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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Academy
2nd - 17th Aug 2024

The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory… but only to a lucky few.

Ralph Brown: My First Hostage Situation

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
1st - 25th Aug 2024

Ralph’s festival show last year was all about how unlucky he is – then in the middle of one show, he and his unsuspecting audience were taken hostage at gunpoint! See? Very unl…

Charlie Caper: Magical

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Brighton Fringe
The Bunker @ Fool’s Paradise
3rd - 5th May 2024

The winner of Sweden’s Got Talent is back with Magical after selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe and at last years FRINGE WORLD.

Ralph & Elliot

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London Fringe
The Hope Theatre
3rd - 4th Sep 2023

Armpits, orange juice, & exorcisms.

The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie – Martin Kershaw/Colin Steele Quintet

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Jazz Bar
21st - 27th Aug 2023

A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.

Charlie Jackson: Bath (WIP)

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Camden Fringe
The Rose & Crown
10th - 11th Aug 2023

Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…

Charlie Jackson: Bath (WIP)

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Camden Fringe
The Rose & Crown
10th - 11th Aug 2023

Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…

Charlie Jackson - What's That!

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Camden Fringe
The Rose & Crown
10th - 11th Aug 2023

Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…

Charlie Dinkin & Fraser Parry: For The Last First Time

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
9th - 10th Aug 2023

Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.

Charlie Dinkin & Fraser Parry: For The Last First Time

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Camden Fringe
2Northdown
9th - 10th Aug 2023

Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.

Charlie Caper – Magical

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
5th - 27th Aug 2023

The winner of Sweden’s Got Talent is back with Magical: a beautiful, multi award-winning magic show.

Ralph Brown: Ralpha Male

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Edinburgh Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar
4th - 27th Aug 2023

Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.

Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Cowgate
3rd - 27th Aug 2023

The planet is melting and life’s spinning out of control.

Charlie Lewin: Cockatiel

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon Teviot
2nd - 28th Aug 2023

Winner: Best Newcomer – Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2021).

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – The Musical

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of Roald Dahl’s best known books, which is why the expectations are high for James Brining’s tour.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Musical

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West End
New Wimbledon Theatre
21st Jun - 1st Jul 2023

Escape to a world of pure imagination with ROALD DAHL’S Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – The Musical.

Black@Sussex Artist Talk: 'Deep History' with Photographer Charlie Phillips

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Brighton Fringe
Ironworks Studios
28th May 2023

Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

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Brighton Fringe
Ironworks Studios
28th May 2023

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.

Charlie Partridge: Acid Klauss

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
1st Jun 2022 - 30th May 2023

Charlie Partridge performs as Klaus from Stuttgart “Sonic Clown, Vocal Looping, Beat Boxing and Occasional Smut.

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

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Brighton Fringe
Ironworks Studios
28th May 2023

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.

Charlie Partridge: Acid Klauss

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
28th - 30th May 2023

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.

Charlie George: Grace (Work in Progress)

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Vault Festival
The Basement at Vaulty Towers
7th Mar 2023

Charlie George Swindon’s finest queer, mixed-race, neurodiverse, working class, ex-Jehovah’s Witness comedian longs for Grace.

Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic (Work in Progress)

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Vault Festival
The Spacement at The Glitch
21st Feb 2023

The planet is melting and life is spinning out of control but maybe Charlie can save it all with a nice picnic.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …

Charlie & Stan

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West End
Wilton’s
18th Jan - 4th Feb 2023

‘Hilarious.

Charlie Berens: Midwest Survival Guide Tour

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
8th Oct 2022

Charlie Berens live at Leicester Square Theatre.

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…

Charlie Vergos – Barbecue Rich

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Roti
6th - 28th Aug 2022

Having grown up working in his family’s Memphis barbecue restaurant, US comedian Charlie Vergos is 100% southern on the surface, but his understated intelligence and wandering year…

Bird 'n' Diz – The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Jazz Bar
6th - 28th Aug 2022

A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.

