s a website.”
Children and parents have profiles, and social workers act on behalf of children in a bizarre matchmaking process.
“It reminds me very much of Tinder, or an arranged marriage website.”
disappoint in this regard. Same-sex couples were only allowed to adopt in England and Wales in 2002 (in Scotland it was 2009), and now around 12 per cent of adopted children find a home with a samesex couple.
“However,” Almas says, reflecting on her own experience of trying to adopt as part of a gay couple, “even though it’s perfectly legal for gay parents to adopt, it’s the social worker’s judgment at the end of the day. A lot of social workers would come back to us and say ‘we don’t want gay parents. This particular child needs a mum and a dad’.”
These decisions apparently need little logic to back them up. In response to an appeal, Almas and her partner were told that one eight-month-old baby had bonded with its foster father, so its adoptive family needed to include a man. It’s easy to see that this would never happen in reverse – a child fostered by two mothers would never be refused the right to be adopted by a heterosexual couple.
From there, prospective parents usually don’t meet the child in person until adoption day. Sometimes parents and children can meet at an “adoption day party”: think speed dating or a singles’ night. Parents and children can mingle in a casual environment, meet each other socially, and adults can express their interest in a particular child.
“It’s a big party and it might be fancy dress, which I always find a bit sinister. Those parties are only for children that are considered hard to place: children over the age of about three, or black kids. Kids that they know they’re going to struggle to place.”
Recent numbers from the BBC showed that black children spent an average of 50 per cent longer waiting for an adoptive family than children from other ethnic groups. That statistic was certainly not helped by official guidance around adoption and race, which only changed in 2011.
“It was never set in stone that black children can’t be adopted by white adoptive parents – there was a preference for trying to match ethnicity. If you can match race, that should take priority. Now [the government is] actively moving away from matching ethnicity. They noticed that it was important, but equally it’s important for children to find families as well.”
Where we find one kind of prejudice, we often find another, and the adoption process does not
“It was quite underhand. They would say ‘your situation is a bit complicated’.” the frustration is palpable in Almas’ voice, and for good reason. “What is ‘complicated’ about our situation?”
After months of applications and fighting against institutionalised homophobia, Almas and her partner now have their full family: two girls and one boy. The process may have been different, but the outcome is the same.
One thing that often worries adoptive parents is the intensity of their feelings for their new child. After birth, parents speak of an instant love, but obviously things are different with a child that doesn’t have that biological link to you. Almas was prepared for just this when she met her son for the first time.
“I’m a social worker as well, so I was quite level-headed and was trying to prepare myself for not instantly feeling anything. But when I actually did meet him, I did feel it. I just wanted to take this child and just protect him and love him, take him home and make him mine.”
If you’re looking for laughter and tears, wit and charm, rage and forgiveness, About A Buoy could be your perfect match. ✏︎ Jenni Ajderian
SHOW: Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 2:45pm – 3:45pm, 7–26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £8.50–£9.50
“I just wanted to take this child and just protect him and love him, take him home and make him mine”
Theatre to steal her a painting
“There are cameras everywhere,” Jack Bradfield says as he cranes his neck to scope out security. “We need a distraction.” Our group huddles under a Dutch Master and we look nonchalant as a member of staff ambles past. We are in the National Gallery of Scotland. I have asked Poltergeist Theatre to steal me the most expensive painting in the room.
The company’s playful new comedy, Art Heist, sees three thieves attempting to steal the same work of art on the same night. Following the success of their tricksy alien hunt, Lights Over Tesco Carpark, Art Heist was picked up by Underbelly and is being presented as part of the Untapped award. Only a few days into the Fringe, it has already sold out for the whole run. I’ve brought them here to test their criminal skills.
They sniff out the money quickly. Alice Boyd heads straight for a da Vinci, Will Spence goes for an El Greco and Bradfield picks out a Rembrandt. Serena Yagoub, who joined the company for this show, sides with Boyd. A plump baby stares out at us from da Vinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinder. In 2003,
the painting was stolen, Yagoub points out. “It’s got a story.” Staff at the auction house Christie’s told them that the story behind an art work is one of its primary monetary assets.
They agree on the da Vinci. A member of staff later confirms it to be the painting most likely to get the highest price at auction. I don’t ask what it would get on the black market.
Whether or not they’re master criminals, Poltergeist are definitely performers at heart; a lot of their ideas involve dress up. Builders. Jugglers. Clowns. Potential props are thrown around. A decoy painting. A getaway van. A real baby.
Boyd eyes up the crowd around us. “You can’t make the distraction something people would run away from. It has to be something they’d run towards.” Rosa Garland widens her eyes: “Heart attack.” They run with it. “We each pick one security guard to tell,” whispers Yagoub, “then one of us steals another painting so everyone chases after them.”
“Meanwhile,” Garland adds, “someone swaps the real painting for a fake.” Spence says security protocols mean they’ll probably block the doors. “So you make
it private,” says Charles Lamb, starting the process again, and their imaginations fizz in a different direction. “Dress up in hard hats and tell people the room is closed for maintenance, or restoration.” Bradfield nods excitedly. “You have to convince them everything’s normal. Restorers are ignorable.”
Afterwards, Lamb says this echoes the devising process. They’d pick a gallery and figure out how to steal something from it. Games have always been important to their work and Art Heist is structured like one. “We all go through life piecing together our own story,” Bradfield says, “finding patterns where there aren’t any.” The show stemmed from the exploration of behavioural economics, examining how the brain makes decisions and makes sense of the world where there isn’t any. “So the show is framed like a game of Dungeons & Dragons, because people are inventing their story every second of the way.” The literal frames gave them the perfect structure to explore metaphorical ones.
“This form of theft is very romanticised in literature and films,” Spence says, with so many tropes and storytelling techniques anchored into it.
As they were planning in the gallery, their speedy speech was littered with references to heist films as shorthand for specific plans: maybe this is an Italian Job, no wait, an Inside Man. These tropes, Lamb explains, are part of the pleasure of playing with the genre. “They are just funny stories that people engage with. And if we’re trying to interrogate these ideas”—of behaviour, choice and curation—“it makes sense to use a genre that works with it. You want them to steal the painting, you want to be onside with the characters, because that’s the good story.” I think back to what Yagoub said they learnt from Christie’s. “People remember things if they’re framed in stories.”
Outside, a group of men dressed as catering staff trundle past us with large trolleys of cardboard boxes. “You think these guys are gonna steal a painting?” Boyd wonders aloud. Yagoub grins. “Everyone,” they all lean in “New plan.”
SHOW: Art Heist
VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 1:55pm – 2:55pm, 1–25 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £11–£12
Credit: Guy J Sanders
Holly Williams talks to Eve Nicol and Paul Brotherson about adapting Belle and Sebastian’s second album in a unique way
How do you adapt an album for the stage? Writer Eve Nicol and director Paul Brotherson had been wondering if such a thing was possible, when an opportunity to create a play for BBC Arts and Avalon gave them the chance to find out. The result is If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs. Of course, such a project relies on choosing the
right record – and Belle and Sebastian’s much-loved 1996 album seems both a strong contender and an odd choice, especially given the play is billed as a heist caper. Whimsical, wistful and lyrically off-beat, Stuart Murdoch’s melodic songs are populated with intriguing, awkward characters and gently fraught emotion – but they hardly scream action movie.
For Nicol, matching a recognisable genre to a well-known album provided a fruitful framework. “I’m interested in genre and the formal constructs of what a zombie movie or an alien invasion or a heist might entail. It’s quite helpful if you’re working with [existing] material to see how it might fit into that structure,” she says.
Nicol initially intended to use the songs in the same order as on the record, but the adaptation has become freer. Every track features in some way, although the actual record is never heard – instead audiences might be able to spot a lyric repurposed as dialogue, pick out a repeated fragment of a familiar melody, or enjoy a new live acoustic version of a favourite.
“The best way to get the Belle and Sebastian musical experience is to see Belle and Sebastian! So we’re trying to do it in a different way, rather than being a poor man’s version,” Nicol says. In a funny twist of timing, the band are actually playing If You’re Feeling Sinister live in full this summer in the US.
But for Nicol, it’s been enjoyable working with other Glasgow musicians on new versions. “I’m very much enjoying a pop-punk rendering of ‘Me and the Major’. And the title track ends up being a core central piece too, it’s beautiful.”
The play follows a thirty-something artist and a fifty-something professor careering round Glasgow – it may be a Fringe show, but Nicol promises there will be “some minor explosions, and car chases down by the Clyde.”
The main thing was that audiences had fun. “I was very aware we might be attracting folk where going to the theatre may not be top of their list, because we are working with this really known property. So I just wanted to show people a good time.”
She and Brotherson both live in Glasgow and wanted to celebrate their city – and few bands are as much part of its fabric as Belle and Sebastian. “Having grown up in Glasgow, Belle and Sebastian are just one of those things that’s always around, like the public library or the swimming pool,” Nicol says. Although she counted herself a fan, she adds that it’s been a joy to deeply re-engage with the album now she’s 30 – close to the age Murdoch was when we he wrote it.
The band have given Nicol their blessing to do what she wants with their back catalogue. “There has been real generosity: ‘Here you go, now show us what you’ve got’. Hopefully they can see something new in it as well.”
Why, out of Belle and Sebastian’s ten studio albums, did they choose this one? It was the mood of the songs, as well as the hints of character. “The whole album is quite upbeat, but it’s morose [lyrically] – there’s a feeling of never being quite as good as the others, which is something I can strongly relate to,” says Nicol. “So we’re just peeling out that feeling of shame, of being slightly other, of looking at the world from the outside in. The songs are done in this sunshiney way – but there’s sadness all the way through it.”
This bittersweet balance is surely partly why the record is still so beloved – and not just by people who nostalgically remember its mid-nineties release, but by generations of new fans too.
“It really captures a certain mood,” suggests Nicol. “I think for slightly older folk, it reminds them of that time, and for teenagers who pick it up it’s about promises of house parties and girls still to come, and for folk like me, in the midst of it, it’s like someone’s got all the secrets I have in my heart… It sounds real.”
The challenge for Nicol was to capture those feelings—both the nostalgia and the promise—and carry them into a new form. “If You’re Feeling Sinister very much is a Belle and Sebastian universe – and what we’re making is a Belle and Sebastian alternative universe: lots of things that feel familiar, but lots of things that feel different too.”
SHOW: If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs
VENUE: Gilded Ballon Patter Hoose
TIME: 3:45pm – 4:45pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £15–£16.50
“I was very aware we might be attracting folk where going to the theatre may not be top of their list, because we are working with this really known property. So I just wanted to show people a good time”
- Eve Nicol
A spate of shows about conspiracy theories. Coincidence? I think not. Surely this is a symbol of post-truth times. Or a product of alogorithms pushing curiosity-pricking specious content up the search rankings and into our eyelines. Or is the Fringe Society up to something? The truth is out there, Edinburgh.
Theatre’s the ideal space for the subject, hovering as it does between fact and fiction, truthfulness and falsity. It exists in a blurry inbetween: an alternative reality built on our belief. That’s the territory being combed by a clutch of young companies.
YESYESNONO’s title is worth remembering: The Accident Did Not Take Place (three stars) attempts to turn an invented incident into a kind of truth. Repeat a lie often enough and people will come to believe it. Convince enough people, and that lie becomes fact.
The show drops an unrehearsed guest performer—an actor—into a plane crash. On a neon pink strip of stage, they’re walked through a routine again and again, re-enacting a fragment of a flight recorder’s final transcript. A transatlantic flight hits unexpected turbulence. An air steward sprints down the aisle. You turn to see smoke and say, “we’re on fire”. Another passenger clutches your arm, seeking comfort, as you run forward to bang on the cockpit door. Too late. Again.
With each repetition, this sequence sharpens up. The flight comes into focus. As the three performers add colour—altitude, seat number time—they ask the actor to imagine themselves there, to really feel it, to “make it real”. As memories form, body learning its script, the scene speeds up and grows increasingly truthful. It’s uncanny – especially when a video camera closes in to catch the emotions playing across the actor’s face. Is that real fear? Are those real screams?
Intercut with emotion memory games that ask the actor to recall and recreate real-life experiences—some feasible, some fantastical, some so far back they’re fictional—the exercise becomes a study in the slip-slide between imagination and memory. We are, effectively, watching a false memory being forged and a fiction come to glossy, studio-lit life. It’s a study in self-deception and, with deep fakes incoming, that’s deeply disconcerting. Though still a slip of a
Underbelly, Cowgate 4:45pm – 6:00pm, 7–25 Aug, not 12, £11 – £12
Pleasance Courtyard 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £10 – £13
Bedlam Theatre
3:30pm – 4:30pm, 7–15 Aug, not 13, £10
show, even a rehearsal room game, The Accident Did Not Take Place is as unsettling as it is enlightening.
The three truthers of CONSPIRACY (four stars), Barrel Organ’s new show, hope to unsettle and enlighten too. Recording an amateur podcast, they’re seeking to debunk a widely-accepted truth – proving the famous photo of construction workers lunching on a steel bar over New York as a fake. Pa-pow.
It is actually—at least, initially—a pretty convincing case. The cloud cover is convenient and curiously placed. Only five workers signed into the Rockefeller’s 69th floor, and the shoot contract is signed by an SFX artist. The plot thickens, but as the trio try to tie up their loose ends, their theories take flight into far-fetched fantasies of secret brotherhoods, staged moon landings and a stillliving King.
But CONSPIRACY’s less concerned with their theories as their thinking. It’s epistemology: Can we be certain of anything at all? “What do we know?” Rose asks aloud, exploiting the gaps that get exposed – six unknown men sat on that girder; no record of who took the shot; nothing definitive that it wasn’t doctored. Buff up on your AJ Ayer. We can falsify facts. We can’t conclusively confirm. It’s easier to tear down a truth than to stand up an alternative.
CONPSIRACY’s playing an even cleverer game too. Fittingly, it sits on several planes of reality at once – each actor performing on a different frequency. Rose Wardlaw’s definitely acting in character, blinking incessantly and OTT uptight, while Azan Ahmed and Shannon Hayes seem more
like themselves. Moreover Jack Perkins’ cunning text has the most obviously fictional character sticking closest to the truth, while the most ‘real’ bounds off into overblown parody. Canny diverse casting complicates things further: Who do we instinctively tend to disbelieve?
Even if it stretches to tie the show together, this is a brilliant theatrical brainteaser that asks us to find the line between credibility and incredulity.
Portents (three stars) tunes into other frequencies too, picking up the signals conspiracists send out. Three black-clad performers stand behind music stands in front of a tin foil moon, reciting a collage of conspiracies: UFOs in Roswell, Avril Lavingne in limbo. Morsels of online chatter, retro talk shows, biblical bits and pieces collect around a series of lonely, late-night phone calls to make a kind of alternative dawn chorus – a nocturnal choir of oddballs and outcasts broadcasting crackpot theories just to connect to some like-minded misfit.
Though sometimes derivative—Fringe twitchers might strike Chris Goode, Chris Brett Bailey and Forced Entertainment off their checklists—there’s something distinctively millennial about Why
This Sky’s work too. Below the soothing babble, backed by solar winds and soft pianos, there’s a jarring dissonance: a sense of something seriously amiss. Portents reads the runes, seeing the rise of conspiracists as a symptom of an anxious and uncertain world – maybe even a sign of some impending apocalypse.
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VENUE: The Stand Comedy Club
TIME: 8:20pm – 9:20pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £12
Becoming a parent is a lifechanging event, both practically— altering routines and sleeping patterns—and more broadly permanently altering a worldview.
Josie Long’s first Fringe show in five years focuses on her 13-monthold daughter, going into detail about her pregnancy, the act of
giving birth itself and what it all symbolises. For a show with such specific subject matter, its scope is remarkable.
Tender interrogates that most modern polarity: weighing up the unbridled ecstasy of giving birth and the stress of bringing a new life into the world, a fear brought on by climate anxiety, political instability and the rise of the far-right.
Long’s skill as a comedian is undimmed. Her wild-eyed rants about sleep deprivation are fantastic, her observational material acutely funny, dealing with menstruation tracker apps and keep cups, and the hour is filled with deft callbacks and diligent obedience to
the rule of three. The laughs keep coming even when Long goes into detail about going into labour and the act of giving birth, it’s refreshing to see someone so candid about something so personal and so humourous with it, too.
Long’s political fury is focused. There’s contempt for the new Prime Minister, and in particular for the government’s neglect of the NHS, but her message is a hopeful one. Children are the future, the world softens in their presence and they conjure affection from the hardest of football hooligans. The hope is that, like Greta Thunberg, they treat the challenge of saving the planet like the necessity it is. ✏︎ Craig
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 2–24 Aug
TICKETS: £9
The award-winning John Kearns is back after a couple of years away from the Fringe. And the wig and false teeth are back too. His shtick remains the same – an idiosyncratic approach to comedy that unsettles and beguiles, all leading somewhere intangible, opaque and fascinating.
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VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 2:45pm – 3:45pm, 31 Jul–26
Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £8.50–£9.50
A comedy promoter once told Isma Almas to not overwhelm audiences by disclosing that she is a gay, Asian, Muslim – to focus on one aspect as defining her. Yet with this wonderfully balanced show of wry reflection, passionate conviction and emotional wallop, she puts almost all of herself out there, delivering a masterclass in conveying a deeply personal tale with wider social import, while yet retaining an impressive and endearing lightness of touch.
With her profile extended but not limited to being a divorced, menopausal, biological motherof-two, of Pakistani heritage, in a mixed-race relationship, a social
It’s a persona difficult to pigeonhole, and is the more intriguing for that. The clown-ish appearance melds with a fragile fascination with the quotidian and prosaic, creating a world that is joyous to be in.
What could be a mundane sequence in which Kearns outlines his neighbours instead creates worlds from simple details. The economy in the storytelling is dazzling. Flights of bewildered, exasperated rage could point to the tired trope of the angry white man, but Kearns is too in awe of the beauties of existence for this ever to become boorish. He repeatedly beseeches, “let it be funny,”
insisting on the simple pleasures that comedy can offer.
It’s all in the stagecraft. It seems odd to laud a comedian on their employment of the venue’s back wall, but the use of the performance space is a masterclass. Pauses in delivery create ebbs and flows, giving the audience room to find their own way through all of this. If there’s a flaw it’s that what this is all about is hinted at but never concretely coalesces. Themes recur, but we’re left to make sense of all this ourselves. Maybe that’s the point; this is simply an invitation to rediscover your world anew, too.
Brett Millsworker with a burning hatred of Tories but love of the band Queen, Almas complicated the picture further when she and her partner decided to adopt. Testing the government’s recent initiative that adopted children no longer, ideally, have to be paired with parents of the same ethnicity or religion, they eventually chose a black, two-yearold boy.
The insights Almas offers into the adoption process are frequently heartbreaking, the prejudices of a system that mirrors modern dating sites with its competitive
pitting of child against child cruelly emblematic of our age. Yet this is as nothing compared to the insidious racism that the boy experiences at school, echoing that of Almas’ own childhood in Bradford. Nevertheless, the hardest test comes from within, as the comic struggles to bond with her son.
Drolly amusing throughout, when Almas truly unchecks her feelings it’s incredibly moving, to the extent of angrily sacrificing her socialist principles on the altar of mother love. Exceptional storytelling.
✏︎ Jay Richardson
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £7
There’s a tricky nugget sizzling at the meaty centre of Olga Koch’s second Fringe show. As an avowedly non-girlish, unashamedly whip-smart computer programmercome-comedian, Koch has been praised by the men in her life for being different to all the other girls. And in being proud of achievements which run against the grain of gender norms, she’s
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VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 2:50pm – 3:50pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10–£12
Of all the single-topic themes that Rob Auton has picked for his admirably idiosyncratic shows, time has to be one of the most pregnant with possibility for showcasing his distinctive, philosophical comedy. Abstractly existing predominantly in the human mind, it’s a phenomenon that we rarely give sustained thought to, but which impacts on us every second. Witness, for example, the very funny way in which Auton deals with latecomers to his hour.
Imagination is the first casualty of being in a rush the Yorkshireman sagely notes, demonstrating his point in an act-out that’s on the solipsist spectrum of observational
realised that she has, in fact, internalised that misogyny. And here’s a review by a guy saying how great Koch is – how different she is to everyone. Ugh. Does not compute.
And that’s why it’s all so great. In a show that ostensibly takes a lead from the computer programming axiom, if X then Y, IRL Koch hovers around the complex nuances – the apparent “exceptions” that are, really, the messy norm. Every time she comes close to making a point, she burns it to the ground with a beaut of a punchline. Her delivery is tricksy, too, dancing deftly on the thin line between tight script and sponteneity, each beat clearly considered but never feeling
overrehearsed. Beneath the programmers’ language, she’s also deeply human. Who else at this Festival worries about how 104-year-olds in care homes get their references to land? Who else can see right through Lord Byron’s emotional guff and recognise his sister, Ada Lovelace, as the real badass?
That is, it’s all great right until the end, when she debugs all of her lose ends with a too-cute conclusion which undoes far too much good work, exchanging slickness for clunkiness and nuance for thumping message. It feels at odds with a performer who wears her politics so lightly, so hilariously, and so devastatingly on her sleeve.
Evan Beswickstandup, but which also applies to his show. He lingers over little moments of wonder, like the sound of one foodstuff accidentally falling into another’s pot. Though he retains thoughts that could hold their own in a comedy club environment, he truly exploits the breadth of canvas a Fringe show offers, playfully examining his musings from all angles, hitting a punchline whenever the whimsy approaches being too self-parodic.
Far from dividing, the universal
aspects of time are celebrated. His touched poet persona, shuffling papers, is augmented by a naïve loveability that he characterises as canine, but which manifests itself in the pursuit of empathy. As fascinated as he is by the workings of his own brain, Auton seems genuinely interested to know how others operate. The high point is his reimagining of his first day on earth, a gentle stream of gags imbued with real soul and humanity.
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VENUE: Just the Tonic at The Caves
TIME: 3:20pm – 4:20pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £5 – £7.50
Jonny Pelham’s confessional show tells of his being sexually abused when he was eight, and the psychological and emotional work he has had to do since in response. With such a traumatic theme it’s a testament to Pelham’s comic skill that he manages to deliver a thoughtful and insightful hour that
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VENUE: Assembly George Square
TIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm, 7–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £11 – £12
India, according to its first female comedian, has boasted a standup circuit for only the past seven years or so. Naturally, much of it is total garbage, described here as consisting of arrogant, corpulent men denigrating their wives. Given that the country’s nascent scene is still in its Bernard Manning stage, its a miracle for a voice as rational, progressive and intelligent as Aditi Mittal’s to have emerged unstifled. This show, itself a follow up to an attention grabbing Netflix special, opens with a description of an incident in which Mittal was booked to perform at an awards event promoting female empowerment. Typically, this was
never trades on his experiences for too-easy comic and emotional ends.
Indeed, he notes that it would be more narratively effective if he kept the matter of his abuse secret for much of the show, instead employing it as a mid-gig reveal. Instead he opens with it, evidencing his desire for honesty and avoiding shock tactics that work too simply. He recounts his retreat into fantasy worlds, and his attempts to lose his virginity, deftly swerving mawkish appeals to audience sentiment. In doing so the show becomes more discomforting, as the crowd is in many places not given the cathartic release it
clearly craves. Pelham refuses to make this too easy, and he evidently doesn’t want to be simplistically dismissed as "brave". In outlining child abuse statistics he situates his comedy within pressing social concerns without ever turning this into a lecture.
He’s a honed storyteller, with well-crafted jokes that come from unexpected angles. It’s a redemptive show, as Pelham recounts his newfound relationships and engagement with the world. He notes his therapist has questioned whether it’s useful to try and find the humour in all of this. This astute hour clearly answers that question.
Brett Millsto be an unpaid gig with accolades offered to the star in lieu of a fee. She accepted what she saw as a counterproductive slap in the face only in order to validate her career in the eyes of her mother. Validation from one’s mother, she has found, is a powerful incentive for doing right and wrong.
There’s a lot of biographical comedy here—Aditi dissecting her apparently unconventional relationship with the woman who raised here—not all of which lands with a predominantly Western
audience. When the performer moves beyond experiences specific to her Indian upbringing and delves into the role the concept of motherhood plays in oppressive rhetoric, however, she touches upon truly universal concerns. Highlighting the way in which positive, admirable sentiments are co-opted by the powerful, she makes some very thoughtful and timely points on issues few comedians would have the bravery or skill to tackle. ✏︎ Lewis
PorteousVENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 7:00pm – 8:00pm, 31 Jul–25
Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £7-10
Named after the “Hottentot Venus,” the Khoekhoe slave trafficked from colonial South Africa to Europe as a freak show exhibit, Venus takes issue with the objectification of the black female body whilst asserting a desire for women of colour to be defined as individuals on their own terms.
