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Jen Brister speaks to us about power, privilege and soft play
We chat to Missy Mazzoli and Tom Morris about turning a Lars von Trier film into an opera
Our hour-by-hour listings and handy map will have your festival running like clockwork
A masterful set with much to say about body image and gender roles
Theatre
27 Sex Education
Harry Clayton-Wright’s debut theatre show is the education we all need
35 The Beautiful Game
Dance show about football is a joyous nostalgia trip with a buzzing soundtrack
Cabaret and Variety
38 Aaron Crow
A Russian roulette of daggers, ingested needles, and shards of broken glass
42 Josephine
Fabulous musical tribute to Josephine Baker anchored by a stunning performance
Kids
46 Comète
A headbanging pop-rock gig for the whole family
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Here is our Edinburgh Festival fridge! I am sharing an apartment with eight Kiwis [New Zealand legends], and this is our amazing collection of food! My shelf the one that’s circled in red. basically vegetables, some and meat and duck fat. Mainly because I’m on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet and this involves eating extremely simple and nonprocessed food.
It has done wonders for my so sticking to it during this period is essential for
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Exploring the highs and lows of football fandom through dance, The Beautiful Game is a joyous nostalgia trip. Even if you aren’t a footie fan, you’ll get a kick out of its buzzing ‘90s soundtrack.
Storytelling, spoken word and movement come together in the terrific Pink Lemonade, an experimental solo performance by Mika Johnson about queer identity, racial fetishism and dating.
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Laura Lexx’s ability to handle difficult, depressing subject matter with a deft touch is unmatched. Tackling the stuff we’re all worried about—robots, the climate crisis—with a cheeky grin, her new set is a knock-out.
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Is Aaron Crow a genius or a mad man? Watching his new show FearLess, as one dangerous stunt is piled relentlessly on top of another, it’s safe to say the answer is both.
Katie Hawthorne talks to Jen Brister about power, privilege and soft play
Jen Brister’s had a few complaints. “Someone emailed me to say, ‘You hate straight people and you hate men’. Someone else called me homophobic. Homophobic!” She raises an eyebrow and laughs incredulously. “What was the other one? Oh yeah, that I shouldn’t be using my comedy hour as therapy. Wow. I mean, of course it’s therapy. Are you mad?”
After 18 years as a standup, Brister’s an expert at courting criticism. Her previous shows have discussed famously hilarious things like IVF and period poverty, but her new hour Under Privilege has proven challenging in a way that’s all new to her. “It’s the most stressful show I’ve ever written,” she says, wide-eyed. “I started writing it just to see if I could I mean, privilege… How can I make something so divisive and dry and insidious actually funny?”
Nobody likes talking about privilege, least of all their own, but after a handful of painful previews Brister realised the only way to tackle the topic was to make it personal. So she takes her own family—her girlfriend and their young twins—as a case study in how various privileges, visible or not, can structure the way people move through society. “That way nobody else can say I’m lecturing them,” she explains.
Under Privilege covers the base horrors of a soft play park as naturally as it embroils its audience in a diatribe about Dubai. Her sparky, wry charisma drives an eclectic hour, which is kept light by her willingness to commit to daft impressions – from lightsabres to trumpets or gross journalist Toby Young bleating on about Europe. Brister gleefully dubs her sons “two little Joffreys”, re-enacting their lordly breakdowns over broken biscuits with total melodrama. And as much as you suspect it feels cathartic to have a room full of people laughing at her children’s ridiculous demands, this focus on her family helps her to build an essential self-awareness into the show.
Her favourite part is a kind of “self-audit”, in which she turns the camera on herself, “because I can play with it,” she beams. And after interrogating her own position—and the heinous fact that she’s already sorted her kids out with a pension plan— Brister can have a pop at everyone else in the room, because she’s earned it.
She places both hands firmly on the table. “What I’m really trying to say in the show is, look – to a lesser or greater degree we’re all part of the problem. Yeah at the top we’ve got fucking Trump and Boris Johnson but trickle it down… We have to acknowledge that we don’t live in a meritocracy,
“The best time for me to tell my children off is when I’m not angry at them”
although that’s what capitalism tells us. It tells us if you work hard you’ll achieve, but we know that’s a lie. The people that have the most power and create the most problems are white men and I have two little boys in my house. I want them to be allies.”
Brister’s anger is generous. It invites her audiences in, to share it with her, so that they don’t feel like punching bags for her frustrations. Most importantly, her anger is a performance – or, it’s supposed to be. “It’s anger on ice,” she explains. “It’s like how the best time for me to tell my children off is when I’m not angry at them. When I’m properly, properly angry I can’t make it funny. You have to find that balance. You need to create something that feels visceral without making the audience feel unsafe. What I’m saying to them is, ‘I’m with you on this’.”
But it’s not always easy to take the heat out of it. Half-way through the show, the night before we meet, her emotions caught up with her. Brister furiously wiped away unexpected tears and swore the audience to secrecy. “I’m so embarrassed,” she tells me, head in hands. I ask if it was unusual. “Er, have I cried on stage? Before? Never.” She shrugs in jokey disbelief and then wells up again. “Oh my God.”
“It’s just so obnoxious. I woke up at 2am today with the shame of it all. I am a big crier, but I don’t do it onstage. Because I’m a comedian.” She puts
real, steely force on that last word, and not so much for my benefit.
“I suppose the first two weeks [of the Fringe] have been complete adrenaline. Now that I know the show…” she trails off. You can feel it more? “Yeah. I know it’s an awful thing to say as a performer but I’d really rather not feel it.
“I have a lot of fear. And it’s not for me – I’m scared for my children. If you’re anybody who cares about the state of the world then you’ll carry a lot of anxiety. And doing something creative can be a great release, but I would really rather that release came in therapy.”
She laughs suddenly and loudly, like a thunder clap. Turns out that one whinger might have had a point. “I mean, comedy is limiting in a lot of ways and Hannah Gadsby’s show [Nanette] emphasised those limitations, but at the end of the day I’m just trying to make people laugh.”
Jen Brister takes her job seriously. She’s here to entertain you. And, as she says, leaning back in her chair into a rare Edinburgh sunbeam, “If there’s one bit in the show when you don’t laugh, then I suppose that’s my privilege.” She grins. “Fuck you!”
SHOW: Jen Brister – Under Privilege
VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 7:45pm – 8:45pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £7 – £8
To Scottish Opera, where American composer Missy Mazzoli is overseeing rehearsals for Breaking the Waves, her operatic take on Lars von Trier’s 1996 film of the same name, before its European premiere at the International Festival. “I don’t think I’ll be seeing that one,” says the receptionist, a self-confessed opera-nut, when I mention the title. “Too bleak.” Bugs Bunny’s fourthwall-breaking final line from Chuck Jones’ What’s Opera, Doc? springs to mind – “Well what did you expect in an opera... a happy ending?” But of course,
I know exactly what she means. Even Wagner would find Breaking the Waves outré.
The film follows Emily Watson’s Bess, a naïve new bride from an ascetic Scottish village dominated by Calvinist doctrine, who believes she communes directly with God. When she prays for her rakish oil rig-worker husband Jan to return to her, he does so on a stretcher after an accident on the rigs. Bess finds herself making a perverse pact with her infirm husband, who persuades her to sleep with random men and report back on her encounters. Bess is convinced these promiscuous acts will somehow revive his health.
Mazzoli first saw von Trier’s emotionally bruising film around a decade ago. “I felt the way a lot of people do when they see it: I was overwhelmed and I was shocked. It stayed with me for a really long time, but not necessarily in a good way. I didn’t think, ‘Oh I have to make this into an opera’.” She was talked into the project by Royce Vavrek, the Brooklynbased librettist with whom Mazzoli regularly collaborates. “Royce has loved the film since he was 14,” she reveals. “Which is weird, right?”
Despite Vavrek’s ardour for the material, Mazzoli
took some convincing, mostly because of her appreciation for Breaking the Waves as cinema.
“I thought, ‘What are we doing turning it into an opera?’ ‘What can we bring to it?’” She soon realised the answer was plenty. “We ended up making something that is very different. I was able to bring a lot to the story that’s not in the film at all.”
Such as? “Well there’s no score in the film,” she offers, “nothing telling you how to feel except for what you’re seeing. So there’s a lot of space for me to add another layer. I had to come up with my own version of what is going on in Bess’s mind and how does it relate to my own experience as a young woman growing up.”
Bristol Old Vic’s Artistic Director Tom Morris, who’s directing this new version of the opera, joins our chat and suggests the main difference between the film and the opera is Mazzoli’s attitude to Bess’s fate. “Mercy sits in a very strange place in [von Trier’s] brain, you sense,” says Morris, “and the film articulates that. But my view is that mercy sits in a very different place in Missy’s brain. So the attraction of this project, for me, is the way in which Missy has taken that central character and written her this musical imagination.”
This production is something of a homecoming. Breaking the Waves was written in 2016 for Opera Philadelphia, but solidified in Mazzoli’s mind during a trip to Skye in 2014. “Skye’s landscape, which has these extremes that you never see in America, is definitely in the music,” she explains. “There are these lush meadows that are filled with jutting rocks that seem to come out of nowhere and fields full of sheep that end in a plunge off a cliff into the ocean. And all around these violent waves are crashing into this pristine, idyllic place. That was very shocking and inspiring to me, the violence and the lushness all at once.”
As Mazzoli mentioned, there’s no score in Von Trier’s film, but there is music. Its seven chapters are delineated by extended shots of ethereal landscapes, over which period pop songs blast out. Can we expect some ‘70s pop in her operatic production? Mazzoli smiles. “Put it this way,” she says, “there’s an electric guitar in the pit.”
“‘Cause you’re a ‘70s rock fan, aren’t you?” Morris teases.
“Yes, massive,” she laughs. “Elton John, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury – they are my spirit guides.”
Isn’t that a bit unusual for an opera composer? “Is it?” counters Mazzoli. “To me, it makes total sense. I mean, those men are operatic!”
SHOW: Breaking the Waves
VENUE: King’s Theatre
TIME: 7:15pm – 9:45pm, 21, 23, 24 Aug
TICKETS: £15
“I was overwhelmed and I was shocked. It stayed with me for a really long time, but not necessarily in a good way”
- Missy Mazzoli
The brilliant Brokentalkers go gunning for that in this slippery and self-aware interrogation of criminal justice. As well as a striking exposé of Ireland’s antiquated penal system, homing in on the inhumane (and illegal) practice of “slopping out” still not phased out, The Examination puts our prejudices and presumptions to the test. It demands an act of self-examination.
After a plea from a prisoner to be seen “not as animals in cages but as human beings,” the lights come up on a burly figure in a gorilla costume. Wille White, an actor with experience of penal institutions, is grilled by Brokentalker’s Gary Keegan about his time inside. With a silk hankie peeking out of his suit, Keegan lectures us on the Victorian “theory of the born criminal”, that credited criminality to genetics. His views seem underscored by his own experience of violent assault. It’s an uncomfortable dynamic: an interrogation of its own.
But neither actor’s all they seem to be. When White talks us through his unseen tattoos—a gremlin, a Smurf, George Benard Shaw—it’s not clear whether we ought to trust him. Keegan’s outward civility mightn’t mask the viciousness of the views he espouses, but it does soften their edges enough that we listen in. Again and again, The Examination pulls the rug out from under you. Its point is that people can change—for good and for bad—and art can play a part in that process. It can also, just as easily, prevent meaningful change, entrenching prejudices rather than breaking them down. The distinction is whether we’ll see (and judge) others as they are, not as they once were.
Slopping out might seem worse than solitary confinement. It’s not. Across America, some 80,000 inmates are held in single cells with minimal
human contact for more than 22 hours a day. New York’s Dutch Kills Theatre show it up as a slow form of torture in Solitary (three stars).
Unfolding the constrained brain-drain of confinement through mime, Duane Cooper rolls off his bed, curls through his ablutions and tries to kill time. Press ups and jumping jacks. A bit of his book. Masturbation. Mostly, he waits for the next meal to clang through his cell’s metal hatch. Rinse hands and repeat. No wonder he tries to get a rise out of the roster of guards.
It’s a grinding watch, or it would be were Blake Habermann’s direction able to resist the itch towards incident. How to keep interminable boredom interesting? The more things and events Cooper finds to mime, the less truthful Solitary starts to seem.
It’s stronger when it takes flight. Using ropes to demarcate the cell, Habermann lets us into the prisoner’s head: the walls splice open, the room starts to spin, entangling Cooper in a cat’s cradle. Flashbacks and hallucinations swim through his cell. With Cooper’s focused intent at its centre, Solitary shows that isolation and imprisonment leave binds that will never be fully undone.
People need people, simple as that. Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas have spent the last few years fighting onstage, first in their debut show Eurohouse, then in Palmyra. The End (four stars) calls it quits. It’s a hymn to friendship – their friendship, male friendship.
It starts by sprinting ahead. A clumsy slideshow plays in silence, projecting the planet’s distant future. In a thousand years time, it says, buildings and bridges will fall. In eight thousand, human civilisation with be gone. In 20, the earth will tilt on its axis. It will fall out of orbit and, over millennia, will slowly be consumed by the sun.
The End dances in the face of that galactic death. It lives for the day and, in a downbeat, downright apocalyptic Fringe, it offers something like hope –a reason to live. All Lesca and Voutsas—Bert and Nasi—do is dance together. Neither’s a natural, not even close, but still they dash around like gawky gazelle, leap like river salmon and attempt lifts like they were Bolshoi leads. It’s clumsy, cack-handed and utterly endearing. Nothing more (nothing less) than two people at play.
And these two turn play into an art-form. They spin games out of nothing – rolling around, spinning circles, balancing on chairs. One alights on a possibility. The other joins in. Two little boys. Here and now.
Until, that is, they’re not. The End knows nothing lasts. People change; things fall apart. As it prises open that present moment—so fragile, so precious—and begins to admit the future once more, The End imagines that friendship falling apart, tilting on its axis as two people slip out of each other’s orbit. It’s an exhortation to take pleasure in people and to live for the day, and it’s as melancholic a thing as you’ll see all festival. Fin.
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 1:30pm – 2:30pm, 1–25
Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £5
Feel that buzz. Jessica Fostekew bounds into this packed room in an impressively low-key fashion, despite the palpable excitement throbbing from the throng. Given the fitness theme of the show, she could have blown off a bit of pre-gig tension by doing a few
squat thrusts, or a quick circuit of Monkey Barrel 4. But no: Fostekew is preternaturally relaxed, hits the ground running with a spot of feminist flirting, then barrels straight into her topic, and the pain of a very modern pick-up line. “Thank you for my compliment!” her wounded soul bellows.
Actually postnatally relaxed is more like it, as the Motherland star has been through much bigger stresses than a hotly-tipped Fringe show. Motherhood, in short, and all the gender issues that entails, when your little boy starts aggressively following traditional stereotypes, despite your best efforts. First, though, Fostekew takes us through the birth, a
routine so excruciatingly funny she manages to get great chunks of the audience doubled-over in pain too. It’s a marvel of timing and tone, keeping the narration as calm as can be to really maximise the moments of great shrieking fury. It also features the best ‘shut up!’ since Rik from The Young Ones
This really is a masterful set from Fostekew, with much to say about body image, gender roles and the undeservedly tough status of the testicle – although there’s a definite cooling in the room when she disses diets, at length. Perhaps demonising that whole concept is a step too far. Otherwise, it’s flawless. Absolutely flawless.
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VENUE: Heroes @ The Hive
TIME: 9pm – 9:55pm, 1–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21
TICKETS: £5
One could experience a performance of Trufficle Musk and conclude that Paul Currie is a master at getting audiences on side, but his relationship with today’s crowd evidently goes back beyond this particular show. Even before he has said or done anything, the sell out room has willingly offered itself to him. They will gladly do whatever the performer asks, whether this involves clapping and singing along to the snippets of music that soundtrack his clowning, or being blindly escorted by him onto the stage. There’s a great atmosphere in the venue, unlike anything to be found at other comedy shows,
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VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 9:45pm – 10:45pm, 31 Jul –25 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £8 – £10
Alice Snedden was in this same bunker at the same time last year, with her debut, and sold it out. Halfway into this run she gently mixes things up, by trying out an exciting new way to bring herself on stage – but that’s about it, on a gimmick tip.
and it makes for an intoxicating experience. It must, however, be admitted that at this stage, the audience is as much responsible for this mood as the performer.
What Currie does prove himself a master of is undercutting the celebratory nonsense with a palpable sense of pain and darkness. Abuse and trauma are strongly hinted at throughout the
piece, the otherwise joyful tone rendering these naked, emotionally raw asides all the more poignant.
If you want to take Trufficle Musk as pure whimsy, then it holds up as supremely inventive prop comedy. However, there’s much to recommend in the show beyond this, and you don’t have to strain too hard to find its bold and true subtext. ✏︎ Lewis
PorteousThe following hour is just rip-roaring standup, from an act who seems almost too close to the finished article, already. They’ve definitely been operating some sort of leftfield-entertainer training school over in her native New Zealand, like those sinister old Soviet Olympic camps. Ever wondered what happened to the Lord of the Rings locations? There’s your answer.
Actually Snedden is a bit off-message in that respect as Harry Potter is more her steam, and umpteen references to that franchise hurtle past along the way – the old stuff plus the new play. She’s up to speed. Not that the wizardly-agnostic need worry,
as she tackles a whole range of subjects that may not sound instantly relatable to everyone, from mooncups to her other life as a lawyer: the delivery is key.
Those lawyer brags are part of Absolute Monster’s major theme—that Snedden’s life is probably better than ours—but she’s actively pushing our buttons here, skilfully sewing that awesome-Alice seed before it takes a sizeable twist later. In truth the big comedown isn’t quite as well-crafted as the build-up, so the show fizzles slightly towards the end. Perhaps that’s intentional, though: always leave them wanting more. Same time next year? ✏︎ Si
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VENUE: Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
TIME: 4:15pm – 5:15pm, 2–25 Aug
TICKETS: FREE
Borne of Chaos is a bold, dramatic depiction of the genuine terror of mental health issues and the subsequent clarity that develops when these problems—temporarily or permanently—go away.
Eric Lampaert approaches the topic with admirable frankness. He
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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy
TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm, 1–25 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £8
Surfing a handy wave of recent TV exposure, Lou Sanders lands back in Edinburgh as something of a Fringe stateswoman, with a solid batch of shows under her belt. She’s perhaps not a matriarch, though. Are step-matriarchs a thing?
