Witness the classic Captain Dencade in this special sci-fi screening.
Direct from a sell-out West End season.
Malcolm Hardee Award winner KATG returns to the Fringe with a set of greatest (minor internet) hits of cheerfully offensive comedy songs to prove you CAN say anything anymore, prov…
Auntie is a sweet old dear and a jolly good raconteur.
After a sell-out 2023 UK tour and extended run in London’s West End, Taskmaster loser Nick Mohammed returns to the Fringe as his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr.
When Susie McCabe downed her electrician’s tools to commit full-time to becoming a comedian, the construction industries loss was stand-up comedy’s gain.
Grizzly Jim’s been a hunter all of his life, no quarter given nor none taken.
Quincunx is Ray Fordyce’s favourite word. It means a pattern of five and there are five areas of his life he want’s to talk about and how they all connect.
All is not well with either the Guild of Assassins or the Guild of Clowns, whose city locations adjoin.
Jonathan Watson?is a Scottish actor best known for the football comedy Only an Excuse?.
The Rock pub has seen better days, more recently, it has seen damp.
As well as being world-famous for classical full-length works like The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov was widely renowned for his short comedic plays kn…
The Unexpected Mayfly follows a nobody – a man struggling with the search for purpose in his monotonous life.
They are two words that are misused far too often these days but in the case of Andy Cameron, the description of comedy legend is totally justified.
From nursery school to cocktail parties, Joyce Grenfell conjured colourful characters for our pleasure.
A glorious spoof of the RAF.
Back by popular demand! The C Word is a radical awakening to the extreme objectification, competition, and overall nonsense women face today.
Diana Stewart and Damian Corcoran perform as different older couples in four romantic tragi-comedies by Edinburgh writer Malcolm Windsor.
Jump on board and let me take you down that bumpy road that we call life.
Michael is a man who has decided that the best thing to do is to end his life.
If You Don’t Laugh, you’ll cry.
Feast yourselves on an irreverent meal of a comedy sketch show.
Meet Magenta.
Chickens is a sharp comedy-drama that explores the chaos of love, life and obsession.
As We Face the Sun is a moving and uplifting exploration of friendship and the passage of time.
A one-woman show about a new mother struggling with the responsibility of caring for a tiny human.
The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual.
A comedy set in a post office using carrier pigeons in the run-up to a debate on whether to keep the pigeon post alive or not.
Could you go on a reality dating show? Could you and your useless friends convince the producers that you’re actually cool and marketable? Could you be honest with yourself about…
A brand-new, bite-sized absurdist comedy that you can really sink your teeth into! Small-time Scottish criminals, Cammy and Lee are no strangers to running into a spot of bother in…
Hellfire gets in the habit in this original comedy rock musical.
In the fluorescent glow of a conference hall, two PhD souls collide – entwined by love, yet divided by rival labs.
Nascent, speculative and unprepared ideas from the founding member of the Greeters Guild that will undoubtedly change before forming the nucleus of the next worldwide sell-out tour…
Ever wondered what happens when a LadBible-loving geezer, a pretentious C-List actor, a sadomasochist Wotsit-lover and an overbearing faux-liberal billionaire get thrown under the …
Now that the dust (and lawsuits) from last year’s adventures have settled, things are (finally) looking up for the St Andrews Pantomime Club.
A London flat: a suitcase, sofa, coffee table, half-eaten tuna sandwich on it.
Seven men are trapped in toilet cubicles within purgatory.
Amelia Crotchet is a semi-failed classical musician in a double-act with her violin.
With fork-related accidents up by 7% and the teaspoon declared hazardous (size-to-injury wise), there has never been a better time to polish your cutlery safety awareness.
Lucy Churchill (aka the leggy blonde with cracking t*ts) brings you her debut one-woman show.
A Play About Feet is a dark comedy about love, ambition and terrible decisions.
There is no journey more uncertain than new parenthood, especially when you’ve never been given an example.
Time and Time Again is an exploration of migration, friendship, and identity.
New Year’s Eve, 2007.
The town of Stubbins is plagued by a beast, one that roams at night, tearing through livestock, howling to the skies – a werewolf.
Crack out the pre-drinks for Shakespeare after dark.
Set in 1969 in the Suntree Bar, My Sweetheart and Me is a light-hearted romantic comedy stage musical that follows three couples navigating love, heartbreak and hilarity in the fic…
The American dream meets the American nightmare on a bench in Central Park.
A dynamic, fast-paced musical about desperation, deception and a daring prison break.
In the seemingly peaceful town of Little Heath, the shocking murder of a local boy pulls seven unsuspecting residents into an emergency meeting.
AcadePitch Productions presents a fantasy swashbuckling adventure filled with music, conflict and an unlikely romance.
A down-on-his-luck impressionist, desperate for a meaty role that will satisfy his artistic cravings, is hired by a man on the run to swindle his blind, dying mother with the ultim…
In the heart of Louisiana where hurricane parties are a way of life, three high school friends, a decade after graduation, find themselves in their hometown as a hurricane rolls in…
Willkommen to Weimar Germany, where our nameless narrators draw you into the haunting show of Caligari and their sleepwalker and servant Cesare who does their every bidding.
The Neurodiverse Review Bounce Emerging Artist Award 2023 recipient, Bipolar Badass, is a dark comedy that tells the story of Mari being diagnosed with bipolar.
A queer love story but no one dies at the end? Welcome to the world of Blooming! Follow the adventures of Ophelia the hopeless romantic, Zaria the daydreamer, and Dera the compassi…
From sketches to songs, come see these wee comical dafties do what they do best! Fast-paced, witty comedy with clever twists on Scottish culture! The Weegie boys promise raucous la…
First Aid is a girl meets boy medical romcom, ‘As witty as early Tim Rice’ (DailyInfo.
It’s a week until The Edinburgh Fringe, and The Bristol Suspensions still don’t have a show.
After a three-year hiatus, St Andrews’ infamous a cappella sensation The Other Guys are storming the Fringe once again – and yes, they’ve spent those years sweeping the Scottish …
The play follows Danny Fraser, a millionaire who is miserable despite having it all.
The people make the place.
Get lost in a new musical every night.
It’s a roller disco about immigration.
Rejected by Hillary Clinton at Yale, he now trashes her nightly on Fox News! When ‘Mommy’ announces her presidential run, conservative pundit Chet Bigsley’s carefully construct…
Grandma was complicated.
Step into an interdimensional musical tribute inspired by the Discworld Universe created by Sir Terry Pratchett.
Grouchy innkeeper Isaac isn’t expecting anymore guests.
Glass House explores the grimy underbelly of the human beast with unwavering intimacy.
Burns Banter – Your Bard! is a deep dive into the parts of Robert Burns life the scholars don’t want you to know about.
What happens when a crazy clown, a guitar-playing cat and a squeezebox therapist walk into a cabaret? Red Flags, of course! Red Flag Cabaret is a cheeky variety show unpacking the …
Looking for the perfect tan or a fresh manicure? Visit Princess and Pandora’s Perfect Parlour and Stacey’s Salon.
Kafka meets Monty Python when mild-mannered accountant Jo is arrested abroad for a nonsensical crime.
Love is.
Everything’s perfect in Baltimore until squeaky-clean Alison falls for Cry-Baby and he teaches her to ‘kiss with tongues’.
Set in a small town in Fife, Wish You Were Here follows a trio of working-class young men who are brought together for the first time in three years.
‘Wild, inventive comedy for fans of Emo Philips and Nick Lutsko’ (Chris Thorburn, Breaking The News).
Famous one-hit wonders The Femme Fatales are back in the news for the wrong reasons.
NYC’s Tragedy brings the headbangin’ bootyshakin’ back to Fringe! You may openly love/hate disco or metal.
Daisy Meredith is the first scholarship student to attend the Grangewood School for Girls.
This show, while full of laughter and storytelling, takes the audience on a journey through both the highs and the lows of life in one of the world’s most iconic cities: London.
Top black international comedy acts who are still able to get into the country or afford accomodation.
In a far-off kingdom, King Diadon spends each night watching his life story performed by a company of players.
Ever listen to a cover of a song and think: wow, what a funky fresh jam! I feel like I’ve grown as a person!? What if you listened to a hundred? Chris presents an oddball comedy sl…
The most critically acclaimed production of CS Lewis’ masterpiece is back! This award-winning satirical comedy that is now touring the UK for its 13th year.
Eric returns with more fast paced, topical and highly enjoyable parody, poetry and blether.
Knickers Cabaret is your one-stop shop for fresh, funny and flirty comedy! After a sell-out run at Brighton Fringe in 2024, we’re bringing the chaos to Edinburgh! With a killer lin…
A children’s party, but for adults.
Inspired by a true story, this meta-theatrical dive into Italian culture follows desperate actors scrambling to stage a Fringe show.
Ballads.
From viral online success to Scottish comedy household name, Brido Hingwy has created characters that are recognisable to people the world over.
Alone in the world – as only a widow can be – Broadway actor, Kate Skinner’s moving journey through love, loss and online dating at 70.
A show about society and my poor interpretations of it, the naivety that I miss having and the things that are loving and concerning and good – by the way, I’m contractually obli…
100% amazing, mind frying magic tricks performed by magician David Taylor.
The multi award-winning Scottish improv troupe are back! Men with Coconuts use audience suggestions to create an hour of emotional balladry, lyrical wizardry and musical husbandry.
Lymphomaniac is a raw, honest and hilariously unfiltered look at life during and after cancer.
‘Hello, and welcome to this non copyrighted, nondescript life SIMulator game.
I have recently counted my friends and was found wanting.
When corsets meet foot binding, Chinese shadow puppetry collides with Greek tragedy, funeral drums awaken political ghosts, and the past refuses to stay buried.
Two cats.
After an elaborate, routine heist at a masquerade suddenly goes wrong, Robin and their band – the Merry Men – find themselves in trouble.
The (mostly) true story of the first gay pope in the Middle Ages.
Blues, burlesque and blistering satire collide in Sellout – a bold, bawdy and brilliant new show from Fringe favourites Pete Saunders (Dexys Midnight Runners) and Belle de Beauvo…
A verbatim multigenerational exploration into what it means to be a mother.
The world is over: rancid eels reign! Intrepid Fools unleash their freakishly fanciful third Fringe show.
Mel McGlensey is Normal is a late-night choose your own adventure style hour.
Set 12 days after Christmas, perhaps the party has gone on just a little too long? Perhaps the guests are a tad hungover? Perhaps they’ve left it almost too late to find true lov…
King tells the story of Geok Yen, a public relations executive who seemingly has it all – a stable job and a boyfriend who is about to propose.
Celebrated Scottish actor Jimmy Chisholm (Braveheart, River City, RSC, London West End) stars in this compassionate and darkly funny tale of confusion, friendship and love against …
‘An insane amount of fun’ (TheWeeReview.
Dan Leith’s brand-new musical comedy show is an uproarious journey through life’s ups and downs.
This sexy, camp, pop-filled tragicomedy unpacks aspirations of becoming a singer while growing up where it is forbidden for women to sing.
This moving and unconventional song cycle bursts with originality as it examines human connection.
What are synths? Where did they come from? And why are they synonymous with cats in space? Laurie’s got answers.
Experience unforgettable, high–energy acts in this original, real–life story of exceptional talent emerging from car showrooms.
Nearlyweds is a brand-new musical comedy that will have you laughing, crying and singing along! We follow Lily, a people-pleasing Scottish bride as she runs away from her wedding, …
World-famous Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is best known for his major works including: Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Seagull.
At first glance, Iago Speaks appears to follow the events immediately after Shakespeare’s Othello.
Cody and Beau have two things on their mind: becoming cowboys and.
Get ready for an unforgettable night with Mrs C – she’s calling you to join the fun! Prepare yourself for a whirlwind of laughter, infectious tunes, and a good old-fashioned ro…
Louisiana – home of Mardi Gras, Southern hospitality, and purity culture.
Our parents worked to live.
A one-of-a-kind alternative comedy showcase straight from the Windy City itself.
It is what it is, the course of true love never did run smooth.
Set on a morning tram commute, Lost Property is a one-woman show following Alice, an unrelenting optimist, on a quest to reclaim a lost possession.
Baristas Amy and Callum are back from a sell-out show at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival but they’re still stuck navigating the coffee-ground trenches.
Join us for a delightfully preposterous romp through the enchanted forest, where fairies meddle in the affairs of foolish mortals.
A character comic ‘gearing up to conquer’ (Dawn French).
Like watching Whose Line Is It Anyway masquerading as a theatrical play.
A train grinds to a halt after a suicide.
Grab your fedora, holster your puns and come join Raiders of the Local Adventure.
Magicians are professional liars.
Prudence Play is a one-woman-many-voices serio-comedy starring a young catholic nun having an identity (gay-as-hell) crisis.
One Gen Xer’s nostalgic coming-of-age tale traversing the building blocks of his identity.
Warren Martin, the architect of his own troubles, strives to be a perfect father but barely manages to be adequate, a fact obvious to everyone except for himself.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee 2023 and Malcolm Hardee, Chortle and Entertainment Wow Award winner, Phil Ellis returns with a brand-new hour of stand-up, silliness and a lot of hea…
Charlie and Vic are a married couple living in the suburbs, trying to keep themselves secluded from the outside world.
Having been raised Catholic, I have been in “recovery” for a long time: all those prayers you didn’t actually understand, those many times in that scary confessional and the …
When two childhood friends, distant strangers to each other now, find themselves trapped in the classroom of their least favourite teacher at a 10 year high school reunion, they ca…
BBC Radio 4 favourite, comedy legend and ‘the 42nd best reason to love Britain’ (The Telegraph), John Shuttleworth is back at the Fringe with more hilarious stories and songs perfo…
After losing two family members in the same week, Eve wonders if God is a sadistic prick or if life holds deeper meaning.
Arkle’s affectionate take on the Buchan classic of espionage and daring-do.
Experience a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic, blending original musical numbers with dark humour.
Twelfth Night meets The Thick of It in a modern-day reimagining of what might have become of Malvolio after his fall from grace.
David Harmer and Ray Globe, the irrepressible Glummer Twins, are back with an irreverent trawl through the eight decades that made them what they are today.
Casino? follows the lives of four restaurant workers down on their luck struggling in a minimum wage job in a capitalist world gone mad.
A Shakespeare comedy telling the tale of love, magic and mistaken identities.
James invented the idea of proper stand-up for children in 2001.
Kaitlyn has spent the past two years soaking in the magic of Paris, but her time is running out.
For fans of Rocky Horror, Beetlejuice, and Ghosts, Ghosted! is a hauntingly hilarious new musical! Struggling with accepting the death of his best friend Mia, Henry attends a paran…
Leanne, Lucy and Richard spent their childhoods wondering about the moon and promised to one day live there, together.
March 3, 1960.
A Tenant’s life is uprooted when a Squatter boldly declares her living space as his own, exploring colonisation, occupation and displacement through a microcosm of Britain.
Play On is a dark comedy following two estranged siblings forced to complete an escape room together after attending their mother’s funeral, in order to receive her last will and t…
New York City improv comedians present American Football: An Improv Show.
A musical.
Have you ever longed to be somebody else? This compelling, witty, tragi-comic play brings to life the idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world.
This dark, sexy comedy follows the one-night stand of an unlikely couple.
In this fast-paced, cabaret-style solo musical comedy, one actress plays six vibrant characters to tell the story of Tomi – a luxury-obsessed teen whose world flips when she disc…
Carnaby House is an eight-storey tower block.
24 July 1943.
Lavinia Draper, alcohol-soaked performer of a certain age, maintains her dream despite the struggle.
What’s the worst thing someone could do if you were stuck in a packed lift? Sing a showtune, probably.
Will You Be Praying the Entire Flight? is a comedy about how a Hasidic woman and a secular woman change after a six-hour flight sitting next to each other.
Violence against women is declared a national emergency, and celebrity politicians with their absurdist policies are at an all-time high.
Juul, anxious and plagued by compulsions, discovers their fetish for choking.
Shocking tricks, filthy laughs and jaw-dropping sleight-of-hand – this is not your average magic show.
The certified old trout and original bag-for-life is back! Following The Ancient Heckler in 2015 and Stuffed and Mounted in 2017, Myrtle Throgmorton is still blethering on about Bu…
Four ladies, one Costa coffee, a bleached moustache and a dream.
Hilarious and thought provoking in equal measure, The Drop of a Hat is a three-man comedy about an unlikely friendship formed in occupied France.
When their philosophy professor, Tim Kenneth, suffers a meltdown in class, obnoxious prankster Scooter and teacher’s pet Pencil embark on an odyssey through the suburbs of New Je…
Remember the Kids from Fame? It’s time to meet the Kids with Nae Hame.
Saloon Girls is a dark comedy set in a 19th-century saloon and brothel of the Great American West.
Cowboys tells the story of a gunslinging hero seeking revenge on the gang who killed his family.
Not sure what else I can add here? Medieval heartstab Sean Bean is going to read 15th century Middle English tome Le Morte d’Arthur out loud, for an hour.
Eight top comedians compete to see who is the champion beermat flipper 2025! Sikisa, Stuart Laws and Matt Sandstorm host comedy’s premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians…
Hello son.
‘All I’ve ever wanted is to be a sexy Irish twink from Manchester.
Trained bushbaby, BAFTA nominee and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) descends from his ivory (Fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this monument to creativ…
How do we get what we want? When we get it, will we really want it? Mark Stringer’s a philosopher, stand-up comedian and project manager.
GP receptionists AKA the gatekeepers from hell.
Have you been gaslit? Do you want a song written about your ex? Are you clown curious? Then this is the show for you! Chanel & the Circus presents their solo clown musical All …
‘Please, sir, I want some more.
Enjoy musical satire at its finest: celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer, performed by Australian entertainer, singer and pianist, Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer.
Hey! Did you miss me? I missed you.
Dum dum dum dummmmm! The Really Terrible Orchestra are celebrating their 30th birthday, with very special guest Prue Leith! It’s sure to be a blast, but will the winds have enough …
Set entirely on a bed, Boy attempts to pursue his dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian, travelling the world and finding true love, all whilst confined to his bedroom’s four wall…
Sheeps (Al Roberts, Jonno and Liam Williams) are ‘arguably the best sketch group of their generation’ (Guardian), and now they’re inarguably the best Christmas-themed band of the…
When viewership tanks for the latest season of a survival TV game show, the producers realise they must go to extreme lengths to make sure the show doesn’t get cancelled – no m…
On what should be the happiest day of her life, a bride mysteriously disappears, leaving chaos in her wake.
After completely selling-out his 2024 show and winning Best Family Show at Aberdeen’s Fringe Festival, Sid is back with his interactive journey of comedy, magic, song, poetry and d…
Celebrate the songs and stories of Frank Sinatra with award-winning international piano cabaret entertainer Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer.
If you’ve ever received a weird message from someone you’ve dated, you’re not alone – this sort of thing has been going on for centuries.
Presented by the Queen of the Night and Lady Macbeth – with Cinderella as a last-minute replacement – the “concertino” designed to celebrate opera queens goes off the rails…
Join the hilarious fun as Dr H revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era.
One night only! Lewis Costello is a stand-up comedian, writer, presenter and announcer for Blackburn Rovers.
A comedy variety show in search of a roommate! Celia and Mavis (Diana Aydin and Mikayla Sherfy) are two zany old NYC broads, who secretly live in an Edinburgh attic and maybe kille…
Mr B invented chap-Hop in the summer of 2007, having drunk too much sherry and inadvertently created a new culture.
What does it take to forget your past? A darkly funny, emotionally raw one-woman show exploring what happens when academia, sex work, autism and identity collide.
In Merrily Merrily Merrily, three friends gather for a boozy night of laughter and existential debates, unraveling the mysteries of love, the universe, God, and the proper way to e…
Captain Narwhal’s happy band are at it again, stealing treasure from the local town.
Gilbert and Sullivan meets Shakespeare in this song/dance/play mash-up, developed and performed by multiple National School Theatre Award winners.
Puppets.
Latin class: Loved it or hated it? The Hopkins School’s Shoestring Ensemble stages all 27 chapters of this classic Latin textbook’s narration in English! Wolves! Soldiers! A di…
Rock on with the greatest Billy Joel and Elton John piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! This is a high-energy, interactive performance that will have you singing, laughing, …
Skinny Minnie is the most (in)famous woman in showbiz! From Primadonna to pariah, she’s had, and lost, it all.
As a high school basketball coach for over 30 years, I use my passion for sports to create a show that captivates and entertains my audience.
Three performers take on 20+ characters in 45 minutes in a performance that asks: who controls the narrative? In 2003, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks tasked herself with writing a pla…
In the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown at the power plant they helped build, two retired scientists have abandoned their home for a seaside cottage outside the contamination zone.
Princess Effie Jean has made a bargain with Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea and now she’s stuck in Tahiti guarding his jewels.
Colin has moved to Cornwall.
Like protest songs? Neither does Grace Petrie and she’s been singing them for 15 politically disastrous years.
Join the company of Rattlepole! to see Shakespeare like never before: completely improvised and accompanied by live music.
A classic farce by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo, full of mishaps, misunderstandings and mayhem.
Daz Schnitzels are three siblings all the way from Deutschland performing their production for the audience! Roland, Brother Hans and only sister Schnitz are a marching band travel…
John Otway is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.
He didn’t start the great fire of 1666 but he might light yours.
Join PROFESSIONAL actor Jason Thurston for a lesson in learning the act of acting.
Top of the Hollywood Fringe 2024 nominee! It was supposed to be an easy score.
One devilishly handsome magician doing magic in a straitjacket.
This is piano cabaret that rocks! Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Romance on Repeat: Lizzie has always dreamed of a whirlwind romance like in the movies.
Looking for family fun during the Fringe? This is it! Madcap magical mischief and great fun with one of Edinburgh’s most entertaining magicians.
Rock on with the greatest Queen piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! All the hits, fun stories and lots of laughs as you transform from an audience into the world’s greates…
When Mickey, Joey and Drew realise they’re in financial dire straits, they hatch a plan to find the next big thing in boxing.
We invite you to our quaint Brass-erie for a sumptuous supper of only the choicest cuts of traditional jazz.
Enjoy a cocktail of comedy monologues, poetry and sketches, all shaken into a one-woman show.
Andy, aka The Professional Showoff, can’t decide what to be – so he does it all.
Soap.
Scarlett Smith is an electroacoustic harpist and comedian.
Fun, joyous, raucous… absurd! Join magicians Ava Beaux, Kane and Abel for riotous games and cabaret acts.
String Cheese Theatre brings you to the dust-choked town of Bluffstone, where farmers are grappling with a famine that plagues their settlement.
Get thee to a… nursery? In this original comedy, a gang of four-year-olds are cursed by the spirit of Shakespeare for shredding his beloved Folio.
From Leith to Las Vegas, Frankie Mack’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary.
Returning to Edinburgh with her second show, Lizzy Lenco dives headfirst into the chaos of love, with its highs, lows, and ridiculous obsessions.
Arron Jones was on Britain’s Got Talent.
Was Queen Elizabeth I really a virgin? How good was Mary Queen of Scots’ head game? Is that Bram Stoker? Find out in this surprisingly accurate (Horrible Histories inspired) musica…
Comedy, music and conversation.
Lederhosen, laughs and all-out lunacy! The Superkrauts – Strack and Adams – serve up a riotous mix of absurd physical comedy, toe-tapping German hits, and playful audience anti…
Blodwen navigates the highs and lows of 9-5 living and starts to plot her escape.
Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems.
Everyone put your rubbish out, tonight’s bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty! This award-winning, side-splitting, slapstick comedy, circus routine retakes the househ…
The latest riotous comedy from Edinburgh’s own, The Dead Parrot Collective, who return to the Fringe this year with a few tricks up their (wizard) sleeves.
Why is this woman named Viva applying for a job? She doesn’t even know what they do here! Bestselling author Rob Bell’s new play begins with this disruptive presence and gradua…
Forth Children’s Theatre return for their 44th Edinburgh Fringe production with the rockin’ Andrew Lloyd Webber stage adaptation of School of Rock.
Dr Silcox will start gold trading with a £500 account, and will keep his audience entertained with his charming life stories as the trades progress through the show and over the w…
Growing Pains is a comic look at the best and worst of the British education system.
Supervillain Friedrich von Fittervach dreams of ruling the world from his remote volcano base.
Join one of the UK’s top hypnotists as you have your imaginations unlocked and realities transformed, all through the power of hypnosis.
When Annie’s husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room.
Now into its fourth amazing year, The WENAOTY is a comedy competition that was set up to give a profile to acts who were hampered by the pandemic.
Get it on with the greatest ABBA piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! All the hits, fun stories and lots of laughs as you transform from an audience into the world’s greate…
Finally, a one-man show that’s brave enough to ask the question: why can’t we, as humans, get enough of fizzy beverages? On a sweltering summer day, Seltzer Boy can only find relie…
Glasgow holds a music festival – The Big Day.
Penned by award-winning writer Nathan Scott-Dunn and returning to mark Hibernian FC’s 150th Anniversary, 1902 delves into the world of Scottish football, telling the story of Hiber…
The greatest frustration is not doing everything.
A hilarious, energetic pantomime based on Dickens’ favourite Christmas tale.
This hilarious brand-new dating show sees the audience play naughty games, four guys compete for a date and overall chaos! If you love to laugh, compete and join in a sing-along, t…
Edinburgh Fringe Anti-Slam Champion Ben Macpherson has poems.
Imagine the most well-loved Shakespeare characters plopped into the same Tudor world where Shakespeare’s rival Robert Greene rewrites history in the style of a British pantomime.
Blodwen leaves behind rural West Wales for the bright lights of London, discovering a whole new world where there are more people than sheep! Navigating flat sharing, Tinder and th…
A classic tale of boy meets girl.
When Pestilence accidentally kills Death, the whole world stops.
What would happen if you took the script from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, ran it through an online translator a dozen times and then read the results live on stage in…
A variety show that melds together a myriad of different genres, each connected by audience interaction.
After her sister’s death, Beth is thrust into a surreal version of The Wizard of Oz, where the yellow brick road has been sold to foreign investors, the Scarecrow delights in ignor…
Be amazed as Alex, a sold-out Fringe children’s performer, brings his signature charm and energy to create an unforgettable experience.
A philosophical comedy set in video game worlds.
Take a trip back to Hawkins, Indiana in 1983 – when times were simpler, hair was bigger and unsupervised children were getting snatched by inter-dimensional creatures.
Time to get you glow on as the Ladyboys Glow Up the Edinburgh Fringe! A show like no other show performed by “show girls” like no other girls.
Julian worked at a magazine.
Michelle Brasier and Chloe Petts host this sell-out Melbourne Comedy Festival late night cult hit as ex-lovers and co-artistic directors of an amateur theatre group looking for its…
After an enforced sabbatical, Eric Meat is back at the office he calls home.
Is it possible to usurp a rural patriarch? To defeat him in a Tekken style tournament? To overcome trauma through multimedia comedy and 90s nostalgia? Join BBC New Comedy Awards no…
30 years after being pulled out of class to partake in twin studies, Kane & Abel take you inside the mystical, magical and hilarious world of life as a twin.
The harbinger of rock’n’drole returns to the Fringe with his 9th ‘Must-See Show’ (NowPress.
15 year Edinburgh Fringe veteran David Alnwick returns with fast-paced, hilarious magic.
Join ex-con Jimmy as he brings you along to get ready for his first date since he got out of prison that morning.
Looking for something wildly different and ridiculously fun? This adults-only comedy hypnosis show delivers nonstop laughs, unexpected twists and unforgettable moments.
When the stakes are high and the future is on the line, what are the stories we tell about ourselves? In Personal Statement, twenty-three American students enter a brutal college a…
Do you remember the classic games Simon Says, Two Truths and a Lie, and I Spy? Well, now it’s your turn to play! Join Alex for an exciting hour-long interactive game show, where …
Come and have a gander at our comic two hander! Full to the brim with raunchy, riotous rhyme, a plot so chaotic, you’ll lose all sense of time.
‘If Greggs don’t sponsor this woman, they are really missing a trick’ **** (Scotsman).
Five years of Fringe shows, burlesque acts, children’s performances and yet… the magic still doesn’t work.
Edinburgh Award Nominee Huge Davies (Cats Does Countdown, Off Menu podcast, Roast Battle) returns to Edinburgh for an hour-long work in progress.
The chaotic game show where two audience teams compete in exciting challenges, with mind-blowing magic along the way.
Featuring NYC comedians Sean Conrad and Denham Demac, this mixed bill musical comedy show spotlights Edinburgh’s best musical comedians every night.
For as long as there has been the fairytale Princess, there has been the fairytale Prince.
Australia’s award-winning favourites cross the seas with another hilarious cabaret packed with sharp wit, feminist flair and original anthems.
Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen.
BOMBSHELL follows three sparkly Vegas showgirls who put up environmentally-conscious cabaret acts in a rundown nightclub called Club Fistfight.
A hilariously bonkers, award-winning show where children (and maybe even a few parents) take to the stage to share their favourite jokes.
Sherlock Holmes is dead! But can the killer really be Dr Watson, Mrs Hudson, Inspector Lestrade or Mycroft Holmes? The game’s afoot in a mystery that’s more than mere elementary.
Nominated for IATCHK Performer of the Year and HK Theatre Libre Outstanding Lead Actress.
For Albert Camus, the Absurd Hero is embodied in the mythological character of Sisyphus, mayor of Corinth, sentenced by Zeus to the mundane task of pushing a boulder up a hill only…
This five-star production tells a powerful and hilarious story about the realities of gang culture and young team mentality in Glasgow during the 90s, as we follow the lives of one…
After a sell-out Fringe run in 2024, Fresh !nk Theatre Company returns with a sky-high spectacle! This must-see two-person show is a hilarious theatrical journey set 30,000 feet ab…
When she discovers that her dad has stolen her identity, she has to face who she really is.
The cult hit returns to the Fringe! Don’t miss an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode, A Fashionable Way to Die, following last year’s riotous presen…
Lolo lands a dream-come-true European tour.
Wes McClintock was born a different colour than most due to a strange occurrence at birth.
Sex? Yes, please.
Following a string of five-star, sell-out productions, Bare Productions return with the electrifying hit Rock of Ages! This high-energy, feel-good musical is packed with powerhouse…
Obsessed with becoming a Lord, Webber makes a Faustian pact with the eternal spirit of Ruining Everything.
1955.
Brief Tales, a memoir in underpants.
Join us at 21:40 for a stand-up comedy show featuring English comedian Ollie Fox and Irish comedian Reece Kidd.
We cordially invite you, monster hunter, to an unforgettable night.
Best of Cabaret from the Fringe returns for a 5th year with an all-star diverse rotating cast of international seasoned artists in the genre.
The show that NoHo Arts District calls ‘absolutely genius’ (NoHoArtsDistrict.
Felix Culpa Theatre Company successively produced The Woman He Lived With **** (One4Review.
Finlay McGowan, consultant, has woken up tied to a chair.
A sexy, sassy, orgasmic two-woman musical comedy show, made for you! Yes, you! Created by Mimi Meier and Holly Hart, this show features vignettes about the insanity of womanhood …
A comic cabaret in five movements, about love, loss and pies.
When Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett was growing up in Southend-on-Sea, sharing a home with her abusive bipolar father and drug addict brother, her dreams of escaping the stereotypical Esse…
It’s the nation’s favourite game of murder, exile and ridiculous twists.
After a tough conversation with his dad, Tom discovers a newly-opened portal in his bathroom mirror.
Two friends, one year, two births, a death, 18 bursts of laughter, 34,000 tears (each) and one piece of chunky jewellery.
An award-winning solo show by Joann Condon (Little Britain).
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
After a murder is committed in Jacobean London by a man wearing motley, two playing fools from different productions must prove their innocence with the help of a bard, an innkeepe…
The story of a mixed-race Liverpudlian great-grandmother of Nigerian and Irish heritage celebrating her birthday, recalling a rollercoaster of memories – from her childhood in a …
Supermarket 86 follows five girls who get stuck in a supermarket overnight, all connected in ways they may not yet realise.
When the BBC directors try to hold auditions for the channel, disaster happens as they put the auditionees through their paces.
The hilarious follow-up to Alan Cochrane’s play Ne’er the Twain performed by EPT, the only company to have been at every Edinburgh Festival Fringe ever! It is 1924, one year after …
When the plants come to take over the world and achieve world domination watch out.
Barry Morgan – Australia’s most celebrated organ salesman.
As the world teeters on the brink of global annihilation, who better to restore a new world order than the ultimate swinging dictator himself? Frank Sanazi storms back into Edinbur…
This internationally acclaimed, award-winning musical follows Elle Woods’ inspiring journey as she challenges stereotypes, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams.
Goodbye Postie follows the story of two lads, Postie and Sparkie, living in Dumfries together.
The hilarious tragedy of unachievable dreams. Stuck in a rural town in the middle of nowhere, two sisters fight against the calamity of their circumstances to win The Xfactor.
Young King Arthur is ready for a wizardly lesson in the erotic arts.
Writing blurbs isn’t easy.
Cinderella wants a divorce?! Prince Charming’s already trying day is about to get worse.
Since 2005 we’ve showcased our favourite stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars, at gigs that are ‘really funny’ ***** (Fest), ‘fabulous’ ***** (ThreeWeeks), and ‘just right’ ***…
Trapped in a bleak, cold, featureless room utterly devoid of natural light, A is a young woman teetering on the brink of collapse.
Aubrey and her boyfriend are finally alone together.
Buckle up, folks.
Winner – United Solo Theatre Festival, New York, Best International Show 2024.
Ever felt the hand of fate giving you a shove? Andrea Coleman has.
Just a game? An Amazon All or Nothing documentary – but without the sponsorship money.
Stand-up comedy from an actual couple… what could possibly go wrong? After a previous sell-out run at the Fringe, viral sensation Joe McTernan and star of Britain’s Got Talent …
Beggared tells the story of a privileged white South African whose life collapses into homelessness.
From Leith to Las Vegas, Frankie Mack’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary.
Step right up for a fortune-telling experience that’s barely accurate, but definitely unforgettable.
In an overpopulated Britain, a law called the Parental Act requires everyone to obtain a license to have children.
Ivy and Jones, two deadbeat, dead-end 20-somethings are looking for a way out.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all for you to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on Georg…
Man-meat meets mental health in this dark comedy.
Circus! Slapstick! Cleaning products! Spray and Wipe try their very best to keep things clean but can’t stop making messes.
Nick it for Munich is a hilarious one-person show about Jamie, a dreamer determined to make it to Euro 2024.
In 1423 Berlin, two peasants find themselves at the center of hysteria, hypocrisy and impending doom.
The Moon dreams of stardom so she’s popped down to perform her new show.
Terry Wogan is back from the dead as part of his ongoing attempts to return to light entertainment, no matter the cost.
BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad, The Chief, and Absolutely, returns to the Fringe after a 2024 sell-out run.
Welcome to comedian Bailey Swilley’s ghost tour, complete with tales of haunted tampons, magical spells and life lessons on family expectations, grief and growing up.
What happens when two overly interconnected share houses go head-to-head in an epic, highly anticipated boardgame showdown? The miniature trophy prize and the prospect of a framed …
Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy? Enjoy Shakespeare’s spooky tragedy like never before, as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics and uproariously silly comedy …
Before sliced bread, there was the hot dog! Actor, playwright, historian and former Feltman’s hot dog brand owner Michael Quinn brings this true story to life, performing every r…
A farmer.
We transport you to a corporate London where success is measured by profit, power and personal gain.
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
Picture this: you’re seventeen.
Wannabe was dreamt up after sorting through a box of childhood junk.
It’s time the bottom of the food chain fought back… with our lasses.
Rude, nude with anarchic attitude.
A funny, moving and uplifting one-sided conversation about neurodivergence, trauma, dead bodies and other lighthearted topics.
Goodness Me is a one-woman-and-a-Furby dramedy about millennial struggles, unexpected consequences and the crushing weight of responsibility.
A female street clown accidentally becomes famous overnight at Chickadee TV Studios as Chickadee the Sexy Clown.
In this one-act play, a young woman in a liminal space confronts a series of famous men whose poor adaptations of Lolita have done Nabokov’s story, and women at large, a great diss…
After being pushed over the edge by the most popular kids at school, four-eyed wallflower Nancy Miller cries to the heavens for help! But it is Satan who hears her cry.
Join actor-poet-clown-director-sexpot, Matt Leazer and sexy-power-ranger-Elton-John-jumpsuit-wearing-music lady, MJ Hughes for a late-night talk show! Matt and MJ had three options…
My name is Shaun Guff and I’ve hit rock bottom so you don’t have to.
Coming up on Corrie: yet another scene in the local pub, someone’s up the duff and two Kiwis figure out if they got their Manchester accents down in time! Five episodes, two acto…
Two narrators attempt to recreate all 209 fairytales of the Brothers Grimm in a wild, fast-paced extravaganza.
Play On Productions invites you to step into a day in the life of modern Australia with The Real Australia, a new work inspired by the best moments of Australian reality TV.
Fresh from selling out at Fringe World Perth, it’s the 11th Annual Haters Ball! Four headline comedians battle for the prestigious title of Master Hater, roasting your suggestions.
The youngest sister from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet, has always been a footnote in someone else’s love story.
Winner of Best Male Performer at Asian Arts Awards 2024! The internationally acclaimed LIVE MANGA from Japan returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Physical performance duo GABE…
Do you ever feel like the worlds conspiring to annoy you? Meet Liv whose anger issues are put to the ultimate test by her nightmare roommate.
Arachne is a bold, hilarious solo show that sets the ancient Greek myth of Athena and Arachne (the first spider) in the American South.
A riotous one-man show that follows an out-of-work actor hired by an eccentric film producer to find the next Bond movie plot.
A wild, hilarious solo show about grief, love and mommy issues.
Irish madman John Spillane is back with his 100% improvised stand-up show! As seen on BBC, RTE, WWE, Comedy Central and host of Ladbible Ireland.
You don’t have to be afraid of the dark.
Think Gadsby meets Bloom, and Medusa has the mic.
‘I think pregnant woman are ugly.
Join Benjie Wrubel for his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut as he makes light of the darkness inside his head.
Your late-night host at the piano takes a sharp look at international current affairs and life’s absurdities through the lens of Tom Lehrer’s shockingly timely songs.
In 2023, my dad died.
Theodore Emory Jones, one of England’s finest thespian exports (in his opinion), arrives in Hollywood with the sole burning desire of starring in the Dynasty reboot.
Guy is a jobbing actor whose blind enthusiasm, sub-par ability and unhealthy obsession with Matt Damon leaves him in a rut.
You’re 17.
Romantasy.
Nunsense: The Mega-Musical version is here! This riotous show is a fundraiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the conv…
Linda hails from San Francisco, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.
How far would you go for fame? Bloody Influencers is an award-winning one-woman comedy with a dark twist about an insta queen who is trapped in the false world of social media.
A solo performer brings 14 unique characters to life in this powerful, multi-layered production.
In Ancient Greece, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite have had enough.
Welcome to Salem Village, where wealthy landowners want your land, local magistrates want your confession, unpopular reverends want your respect, but more importantly, your firewoo…
LAMDA presents the next wave of musical theatre talent in a showdown like no other.
With music based on the 2000 comedy classic, Gracie Hart is a clumsy yet brilliant FBI Special Agent who must go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant! Come hear the original s…
Trapped in between childhood and adulthood, teenagers all go through their own unique but shared struggles.
Every wolf starts as a cub.
3 Kidneys No Colon is a show detailing the medical diaries (or rather… diarrheas) of Dave who suffers from chronic kidney disease, ulcerative colitis and has had multiple organ t…
I am a spy with a notebook.
Bennie really puts the ghost in ghostwriter.
Chaotic, ridiculous and oddly tender exploration of identity and purpose – through the eyes of Dolly the Sheep.
An autobiographical comedy that follows a queer, demisexual woman as she attempts to transcend her fears so she can find true love.
Imagine being forced to hear Mr Brightside on repeat for six hours – going mad yet? Bored to tears? Wondering what you did in a past life to deserve this? For one cloakroom atten…
A poet languishes in solitary confinement for “heresy,” under relentless pressure to “recant”.
Step into Tortuga, the most notorious pirate haven in the Caribbean where the sun is hot, the rum flows and the laughs are as wild as the waves! This swashbuckling re-imagining of …
Audrey has everything under control.
Tired of Tinder? Once upon a time, we trolled Craigslist Casual Encounters for the ‘M seeks F for DL meet-up’ ads.
After a sold-out run at the 2024 festival, Glasgow’s number one comedy-magician returns to the Fringe with an exciting new show combining his award-winning sleight of hand magic …
This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (…
Fresh from its sold-out premiere in Seattle, this psychosexual queer feminist horror comedy explores despair, agency and women’s erotic relationship with The Void.
Written by Justin Butcher.
Rita is an immigrant.
A darkly comedic tale of Davies’ nine years in LA, where she arrives full of comedy aspirations but leaves with absurd stories and survival skills.
Entirely set in an interrogation room, three expats are being investigated for the murder of their friend, Emilie Dubois, after getting caught stealing evidence from a camera store…
A comedy cabaret cocktail by one woman who thrives on live connection with you! What’s it about? Grabbing life by the t**ts and creating your own narrative.
The problem: Gwen and Charlie are strapped for cash.
Odysseus is trying to get home after ten long years of war.
A cabaret bar.
A comedy cabaret like no other – exploring the 28-day cycle with music, mischief and menstrual mayhem.
Fake moustache! Real mindreading! Vintage vibes and outrageous spirit-flirting blends.
Vicky is furious.
What happens when Scotland’s premier dame, Johnny McKnight, collaborates with award-winning director John Tiffany? It results in a riotous, heartfelt journey into the wild world of…
Georgina Musgrave is Big Red: Queensland’s terrifying, hilarious, disgusting, lesbian ex-wrestling sensation!! This adopted Queenslander (via London) brings the pain, maim and brai…
Adam and Jess, two memorable new comedians based in Bristol are performing in Edinburgh for the first time.