This astute political analysis is buoyed by wordplay, shrewd storytelling and pop culture hot-takes on everything from Balamory to Dr Who-themed porn as Duker uses her comedic talent to engage with misrepresentations of black femininity. A recurring theme emerges in the way that black stories are skewed by white perspectives – whether it be Stacy
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 10:30pm – 11:30pm, 1–25 Aug
TICKETS: £7-10
Alfie Brown is a bit like one of those heritage rock bands who subject the world to perfunctory new releases purely so they can justify going on the road to perform material recorded while they were a valued entity in the studio. Which is to say that he
writes satisfactory Fringe shows seemingly so he can have the opportunity to digress from them and play to his real strength –interacting with his audience, or analysing us as he prefers to think of it.
There’s some narrative here about supporting Liverpool Football Club and what it’s like for him to be in a relationship, but really this stuff is neither here nor there. The performer wants to engage in vaguely combative conversation, to the extent that he’s on stage probing us even as we’re not yet seated.
His technique is to hold us up to impossibly high standards
Dooley-style white saviourism or hyper-sexualisation of women of colour in white erotic fantasies.
Autobiographical snippets— an anecdote about absentee fathers and an Uber driver named Daddy comes to mind here, as well as the musing that lesbian sex can feel like “working in hospitality” – are interwoven with crowd-pleasing cultural observations, demonstrating that Duker can speak from her specific positionality without ever being limited by it.
Using humour to challenge ingrained biases, Duker appoints a member of the audience as the “white man ambassador” –highlighting the ridiculousness of making any individual a representative of their entire demographic, as people of colour are too often tasked with doing. This move also gestures elsewhere, towards the fact that white male perspectives are read as “universal”, rather than as the socially and culturally specific viewpoints they are.
✏︎ Megan Wallaceboth ethically and sartorially, expressing grave disappointment in our failures before implicating himself in some way. He maintains control of the room thanks to a devastating command of language, but this is a weapon he frequently turns on himself. A highlight of this particular show involves him going into exhaustive detail regarding his grave financial debt.
By his own admission, the quality of Brown’s show depends on whatever responses we give him, but crucially, he knows that we aren’t here to hear the new material.
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 9pm – 10pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £7–£10
The title of Tom Ballard’s new show may relate to its critique of capitalism and a society that values the relentless acquisition of wealth and property beyond all else, or could simply have been chosen because it points toward his anguished, sweat-soaked delivery. The man we first encounter on stage is a smartly dressed Australian television personality, but by the end of the hour we’re left with a dishevelled wreck, struggling with both a mortgage he can no
longer afford and an unshakeable sense of millennal anguish.
While Ballard maintains that he’s not really a success given that his TV vehicle was axed relatively early in its run, watching him perform feels like one of those weird Fringe scenarios in which a revered international star is reduced to playing a tiny space for the sake of possibly cracking an international market not yet properly exposed to him. Currently living in London on a working visa, his take on British
culture and politics is as insightful and funny as any satirical work currently produced domestically, while the performer’s brand of eviscerating self-deprecation is almost tailor made for the British market.
A couple of underwhelming, crass anecdotes excepted, to see Enough is to glimpse a prodigiously talented master performing unencumbered by expectation or risk. It feels like we’re very lucky to have him here. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous
VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 12:15pm – 1:15pm, 1–25
Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10
With all that’s going on in his life this could have been the year Tony Law wrote something explicitly serious and made a play for the heartstrings. Sober now after 30 years of alcohol abuse, he’s just back from visiting his mother over in Canada who now has dementia. While he touches on both of these subjects, Identifies is typical Law – a rollercoaster of non-sequiturs and strange set pieces that help their creator make sense of the world.
Indeed, Identifies is overwhelmingly chaotic at times, which will be no surprise to long-time followers of Law’s work. Kicking off just after the clock strikes noon at the very least it’ll obliterate any cobwebs and provide an injection of energy into the day. He covers a remarkable amount of ground during a frantic hour. Time travel is a prominent theme (and
really, it’s the perfect topic for Law to delve into when you think about it). Infrastructure gets a shout out, as does plumbing. He brings tales from as far as Dundee and Plymouth.
There are some lulls, there has to be, although he turns one of them— an "unprofessional beverage break"—in his favour. There’s also some showstopper moments: one bizarre sequence that involves the input of a very special guest, and another that’s described as "a glove play about Brexit Britain".
Identifies flirts with being perceptive, but there’s absolutely no learning to be done. Law’s a born entertainer, and as he himself points out, it’s not like he, and fellow comedian Phil Nichol, can "just go and get jobs". The longer we can embrace his strange worldview, the better.
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VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm, 7–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £9 – £10
After last year’s 1001 Moments with Troy Hawke, prolific character comedian Milo McCabe brings his foppish naif persona back to Edinburgh in Tiles of the Unexpected
The titular tiles are those of the popular board game Scrabble. It’s
VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 7pm – 8pm, 31 Jul–25 Aug
TICKETS: £12–£14
A frequent comment on Sarah Kendall’s last few Fringe shows is that she’s more storyteller than comedian. Paper Planes is unlikely to win over those critics. Not only is it a storybased show, it doubles down on another of Kendall’s favourite subjects in that it’s about the art of storytelling itself, why Kendall does it and how it helps her relate to the world. Structurally Paper Planes is impeccable, it’s message resonates long after the lights go down and yet for all the immaculate attention to detail it’s just a little too light on laughs to be an unqualified success.
The gist of the show follows Kendall’s attempt to write a book,
a simple but increasingly bizarre comic device used to fuel Hawke’s conspiracy theories, decorating the narrative with manic numerology. But at first he uses it to tot up the hypothetical scores of audience members’ names, a trick which— despite its gimmicky nature—never stops being funny, thanks in large part to McCabe’s effortless crowd control and total mastery of the character.
That’s what makes Tiles... such an engaging hour: McCabe has really fleshed out this silver-tongued 1930s cad. And not just visually (pencil moustache, cravate and silk smoking jacket): Hawke boasts a considered but subtle physical vocabulary alongside his verbal one.
It’s almost clowning, so integral are the winks, grins and mannerisms to the character. Mix in a verbose idiolect that’s both highly literate and transparently vapid—delivered in the constipated nasality of an aspirational upper-class rogue— and you’ve got a well-rounded identity leading the charge.
Though bolstered by a screen used for Scrabble scores and the occasional video, the show is at its strongest when Hawke pauses the meandering story to joust with the audience. Tiles... could honestly have been an hour of mere crowd banter; McCabe’s swift wit as the fully inhabited Hawke is a natural triple word score.
with Paper Planes itself consisting of standalone chapters. The literary nature of the show doesn’t stop there, such are Kendall’s gifts with setting a scene and bringing her characters to life. There are references to Chekhov and Greek mythology, and the story itself takes in sleep deprivation and— significantly—Kendall’s feelings of helplessness when faced with the news cycle, a never ending stream of Trump’s incoherent madness,
Vote Leave’s lies, Measles outbreaks and homophobic attacks on London buses.
"Do we need another book?", is the question Kendall asks. Paper Planes would make a fantastic novel. At its core is the relationship between Kendall and her nine-year-old daughter, and the question of—if we choose to raise children in these dark times—how do we do it right?
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VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 6:50pm – 7:50pm, 31 Jul–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10–£12
It’s hard not to like Matt Price. He’s warm, engaging and seems to be a genuinely lovely man. He’s also quite well connected in the world of organised crime and has the means to exact revenge on anyone with the audacity to criticise his Fringe show...
Regrettably, one can’t ignore
the structural problems that blight Broken Hooters and Geezers With Shooters. In summary, Price has neglected to provide the audience with sufficient context as he embarks on a fragmented, nonlinear narrative spanning a decade and multiple time zones.
We can say with certainty that his partner was once violently attacked, and that at some point subsequent to this, he was asked to ghost-write a book for a retired Glaswegian crime boss. Understandably, details relating to both pieces of information are kept light. What’s clear is that the latter has repeatedly offered to help Price avenge the assault, and that our hero is proud not to have succumbed to this tempting endorsement of violence.
This revelation serves as the show’s denouement. Before we reach it, we are treated to a series of vignettes, portraits of the bizarre characters Price has met through the crime boss and descriptions of the unlikely situations in which he’s found himself. Men with names such as Stab Vest Steve feature heavily.
Whether finding himself a reluctant guest at a gangland sex party, or forced to devise a hasty escape strategy from a Turkish comedy club, Price relays each tale with conviction and self-effacing charm. But it gets exhausting being served gangland story after gangland story without a sense of progression, sequencing or momentum. ✏︎ Lewis
PorteousVENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 11:00pm – 12am, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10–£12
What a dream combination this should be: last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Rose Matefeo teaming up with four other gifted Kiwi comics (Alice Snedden, Guy Montgomery, Eli Matthewson and Chris Parker) for a late-night hour. And Snort is so close to living up to that hype. It even manages to overcome the
initial wince you might make at hearing the phrase “improvised comedy”, since this fivesome are reassuringly competent on-thespot performers.
But it saunters into proceedings a little too loosely for an 11pm slot. The show’s minimal audience participation is both commendable and, in some ways, innovative (a single word from the crowd inspires a guest comedian to riff for a few minutes; said riff inspires the improv troupe), but it means the really juicy stuff—five remarkably talented brains playing out bizarre scenarios—takes a minute to get going.
The improv is a freewheeling joy, chaotic without being incoherent,
and certainly the product of troupe who know each other well (Snort has a cult following back in Auckland, with a rotating cast of 15). They mine the guests’ otherwise dry riffs for fertile scenes and do so seemingly telepathically—tonight we explore curtains, water and apples—and the loose structure permits some pretty wild voyages. Not every scene is a winner – though are they ever, in improv?
For all the lulls the format creates, it’s a refreshing departure from the usual Whose Line-style games and prompts, and really gives the space these young New Zealanders need to wax lunatic for our enjoyment. ✏︎ George
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VENUE: The Stand Comedy Club
TIME: 3:20pm – 4:20pm, 7–26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £12
Simon Munnery has been playing his radical, anarchic persona Alan Parker for decades now. Constantly rebelling against rules he sees as fascist, and decrying the pervasiveness of technology (including his own microphone), his mockery of unfocussed but impassioned politics is well honed. There’s little new done with the character in this show, but Munnery’s realisation of the agitated Parker is now so instinctive that it’s a seamless hour of character comedy.
While it may be the case that the show runs out of steam before
VENUE: The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
TIME: 1:30pm – 2:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £12
How ramshackle do you want your comedy? Seymour Mace begins his show reluctantly being dragged to the stage, begging not to be made to perform. The rest of his hour mines the tension between
the end, it’s fun getting there. As ever, Munnery deploys swathes of makeshift props for comic purposes, and credit has to be given to someone who can do a good ten minutes simply going through the things in his pockets. A round of supermarket-based protest songs is economical and silly, and he gets mangled trying to negotiate the forms of feminism he knows he should support.
But there’s also something odd and intriguing going on. Where Parker had for decades
been a parody of outmoded forms of simplistic radical politics, he suddenly seems to be timely again. After all, in an age of grass-roots groups such as Extinction Rebellion, the notion of being an urban warrior seems less ludicrous than it was only a few years ago. His fear of technology was once comic because he appeared a Luddite;, but with smart speakers now listening into our everyday domestic activities, such jokes seem prescient rather than passé. Might Alan have been right all along?
Brett Millshis conflicting needs of being in the limelight and managing the disruptive nature of his depression and anxiety.
He notes that comedians are only meant do a single show about mental health, and then move onto other emotive topics, such as their relationships with their parents. But here he is, for the fourth successive year, mining the battles within his brain for comic purposes. He makes a convincing case for the therapeutic possibilities of a form such as standup, and it’s instructive to witness a performer for whom comedy has such personal significance.
But that’s to suggest a pomposity which is thankfully
absent. Instead this is a ragbag of colliding ideas, often arising from Mace’s anger at the happy world he’s told he should inhabit. His violent enactment of mainstream sitcom conventions skewers the lies in such Panglossian shows, resulting in something akin to a socialist revolution. And there’s a really good joke about coasters.
The show takes some time to get going, slowly building towards an inexorable momentum. Some skits are stretched beyond their comic mileage, while others become sublime precisely because they drag on. It all feels like this could fall apart at any moment, and within the potential for that possibility sits something frenetic, fragile, and surprisingly intimate. ✏︎ Brett
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:45pm – 6:45pm, 31 Jul–25
Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £10–£12
Janine Harouni, as a family friend once pointed out, is “good at talking". Very early on, however, you discover that “good” is something of an understatement as the American comic crafts a mean narrative arc, delivers spot-on impersonations of the population of Staten Island and keeps her audience laughing for the majority her show.
She turns these talents to telling the story of an accident that would ultimately lead to her becoming a performer, a life event that is inextricably linked to her changing
relationship with her Republicanvoting father. With tell-tale drama school-alum poise she advocates for understanding across the political divide, explaining how her dad ultimately came to change his opinions on same-sex marriage.
Yet her focus on resolved gay rights questions, rather than political atrocities under Trump or the wider gender revolution, makes it feel like Harouni is sidestepping points of urgent social action in favour of a clean sense of resolution to her story.
Perhaps the political message is a bit too light-handed at times and inevitably there are some bum notes in the performance, such as a warm-up bit about synced periods that feels slightly stale.
Overall, however, Harouni delivers a polished, feel-good show that might make you feel a bit more hopeful about the state of the world but, either way, will leave you cackling about her “Me Too” run-in with Keira Knightley.
✏︎ Megan WallaceVENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 31–26
Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £11–£12
It’s difficult to really get a hold on Robert Lemon Alackadaddy as a comedy character. He’s a sort of Cockney park bench philosopher with a tendency to reel off bizarre, celebrity-strewn anecdotes, though quite why creator Phil Cornwell
has decked him out like present day Micky Dolenz in a Breaking Bad t-shirt and fedora is anyone’s guess. As is the thought process behind the writer’s decision to weave straight-faced allusions to chronic alcoholism and parental abuse into an otherwise flippant, surreal narrative. It’s these baffling details that make this show an interesting piece of work, if not necessarily a satisfying one.
While nothing like a household name, Phil Cornwell has little to prove to the coterie of comedy buffs familiar with his contributions to Spitting Image, Stella Street and
various Alan Partridge vehicles. As it happens, this is exactly the sort of audience who will admire the purist Alternative Comedy feel to this Fringe offering. For despite Cornwell’s very obvious proficiency as a character actor and impressionist, this feels like an experiment. Teetering on the boundary between success and failure, Alackadaddy is incoherent, esoteric and deeply boring at points – but we happily ride it out largely because it’s rare to see a Fringe show so committed to its own impenetrable internal logic. ✏︎ Lewis
Porteouscritics have apparently picked up on her poor posture, but the fact that the performer hunches over her audience as if to envelop them is actually emblematic of her inclusive and engaging style. The focus is on Keyworth, the amplified individual on stage, but somehow the show feels like a dialogue.
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:45pm – 6:45pm, 31 Jul –
25 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £9–£11
Of course it’s taken a short-haired lesbian who dresses in a gender neutral fashion to provide one of the most interesting takes on masculinity you’ll likely find at the Fringe. Make no mistake, though, this offering from Sarah Keyworth is far from a radical exercise in subversion. Online
While she states that Pacific is about gender, all the usual stuff is here. From opening remarks highlighting the inadequacy of her makeshift venue to descriptions of various loved ones’ eccentricities, most of the subject matter is rote, though carried off with aplomb. A sketched narrative about being sexually harassed at an Australian comedy festival leads to some insightful discussion about Keyworth’s identity as the more masculine-presenting half of a same sex couple, but our hero is probably too easygoing to ever lead us into especially unsettling or challenging territory. For the most part, we get midtempo laughs punctuated by the occassional moment of real joy. ✏︎ Lewis
PorteousVENUE: Underbelly, George Square
TIME: 4pm – 5pm, 1–25 Aug
TICKETS: £9-£10
When Joe Bor held his stag do in Prague, there was greater significance than the usual alcoholic escapades. The Jewish comic’s grandfather, Walter, fled the city from the Nazis and lost several of his immediate family to the concentration camps. He was helped to escape by his best friend, the famous actor Herbert Lom, and the two went on to establish successful careers, with Walter becoming a worldrenowned town planner and raising a family in the UK.
Bor’s show traces the two men’s friendship, subsequent falling
VENUE: Glided Balloon, Teviot
TIME: 7pm – 8pm, 31 Jul–25 Aug,
not 13
TICKETS: £6-£11
Don’t let the slightly literate title fool you, Orwell That Ends Well is ill-considered, reactionary nonsense, and is exactly the sort of thing George Orwell would have abhorred. It’s a straw man in a hall of mirrors. Where to even begin? How about by stating that if Piers Morgan is on your side and a solitary red-faced man feels
out and eventual reconciliation. An exploration of identity from a standup who once gave only a passing nod to his Semitism, it’s an interesting personal history undermined by the lack of first-hand testimony, at least as shared in this hour. The comic wasn’t especially close to his grandfather before he died in 1999, so interviews his father instead, teasing out details about his forebear and getting his own relatively modest career insulted. Walter did leave an unpublished memoir and an audio interview, as well as some correspondence
comfortable giving you a fascist salute from the front row, then maybe your approach to comedy is due a rethink?
At some point in the past year, Kisin performed before a handful of students who inexplicably enjoyed his act and tried to book him for a university event. He was sent a contract, but found he couldn’t bring himself to sign it. The university’s commitment to fostering a respectful environment within its confines, he reasoned, was at odds with his comic repertoire. Kisin tweeted about this and our gammon elders came rushing to his defence. Thus ensued a tedious shouting match about free speech and the right to offend.
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with Herbert. But beyond their closeness and determination, an eye for the ladies and Walter’s comically banal observations on his odyssey through war-torn Europe, they remain vaguely sketched, Herbert in particular. Bor is an amiable storyteller. And ultimately, he impactfully relates his grandfather’s experience to his own and the modern era. But while there’s unquestionably a compelling tale here, and chuckles amidst the struggles and desolation, rather too many details remain elusive.
✏︎ Jay Richardsonof a particular institution with state-issued legislation, the root of Kisin’s problems is that he is an incredibly stilted performer who leaves a pause after every punchline as though rehearsing in front of a bedroom mirror. This results in an especially deathly silence after each limp quip, when a more instinctive comic would have the good sense to move swiftly onto something else. “Come on guys,” he’ll implore after trotting out a tired stereotype, “I can say that – I’m Jewish!”
He cannot countenance the idea that we aren’t shocked by his irredeemably boring schtick, and so while presented as an impassioned defence of self-expression, Orwell that Ends Well is really just a litany of excuses. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous
VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 7:45pm – 9:00pm, 4–25
Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £11 – £12
Deep in southern Florida’s sugarcane fields, there’s a village where sex offenders can live after they leave prison. It’s called Miracle Village. The residents are baffled that anyone would write a play about them, but after several visits, that’s exactly what Dr Travis Russ did. Using field notes, music and verbatim accounts from residents and those who work there, Russ has
written a profoundly nuanced and provocative snapshot of several of the men in the village. As well as taking a sensitive look at a demographic of people who are easily demonised, it is groundbreaking in its form and emotional complexity.
The script employs a sophisticated structure and range of characters, seamlessly blending narratives that are punctuated with hymns and original music.
When a new resident arrives, everyone introduces themselves and their charges as part of their regular group therapy programme. Their offences are horrific, but the script also portrays them as people with talents, interests and families rather than twodimensional monsters defined by
their crimes. Their vulnerability, and processes of rehabilitation and self-acceptance, are evident in the actors’ performances, which challenge preconceptions about sex offenders.
The ensemble of six is exceptional. Playing multiple roles, these actor-musicians embody their characters with commitment and capture their emotional landscape in song. The production asks questions rather than gives answers, and one of those is the difficult request that the audience sees the characters as people rather than headlines and court cases. Deliberately pushing the limits of human empathy, this is theatre that can transform how we see the world.
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VENUE: Traverse Theatre
TIME: times vary, 1–25 Aug, not 7
TICKETS: £22
Gina Moxley grabs psychiatry by the balls in The Patient Gloria –a rebellion against misogyny masquerading as therapy. “We’re turned on by way more than we admit to,” the impish Irishwoman says at the start. Her mischievous, dick-swinging show seeks to set female libidos free from the male gaze.
In 1960, as psychotherapy peaked, a 30 year-old divorcee ‘Gloria’ agreed to film three sessions with three different— male—shrinks. The Patient Gloria stretches each into surrealism. Liv O’Donoghue lounges on a retro leather sofa in a billowing pink dress as a suited-andgold-booted Moxley mockingly embodies the quacks. One
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VENUE: Traverse Theatre
TIME: times vary, 3–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19
TICKETS: £22
David Edgar would like to know what happened to his generation, those young radicals who “came of age between ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘Let It Be’”, only to ditch their idealism for the kind of far-right populism that brought us Brexit in 2016. More precisely, he’d like to know what happened to himself.
Now 71, the prolific playwright is appearing on stage for the first
scurries up Gloria’s skirt. Another bounces boyishly on the sofa. Each looks to camera: the stars of this show.
Picking out the perfect penis for each psych—cotton balls wrapped in tights for the timid fatherly one; lumbering silicon for the fighty Freudian—Moxley’s pastiche is pointed. Her drag’s as distorting as their diagnoses. Beneath, there burns a seeting fury. How dare these men project, and push, themselves onto their patients.
Between scenes, as chic rocker Jane Deesh blasts bass-heavy tunes, Moxley reflects on her own social conditioning and sexual past: the childhood instructions to behave and be good, the coy sex ed manuals and the unsolicited penises – flashers, wankers and public pissers. “We got the analogue,” she winks at the teenage girls gathering at her feet. Shock treatment gives way to genuine hope, as Moxley wills the next feminist wave to wash in. G-L-O-R-I-OUS ✏︎ Matt Trueman
time since university to inform his younger self of the baby boomers’ rapturous embrace of neoliberalism and his own move to the mainstream after his radical beginnings in agitprop theatre.
Edgar is an avuncular stage presence but the show is far from cosy. The proscenium is ruptured from moment one with the house lights staying up as Edgar gives us some tongue-in-cheek trigger warnings (“This production has at least one catastrophic piece of miscasting”). Later, he polls us on our own political leanings (surprisingly for The Traverse, one audience member admits to being a Tory) and asks us to generalise on what an unemployed 55-year-
old plumber from Burnley might think about immigration and free-market economics, scrolling our answers on the busy set constructed from piles of boxes and filing cabinets.
Long before Edgar starts equating Princess Diana’s funeral to Steve Biko’s, you sense there’s something subversive going on. More ruptures in the play’s fabric are to follow and what initially appears to be a glorified TED Talk becomes infinitely more thorny and thought-provoking. Self-aware and pin-sharp, Edgar delivers a personal and political play that’s more radical than his 20-year-old firebrand self could ever imagine.
✏︎ Jamie DunnVENUE: Traverse Theatre
TIME: times vary, 1–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19
TICKETS: £21
Candles and flowers fill the stage, transforming the space into a shared, public site of grief and remembrance. Pulitzer Prize finalist, poet and performer Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood is a series of monologues built from interviews with St Louis residents one year after police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed local teenager Michael Brown.
From elderly retired teacher Louisa to bitterly racist father Dougray, Orlandersmith radiates the stories from within, making it so that the Traverse’s audience can picture these people as easily as they can hear their voices.
This kind of near-verbatim, almost-documentary theatre is well established, but Orlandersmith has a phenomenal
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 1:10pm – 2:00pm, 31 Jul – 26
Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £9 – £11
Issues of identity, labels and individuality are more current than ever, and there are many crude and superficial explorations of them on offer at the Fringe. Lucy Roslyn’s Orlando is something more sophisticated and thoughtful altogether: a captivating, intricate weaving together of her own story and that of Orlando in the
hold over it. She embodies quirks of speech and movement with precision and control, creating a distressing state-of-the-nation play from tiny but overwhelming details. When she plays Paul, a young Black teenager, her right leg twitches almost imperceptibly with stress.
Fluid and flowing, each monologue feels as if it is unravelling, unrushed. The conversation spans racism, structural violence, religion, gentrification, education, sexuality, fear. The longer people talk, the
more they open up – or the more space they are given to reveal themselves. Poison seeps in to the language of well-meaning but patronising liberals, or in the inability to accept the structural benefits of being born white: “I did NOT come from privilege,” repeats one man, defiantly.