Ralph Brown: Petty Man

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Edinburgh Fringe
Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
5th - 28th Aug 2022

Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021.

Charlie Hopkinson: Deep (Work in Progress)

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
4th - 28th Aug 2022

Ever wondered if what you are seeing and hearing is real? Feel like your trust in the audio-visual spectrum has been shaken? Charlie explores the increasing dangers – and benefit…

Charlie Russell Aims to Please

As the title Charlie Russell Aims to Please suggests, the entire show is an amalgamation of various theatre techniques from musical to slapstick to the dramatic in Russell’s atte…

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

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Durham Fringe Festival
Cafédral
27th - 28th Jul 2022

Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

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Durham Fringe Festival
Cafédral
27th - 28th Jul 2022

Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.

Sir Charlie Stinky Socks: Mystical Maps and Magical Monsters

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
19th - 19th Jun 2022

Welcome to the wonderful world of Sir Charlie stinky Socks – the brave little knight with the heart of gold, who just happens to be celebrating his 15th anniversary this year…

Charlie Partridge: Acid Klauss

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
1st - 2nd Jun 2022

Charlie Partridge performs as Klaus from Stuttgart “Sonic Clown, Vocal Looping, Beat Boxing and Occasional Smut.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.

after birth

There’s something truly life-affirming about theatre that entertains and makes you think.

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…

Charlie Dinkin: 55 Minutes With Charlie Dinkin

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Camden Fringe
Museum of Comedy
7th - 22nd Aug 2021

A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.

Charlie Dinkin: 55 Minutes With Charlie Dinkin

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Camden Fringe
Museum of Comedy
7th - 22nd Aug 2021

A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.

Charlie Dinkin: Fifty Five Minutes of Charlie Dinkin

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West End
Museum of Comedy
7th - 22nd Aug 2021

A brand new work-in-progress hour from former BBC Comedy staff writer and very old baby Charlie Dinkin.

Charlie's a Clepto

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Showcatcher (Online)
6th - 6th Aug 2021

Charlie is a kleptomaniac – the doctor told her.

Charlie Baker: Cream Before Jam

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Bristo Square
5th - 30th Aug 2020

Baker (GameDay Warm-Up and Glory Hunters co-host on talkSPORT) is Devonshire and proud.

Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook

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London Fringe
2 Northdown
16th Feb 2020

Guaranteed to be the only comedy show about Spolia.

Charlie Harrigan: Le Cowboy Ecossais

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Edinburgh Fringe
Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
18th Aug 2019

Folk and Americana from Scotland and the heart.

Torch Town

The Edinburgh Fringe exists as a kind of suspended adolescence allowing creatives to live the experience of their art being the most important thing in the world.

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin: Open air Cinema: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
4th Aug 2019

Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie Caper – Sleight of Hand

Review
★★★★
Victor Black
Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
6th Aug, 2019

If you were to ask every magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe who their favourite magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe is, you could expect the majority of them to respond in…

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
2nd - 10th Aug 2019

Rakish aristocrat and first-time detective Charlie Montague must prevent a murder.

Tricky Second Album

In Bed With My Brother spend the largest portion of this, notably their third Edinburgh show, conducting a kind of aural warfare on their audience.

Limbo: The Twelve

Limbo: The Twelve is one of the latest pair of musicals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, allowing a group of talented young performes the opportunity to perform an origina…

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!

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Edinburgh Fringe
Central Hall
2nd - 6th Aug 2019

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.

Daniel and Ralph Won't Talk About Brexit

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Edinburgh Fringe
Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes
2nd - 26th Aug 2019

Fresh from selling out their Glasgow Comedy Festival show for two successive years, Daniel and Ralph are bringing their show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Join us – two Scottish comed…

Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose is a complex story, told phenomenally well by a company quickly proving itself to be one of the hottest theatre groups in the country.

Limbo: City of Dreams

Limbo: City of Dreams charges itself with the difficult task of cramming an entire world into its hour-long runtime.