EL is not well.
Narin Oz is not good at real life.
Ever had a burning question about one of the world’s most misunderstood professions? Join real-life, quick-witted and unshakable strippers as they peel back the stereotypes to reve…
The 2024 sold-out show returns.
Through everyday conversation, hilarious comedy, and music-hall style songs, we learn from four working-class women about their lives, husbands, technology and the approaching New …
Fringe 2024 sell-out murder-mystery comedy musical returns to the Fringe! Detective Ben Stone is murdered at his own birthday party, snuffed out like a candle on a cake.
Nick Everritt (British Comedian of the Year 2023 runner-up) is a weird, alternative, deadpan stand-up comedian who pretends to be a serial killer for the entertainment of others.
Italian Horror Stories by Grand Guignol de Milan is a unique physical theater experience that reimagines the Italian inspirations behind Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Woman in Bla…
So good he wants to do it again.
Award-winning musical comedy revue revealing all about musicals and the people who love them – on both sides of the curtain! Updated for 2025 with new songs.
A new comedy musical coming to the Fringe! Six college friends are tricked into reuniting at the debut Fringe performance of Escape Room: The Show.
Henry Cyril Paget was one of the world’s wealthiest men, until he lost it all by being too damn fabulous.
Ivo’s Edinburgh Fringe debut offers a playful dive into the chaos of our modern world through a show full of absurdist jokes.
Based within two blocks of the attacks, Sofia May takes the audience through the extremely unique and absurd experience of being a child survivor of 9/11.
How to make sense of our silly world? Mapping and naming every pebble we discover, old-timey explorers and modern Wikis alike.
It’s 2013.
It’s Halloween and the Rugby Team are throwing the party of the century.
Wanna get something off your chest? This is the perfect show for you.
Darkness, we’re told to fear it.
Buckle up for this laugh-out-loud, turbulence-packed comedy from award-winning comedian Mike McAlpine! Set in Flight Club, where the audience boards an aircraft of absurdity, this …
Best Newcomer nominee Bazely performed last year’s show about having a Breakdown while having more anxiety than he’d ever had.
Marnina and Micah just got married, and except for some bed bugs, a judgy couples therapist and their wedding venue burning down, everything was pitch perfect.
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
Dysfunctional sisters Sara and Saskia must confront the unpredictable stages of grief.
A Y2K-drenched coming-of-age comedy-drama: ASTNT follows David’s move from the city to a small Northern town where being the only Black kid means fitting in isn’t an option.
Love, laughter, and life’s unexpected turns! Comedian Mat Wills delivers a brutally honest, yet heartwarming hilarious take on family, love, social taboos, the absurd realities o…
A musical stand-up show dealing with life as an Irish male raised in a culture where emotions are things to be avoided.
Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival.
Falling for Jesus is a mortal sin.
I was on Live at the Apollo, I got loads of stars in The Guardian.
In this surrealist and hilarious production, three factory farm chickens passionately explore their impossible situation – awaiting their imminent trip to the broiler.
THISMOTHERPHUCKER is a public nuisance.
Sceptical? Good.
Welcome to the mid-noughties world of emo teen and future rockstar, David.
Plug up thy hole! A religious sect in Nebraska wears butt plugs at all times because they believe a wrathful God shall suck the unplugged up, ass-first, to burn on the face of the …
‘Funny, silly, moving, ukelele’ best describes The Phil Monty from award-winning South African comedian Phil de Lange.
Welcome to the cabaret asylum – a revolving lineup of oddball character acts, singers, magicians, clowns.
Argh! A monster! A hideous, evil monster! With nasty claws, bristles and horns.
Fresh bingo, new robots and lower quality prizes.
After captivating audiences with cult physical theatre show Un Poyo Rojo, Argentine sensation and social media star Luciano Rosso returns with Apocalipsync, a high-energy solo show…
‘Magic is in his bones.
A dark comedy exploring my chaotic life as a neurodivergent, nonbinary person navigating sex, dating, family and loneliness.
The man behind Science Magic is back with a brand new science show looking at the gross side of biology.
A play that captures the joy and sorrow of memory using just a table and a single sheet of paper, The Time Painter creates a dreamlike world where memory, dreams, history and reali…
Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo returns after last year’s smash hit! Fun for all the family! A high energy interactive extravaganza of a show.
Winner: Best Kids Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2025.
Robin Morgan (Mock the Week) hosts a comedy show for kids and adults alike.
Ray Fordyce is back once again to host a variety show filled with comedy and entertainment from across the world.
Warning: adults only! An X-rated documentary-comedy about the sexual culture of Japan.
Matty Grey is back in Edinburgh and going back to Gameland.
A grad student’s confrontation with her professor over the fifty sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses sparks a magical yet terrifying transformation shattering both their ideas …
Are we alone in the universe? If we could speak to the planets, what would they say back? Cameron Sinclair Harris, earthling, non-binary deviant and fully qualified astronaut will …
‘Everything a science show should be, and more!’ ***** (SeeSawMag.
What is love? World premiere musical direct from New York sees literature’s most legendary lovers flirt and fight as they hunt for the truth about love.
Two award-winning comics deal late-night craic in the mid-afternoon, a wild mix of dark, satirical stand-up and musical comedy.
A cheeky, hilarious, mellifluous romp through one singer’s colourful past of cult-loving husbands, wacky producers and shaggable therapists, with lusty vocals in bra busting styl…
Edinburgh, are you ready? Warriors, are you ready? Created in New York and Chicago, BATSU! returns to the Fringe after a wildly successful, sold-out 2024 run.
Ages 8 to 8,000: the thrills of bingo, robot frogs and low-cost prizes for the whole family.
Calling all VIPs.
Frank Fletcher, long-time senior MP for Cackby North has suddenly died.
The Queen of Rock is back! The year is 1561.
Tom Simons is going to stand in a room in Scotland and make you laugh.
Forget foxes, bargains, or Jeremy – this is the biggest hunt of them all.
Follow a desperate and naïve aspiring TV personality as he tries to break into showbiz.
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy ‘.
Cory and Kevin bring their hit NYC variety show to Edinburgh – a curated line-up of the best Fringe comedians every night.
She used to have dreams, now she has a baby.
Set sail for a night of nonstop laughter as top-tier comedians bring the best of cruise ship comedy to shore! This high-energy show delivers the kind of humour you’d expect on a lu…
Coming Back to Edinburgh in 2025.
A whirlwind one-woman comedy play following a wannabe yummy mummy on her mission to have it all.
Ain’t no party like a Diddy Party – a compilation of the festival’s freakiest comedians in a big party atmosphere.
Death Threat is an hour-long comedy solo show.
The Dublin Fringe award-winning trip into the mind of a woman with recently discovered ADHD.
An actor makes a deal with the devil.
My goal is to talk to my ‘self’ and tell it the story of insecurities and prejudices I had before my life turned to shambles.
The fun, family science show is back again.
Seven sell-out years, 100 outstanding performers, thousands of returning audience members – we are back! Home of the homegrown hotties will return with a bigger and even better c…
Nestled within the heart of a beautiful speakeasy, this dazzling cabaret show will unfold like a vibrant dream.
Back after our massive sell out run in 2024, Sassy Backbone Cabaret brings back an evening of the best acts in burlesque, cabaret, magic and much more.
Eric Barry is a straight man.
Award-winning gag-merchant and three-time Joke of the Fringe winner, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in half an hour.
Berlin’s beloved opera-singing comedian Steph DePrez returns to Fringe after a year of touring Europe and opening for Michelle Wolf.
Cirque du Soleil meets Magic Mike.
Flick is a nurse, Mark has cancer, the kind you can’t come back from.
Inspired by the Book of Jonah – and probably God – award-winning shunt veteran, Mitchell and Webb writer, John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programmer (and Keith Darren Dean in Ghosts)…
‘Particularly funny’ (Vulture.
Is that a joystick in your pocket or are you pleased to see us? Armed with plasmids, melee weapons and enough energy drinks to kill a small dog, Player One and Player Two are on a …
In their Dublin local, two old friends meet regularly for good conversation, good craic and more than a few good pints.
‘I loved this brilliant new working-class play’ ***** (Edinburgh Evening News).
FATAL FLOWER, an ode to the hysterical woman.
Do you trust strangers? Together with Karen Houge – our DREAMGIRL – we’re going to find out.
In 2021, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian decided to quit stand-up, rent an abandoned cake factory, and become a painter.
DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY dives headfirst into the whirlwind life of Ollie, a chaotic but lovable Scot navigating London’s queer nightlife.
In 2011, fresh out of a psychiatric facility, Rich Hardisty flies to NYC with no money or plan, hoping to find his biological father.
A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Edinburgh and the Fringe.
Dark, theatrical comedy meets nostalgia in Goblin, written and performed by Derek Mitchell.
PAINKILLERS delves into physical and emotional pain through magic tricks and romantic memories.
Drawing from the classic Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and romantic-themed songs by the ‘king’ Roberto Carlos, in a back-and-forth between the plagiarised love story and the unau…
An award-winning, critically acclaimed comedian returning for his 6th Fringe.
People of Edinburgh: grab a peel.
**** (Age).
Comics vs Kids returns with a show full of jokes, silliness, interaction and special guests.
Riley Stark and Tess Lancaster are The Horniest Girls in New York City.
This absurd comedy about one boy’s dream to send Yorkshire to space returns after a critically acclaimed preview run.
A real-life ghost story from award-winning writer-comedian, Kirsty Mann.
Babar, king of the elephants and one of the most adored childhood cartoons around the world, is almost 94 years old and is currently having a little problem.
It won’t be alright on the night.
Multi award-winning Cheekykita is Batshit! Set in woods in Manchester, there’s a bat with songs, dances and daftness.
Live from New York, it’s Space Weather Girl! What if an alien encounter was more human condition and less lasers? Add some old-time Hollywood charm, a historical “mating program” a…
A rom-com/period piece unlike anything else! While on her quest to become a working actor in New York City, Anne Brauer gets caught up in a situationship of gothic proportions.
Stand-up meets striptease in Behind, a fever dream of dick, desire and delusion.
Dada Dojo will definitely be a happening, free-form, immersive, comedy art clownarchist experiment by a Belfast-born non-sensical, bisexual, non-binary clown with a healthy beard a…
The dark and ugly sister to the movie Black Swan.
It’s 1985.
Megan and Kevin are close friends bonded by their love of takeaways, Rick and Morty and Jeremy Paxman – a match made in adult heaven.
Vacuum Girl is a live presentation of a television pilot that follows a woman living through surreal dissociations in New York.
Join Live at the Apollo’s Ignacio Lopez (aka Juan Solo) on a daring journey through the galaxy, in his rust bucket of a ship, the Millennial Falcon! Juan has been tasked with rec…
Join host John Spillane for the ultimate Fringe afterparty! Credits include BBC, RTE, WWE, Comedy Central and he’s the host of Ladbible Ireland.
They tried to kill her – they missed.
Back by POOPular demand.
Fans of The Play That Goes Wrong and Noises Off will love this.
Time to decide once and for all.
Hands up who loves freedom! Chastity Quirke is White House receptionist, ex-Chapter President of Kappa Gamma Zeta, and a proud Republican.
Middle-aged and newly single, he’s spent the salary of an NHS nurse in Decathlon and he’s on the verge of a breakdown.
Poppy and Rubina have sex and aren’t ashamed to talk about it.
Recent anthropology graduate and feisty redhead Joanie Little is stuck working as a barista, studying the ‘creatures’ (customers) as if she were Jane Goodall, bushwhacking through …
Aaron walks with a cane, and everyone asks ‘what happened?’.
The Bardic Breakfasters are back with a brand-new show, with breakfast included! A pleasing plethora of pentameter, puns and pastry.
At the local cinema, all hell breaks loose when the ushers misplace the DVDs of The Lord of the Rings trilogy – every single copy! With only the soundtracks left in hand, the tea…
Newcomers Ada and Bron invite you to third wheel an unmissable hour of weirdo soulmates and ‘hilarious doomed romances’ (Chortle.
When the annual ‘Totally Awesome Magic Show’ in HappyVale takes an unexpected twist, Mojo and Jimmy must rise to the occasion in a thrilling, laugh-out-loud adventure to save the f…
Born in New York City as a closeted kid, Alexis is forced to follow his family to.
Stoners.
Be amazed by the power of pressure – and what it can teach us! Doktor Kaboom’s new show is fit to burst with astonishing live science experiments, stand-up comedy and lessons in …
Elton John’s greatest hits are reimagined by multi award-winning Jess Robinson (Dead Ringers, The Last Leg), renowned for her pitch-perfect impressions.
Humpty Dumpty is dead – was he pushed? Did he jump? Or was it simply a great fall? Enter Jill, a filmmaker with big dreams and an even bigger problem: she’s on trial for egg-icid…
Cancel culture is fast approaching.
Award-winning character comedian Lorna Rose Treen has made a diner.
Jain isn’t like other girls.
A boy in school set my destiny with nine words, I’m gonna ask him why.
A bad boy? Hot.
In this explosive physical comedy, two swimmers go head-to-head in the race of a lifetime – on a stage with no water.
The vampire’s guide to hot girl decay.
Britain’s Got Talent star Accordion Ryan will sing and play your favourite songs like you’ve never heard them before! Adding in a few of his own hilarious tunes, this show is guara…
A genre-defying mix of stand-up, surreal storytelling and live techno anthems – this is comedy like you’ve never seen before.
So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase, hoste…
Breaking the Musical is a parody and unauthorised (but completely legal) telling of an Australian Olympian’s journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics, written by Australian comedian and …
This family-friendly comedy show is packed with surprises as Darryl and his mysterious box take you on a whirlwind of wonder.
The biggest girl group of the noughties reunite for the first time since their scandalous split.
Sick of grown-ups being know-it-alls? Do you want to win prizes? This game show is for you! Join Tom Whiston, ***** (ThePhoenixRemix.
A heartfelt and uplifting one-man show about an Indian-Persian gay man navigating the complexities of his identity.
From the creators of smash-hit Hold On To Your Butts comes a new UK premiere! Three actors and a Foley artist band together – in fellowship – to perform a live, shot-for-shot p…
Proposal Day – four theologians at a sleepy seminary are soon to be ordained.
Her and Grandpa are different and not the same.
John Wick.
Musical meteor Jazz Emu was born to please you.
r/Conspiracy is a play for messy girls, hungry sleuths, and the chronically online.
A charmingly dark, whimsically adult, joyously subversive, musical delight! Starring our titular character, Potty! A singing, talking, tap dancing, potted plant.
Haus of Dylan is an hour of high-energy storytelling, musical-comedy.
A knight pulls a sword from a stone and, as the prophecy foretold – becomes king.
One young woman from East London is on a mission to bring back house parties.
Rapping sensation Amelia Hamilton presents her debut hour of comedy.
A comedy about all the times Beth May has thought about killing herself! This autobiographical one-woman show puts you in the splash zone of death and delusion as Beth journeys thr…
Introducing Anna Hale: comedian, singer-songwriter, control freak.
What is art?? Am I a genius?? Both of these questions I will be answering ‘yes’ to in my show.
The UK debut of Gregg Ostrin’s critically acclaimed play.
Houdini.
Returning for our 10th year, smash-hit production The Improv Musical is coming back to take the Fringe by storm.
Comedians Elliot Weber (Dead Dad) and Joshua Emerson (Dead Mom) want to make you laugh with jokes about death and grief.
When Amy Mason got hacked, she lost her number, bank account and social media access.
April Hope Miller’s debut play is a fiercely relevant and urgent exploration of the sanctity of sisterhood, set within the seemingly mundane yet magical space of the ladies bathroo…
Ben has a show opening later, but first he has a family meeting, and before that there’s a funeral.
Will and Noah’s attention spans are so eroded, they can’t even get to the end of their.
Sex, drugs and coercive control.
A grizzled New York detective embarks on his final, most deadly and most ridiculous case yet.
Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out six years running.
Rory Marshall has dug deep into his extremely sad and pathetic soul to create an hour of extremely sad and pathetic characters.
When, years ago, a teenage Mitch discovered American comic songwriting legend Tom Lehrer, the course of his life was changed forever.
Comedians’ Choice Award winner (Best Show 2019), Joz Norris has finally completed his life’s work, and he’s ready to unveil it to the world.
Let me take you on a tour through my personal gallery, there’s all kinds of treasures and wares.
Mary Kennedy, yes one of those Kennedys, third cousins twice removed; all of the tragedy, none of the money.
What if you were sat next to the love of your life and just didn’t know it? Stuck beside each other at a dinner party year after year.
Three years since her legendary show Is It A Bird?, the cockiest woman in comedy returns, with a guitar on her back and a bounty on her ballbag.
In 2023 TikTok sent a notification to millions of users with Jodie’s face, and the caption ‘Is She Hot?’.
Ever feel like the universe has it in for you? Acclaimed storyteller Smita Russell unpacks a real-life mystery full of misfortune and truths stranger than fiction.
Winner: Critic’s Choice 2024, Perth Fringe.
How To Kill Your Landlord is a fatal comedy of errors focusing on three young housemates.
Following its critically acclaimed UK Tour and West End debut, the Fringe 2024 smash hit returns! Two actors and a Foley artist perform a live, shot-for-shot parody of the greatest…
Slugs, slugs and more slugs! Can you help Benny defeat the slug army with a piano made of vegetables, delicious compost and a final showdown with the boss? Interactive and multimed…
Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman.
Hilarious, fast-paced science theatre for the whole family with real robots, games and storytelling.
London’s calling, but is Chardaye ready? LEI – LDN follows Chardaye, a mixed-race 17-year-old with a sharp tongue and a lot to say.
Joey is a Bad Gay™.
Join multi-award-winning musical comedian and body roll enthusiast Katie Pritchard, as she dresses head to toe in the finest unitard she could make and embarks on this award-nomina…
Baby Wants Candy’s 2024 total sell-out hip-hop hit returns! We improvise an epic musical based on a historical figure/celebrity of your choosing (Genghis Khan, Paul Hollywood, Kim …
If you’ve ever experienced loss, then this show was made for you.
Is Sophia performing stand-up comedy or are we just witnessing an acute psychotic episode? Either way, once she’s getting attention, she doesn’t care.
Award-winning character comedians and IRL Sisters, Maddy and Marina Bye (Byes), are back.
Female-led and female-produced, PALS is a Scottish adventure-comedy play telling the story of four, crude, chaotic yet completely normal gal pals as they embark on a camping trek i…
Vaudevillian duo Norvil and Josephine present a magical extravaganza for all ages! They’re a magician with a secret and an assistant with a mission in this whimsical comedy music…
69 sketches in an hour! The UK’s fastest sketch show returns for its sixth year, featuring new sketches for 2025.
Lottie’s just made the mother of all promises and needs to grow up.
It’s 1883.
From The Daily Show’s Lily Blumkin comes a hilarious solo show about growing up and getting worse.
You’ve had a lifetime of lame anecdotes from all the average-looking comedians, but the reviews are in – self-deprecation is dead! It’s time to hear from Australia’s First …
Ben’s eager to impress at his job interview, but on the big day he witnesses a mysterious death and picks up the victim’s lanyard – just to keep it safe.
You’re cordially invited to this interactive polyamorous wedding reception, where the groom’s brother delivers a speech you’ll never forget! It starts out fun and silly, with…
Buckle up, buttercup! In Jack Offerman’s Big Uncut Flick, a quirky 1970s small-town broadcast unravels into a chaotic collision of campy commercials, outrageous characters and a gr…
A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos.
Microsoft Word’s writing assistant, Clippy, has seen the future – and it is bleak.
A hilarious dissection of Black media tropes with satirical sketches, comedic songs and recognisable characters.
A new British musical based on the iconic TV series following the fall and rise of captain’s wife Tanya Turner as she schemes to save her marriage and her husband’s career.
Pompeii.
Derry Freshers’ Week, closeted Bud is in for a rollercoaster of tequila, tiaras and transitioning.
A lonely karaoke jockey is the sole survivor at the end of the world, and decides to go out singing.
Blessed with beauty, wealth and charisma, the Flawless Four – Courtney, Julie, Marcie, and Liz – are the most popular girls in Reagan High school.
Set in the cut-throat world of competitive netball, this cautionary tale explores the consequences of unchecked ambition and the fierce determination of teenage girls.
We are in the Speed Queen, the last launderette on the Isle of Wight! In here, Pet the ancient washerwoman divines the fates of her customers through their dirty laundry, and a sto…
A brand new mind-bending theatrical experience.
Cursed with the voice, face and arse of an angel, critically-acclaimed comedian Katie Norris embarks on a personal odyssey into the untamed realms of her imagination.
Hot Mess: a new musical.
The Mayor and his daughter are in crisis.
Spilling the chai at his new book launch! Here Sanjay Lago’s neuro-delicious mind takes you on a whirlwind of love, identity and Bollywood-fuelled daydreams.
What if life were a game? In a world where billionaires race to colonise space, Trump coins give you extra lives and making cows meditate saves the planet, it can be hard to know i…
A love letter to people pleasers everywhere.
Hello friend.
‘Undoubtedly one of the greatest variety artists working today’ (Scotsman) returns with his five-star, sell-out, one-man circus cabaret.
Winner of Sweden’s Got Talent – Charlie Caper returns with a magic spectacle full of robots.
After being banned from going anywhere abroad (yes, even Benidorm), British tourists are forced to go on holiday to the only place that’ll have ‘em.
A handful of playful props and physical buffoonery in an illustrated world.
Frisky (Frisky & Mannish) is back.
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
Gather round the campfire for this funny and nostalgic play about love, loss and summer camp.
The neon lights aren’t always bright on Broadway, and for every hit there are 50 flops.
What happens when the thing you wished for your whole life turns out to be your worst nightmare? Eris wants a baby.
Cara and Kelly are best friends, soulmates even.
2024’s Best Newcomer and Malcolm Hardee Award nominee returns, let’s see what happens now.
If there’s one thing worse than classism and the disparity of wealth in this country… It’s FOMO.
The absurd cabaret of apocalyptic proportions.
‘A must-see spectacle!’ (GlamAdelaide.
‘This is the show to see!’ **** (Entertainment-Now.
Winner, Best New Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2024.
Join Aussie Professors Lexi Con and Noel Edge (the Word Nerd and the Science Freak) for thrilling voyage through the alphabet – where fascinating words inspire spectacular scienc…
The Man.
The uproarious multi award-winning one-man musical comedy about sperm donation returns to Edinburgh.
Glynis Traill-Nash lives a double life: fashion writer by day, jazz singer by night.
Mmm.
The ridiculously wild true story that her therapist asked her to stop telling.
‘Had me in peals of laughter.
A glitter-soaked cabaret meltdown from a fallen icon with nothing left to lose – except the will to perform, her accoutrements and possibly her marbles.
The unauthorised musical parody of Schitt’s Creek, reimagining the beloved fish-out-of-water series with absurd comedy, unhinged characters and hilariously inappropriate twists.
Frances Mercanti-Anthony is a Broadway actor who fell in love with a burly, bearded Maine man at age 40 and moved from the bustling suburbs of New Jersey to the rural coast of Main…
Enter the wickedly enchanted, suburban world of Elysium Court, where perfect lives unravel.
An autobiographical one-woman drama-comedy show blending comedy characterisation and football performance to tell the unique journey of Lucia Mallardi, a Berlin-based Italian forme…
Jim is dying.
An old book, What It Means to Be a Woman, given to Georgia on her sixteenth birthday, becomes the thread connecting three women’s lives: Georgia, now a woman in an unhappy marria…
Award-winning, high-energy family spectacular where four rhythmical misfits turn ordinary junk into extraordinary funk! With explosive drumming, dance, comedy and imagination, this…
Attention girlies, bathroom belters, and car karaoke queens! Choir is back! Gather your crew for the ultimate interactive singing party with Australia’s international vocal coach, …
Guests! Prizes! Definitely no vengeful ghosts! Henry and Charlie are putting the past behind them to record their live TV chat show.
Bobby Award-winning comedy following Johnny, an 18-year-old at an all-boys boarding school.
A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling.
Edinburgh-born, separated mum Sophie is a pure rocket who theatrically combines stand-up, skits, characters, stories (and even rap!) on the madness of modern parenting, mental heal…
Assembly’s Gala celebrates the opening of our 2025 programme of over 230 shows.
Murder, arson and traumatic tragedy abound in this groundbreaking new drama by soon to be award-winning playwright Sebastian Maroun.
Luke Osey (co-creator of sell-out sensation 1 Hour of Insane Magic) had the craziest night of his life last night.
God won’t give up on Cecilia Gentili.
It’s 1746 and Mary is desperately and dangerously single.
You’re invited to Lachlan-Thomas’ sixth birthday party hosted by your favourite children’s party entertainer, Hannah Banana! Hannah is a writer, performer and most importantly, a c…
Why hello children! This is your Governess and I am here to prepare you future duchesses for your wedding night with, your cousin, the Duke.
The only sketch comedy show set entirely in the year 1925! The Burton Brothers make their Edinburgh Fringe debut, after sell out seasons across Australia.
A mysterious new musical in which three strangers are summoned to a secluded seaside manor on New Year’s Eve by the enigmatic Mr Dellamort, who leads them through an evening of r…
Award-winning character-comedian Susan Harrison presents a brand-new show, featuring a host of joyfully bizarre characters including an unconfident Sindy doll, a woman who’s swallo…
Celebrity designer Mat Sanders’ fabulously designed existence implodes spectacularly when sudden betrayal triggers a hysterical, one-man meltdown.
In the not-too-distant future, ecological catastrophe has ripped society’s flesh clean off and civilization is nothing but a rancid husk.
‘Incredibly funny and genuine in its expression of human connection’ (TheBroadOnline.
Aged four, Augustin never finished his food.
After surviving last summer’s TERF Wars playing JK Rowling in the show that had ‘Edinburgh running scared’ (Telegraph), award-winning actress/writer, Laura Kay Bailey, returns to t…
Tall Child is an hour on the impossibilities of being alive right now.
A universal story of resilience and imagination, written and performed by Palestinian comedian and actor Alaa Shehada.
As seen and heard on ITV, BBC Radio5Live and BBC Radio 4, multi award-winning musical comedian Bennet Kavanagh brings his ‘unique and charmingly chaotic’ (TheReviewsHub.
Ratty wig girl.
Meet the guests inside the ADHD brain at this award-winning hilarious cabaret-comedy by Aussie neuro-spicy besties, Jessica Bigg and Eliza Dickson.
Tired of washing out your hummus pot? Sick of sorting through your plastic? Yep! Ella, a karaoke-loving procrastinator with a taste for Deliveroo, felt the same – until her water…
Since Alfie’s dad died, he’s visited everyone’s dreams but hers.
Clare Noy is an actress known for falling over in The Play That Goes Wrong and in Peter Pan Goes Wrong.
Offbeat comedy exploring the radical ladies of the past through puppetry, drag and special hats.
You’re cordially invited to the second wedding of David and Katie: confidently codependent, deliriously devoted to a dangerous degree and fully qualified to flaunt a flawless app…
Soda Pop is an alt-comedy tour de force: a multimedia, stream-of-consciousness ride through the mind of a slightly deranged gay man.
Back by popular demand for it’s third Fringe run! This fast-paced, chaotic comedy of confusion is a winner with all audiences.
In this absurdist comedy from writer-performer Emily Weitzman, boyfriends are armchairs, lampshades and futons.
Fresh from sell-out success in Australia, Thomas Currie blends powerful vocals, razor-sharp piano, electric cello and witty storytelling in this all-too-relatable late-night cabare…
Ageing millennial Zara Gladman and her alter-egos – including everyone’s favourite Glasgow West end mum Aileen – take centre stage for a worthy cause: to raise funds for Aile…
The smash-hit, Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning Funz and Gamez is back with a brand-new show and brand-new group of misfits, lead by your Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning host Phil Ell…
Yorkshire’s biggest bastard and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2024 is back! This time he’s dead… dead good! And also, dead.
A Pan-Africanist painter, Eda, is cajoled by his friend and former agent Reki to go steal some of Da Vinci’s works that are presumably on tour in an art museum in Nigeria.
Johnny Mercer Award-winning songwriters, The Bylines, ask the question: can co-habitation and co-creation co-exist? See how this duo navigates good times and bad, as they gig, writ…
A raucous evening of music, comedy and musical comedy hosted by AJ Holmes (Book of Mormon, StarKid) and Caitlin Cook (The Writing on the Stall).
Death.
Gerard Lane and Dan Taylor were born from a fish taco during wet weather in the rugged Tasmanian highlands.
Five years ago, Simon’s father dies of cancer.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story is a joyful reimagining of the Princess of Wales' life, told with wildly speculative poetic licence.
Fringe legend Pip Utton (Adolf, Bacon, Dickens, Churchill, Dylan, Maggie, Einstein, Hunchback) is Shakespeare in this moving and comic romp through Will’s life, including some of h…
A night of magical mayhem – this ain’t your typical magic show.
In this new comedy, five law students attempt to figure out which one of them “dunnit” when their eccentric tutor Richard Branston-Blackwell drops dead at the annual second-year di…
Birthday Fish is an absurdist physical exploration of the feeling of being a ‘fish out of water’.
‘You know, I never liked flowers for graves.
Five “mad” women perform for a seemingly “sane” audience.
Serge has bought a painting.
Welcome to the uproarious world of Wild Rumpus Jazz Co, where laughter, dance and shared moments converge in a one-of-a-kind performance.
Who saw the Queen’s Bahookie? Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose? Which maiden was most feared by Scottish aristocrats? Which job is worse – turnbrochie or pigeon-…
A short caprice in gaslighting.
Show How It’s Thespian (SHIT) is an acting masterclass you should be honoured to attend.
The Cruelty-Free Confessions of Hannah Blake is a darkly comedic tale and vivid portrait of a vegan serial killer who fears that her daughter will inherit her horrific legacy.
Michael ‘Mickey’ Conlon has just been released from prison, he’s always sworn his innocence and upon returning to his family home in Muirhouse, Edinburgh this is proving to not b…
Tomorrow, Maybe is a comedy about the doctor Joanne trying to help a patient who has been the victim of meaningless bureaucracy.
Film Noir Frog, gripped by a dirty sense of morality, continues their pledge to clean the city.
‘I am done with Professor Where! Apparently, it’s just not done with me yet.
‘Til death us do party! Before her single life ends, Sally just wants to hang with her friends, but who the f*ck is the sheep? And why is it hunting them?! Sally’s wedding looks on…
As an ageing film producer plans to resurrect his past cinematic successes, an audience are invited to share his memories and triumphs as he flicks through his back catalogue of wo…
Meet Perry.
An autobiographic comedic feast following stories from growing up on an Australian pineapple farm, misadventures abroad, Laura’s crazy family, and her forever loving husband.
District 12, Katniss Everdeen, Ryanair.
*Smoke Not Included.
‘Should I hand in my notice?’ A question that resonates with every teacher, and Rachel is no exception.
How are you supposed to deal with a tragedy? In Brian’s case, step one is obviously to drink heavily and then hope that somehow step two reveals itself.
It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha).
Have a Wilde afternoon in the company of our would-be Earnests, their would-be lovers and the indomitable Lady Bracknell.
Sir Love E Dove is a grand actor of legendary status.
Kenneth starts his first day and manager Chris has big plans for the McGonagle Tavern: clean the place up, serve gourmet dishes, but above all else make the place a stylish and tra…
You’re only as good as your worst day.
Everyone’s favourite climate academic and comedian Dr Matt Winning tests new ideas about climate change.
Glastonbury promises a dream of youth, but after the pandemic, the characters return to seek out an anchor to the past but encounter revelations far beyond their expectations under…
Barracking imagines the inner walls of the modern-day debate chamber, and what it takes to get yourself inside.
Prime Meat is a horror comedy that follows Esme and Chris Stockton who, five years ago, moved to the idyllic Cotswold village of Raperton-on-the-Water.
If you are looking for a funny family show, Cabin Fever by Fresh !nk Theatre Company at theSpace @ Sugeon's Hall is a show where kids will get the jokes (most of them) and adul…
Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies explores the tragic, hilarious and baffling road of silence travelled by women in Western culture.
One woman taking on the role of her three alter-egos in this tragi-comic psychodrama.
Camilla is obsessed with stories, great stories, the greatest stories ever told.
Life is too complicated – so Riley Nottingham (Thank God You’re Here, Metro Sexual, Manifesto) is giving up choices altogether.
We welcome you to a vision of the 80s urban nightlife: stag nights and hen dos; drunken crying girls and gallons of booze! In this world, nightclubs and cocktail bars pulsing with …
Follow the adventures of Mothello, a mothman version of Othello, who can’t quite get his words out, as they explore the world of Shakespeare’s plays.
The Tweeds, an eclectic group of privileged students, are out hunting when the newest member accidentally shoots the club president, Babette, in the head.
New Scottish writing: Sammy Blew Up a Toilet is a whimsical, heart-warming and partly autobiographical play set around the early years of school.
What ruins a good game night? Losing all the vowels in Scrabble? Flipping the Monopoly board after going bankrupt? Accidentally kidnapping someone? It’s definitely the last one, is…
Whales sometimes make hit songs that get repeated through the ocean.
Remember your first day of university? The people you met? The awkward small talks you had? It doesn’t have to be like that.
Feminine human beings begin the process of metamorphosis around 10 years of age.
Embark on Meg Chizek’s hilariously chaotic quest for perfection, while she follows her dreams and discovers life’s true meaning! As she twirls through rejection, conformity and eve…
Why do we as humans lie? It’s in our nature, is it not? There’s a whole host of justifications, like not hurting someone’s feelings, protecting others, giving the illusion of…
A workplace comedy about a pirate crew.
Twitching the curtain and shining a light on what happens backstage, Jacob Marshall and Shannon Hill’s Technically: A Musical is a show full of inside jokes and caricatures from …
‘The chance to win the night of your dreams with semi-famous porn star Lance Hardwood.
If you like theatre, darling.
According to hosts Grace Fool and Jennifer Schmennifer, this country is founded on Gay idiots—and quite right too! With live singing, drag, character comedy, lip-syncing and clow…
An unpleasant reunion follows another unpleasant reunion as five school friends catch-up on old times.
There’s a room in the Tate where the goths go/ And solitary men of the cloth know/ That there they can tune/ Into black on maroon/ And swoon in the gloom of a Rothko.
Normal Al Yankovic attempts to retain a sense of decorum and decency as his line-up of acclaimed alternative comedians cause chaos.
Durham University’s national musical theatre champions are bringing a show full of of iconic musical songs, characters and silliness to Edinburgh this summer! Laugh yourself silly …
Katzenmusik (German, n.
Eric Davidson’s Amazin’ Prime Parodies (26 Songs to Make the Whole World Cringe).
Saturday night.
Remember the Kids from Fame? It’s time to meet the Kids with Nae Hame.
A poignant journey, through chequered showbiz career of Eddie Garrity, interspersed with songs from the new album Wild ‘n’ Free and anecdotes from early glam rock, punk to cabaret.
Five girls, one friendship, and a therapist named Fanny.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the free trip to California.
Sasha is slowly realising that her period symptoms may not be normal.
Broadway, 1955.
If you enjoy exploring the ups, downs (and sideways!) of human relationships through musical comedy, this show is for you! Characters will be built based off audience suggestions, …
Mel and Jack, two halves of the punk duo Diatomix, return to their college town after a year of touring the worst venues known to man.
Being single in her mid-twenties… how hard can it be? Post-breakup, Tilly jets off on a girls’ trip to Barcelona and impulsively lands a job in London.
In March of 2023, TikTok sent a notification to millions of users with a picture of Jodie Sloan’s face, and the words, ‘Is she hot?’, after her comedic song on situational hotness …
When Vincent Met John is a historical encounter few could have anticipated.
This award-winning one-woman show is about eight diverse characters’ dance with cancel culture and how our mental and spiritual health are connected.
No.
Danny has met the love of his life, Nat.
It’s no surprise that Endo just got promoted to CEO of Anna’s body.
Do you want to hear a scary story? Mac and Beth will try anything to speed up their work team bonding session.
Bitch Circle is a dark, brutal triple-header comedy from hell by Berlin’s brainiest bitches: Get ready for Sep’s black searing wit, Sofia’s innocent, yet twisted, humour and Abi’s …
The true story of my brother’s murder so of course, it’s comedy.
Miriam works in finance in Singapore.
Songwriter and half of globe-trotting ‘Harry and Chris’ ***** (Sunday Post) has written songs for Disney and Netflix.
Was Queen Elizabeth I really a virgin? Was the Spanish Armada lead by a giant inflatable penis? How good was Mary Queen of Scots’ head game? Find out in this surprisingly accurate …
International touring comedian, writer, podcaster, musician, and actor Trevor Gertonson is bringing his stand-up special to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Ben Target is a critically-acclaimed performance artist and multi award-winning comedian (yawn), but in 2020 he gave this up to become the live-in carer for an irascible octogenari…
TTOJO as company in the past has practically demonstrated capacity and ability in management of shows both locally and internationally.
Aardvark Comedy returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following a successful run in 2023.
Joe has always been a nerd.
The multi award-winning Men With Coconuts are back for another smash run at the Edinburgh Fringe! Their critically acclaimed show will be an hour of emotional balladry, lyrical wiz…
In her second solo show, Suchandrika (Writer for BBC One’s Have I Got News For You and Radio 4; Funny Women ‘One To Watch’) tries to explain our chronically-online era to her niece…
Broadcaster, TV presenter, journalist, author, Manchester music authority.
In this work-in-progress show, Baby Belle’s slightly less glamorous sibling Jax Braithwaite will unwrap the experience of Dealing with Tricky Feelings.
Welcome to Hackton! Cyclists can’t get to Hackton library, literacy rates are dropping, cyclists can barely name a single book, library membership is dwindling and Hackton counci…
After last year’s successful Fringe debut, legendary accordionist and funnyman Sandy Brechin returns with another hilarious hour of music and comedy in his one-man show, featuring …
Jazz on the Run is a celebration of friendship, freedom and the power of jazz to uplift the soul.
Denzil de Cristo uses pedantry, puns and parodies to ponder the future.
In Scotland, Billy Connolly is more than just a successful comedian, actor, musician, television presenter, and Knight of the Realm; he’s “the Big Yin”.
The latest chapter in the theatrical saga of ex-detective Richard P Cooper, who now finds himself sucked into a time-bending sci-fi caper! In an impromptu trip to the future, Richa…
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Upon entering the theatre, you're greeted by an array of massive sacks hanging above the stage, each differing in colour, texture, and shape.
The theatre is dying, so Jordana Belaiche and Grace O’Keefe are holding a séance to bring back the legendary musical theatre composer, Stephen Joshua Sondheim.
Michelin Star: two couples, three affairs, four courses.
Northern Ireland’s premier musical comedian brings her hilarious piano-powered comedy to the Fringe.
No one understands the complexity and plights of Catholicism like a teenage lesbian, especially one whose only friend happens to be a figment of the 13th-century saint Joan of Arc.
Sitting Pretty is a camp, fun-filled, happy-hearted show with northern powerhouse, beautician, astrologist, therapist and cabaret performer, Kitty Cassis.
Award-winning musical comedian and professional overthinker Selena Mersey is in a long-term relationship for the first time in her life.
Do you mind if we tell you some stories? Remythed takes the myths and legends from the backgrounds of its performers and reshapes, reforms, and retells them.
Salam, y’all! Arsalan Akhavan’s funny and uplifting one-man show interweaves myths from the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) with true-life stories about growing up Iranian in the…
Steve Jobs is a visionary.
Grab your Kombucha and get ready to live your best life with wellness influencer and the reigning queen of good vibes only, Mia Culpa, as she takes you on her signature transformin…
This is a tale of friendships lost, and learning to live with a present that isn’t as rosy as the past.
Eight top comedians compete to see who is the champion beermat flipper 2024! Sikisa, Bell Hull and Stuart Laws host comedy’s premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians co…
A show about being laughed at.
A sophisticated and symbolic exploration and portrayal of the poignant literary works of Shakespeare? Not really.
From the ‘unhinged’ (EdFringeReview.
Dr.
Get ready for the wildest acting seminar you’ve ever attended! In her 42 years in showbiz, Mitzi Fitz has seen and done it all.
A compilation of chaos.
Join two of the UK’s most exciting new comedians for a hilarious hour of stand-up comedy.
With his successful column he occupied in the Uykusuz Comics Magazine and his critically acclaimed podcast series Deniz Göktas’a Ayiracak Vaktim Yok’ (eng.
Muthaf**ka! Literally.
Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy.
Previous Cinderella stories? They’re behind you! In this unique fairy-tale twist, Bristol’s Pantomime Society cordially invites you on a magical journey, guaranteed to be an ab…
Just Aretha is the story of a black disabled woman navigating an able-bodied world, striving to hold onto her African and disabled identity.
New murder-mystery comedy musical debuting at the Fringe! Detective Ben Stone is murdered at his own birthday party, snuffed out like a candle on a cake.
A drama group are performing their new murder-mystery play, but despite their best efforts, everything goes wrong! Their play, a thrilling murder mystery set on a small ship carryi…
It’s Labor Day in Kentucky! Time for your favourite late-night-radio-talk-show host, to give you life advice on the air of Midnight Cowboy Radio, entertaining you for those long dr…
In an afterlife, Gilbert and Sullivan decide to acknowledge Helen Carte’s contribution to their legacy.
After a sold-out run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (Winner of the Encore! Award) Lady Penelope, the Los Angeles laureate of iambic pentameter and rhyme brings her songs, sonnets…
Thomas is a remarkable, unconventional introvert – typically fiddling and fumbling his way through a 9 to 5 job, occasionally looking up to admire his wide-eyed and equally shy c…
A young woman, Maia (Soraya Pouilly), awakens tied to a chair and blindfolded.