When Orlandersmith finally steps outside of the interviewees and assumes the role of poet, she tips the play slowly but steadily towards the promise of a reckoning – but not the kind that absolves.
✏︎ Katie Hawthorne
eponymous Virginia Woolf novel, this is a performance that will stay with audiences.
Woolf’s Orlando tells of a character who moves through space, gender and history, shifting identities, locations and time periods while always remaining Orlando. If only our current society allowed us to shed labels and shift identities so freely, Roslyn posits, we might be able to make better sense of our own experiences.
Roslyn very effectively binds Woolf’s Orlando together with her own story of love and identity, returning to particular motifs and lines throughout the performance to guide the audience through
what could otherwise be dense and complicated material. Instead it feels flowing and unforced, with the hour structured into its own chapters. The stage is sparse, but its two lamps and wooden stool are used to great effect, Roslyn playing both with the lighting itself and with the physicality of the lamps, which stand in at various times for other characters or settings.
Most strikingly of all in this one-woman show, Roslyn is a completely captivating and magnetic performer. There is no fourth wall, and no chance to take your eyes off her – but you wouldn’t want to even if you could. ✏︎ Eve
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 5:30pm – 6:50pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £15–£17
Bryony Kimmings, it’s fair to say, has had a tough time. In the space of a year, her relationship broke down, her baby son got dangerously sick and her mental defences began to crumble. Shit, as she puts it, hit the fan. She’s here now to rise from the ashes on stage, retelling her destruction in order to be reborn.
A tool that Kimmings has learnt in therapy, she tells us, is rewinding: returning to the past while keeping it at a safe distance. I’m a Phoenix, Bitch accordingly tracks back to key moments in Kimmings’ trauma, which are held
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VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 11:15am – 12:15pm, 1–18 Aug
TICKETS: £8.50 – £9.50
There’s a tacit understanding that when standups talk about their loved ones, you’re only getting one side of the story – exaggerated, twisted and just straight-up invented in the service of provoking laughter. But what happens when ‘er indoors gets the right to reply?
That’s the premise of this very funny two-hander from comic Rob Rouse
up for inspection. Despite the deeply personal content, Kimmings has absolute control over her art, transforming her suffering into a series of distressing but beautiful images.
The show also smartly dissects the roles that women feel pressured to play. In her rewinds, Kimmings picks up and discards different cultural scripts—the lover desperately clutching onto her man, the hippy Earth mother—as she tries on various versions of
womanhood. She borrows images from music videos and horror movies, seeing her life as a slowly turning reel of film – until her life itself begins to unspool.
At times, it can all feel just a bit too slick. For all that Kimmings talks about the rawness of the material, this show is a polished machine. But that in itself is a sort of triumph, proving that beauty and meaning can eventually emerge from the chaos of pain. ✏︎ Catherine Love
and his writer-actor wife Helen Rutter.
In this incarnation at least, the amiable Rouse gripes about middleage, offers an overblown recreation of their childrens’ home births and casts his spouse as the most northern woman alive. Jokes for him: they’re also the most intimate details of her life. And when she protests, it brings the gig to an impasse.
Partly a domestic drama of balancing work with family, pursuing a vocation while paying the bills, Funny in Real Life is rather more concerned with the standup’s creative and psychological motivations, of which Rouse is defensive. “You want to pick the
frog apart?!” he cries. “It’s gonna fucking die!” All the while though, he’s incorrigible, striving to jokingly deflect Rutter’s criticisms, reclaim the spotlight and get his show back on track.
The play has two major elements in its favour. Unlike most standup dramatisations, Rouse brings an authenticity to the role that most actors can’t. He’s actually funny and the stakes seem real. But it’s balanced. And in the realities of his and Rutter’s marriage, with suggestive details of his therapy, her professional struggles, the shift in their attraction to each other, there’s significant prurient interest, with virtually every aspect of their dirty laundry on display. ✏︎ Jay
Richardson
VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 1:20pm – 2:20pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £10–£12
Essie is eroding. Bits of her are crumbling away, like the dust that falls from the stone platform she perches on. She keeps a list in her pocket of all the words people would use to describe her: smart, bubbly, no-nonsense. But these are just so much debris, disintegrating to powder in her hands.
Margaret Perry’s new play is about falling apart. Its protagonist sees the world collapsing around her and she begins to collapse with it. Raised precariously above the ground by Alison Neighbour’s set design, surrounded by jutting spurs of rock, Essie is cut off from the world. There are no footholds, either literal or metaphorical, and
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 3pm – 4pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £12–£13
A mic crackles in a quiet studio. Two women are recording a podcast, with a helpful sound technician watching from behind the glass. It would be an unremarkable event, if not for the fact that one of the women is long-dead legendary Pharaoh, Cleopatra.
Her miraculous appearance from beyond the grave is taken as
the isolated plinth she stands on is slowly dissolving.
As Essie, Breffni Holahan is quietly remarkable. It’s an unshowy performance, yet it subtly captures each anxious shift of mood, each switch of gear between conversations. Smiling broadly for a job interview, she’s “bubbly” epitomised; in a private moment of despair, she reverts to blank anguish, going back through her list of words and hearing only hollow adjectives.
Just as it seems clear where this is going, Perry and director Thomas Martin deliver a final surprise, puncturing Essie’s loneliness and self-absorption. It’s a startling moment, jolting an audience out of the aestheticised misery of Essie’s experiences and questioning the conclusion that the play appeared to be building towards. Introspective monologues are ten-a-penny at the Fringe, but this subversion of the genre feels bracingly novel. ✏︎ Catherine Love read in this otherwise straightfaced play. Anguis is Olivierwinning actor Sheila Atim’s debut as a playwright, and it layers pointed questions over dodged answers in the thorny dialogue between Cleo (played haughty but human by Paksie Vernon) and her interlocutor/podcast host Kate (Janet Kumah), an expert virologist. On the agenda: discussions of truth, lies, myth and ambition, all circling around the veracity of Cleopatra’s supposed suicide by snakebite.
Directed by Lucy Atkinson, the tension in this unlikely meeting is routinely punctured by goodhumoured David (Peter Losasso), even though he accidentally hands
Cleo a lit fuse in the form of details about Kate’s recent disgrace.
As Kate’s credibility unravels, the audience is caught between her supressed memories and her determination to fight for fair treatment. The lights flicker and distant voices float through the airwaves, but it is difficult to bring real theatricality to a podcast, even a staged one. Anguis feels more like a bottle episode of a prestige TV drama or a rehearsal for a Radio 4 play. The story is intriguing, the issues real and the characters fully formed, but the intellectual pacing doesn’t quite compensate for the way the soundproofed walls cage the action. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 11:35am – 12:30pm, 31 Jul –26 Aug, not 18
TICKETS: £7.50–£10
When writer and actor Isabelle Kabban was in university, her mum was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It came as a relief after a lifetime of anxiety, confusing incidents and hurt. In this stark depiction of life with a loved one and their mental illness, conversations with her therapist provide a gateway to a speedy series of fragmented memories in this solo performance.
Love and care seep through the
VENUE: Traverse Theatre
TIME: times and dates vary, between 30 Jul and 25 Aug
TICKETS: £22
There’s a word in Albanian, “besa”, that translates as “faith” or “word of honour”. As Dritan Kastrati puts it, “if I can help them I should help them”. The concept pulses like a heartbeat through How Not to Drown, Kastrati’s theatrical retelling of his experience as a refugee. On the perilous journey from Kosovo to England, and in the years that follow, there are those who extend a hand to help – and those who don’t.
Dritan leaves home aged 11, still a child. His father sends him away from the violence that follows the Kosovan war, thrusting him into
confusion and struggle of Kabban’s childhood. From her mum throwing a trifle at her best friend at age 14, to not congratulating her on a uni interview, Kabban’s childhood had moments that were traumatic. But she does her best to keep mum fed, watered and off the booze. She cannot imagine a life without her mum, even though their relationship is exhausting and often unhealthy.
Kabban performs with relentless speed, embodying herself, her mum and all other characters that appear. She races through the good and the bad, capturing the constant instability and relentlessness of growing up in a home dictated by a parent’s poor mental health. Slight shifts in her physicality indicate character transitions, but there is little vocal change and it’s sometimes not clear which
another kind of danger. Alternately played by different members of the five-strong cast, Dritan is both a specific refugee and a symbol, standing in for the many others risking their lives to travel to the UK.
As he’s pitched across the sea and then hurled into the British foster care system, he lurches around the tilted surface of Becky Minto’s set. Slanted at a dizzying angle, the slatted wooden platform is a constant reminder of the
character is speaking. There is little breathing space which, though it is a genuine capture of what her life felt like, is also exhausting for the audience. Despite this, it’s a good piece providing insight into life with an unwell parent, and one that’s written and performed with unwavering affection. ✏︎ Laura
Kresslyprecariousness of Dritan’s situation, whether packed into a boat or being processed by social services.
While the choreography speaks eloquently, the script (co-written with Nicola McCartney) has a habit of voicing more than it needs to. This way of telling may be true to Kastrati’s experience, but it can feel a bit on the nose, especially towards the end. The show would do better to trust its audience and let us do some of the work. ✏︎ Catherine
Love
VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 2:15pm – 3:15pm, 31 Jul – 25
Aug, not, 12, 19
TICKETS: £12
Parrots are learning to speak; dolphins and humans are living together; and real life couple Kim and Pete are trying to talk to each other clearly. Like Animals weaves these stories—at turns surreal, funny and sad—together cleverly, using real-life animal experiments from the 1960s and 1970s to explore present day love and communication.
Like Animals is a bold production, constantly shifting in tone so that its actors move between performing sketch comedy, to emotional monologues, to double-handed dialogue about this real couple’s real life. Their skill and the beauty of the somewhat surreal staging and direction makes this work more than the concept does.
While the intention is clear and the prism through which it is
VENUE: Festival Theatre
TIME: times vary, 1–10 Aug, not 5
TICKETS: £15
With his five-act epic Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen took Shakespeare’s quaint shibboleth “to thine own self be true” and updated it for the modern world of 19th Century Norway: “Be true to yourself and to hell with the world”. This is the motto of the Troll King, and it’s quickly adopted as the mantra of Peter Gynt in this riotous adaptation by David Hare. Hare
explored a clever one, Like Animals stops short of really interrogating its central ideas. We’re invited to start drawing comparisons and lines between the different relationships depicted, but the script doesn’t ultimately pay off on these. Moments that should clearly be deeply moving aren’t felt quite as intensely when the build-up isn’t all there.
Perhaps, for a show that is ultimately all about how difficult
it is to communicate clearly, that doesn’t matter. This is a sweet and well-handled piece which is impressive in its originality and production. As its actors embody parrot, dolphin and human, we’re reminded of how similar we are and also how different – be it humans and other species, or just trying to know and understand each other.
✏︎ Eve Livingstonclearly recognises that if Ibsen was around today, he’d have had the measure of men like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson long before they were printing empty slogans on hats and buses.
The eponymous fantasist is now a Scotsman, played by James McArdle, but otherwise, Hare is faithful to Ibsen’s mad, globetrotting structure. His journey inside a mountain to the world of the trolls is implied to be a delusion, but it’s no less wild than Gynt’s reality. Richard Hudson’s set, with its moving video canvas and door that seemingly floats midair, is appropriately dream-like for a story involving talking hyenas, an
asylum of Gynt doppelgängers and a conversation with the devil on a sinking boat in the Bay of Biscay. The play is at its most nightmarish, however, when finding parallels between the egotism Ibsen observed in his time and those of the ruling classes today.
Hare’s adaptation is far from perfect, but then a few bumps in a three-and-a-half-hour play are to be expected. The less polished lines don’t detract from the sweep of the production, which remains potent thanks to McArdle’s roguish charm and more outrageous one-liners than you’ll find in any Fringe standup show. ✏︎ Jamie Dunn
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 31 Jul – 26
Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £13 – £14
Macabre memories of the conflicts across the Middle East haunt the disturbed and disturbing dreams of the two main characters in this latest instalment in writer Henry Naylor’s Arabian Nightmares series. The Nights is a bruising play loaded with bleak images that sear themselves into your brain: a polished white skeleton on a golden throne, an infestation of wriggling camel spiders, dreams of dead flesh falling off a loved one’s body.
It’s an intense and slightly overwrought depiction of the horrors of desert warfare. The play is bookended with topical references to unrepentant jihadi bride Shamima Begum, who was recently stripped of her British
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 6:30pm – 7:30pm, 1–23
Aug,not 13
TICKETS: £10 – £11
The straight, white, cis gentleman is somewhat fucked when it comes to Fringe theatre. The problem is simple: their woes are not all that interesting; there are bigger fish to fry. That being said, the silent epidemic of male suicide and the
citizenship. But her headlinegrabbing story is just the gateway for an angry and ambitious journalist called Carter (played by Caitlin Thorburn), who hopes to escape the banality of endless celebrity gossip stories by writing a riposte to the Begum case.
She is driven by the beheading of a colleague who was kidnapped by Isis, a video she has watched some 23 times before losing count. This traumatic vision understandably eats away at her mind, pushing her to find a cutting corrective to the politically correct takes she feels are overwhelming the public narratives of conflict in the Middle East. Her odyssey leads her to disgraced ex-soldier Kane
(Henry Naylor) and an increasingly grim story that intertwines ethical abandon, torture and PTSD.
Thorburn is the stronger actor on stage and leads the story with a clear-eyed take on the compromised journalist dabbling in the dark side.
Naylor provides adequate support though doesn’t quite manage to bring the wildfire spark needed to make us believe in the depraved depths his character sinks to. His writing is strong and sincere though, with The Nights challenging anyone who takes uninterrogated positions on the cancerous conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan –exposing the damage done by both hardline belligerence and those who would act as apologists. ✏︎ Stu Black
emotional constipation that helps it proliferate is a fertile subject still underexplored. But the laddish humour of Daniel Hallissey’s In the Shadow of the Black Dog doesn’t feel like the best angle from which to approach the subject.
The monologue follows jack-thelad Alquist (played by Hallissey), who begins the show at stool, worried he might have cancer because his arsehole looks “like a bunny chewing a strawberry”. He gets distracted from his bowel anxiety, though, with the news his best friend has taken his own life.
Hallissey was inspired to write the show after his own best friend died, sending him into a
tailspin, which makes it odd that in Alquist he’s created a rather unsympathetic character. Perhaps Hallissey is being brutally honest about his own foibles, but Alquist’s displays of toxic masculinity— including a crypto-MRA rant after a young woman complains he was too rough in bed—are rarely criticised.
As a performer, Hallissey is technically accomplished (his eyes glass up at the drop of a hat) and the storytelling and simple staging are inventive, but the writing is often downright trashy as well as distasteful. If the Fringe handed out bad sex awards, a line like “the sex was so good, even Godot came” would surely nab it.
Jamie DunnVENUE: Summerhall, TIME: 8:45pm – 9:35pm, various dates between 2 Aug and 24 Aug
TICKETS: £12
You can have a lot of fun with footnotes, but as with alcohol or fireworks, that relies on them being used in the appropriate context and with the required skill. Writers from Terry Pratchett to David Foster Wallace have employed footnotes to unexpected and comedic effect in their original medium; Lewys Holt should be given some credit for attempting to employ this emphatically literary convention in the arena of live performance.
Unfortunately, the show that results from this laudable ambition never fully comes together, despite the talent brought to bear.
VENUE: ZOO Playground
TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 2–25 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £12
Honey is a single mum of four and a freelance journalist. She’s also got a psychotherapist, a mum, and two best friends she seeks constant approval from, which is a never-ending task.
What Holt initially proposes is a parody of an academic presentation, which takes full advantage of the scholastic setting of Summerhall’s disused lecture theatre. Footnotes quickly grows beyond its opening premise of surrealist comedy-via-tangent, and dabbles with everything from physical comedy to haunting, quasi-dramatic dialogues.
Holt has a gift for slapstick, and it’s a shame he displays it only sparingly. More disappointing is the fact that, having explicitly challenged himself over whether he really has anything to say, it turns
out he doesn’t. The various strands of the performance never come together into a cohesive whole, and while it’s entirely possible to do a good show without a story or central theme, the end-result feels unfinished and half-baked.
A footnote is supposed to provide necessary information that allows understanding of the text in question. But when there is no central meaning to be explained or interpreted, the premise wears thin, and the intermittent laughs it elicits cannot justify the effort it demands.
Sean Bellwhy they are there to listen to a life coach, nor how Honey’s biography of failed and fraught relationships taught her much. While her struggles aren’t generally her fault, her takeaways aren’t unique or profound. Men have treated her badly, she has a weird relationship with her parents, her teenage daughter tries her patience, but any or all of these are all more common than not.
Honey is a relatable, everyday character, but this doesn’t make exciting theatre. She muddles through with all her faults and foibles in tow, like we all do – but that’s not particularly interesting to watch.
Laura Kressly
Now she’s at some sort of event where a life coach was meant to speak, but hasn’t turned up. She’s going to cover with a talk called "Lessons
Relationships" that she’s winging as she goes along. It’s not clear who the audience is, where they are and
There are a few good surprises in the writing and some high stakes, but the story Honey tells generally feels small. Sarah McArdie excels as Honey and the other personalities in her life. Particularly entertaining are her daughter Celia and her mother. McArdie’s unresolved mum issues and her struggle to do her best is convincing and relatable, which helps elevate the mundane script.
VENUE: Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows
TIME: 9pm – 10pm, 2–24 Aug, not 7, 12, 19
TICKETS: £17.50–£19.50
Surrendering to this big, racuous all-male circus show from Finland’s Race Horse Company is easy. Those who devised and perform in it have got the balance between testosterone and tongue-in-cheek just right. You kind of know to expect the unexpected from the get-go as the six-member cast enter on horseback, only the horses are
legless costumes and the guys tucked inside and moving about on their knees. It’s ridiculously funny, a tone that permeates an hour-long performance that doesn’t have a theme but, instead, seems to be operating from some sort of quintessentially male collective impulse. Deceptively and unselfconsciously sloppy but often recklessly inventive, the cast come across like overgrown boys keen to try out their wildest and most stupid-smart dreams. They are essentially very rock 'n' roll.
The production’s set-pieces keep getting better and better as the levels of adrenaline onstage mount. A long-haired fellow
wields a sledgehammer, breifly sending another bloke in a bear suit skyrocketing. A teeterboard routine is succeeded by another featuring a brace of huge trampolines. Watching the performers vaulting between the two pieces of equipment is a kick. There’s a great catapult stunt focussed upon a skinny man in a scanty leather outfit. A springboard, aka a Russian bar, doubles blasphemously as a crucifix for a long-haired Jesus substitute.
It all culminates in a double wheel of death act that has overtones of a mock-religious ritual. It is, at the same time, a thing of almost poetic beauty. In short, Super Sunday is a treat. ✏ Donald Hutera
Credit: Petter Hellman
VENUE: Church Hill Theatre
TIME: Run Ended
Taking its title from Beethoven’s dramatic Ninth Symphony which booms along in the background, this dance work from Montreal contemporary dance company Cas Public looks into the world of the unhearing, trying to convey the experience of being deaf. Like Beethoven, who began losing his hearing in his twenties one of tonight’s dancers, Cai Glover, is profoundly deaf without his hearing aid. He lost his hearing after getting meningitis when he was eight. Choreographer Hélène Blackburn has used Glover as her inspiration for this frantic, impressive but sometimes deliberately baffling piece.
The production reverses things so that atypical and typical abilities are flipped. Suddenly the people in the audience who don’t know sign language are excluded, not getting the meaning of many movements, which blend hand gestures with
beautiful, tightly synchronised sequences of whipping arms and windmill legs. Instead of dialogue, the dancers communicate with dramatic grunts or exhales, sometimes making animal sounds. It’s emotive or symbolic, not language based.
Clever tricks link pre-recorded footage of kids with cochlear implants on a big screen behind the dancers with the live action onstage. Remote-controlled cars, a domino rally of dollhouse furniture, blindfolded dance sequences and a ballerina in pointe shoes doing a speeded up hopscotch around moving props on the ground keep the pace fast. An intense sensory work designed for family audiences, it demystifies some aspects of being deaf, while being frustratingly hard to understand and downright strange at other bits – which seems to be the point.
✏ Claire SawersVENUE: Dance Base
TIME: 2:15pm – 2:55pm, 2–11 Aug, not 5
TICKETS: £13
Chris Devaney, the creator and performer of this solo show, has an elegant stage presence. The eye is drawn in by the surety of her supple moves, just as the ear wants to listen to the rhythmic lilt of her surprisingly husky voice.
Made for her company Curious Seed, this work is about as delicately featured as she is: a
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VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 1–25 Aug,
TICKETS: £14 – £16
An acrobatic tribute to the 1980 musical comedy classic, The Black Blues Brothers is easy, sometimes cheesy, watching but packed with powerful tricks. Our five performers are dressed in the requisite trilbies and shades, but this homage is musical rather than plot-based. Huge tunes—’Soul Man’, ‘Shake a Tail Feather’—from the iconic soundtrack are blasted at a delighted mid-afternoon audience, and the lack of any kind of narrative is compensated by sheer spectacle.
This show truly has everything –smiley performers, stressful human pyramids, a limbo competition,
poetic and elliptical evocation of childhood memories of loss and resilience – nostalgic, yes, without being dusted by cuteness or bathing in easy sentimentality.
What Devaney’s show doesn’t do yet—at least not at the first Fringe performance—is pierce the heart and resonate which, one suspects, is its underlying intention. That it fails to plumb the depths is not for want of trying.
An accomplished and thoughtfully unforced dancer who also takes care in delivering her own text, Devaney occupies an attractive set (by Yvonne Buskie) that may be a tad too busy. There are a few too many piles of newspaper scraps on the
periphery, as well as balled-up paper and bricks. Some of this stuff does get used. The dominant design feature, however, is three large wings made of newsprint frgaments and suspended more or less centrestage. The bird metaphor wings it way through the impressionistic little stories Devaney imparts while embodying both her younger self and a possibly lonely old woman who lived in her neighbourhood. The latter character is the linchpin of a sensitive, evocatively scored (by Luke Sutherland) and entirely creditable performance that could head to darker, more dangerous places.
✏ Donald Huteraactual fire. There’s the kind of fun but cringe audience participation that makes you glad they chose that bloke in the front row, although the troupe treat every volunteer with care. The brotherly roughhousing between the acrobats is genuinely affectionate, and that trust pays off massively when they’re balanced precariously on each other’s heads.
In the moments between backflips and handstands, though, there are some awkward lulls. Some silent, mimed skits leave
the audience unwilling to break the silence. It’s absolutely a family friendly show (they once performed for the Pope), but a tongue in cheek strip routine to ‘You Can Leave Your Hat On’ ends oddly. The storyline paints one cast member as reluctant to take off his shirt and, indeed, his hat, so the rest of the cast unceremoniously drag him around on a rope. But when the troupe gets back to defying gravity, there’s not a single person in the house that’s not cheering.
✏ Katie Hawthorne Credit: George WarrenVENUE: Assembly Checkpoint
TIME: 9:30pm – 10:40pm, 31
Jul–25 Aug, not 7, 21
TICKETS: £13-£14
As “camp” becomes yet another buzzword, collateral damage in the commodification of queerness by the media and commercial entertainment, it’s reassuring to witness Reuben Kaye’s whole-hearted display of cabaret-inflected “faggotry”. Importantly, nowhere does Kaye attempt to make himself palatable to the cis-heterosexuals in the audience. With its slipshod
VENUE: Heroes @ The Spiegel yurt
TIME: 3:40pm – 4:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 7, 17, 21,
TICKETS: £5
Not all little girls want to be princesses, and not all women want to be queens. Some girls want to do the rescuing, and some women want to live in a swamp and collect shiny things. This playful, physical theatre
costume changes, alternative Australian national anthems and plethora of rhinestones, Reuben Kaye’s cabaret explores the endless creative possibilities of bad taste.
He avoids adopting more sanitised material, clearly exercising the “right to offend” throughout. At times, this feels like a necessary antidote to the performative political awareness that has become endemic on social media. At others, however—such as the case of an early, ill-advised Anne Frank joke—it can feel like Kaye’s wasting his comedic capabilities on cheap laughs.
Littering his speech with “high culture” nods, from Albert
Camus to Bernini, Kaye makes his range as a performer clear from the offset. He undercuts this more literary humour with puerile visual jokes about blow jobs, as well as moments of aching tenderness as he recounts the anti-queer sentiment he was exposed to as a teenager.
With lightning-quick changes in tone, the kind that could give you whiplash, Kaye delivers a raucous hour that keeps his audience on its toes. However, you can’t help but wish that Kaye kept the focus more on himself—he is the star after all—rather than baiting the cisheterosexuals in the audience.