Josie Long: Tender

Review
★★★★
Charlie Ralph
Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand Comedy Club / The Stand’s New Town Theatre
23rd Aug, 2019

Josie Long has spent twenty years being a beacon of hope amongst the cynical cruelty of stand-up comedy.

Working On My Night Moves

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it can often feel very hard to be alone.

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain

Trauma is never an easy thing to talk about.

Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

Charlie returns with more historical comedy, characters and stand-up.

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular

Post Popular is Lucy McCormick's attempt to follow-up her fantastic and hugely popular show Triple Threat.

MARA

Taking on the voices of a group of monumental and important women throughout history, MARA embodies them physically and vocally with stunningly committed and skillful character wor…

Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time

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Brighton Fringe
Komedia Main Space
5th - 6th May 2019

World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (‘Harry Hill’; Sky1, ‘Dog Ate My Homework’; CBBC, ‘Doctor Wh…

Charlie’s A Clepto

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Dublin
Civic Theatre
11th - 15th Mar 2019

Charlie is a kleptomaniac - the doctor told her.

Ralph Breaks The Internet (PG) - Half Term Family Cinema

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London Fringe
Watermans Art Centre
18th - 23rd Feb 2019

Join Ralph and Vanellope in their newest buddy-comedy adventure, and explore the worldwide web in a whole new way.

WRECK IT RALPH 2: RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (PG)

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UK Regional & Tours
Hertford Theatre
2nd Feb 2019

Saturday 12th January, 10.

Hannah and Charlie: Making It

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Edinburgh Fringe
Canons’ Gait
15th - 26th Aug 2018

Hello! I’m Charlie Miller, and I was in Budgie the Little Helicopter.

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
13th - 18th Aug 2018

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood. Humorous, full of fun and fabulous musical numbers.

Charlie Caper – Artifice Intelligence

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Edinburgh Fringe
Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
4th - 26th Aug 2018

Advanced technology indistinguishable from magic! Robots of varying complexity, from AI research platforms to homemade junkbots, interact with international magician Charlie Caper …

Heather and Harry

Heather and Harry is a romantic yarn detailing the story of Heather, an angel cast out of heaven by her misogynist rapping boyfriend Zeus, of Greek mythology fame.

Shower Thoughts

The bathroom of a student flat is not a place you'd want to spend 5 minutes, let alone an hour.

Legacy: The Book of Names

At first glance The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's two collaborative productions with the American Music Theatre Project may seem remarkably similar to last year's pair.

Assassins

Assassins is a show of rich thematic complexity, difficult harmonies and challenging characterisation.

Legacy: A Mother's Song

Legacy: A Mother’s Song, one of two devised musicals under the ‘Legacy’ banner at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is the distinctly less crowd-pleasing of the pair.

The Half Moon Shania

Punk and theatre aren't the strangest of bedfellows, but there is something that often feels false when collectives of art school graduates and professionally-trained actors at…

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

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Edinburgh Fringe
Paradise in Augustines
3rd - 11th Aug 2018

Bare Productions are a new, fresh Edinburgh-based company comprising of some of the best local talent who have all performed in multiple five-star sell-out shows at the Fringe.

Lucy Pearman: Fruit Loop

Review
★★★★★
Charlie Ralph
Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
4th Aug, 2018

There are too many shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The Worst Little Warehouse in London

The Worst Little Warehouse In London is crammed into The Box, which appears to be an actual shipping crate housed in Assembly Gardens.

Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly George Square Gardens
2nd - 26th Aug 2018

World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Dog Ate My Homework, Doctor Who) and…

Tessa Waters: Fully Sik

Tessa Waters is an experienced Fringe act, falling into a large group of fantastically-exuberant physical comedians who enliven any number of venues from large to small over the mo…

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.

Where the Hell is Bernard?

Dystopia is a tricky subject matter to get right in a world obsessed with its own destruction as our current one.