“What does it mean to be a prince?” This question is at the heart of To Be A Prince, the latest production by Grownup Playhouse, featured at Paradise in The Vault @ The Annexxe…
Well, it looks like it’s time to get your ears syringed because acclaimed musical comedy duo Flo & Joan are taking to the stage, and they have some quote unquote music and/or c…
Prepare for a hilarious hour of (unconvincing) romance, (sloppy) action and (tenuous) espionage! Don’t miss the debut whirlwind comedy from The Defectors.
Rhiannon knows exactly what men want, and from naughty schoolgirl to eager-to-please tradwife, she’ll make all your filthiest fantasies come true.
Alright, stop, collaborate and listen! Safety expert Ian Crawford is back with a brand-new presentation.
From The Craft to Wicked to Hocus Pocus, Murray will have you howling at the moon in a tribute to queerness and how we discover our powers once we find our coven.
This classic Victorian adventure sees the fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg come across a cascade of eccentric characters and exotic places, all because of a wager.
Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn’s musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee tells the story of six middle-schoolers growing up and of the relationships they form with eac…
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
David Harmer and Ray Globe, the irrepressible Glummer Twins, are back with an irreverent trawl through the eight decades that made them what they are today.
By Kate Hamill and based on the novel by Jane Austen… a playful adaptation, with a fresh female voice.
‘If music be the food of love, play on.
It’s been a bumpy few years in UK politics, and one story is particularly comical: Liz Truss’s stint as prime minister.
Would you like to rule the world? Then you need to know about swamps, pirate ships and Sigmund Freud.
Ever been in a situation where you need to get rid of something fast, but haven’t got a clue how to do it? This black comedy play is all about when nice turns to naughty then end…
The seven stages of grief are a familiar concept to those who are grieving, have grieved or will grieve.
Two couples move into a flat together.
Two chairs, a table and a back wall filled with train tickets, polaroid selfies, drama posters and a cardboard cutout of Shakespeare – is this a re-creation of my university flat…
As a smiling Nina Rose Carlin appears on stage with a suitcase, she asks for a one-way ticket to Tinseltown.
A whimsical, musical exploration of social versus personal identity from the perspective of a late-identified and diagnosed non-binary autistic person.
Ghosts have the most appalling quality of life.
War! What’s it good for? Lesbians, apparently… This tragi-comedy follows the relationships between four queer women anticipating the end of the war in a bomb shelter turned bac…
A hilarious musical comedy about a cherished family-run hairdressing salon in Essex.
Following sold-out shows in Manchester, Helio Collective debuts at Fringe with a fresh take on how we talk about our planet’s future.
Reject Me, Already is an original romcom musical where you play the matchmaker! Step into the story of Cameron and Casey, two hopeless romantics looking for their “someone”, th…
Love and Freindship (fear not, deliberate misspelling) is a Regency romp through the adventures of Laura, a young woman on the quest for love.
Ctrl+Alt+Deceit.
2023’s viral Fringe sell-out parody, Dusk: A Bite-Size Love Story, returns for a music-packed celebration of forbidden love, unexpected drama, baseball, glitter, and teen angst.
Musical sketch comedian Simon Hennessy has over 360k followers and 30 million likes on social media, where viral characters like Remy and Adam from Bumble filmed on his smartphone …
One birthday.
Our 13th Morning comes, naturally, after the Twelfth Night.
A country house weekend takes a turn for the worse when Bertie Wooster, loveable layabout, must play matchmaker for his newt-loving friend Gussie Fink-Nottle.
Paradox becomes reality in this suspenseful journey tracking philosophy, art and David Bowie.
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
Touring his Alive and Gigging show, covering the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential 60s start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political se…
Once in a blue moon you take a punt on a show at 11pm and to your surprise, you find pure gold.
They are two words that are misused far too often these days, but in the case of Andy Cameron, the description of ‘comedy legend’ is totally justified.
Alexa, Play, a comedy, follows the weekly meetings of Alexas Anonymous, a support group run by one very motivated Alexa.
Trust, truth, and tequila.
Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds.
Kevin McCarron is an experienced stand-up comedian, and a Doctor of Philosophy.
John Otway is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.
Come and join Turnip Fish Theatre Company in their Edinburgh Fringe debut! A story about the unlikely friendship of next-door neighbours, Agatha and Cassandra.
Late at night at the corner store, your card got declined again.
Anna Lou is back in her wine bar to talk wine and let you in on her darkest secrets.
This new play by Michael Bryceson focuses on the relationship between a dying father and his son, Charlie.
Poppy and Freddie wake up in the 'honeymoon suite' of a bed and breakfast in Slough.
This London/LA hybrid’s wickedly funny, naughty, yet deeply disturbing story, penetrates to the heart of survival.
You are invited to Dinner! Hostess extraordinaire Paige is throwing a dinner party to celebrate her husband’s philosophical bestseller being published.
Heartbreak.
Sammy and Clyde are on their first date.
A Twelfth Night retelling to satisfy your wildest Shakespearian fantasy! Servant Malvolio, a bright and zesty fool, is trying to manifest his rise to Dukedom, to no avail.
Biblical.
Wet Feet tells the story of an encounter between two men in a gay sauna that lasts longer than your typical steamy dalliance.
Girls aren’t allowed to talk about poo.
The Mayor and His Daughter (not pictured – though we are writing this) are desperate to make it in show business.
1483: The young princes Edward and Richard are taken to the Tower of London by their uncle Richard in preparation for Edward’s coronation.
Life is awful.
Icelandic comedians Lovísa Lára and Mekkin Roff join forces to bring you a sharp hour of stand-up comedy.
Join us in the Forth Floor Brasserie of Harvey Nichols Edinburgh, to experience the best of the Fringe.
Twelve years from the 2012 Fringe Street Events, GABEZ return with their international award-winning performance Live Manga! GABEZ create non-verbal performance based on mime.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Diederik Zuurmond does a lot of jokes, some impressions and a song to tackle all the tough topics of the day, including the cosmos, cum-brain and of…
Queer northern comedians Mary Cross, Jack Horsefield and Jane Postlethwaite bring you a hilarious three-way split bill of stand-up comedy.
Do you like… music? Comedy? Prizes? Dicks, boobs and butts? Laughter? Joy? Fun? Smoking? Aliens? Life and death? Surprises? Guitars? Beautiful harmonies? Philosophy? Dance? Magic…
Relive the golden age of Hollywood as our cinema pianist improvises a film score to Charlie Chaplin’s best silent films including The Gold Rush (1925) – live! During the silent f…
The harbinger of rock’n’drole returns to the Fringe with his eighth must-see show.
‘Darling, your wicked brother The Duke greased me up in butter and rolled me down a hill.
Poldark, Master Stage Hypnotist: Bringing intrigue and wonder to the Festival Fringe for the first time.
After 30 years of marriage, Larry and Lucy wrestle with the fundamental questions of monogamy in this first-of-its-kind whirlwind cross between stand-up comedy and live couples the…
I’m not sure who came up with Hot Rubber’s concept of combining the children’s table-top racing game Scaletrix with a stand up comedy variety show, but after watching the sho…
Character comedian Emma Sidi is back at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Bluffing Your Way in Ballet pirouettes its fast-paced and irreverent way through the history of ballet.
‘This double act is unmissable’ ***** (WestEndBestFriend.
Eoghan Collins is an Irish musical comedian who’s been asking himself a lot of questions over the last couple of years.
During her biggest UK stand-up tour to date, Rachel brings her latest show to the Fringe for one night only! Poise is a dazzling hour of the signature blend of stand-up and songs f…
Edinburgh Youth Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s most performed play is a unique take on a story you know well.
You’re cordially invited to learn dark, blue secrets and experiences from the life and perspective of a Muslim(ish), British, Pakistani female straddling two cultures, two lives an…
Legendary Scottish TV/radio football pundit and journalist, the man who is almost as good at being Chick Young as Jonathan Watson in Only an Excuse? For the past 50 years Chick has…
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Icon, legend and star, Miriam Margolyes takes to the stage once more in an homage to her favourite author, Charles Dickens.
Oi Oi! Kit Loyd brings you 50 minutes of one-man physical sketch comedy.
Get ready for mischief with this campatious event fuelled by four delicious wines, low tone, a scrumptious pairing and a big fat singalong.
Boom wer on! With guests, naughty and nice, Mr English will host former serial killers, gangsters, as well as facing his own demons through a spiritual journey live on stage.
Bold reimaginings of classic tales by queer, and POC misfits! Saadiya Ali’s Real Housewives of Bible serves up feminist, funny twists on ancient stories.
A highly skilled gentleman juggler comedy show for all ages.
Experience Queen’s legendary hits in this electrifying jukebox musical comedy.
Expect talking toothbrushes, competitive siblings and a variety of funny sketches full of heart and absurdity.
Steve Porters (Daisy Doris May) is back with his second instalment of his Ted XXX talks: How to Mate.
It’s tough being a deaf kid.
Star-cross’d storytellers take you through multiple anarchic, humorous and contradictory re-enactments of a midsummer night they’d rather forget.
Becoming a yoga teacher was life-changing for Kym Nelson, who decided to swap her hedonistic lifestyle for a more ethical one.
Mom’s Room: the place you go to play, dress up, and find treasures while the parents are away.
When disaster hits Blighty’s biggest caravan club, can a total cow of a party dancer save the day? Missy’s convinced she’s got the talent.
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live in the family home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Two friends, one party, zero social skills.
FUFC is a heartfelt, poignant and semi-autobiographical play exploring a world upended by the shocking news of a prostate cancer diagnosis.
You find a door.
I will not, shall not, cannot say / That Hamlet’s tale has had it’s day / At breakneck speed we will provide / Laughter, love and homicide / Hamlet as per is overwrought / But …
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
It’s sixty years since Joe Orton’s The Ruffian on the Stair, was broadcast as a radio play and now his unmistakable style is brought to life by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group…
A street trader from Glasgow and a runaway from Skye meet in unusual circumstances! Through miscommunication and comic interaction their relationship is formed.
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
Outstanding Performance of a Solo Show (NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination).
The world’s only theatrical escape room! You are the crew of a time-travelling robot and everything has gone wrong.
An exhilarating new spin on Oscar Wilde’s Victorian classic.
When it comes to true stories, dark observations and raw stand-up, Shubba has it covered! Come see Edinburgh’s beloved comic in his first-ever solo show this Fringe! Shubba will be…
Agnes curated her perfect death, but the thing she couldn’t plan for was a teenage burglar entering her house as she’s facing oblivion.
Two Girls, Two Destinies: to become a madame or independent? Exploring female independence and traditional expectations, inspired by the playwright’s real-life experiences.
Dink Rodgers has won two Emmys, three Grammys and 84 Oscars.
Written and performed by comedian Grace Aki, the award-winning solo show makes its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe! She weaves a blend of storytelling and stand-up for …
Meet the most famous girl group of all time.
New, dark comedy exploring how suffocating hiding the truth can be.
Whether it’s relationship problems, how to word a sensitive work email or the best way to cook a brisket, this Jewish mother has all the answers you need! A joyous, hilarious, inte…
A lush greenhouse for comedy’s finest weirdest blooms, and literal good gig, back for our thirteenth Fringe with yet more high-end foolishness, Permitted Heckles and a bountiful …
Enjoy piano musical satire at its finest, celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer.
Opened to critical acclaim in London’s West End and adapted from the novel of the same name by Johnny Tait, this is an extreme satire on false-celebrity culture.
With seven nominations and two wins at the Durham Drama Festival 2024 (including Best Actor), Influenced is a cautionary tale of online influencers and their world of unchecked pow…
Planet Earth needs a pep talk, and who better to do it than the woman who started it all? Rife with hot flashes, unresolved asteroid trauma, and still carrying a torch for those de…
Fun, joyous, raucous… absurd! Join magicians Ava Beaux, Kane & Abel for a riotous evening of wacky games and cabaret performances.
Edinburgh Live’s number one pick of the Free Fringe is back for a third year! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and…
I (Al Lubel) talk about my name for 57 minutes and about something else for 3 minutes.
Doug Crossley is diving into his villain era with a work-in-progress comedy storytelling show with songs.
Kenice Mobley has always been a bit depressed, going so far as to plan her funeral when she was a kid.
‘One to watch in the world of magic’ (List).
A pathological bureaucrat.
Become a millionaire in just 60 minutes, with tips from Mr MoneyBags himself, Steve Boobis*.
From Rifco Theatre, comes an immersive DJ bromance.
Iced to death at the nation’s favourite baking competition?! Catching the killer won’t be a piece of cake! Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect return to the Fringe with…
The play charts the lives of seven women and one man attempting to tap their troubles away at a weekly dancing class.
‘The brains and talent behind Half-Cocked Theatre have undoubtedly carved a niche in the world of sketch comedy with their latest offering’ **** (LiveLondonPost.
Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse.
A solo show exploring life and light.
You’re at risk of identity theft! Unless you come to this very informative, interactive, luxury seminar in which I, Bernadette (Agnes Carrington), invite you to experience the extr…
Andy D tells the story of Little Boney’s second coming.
Two robo-clones, born of a mad professor and separated by family and class, must find a way to love where all odds are against them.
Funny, horrible and just a little bit naughty, purveyor of playful poetry, Ben Macpherson (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2), returns to the Fringe with this perfect gateway into the after…
Everyone put your rubbish out, tonight’s bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty! This award-winning, side-splitting, slapstick comedy, circus routine retakes the househ…
The real-deal variety show with an infectiously joyous atmosphere returns for its 12th year with Mister Meredith in charge.
Can a magician be a rockstar? Rockstar Magician Arron Jones couldn’t possibly say, but yes.
Remember childhood-favourite Guess Who? It’s that, but based on vibes and played with you, the lovely audience.
When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy.
Katelyn locked herself in a basement years ago, oops.
Wilford Wellman is unwell.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even …
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from Fringe legend David Alnwick.
Candid and hilarious new stand-up hour, talking about who I am, in an era where people are really keen to hear about who you are, so long as who you are is something they want to h…
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure cabaret! Love them or hate them, tribute acts are here to stay.
‘A properly talented comic.
Bumping into your ex at work covered in baby vomit can be awkward.
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
Sam Dodgshon has been collecting photos.
Dark narrative character comedy about Eliot, an emo kid with an imaginary goblin who just wants to be loved.
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
Blodwen’s back, with a fancy job, a wardrobe full of pencil skirts and a lust for office life (she could find adventure in a paper clip – and does!).
Tiger Daughter is a new show by actor/musician Charlene Kaye (Succession, Starkid, SNL) about what happens when you defy your tiger mom’s dreams of you playing Carnegie Hall and be…
Will everything go disastrously wrong in an AI-dominated world? We’re about to find out! It’s 225 years After Download, and life in Outpost Canaan feels like a never-ending loop.
A Show About Tomorrow is a one-act musical set in the 90s at Bailey’s 21st birthday party, which happens to be in the middle of nowhere.
Lizzy Lenco is not right in the head, and has the MRI to prove it.
One woman.
Join Alex as he makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and finally answers the question of how he became a magician.
A thick wad of cash in a brown paper bag, May-December relationships, a sugar daddy straight out of a Martin Scorsese film.
‘Magic is in his bones.
Kane & Abel return with magic and comedy based on being twins.
A rule-breaker, a risk taker, a wave-maker and a convention-shaker – all phrases never before used to describe Jake Baker.
Celebrated magician and storytelling comedian, Chris Cook hosts an evening of magic, games and mischief.
Mona Mae is a Juicy Jurassic Southern Belle transplanted in Scotland.
Aloha! For over sixty years the Castle Performing Arts Center has been producing plays, musicals and special events.
When blind-date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner.
Not for the easily offended, this hilarious brand-new dating show sees the audience play naughty games, five guys compete for a date, and overall chaos.
An “alternative comedy” show about bras, more specifically about not being able to find the right one.
Wacky German jokemeister Jürgen’s comedy collision is back for a second helping of schnitzel schwitzen! Along with comedy friends and pros! Following a successful Edinburgh Festiv…
Shady wellness gurus, audacious business bros and one desperate graduate collide in this hilarious hour of brand new comedy.
Join Alex the Magician for an exciting children’s magic show, back for its fourth year at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Does everyone have ADHD? What’s it like being married to a space cadet? Lots of asides are a sign of ADHD! ‘Acidic wit’ **** (Edinburgh Reporter).
Sir Dickie is the last Hollywood hellraiser.
Bring the kids for magical mischief with one of Edinburgh’s favourite magicians! Tim Licata astounds audiences throughout Scotland with his brand of delightful deception.
Hilarious epic 50s rock musical following Shakey Sean (Elvis character) working in an Arbroath egg’n’roll van.
Do you remember when long hair and eyeliner was cool? Do you remember Paradise City, where the grass was green and the girls where pretty? Do you remember when your neck pain came …
In this surreal hour of musical comedy and clown, Callum Straford takes you on a genre-bending thrill ride.
A love story told through powerhouse ballads, popular hits and original songs.
Due to popular demand, the very famous Teena will be kicking off her 2024 World Tour in Edinburgh! Expect comedic anecdotes from her celebrity life, live musical numbers (covers & …
‘Funniest show I’ve seen this year!’ (Audience Review).
Ryan Kenny brings alternative comedy to Edinburgh, blending music, props, and sharp wit.
An exploration of gender dysphoria, bodily autonomy and celebrity crushes from a non-binary perspective.
Scientifically accurate dark comedy about a cancer development.
Scotland’s best comedians in the club that started it all.
Firefighter Micky and investment banker Andrew are choked by their respective blue and white collars.
Since 2005, Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged…
Pretty Delusional is a coming-of-age musical comedy about a horny hopeless romantic fighting to stay true to herself in the face of rejection.
It’s an Edinburgh debut for viral comedian Tom Hearn! This Canadian Comedy Award winner brings his comedic prowess to the Fringe stage, with jaw-dropping musical performances and…
These young actors have energy and plenty of charisma and the script has many flashes of originality and fun – the death scene of the older sister Joan is cleverly done, as is th…
This is the perfect Fringe show.
Dual personalities meet but don’t recognize each other.
For anyone who has ever had to “hold it in” to protect their reputation, take a quick break and relieve yourselves.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
Step into the uniquely entertaining world of Frank Sanazi, where comedic singing dictators reign supreme.
The incredible story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra, living rough on the streets of Dublin.
For lovers of absurdist theatre, A Play by John at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall is not to be missed.
The cult hit returns to the Fringe with an interactive screening of another classic Murder, She Wrote episode, Paint Me a Murder, following last year’s riotous presentation of Sing…
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Cringe Effect unfolds in a Portland Anorexia Rehabilitation Centre where Ce, a long-time anorexia struggler, confides in her audience about her treatment journey.
“Weird Al” Yankovic and Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe were destined to be together onstage, and now they are! (Sort of.
What happens when a songwriter invites innocent bystanders on the streets of Edinburgh to share their most embarrassing memories and comedic confessions? They end up in his show th…
Agatha Mystery’s The Rat-Trap makes its Fringe debut! But will it be curtains for the show when an actor is gruesomely murdered? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect ret…
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote, returns to the Fringe with his hilarious and moving one-man show: a deep dive into the enduring appeal…
Shotgunned is Kangaroo Court’s debut theatrical production.
Three heroes.
Thot.
They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras, soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi platinum-selling records for the likes of Alfie Boe and Luke Evans, but now Juli…
Fringe veteran mind reader, Tomas McCabe, is back with a show that combines his trademark mentalism with a courtroom drama.
In a land where stories are magic, magicians are storytellers and people are ingredients in spells.
Terry Wogan is back from the dead as part of his ongoing attempts to return to light entertainment no matter the cost.
From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show 2023, Leicester Comedy Festival; sell-out five-star show, Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work-in-progress clown an…
When you’re eight, monsters live under your bed.
Ancient Ulsterwomen used sex as a weapon, and they made plenty of noise about it! Snarly-yet-lyrical modern Ulsterwoman Dr.
You don’t need to see a show about a life-changing hallucinogenic experience.
Squires is a very funny play, perfect for its 11:45 morning slot.
Sexy, camp and nepotistic.
Are you eccentric? Take the test as Quentin Crisp introduces Emily Dickinson, Spike Milligan, Screaming Lord Sutch, Patricia Highsmith and a cast of legendary Outsiders.
Join award-winning, absolute tornado of a cabaret star Aidan Sadler as they springboard through the top steps to surviving the apocalypse with 80s-inspired synth-wave melodies.
Jaz Mattu goes back home to live with his dad in Kent to focus on his comedy career.
Step back into the Edinburgh of the eighteenth century! Passing Likeness is a new verse drama by local writer Ash Caton.
What happens when you’re a Leither, or from Edinburgh and you’re told it’s the same thing! Join us, back in 1919, in a tenement on Leith Walk at the exact spot of the boundar…
Reconnect Theatre’s Doped at the Hill Street Theatre is a fascinating and delightfully crazy study of the relationship between three guys that questions the nature of friendship,…
Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo, the interactive extravaganza event of the Fringe.
After a group of Zumba-lovers discover that it’s easier to book a Fringe venue than it is to hire out a rehearsal space in their local parish rooms, drastic measures must be taken.
‘I got very little, little to no media training, so.
What do you get when you combine blues with burlesque? A sad stripper? A naked blues singer? At the Blues and Burlesque cabaret, the answer is a delightful cocktail of Pete Saunder…
From an illegal rave in an abandoned vagina museum to the PTA cheese and wine – mid-life dating with the mindset of a teen is a wild ride.
If you took every thought you’ve ever had about your life, every comedy sketch you’d ever seen and the vast, inky blackness of space and put them all into a blender: you’d pr…
"I just needed to tell my story, my way, just once!" When you think you’ve seen it all, Lauren Laws surprises us with a brilliantly original show.
Jack is a 29-year-old Kindergarten teacher and a hopeless romantic.
Stephen has always wanted to be James Bond.
Guru Dudu and the team return to Edinburgh with our hilarious, engaging tours.
Help! My Vagina Is Trying to Kill Me! is a dark, comedic solo show that explores one woman’s journey of navigating STDs, miscarriages and pre-cervical cancer, all while learning to…
A whirlwind of comedy, cabaret and tricks like no other.
Alex Norcott and the team at Exi Attica have created a show that is quintessentially Fringe and unashamedly Shakespeare.
After five sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return for an immersive dance-walk adventure through the hi…
Grab your “all access” pass into the mysterious world of Broadway’s backstage! Follow veteran “star dresser” Pam as she works her magic through complex costume changes, confrontati…
Now in its 20th year, La Clique essentially created the genre of sexy circus cabaret at the Fringe.
Award-winning David Hoare returns with another bumper show, brimming with silliness.
Alone in his miserable bedsit in a busy, bustling metropolis, Dante’s only companion is a house robot named She-bot.
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
George Mitchell is at crisis point.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all for you to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on Georg…
In this one-woman show Ege Öztokat talks, sings and screams about the wonderfully terrible predicament of her existence as a young woman in Turkey.
Two thrilling adventures in a double feature inspired by Hollywood blockbusters.
Virginia Woolf, Ophelia and ADHD.
Naomi Paul’s (mostly) Jewish show! From the Baltic to Birmingham, from shamash to shellfish, to Hendon and beyond.
God, the Devil and Me is a brave new comedy exploring and average teenage life… if you’re best friends with God and the Devil that is.
Following the loss of a childhood friend, Evie is on a quest to find the meaning of life and leave behind a legacy before she turns 23.
Back by popular demand after last year’s sell-out success.
An absurdist character-comedy show from a helpless clown.
Join Anti-Heroine through several encounters with Manchester’s night-life and dating scene as she teeters on the edge of adulthood.
Shy people, you there? This hilarious and tender tale follows Shy Girl’s ambitious attempt to open up (emotionally, spiritually, uh.
Facing medical misadventures in the mecca of wellness, former Texan and recovering Jehovah’s Witness, Stacie Burrows, clings to her piano searching for Zen amongst LA’s quakes …
Musical theatre appears to thrive on some of the most unexpected subject matters – the lives of poetic cats, the founding fathers of America, The Jerry Springer Show – so a new…
Secret Agent Psychic Healer?! This is a hilarious and harrowing true story about the journey of a woman who was working at the CIA and how she became an energy healer/comedian.
Amelia Bayler (Best Newcomer, Scottish Comedy Awards) is on a ‘one-woman mission to make musical comedy cool again’ (Rolling Stone).
It’s like confession without the guilt.
After a gold medal run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Coach Mon is pumped for a spectacular sports extravaganza, but her athletes have disappeared! How can The Com…
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your favourite poets from the 1800s got stuck in an inflatable life raft in the middle of the ocean with no nautical know-how and a frac…
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
Aczel does his best, but it isn’t going to offer a solution to the unbearable lightness of being – as planned.
That’s… Brave is a mix of sketch comedy, stand-up comedy and musical comedy, and will answer the question Laura’s parents, aunts and grandparents keep asking her: why comedy?…
The Fringe’s shadiest nightspot, the Illicit Thrill is back in the strip-teasing business.
We’re back! Jolly performers from Japan will take you on a journey through a dazzling world of rhythm, tap dance and comedy! Sushi Tap Show is a non-stop ride of entertainment as c…
In his tower on an island in the river, Martuni weaves, masturbates and keeps fit.
Jukebox musical about what life was like growing up in 70s Edinburgh.
A one-woman show – part comedy, part edutainment, part love letter to the world at large and Europe in particular.
Steve Otis Gunn has been uncomfortable since 1991, when he realised he didn’t know what to do with his arms.
What’s a more embarrassing way to come out? Your mum walking in on you and your secret girlfriend in bed, or you dad finding your new strap on? How about both? Fran’s unfortunate m…
A twisted exploration of the fragile underpinnings of love, friendship, and ambition.
A funeral you can’t keep your inappropriate self from laughing through: this one-person show is a love letter to the humiliating experience of becoming a grown up, and the way gr…
Astrophysicist Dr Julian Mayers asks whether studying the Universe gives us any insight into earthly matters of life, death and love.
Your face will hurt from smiling so much when watching the Bay Area’s most prestigious troupe of Commedia dell’arte characters perform an original version of Cinderella.
After making a New Year’s resolution to keep a daily diary, hapless photographer for the local paper, Gordon, is oblivious to his new flatmates secretly reading his every written t…
A comical blend of balanced chaos and aligned lunacy, the stories of a modern-day hippie, a funky wizard, a professor of funk, but most of all, an insanely wild and must-see comedi…
Shower Chair is an hour long comedic play about mistakes, growing up, and learning how to save life from going down the drain.
Dive deeper into popular melodies of murder and mayhem in our original musical.
A one-man variety show / dreamscape filled with original characters, music and general absurdity written and performed by Los Angeles comedian Kenny Gray.
You hear a rumour.
The legend of stage and screen returns to Edinburgh for an intimate on-stage conversation.
Local lads Finlay and Ciaran are working the last ferry to the Isle of Bute, trying to distract themselves from the unusual happenings on board.
A year after the death of their mother, with her fiancée Mark (Jack Huckin) in tow, Saskia (Eleanor Griffiths) and Sarah (Florence Lace-Evans) reunite for a party to commemorate t…
No one likes Katherina Minola.
Meaty Sue’s parents have gone to the big barbecue in the sky and her impending wedding day is missing her elusive estranged Big Brother Big Farma Phil.
Emily Markoe wrote a totally normal comedy show.
Almost a nepo baby and a BBC child star of the noughties, Jess Carrivick’s career peaked at aged 10, but Hollywood never rang.
A sexy story filled with drama and comedy, love and lust.
The Momma Drama presents the hilarious and heartfelt show: Stretchmarks! An original play written by mums for mums, about the adventure of a lifetime: motherhood.
Get a sneak peek of the upcoming new musical based on the cult-classic film, featuring an original score written by Riki Lindhome (Netflix’s Wednesday).
Tommy, Matty and Dougie look to ditch the day job for the disco.
This is a beautiful play.
A play on Beckett’s Godot, two fools sit on a bench not sure if they exist, not sure if the rest of the world exists and waiting on something.
Returning to Edinburgh for the third year in a row! Liars and Clowns is a jam session for comedians, with a revolving door showcasing the best alternative comedy from around the fe…
A love letter to the divas and the gays who stan them! Welcome to an original queer comedy musical about Alexis’s childhood as a stan.
Brand-new spoof adult musical with a “happy ending”! Born in Edwardian England, Mary Whitehouse was a religious moral campaigner and thorn in the side of the BBC in the 1960s a…
A 2017 Capital Fringe Best of the Fringe pick, One in Four is a play about four roommates: each one is an alien, and each one believes the other three to be regular degular humans.
What do you do when your flight has been delayed for the fourth time as you’re heading to the Fringe? You could be grim or Simply Grimm – a fun filled, highly energetic romp thro…
Meet the staff of Tartan Treasures, a tourist-trap gift shop on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile selling Jimmy Hats, Highland cows and knock-off wands.
One teenage girl’s dream of being a pop star was shattered by the dark realities of the music industry: scams, lies, perverts and pedophiles.
Caught in a storm and looking for help, Murdo knocks on the door of a dark, old house and the family inside seems to be expecting him.
A stand-up show from a Geordie powerhouse comic that’s been doing it for 32 years.
Three agents are given a vital mission.
In the similar style of the wildly popular The Play that Goes Wrong, this production follows a company of actors attempting to perform 7 different shows at once and everything star…
Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie.
What happens when a lovable idiot holds a memorial service for a long-deceased family member? In this off-the-wall comedy, award-winning NYC-based clown Julia VanderVeen leads the …
The best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the Scottish comedy circuit, plus guests.
A hodge-podge of comedians, clowns, and weirdos of every variety: a playful potpourri of all the hysterical humans we’ve befriended during the Fringe.
As seen on HBO and at Carnegie Hall, join Briony for this lively blend of music and storytelling that gripped audiences in New York.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the evilest of them all? Well come find out for yourself in The Hairy Godmothers’ new sinful sequel.
Chris has been having horrid thoughts – thoughts that led to his break-up with Anya, thoughts that have since kept him from reaching out to Len.
Grab your parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and goldfish, and go buy your tickets for the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam…
In a kingdom where laughter is forbidden, one rat, and a fancy one at that, attempts to bring joy and merriment to this grim realm before it’s too late.
Everyone loves the 1979 movie phenomenon Moon Team, but loves to hate its 1999 reboot.
Cambridge Footlight Lily Blundell’s sinful dark comedy musical full of greed, fraud, 1920s jazz and drink.
Late-night, done right.
After their successful run in Wolverhampton, the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre decided to bring one of the longest-running off-Broadway revues, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Chan…
Seven dates, one night: will Sooz find the new love of her life, or will it become the worst night of her life? Booze-soaked and unlucky in love, Sooz has had enough.
A group of stereotypically attractive and slightly dim young people trapped in a fun fair haunted house.
Apricot is a dark comedy set in modern day London.
Dominic Frisby presents a lecture (with funny bits) about the extraordinary history of mining.
This is not a show about mental health.
The play that introduced the word ‘Robot’ to the world: where the creation of artificial beings revolutionises labour and industry.
It’s lonely at the top, especially at the top of Scotland.
A comedy show starring comedian Toni Nagy and her 13-year old daughter Adelia Aldrich.
The BAFTA-winning star of Scot Squad and cult classic Absolutely, returns to the Fringe as Scotland’s favourite cop.
In this touching debut, two university students meet on a bench at 2am after a bad night out.
Here There Be Dragons is a musical that premiered at the Players’ Theatre off-Broadway in 2022.
Jo led a blessed life.
Thumbing through a record collection, having a glass of wine, remembering the old times.
Same procedure as every year! Brenda presents a performance exploring the trendiness of body preservation in a way that’s both engaging and absurd.
Award-winning, ‘sensational’ **** (Time Out), unemployed clown Dru Cripps is back inside a tent after last year’s sold-out run.
Colman Hayes looks back at his life and questions absolutely everything.
Award-winning playwright Shaun Prendergast’s play Two Mums tells the story of Lucinda.
Daily hour of the best musical comedy at the Fringe, produced by Musical Comedy Guide website (check for line-ups).
What would you do when trapped in a life or death situation with yourself? An endearing two-hander between strangers in a taxishare devolves into a hilarious, unnerving, and moving…
Dirty After Dark! A late-night X-Rated stand-up comedy show.
The name Furiozo murmurs through the festival as a ‘must-see' show and usually when this happens, it’s cause to be cautious.
Sarah Cameron-West’s Karen is an electrifying explosion of female rage and comedic prowess that follows a loveable underdog who faces off with her arch nemesis in the aftermath o…
Ask a Stripper challenges you to rethink everything you know about stripping and sex work.
There’s no question that Ben Hart is an international sensation.
Catherine Cohen’s new Fringe show will have you asking yourself, “Is she flirting with me specifically?” for the full 60 minute duration.
With a heart of gold, a silver tongue and a steel-trap wit, Lucy combines her experience as as a folk singer, Human Biology teacher and Sexual Health Educator to ‘edutain’ one and …
The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even more stupider! Join stupid comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which will be the s…
Catherine McCafferty is (Not) That Bad.
The critically acclaimed sell-out hit of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe returns for a limited run.
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
Ever felt down? Like you’re swimming upstream? Like life isn’t all its quacked up to be? You’re not alone! Join award-winning cabaret star Ada Campe for a few flights of fanc…
Come inside the Cabaret of Filth and indulge in a night of pure debauchery, comedians, burlesque and drag in this comedy riot! Will contain nudity, filthy comedy, anti-establishmen…
It’s a Grave Business.
Timmy won third place in the Seattle International Comedy Competition.
Fred brings his A-game to give you a fun-filled show with comedy, magic, juggling (and maybe some video stunts.
Gay panic.
The award-winning comedian Alfie Brown is back with his first show since the fabric of his reality disintegrated.
Sex and relationship education is on the timetable and award-winning drag queen Miss Angela Bra is your supply teacher for this very special lesson on how to handle yourself in any…
Cobin Millage brings his second, and possibly final, show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Dom Chambers bursts on stage, pumped up for a night that promises magic.
A lifetime being a professional f*cking lunatic that enjoys swearing in front of people.
Sid Ozalid – Scotland’s top dyslexic comedy poet.
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Title says it all! *Evil laugh*.
Nominee: Best Kids Show – Leicester Comedy Festival 2024.
Top Derry comic Peter E Davidson returns with his sixth Edinburgh special.
What goes up, must come down… but not necessary in the way that you expected.
Beloved UK comic and kids comedian Nik Coppin returns to the Fringe with his show full of jokes, interaction, chaos, mayhem, his own hand-drawn cartoons and special guests.
The story of 30 years as an acrobat, this one-woman variety show stitches together acrobatics, dance, physical comedy and spoken word to form the image of life as a circus performe…
Following a disastrous pub crawl, 40-something BFF’s Annie Sup and Angela Bra fall through a lipsync-hole into a parallel dimension of musical comedy tucked full of swords and sa…
A play exploring ethnic identity, Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim is a phenomenon in Scotland where it has sold out countless nationwide tours.
Anything goes at this late-night variety show hosted by Australia’s cult-favourite improv group Snake Pit featuring Edinburgh’s biggest acts of today and tomorrow.
Bond is dead.
I left Israel to live in Berlin, because it is ironically safer.
Being a woman! Being over 40! Sex! Kath has found the solution to these problems.
Mr Diagonal, prime minister of pop, always cuts a dash and declines to cut corners.
Join multi award-winning sketch duo Low Effort Sketches for their highly anticipated debut hour! Alice and Andy perform silly, fourth-wall breaking sketches and deploy ‘weapons-gra…
Unmissable live music, mayhem and laughter! Every night is opening night as this team of top improvisers compose brand-new comedy musicals from your title suggestions.
Australian comedian Ross Purdy attempts to perform the most culturally significant show the Earth has ever seen with his chaotic brand of alternative anti-comedy.
Science tricks you can do at home.
The comedic prop-pun lunatic Roger Swift shoots out 200 puns in one hour! With his trademark crazy homemade props, audio cues and PowerPoint slides.
‘A civilization flourishes when men plant trees under which they themselves never sit.
Nick Kirk (West End New Act Finalist 2023) presents his first solo show featuring one man, no hair and a cast of supporting characters unpicking what life is like when you’re hitti…
It’s Jordan Barr’s Edinburgh Fringe debut! She’s a Melbourne-based stand-up and Triple J presenter.
As a child, Chris wanted to be two things: a comedian and a rock star.
The name of Leni Riefenstahl is destined to echo forever down the years as one of the facilitators of Nazism.
Two teams.
Bone Man has returned to ride once again.
‘One of the most unique and unusual stories being told on stage’ (LostInTheatreland.
Amando Houser who is ‘particularly funny’ (Vulture) invites you to an unhinged and absurd clown hour of self discovery.
House of Life is a place of worship with one goal: happiness for all, at any cost.
It’s a pun, although some of the characters might be witty and off the wrist.
Every night, it’s a raucous, improvised, made-to-order murder with Murder Inc – where the audience chooses the setting, the characters, and even the motives.
Irish Comedy Carnage is coming to the most Irish venue in the whole Fringe! Irish Comedy Carnage is your chance to catch the best Irish acts at the Fringe, at a (semi)civilised ear…
Michael Kunze is actor Mitch Coony in this Hollywood odyssey, where you’re only ever one hit away from a Tom Hanks sex party.
Knockout opera-singing stand-up comedian Steph DePrez is back with a new show about dreams, risks and how exactly Americans learn to be so… loud.
Comedic musical drama by Torrey Shine (Glastonbury, TEDx).
The title of the show says it all.
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
Tea Wade’s MANDRILL is an hour where we find ourselves learning as well as laughing as we’re taken on a journey through time that becomes a compilation on how social norms that…
50% game show, 50% comedy show, 100% f*cked up! A celebration of dark humor, cancellable offenses, and questionable decisions that takes everything you know about game shows and tu…
This show is a cheeky, hilarious, mellifluous romp through one singer’s colourful (and true!) past of cult-loving husbands, vampiric record producers, jailbird exes, shaggable th…
***** (EdinburghFestivalsForKids.
OMG, have you heard.
A dotcom billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait.
Does your life feel like a massive fire in a bin? Well don’t worry – because Kanye West made having a breakdown cool, and now Peter Bazely shows you how to turn your pesky publ…
‘A Rollicking Roller-Coaster Ride!’ ****½ (TheWest.
Cheryl-Lee Fast invites you on a comedic journey of hypnotic love.
Skins actress Megan Prescott – aka Katie F*cking Fitch – writes and stars in her debut solo show.
Armed with her mini keyboard and an opera degree that’s never been useful, Amy Webber is job hunting.
Are you happy? We can help! Five Prime Ministers ago, David Cameron started a Happiness Index to measure how joyful the people of this nation are.
JINKLES CHRIST! A group of former kid detectives return to the scene of their greatest unsolved case: the gruesome murder of their talking dog, Cluebert.
Rachel Fairburn is back with seven deadly characters.
The award-winning, 7th highest rated comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 returns! When disaster strikes in Gary’s brain, it’s up to his brain cells to try and fix everything.
A comedy game show where comedians battle each other using childhood trauma and the audience decide who had the worst parents.
Science tricks you can do at home.
Join Uxbridge’s third-hardest man, Mad Ron (Reginald D Hunter tour support) and special guests for an hour of character-comedy stand-up.
Matty Grey is heading back to Game Land one final time.
Edinburgh, are you ready? Warriors, are you ready? Created in New York and Chicago, BATSU! returns to the Fringe after a riotous, sell-out 2023.
3HAMS is produced by Charlie Traisman and Makena Miller.
In Funny Bones, a clown contemplates life, death, and other laughing matters.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe, for all the family to enjoy together.
Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people.
Multi award-winning Irish comedian Paul Marsh is back with his new show about turning 50, marriage and firefighting.
DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show featuring disco dance numbers, comedy, drag, burlesque, music and did we mention disco?! Based on a love and deeply inaccurate knowledge of the 70s…
It’s not often you get to be in the audience for a pilot TV show, let alone a live chat show witha warm-up act, special guests, commercial breaks and several references to pastco…
One barista, 10 seasons, 70 minutes! All 236 episodes of Friends retold through the eyes of Gunther, Central Perk’s “seventh Friend”.
Following a critically acclaimed, sell-out run at the Turbine Theatre, Luke Bayer gives a tour-de-force performance in this blood-stained love letter to Broadway – a solo musical…
At four, Otter was so moved by Princess Diana’s death that he wept outside the palace while his father took pictures and laughed.
A fully packed hour of entertainment.
Multi award-winning comedian Cheekykita’s one-woman, tour-de-force nonsense ride from sea to space.
In this cabaret experience, Tora Himan transforms the stage into a glittering tribute with WW Double D – What Would Dolly Do? A Dolly Parton Tribute Cabaret! Featuring sequins, r…
Winner: Best Comedy Weekly Award Adelaide Fringe 2024.
Improvised mythological madness! A changing line-up of improvisers perform scenes, games and challenges from audience suggestions: creating tragedies and epics on the spot, all wit…
YUCK are back with their sell-out show.
CrimeLandTown is an affectionate one-man character comedy spoof of the Italian-American gangster epic.
The Comedy Rooms New Act of the Year 2022 and without doubt one of best musical acts currently on the northern comedy circuit is bringing his solo show to Edinburgh for the first t…
Piggy Time is a mixed-bill show featuring the funniest and weirdest comedy acts of the Fringe.
Nick Cassenbaum’s two-hander comedy heist, directed by Emma Jude Harris, romps through 2018 Jewish Essex.
Rob Madge has a seven-step plan to throw the perfect Disney parade, and nobody would DARE to rain on it (unless instructed to do so by the stage directions).
Two award-winning comics deal late-night craic in the mid-afternoon, a wild mix of dark, satirical stand-up and musical comedy.
Warning: Dark comedy zone! Enter at your own risk! Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping…
In 1974, Jimmy Connors was the greatest tennis player on Earth.
There’s an irony in James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show being performed in what was once an anatomy lecture theatre.