That show title is chiefly due to Sanders’ love—particularly on social media—of sexy dad jokes – or rather, sexy jokes about your unsexy dad, and a couple of juicy examples set this show’s bar early doors. Anyone who discovered this reformed absurdist via a TV show such as Taskmaster might be taken aback by the sheer scale of her oversharing. She’s almost like those ‘80s primetime comics,
candidly lays out the significant events from his childhood and adolescence that he believes contributed to his own mental health issues, and in doing so he opens himself up for dissection.
Aspects of the show are highly disturbing, with Lampaert able to contort his body and voice in the most sinister of ways. The comic’s horrifying physical manifestation of depression itself is something that will remain in the subconscious for a while.
But he flits between sinister theatrics and knob-gags frequently, and while the transition sometimes feels slightly strained, the smut
feels like safe territory and we’re happy to get back to it.
Although indulgent at times (with some of his dance routines, it isn’t clear if he’s taking the piss or not), Borne of Chaos has huge theatrical value.
The show isn’t designed to be a smooth ride. It’s an artistic depiction of depression, anxiety and psychosis, and we shouldn’t find that comfortable. Ultimately, Borne of Chaos is about growth, developing understanding and forgiveness. It’s about owning your past experiences, trauma and mistakes, and seeing how you have grown from them. ✏︎
Becca Moodywho’d then do a bit of blue in the clubs, but a patriarchy-poking 2019 version.
Then again, any fans of the recent live shows might worry whether Sanders has anything left to give. Let those fears be allayed: she remains absolutely awash with jaw-dropping anecdotes, even after a chap-free year due to the advice of her WhatsApp-based spiritual healer. There are teenage antics, massages-with-benefits, and when all else fails, wildly inappropriate dreams.
These are no idle or compulsive boasts, though. There’s a sharp undercurrent of social comment to Sanders’ shows nowadays, while joking candidly about rarely-discussed body stuff can make a useful difference: as she recently discovered, going public about your private parts is a big deal when there are young women considering potentially harmful procedures due to porn-fed paranoia. Comedy reaches places that other outlets rarely reach, and Sanders is a fearless pioneer. All power to her elbow.
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VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 5:15pm – 6:15pm, 31 Jul –25 Aug, not 5, 14
TICKETS: £9 – £10
Laura Lexx should be in a bigger room than this. She’s been around for a while – she was part of The Pleasance’s productive AAA Late line-up back in 2013 – but, after a successful festival last year with an hour of sweetly sad standup about her inability to conceive, she’s consistently selling-out Gilded Balloon Teviot’s tiny Turret space with her new show Knee Jerk, and seems to be belatedly earning the accolades she deserves.
Her strength is her ability to discuss difficult, depressing subjects with a rare lightness of touch. She practically bounces
VENUE: Heroes @ The Hive
TIME: 3:20pm – 4:10pm, 1–25 Aug, not 7, 21
TICKETS: £5
The single-minded Sean Morley is having a bit of moment when it comes to comedy. He’s had good moments—much acclaim for last year’s show, I Apologise for My
around the stage with nervous energy, her face constantly lit up with a cheeky grin. She freely admits that she can only just keep a lid on her mental health issues. “But it’s a shit lid, like a coaster over a pint glass,” she laughs.
In Knee Jerk, she takes on the stuff we’re all worried about: politics (she wittily skirts the B-word, replacing it with “Leeds United” instead), climate change, and robots taking all of our jobs. She tackles each with a refreshing lack of invective, though it’s not difficult to work out where her sympathies lie. “It’s 1939 and the Germans are coming over the hill,” she regularly repeats. “And we’re sat here playing tiddlywinks.”
She’s got the bite to back up her bark, though. Her closing bit, about transphobia in sport, is an increasingly irate, and utterly inspired analysis of netball. It’s classic Lexx: heavy stuff, dealt with lightly. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan
Recent Behaviour— but this one is more existential, an entertainmentbased ennui about the whole talking-at-people business. And so Morley has chosen to express this emotion not by taking a sabbatical and writing a self-lacerating blog post, but by crafting a typically memorable show about, well, bones.
A skeleton does indeed make some important appearances here, notably in the epic opening piece that involves an ancient king, a worthy champion, a packet of Rennies and—he insists—just “a nod to comedy”. Nope: it is rattle-the-ribcage hilarious, making genuinely impressive and easyto-overlook use of some lengthy pre-taped audio that could easily be a right old mess if this wasn’t such a tightly run ship of thoughtful weirdness.
There is method—and message—to this apparent madness. The show’s mid-section involves a lengthy debate about the adult-and-baby dynamic, which leads to much jocular audience participation, while loosely concealing a heftier metaphor. Today, it flies; other days, who knows?
Then we’re onto comedy, and whether it should exist the way it does. The whole mic/stage power trip does cause some acts some angst, and before the mind-bending finale here Morley suggests a less problematic alternative, involving performers basically shouting up from a well. Presumably the bucket speech would then involve people filling it then lowering it. It’s a wild guess, but you would probably receive less. ✏︎ Si Hawkins
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Teviot
TIME: 9:15pm – 10:15pm, 31 Jul –26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10.50 – £11.50
Two years in and Demi Lardner already seems a significant fixture in the Fringe firmament, much to her apparent surprise.
Where other comics court the critics and awards, with powerful shows about their messed-up lives and our messed-up world, Lardner is drawing mutant horses, spewing gunk and having a right good dance. Her shows are like a twisted update on those cool ‘90s comedy shows like In Living Colour, where they’d cut to a bunch of random street-dancers between sketches: Lardner’s on a budget so does it herself.
The award-laden Australian is even less beholden to narrative than last year, where dark themes
VENUE: The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
TIME: 3pm – 4pm, 13–25 Aug
TICKETS: £12
Ably assisted by comedy historian Robert Ross, Tony Slattery is on the comeback trail and the Fringe is all the better for it. Revered for having one of the sharpest minds in the industry, his
lurked under the lunacy – lots of stepdad digs. There’s still a hint of that here, notably some bizarre old home-movie footage, but generally it’s just a riot of ideas thrown together. She even forgets to do one bit, and decides to ditch it with no obvious repercussions.
This may be haphazard but there’s something splendidly distinctive about Lardner’s big beat-fuelled and often gleefully gross gags. She gives due recognition to the sound guy—whose timing needs to be
top-notch too, as many of these punchlines involve audio tricks— although what’s also refreshing is her lack of faux-politeness about the Fringe, and even her venue neighbours.
Evidently there’s been an issue with her banging tunes interfering with the show next door, but it comes back the other way too. “Hearing his applause is so fucked up,” she says, during an otherwise quiet bit, “but I’m taking it.” She doesn’t need it. ✏︎ Si
Hawkinstalents have been held hostage to well documented personal troubles and substance abuse. 40 years on from his Edinburgh debut, however, he proves that his wits are largely intact. His brilliance simply takes longer to come into focus.
At times he appears to lose the thread of his thoughts, lapsing into incoherent speech and tapping his knee frantically as if trying to fix a broken TV set, but he always recovers. It’s thrilling watching Slattery’s spirit overcome his body.
The format of Slattery Will Get You Nowhere is alarmingly cosy. Ross—who repeatedly insists
that his friend is a “legend” with a “unique mind”—is here to prompt a series of unprepared anecdotes which we’re expected to savour for a full hour. But once we get beyond a predictable opening that sees the fallen star make light of his current need for professional rescue and justify the career moves that cost him fame and money, we really do start to see an interesting, honest and funny performance. The old charm is present, but joined by a compelling intensity and darkness. At its best, this show is like looking into the abyss only for the abyss to laugh back. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous
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VENUE: Assembly George Square Gardens
TIME: 7pm – 8pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £14 – £16
It’s been 10 years since comedy music duo Frisky & Mannish burst onto the Fringe, and seven since their last new show. This year’s festival sees Laura Corcoran and Matthew Floyd Jones—certifiable Fringe royalty—return with PopLab, another hour of silliness with songs. It’s a show of two halves – the first is great, the second is not.
The pair are now scientists in a laboratory, where they perform experiments with test tubes full of musicians and genres – a framework that allows them to creatively cross-pollinate tunes.
Bob Dylan and Adele become Bob Adelan. Cher and Aerosmith become Cherosmith. “And I don’t want the world to see me,” sing the Pussy Cat Goo Goo Dolls. “Don’t Cha?”
The showstopper comes early. Frisky & Mannish have detected an outbreak of Tropical House Virus, and they lay the blame squarely at Ed Sheeran’s door. It’s incurable, unfortunately, and they hilariously test song after song against the trite xylophone riff from ‘Shape Of You’ to prove it. Even the entirety of Les Mis is infected.
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VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 6:50pm – 7:50pm, 31 Jul –25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10 – £11
Modulating his voice, Marlon Davis commands both upbeat club-style material, amplified and ebullient, and sections oozing with emotional depth. All soft tones, you can almost hear our chairs
creak as we lean in to listen.
Wisely, he begins with the upbeat: a bit of chat with the crowd, jokes addressing his slightly squeaky voice – his young son has a deeper voice than him already even though his voice hasn’t broken yet. It’s all carefully constructed good-natured banter, emblematic of an act comfortable with the comedy circuit.
But we learn that things started to unravel for Davis in his personal life when his girlfriend announced she doesn’t feel the same way about him anymore. Then he hit a tree with his car and ended up in a coma for a month.
If the first half is borderline brilliant, though, the second is distinctly stale. An attempt to rework Rick Astley into different musical styles suggested by the audience fails to work three times out of three – 'Never Gonna Give You Up' can’t be crammed into Motown, apparently. The duo are as deft as ever, but when they start rolling out old material (the 'Stalker Medley' of love songs is almost as old as they are), you can tell they’ve run out of ideas. ✏︎
Fergus MorganIt’s a measured performance that is beautifully penned. Even a routine as regular as stealing towels from hotels is invested with so much embroidered language it raises it above the norm.
That said, the chronology of the piece does feel slightly confused as he shifts about in his tale, the effect somewhat disjointed. Was the break-up before the accident? Is the majestic Lucy his ex? But overall it doesn’t distract from the impact of the material. It’s a gripping tale with one of the most satisfying bits of wordplay in any title on the Fringe. ✏︎
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TIME: 2pm – 3pm, 7–26 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £9 – £10
Georgie Morrell is blind in one eye, and for one year had no sight in either eye, and is startled to discover she has become an accidental icon of the disabled world. She bemoans how supposedly well-meaning media speak to her as if she represents all people with disabilities, and require her and others to be either
VENUE: Assembly George Square Gardens
TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10 – £12
They say that history appears twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. When George Egg first broke onto the scene, he forced us to think outside the box – to look beyond the constraints of modern corporate-controlled life and seize control. Poaching fish in a hotel kettle wasn’t just a way of making a tasty meal, it was an act of liberation conducted in a soulless hotel room – a way of seeking lemonade when modern life seemed tireless in its lemon supply.
What, then, to make of tonight’s menu of chicken cooked in an oven
an inspiration or superhuman. The aim here, then, is to offer an alternative, individual voice. While much of her set is structured around her appearance on the Victoria Derbyshire show, it also speaks to her desire to not be required to speak on behalf of what she calls “blindees”. Indeed, she’s keen to indicate that she’s a pretty unpleasant person, addicted to gossip and obsessed with royal feuds and Chris Hemsworth. An anecdote concerning a puppy certainly seeks to comically disgruntle in its grossness. She also hates feminists, seemingly because they supposedly insist she shouldn’t take compliments from
men.
But this bitchiness doesn’t fully convince. Her barbs are not vicious enough, and she comes across as someone trying to be nasty rather than it being ingrained in her core. Similarly, a sequence where she reimagines her life as a Hollywood movie— replete with the inspirational narrative demanded by the genre—is not forensic enough in its detail to sparkle comedically. So while she makes a persuasive and necessary case for transcending the representational status foisted upon her, the show doesn’t culminate as a display of an alternative comic voice.
✏︎ Brett Millsdone up to look like an engine, or aubergine cooked on a kitchen grill with a laptop sticker stuck on? Sure, it’s not fair to criticise a comic for developing their act into something different, but what even is this? As a cookery demonstration it’s fiddly but fairly beige; as an inspiration to do things differently it’s a gaudy spectacle. Egg can still deliver flashes of inspiration (black lime powder, anyone?), he can sure fillet a fish, and he can’t help but be likeable. But as he trundles out pedestrian banter on modern coffees, or Waitrose, it’s not inspiration that’s the predominant mode. Two Tim Key-like poems provide nice tonal variation, but don’t sizzle. Ironically, the biggest laugh comes when he mentions the dishes from his previous shows.
If there’s an image that sums up Movable Feast best, it’s that of Egg using a cement mixer to toss salad – over-engineered, wasteful, unnecessary. ✏︎ Evan
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VENUE: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar
TIME: 1pm – 2pm, 3–25 Aug, not
14, 21
TICKETS: FREE
Even if you share Sooz Kempner’s passion for Sega video games of the ‘90s, it’s questionable if you’ll find too much to entertain you in this hard-striving but ill-conceived show. From the premise that her many hours spent playing games as a teenager stunted her social development, but fuelled her “Mega Drive” ambition, the comic and singer suggests that her life is one of giddy highs immediately followed by crushing lows.
A viral sensation earlier this year after posting the bizarre tale of her former job as a Christina Aguilera impersonator, she was nevertheless quickly brought back to earth with a bump, just as she was in the moment
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
TIME: 10:15pm – 11:15pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug
TICKETS: £9 – £10
David Correos should not be trusted with knives. After downing half a pint of red wine at the top of the show, little goes to plan. Logic is thrown aside with an unused chicken prop, as Correos sellotapes a bread knife to his face
of her greatest professional triumph: making her West End debut at the English National Opera. Affording commentary on these personal peaks and troughs, she interacts with two video manifestations of her competing inner self, Good Sooz and Bad Sooz, the former a Scientology-enabled wellspring of encouragement, the latter an undermining bitch queen. And inbetween all this self-analysis, she interjects her critiques of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and other Sega games, their regressive, underlying politics as great a source of humour as their outdated graphics and lack of relative technical sophistication.
Additionally, there’s another tangent about the hymns that Kempner sang at school which testify to her impressive pipes. But the most amusing aspect remains her mockery of highly dubious games like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. Bolted onto such assured cynicism, the self-immolation feels indulgent and rather skated through. ✏︎
Jay Richardsonand stumbles around the stage yelling through the pain. This is not unlike watching a breakdown.
Better Than I Was The Last Time falls severely in the shadow of his previous show, The Correos Effect, in which the New Zealand comedian ramped up the energy from one to 10 over the course of the hour, resulting in a bike-pumpbutt-plug trick that left audience members gagging, not always from laughter. “Is this better than my last show?” he asks an audience member who came last year. “No,” they say frankly, and it’s worse that you can tell they’re not even angry, just disappointed.
Correos does this show under the guise of finding his “comedic
voice” but it’s clear he’s far from locating it. Somewhere amid the desperation are a few decent sets about going to the Philippines for his circumcision and his more recent failed audition for a TV show in New Zealand. But he runs out of material half an hour in, checks his phone for the countdown five times and by the end literally begs us to go.
“Please leave,” he pleads, as he buys the last few seeminglyendless minutes of his set by dancing in his pants, a stray testicle poking out. “Please.” It’s almost so bad it’s funny. Instead, we scramble out of the theatre a bit worried about what we’re leaving behind. ✏︎ Kate
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VENUE: Summerhall
TIME: 7:10pm – 8:10pm, 31 Jul – 25
Aug, not 1, 12, 19
TICKETS: £12
LGBT+: inclusive sex education is suicide prevention. That’s the message of artist and provocateur Harry Clayton-Wright’s Sex Education, his debut solo theatre show at Summerhall. And it’s a message that is powerful and playful. Over an eye-popping hour of lecture, video and recorded interview, Clayton-Wright
delves deep into his sex life—its pleasures and its pains—and points out the paucity of proper sex education in society.
It starts with a fairly x-rated montage of gay sex scenes featuring Clayton-Wright, then falls into a pattern. He chats for a bit, shows us some of the ‘80s gay porn that his errant dad gave him when he was 14, then continues to prepare cucumber sandwiches while an interview between him and his mother—not present, understandably—is piped over the sound system.
There are light moments—the story of how Clayton-Wright got hold of the bright, white wedding
dress he wears for the first half of the show is priceless—and there are darker ones, too; memories that make Clayton-Wright question how well his parents prepared him for the life he now leads.
He’s a funny, frank performer, with a bone-dry wit and a carefree smile he cleverly uses to suggest inner torment. And, as he proudly asserts in a read-aloud letter to his mother, he doesn’t even need to put anything up his bum. Onstage, that is. Don’t be put off by the content warnings or the questionable cucumber sandwiches: this is a titillating show with a truthful, tender heart. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan
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VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 3:45pm – 4:45pm, various dates between 1 Aug and 25 Aug
TICKETS: £12
Growing up, Mika Johnson didn’t like wearing dresses or playing with girls’ toys. They note that we are constantly performing, like actors in a play. Combining spoken word, storytelling, dance and plenty of humour, they invite us into a dating life which centres around the concoction of a lemon cocktail. Johnson begins at a microphone, two tube strips which
VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate
TIME: 1pm – 2pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10 – £11
Writer and performer Alex Gwyther delivers a heart-pumping, physically intense monologue, battling with trauma to mould his character into the stereotype of the “real man”. Moving to a different town following a sexual assault in a local park, Jamie—now reborn as Jack—ditches his best friend Sam, who’s mostly concerned about how Brexit is going to affect the price of Freddos, and befriends Max and a group of beer guzzling, cocaine sniffing lads. His role model is Rambo. He wants to become the ultimate warrior. He thinks that being part of a pack will mean he’s safe forever. He finds out that he couldn’t be further from the truth.
The stage is bare save a small black bench and can of Stella Artois. Lighting is warm and bright
emit pink light either side of them to create a frame. Two pink boxes on the stage, one big and one small. One is lifted early on to reveal about a dozen lemons which are rubbed against their body as they dance.
Johnson teases with the audience, their cheeky grin charms and humours, as their body moves playfully into various shapes and poses. The performance is underscored with hip-hop, R&B and bashment, the latter being a modern uptempo relation to dancehall and ragga and a particular favourite of a girl Johnson meets at work. Johnson finds themselves the object of fetishisation from a woman who appropriates black culture from her hairstyle to the
objects in her bedroom. Description and feeling sit hand in hand in a poetical text which plays plenty with rhythm and rhyme.