The Basement Tapes

Cleaning out her grandmother's old basement after her death, amongst the usual detritus a woman finds a tape recorder and an accompanying tape which tells the kind of story usu…

Elf Lyons: ChiffChaff

Elf Lyons should be feeling pretty good right now.

Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton

Demi Lardner feels the need, at one point in their most recent show, to unveil a banner listing their previous accomplishments and awards they have won.

Showmanship

At first sight it would seem that Boondog Theatre's latest outing at the Edinburgh Fringe is somewhat ironically titled.

Ciarán Dowd: Don Rodolfo

Don Rodolfo opens his debut fringe hour duelling with an unseen coat rack.

Kate Berlant: Communikate

A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.

Rose Matafeo: Horndog

As the audience file in Rose Matafeo is playing table tennis with members of the front row, in a gimmick that does not factor into the later story at any point.

Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter

Sheeps are officially back, following previous acclaim and an underground status as one of the Fringe's finest sketch groups and then a three year sebatical.

Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club

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Edinburgh Fringe
C venues – C royale
1st - 27th Aug 2018

Welcome to The 24/7 Club, where everyone was born on the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in Charlie V Martin’s new solo show about her birthday.

John-Luke Roberts: All I Wanna Do Is [FX: GUNSHOTS] With a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and Perform Some Comedy!

John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse

Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.

The Ronnie Scott’s Allstars play The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

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Great Yorkshire Fringe
The White Rose Rotunda
22nd Jul 2018

Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz…

Charlie Caper & Malin Nilsson: Minor Miracles

The initial impression of this show is that it’s going to be an hour of magic with a bit of banter and it’s exactly that but it’s also wonderful.

You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown

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Off Off Broadway
Flea Theatre
16th - 19th Nov 2017

EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.

Zoe Coombs Marr: Trigger Warning

Comedians regularly perpetuate the idea that they sacrifice part of themselves for their art.

Charlie's Letters

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
14th Aug 2017

An escaped POW’s battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and son wait for news in England.

Sam Simmons A-K

Sam Simmons is a dad now.

Party Game

“What did you expect? This is immersive theatre.

Wild Bore

For a theatre piece to be perfect for some people, it has to be horrible for others.

The End, the End, the End…

The amount a show takes liberties with narrative should be directly compensated by how much it has to say.

The North

The North is as hostile, unforgiving and beautiful as the land to which it dedicates its hour-long runtime.

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip

If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…

Atlantic: America and the Great War

There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.

Steen Raskopoulos – The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess

Steen Raskopoulos makes no effort to be cool on stage.

Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do

Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.

Into the Woods

Fairytales don’t really make much sense.

Jane Doe

Nobody wants to be lectured.

The Nature of Forgetting

What’s more important when telling a compelling story of human emotion, feeling or narrative? The answer to this is largely dependent on the viewer’s personal preferences as to…

Tessa Coates: Primates

Putting on a Fringe show is, for any performer, a risky endeavour.

The Establishment: Eton Mess

Satire can often be found at the root of absurdism.

Goody

Nestled in what seems, somewhat appropriately, to be a shipping container in the Pleasance Courtyard, two creatures on a journey with no origin point or destination try to figure e…

Double Denim

Double Denim haven’t made their fringe debut easy for themselves, starting their show at nearly midnight and performing in perhaps the ugliest room in any of the major venues.

Butt Kapinski

When a show’s success or failure supposedly rests almost entirely on the skills and willingness of its audience, the trust and confidence placed between performer and viewer is t…

A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)

A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is about a woman’s struggle with depression, told through a simple, storytelling format and soundtracked by original music from Fris…

Charlie Baker: The Hit Polisher

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly George Square Theatre
2nd - 27th Aug 2017

Entertainment combined harvester Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Teatime Sky 1, O2 Comedy Gala Channel 4, EastEnders) sings his nostalgic love letter to pop music of the 80s, 90s and …

Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 3

Sketch comedy is the medium in which an original voice is most important in order to be successful.