So La Flair and MissMatch’s Is This Thing On? follows flatmates Liz, a musician (Megan Keaveny) and Mary, a poet, (Ellie Campbell) through their tumultuous relationship navigatin…
Get ready to experience the extraordinary as Willy Wonka’s son, Andy Wonka, takes centre stage in Edinburgh for the world premiere of the Pure Imagination comedy magic show! This p…
Welcome to the dark side of laughter, where our comics don’t give a damn about your comfort zone.
Josh Makinda is bringing his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Australian, Kenyan-ethnicity, but NYC-based, Josh has been wowing audiences the world over with his unique bra…
Gamble is a glittering, glamorous peek into the spectacular world of online gambling.
After their sell-out sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Insane Magic are back.
Covering artists from across the pop music spectrum, Accordion Ryan will sing and play your favourite songs like you’ve never heard them before! Add in a few of his own hilarious t…
Whatever you have planned, sack it off.
A healing ceremony unlike any you’ve ever experienced brought to you by the New Age satirical guru taking social media by storm.
A hilarious, heartfelt and compelling coming-of-age homage to the 80s.
Presented initially as a lecture on the paranormal by self-confessed skeptic, Dr Ouida Burt PhD, Piskie is really about one person’s struggle with childhood trauma and the easily…
Ellis wakes up in a turbulent fever dream created by the Gods of Sapphic Desire.
The adventures of blind comedian and folk singer David Eagle: accosted by faith healers, bamboozling aggressive Australians and escaping arrest after a nocturnal accordion-based an…
America is the land of the free, home of the brave and homeland of two of the freest, bravest men to ever live: Mark Henely and Chris Warren.
Four performers mount four treadmills.
Brought to expressive life by the puppeteering skills of Andy Manjuck and Dorothy James, Bill is set to celebrate his 44th birthday by making some of the punchiest punch ever mixed…
Logic, you say? Thank you.
Half Trick Theatre company certainly knows how to entertain.
When tasked by her tech CEO fiancé to explain the four times she has cried in public since they started dating, overachieving journalist Anya Samuel can’t help but bring her A-gam…
Does the way you see someone change how you see their story? Does the way you hear someone change whether you are even willing to hear the story at all? HYPER presents a confrontin…
Therapy, a game the whole family can play.
The Good the Bad and the Irish has been performing at the Fringe for the last 14 years! We’re the original Irish comedy show with regular weekly clubs in Edinburgh and many sellout…
Medicine Woman is a Venezuelan healer, in town for one night only to conduct a shamanic healing ceremony that will change your vibe forever.
Ten years on from the play’s debut, a new production of the smash-hit comes to Roundabout, directed by Duncan Macmillan and performed by Jonny Donahoe.
In a South London police station, Candi relives her recent love affair.
If you're known for impersonating a particular public figure, it can be difficult to shake that typecasting; a fact Nerine Skinner is all too aware of.
Jeanette Peh – a highly Westernised Singaporean junior college valedictorian – decides to abandon law school to follow her dreams of studying acting in London, where she will h…
Japanese comedian NON STYLE Akira Ishida teams up with actors and performers to present a non-verbal comedy show with traditional Japanese sword fighting.
Luke Nixon and his character Jim Midge present a work in progress.
The alternative late-night Fringe experience returns.
How do we uncover our true colours in a world full of reasons to hide? A life-affirming, thought-provoking comedy about trying to blend in everywhere yet belonging nowhere, from en…
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
A trawl through the bemused and bewildered mind of a middle-aged teenager coming to terms with aging, technology and reading glasses.
To say this is the funniest RomCom I've seen about Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis might be faint praise; to say this is one of the funniest shows I've seen about death is a…
We all know the fairy tales and their immortal final line: happily ever after… But that isn’t real life.
Join Australian musical comedian Darby James for his multi-award-winning cabaret about the process of sperm donation.
Award-winning Becky Fury (her real name) investigates the challenging identity that is being British-ish.
Written and performed by award-winning comedian, actor and writer Anna Morris, Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman who is caught on camera …
Award winner Jenny Hart presents her debut Edinburgh show Lezard! A chaotic and uplifting show of side splitting observational stand-up, killer songs and a kazoo solo or two.
Chris Dinwoodie is a five-time Scottish magic champion.
Winner of eight Australian Fringe Festival awards.
‘If men are such visual creatures, why can’t they see my texts?!’ Be thrown into the intricacies of contemporary relationships with Projection.
‘Hilarious, moving, provocative.
There’s a band set up on stage, but this is no ordinary music show.
Madeleine is pretty much the worst sixteen year old you can meet.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
A stand-up split bill with a difference: It’s set in the teen-magazine sleepover dream world.
Admiration.
Sparked by a conversation with a childhood friend that unearthed a long-forgotten obsession with football, Bryony wondered why all the girls she knew stopped playing football in th…
Two figures in matching eye-popping day glo tracksuits burst into the arena.
Love at first sight is easy, letting it through the front door is a goddamn Odyssey.
Three factory farm chickens attempt to find a greater sense of purpose by engaging each other in a series of philosophical debates, games, feuds and emotional experiments while awa…
Happy boobs.
This is Temi’s show.
A routine day at a rundown bookmakers on an Edinburgh high street.
We might swing by Satchmo’s, blow out of town on aeolian pipes, hammer blow, tapping toe, jam with the Lotos-Eaters.
Join Sam, a self-confessed people-pleaser, on the battlefield as he embarks on his biggest mission yet.
He has over 150 million views on social media.
A compilation of some of the worst human beings doing comedy.
Alex doesn’t want to be a scientist anymore.
A very funny sex-positive comedy show for people with genitals and a good sense of humour.
Ever had your heart broken? Ever cried in the shower then slipped into a bath crying? Ever had your tarot read by a divorcee from Essex who says ‘babes’ a lot with a GNVQ in Le…
“Why do we keep telling the old stories?” asks the titular character of Virginia Gay’s adaptation.
Dating is hard – especially as a newly human, newly single mermaid.
Teknicolour Smoof’s alternative comedy club comes to the Edinburgh Fringe with five different comedians each day.
Woo Woo – a derogatory term used in relation to those with unconventional beliefs that are outlandishly mystical, supernatural or unscientific.
Jo led a blessed life.
Not the longest-titled show at the Fringe, but surely in the top ten, An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo, at Just the Tonic, Cave, must also rate as one of t…
Emotional, environmental, and existential crises collide in the whirlwind hour or so of the Brian Watkins-penned Weather Girl.
Boasting a dark comedic style that blends ironic misdirection and irreverent commentary into a biting one-liner format, Zetina has been described as Scotland’s answer to Anthony Je…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Doktor Kaboom! The good Doktor’s newest show fuses astonishing live science experiments, stand-up comedy, and lessons in empowerment, for an…
Are you horny for monogamy? Excited to take part in a ménage à deux? A slut for your life partner? Joseph and Laura of Two Hearts feel the same way, and they’re not afraid to s…
With rosé-tinted glasses, award-winning Flat and the Curves piece together bygone years of revelry.
Linus Karp and Joseph Martin of Awkward Productions have an innate talent for honing in on the most ludicrous point of any given situation and turn it into a non-stop laugh-a-secon…
Fans of The Play That Goes Wrong and Noises Off will love this.
As you walk into McEwan Hall to find your seat, Colin sits blindfolded mid-stage, hands gently resting on his thighs.
The Bardic Breakfasters are back for our 33rd Fringe, with a brand-new show, breakfast included! The Tempest meets 10 Things I Hate About You and High School Musical in a teen rom-…
Musical supernova Jazz Emu (Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) is back with a brand-new show, with a full live band, The Cosmique Perfectión.
Join Professors Lexi Con and Noel Edge (the Word Nerd and the Science Freak) for a thrilling voyage through the alphabet – where fascinating words inspire spectacular science! It…
Following last year’s sell-out Edinburgh run, the self-styled hardest-working beefcakes in alcohol-based infotainment are back.
A Jaffa Cake Musical by Gigglemug’s Sam Cochrane is a new musicalisation of a rather absurd scenario that on the surface seems to be an example of a corporation trying to evade p…
John-Luke Roberts does every solo comedy show he’s ever done in a row, and then goes back to the first one and does them again until the Fringe runs out.
The Billy and Tim brand is one of the most successful touring Scottish theatre shows of the modern era and now they’re back with a brand-new re-write of the original show, but this…
Think you’ve hit rock bottom, then realize you’re nowhere near? Become a life coach.
Forget Disney World! Book a ticket for a new kind of Magic Kingdom.
The music that welcomes us in is a mix of standard mediaeval fare and the morecontemporary Angel, by PinkPantheress which set the tone of what we’re about toexperience in Knight,…
A joyful, captivating comedy about love, cancer and running for a really long time.
In her debut stand-up hour actor, writer and comedian Juliet Cowan delivers a hilarious gut punch which is part teenage confessional, part middle-aged rallying cry.
Derek Mitchell identifies as Dutch.
Alight with a wholesomely chaotic energy from the start, Philippa ‘Pip’ Dawson opens with a late dash onto the stage, as the opening lights and music fade into the background.
Potty the Plant is a campy horror musical with vibrant energy, catchy tunes and a quirky storyline.
Tired of grown-ups being know-it-alls? Do you want to win prizes? Kids Always Win is a game show where the kids always win.
Take a risk. See this show.
It’s the 1930s and Betsy Bitterly is dying to be a Hollywood star.
Presented in pseudo-fairytale style, this one-woman dramatic comedy dares to expose what lies beneath the mask of the perfect mother.
Glamorous, hilarious and fiercely clever Jens Radda explodes on the Edinburgh scene with a brilliant comedy cabaret.
The dressing room set may be spooky, but the uncanny element is the actors’ supernatural embodiment of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecombe and Bob Monkhouse.
If Milton Jones is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of one-liners, then Ryan Cullen is Darth Vader.
Online comedy sensation Henry Rowley (1.
A quest that began at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, and completed a sold-out run, returns for a sequel – the popular Dungeons & Dragons podcast team lands at the Fringe with …
(Mommy’s a whore, Daddy’s a hitman).
From the company that brought us Potty The Plant, comes Fringe! The Musical, a self-aware parody of the Edinburgh Fringe from the perspective of the hopeful artists that flood into…
It’s the 10-year high school reunion.
A new solo performance by Funny Women finalist Natalie Bellingham using comedy, storytelling, movement and interaction to celebrate being human in all its banality, sprinkled with …
Any Scot has experienced that feeling where the solution to overcoming one of life's minor criss seems to be to go bouncing up a Munro somewhere in the highlands.
Sold-out run, Edinburgh Fringe 2023.
A comedy magic adventure for the whole family! The annual comedy-magic extravaganza in Happyvale takes an unexpected turn into a thrilling adventure to rescue the forest! Experienc…
The hotly anticipated debut show from an agricultural icon, likely to cause delight or distress to anyone who becomes involved with her, or her livestock.
Sam Wilson, Class 8C, is obviously the correct choice for Head Boy.
Toy Stories is a fascinating mishmash of conflicting art forms and topics.
As seen on Stamptown (Australia).
Join Mad Ron (Reginald D Hunter tour support) and Jerry Bakewell (as seen on Britain’s Got Talent) for a madcap hour of surreal game show and stand-up entertainment.
Bigger Than The Christmas Turkey is a laugh-out-loud musical hour spent inside the whimsical world of Christian Dart, you’ll hear about his birth weight, less-than-successful love …
Amelia Hamilton – Runner up: Komedia New Comedy Award 2024.
‘Hey, we’re not students anymore – who the f*ck stole my avocado?!’ A comedy about five housemates gloriously wasting their youth as they try to avoid the hell of growing up.
A funny, candid and poignant solo show about the unique and crazy relationship between Milanka and her flamboyant Serbian mother, Lela.
Invisible illnesses.
Returning to Fringe for our ninth year, smash-hit production The Improv Musical is coming back to take the Fringe by storm.
Charlotte Anne-Tilley and Mabel Thomas reveal their skills as actors in Serious Theatre from Serious People at Gilded Balloon Patter House.
Sell-out cult shows in the North East; acclaimed short films; their own web series – now Metroland debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Demi Adejuyigbe has promised big things for his debut Fringe show, Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip at Pleasance Courtyard: original songs, presentations, bits and …
What if Mary Shelly’s gothic horror classic Frankenstein was resurrected as a campy one-man musical? An interesting premise explored by LampHouse Theatre in their new show playin…
Assembly’s Gala celebrates the opening of our 2024 programme of over 190 shows.
“You will leave a wrestling fan.
A famous quote coined as part of the US 1992 election campaign, and a stark reminder that when it comes to voting intentions, the public are prone to vote with their pockets.
A fruity apocalyptic rom-com from the razor-sharp pen of Fringe First winner David Finnigan.
A year after inexplicably winning Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe, and therefore killing comedy (Sun), Lorna Rose Treen brings her sell-out debut character comedy show back to t…
In 2023, Lou Wall was the first ever lesbian* to go through a breakup.
Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman.
With nearly 1 million followers and over 400 million views online, musical comedian Anesti Danelis brings you his new comedy special.
A (mostly) true story of the meteoric rise and devastating fall of chart-topping boyband member Jake Roche, who is definitely not a “nepo baby”, a “one hit wonder”, nor “completely…
Welcome to this Tiny Little Town! Meet the mayor and the townspeople as you embark on this fun and quirky musical.
Isobel and her guitar ask modern life’s essential questions: Is there ever a right time to have a baby? Are you your therapist’s favourite client? Are polyamorous relationships as …
In the 19th century, the original stories of the Brothers Grimm were scarier, more bloodthirsty and disturbing.
Join comedian, crash mat and winner of Drag Race UK Ginger Johnson as she swaps her stilettos for safety goggles and takes a death-defying leap from the runway to the real world.
Smash-hit, one-woman show from the award-winning Det Andre Teatret is coming to Edinburgh! Nominated for Best Theatre Play by the prestigious Hedda award.
Luke Rollason is back at the Fringe with Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair, and all is right in the world.
Squidge is a debut solo show that follows Daisy (Tiggy Bayley): a begrudged teaching assistant in Lower Sydenham looking after a troubled boy at primary school.
Welcome, soldiers! How often do you think about the Greek Empire? How about the Trojan War? In this production by Fishing 4 Chips, you get to step into the famous wooden horse in B…
The most sparkly and relatable Jellyfish you will see this year, or probably any year really.
Imagine this: two books, one musical.
We heard your pleas.
Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city.
Krista lives in London.
100 years of television in one hour.
A re-discovery of self-identity.
Okay, here we go.
Alison Larkin opens her show with a truth: people cope with grief in different ways; some by drinking to excess, some by turning to drugs, others become depressed, a few will throw…
After a successful run at the Hollywood Fringe, Joanna Parson has brought their one-person show to the Edinburgh Fringe at the Gilded Balloon Patter House.
The songmeister’s back to tell us how artificial intelligence is no match for good ol’ organic stupidity, and (from experience) how actual intelligence can’t save you from being un…
Hughie Shepherd-Cross’ Gang Bang follows the events triggered by mafia boss Don Lambrini taking the wrong boat out of Sicily and ending up in Blackpool.
It’s been a couple of days and I still don’t really know what to make of this show.
It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level.
The Wee Man is your MC for a night of no-rhymes-barred showdowns as some of the best comedians at the Fringe clash in banging bouts of hip-hop wits.
TEET makes a welcome return after its 2021 debut (during the weird quiet post-Covid Fringe).
Who’s your go to? Your ride or die? Your best friend? Your mum? Not David.
Enter the flamboyant depths of a Victorian Music Hall… When Albert Baggley, the founder of The Queen’s Head, mysteriously disappears, two burlesque numbers, devastated dames, a g…
Confronted with her fear of being unlovable and forever misunderstood an overly self-aware comedian puts together the biggest show of her life.
SILENCE! The Musical is the unauthorised parody musical of The Silence of the Lambs.
Simon and Aaron are Plastic Jeezus, an award-winning, ukulele-pluckin’, deadpan comedy duo performing hilarious (and often surreal) songs and stories, in their own straight-faced w…
Only one person can save the Union now, and it’s comedic historian Ellie MacPherson! Inspired by her historical hall pass, Ellie wants your vote and she’s getting it the only way s…
Cormac wanted a funeral no one could forget: knock-knock jokes for the opening prayers, a roll call of his shags for the First Reading, his cutout of Zendaya escorted to the altar …
Witness mind-blowing sounds, beats, sketches and vocal agility performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
You know those people who tell you to aim for the moon and you’ll land on the stars? Yeah, those people are a**holes.
An over-the-top Brazilian with too much botox scrambles to raise her queer son in a backwards American culture where children get time outs instead of chancletas.
Lewis Fuller’s Ungentlemanly Conduct promises a lively evening filled with daring and flirtatious displays of magic and talent.
Baby Wants Candy’s total 2023 sell-out hip-hop hit returns! We improvise an epic musical based on a historical figure/celebrity of your choosing (Genghis Khan, Paul Hollywood, Kim …
Embark on a raw, transformative journey through one man’s battle with cancer.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Bea works three full-time jobs.
Nominee: Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer (2019).
Clothes.
The Stand 4 Arena.
Finally, a musical about gene editing technology! Two struggling genetics researchers are determined to create the world’s first super-soyabean, but a rival lab will stop at noth…
Em Hoggett brings her twist on the one-woman cabaret show to C Venue.
A one-woman show (written and starring Meg-Rose Dixon) following a diagnosis journey set at the anniversary of her surgery.
Ugly? Poor? Does your life suck ass? Or do you just think it does?! Learn how to manifest a better life by simply just thinking hard and good.
A subversive live experience developed by artists from around the globe.
Navigating a legal minefield with comedic flair, Flo and Joan’s One Man Musical is an incredibly and satisfyingly mischievous composition of character and musical comedy.
Vera Ballero is an ambitious journalist from Paris, and the famous host of The Shivering Truth, a news programme from Berlin that is intensely focused on global tragedies.
Hailed by the company as ‘loud, obnoxious and darkly humorous’, one is left wondering what happened to those elements in You Can’t Escape an Aussie Boy.
Through everyday conversation, hilarious comedy, and music-hall style songs, we learn from four working-class women about their lives; husbands, technology and the approaching New …
WINNER ‘Take a Chance Adelaide’ Award, Adelaide Fringe 2024.
Or: what not to do when you discover one of the world’s greatest pop duos in a village hall.
Following five-star success with Miss Julie (*****, ThreeWeeks) and The Nine Lives of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (*****, CafeBabel.
Sixty minutes of hilarious fast-paced interactive science theatre for the whole family featuring real robots, AI, and laughs.
After touring the world and making a hit TV show as part of musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, Emmy-nominated actress, comedian, songwriter (and new mom) Riki Lindhome explore…
New York Comedian/Moth StorySLAM Champion Brooke weaves award-winning storytelling, poetic narrative, wry comedy to fashion a uniquely styled, kaleidoscopic identity exploration an…
Sheridan is having a bad day.
Murder? Mystery? Toilets?! Slash is a new black comedy whodunnit set in the toilets at a school reunion.
Blind Summit – makers of Fringe hits The Table and Citizen Puppet – pull back the covers on puppet sexuality in contemporary Britain.
Our circus is one big family.
If your idea of entertainment is brutal violence, the rattle of hi-falutin’ Jacobean verse, pervy sex and lots and lots of blood, then this is the show for you.
A darkly comic one-woman show created by writer-performer and cancer survivor, Valery Reva.
Embark on a confessional voyage through love, sex, and dating with this no-holds-barred one-woman show with bite, that blends stand-up, poetry, storytelling and physical comedy.
Threepenny Collective’s Corpse Flower at C Venues Aquila is a weird piece, though not in a negative sense, but in its amalgamation of multiple elements and curious happenings tha…
Jake and Liv deserve the world.
Jamie Denbo, writer/producer (Grey’s Anatomy), presents her alter ego Beverly (meddling mother to all) as she takes audiences on a comedic rollercoaster ride through her golden yea…
New stand-up/musical hour from Mark Black.
After a sell-out sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Insane Magic are back even bigger and even more Insane! Witness some of the most incredible acts of magic from ‘three of th…
Emmy-nominated actress, Naomi Grossman made a name for herself as Pepper on American Horror Story, the fan-favourite and first crossover character.
These Barbies are fun! As you walk in, you'll notice a podium featuring the bottom half of a mannequin.
We come up with a title, they turn it into a one-hour musical — this is the promise the cast of Baby Wants Candy makes every time they get on stage and, boy, do they deliver.
Jamie Syke’s eloquent drama is a marvellous leap into the pernicious ends of the incel subculture as it plumbs the depths of the grimy forum world with fresh eyes.
The Fringe’s longest running improvised comedy group returns to its home at Bedlam Theatre for it’s 35th year! Performing (almost) every night of the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe…
Agent Blonde, Jane Blonde, has to save the world from an evil, criminal genius.
Get ready to meet a version of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci like never before in Pop Off, Michelangelo! Travel back to Renaissance Florence, where the two young artists are b…
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard.
Doctor Who is 60.
He’s hungry.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
Fraser Brown and Dee Allum have thrown together a last-minute stand-up shown for an unanticipated one-night stand.
A wild and chaotic alternative extravaganza fresh from Amsterdam’s theatres, featuring a dazzling parade of hilariously smart, silly and sexy international variety acts.
Disney fan? Massive raging queer? Then Happily Ever Poofter is for you! The legendary smash-hit parody musical is back! Join Prince Henry – the only gay in the Kingdom – on his…
At our pop-up you will be greeted and waited upon by rude waiters who in return are expecting you to give it full Karen.
Beer drinking! Bavarian traditions! Learn about Oktoberfest rituals and how to sing the famous Ein Prosit song! Welcome to this funky Bavarian show performed by Vroni Holzmann, acc…
Glory dreams of singing at the world’s most prestigious festival, the only thing standing her way is a mysterious pyramid.
Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds.
Rozarina Larsen presents: White Fishing – a work-in-progress comedy about finding your authenticity.
After a sold-out run at the 2022 Fringe, a historic performance at The London Palladium, a game-changing set on Friday Night Live, and a triumphant season at the Melbourne Comedy F…
Winner of four Fringe Awards in 2022 An overzealous idiot performs all of Greek mythology in order to save his Hellenic homeland from economic ruin.
An Afternoon with Anton Du Beke and Friends, and what an afternoon; Du Beke gives a hilarious and dazzling show filled with humour, dance and song.
Prepare for an extraordinary show as Haus of Gallus combines impeccable journalism with cutting-edge production techniques.
Late-night, done right.
Four loudmouth lords vow to study for three years to win fame for denying their desires.
A Teacher’s Lament is not the revolutionary political statement that we would expect a show of this nature to be.
Scotland’s silliest surgeon, Dr Bonk, presents the Macarbaret: an evening of drag, burlesque, music, comedy and medical mayhem, starring the not-so-good doctor and an all-sorts ass…
Mark Watson performs in, and curates, a day of unusual old-school Fringe activities. Full listings at ImpatientProductionsUK.com from June 1st.
For nearly two decades, B Dolan toured the world as a rapper and spoken word performer.
Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds.
Disney fan? Massive raging queer? Then Happily Ever Poofter is for you! The legendary smash-hit parody musical is back! Join Prince Henry – the only gay in the Kingdom – on his…
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Alice can’t find herself but she is certain she wants to help.
Have you ever been riding a homosapien and asked (internally): ‘OMG am I squashing this person like a double decker bus’? Or stumbled mentally upon ‘Please lord, let me have shaved…
A musical reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s beloved story, The Canterville Ghost: The Musical features an original score and soundtrack.
Join our budding protagonist Pinocchio as he learns some hard lessons about what it takes to be a real boy.
‘You don’t know what to be, or not to be’ – Shakespeare’s best loved clown, Bottom, is reimagined in Fresh Life Theatre’s one-person show.
Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela? is a two-person show where the second person changes each night.
Steelworks A Cappella group presents a murder mystery, Vocal Vengeance, which is like an musical version of Cluedo.
One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans.
Steve Jackson – ‘guts and sincerity’ **** (Scotsman) – is returning to Surgeon’s Hall with a new show.
Two of the comedy circuit’s loveliest boys, Joseph Parsons (‘one to watch’ (Times), shortlisted for BBC New Comedy Award) and Joseph Emslie (Runner Up Leicester Mercury Comedian 20…
Where would school theatre be without A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night? The latter is certainly a popular Shakespeare play for drama educators, with its saga of shipwr…
Hole by Drew Gill.
When our young hopefuls enter the villa looking for love, they are faced with a whirlwind journey of romance.
What’s the point? Don’t apply logic.
Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful.
What songs would soundtrack your disaster movie? Come and join Birmingham University’s A Cappella Groups as we debate; do catastrophes need intense action soundtracks? Can we rea…
A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
If your walls could talk, what would they say? This solo show dives into the history of an immigrant family, following their decision to move into a new house in the hope to mend t…
You’re invited to a private meeting of The Leading Lady Club! At this meeting, the women are sharing their experiences with dating apps, heartbreak, self-defense, workplace interac…
The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring.
Have you ever wondered what your life would look like without the memory of the person who changed the way you see the world? In the depths of heartbreak, Gina takes a pill that sh…
Princess Plum is about to get kidnapped.
Impeccably written theatre with a biting comedic edge; SLT is an intimate hour of storytelling from your most charming, albeit dysfunctional, friend.
A true story.
One of Scotland’s funniest and most bawdy stand-ups, whose appearance at last year’s Fringe provoked much laughter and uproar.
It’s 1930 – silent movies are out and talkies are in! The once-successful film producer turned theatre impresario, Mr Scruples, has been given the gruelling task of bringing op…
St Andrews University’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society is in sparkling form with their presentation of this little known show.
BattleActs! is an award-winning, five-star, late-night improvised comedy show that has been tickling Fringe audiences’ funny bones for more than a decade! Featuring an all-star cas…
Mimic, singer and dancer Sindy Fling literally unwraps the divas of pop – from Monroe to Madonna via Dolly Parton.
‘I think something’s happening to me.
That most middle class of events, the dinner party, can be a night of stimulating conversation, wonderful company and dramatic revelation.
Making it in the business world is tough – even more so when you’re a woman.
Good and Gaslit.
It’s 1066 as you’ve never seen it before! Following the death of popular King of England Edward the Confessor, Harold Godwinson takes the throne.
From a troublesome priest to a mystery guest and a very, very late hearse, expect family fallouts, secret affairs and lots of chaos.
A father approaching his 60th birthday learns to sing and dance for the first time, in a desperate attempt to create a hit single that will make enough money for his son to finally…
The first Cantonese show at this festival is coming! 2011’s funniest person in HK, Tim’s Instagram has 50k+ followers.
Following a sell-out 2022 run at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, acclaimed chanteuse Christine Bovill conjures Kiki de Montparnasse, the celebrated model and painter, as she relives her glory …
A ridiculous interactive combination of musical comedy, ventriloquism and fingering.
If you like it you really shouldn’t put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce.
A comedy told by mad people, for mad people.
Ho ho ho ho! Come celebrate that special time of the year with Santa (Ray Badran) and his Elf (Josh Glanc).
His father died at 45.
An unscrupulous landlord lets the same flat out to two different men: Cox who is out at work all day, and Box who is out at work all night.
An NHS staff room.
Join Fiona Walker on her journey as she navigates the cutthroat corporate world beyond university.
A new original jazz musical, set in 1970s Las Vegas.
Character comedy sketch duo Mudfish host their friends in this wild show featuring their favourite sketch, stand-up and short films.
Have you ever felt threatened when someone shows you their engagement ring? Have you ever been to a wedding and thought, ‘these people should NOT be getting married?!’ Me too, exce…
Brooklyn comedians Nate and Ed vent their obsession with early 2010s masculine archetypes (but also some other stuff).
Catherine McCafferty (Crush on Hulu) and Ellory Smith (3x Emmy Nominated) will perform at Edinburgh’s Free Fringe crafting two separate, equally bizarre, half hours of comedy.
Under the Mirrie Dancers is an exploration of grief and the complex nature of growing up in a rural setting.
WIP show from multi award-winning comedian and CEO of the Greeters Guild, Troy Hawke.
A half-live, half-virtual interracial lesbian love story between a white European and a black former refugee.
Kayvan Khazaee, Adrian Hanlon and a special guest will entertain you for an hour of stand up comedy.
You have been selected for re-education in a post-glitch world.
5 monologues.
What’s a woman looking for love to do in the 21st century? Hi, I’m Zoë.
Lizzy Lenco is not right in the head and has the MRI to prove it.
Julian Clary chats about his career and life with our host, Christopher Biggins.
You have been selected for re-education in a post-glitch world.
Our new young conductor is nearly as old as the orchestra.
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Join The HandleBards for their cycle-powered, four-hander, high-octane version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy.
Our fifth year! Back with top Black international comedy acts, prize games, cabaret and giving a token straight white male comic a chance they rarely get.
Approaching her 30th birthday, after ten years of failed romances, Laura meets with the six ghosts who have broken her heart to exorcise them for good.
Jenny Ryan – better known as the dream-crushing brainbox The Vixen on the hit ITV quiz The Chase – breaks away from teatime telly and invites you to an evening of song, storyte…
Ashley Manning – ‘Playfully bleak’ (Scotsman) – is an independent, sexually empowered, modern woman.
Michael and Hilary Whitehall have escaped the antics of their son Jack and are bringing their hit podcast The Wittering Whitehalls live to The Prestonfield on Saturday 19th August.
Flat Cap and Whippet are back to save summer! If there’s a crisis, there’s only one team to call.
An ageing film producer plans to resurrect his past cinematic successes by revitalising the Carry On franchise with a brand-new film.
Hiya! It’s me, Gary, and I’ve listened to the fans who said, ‘Gary, you’re amazin’, dae a chat show!’ Sooo.
You’ve been specially selected to join the journey of re-civilisation where we can escape the multi-torture of earth and join together in a new imagining of how life may be in our …
A kids party.
Stumbling upon old photos of the door, Neil Frost unravels the past.
Want to Fika? The end is nigh darlings, and The Lady is ready to play.
In 2009, from his derelict flat in South Wales, Ignacio scored tickets to see his favourite band, Nine Inch Nails, in Los Angeles.
Freak folk comedy to fulfil your heroic destiny.
Actress, dancer, singer, rebel.
His secret to happiness and felicity.
Vibe Shift is a late-night alternative comedy night.
Holy-moly! Up-and-coming Glaswegian comedian Stuart Nixon brings you an hour of fun storytelling. He was on the telly!
An impossible variety show created by John-Luke Roberts.
When I saw the playbill for Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have, I couldn’t get my hands on tickets fast enough.
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles.
Returning after two sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, global sensation Jazz Emu is back with his virtuoso musical spectacular.
Fresh off his critically acclaimed 2022 Edinburgh Fringe show, Spanking the Monkey: The Etymology of Onanistic Euphemisms (**** (Scotsman)), Professor Richard Fondler returns to th…
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl…
Sam Hurst leaps onto the stage in a black sequin suit and skull-covered tie ensemble that screams “entertainer”.
Abby Vicky-Russell presents her ‘masterclass in character comedy’ **** (LostInTheatreland.
Bryony’s done with clowning.
Stuart Laws (‘A one-man episode of Arrested Development’ (Fest)) and Matt Sandstorm (unreviewed) are a new two-man comedy duo.
Pub Choir is the low-effort, high-return show of your dreams! Led by the living sunbeam Astrid Jorgensen, become the music legend you’ve always dreamed of, even if your voice is ap…
Follow Bug the dog on a surreal journey of music, dance, hypnotism and experimental visual effects.
Olivia aka Big O is delighted to present her second hour of comedy.
Ever been ghosted by a Gemini? Burned by a boy with a moustache? Then this is for you, baby.
Experience a unique and occasionally surreal evening of laughter from Ireland’s favourite internet comedians Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann, bringing their jokes, sketches and …
Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro…
Two Gaulier-trained clowns, Chase Brantley and Nicholas Hemerling, burst out for a night of charming yet meaningless hilarity.
Simon Hall started performing comedy in 2020, yeah, that 2020! Since then, performing has not got any easier and life has continually tried to block his progress.
All new and all Jew.
When Death calls for Liv, she doesn’t expect her to be such a bitch. Call Me Suicidal is an exploration into the inconvenience of being alive.
What if, for 40 minutes, we stop focusing on the humans that go places, and bring our attention to the place itself? The location, a bench, inside a park, inside a borough, inside …
Plunge into the strange world and grotesque characters of self-help culture, augmented with clown-esque physicality and hectic tech.
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
Puppets.
Warning: Chappelle’s opener Ashley Barnhill takes you to the dark side with Skullduggery Scamps! ‘She is the most diabolical b*tch I’ve ever seen’ (Dave Chappelle).
Shing-a-ling what a creepy thing to be happening! The much-loved musical comedy returns in a fast-paced, physical production.
Big Smoke Comedy is stand-up comedy with a fully improvised finale and the only show of its kind.
Part theatre, part stand-up, part PowerPoint Presentation.
One of Britain’s emerging, truly talented comedians, a multi award-winning stand-up who spent recent months touring with sell-out shows in Australia and New Zealand.
Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat…
Sharp, silly and sublime solo character comedy from Luke Manning, formerly one half of veteran Fringe sketch duo, In Cahoots, and a writer-performer for BBC Radio 4’s Sketchtopia a…
Character comedian and stand-up Rhiannon Shaw (‘a cunning comic mind’ (Chortle.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can't See Our Noses may be in the running for the Fringe’s wackiest title and the show itself is an equally pl…
You are on stage, giving a lecture about neuroscience.
Join performance poet Robert Garnham for his new show, Bouncer.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
The thought of invisibility, and the advantages it could bring to someone, has captured the imagination of millions since HG Wells’ classic story was first published.
Meet Old Adam: he’s been in every Gilbert and Sullivan show, but has never quite made it to a lead role.
Join self-proclaimed theatre “impresario’” Israel Hands as he brings his own unique touch to his latest production, A Life Less Lived, starring the hapless Richard Bridgerton.
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote presents a new one-man show: a hilarious and moving exploration of the enduring appeal of murder myster…
Three Sisters and Them takes Chekhov’s play into the fractured world of today.
Three women.
Pressure Cooker: The kettle boils, the lights come up, and we find ourselves watching four sixth-year med students treating a patient.
My Life Online is an incredibly well performed piece of modern opera, with an unfortunately lacklustre story.
Where are you from? The age-old question that mixed-raced people just love to answer.
Alan Bennett reminisces about his life.
A reconstructed fairy tale about Clover, a castle worker who is mistaken for the princess and kidnapped by a sorcerer.
A classic story for a modern age, Les Millénniables is a self-aware and uniting musical, because it satirizes the generational divide, and understands its own ridiculous nature.
Comedian and crisp connoisseur Adam Evans presents The Crisp Review: Live, nominated for Best Theatre and Best Newcomer at the Greater Manchester Fringe 2022! The show documents th…
Everyone’s getting married and having babies and Catherine’s got a thesis and a hangover.
Hutch is a hilarious contemporary comedy examining the injustices and absurdities of renting in reduced circumstances.
Where Friends meets Pitch Perfect! The Bristol Suspensions tell a story of friendship and scandal using chart-topping hits, familiar characters, and funky choreography… not to me…
What happens when you love your life and want to be dead? Join Sadia Gordon with her Fringe debut dark comedy.
Join us for a Wilde ride in this classic farce.
How come this Northern reprobate lives in a beautiful villa in the Cote D’Azur? And so we hear the tale of how an “on-the-spectrum” drifter in Paris starts throwing himself into th…
Join Professor Simon Rees for this family-friendly, interactive show exploring the creative and imaginative world of science.
This firecracker of a comedy explores the relationships between four young women embarking on a disastrous camping trip.
Described as a ‘wildly enjoyable ride’ (Cherwell.
In the Old West, three men converge in a saloon to drink and share violent tales.
It’s Halloween night, but everyone is dropping their masks.
Mark Twain was a comic genius, the greatest American humorist of the 19th century, and (in literary terms) of all time.
Tom and Isaac are two mice who have lived inside a cuckoo clock their entire lives.
London, 18th century.
Catfish The Cabaret is an alternative parody of Catfish: The TV Show.
If you were under attack by a rampaging rhino, trapped upside down in a wheelie bin full of water, or under attack by an unidentified flying cutlery item (UFCI), could you survive?…
The premise of Attachment: The Leech Show is very simple: it’s a play devised and performed for the sole benefit of impressing a single specific audience member; a prominent thea…
Becoming Chavela is an award-winning cabaret performance of the life and music of legendary queer Mexican singer Chavela Vargas.
Ordinary Days is the captivating story of what happens when frazzled and uptight student Deb loses the notebook that contains all her notes for her thesis somewhere on the streets …
We are women.
A hilarious and poignant comedy about a girl obsessed with The Eurovision Song Contest.
You’ve been trying to work on your coolness.
David Harmer and Ray Globe, the irrepressible Glummer Twins, are back with an irreverent trawl through the eight decades that made them what they are today.
Mirandolina, the captivating landlady of an inn, is wooed by a penniless marquess, a wealthy count and her besotted servant.
Would you rather watch, or be watched? Julia is hosting a dinner party.
Join Sam, a chronically online twentysomething, at the airport in Terminal, directed by Jett Fink and starring Samantha Vita.
“Who just sits and waits?” Nate and Quinn take residence in an abandoned warehouse to await details of their next job, just a phone and each other for company, wiling away the time…
If you’ve been handed a flyer for Watch List in the street, you might expect what’s written on it –a show about an insecure police officer on a journey to clean up the street…
The musical history lesson that no one asked for but everyone needs! A Play, A Pie and A Pint shares the true(ish) story of our nation: its past, present and future, its triumphs a…
Meet Livvie, a spoilt influencer-podcaster who, after inviting her seemingly nice (and potentially trendy!) new neighbours round for a drink, finds herself embroiled in a supernatu…
Straight out of college, antsy-yet-determined comedian Caitlin Jones navigates the audience on a tell-all nostalgia trip – the mishaps of teenage life, queer romance and self dis…
Ever wondered what would happen when Girl meets Ghoul? Aubury has the worst job in the underworld – training ghosts.
Beloved comic and kids entertainer Nik Coppin brings his new show to the Fringe full of jokes, silliness, his own drawn cartoons, competitions based around Disney and superheroes, …
Come see a humorous solo with a TEDtalk-meets-Sesame-Street vibe about end of life planning, starring ‘a hilarious puppet sidekick and wholesome audience interplay’ (FringeBiscuit.
Tending is the first play to use verbatim theatre to reveal the inner lives of nurses working in the NHS today.
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
The Burden of Truth.
From the ‘unhinged’ (EdFringeReview.
A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker.
The Burton Brothers are Australia’s best sibling comedy duo! Hailing all the way from Melbourne, the Burton Brothers are real life brothers and sketch comedians.
Intergalactic Man of Mystery, Basil Bottler makes his Edinburgh debut in this one-off hour of jokes, songs, poems and dicking about.
We regret to inform you that Dave is back.
The Only Punk Rocker in the Village is set in North Clare in the late 1970s, where a teenager’s discovery of punk rock turns his life upside down – causing consternation, shock a…
Sex cults with fake feminism, pretend shamans, Burning Man, Lower East Side “nightclub photographers” and Tinder f*ck boys all make an appearance in this educational and hilari…
Losing The Plot is a new queer jukebox musical comedy, jam-packed with top hits from the 70s and 80s, Originally performed in Manchester and has now come to the Fringe this year.
Comedic and twisted love letter to my younger 20 year old self about all the men who have traumatized and destroyed my self esteem.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
Mary is dead.
A cappella sensation Semi-Toned are back for their ninth run at the Fringe.
‘The fact that I’m sitting here as a real life vicar actually blows my mind.
A young English doctor rushes an elderly Scottish lady onto a lift, taking her to surgery many floors below.
Palindrome is Cambridge University Musical Theatres Society’s latest Edinburgh Fringe offering.
All About Eve? More like, Everyone’s Worried About Eve! The new sitcom! It’s Eve‘s birthday but for some reason this year feels different and Eve doesn’t quite know why.
Genre-bending voyage for every inquisitive soul and smart alec; for the adventurous, the yarn spinners.
Searching for escape from her mind and body, an anti-heroine finds solace in a seal skin that allows her to remove herself from her responsibilities on land as a young mother.
What do Shakespeare, Beethoven and Jerry Lee Lewis have in common? Edinburgh-based musician/songwriter Richard Lewis unites all three, along with many other diverse musicians, in a…
A park bench can hold a lifetime of memories, and for Arthur Robinson, one bench does.
‘Alexa, Google how to delete my digital footprint.
What’s the worst thing about cancer? The intrusive medical stuff or the emotional rollercoaster that it sends you on? Join Patient as she navigates sex, friendship and life like …
It is March 2020 and the public is demanding action against the coronavirus.
Seasoned stand-up comedian, actor and improviser Braydon Lynch (Just For Laughs Toronto, Cowbell Comedy) takes you on a wild journey through the trials and tribulations of growing …
It’s rapid-fire-alternative-mixed-bill night The Paddock! An assault on the senses with a colourful, eclectic showcase of some of the most innovative comedians at this year’s fes…
Toxicity.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
Toxicity.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Join award-winning queer cabaret icon Aidan Sadler as they take you on a journey to the end of the world! Nothing is safe from ridicule, so be led on an exploration of normalising …
Small town Scotland, September 2014.
Marny’s latest alter ego, Fancy Rat, is an aspiring human being.
Life been hard lately? Channel this: You can do anything!! Life coach Lex will manifest your deepest wishes, even those you didn’t know you had! Be pitched into radical self-acce…
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
Crime and punishment with jelly beans.
Harvey Nichols hosts a fantastic line-up of comedy and cabaret taking place Sunday evenings in August, featuring a line-up of the best acts performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fri…
‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you.
Think it’s a solo stand-up show? Think again.
Come and enjoy this surreal adventure where we might learn some things (?!) and discover who is Blue Peter.