✏ Megan Wallaceshow looks at loads of other things that women and girls want, dismantles gender stereotypes, and has a joyful mess of a time throughout its short sketches.
There’s no real linear structure and it’s semiimprovised, but the sense of fun that drives the show passes the time quickly, despite some confusing moments that don’t cohere with the concept.
A blue satin parachute is a prominent feature that takes up a lot of space, but it’s used in a variety of ways, from being worn as a dress to representing a river. There’s a lot of interaction with the audience, though it’s cheerful
and warm rather than affronting. The two performers are expressive character clowns with consistently high energy levels. They feed off of the audience’s energy and laughter while having a great time, which is fun to watch even if it’s not always clear what is happening.
A performance art aesthetic underpins their short scenes and design, and there is a prominent queer theme. The latter are the strongest moments of the piece. The feel is generally chaotic and occasionally unjustified, but these points still manage to fit into the overarching spirit.
✏ Laura Kressly
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 4:50pm – 5:50pm, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £10 – £12
2016 was a gift for satirists, says Melinda Hughes before embarking on an hour of music and comedy taking aim at everything from Melania Trump and hipsters to Twitter trolls.
Hughes’ songs are good and the production values of the show high; a three-piece band deliver an impressive range of genres and catchy riffs, with her pianist in particular providing a good partner for her to bounce off in snatches of banter. Hughes moved
into satire after years of being an opera singer, and her impressive voice is put to good use, both musically and comedically.
The satire itself is somewhat less exciting. Material treads what is becoming quite tired ground now—Jeremy Corbyn is a communist; selfies are vacuous; hipsters have beards and drink artisan coffee—sometimes without making very many actual points. Hughes takes aim at both left and right with lots of conviction but not much originality. While a song depicting Melania Trump’s diary entries provides one of the highlights of the hour, it then jars with an unnecessary throwaway line about Slovenians eating dogs.
There are some moments where the material lands, Hughes characterises the type of man
who thinks the MeToo movement has gone too far with shrewd familiarity. Her depiction of interrupting a perfectly nice day with Twitter arguments highlights the absurdity of our online lives. She has great stage presence and charming delivery, and some of the tunes will stick in your head after the show. The same can’t really be said of her satire.
✏ Eve LivingstonVENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 9:15pm – 10:30pm, 31
Jul–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19
TICKETS: £17.50–£22
Is this what going to church feels like? With her rich, rasping voice, Camille O’Sullivan leads a hypnotic, almost hymnal evening as she performs the songs of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
With projected clouds billowing
behind her, she opens with an ethereal version of ‘God Is In The House’. You can almost see the notes reverberating through her. Her languid, luxurious version of ‘Into My Arms’, in which she seems to unpick the notes and wrap them around us individually, is enchanting. “Summon them together,” she sings as she waves at us gently, “to watch over you.”
With her band, O’Sullivan executes total control then complete recklessness. During ‘Jubilee Street’ she kicks over the chime stand and afterwards seems surprised to see it on the floor. “I’m not gonna make it to the end,” she laughs as she collapses. She
chucks off her boots and untucks her shirt; comfortable now. The projections behind her echo the changes in tone, from lightning to water to a bird that seems to stem from inside the drum kit. The lighting, by Joe Fletcher, is exquisite, just as emotive as the music, with glowing embers fizzing under a drum burst, and a guitar solo left to resonate in a violet haze.
O’Sullivan pieces herself back together for the final song and asks us to join her in with the last few lines. “We make a little history baby,” she sings, and her words feel like direct eye contact, “every time you come around”. ✏
Kate WyverVENUE: Roundabout @ Summerhall
TIME: 10am – 11am, 31 Jul–25 Aug, not 6, 13, 20
TICKETS: £14-£15
Voices are layered like rolling waves in this sparse new musical, sung entirely a Capella with a loop pedal and sample pad.
Eilidh (Bethany Tennick) has chosen to stay with her grandma on the fictional Scottish Island of Kinnen while her mum has gone across to the mainland. Meanwhile, a vote on the island raises tensions between locals. Perspective shifts when a whale washes up on a beach, followed by Arran (Kirsty Findlay), a type of girl Eilidh believed belonged to folk tales.
Inspired by Scottish folk songs,
Finn Anderson’s delicate music and lyrics are in turn soothing and stirring. Tennick and Findlay are enchanting performers, controlling the layers of their voices with masterful precision, their notes rolling into each other like droplets down a window. But their charm extends beyond the technicalities – it’s in their eye contact and generosity with each other.
Like the music, Amy Draper’s direction is elegant. Action revolves around the two microphone stands, but rather than obstructions, they simply become part of our island.
As the story develops, Simon Wilkinson’s lighting design uses the Roundabout’s glorious built-in rig to wash the island in dew, sea-mist and a pinch of magic.
Complex and mature, Stewart Melton’s book is at times like a radio play, as Tennick and Findlay orchestrate the town’s many voices. But this show needs to be seen, not just heard. Intimately performed, Islander is a beautiful tale of friendship and bridging the gap between people. Like the girls whose stories it holds, I hope it has a long and happy future.
✏ Kate WyverVENUE: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
TIME: 5pm – 6pm, 8-26 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £11–£12
The 1980s are experiencing a comeback, with outrageous kitsch from the decade popping up in fashion, pop culture and the arts. This new musical embraces this aesthetic wholeheartedly. It tenuously merges tween girl game Dream Phone with the horror film genre, resulting in a bizarre spoof that’s over-reliant on tropes.
Recognisable pop songs with new lyrics make up the bulk of this show about a trio of American high-school girls, but the book and lyrics are cheap, lazy and lack innovation. Melody is the popular blonde, Janice is the stupid promiscuous one, and Stacy is the
geek. The three of them make up the Beaver Babes (yes, really). It’s unconvincing that Melody would ever be friends with Stacy.
What’s much worse is the hypersexualisation of the characters. Considering they play children, it’s creepy and uncomfortable rather than funny.
At a Beaver Babes sleepover, Melody’s mum gives her a Dream Phone that starts receiving calls from another girl at school. More strange things happen in the house but they’re not fully integrated into the story. It becomes increasingly
absurd and unbelievable, leading to an ending relying on a plot device regarded as a no-no in writing or theatremaking. GCSE drama students would fail for using it.
However, despite the uniformly problematic show, the three performers are outstanding. Natasha Granger, Alexandra Lewis and Kerrie Thomason attack the material with boundless enthusiasm, and are also fantastic singers. This goes some way towards redeeming the poor concept.
✏ Laura Kressly
Mercedes Nandzo, age five, goes on the trail of a slug in Slime
What happens in the show? The slug and the butterfly were trying to get the leaf to eat.
Describe the show in five words? Funny, good, nice, a bit quiet, short.
Who was your favourite character and why?
The butterfly because he was funny and making funny noises like yum yum yum.
Was there any character you didn’t like? None.
What did you like most about the show? The decorations and the slime (I got to play with the slime!)
What didn’t you like about the show? I think it was a bit scary for the little ones because they were crying and looked a bit scared.
What did you think about the song? There was no song but the sound effects were good but short.
What did your grown up think about the show? Amazing, they really got into the babyish character.
Would you like your friends to come? Oh yes, I really liked it.
VENUE: Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library
TIME: 11:15am – 12:15pm, 7–24 Aug, not 11, 18
TICKETS: £7 – £8
Credit: Erome Whittingham
Lilac Hasting, age 10, sees a Peter Pan prequel
What happens in the show?
Two actors tell the story of how Peter Pan became the boy who would not grow up. It is like a prequel to the story that everybody already knows about Peter Pan.
Describe the show in five words Imaginative, interesting, creative, adventure, relaxing
Who was your favourite character and why? Solomon Caw was definitely my favourite character. The way the actor moved when he played this character really made me believe he was a bird.
Were there any characters you didn’t like?
Peter Pan’s mother, and I think you will agree if you see the show.
What did you like most about the show?
I really enjoyed the creative way the props were used – a stick became a boat, a tent base became a window frame.
What didn’t you like about the show I can’t think of anything I didn’t like. You do need to concentrate to keep up with the story.
If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of them?
There was a little bit of recorder playing which I liked.
What did your grown-up think of the show?
My mum really liked how the actors switched between characters. She noticed that the children in the audience seemed totally enthralled with it, even the ones who were very young.
Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?
Absolutely, but don’t expect Tinkerbell and fairy dust because it’s not like that.
VENUE: theSpace @ Niddry St
TIME: 10:00am – 11:00am, 7–17 Aug, not 11
TICKETS: £10
Credit: Laura Wingrove
Our top critic Oran, age 13 months, goes to the opera with his grownup
What happens in the show?
It’s a multi sensory rite of passage baby opera! A young Fox is sent out into the world by his Mother Vixen to take on different forms (cat, butterfly, frog) and be periodically assaulted by toddlers, while singing.
Describe the show in five words Opera but with rampaging toddlers
Who was your favourite character and why?
Mother Vixen – the babies are mesmerised by mezzo soprano Katie Grosset. Fox as a beautiful beautiful butterfly was also very fascinating.
Were there any characters you didn’t like?
No they were all very very interesting, designed with different shapes and fabrics to be as engaging as possible for 1-2 year olds.
What did you like most about the show? Throwing leaves, bashing other babies, slowly but surely advancing on the cast as they determinedly sing opera.
What didn’t you like about the show? It took a little while to warm up to the space and explore, but after about 15 minutes the babies owned the set and were ready to maraud.
If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of it/them?
It’s ‘proper opera’ written with this particular development stage in mind. Oran generally loved them – the cello was particularly interesting.
What did your grown-up think of the show?
Loved it. Watching some opera singers performing at the highest level while being slowly attacked by a gang of toddlers is honestly brilliant.
Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?
Yes! I already have.
VENUE: The Edinburgh Academy
TIME: times vary, 2–16 Aug, not 5, 12
TICKETS: £7
00:00
Will Seaward’s Spooky
Midnight Ghost Stories VI
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Project X – Alternative
Comedy Collective
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £5
Laugh Till It Hurts: A
BDSM Comedy Show
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 10–12 Aug, £5
Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £7
The Wonder Jam Heroes @ Black Medicine, 10–26 Aug, £5
Phil Kay: A Happening Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 10 Aug, £10
Late Show Great Show / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 10–26 Aug, FREE
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
00:05
Best of the Fest... Later
Assembly Rooms, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £14–£16
Comedy Village
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
00:10
An Evening With Lee
Trundle
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
00:15
Scot Roast – Afterburn
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–27 Aug, £5
The Rat Pack Comedy –Anything Goes!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
A&E
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 18–26 Aug, FREE
The Piece: Now More (Artistically) Accessible – WiP
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
For Robin Williams: A Benefit Gig in aid of Mind and SAMH
Assembly George Square, 12 Aug, £15
00:30
The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 9–26 Aug, £8
Amusical Club Night
Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10
Global Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–26 Aug, FREE
The Darkness Distillery
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Tree Fiddy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Peyton and Jared Stab
Each Other in the Back
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We’re Out the House
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 15–26 Aug, FREE
00:45
Gaming Under the Influence
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Ghost Orgy
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–26 Aug, FREE
01:00
Late’n’Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £14–£16
Late’n’Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 13 Aug to 22 Aug, £12.50
ACID!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Currie and Brice:
Kraudwerk Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £5
Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap
Art Flop
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5
LEGMEAT Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 13–14 Aug, £6
09:00
BBC at George Heriot’s School
BBC, 9–23 Aug, FREE
10:00
BBC: The Afternoon Show
BBC, Various dates from 12 Aug to 21 Aug, FREE
A Comedy Brunch 3
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £5
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £99
Snack Chat
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
10:10
Selling Like Hot Takes Paradise in Augustines, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9
10:20
Freshly Squeezed
Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Trans*Atlantic Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 11–25 Aug, FREE
Jake Donaldson Fights the Sea (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–10 Aug, FREE
10:40
Lee Kyle – ConQuest
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 15, FREE
10:50
Tales of Whatever
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
11:00
Rogue Two: Burns and Moore
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–16 Aug, FREE
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, £99
Jack and Barney Are in the Background Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE The Iceberg Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE
11:05
Rodgers with a D – The Tommy Rodgers Centenary Celebration theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £6
11:15
A Failuretale
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Comedy Auction
Frankenstein Pub, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £0–£7
Ella Al-Shamahi and Susie Steed: Gold Diggers
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–18 Aug, FREE
Mumblebrag
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Twat Out of Hell: Deluxe Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Attention, Seeker
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 19–25 Aug, FREE
Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk
Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£10
Meddlin’ Kids
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9
11:25
Reality Sucks!
Paradise in Augustines, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £5
11:30
The Edinburgh Revue
Stand-Up Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Clothesline
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret
Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10
Twin Peaks
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
Vampire Hospital Waiting
Room
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50
Unladylike
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 14–25 Aug, £5
Westdal and Hayward
Need Work
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10
BBC: Loose Ends
BBC, 16 Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Cruise Ship
Love Affair
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10.50
Daphna Baram: Cracking Up
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
11:35
3’s Comedy – Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Long Man Doing Short Jokes, Short Man Doing Long Jokes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5
Neon Hangover
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–11 Aug, £10
11:40
Harry Baker: I Am 10,000
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–24
Aug, £10–£11
Neighbourhood Watch
Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, £8
Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
11:45
Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £10
Tales from the Balkans
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–16
Aug, FREE
Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–25
Aug, FREE
Morgan Rees and Riordan
DJ: Coming to Terms
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
11:50
Stewart Lee: Wok In
Progress
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £15
Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7
11:55
David Callaghan: Dance
Like No One’s David Callaghan
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
12:00
This Is Your Trial (FF)
Frankenstein Pub, 12–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7
Stand-Up Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too)
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 17, 18, FREE
Gethin Alderman is: Sublime
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aah, It’s the One-Liner Show
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages)
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £5
Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10
The Golden Path
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Sarah Southern:
Tentatively Tory
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, £5
Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £6
Guerilla Aspies Year
Five – Not an Autism
Puppet Show
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10–16 Aug, FREE
The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh
Fringe
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, £11.50
Black Sheep
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Let’s Get Tough
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Shaken Not Stirred:
The Improvised James Bond Film
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Who’s the Daddy Pig?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Kaned Laughter Frankenstein Pub, 9–11 Aug, FREE
The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5–£7
Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6
Funny Feckers
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
Amy Annette: What Women Want Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £9
Michael Legge: The Idiot The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £12
Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5 12:05
James Harvey: The Bald-Faced Truth
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 11 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £8
The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
The Moon Under Water
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9 Aug, £5
Cave Women: Work in Progress
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 15–25 Aug, £5–£6
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £10
Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Joe Wells Doesn’t Want to Do Political Comedy
Anymore!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky
Pete’s, 9–24 Aug, FREE
12:10
Rachel Creeger – Hinayni!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9–£10
Don’t Bother Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 12, 24, £9–£10
Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
News@1066
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24
Aug, not 18, £6–£7
Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 12, £10–£11
12:15
Elliot Steel: Merked
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–25 Aug, not 19, FREE
Sir David and His Animals
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–18 Aug, not 12, 13, £5.50
❤ Tony Law: Identifies
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Camp Running-a-Mock
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–12 Aug, weekdays only, FREE
Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Babes / Pigs in the City
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE
Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me?
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Just These Please: Suitable
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Clash of the Tight Tens
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
12:20
Peeved with Peter E Davidson
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 18–25 Aug, FREE
David McIver: Teleport
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Impulse Control
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 22, 24, FREE
Stuart Laws Is All In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
12:25
Shang-A-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
Paul Foxcroft: Debut Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
12:30
Final Cut
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–26 Aug, not 14, FREE
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch!
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Grave St Claire: Hard Bop
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
A-Z Mental Health Atlas
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–14 Aug, weekdays only, FREE
Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£12
Deepu Dileepan: The Outsider
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–18 Aug, FREE
Krystal Evans: Fishnets
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £3
Well, That Was Weird...
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Bargain Hunt and Gather
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
Jumping Off the Bandwagon
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
12:35
Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
12:40
Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Big Wendy Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Boycotted: Comedy from Israel
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £7.50
The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
12:45
Richard Stott: Right Hand Man
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50
Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn’t, You Decide!)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7–£9
Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Look Up
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Accident Avoidance
Training for Cutlery Users
Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £8
12:50
Edy Hurst: Hurst
Schmurst
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Decree Absolute Vodka
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Free Money from the
Government: A Play About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8
DCGK’s Chicken Box
Pencil Case
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5
The Silliad: Improvised
Myths and Legends
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–11 Aug, £5
12:55
Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About
Death
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
13:00
Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests)
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Austentatious
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £15–£17
Comedy Gobbledygook
Showcase / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Angry Boater
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
So Close
Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, FREE
Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Community Circle Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £6
I Think I Might Be... New Romantic!
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–17 Aug, £5
A Little R and R
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–24 Aug, £9
MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 13–24 Aug, FREE
Sketch Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Ross Smith: Crying/ Shame
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Planet Bar, 9–11 Aug, FREE Jim and Dave Have Lost the Dressing Room
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–12 Aug, FREE
Generation Whyyy? Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8
13:05
The Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Andrew White: Retirement
Tour
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Daniel Audritt: Better Man
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£6
13:10
Peter Brush: Present. Tense.
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, not 13, £3
Rice and Chips
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 12–25 Aug, FREE
13:15
Girl Stuff
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 11–20 Aug, FREE
Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Australia: A Whinging
Pom’s Guide
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–24
Aug, not 11, 18, 21, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Anesti Danelis: Six Frets
Under
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Girl Code
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–25 Aug, FREE
Jokes with Mark Simmons
Podcast: Live
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Ashes: A Comedy Showdown
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 11
Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Blazers Presents Comedy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25
Aug, £9–£10
Old Jewish Jokes
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Angel Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Fat Roland: Seven Inch
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–13 Aug, FREE
Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne
Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please!
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE
13:20
MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5
The Dead Ducks: York
du Soleil
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Obsolete
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £7
Jamie Fraser and Maybe
Someone Else, I Don’t Know
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
13:25
Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The Dark Side of Research
Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10
Mix and Match Wine
Package
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE
13:30
Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Charmian Hughes: What-not
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ignacio Lopez:
EspañYOLO
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–11 Aug, £5
Impromptu Shakespeare
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50
Fred MacAulay in Conversation
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–16 Aug, £12–£13
Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £12.50
Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12
Broken Toys
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Will Penswick: Nørdic(k)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50
The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8
Jessica Fostekew: Hench
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 22, £12.50
Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–19 Aug, £15
Laughing For Palestine with Seann Walsh
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £15
Friend
Pleasance at EICC, 9–17 Aug, not 14, £12–£13
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £16
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Dan vs Food
Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £6
Not My Audience!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Raul Kohli: All My Heroes
Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
A Many Splendored Thing
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, FREE
Will Rowland: Cocoon
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–18 Aug, £7
Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10
How To Not Die
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6
Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP)
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 19–25 Aug, £6
The Bugle Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £16
13:35
I Can Cure... (With Subtext)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Shut It Down Carol
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–25 Aug, FREE
13:40
Shappi Khorsandi: Skittish Warrior... Confessions of a Club
Comic
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–10 Aug, £12
Arthur Smith: SYD Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £11.50–£13.50
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–13 Aug, £5–£7
In Conversation with Standard Issue
The Stand Comedy Club, 11–12 Aug, £10
Alcohol-Free Craic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 9–25 Aug, not 19, FREE
The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio
Show theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £10
Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)
The Stand Comedy Club, 13–25 Aug, £12
Character Building
Experience
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
13:45
That Black Mirror Episode
With the Two Lesbians
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Got a Text: A Musical Parody
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
Ahir Shah: Dots Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, £7–£8
Interviewing Electric Frog
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Board Game Smackdown
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Mista Lorraine
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, FREE
13:50
Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 10, £9–£10
13:55
Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Soup Group! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5
Stuart McPherson: Mr. November Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
14:00
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50
Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical Parenting Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, £5
Georgie Morrell: Eyecon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones –Lightfoot James
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 17, £5
Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant!
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 15–25 Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty
Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Am I Blue
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £5
Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress
Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £10
Ed MacArthur: Humoresque
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Good Morning Nation
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13.50
CSI: Crime Scene
Improvisation
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11
Steff Todd: Reality Check
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, £5
Axolotl: A Poetry Reading
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–26 Aug, £9
Gummy Bears
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Pindos
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
It Takes Three to Tango
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£10
Smashing
Planet Bar, 9–17 Aug, not 12, FREE
Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir HH
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9
14:05
Mickey Sharma – Pervert!
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Funny Women Awards
2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12
Everybody Be Cool, This Is a Comedy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9 Aug, FREE
14:10
Andy Field’s Funeral
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Internationally Unknown
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
14:15
Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Once an Emo, Always an Emo
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE
Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse
Exists!
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Vampire Hospital Waiting
Room
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, £9.50–£10.50
Apocalypse Cruise Ship
Love Affair
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 10–26 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, £9.50–£10.50
Classic Joke Club
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Two Mums – One Cup
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 17–22 Aug, FREE
14:20
Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Russell Howard: Work in Progress (Afternoon)
CANCELLED
Heroes @ The Hive, 10–13 Aug, £5
Mawaan Rizwan: Werk in Progress
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–12 Aug, £5
Evil Queen Rules!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Darius Davies: Persian of Interest
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
14:25
SHTF – Stuff Hits The Fan
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–18 Aug, FREE
Nina Gilligan – Broad
Shoulders
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything
Else Interactive Quiz
Show
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7
Robin Grainger: Dog Complex
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–13 Aug, FREE
14:30
Plans
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
101 Comedy Club – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The World’s Smallest
Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
It’s All Going To Be
OK – Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Agatha Is Missing!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Colin Chadwick: Quick
Thinker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky
Pete’s, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Cyclopath
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Worst Show on the Fringe – Free
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, FREE
BadFamiliar by Matt
Davis
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–25 Aug, £5
Insane In The Men Brain
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12 Aug, £7
My Uncomfortable
Wardrobe
Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10
14:35
Gráinne Maguire: Guys...
It’s Problematic
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
I Want an Irish Passport
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Improv On Demand
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog
Lothian Rd, 9–24 Aug, FREE
A Booklover’s Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 16, £5
14:40
Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, FREE
Rob Kemp – Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Audible Live Pleasance Courtyard, 13–24 Aug, FREE
Madame Señorita: Espousa
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Alternative Comedy Cabaret
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution
Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
CANCELLED - David
Ephgrave: Niche
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 19, £5
All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Markus Birdman – Last
White Christmas
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
14:45
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 14 Aug, FREE
Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Mistaken
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Socially Awkward
Penguin
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, not 19, FREE
Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Musicedy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, FREE
The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, £7
Cool Jokes/Hot Takes
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
❤ Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50
Still Got It!
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 12, FREE
Confessions of a Taxi
Driver
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
14:50
100% Cotton Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
❤ Rob Auton: The Time Show HHHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Lucy Frederick: Famtastic
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
1,000 One-Liners in Support of MS Society
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £5
Izzy Mant: Polite Club HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–25 Aug, FREE
14:55
Common People (Again) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9 Aug, FREE
15:00
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 10 Aug, £8
Oxford Revue – Free
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 14–19 Aug, FREE
Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £12.50
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Christopher Bliss: The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–24 Aug, £7
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Sets in the City – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 11–18 Aug, FREE
Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I’ve Got?
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–13 Aug, £6
Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £9–£10
Bloom
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, not 19, FREE
Barely There
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Emer Maguire: Hilarious
Humans Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5
Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, £5
Sense of Tumour
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–25 Aug, FREE
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
I’m Here, All Weak
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Darcie Silver – I Know You Are
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–16 Aug, FREE
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
AAA Batteries (Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
My Finest Hour
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through
Time!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50
Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12
Will Mars: Phoenix
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 10–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Immigrant Diaries –Sajeela Kershi and Guests
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–12 Aug, £12
The Hoovering Podcast Live with Jessica Fostekew Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug, £6
15:05
2001: A Sketch Odyssey
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50
Random Bag Check
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, FREE
15:10
Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
15:15
Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Soup Group! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £5
Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Jack Harris and Rajiv
Karia: The Squeeze
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, not 14, £8
Shit Socialist Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7
Nik Coppin: Shark
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19–25 Aug, FREE
Will Duggan: Class Two Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8–£10
Pat Cahill: Uncle Len
Needs a New Part for His Hoover Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking
Tour/Show
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–24 Aug, not 16, £5
15:20
Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior
Farewell Tour HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £12
Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Pottervision
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 17, £10
Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones
Will Be Free to Wreak
Havoc Upon the Earth
Once More
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 21, £5
Glitter Business
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5
Sarah Lee: Half a Man
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
An Evening with Savvy B
The Stand Comedy Club, 12 Aug, £9
Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag
Heroes @ The Hive, 21 Aug, £5
❤ Jonny Pelham: Off Limits HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£7.50
The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £5
15:30
Boogie Shoes Silent
Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50
Michael Fabbri: Rebooted
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Children of the Quorn™
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The World’s Smallest
Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
George Fouracres: Gentlemon HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 18, £8.50–£10.50
Paul Savage: Shame
Spiral
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Could It Be Magic?