Seanmhair

The initial experience one is met with when the lights dim for Seanmhair (pronounced shen-a-var) is breathtaking.

Bec Hill: Out of Order

To a comedian, the structure of their Fringe hour is often held too preciously.

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

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Edinburgh Fringe
National Museum of Scotland
31st Jul - 3rd Sep 2017

This major exhibition tells the real story of the rise and fall of the Jacobites.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

Charlie's Letters

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Brighton Fringe
The Nightingale Room
18th - 21st May 2017

An escaped POW’s battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and young son wait for news in England.

Charlie Sonata

There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always …

Blanket Fort

Review
★★★
Charlie Pilbeam
Brighton
Sweet Dukebox
10th Apr, 2017

Improvised shows are always an exciting watch, no-one knows exactly what to expect.

The Guide to Good Orgasm Management

Review
★★
Charlie Pilbeam
Brighton
Sweet Dukebox
30th Mar, 2017

Whilst it never quite delivers the climax you expect from a show with such a title, The Guide To Good Orgasms offers a certain charm that makes it impossible not to smile throughou…

Charlie Parker With Strings

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Edinburgh Fringe
Stockbridge Church
18th Aug 2016

After a sell-out concert last year SONIC return with saxophonist Paul Towndrow and trumpeter Ryan Quigley to perform Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown’s stunning albums from the …

Charlie Caper: Wonder Wander

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Edinburgh Fringe
Voodoo Rooms
6th - 21st Aug 2016

Wonderful magic from the winner of Sweden’s Got Talent.

Charlie Dinkin: Can't

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
4th - 14th Aug 2016

A half-hearted attempt to write the most controversial show of all time, which you can experience in dazzling 3D using your own equipment, i.

An Evening with Charlie Sheen

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West End
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
19th Jun 2016

One of Hollywood’s most successful stars, Charlie Sheen, will share his passion for acting, producing and writing up close and personal in an on-stage interview with British …

Addy van der Borgh presents Blind Charlie Harwood

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
3rd - 5th Jun 2016

Blues harmonica and booze harmonica legend Blind Charlie Harwood makes his Brighton debut after 35 years of licking the blues.

Dealer's Choice

A play set around a poker game may not sound like the most interesting watch but Patrick Marber’s script contributes character, excitement and intensity towards an engaging…

End of the Rainbow

After watching End Of The Rainbow, what I learnt most about Garland was the effect that she had on her audience.

Ralph Lemon

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USA Regional & Tours
The Kitchen
31st Oct 2015

Mr.

Charlie and the Philosorappers

If someone had told me months ago that, not only was I going to see a man perform rap battles, beat poetry and strange silent skits based on philosophy, but that I was actually goi…

Charlie Dinkin: Child Star

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
6th - 19th Aug 2015

A starry evening with the most famous child star you’ve never heard of.

Savage and Ralph: Joyful Erotica

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Espionage
6th - 30th Aug 2015

Chris Savage wants to make a sexual world more cynical with limericks and a child’s xylophone.

Charlie Baker: Just the One

Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.

Charlie & The Philosorappers

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Brighton Fringe
Otherplace at the Basement: The Pit
22nd - 24th May 2015

A head-stretching hip hop voyage through the history of thought.

New York Philharmonic: Charlie Chaplins Modern Times

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USA Regional & Tours
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
19th - 20th Sep 2014

How much Charlie Chaplin really wrote the score for “Modern Times” is debatable, but the genius of his 1936 reflection on industry and the Depression is not.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a Broadway musical based on the Peanuts comic strip, featuring familiar characters like Lucy, Snoopy and Schroeder.

Charlie O'Connor - Dandyisms

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Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly, Cowgate
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014

Much like a comedian, only more hilarious, Charlie O’Connor promises laughter, confusion, merriment, and pungent hair envy in his sparkledragon of a show.