Would you like to live forever? From the wild mind behind Fool’s Moon comes an hour-long quest for eternal youth.
HOWDY! After a year of sell-out London shows the lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show celebrates with a four-night Fringe run, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew of outla…
Brooke Finegold is masterful in her hour of live poetry, spoken word and stand up comedy.
Conversational improvisation and carefully crafted comedic bits are intertwined in this mic-bump style, stand-up collaboration between Kyle Bedder and Emerson Young.
A dark visual story from an unknown dimension far away, by the thing called Oddo.
Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev…
Phil Kay’s Funny Walks – the droll stroll.
Tomato soup.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours.
Become proficient in the principles of improvisation as you apply them to leadership development milestones, personal growth, creative business strategies, and unparalleled communi…
Music, games and colourful clowns collide! After touring across several elementary schools and festivals in Chicago, Bubblegum Gumdrop and her best friend, Babblebum Boopbop, have …
This musical, comedy, play, gameshow, and sketch show is a rollercoaster ride through Bailey’s world, where scandal, secrets, and absolute scumminess reign supreme.
Observational stand-up comedy and original hip-hop music.
This is RODEO! After a year of sell-out London shows the lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show celebrates with a four-night Fringe run, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew …
The country’s best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated.
The BAFTA-nominated comedian, The Mash Report (BBC2) star, Live at the Apollo (BBC1) star and viral sensation, presents a work-in-progress hour of her signature blend of stand-up a…
Get ready for mischief with this campatious event fuelled by quality wine, low tone, a scrumptious pairing and a big fat singalong.
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
Experience a full-on comedy attack of the senses as Frank brings his unrelenting mix of dark humour and extreme renditions back to the festival, in his new home within the vaults o…
Stephen Sondheim’s hilarious musical romp tells the bawdy story of a slave and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
It’s hard to imagine that any show called, in full, A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me could be weirder or more fun than it sounds.
Residents of Bristleburg, USA: Meet at the bus to begin our exploratory Fringe Festival tour.
Seamas Carey (‘the comic causing uproar in Cornwall’ (Guardian)) makes his Scottish debut with the controversial, hilarious and provocative comedy show Help! I Think I’m A Nation…
Join Bristol’s biggest* (*read: only) satirical tarot card reader, down-to-earth Psychic Beverley, played, written and created by Anna Frances Hamilton.
An unpredictable comedy showcase of the Fringe’s best alternative and experimental comedians.
The online guide to musical comedy returns with its daily showcase of the best acts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023.
The Steamie is a comedy-drama stage play, written by Tony Roper.
How do you summarise a whole life? Is it in the knick knacks and curios we collect? Do the objects we surround ourselves with truly represent who we are inside? And even if you lov…
It’s Edinburgh in the 1980s.
Asian Arts Award 2014 - Best Production (for Brush); ***** (ThreeWeeks for The Tiniest Frog Prince in the World, 2016.
Fan of a pub quiz? Test your knowledge under time pressure with this exciting, entertaining and at times farcical format, that’s already a hit at the prestigious Gleneagles Townhou…
Bringing alive the sights and sounds of the street, this darkly comic new play follows a young insomniac as he journeys through the bright lights of the city at night.
While out walking with her sarcastic cat Igor, 12-year-old Elsa notices a tiny hole in the middle of the street that is sucking in air.
En garde! Can fierce competitors also be friends? Featuring on-stage fencing and verbal repartee, this funny, fast-paced, touching play explores the lives of two teenage girls, as …
Two Russian artists in exile reveal the cruelty of Soviet life with a good dose of dark humour.
‘Two cousins unalike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene…’ In 1596, courtship is complicated.
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
Voloz Collective’s production of The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much is a masterclass in physical theatre.
Preaching the word to thousands in football stadiums and evangelising undercover in China, amidst 30 years of door-knocking, and all the while the sound of sexuality was knocking l…
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
A crucible in which we will forge comedy’s golden future and literal good gig, back for our 12th Fringe with yet more high-end foolishness, Permitted Heckles and a ludicrous, bount…
Is this enough? ‘A fascinating, poignant and extremely entertaining study in deadpan tragicomedy’ (ExeuntMagazine.com). ‘Unlike anything else on the Fringe’ (TheReviewsHub.com).
“One drink.
Vile, vulgar and scabrous, there is an indefatigable and irrepressible sense of humour that accompanies the Glaswegian working class and their spirit.
Theatre Haddangse has returned with Wait!, a heartwarming children’s play about a girl (Bada) creating a vibrant adventure of her own while she yearns for her fisherman dad to retu…
If there’s one thing that makes a hard worker, it’s desperation.
Set 28 years in the future, Kingdom is a comedy which imagines a dystopia where Scotland has become independent but subsequently divided, women have finally risen up against years …
Fun, silly, raucous… absurd! Join magician host Ava Beaux and magical team captains Kane and Abel, for an array of whacky games and cabaret acts.
Back for its eighth year, this chaotic institution is the only way to end your night at Edinburgh Fringe! Join high-energy hosts, Griffin and Jones, for an hour(ish) of late-night …
Come have the best night of your life singing karaoke and running into your ex at Monkey Barrel. Hosted by Fringe’s karaoke queen/alleged mezzo-soprano Olga Koch.
Notorious for their crimes, what if the likes of Charles Manson turned their “talents” towards showbiz? Hosted by Lucifer themself, this cabaret promises to thrill and entertain au…
A split-bill stand-up comedy show featuring a daily selection of the best up and coming comedians from Ireland and the UK.
Everyone put your rubbish out, tonight’s bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty! This award-winning, side-splitting, slapstick comedy circus routine takes the household w…
Back from his hit show – Drunk Magic – Osey’s back again! In Immature Magic, Luke takes you on his journey from writing for the top magicians in the world, to becoming a perfor…
In this mixed-media comedic play, two young New York City comedians pull back the curtain on the dark side of comedy.
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
Dave Bibby, ‘madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer’ (BroadwayWorld.
The funniest ride in wrestling returns to Edinburgh but it’s the end of the road for the Pub Wrestling Federation champion.
Emotional balladry, lyrical wizardry, and musical husbandry are the cornerstones of Men With Coconuts, at PBH's Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse.
Accidental enemy of Mother Teresa.
Follow Blodwen across the channel on her mission to cure her broken heart and start a new life in the city of romance.
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
Award-winning FCT return for their 42nd Fringe with their spooky, kooky production of The Addams Family.
A fun cabaret, stories and songs intertwined about the romance, or not, of travel.
A musical comedy magic show to rock your socks off! Magic, music, comedy, raw sex appeal, zero self-awareness.
Seven songs tell the story of a young woman born in independent, post-occupation Estonia and the Soviet residue that restrains feminist progress by polluting the minds of some of h…
Whether you’ve had, seen or heard of a vagina, Rosie is here to remind you that Google is not a doctor and to justify her own urinary incontinence.
Edinburgh Live’s number-one pick of the Free Fringe 2022 returns! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and unexpected …
Enjoy musical satire at its finest: celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer, performed by Australian entertainer, singer and pianist, Antony (DrH) Hubmayer.
The Grumpy Magicians present: If All Else Fails, Read the Instructions.
The Virgin Queen? I don’t think so! Lizzy I has got a son and he might just be a little bit fruity.
Lanessa Long (‘a winning energy’ (Chortle.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
Join the funalicious Alex with more than a decade of being a master magician, bringing a children’s magic show! Filled with fun, laughs and stories that entangle together in one aw…
Ruth Hunter (So You Think You’re Funny first runner-up, skin owner and Irish person) presents a new show of fun, spooky and very good stand-up comedy.
In a world of lies, big lies and total whoppers, one way is invent your own even bigger lies.
Let’s take the party into 2023 and come join our Party Queens tour with 16 of the world’s most glamorous and beautiful showgirls.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Don’t miss the latest magic and comedy show from ‘charismatic, contemporary and comedic’ ***** (Channel 44) brothers Kane and Abel.
Robert Temple is back.
Claire Woolner, LA-based absurdist comedian, blows hard on the edges of performance art and swims into surrealist clown.
Over 10 years, Chris Cook has brought magical, thought-provoking comedy shows to the Fringe.
Griffin and Jones have decided to change the world.
Bipolar Badass is a one-woman show by Mari (like calamari) Crawford about the humour behind struggling with the illness.
Get Fyred up for gym, tan, laundry, bromance, and betrayal as stand-up comedians and New Jersey girlies, Jenny Gorelick and Gabby Bryan, take on NJ’s baddest boys in this caution…
Sean Craig-Turner Not-So-New Comedian of the Year 2019 finalist.
In their last show, Hair, Shelf joked about being mistaken for teenage boys.
A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre.
Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and bu…
The harbinger of rock’n’drole returns to Edinburgh for the seventh time with his unique brand of axe-wielding wordplay and silliness.
Irreverent stand-up and sketch from an award-winning character comedian whose writing has been praised as ‘hilarious.
Residing somewhere between a conversation, a debate and group therapy with Salvador Dali, Share both transgresses and redefines normal social relationships, turning human interacti…
A split bill stand-up comedy show featuring two rising stars of the circuit.
Burnham meets Boosh.
Conforming to unrealistic beauty standards, Francesca occupies an erosive industry that triggers a plethora of problems.
Bedlam’s own alternative comedy night is back! See the most exciting acts from all over the Fringe in an old Gothic church-turned-theatre, featuring comedy, music and cabaret, with…
When these two stud muffins met for the first time, they realised they had one mission: how do we get one audience member to say this was ‘good’ comedy.
A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling.
Brianna Ahlmark saves a horse in under four hours with a gun in her mouth.
In Drunk Fringe, you will see some of the best comedy and variety acts after they’ve had one too many.
Comedians of Europe is a co-operative set up in 2020 by the best european comedians working right now.
‘Extraordinary’ (Daily Mirror).
Brilliantly weird, award-winning Fred Ferenczi bestraddles the great yawning maw of death in brand-new show, a show that’s has been awaited with huge anxiety by all fans and his la…
How do you act at work? How do you act at home? How do you act when everything goes wrong? Nine Lives is a long-form improvised comedy show exploring the different masks we all wea…
The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe.
The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe.
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the school gates? Why do people become teachers and then leave so soon? With schools being asked to become multi-academy trusts, the scho…
A legendary detective killed aboard a famous train – but who had locomotive for murder? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect return with a new hilarious interactive murd…
Wendy and Liam embark on a first date both assume is doomed for failure.
Young and Moxie is the latest magic show to hit the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
A silly solve-a-long mystery, this is for anyone who wishes their Agatha Christie murders were packed with a few more puns.
Or: How not to pull off a jewel heist! A charming yet slightly overconfident cat-burglar plans to pull off his final job – stealing a cursed ruby on the night before his wedding!…
It’s 1969 and Pope Paul VI, much to the chagrin of many holy spirits, has made an announcement that puts into question the existing canon of Catholic saints.
Okay, let’s start at the beginning.
Observational comedy joining three flight attendants from Applesby Airlines as they share with you various colourful characters from their lives.
After a sell-out run in 2022, the multi award-winning, cabaret spectacular La Clique returns, featuring the best of circus, comedy and cabaret.
The Macbeths have killed King Duncan and taken over his kingdom.
A curse causes Nathan to skip into the future whenever he falls asleep.
Cult-hit event Solve Along A Murder She Wrote comes to Edinburgh with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode, Sing a Song of Murder.
Bold, unapologetic, and certainly unique, Sad-Vents is a really terrific example of innovative theatre that invites its audience into a space which is as unsettling as it is empowe…
Beyond Borders presents their debut play Runaway, a semi-biographical story wrapped in a generous coat of unapologetic humour, exploring themes of home, belonging and finding your …
A blocked playwright with a looming deadline is haunted by the subject of her last failed show: Ernest Hemingway.
A jukebox musical of what life was like for Jim growing up in 70s Edinburgh.
The Wheel of Misfortune returns to the Fringe with new stories and new quirky tales full of funnies and frights, all presented by the Games Master.
The Fringe’s shadiest late-night strip joint is back in business.
Comedian, author, and journalist (New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent) Marc Burrows returns from the culture wars to ask ‘who am I?’ and ‘why is everything like this?’ An hour of…
EdFest award winner presents a left-wing love letter to being queer-ish, mixed race-ish and British-ish.
Anna Friend is sexy and she knows it.
A black hole is a place where gravity pulls so much that even light can’t get out.
The untold “true” story of what happened at the end of WWII.
Mark and Dave set out to prove to the world that they are adults by doing the most obvious thing: killing and eating a bear.
On a stormy night on Loch Ness, Sam is faced with an impossible decision.
Sydney actor and comedian Charlotte Grimmer uses musical comedy to unpack the intricate world of a psychology session.
Join master storyteller, Rob Redenbach, as he recounts his journey from outback Australia to working in South Africa with the bodyguard team of Nelson Mandela.
When the directors call for auditions for the actors, comedy and mayhem ensues as this young cast bring energy, talent and enthusiasm to the stage.
‘Have you ever been told that you’re too much? Too loud? Too chaotic? Too ambitious? Too Scottish? I have.
2023 sees the debut of wannabe comedian Perrin Pang, as he performs his first written stand-up comedy musical bullshit that is nowhere as good as the top comedians in the field.
There is secret connection among all of us.
Inspired by Molière’s 17th-century dark comedy, Tartuffe has been rewritten for a modern audience with a feminist twist.
Edinburgh’s favourite showgirl invites you to her boudoir in a brand-new show from ‘One of the New Queens of British Burlesque’ (Mail On Sunday), bursting with bewitching burle…
It’s Naomi Paul’s (mostly) Jewish show! From the Baltic to Birmingham, from shamash to shellfish, from Hendon and beyond.
From the maker of Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale – **** (BroadwayBaby.
In their final year, a group of friends at a boarding school in the Scottish Highlands are all waiting to be told off for their various antics.
In Declan Croghan’s tense and hilarious black comedy, Anto and Kevin find their Irish past crashing in on their new and quiet London lives.
Until Death is a solo theatre and clown show with a touch of circus, set in a hospital where time collapses and humans panic in moments of death and existence.
The young intellectual Nico is uncontrollably addicted to museums.
What happens when a songwriter invites innocent bystanders on the streets of Edinburgh to share their darkest, most embarrassing thoughts? They end up as part of his show that same…
Dickie Must Die is a dark comedy with heart, set on Halloween night.
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
As comedian Stephen Catling ambles onto stage, clad in a novelty dog head, it's apparent that we're sitting in an absurdist comedy show.
Twenty-something Audrey is struggling with her latest phobia… the local supermarket.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
The title, Dead Man’s Suitcase, doesn’t give much away and even at the end it’s a little unclear what the message of Felix Westcott’s musical is supposed to be.
Escape rooms: everyone’s favourite activity to do when you’re going to a birthday party hosted by a virgin or when your company is forcing you to go under the threat of contract te…
By Stephen Karam.
Following her return from Neverland, Wendy Darling, now grown-up, moves to Hollywood to become a writer.
ERA Productions returns to the Fringe this year with a familiar act that sees the lively quartet of Megan (Mia Taylor), Nicole (Catherine Hutchinson), Amy (Abi Price) and Olivia (M…
Sex Diaries of an Ex-Catholic is a zany new play about a woman abandoning her chastity pledge in favour of the exciting world of casual sex.
A bin man swaps steel-toed boots for stilettos to chase his dream of becoming a drag queen.
If you still chuckle at those Twilight memes making fun of Kristen Stewart’s awkward portrayal of Bella Stark, or harbour some nostalgia for the immortal (and problematic) YA ser…
Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals.
Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival.
London bachelor Monty Button-Purse spies Gracie at his friend’s New Year Ball 1922, and is determined to woo her through the flourish of his penmanship.
A newlywed, early twentysomething couple (Ruby and Nathan) return home from their traumatic honeymoon.
The best, most daring stand-up comedians from the festival showcase their skills but if they can’t make you laugh.
Ronnie Golden: Allo Keith! Remembering Barry Cryer.
Brand-new, non-verbal immersive comedy show, created by award-winning Belfast comedian and clownarchist, Paul Currie.
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
The year is 1943 and famed wit Dorothy Parker sits in her New York apartment, sifting through her works and deciding which will make it into the new anthology ‘The Portable Dorot…
The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand.
A raw and unfiltered musical comedy show, tackling difficult and often taboo subjects.
Magic for Animals is a one-woman magic show about agency, consent, and animal rights.
It’s going to be a great day.
Two Interpol agents investigate a series of international art thefts while simultaneously committing the crimes in this madcap comedy.
Whipped Up! is an interactive performance for the trickiest of audience members – babies! Whipped Up! follows an eager-to-please 50s-style diner server on their first day on the …
We’re bringing the best Irish comedians to this late-night show for some non-pre-watershed comedy.
The amazing, strange-but-true story behind the weird stuff advertised in vintage American comics.
Celebrate all things bitch and high-pitch! After winning Best Cabaret Weekly Awards in 2020 and 2021 at Adelaide Fringe, the queen of falsetto and stiletto is storming into Edinbur…
Vaudeville, comedy and cabaret are all on the menu in a five-star feast of first-rate fun.
Comedian David Callaghan brings a groundbreaking multimedia comedy play packed with heartfelt, bittersweet, and hilarious stories of love and loss.
Cornwall’s rising.
A comedy show where your little one won’t derail everything, in fact, you’ll be hoping they’ll do all the things that normally embarrass you, loudly and proudly.
Donut Dollies is a story about the women who volunteered with the Red Cross in WWII.
A personal trainer, aspiring actor and seriously hot mess, Cindy has unresolved mommy issues, childhood trauma and makes horrible choices in men.
‘What’s the worst hangover you ever had? The one that made you say ‘I’m never, ever, drinking again’.
‘When I thought of my favourite Spielberg films I’d want my life’s adventure to be like, I hoped for maybe Back to the Future or, I don’t know, ET, not Jaws.
From emerging talent Charles Edward Pipe comes an anthology of five dynamic, new, short plays.
Think guineafowl.
Los Angeles-based comedian Julian Stern (Fringe 2022’s Absolute Friendship, McSweeney’s, Maxim Magazine, Playstation) returns to Fringe with an hour of stand-up and musical comedy …
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times).
The dog’s gone! Jen plays six sinful characters who seek him.
A thrilling and hilarious new comedy featuring 1980s music, terrible dancing, hidden gold and guilty secrets.
Six strangers.
Jo March really thinks she could be the voice of her generation, or at least, a voice of a generation.
Glasgow’s collective of clowns, comedians and creatures of calamity come together to take you on their sell-out tour of pure imagination around the moon and back.
Every child goes inside their own bubble! Seen on China, Romania and Bulgaria’s Got Talent.
Warning: This play deals with a mother’s suicide among other traumatic experiences and contains heavy themes that may be disturbing for some viewers.
50 years on the planet.
This offbeat comedy follows the lives of two girls at university as they talk friendship, sex and identity, whilst forming an unlikely connection with the Jehovah’s Witnesses livin…
You know that feeling when you bump into the person you’re cheating on your partner with, just to find out he’s also cheated on you with her but she’s your couples therapist?…
Take The Bins Out is a dark comedy, telling the story of Finley Whitmore, whose congenital eye disorder wreaks havoc on his professional and personal life.
Award-winning alternative comedian Dan Lees brings forgotten album covers back to life.
Tragically weird.
Certain Death and Other Considerations is a poor execution of an interesting premise.
Accompanied by a glittering live band and fresh from two sold-out London and Cambridge runs, don’t miss the Fringe premiere of Ed, charting the story of a ginger pop sensation.
Banana is a wacky hour of outside-the-box clown comedy that makes you smile from ear to ear.
A one-woman show – with two women.
Join the BXG DXG Mark Henely in this summertime holiday celebration.
Ever been ghosted by a Gemini? Burned by a boy with a moustache? Then this is for you, baby.
An insane mixtape of silly songs, stupid sketches and crazy clowning! For over a decade the award-winning Listies have toured the world doing shows for literally gazillions of kidu…
Best weekly comedy winner (Perth Fringe 2022) makes its international debut! Anonymously write down your deepest confession and put it in the confession box.
Mina (Comedy Central, STOMP, MTV) returns with her highly acclaimed multimedia show weaving together hilarious and heartfelt stories from her New York upbringing as the daughter of…
Janitor/Manager: Inspired by the expression ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’, Sean Conrad booked a one-way flight to NYC to become a stand-up comedian and quickl…
Written and performed by Obehi Janice, Nova follows a Nigerian-American comedian navigating desire, pussy and power.
With Vladimir McTavish and friends.
Two colliding worlds: Italian commedia dell’arte and Eastern traditions with the use of magic, on the international stage.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
After his sell-out Edinburgh 2022 run with his show 100 Songs in an Hour, David Hoare (Musical Comedy Awards, Audience Favourite Prize 2021) returns with another bumper show bursti…
Once upon a time, a load of gays and their cishet best friend walk into a bookshop, looking for love.
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
Ready to peel back the layers? Join everyone’s favourite anti-hero for a delve into dysfunction, disaster and danger with an up-close and personal session.
This is a story of Chandra, a woman Tamasha troup owner who is struggling to survive the changing audience demands.
Liars & Clowns returns to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative comedians from around the festival.
A disturbing yet absurdly funny portrait of toxic masculinity.
New Show! Weekly Award Best Circus 2023 Fringe World, As seen in La Soiree, Australia’s Got Talent and iUmor.
Magic Award Adelaide Fringe 2023, 2021 and 2019.
Natalie Perlin (New York Comedy Festival Comic To Watch; New York’s Funniest Stand-Up; Carolines On Broadway Breakout Artist) stars in an uproarious evening of glamour and gallow…
Living in a box is hard.
People You Know Productions are going for a cross between Posh, and an Agatha Christie novel, except that nobody here actually wants to work out who the killer is.
Brooklyn comedians Nate and Ed vent their obsession with early 2010s masculine archetypes (but also some other stuff).
Boasting the tagline, “who hasn’t thought about killing an ex?”, Emilie Biason’s I Killed My Ex shows us about the practical difficulties involved in such an endeavor.
Vibe Shift is a late-night alternative comedy night.
Have you ever wanted to know every book ever? Well if Leo doesn’t read all the books in one night (entirely in song) the demon will burn everything.
A WIP comedy-cabaret show, tracking one woman’s life from the same night every year of her life, from childhood sleepovers to first sexual experiences and her changing relationship…
Vladiqueer is vampire, but he’s not always been proud of it.
Juggler, water-bender, and part-time deep-thinker Robin Dale presents his award-winning debut show.
‘He was a traitor boy, he killed a dictator boy.
Welcome to the world of Meat Boy, a tale of mayhem, mystery and meat.
For too long the supporting characters of Star Wars have been overshadowed by the popularity of the beloved heroes.
Watch Eleanor’s love life unfold, as she escapes the grasp of her ex-boyfriend and finds liberation in the dating game.
Long-Distance Roommates is an hour of stand-up comedy, split between up-and-coming comedians Casey Filips and Ollie West.
A call-center call girl struggling to make in-person connections, discovers intimacy and requited love with a mannequin man she rescues from drowning.
An exciting new version of Miles Tredinnick’s original 1999 show.
Sick of delivering one liners to disinterested pub-goers, Martin Bearne has broken free of the shackles of conventional comedy and is once again soaring on the wings of his first t…
The only Fringe award entirely decided by the audience.
A young man visits his dying father in the ICU and uncovers a shocking revelation: his father’s secret second family.
Hey kids and kidults, cool cats and dancing dogs, Jarred and Hobbit are back with an all-new action-packed hoopla! Guaranteed LOLs and interactive fun for the entire family (OK, ma…
Ahoy! Sail away with cabaret legend and variety artiste Ada Campe for an adventure on the high seas – and a show that puts the merry in maritime, the naughty in nautical and the …
Unseasonable, unreasonable and unsuitable for brats.
‘New York downtown legend’ (Time Out) Ruby McCollister (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Search Party) presents Tragedy, her one-woman show exploring her life-long addiction to making her lif…
Join Shropshire’s worst novelist for an evening of dipping, chipping and sipping as he dips into his oeuvre of two-page novels, chips away at life’s big questions and sips hot …
Eva Bindeman has made it to every comedy semi-final there is and absolutely no further.
Do you like musical comedy? Do you like non-musical comedy? Do you not care, as long as it’s good? Then come enjoy either the first half, the second half, or even all of this show,…
Science Magic is back and has evolved.
The planet is melting and life’s spinning out of control.
A debut show from an established act on the UK circuit.
After his execution, Walter Raleigh’s widow carried his head around in a bag for 30 years.
Singer-songwriter and self-obsessed internet addict Connor Morel fronts a live three-piece band in this original gig-theatre show that asks: are we doing the internet right? Is the…
In the Sh*t is a split-hour stand-up comedy special that fuses traditional stand-up with music and poetry.
Winner of Best Kids Show at Adelaide Fringe 2023.
The night is dark and full of laughs with Black Widows, where the boldest female comedians come to push boundaries and tackle taboo topics.
Science Magic is back and has evolved.
If Motörhead had sex with Cirque du Soleil and Dita Von Teese this is what you’d get! From the team that brought you the highly acclaimed Dirty Tattooed Circus Bastards Show –…
After a few years away from the comedy stage, the Scandinavian cult comedian Tomas Ahlbeck returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Winner: Adelaide Fringe 2023 Weekly Award – Best Comedy.
Epic scale stunts and mind-blowing magic in a spectacle that swings from edge-of-your-seat astonishment to belly laughs.
“What if you meet the right man down the line? You might change your mind!” “Why waste a good pair of ovaries?” Carmel is a lesbian with no interest in having children.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
Amy is an award-winning comedian as heard on BBC Radio 4.
Family comic theatre and circus show.
After a 2022 sell-out run, the world’s funniest alcohol experts are back in quizness with a brand-new show that serves up five discerning drinks for everyone.
Two teams.
Back for our 18th Fringe, we remain adamant that just because you’re six, you shouldn’t miss out on the festival’s best stand-ups and sketch acts! And just because you’re an adult …
Derry comedian Peter E Davidson returns for his fifth Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Meet Beanie: the love child of George Clooney and a Nespresso machine.
Matty has finally reached a level in Game Land no one else has ever reached: Boss Level.
‘I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew.
Phil Ellis.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
They say a picture can tell a thousand words, but it turns out that if it is drawn on cardboard, it can tell a thousand more.
Is anybody really listening to you? Under the cover of mid-to-late afternoon, a group meet with just one thing on their mind.
Shortlist is a two-hander written by Brian Parks, directed by Margarett Perry, performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams and Matthew Boston.
Yes, it’s a show for babies! A sensory display of colour, sound, light and movement to spark joy and ignite wonder.
Covering artists from all across the pop-music spectrum, Accordion Ryan will sing and play your favourite songs like you’ve never heard them before! Add in a few of his own hilario…
‘Who are you Jamie!?’ ‘I’m that bitch!’ Jamie is not in fact, that bitch.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Shipwrecked, you’ve washed up on a remote island inhabited only by birds and a smattering of entertainers from other doomed cruises.
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
Multiple award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Her daughter’s left for uni and singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher Angela Bra is home alone.
Long, long ago, in the Land of the Rising Sun, four Warriors used the power of laughter to capture Batsu no Akuma, the Spirit of Punishment, within a sacred gong.
After 20 years on the circuit, Alexis Dubus, easily one of the comedians of his generation, is ready to deliver the greatest 3-star comedy experience ever staged.
Holly and Brooke are hooked on each other.
Nominated: Best Kids Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023.
It’s time for a Laughterparty with students from the University of Salford! SalFUNNI is back with a brand-new line up of comedians for an hour of stand-up, sketch and shenanigans! …
Palermo is clear about his sexual experiences and reminiscences of his teenage years in Rome, where he honed the art of picking up tourists and getting laid.
Mr Vita performs highly skilled juggling and object manipulation.
Forty, single and ready to mingle; join lifelong friends Annie Sup and Angela Bra for a drag-powered musical comedy celebrating friendship and new beginnings on a virtual bar crawl…
Whisk(e)y Wars: ‘Hypnotic enough to stop time itself’ ***** (EdFringeReview.
A mad mix of characters apply to a dating show for over 35s and end up in a trash-reality nightmare! This hysterical show is guaranteed to give you the feel-good vibes.
Loudmouth Eve Ellenbogen will tell you pretty much anything, unless you ask about her dead mom.
Combining two of his great loves – Weird Al Yankovic and Harry Potter – Steve Goodie creates an all-out musical performance with some killer lyrics and accordion skills.
Joy (Jessy Morner-Ritt) is the deranged, desperate owner of a dilapidated Bed and Breakfast.
Ever wonder what it’s like to see a show… without actually seeing it? This piece plunges the audience into darkness, allowing them to step into the shoes of their hosts, VICS, …
Come and see three rising stars of Australian comedy as Kyle Dolan, Anno Gomes and Jon Walpole perform a split hour of comedy! Aussies Abroad showcases three diverse comedic styles…
Irish Comedy Invasion – We’ll be bringing together the best Irish acts, all of whom are performing their shows at the Fringe, and getting them to do their funniest club sets.
We’ve got news.
What is a ‘hilarious’ (**** (BroadwayWorld.
Quentin Crisp! Florence Jenkins! Einstein! Patricia Highsmith! William McGonagall! Through the centuries, secret Neurodivergent or Autistic people have found respect and love in th…
A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
Notorious spoilt brat, Sascha LO, presents a very silly comedy show featuring 45 minutes of massive ego, self-entitlement and gen Z feminism.
Andy Roach, Liverpool-based comedian who was shortlisted in the Musical Comedy Awards 2023, returns to Edinburgh.
Lady Clementine has until her 27th birthday to find The One.
How is anyone supposed to deal with the death of a loved one? Isaac Kean’s answer is to write a “woe is me” tragicomedy.
Club-comic Frank Lavender springs forward from the smoky concert halls of yesteryear offering modern audiences one promise; a laugh a minute or their money back.
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in the most ridiculously playful adventure comedy you’ve never had.
If there’s one 44th birthday party you want to be going to this year, it’s Bill’s.
Niamh O’Reilly is a Frigid, meaning she’s never been kissed.
Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel.
Prepare to have your Disney fantasies shattered like an ill-fitting glass slipper.
After a decade of writing jokes, Bazely is out of ideas.
Ever wondered what would happen if Alejandro Murrieta (aka Zorro) decided to become a Shakespearean actor at the Globe in London? Well, imagine if his son decided to do a show acti…
The Edinburgh late-night institution and antidote to woke comedy returns.
The Leeds Tealights bring joy and mirth to the Fringe this year in A Very Special Birthday Party.
Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe.
Sanity? Overrated! Let your inner-psycho run wild! Our line-up of audacious comedians takes on the wild world of mental health with humour, wit and raw honesty.
Two biys from Cork.
In a world where one man can be one character, Alexander Richmond dares to be twelve of them.
The Blundabus is absolutely packed for Amelia Bayler’s I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star.
A cowboy rock fantasy.
A ridiculous variety show featuring the visually absurd, the whimsically witty and the wildly beautiful.
A lot of laughs and refreshingly comfortable seating await you at Friend (The One with Gunther), playing at the Gilded Balloon at the Museum.
In what could be crowned the most uplifting show of the Fringe, The House of Life aka Ben Welch and Laurence Cole from Sheep Soup combine preaching, live music, comedy and all roun…
This is a strange one.
Multi award-winning Kiwi/Canadian/Jewish comedienne, Deb Filler, goes on a hilarious musical quest meeting ‘The Three Lennys’, even singing The Beatles in Yiddish! We’re transfixed…
A cheater’s guide to love – Jokes on marriage, divorce, therapy, death and cheating.
Multi award-winning comedian Cheekykita’s one-woman, tour-de-force nonsense ride.
Truly, Madly, Baldy is a hilarious two-hander comedy based on the brutally honest stories of people who suffer from the hair-loss condition Alopecia.
Brad’s 12-year-old daughter came home from the Halloween dance and said, ‘They only played three total Halloween songs!’ Three? Brad was incensed, so he and Steve wrote nine origin…
Comedian Ben Fallaci strips down and gets vulnerable in Shower Chair, a one-man show about stepping out of shadows and stepping into yourself.
Warning! This show contains trans joy which some bigots may find distressing.
Music is the key element that triggers Julian’s memories in The Imitator.
Join comedian Mike McAlpine on his fretful, compulsive and hilarious escapades as Elvis tribute artist Mikelvis! Mike is a well-travelled journeyman on the international tribute ci…
Fancy a cackle with the coven? Steph Aritone (Roast Battle UK finalist), Ginnia Cheng (BBC New Comedy Award shortlist) brew up The Witching Hour – a female-led compilation stand-…
Smart and Dumber is a spilt-bill of stand-up comedy performed by up-and-coming comedians Serena Smart and Lucas Jefcoate.
What happens when you mix a Franco-Irish magician with a lot of spare time and inflated sense of self? Tangled d’Illusions.
Success.
Maria DeCotis’ Emotionally Unreasonable is a mildly funny stand-up routine that breaks every so often into really sophisticated pieces of musical comedy that quickly become a tru…
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
Síomha is in her celibate era.
Welcome to paradise.
Jane is a high-school senior.
Stacey “The Legs” Clare (author of The Ethical Stripper) is back with her work-wife, Morag (Gypsy Charms), to answer all your burning questions.
Endless Sunset Oblivion tells the story of Reuben – a young songwriter attempting to combat the accelerated problems the world is facing.
It’s time.
It’s the year 1991; the Soviet Union has collapsed and everyone is ready for a new start.
In 2018, Adam Riches was The Guy Who You Meet Right After You Come Out Of A Long-Term Relationship.
The clock ticks towards zero.
Award-winning performance artist and comedian of Fringes gone by, Ben Target, welcomes us with coffee on arrival into the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall, a delightfully old-…
High on my list of must-see Fringe shows for this year’s festival, Tutu is an explosion of colour, grace, and humour.
Wagner turned up to 11! A hilarious dive into the ridiculous world of opera and life as a Valkyrie and Rheinmaiden, peppered with hits from Puccini and Verdi from Berlin’s thrill…
A compilation of some of the worst human beings doing comedy.
The Three Sisters’ very own Fringe variety show! Join us every day to see a variety of different performers showcase snippets of their Fringe shows. Hosted by Tom Harlow!
Warning: Reading this description is legally considered consent to rewire your brain! Most humans only use 10% of their brain! Who is using the other 90%?! We will teach you to reg…
Edinburgh’s gruesome past is brought to life by two actors (as seen on CBBC’s Saturday mash up) in this hilarious show for all the family.
Michael Porter is an incomparable comedy talent with an unmistakable Irish flair! ‘Fearless in ever sense of the word.
A campy variety show that mimics an overenthusiastic kick-off event for a corporate retreat for the fictional company Men-ses Period Panties.
This is Oddity Comedy: A show so funny, even the name is fun to say! We are a comedy showcase featuring the best alternative acts on the UK circuit.
First featured as a radio drama on BBC Radio 4, The Death of Molly Miller now takes to the stage with its plucky hostage comedy that addresses pertinent social issues.
Life With Oscar is Nicholas Cohen's brutally honest first person (and occasionally third person) account, detailing his own personal heroes journey from Lewisham, South-east Lo…
Four students find themselves stuck in dugsi detention – what did they do to end up here? And is there any chance of them getting on? Salma, Yasmin, Munira, and Hani each see the…
Oi Oi! Nightwatchman is a 55-minute split-bill from Kit Loyd and Ollie West.
Everyone come over to Sting’s house for a karaoke party! But when we arrive, an obstinate, grouchy and mic-hogging Sting wants all the attention for himself.
A comparative analysis of rural barn schooling and suburban alternative education in early 21st-century England. For George and the Underbelly keg boys. #ActuallyPrettyDecent
Car-Crash Magic is a debut Edinburgh Fringe show presented by JezO, winner of the Family Entertainer of the Year Competition 2022 and member of the prestigious Magic Circle.
Answering the question, “what if Avenue Q took place in a hospital?” Potty The Plant is a dark, tongue in cheek, comedic musical that subverts our expectations time and time ag…
At the tender age of thirty, I mostly associate Tony Blair with my very first childhood experiences of politics.
Do you know the story of Diana? Probably.
Dom Chambers’ unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage.
‘An excellent comedy show’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Winner: Best Kids Show 2022 – UK Kids Comedy Festival.
From SIX (Edinburgh Fringe original cast), Public (Vaults) and several perfect pictures (Instagram) Annabel Marlow makes her solo debut.
Character comedian Lorna Rose Treen has been pretending to be other people for fun since she could dress herself.
The creators of smash-hit The Man Who return with an explosive new show.
‘I felt this pressure to be sexy from the second I got tits.
Award-winning writer Izzy Tennyson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in the shadow of her previous show Brute to tell the story of two dissimilar sisters who must navigate strained r…
Oftentimes when you go to a stand-up show, a comedian will attempt or fix or comment on a problem in the world, at least by providing a series of observations that you can’t real…
The holiday meal gone wrong is a classic sitcom episode and genre of comedy, as surprise revelations and drama abound.
If you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t.
50% Bristolian.
‘Once upon a time, a little girl and a little boy were lost in the woods.
Each human being is a galaxy.
From the creators of The George Lucas Talk Show, an original play about two fugitives – a mysterious aristocrat and a paranoid junk merchant – stranded on a desolate planet, wa…
Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding.
What’s the worst lie you’ve told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth.
Winner: Directors’ Choice Award, Sydney Comedy Festival (2021).
Kokoon are a new kind of boy band, combining K-Pop with K-Comedy.
Viral sensation, maestro of musical mayhem and lord of lyrical miracles, Matt Storer presents an award-winning musical comedy concert.
Kathy Maniura is ready to be objectified – by which she means pretend to be a bunch of objects live on stage!! In her debut solo show, this award-winning character comedian bring…
Packed into a very small room on Chambers Street, Almost Adult certainly didn’t win the venue lottery, but once settled into your seat Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s protagonist Hope …
Clownfish Theatre’s Jonathon Tilley and Jess Clough-Macrae overact the premise of this kid-friendly show, to the delight of kids and grown-ups alike.
Following the success of last year’s show, comic songwriter Liz Cotton is back.
Edinburgh Newcomer Award nominee Huge Davies (Cats Does Countdown and Roast Battle), returns with his highly anticipated second show about murder.
Lucy McCormick may think she's the diva of her feral, budget cabaret of brazen filth but the real joy is taking part in the push and pull of being in an audience under her spel…
Cheap Date bring a crash landing of music, dance, theatre, film and comedy without holding back, in this visual duologue.
The Chatham House Rule is an agreement which allows those in power to share ideas with impunity: the discussion itself can be reported upon, but names are protected.
Star of Spitting Image (Britbox), Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) impressionist Luke Kempner brings his one-man British Police Drama to Edinburgh.
This delightfully friendly and dizzyingly enthusiastic show is an informative and fun hour for both kids and their parents.
Once upon a time I was the best blurb writer in the business – really, I was a wonder! But as time weighed down on me and all my afternoons began to expand and contract, I starte…
Glaswegian comedian and popular Twitch streamer Rosco McClelland enters clad in a denim biker vest and a spider’s web tattoo coning one elbow.
Rita Lynn is a one-woman show from the creative brain of Louise Marwood, a hilariously dark comedy and cautionary tale following Imogen, a spiralling addict, who is teetering over …
Enemies.
Shakespeare’s gone awol so his cast must make it up.
More stories in song from this multi award-winning Edinburgh favourite.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
Insane Magic is a thrilling new magic show that will leave you on the edge of your seats.
Everyone’s favourite sailing instructor is back, and ready to rock the boat (but only if everyone’s wearing a buoyancy aid, and comfortable getting splashed.
Live comedy with live animals.
To breed or not to breed? Award-winning writer/performer Joyful Raven wrestles with this questions in her new hit show.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
The Doktor is back! With even more science! More laughs! More Kaboom! Spin the wheel and choose what happens next.
Baby Wants Candy’s hip-hop Hamilton homage returns! Following sold-out runs in Chicago, NYC and LA.
Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies.
A deliciously Dahl-esque treat from madcap duo Fladam (Flo Poskitt and Adam Sowter), about a boy born with gunky, green fingers! Is he really rotten, or just misunderstood? Maybe t…
I’ve never laughed so much at a someone else’s shortcomings in my life.
Turns out being on telly ain’t all red carpets and glamour.
He’s hungry.
National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture.
This new Chordstruck Theatre production is a feel-good, comedy musical cram packed with hilarious original jingles, as well as a message for a better world.
As we enter the dimly-lit environs of the gorgeous Spiegeltent Palais du Variété, the scent of incense hangs in the air, music plays, and ornate lighting hangs low around the sta…
The Welsh, brown, gay, Gen-Z comedian presents her debut hour: an audacious punk musical-comedy show about the dubious ethics of artistically exploiting marginalised identities for…
Ciarán Bartlett is Belfast’s premier musical comedian, known for rapid fire caustic punchlines, filthy songs and mad stories.
Chloe Radcliffe has cheated in almost every relationship she has been in, and it’s a trend she can’t seem to kick to the curb.
A Christmas Carol meets It’s A Wonderful Life meets.
Magical, spellbinding and unashamedly camp, Tim Murray is Witches is a show unlike any other.
Spirit of the Fringe Award winner Släpstick is back.
Aussies Chad and Brad are Pleading Stupidity.
Dazzling divas.
The discussion around war - especially the two world wars - is usually a very difficult and serious subject.
Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello’s Body show is a dystopian cacophony of farce, comedy and tragedy.
Bad Teacher is a solo show by Erin Holland with contributions from other teachers that follows Holland’s character through a hectic day in the life as a drama teacher.
This is a feel good musical with banging songs, fantastic performers and countless laughs.
Dave is house band / receptionist at streaming service Stripefy, but he wants more: he dreams of going full-time on reception.
Brand new for 2023! Join magician and mind reader Tom Brace for a trip down memory lane that you simply won’t forget.
What it might be, how we can miss it and how we can find it again.