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50
Best in Class
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, FREE
BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 20 Aug, FREE
Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £5
Ahab; or What If Moby
Dick Were Stand-Up
Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 13 Aug, £10
Sh*t Hipsters
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Fourth Cousin, Once Removed... Forcibly
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Motherhood: A Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Cowboys, Country Music and Queers Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
Immoral Maze Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 12–25 Aug, FREE
15:35
Northern Power Blouse –Touching Cloth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE
2 Truths, 1 Lie Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Vince Atta: Massive
Attack
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
15:40
Adele Cliff: Undershare
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Sundeep Bhardwaj:
Father Figure
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Omid Djalili: Work in Progress
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–10 Aug, £15
Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber Echo Bravo
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 20, £5
Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Limmy: Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–18 Aug, £16
15:45
Not Quite Mass
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, FREE
So What?
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Musical Comedy Guide
Showcase
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Too Ugly for Love Island
Paradise in Augustines, 9–25
Aug, not 11, 18, £5
Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50
Science Idiot
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Bart Freebairn: Maximum
Delicious Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £7
Nicky Wilkinson: Game On Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder
Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
Oxford Revue – Free
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–13
Aug, FREE
99 (First World) Problems
feat Andy Quirk and Anna J
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
15:50
Marjolein Robertson: Da
Shetland Spree
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £9
Hari Kanth: This Train
Terminates Here
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Chris Betts vs the Audience
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–25
Aug, not 13, £5
Dave’s Edinburgh
Comedy Awards Gala
Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14
Dog Tales
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 18–23 Aug, FREE
Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Emma Shaw: Help
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 9 Aug, FREE
15:55
Punkanary Comedy
Cinema
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 12 Aug, FREE
Myra DuBois: Dead Funny
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 22, 23, £10–£11
Aboriginal Comedy
Allstars
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, £11–£12
Luca Cupani: Lives I
Never Lived
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
16:00
Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–24 Aug, £10
Ruby Wax: How To Be Human Pleasance Courtyard, 18–24 Aug, £16–£18
All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Buffering
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–11 Aug, £7
Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert HHH
Underbelly, George Square, 9–25 Aug, £9–£10
Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon Planet Bar, 12–25 Aug, FREE
BBC: Fresh from the Fringe
BBC, 19 Aug, FREE
Stephen K Amos Talk Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £14
Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Greg Proops: The Smartest Man in the World
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, £12
Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win Assembly George Square Studios, 9–11 Aug, £15
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
(L)awfully Wedded
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 9–18 Aug, not 10, 13, £8
Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Working Class Zero
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50
Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead Sweet Grassmarket, 12–25 Aug, £8
It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £5
Lucie Pohl’s Immigrant Jam
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £10.50
The Latebloomers: Scotland!
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Sketch You Up!
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£8.50
Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50–£10.50
Crybabies: Danger Brigade
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Harriet Dyer and Scott
Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, £6
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?
Assembly George Square Studios, 12–25 Aug, £13–£15
Don’t Live Here Glenny
Moore HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9–£11
Paul Merton’s Impro Chums
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £14–£16.50
Maureen Younger: Out of Sync
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, £8
Alison Thea-Skot: TheaSkot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £6
Dr Lara Love: Love
Leans In
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
James Hancox: 1000
Great Lives
Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12.50
Samantha Pressdee: Covered PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, £10
BBC: Susan Calman’s Fringe Benefits BBC, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, FREE
Esther Manito: Crusade HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
16:05
Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–23 Aug, not 12, FREE
Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now)
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
16:10
Adrian Tauss and Sasha
Ellen: Get a Room
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Twonkey’s Ten Year
Twitch
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
16:15
Christopher KC: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Rice
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Cerys Nelmes’ 80s
Gameshow Mash-Up
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE
James McNicholas: The Boxer Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10
Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Adventures in Dementia – Steve Day
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–10 Aug, FREE
Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Ferris Bueller’s Way Of...
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room
Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, not 21, FREE
Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Gay Not Straight
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Lola and Jo: Escape Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
Baba Brinkman’s Rap
Guide to Culture
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 18, FREE
Talk a Big Game
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Left-Wing Conspiracy
Theorist With Dyspraxia 2
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 11–18 Aug, FREE
16:20
The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50
Auto-Correbt: Sight
Unseen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £9
Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
16:25
Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£10 11+ theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
16:30
Sid Singh: American Refugee
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Vauxhall Comedy
Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Gusset Grippers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £10–£11
Lucy Pearman: Baggage Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, £8
Giants Are Fjörd Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£11.50
Dan Clark: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug, £6
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Thomas Green: Tweak
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18–25 Aug, FREE
Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
❤ Olga Koch: If/Then
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £7
The Three Deaths of Ebony Black
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Lauren Pattison : Peachy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £8
Club Sets
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 19, FREE
Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–11 Aug, £9
The Great Outdoors Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–26 Aug, £5
AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Steve Rannazzisi –Please Forget
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, FREE
David Kay
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–12 Aug, £12
George Egg: Movable Feast
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £14–£15
Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £8–£10
Andy Zaltzman: Satirist
For Hire – Blindfold
Cliff-Edge Unicorn Brexit
Britain Bogus Prime Minister Democrageddon
American Elections
Cricket World Cup
General State of the World Specials
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12
16:35
I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Lew Fitz: Chucky Egg (Work in Progress)
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 18–25 Aug, £5
Rosco McClelland – Magic
Belly
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–17 Aug, FREE
16:40
West End Producer – Free
Willy Assembly Checkpoint, 12–26 Aug, £12–£14
Oleg Denisov: Russian
Troll
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, £5
Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help
Yourself Famous
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 10, £11–£12
Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8
Ryan Lane Will Be There
Now in a Minute
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Martin Pilgrim: I Write
Jokes Not Tragedies
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The Pushkinettes: We Must Live Heroes @ The Hive, 9 Aug, £7
Joz Norris Is Dead. Long
Live Mr Fruit Salad.
Heroes @ The Hive, 11–25 Aug, £5
Google Me
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £6.50
Miller and Salmon:
Genesis
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
16:45
A**Hole New World Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, not 16, £5
Aaaaaaaaand Now! Roger
Swift’s Machine Pun
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Haha Cool
Laughing Horse @ The Raging
Bull, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jenny Collier: The Jen
Commandments
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills
Time HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25
Aug, £9–£12
The Mars & Lee Show
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25
Aug, not 13, FREE
Hero Worship
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
❤ John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–24
Aug, £9
Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat
Lad-y
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, £6
Louise Young and Anja
Atkinson: Big Div Energy
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Lucy Beaumont: Space
Mam HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12
16:50
Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Mark Simmons –One-Linerererer
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Naz Osmanoglu –Scandinaveland
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 17, £5
Rory O Hanlon –Confidence
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24 Aug, FREE Generation Whyyy? Imagination Workshop, 16–22 Aug, £8
16:55
Jane Hill: All I Want Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE
Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Cordelia and Dimple: Buffet
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–13 Aug, FREE
17:00
Nobody Likes You When You’re 33 Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50
The Chronic Complainer
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13 Aug, £11.50
Ali Brice: Bin Wondering Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Foxdog Studios:
Tomorrow’s Office
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, £5
Bristol Revunions: Party
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Joe McArdle is: Theo
McCabe
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts
Musical Parody
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15
The World’s Smallest Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
Lucy Farrett: Lois
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Skydive to Stand-Up
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Age Fright: 35 and Counting
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, £11.50
Pussies
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, FREE
Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–13 Aug, FREE
Geeks, Stand Up!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, FREE
Garrett Millerick: Smile Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7
Lenny Sherman: Have Fun
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Al Murray: Landlord of Hope and Glory Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–11 Aug, £19.50
BBC: Sara Cox
BBC, 9 Aug, FREE
Irish Comedy Invasion
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Darcie Silver – I Know You Are
Planet Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE
Maisie Adam: Hang Fire HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Dan Cardwell: Recall
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Working-Class Progress with Backenders
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 9 Aug, FREE
17:05
Ben Van der Velde –Fablemaker
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Bumper Blyton
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, £10–£11
The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Jenny Bede: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Anna Nicholson: Get Happy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7
Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £10
Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
17:10
Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Punkanary Comedy
Cinema
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14 Aug, FREE
Shane Todd: Work in Progress
Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £8
Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Cally Beaton: Invisible Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
ET The Extra Testicle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £7
17:15
Which Princess Are You?
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson
Pleasance Courtyard, 12–25 Aug, £13–£15
Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Maria Shehata: Hero
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 19, FREE
Alison Spittle: Mother of God
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep Assembly George Square Studios, 9–24 Aug, £12–£14
Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s
Sake HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50
Absolute Zero: Jez Watts
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Jacob Hawley: Faliraki
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Ian Smith: Half-Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12.50
Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 9–11 Aug, £15
Simply Filthy Paradise in Augustines, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £5
Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 16, FREE
17:20
Jim Campbell: Beef
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £5–£6
The Pushkinettes: We
Must Live Heroes @ Boteco, 14 Aug, £7
Stepdads: Step Up Heroes @ Boteco, 10 Aug, £5
James Barr: Thirst Trap
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Beth Vyse as Olive Hands:
WIP The Hands Have It!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5
Francesco De Carlo: Winning Hearts and Minds
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Jimmy McGhie
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Goose: Ctrl+T
Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, £12–£14
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Privates: A Sperm Odyssey
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 14, £5
Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5–£7
Hyper-Nice theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Neil O’Rourke: Thump
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show
2019: Look Alive!
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £11–£13
17:25
How to Hide a Body in New York
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £8
Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Comedy Freak Show
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
17:30
Joel Dommett: Work in Progress
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 18–24 Aug, £8
Iain Stirling: Work in Progress
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–17 Aug, £8
Stand Up for Your Planet Assembly Hall, 19 Aug, £19
Men With Coconuts
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Mark and Haydn: Llaugh
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50
Juliette Burton: Defined
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Ashley Storrie: Hysterical
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention HHHH
Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Time Flies
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10–11 Aug, £9.50
The World’s Smallest
Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Planet Verth
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
I’m Coming
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8
Andrew O’Neill – We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10
Witch Hunt
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11
Made in Spain 2 Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
Laughing Horse Free
Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Explainers
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Linda: Easy Killing
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£13
John-Luke Roberts: After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash
drip BLUBBP BLUBBP
BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!!
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12
Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £10–£11
17:35
Funny Women on the Fringe
Assembly Roxy, 19–23 Aug, £11
Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50
17:40
Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames Pleasance Dome, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £12.50–£14
Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £8–£10
17:45
The Rat Pack Comedy –Anything Goes!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
I’m Afraid of Americans
C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£9.50
Alex Cofield: Supernova
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Sam See: Coming Out Loud
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£13
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£10
Sarah Keyworth: Pacific HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
The Great British Bake Offenders
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
17:50
Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
A Time Slot with Ger Staunton
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 18, FREE
Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete’s Foot) Live!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11.50
Dave Fensome: ADHDave
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Caitlin Cook: Death Wish
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
17:55
Luke McQueen: Bad Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Paul ‘Silky’ White: The Sound of the Baskervilles
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–11 Aug, £10
10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Jamie Dalgleish: Humans
Are Evil
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £9
Mike Newall: Re:Newall
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
18:00
Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £8–£10
Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock
Supper With Salt’n’Sauce
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Pick of the Fringe
The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 22 Aug, £190.50
James Bran: Hack
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
BBC Introducing Radio 4
Comedy Award Final BBC, 15 Aug, FREE
Monster Gay PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £10
Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 10, £12–£13
Fred MacAulay in Conversation
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–20 Aug, £12
Milton Jones: Milton Impossible Assembly Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £15
Evers, Booth and [Name]
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 9–14 Aug, FREE
Faking It Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6
Hayley Ellis: Nobody Puts Hayley in a Corner
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
Alexander Fox: Snare Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8.50–£10
Justin Heyes – White Muslim
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–11 Aug, FREE
Nick Offerman: All Rise Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24
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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
The Last Supper: 7 Deadly Sins
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 12–18 Aug, FREE
Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £17
Fern Brady: Power and Chaos
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£10
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do?
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £15
Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10
Football, Feminism and Everything in Between: Live with Alastair and Grace Campbell Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21 Aug, £15
Hesitation Remarks
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, not 17, £8
Catherine Bohart: Lemon Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11.50
Tom Parry: Parryoke! Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£12.50
Katie Pritchard: Storm Stud PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£17
Notflix: Originals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Phil Ellis: Au Revoir Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, £5
Terry Alderton: Bingo
Bango
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, £8
Will Adamsdale: Facetime
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12
Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £12
Love/Hate Actually
Imagination Workshop, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10
Larry Dean: Fandan Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £12
Harriet Braine: Les Admirables
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
The Next Next Big Thing
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
Michael Brunström: World of Sports
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 12–25
Aug, £5
James Meehan – Never
Better
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jack Carroll and Friends
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 19–25 Aug, £5
Viking Millennials
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
18:05
For He’s a Jolly
Goodfellow
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–24 Aug, FREE
The Great Health Con
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12
The Sacrifice
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 15–24 Aug, FREE
18:10
NewsRevue
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £15.50–£17.50
Comedy in the Dark
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Kelsey De Almeida: I’m
Very Different People (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Bad Clowns: Cult Classic
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Michelle McManus: Pop
Goes the Idol
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12
Stand Up for Shelter
Underbelly, George Square, 13 Aug, £13
18:15
Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25
Aug, £10
Trans Vision Scamp
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
White Collar Comedy
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–10 Aug, FREE
The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50
George Rigden: Spooning with Uri
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5–£6
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ed Gamble: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12–16
Aug, £5
Dummy
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, FREE
Annie McGrath: Shepherd
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky
Pete’s, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Jake Baker: No Success
Like Failure
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados
Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Stephanie Laing: Quitter
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Scott Gibson: White Noise
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Mark Cram: Centaur
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
I Predict a Wyatt!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 9–24 Aug, not 22, FREE
Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 18–25 Aug, FREE
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
18:20
Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, £5
Phil Kay: A Happening Heroes @ The Hive, 10 Aug, £10
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, £10–£12
Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–24 Aug, not 11, £10
Kate Lucas: Is Selling
Herself
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore
Edinburgh, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 20, £8
Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Fanny’s The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9
18:25
The Best of Irish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £13
Gabby Best: 10,432
Sheep
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50
Never Again
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made Along the Way Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
18:30
Rhys James: Snitch
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £10–£13
Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50–£15
Improvengers: Pretendgame
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £8
Daliso Chaponda: Blah
Blah Blacklist
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £12–£14
Dead Ringers Live Pleasance at EICC, 9–13 Aug, £17
Richard Fry: O Starry Night
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
Fred Cooke: Fred Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£9.50
Aussiental
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £14–£15
Eric Lampaert: Yum Yum Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jay Lafferty: Jammy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11
Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 16, 17, FREE
Imaan Hadchiti: Being Frank Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
Gary Little – Kidding
Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £5
Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15
Comic Relief Live Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug, £16.50
Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £11.50–£14
30 Minute Musicals
Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £11–£12
Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked
Before Bedlam Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10
Kieran Hodgson: Maestro
Pleasance Courtyard, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15
Marcus Brigstocke: Devil
May Care
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–10 Aug, £15
Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Bad Aunts
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
It’s Aboot Adam Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–11 Aug, £5
Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, £14–£16
Mocking a Murderer
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Kieran Hodgson: Lance Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £14–£15
Russell Howard: Work in Progress
Assembly George Square Studios, 10–13 Aug, £7.50
18:35
Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 9–24
Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Sam Haygarth: Climate
Crisis
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Tom Lenk Is Trash Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £11–£12.50
Shane Todd: Work in Progress
Assembly Roxy, 12 Aug, £8
Stevie Martin: Hot Content
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
18:40
Siblings: The Siblinginging
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26
Aug, not 14, £9–£10
Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 9–24 Aug, £8–£11.50
Lucy Porter: Be Prepared Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £12–£16
Bananas
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Harry and Chris: This
One’s for the Aliens
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–24 Aug, £10–£12
Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales
Seminar
Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, £7
Alex Kealy: Rationale
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Shattered Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £8.50
Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £12
Laurence Tuck: Expert in Failure
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9 Aug, FREE
Alison Thea-Skot: TheaSkot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6
Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****! Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15
English Speaking Comedy
Borsch
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Liam Withnail: Homecoming Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
18:45
The Joy of Jokes
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE
Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman Assembly George Square Studios, 12–25 Aug, £12–£16
Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, £12–£13
MARVELus: Awww Snap!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50
Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10
Catching Up
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £6
Lisa Richards presents
Irish Comedians
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
Aunty HH
Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
EdinBra Fringe Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
Improvised Director’s Cut PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death)
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 15, £7
The Good, the Bad and the Irish Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
The Ticked Boxes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Eh?
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Lateef Lovejoy – Life, Times and Society’s Crimes
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–16 Aug, FREE
18:50
Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Fraser Gibson: Self-ish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–25 Aug, £7
Chris Parker: Camp Binch Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£11
60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir
McTavish
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Jackman and Bones
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
19:00
Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £5
Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £13–£15
Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 10 Aug, 21 Aug, £8
Tim FitzHigham and Thom Tuck in Macbeth
Heroes @ Black Medicine, 9–11 Aug, £5
Kai Samra: Underclass
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Vikki Stone: Song Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour
BBC, 21 Aug, FREE
Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14–£16
Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
❤ Sophie Duker: Venus HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£9
Spamalot Paradise in Augustines, 14–17 Aug, £13.50
Raymond Mearns –Confessions of a Control
Freak!
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, not 12, FREE
Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£12
Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Rosie Jones: Backward HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£13
Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy Punchlines
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley
Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
BBC: Jazz Nights
BBC, 11 Aug, FREE
Adam Flood and Blake
AJ: Joke Boys
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14–25 Aug, £5
Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate
Bastards Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12 Aug, £20
Filippo Spreafico:
Sentimental Value
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Ivo Graham: The Game of Life
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £8.50–£12
Henning Wehn: Get on With It
The Queen’s Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £16.50
Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Rotten Randolph Cliff, 14 Aug, 28 Aug, FREE
Accessibility Gala
Pleasance Dome, 12 Aug, £9
The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 9–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12
Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder HH
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Live at the Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £17.50–£18.50
Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11
Sarah Kendall: Paper
Planes HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, £12–£14
19:05
Shakespeare! The Panto theSpace on the Mile, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50
James Nokise: God Damn
Fancy Man
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Straight Outta Estonia
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Three Menopausal Maids
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Business Casual
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
19:10
Where Are You Really
From?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
About Time / Bully
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Matt Hoss: Here Comes
Your Man
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Sasha Ellen: Pickle
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–15 Aug, £15
Paul Foot: Baby Strikes
Back!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12.50
Brain Rinse
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, £9–£10
19:15
Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The LOL Word
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7
Martin Bearne and Joe McTernan: Milk and Two Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, £5
Martin Mor – Instigator
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Rob Copland: Strange
Jam
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Ew Girl, You Nasty
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Family Secrets
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog
Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE
Adam Hess: My Grandad
Has a Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£11.50
Pierre Novellie: You’re
Expected to Care
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25
Aug, £9–£12
BBC: Front Row
BBC, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE
Stephen Carlin:
Pickwickian
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 12, £11–£12
AAA Stand-Up
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £9–£12
Expelled from Eton
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–17 Aug, FREE
Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 18–25 Aug, FREE
Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10
Christianity and Me
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £5
Arson in the Queen’s
Swans
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Sad Acts
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, FREE
19:20
Craig Hill: Bottoms Up!
Pleasance at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12.50–£18.50
Drunk Women Solving
Crime
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–11 Aug, £11
Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity
Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5
Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Bring Back the 80s
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Jake Farrell: Limits
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Asexual Healing:
Prophets of Time
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 18–25 Aug, FREE
Johannes Dullin Plays
the Devil
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Drag Queen Stole My
Dress
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
The 2 Mouthed Men Show
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £8
19:25
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
19:30
David O’Doherty: Ultrasound
Assembly George Square, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £15–£16
101 Comedy Club – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Alex Black’s Record Collection
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE
Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy
Bottom Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £8–£10
Vir Das: Loved
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–10 Aug, £15
Steve Bennett –Everything is F*cked
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Amy Howerska: Serious
Face
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ari Eldjárn: Eagle
Fire Iron Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £8
The Secret Policeman’s Tour Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25
Daniel Sloss: X Edinburgh Playhouse , 15–17 Aug, £20.50
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £15
Jokers in the Pack
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, FREE
I, Tom Mayhew
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 11–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £7
So You Think You’re
Funny? Grand Final
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50
Steve Bugeja: Single Mum
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6–£8
Neil Delamere: End of Watch
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £11.50–£12.50
Best Boy in Ireland
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
On It Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–26 Aug, not 12, FREE
Adam Rowe: Pinnacle
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
The Community Centre!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8
Jack Rooke: Love Letters Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £12–£14
Eric Andre: The Legalize
Everything Tour
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20
Big Value Comedy
Show – Early
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5–£10
Tommy Tiernan: Paddy
Crazy Horse
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–24 Aug, not 22, £17.50
Hal Cruttenden: Chubster
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–14 Aug, £13–£15
John Robins: Hot Shame Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £14–£15
An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–24 Aug, FREE
Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25
19:35
Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Harry Stachini – Tigers
Don’t Cry
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
19:40
Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Arnab Chanda: Boy From Earth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Andrew Maxwell: All Talk Underbelly, George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15
Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Paul McCaffrey: Lemon
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 23, £10–£11
Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £7
Desiree Burch: Desiree’s Coming Early!
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10
A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
This is Mark Ritchie: Honest to God Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £5
19:45
Acting Natural
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50
Jen Brister – Under Privilege
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£8
Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Andrew Roper – Break
Point
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Jocks, Geordies and Aussies
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, FREE
Sean Patton: Contradickhead HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £11–£13
Brown Panther – Ruven Govender
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be
Less Racist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Goddess Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50
Liam Malone: No Limbits
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth
Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
John Pendal: Monster
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 16, 23, £10–£11
19:50
Scummy Mummies Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £12–£14
Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall
Murders
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26
Aug, £11–£14
Still Life by Noël Coward theSpace on the Mile, 19–24
Aug, £8
Catching Rainbows
Paradise in The Vault, 9 Aug, £7
19:55
Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just
Me? (Work in Progress)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 17, FREE
Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26
Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50
Dave Green: Guest Bed
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
20:00
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, Various dates from 9 Aug to 31 Aug, £15
❤ Susie McCabe: Domestic Disaster
HHHH
Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £9–£11
Ben Pope: Dancing Bear
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£10
Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
Craig Ferguson: Hobo Fabulous
Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Playhouse, 11 Aug, £24.25
Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14.50
Aaron McCann: Happy Enough?
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, £6
The St Andrews Revue
Presents: Hot Yoghurt
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9
Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14–£15
#Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’
Criminals
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £12–£15.50
Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Boteco, 13 Aug, £5
Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels
Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18–19 Aug, £17
The Dots Imagination Workshop, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £8.50
Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Lolbot Wars
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£13
An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 11–18 Aug, FREE
Manhunt 2: Big Mood Bedlam Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £10
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, £8
Australian Beauty
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 12, FREE
Brown Guys, Grey Skies
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9 Aug, £11.50
Passport and Prozac
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now
l’m Here
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £13–£14
Godley on the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13
Diane Chorley: Modern Love
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14
Insane In The Men Brain
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £7
Garry Starr Conquers Troy Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50
Eurosceptic Song Contest
Lebowskis Bar, 22–26 Aug, FREE
Javier Jarquin is Boring AF
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, £15–£16
Thunderc*nt Heroes @ Boteco, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
BBC: The Now Show BBC, 22 Aug, FREE
The Salon Sweet Grassmarket, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9
Traitor
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Italian Stallion: Fake Hero Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 9–11 Aug, FREE
The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £12.50
20:05
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £8
Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: WIP The Hands Have It! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £5
Naomi Karavani: Dominant
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, £7
Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
20:10
Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £11–£12
Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, £9–£12
Pants on Fire! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £10
Tom Cashman – XYZ
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11.50
Keith Carter: Dog Man
Stars
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
20:15
Huge Davies: The Carpark Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10
Brodi Snook: Handful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Chris Washington: Raconteur Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9–£12
Andy Barr: The Ruby Heroes @ Black Medicine, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
❤ London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
Eddy Brimson: Life Coaching for Arseholes
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity
Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14 Aug, £5
Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10.50
Tami Stone – My Funny
Bits
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £7
Tami Stone – My Funny Bits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7
Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Half the Man – Michael
Livesley
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Pursuit of Happiness
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Marc Jennings: Getting Going
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10
Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £13–£14
Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
20:20
Bald Man Sings Rihanna
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Bitch and Nerd
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Josie Long: Tender HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
The Best of Scottish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Max & Ivan: Commitment Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13
Matt Parker: Humble Pi Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
An Evening with Savvy B
The Stand Comedy Club, 19 Aug, £9
The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£16.50
Viggo the Viking Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
20:25
Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, £10–£12
20:30
Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John
Pleasance at EICC, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £22.50
Sunil Patel: White Knight Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Sara Barron: Enemies Closer Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Connie Wookey: Denied Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Lewis Costello x Hayden
Dean Allmark Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Megazoid
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £5
Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11
Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £14
In Poor Taste (in association with the Oxford Revue)
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 10–11 Aug, FREE
Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10
Tony Cantwell: Live Feed Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
Concerning Bennet PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
The Human Show / Free Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 9 Aug, FREE
Seann Walsh: After This
One I’m Going Home
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £13–£14
Joke Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
The Haunted History Bus
Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 9–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12
Sleeping Trees: Silly
Funny Boys
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14
Sharma Sharma
Sharma Sharma Sharma
Comedian!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Canadian Club
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6
Tiziano La Bella: Yes
We Can’t
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 12–25 Aug, FREE
20:35
Candy Gigi Presents –Friday Night Sinner! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £7
Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12
Ian Lane – Paperweight
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Pope’s Addiction Clinic
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, £5
Simon Caine: Every Room
Becomes a Panic Room
When You Overthink
Enough
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
20:40
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Cool Story Bro
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Ed and Joz’s Deleted Scenes
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 11–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£9
Rhys Nicholson – Nice
People Nice Things Nice
Situations
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Andrew Sim: Am I Queer
Enough?