Charlie Smith: Too Tall for the Ride

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Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
12th - 16th May 2014

Following a successful run at festivals such as Edinburgh Fringe 2013 and various venues around the UK and Ireland, join Ireland’s tallest comedian at Brighton Fringe 2014.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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West End
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
3rd Apr 2014 - 7th Jan 2017

Roald Dahl’s deliciously dark tale of young Charlie Bucket and the mysterious confectioner Willy Wonka comes to life in “a lavish feast of a musical” (The Guardian) di…

Of Mice and Men

With an apology for being faithful to Steinbeck’s racist language both written in the programme and announced at the start, the team behind Of Mice and Men are clearly concerned …

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
25th Aug, 2012

There was barely an empty seat in Canongate Kirk for this concert and the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh rose to the occasion with a programme to match the unsettled Edinburgh weather.

Charlie Chuck's Chuckasaurus Show

Review
★★
Lia Sanders
Edinburgh Fringe
23rd Aug, 2013

I never expected not to ‘get’ a children’s show.

Charlie Chuck's Grande Night Out

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
20th - 24th Aug 2013

Charlie is back with a wild cabaret of musical, magical drum-smashing mayhem, accompanied by Judd (Booze for Baby) Jones, Edie Wakefield and wild frontman for an 80s rock band car…

This Arthur's Seat Gala Belongs to Lionel Richie

Review
★★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

As hour-long, mountain-top, star-studded, musical comedy extravaganzas go, this was a rather low-key affair.

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.

Bhundu Boy Rise Kagona

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

The Jazz Bar is not what first comes to mind as a Fringe hotspot but this small, classy venue continues to offer the eclectic, high quality gigs it programmes throughout the year.

Charlie Dupré Presents: The Stories of Shakey P

The idea of using rap as a linguistic art form to present a ‘playful reimagining’ of many of Shakespeare’s finest work is something young Charlie Dupré successfully pulls of…

Charlie Dupré Presents... The Stories of Shakey P

Spoken word and rap artist Charlie Dupre comes on stage to the strains of cello and violin, an accompaniment that is perhaps a little at odds with his casual hip-hop style and deli…

Best of Waterloo Comedy Club - Ralph D'iamond Hosts

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd - 6th Aug 2013

Come and see the stars who’ve appeared at Waterloo Comedy Club including radio and TV guests, award winners and Fringe favourites.

Bruce Fummey - The Jacobites and Bonnie Prince Charlie

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
1st - 25th Aug 2013

An irreverent history from Henry VIII to Bonnie Prince Charlie. ‘You will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging performer on the Fringe. Do go and see this show’ (Chortle.co.uk).

Charlie Smith: Too Tall for the Ride

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
1st - 13th Aug 2013

Join Ireland’s tallest comedian as he unravels the world through his unique point of view. Join Charlie on his surreal journey of devilment and hilarious stand-up.

Charlie Baker: Baker's Dozen

Listing
Edinburgh Fringe
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2013

Award-winning comedian and ‘Devon’s answer to Sinatra’ (Guardian), sings the 13 biggest selling UK singles from the last 13 years.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.

Hot Chocolate at 10

Review
★★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

Doubtless the lure of this event is the promise of hot chocolate to round off the day and it doesn’t disappoint.

Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

This group of students from Oxford’s Trinity College presumably came to the conclusion that you can’t go far wrong with Noel Coward.

Charlie Baker Freshly Baked

At the risk of sounding completely unprofessional, I would like to summate that Charlie Baker’s new stand up show Freshly Baked is ‘alright.

Beethoven's Violin Sonatas

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

The Royal Overseas League on Princes Street is well-known for showcasing up-and-coming musical talent.

Dave Gibson and Charlie Talbot - Battle of Britain: North vs South

Review
★★
Stephanie Bartlett
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2011

The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…

Ryan Withers - One Woman Showe - Free

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.

Wedding Band: A Comedy by Charlie Baker

Review
★★★
Beth Kahn
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2011

For most people, their wedding is the happiest day of their life.