‘A funny, powerful and poignant tribute to the full dignity and humanity of women whose way of life is still often stigmatised and “othered”, 40 years on’ (Joyce McMillan, Scotsman…
‘Don’t joke about that!’ Gabby’s agent hissed down the phone.
This returning musical is an exceptionally joyful and tremendously funny look into the lives of food delivery drivers.
It’s Friday morning.
Nonbinary whirlwind returns to the Fringe.
Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto and Astrid, spent years arguing about which songs should appear on their much-anticipated fifth Die Roten Punkte album.
Sophie is at her Grandfather’s shiva where her whole family have come together to pay their respects, including her attractive second cousin.
Staged in George Square’s magical spiegeltent, YUCK puts a feminist spin on traditional circus, packing out the space with shrieks of laughter.
Halloween is still months away, but fear not, Party Ghost is here to suck you right into the deadly holiday spirit.
Winner of the 2021 Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize.
We all know that “life is not what I imagined it to be” depression.
Step, if you dare, through the portal of metamorphosis and into this curious kids quest! A quest, around the entire room! Together we scale the majestic bean-bag mountains.
This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical.
Emily’s life is falling apart.
The Blond (Emily Allan) and The Dark Haired One (Leah Hennessey) attempt to transcend the banality of identity and the terror of consciousness through cosplay, anglophilia, critica…
Sophie Santos…Is Codependent details Santos’ journey through their breakup, narrating the tale combining both comic storytelling and song, embodying conversations with their pe…
Breakup Addict depicts the journey of a woman who hits rock bottom after having two simultaneous crash-and-burn relationships with unavailable men.
Extremely famous Hollywood actress Isabel Klein showcases her jaw-dropping talent in her debut solo show.
Welcome to an hour of character comedy with ‘the most awful person at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe’ (Comedy.
This is a brilliant show.
Join comedian Holly Spillar in her muff-busting comedy on sex, pain and the brain.
How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk is a fun and interactive comedy lecture with a lot going for it.
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean skipping-church-because-you’re-too-hungover bad.
Primary Times Children’s Choice Award Winner! Musical-comedy versions of Shakespeare’s greatest works, Brave Macbeth and Juliet & Her Romeo.
'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.
Tartan Tabletop: The Neverending Quest is not your average improv show.
All Terrence wants is to “make it” as a dinosaur entertainer, land a Netflix deal, and get his ex back.
‘17 minutes.
The overall concept is a brilliant one.
One hundred brave (or not so brave) Trojan Soldiers are trapped inside the infamous giant wooden horse, plotting their escape….
Join chanteuse and sommelier Anna Lou in her wine bar as she invites you to discover the world of wine and solve the mystery of her lover’s death.
Halle-berry-lujah! Award-nominated fitness and lifestyle guru, Jesus L’Oreal (He/Hymn) is heaven scent to promote his workout video, Get the Jordan Look.
In this pathetic comedy about privilege Tom Greaves (BFI Award winner) presents a dark satire about the psychological trauma of his own “privileged” childhood.
What if Beatrice came through space and time to find her long-lost Dante? Now researching the sequel to his Inferno at the Large Hadron Collider? Dahlia Wilde – Walt Disney Writi…
The world is desperate for more one-man musical-comedy magic mind-reading shows about a break-up in your early thirties, and actor and magician Sam Lupton (Wicked, Avenue Q) is mor…
I showered before I came.
Through stories, advice and games Trip Carmichael and Dalton Goggles, two blue collar Americans, show you how to ‘Yep your way through life.
What does it mean to be a man in the 21st century? How does toxic masculinity affect those of us assigned male at birth? What’s so great about sex, and why won’t people shut up abo…
Chelsea Hart’s Damet Garm: How I Joined A Revolution is a relaxed and measured show, that is quite restrained in the anger that underwrites it.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
Money can’t buy love, but £19.
An innovative solo multimedia theatre piece from Welsh-Iranian performer Roshi Nasehi inspired by her real-life experiences of funny, surreal and intimidating racism.
Join Gary Strange in the London sewers as he encounters stories of bad sex, sad sex and clown sex.
In a world where queer characters are often two-dimensional, Cowboys And Lesbians pokes brilliant fun at romantic cliches while creating a sparklingly camp coming-of-age romcom.
If you think that opera is performed by a bunch of clowns, this is the show for you.
Hello Kitty Must Die is a musical adaptation of the Angela S.
Guffy is a guttural, allegorical tale of the state of our nation.
Have you ever felt like you didn’t have the words? Have you ever felt like you wanted to say the exact right thing, but couldn’t? Have you ever wanted to make someone stop crying a…
The stage presence and energy of this clown duo is something you have to see live.
Assembly’s Gala celebrates the opening of our 2023 programme of over 190 shows.
A vital new comedy play by Glaswegian playwright Mikael Philippos about the real struggles, judgement and most importantly, laughs, a family affected by the incarceration of a love…
Original music and sharp stand-up comedy epically combust in this hour from comedian Larry Owens.
Do you have what it takes to be a successful Latinx? Half stand-up, half Latinx grab bag of stereotypes, this fun, politically incorrect seminar will coach the audience on how to b…
Becky, whose best (and only) friend is a demon in a Ouija board, takes us to her first high-school party: filled with horror, karaoke, and awkward interactions.
This show is a love letter to unique families, queer self-discovery and devoted fathers.
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
CHOO CHOO! (Or.
The world’s favourite orphan is back, and just like you, she is, unfortunately, a grown-up.
From award-winning writer Raymond Friel, Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots) is a one-woman play with a cast of thousands! Join citizen historian and proud Shetlander Mary Fraser …
The premise of Gillian Cosgriff's show Actually, Good is both simple and elegant, revolving around celebrating life's small pleasures.
Globetrotting comedian Nick Wilty has been touring the world for over 30 years, playing festivals, comedy clubs and appearing on TV in every continent.
A Saturn Return is one’s astrological coming of age, propelling major life transformations.
30 Minute Musicals, direct from Hollywood, reports for duty with their fan favourite musical parody of quintessential homoerotic 80s film, Top Gun.
The alternative late-night Fringe experience returns.
Right here.
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
Put the fun back into funeral! Award-winning writer-performer Niamh Denyer is funeral celebrant Áine Reilly, here to teach you the art of the perfect send off.
Lena is on a mission to veganise her tinder dates.
Silver Stand-Up 2023 winner, Fringe First winner (Tonight I’m Entertaining Richard Gere) and Airbnb’s five-star ‘gem of a guest’, Cecilia Delatori brings her debut full-length musi…
Returning to the Fringe for the fifth time, Hughie Shepherd-Cross debuts his latest play, Ringer.
‘Simply Brilliant.
Leicester Comedy Festival nomination for Best Show 2023.
Scaredy’s working the late shift at the cinema.
A show about the times*.
‘In London I was a gefilte fish out of water, in Hampshire I was Moses, wandering.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by …
The world is in crisis and so is Sian Clarke.
Public looks like it could be the next big musical phenomenon to have passed through the Fringe.
Much like a dramatisation of a family game of Monopoly, Dough looks at money with a kind of argumentative helplessness.
Have you ever had an all-consuming infatuation? Have you ever lied to a crush? Have you ever betrayed your boyfriend for a woman?Junk Monkey’s Olivia Mcleod has.
This is a wickedly fun idea for a production, a retelling of 80s favourite, Die Hard, as a pantomime/musical parody.
For his entire life, performer Mark Vigeant did everything he possibly could to make everyone around him happy.
Imagine two lonely children who have no one to talk to until the Winds of Fate make them next-door neighbours.
Fresh-faced, Midwestern actress Lisa Verlo came to Hollywood looking for fame but found more action on casting couches than onstage.
Are you always what you were? New York Comedian and Moth StorySLAM champion’s debut hour blends award-winning storytelling and comedic tales examining identity.
Italian actress and writer, Greta Zampi has created an incredibly engaging show in Temporarily Yours that is thought-provoking and emotional theatre at its best.
Four TikTok comedy stars try their hand at stand up comedy this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, hosted by Coco Sarel and stars Steven Mckell, Ayamé Ponder and Henry Rowley.
Cam Gavinski: Bonheur has been the strangest thing I’ve seen so far at the Fringe.
Deal or No Deal meets Doctor Faustus.
Who needs a pair of heels, a coconut, and a doorbell…? The answer: a foley artist.
For Charly, every day is the same.
Do we really tell the truth about war on social media? What are the limits one puts on another’s suffering? Who has permission to complain, and who deserves to feel guilt? A new,…
One-up your Fringe game this festival by adding mind-blowing magic, a grumpy unicorn and 10 XP! Take a chance, believe in the magic (and yourself)! Magic Gareth returns with this m…
Avital Ash is one of the most genuine comedians on the Fringe scene.
Kieran Hurley's Adults was like being taken for a 1 hour and 20 minute gripping joyride, which consisted of belly laughs and thrills throughout.
This must be one of the most genuine selections of heartfelt writing to enjoy this festival.
He’s back! After two years of forced solitary accordion squeezing at home, and to the huge relief of his neighbours, Sandy returns to the A Club once again, upgraded, biceps bulgin…
Farting at a funeral.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Join Glasgow’s very own GlasVegas Showgirl Roxy Stardust, fresh from her explosive tour of the Isle of Mingulay, as she presents an hour of burlesque performance featuring a host…
This groundbreaking piece of theatre is based on an ADHD support group.
A fiercely funny, no-holds-barred comedy about modern life living with Parkinson’s.
Join your favourite galactic gal pals Figs in Wigs for the cosmic game show for astrology lovers, bingo wingers and their sceptic friends.
The story of an American teenager grappling with her dad’s heroin overdose.
Cora is 23, self-obsessed, a compulsive liar* (*harmless bullshitter), and an absolute hot mess.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Maybe the Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Worry not! Dr King of More is here to h…
Self-described musical genius James Love and his sequin-clad showgirl wife Stephanie have been married for 12 years.
Practically Perfect! takes a light-hearted and affectionate look at the many aspects of Julie Andrews’ career and personal life, exploring the contrast between the public face of…
Ancient Greece.
A Londoner travels to America finding himself amongst incels, or, men who hate women.
That’s A Bit of Sheer Luck! – A Sherlock Holmes Parody.
David Harmer and Ray Globe, the irrepressible Glummer Twins, are back with an irreverent trawl through the eight decades that made them what they are today: old.
One night.
‘Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Halle-berry-lujah! Your sassy, dyslexic King of the shoes is heaven scent in a cloud of Febreze to tell you how he came to be the fabulous influencer that he is whilst setting the …
One of Neil Simon’s best-loved comedies.
A washed-up television personality lives out a Dickensian nightmare when they are visited by the ghost of their past.
Jimmy is 34 and has never felt like he belonged.
One of the best Cornish zombie apocalypse comedies ever made.
Because Grindr hookups never quite go to plan.
Stunning, imaginative, inspired, colourful, amusing, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung, this Trial By Jury is Gilbert and Sullivan at its very best.
Fiction’s greatest villains, from Hannibal Lecter to Cruella de Vil, are in court for their crimes in a rip-roaring musical comedy that will challenge everything you know about l…
The world is ending.
Margaret, a young witch of great ambition but limited skill, holds a witch coven with her friends, Lawrence, who can’t tell the difference between magic and life hacks and Emily,…
Edinburgh-based dark comedy collective The Counterminers are back for their third Fringe, putting on a new-writing piece by Florence Carr-Jones – Cheeky Girls.
Every family has its drama, and every wedding has its secrets.
A humble shed; four young idealists form a political party to save the world from itself.
Upfront and erect in most of history’s greatest moments, the penis has earned itself a reputation of admiration and revulsion in equal measures.
One man walks into a public bathroom.
Faulty Towers meets Bad Education.
The Griffen Collective present Antiques by Ted Smethurst.
Kiki Mellék (international, sparkling wrecking ball of magnificent bombast and mayhem) whirls back to Edinburgh with her new, all dancing, all lip-syncing, all revealing tribute t…
Count Horoch Zadelski, dashing member of the Polish Underground, makes a daring escape from Nazi-occupied Europe with the Gestapo hot on his most-wanted heels.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
William Roby stars as centenarian cabaret artist Mr Noel Howard in this solo show about a veteran performer who at a hundred-and-something (his actual age is revealed in the show i…
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
Come! Welcome to the inaugural Book Festival Fringe.
‘Virtual demi-god… seeks woman to share his myth.
You know that friend that just won’t stop sleeping with their ex? Theatre Paradok presents a new piece all about that ex.
Two ambulance care assistants, five extraordinary patients, a rickety ambulance plus minimal training add up to one lively dramatic journey! This dark comedy reveals what actually …
The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre: Alice wants to be a singer, Liam wants to travel, Rob wants to make a killing and Sa…
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
Hyenas! won Pick of the Fringe at Edinburgh Fringe 2021 and is a dark comedy jaw dropper.
A fast-moving, shiny new spoken word cabaret.
BAFTA-winning actor, comedian, singer, writer, independence campaigner, panto legend, feminist and socialist; Smith is rarely accused of lacking opinions.
The HandleBards are a cycling theatre company who pedal Shakespeare plays to outdoor venues all across the UK.
The Rain Men.
Are you just a teenage dirtbag, baby? Wanna watch weird vids and drink morning coffee with me, maybe? This is a show about a queer, autistic, Latinx, caterpillar on the edge.
Captivate Theatre brings the smash-hit comedy to the Fringe! ‘You gotta concentrate ain’t ya, with two jobs.
‘It’s a bit weird to be sitting at the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your dad’s ashes in your backpack.
Aspiring supervillain Ice Cold stumbles across a prophecy that reveals a top-secret mind control signal.
A brand-new show where volunteers from the audience unlock their imaginations and create a once-in-a-lifetime show of improvised comedy under the influence of hypnosis – live on …
It’s awards night and the longest serving member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company might just get the recognition he thinks he deserves.
Writer, actor and theatre-maker, Alice Mary Cooper, presents new show The Bush, following the success of her previous solo work Waves, described by the Observer as ‘a miniaturist g…
Is your family dysfunctional? Well, you haven’t met these fine folk.
Frighthouse presents – The Wheel of Misfortune.
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker’s heart and humour has been watched by millions online and allowed him to perform all over the world, until suddenly he couldn’t.
Wanna see a real Greek tragedy? Three sisters.
Returning for a limited run following a sell-out Fringe in 2021! Stand-up is the outlet that keeps you sane.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Hopefully hopeful, The Rest of Our Lives is a joyful morning dose of dance, theatre, circus and games.
David and Emma arrive at work on Christmas Eve – the only two people in the office the morning after the Christmas party.
‘I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before.
The cult of Cicada’s Children has just been discovered.
Based on a wild and hilarious true story, Reservoir Knobs follows the aftermath of a botched supermarket robbery, as the hapless criminals gather in a warehouse to confront an inju…
The pantomime is called Panto She Wrote and it was written by two panto-enthusiasts at the University of Bristol.
Slapstick Picnic would like to cordially invite you to its summer tea party, where marvellous feats of performance and culinary capers await.
Ancient Greece.
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Following their five-star production of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood in 2019 and powerful staging of Sophocles’ Antigone in 2018, this ‘strong and capable ensemble’ (Edin…
Two hilarious and explosive plays written by Steven Berkoff, performed back-to-back by the same actor.
Almost everyone has lost someone, has loved someone.
Worshipped opera singer.
Follow Sherlock Holmes and his incomparable sidekick Dr John Watson on this riveting, hitherto unpublished case.
The year is 1348 and the small Yorkshire village of Bogsfield is about to be hit by the Black Death.
One hour of existential crisis and millennial dread about dating whilst simultaneously destroying your happy childhood memories of Sesame Street.
In Declan Croghan’s tense and hilarious black comedy, Anto and Kevin find their Irish past crashing in on their new and quiet London lives.
Do you feel.
Tam O’ Shanter, Tales & Whisky is a comic celebration of the gothic poems of Robert Burns.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
After months of fighting to save her home from developers, Val has finally conceded.
Tie your troubles to the tree, load yourself with glitter and use your wings to fly.
John and May were sixth form lovers, they haven’t seen each other in five years.
Careless follows best friends Sam, a care assistant, and Bryony, a struggling actor.
Alex loves church because it has Hobnobs and singing, and she’s not allowed either at home because one, she’s tone-deaf, and two, she’s diabetic.
Escape on a fantastic adventure this summer with Rapunzel – an exhilarating, heart-warming production about one girl’s longing to break free from her imposed lockdown and final…
Chevron Theatre’s A Wilde Life is absolutely hypnotic, hinting at a time of debauchery and a glamour that has long since passed.
Join us for a mom-entous playdate.
Based on the popular Scottish folk song, we follow the comic adventures of Maggie played by Jacqueline Hannan, a bus conductress in Fife in her new job.
In this dark comedy, Ophelia and Gertrude are in limbo and on their way to Hell.
A rock concert in a courtroom.
A dark comedy about a man quite literally living with the consequences of his actions.
Cat is a one-woman, twisted comedy show by Connie Harris.
Everybody needs a break.
This reconstruction of Macbeth for Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s annual Shakesperimental play reimagines the narrative within a modern political context.
A one-woman show about Leda, an actor struggling to make it.
In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people.
Dr Reverend Jimmy Goodlove, the 1980s-styled American televangelist, preaches and teaches! Life’s answers are found in the lyrics of Grammy Award-winning album Faith by George Mich…
A smorgasbord of Viking gods, an enchanting Norse soundscape and a pair of wise-cracking ravens accompany a Yorkshire lass on her journey from childhood to motherhood, revealing my…
Can fiction save you from reality? Aimlessly wandering and trapped in her nine-to-five, Rachel is inadvertently catapulted through a rift in the space-time continuum, landing in th…
All that glitters is not gold, a message that is incredibly clear in Em Oliver’s Beautiful Nothing.
When faced with the drama and indignities of growing up, five toes must contend with smelly socks, ballet injuries and a dose of existential dread in their journey to discover what…
Welcome to Pharmtec, the fastest-growing dietary supplement provider in the country! More specifically, welcome to its customer-facing contact centre, where a crack team awaits eve…
Welcome to The Horse’s Mouth! We’ve got comedy on tap! Watch our hero work his first shift at the pub, and meet the rather strange bunch of regulars he encounters along the way, ea…
A bumbling detective is called upon to uncover the mystery of a priceless stolen painting, but when he cannot solve it himself he is forced to enlist the help of an old nemesis.
Farting at a funeral.
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following four consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe! This time, the boys in burgundy want to attemp…
Everyone needs a little bit of luck in their lives.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
When Amy, Megan, Nicole and Olivia decide to go on a week-long girls holiday to Magaluf, some of them are excited for sun, sex and sangria.
A special school assembly harking back to the grand old days of the bawdy British boarding school, hosted by drag king and self-proclaimed “Head” Master Mr Brake Down.
From award-winning director and acclaimed playwright, Laura J Harris, Bella Donna is an original queer comedy filled with unexpected twists and turns and more than its fair share o…
Should I shave off my beard, and grow a pencil-thin, rock-style goatee? Is it OK to fall asleep in a bin, if it’s comfortable? What would you do if I died? In the midst of all the …
A musical reimagining of one of Oscar Wilde’s most beloved stories, The Canterville Ghost: The Musical features an original score and soundtrack.
Does the human race crave love or hate? Technology has moulded the relationships of the 21st century – perhaps it’s time to look back in order to move forward.
Frankie wants to conform.
‘Charlie, why is every light in the fucking house on??’ What happens when you have a son? How does manhood move through generations? Who decides what a “good dad” really means? Chi…
Desperate to fulfil her mother’s wish of finding a husband, Rebecca Anderson explores love and a whole bunch of other stuff in her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Works by Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn.
Circuit stand-up Kevin is creating a new show and he’s bringing it to the Fringe so you can watch it for free! ‘Shepherd is an open and honest performer.
Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals …
The Really Terrible Orchestra has survived covid and reappears like a butterfly from the chrysalis.
Imagine having a passion, a calling, being so good and in love with something you wanted to do it forever – that was me as a child when it came to drumming but sadly it wasn’t th…
Dare to be different.
Born in the UK to Bengali doctors, the early 1990s saw Paul qualify as a doctor and take his first steps on the stand-up comedy circuit.
A children’s show that entertains parents alongside kids with a mix of perfectly crafted juggling routines, clowning, physical comedy and fork throwing! Grumpy Pants invites the …
A group of eclectic pre-teens (played by just as eclectic adults) learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything as they spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up)…
At Johnnie Walker Princes Street, we know a thing or two about creating the perfect blend.
Scotland’s professional touring opera company returns with Mozart’s sublime comedy.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Drop your cynical pants at the door and wipe your serious-face off your face – it’s time to tickle your inner child.
A fast, unexpectedly heart-warming play written by Paul Richards.
The Chap Himself returns to the Fringe armed with his beats, rhymes, manners and some small instruments for a strictly limited run of Chap-Hop recitals.
The Hot Clown Company is a relatively new troupe that set out to blend sketch comedy and physical theatre with a particular emphasis on clowning.
H and B are a young couple struggling with the pressures of their relationship.
Based on the hit film, this award-winning musical by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth tells the story of an ordinary group of women in a Yorkshire Women’s Institute who create an artist…
A comical feast that features an original story that is every father’s nightmare; Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a swee…
Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain’s most celebrated actress and her hard-won place in th…
A howl in the night! A terrifying corpse! A suspicious bearded man! A chaotic cast of larger-than-life characters threaten the heir to the fortune.
Two terrible twins with a talent for turmoil rule their school and are delighted to have reduced their head teacher to a nervous wreck.
Inspired by shocking true events, Fiji is a gripping two-hander that blends true crime with romantic comedy to deliver a thrill-ride as hilarious and warm as it is fascinatingly da…
Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies.
‘They’ve never tried to cover up these scandals.
Following a 2021 sell out run, acclaimed mystery maestros Highly Suspect return to the Fringe with a new duo of hilarious and interactive murder mysteries, which you – the audien…
The After-Dinner Joke doesn’t quite land.
Back for its seventh year at Edinburgh Fringe, this chaotic institution is the only way to end your night at Edinburgh Fringe! Join high-energy hosts, Griffin and Jones, for an hou…
Rowan McCabe knocks on stranger’s doors and writes poems for them, for free, on any subject of their choosing.
Three cavemen debate the nature of life while trying to survive. When one invents the wheel that’s when life really gets hard.
‘Extraordinary’ (Daily Mirror).
Award-winning, sharp-tongued cabaret diva Dolly Diamond returns to Edinburgh for only a limited number of nights of inimitable Dolly-style cabaret at The House Of Oz – with some …
The story Shakespeare never told.
Start the day with a riot of cray kid-friendly laughter for the whole family. Zany sketches, acrobatics, cirque skills and mayhem.
A tale of three Highland sisters who live in a shack in the woods disconnected from society, each of them with different views on how they should be living their lives.
Bold, glamorous and sassy, your festival favourites are back with their most sensational show yet! A must-see new production for 2022 with plenty of fun-filled comedy and outrageou…
There’s nothing quite like Spaghetti Bolognese, the most dazzling bowl of pasta in all your days! Join Penny for an unforgettable dinner in this show that is fun for all the fami…
Jez, Luke, Gary and Mark are die-hard football fans podcasting about the club they love: Third-division Invercreiff FC.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, music, family entertainment and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
Why do we still have a headache after taking a 1p aspirin which disappears when we take a 50p one? And why are we attracted to a 2-for-1 meal discount but fail to save for a pensio…
Griffin and Jones have spent the last decade travelling the UK, showcasing their homemade miracles, and generally being the biggest comedy and magic superstars you’ve never heard…
Emil Ferzola stars in this tragicomic final recording of America’s number one comedy podcast.
Rub-a-dub-dub, The Dummies are back with their ‘splashingly awesome adventure’ (EdinburghFestivalsForKids.
Always packed, this ‘fab lil cabaret party’ (Time Out) returns with Mister Meredith again in charge.
Fresh from a UK tour supporting Adam Ant, Laurie Black invites you for a knees-up around the pianna (ahem, Microkorg).
All Terrence wants is to earn a living as a dinosaur impersonator, have his talents appreciated by the world, land a Netflix deal, embark on a US tour, and design a line of branded…
Three of the Fringe’s biggest variety performers come together for an extra-sensational show! Witness the best magic, mind-reading and nerd-ity the Fringe has to offer, all in on…
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as: ‘the relationship.
Gecko’s playful story-songs will take you on a journey via ignored characters in Italian renaissance paintings, pig outlaws and tooth fairy admin.
One devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket.
New Show for 2022.
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
Paul Richards returns as Harvey; always running, always late and now about to get married.
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
A perfect show to start your day! Card tricks, mind-reading, all the magic show stuff! Magician, on stage, doing magic in a magic show; what more do you want? Oh and it’s literally…
Jess meets Jim.
Paul Richards literally can’t stop drumming; he’s performed all over the world, from huge gigs in China to grotty working men’s clubs, posh corporate gigs to the whole of the UK to…
Danger Dave Reubens is back with an all new comedy magic show and someone is out to get him! Join his perilous journey, packed with edge-of-your-seat stunts and madcap comedy.
The Grumpy Magicians have been successfully entertaining Edinburgh Fringe audiences for over eight years and this year are presenting their new show titled Trust Us, We’re Magician…
Featuring hysterically honest tales and stunning vocals, Rosie returns to Edinburgh with her brand new show full of songs, stories and sass! Whether you’ve had, seen or heard of a …
Long before Private Eye, Charlie Hebdo, and even before Bill Bailey – there was Voltaire.
Tomas McCabe has had one of the most popular mind-reading shows at the Fringe since he first performed here in 2017.
Award-winning entertainer Kyle D Evans returns with another fast-paced hour of inclusive maths-based family fun.
An exciting kids’ show from an Aboriginal comedy star.
Based out of Vancouver, Canada, Shirley Gnome is an unapologetically femme, empowering, uplifting, smart, honest, unhinged and hilarious cabaret performer and songwriter.
When the juggler drops, is it on purpose? Daniel Zindler began his career as a busker and is still often found juggling on the Royal Mile.
Can four youthful specimens of the human race successfully attract a mate in the wild? Join the learned professor and expert on animal behaviour as he observes the strange mating r…
Rory wants to pop the question.
Kane and Abel perform comedy and magic based on the cliches of being twins.
Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda.
It took little time for Assembly’s Spielgeltent Palais Du Variété to evolve into a glittering exhibition of luminous flair and seduction, teased out by one of Drag Race’s mos…
What defines a hero in the 21st century? Is it machismo and the ability to rescue people from burning buildings, or can we rethink what we mean by heroism to take in compassion, co…
Once upon a time, there was a young girl – not a princess or a pretty girl waiting to be one.
It’s 1998.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Care less.
A coming of age for your 20s.
A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery is an interactive Shakespeare-based whodunnit where the audience (with help from the cast) is tasked with solving the murder.
A songwriter with severe writer’s block and a looming deadline battles the version of Ernest Hemingway that lives in her head.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
The Great British Detective tradition! Holmes and Watson meet Poirot and Miss Marple (alongside the usual suspects) in a spoof homage – who murdered Lady Fanshawe!? Why have the …
Part stand-up, part TED talk, part Vagina Monologue, this sex-positive solo show dives deep into the ancient art of going down, and what it takes to make the pussy purr.
Lori Hamilton's retelling of her eventful life is touching and amusing, despite the whirlwind pacing.
Three Women and Shakespeare’s Will is is a nice little premise for a play.
Robert Miles is a quirky one-liner comedian. Also an outstanding ventriloquist. Robert Miles is also in a double act with Cyril the squirrel in a stand-up comedy show.
Art, the multi award-winning play, comes to Edinburgh in an entirely fresh production.
BCP return to the Fringe with Mike Leigh’s classic after two sell-out years with Alan Bennett and Alan Ayckbourn.
The Great Baldini (Emperor of Illusion/Maharajah of Mystery) is a magical legend, a relict of the music halls, a performer of the old school.
Since 2020, Coronavirus has threatened to kill opera! Can David save it with his one-man production of La Serva Padrona? Baroque meets funk in this new English version of Pergolesi…
‘Absurdly talented’ (FringeBiscuit.
1972: The Future of Sex.
One man’s journey to good mental health via a very bad idea.
A ticking clock.
It is difficult to work out exactly who this play is for.
Completely sold out in 2014 and 2018.
She’s not your average little old lady.
Good Heavens! Brother Barnabus has found himself in a sticky situation! Join him in this one man show.
Laurel and Chaplin: Before They Were Famous.
Let’s talk about sex, maybe? Or, maybe not? After having radically different experiences with Sex Ed, Lindsay and Lea try to figure out exactly what they were supposed to learn, …
Forget your troubles and let Las Vegas lounge legend Trudy Carmichael (along with her astounding accompanist) entertain you in her daring one-of-a-kind immersive musical event! Eve…
Whilst it may be apt to stage John Montgomery and Derek Batchelor’s Flesh - a musical about Burke and Hare - at Surgeon’s Hall, the novelty stops there.
Step aside HG Wells, take a break Jeff Wayne, back to your trailer Tom Cruise, Lamphouse is tackling War of the Worlds and they’re doing it.
A one-woman show that is absolutely not a drama because Young Woman’s life is not sad! In three days, her first novel, a bodice-ripper, comes out.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
Occasionally humorous, this is a well-formed exploration of Wilde’s life, loves and works.
Fifteen Minute Break by Tuppenny Bunters.
The story of three actors who are performing a show to impress the infamous theatre critic, Bob the Leech.
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
Join us for Tim Whitnall’s monologue masterpiece, telling the story of Eric Morecambe, a national treasure that touched so many of our lives.
Jacky shares her top 10 reasons why she wants to leave the planet, all through performance poetry.
Before the Thinking Drinkers even begins, the audience experiences a feeling which is very rare at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘This show is value for money!’Provided with a bag containi…
Saltire Sky is back! The multi award-winning 1902 takes an access-all-areas approach to working-class life in Scotland as we follow four young wannabe football hooligans in their q…
Children, especially toddlers are known to be tyrants.
Runner-up for Best Comedy at Standing Ovation Awards 2021.
The multi award-winning cabaret spectacular, La Clique, features the best of circus, comedy and cabaret.
A multimedia hybrid, part live stand-up, part film, featuring Sylvester McCoy, Linda Marlowe and introducing Eleanor May Blackburn in a tale of two isolated souls and their devilis…
If you were conceived to fix your parent’s marriage, obsess over whether people like you, and have visited your dad in prison, then this show is for you! Left to raise himself by…
Breaking down? Lost the manual? Book in for this funny (meta)physical dive into how to keep going.
Hey That’s My Wife! is a comedic spin on the classic works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller that follows two advertising executives, Charlie Moore and Roger Sloan, as they…
Using a mixture of animation, visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, comedian David Callaghan brings a groundbreaking comedy play packed with heartfelt, bitterswe…
Be part of the action as Basil, Sybil and Manuel serve up mayhem on a plate alongside a three-course meal and two hours of non-stop laughter.
You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the provocative title Olives and Blowjobs at Space Triplex.
Life is a game.
Have you ever wondered where the divas go, in between getting married or getting killed, night after night at the opera house? Madame Chandelier’s Opera House Party, of course.
In the attempt to create an absurd enigmatic clown performance, and in search for meaning and connection, a company of artists end up in Tokyo’s Museum of Lost Things, where nothin…
Poetry show for dog lovers.
The Fringe’s shadiest late-night strip joint is back and we have missed you! Join the illicit crew complete with their trademark ‘no f*cks’ attitude, as they welcome audiences back…
An unexpected event will lead three roommates on an intense journey through the adult industry.
On the sand of his seaside home town, Myles Wheeler monologues about home, hospitals and let’s say hope for the alliteration.
A fierce, femme, fabulous, musical comedy show from the multi award-winning, international cabaret sensation Amber Topaz.
The Prince of Dark Comedy Cabaret returns to Edinburgh with his all new Vegas-style show at the Fringe, accompanied by his singing dictators Dean Stalin and Saddami Davis Junior (T…
Greg is Duck in Arms Theatre’s first production.
Amputation is the only way! Dick ‘One Man in 100,000’, a comic tragedy of hope over death, tells Richard Stamp’s shock diagnosis of penis cancer.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
This year, international multi award-winning magician Elliot Bibby is supported by his faithful friend Barry the Beach Ball.
Mina (Comedy Central, STOMP) returns with her acclaimed multimedia show weaving together hilarious and heartfelt stories from her New York upbringing as the daughter of an Italian-…
Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy? Enjoy Shakespeare’s spooky tragedy like never before, as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics, uproariously silly comedy and…
Variety died on the 11th of March 2018, the day Ken Dodd died.
A ground-breaking piece of comedic theatre that asks a simple question: Is it possible to please everyone, all of the time? And at what cost to your family and health? In this fast…
Winner, Best Cabaret Variety and Line Up Show, FringeWorld 2021.
Sure, we all get a bit stressed sometimes.
Mary Jo’s boyfriend hijacks a workshop of her critically acclaimed one-woman show, Born MYdentity.
Named one of the 19 Unmissable Online Theatre Experiences by American Express Essentials Magazine, Lag: A Zoomsical Comedy is the world’s first original musical created to be perfo…
Primary Times Children’s Choice Award winner.
Take a trip with Debra (Dead Ringers, Spitting Image, The Imitation Game, Bad Girls) as she hurtles through time in a multiverse of musical icons from Billy Holliday to Billie Eili…
Lobster is not a fish, or an oyster, or a bird, and certainly not a kangaroo.
Are you ready to be dumped on? Prepare to be caught with your pants down as six all-too-relatable characters celebrate their triumphs, lament their griefs and reveal their secrets …
After a girls night out, three friends wind down in the local chippy.
Creme Egg included with ticket.
Zav is a comedy drama, a one-person show set over 20 years in the life of Zav, an ordinary road worker who becomes a successful photographer.
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
A comic look at the agony of adoption.
The Deil’s Awa, a roistering tale of smugglers in the East Neuk of Fife, written by Alan Cochrane, award-winning playwright, and dedicated to Edinburgh People’s Theatre.
Dudley’s favourite space is at Jeanie’s shop.
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
The end is nigh.
‘Hilarious’, ‘mesmerising’ and ‘outstanding’ **** (LondonPubTheatres.
A college student offers a scattered recollection of her childhood, her perceived trauma and the chaos leading up to her mother’s recent disappearance.
A character comedy set in Philadelphia about struggling to maintain one’s authenticity while facing inevitable change.
What if Christ returned and we all missed it? From an award-winning theatrical duo, Down to Earth is the entirely untold and untrue story of Gene Christ: a veteran park ranger and …
A jaw-dropping mind-reading show that will have you grinning from ear to ear, scratching your head in bafflement, and wondering if you might just have seen a glimpse of the future.
Calvin is going to revolutionise his life.
‘He’s seen my Foo Foo.
Join Faith, a young woman addicted to Love, on a quest into the dark heart of its enchantments – and if there’s any life worth living without them.
GOYA Theatre Company’s Don’t Say Macbeth is a fast-paced show filled with well-balanced satire that pokes fun at and spoofs the theatre and musical industry.
Let Philip Simon keep your little ones giggling more than that time they saw their teacher’s dirty washing on Google Classroom! Created during lockdown to entertain the children bo…
Are emotional shackles holding you back? Join Tamás on a journey from childhood in an overprotective family in conservative Hungary to standing on his own feet as an adult in libe…
Three by Nigro.
A bumbling detective is called upon to uncover the mystery of a priceless stolen painting, but when he cannot solve it himself he is forced to enlist the help of an old nemesis.
Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival.
Back for its 10th year this show bounces with energy.
For the first time in Edinburgh, Australia’s favourite kidult comedy duo, The Listies, present their hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic – Hamlet.
100,000 characters.
We’re grounded! An international hacking scandal means the planes can’t fly and everyone has to stay where they are.
How quickly can you write a TV show? A month? A week? A day? Felix, Phoebe and Alice have 40 minutes.
Fantastic teatime mess-about with BlundaBus favourites and more! The twinkliest idiots, artists and clowns.
Like all women, Jo has been called her fair share of things, many not so flattering.
Well, hello there! How do you boo? Teenage playwright Jaz Skingle brings her sell-out debut play, Ghost Therapy, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
It’s time to spend a glorious afternoon with Dolly Diamond, the Queen of the Dessert, as she regales you with some salacious stories and songs, while you sit back and enjoy a delic…
An award-winning theatrical sightseeing tour around the darker side of Europe’s most haunted city on a classic 1960s Routemaster bus.
Presenting a one-woman show about a planet-saving superhero who’s lost her mojo.
Button lives in an alleyway surrounded by cardboard boxes and items rescued from the bin.
A multimedia hybrid, part live stand-up, part film, featuring Sylvester McCoy, Linda Marlowe and introducing Eleanor May Blackburn in a tale of two isolated souls and their devilis…
The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group is back at Paradise Green with a musical whodunit by Kander and Ebb, the pair behind Chicago and Cabaret.
A shameless ode to desolate puppy-love in all its mundane, absurdist glory, featuring toads, sperm-banks and carrots.
1939: Bette returns home knowing she’s to lose, as the press leaked the Oscar winners.
A parody Gogglebox about two slobby Pakistani brothers getting brainwashed by an evil TV.
A spoof true-crime documentary* with all the ingredients of your favourite true-crime docs! The mysterious murder of a victim, pushed down the stairs and hidden in the town’s wat…
The continuing story of PD’s perpetually interrupted life.
The Fremonts have been married ten years and have the therapy bills to prove it.
Sharlin Jahan (BBC 4’s The Now Show, BBC Essex Radio) is a Bangladeshi, British, Canadian Comedian.
Winner of Best Children’s Weekly Award, Fringe World 2020.
‘Had all my children howling with laughter’ (Scotsman).
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then grab your pet adult and join us! Award-winning c…
What if men could really understand what women want? Is it even possible? And if it was, would their heads implode? Join comics Kimberley Datnow and Peter Bazely this summer, as th…
Volunteers needed for very important scientific research*.
Mr Brightside hasn’t left the UK charts in 18 years.
Fringe favourites – New York City comedian Katharyn Henson, ‘kicking some serious comedy ass’ (Scotsman), and internationally touring Ollie Horn, ‘a natural’ (BroadwayBaby.
Variety artiste Ada Campe decided to do some research into her family history during lockdown – and was delighted and intrigued by what she found! Join her for a show about wonde…
In the mid-80s, at 6 months old, my grandparents become my legal guardians.
Naughty Corner Productions’ eighth show promises to be the immersive event of the year.
Leith Social offers a rotation of different comedic, musical and cabaret acts under the roof of The Pitt Street Market, hosted by Cornish comedian Sam Lake.
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Dan’s always wanted to be a father.
Tobias hates mash and Steve hates Tobias, but when they discover their mom to be patient zero in a world of flesh-eating zombies, the torn apart brothers get pieced back together, …
‘(Le) PAIN brilliantly expresses the pressure of generational expectations and a small-village mindset.
Following his sold-out, five-star debut show, The Man, Patrick McPherson makes his anticipated return with Colossal.
Matty Grey is back in Edinburgh and going back to Gameland.
Winner of Best Cabaret and Variety Show at Fringe World 2022 Life’s a Drag takes you on a reality-shaking rollercoaster ride of what it really takes to be a queen! Australian vocal…
The hopelessly flawed Sugarcoated Sisters unleash their multi-million-hit TikTok personas onto the stage for the first time.
You’ve seen football.
You’ve seen football.
Nominated for Best Kids’ Show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2022.
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
Jaw dropping piano whiz and star of BAFTA-winning Harmonic Spectrum film, Sean Logan presents funky and furious keyboard acrobatics with musings on life as a neurodiverse musician.
A camp play on the Lizzie Borden case, Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchet is a comedy about axe murder, sexual depravity, and the installation of a toilet.
Disney villain.
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
Two teams of comedians – one team depressed, one team anxious.
Cameron Cook pushes character work to incredible new heights in his debut solo show, previously performed to sold-out audiences at Soho Theatre.
Title says it all! (Evil laugh).
We all love a good story.
With not a zombie in sight, we are taken into a sanctuary of “normality” while the outside world rots.
An interactive late-night quiz for musical theatre queens.
Clownfish Theatre has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with an updated version of their show which saw sell-out audiences in 2019 as well as similar success in Adelaide.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of really stupid kids’ comedy plus a drawing lesson and possibly something that involves fishing, ducks, bumbags and …
The fun, family, science comedy show is back! New tricks this year include popping a balloon with an orange, a twist on the famous table cloth trick, a device that runs electricity…
Sam Dugmore (The Latebloomers: Scotland!) is locked and loaded as the greatest action hero of all time, unearthing his ruthless man skills to confront his biggest nemesis.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
When Ross’ wife leaves him for another woman, he fears he will never find love again.
Winner of Best Magic Adelaide Fringe 2022.
Critically acclaimed writer and performer Kevin P Gilday (Suffering from Scottishness, Sonnet Youth) takes a verbal sledgehammer to lazy stereotypes and attempts to deconstruct wha…
A series of unfortunate events led Riley to realise that there is no place for him in society.
Since Charles Ross first brought his hilarious show to Edinburgh in 2006, it has established itself as a Fringe favourite.
Woman is sat in a therapist’s office.
Covering artists from all across the pop music spectrum, Accordion Ryan will sing and play your favourite bangers in a way you’ve never heard them before! Having played in venues a…
Following their sell-out shows in Manchester and London So La Flair make their Edinburgh debut with their cabaret campaign against keeping up culture.
The Original Guru Dudu and the team returns to Edinburgh with our hilarious and engaging tours.
Jack Docherty, BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, returns to the festival with a tender, playful, darkly comic tale, where he grapples with lost youth, love, fa…
The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out Fringe phenomenon is back with their hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Macbeth, with an entirely s…
Ben Hart is already a star by any measure, having headlined his own BBC shows and reached the final of a certain UK-based TV talent show, but when Hart enters the vast stage of the…
Mat Ricardo is a juggler with 35 years’ experience performing in front of audiences all over the world.