In a scene which provokes a considerable level of audience response, Johnson lies on the floor and inserts their head into one of the pink boxes, the sound of an orgasming partner playing through the speakers while Johnson moves their head and arms in and around the box. The narrative of the story is a little thin overall, but Johnson excels in the physical comedy and spoken word. They have a distinct and excitable performance style and form a lovable rapport with their audience while exploring queer identity. ✏︎
Joseph Wineras Jamie relives his friendship with Sam, but a single side light casts dark shadows against his face as he fights through the presence of his own insecurities. The sound design rumbles in the clubs and bars, twigs snapping in the park, with a horrifying screeching that undertones the slurping of beer. Tension builds with the music. A plot twist drops and the air becomes motionless, dry.
Gwyther performs hard labour. He is totally engrossing, effortlessly transforming into the different characters: nervous hands as he tries to impress the lads, chest stretched out as he embodies and becomes the product of toxic masculinity. Sweat drips speedily from his face and his hair becomes a soaking mop. His body stiffens at the climax. The story alternates between the past and the present with Jamie firmly trapped in the middle. Gwyther’s storytelling is magnificent in its execution and engages with a topic matter that is crucially pertinent to a silence that still begs to be broken.
Joseph Winer
Credit: The Other Richard
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VENUE: C venues – C aquila
TIME: 12pm – 1pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13
TICKETS: £8.50 – £10.50
Gig theatre is becoming a crowded field at the Fringe, making it hard to stand out. Oscar Sadler’s new addition to this genre, with original music by Mollie Tucker, is slight but promising, showcasing the energy and potential of young company Pound of Flesh. Taking place over just one
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VENUE: CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
TIME: 2:30pm – 4pm, 31 Jul – 24 Aug, not 5, 12, 19
TICKETS: £11
The Canadian national discussion around the recently-published National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has unearthed deep feelings of anger and shame about the disproportionate lack of safety experienced by the group the report concerns. This one-woman show, performed by actor Cherish Violet Blood, fictionalises the story of just one girl who lost her life through what is perceived to be a toxic brew of male violence, colonial violence and institutionally racist disregard.
Blood’s performance of Tara Beagan’s play creates a powerful glimpse into life amid Canada’s underprivileged, working-class indigenous communities, with
day, Fires Our Shoes Have Made follows 13-year-old Jay and his little sister Saskia—Sassy to him—on their quest for escape. Six months ago, Jay and Sassy’s mum died and they moved in with their estranged father. Now Jay wants the two of them to make a break for it, striking out on their own.
There’s a mythic dimension to the show, as legend becomes entwined with reality. The knife with which Jay arms himself for the journey is Excalibur—Scally for short—and those who stand in his and Sassy’s way are goblins and trolls. For the two siblings, fantasy is an escape from grief
and a suit of armour in which to face the world. But as the play goes on, reality hits them hard. The storytelling combines spoken word, sound, music and song, all performed under mesmerising coloured lights. The show looks and sounds beautiful, but its plot needs some serious work. Sense is often sacrificed to lyricism; the story gets lost in a dense web of startling images and inventive rhymes. The conclusion, meanwhile, feels rushed and underdeveloped. There’s lots to like here—not least the lively performances—but it could do with some honing.
✏︎ Catherine Lovethe central character, Blackfoot woman Tara, balanced on a knifeedge between tenderness and fury. She remembers her childhood – a dysfunctional one, with a mother who barely registered the abuse of her daughters by her new partner. Yet also a fond one when she recalls that sister, or the rare bonding she felt with her father when he took her hunting, a precursor to her joining the Army and being sent to the Middle East.
Tara’s revenge for the murder of her sister is bloody and winceinducing, and envelops the play in
sheer anger. The piece is delivered in hard-edged but often amusingly contemporary Canadian, and through words, performance and Andy Moro’s direction, Tara comes vividly to life before us; yet the basis of the monologue is that it’s being delivered as a piece of video testimony after something almost unspeakable has happened, and the choice to live-stream Blood’s face onto two screens behind her distracts from her performance, despite the mood created by occasional video effects. ✏︎ David Pollock
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 1pm – 2:15pm, 31 Jul – 26
Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £14 – £17.50
It’s not so hard to see why Fishbowl won the Molière Award for best comedy play in its native France. A riot of slapstick, visual jokes and silent farce, this is a delight for connoisseurs of physical comedy – les Francais among the most committed. That it combines technical whizz bangs with three exceptional clownish performances is all in its favour. And yet, there’s something missing here.
VENUE: The Lyceum
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In adapting Scottish makar Jackie Kay’s 2011 autobiography Red Dust Road, co-producers the National Theatre of Scotland and Home in Manchester are bringing to the stage an essential story for our times. This isn’t just the deeply personal tale of Kay’s birth to a Mormon mother from rural northern Scotland and a visiting student from Nigeria, and her subsequent adoption by a working class white couple from Glasgow, but also a more wide-ranging story of growing up mixed-race in a Britain which was overwhelmingly white, and in places fearful of and angered by difference – and which, in many ways, remains so.
Partly, it’s the venue. Sure, it’s usually a bit unfair to pick on the venue at a festival where any cupboard is costly, but for one of Pleasance’s tentpole shows in the Grand, this is no two-bit affair. It seems clear that the set has been only minimally adapted to a big, wide performance space. With this complex set, sightlines are awful. Anything played to the back of the three apartment blocks we are presented with is lost to the sides. For a production where technical excellence is everything, this is fatal.
In part, it’s also perhaps a victim of its own success. We see three (sometimes) single people living, loving and bumping alongside each other in the close confines of a Paris tenement. We’re introduced
to each, via some brilliant visual jokes. But their strength—that they are used but once—is also their weakness as the team must keep things inventive. One senses that they start to test the repertoire, like gymnasts working through the range of disciplines. It’s very impressive—high points from the judges—but it feels laboured.
Their best gags come at you quickly from odd angles, whereas longer sequences, for instance with a peeping-Tom payoff, can be seen creeping up from miles away. A postscript that is messy in the best possible way ends Fishbowl on a high, but the scene adds nothing to the narrative and one feels it’s added in to make up for the fact that it’s not all plain sailing getting there. ✏︎ Evan
BeswickThe characters around Kay are memorable: we come to know her adoptive parents John and Helen (a wonderful, easily humorous double act between Lewis Howden as her Communist Party activist father and Elaine C Smith as her endlessly wise mother), her religious birth mother Elizabeth (Irene Allan), and her intriguing father Jonathan (Stefan Adegbola), a respected religious figure in his homeland, whose evasion of publicly accepting his daughter is intended to preserve his reputation.
In the fine-focus details of Kay’s story, as adapted by Tanika Gupta, her life story is absorbing and emotionally powerful. Sasha Frost binds the play well as a hopeful, inquisitive Kay, piecing the fragments of her identity together. On the subjects of building your own self as an adopted child, and on acceptance of one’s own racial identity (and, to a lesser extent, sexual identity), director Dawn
Walton brings together a work which is resonant and truthful.
Yet somehow this flagship Edinburgh International Festival production feels physically small-scale, with the wider stage under-utilised. It feels like an excursion, rather than a journey, into the reality it seeks to reflect. ✏︎ David Pollock
VENUE: ZOO Playground
TIME: 6:50pm – 7:50pm, 11–26
Aug, not 18
TICKETS: £10
Nick Field can talk to unicorns. In this surreal celebration that devolves into dystopian satire, he even summons a few. With unicorn dildos, handfuls of confetti and a candyfloss maker, Field traces the history of our obsession with unicorns, examining why they are so ubiquitous today. He is a glitzy, welcoming host, but the piece hasn’t yet found its feet. At this stage it’s definitely more of a gathering than a party.
Field lays out a strong thesis
tying unicorns to power, tracing their history and popularity in queer culture, and exploring how they have been overlypopularised by big brands keen to commercialise nostalgia. He leads a tongue-in-cheek lecture that starts to sour, as ideas of purity begin to reign and pleasure turns to paranoia.
The show is most alive when interactive and joyful. There is power in celebration, in the party we were promised. Through it
all, he makes a brilliant mess on stage – glitter, unicorn cum, hundreds and thousands. But the darker parts aren’t yet as full of energy or impact. There’s a lot of empty space around the slapdash skits, and little to hold them together.
Field’s lines are wobbly, the structure feels frail and the show as a whole hasn’t yet found its form. It’s not unlike watching a glitch in a unicorn gif. But the core idea is strong. ✏︎ Kate Wyver
Whale, whale, whale. What have we here? That’s right: no less than three Moby Dicks—or should that be Mobies Dick?—inspired by the bicentenery of Herman Melville’s birth. If the Fringe programme is always something of a leviathan, that makes it extra leviathanny this year, and reason enough to lower boats and head to all three interpretations of Melville’s vast text.
It’s a text as vast as the sea, with complex currents, dangerous undertows and whirlpools aplenty. It’s also a very literary novel, which does beg the question as to why bother putting it on stage? Grist to the Mill Productions’ version (2 stars) at Assembly does rather pull this question into focus.
It’s clear what the intention is here: a one-man performance in character in Ishmael, there’s a striving for a tour-de-force, the scale of the text compressed into magnificent performance. It doesn’t really come off, despite an extraordinary line-learning effort from Ross Ericson (who adapts and performs). If nothing else, it makes a good case for Melville’s at times pedantic, almost scientific prose remaining a novel of the page not the stage. He trips over his words and, on occasion, loses his place. It’s a fault of the text more than the performer.
But the performer has faults, too. There’s the accent, which begins as a generic East Coast American, but quickly falters. More fundamentally, though, in compressing Melville’s frequently unstable narrative perspective into much clearer reported speech, we lose some of the the enigmatic joy of the text. In particular, by transforming Moby Dick into a wordy first-person adventure story, Ishmael becomes a po-faced reliable storyteller. We’re left only with the jokes he tells, not Melville’s jokes or insight at his expense. He plays the relationship with Queequeg totally straight – almost exasperated by his affections. Of all the joys of Ishmael and Queequeg’s relationship, surely the biggest is that Ishmael fails to understand what his own words tell about feelings that he doesn’t understand: “Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg – a cosy, loving pair.”
By contrast, what a surprising, precious little lump of ambergris Leviathan Theatre’s production is (4 stars). This 10 strong cast of young men perform not just with energy, but with restraint and nuance. Leviathan’s publicity material is deliberately vague on whether they are a school group, though they somewhat give the game away when they thank their teacher at the end of the performance for her direction and adaptation of the text. And thank her they should: this is a clear and thoughtful setting of the
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Pleasance Courtyard, 7:30pm –8:20pm, various dates between 1 Aug and 25 Aug, £10 – £11
Assembly Rooms, 4:05pm –5:05pm, various dates between 1 Aug and 24 Aug, £10 – £12
vast novel. A choice has been made to focus on the dramatic hunt for the whale, but retaining an ethereal dreamlike detachment to the whole affair. That’s well done, and clever decisions like moving the five “gams” or ship-to-ship encounters together help keep the tension, each rendezvous feeling like a step closer to damnation.
But there’s just enough of the book’s sprawling asides to keep this from becoming mere story. What’s more, it’s handled with confidence, and just the sort of irreverence Melville would, one suspects, have approved of. Here’s an example: the boys speak the chapter numbers in unison, and several of Melville’s (sometimes hilarious) philosophical pontifications are grouped together under a heading of “existential musing”. That’s funny.
The lads are taut as a harpooner's rope in this very physical, but very sparse performance. They pick up on cues instantly; they move as a single body. A table turned upside down takes us below decks; on its edge it becomes the pulpit from which Father Mapple delivers his manic sermon. There’s some propensity towards hamminess in the portraits of some of the crew, but that’s entirely forgivable as an effort to bring out the different registers of Melville’s text. Fundamentally, here’s a production that takes pleasure in the amibuity of Melville’s weird novel.
And then there’s Casey Jay Andrews’ version, The Wild Unfeeling World (three stars), which takes pleasure in not
really being about Moby Dick at all. Loosely tied to the text, Andrews instead introduces us to Dylan, her broken down white Renault Clio, Moby, which ran over a now threelegged, now vengeful cat, Ahab. Dylan, in the middle of a set of personal crises, treks across London as Ahab stalks her. We crash into the whale-in-the-Thames episode. We cover concepts such as desire lines and object permanence. No one dies.
The story is told with energy and poetry by Andrews in a tiny (and, to be fair, grossly uncomfortable) living room-type set. Using plastic animals, a torch and self-controlled sound and lighting cues, she creates a mini epic out of small fry. There’s a slight tendency towards the falling cadences and out-of-place spondees of performance poetry which feels distracting, and a couple of tech niggles. But it doesn’t hole the boat.
And yet, in all its sprawling chaos, it is in some ways it’s closer to the spirit of Moby Dick than straight adaptation can ever be. For what is Ahab’s quest other than a personal crisis anchored to the structure of an epic? And in wearing Melville’s clothes, out of chaos Andrews raises her colours clearly – we all fail big sometimes. But in our own epics, someone can come out alive to tell the tale. There’s also a timely shout out to the Samaritans and CALM. At this stressful festival it’s worth remembering: it’s always better to talk to someone than to try and slaughter a whale.
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 8pm – 9pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19
TICKETS: £12 – £14
How’s this for a horrible history or two? Having given the New Testament a kick up the backside three years ago in Triple Threat, exposing every corner and crevice of the body of Christ, Lucy McCormick has turned her trashy aesthetic on the world’s greatest women. Herself very much included.
VENUE: Greenside @ Infirmary Street
TIME: 6:35pm – 7:35pm, 2–24 Aug, not 11, 18
TICKETS: £11
Mean Girls meets the Third Reich in this dark comedy about the young women selected to check Hitler’s food for poison during the Second World War. The girls are quickly at each others’ throats. But just as soon as they start in on each other, they stop, smile, and take a selfie.
iPhones, blasts of modern music and the American twangs of the cast help to make the play’s point about how easy complicity can be. The anachronism is intriguing, but the repetitive looping structure keeps it from building to any greater significance. Snatched up by the SS, the girls raise questions about Nazism and the grim, frightening work they never signed up for, but quickly fall back into hero worship of the Führer
Within minutes, her lips are locked around a backing dancer’s forbidden fruit – long before she’s stripped off to play Eve. Queen Boudicca comes daubed in blueberry war paint, clambering into a chariot, arse in half her audiences’ face. Anne Boleyn near drowns as ketchup pours out of her axe-wound. Each gets their own dance break and appropriate pop anthem combo.
This time, however, there’s nothing too much at stake: no blasphemy in the clash of subject and style; no rebellion in reclaiming this material for modern tastes. In fact, her outré approach only overwhelms her subject –something McCormick’s all too
aware of. Her egotistical diva comes to the fore at the expense of her feminism and the show slowly breaks down.
McCormick remains a killer performer with real ramshackle, unpredictable charisma, but she’s caught between shock and a hard place here. Having made her name pushing the envelope, she’s no longer sure what message she wants to send. Post-Popular unravels into a show about creative paralysis, an artist wrestling with her own legend. Still too slack to get away with such self-indulgence, it’s a structural twist short of any kind of solution. Without that, Post-Popular looks a little past caring. ✏︎ Matt
Truemanto distract themselves. It’s a pattern that repeats itself almost to absurdity and frustration – a thoughtful take on fascism, but a shallow take on teenage girls.
Dance sequences between scenes don’t add anything that can’t be gleaned from the dialogue, but the constant costume changes, each offering a flash of the swastikas sewn into their vests, feel more purposeful.
The comedy is biting, although a line about “making Germany great
again” is much too predictable. Walking a line between building sympathy for the girls and exposing their hatefulness, the script sometimes treads too heavily on either side: “Jews, we don’t like Jews, right?” asks one, as if it was ever in question. At moments the show becomes truly fascinating and grotesque. Afterwards, however, it’s difficult to feel for the girls when they fall, once again, under the attention of the SS. ✏︎ Frankie
Goodway
HHHH
VENUE: ZOO Playground
TIME: 2pm – 3pm, 2–26 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £10
With a set that features a framed picture of Gary Lineker, trophies, medals and fireplace given a new life as goalposts, Next Door Dance’s The Beautiful Game is obviously a show aimed at football lovers. But it’s one that’ll likely strike a chord with anyone who was obsessive about anything in their youth. Quite literally it takes a trip down “Memory Lane” and
delves into a world of freshly cut grass, half-time oranges and new boots. It is a joyous nostalgia trip that the quartet take us on.
The company’s first show in Edinburgh is a success. No boundaries are pushed particularly hard with their routines, there is a lot of heart and love for the subject and it’s this passion that makes such an impression on today’s crowd. Famous goals are recreated: Rooney’s overhead kick in the Manchester derby; Beckham’s ballsy lob over Neil Sullivan; and Paul Gascoigne’s most audacious effort. The rituals and superstitions of fans are embraced. There are personal touches too, which in the
aftermath of the Women’s World Cup feels especially significant. The all female cast share their memories of football, whether founding a women’s team, or sharing a bonding experience with family members. The sport is still dominated by men, but it won’t always be that way.
There are some lovely touches throughout; a soundtrack of Oasis and D:Ream that takes us right back to the mid ‘90s when football “came home”, testimonies from fans of perennial strugglers like Mansfield Town, Swansea City and Nottingham Forest and—best of all—a very funny bit about the complexity of the offside rule. They shoot, and at the first attempt, they score. ✏
Craig Angus Credit: Gavin Mawditt
VENUE: Assembly Roxy
TIME: 2:45pm – 3:45pm, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20
TICKETS: £11 – £14
The tensions and intimacy of a creative relationship receive a refreshingly smart, emotionally warm once-over in this circustheatre two-hander by Nikki Rummer and JD Brousse. The opening scenes play with the truth. Without wanting to be coy about it, we think we’re privy to one slant on them that actually turns out to be something else. The pair deliver their big reveal with such low-key believability—simply by talking to us in the audience—that it feels natural and makes sense.