Isolated Isle

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

Old St Paul’s Church Hall is the understated setting for this musical’s week-long run and there is no venue more appropriate for a show with no pretentions of grandeur.

Hardcore Pawn With Mick, Lewis and Shaun

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

From the bewildering title to the closing dance number, this show is an hour of surprises, both comic and moving.

The Two Worlds of Charlie F

The Two Worlds of Charlie F is a rare example of a play in which fiction and reality collide to create something very special indeed.

Frank and Ferdinand

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

The magnificent Merchants’ Hall on Hanover Street provides a setting too grandiose in the extreme for Best Rest Theatre Company’s production of their new play, ‘Frank and Fer…

Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

‘How do you come out as straight?’ Dan Student asks the early evening audience at Fingers Piano Bar.

My Wrestle Mania

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Stan Skinny admits that this show is a work in progress, having only started writing it a matter of weeks ago.

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…

Charlie Talbot: Someone Better Known

The GRV would be well-advised to put out some more signs advertising where this five-pound Fringe venue actually is, because when you eventually find it, there’s some real classics…

Meat

Young writer Tim Foley is an exceptional talent.

Bernard the Ferret (Happy to be Himself!)

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

Doubling as a launch for her new book about her Norfolk-dwelling protagonist and his ferret friends and as a one-woman performance for young children, Eve Stebbing’s show is doin…

Perfectly Bananas

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Wes Zaharuk is a man with experience.

Double Edge's Flames Over New Jersey

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

Double Edge provides excellent entertainment here in the damp, sweaty attic of Underbelly, the ideal venue for their immersive piece set in a 1930’s Princeton speakeasy.

Listen! The River

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2012

This show is narrated by a cat.

A Theory of Everything - Free

Review
★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.

Paul Foot - Kenny Larch Is Dead

Review
★★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

There are actually plenty of comedy options at the Fringe if you want to avoid the ‘affable young bloke in jeans and a t-shirt telling jokes’ but perhaps none further removed t…

The Maroon Balloon

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

A boy finds a balloon on the streets of Paris.

Cirque du Charlie Chuck

Review
★★★
Catherine Bryer
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

There is something vaguely terrifying about Charlie Chuck, real name David Kear.

Charlie Pickering: Auto

Review
★★★★
Pete Shaw
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2006

Above all else, Charlie Pickering is an engaging storyteller - even if that contradicts the premise of his Edinburgh show, in which he struggles to write his autobiography.

Mr Snot Bottom's Stinky Silly Show

A sizeable crowd took the brave decision to bring their 6-year-olds to the Gilded Balloon for an hour of bum jokes on Sunday morning.

Dracula

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

It is either brave or it is foolish to attempt to put on such a well-worn classic as Dracula in pursuit of success at the Fringe.

Hangman

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

Reprising their 2007 Fringe First show, Hangman, influential dance-theatre company Do-Theatre, part of Assembly’s Russian Season, must be confident of similar success five years …

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Review
★★
Laurie Coldwell
Edinburgh Fringe
26th Aug, 2011

The Portobello Youth Theatre is made up of schoolchildren aged 8-13 and it’s great that a youth theatre is allowed the chance to get Fringe theatre experience.

Freedom Family Circus

Review
★★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
9th Aug, 2012

‘Sorry I dropped the knives a couple of times,’ Perico Circus Express winces.

The Pajama Men's Improv Show

Sticking with the name that they have made famous over the last 20 years but going for what they described as ‘more casual’ jeans and shirt attire, The Pajama Men’s Improv Sh…

Elephant Man

Elephant Man was born in Benoit Hattet’s mind some 25 years ago and his devotion to the project - he is the writer, director, designer and actor - is clear in every aspect of thi…

Les Impossibles

Review
★★
Charlie Hanks
Edinburgh Fringe
13th Aug, 2012

Belfast company At Large Theatre’s new production is good fun at times but it’s unclear - I think even to the actors - who it’s for and why they are performing it.