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The Establishment: Le
Bureau de Strange
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Double Denim: Adventure
Show
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Jimeoin: Ramble On!
Pleasance at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12.50–£18.50
Dinner for One oder Der
90. Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5
Sam Lake and Chloe
Petts: Household
Essentials
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 15, £7
20:45
Headless
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, £5
Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices
Frankenstein Pub, 9–25 Aug, £10
Dino Wiand – Half Trans
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Actually, Totes Amaze
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 9–24 Aug, not 19, FREE
Improv Cage Match
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 9–24 Aug, not 11, £10
Jasper Cromwell Jones’
Alternative Book Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Cook and Rose
Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Gary Lamont: Fancy a Stiff One?
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£12.50
Pete Heat: Massive
Wizard
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, £11.50–£12.50
All-Star Comedy Cabaret
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 9–24 Aug, not 14, FREE
Alice Fraser: Mythos
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9–25 Aug, FREE
20:50
Tony Cowards: Stepdad
Jokes
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9
Naomi McDonald: Copycat
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
Phil Jerrod: Unrelatable Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
20:55
Tony Basnett: 28
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Jack Barry: Alien
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
21:00
Emancipation
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–25 Aug, £10
Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Assembly George Square, 19–25 Aug, £16–£18
The Fannytasticals Sweet Grassmarket, 9–11 Aug, £10
Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
There Will Be Cake
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–22 Aug, £14
Paul Currie: Trufficle
Musk
Heroes @ The Hive, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5
BBC: Fresh from the Fringe
BBC, 19 Aug, FREE
Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 17, 19, FREE
Zoe Lyons: Entry Level
Human
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–21 Aug, £12.50–£14
Ronni Ancona and Lewis MacLeod: Just Checking In Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–17 Aug, £14.50–£15.50
Justin Matson: Try Harder Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 9–25 Aug, £16–£18.50
Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 22, £11.50–£12.50
Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14
Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £16–£17
Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9
Christopher
Macarthur-Boyd:
Dreamboat
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Phil Nichol: Too Much
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £15
Good Evening Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Blindingly Obvious
C venues – C cubed, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, £5–£10
Omid Singh: Beginning
To End
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, £6.50
❤ Tom Ballard: Enough
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £7–£10
A Long Time Coming
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £10
Sex Shells
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
The Glang Show
Heroes @ The Hive, 14 Aug, £5
Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £10–£11
Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12
Aug, £10
Foil Arms and Hog –Swines
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, £14.50–£17.50
Frank Skinner Live
Assembly George Square, 9–18
Aug, £16.50–£17.50
Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25
Aug, FREE
Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
(No) Money in the Bank
Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 12 Aug to 18 Aug, £7
Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £17–£18.50
Matt Richardson: Imposter
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25
Aug, £20
The Bugle Live
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £16
21:05
Goodbye Mr President
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Legs
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5–£8
Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 15, 19, £10–£11
Ania Magliano and Matt
Hutchinson: Mixtape
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Spring Day: When Push
Comes to Shove – Free
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
21:10
Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50
Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–20 Aug, £10
Standard Issue Stands Up
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 12–13 Aug, £10
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12
❤ Laura Davis: Better Dead Than a Coward
HHHH
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–25 Aug, £5
All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50
BattleActs!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Tiff Stevenson: Mother Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, £10
Angus Brown: Everest Imagination Workshop, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
The Adventures of the Bearded Lady Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £6
Wait... Let’s Have Fun!
Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7
Leo Kearse: Transgressive Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, £12–£13
Even More Twisted
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–18 Aug, FREE
Nick Doody: I Will Milk You PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
Needle Dicks
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE
John Robertson: The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
SalFunni Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–13 Aug, FREE
Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Micky Bartlett: Love It!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
21:20
Jack Tucker: Comedy
Stand-Up Hour
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Len Blanco: Firing Blancs
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 13, £5
Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour
Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12
Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14
Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof
Underbelly, George Square, 9–25 Aug, £9–£10
Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice
HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13
Improvabunga!
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7
Police Cops – Badass Be
Thy Name Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£13
Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 20, £11–£12
The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12
21:25
Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 11–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
21:30
Spontaneous Potter
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12–£14
Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50
Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Johnny White
Really-Really: Unending Torment!
Heroes @ Black Medicine, 9–25 Aug, £5
Better Than Dying Alone
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–24 Aug, not 14, £7
The Comedy Reserve
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50–£10
Galway Comedy Carnival
Showcase
Underbelly, George Square, 12 Aug, £12
Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
A Mad Ron Rhodes Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £14–£16
Austentatious presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care
Underbelly, George Square, 19 Aug, £12.50
Rose Matafeo: Horndog
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15
Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella
Underbelly, George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 19, £14.50–£15.50
The Death Hilarious: Razer
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Moon: We Cannot Get Out
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50
Nina Conti: Work in Progress
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £12
Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 11–25 Aug, FREE
Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s
Old Face
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Tom Walker: Very Very Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £12–£15
99 Club Stand-Up
Selection – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Vote Dr Phil?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 15, 20, £12
Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £10
Brown Guys, Grey Skies
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–21 Aug, £11.50
Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £12
Scottish Falsetto Sock
Puppet Theatre: Roll Up!
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again?
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 20, 21, £5
Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £10–£11
Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, £5
Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10 Aug, £11.50
21:35
Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Improvisers Assemble! theSpace on North Bridge, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £5.50
21:40
Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £11–£12
Goodbear: Dougal Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£13
The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £15.50–£17.50
Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–26 Aug, not 13, FREE
21:45
Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10
Stephen Carlin: Post Rational Carlin
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Anything F*cking Goes...
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Big Value Comedy Show – Late
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 21, £5–£10
Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9–£12
Carte Blanche with Uncle Charlotte and Aunt Scott
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 9–18 Aug, FREE
Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£9
Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£12
Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, FREE
Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink!
Assembly Roxy, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £12–£14
21:50
The Stevenson
Experience: Takes One to Know One
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, £10–£12
Dan AG: Sloth Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £9–£10
Totally Plucked Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10
Karam Deo: Table for One Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–15 Aug, £9–£10
21:55
Radical Honesty
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Weegie Hink Ae That?
Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £10
Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Frank Foucault: Desk
Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £8
Poseidon’s Playhouse
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £7 22:00
The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 9–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12
Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A
Comedy Show
Heroes @ The Hive, 11–25 Aug, not 16, 17, 23, 24, £5
Grant Busé: Touché Busé
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
Bumble Me Tinders –Dating Horror Stories
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Tone Death
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–14
Aug, FREE
Madame Komondor Will
See You Now
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, £7
Amused Moose Comedy
Award: Grand Final
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14
Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Jimeoin: Ramble On...
Some More!
Pleasance at EICC, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50
Comedy Striptease
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Amused Moose Comedy’s
National New Comic
Award: Final
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 19–20 Aug, £14
This Is Your Trial
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, £7
I’m OKayfabe
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Holly Morgan: Is a Witch. Get Her!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50
Jayne Edwards Is Top Bodybuilder Brian Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £5
I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy
Comedy Show
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £5
Funny for a Girl
The Stand Comedy Club, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12
Shit-Faced Showtime:
Alice Through the Cocktail Glass Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50
Comedy Shorts
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Nasty Show Australia
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Zeroko’s Teatime
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8
Marcel Lucont: No. Dix
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£14
Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–25 Aug, FREE
Cülture Elité
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 9–25
Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Hard Truths – An Improvised Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
The Shambles theSpace on the Mile, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6.50
22:10
Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7
Joe Sutherland: Sour PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Best of Musical Comedy
Awards
Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25 Aug, £11
Free Footlights
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
22:15
Russian Roulette
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, £12
MOTHER
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£11.50
Spa Day
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to...
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–26 Aug, not 22, £10.50–£11.50
Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–23 Aug, not 12, FREE
Weegie Hink Ae That?
Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £10
Scot Roast
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, £5
AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
So You Think You’re Funny? Semi-Finals
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11–14 Aug, £10
Roast Battle Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Best of So You Think You’re Funny?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–10 Aug, £10
David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £9–£10
Funny Stories About Pain theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
The Antique Jokes Show
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth
Market, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50
Chubby White’s Variety
Night
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
Dreamgun: Film Reads
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Andrew Silverwood: Call
Me Janice
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
22:20
Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Danny O’Brien: Reformer
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Mr Thing
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Bob Slayer: Wrote the Copy for This Show in March When He Didn’t Have the Foggiest Notion of What Might Happen on Any Given Day in August, He Still Doesn’t Really, but At Least He’s Found
This Snappy Title Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £6
Stay Loyal to the Royals
theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24
Aug, £10
22:25
The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Criminal Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–10 Aug, £11
Omar Ibrahim: Awokening
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
A Gay and a NonGay
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11
22:30
Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 11–22 Aug, not 16, 17, £10
Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, £15–£16
Circus Sonas Presents:
DTCB The Prison Years
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Daz Black Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15
JJ Whitehead: Five Times
I Lied to Myself
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12
Bobby Mair: Cockroach Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar (Preview)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–14
Aug, £25
Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap
Art Flop
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 14 Aug, £5
Princess Party
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50
Laser Kiwi Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13–£15
The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, £10–£11
Whose Mind is it Anyway?
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Hate ‘n’ Live
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £5
The Best of Red Raw
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £5
Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–22 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £17.50
Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Hunt & Murphy: Beg
Borrow and Bitch Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £6
Comedy Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–24 Aug, not 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £11–£12.50
Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
An Audience with Yasmine Day
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50–£9.50
Andrew Doyle: Exodus Pleasance Courtyard, 19–25 Aug, £10–£14
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, 9–25 Aug, £13
Never Heard of It
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 15, FREE
Imaginary Porno
Charades
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Bad Boys
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–15 Aug, £10
Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
❤ Alfie Brown: Imagination HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, £7–£10
22:35
Vegan Jesus – The Man, the Myth, the Legend
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–11 Aug, £8
Coconut
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12
Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Medium Rare Improv theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6
Liza Treyger: In the Weeds
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
22:40
After Hours Mirth
Meltdown
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Pamela’s Palace Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Found Footage Festival: Volume 9
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–24 Aug, £10–£11
Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Improv, She Wrote theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £8
Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15
The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £11–£12.50
Police Cops: Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £11–£13
Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
22:45
Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–26 Aug, £5
❤ Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, £12–£13
Snog Marry Avoid
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE
Hancock and Hooper’s Excellent Adventure
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 9–13 Aug, FREE
Tarot
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £8–£10
Zach Zimmerman: Clean
Comedy
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50
Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Serena Flynn: Baubo
Goddess of Filth
Heroes @ Black Medicine, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £5
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12
Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £13
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
22:50
Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Questing Time
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50
Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14
1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3
Americans Get Too Personal
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Kevin McGahern: Taking Off Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10
Sajeela Kershi: Fights
Like a Girl!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–12 Aug, £10
Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 14, FREE
Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The Big Show: Fringe
Showcase!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25
Aug, £9–£10
Niteskreen
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7
23:00
Misspelled Youth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, £12.50–£15
Diane Chorley: Down the Flick
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £15
Spontaneous Sherlock
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11
Luka Muller’s Gong Show
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Julia Rorke
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Crime of the Hour
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £11
Chloe Green and Ella
Woods: VENN
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 9–13 Aug, £6
Francis Boulle and Friends
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£12
Inside the Comedian
Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug, £9
Snort HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £9–£12
Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, not 19, 20, FREE
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50
Phil Wang: Philly Philly
Wang Wang
Pleasance Courtyard, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13
Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Berk’s Nest Mid-Fest Comedy Special Pleasance Courtyard, 13–14 Aug, £15
Tim Key Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £8.50–£11.50
Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, £7
The Duality of Man
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £8
Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5
Divet Show: The Greatest Divas Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£13 Anxiety Club
Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–20 Aug, £9–£10
Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
A Night of Wikipedilove
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
The Paddock Pleasance Dome, 9 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Rob Deering’s Beat This Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug, £11.50
Donald Alexander: The Great Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
WiFi Wars’ Video Game Takeover!
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14
Southampton Stand-Up Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, FREE
BBC: British-Born
Chinese
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, not 12, FREE
Mark Watson: The Infinite Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £16
Cosmic Comedy Berlin
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Escaping Trump’s America
Frankenstein Pub, 9–26 Aug, FREE
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 15–16 Aug, £15
An Objectively Funny Night
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 15–16 Aug, £10
23:20
❤ Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro HHHH
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £5
Nancy Clench: Agony
Aunt
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–17 Aug, £8
Blake Freeman and Dan Rath – Far From Home
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–10 Aug, £8
Fat Blast and Crackers: 101 Sketches in 50 minutes!
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–11 Aug, £8
Conversation Garden on Love Island (A Decide Your Own Misadventure)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 18–25 Aug, £5
Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
23:25
Jay Handley – White Jesus 2: Resurrection
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, FREE
3 Rule-Abiding Rebels Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE
Reeks of Desperation
Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5
23:30
Political Animal The Stand Comedy Club, 13–22 Aug, not 16, 17, £12
Cold Blooded Witch: The Sex Musical!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £6
Edinburgh Comedy
Allstars
Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £12.50–£15
Claptrap
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, FREE
Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!
Underbelly, George Square, 15–16 Aug, £15
Comedy Queers
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–24 Aug, FREE Stout, Pale and Bitter
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–25 Aug, £5
Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22 Aug, £15
Ross Drummond and Harry Monaghan: The Orb
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5
Late Night Comedy Death
Camp
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Assembly George Square Studios, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £12
Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Woman’s Cock (and Other #1 Hits)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
23:35
The Russian Comedy Experience
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £6
23:40
Sam Nicoresti: UFO
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – Late-Night
Edition The Stand Comedy Club, 11–12 Aug, £11
23:45
Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me?
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 11–22 Aug, not 16, 17, FREE
Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 9–25 Aug, FREE
FootDarks
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–18 Aug, £10–£11
The Stand Late Club
The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £15
Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog Just the Tonic at The Caves, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £5
23:55
Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £13–£15
Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £5
110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £5
Jonny’s Panel Show (Really Good)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Stamptown Comedy Night
Underbelly, Cowgate, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £10
The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £5
Spank!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50
Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £13
09:00
Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...] Traverse Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12
09:15
44 Days Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5
09:45
The Brave Anthology theSpace on North Bridge, 9 Aug, £8
09:50
Chatroom theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £7
Rattigan’s Nijinsky theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18–24 Aug, £5–£10
Hustlers theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £7.50
09:55
Headhog Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £7
Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
10:00
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22
Buzz Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22
West of Frances
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £9
Shakespeare on a Shoestring: The Comedy of Errors!
Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £8
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Lum: And Other Colourful Tales
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £10
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22
Love/Sick theSpace on the Mile, 9–17
Aug, £7
CACW – Cony’s Collection
The Old Dr Bells Baths, 14–16
Aug, FREE
Shakespeare for Breakfast
C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not
13, £7.50–£9.50
Umbrella Man
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £10–£12
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Dark Play or Stories for Boys
theSpace on the Mile, 19–21
Aug, £6
10:05
Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £8
Ladies Who Lunch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £9
Downton Shabby theSpace on the Mile, 12–17
Aug, £8
10:10
Skylight theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24
Aug, £8
The Importance of Being
Earnest theSpace @ Venue45, 19–22
Aug, £8
The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £9
Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £5
Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £5
Lord of the Flies theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £7
Where to Belong
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9
10:15
Qing Snake theSpace @ Venue45, 12–17
Aug, £12
Happy Hour
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12.50
Man Number Five Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8
Where Do Fairies Come
From?
Paradise in Augustines, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7
Hustlers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17
Aug, not 11, £5–£7.50
10:20
Play Before Birth
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8
The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7
10:25
Status
Assembly George Square, 17–24 Aug, £12–£13
10:30
Arthur HHH
Your Home, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £100
Invisible Us Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8
The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth
Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £3.50–£7
Heroin(e) for Breakfast
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
50 Words
Paradise in The Vault, 9–10 Aug, £6
Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location
Custom House, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 Apollo 11 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £7
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 19, £13.50–£14
Cherie – My Struggle Imagination Workshop, 10–25 Aug, not 19, £10
Borchert: A Life Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10
10:40
The Wasp Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £12
10:45
A Midsummer Night’s DROLL
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9
Words That I Never Tell C venues – C aquila, 11–13 Aug, £8.50
10:50
Frankenstein theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
00
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Post-Mortem Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12
Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, £9–£12
10:55
The Witch of Wall Street theSpaceTriplex, 9–17 Aug, £8
The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9
11:00
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
Shadow of the Rose
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50
Enough Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21
The Terrible Tail of Adelaide Worthing
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–11 Aug, £8
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Great Grimm Tales
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, £10–£11
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21
TalkFest – Anatomy of a Play: How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £5
West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9
Rhinoceros theSpace on the Mile, 9 Aug, £10
Guys, Dolls and Pies Assembly George Square Studios, 9–24 Aug, not 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £13–£15
The Place You Once
Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 Tales from the Garden Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£10.50
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, £21
Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 12–24 Aug, £12.50
21 Futures by Olly Hawes Pleasance Dome, 10–17 Aug, £7.50–£9
Mouthpiece
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
White Girls
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£9
Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend
Goed
Zoo Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14
The Believers Are but Brothers Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12
The Trial
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50
The Shark is Broken Assembly George Square Studios, 10–25 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £13–£15
11:05
Hamlet
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10
Aug, £6.50
Never None (but She)
theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £10
Mobile Phone Show
theSpace on the Mile, 9 Aug, £6
Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Something Else theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17
Aug, not 11, £10
Looking for Wolverhampton’s Latin
Quarter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17
Aug, not 11, £8
Fear Here and Terror
There theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £6
The Life of Reilly theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
The Cat’s the Thing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
11:10
Jammy Dodgers theSpace on the Mile, 12–17
Aug, £10
Cry of the Gull theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £9
Chatroom theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17
Aug, £10
She Shall Not Be Moved theSpace on the Mile, 19–24
Aug, £10
11:15
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
❤ Funny in Real Life
HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10
11:20
Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £10
On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 12 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £15
The Genius of Charles Dickens
Sweet Novotel, 9–11 Aug, £8
Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17
11:25
Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–26 Aug, not 18, £9–£11
Invisible Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
Ladybones
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11
The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–17 Aug, £9
A Shadow of Doubt Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £8
Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
We Apologise for the Inconvenience PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–16 Aug, £12
I Am Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Shadows
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10
Holy Sh*t theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
You’re Safe ‘Til 2024 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10
Fox
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
I’ll Tell You This for Nothing
Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£10
Hyde and Seek Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - CANCELLED theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £7
Hangnail Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £8
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10
The End Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11
Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late Sweet Grassmarket, 9–24 Aug, £7
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £7
Back of the Head with a Brick Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£12
Three, Two, One...
Sweet Novotel, 14–18 Aug, £7
Krapp’s Last Tape
The Royal Scots Club, 20–24
Aug, £10
Mustard
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £12
Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 14, 19, 21, £10
Jehovah’s First Witness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
How to Save a Rock
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 10–23 Aug, not 15, £8–£10
BBC and HighTide Radio
Plays Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £5
Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12–£13
11:35
Red Herring
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £10
Seasoned Professionals
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7
Love (Watching Madness)
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 18, £7.50–£10
The Village Fate
theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £7
11:40
One Starts in a Barber’s.
One Starts in a Bar. Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9
Gilgamesh & Me
Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £10
Trump Lear
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12
The Empathy Experiment
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
Shrew theSpaceTriplex, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£10
11:45
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Dangerously Dark and Somewhat Spectacular Paradise in The Vault, 9–10 Aug, £10
The Place You Once
Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10
Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10–16 Aug, £12
A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–26 Aug, £10–£11
11:50
Psycho Drama Queen ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £9–£11
Uninvited Guests theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
Nearly Human Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£12
Ivory Wings Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
The Merry Wives of Seoul
C venues – C south, 11–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Frog’s Legs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
11:55
Never None (but She)
theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £10
Being Norwegian by David Greig
Venue 13, 10–24 Aug, not 12, £10
The Mariner’s Song
Paradise in Augustines, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
12:00
Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£14
In Conversation with...
Barbara Dickson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50
Birth Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£14
In Conversation with...
Patrick Harvie
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50
In Conversation with...
Tom Devine
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12.50
The Female Role Model
Project
Bedlam Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £11
Stealth Aspies – Aspies
Anonymous
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 9 Aug, FREE Fires Our Shoes Have
Made
C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
In Conversation with...
Ian Rankin
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Morning Glory Planet Bar, 13–16 Aug, FREE
Taiwan Season: Fish Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
In Conversation with...
David Hayman
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £12.50
Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50
Lauren Booth:
Accidentally Muslim
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50
Qi
The Old Dr Bells Baths, 13–16 Aug, FREE
40 Minute Classics: The Seagull
Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £8
Ian McKellen On Stage Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10
That’s How I See It
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50
In Conversation with...
Elaine C Smith
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50
Dr Korczak’s Example
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12
Lobster Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
In Conversation with...
Humza Yousaf
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12.50
In Conversation with...
Shappi Khorsandi
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £12.50
Woyzeck
C venues – C cubed, 9–14 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
In Conversation with...
Michael Stewart
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £12.50
Haggis, Neeps and Burns
Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
In Conversation with...
Kezia Dugdale
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £12.50
Wingmen
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–21 Aug, £11.50
#HonestAmy
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
In Conversation with... Val
McDermid
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12.50
Illegal Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Written With Crayons
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50
Alice in Wonderland
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–11 Aug, £11.50
In Conversation with…
Len McCluskey
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £12.50
In Conversation with…
Archie Macpherson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12.50
Dangerous Adventures
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE
(Can This Be) Home Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–19 Aug, £12
12:05
Cyst-er Act
Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10
Mengele Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £10–£12
A Charlie Montague
Mystery: The Game’s a Foot, Try the Fish theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £9
Normaler Than Everyone
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11 box.
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£12
Sleeping Giant Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
baby-go-round theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £12
Tröll Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £12
Marrow theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12
Her theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10
COMPOST theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8
Judas Assembly George Square, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £10–£12
Best Girl
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7–£9
12:10
She theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £7
In PurSUEt theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £9
Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10
Boulder Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £9–£12
Medea Speaks theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
The Anxiety Experiment
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Avalanche theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9 dressed.