Among the show’s mentors and collaborators is Ben Duke, an award-winning British choreographer-director whose
VENUE: St Patrick’s Church
TIME: 8:30pm – 10:50pm, 3–24 Aug, not 10, 17
TICKETS: £16
Walk down the Cowgate this evening, past St Patrick’s church and you may glimpse a spectacle: a 40 foot-high set evoking the Cathedral of Notre Dame; big, beautiful (real!) horses hanging out amid the trees; a goat, gambolling backstage. Pass during
excellent what-if-they-didn’t-die take on Romeo and Juiet—called Juilet & Romeo—can be seen at Dance Base during the last week of the Fringe. It’d be interesting to know just how much influence he had on Rummer and Brousse’s self-examinatory work. But maybe it really doesnt matter so much. What counts is how engaging the two performers are. They handle spoken text with aplomb. Well, it is their own story they’re telling us. Still, they’re sensitive and funny when it comes to words.
The valuable extra layer of articulacy in Knot is Rummer and Brousse’s high level of skill as circus artists. They’re remarkably good together onstage, with partnering that is risky but also clean and strong. (A favourite moment: a corkscrew backflip that ends with her seated on his chest.) Ultimately what they’ve accomplished here is a very entertaining consideration of how to value both oneself and each other. ✏ Donald
Hutera
the performance and you will see no elecric lights, only fire. You may hear the clanging of bells, the clatter of a horse-drawn carriage, or the mournful sound of a full pipe organ mounted high on one of the spires. It’s even more spectacular from inside.
Having been transported, set, man and beast, all the way from France, this is evidently a mammoth lo-fi undertaking. Running at two and a half hours, outdoors, it’s also decidedly unFringey – and that’s even more so in terms of dramaturgy. Expansive, digressive and often opaque, this retelling of Victor Hugo’s novel sits firmly outside of modern theatrical trends. But it stays true to the novel, making the cathedral and its gargoyles a central character
and imbuing it with the capacity to determine emotions and fates, offering both sanctuary to the needy and allowing archdeacon Frollo to practice alchemy and all manner of abuse behind closed doors, away from regulating transparency.
Sure, it drags in places. The horses aren’t always required, though they do add spectacle. But there’s some nice dramatic touches – Esmerelda, for instance, is the only character who speaks no English. Played by a British Iranian actor her comparative voicelessness is tragic and telling. But the fire—a terrifying amount of it at times—makes for something entirely unique, reaching back in time and bringing forth this odd, medieval spectacle. ✏ Evan
Beswick
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 9:30pm – 10:30pm, 1–25
Aug
TICKETS: £13 – £15
Is Aaron Crow FearLess, or just insane? After watching the show, it’s safe to say that he is both. But more than FearLess, Crow is a master of non-verbal suspense. He remains mute throughout the entirety of the show and in doing so eliminates any barrier of communication with his
audience. Such a performer does not need words when their actions shout so loudly.
With each feat comes an everincreasing level of intrigue – what is risk to Crow is reward to those watching. A Russian roulette of daggers, threading several ingested needles, shards of broken glass, all seem child’s play to this master of madness. And despite the stage being awash with peril, every audience member that he invites up to assist him seems simultaneously nervous and comforted. Crow’s gaze is both arresting and endearing, a mischievous glint that suggests mayhem but delivers magic.
And then things get more serious. Ninja-like reflexes save Crow from a potential amputation. A staff beating out his pulse seems to slow and even stop. In those split seconds, a realisation sets in: if any of this goes wrong, Crow’s life is in serious danger.
Every aspect of FearLess heightens its mystery, from the uneasy silences to the stereotypical music and Edgar Allan Poe-inspired projection imagery. But this show that is more than merely dramatic – it has dramaturgy. Crow is both a madman and a genius, but most of all he is a consummate performer.
✏ Daniel Perks Credit: Aaron Crow
VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square
TIME: 6:25pm – 7:25pm, 31 Jul –25 Aug, not 12
TICKETS: £10 – £11
It’s Magical Bones’s first hour at the Fringe, combining breakdancing with close up tricks and an escape act. For Bones, black magic doesn’t refer to misappropriated vodou or Satanic rites, but black excellence. He draws out this theme with his own tricks, which build to some astonishing climaxes, and through stories about his role models: Ellen Armstrong, a psychic and first black woman magician to tour America, and Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery by posting himself inside a box.
Introducing himself to his audience, Bones traces his career from his start as a street performer, and all the hallmarks of street magic are there. Card tricks make up the majority of the act, with a Rubiks cube thrown in for good measure.
VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 2:20pm – 3:30pm, 31 Jul –26 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £12 – £14
A musical journey through the extraordinary career of the late great Edith Piaf, Exposing Edith is a multi-award winning cabaret show by Michaela Burger. A beautiful tribute to the legend, Exposing Edith chronicles Piaf’s wild life both on and off stage. It's
Unfortunately, the visibility for some tricks is poor, and an engaging table trick set to music is let down by the grainy television that doesn't let anyone not in the front row see it.
Bones has an underplayed charm, chirpsing a woman he calls up on stage and teasing his audience and his assistant every now and again. It keeps the atmosphere easy-going, but also a little casual,
with audience members lapsing into chatter. There’s also a noticeable drop in engagement whenever he leaves the stage – a short PowerPoint on Brown doesn’t do much to cover his absence as he prepares for a showstopping final trick. It’s here, as Bones asks a white audience member to shackle him, that some tension finally builds.
✏ Frankie Goodwayheld together by a terrific central performance by Burger who has the skill to not only portray Piaf, but her inner circle of confidants.
It’s no easy thing to sing as the legendary French artist, yet Burger has the vocals to do so. It is safe to say that this is a special show for Burger who was affectionally nicknamed the little sparrow of Australia, after her idol Piaf, the original little sparrow. Piaf was a larger-than-life figure who has, till this day, devoted fans around the world.
To tell Piaf’s story, Burger isn’t afraid to use the most rich and uplifting parts as well as the most
devastating moments of Piaf’s life. It is a heartwarming performance that offers a unique take on Piaf’s famous songs and life story. These stories that have become legendary among fans. Newcomers will be won over by Burger’s talent as well as Piaf lasting legacy as a true original.
Not to be forgotten is Greg Wain, the underscoring guitar player who helps reimagine songs like ‘La Vie en Rose’ into acoustic ballads. Where Exposing Edith succeeds is in capturing the spirit of the French superstar. Audiences will learn to appreciate Piaf and learn to love Burger.
✏ James McCollVENUE: Gilded Balloon, Teviot
Josephine Baker lived an incredible life. In one hour, performer Tymisha Harris brings Josephine to life, sharing her story, her music and fabulous costumes in this blend of musical theatre, cabaret, burlesque and storytelling.
Harris’s performance is stunning. She plays off the audience, those in the front row becoming ex-husbands and both male and female lovers,
and uses the rapturous applause of a 2019 audience to contrast the stony silence of American audiences throughout Baker’s life.
It is clear that Harris has spent time studying Baker’s performances. She captures her animated expression as she sings, and adds a deeper tone and richness to her voice as the older Baker, while still making the show her own.
This production is high glamour on the surface, but beneath it runs a fear and oppression subtlety played by Harris. In the play’s beginning, she jumps from all-out performance in front of the microphone to a
downtrodden woman, admonished for being somewhere she shouldn’t. Running to a better future is a constant theme. By the end, it seems that Baker found something of this future, though she had to fight every step of the way to shatter stereotypes. “I play the savage on stage so I try to be high class in everything else," Harris observes.
In a lump-in-throat moment, she talks of her fear of becoming another Saartjie Baartman, her remains put on display. Josephine Baker’s story should be told, and this is an exceptional telling.
✏ Emma Ainley-WalkerVENUE: Pianodrome at The Pitt
TIME: times vary, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20
TICKETS: £15 – £20
Could Pianodrome be the friendliest venue in town? Situated in a functional market building on an unassuming side street heading towards Leith, it’s certainly off the beaten track. The name of this unique den of music derives from the central, in-the-round performance area dominated by a tall 100-seater constructed out of upcycled pianos. It’s a real beauty
VENUE: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
TIME: 10:30pm – 11:45pm, 31 Jul –26 Aug, not 14
TICKETS: £12 – £13
When a maniacal misogynist’s plot to turn women into mindless breeders backfires, Bryony Buckle (Allie Munro), a meek tax accountant with IBS and anxiety, becomes Vulvarine, saviour of womankind and High Wycombe. Fat Rascal Theatre have brought back their original musical alongside Unfortunate this year, but Vulvarine doesn’t suffer for being their second offering each evening. If anything, the cast seem limbered up, throwing themselves into the opening number with a gusto that never wanes.
The show is shot through with feelgood feminism, from Robyn
too, enhanced by an entrancing, multi-surface light installation (by Dutch-born artist Mettje Hunneman) that figures in the gigs happening here.
The house band is S!nk, a small ensemble led by Pianodrome founder Tim Vincent Smith – also a violinist, vocalist and songwriter. He’s aided and abetted by fellow musos Matthew Wright (a horn man), Daniel Dumnov (on keys), percussionist Tim Lane and Dave Tunstall (bass). Freely guided by Nikki Hill, these guys—some of them barefoot or in socks—move around as they play, but how could you not? The handsome, cosy venue is conducive to their kind of relaxed banter and easygoing, embodied playfulness.
Musically, S!nk is likewise unpretentiosuly adventurous.
Whether jazzy, funky or freefloatingly experimental, none of the 10 or so selections they play for the first hour or so of any given evening outstays its welcome. Many are slow-build, layered compositions that reach a level of intensity— predicated on the meshed, sometimes cyclical rhythms of their instrumentation—before subsiding. A highlight is ‘Velo’, dedicated to Smith’s partner and commemorating a bicycle trip in the Pyrenees. Smith actually riding one round the room is an integral part of its atmospheric soundscape. There’s also ‘Theo’, a lilting tribute to his son with a sweetly yearning, lullaby feel. Like Pianodrome itself, S!nk’s music makes me happy. Note that each bill is shared with different guest artists. ✏
Donald HuteraGrant’s swivel-eyed cross-dressing turn as the Mansplainer to the dick jokes – of which there are just enough to satisfy. Vulvarine swoops in to save women from manspreaders, lame parties and bad sex. While the misogyny of the mansplainer sounds like 4chan come to life, the show never lets it get too heavy.
It’s incredibly silly, but brilliantly slick as well. The set looks deceptively simple and the lighting and sound is as good as you’re likely to see in any temporary space. The cast are upsettingly talented. Bar Munro, all take multiple roles. The scene where
Bryony discovers her powers shows how much thought has gone into the production. There’s no subtlety in how they manage it, but boy is it funny. The balance and pacing are just right, with hints of sweetness in Bryony’s pursuit of the pleasingly useless Orson providing some contrast for the cruder moneyshots.
The songs are well-varied with a couple of true showstoppers. Grant wrote the book, which may explain why two of the absolute belters— including a stonking villain song— are in her capable hands. But there are enough fab solos and one-liners to go around in this exceptional ensemble piece. ✏
Frankie GoodwayHHH
VENUE: Assembly Rooms
TIME: 10:35pm – 11:25pm, 1–25
Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £16 – £18
If you go to Wannabe with an open mind, warmed up vocal chords and a belly full of drink, you’re sure to have a night to remember, with even the most reluctant audience member giving into the cheesiness and dancing in the aisles. Imagine it’s just big budget karaoke.
Dopplegangers (well, if you squint a bit) of the world’s bestselling girl band strut on stage, with a set of lit-up letters spelling out S-P-I-C-E in case we forget who this is a tribute to. They’ve put Baby in the corner for tonight’s performance, as
Lucy Claire pulls out of the dance routines due to injury. Propped on a stool to the side, she grins through the pain as the drunk-dadat-the-party voiceover tells us she “zig-a-zig-ah-ed” a bit too much in rehearsal. So begins the ultimate call-and-response song, met with a giant cheer, and we’re off.
The cast pull out an endless barrage of bangers, almost tricking us into dancing with how hideously catchy each song is. When Geri leaves, they bring on two dancers and “spice boys” to distract us from
how bad the Girls’ solo careers were. Soon we’re back to the good old hits and by this point not even the performers can top the energy of the hen do behind us.
The choreography may not extend much further than pushing a lot of invisible air around, the acoustics may make the singers sound a bit distant, and the whole show might feel faker than Posh’s well-wishing before the band’s most recent tour, but Wannabe is so much fun, a lot can be forgiven.
✏ Kate Wyver
What happens in the show?
It's a band of four people, two girls and two boys and they play some French, German and English language songs.
Describe the show in five words. Fun for all and any.
Who was your favourite character and why?
I liked Katrina who played the drums because I used to play the snare drum.
Were there any characters you didn't like?
No, I liked all of them.
What did you like most about the show?
That one of my favourite songs was in it. Gorillaz 'I'm Happy'.
What didn't you like about the show? That you had to get up and dance.
If there were songs and music in the show, what did you think?
I thought it was nice because the songs were well known so a lot of people could singalong.
What did your grown up think of the show?
My mum thought it was good. She said she knew all the songs.
Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?
Yes but not at 10:30 in the morning. I definitely got woken up.
VENUE: Comète, Assembly Checkpoint
TIME: 10:30am – 11:20am, 31 Jul – 26 Aug,
not 8, 13
TICKETS: £9 – £11
Lauren Hunter, 13, feels that this climate change play isn't aimed at either younger or older kids
What happens in the show?
A 17-year-old newspaper boy has a onesided love. She sends him out to find 7,000 rubber ducks that are lost in the ocean.
Describe the show in five words Musical, environmental, oceanic, voyage, clunky.
Who was your favourite character and why?
I didn't really have a favourite character.
Were there any characters that you didn't like?
I didn't dislike the bearded lady but she was introduced so late it felt forced.
What did you like most about the show? In some of the songs the characters were dressed in recycled trash. It would have been nicer to see more of this throughout as plastic waste and climate change are supposed to be one of its main themes.
What didn't you like about the show? It's supposed to be a show about climate change for children but it felt like the message would have gone over their heads.
If there were any songs or music in the show, what did you think of them? The songs acted as a break from the story.
What did your grown-up think of the show?
My dad loved the whale having an eye test.
Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?
It doesn't work for any age range so no.
VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard
TIME: 10:30am – 11:30am, 7–26 Aug, not 20
TICKETS: £8 – £10
00:00
Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–24 Aug, £7
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £10
Project X – Alternative Comedy Collective
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 25–26 Aug, £5
The Wonder Jam Heroes @ Black Medicine, 21–26 Aug, £5
Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories VI
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Late Show Great Show / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–26 Aug, FREE
Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 24–25 Aug, £13
00:05
Best of the Fest... Later Assembly Rooms, 24–26 Aug, £14–£16
Comedy Village
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–26 Aug, FREE
00:10
An Evening With Lee Trundle
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–26 Aug, £5
00:15
Demi Lardner and Tom Walker: We Musn’t Monkey Barrel Comedy, 23–25 Aug, £7
Scot Roast – Afterburn
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–27 Aug, £5
The Piece: Now More (Artistically) Accessible – WiP
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE
A&E
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–26 Aug, FREE
The Rat Pack Comedy –Anything Goes!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE
David O’Doherty: Ultrasound Assembly George Square, 24–25 Aug, £16
00:30
The Darkness Distillery
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Amusical Club Night Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10
The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 20–26 Aug, £8
Tree Fiddy
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Global Comedy Club
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We’re Out the House
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–26 Aug, FREE
00:45
Gaming Under the Influence
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Ghost Orgy
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–26 Aug, FREE
01:00
Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5
ACID!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Currie and Brice: Kraudwerk Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 22 Aug, £5
Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug, £14–£16
Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–22 Aug, £12.50
01:30
Philipp and Phriends: A Late-Night Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE
09:00
BBC at George Heriot’s School
BBC, 20–23 Aug, FREE
09:30
A Political Breakfast
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE
10:00
A Comedy Brunch 3
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
Snack Chat
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
BBC: The Afternoon Show BBC, 20–21 Aug, FREE
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £99
10:10
Selling Like Hot Takes Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £9
10:20
Trans*Atlantic
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Freshly Squeezed Comedy
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
10:40
Lee Kyle – ConQuest
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
10:50
Tales of Whatever
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
11:00
Jack and Barney Are in the Background
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Full Irish
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Iceberg Effect
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–23 Aug, FREE
11:15
A Failuretale
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Attention, Seeker
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Meddlin’ Kids
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8–£9
Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Comedy Auction
Frankenstein Pub, 25 Aug, £7
Mumblebrag
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Twat Out of Hell: Deluxe
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
11:20
50% Canadian, 100 %
Crazy, Let’s Laugh Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
11:25
Reality Sucks! HHH
Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £5
11:30
The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26
Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Cruise Ship
Love Affair
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 25 Aug, £10.50
Westdal and Hayward Need Work
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10
Unladylike
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Laurel and Hardy
Cabaret
Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25
Aug, £10
Daphna Baram:
Cracking Up
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Vampire Hospital Waiting Room
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 24 Aug, £10.50
11:35
Long Man Doing Short
Jokes, Short Man Doing
Long Jokes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
3’s Comedy – Adam
Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
11:40
Harry Baker: I Am 10,000
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24
Aug, £10–£11
Neighbourhood Watch Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £8
Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
11:45
Morgan Rees and Riordan DJ: Coming to Terms
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
11:50
Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7
11:55
Bony Tony’s Silly Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
David Callaghan: Dance Like No One’s David Callaghan
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
12:00
Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24 Aug, £15
Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages)
Heroes @ Boteco, 23–25 Aug, £5
Stand-Up Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Amy Annette: What Women Want
Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug, £9
Who’s the Daddy Pig?
HH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10
Michael Legge: The Idiot HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–26 Aug, £12
Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Golden Path
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Funny Feckers
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Let’s Get Tough
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
This Is Your Trial (FF)
Frankenstein Pub, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £7
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaah, It’s the One-Liner Show
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE Black Sheep
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7
The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
Gethin Alderman is: Sublime
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too)
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
12:05
Cave Women: Work in Progress
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6
Joe Wells Doesn’t Want to Do Political Comedy
Anymore!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10
❤ Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
12:10
News@1066
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Don’t Bother
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10
Rachel Creeger –Hinayni!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10
Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
12:15
Elliot Steel: Merked HHH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me?
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Alex Farrow: Philosophy
A-Level
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Tony Law: Identifies HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10
Just These Please: Suitable
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Clash of the Tight Tens
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Babes / Pigs in the City
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–23 Aug, FREE
12:20
Impulse Control HHH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Peeved with Peter E
Davidson
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE
David McIver: Teleport
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stuart Laws Is All In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
12:25
In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Paul Foxcroft: Debut HHH
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE And They Played
Shang-A-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
12:30
Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Well, That Was Weird...