What is the scariest thing in the world? Spiders… heights… whoever wins the conservative party leadership contest? None of the above.
One performer.
Black Blues Brothers have quickly gained the reputation as one of the go-to circus-based acts on the Fringe, and, after witnessing this spectacle, it’s not hard to see why.
Behold: the eternal masterwork of puppetry for adults returns to Edinburgh! Willingly undergo a heart-wrenching parade of theatrical demises that will severely exacerbate your fear…
America’s Got Talent semi-finalist Dom Chambers makes his Fringe debut with the magically titled Fake Wizard.
Uptight and unlucky in love, Felix is the ‘mate of honour’ for his best friend’s wedding.
Railed is the newest offering from fringe-circuit regulars, the Head First Acrobats hailing from Australia.
Magic Gareth returns to the Pleasance Courtyard with Magic Eye! Expect some kick-ass, eye-bending magic and a whole load of nonsense (and balloons)! This brand-new show from the mi…
Internationally renowned jazz a cappella group The Oxford Gargoyles make their return to the Fringe.
A melancholy artist and a mute architect take a road trip of the soul.
Cluedo, Roald Dahl and one film in particular from 1985.
The highly anticipated world premiere of Irvine Welsh's Porno catches up with the lives of Renton, Sickboy, Begbie & Spud, fifteen years after their appearance in TRAINSPOT…
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…
Welcome to the Church of Ram, where sheep are people, people are sheeple and the apocalypse is just getting started.
The true story of a complicated young woman’s attempts to survive anorexia and maintain a debilitatingly positive attitude in post 9/11 New York City.
Magician Kevin Quantum, trained by Penn & Teller, presents a fast-paced, jaw-dropping show, that guarantees to blow your mind.
They’re back at last! Britain’s greatest cabaret trio return with their smash-hit show guaranteed to put ‘a massive smile on your face and a spring in your step’ (Scotsman).
The Ghosting of Rabbie Burns by Gillian Duffy.
Wes Anderson meets Hitchcock meets spaghetti western in this multi award-winning, intercontinental, inter-genre, cinematic caper of accusations, accidents and accents.
Assembly’s Gala celebrates the opening of our 2022 programme of over 200 shows.
Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a show for all the family, specially written for the live stage and packed with fun and excit…
Join queer cabaret icon Aidan Sadler as they take you on the award-winning journey to Tropicana! Nothing is safe from ridicule so be led on an exploration of body image, heteronorm…
As part of a continuing physical and mental tailspin, Frankie Boyle suppresses his overarching sense of futility and horror to tell jokes for an hour in the final days of organised…
Two’s Company is Gillian Duffy’s take on rekindled romance and finding new direction in later life, following 55-year-old Maureen as she navigates life after her second divorce…
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
If Joz Norris is no longer a comedian, then why is he still very good at making people laugh? You see, at some point in recent history, after an unfortunate experience with a non-s…
With a forensic talent for pinpointing the precise foibles, flaws and faults of a character and an uncanny capacity for evoking their vocal DNA, Jon Culshaw gives new life to one o…
Picture the scene: Fashion week.
Tatum, a university student, becomes the virgin bride of her sweetheart, entering an eternal marriage in the the Mormon church.
Never Let Go is a thrilling, hilarious one-man show the New York Times calls ‘a feat of ingenuity’.
A family show filled with singing, dancing, comedy and even a sea monster.
**** (LondonPubTheatres.
This is not a nice Fringe for comedy.
A dark comedy for the end of days.
A love note to the NHS.
Fringe-first award winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels, Monster) is back at the Fringe with his new work Fanboy in which he explores his relationship with his past and future self.
Still Floating is a brand-new piece of warm-hearted comic storytelling by BBC award-winning writer/performer and Fringe favourite Shôn Dale-Jones.
‘No, she’s not my sister.
Sweet sixteen would’ve been alright.
It’s Mr Bean meets The Shining! Don’t be fooled – Jim and Barb are no ordinary elderly couple.
New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill.
The 2014 plan was a simple one, I would Casanova myself around our nation’s capital looking for consenting heterosexual adult males.
Despite Kindles and Netflix and Twitter and Podcasts, our collective love of books will never die; at least, if the audience of Classic! at Pleasance Courtyard is anything to go by…
Who is the bandaged man, obsessively in love and held captive inside an upmarket flat, counting down the seconds until it’s time for Her to return and the ‘thing I can’t say’ to be…
According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du…
Alexander S.
‘2019.
Catriona has a history of making stuff up.
‘D’you wanna come back to mine?’ New comedy about what we say to each other when the lights are off and no one else is listening.
A new show from James featuring his captivating mix of theatre, comedy and music.
This is the story of a humble spud Charlotte, who dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.
Winner: Best Kids Show, 2022 (UK Kids Comedy Festival).
Featuring the savagely comedic feminist discourse of Adrienne Truscott with the slippery dramaturgy of Brokentalkers, Masterclass parodies the “great male artist” to within an in…
When writer/performer Jonathan Tipton Meyers lost his girlfriend, his business and his identity, he got in his car and drove.
‘A festival mainstay, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
It’s finals week on an unnamed university campus and a professor in English literature is having a bad time of it.
From Gigglemug comedy duo Sam Cochrane and Alex Prescot, Runesical is an amusing, action packed quest based on the role-palying game Runescape.
BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull’s least successful true-crime podcast.
Welcome to Sad Girls Club, where girls are allowed to be.
It’s been two years since Finn quit his job, came off social media and disappeared.
A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors.
Life is Soft – Martin Creed, Turner prize-winning artist.
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London.
The Receptionists is a physical comedy show about customer service by two Finnish female clowns.
Mama Love is a one-woman show in which Lea Blair Whitcher plays with the absurdities of the idealised and toxic images of motherhood in which she finds herself enmeshed.
Six Players.
A fast-paced, comic fantasia by two-time Fringe First winner Brian Parks.
Welcome to The Twenty-Sided Tavern, where laughter flows like ale and the story is yours to control.
New show from Edinburgh-based piano virtuouso Will Pickvance (Anatomy of a Piano, Pianohood, First Piano On The Moon).
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
Brenda (Jacqueline King), a marriage counsellor, is faced with multiple challenges.
I’m sure we can all remember seeing our teachers feeling the pressure on the cusp of parents evening, and as we’re beginning to realise in light of the unprecedented events of …
Woman is sat in a therapist’s office.
Finally – the scandalous truth behind EastEnders revealed! Gasp as walk-on actor Tony Coventry lifts the lid and spills his beans! Performed by James Holmes.
Have you ever wondered how people in the past dealt with their periods? If Queen Victoria coasted* through her cramps? What if period dramas really were about.
‘They all knew the person I was when they gave me the part,’ Harry Kershaw complains, words that ring hollow and true, in a prophetic sort of manner, a common feeling that we …
Pack your calculators, save your spread sheets and set your automatic email reply because Karen from Finance is heading Out of Office! She’s hitting the road and she’s hitting it h…
A robot, an alien and a human.
Erin Hunter’s Surfing the Holyland is a dynamic and fast-paced one-woman show in which she tells the autobiographical story of her year living in Tel Aviv, the colourful cast of …
My Dad is the most important man in the country* but this isn’t about him.
In this high-impact dark comedy half-brothers Odin and Loki must overcome primordial giants, rival Gods and Goddesses, and their own ambitions – in their quest to seize power ove…
Well-written, though lacking in some areas, Out to Lunch is an enjoyable watch for anyone interested in a slice of wacky humour.
Ki and Dee – On the Sesh.
Actor and writer Kristin Mcilquham can’t seem to finish a list.
It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-…
Direct from London’s glittering West End, the boys are back with the songs and wit of those masters of mayhem and mirth: timeless musical comedy legends Flanders and Swann.
There are 250,000 different species of flies - which one are you? SWARM is an experimental, dark comedy exploring the connection between expressions of white privilege and the beha…
A one-woman parody, brought to you by Moon Loaf.
An Audience With Milly-Liu is a one-man cat-drag, late-night comedy.
Written and performed by Rachel Stockdale.
In a brightly lit cottage on a dark, dreary night, a desperate architect and a gormless schoolteacher make panicked last-minute touches to their home while they wait for a long-ant…
You can have too many carrots in one show.
Fantastical entertainment like no other.
A humorous and sometimes shocking insight into the untold stories of women in Scotland and the fine line they had to walk in an ever-changing climate of politics, religion and magi…
Who haunts our world-famous underground vaults? Join Minging Annie from Edinburgh’s past and explore what is it like to have been trapped beneath the city streets for 400 years.
It’s getting late.
Hot Dog has just been dumped by her girlfriend, Dumpling, and now she must candidly examine what it means to live in a post-Dumpling world.
What does it take to satiate a heartbroken 20-something homosexual with a penchant for deep-diving into the sensory stimuli he finds along the way? In this hour-long piece, Michael…
Award-winning actress and playwright Terra Taylor Knudson uses wit, anecdotes, and creative conjecture to weave Shakespeare’s works into her own coming-of-age story, and illustra…
Tick Tick could give The Wolf of Wall Street a run for its money when it comes to the frequency of “Fuck”.
This twelve-strong company are enthusiastic, bright young things who sing, sway and beat-box with great spirit.
What are the ingredients for a bank robbery comedy? A ragtag criminal gang, a double serving of double-crossing, a training montage, and many pairs of dark sunglasses.
Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know.
In a moving one-woman show, Lubna Kerr explores race, heritage, gender and health in the context of her and her family's experiences as a Pakistani family in Glasgow.
For regular fringegoers this year, there are markedly few of the regular staple performers returning to contribute to the semblance of normality the festival is offering up.
Highly Suspect is a highly novel theatrical experience in which four actors take on the roles of supporting players from the Sherlock Holmes stories - Watson, Le Strade, Mycroft an…
Set in the wonderfully open, socially-distanced and drinks-to-your-seats Garden Theatre of theSpaceuk’s Symposium Hall, the a capella group Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with f…
Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin.
A group of teenage friends celebrate after their final exams and look towards the future.
For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place.
Moonlight on Leith, by Emilie Robson and Laila Noble, at theSpaceTriplex is inspired by the ‘Save Leith Walk’ campaign; a grassroots movement seeking to preserve the historic s…
Femme Ta Bouche: a gender-bending cabaret star with cancer, cooped up in rural Arkansas, wants to make a statement.
Billed as ‘the future of queer comedy cabaret’ Tropicana is Aidan Sadler’s 80’s solo show of classic queer hits at the suitably late hour of 23:15 at theSpaceTriplex.
Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter.
Ellipsis is an exploration of bereavement, the nature of turning everything into punchlines, and desperately trying to stay afloat amidst the two.
Argentinian dance music greets us as we enter the space for two-man physical theatre experience Un Poyo Rojo, but the vast majority of the show takes place in silence.
Will Gompertz feels like an old friend, not because I have ever met him, but because I have grown up with his inciteful and interesting contributions as the BBC’s arts editor.
Brecht’s darkly comic play about the ascent of the moronic, childish but charismatic gangster Arturo Ui should be relevant for obvious reasons.
Nick is 14 years old.
Shakespeare: Reloaded have reworked this classic Oscar Wilde play into something almost unrecognisable.
Buzzing is the story of Julie, a 50-something recent divorcee who is wanting to discover herself and “find meaning”.
Mark Knight had the honour of performing to a packed-out room, clearly up for a fun Friday night of Mind Reading and Hypnosis – any Edinburgh performer’s dream scenario.
A riotous romp through the history of the female body, the patriarchy and the bad science behind the titular gender myth.
AW King and Paul Vitty have written an entertaining and poignant theatre piece, enhanced with live music, which digs under the skin of a rock star’s ego and internal drive, as tw…
Pour a glass of whisky, settle into the sounds of a sax solo and join ‘Little H’ for a new noir take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Hamlet.
I’m somewhat sceptical of companies bringing classic plays to the Fringe, be it an average Hamlet or yet another Woyzeck.
A show about a Sue Perkins stan who has a life-size cardboard cut-out of the former Great British Bake Off presenter and an unwavering belief that she “will be glad to have someb…
Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR.
At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, there is a work by the artist Robert Montgomery, a large piece of signage that declares ‘THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE’.
In the midst of the comedy maelstrom, into which Edinburgh in August descends, I was privileged to enjoy an extraordinary artistic experience.
Robert Temple is performing the only traditional hour-long hypnosis show in Edinburgh Fringe this year, so if you’re looking for a show where any number of people can volunteer t…
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe sees YUCK Circus pull down the pants of the patriarchy in a bares-all, feminist romp.
The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health.
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret…
Edinburgh Fringe's premier magical twins, Kane and Abel, return for their sixth run here in their regular home as the flagship magicians of PBH's Free Fringe venue the Liqu…
If you’re a parent looking for a show that you can enjoy as much as your children, you may be looking quite hard.
Amber Topaz, the inaugural Miss Burlesque UK, brings Edinburgh Fringe a burlesqueless theatrical cabaret experience that is personal, informative, and inclusive.
Chris Read is a talented singer-songwriter performing his debut solo hour at the Fringe this year.
Ellie is living on her own in London, away from Mum in Leeds for the very first time.
Dave Alnwick, a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe magic circuit, is one of the more visually striking performers you're likely to see here.
Dave Alnwick is a true magician’s magician, with many strings to his bow.
In Moment of Truth, James Freedman opens with an air of mystery.
Stepping Out, performed by Stage Avenue Performing Arts at theSpace @ Nidry Street, is a serviceable production of the British comedy originally written in 1984 by Richard Haaris.
With a blast of Darth Vader’s Imperial March, the tone is set before Pete Cunningham’s highly celebrated alter ego, the cult smash and ‘King of Dark Cabaret’, Frank Sanazi …
The Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show is one of two similar events happening at this year's Edinburgh Fringe; both themed dinners based on the legendary iconic 1970s sitcom…
Stoner comedy is a strange subgenre.
Paul Zenon is one of the UK’s most beloved and sought-after magicians – a veteran of TV shows, corporate events, and high end cabaret, as well as becoming a regular guest on th…
This World War II farce is a good choice for a 25-strong company to showcase their talents, with a wide range of roles on show.
Dreamgun: Film Reads are back at the Fringe and ready to ruin your childhood! At a time when podcasts are very on trend and live recordings are foisted upon an unsuspecting public …
Noises Off meets Antigone with a lot of great dick jokes thrown in for good measure! Bitch, Antigone from Australia’s Out Cast Theatre and writer Steven Dawson, is a hilarious go…
Cherie Blair has been somewhat of an enigma.
To make a piece of gig theatre work, you need to find a musical genre or vibe that can imbue the show with energy, and you need to find a story and a storyteller that can harness t…
The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s greatest hub for creativity, and many of the world’s top performers congregate here year after year.
Shabbat shalom misfits, Reuben Kaye is back in town.
It’s probably worth clarifying in the first sentence of this review that I was not expecting to be drawn into the bureaucratic complexities of being the Easter Bunny whilst at th…
Uber ratings, patisserie and misophonia.
James Stuart – or Stuart James – is passed out at his desk as the audience file into the space.
How To Use A Washing Machine is a charming two-hander from emerging company Slam Theatre.
It’s a sell-out audience in the huge space at Assembly Rooms.
The Faulty Towers Dining Experience boasts that they have recently served their one millionth customer worldwide, and with an experience this hilarious, engaging and insulting, it�…
If you’ve seen anything that A Slightly Isolated Dog has done, you’ve arguably seen all of it, and that is in no way a bad thing.
Welcome to the Atomic Saloon: a place where the beer is flowing and anything goes, so long as you can afford it…Madam Boozy Skunkton is our host for the evening – the straight-…
Melinda Hughes is a prodigious cabaret vocalist and political satirist who brings her new show Off The Scale to this year’s Fringe, backed by a wonderful three-piece band.
Les Quizérables is a fun and intimate quiz taking place in a dungeon-like cellar that entirely enhances the atmosphere.
Heist films are great, aren’t they? Whether it’s the effortless style of the The Italian Job or the precision of an Ocean’s film, heist movies amaze by tricking the audience …
The premise of Bismillah! An Isis Tragicomedy, in the Fringe guide, "a story of radicalisation, disenfranchisment and the rock band Queen" was compelling enough to want t…
A one-handed show about making a one-handed show might be becoming a little passé at the Fringe but there is at least one final offering you should devour before you write the gen…
This is not a 'show' in the generally accepted meaning of the word.
Carol Cates sits on a tall stool strumming away on her ukulele and chatting with the audience as they arrive.
“Why do you think you’re a bitch?” Warning—the first question you’ll be asked upon arriving at Rock Rising’s Girl Bully might invoke a mini existential crisis.
The crowd is lively, laughing and waiting expectantly for the venue to open.
Tilda Swinton (pronounced Swin-tone): human actress, alien from Jupiter or mystical spirit guide? Perhaps we’ll never know – this show certainly does little to provide us with …
Fix Us, presented by the BareFace Collective playing at the Underbelly Cowgate, is a defiant and inspiring look at how theatre and role play can help all of us to find our true sel…
Will Jackson is in a bit of a pickle.
How did the first person to watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge perform Fleabag feel; confused, enlightened, so profoundly altered they could barely put words to it? Jodie Irvine’s origin…
Two young women from different sides of Dublin city attending the same festival meet in the girls' toilets (always the best place to make new friends) and strike up a connectio…
Friendsical is billed as a ‘musical parody’ of Friends and unfortunately it fails to hit the mark on both counts.
I have a slight confession of bias.
Have you ever been to a supermarket and thought, “Hey, I really wish the staff would sing more?" Well, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society are here to make that wis…
The Girl Guide Promise, an oath taken by all Guides and Brownies, highlights how a girl guide member must always do their best, be true to themselves and develop their beliefs.
“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed…
If there was an alien invasion of planet earth who would you want to represent the human race? Politicians, David Attenborough, The cast and crew of Stranger Things? What about a g…
Colin Cloud is the undisputed rockstar of the Edinburgh Fringe magic world and one of the festival’s greatest success stories of recent years.
The eminently search-engine-unfriendly Cream Tea and Incest returns to Fringe after a successful outing in 2017, but this time with an all-female cast.
The Cardboard Exotics are back at Fringe with a new offering from writer and cast member Ben Alborough.
This one woman show featuring Diana Varco sees her shape shift effortlessly into 35 different characters, as she narrates the journey of her self discovery through trauma.
Those not lucky enough to have enjoyed the naff golden years and dubious social content of 1970s and 80s television may not immediately understand the appeal of a one-woman show ab…
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
Bi-Cycle is the low-cardio, sweat-drenched sexual awakening you never knew you needed.
Kaye dazzles, a heady combination of eyelashes and rhinestones, a force to be reckoned with as he greets each of his guests on the way in and on the way out of his show.
Saul Boyer explodes on stage, a blast of energy and vigorous vocals, as he delights us with a punchy song about being a Jew.
In the queue for Flanders and Swann, I was struck (but not entirely surprised) that the audience were of a higher age demographic than any of the other 250 or so Edinburgh Fringe s…
Death on the depressing dancefloor that is the job and house hunting game – certainly not the most ideal outcome for a 21 year old just trying to live.
Tucked away upstairs at The Gilded Balloon, nestling right at the heart of comedy central, is an absolute gem which is a must-see for any devotees of real theatre.
It’s a secret epidemic, one that affects every new generation of young people.
Rebecca Perry’s one-women tribute to four icons of the Golden Age of cinema is a cheery and bouncy hour celebrating Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball.
Oops, I did it again.
Fiona Goodwin has written and performed this piece as the ultimate coming out story.
Hootingly funny and devilishly clever, Fishbowl is a masterpiece of physical comedy.
Debuting as a writer and director, TV’s Marcus Brigstocke – known for his comedy and occasional film roles – brings us The Red, a play informed by his own experience battling…
In the past 20 to 30 years, our world has drastically changed, especially within the realm of politics and culture.
The framing of Paradise Lodge is odd at first.
Trauma is never an easy thing to talk about.
Some assert that homophobia, for the most part, has been eradicated.
The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym…
In our current day and age with consuming media in whatever shape it may take, it’s not difficult to find an advert, article or commentary about the body and how we should look i…
Wild Swimming is the story of two friends across centuries of change and development.
Ash Phoenix dreams of being a rock star.
Katie Arnstein has brought her joyous mix of caustic wit, a cautionary tale and a call to arms to her first Fringe.
Shakespeare for Breakfast is a great show to start your day… and that’s not just because of the complimentary coffee and pastries!It’s the 28th year C theatre have put on a S…
The black box space in Summerhall is perfectly suited to Zanetti Productions’ new one-woman show My Best Dead Friend, at once intimate and epic in its proportions.
In the last years, online dating apps - and the ever-more-absurd scenarios that facilitate - have emerged as a fruitful mine of comic reflections.
Stage mist and ethereal warfare sounds are the backdrop to this wonderful hour of bloodthirsty battle and adventure, with a cast of thousands resonating through the medium of Lewis…
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
Have you ever been on a Tinder date? Picture that in front of a live audience, where only one of the participants knows what’s going on.
Fat Rascal Theatre should be pleased with their Fringe so far.
On a bare stage at Pleasance Upstairs, Bobby & Amy promises storytelling in its purest form.
This 50-minute adaptation of Hamlet is one for Shakespeare lovers with short attention spans.
When critiquing a musical about the difficulties of being a performer, there’s nothing to do but write a review about the difficulties of being a critic.
Move aside Maleficent, Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch is the new anti-hero tale in town.
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
This interesting two-hander from writer and director Lucy Bird paints a raucous, vivid picture of a lonely life, that of wage-slave Kate, played by Dru Stephenson, and what happens…
Alan Bennett is a national treasure, and his writings are justly well respected.
Acclaimed comedy troupe Kill the Beast returns to the Fringe with a new show that is a bizarre mash up of Poltergeist and The Room.
The widely acclaimed ex-Young Pleasance physical theatre ensemble Spies Like Us returned to the Festival Fringe this year with not only one show but two brilliant shows in an adapt…
Shakespeare is an easy sell at the Fringe, namely his comedies, and this production of Much Ado is no exception.
Hearing a couple of priests swearing will always be amusing.
Edinburgh-raised drag queen Ripley makes his Fringe debut this year with Like A Sturgeon.
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
I’m not sure how to explain The Fun Club Presents… Three performers – Sara Page, Franny Anne Rafferty and Alistair McPhail – in a room, all in animal face-paint, talk obliq…
Like a piano player in brothel or a chanteuse at an orgy, Sabrina Chap is the fallen woman of cabaret.
You do not often look around an audience during a show and see barely any unsmiling faces; scarcer still, there is unanimous overheard praise afterwards.
There is no denying the writers’ talent; both Louis Pattison and Harry Style have created a highly enjoyable script and score rich in farcical humour and lighthearted silliness, …
University is the best time of your life, isn’t it? So what do you do when every day is a struggle? In Seven Ways to Calm the Fuck Down, directed by Ruth Berry, 3BUGS Fringe Thea…
Bizarre is the word that has stalked my mind since watching Bullingdon Revisited.
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
Six friends.
Mark Thomas regales us with a peppy portrayal of his health-check on the NHS, in commemoration of 70 years since its inception.
When a show opens with the introduction of Captain Skidmark sailing the seven seas upon the good ship, Red Rubber Duckie, you know exactly the level of humour to expect for the nex…
Forget flowers, chocolates or even a home-baked cake.
It's what Dan Simpson would want.
This is one of those shows where to review too closely is to spoil the experience for future audiences, so I’ll stick to the abstract.
Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r…
Losing My Mindfulness offers an amusing and uncomfortable send-up of the self-help nation we have become.
Sex Waitress catapults us forward to the year 2020, in which a dystopian London has emerged from female empowerment and consent campaigns, to a society in which misogynists and sex…
Art and crime collide in a ‘brush with the law’ from Laughing Mirror.
Heather-Rose Andrews skilfully acts out this minimalist stage version of cult classic Alien.
Melbourne’s Out Cast Theatre company, using ‘bits of Mr Oscar Wilde’, as stated on the flyer, return a sort-of version of The Importance of Being Earnest to the Edinburgh Fri…
Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers.
It’s 1968 and the world is about to change.
Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher.
Mandrogyny contains many universal themes, including an exploration of self, identity and gender expression.
Simon David bursts onto the stage in a bout of eccentricity that boldly asserts his dominance over the evening.
It seems that Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre Company are happy to take risks.
Harriet Beveridge’s show menoPAUSE could be considered uncomfortable by many.
Departure Date is a comedy about death that sadly lacks life.
When it comes to empowerment, Jaleelah Galbraith believes today’s feminists should look to Sense and Sensibility instead of Single Ladies.
Michelle McManus has become a household name around these parts, and what she delivers is neither groundbreaking nor surprising – but it is still an hour deserving high acclaim.
Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway.
Frisky are transporting audiences to a fantasy land created by two pre-pubescent girls, Tilly and Inga (played by Camille Dawson and Serena Ramsey).
An atmosphere of fun and weimar cabaret beats envelop us as we enter Beauty at the Circus Hub.
Ryan North’s hilarious choose-your-own-adventure-style version of Hamlet, To Be Or Not To Be, first published in 2013, proved so successful that in 2016 Romeo and/or Juliet follo…
I was lucky enough to be in the audience when Briefs made their Fringe debut at the Gilded Balloon back in 2011.
It is the Salon of the Year event at Scissor’s Palace and Pamela, ‘Best Stylist of 1996 before she had a breakdown’, is the ambitious owner who dreams of attaining the covete…
The Worst Little Warehouse In London is crammed into The Box, which appears to be an actual shipping crate housed in Assembly Gardens.
Millennial anxieties are unpacked and explored in devised comedy I’ll Have What She’s Having.
All month I have spotted Scott Swinton, star of Karaoke Saved My Life, on the streets of Edinburgh, flyering for his show.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
With the aid of a tea towel, a glass, and a stool, Sarah MacGillivray skilfully portrays a wide variety of characters in a modern re-telling of the story of Mary, Queen of Scots �…
Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus.
Pickle Jar takes us on the journey of an egocentrically flawed central character as she struggles to find her place in the world.
When you’re considered the best at what you do, some of us might rest on our laurels but Mat Ricardo wants (indeed, needs) new challenges.
A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House.
Edinburgh’s infamous ghosts descend upon The Fireside venue to retell the gruesome stories from the past.
It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc…
Direct from winning the Weekly Award for Best Children’s Show at the Adelaide Fringe, circus performers Derek Llewellin and Julian Roberts have brought their fun show to Edinburg…
Walking into the dark depths of the Big Belly at Underbelly, my expectations are low as I take my seat and note there’s a leak in the roof above my chair.
“Arf, Arf, Arffff.
Colin Cloud conjures a cryptic presence as the audience enter to him trapped motionless in a large perspex box.
A humble deck of cards, a ninja (well, a likeable Kiwi), a lofty-heighted venue and audience participation, all added up to an hour well spent at the Gilded Balloon today.
A pop song musical about the six wives of Henry the Eighth is not, at first glance, something you’d think would necessarily work.
Dystopia is a tricky subject matter to get right in a world obsessed with its own destruction as our current one.
This is not your grandmother’s Dracula, which may be immediately obvious when you walk into the theatre to the sounds of a Queen song.
Robert says he saw strange lights over Tesco car park.
Hunch, one of two productions from DugOut Theatre this festival (along with Songlines at the Pleasance Courtyard) continues the company’s new approach of single-person storytelli…
Hot from winning Adelaide Fringe Best Cabaret Weekly Award 2018, Tash York tempts us with this scintillating hour of song and expertly woven vignettes based on the concept of Adult…
We in the L.
I sat through an hour long fever dream yesterday entitled Timpson the Musical, and to get the recommendation out of the way, I would easily go again.
Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.
For the 27th run of this Edinburgh Fringe staple, C Theatre have utilised a cast of four to present this contemporary pidgin adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew.
Willy Hudson’s heart-filled, charming and hysterical one man show storms the stage at Summerhall and sheds light on the hugely under-discussed areas of gay sexual politics with d…
Excalibow features a String quartet consisting of Mitch McGugan (first violin), Ollie Izod (violin), Bertie Anderson (viola), and Ezme Gaze ('cello) who are all talented musici…
This is one of two offerings at the Fringe this year from Iulia Benze and Kurt Murray, featuring high energy physical movement, bubble art and audience interaction.
Deciding to take on Scientology, the notoriously thin skinned and litigation happy “religion”, as the central subject matter of a comedy rock musical is certainly a brave choic…
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is the plastic-and-glitter-wearing spiritual sister of shows such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
“Welcome to Blackpool!” Cockburn beams as her audience files into Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre.
Anya Anastasia explodes into the theatre to the ominous sounds of thunderstorms, as she live streams her ascension to the stage.
There’s a lot going on in the world at the moment, isn’t there? So many stories needing to be told, so many national myths being rewritten, so much is constantly changing that …
Ian Stroughair delivers an hour of avante guarde post modern drag, with a voice so powerful he should require a license to operate it.
Jukebox musicals are undeniably hit and miss.
Thor and Loki is a wildly silly parody adaptation of the Ragnarok myth that is heaps of fun – even if it does go on a bit.
Birds of Paradise’s new musical is a hysterical and at times incredibly thoughtful production that takes a wry and insightful poke at the state of inclusion in modern theatre and…
Single person monologues have long been a fringe staple, but nevertheless they are incredibly difficult to successfully pull off.
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve.
Becky works in a café in Edinburgh.
A raincoated man bursts into one of two bunkers in the lower section of the Pleasance Courtyard.
The Fringe is all about first impressions; the opening minutes of a free stand up show, the six word spiel spurted at you by flyerers with an outstretched hand, the carefully chose…
Yummy is what it says on the tin – a gooey, delicious, and extremely well-crafted sequence of performances from an ensemble of drag queens who are masters of their respective cra…
Maureen Lipman more than qualifies for National Treasure status; she’s shared the stage with everyone from Olivier to Hugh Jackman and has appeared in Oscar winning movies and na…
There is something sad about leaving Stand and Deliver, accompanied by the sound of the Adam Ant song referenced in the title of the show.
For anyone who isn’t already familiar with Loud Poets, you really should be.
Buried certainly made a splash at the Fringe last year, winning awards left, right, and centre, and deservedly so – Tom Williams and Cordelia O’Driscoll’s new musical is quir…
Nina Conti’s In Therapy is a hysterical and intelligent piece of improvised comedy that plays with the idea of what would happen if we actually said our uncensored thoughts out l…
How do we start a conversation about a better future without sounding like dreamers? This is the question that Joan Clevillé Dance’s Plan B For Utopia tries to answer as its nar…
It is really reassuring to see an honest piece about the hard work of being a teacher, whilst also avoiding a bland generic sanctifying of all teachers.
Ethereal Theatre Company’s Little Shop of Horrors is a powerhouse of zany energy.
Lucille and Django are two young yoga leader characters with a surfer-vegan-spiritual vibe and chirpy Australian accents.
Maddie Rice has been put into a difficult position with performing this script.
Peter Gill”s Certain Young Men was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in 1999.
I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change is earnestly performed by a youthful and small cast – the reason for scraping the second star – but the uninspired script and the overa…
Ventriloquist extraordinaire Nina Conti is back with her famous masks, ready to use you as her puppet.
As a white Irish person, reviewing a person of colour’s experience of their treatment in the UK feels disingenuous.
Unafraid to show the peaks and troughs of getting over an upsetting event, TheForgottenMoose Theatre Company put on an endearing performance of their original piece: The Play.
Red Button is a quirky and peculiar piece of science fiction theatre that doesn’t quite find its feet.
I like improv as much as anyone, but part of what makes improv work as well as it does is the spontaneity of it all.
If the boys of Semi-Toned ever tire of a cappella they could always take up comedy.
Back for another year, Adam Meggido and Sean McCann of Showstoppers! fame return to wow us with what is possibly the most impressive improvisational feat at the Fringe.
Solo comedy show Tatterdemalion’s Henry Maynard is charming, ridiculous, adorably pathetic and completely enchanting as he frolics about excitedly miming out conversation to audi…
Comedian/guru Jamie Wood returns with his new show I Am A Tree in Assembly’s enchantingly draped gypsy-chic Omnitorium theatre space.
This play is an abridged version of the stage adaptation of late novelist Terry Pratchett’s sixth Discworld book which is in itself a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Morning People Productions’ self-written and self-directed Twenty Something is a wonderful, shrewd new play about the whirlwind of realities and disappointments in young adult li…
Tom Wells’s Me, as a Penguin, performed this August by Exeter University Theatre Company, is both a fun and melancholy look at loneliness, love and family.
Produced by Connie Stride and co-directed by Emily Ashbrook and Elizabeth Bailey, The Tinder Tales excels in making genuine experiences appear visceral.
The idea of taking a serious topic and turning it into a musical is not a new to the Fringe.
It is an interesting idea to stage a comedic play about the backstage conversations that take place between stage hands, in the shadow of the performer that they work for, but this…
I wasn’t really in the mood for this show.
From a shared sovereign and a shaky colonial past, to endless daytime reruns of Neighbours and Home and Away on channel 5, plus cricket, Kylie and Rupert Murdoch; Australian export…
Charlie Dupré’s Macblair reimagines the political life of Tony Blair as, to quote the production’s marketing, ‘a Shakespearean tragicomedy’.
I think a naked magic show is a brilliant idea; two magicians with no way to hide anything up their sleeves, in their pockets (or anywhere else) amazing us with their skill at slei…
The superfluous orations of Joe Sellman-Leava see his one-man act deliver strong discourse aimed at unboxing the confines that social tags put upon our species.
For a theatre piece to be perfect for some people, it has to be horrible for others.
There are lights in the sky.
Caterham Rep’s adaptation of Ben Jonson’s classic tale The Alchemist is exactly that: don’t expect any surprises here.
Where there is Fringe, there is Shakespeare, and Rolling In The Aisle Productions have returned to Edinburgh with a fresh faced, family friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelf…
The image of the tortured brooding man, bewitched, bothered and bewildered by some winsome and naïve woman, is long burnt into of literature.
Five hours is a long time for everyone – it’s a long time for a viewer, it’s a long time for an actor, and it’s a long time to have an excruciating conversation about your …
Set in the airport returning home after a lads’ holiday to Malaga, Departure Lounge takes a look at the fragility of hegemonic masculinity and its effects on teenage life.
Dabek is an old-school showman; his banter is honed to a bleeding edge and you can easily imagine him holding forth on classic Saturday night TV, perhaps as a guest on The Paul Dan…
Halfway through David Tsonos’ tedious and rambling show, a former boyfriend, one of the many trotted out as a manifested recollection from the trio of bridesmaids, appears before…
There’s nothing that says ‘Edinburgh Festival Fringe’ quite like the portrayal of sex on stage: that said, compared with many of the thousands of shows in Edinburgh this August, …
Sondheim’s fast-paced lyrics are hard to perform well, even for an experienced Broadway star, and it is rare that I have seen an amateur production that manages to do him justice…
City Love provides an honest and hard-hitting look at relationships, starting with a chance encounter between two young London professionals on a night bus.
We all know Edinburgh Festival Fringe is filled with bizarre acts and Idea.
The ambiguity and space for misunderstanding in [title of show]’s name and concept are such that it is entirely possible it could put audience members off, but the University of …
In a dark, sweaty room on an unusually warm Edinburgh summer day, the odds are already stacked against any act trying to hold an audience’s attention.
If you are hoping to find your comrades in arms and chant the internationale alongside like-minded people I regret to inform you that you will be disappointed.
Venture Wolf’s production of Lipstick and Scones is a combination of familial drama and comedy that raises questions about love, identity and relationships.
Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge has, as you might expect from the title, a very specific target audience.
Frank Sinazi, the “Leader of the Iraq Pack”, is a smooth-talking American entertainer who will not only occasionally burst into song, but also into some loud episodes of a slig…
We are all Going to Die is a devised piece by Dead Person Productions.
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.
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…
Picture Jesus in jelly shoes, sweat bands and a glittery loin cloth performing a fitness class and you have Cross Fit, the bonkers ‘service’ hosted by Jesus L’Oreal Christ an…
As her lead character, Helen Fox explains that one out of every two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
Theatre aiming to portray the lives of millennials is so often completely wrong and patronising (no, we don’t say the word ‘rad’ any more, or believe that wearing snapbacks i…
Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro…
What is the future of desire? I hoped Neil Frude, a leading lecturer on abnormal psychology, would be able to tell me.
This is what the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is all about.
Have you ever wondered how the rich and shameless work out? Katie Kopajtic invites us through the closed golden doors of a luxury New York gym club in Confessions of a Personal Tra…
If you feel sceptical about the idea of Macbeth as a comedy for children, let me put your mind at rest.
For a play about personified jizz, War of the Sperms is surprisingly unsexy.
A small group of survivors huddle in a bunker, eating beans and reminiscing on their favourite foods.
Glamour, glitter and girls - The Lady Boys of Bangkok is a fabulous collection of performers who lip sync and dance to feel good songs opening with Gloria Gaynor’s First Be A Wom…
Napier University Drama Society returns to the musical stage after selling out last year.
Sugar Baby satirised the food industry with one eyebrow firmly raised, mocking both the trend of ‘clean eating’ for which vegan titans like ‘Deliciously Ella’ are increasin…
Manwatching is a monologue written by an anonymous woman to be performed by a famous comedian.
A panoply of productions about Brexit, Trump and alt-right politics are gracing this year’s Edinburgh Fringe – Trumpus Interruptus is Mea Culpa Theater’s contribution to the …
Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland.
This show is a delight.
While most sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe play up to their comic roots, Anomaly Theatre Company are adding a touch of the macabre with their dystopian show iDENTiTY.
If you’ve ever wondered what having a mental-health issue feels like then head down to Help!.
There was something strangely liberating about taking the dark topic of alcoholism and giving it absolutely no reverence.
(FEAR) grabs your attention as soon as you enter the venue.
Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
This new piece of writing is an enjoyable, silly slice of sitcom, covering the last few days of student life amidst a diverse bunch of friends.
Award-winning theatre company Owle Schreame performs a series of very droll ‘drolls’: short, illegal comedies from the 17th century.
Company, Sondheim’s second Tony Award winner, is a difficult show to get right: it’s disjointed, complex, and built on subject matter that can be uncomfortable to look at.
The Dark Room is both a literal and moral description.
Rachel Parris has been invited back to her old school to speak at prize giving, but what is she going to say? Is she even a role model at all? Rather than prepare for this speech a…
“Manuel, please sit the guests down,” from the very first sentence, you know this is not going to be any ordinary evening meal – and I’m already clutching my glass of wine,…
Adapting well-loved source material can be a tricky art, but Shedload Theatre have managed to maintain the essence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories in this riotous hour…
Grandma is a drug dealer.
Djuki Mala, formerly known as the Chooky Dancers, rose to fame ten years ago with a viral YouTube video of Aboriginal dancers performing Zorba the Greek in homage to a Greek woman …
Three aliens from Mars, fascinated by all things Earthly.
Meet Diane Chorley, legendary 80s superstar, part-time piccalilli representative and full-time diva.
Daniel Piper’s Day Off is a one man comedy show that goes through the different anxieties one feels when calling in sick to work.
It is a real privilege to get to spend time with Dave Johns for an hour as he recounts the rollercoaster that he has experienced since being cast as the lead part in Ken Loach’s …
From the producers of bold, subversive and wonderfully camp comedy musicals: Margaret Thatcher: Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History, Prom Kween certainly has a lot going f…
One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe…
Jack Rooke won a scholarship to attend Westminster University to study Journalism.
To fully appreciate Curse of the Mummy, one cannot take it seriously as a musical or a drama, which may have been a source of contention amongst some audience members on the night …
Fag/Stag written and performed by Aussie duo Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Chris Isaacs, explores what it means to have your best mate by your side when you’re stuck being your worst se…
It’s very easy to write a story that grabs someone’s attention.
I have a great admiration for clowning; whilst superficially there is most certainly a stereotype of the heavily made-up children’s entertainer doing nothing more than blowing up…
Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis does an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of the relationship between the audience and performer.
Shakespeare may have had his seven ages of man but Holly Morgan presents the seven ages of (wo)man in Seven Crazy Bitches, a ‘standing up cabaret’ or ‘standaret’ performanc…
You don’t need to be a hippo expert to help Dr Zieffal and Dr Ziegal catch a hippo in Edinburgh – all you need are the right tools and to keep your eyes peeled! The Hippo that …
Raton Laveur – meaning raccoon – is an original, bold, black comedy brought to us by Australian theatre company Fairly Lucid Productions, who are making their debut at the Edin…
Americana Ad Absurdum Productions certainly lives up to its name by combining America’s most-loved export, free-market capitalism, with some surreal and absurdist humour.
If you are looking for an unpretentious, heart-warming comedy show at the festival, Quarter Life Crisis is where you will find it.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
It’s a fair statement to make that there are both straight-up sceptics and those who actively try to believe when it comes to magic, but the fact still remains that an audience f…
Certain thoughts are inevitable when you hear the title Hans: Mein Camp, and the chances are they will probably be accurate.
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
Returning for yet another year at the Fringe Impromptu Shakespeare bring us a fun little romp of an hour, packed a plenty with witty one-liners and every Shakespearean trope under …
Where to start with The Fungasm Game Show? It’s hard to know, when our hosts clearly don’t have a clue either.
This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly …
The novelty musical gets its fair share of traction over the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Fat Rascal Theatre are attempting to stake their claim as rulers of the field.
Cameryn Moore has made a name for herself as one of the Fringe’s great taboo busters, especially on the subject of sex.
I remember the time when, several years ago, Out of the Blue came to my school and did an assembly.
The dance world can sometimes take itself a little too seriously, it often seems to be too caught up in technical comparisons to just enjoy itself, however, Chicos Mambo is the opp…
The Fringe is full of mind readers but Colin Cloud’s framing device of presenting his skills as deduction and manipulation creates a whole different feel.