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15
M.E.H
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
Madame Ovary Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£12
12:15
Me and My Doll
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50
My Mother’s Shoes
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Evaluation
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: From the Wind
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–12 Aug, £5
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
The Fishermen Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £12–£14
Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10
Cotton Fingers Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14
Testament of Yootha
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50–£9.50
A Mother theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7
Mandy Picks a Husband theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8
Lucrece theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
Devil of Choice Assembly George Square Studios, 9–16 Aug, £12–£14
12:20
Fix Us
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
In PurSUEt
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £9
12:25
Parasites theSpace on the Mile, 9–23
Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50
Bull theSpace on the Mile, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
12:30
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
A Talking Therapist’s Blues
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
My Darling Clemmie Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
A Poet’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 15–19 Aug, FREE
Sea Sick CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
A Table Tennis Play Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 10, £11–£12
The Seven Second Theory theSpace on North Bridge, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £9
Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 12–17
Aug, £9
Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 9–10 Aug, £7
Peter Gynt HHH Festival Theatre, 10 Aug, £15
My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £10–£12
The Pat Hobby Stories
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
The Perfect Body PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50
Shaving the Dead Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£15
Dickens for Dinner
C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50–£9.50
12:35
Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s
Life
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9
Sad Eyes to Smile With Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
12:40
Cicada 3301
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Venue45, 12–17 Aug, £8–£10
40 Shades of Green Tour
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Wireless Operator
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11.50
Rats’ Tales
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £7
Gesso
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £8
Rust
Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Om Shaadi Om Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £10
12:45
Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 12–25 Aug, £6–£10
Cream Tea and Incest
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50
Wild Swimming HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12
SOLD
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
Bobby & Amy
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
McSorley’s Irish Bar, 9–23 Aug, weekdays only, £12.50
Algorithms
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11
Landscape (1989)
ZOO Playground, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
12:50
Forget Me Not
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
F. Off
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Plebs
Paradise in Augustines, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50
Body Box
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £8
Nazis Need Jews
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
The Claim
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15
Eventide
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Experimental Prototype
Community of Tomorrow
ZOO Playground, 9–17 Aug, £6
Careless Love Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10
12:55
Pearls theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8
The Man From Verona Paradise in The Vault, 9–21 Aug, not 11, 18, £5
LUVU2 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7
Black Dog theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie? ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12
13:00
Come Out from Among Them Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Ripped
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life
Drawing
The Safari Lounge, Various dates from 11 Aug to 20 Aug, £10
Dream of a King theSpaceTriplex, 9–18 Aug, not 11, £9
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Life Is No Laughing Matter
Summerhall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £10
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Red Dust Road
The Lyceum, 16 Aug, £20
Madame George by Keir McAllister
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 19, £11–£12
Hear Word! Naija Woman
Talk True
The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20
Friendsical: A Parody
Musical About Friends
Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £16–£17.50
Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£13
1:1
Sweet Novotel, 12–18 Aug, £7
Fishbowl Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £14–£17.50
Knock Knock Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £12–£14
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £11–£12
Alice in Wonderland
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–11 Aug, £11.50
The Rebirth of Meadow Rain
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£11
Almost, Maine
theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £24
Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man
Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £9
EAST theSpace on the Mile, 12–17
Aug, £10
CACW – Cony’s Collection
The Old Dr Bells Baths, 18 Aug, FREE
Narcolepsy Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Vigil Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
I Don’t Want to Talk About It
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50
❤ Crocodile Fever
HHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22
Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 10 Aug, £8
Muse 90401
Zoo Southside, 9–10 Aug, £14
Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate
Self
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
The Accident Did Not Take Place Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£13
Holy Land C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Rose McGowan: Planet 9 Assembly Hall, 15–18 Aug, £19–£21
13:05
Special Measures
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24
Aug, £10
Do You Ever Get Scared?
theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10
Chain of Trivia
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24
Aug, £10
One Good Beating theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
Hoichi the Earless C venues – C south, 9–10 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Voice of Authority
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–18
Aug, not 11, £10
Relational (or A Writer’s Misguided Guide to Loves Lost and Found)
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10
Aug, £7
13:10
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
After You
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Beach Body Ready
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8–£10
Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill
theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12
In Loyal Company
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
❤ Orlando HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
13:15
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, £21
Edinburgh TV Festival
Presents: Paul Feig
Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
❤ Until the Flood HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21
Fight Song
Venue 13, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Unicorns, Almost Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
Unicorns, Almost – An Audio Installation Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £5
Letter to Boddah C venues – C cubed, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12.50
Mouthpiece Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5
Paradise Lodge Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Before the End Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14
The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £8
Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10
Puppet King Richard II
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–14 Aug, £11.50
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: The Earth
Untold
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
13:20
Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?
Paradise in Augustines, 9–25
Aug, not 11, 18, £11
Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13
The Stander Gang
C venues – C aquila, 9–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Piano_Play
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
A Man’s a Man
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £14
Prefer Not To Say
Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £7.50
Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Quintessence Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
❤ Collapsible
HHHH Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12
13:25
Romeo & Juliet
Assembly George Square, 10–25 Aug, not 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £13–£15
Lucille and Cecilia
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 20, £10–£11
Pals
Assembly George Square, 9–24 Aug, not 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £13–£15
Too Pretty to Punch
Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9
The Hollywood Summer Christmas Show
Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £7
13:30
Of Mice and Men
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50–£12.50
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21
She Sells Sea Shells
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Creative People Need Data!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £9
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
Don’t You Smile at Me!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9
Don’t Believe Your Ears!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9
Fake News Kills World!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9
Walk the Oars
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10
Bear Pit
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–26 Aug, £11.50
GEORGE
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11
A Sign of Contradiction:
The Passion Story
St Patrick’s Church, 10–11 Aug, £8 MOOT MOOT
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£12
You’re Going To Get Mentally Ill – Now What?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £9
This Show Will Make You Sharper!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £9
Build a Football Club, IRL!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £9 No Copyright, No Problem?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £9
Jew...ish
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 20, £9.50–£10.50
Disgust for Dummies
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9
The Secret River
King’s Theatre, 10–11 Aug, £15
Void
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–13 Aug, £11.50
Brendan Galileo for Europe
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
For All I Care
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21
Can Google Really Translate?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £9
Long Live the Cat Ladies?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9
OK Computer or Paranoid Android?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £9
Reading Is Bad for You!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £9
Not Quite
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9
Obesity Bankrupted
Our NHS!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9
CACW – Cony’s Collection
Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE
Before the Wall
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13
Getting Better
The Royal Scots Club, 9–10 Aug, £10
Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21
Awhile with Seamus Heaney
The Royal Scots Club, 13–17 Aug, £10
Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25
Fawlty Towers Live
Themed Dinner Show
The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £62.50
Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8–£10
Daffodils
The Royal Scots Club, 20–24
Aug, £7
How to Save a Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25
Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Call the Tooth Fairy!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £9
Are Children Wild
Enough?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9
Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9
13:35
Smoke ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £10
Unveiled
Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5–£8
13:40
The Grand Scheme of Things
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
The Good Boyfriend theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
Death by Shakespeare
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9 Aug, £8
Mourning Overnight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10
13:45
Ice Ice Iceland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23
Aug, £5
Enough
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
Catching Comets Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11
Clowns, Lovers, Women in Pants and Shakespeare Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £9
The Presented Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Atlantis Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8
Hughie
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50
Medea Electronica
Pleasance Courtyard, 19–26 Aug, £12
Vanity Airlines theSpace @ Niddry St, 9 Aug, £5
A Very British Lesbian
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11
Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
13:50
IvankaPlay
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50
Watching Glory Die Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12–£14
The 27 Club theSpace on the Mile, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50
Present/Absent
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £10
Ben Hur Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
13:55
This Thing in Here
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8
Votes for Women! theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £10
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
I Run
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8–£10.50
The Rubbish Show theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £7.50
Sense and Sensibility theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8
Art Heist
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12
Chalk (A Silent Comedy) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £11
14:00
If This Is Normal
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 9–26 Aug, £52
The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15
Blood and Gold Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
MARA
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
Sexy Lamp
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Citizens of Nowhere?
Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16
Alaska Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Piano Man
theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £5
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17 Aug, £12
@SimCos3000
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7
Going Slightly Mad
Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £10
Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP)
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £17.50
B’Witches PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 15–25 Aug, FREE
Tales of the Condemned Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, £8
Blown Fuse
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £10
The Things I Never Told You Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, £9–£11
I, AmDram Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £7–£9
The Last Five Years
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
Just a Number
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9
Wet C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50
I’m Just Kidneying Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £7
Churn Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
She Can’t Half Talk
Bedlam Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £8
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8
The HandleBards: The Tempest Assembly George Square Gardens, 14–18 Aug, £15
Einstein Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £8–£10
Leave a Message
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Pronoun Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20
Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
14:05
Délicieux theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £5
The Gray Cat and the Flounder Assembly George Square Studios, 9–22 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14
The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7
Level Up
theSpace on the Mile, 10–24
Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
The Snoopy Question theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £7
Who Killed Bambi?
theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17
Aug, £8.50
14:10
Top Trumps theSpace on the Mile, 9 Aug, £6
Dream of a King
theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £9
Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8.50
Mallets
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17
Aug, £8–£9
Van Gogh Find Yourself
#vgfy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food
Kafe, 9–24 Aug, not 10, FREE
Knock Knock theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
10:31, MCR theSpace on the Mile, 12–17
Aug, £7
Romeo and Juliet: A
Capulet Soirée
Argyle Cellar Bar, 9–10 Aug, £8
Narukami Thunder God
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24
Aug, £12
Mallets
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24
Aug, £8–£9
My Mate Dave Died
C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50
Moon Walk
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8
14:15
Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Like Animals HHH
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
Broken Funnies
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, 20, £5
Taboo
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Jc Says Finally
1951–2019 Paradise in Augustines, 19 Aug, £4 35,000
C venues – C south, 18–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Steve Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10
The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11
On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22, £15–£17
Murder on the Dancefloor Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11
Manifesting Mrs Marx Paradise in Augustines, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £12
Daughterhood
Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 11 Aug to 25 Aug, £15–£17
14:20
Before 30
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Goodnight Mister Tom theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £7
Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 22 Aug, £11
The Mackerel Eaters
Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £5
Loving the Enemy
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12
Chaika: First Woman in Space
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Black Holes
Zoo Southside, 19–25 Aug, £14
Ane City
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12
Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19–23 Aug, £5
The Happiness Project Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £10
14:25
Goodbye Charles – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–25 Aug, FREE Animal Farm (Bond) Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £10
Butterbum, J theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £5
The Experiment theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10
We Want You to Watch theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
Monsoon Season
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
Fifty Shades of Shakespeare
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9 Aug, £8
Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, £10
14:30
Deer Woman
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
Victor
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–15 Aug, £10
Red Dust Road
The Lyceum, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £20
Second Honeymoon
Mayfield Salisbury Church, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12
Antigone
C venues – C cubed, 9–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
More Myself Than I Am
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £11.50
Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 12–17 Aug, £7
Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £9
Tumours Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
Tartuffe
Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17 Aug, £12
Talk C venues – C cubed, 11–17 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Like Me
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £8
Mémoires d’un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie)
St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Power of Music 2
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8
These Streets
Paradise in The Vault, 19–21
Aug, £10
Beat
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£13.50
Bulldogs Paradise in The Vault, 9 Aug, £9
Passengers
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 12–18 Aug, £9
Spliced HHH
Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £21
Suddenly Last Summer
St Ninian’s Hall, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12
Toby Belch (Is Unwell) Sweet Grassmarket, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £10
Mythos: Heroes Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25
Mama’s Eggnog PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50
Men Chase Women Choose Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £8
Surprise Package Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 10 Aug, £9
Limbo
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
Power of Music 1 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 19 Aug, £8
Power of Music 3 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8
What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Hall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £17.50
Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress) Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Drowning HH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
A Voice C venues – C cubed, 18–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
14:35
This Island’s Mine theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8
Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl Venue 13, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Real Eyes
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
Anti-Depressed?
theSpace on North Bridge, 14–17 Aug, £9
Spray Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, £12–£14
Two of a Kind C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
14:40
Bi-Cycle
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10
When the Birds Come Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Put Your Best Face On Zoo Southside, 9–11 Aug, £10
Macbeth
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
Fake News
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
Late Lunch with Biggins Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£15
Inka
Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £10
14:45
Thunderstruck Assembly Checkpoint, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14
A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
Shattered Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11
beep boop HHH Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11–£12
CapeAbility theSpace @ Niddry St, 10–11 Aug, £9
A Partnership Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50
Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Happily Never After Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50
Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15.50
Ex-Batts and Broilers
Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £10–£12
Ideology and Hair Gel
Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, £12
Salmon Assembly Rooms, 9–12 Aug, £10–£12
14:50
A Womb of One’s Own Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 22, £10–£12
The Tartan Pimpernel Hill Street Theatre, 9–11 Aug, £12
Do Our Best
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
14:55
The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £9
Alan Ayckbourn’s No
Knowing theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12
15:00
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
The Studio, 10–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, £20
Sales Pitch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
The Wrong Ffion Jones
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Anguis HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £12–£13
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Johnny Depp: A Retrospective on Late-Stage Capitalism
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–10 Aug, FREE
Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’
Caesar Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, 25, £13.50–£14.50
The Poetry of God and War
St Vincent’s, 16 Aug, FREE
TERRAtory Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7 300 to 1
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Raised Voices theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £5
TalkFest – Ways and Means: Theatre in 2019 and Beyond
Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £5
Jumping the Barriers
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE
Roots Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25
Jottings from the Queen of Sheba
St Patrick’s Church, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7
Wrestling Mania!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 10, 17, FREE
The De Nova Super Assembly George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
The Sinners Club theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £5
Myra
Imagination Workshop, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
Oedipus
King’s Theatre, 17 Aug, £15
a crown of laurels Paradise in Augustines, 9–10 Aug, £10
Zombie Zoo Hill Street Theatre, 10–25 Aug, £12
The National Trust
Fan Club
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£13
Buds of May Be
Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £15
The Penguin Tango theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £10
The Trial
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
A Holy Show Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12
Vessel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £15
I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Anything With a Pulse
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 17, £10
Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £8
Jekyll and Hyde
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£13
15:05
Me and My
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8.50
Yerloo Underground
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10
Conscious theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £7
Chain of Trivia
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £10
If It Didn’t Matter
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9 Aug, £8
Bacon
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £11
The South Afreakins
theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £9
Twelfth Night
theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24
Aug, £5
STYX
Zoo Southside, 9–17 Aug, £14
The Visitors
theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8.50
The South Afreakins: The Afreakin Family
theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £9
Come Dine with Mr
Shakespeare
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
15:10
Endless Second
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£10.50
All of Me
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15
The Dandelion Patch
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7
A Wake in Progress
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7
Roots
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8
15:15
A Grave Situation
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £7.50–£10
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
The Sensemaker
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12
Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 15, £9–£10
Freeing the Edinburgh
Fringe: Book Reading
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
David Benson – Cato
Street 1820
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £8–£10
Blodeuwedd Untold
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
Unicorns, Almost – An
Audio Installation
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–10 Aug, £5
FATTY FAT FAT
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£10
I Am
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5
Definitely Louise
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9
The Suitcase, the Beggar and the Wind
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE
Naughty Boy
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£9.50
The Burning
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13
Nights at the Circus
ZOO Playground, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10
15:20
Woman! Pilot! Pirate?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
The Professor Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £11–£13
In Conversation with...
Nicola Sturgeon
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £15
Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry
Tadlock
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 9–24 Aug, FREE
Hatch
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
The War of the Worlds Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15
Leopold Vindictive theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Beyond: Sugar Mice
Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £8 In Her Corner theSpace on the Mile, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50
Bike theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £5
15:25
The Wind in the Willows theSpace @ Venue45, 19–24 Aug, £8
Tea?...(With Milk)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–18 Aug, £9–£11
Forbruker HHH
ZOO Playground, 9–10 Aug, £10
15:30
The Glass Elephant
The Royal Scots Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £8.50
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
Scotlandsfest
Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5
Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–18 Aug, £12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
Pink House
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–26 Aug, £12
With Child Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
Three PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–11 Aug, £4.50
A Complicated Man Bedlam Theatre, 16–20 Aug, £10
SWIM
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Arrivals theSpace on the Mile, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £9.50
Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 21, £10
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, 9–26 Aug, not 10, £24
Portents
Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 15 Aug, £10
Cauliflower
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
All Work, No Play
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, £8
Barry Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10
Ugly Youth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £8
Worldwidewestern French Institute, 14 Aug, £10
15:35
Leverage
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10
Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan
Doyle theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–25 Aug, £14–£16
Toothbrush theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £5
15:40
Fulfilment Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
The Struggling Life of an Artist C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50–£10.50
Bomb Happy D-Day 75
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £11
Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £15
Speaking Out: A Conversation with John Bercow The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–14 Aug, £16
Regeneration Game
Workshop
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £5
15:45
❤ Nightclubbing
HHHH
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £12
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Shellshock!
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
Pink Lemonade Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, £10–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21
A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin
C venues – C cubed, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Medea
C venues – C cubed, 9–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21
How to Be Brave Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15
Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21
Since U Been Gone Assembly Roxy, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £10–£12
If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 12, £15–£16.50
15:50
Adolf
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11–12 Aug, £15
Modern Maori Quartet:
Two Worlds Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14
Bible John
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Under Milk Wood theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8
15:55
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
To Be or Not to Be?
Purgatory Is the Question Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £8
The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £11
16:00
Woke
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£14
Home
Just Festival at St John’s , 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10
Alfie and George -
CANCELLED
Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22
Resurrecting Bobby Awl
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15
Citizens of Nowhere?
Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16
Iain Dale: All Talk
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–11 Aug, £14
Black Is the Color of My Voice
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 12 Aug to 26 Aug, £13–£14
(Ab)solution
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
The Man Who Planted Trees
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 12–26 Aug, not 19, £13
James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2019: The Award
Ceremony
Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £7
Hear Word! Naija Woman
Talk True
The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20
Mrs Shaw Herself
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 9–11 Aug, £10
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22
This Time Will Be Different
Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £10
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Well That’s Oz Venue 13, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
DUPed Sweet Grassmarket, 9–10 Aug, £10
❤ The Red HHHH Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13
❤ Crocodile Fever
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22
Miijin Ki
Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10
This Script
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–11 Aug, £12
A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12
16:05
Trips and Falls theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £9
Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10
LipSync / Cumbernauld
Theatre
Summerhall, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17 Aug, £10
To Move In Time
Summerhall, 19–24 Aug, £10
The Feminazis theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8
Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10
The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 10 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£12
Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, £8
Scottee: Class Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12–£14
Moby Dick Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, £10–£12
Bottoms Up! theSpace on the Mile, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
Luminescence theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £5
16:10
Confirmation
Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£12
Brandy theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8
The Try-Hards Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £7
Unknown Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50
Predictably Irrational theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Mary’s Room theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, £8
Such Filthy F*cks Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£11
E8
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13
Julius Caesar Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10
Chagos 1971
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £10
Ticker HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
PAMALA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £7
16:15
The Djinns of Eidgah Sweet Grassmarket, 9–18 Aug, not 11, £10
Inflatable Space Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£14
Enough Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21
The Castle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
First Time Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15
Apollo: Take 111
Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £10
The Nights by Henry
Naylor HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£14
Westminster Hour Part 2 Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Mirror Canon theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £5
16:20
Passion Perspectives theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £9
Native Girl Syndrome Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–17 Aug, £11
Bleeding Black Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £11
Beyond Glory
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £10
16:25
Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12
Love and Sex and All
Things In-Between theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, £10
Unmeetables
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 11, £5–£10
Want Some More
theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £10
16:30
Honey HH
ZOO Playground, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
The Legacy of William Ireland
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50
Faultlines
Palmerston Place Church, 9–10 Aug, £9
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
subsist
Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Bedlam
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–18 Aug, not 11, £7
Everything I Do Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
The Incident Room
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £12.50–£14.50
Getting to Know Katie
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
Northanger Abbey French Institute, 12–24 Aug, not 14, 15, £12
Typical Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran HHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
Faultlines
Carrubbers, 12–17 Aug, £9
Boswell
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50
Ubu the King C venues – C south, 9–10 Aug, £12.50
Progress
ZOO Playground, 9–17 Aug, £10
The National and ELT Short Play Winners
Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
A Payment Unkind Sweet Grassmarket, 19–22 Aug, £10
8:8
Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Yellow
ZOO Playground, 18–26 Aug, £10
Gone Full Havisham
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–25 Aug, not 18, 19, £10–£12
16:35
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
16:40
Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6
Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the House in the Forest theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
The Last of the Pelican Daughters HH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 17, £11.50–£13.50
Fags, Mags and Bags
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15.50
16:45
Synesthesia the Musical Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 15–25 Aug, FREE
A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Arguing On-Air
C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£9.50
Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£9
Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
CONSPIRACY
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Fragility of Man Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
16:50
Shit
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Number, Please. Paradise in Augustines, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £7
Darren McGarvey AKA
Loki: Scotland Today The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £12
16:55
The Kiss
C venues – C aquila, 9–10 Aug, £9.50
Standard:Elite
Bedlam Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11
Dorian Gray theSpace on the Mile, 19–23 Aug, £5
Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £7
17:00
Sharon Stacy Statue
Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Polaris
Scottish Poetry Library, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £8
Morning Glory
Planet Bar, 12–16 Aug, FREE
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Tartuffe
Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15
Underwater
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–15 Aug, FREE
Freak Show
Paradise in Augustines, 9 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15
Fawk Paradise in Augustines, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 22 Aug, £15
Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors
C venues – C south, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
Attila the Stockbroker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Pathetic Fallacy
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
Confetti and Chaos
(Formerly The Wedding Reception)
Imagination Workshop, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, 22, £45–£47.50
CACW – Cony’s Collection
Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE
Candy Factory
Wee Red Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
Contact Light
Pianodrome at The Pitt, 19–24 Aug, £10
Giant Wolf Theatre –Playback
Leith Depot, 14–17 Aug, £5
That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 13 Aug to 20 Aug, £15
Drunk Lion
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 9–25 Aug, not 20, FREE
Sary
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
17:05
At This Stage
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8
Do You Ever Get Scared?
theSpaceTriplex, 9–10 Aug, £10
Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP
theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8
Seasoned Professionals
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £7
Parakeet
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15
Four Woke Baes
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11.50–£12.50
I Pilgrim theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £10
If I Die on Mars theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Volpone theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £8
17:10
Not Black and White
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£12
The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch
Ness Monster
theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24
Aug, not 18, £8
Gun Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
Suffering from Scottishness
Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12
Silence in Court Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
17:15
My Best Dead Friend Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7
Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5
Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College
Project Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5
Unicorns, Almost – An
Audio Installation
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–10 Aug, £5
Apologies to the Bengali
Lady Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Choose Your Own...
Improv!
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8
Keith Moon: The Real Me
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£12
Lest You Forget
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £8
Macbeth theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £12
Mr Nice Guy theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £6
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
8:8
Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £8
Attila the Stockbroker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 19–21 Aug, FREE
17:20
Shut Up, Helen! theSpace on North Bridge, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £9
Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10
Tally Ho, Secret Several! theSpace on North Bridge, 15–24 Aug, not 18, £9
Bull theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
Belongings
Venue 13, 9 Aug, £7
Adrift
Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £7
Conversations With Van Gogh Zoo Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£10
Electrolyte
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 10, £13–£14.50
Hallowed Ground –Women Doctors in War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
Sunset theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £9
I Can Make You Fail
Slightly Less
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £10
Wrath of Achilles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
17:25
Woyzeck Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
17:30
Arthur HHH
Your Home, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £100
Order from Chaos Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £10
Superstar Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
My Mum’s a Twat Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
I Am Mark Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–17 Aug, £10
A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
The Letter
Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£12
❤ Bryony Kimmings:
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch
HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £15–£17
Checkpoint
Paradise in The Vault, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
CACW – Cony’s Collection
Stockbridge Church, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE
High Trees Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £5–£7.50
The Golden Fly Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10
Franz and Marie: Woyzeck
Retold Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £10
17:35
The Long Road
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12
Hello? Hello. theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 9 Aug to 23 Aug, £8
There Is No Problem (Here)
theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree
C venues – C south, 11–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Isabelle
C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
17:40
Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!
Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10
Electric Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Pizza Shop Heroes Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £12
17:45
Daddy Drag Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Can You See Where I’m
Coming From?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Cruise to Hell theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £8
Mark Can’t Rap
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 9–18 Aug, FREE
My Name Is Irrelevant
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
Perfect Sweet Novotel, 18–24 Aug, £8
A Short Cut to Happiness
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £10
17:50
Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
Pan Breid
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £8
Souvenirs
Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £10
Degrees of Guilt
theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
Numbers
C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Hitman and Her
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50
18:00
Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£12
Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1 Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25
Aug, £10
Noise Boys Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£16
Iain Dale: All Talk Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–11 Aug, £14
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £19.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Edinburgh TV Festival
Presents: Russell T Davies
Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50
Out of Your Mind
Summerhall, 15 Aug, £6
Alice Hawkins –Suffragette Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 12–16 Aug, £8
Crowned with Glory and Honour
Carrubbers, 9–10 Aug, £5
Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13.50
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10
Questions for Quiz Shows
Summerhall, 17 Aug, £6
Uncensored
Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6
Everything I See I
Swallow Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Dada, Surrealism, Bowie and Pop: The Puzzle of Avant-Garde Art Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £15
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 13, £24
The Red Hourglass Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–14 Aug, £13
Pass Summerhall, 10 Aug, £6
Garlands Summerhall, 19 Aug, £6
The Grape That Rolled Under the Fridge Summerhall, 13 Aug, £6
Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–25 Aug, FREE
18:05
This Play Is Not About Me theSpace on the Mile, 23–24 Aug, £5
Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £9
The Good, The Bad and The Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–23 Aug, £11
Dear Mr Dead Head theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £10
Kurl Up and Dye theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
baby-go-round theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10–£12
Ghostly Tales theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug, £8
Auto-Nation
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Rock’n’Roll Girls
theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8
18:10
Liminality
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12
The Last Bread Pudding theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8
18:15
Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, £8.50
The 900 Club Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24
Aug, £5
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15
Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 11–17 Aug, FREE
Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)
Frankenstein Pub, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10
Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21
Word Jazzology
Scottish Poetry Library, 9–10 Aug, £10
Low Level Panic
The Royal Scots Club, 12–17 Aug, £10
18:20
Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 9–25 Aug, £12–£14
Being Frank
theSpace on North Bridge, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9
Subject Mater
Paradise in The Vault, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £14
Thief by Liam Rudden Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
30
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9
Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9
Between Us
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £9.50
Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 20, £10
Who Cares
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12
18:25
Civilisation
Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11
Love and Misinformation
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £12
If Mouth Could Speak
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £8
Moby Dick
C venues – C aquila, 9 Aug, £9.50
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£16
Gobby
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–15 Aug, £10–£11
FemFringe Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, £5
SAGA
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £7
Confessions of the Romantically Challenged Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7
18:30
Enough Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £21
Risk Assessment
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £8
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 12 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50
That’s What She Said Scottish Poetry Library, 15–17 Aug, £9
Last Life: A Shakespeare Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Quaker Meeting House, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £6
In the Shadow of the Black Dog HH Assembly Rooms, 9–23 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Nancy’s Philosopher
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 19–21 Aug, £10
A(Poke)alypse Now –Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m
Still Here
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 9–24 Aug, not 17, FREE
8:8
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
18:35
Intolerable Side Effects
Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
Pops
Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Hitler’s Tasters
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £11
Heir Heads theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9
18:40
Trust the Teenagers theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £6
Losing My Mindfulness
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Twice Over
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £12
Torch Town
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7
Bismillah! An ISIS
Tragicomedy
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Drawn and Quartered
C venues – C cubed, 9–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
18:45
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £5
Minor Disruptions
Paradise in Augustines, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 17, 18, £10
Miss AmeriKa
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21
Metamorphosis
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Swallows
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
18:50
The Graveyard Shift theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
Grit
Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £7
LARP
ZOO Playground, 9–10 Aug, £10
Unicorn Party ZOO Playground, 11–26 Aug, not 18, £10
18:55
❤ Tokyo Rose HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Being Norwegian by David Greig Venue 13, 9 Aug, £10
Marie Lloyd Stole My Life
theSpace on the Mile, 9 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9
Kemp’s Jig theSpace on the Mile, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9
Macbeth
C venues – C south, 9–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Who Is Daniel King Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
19:00
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22
Unnatural ELREC Room, 9–14 Aug, £5
Songs in the Key of Cree CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £11
Peter Gynt HHH Festival Theatre, 9 Aug, £15
St Mark Live! A Dramatic Presentation of the Gospel According to Mark St Vincent’s, 12 Aug, £10
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Dead Equal Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 17, 18, 19, £12
Courage Calls to Courage: The Suffragist Musical!
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9 Aug, £10
Buzzing
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–26 Aug, £10
Gregory’s Girl
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13
Green & Blue
Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10
Marx in Soho
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50
❤ Crocodile Fever
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22
Static
ZOO Playground, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£10
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Royal Scots Club, 9–10 Aug, £12
Fawlty Towers Live
Themed Dinner Show
The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £62.50
Stand-Up Poet
Imagination Workshop, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
Meatball Séance
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados
Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 13, FREE
Jock Tamson’s Bairns
Laughing Horse @ Ghillie Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Dancing in the Moonlight – A Play About Phil Lynott
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–14 Aug, £11
The Amazing Dyslexic Poetry Show
Lauriston Halls, 9–10 Aug, £5
Worldwidewestern
French Institute, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 15, 19, £10
19:05
McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
Bodily Functions and Where to Find Them
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
44 Inch Chest theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Jewbana
theSpace @ Venue45, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9.50
Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9
19:10
Sex Education
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Being and Nothingness
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
Just Like a Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
Drone HHH
Summerhall, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £14
The Silent House
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–11 Aug, £11.50 Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12
19:15
HoneyBee
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11
Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 19–21 Aug, £11
Neither Here Nor There Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, £10
Coming Home With Me
Sweet Novotel, 9–11 Aug, £8
Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10
Chameleon
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9
8:8
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8
Blockbusters
Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10
Down It Fresher!
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 9–11 Aug, FREE
19:20
Being Frank
theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9
Milkshake
theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8
Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9
Green & Blue
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £10
Le Monocle
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9 Aug, £8
Oh Yes Oh No HHH
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
19:25
Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £10
Pick Up theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50
Midges theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17
Aug, £7
Shadow
C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50
19:30
Faulty Towers the Dining
Experience
Imagination Workshop, 9–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 19, £52–£57.50
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
Mythos: Men
Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25
Aug, £25
Red Dust Road
The Lyceum, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £20
Roots
Church Hill Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £25
Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 9–16 Aug, weekdays only, £12
Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7
The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver
Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22
Aug, £6
Tartuffe
Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £12
Green Knight Scottish Poetry Library, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £10
The Afflicted HHH Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £14
Tales of the Condemned Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 12 Aug, £8
Stepping Out theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £15
The Secret River
King’s Theatre, 9–10 Aug, £15
3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae Sweet Grassmarket, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £10
The Wild Unfeeling World Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £9–£11
From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£11
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 13 Aug, £24
Suddenly Last Summer St Ninian’s Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £12
Pre-View Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £7
A Trilogy of Horrors: Volume I
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–11 Aug, £10
Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 19 Aug, £25
The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £12
1902
Wee Red Bar, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12
Surprise Package Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 9–10 Aug, £9
Perfect Wedding
The Royal Scots Club, 19–24 Aug, £12.50
The Long Pigs
Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14–£16
19:35
2 Clowns 1 Cup
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9
And Then They Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7
Stanley theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7
In Your Wet Dreams Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7
Bost Uni Plues Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9
Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 9–31 Aug, £16
19:40
Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Purple C venues – C aquila, 9–10 Aug, £10.50
19:45
❤ America Is Hard to See HHHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
Sugar Sweet Novotel, 14–24 Aug, not 21, £7
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £19.50
Forbidden Fruit
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
Miles Behind Sweet Novotel, 9–12 Aug, £7
SHINE HH
Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12
Fudge
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
19:50
The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8
Unspoken (One Day in the Life of a Park Bench)
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £6
Being Frank About Sinatra
Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £11
Conversations With Myself
C venues – C cubed, 9–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 leaves
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £10
The Canary and the Crow Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15
19:55
Clouds theSpace on the Mile, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Who Did I Think She Was?
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE
20:00
Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
The Studio, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 21, 24, £20
What Are You Wearing?
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
2Elfth Night Paradise in Augustines, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £5
The Examination
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£13.50
Hear Word! Naija Woman
Talk True
The Lyceum, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £20
Oedipus
King’s Theatre, 14–16 Aug, £15
Son of Dyke
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–11
Aug, £10
HOTTER
Underbelly, Cowgate, 12–25
Aug, £9–£10
Waiting for Godot
The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20
There She Is
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £10
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Hair of the Wild C venues – C at SESH
Hairdressing, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50
Yours Sincerely HHH
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
Girl Bully
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 9–10 Aug, FREE Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15
Smut Slam: Where Sexy and Storytelling Collide
The Safari Lounge, 14 Aug, £10
Lucy McCormick: Post
Popular Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14
A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, FREE
20:05
Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £12
Butterflies
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £10
Takin’ It Easy, 1916
theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24
Aug, not 18, £7.50
Serenity
ZOO Playground, 9–10 Aug, £14
Doubt
ZOO Playground, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £7–£10
20:10
Dumbing Down Trauma?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10
Traumgirl Summerhall, Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £12
It’s Beautiful, Over There
Venue 13, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 21, £10
Neglecting Midwives
Gives Mothers PTSD
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £10
Fake News Kills World!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10
O Sister, Where Art Thou?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £10
Does Sex Still Sell?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10
Sex, Drugs and Bilingualism
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10
Art is Shit
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10
The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7
This Show Will Make You Sharper!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £10
Obesity Bankrupted
Our NHS!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10
Don’t Bank on the Bankers
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10
Traumboy
Summerhall, 10–24 Aug, not 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, £12
Is God a Psychopath?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £10
Who Owns History?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £10
Are You a Problem
Addict?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10
Blame It on the Algorithm!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10
Move or Die!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £10 20:15
Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, 9–23 Aug, not 11, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, £10–£11
School Gays
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £11
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 12 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50
Cactus
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 15, FREE
Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness
Assembly Rooms, 11 Aug, 15 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£11
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15
The Brunch Club
Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 9–24 Aug, not 13, 20, £9–£12
Up and Away
theSpace on the Mile, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £6–£8
The Domestic
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24
Aug, not 18, £6–£8
20:20
Reservoir Dugs
theSpace @ Venue45, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
The Good Scout HHH
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £12
Hindsight HHH
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24
Aug, not 11, 18, £11
Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite
Bite of Cheese and Puns
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Section 28: The Legacy of a Homophobic Law theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
House of Hundred HHH
C venues – C aquila, 9–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
20:25
Nothing to Hide theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8
Unexpected Turbulence
Paradise in Augustines, 9 Aug, £9.50
20:30
The Collection of Professor Novak
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE
The Passion of the Playboy Riots
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £12–£12.50
Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, 22, £47.50–£52
Coma
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
The Rise and Fall of Patti Superb
ZOO Playground, 9–10 Aug, £10
Under the Floorboards
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–13 Aug, £11.50
Seamonster, the Story
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, FREE
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 9–26 Aug, not 10, 13, £24
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15
I’m Woman
Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £9
The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever! Paradise in The Vault, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Wait, What?
ZOO Playground, 11–15 Aug, £6–£8
Contractions
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–18 Aug, £11.50
The Taming of the Shrew
The Royal Scots Club, 12–17 Aug, £10
20:35
Broken English
theSpace on North Bridge, 19–23 Aug, £10
The Last Bubble
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
The Life of Spies theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £10
20:40
Hold On Let Go
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £10
Skylar MacDonald’s Fact Machine
C venues – C aquila, 9–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
20:45
Footnotes HH
Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 24 Aug, £12
Said and Done Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £9
Before Dance Base, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13
Playground
Scottish Poetry Library, 9 Aug, £5
Taking Flight
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–10 Aug, £7
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15
Mouthpiece
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21
Consumers Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £7
SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £7
Employ Me, You Cowards!
Scottish Poetry Library, 13–23 Aug, not 18, 19, £7
20:50
Father Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12
The Bald Soprano Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10
Bitch, Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12
A Family Affair Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £12
20:55
Honeypot Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality HHH
Summerhall, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
21:00
Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–19 Aug, £16
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, £7.50
Enough Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, £21
Cadaver Synod Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £8.50
James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love
Summerhall, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50
James Rowland’s Revelations Summerhall, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £12.50
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, £12–£14
Blind Date HHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11
tEMPORARY sANITY
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, £11.50
How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran HHH
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £21
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
Bullarena
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15
James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship Summerhall, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25
James Rowland’s Team Viking Summerhall, 9 Aug, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50
McNaughton
Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, £15
Making a Murderer: Part 2 – Brendan Dassey’s Post-Conviction Lawyers
Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin in Conversation
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11–15 Aug, £19
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
A Trilogy of Horrors: Volume II
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–11 Aug, £10
The Staircase: An Evening with David Rudolf from Netflix’s The Staircase The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–10 Aug, £19
The People’s Boat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8
A Rock’n’Roll Suicide!
Zoo Southside, 9–26 Aug, £10 pool (no water)
The Royal Scots Club, 9–10
Aug, £12
21:10
Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan
Doyle
theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8
Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10
More Fool You: Part II
Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
More Fool You: Part I
Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £10.50
Hearty Summerhall, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £8–£10
The Words Are There
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24
Aug, £9–£11
The American’s Dream
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10
❤ Contra HHHH
Summerhall, 9–11 Aug, £12
21:15
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21
Faustus theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £7
❤ Until the Flood HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
The Grandmothers Grimm Paradise in The Vault, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £9
Square Go
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £15–£17
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: The Voices We Hear
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5
21:20
Misfit Warrior
theSpace on North Bridge, 9–24 Aug, not 11, £10
The Populars Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
There’s Something Missing
ZOO Playground, 9–26 Aug, £10
Sound Cistem
ZOO Playground, 11–26 Aug, £10
Nine Months
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10
Loud Poets: Best of Fringe
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £19.50
Father of Lies
Sweet Novotel, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9
Wuthering Heights
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–15 Aug, £11.50
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15
Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
Homer to Hip Hop: A History of Spoken Word
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 12–16 Aug, FREE
Time Please
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50
Everyman theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £9
21:35
Shakespeare Up Late! C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50
amendments: A Play on Words theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10
Solitary Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
21:40
Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place Pleasance Dome, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
Musik Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £15–£16.50
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £8
21:45
Mother and the Monster / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15
Our Saviour theSpaceTriplex, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8
Brandi Alexander
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50–£10.50
21:50
Before the Revolution
Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10
Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8
The Last King of Porn Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
21:55
zounds!
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £10
Bit of Sunshine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–23 Aug, £7
Don’t Frighten the Straights!
Paradise in Augustines, 9–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9
❤ Working On My Night
Moves HHHH
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12
How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £8
22:00
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22
Mental Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
One Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12
Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger
theSpace on the Mile, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, £15
The Passion of the Playboy Riots
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–18 Aug, £11.50–£12
Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22
Absolutely Reliable! C venues – C cubed, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£11.50
Pits
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
Dan Webber – Genre Fluid
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9 Aug, £5
I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron Zoo Southside, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10
22:05
To Fall in Love
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10
Die or Run
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £12
22:10
Mojo theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
Tang
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8 No Fun and Games Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5
My Father the Tantric Masseur Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11
22:15
Searchers
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10.50–£11.50
You Have a Match theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10
The Nana Schewitz Pass-Me-Over Party
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
22:20
Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £7
Warwick Improv Presents: Anything You Want theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £8
22:25
Grave Concern theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £9
22:30
Monogamy PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–26 Aug, £11.50
TGIF theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9
Steve Lamacq: Going Deaf for a Living Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–16 Aug, £15
22:35
Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8
The Mannequin theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Svetlana Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12–£13
Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
22:40
Redacted Arachnid C venues – C aquila, 9–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50
Tess theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £12
Dissident Sausage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £7–£8
Don’t Do It, Don’t Do It, Do It! theSpace on North Bridge, 9–10 Aug, £7
22:45
❤ Boar HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11
22:50
The Bacchae Paradise in The Vault, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £9
22:55
The Slinks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11
23:00
Tricky Second Album
Pleasance Dome, 9–18 Aug, £9–£11
Don’t Be Terrible Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11
The Ladies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
23:05
FemFringe
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5
23:10
Inferno, Kid
Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5–£7.50
Dead Parents Society
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8
Defying Logic
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8
Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP)
Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug, £17.50
Murder Ballads
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10
A Clockwork Orange
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–22 Aug, £8.50
The Super Sad and Really Tragical Story of Analeise Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £10
23:15
Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9
Dissident Sausage theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £3–£8
O Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10
23:20
Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10
23:25
Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9
23:30
Hot Flush
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10
23:50
Beauty is Pain
Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £8–£8.50
10:00
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (5+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10
Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Window (0+)
Paradise in Augustines, 13–17
Aug, £6
Microbodyssey (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, not 13, £9.50
Looking Down on Me (8+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
Jo Jingles – Jo Tours
Bonnie Scotland (0+)
Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–10 Aug, FREE
A Sherlock Holmes
Mystery: The Baker Street
Irregulars and the Case of the Stolen Portrait (8+)
theSpace on the Mile, 9–10 Aug, £8
Fox-tot! (0+)
The Edinburgh Academy, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, FREE
Science Adventures (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £10
10:10
Annie Jr (5+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £8
10:15
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–13 Aug, FREE
10:20
Grimm Tales (5+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
Sparkle (3+)
Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10
10:30
Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8
Sail Away! (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Romantic Romeo (5+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
Topsy and Turvy’s Twisty
Turny Journey (3+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 9–10 Aug, £8
Bambino Beats –Summertime Boogie
Under the Sea (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 9 Aug, £6
Wriggle Around the World (0+)
Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8
Flamenco for Kids (0+)
C venues – C viva, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
Celeste’s Circus (0+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–25
Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £8
I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 19, £8.50–£11
Little Top (0+)
Pleasance at EICC, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £8
So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs...?! with Dr Ben Garrod (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17
Aug, £9–£11
Spec-tacular (3+)
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–18
Aug, £11.50
Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs (0+)
C venues – C south, 9–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Comète (5+)
Assembly Checkpoint, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
Children’s Silent Disco (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–26
Aug, £10
One Duck Down (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10
Shark in the Park (3+)
Assembly George Square, 9–18
Aug, not 14, £10–£12
Moonbird (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 20, £8.50–£10
10:40
The Bubble Show (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 15–26 Aug, £10–£12
The Bubble Show (0+)
Assembly George Square, 9–13 Aug, £10–£12
10:45
Hey Diddle Diddle (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–14 Aug, £8–£10
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–19 Aug, not 13, £10–£13
10:50
Doodle Pop (3+)
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11
Rocket Girl (5+)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
11:00
Rhyme Marmalade (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Grumpy Pants (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Tappuccino (5+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, £7.50–£8.50
Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £14.50–£15.50
Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh –Fletcher Building, 13–15 Aug, £8
Bicycle Boy (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE
Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–23 Aug, not 12, FREE
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50
Rave & Behave (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £11–£12
Princess Pumpalot: The Ghostly Farting Monk Hunt (3+)
Le Monde, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £8
The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (5+)
Assembly George Square Studios, 9–17 Aug, £10–£12
Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+)
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12
A Long Road Home (3+) Carrubbers, 12–17 Aug, £7
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–26 Aug, £8
The Tale of Hamlet the Viking (8+)
The Royal Scots Club, 9–10 Aug, £12
Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 12–15 Aug, £9
Games With James (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–18 Aug, not 14, FREE
Sunshine (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10
Ned and the Whale (3+)
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, 13, £9
Soundplay Dome (0+)
City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5
A Long Road Home (3+)
Palmerston Place Church, 9–10 Aug, £7
Jerry and the Adventures of the HMS Stargazer (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–10 Aug, £8
Baby Loves Disco (0+)
The Jam House, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
Treasure Island (5+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
The Bureau of Untold Stories (3+) Museum of Childhood, 12–18
Aug, FREE
11:05
Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–23 Aug, FREE
Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8
Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE
Olaf Falafel – It’s One Giant Leek for Mankind (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–11 Aug, FREE
11:10
Dream Machine (5+)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 12–18 Aug, £10–£11
Little Wings (5+) theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50
Beauty and the Beast (3+)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 9–11 Aug, £11
11:15
Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+)
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 9–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£9.50
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 9–25 Aug, not 15, 20, 22, FREE
Spontaneous Potter Kidz (5+)
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 10 Aug, £10
Slime (0+)
Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7–£8
Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–17 Aug, FREE
11:20
Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+)
C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50–£9.50
Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+)
Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £10
Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50
11:25
Joyce (3+) Assembly Roxy, 9–26 Aug, £11–£12
11:30
Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10
Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Greatest Magic Show (3+)
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12
Jo Jingles – Jo Tours
Bonnie Scotland (0+)
Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–10 Aug, FREE
Fox-tot! (0+)
The Edinburgh Academy, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, FREE
Down with the Poetry King! (8+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–18
Aug, £8–£9
First Piano on the Moon: Will Pickvance (5+)
Summerhall, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £12
Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–23 Aug, not 13, £9–£11
Big Tops and Tiny Tots
Circus Show (3+)
Imagination Workshop, 9–18 Aug, £10
11:40
The Fablesmiths (5+)
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £7
11:45
Huggers (3+)
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12
VIKING (8+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–18 Aug, £10–£11
11:50
Brave Macbeth (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, £8.50–£10
When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 9–24 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE
Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 9–25 Aug, not 10, FREE
11:55
Danny the Champion of the World (3+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8
The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £11–£12
12:00
Chores (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£10
Wee Seals and Selkies (5+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–11 Aug, £9
Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Maths Madness with Kyle D Evans (8+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 9–12 Aug, FREE
The Showstoppers’ Kids Show (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, £9.50–£11
Jelly or Jam (0+)
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 10–11 Aug, £13
Mr Fibbers Presents: Back in Tune (8+)
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 9–18 Aug, £6
Little Baby Bum (0+)
Assembly George Square, 9–18 Aug, £11.50–£13
Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf (3+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–18 Aug, £9
Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5
12:10
I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–18 Aug, £11–£12.50
Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+) Assembly George Square Studios, 9–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12
12:20
ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 9–17 Aug, FREE
12:30
Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8
Bambino Beats –Summertime Boogie
Under the Sea (0+) Stockbridge Church, 10 Aug, £6
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 9–26 Aug, £8
Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £9–£10
The Maths Magic Show
2019 (8+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 9–25 Aug, FREE
Shakespearience (5+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50
12:40
The Wizard of Oz (3+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–10 Aug, £9
13:00
Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show (5+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–15 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Splash Test Dummies (5+)
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 9–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50
Bicycle Boy (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 16–18
Aug, FREE
Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+)
Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)
Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 9–26 Aug, £12
Story Builders (5+)
Lauriston Halls, 9–24 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £8
Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
13:05
Legend of Shadows (0+)
C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
13:15
The Happy Prince (14+)
C venues – C aquila, 9–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10.50–£12.50
Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
The Amazing Bubble Man (0+)
Underbelly, George Square, 9–26 Aug, £11–£12
13:25
The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–24 Aug, £11–£12
13:30
Heat Transfer Printing Workshop (12+) White Stuff, 17 Aug, £15
The Red Balloon (5+)
Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25
Aug, £8
The Listies: Ickypedia (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, £7.50–£10
Jo Jingles – Jo Tours
Bonnie Scotland (0+)
Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 10 Aug, FREE
Little Top (0+)
Pleasance at EICC, 9–17 Aug, not 12, £8
Double Bubble Trouble (0+)
Sweet Grassmarket, 9–18 Aug, £7
Feast of Fools (5+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–18
Aug, not 13, 14, £8
Make Your Own Book Workshop (12+) White Stuff, 11 Aug, £15
Children are Stinky (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8–£10
Alice and the Little Prince (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 10–18
Aug, £7–£9
13:45
I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12
13:50
Our Teacher’s a Troll! (5+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £6
Mother GooseCANCELLED (3+) Hill Street Theatre, 9 Aug, £12
14:00
Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh –Fletcher Building, 13–15 Aug, £8 Ned and the Whale (3+)
theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £9
Soundplay Dome (0+)
City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5
Baby Loves Disco (0+)
The Jam House, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 18
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9
Huggers (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
14:15
Captain Jake and the Search for the Red Queen (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
14:30
Sail Away! (0+)
Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8
Valentina’s Galaxy (3+)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8
Wriggle Around the World (0+)
Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 18 Aug to 24 Aug, £8
Junior Jungle Rave (3+)
Underbelly, Central Hall, 17 Aug, FREE
The Wizard of Winterbourne (8+)
Quaker Meeting House, 9–10 Aug, £9
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)
Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 9–26 Aug, £12
A Massaoke Night at the Musicals (All Ages) (3+)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange, 17 Aug, £18
Circus Sonas Family Show (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
15:00
Me and the Mask –Commedia dell’Arte (5+)
Italian Cultural Institute, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £8
Bicycle Boy (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 16–18
Aug, FREE
I Piano (5+)
Pianodrome at The Pitt, 9–11
Aug, £12
Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure! (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 9–18
Aug, £7–£9
Wind in the Willows (3+)
Inveresk Lodge Garden, 17 Aug, £10
Soundplay Dome (0+)
City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5
15:05
The First King of England in a Dress (5+)
theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12
15:15
Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+)
Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18
Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–25 Aug, FREE
15:35
Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids (0+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 9–18
Aug, £10–£11
15:50
Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+)
Assembly Rooms, 9–24 Aug, not 12, £10–£11
16:00
Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5
16:10
The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+)
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9
16:30
ComedySportz UK (8+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9–17 Aug, FREE
Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+)
Assembly George Square, 9–25 Aug, not 21, £11.50–£12.50
Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £10.50
17:00
Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+)
Lauriston Halls, 16–24 Aug, £4
17:30
The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–24 Aug, £10–£11
17:35
Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 9–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £10
17:40
Xchange (3+) theSpace @ Venue45, 9–10 Aug, £10
18:40
Alice in Wonderland (5+)
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8.50
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What’s going on at the Fridge?
What’s on our top shelf?
Red pepper paste (a.k.a.Gochujang). We can’t live without it; we never go anywhere without it. When we get seriously homesick, Gochujang is our remedy – everything becomes soul food for us if you add a couple of spoonfuls of Gochujang.
What’s on the second shelf?
Big bottles of soda. We BRUSH Theatre members are addicted to soda. We have to always make sure that our fridge never runs out!
The rest of the shelves and door:
Doodle Pop Assembly George Square Studios
10:50am – 11:45am, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 12, 19 £10–£11
Lots of meat and milk. Every time we go grocery shopping, no matter how much meat and milk we buy, it never lasts more than a day. Our company manager still can’t believe how quickly we’ll get through it all.