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Krystal Evans: Fishnets Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £3
Grave St Claire: Hard Bop Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Final Cut
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Jumping Off the Bandwagon
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Bargain Hunt and Gather
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch!
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £8
Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£12
12:35
Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
12:40
Boycotted: Comedy from Israel H
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £7.50
Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up HHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Big Wendy
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7
12:45
A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Look Up
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25 Aug, £5
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Richard Stott: Right
Hand Man
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Accident Avoidance
Training for Cutlery
Users
Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £8
Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn’t, You Decide!)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9
12:50
DCGK’s Chicken Box
Pencil Case
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Free Money from the Government: A Play
About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson
Square, 20–24 Aug, £8
Edy Hurst: Hurst
Schmurst
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Decree Absolute Vodka
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
12:55
Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
13:00
Angry Boater
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Darcie Silver – I Know
You Are
Planet Bar, 20–22 Aug, FREE
MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Trevor Lock’s Community Circle HH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
A Little R and R
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–24 Aug, £9
An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5
Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag HHH
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Sketch Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests)
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
So Close
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Generation Whyyy?
Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8
Journeys of the Mind and the Megabus
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Comedy Gobbledygook
Showcase / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ross Smith: Crying/ Shame
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
Austentatious
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £15–£17
Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive HH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
13:05
Daniel Audritt: Better Man
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6
The Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Andrew White: Retirement Tour
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
13:10
Rice and Chips
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Peter Brush: Present. Tense.
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £3
13:15
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Angel Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Girl Code
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ashes: A Comedy Showdown
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Australia: A Whinging
Pom’s Guide
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Jokes with Mark Simmons Podcast: Live
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please!
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Anesti Danelis: Six Frets
Under
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Old Jewish Jokes
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Blazers Presents
Comedy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Girl Stuff
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20 Aug, FREE
13:20
Edward Aczel - Artificial
Intellect HH
Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £7
The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Best of Edinburgh
Showcase Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£12.50
Obsolete
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10
Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball
Assembly George Square
Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say HH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £6
Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5
MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jamie Fraser and Maybe Someone Else, I Don’t
Know
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
13:25
The Dark Side of Research
Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10
Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5
Mix and Match Wine
Package
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE
13:30
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15
Friend
Pleasance at EICC, 25 Aug, £13
How To Not Die
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £6
Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Charmian Hughes: What-not
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain
HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12
Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress)
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret
Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8
Broken Toys
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Jessica Fostekew: Hench HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Will Penswick: Nørdic(k)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
Raul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25
Aug, £5
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Impromptu Shakespeare
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Tarot
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10
A Many Splendored Thing
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–23 Aug, FREE
The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50
Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £12.50
Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP)
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Not My Audience!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Will Rowland: Cocoon
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £16
13:35
I Can Cure... (With Subtext)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Shut It Down Carol
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE
13:40
Alcohol-Free Craic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24 Aug, £8
Character Building
Experience
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–22 Aug, £5
13:45
Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Board Game Smackdown
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Mista Lorraine
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Interviewing Electric
Frog Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, FREE
Ahir Shah: Dots
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£8
Got a Text: A Musical Parody
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
13:50
Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
13:55
Stuart McPherson: Mr. November
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
14:00
Georgie Morrell: Eyecon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
It Takes Three to Tango Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5
Steff Todd: Reality Check
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £10
Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir HH
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9
Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones –Lightfoot James
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50
Ed MacArthur: Humoresque
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Good Morning Nation
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13.50
Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11
Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant!
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Am I Blue
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
Axolotl: A Poetry Reading
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £9
CSI: Crime Scene
Improvisation
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Pindos
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, 20–23 Aug, £5
Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical
Parenting
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5
14:05
Mickey Sharma –Pervert!
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24
Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Funny Women Awards
2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12
14:10
Action Figure Archive
With Steve McLean
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Andy Field’s Funeral
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Internationally Unknown
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
14:15
Classic Joke Club
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Two Mums – One Cup
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–22 Aug, FREE
Once an Emo, Always an Emo
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Cruise Ship
Love Affair
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists!
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10
Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Vampire Hospital Waiting Room
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
14:20
❤ Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight
Responsibly HHHH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Evil Queen Rules!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley
Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Darius Davies: Persian of Interest
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
14:25
Nina Gilligan – Broad Shoulders
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything
Else Interactive Quiz
Show
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £7
Robin Grainger: Dog Complex HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
14:30
Plans
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
BadFamiliar by Matt
Davis
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–25 Aug, £5
Worst Show on the Fringe – Free
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE
It’s All Going To Be OK – Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Colin Chadwick: Quick Thinker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack HHH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 21–24 Aug, FREE
101 Comedy Club – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Agatha Is Missing!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
My Uncomfortable
Wardrobe
Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10
Cyclopath
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
14:35
Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Improv On Demand
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Gráinne Maguire: Guys...
It’s Problematic HHH
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
I Want an Irish Passport
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10
A Booklover’s Comedy Show
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
14:40
Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Audible Live Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Madame Señorita: Espousa Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £5
Markus Birdman – Last White Christmas
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Rob Kemp – Moonraker
2: Moonrakerer
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE
14:45
Socially Awkward Penguin
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Cool Jokes/Hot Takes
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24 Aug, FREE
The Oxford Imps
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £7
Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE Confessions of a Taxi Driver
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party HHH
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5
❤ Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Still Got It!
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Mistaken
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
14:50
❤ Rob Auton: The Time Show HHHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Lucy Frederick: Famtastic
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE
100% Cotton
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £10
Izzy Mant: Polite Club HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
15:00
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15
Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP)
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
I’m Here, All Weak
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Christopher Bliss: The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £7
Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
AAA Batteries (Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Bloom
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Will Mars: Phoenix
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 24 Aug, £8
Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
❤ Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12
My Finest Hour
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–25 Aug, £5
Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Sense of Tumour
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Barely There
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Emer Maguire: Hilarious Humans
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5
15:05
2001: A Sketch Odyssey theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6.50
Random Bag Check
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
15:10
Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
15:15
❤ Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8
Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5
Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £7
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £13
Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Shit Socialist
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics H
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) Pleasance Courtyard, 24 Aug, £12
Will Duggan: Class Two Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10
Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–24 Aug, £5
Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £6
15:20
Glitter Business
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5
Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior
Farewell Tour HHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–26 Aug, £12
Sarah Lee: Half a Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Jonny Pelham: Off Limits HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7.50
The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5
Pottervision
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 21 Aug, £5
❤ Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More HHHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
15:30
Sh*t Hipsters Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Motherhood: A Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Ahab; or What If Moby
Dick Were Stand-Up
Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Paul Savage: Shame
Spiral
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–24 Aug, £5
Cowboys, Country Music and Queers
Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
Children of the Quorn™
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–25 Aug, £5
Immoral Maze
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Best in Class
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Michael Fabbri:
Rebooted
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent
Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50
George Fouracres: Gentlemon HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
BBC: Loose Ends
BBC, 20 Aug, FREE
Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Could It Be Magic?
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8.50
15:35
Northern Power Blouse –Touching Cloth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Vince Atta: Massive Attack
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6
The Full Irish PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 22 Aug, FREE
2 Truths, 1 Lie
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22
Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £5
Nick Revell:
Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
15:40
Adele Cliff: Undershare
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber
Echo Bravo Heroes @ The Hive, 21–24
Aug, £5
Sundeep Bhardwaj:
Father Figure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–25 Aug, FREE
15:45
Too Ugly for Love Island
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5
Not Quite Mass
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Nicky Wilkinson: Game On
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Bart Freebairn: Maximum Delicious
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder
Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12.50
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster
Stand-Up Show!
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
So What?
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Musical Comedy Guide
Showcase
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6
Science Idiot
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24
Aug, FREE
Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
99 (First World)
Problems feat Andy
Quirk and Anna J
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
15:50
Dave’s Edinburgh
Comedy Awards Gala
Pleasance Courtyard, 25
Aug, £14
Dog Tales
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Marjolein Robertson: Da
Shetland Spree HHH
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9
Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog HH
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Chris Betts vs the Audience
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5
15:55
Aboriginal Comedy Allstars
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Myra DuBois: Dead Funny HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11
Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived HHH
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
16:00
We’re Sorry (Canadian Comedy Showcase)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12.50
It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20 Aug, £5
Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £10
Samantha Pressdee: Covered
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10
Darcie Silver – I Know You Are
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20–22 Aug, FREE
Crybabies: Danger
Brigade
Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25
Aug, £5
Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21
Aug, £8
Larry Dean: Bampot
Pleasance Courtyard, 24
Aug, £14
Maureen Younger: Out of Sync
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Dr Lara Love: Love
Leans In Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon Planet Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Esther Manito: Crusade
HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25
Aug, £11–£12
The Latebloomers: Scotland!
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£12
Lucie Pohl’s Immigrant Jam
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22
Aug, £10.50
FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25
Aug, £5
Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert HHH
Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stephen K Amos Talk
Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–24
Aug, £14
Sketch You Up!
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£8.50
Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25
Aug, £8
❤ Glenn Moore: Love Don’t Live Here Glenny
Moore HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15 All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Working Class Zero
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
16:05
Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now)
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–25 Aug, FREE
16:10
Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is?
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Adrian Tauss and Sasha
Ellen: Get a Room
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Twonkey’s Ten Year
Twitch
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
16:15
Ferris Bueller’s Way Of...
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
❤ Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos
HHHH
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Culture
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Cancelled: A Comedy by Darius Emadi
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Christopher KC: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Rice HHH
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
Talk a Big Game
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George
Zacharopoulos
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21 Aug, FREE
Cerys Nelmes’ 80s
Gameshow Mash-Up
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Lola and Jo: Escape HHH
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
James McNicholas: The Boxer HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
16:20
Auto-Correbt: Sight
Unseen
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £9
The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
16:25
11+
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
16:30
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £15
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, 20–25 Aug, £12
The Great Outdoors Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, £5
Club Sets
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25
Aug, FREE
❤ Olga Koch: If/Then
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7
Thomas Green: Tweak
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Gusset Grippers
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Giants Are Fjörd
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Sid Singh: American Refugee
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!! HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Lucy Pearman: Baggage
HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8
Radio Active: The 40th
Anniversary Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £14–£15
George Egg: Movable Feast HH
Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
The Three Deaths of Ebony Black
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Steve Rannazzisi –Please Forget
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, FREE
AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
16:35
Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Depthless Observations
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Rosco McClelland –Magic Belly Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
16:40
Miller and Salmon: Genesis
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5 Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25
Aug, £5
Google Me
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad.
Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25
Aug, £5
Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
Oleg Denisov: Russian
Troll Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
Martin Pilgrim: I Write Jokes Not Tragedies
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
West End Producer –Free Willy Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26
Aug, £12–£14
Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
16:45
Hero Worship
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat
Lad-y
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away
HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–24 Aug, £9
Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Aaaaaaaaand Now!
Roger Swift’s Machine
Pun
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
A**Hole New World
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5
Louise Young and Anja
Atkinson: Big Div Energy
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £8
Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Lucy Beaumont: Space
Mam HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12
The Mars & Lee Show
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Haha Cool
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills
Time HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£12
Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
16:50
Generation Whyyy?
Imagination Workshop, 20–22 Aug, £8
Rory O Hanlon –Confidence
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Mark Simmons –One-Linerererer
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland
HHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
16:55
Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Jane Hill: All I Want
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
17:00
Age Fright: 35 and Counting
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
❤ Garrett Millerick: Smile HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £7
#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Skydive to Stand-Up
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Nobody Likes You When You’re 33
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £7
Maisie Adam: Hang
Fire HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts
Musical Parody
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £13–£15
Geeks, Stand Up!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Bristol Revunions: Party
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 20–25 Aug, £5
Joe McArdle is: Theo
McCabe
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Irish Comedy Invasion
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ali Brice: Bin Wondering
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–25 Aug, £5
Laugh 4 Change Comedy Fundraiser
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50
Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow’s Office
HHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5
Dan Cardwell: Recall
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £12
Lucy Farrett: Lois Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Pussies
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Lenny Sherman: Have Fun
Frankenstein Pub, 20–26 Aug, FREE
17:05
Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Jenny Bede: The Musical HHH
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Ben Van der Velde –Fablemaker
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Anna Nicholson: Get Happy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7
The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Orlando Baxter: Finding
Mariah HH
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–24 Aug, £10
Bumper Blyton
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
17:10
Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Cally Beaton: Invisible Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5
17:15
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Absolute Zero: Jez Watts
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ian Smith: Half-Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12.50
Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14
Angus Dunican: Nice
Bit of Kit
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Alison Spittle: Mother of God
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
❤ Laura Lexx: Knee
Jerk HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat
Show
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s
Sake HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15
Jew-O-Rama
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Maria Shehata: Hero
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Simply Filthy
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5
Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Which Princess Are You?
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jacob Hawley: Faliraki
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6 17:20
Neil O’Rourke: Thump
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Jimmy McGhie
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 20–24 Aug, FREE
James Barr: Thirst Trap
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Francesco De Carlo: Winning Hearts and Minds
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Jim Campbell: Beef
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–24 Aug, £5–£6
Privates: A Sperm
Odyssey Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look
Alive!
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13
Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8
Goose: Ctrl+T Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7
Hyper-Nice
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
17:25
Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £5
Comedy Freak Show
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
17:30
❤ Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention HHHH
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 21–25 Aug, FREE
I’m Coming
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8
Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11
Men With Coconuts
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Made in Spain 2
Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
Juliette Burton: Defined
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Mark and Haydn: Llaugh
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
❤ Andrew O’Neill – We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts HHHH
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–25 Aug, FREE
The Explainers
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Linda: Easy Killing
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Witch Hunt HHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11
Joel Dommett: Work in Progress
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
❤ Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!
HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13
Ashley Storrie: Hysterical Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
Planet Verth
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–24 Aug, FREE
John-Luke Roberts: After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP
BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!!
Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
17:35
Funny Women on the Fringe
Assembly Roxy, 20–23 Aug, £11
Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
17:40
Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec HHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–25
Aug, £8–£10
Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames
Pleasance Dome, 20–24 Aug, £12.50–£14
17:45
Sarah Keyworth: Pacific HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£11
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £11–£13
Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
The Great British Bake Offenders
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25
Aug, £5
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8–£10
I’m Afraid of Americans
C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
The Rat Pack Comedy –Anything Goes!
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
Sam See: Coming Out Loud
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Alex Cofield: Supernova
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
17:50
A Time Slot with Ger Staunton
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete’s Foot) Live!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11.50
Dave Fensome: ADHDave
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Caitlin Cook: Death Wish
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
17:55
Luke McQueen: Bad Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Mike Newall: Re:Newall Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £6
10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jamie Dalgleish: Humans Are Evil The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £9
18:00
Michael Brunström: World of Sports Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £15
Notflix: Originals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
James Bran: Hack
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8
Harriet Braine: Les Admirables HHH
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Viking Millennials Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Love/Hate Actually Imagination Workshop, 20–26 Aug, £10
Terry Alderton: Bingo
Bango
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8
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Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6
James Meehan – Never Better
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tom Parry: Parryoke!
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
Phil Ellis: Au Revoir Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5
Hesitation Remarks
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £8
Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13
Football, Feminism and Everything in Between: Live with Alastair and Grace Campbell
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21 Aug, £15
The Next Next Big Thing Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–25 Aug, £5
Catherine Bohart: Lemon Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11.50
David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do?
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
❤ Fern Brady: Power and Chaos HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10
Nick Offerman: All Rise Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24
Will Adamsdale: Facetime HH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Jack Carroll and Friends
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Alexander Fox: Snare Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10
Pick of the Fringe
The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 22
Aug, £190.50
Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8–£10
The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £13–£17
Fred MacAulay in Conversation
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20 Aug, £12
Faking It
Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6
Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Larry Dean: Fandan Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £14
Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock Supper With Salt’n’Sauce
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £14
Monster Gay
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Katie Pritchard: Storm
Stud
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–24 Aug, FREE
18:05
The Sacrifice
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 20–24 Aug, FREE
The Great Health Con theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–25 Aug, £12
For He’s a Jolly Goodfellow PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE
18:10
Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–25 Aug, £12
Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
NewsRevue
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £15.50–£17.50
Bad Clowns: Cult Classic
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Kelsey De Almeida: I’m Very Different People (WIP)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Comedy in the Dark
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £12
18:15
Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s
Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Scott Gibson: White Noise
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Stephanie Laing: Quitter
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
George Rigden: Spooning with Uri
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£6
Annie McGrath: Shepherd
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Dummy
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10
Jake Baker: No Success Like Failure
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
I Predict a Wyatt!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Trans Vision Scamp
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Mark Cram: Centaur
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE
The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
18:20
Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10
The Fanny’s The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9
❤ Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty HHHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 21–25 Aug, £8
James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Kate Lucas: Is Selling Herself
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £5
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
18:25
Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made
Along the Way
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Never Again
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Gabby Best: 10,432
Sheep
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Best of Irish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £13
Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
18:30
Richard Fry: O Starry
Night
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
Eric Lampaert: Yum Yum
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Mocking a Murderer
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Improvengers: Pretendgame
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 20–25 Aug, £8
Darren Walsh: Punimal
Farm
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
30 Minute Musicals
Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Bad Aunts
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Aussiental
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Rhys James: Snitch
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13
Kieran Hodgson: ‘75
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–31 Aug, not 26, £12.50–£15
Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked Before HHH
Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Jay Lafferty: Jammy
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£14
Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Fred Cooke: Fred Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Kieran Hodgson: Lance Pleasance Courtyard, 23 Aug, £15
Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14
Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £14
Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16 Gary Little – Kidding Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, £5
Imaan Hadchiti: Being Frank Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Kieran Hodgson: Maestro Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15
18:35
Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Tom Lenk Is Trash
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12.50
❤ Stevie Martin: Hot Content HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
18:40
Bananas
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £11
Marc Jennings: Getting Going
The Stand Comedy Club, 25 Aug, £10
Alex Kealy: Rationale
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Liam Withnail: Homecoming
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!
Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15
Shattered Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £8.50
Fast Fringe
Pleasance Dome, 20–24 Aug, £8–£11.50
Harry and Chris: This One’s for the Aliens Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12
Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–24 Aug, £12
Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar
Heroes @ Boteco, 20–25 Aug, £7
Siblings: The Siblinginging Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
English Speaking
Comedy Borsch
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE
18:45
The Ticked Boxes
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death)
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £7
Improvised Director’s
Cut
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman HHH
Assembly George Square
Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16
Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
EdinBra Fringe Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Basil Brush: Unleashed
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13
Archie Henderson:
Jazz Emu
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Catching Up
Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Eh?
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Joy of Jokes
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 21–25 Aug, FREE
The Good, the Bad and the Irish
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Aunty HH
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies… Kind of. 2019
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress)
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 26 Aug, FREE
18:50
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional
ABK
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11
Chris Parker: Camp Binch
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Fraser Gibson: Self-ish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7
60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir
McTavish
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male HHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
19:00
Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£11
Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12
❤ Sophie Duker: Venus HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £7–£9
Rotten
Randolph Cliff, 28 Aug, FREE
Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder HH
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rosie Jones: Backward HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
Adam Flood and Blake
AJ: Joke Boys
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16
Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate
Bastards
Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £12
Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £13–£15
BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour
BBC, 21 Aug, FREE
The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12
Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy
Punchlines
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Raymond Mearns –Confessions of a Control Freak!
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26 Aug, FREE
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £17.50–£18.50
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8
Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £5
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13
Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing HHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14
❤ Kai Samra:
Underclass HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise! Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8
Vikki Stone: Song Bird
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5
Ivo Graham: The Game of Life
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£12
Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab HHH
Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16
Henning Wehn: Get on With It
The Queen’s Hall, 22–25 Aug, £16.50
Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Sarah Kendall: Paper
Planes HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
19:05
❤ James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man
HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Straight Outta Estonia
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Three Menopausal Maids
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Business Casual Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
19:10
Sasha Ellen: Pickle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10.50–£12.50
About Time / Bully
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Brain Rinse
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9–£10
Matt Hoss: Here Comes Your Man
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
Where Are You Really From?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–25
Aug, FREE
19:15
Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Kelly Convey: Telephone
Voice HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £7.50–£10
Arson in the Queen’s Swans
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Rob Copland: Strange
Jam
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Christianity and Me
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–24 Aug, £5
Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
Martin Bearne and Joe
McTernan: Milk and Two Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5
AAA Stand-Up
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£12
Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
The LOL Word Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £7
Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stephen Carlin: Pickwickian
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Sad Acts
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Pierre Novellie: You’re Expected to Care HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12
Family Secrets
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Ew Girl, You Nasty
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Martin Mor – Instigator
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
19:20
Bring Back the 80s
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Craig Hill: Bottoms Up! Pleasance at EICC, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£18.50
Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant
Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5
Jake Farrell: Limits
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
Drag Queen Stole My Dress
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Johannes Dullin Plays the Devil
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 21–25 Aug, £5
Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
19:25
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 21–25 Aug, FREE
19:30
An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £15
Laughing Horse @ The Lock
Up, 20–26 Aug, FREE
So You Think You’re
Funny? Grand Final
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50
Jokers in the Pack
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
I, Tom Mayhew
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Jack Rooke: Love Letters
Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14
Steve Bennett –Everything is F*cked
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25
John Robins: Hot Shame
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £14–£15
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5–£10
Steve Bugeja: Single Mum
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6–£8
Neil Delamere: End of Watch
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts
Assembly George Square Gardens, 25 Aug, £12
Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Adam Rowe: Pinnacle
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Eric Andre: The Legalize Everything Tour
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20
Tommy Tiernan: Paddy Crazy Horse
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20
Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £17.50
Ari Eldjárn: Eagle
Fire Iron
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8
101 Comedy Club – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Alex Black’s Record Collection
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Amy Howerska: Serious Face
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Secret Policeman’s Tour
Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25
David O’Doherty: Ultrasound Assembly George Square, 20–26 Aug, £15–£16
Best Boy in Ireland
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 21–24 Aug, FREE
Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10 The Community Centre!
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8
19:35
Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Harry Stachini – Tigers
Don’t Cry
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free
Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 20–25 Aug, FREE
19:40
Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–24 Aug, £7
Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
Paul McCaffrey: Lemon
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11
Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10
❤ Desiree Burch: Desiree’s Coming Early!
HHHHH
Heroes @ The Hive, 21–25 Aug, £10
A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Arnab Chanda: Boy
From Earth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Andrew Maxwell: All Talk
Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £13.50–£15
19:45
Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Goddess
Sweet Novotel, 21–25 Aug, £7.50
Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Andrew Roper – Break
Point
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Jen Brister – Under Privilege HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£8
❤ Laura Lexx: Knee
Jerk HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £10
John Pendal: Monster
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£11
Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Sean Patton: Contradickhead HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £11–£13
Jocks, Geordies and Aussies
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Acting Natural
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Brown Panther – Ruven
Govender
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be
Less Racist
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £10
Liam Malone: No Limbits
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £8
19:50
Scummy Mummies
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
❤ Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £11–£14
Still Life by Noël Coward theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
19:55
Dave Green: Guest Bed
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress)
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
20:00
Traitor
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Australian Beauty
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Thunderc*nt Heroes @ Boteco, 21–25
Aug, £5
The Dots Imagination Workshop, 22–25 Aug, £8.50
Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face
Just the Tonic at La Belle
Angele, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13
Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£15.50
Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now l’m Here
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14
Mark Nelson: Brexit
Wounds
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14.50
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £15–£16
Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels
Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Passport and Prozac
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Simon Brodkin: 100%
Simon Brodkin
Pleasance Dome, 23 Aug, £12
Ben Pope: Dancing Bear
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10
50% Canadian, 100 %
Crazy, Let’s Laugh
Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
❤ Diane Chorley: Modern Love HHHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Javier Jarquin is Boring AF
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous Pleasance Dome, 24 Aug, £13
Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Godley on the Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
❤ Garry Starr Conquers
Troy HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £11.50–£12.50
#Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’
Criminals
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Phil Wang: Philly Philly
Wang Wang
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £12–£13
Aaron McCann: Happy Enough?
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25
Aug, £6
Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 20–25
Aug, £14–£15
BBC: The Now Show
BBC, 22 Aug, FREE
Manhunt 2: Big Mood
Bedlam Theatre, 20–25
Aug, £10
Lolbot Wars
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick
Murphys, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Eurosceptic Song Contest
Lebowskis Bar, 22–26
Aug, FREE
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 30 Aug, 31 Aug, £15
The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9
Irony?
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £6
The Salon Sweet Grassmarket, 21 Aug, £9
❤ Susie McCabe: Domestic Disaster HHHH Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
20:05
Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Naomi Karavani: Dominant HHH
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £7
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8
20:10
Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12
Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Tom Cashman – XYZ Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11.50
Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
20:15
Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Andy Barr: The Ruby Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5
Brodi Snook: Handful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
Half the Man – Michael Livesley
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Pursuit of Happiness
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Huge Davies: The Carpark
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8.50–£10
❤ London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£11
Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14
Chris Washington: Raconteur
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£12
Eddy Brimson: Life
Coaching for Arseholes
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 21–25
Aug, £5
Marc Jennings: Getting Going
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£10.50
20:20
❤ Max & Ivan: Commitment HHHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13
Rob Auton: The Time Show
Assembly Roxy, 24 Aug, £12
Viggo the Viking HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Bald Man Sings Rihanna
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE
The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £13.50–£16.50
Matt Parker: Humble Pi
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50
The Best of Scottish Comedy
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
❤ Josie Long: Tender HHHH
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12
Bitch and Nerd
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
20:25
Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About?
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12
Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–24 Aug, FREE
20:30
❤ Sara
Barron: Enemies Closer HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Connie Wookey: Denied
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Lewis Costello x Hayden
Dean Allmark
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John
Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £22.50
❤ Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£11
Concerning Bennet
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tony Cantwell: Live Feed Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £14
Tiziano La Bella: Yes We Can’t
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE Megazoid
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–26 Aug, £5
Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10
Canadian Club
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6
The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12
Sharma Sharma
Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Wheely Wheely Wheely
Wheely Wheely
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Sunil Patel: White Knight
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Joke Thieves
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £13–£14
Sleeping Trees: Silly
Funny Boys HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
20:35
Pope’s Addiction Clinic
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, £5
Candy Gigi Presents –Friday Night Sinner! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug, £7
Ian Lane – Paperweight
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You
Overthink Enough Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
20:40
Andrew Sim: Am I Queer
Enough?
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Cool Story Bro
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jimeoin: Ramble On!
Pleasance at EICC, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£18.50
The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange
Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25 Aug, £5
Sam Lake and Chloe
Petts: Household Essentials
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £7
Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Double Denim: Adventure Show HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit HHH
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
Ed and Joz’s Deleted
Scenes
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25
Aug, £5
Love is a Work in Progress with Tara
Rankine
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £7–£9
20:45
Alice Fraser: Mythos
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
All-Star Comedy Cabaret
Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices Frankenstein Pub, 20–25 Aug, £10
Johnny Irish
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky
Pete’s, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Pete Heat: Massive
Wizard
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Actually, Totes Amaze
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Daniel Cook and Rose
Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Improv Cage Match
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Headless
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5
Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £10
Dino Wiand – Half Trans
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
20:50
Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Tony Cowards: Stepdad
Jokes
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £8
Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £9
Naomi McDonald: Copycat
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
20:55
Tony Basnett: 28
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Jack Barry: Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:00
Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 20–25 Aug, £17–£19.50
❤ Tom Ballard: Enough HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10
Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £15
Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Emancipation
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–25 Aug, £10
Zoe Lyons: Entry Level
Human
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–21 Aug, £12.50
Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25 Aug, £5–£10
Blindingly Obvious C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Good Evening Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Omid Singh: Beginning
To End
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
Matt Richardson: Imposter
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £5
A Long Time Coming
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22
Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £7
Phil Nichol: Too Much
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7
Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £16–£18
Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real HH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Louisa Fitzhardinge:
Comma Sutra
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Foil Arms and Hog –Swines
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £14.50–£17.50
Sex Shells
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £16–£17
Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Justin Matson: Try Harder
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd:
Dreamboat
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
There Will Be Cake
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–22 Aug, £14
Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £17–£18.50
❤ Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets
Please? HHHH
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9
Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25 Aug, £20
❤ Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk HHHH Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:05
Goodbye Mr President PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Legs
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5–£8
Spring Day: When Push Comes to Shove – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:10
Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14
Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–24 Aug, £12
❤ Laura Davis: Better Dead Than a Coward HHHH
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5
Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20 Aug, £10
21:15
Needle Dicks
Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Micky Bartlett: Love It! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Leo Kearse: Transgressive HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13
Wait... Let’s Have Fun!
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7
50% Canadian, 100%
Crazy, Let’s Laugh Again Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 20–26 Aug, £5
The Adventures of the Bearded Lady
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Tiff Stevenson: Mother HHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10
I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 HHHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Nick Doody: I Will Milk You
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 21–24 Aug, FREE
John Robertson: The Dark Room
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Micky Overman
Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £7.50–£10
Angus Brown: Everest Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £5
❤ Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness HHHH
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
BattleActs!
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:20
Len Blanco: Firing
Blancs
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–24 Aug, £5
Improvabunga!
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £7
Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14
Jonny Pelham: Off Limits
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 21–22 Aug, £7.50
❤ Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 21–24 Aug, £10–£12
Comedy in the Dark
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 23–24 Aug, £12
Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof
Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13
Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name
Assembly George Square
Studios, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£13
Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2
Underbelly, Cowgate, 21–25
Aug, £11–£12
Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
21:25
Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £10
Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party! HHH
Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 20–25 Aug, £8
21:30
Moon: We Cannot Get Out HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again?
Scottish Comedy Festival
@ The Beehive Inn, 22–25
Aug, £5
Brown Guys, Grey Skies
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–21 Aug, £11.50
A Mad Ron Rhodes Show
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Craig and Darren Give Away Free Nachos
Taco Mazama, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella
Underbelly, George Square, 20–25 Aug, £14.50–£15.50
Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year
Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 20–24 Aug, £12–£15
Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Simon Brodkin: 100%
Simon Brodkin
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £12
Spontaneous Potter
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 20 Aug, £10
The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£10
❤ Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter?
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16
Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
99 Club Stand-Up
Selection – Free
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Scottish Falsetto Sock
Puppet Theatre: Roll Up! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15
John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Tom Walker: Very Very Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
Better Than Dying Alone Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24 Aug, £7
Vote Dr Phil? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–24 Aug, £12
Johnny White
Really-Really: Unending Torment! Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Death Hilarious: Razer Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
21:35
Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George
Zacharopoulos
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:40
❤ Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £11–£12
Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–26 Aug, FREE
The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald
D Hunter
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £15.50–£17.50
Goodbear: Dougal
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£13
21:45
Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink!
Assembly Roxy, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14
Sad Acts
Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 23–24 Aug, FREE
Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£12
Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
Anything F*cking Goes...
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 20–25 Aug, £5
❤ Ciarán Dowd: Padre
Rodolfo HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£12
Potential: A Canadian
Comedy Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stephen Carlin: Post
Rational Carlin
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8–£10
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £5–£10
Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £7–£9
21:50
The Stevenson
Experience: Takes One to Know One
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Totally Plucked
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9–£10
Dan AG: Sloth
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
21:55
Radical Honesty
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
Frank Foucault: Desk
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25
Aug, £8
22:00
Comedy Striptease
Laughing Horse @ The Lock
Up, 21–25 Aug, FREE
This Is Your Trial
Frankenstein Pub, 20–26
Aug, £7
Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear
Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14
Jimeoin: Ramble On...
Some More!
Pleasance at EICC, 23–24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50
Comedy Shorts
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jayne Edwards Is Top
Bodybuilder Brian
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25 Aug, £5
Amused Moose Comedy
Award: Grand Final
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14
The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
The Nasty Show Australia
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Madame Komondor Will See You Now
Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £7
The Haunted History Bus
Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 21–31 Aug, not 27, £12
I’m OKayfabe
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £8
Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show
Heroes @ The Hive, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £5
Howl Comedy Club Free Showcase
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Grant Busé: Touché Busé
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Funny for a Girl
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–25 Aug, £12
Marcel Lucont: No. Dix
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11–£14
Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Shit-Faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50
I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £5
Holly Morgan: Is a Witch. Get Her!
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Bumble Me Tinders –Dating Horror Stories
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE
22:05
The Shambles
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6.50
Cülture Elité
The Stand Comedy Club 2, 20–25 Aug, £10
22:10
Free Footlights
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Best of Musical Comedy Awards
Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25
Aug, £11
Joe Sutherland: Sour
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
22:15
AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope
Comedy
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to...
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Chubby White’s Variety
Night
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Heavenly Comedy
Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Scot Roast
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26
Aug, £5
David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last
Time H
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Roast Battle Edinburgh
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Dreamgun: Film
Reads HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Russian Roulette
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
Spa Day
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Andrew Silverwood: Call
Me Janice
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
MOTHER
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
The Antique Jokes Show
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6.50
22:20
Stay Loyal to the Royals
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £10
Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Danny O’Brien: Reformer Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 20–25 Aug, £6
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, 20–25 Aug, £5
Mr Thing Pleasance Dome, 21–25
Aug, £10
22:25
The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10
Omar Ibrahim: Awokening
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
22:30
Andrew Doyle: Exodus
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £10–£14
Comedy Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24 Aug, £12.50
Imaginary Porno Charades
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24
Aug, £8
Daz Black Live
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22
Aug, £15
Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Princess Party
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, 20–25 Aug, £13
Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £17.50
Never Heard of It
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jimmy Slim and Lewis
Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff
Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 20–25 Aug, £5
❤ Jessica Fostekew: Hench HHHH
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21 Aug, £8
Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Hunt & Murphy: Beg
Borrow and Bitch
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 20–25 Aug, £6
The Best of Northern
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–22 Aug, £10
Bad Boys
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
JJ Whitehead: Five
Times I Lied to Myself
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12
Hate ‘n’ Live
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25 Aug, FREE
❤ Alfie Brown: Imagination HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10
Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
An Audience with Yasmine Day Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £9–£9.50
Whose Mind is it Anyway?
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo
Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
The Best of Red Raw
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 23–24 Aug, £5
Thrones! The Musical Parody
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £15–£16
Laser Kiwi Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15
Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Medium Rare Improv theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £6
Coconut
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20–25 Aug, £12
Liza Treyger: In the Weeds
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
22:40
After Hours Mirth Meltdown
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August
Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15
Pamela’s Palace
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12.50
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Found Footage Festival: Volume 9
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £5
22:45
Tarot
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Serena Flynn: Baubo
Goddess of Filth
Heroes @ Black Medicine, 20–25 Aug, £5
Shaggers
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Fright Bus Service
Necrobus, 23–24 Aug, £13
Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £12
Zach Zimmerman: Clean
Comedy HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
❤ Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s
Gorgeous HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £12–£13
Josie Long: Tender The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 24 Aug, £12
Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–26
Aug, £5
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
Snog Marry Avoid
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–25
Aug, FREE
22:50
The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £12–£14
Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
Questing Time
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Kevin McGahern: Taking Off
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3 Americans Get Too Personal
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, FREE
22:55
Niteskreen
Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25
Aug, £7
23:00
Tim Key
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £8.50–£11.50
AAA Stand-Up Late
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£12
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £12.50–£15
Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24
Aug, £14
Francis Boulle and Friends
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12
Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery
Pleasance Courtyard, 25–26
Aug, £12.50
Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 21–26 Aug, £5
Luka Muller’s Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–25
Aug, FREE
Misspelled Youth
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25
Aug, £13
Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
Inside the Comedian
Pleasance Dome, 20–23
Aug, £9
Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £7
Spontaneous Sherlock
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11
❤ Diane Chorley: Down the Flick HHHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 23–25 Aug, £15
Snort HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
23:10
The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!
Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
Anxiety Club
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–21
Aug, £9
Divet Show: The Greatest Divas
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £12–£13
23:15
Donald Alexander: The Great Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £5
A Night of Wikipedilove
Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 20–25 Aug, FREE
WiFi Wars’ Video Game Takeover!
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14
BBC: British-Born
Chinese HH
Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
Escaping Trump’s
America
Frankenstein Pub, 20–26
Aug, FREE
Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Cosmic Comedy Berlin
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Fern Brady: Power and Chaos
Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23
Aug, £10
Southampton Stand-Up Showcase
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Paddock Pleasance Dome, 23–24
Aug, £10
Mark Watson: The Infinite Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24
Aug, £16
23:20
❤ Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro HHHH
Heroes @ Dragonfly, 20–25
Aug, £5
Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due
Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6
Conversation Garden on Love Island (A Decide
Your Own Misadventure)
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25
Aug, £5
23:25
Jay Handley – White
Jesus 2: Resurrection
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
3 Rule-Abiding Rebels
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25
Aug, FREE
23:30
Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22
Aug, £15
Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–24 Aug, £12.50
Late Night Comedy Death Camp
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Stout, Pale and Bitter
Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 20–25 Aug, £5
Claptrap
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
NewsRevue
Underbelly, George Square, 21–22 Aug, £15.50
Edinburgh Comedy Allstars
Underbelly, George Square, 22–24 Aug, £12.50–£15
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
Assembly George Square Studios, 23–24 Aug, £12
Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 20–25
Aug, £5
Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Woman’s Cock (and Other #1 Hits)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Political Animal
The Stand Comedy Club, 20–22 Aug, £12
Comedy Queers
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–24
Aug, FREE
23:35
The Russian Comedy Experience
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £6
23:40
Sam Nicoresti: UFO HHH
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–25 Aug, £5
Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 24–25 Aug, £13
Adam Rowe: Pinnacle
Just the Tonic at The Tron, 23–24 Aug, £5
23:45
Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog
Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–25 Aug, £5
The Stand Late Club
The Stand Comedy Club, 23–24 Aug, £15
Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me?
Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 20–22 Aug, FREE
Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
23:55
Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug, £10
Stamptown Comedy Night
Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–23 Aug, £10
Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 23–24 Aug, £13
Spank!
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50
The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 21–25 Aug, £5
Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £14–£16
110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–21 Aug, £5
Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 22–25 Aug, £5
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – And It’s Free! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 23–24 Aug, FREE
09:00
Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...] Traverse Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
09:50
Chatroom theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £7
Hustlers theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
Rattigan’s Nijinsky theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7.50–£10
09:55
Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
10:00
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22
Dark Play or Stories for Boys
theSpace on the Mile, 20–21 Aug, £6
❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Umbrella Man Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £10–£12
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22
Buzz Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £12
Shakespeare for Breakfast
C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
10:10
Where to Belong Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £9
The Importance of Being Earnest
theSpace @ Venue45, 20–22 Aug, £8
Skylight theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8
10:15
❤ Bryony Kimmings:
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24
Aug, £17
Man Number Five Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Happy Hour HH
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
10:20
The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7
10:25
Status
Assembly George Square, 20–24 Aug, £12–£13
10:30
Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location
Custom House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10
Cherie – My Struggle Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £10
Arthur HHH
Your Home, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £100
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£14
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7
Heroin(e) for Breakfast Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
10:40
The Wasp Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £12
10:45
A Midsummer Night’s DROLL
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8–£9
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
10:50
Audacious Mr Astley
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12
Post-Mortem HHH
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12 00
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
10:55
The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9
11:00
The Believers Are but Brothers
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12
The Shark is Broken Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £13–£15
Shadow of the Rose PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50
Mouthpiece
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
Tales from the Garden Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10.50
Guys, Dolls and Pies
Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £13
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
Enough Traverse Theatre, 23–24
Aug, £21
Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP)
Assembly Rooms, 25 Aug, £17.50
❤ Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed
HHHH
Zoo Southside, 20–25
Aug, £14
The Place You Once
Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24
Aug, £15
Great Grimm Tales
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9 White Girls
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26
Aug, £8–£9
Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12.50
11:05
Never None (but She) theSpaceTriplex, 20–24
Aug, £10
Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
The Life of Reilly theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
The Cat’s the Thing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Fear Here and Terror There theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6
11:10
She Shall Not Be Moved theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £10
11:15
The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £10
11:20
On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, £15
Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17
11:25
Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
Ladybones Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
A Shadow of Doubt Paradise in The Vault, 20–24 Aug, £8
11:30
Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10
Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late Sweet Grassmarket, 20–24 Aug, £7
I’ll Tell You This for Nothing Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
❤ Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12 Back of the Head with a Brick Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Hyde and Seek Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
You’re Safe ‘Til 2024 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10
Holy Sh*t theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
How to Save a Rock
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 20–23 Aug, £8–£10
Fox HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
I Am
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
The Place You Once
Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
Jehovah’s First Witness
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £12–£13
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24
Aug, £15
The End
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11
Shadows
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
Krapp’s Last Tape
The Royal Scots Club, 20–24
Aug, £10
11:35
Love (Watching Madness) HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £7.50–£10
Red Herring
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £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, 20–24
Trump Lear
Aug, £9
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
The Empathy Experiment
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee
Labyrinth, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Shrew
theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8–£10
11:45
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
The Place You Once Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
11:50
Frog’s Legs
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Psycho Drama Queen ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11
Ivory Wings
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£11
Nearly Human Pleasance Dome, 20–26
Aug, £9–£12
11:55
The Mariner’s Song Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10
Being Norwegian by David Greig
Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £10
12:00
Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, 24–25
Aug, £12
Illegal Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Dr Korczak’s Example Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12
#HonestAmy
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
In Conversation with...
Barbara Dickson
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50
Haggis, Neeps and Burns Hill Street Theatre, 20–25
Aug, £12
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Written With Crayons
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50
In Conversation with...
Ian Rankin
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50
Wingmen
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–21 Aug, £11.50
Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe Panmure House, 22–25 Aug, £12
Dangerous Adventures
Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE
Lobster
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
The Place You Once
Forgot
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
The Female Role Model Project
Bedlam Theatre, 21–25
Aug, £11
Sinatra: Raw
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12.50–£13.50
Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 20 Aug, 22
Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£14
Fires Our Shoes Have Made HHH
C venues – C aquila, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Taiwan Season: Fish Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
In Conversation with...
Patrick Harvie
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50
In Conversation with...
Elaine C Smith
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50
Birth Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
Ian McKellen On Stage Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40
12:05
Sleeping Giant Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £9–£11
Mengele Assembly George Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12
Normaler Than Everyone
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £10–£11
Cyst-er Act Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10 box.
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12
COMPOST
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
Best Girl
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9
Marrow
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12
Judas Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12
12:10
Medea Speaks
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
Avalanche
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9
dressed.
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15
M.E.H
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
The Anxiety Experiment
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
Madame Ovary
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £8–£12
Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10
12:15
Cotton Fingers
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14
The Fishermen
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–24 Aug, £12–£14
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Evaluation
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5
A Mother
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7
Lucrece
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £10
Testament of Yootha
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
My Mother’s Shoes
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Me and My Doll
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £9–£10
12:20
You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Fix Us
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
12:25
Bull
theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
Parasites
theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50
12:30
My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
A Talking Therapist’s Blues
Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Shaving the Dead Assembly George Square
Studios, 20–25 Aug, £13–£15
Dickens for Dinner
C venues – C viva, 20–26
Aug, £7.50–£9.50
The Pat Hobby Stories
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £10–£11
Swallow the Sea Caravan
Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
The Perfect Body
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–25 Aug, £11.50
❤ A Table Tennis Play
HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £11–£12
Sea Sick
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11
My Darling Clemmie
Assembly Rooms, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
12:35
Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Sad Eyes to Smile With Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s Life
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £9
12:40
40 Shades of Green Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8
Wireless Operator
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11.50
Rust HHH
Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Cicada 3301
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
12:45
Cream Tea and Incest
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
McSorley’s Irish Bar, 20–23
Aug, £12.50
Landscape (1989)
HHH
ZOO Playground, 21–25
Aug, £10
R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8–£9
Algorithms
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£11
❤ Bobby & Amy
HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Wild Swimming HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
SOLD
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
12:50
Eventide
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Nazis Need Jews
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
F. Off
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
The Claim
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15
12:55
The Man From Verona Paradise in The Vault, 20–21 Aug, £5
LUVU2
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
Pearls
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8
The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie?
ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
13:00
The Accident Did Not Take Place HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£13
Madame George by Keir McAllister HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22 ❤ Vigil HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10 Fishbowl HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £14–£17.50
The Rebirth of Meadow Rain
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£11
Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant
Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £12–£13
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, 24–25
Aug, £24
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
❤ The Patient Gloria
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25
Aug, £22
❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
HHHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24
Aug, £22
❤ Crocodile Fever
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Friendsical: A Parody
Musical About Friends
HH
Assembly Rooms, 20–25
Aug, £16–£17.50
❤ Ripped HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life
Drawing
The Safari Lounge, 20
Aug, £10
Knock Knock Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14
Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £9
Holy Land
C venues – C aquila, 20–26
Aug, £9.50–£11.50
How Not to Drown
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22
Come Out from Among Them
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25
Aug, £10
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10
Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural
Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True
The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20
13:05
Special Measures
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
Chain of Trivia theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10
One Good Beating theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
13:10
Beach Body Ready
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8–£10
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
In Loyal Company
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
After You
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£11
❤ Orlando HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11
Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £12
13:15
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: The Earth
Untold
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5
Before the End HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Paradise Lodge
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26
Aug, £12–£14
Letter to Boddah
C venues – C cubed, 20–26
Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Fight Song
Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12
Noir Hamlet
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £10
The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)
Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
Edinburgh TV Festival
Presents: Paul Feig
Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50
Unicorns, Almost Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
13:20
A Man’s a Man
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £14
❤ Collapsible
HHHH
Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13
Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £11
Piano_Play
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
Prefer Not To Say Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Walls and Bridges
HHH
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
Quintessence
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
13:25
Pals
Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £13–£15
Lucille and Cecilia HH
Assembly Rooms, 21–24 Aug, £10–£11
Romeo & Juliet
Assembly George Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£15
Too Pretty to Punch
Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10
13:30
Daffodils
The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £7
GEORGE
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
Mouthpiece
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21
Jew...ish
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8–£10
Bear Pit
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
She Sells Sea Shells
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
MOOT MOOT HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
For All I Care
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14
Walk the Oars
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10
Of Mice and Men
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26
Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9
❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 23–24
Aug, £21
Fake News Kills World!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9
Obesity Bankrupted
Our NHS!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9
Long Live the Cat
Ladies?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9
Before the Wall
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13
How to Save a Life
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Not Quite
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8–£9
Brendan Galileo for Europe
Assembly George Square
Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Mythos: Gods
Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25
Fawlty Towers Live
Themed Dinner Show
The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 20–26 Aug, £45–£62.50
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
13:35
Smoke
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
13:40
The Grand Scheme of Things
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Mourning Overnight
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
13:45
Medea Electronica
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £12
Catching Comets
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£11
The Presented
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Enough Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
A Very British Lesbian Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26
Aug, £10–£11
Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5
Ice Ice Iceland
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Hughie
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £13.50
13:50
Watching Glory Die Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14
Ben Hur
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
The 27 Club theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50
IvankaPlay
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
13:55
Chalk (A Silent Comedy)
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £11
Sense and Sensibility
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8
Swallow the Sea Caravan
Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
This Thing in Here
Greenside @ Nicolson
Square, 20–24 Aug, £8
Art Heist HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
I Run
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26 Aug, £8–£10.50
❤ Boar HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, £9
14:00
I’m Just Kidneying Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £7
Sexy Lamp
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
The Things I Never Told You Assembly Rooms, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
I, AmDram
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £7–£9
Wet C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Agent November Escape
Game: Major X Ploe-Shun
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15 @SimCos3000
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7
Einstein
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 20–26 Aug, £52
Pronoun
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker... and the Commentator Panmure House, 20–25 Aug, £12
Churn
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10
If This Is Normal
HHH
ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15
Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £17.50
Leave a Message HH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
B’Witches
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25
Aug, FREE
The Last Five Years
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11
It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
Just a Number
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9
She Can’t Half Talk Bedlam Theatre, 20–25
Aug, £8
The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing
Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15
MARA
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Citizens of Nowhere?
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £16
Alaska
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Blood and Gold
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12
14:05
The Gray Cat and the Flounder Assembly George Square Studios, 20–22 Aug, £12
Level Up
theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
14:10
Dream of a King HH
theSpaceTriplex, 20–24
Aug, £9
Moon Walk
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
Mallets
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
Van Gogh Find Yourself
#vgfy
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE
My Mate Dave Died
C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Narukami Thunder God
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £12
Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8.50
14:15
Broken Funnies
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 21–26 Aug, £5
On the Other Hand, We’re
Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug,
£15–£17
The Screwtape Letters
Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11
Taboo
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
Daughterhood
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17
Like Animals HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Murder on the Dancefloor
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£11
Frankie Foxstone AKA
The Profit: Walking Tour
HHH
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10
The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
35,000
C venues – C south, 20–25
Aug, £7.50–£9.50
14:20
Ane City Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
The Mackerel Eaters
Heroes @ The Hive, 20–25
Aug, £5
Black Holes
Zoo Southside, 20–25
Aug, £14
Loving the Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12
The Happiness Project Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–25 Aug, £10
Before 30
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Chaika: First Woman in Space HHH
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £11
Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 20–23 Aug, £5
14:25
We Want You to Watch
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £10
Monsoon Season
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Goodbye Charles – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
14:30
Mémoires d’un
Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie)
St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Toby Belch (Is Unwell)
Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25
Aug, £10
Little Rabbit
Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £9
Drowning HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Mythos: Heroes
Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25
Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress)
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Power of Music 3
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8
Passengers
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Spliced HHH
Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 20–25 Aug, £21
More Myself Than I Am
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15
Power of Music 2
St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8
Tumours Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12
A Voice
C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Like Me
Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8
What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Hall, 20–25 Aug, £19.50
Deer Woman HHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £11 Beat
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£13.50
These Streets
Paradise in The Vault, 20–21 Aug, £10
14:35
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl
Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12
Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Spray HHH
Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14
Two of a Kind
C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
14:40
When the Birds Come HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Late Lunch with Biggins
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £11–£15
Macbeth theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
Fake News
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
Inka
Zoo Southside, 20–26
Aug, £10
Bi-Cycle
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
14:45
Thunderstruck
Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14
beep boop HHH
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Happily Never After
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
Ideology and Hair Gel
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £12
A Partnership HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Ex-Batts and Broilers
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£12
Westminster Hour
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
❤ Manual Cinema’s
Frankenstein HHHH
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50
Shattered
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–26
Aug, £10–£11
14:50
Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
A Womb of One’s Own HHH
Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
Do Our Best HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
14:55
The Heresy Machine
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £9
Alan Ayckbourn’s No Knowing theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £12
15:00
Sales Pitch
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–24 Aug, £10
Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’
Caesar HHH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £13.50–£14.50
Vessel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £15
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Anything With a Pulse
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Jumping the Barriers
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Jekyll and Hyde Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13
Zombie Zoo Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
The De Nova Super Assembly George Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Curveball
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £7
Wrestling Mania!
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
300 to 1
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Total Immediate
Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
HHH
The Studio, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £20
Anguis HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £12–£13
The National Trust Fan Club
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12–£13
❤ Roots HHHH
Church Hill Theatre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25
I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Jottings from the Queen of Sheba
St Patrick’s Church, 24–25 Aug, £7
Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7
The Wrong Ffion Jones
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
A Holy Show
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
Myra Imagination Workshop, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
15:05
The South Afreakins: The Afreakin Family theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9
Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £5
Yerloo Underground Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10 Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
The South Afreakins theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9
15:10
A Wake in Progress
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Endless Second Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10.50
Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7
The Dandelion Patch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
All of Me HHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £15
15:15
Naughty Boy
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23
Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
FATTY FAT FAT
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8–£10
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
The Sensemaker
ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25
Aug, £15
The Burning Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13
Blodeuwedd Untold
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11
Nights at the Circus
ZOO Playground, 20–24
Aug, £10
Definitely Louise HHH
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9
15:20
Woman! Pilot! Pirate?
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
The War of the Worlds
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £13–£15
In Her Corner
theSpace on the Mile, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9.50
Leopold Vindictive
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
The Professor Assembly Rooms, 20–25
Aug, £11–£13
Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry
Tadlock
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Hatch HHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£10.50
15:25
Tea?...(With Milk)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10
The Wind in the Willows theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24
Aug, £8
15:30
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 20–26
Aug, £24
Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10
A Complicated Man Bedlam Theatre, 20 Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
The Glass Elephant
The Royal Scots Club, 20–21
Aug, £8.50
Pink House
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £12
Scotlandsfest
Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5
Barry Bedlam Theatre, 21–25
Aug, £10
All Work, No Play
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £8
With Child
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £9–£11
Cauliflower
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22
Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Arrivals
theSpace on the Mile, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50
SWIM
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
15:35
Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16
Leverage
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
15:40
The Struggling Life of an Artist C venues – C aquila, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–25 Aug, £11
Regeneration Game Workshop
Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 21 Aug, £5
Fulfilment HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
15:45
Since U Been Gone
HHH
Assembly Roxy, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12
How to Be Brave Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15
Mouthpiece
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21
If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs HH
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £15–£16.50
❤ Pink Lemonade
HHHH
Assembly Roxy, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £15
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Shellshock!
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5
A Fear and Loathing
Actor in Dublin
C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50
15:50
Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds Assembly George Square Studios, 20–26 Aug, £12–£14
Bible John HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
15:55
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
16:00
Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand
Panmure House, 20–25 Aug, £12
❤ Trying It On
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Well That’s Oz
Venue 13, 20–24 Aug, £12
The Man Who Planted Trees
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £13
❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Black Is the Color of My Voice
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £13–£14
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22
❤ The Red HHHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £11–£13
Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
How Not to Drown
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22
A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego
Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12
Resurrecting Bobby Awl
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £15
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
Miijin Ki
Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10
Citizens of Nowhere?
Sweet Novotel, 20–25 Aug, £16
(Ab)solution H
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Woke
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £13–£14
Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True
The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20
16:05
Scottee: Class HHH Assembly Roxy, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14
The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12
Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10
Moby Dick Assembly Rooms, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12
Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10
To Move In Time Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10
The Feminazis theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8
16:10
Julius Caesar Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10
E8 HHH
Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £10–£13
The Try-Hards Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £7
Mary’s Room theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
Confirmation
Pleasance Dome, 20–26
Aug, £9–£12
Chagos 1971
ZOO Playground, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26
Aug, £10
PAMALA
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug,
24 Aug, £7
Ticker HH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
Such Filthy F*cks
Pleasance Dome, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11
16:15
First Time
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14.50
Enough Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21
Mirror Canon theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £5
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 20 Aug,
21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25
Aug, £15
Westminster Hour Part 2
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £10
Inflatable Space HH
Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12–£14
The Nights by Henry Naylor HHH
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £13–£14
Apollo: Take 111 HH
Zoo Southside, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10
16:20
Bleeding Black HHH
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10
16:25
Want Some More
theSpace on the Mile, 20–21
Aug, £10
Lorca: A Theatre Beneath
the Sand HH
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12
Love and Sex and All Things In-Between theSpace on the Mile, 22–24
Aug, £10
16:30
The Legacy of William Ireland
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–26 Aug, £11.50
Getting to Know Katie
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £9–£11
Honey HH
ZOO Playground, 20–25
Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Northanger Abbey French Institute, 20–24
Aug, £12
Gone Full Havisham
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–25 Aug, £10–£12
The Incident Room
HHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £12.50–£14.50
8:8 HHH
Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £8
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24
Aug, £15
Boswell
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–24 Aug, £11.50
❤ Typical HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25
Aug, £21
Yellow
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
Everything I Do
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
The National and ELT Short Play Winners Hill Street Theatre, 20–25
Aug, £12
subsist Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25
Aug, £9
A Payment Unkind Sweet Grassmarket, 20–22
Aug, £10
16:35
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
16:40
Fags, Mags and Bags
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50
The Last of the Pelican Daughters HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£13.50
Drinking and
Unemployment: A New Play About Work
Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 20–25 Aug, £6
16:45
Fragility of Man
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12.50
❤ Cat Hepburn:
#GIRLHOOD HHHH
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £8–£9
Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
❤ CONSPIRACY HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
Arguing On-Air
C venues – C viva, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Synesthesia the Musical Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE
16:50
Number, Please. Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £7
Shit HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Darren McGarvey AKA
Loki: Scotland Today
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
16:55
Standard:Elite
Bedlam Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £11
Dorian Gray theSpace on the Mile, 20–23 Aug, £5
17:00
Confetti and Chaos (Formerly The Wedding Reception)
Imagination Workshop, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £45–£47.50
That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 20 Aug, £15
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors
C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Sary Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Contact Light
Pianodrome at The Pitt, 20–24 Aug, £10
Drunk Lion HHH
Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 21–25 Aug, FREE
Attila the Stockbroker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 22–24 Aug, FREE
Candy Factory Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12
Fawk Paradise in Augustines, 22 Aug, £15
Pathetic Fallacy HHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11
Sharon Stacy Statue Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £7
Polaris Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £8
Tartuffe Assembly Rooms, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15
Freak Show Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15
17:05
If I Die on Mars
theSpace @ Venue45, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Parakeet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15
[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £8
At This Stage theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
Four Woke Baes
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
17:10
The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch Ness Monster theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
Silence in Court Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
Suffering from Scottishness Assembly Roxy, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
Gun Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
17:15
Apologies to the Bengali Lady
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £8
Attila the Stockbroker
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 20–21 Aug, FREE
Choose Your Own...
Improv!
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Mr Nice Guy
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £6
Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7
8:8 HHH
Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £8
Scotlandsfest
Quaker Meeting House, 20–23 Aug, £5
My Best Dead Friend
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Keith Moon: The Real Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26
Aug, £11–£12
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5
Lest You Forget
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £8
17:20
Electrolyte
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £13–£14.50
I Can Make You Fail
Slightly Less
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
Hallowed Ground –Women Doctors in War
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Tally Ho, Secret Several! theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9
Bull theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £10
Wrath of Achilles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Conversations With Van Gogh Zoo Southside, 20–25 Aug, £7–£10
17:30
❤ Bryony Kimmings:
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £15–£17
And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Arthur HHH
Your Home, 20 Aug, 22
Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £100
Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North)
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Superstar Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10 High Trees Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
My Mum’s a Twat Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12 Order from Chaos Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10
The Letter HHH Pleasance Dome, 20–25 Aug, £9–£12
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
The Golden Fly Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10
17:35
There Is No Problem (Here) theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Hello? Hello. theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
The Long Road theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12
Isabelle
C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50
17:40
Electric Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
17:45
Perfect Sweet Novotel, 20–24 Aug, £8
My Name Is Irrelevant Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
A Short Cut to Happiness ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10
Can You See Where I’m Coming From?
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
❤ Daddy Drag HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
17:50
Numbers
C venues – C aquila, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Souvenirs Paradise in The Vault, 20–25
Aug, £10
Hitman and Her
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 21–26 Aug, £11.50
Degrees of Guilt
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
18:00
Agent November Escape
Game: Robyn Yew
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
A War of Two Halves
Tynecastle Park, 20–26
Aug, £24
Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £10
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 23–25 Aug, £19.50
Fragility of Man
Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Edinburgh TV Festival
Presents: Russell T Davies
Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £17.50
Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–26 Aug, £12
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £10
Noise Boys
Assembly George Square, 20–25 Aug, £13–£16
A Game of Death and Chance
Gladstone’s Land, 24 Aug, £15
Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 24 Aug, £13.50
Everything I See I
Swallow Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £13
Uncensored Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6
18:05
This Play Is Not About Me
theSpace on the Mile, 23–24
Aug, £5
Rock’n’Roll Girls
theSpace @ Venue45, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8
Ghostly Tales theSpace on the Mile, 20–22
Aug, £8
Auto-Nation
theSpace @ Venue45, 20
Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
The Good, The Bad and The Brexit
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–23 Aug, £11
18:10
Liminality theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £12
18:15
Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21
The 900 Club
Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £5
Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25
Aug, £8.50
Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)
HHH
Frankenstein Pub, 20–25
Aug, £10
❤ Until the Flood
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21
18:20
Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 21–25
Aug, £10
Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor HH
Assembly Rooms, 20–25
Aug, £12–£14
❤ Who Cares
HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
30
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9
Thief by Liam Rudden Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
18:25
Civilisation
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £10–£11
Confessions of the Romantically Challenged
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7
If Mouth Could Speak ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £8
Love and Misinformation
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £12
❤ Baby Reindeer by Richard
Gadd HHHHHRoundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£16
SAGA
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7
18:30
Trainspotting Live
Venue150 at EICC, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Play Before Birth
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Enough
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21
8:8 HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8
Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 20–21 Aug, £10
In the Shadow of the Black Dog HH
Assembly Rooms, 20–23 Aug, £10–£11
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £6
A(Poke)alypse Now –Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m Still Here
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 20–24 Aug, FREE
18:35
Hitler’s Tasters HH
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £11
Heir Heads
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £9
Intolerable Side Effects
Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10
Pops HHH
Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
18:40
Torch Town
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £7
Losing My Mindfulness
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Bismillah! An ISIS
Tragicomedy
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
18:45
Minor Disruptions
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £10
The Last Supper: Gospel of a Heinous Housewife
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Metamorphosis
Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25
Aug, £10
Miss AmeriKa
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £13
❤ Burgerz HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: Swallows
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21
18:50
Unicorn Party HH
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
The Graveyard Shift
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
18:55
Macbeth HHH
C venues – C south, 20–26
Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Who Is Daniel King
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£11
❤ Tokyo Rose
HHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £11–£12
19:00
❤ Trying It On
HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22
Dead Equal
Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Gregory’s Girl
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £13
Meatball Séance
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Worldwidewestern
French Institute, 20–25
Aug, £10
Green & Blue
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22
Static
ZOO Playground, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Marx in Soho
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
Jock Tamson’s Bairns
Laughing Horse @ Ghillie
Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15
How Not to Drown HHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Stand-Up Poet Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £11
Buzzing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10
Fawlty Towers Live
Themed Dinner Show
The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 20–26 Aug, £45–£62.50
19:05
McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
Jewbana theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £9.50
Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9
44 Inch Chest theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8
19:10
❤ Sex Education
HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12
19:15
Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
The Screwtape Letters
Palmerston Place Church, 20–21 Aug, £11
8:8 HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8
Blockbusters
Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10
Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
HoneyBee
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Neither Here Nor There
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
Chameleon
ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £9
19:20
Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9
Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9
Oh Yes Oh No HHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Milkshake theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8
19:25
Shadow C venues – C aquila, 21–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Pick Up
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6.50
19:30
From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£11
The Afflicted HHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £14 ❤ Coma HHHH Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Mythos: Men
Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25
The Long Pigs Assembly Roxy, 20–25 Aug, £14–£16
Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22 Aug, £6
The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12
The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £12
1902
Wee Red Bar, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £12
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience
Imagination Workshop, 20–25 Aug, £52–£57.50
3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25 Aug, £10
The Wild Unfeeling World
Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£11
❤ Roots HHHH
Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £25
Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7
Perfect Wedding
The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £12.50
19:35
And Then They Died
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7
Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
Outside the Beehive Inn, 20–31 Aug, £16
In Your Wet Dreams
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £7 Stanley HH
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7
19:45
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 23–25 Aug, £19.50
Sugar
Sweet Novotel, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £7
Fudge
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
SHINE HH
Zoo Southside, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
❤ America Is Hard to See HHHHH
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11–£12
19:50
Being Frank About Sinatra
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £11
The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
The Canary and the Crow Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £14–£15
19:55
Who Did I Think She Was?
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–25 Aug, FREE
20:00
Lucy McCormick: Post Popular HH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £12–£14
Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
Yours Sincerely HHH
Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £10–£11
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
What Are You Wearing?
Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Examination
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–25
Aug, £12.50–£13.50
HOTTER
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25
Aug, £9–£10
2Elfth Night
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £5
There She Is HH
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £10
Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E
The Stand’s New Town
Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Hair of the Wild
C venues – C at SESH
Hairdressing, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24
Aug, FREE
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
HHH
The Studio, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £20
Waiting for Godot
The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20
Hear Word! Naija Woman
Talk True
The Lyceum, 22–23 Aug, £20
20:05
❤ Sh!t Theatre Drink
Rum with Expats
HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Doubt
ZOO Playground, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Butterflies
ZOO Playground, 20–26
Aug, £10
Takin’ It Easy, 1916
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
20:10
Traumboy HH
Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
Blame It on the Algorithm!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10
Does Sex Still Sell?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10
The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
Traumgirl HH
Summerhall, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12
It’s Beautiful, Over There
Venue 13, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £10
Dumbing Down Trauma?
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10
Fake News Kills World!
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 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
20:15
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu by Kirsten Vangsness
Assembly Rooms, 22–23 Aug, £10–£11
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, £18–£19.50
Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness
Assembly Rooms, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£11
Cactus
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE
The Brunch Club HH
Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 21–24 Aug, £11–£12
The Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £6–£8
20:20
Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
The Good Scout HHH
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £12
Section 28: The Legacy of a Homophobic Law
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8
Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite Bite of Cheese and Puns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Hindsight HHH
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £11
20:25
Nothing to Hide theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £8
20:30
The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £10
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 20–26 Aug, £24
Fragility of Man
Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, £10
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £47.50–£52
The Collection of Professor Novak
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 20–25
Aug, FREE
I’m Woman
Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25
Aug, £9
The Passion of the Playboy Riots
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £12–£12.50
20:35
Broken English
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–23 Aug, £10
20:40
Hold On Let Go
Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £10
20:45
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
Said and Done
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £9
Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21
Before Dance Base, 20–25 Aug, £13
Footnotes HH
Summerhall, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £12
Employ Me, You Cowards!
Scottish Poetry Library, 20–23 Aug, £7
20:50
The Bald Soprano
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–24 Aug, £10
Bitch, Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £12
Father HH Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £12
20:55
Ejaculation – Discussions About Female
Sexuality HHH
Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10
21:00
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £10–£12
How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £8
Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love
Summerhall, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50
James Rowland’s Revelations
Summerhall, 22 Aug, £12.50
Cadaver Synod Sweet Grassmarket, 20–25
Aug, £8.50
Blind Date HHH
CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £11
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship
Summerhall, 25–26 Aug, £25
tEMPORARY sANITY
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
The People’s Boat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £12–£14
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran HHH
Traverse Theatre, 22–23 Aug, £21
James Rowland’s Team Viking Summerhall, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50
A Rock’n’Roll Suicide! Zoo Southside, 20–26 Aug, £10
More Fool You: Part II
Paradise in Augustines, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10
The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9–£11
Hearty Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10 Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
The American’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £10
More Fool You: Part I Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50
21:15
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £21
❤ Until the Flood HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21
BoxedIn Theatre
Presents: The Voices We Hear
Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 21–26 Aug, £5 Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21–25 Aug, £15–£17
21:20
Sound Cistem ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10
There’s Something Missing ZOO Playground, 20–26 Aug, £10
The Populars Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Misfit Warrior
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
21:30
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
Sexy Lamp
Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £10.50
Time Please
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50
Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 23–24
Aug, £19.50
❤ Coma HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £7.50
Loud Poets: Best of Fringe
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–26 Aug, £12
Everyman
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £9
Father of Lies
Sweet Novotel, 20–25
Aug, £9
Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10
21:35
amendments: A Play on Words
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
Shakespeare Up Late!
C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50
Solitary Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
21:40
Musik HH Assembly Rooms, 20–24
Aug, £15–£16.50
Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place
Pleasance Dome, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
21:45
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
Brandi Alexander HH
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
Mother and the Monster / Free Festival
Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE
21:50
Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £8
Before the Revolution
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
21:55
Bit of Sunshine
Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–23 Aug, £7
❤ Working On My Night
Moves HHHH
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £12
Don’t Frighten the Straights!
Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £9
22:00
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
❤ Trying It On HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, £22
❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £22
❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster HHHHH
Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £22
❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH
Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £22
One
Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12
Mental
Greenside @ Nicolson
Square, 20–24 Aug, £8
Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger
theSpace on the Mile, 20–24
Aug, £12
How Not to Drown
HHH
Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £22
Absolutely Reliable!
C venues – C cubed, 20–25
Aug, £9.50–£11.50
Agent November Escape
Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £15
Pits
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron
Zoo Southside, 21–25 Aug, £10
22:05
To Fall in Love
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Die or Run
Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £12
22:10
My Father the Tantric Masseur
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
No Fun and Games
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £5
Mojo
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £10
22:15
Searchers
Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50
The Nana Schewitz
Pass-Me-Over Party
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar
Bados Complex, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–25 Aug, £15
22:20
Ophelia Is Also Dead
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24 Aug, £7
22:30
Monogamy
PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 20–26 Aug, £11.50
Night Walk for Edinburgh
Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 20–23 Aug, £15
TGIF
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
22:35
The Mannequin theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Svetlana
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–25 Aug, £12–£13
Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
22:40
Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Dissident Sausage
theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7–£8
22:45
❤ Boar HHHH
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
22:55
The Slinks
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £10–£11
23:00
The Ladies
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £10
Don’t Be Terrible
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £9–£11
23:05
FemFringe
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5
23:10
Murder Ballads Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10
Defying Logic
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
A Clockwork Orange Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–22 Aug, £8.50
23:15
Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale)
Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–24 Aug, £9
23:20
Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–24 Aug, £10
23:25
Drunken Lullabies
Paradise in Augustines, 20–23 Aug, £7
Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9
23:30
Hot Flush
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £9–£10
23:45
❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20–21 Aug, £21
23:50
Beauty is Pain
Paradise in The Vault, 20–25 Aug, £8.50
23:55
❤ Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd HHHHH
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £16
10:00
Microbodyssey (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £9.50
Looking Down on Me (8+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7
Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE
10:20
Sparkle (3+)
Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £10
10:30
One Duck Down (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26
Aug, £8–£10
I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£11
Flamenco for Kids (0+)
C venues – C viva, 24 Aug, £9.50
Comète (5+)
Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £9–£11
Romantic Romeo (5+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 23–25 Aug, £11
Celeste’s Circus (0+)
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 23–25 Aug, £8
Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 20–26
Aug, £10
Sail Away! (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Moonbird (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 21–26
Aug, £8.50–£10
Children’s Silent Disco (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £10
10:40
The Bubble Show (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
10:50
Doodle Pop (3+)
Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£11
Rocket Girl (5+)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
11:00
Baby Loves Disco (0+)
The Jam House, 24–25 Aug, £8
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £8
Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+)
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £14.50–£15.50
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 23–25 Aug, £7.50
Grumpy Pants (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rhyme Marmalade (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rave & Behave (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 24–26 Aug, £11–£12
Sunshine (3+)
Underbelly, Cowgate, 20–25 Aug, £9–£10
Tappuccino (5+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–26 Aug, £7.50–£8.50
11:05
Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8
Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 20–23 Aug, FREE
Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+)
Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE
11:10
Little Wings (5+) theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7.50
11:15
CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE
Slime (0+)
Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 20–24 Aug, £7–£8
Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+)
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50
11:20
Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+)
C venues – C viva, 20–26
Aug, £7.50–£9.50
Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+)
Roundabout @ Summerhall, 24–25 Aug, £10
11:25
Joyce (3+)
Assembly Roxy, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
11:30
Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23
Aug, £9–£11
The Greatest Magic Show (3+)
Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£12
Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26
Aug, £8.50–£10
11:45
Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25
Aug, £10–£12
11:50
When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao
Roma, 20–24 Aug, FREE
Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 20–25 Aug, FREE
11:55
Danny the Champion of the World (3+)
theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–24
Aug, £8
12:00
Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE Chores (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10
Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+)
Pleasance Dome, 20–26
Aug, £10
12:10
Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+)
Assembly George Square Studios, 21–26 Aug, £10–£12
12:30
Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+)
City of Edinburgh Tours, 20–26 Aug, £8
Shakespearience (5+)
Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50
The Maths Magic Show 2019 (8+)
PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20–25 Aug, FREE
Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £9–£10
13:00
Story Builders (5+)
Lauriston Halls, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)
Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 20–26 Aug, £12
Splash Test Dummies (5+)
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 20–24 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 24 Aug, £10
13:05
Legend of Shadows (0+) C venues – C south, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
13:15
The Happy Prince (0+) C venues – C aquila, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50
Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
The Amazing Bubble Man (0+)
Underbelly, George Square, 20–26 Aug, £11–£12
13:25
Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything (5+)
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9
The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12
13:30
The Red Balloon (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £8
Children are Stinky (3+)
Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £8–£10
13:45
I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10–£12
14:00
Baby Loves Disco (0+)
The Jam House, 24–25 Aug, £9 Huggers (3+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
14:30
Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+)
Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 20–26 Aug, £12
Wriggle Around the World (0+)
Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8
Circus Sonas Family Show (0+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
15:00
Aardman Model Making Workshops (5+)
Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £10
Me and the Mask –Commedia dell’Arte (5+)
Italian Cultural Institute, 22 Aug, £8
15:05
The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 20–24 Aug, £11–£12
15:15
Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+)
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–25 Aug, FREE
15:50
Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+)
Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
16:10
The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+)
The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–25 Aug, £9
16:30
Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+)
Assembly George Square, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50
Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+)
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–25 Aug, £10.50
17:00
Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+)
Lauriston Halls, 20–24 Aug, £4
17:30
The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+)
Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–24 Aug, £10–£11
17:35
Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+)
Assembly Roxy, 24–25 Aug, £10
SHOW: A Migrant’s Son
VENUE: Imagination Workshop
TIME: 5:30pm – 7:00pm, 14–26 Aug, not 19
TICKETS: £40 – £45
SHOW: Exposing Edith
VENUE: Assembly George Square Studios
TIME: 2:20pm – 3:30pm, 7–26 Aug, not 12, 19
TICKETS: £12 – £14
What’s going on at the Fridge?
Here is our Edinburgh Festival fridge! I am sharing an apartment with eight Kiwis [New Zealand legends], and this is our amazing collection of food! My shelf is the one that’s circled in red. It is basically vegetables, some fish and meat and duck fat. Mainly because I’m on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet and this involves eating extremely simple and nonprocessed food.
It has done wonders for my health, so sticking to it during this busy period is essential for me.