Having recently won English Comedian of the Year, Josh Pugh has the air of a rising star.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
Before even starting the show, Sara Schaefer has the advantage of a unique perspective.
Sketch comedy is the medium in which an original voice is most important in order to be successful.
Behind every great man stands a great woman.
Kinabalu is an astutely clever and astutely silly hour of stand up from British-Malaysian comic Phil Wang.
After a bumper month at the Fringe last year Jayde Adams comes to a new venue with her latest comedy offering Jayded.
Imagine William Shakespeare wrote Attack the Block and you get Flesh and Bone, a tale of an East London tower block and it’s residents.
The Edinburgh Fringe debut of LA-based comedian Natalie Palamides will not be what you expect but it will be one of the best things you see at the festival this year.
DIGS, devised by newly formed company Theatre with Legs, offers insight into how the millennials of ‘Generation Rent’ think about community and belonging.
There is a woman sprawled across the keys of a grand piano.
I’ve never seen an hour of stand-up with such a high density of laughter points.
Despite failing to romantically woo Matthew in the front row, who resolutely resisted her bookish clumsiness and snazzy jacket, Rose Matafeo delivers a tour-de-force performance in…
After sold out Fringe shows in 2014 and 2015, Angela Barnes is back with a new routine that is, at times, remarkably and worryingly prescient.
Pip Utton is a veteran of the stage, and of the Edinburgh Festival.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean creates a universe in the hot box room: dangling planets hang from the ceiling, and she wears a starry skirt and planet earrings to orbit her black-and-white …
When you’re genetically blessed with an unthreatening physique and the voice of Frank Spencer, comedy cannot go much more in your favour.
The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never is exactly what you want from a cabaret.
As their hotel receptionist alter-egos, Henry Perryment and Joe Barnes help us check into The Hotel Après Vie for an hour of horror movie-themed entertainment.
Flatulence, fornication and filth; Sean Patton brings his show Number One to Edinburgh armed with a New Orleans attitude and an unashamed subject matter of all things vulgar and bo…
Spies Like Us Theatre’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel is, quite simply, a joy.
Iain Stirling’s latest sell out Edinburgh Fringe Festival performance has a lot of Love Island quips, but is truly grounded in Iain’s life experiences.
Ed Gamble’s Mammoth is a strong example of observational comedy at this year’s Fringe.
Putting on a Fringe show is, for any performer, a risky endeavour.
In their Fringe debut comedy hour Sisters hit the ground running with a fast paced, intensely dark and gut bustingly funny show of sketches, skits, and more jokes about live stream…
For a show about a break-up, Lloyd Griffith in:Undated has all the comfortable generosity, grossness and joy of a long-term relationship.
Having developed a strong reputation at the Fringe in previous years, John Robins remains a safe bet for sarcastic, pithy self-loathing, although he seems to have a lost a little o…
Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman has explored several of the world’s biggest talking points – from evolution to climate change – and now he’s back for more.
Superbolt Theatre’s The Jurassic Parks is ridiculous; in the best way possible.
The King is back, long live the King.
Ingrid Oliver delivers an hour of speeches in Speech! From a TED talk to the ramblings of a right-wing shock-jock, and all manner of voices in between, the connecting thread betwee…
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…
Thought-provoking theatre and assured acting are on offer at this show, which is split into two plays, both written by the late playwright James Saunders, a one-time mentor to Tom …
On first viewing the stage I thought I would try and count all the instruments I could see scattered around waiting to be played.
From the Bronze Age to Brexit, get ready to laugh and learn with More or Less Theatre as they present to you a whistle-stop tour through European history that can be enjoyed by bot…
“I’m aware there isn’t much art made about love, so I thought I’d nip in and nail the definitive article before anyone else could.
Reuben Kaye is a cabaret god; he’ll tell you so himself.
2 Become 1 is a standard Jukebox Musical.
The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight prompts an evening of light-hearted, harmless, 80s-inspired fun.
That’s Life on Lisgar is a story of family fissures and the intimate workings of life as a daughter of a Portuguese family in Canada.
“Ah yes.
A morning staple of the festival Fringe, Shakespeare for Breakfast (with its customary coffee and croissant) has provided a fun twist on the Bard’s classics at C venues for over …
Oh no.
Back after last year’s fantastic show, the Listies are just as wonderfully ridiculous as ever.
How many times in the past year can you say that you felt genuinely sorry for Michael Gove? Or that you felt goose-bumps (the good kind!) when you heard Theresa May speak? Or perha…
This show is dumb.
In today’s climate of brunching, Instagram-obsessed millennials, and in a time where avocado-hand and avocado-shaped walkie-talkies are an actual reality, there is plenty of oppo…
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
To be surprised by a show at the Fringe is a rare and wonderful thing.
Uplifting, fast-paced and heart-warming, Todd & God tells the tale of how God selected an atheist as her chosen one.
Tall Stories return to Edinburgh for their 20th birthday with an updated version of Future Perfect.
Have you ever worked up with hazy memory of what may have happened the previous night? These two Irish lasses certainly have and it hits them with equal levels shame as it does pri…
In a similar way to eating your mum’s homemade soup, sometimes the charm of a show can outweigh the actual content.
Staging Wittgenstein is a difficult production to categorise.
Swan Bake is a riotously trippy and acerbically funny show.
‘I recognise this’Daniella Isaacs was in the newest Sweaty Betty zero gravity leggings, making hemp and cacao energy balls, flanked by her nutribullet.
Within the last few years, the improvised musical has become a standard of the Fringe, with at least four in Edinburgh this summer.
Based on the 1984 cult classic, The Toxic Avenger captures everything good about spoof musicals.
The set of this play included a fish tank with a small toy fish that swam around in it.
Matt Forde is a consummate professional, with sharp observations and confident crowd work, it’s just a shame this show lacks the biting satire expected from political comedy at t…
Renowned for being an especially haunted city, Edinburgh has many mysterious secrets lurking beneath the cobbled façade of what we wrongly assume to be ground level.
Stand-up comedy can be a very demanding form of performance.
This was a hugely disappointing hour of theatre.
The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions.
The Spelling Bee is a beloved American pastime, encouraging good sportsmanship and the pleasure of taking part; however, deep down it becomes clear every contestant has a thirst fo…
Molodyi Teatre combine verbatim accounts of migration from the Ukraine to the UK with a Britain’s Got Talent pastiche in a bizarre satire of modern-day xenophobia.
The Handlebards are a unique group, reinventing the concept of the company of travelling players.
In Shakespeare Tonight, the famous playwright gives his first ever television performance on a talk show with host Martina, only to be confronted by his so-called ‘enemy’, huma…
Procrastination may confound human progress and productivity, but it also provides the inspiration for Brick by Brick’s fantastic, multimedia clown show.
Reefer Madness is an adaptation of a PSA film from 1936 of the same name – famous for being embarrassingly awful – that warned parents of the dangers of marijuana.
In this play we’re granted a view into a future version of the world of Peanuts.
Ah, the classic buddy comedy: overdone by definition and yet extremely resilient.
The Cock and Bull’s Death And The Data Processor follows the adventures of office worker Ian, whose murders of two co-workers lead him into the strange world of Harton, a communi…
This is a time-traveller’s lark in which the two protagonists, Johan and Stefan, travel back in time to 1933 Germany after having had a debate over whether or not they would kill…
Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company.
Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens.
David Payne, having already portrayed C.
Sherlock Holmes meets a theatrical farce in this intelligently written double act that sparkles like the Blue Carbuncle.
What if punctuation marks were superheroes? During this show, we follow Question Mark Man as he tries to rescue his love interest Becky from the evil Captain Conundrum.
There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
In true Terry Pratchett style, this rendition of Terry Pratchett’s Mort brings along a sly mixture of complex fantasy and comedy.
Wrong Tree’s Rumpelstiltskin is a musical retelling of the classic fairy tale of the farmer’s daughter and the mysterious imp.
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t…
Next on the list of unusual inspirations: Casting Call Woe is a Fringe show based on a blog.
Drolls, Brice Stratford tells us in the show’s scholarly introduction, were originally performed by half-drunk actors in covert locations on raucous evenings during the Puritan I…
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
John Godber’s fluid exploration of British society, drinking culture and nightlife in the 1980s is a fast-paced romp through fragments of characters’ lives, from upper-class ch…
In the opening tableau, the stage is littered with a collection of bodies sprawled all over the stage, all paper white overalls and unsettling masks.
Lyons Productions returns to Edinburgh with Holes, an apocalyptic farce from Tom Basden, writer of hit TV shows Fresh Meat and Plebs.
It’s often hard to find anything particularly original about an original adaptation of any of Shakespeare’s great plays these days, but The Taming of the Shrew done in traditiona…
The spaghetti-strewn finery of a New York dinner party is transformed into a scene of untold carnage in The Wives Of Others - a gleefully bloody comedy by Tom Stuchfield.
It’s always disappointing to see an interesting concept marred by poor execution.
UCLU Musical Theatre Society’s Fringe production of the Joe Dipietro’s fast paced musical comedy is an incredibly entertaining and fast paced journey into the world of dating, …
One World Actors Centre’s fringe production of James Goldman’s historical black comedy The Lion in Winter is a valiant attempt to bring the acclaimed play to the festival stage…
Following its woefully short-lived run at the Adelphi Theatre in 2015, the only opportunity to catch this upbeat musical is now in the hands of amateur theatre companies.
Here is a play with an interesting premise: what would Shakespeare’s female characters say if they had the chance to address their playwright? Would they be unhappy with the trea…
Oddly enough, Grannies with Guns is kind of an anti-Matilda.
School group Centaurs of Attention have an excellent company name and a rather good Fringe show to boot.
A Spaniard, a Frenchman, an Englishwoman and an Italian get on a train and treat us to a series of energetic and amusing clowning sketches that weave together the stories of the in…
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
As a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s enigmatic and famously hyper-intelligent super sleuth, I was intrigued to see this production by the appropriately-named Tobacco Tea Theatre Comp…
Bablake Theatre’s take on the character of Sherlock delivers a few laughs, though it offers nothing new to the already long list of pastiches and homages the detective has receiv…
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
Let’s just appreciate that title for a moment.
Here is all the chaos of a Fringe-like show turned into a Fringe show: a farce about two plays being performed by one cast while their unreasonable and definitely shady writer/dire…
A Royal Flush is a dark political comedy turned farce, featuring a princess stuck in a portaloo and a ransoming of The Daily Star.
Almost twenty years ago, Guy Ritchie changed the landscape of British cinema with his love letter to the charismatic psychopaths of the East End underbelly Lock, Stock and Two Smok…
The stellar reputation of Paines Plough’s championing of new writing for the theatre means that each new offering is welcomed with a great deal of anticipation.
Where Do All The Dead Pigeons Go? This is a production that doesn’t try to answer any of your questions - or refer to pigeons, for that matter, even as a metaphor, throughout the…
Contactless is not your regular drama.
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
World champion slam poet Harry Baker returns to the Fringe, accompanied by his talented friend Chris Read on guitar for a spoken word/acoustic fusion set.
Paul Dabek is back in the spotlight at the Free Fringe and, without giving anything away; this is man who really knows how to make the most of a spotlight.
A Free Fringe double bill of stand-up with no particular theme, Irish comedians Keith Fox and Ger Staunton underwhelm with their unassuming stage presence and only mildly amusing h…
Raising a laugh and a lump in the throat all at once is a good trick – possibly the best.
Mark Thomas’ new one-man-play blends spoken word and storytelling to create a compelling, intimate and rousing performance that lifts the spirit in this pitch perfect personal an…
The refugee crisis is undoubtedly difficult to discuss.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most well known stories in the English canon.
Tom Taylor has produced a show so funny at one point I thought my lungs were going to burst.
Although this show might have been more useful to see before the EU referendum, Knowing EU’s straightforwardness pushes to one side all the unclear statistics and hot headed deba…
Helen Wood’s one-woman show is a journey of self-discovery complete with a bit of psychology, personality quizzes and a sense of fun.
Bubble-lovers will rejoice in this fun, immersive spectacle lead by the energetic assistant Ms Squeaky Bottom and the Nutty Professor himself.
Milkshake! is the latest serving of magi-comic madness for the under-tens from master of mayhem Seska, who bounds onto the stage in a white suit, aviators and furry ushanka hat.
Ever wondered, or perhaps dreaded, what it would be like if your search history could talk? With a host of zany characters and one wonderfully surreal party, You Tweet My Face Spac…
Not everybody hates The Lounge Kittens.
An “Original Lord of the Rings Parody” One Musical to Rule them All is full of puns, mocks the bits of Lord of the Rings that we all thought were a bit ridiculous and illogical…
This is a tale about dogs: specifically Johnny the young puppy piano player in a shady speakeasy in 1920s New York City.
In Shakespeare Syndrome, brought to Edinburgh by the talented Mermaidsgroup from the University of St.
Bursting with musical variety and talent, razor-sharp lyrics and incredible chemistry, Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston return to this year’s Fringe with Cabaret Whore Pre…
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
Vivaldi for Breakfast is an interesting attempt to dramatise the enigmatic life of notorious Baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi, as he worked in the famous Pietà orphanage for youn…
Shakespeare Shorts: Hamlet - Shakespeare’s Hamlet condensed into an hour by kids, for kids.
The premise of the show is deceptively simple, and the clue is in the title: what a woman would do or go through for a man who she wholeheartedly loves, even though he has already …
Juice Straws Are Bleak is a fantastical, surrealist adventure experienced by a class of school children under the disinterested gaze of their teacher.
Often, first-time Festival goers arriving in Edinburgh can be paralysed by choice as a result of the sheer volume of shows on offer.
We meet Fred as he wakes up - cute little puppet stretching and yawns ensue.
To make The Auld Alliance, start with a nice big helping of Jane Austen.
Buzz is a new musical from writer Robyn Grant.
The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club’s adaptation of the restoration era comedy The Country Wife moves the action to modern American suburbia, but keeps the period’s …
Previously known for her well received part as a Totally Naff Tart, this is Victoria Jeffrey solo and talking about life.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
Never before have I had to so strongly caution an audience - if you don’t enjoy having all eyes on you, look away now.
Perhaps you aren’t aware of fuckboys.
We begin with a boy meeting a girl.
Chris Henry is a frantic comic.
Dirty Glitter, a cop comedy-thriller, tells the story of a duo of private investigators: the confident and logical Murphy, along with the bumbling and eccentric Valmont.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
We very rarely think about our own deaths.
Lying seems to be getting more and more fashionable.
Anybody who finds themselves rooting for a couple in a film or show will love the responsibility handed out by Ae-Ja Kim in Our Man.
A short and sweet performance that makes use of popular romantic tracks to tackle the trials and troubles of online dating and the accompanying creeps who come with the app, Love M…
In the programme, The Shakespeare Club promises to be a somewhat cheesy, yet harmless play about finding oneself through Shakespeare’s characters.
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
The set-up is simple: an armchair, a side-table, and a teapot, cup, and saucer.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
Ash is a devised piece by a group of Lecoq-trained graduates about the nicotine addiction of a Yorkshireman and his friends and family.
Hot Coals Theatre have put together a slick physical comedy, full of beat-perfect gags leaving you laughing out loud at the flick of an eyebrow, whilst some of the more grotesqu…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
Running since 1997, Faulty Towers the Dining Experience has become a Fringe staple and international success.
In the latest theatrical offering of a Jane Austen themed adaptation, this piece, which is billed as a new musical by Penny Ashton, interweaves thirty-three direct passages from Au…
In a frenzy of blood, sweat, tears and sequins, the Heavens cracked open last night and Peter and Bambi rained down upon us.
First things first.
A History, w Nowell Edmurnds is a surreal examination of celebrity culture which is by turns extraordinarily captivating and deeply funny.
Almost every review of Spencer Jones takes the lazy route of saying he’s like Mr Bean meets something/someone wacky.
Hurricane Michael is the kind of production I come to Fringe to see: a very specific, niche show, seemingly outside of my interests, that is found to be a surprisingly charming hou…
From the creators of the Faulty Towers Dining Experience, The Wedding Reception is an interactive show which includes a three course meal.
Filled with humour and sorrow, Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful is a play about a man who is considering throwing in the towel.
For a night of revelry and a hot mix of incredible performances, Lili La Scala’s Another F*cking Variety Show is a tough show to rival.
To say Dolly Wants to Die is a dark comedy is like saying water is wet: the irreverent jokes come left, right and centre, but only a few of them properly hit their target.
Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years.
Rhombus Ensemble’s Your Mother’s Vagina is a whirlwind of subject matter wrapped up in the lives of its two protagonists: Layla and Sue Anne.
Femmetamorphosis is an easy going play that explores the relationships of five very different characters as they help one of their own through a nasty break up.
Sherlock Holmes, true to its original with all the same characters and tropes that keep fans hooked, but with a twist.
There’s an anarchic edge to the Trash Test Dummies – as might be expected from a circus troupe who go on to perform a succession of tricks and humorous gymnastics using that mo…
There are many children’s shows at the Fringe that seem to follow the formula of throwing a couple of popular franchises together with whatever kids currently like, before adding…
Every single audience member is given a ping pong ball with Shakespearean tropes written on them upon entry.
Amelia Ryan used to be a mess.
Deadpan Theatre return to the Fringe after their sell-out success Get Your Sh*t Together, premiered at the Fringe in 2015.
I attribute quite a lot of my adult personality to my love affair with girl power and how swept away I got in all things noughties.
The best shows at the Edinburgh Fringe are the unexpected ones.
What does it mean to be British? That’s the question that underlies this political, anarchistic play Octopus.
Animal (Are you a proper person?) is a show about learning who you are and being proud of whatever that might be.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
Out of the Blue are something of a Fringe staple by now.
Charlotte Jones’ debut play, Airswimming, is a poignant, one-act portrayal of the lives of two women in St Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on.
Tucked away in Grassmarket, the Sweet is an innocuous venue which this year plays host to one of the most random, madcap events I have ever seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Story Pocket Theatre’s Storyteller, Storyteller pits two storytellers against each other in an epic battle of clowning, miming and slapstick comedy.
If you have kids, take them to this show.
The UK may have had some issues with its European neighbours recently in the political world but perhaps all we need is a little bit of glitter and pop to bring us all together.
Part monologue, part stand-up show, Lana Schwarcz (writer, actor, puppeteer and comedian) shares her experience of breast cancer with honest emotion and cheesy one-liners.
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
Australian musical trio Doug Anthony All-Stars were the anarchic kings of the alternative comedy scene in the late 80s and early 90s, achieving considerable success with such sleep…
At last year’s Fringe, Colin Cloud packed out the house with his show Kills where, amongst the baffling displays of supernatural prowess, he killed and resurrected an audience me…
In a festival saturated with comedy shows about Shakespeare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company continue to reign supreme as the undisputed masters at reimagining the Bard into hilari…
There’s a specific challenge involved when reviewing autobiographical shows surrounding horrendous personal suffering, in this case performer Karen Hobbs’ diagnosis and treatme…
Performed with high energy and boundless amounts of enthusiasm, Let them Call it Mischief’s irreverent and fast paced take on Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror story is decent fun, if …
You won’t find many performers at this year’s Fringe trumpeting their lack of uniqueness.
Before the play starts, you can glean some idea of where this hour is headed from the onstage desk: bottles of wine and vodka, a line of cocaine, a singed teddy bear and a dildo ar…
Nel is a charming little love letter to cinema that follows foley artist, Nel, on her misadventures with her insufferable aunt, demanding boss and a hopeful screenwriter.
It’s difficult trying to describe We Are Ian.
For a fan of legendary lyricist Tom Lehrer this show is a delight.
Shakin’ Shakespeare does an incredible job at presenting the playwright’s work in an accessible and side-splittingly funny way.
This is a pretty great show.
Ushered into our venue we’re greeted by our protagonist, Sean (Hugh Hughes), who gives us a warm handshake and a smile.
It’s always exciting to witness the world premiere of new writing, especially when it’s a British born production.
The Thinking Drinkers are back at the Fringe and this year they’re serving up a whistle stop tour of the world’s boozy traditions, mixing up a cocktail of historical facts, fil…
Between Episode IV and V of Charles Ross’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy, the writer/performer spent some time polling the audience.
Shrapnel theatre’s new Fringe show The D-List attempts to address the issues of celebrity and fame in the modern day world of Twitter, reality TV and a culture that idolises thos…
“We have a reviewer in tonight” crows a tall, stunning, grotesquely padded and malformed white-painted clown.
Four strangers survive the end of the world and end up stranded in a swan pedalo.
At its most fundamental, theatre could be described as a series of entrances and exits, with a variety of complex journeys thrown in between the two to spice things up.
Workplace drama can become pretty intense.
Being both a chronic worrier and a huge fan of television from the 1990s, I had high hopes for Don’t Panic! It’s Challenge Anneka: a one woman show that uses the programme, Challen…
This is a wonderfully complex piece; part intertwining story, part vocalised ruminations of Jack Klaff, a Fringe veteran who gives a stunning performance.
Akin to a sort of Galaxy Quest on stage, The Starship Osiris is a non-stop comedic spoof space romp.
The woman wants to marry, the man does not.
Goggles is a simple, quirky and deeply endearing devised piece in which comedy double-act ThisEgg explore the complexities of love and friendship through that most profoundly alleg…
La Pire Espèce have been rummaging in the cupboards: in Ubu on the Table coffee pots, cutlery, a glass jug and drawers full of unassuming objects populate the cast in an energetic…
Picture the scene: two women in letterbox face paint — a pair of punkish, postmodern clowns — sit on a couple of threadbare armchairs underneath an enormous screen, sipping bee…
With a script and songs by Desmond O’Connor, this new musical tells the tale of the legendary night that TV superstar, Kenny Everett and rock god, Freddie Mercury dressed Lady Di…
With an energetic physicality and endearing vulnerability, Katie Sherrard’s hungover mess of a character walks the audience through the familiar state of trying simultaneously to…
On top of the breakfast (croissant, coffee and strawberries), there is a handful of ten-minute theatre pieces that are eccentric, funny and outrageous.
There is a theory in literary circles that, at some point in the writing process, the characters will take on a life of their own and as such, will dictate their journey to the wri…
Triple Entendre is directed, created and designed by Emily Cairns and is a comic musical cabaret about “Love, Life and Other Stuff”, consisting of a collection of original song…
In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward.
The Madwoman in the Attic is a famous piece of feminist literary criticism that dissects the feminine ideal and its opposite, as exemplified by the relationship between Jane Eyre�…
From Benedict Cumberbatch on the TV to Robert Downey Jr on the big screen, Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Victorian novels Sherlock Holmes have been brought back so many times, and…
Company is a musical so of its time that a string of directors over the past decade have struggled with the problem of whether to present it as an unchanged period piece or contemp…
What Edinburgh Fringe would be complete without a trip to Shakespeare for Breakfast? Now in its 25th year at the festival, the group have not lost their touch.
From Mountview London graduate’s company Some Riot Theatre, A Series of Unfortunate Breakups is a rollercoaster of storylines and emotions that impresses and moves in equal measu…
Written in the 90s, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister presents the iconic ‘girl next door’ story without being self-conscious and with a great deal of laughter.
Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate.
I’m a lover of musical theatre but I’m prepared to be really honest here: the genre is crammed with suitable material for a hilarious and even brutal send-up.
It’s a pretty short drive to Stockbridge, I’ve got a full tank of gas, no cigarettes whatsoever, it’s dark.
Mix together a dollop of Alan Partridge, a squirt of Bear Grylls and a spoonful of Stephen Toast and what do you get? Celebrity explorer, Stackard Banks! Stack is a hilarious comed…
Like a family-friendly version of Sin City with hand puppets, The Toyland Murders follows the adventures of Inspector McGraw (Becca Jones) and her deputy as they attempt to track d…
Njambi McGrath’s 1 Last Dance With My Father sells itself as a dark comedy telling the story of her Kenyan upbringing and her violent relationship with her father.
He promises that next year he’ll bring his comedy show to the Fringe, but right now Ricky Tomlinson has serious matters to discuss.
The Graduettes starts with a great farce premise: flatmates wake up on Christmas morning to find their home robbed and their landlady dead on the floor.
For the Love of Chocolate oozes chocolate from its pores.
Party isn’t that sort of party; well, it sort of is, and maybe it should be, but overall it isn’t – though it might be after it’s finished.
A Traffic Jam On Sycamore Street is a Kafka-esque tale of persecution of the every-man figure by illogically logical authorities.
Sometimes the best moments in live theatre are those that happen unexpectedly.
The title looked like something from a Victorian sideshow.
A surprisingly funny show made up of a series of bizarre vignettes including film, speeches, dance (there is some dancing in clogs, but nowhere near as you expect from the title), …
The story of a young man falling in ‘deep shit’ with a notorious gangster is something we see in movies all the time, and the influence of this is clear in Not the Horse.
Sarah Calver begins her spirited, witty show with a disclaimer: this show is ideally watched in Berlin at 10pm while a couple of pints down.
Barry is charming, flamboyant and has a very ornate vocabulary.
People really do say some weird things on social media.
Threesome follows the rocky road to a triple tryst as married thirtysomethings Sam and Kate (Chris Willoughby and Gemma Rook) attempt to spice up their faltering relationship by in…
Recent cinematic reboots notwithstanding, there’s arguably at least one generation of television viewers for whom Star Trek’s starship captain of choice is not James Tiberius K…
Wild at Heart is unapologetically weird.
Sandy Nelson’s comic play examines the intriguing events of the 2010 Reykjavik Municipal elections, in which comedian and actor, Jon Gnarr, became the Mayor of Iceland’s capital, d…
Every year the Fringe is swarming with many improvised shows, with very few original ideas.
‘This will be as true as I can make it.
This show is nuts… if you’ll pardon the pun.
Robert Sanders and James Sidgwick have created a lightly entertaining musical around superhero tropes and aesthetic, making for cute if not somewhat pantomime-esque hour and a half…
When two precocious, self-important students uncover a student-teacher relationship scandal at their private school, they plan to exploit it for their own gain and, in so doing, ho…
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short story combines the dark tale of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime with a slapstick comedy of manners, coming together rather nicely into a silly, ye…
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Something is rotten in the state of Russia.
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
If you go to see one show this year at the Fringe, make it A Fistful of Hunny.
All too often, comedy shows at the Fringe can look like they are being either pretentiously clever or simply trying too hard.
Buckle Up is a trip on board the world’s worst airline, as technical difficulties, drunken pilots and a terrorist plot threaten to cause major delays.
The title of [Title of Show] tells you quite a lot about what you need to know! This musical, within a musical, within a musical writes itself as it plays out.
“O God, that I were a man,” Beatrice laments in Much Ado About Nothing’s fourth act.
There are three things which are undeniably British: Geoffrey Chaucer, trains and casual drinking.
Setting the evening’s tone from the outset, the audience take their seats while the actors prep onstage, cycling through an exaggerated array of warmup exercises that any perform…
Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick.
Here we go again.
A lovely, heart-warming, funny musical that doesn’t take itself too seriously but at the same time manages to mash up so many genres of music that it would be silly to not take t…
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
The sweet and earnestly acted production of Tom Wells’ The Kitchen Sink at The Space @Surgeons’ Hall depicts a young Hull family whose emotions run hot and cold.
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation is given a shaky new lease of life in this parody adventure by Tobacco Tea.
The Comedy of Errors is a challenging Shakespeare play to stage – it requires a deft touch whether you play it for laughs or more seriously.
The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club has failed to hit the nail on the mark with their latest show Picasso Stole the Mona Lisa.
Lewis Dunn tells us at the end of his performance that he set out to create this show after reading a harsh review of a stand-up comedian at last year’s Fringe, so he’s probabl…
Vanity Bites Back is a clown show about anorexia.
Four people with a few more mutual friends than they might expect trip round one another in Strawberries in January, a play that mixes and matches the tropes of romantic comedies w…
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
Thread Theatre’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests is a boisterous and entertaining farce.
“The thing I was going to show you – well there’s a few things to show you – but I want to tell you something else first,” says Robin Ince some time into this intellectua…
A comedy that ironically centres around two failing comedians should find humour in the ineptness of these characters.
Angelus is a theological comedy taking place in the cavernous space of the Library Theatre in the Royal College of Physicians.
The Wedding Reception is billed as an immersive comedy.
Having ventured far away from the Fringe into a tucked away little village hall in a particularly small auditorium, the first thing that you clasp your eyes on is the absolutely re…
Running Torch’s The Wishing-Chair Adventures prides itself on audience interaction.
With this year’s general election behind us and members now in office the return of Posh to the Festival Fringe is timely.
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history.
Brilliantly acted and superbly written, Bismillah! is one of the best shows I have ever seen at the Fringe or anywhere else.
Interrupt the Routine takes a trip back in time to the 1940s, where their broadcast of a new radio play The Gin Chronicles is about to begin.
Dr Sara Chris (Sam Wheatley) is a frustrated eco-activist who wants to help save the world; after an ill-advised deal with the Devil she achieves the power to get what she wants, b…
Chris Cook is an unexpected gem of Edinburgh Fringe magicians, and an absolute master of his stage.
Folk music is often known for its depressing lyrics and melancholy tones, so a farcical parody of the genre seems unexpected.
If you love The Apprentice, you’ll be disappointed to discover that despite brandishing Lord Alan Sugar across their posters, Practical Magic’s Desperately Seeking Sugar has li…
The best thing about Terry Pratchett’s work was his ability in world creation.
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
Mrs Shakespeare is a bold and thought provoking show about a woman struggling to find her own identity in a male-dominated world, as told by a gender-bent reincarnation of William …
Dominic Berry takes us on a personal journey in his spoken word show inspired by the world of online gaming.
If you are a fan of comedy, film noir, or just free shows in general, you should probably check out Health Under Fire.
Harry Baker is a young middle-class blonde rapper-turned-poet.
Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from…
Jim Higo and Miki Higgins present their double act poetry, comedy and sketch show which is intended to be ‘a satirical look at culture and the arts’.
John Lennon was not only a Beatle, but also a skilled short fiction writer, poet and doodler.
Stephanie Laing is Chesney Hawkes’ number one fan.
Counter Culture is a very clever show; so clever that it took me halfway through it to realise that the title is quite a good joke.
What better combination is there for a feel-good show than a group of men singing a cappella Britney and a book of alpaca facts? London-based singers and all-round fun guys, the Bu…
Everything I love about the Edinburgh Fringe can be summed up by a group of people rocking out to the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody in the middle of the street with little or no…
The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers is a witty and intelligent black comedy with psychopathic humour that will chill and charm you in the same sitting.
A traumatised zookeeper tells the tale of her misadventures with her co-workers and an escaped Tiger who is now their captor… and director.
Doug Segal opens the show with a unique and refreshing approach to mentalism - it’s easy, you can do it too, and here’s how.
Now running for just over 17 years and seen by one million people, the Lady Boys are most certainly back in town and after all these years you would think it would be hard to keep …
Tik-sho-ret (‘communication’) Theatre Company have achieved their manifesto of giving a platform to Israeli and Jewish theatre.
Created by the wonderful Pete Saunders and his lovely ladies Miss Vicious Delicious and the delightful Scarlet Belle, Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour offers an enchanting evening o…
Dressed in a suit emblazoned with the sort of multicoloured exclamations that you would often find in comic books, Matty Grey’s eye-catching attire alone sets the tone for this m…
When High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found dead, Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Sergeant Rolfe are on the case to find the killer.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
NSDF darlings of 2014 Naughty Corner are back with their winning original play The Bastard Queen! Set at the end of the world, the play sees five young people fight for survival an…
It is difficult to know where to start with Violet Fox’s autobiographical show about her fraught relationship with her mother – I’ll take a note from her and start at the beg…
Billed as a rom-com, Bear Hug looked to be a pretty safe bet for some laughs – described as a story about how coming out is easy but how getting back in is harder.
A masterwork of parallax, Macaroni on a Hotdog gently uncovers its affecting core through a focused 50 mins of understated wit.
A seamless stage adaptation of book and film, Submarine deserves a round of applause.
The storyline is shallow, the message insubstantial and the script contrived, so you don’t have anything deep to think about.
Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl…
‘Awesome’ is a terrible word, but there’s no shame using it – in the truest sense – to describe Leapin’ Louie and his lethal range of doohickeys.
A slick absurdist piece, PALP’s One Above is an intelligent offering from the young company.
As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very common choice for the Fringe.
Napier University Drama Society presents a musical retelling of the Trojan War as their offering to the gods this festival.
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
Children’s entertainment should be brimming with energy, lovable and over-the-top characters, and enchanting tricks.
“It’s amazing how therapeutic knitting can be,” says one of the three characters in An Illuminating Yarn, a one-act play by Jane Pickthall, produced by Newcastle’s Button Box…
Ostensibly, Worbey and Farrell’s show is a piano recital.
Don’t wear make up to this show.
The Quentin Dentin Show is an extraordinary and eccentric dark comedy rock musical, which sees main characters Nat and Keith’s relationship on the rocks and their lives in a rut.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a show centered around just that; children taking part in their local spelling competition.
This is a lewd, ridiculous and over the top show that will leave you stunned and cackling.
Why go to the trouble of raising the funds and making the trip to the International Collegiate Theatre Festival, only to present plays nobody back home would want to see, much less…
This piece of new writing from Ben Maier is the latest addition to the succession of plays at this year’s Fringe which in some way seek to deal with issues of mental health.
The legal stage is not unlike the theatrical one.
You are informally invited to the quarter-life crisis convention; please be aware that firecracker wit, excessive metaphors, discussion of masturbation and mephedrone, fiercely int…
The show is called Happy Medium, and Peter Antoniou introduces himself early into it as a ‘Comedium’, but these excellent puns are far from the best part of this show.
‘A good way to be happy’, Alice Keedwell tells us, is ‘you’ve got to silence the critic inside your head for a moment or two’.
“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot.
Book of Love is without a doubt a special show: Lindsay Benner is sexy, silly and completely charming.
Nicola Wren’s one-woman show describes the hundreds of modern-day anxieties we all face in the dating world due to social media and technology.
Out Of The Blue could well be classed as Fringe veterans, returning year after year over the past decade for an afternoon of singing, dancing and suggestive hip-wiggling to guarant…
With her bright red hair and black-lined eyes, Penny Arcade looks like some sort of cartoon superhero – and she has the commanding stage presence you’d expect of one too.
One woman, one show, one hour ten minutes and the entire works of Jane Austen to affectionately satirise: New Zealand comedian Penny Ashton’s Promise and Promiscuity is no mean f…
Jack Rooke: Good Grief could probably win a prize for ‘comedy show with the least likely to be funny subject matter ever that actually turns out to be absolutely hilarious�…
From Fine Mess Theatre comes Kyle Ross’ play Islands, an insight into upper-middle class marriage which typifies the lifestyle of the ‘rah’.
Sometimes love comes to you and sometimes you have to make it happen.
Sheffy is a lad on a mission.
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
In a field on the outskirts of Glastonbury sit Joel and Dave, recent university graduates, taking any work they can find.
When he speaks of his father’s ‘talkative blue eyes’, you know immediately from where Wil Greenway gets his knack for beautiful storytelling.
Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Last year Chris Davis performed brilliantly in Drunk Lion and garnered great reviews.
Mitch (Eric Sigmundsson) loves movies.
A blend of music and comedy, Cabaret Nova exhibits some of the Fringe’s up and coming stars.
Stand-up comedy and theatre rarely interact in meaningful ways.
Bob Monkhouse was a complicated and enigmatic man.
Half clown, half rock opera, one-man show Puddles Pity Party is the Fringe debut of viral video star Puddles the Clown.
Vanessa Smythe has a bit of a ‘downer hobby’: she worries about disappearing.
His name might feature prominently in the title, but prolific Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti takes a back seat in this new production written by award-winning playwr…
Though billed as theatre, 101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins is essentially a lecture on odious media figure Katie Hopkins, complete with biography and PowerPoint presentation, b…
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…
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
Amiable hosts Dingo (Joshan Chana) and Dog (Thomas Fraser) present surreal sketches and storytelling in this enjoyable and inventive show that will sometimes be lost on younger aud…
Around the World in 80 Days is one of Jules Verne’s famous adventure novels.
StudioSpace Bristol didn’t set out to make great art - they just want to make you laugh.
In her khaki jumpsuit and ponytail, writer-actor Rebecca Crookshank looks like a cute suburban 30-something.
The woman who invented the most efficient method of slaughtering an animal was a vegetarian, we are told as the lights come up on Charolais.
Going to a percussion based show at the Fringe could go one of two ways: it’ll either be a case of just watching people hit things for an hour, or it’ll be a veritable fiesta f…
Adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s original play by Tom Parry – one third of Fringe favourites Pappy’s – Marriage stars the cream of Edinburgh’s crop: Ben Clark (also of Pappy’s), Ad…
Word of advice: the four stars you see here are only for the brave at heart.
During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug…
Originally a one-act play consisting of five scenes, The International Stud premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1978 and later became the first part of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark work, …
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is now an institution.
A superb one-woman show from Kate Cook, Invisible Women tells of the thrilling adventures of a repressed housewife and sometime poet turned WWII operative.
When you sit down for a show named as ridiculously as Kraftwerk Badger Spaceship, you should be ready for the surreal.
This one-woman show presents Nell Gwyn, mistress of King Charles II, as she regales the audience with her lot in life – actor, lover and whore.
If you’re living right, this could happen to you.
Stuart Bowden’s voice emerges behind a curtain.
There are many productions of reimagined Shakespeare plays that try to add a unique twist to the Bard’s work.
The Addams Family is an updated take on the iconic family of twisted misfits that brings the story forward from where it left off.
Tumbling across the stage with the energy of ten children’s birthday parties, Playhouse International (Romania and Australia) create a completely chaotic environment which is bound…
What is love? Is it the crazy infatuations of our teenage years, the strength to make a failing marriage work or the instant bond between parent and child? Or is it something else,…
British Exist Theatre Company admit that they sometimes embrace challenging and provocative subjects.
In all likelihood, you’ll have already noticed the five star rating attached to this review.
Rob Coleman’s Ocean Going Idiot is less of a piece of theatre and more an hour’s friendly chat about a largely failed adventure in the top room of a pub.
The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder.
Performed and written by Gary McNair, A Gambler’s Guide to Dying is a story told by a young boy, charting his grandfather’s extraordinary life of gambling.
How to Keep an Alien is an autobiographical story written and performed by Irish actress Sonya Kelly.
Punch and Judy has been a long running stalwart of beachside entertainment for the whole family – but whatever you do, don’t bring the kids to this live-action adaptation.
Bryony Kimmings is a theatre maker, performer and actor.
Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…
Captain Morgan is back – and now he is armed with the Sands of Time.
Serving in many ways as an exploration of grief, mental illness and the intricacies of the bond between mothers and daughters - all wrapped up in a one-woman show - 65 Days of Trac…
Hidden up at Basic Mountain, this piece from acclaimed playwright Stephen Belber is real all-American treat.
Shakespeare’s body of work is well-traveled by theatrical patrons – some might say imposingly so.
It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th…
Ian Macpherson is perhaps best known for a joke he came up with years ago: ‘They say you play at _____ twice in your career.
The concept of Playback Impro is both a simple and an effective one.
The act of judging is at the centre of The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 19th century masterpiece about a naïve and simple minded prince in St Petersburg.
Joanie Little is an honest, open and kookily sexy waitress working in Gabe’s Coffee Shop in Toronto.
You cannot criticise Rhys Nicholson for a lack of clarity.
After a rave reception for his controversially-named Fringe debut last year, Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked, Rob Hayes has penned another one-man show.
Jeff Green wastes no time in getting to the meaning behind the title, asking the ever-relevant question “What am I doing with my life?” Surely at 50, Green knows what he wants …
Embracing all the great theatrical traditions of silent comedy and vaudeville, Funny Bones Trash is the best kind of children’s show.
Pantomime is not just for Christmas, according to Òran Mór, whose take on the genre is a wonderfully satirical look at the corridors of power.
The Park family screening of Jurassic Park goes awry due to a missing video tape.
The idea behind Giant Leap is fascinating: a group of writers attempt to pen Neil Armstrong’s first words as America fakes the 1969 moon landing.
I would like to preface this review by saying that I think this production could be fantastic.
An engaging, inventive and deliciously silly ride, Unmythable will appeal to anyone who enjoys either Greek legends or big laughs.
In posh Manhattan restaurant-ese, the phrase “fully committed” means “really, really full for the next two months, so don’t even try for a table.
Improvisation in any context can be challenging, but throw in some Shakespeare and an incredibly complex collection of rhyming structures and it seems nigh on impossible.
The Tate Postmodern has everything you would expect to from a contemporary art gallery: a whole host of hipster credentials, disinterested security and an overpriced gift shop by t…
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
Advertised as ‘A One-Woman Play With A Man In’, I had preconceptions about this show that involved transgender, cross-dressing, and insightful anecdotes about sexual orientatio…
Go see BLAM! With your eyes.
Colin Cloud is the ultimate rockstar mentalist, or as he styles himself, deductionist.
‘Hi, Eric Swineblade,’ says a bluetooth-enabled gumph-bot at the door, proffering his executive, solutions-providing hand.
What Would Spock Do? is a well-packaged and lovingly-written show held back from greatness only by a loss of potential emotional depth.
As the bombastic theme tune starts playing, waves of nostalgia roll across the audience.
The weird, wacky and wonderful all come together in this fantastically strange new show.
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
If you’re looking for an enjoyable, happy-go-lucky hour of rhythm and blues entertainment, then look no further than this show.
Trying to recreate the British music festival environment in a small Edinburgh theatre cannot be easy, but Signature Picture’s Festivus gives it a damn good go.
The Secretary Turned CEO is a neon, cartoon parody of a classical opera, playing with traditional comedic characters and farcical situations in a modern setting.
Gein’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe once again to showcase their brand of dark sketches.
A deep familiarity with the beloved UK television star portrayed in the warm and witty solo comedy Victoria Wood + ME isn’t necessary to enjoy the vibrant impersonation of her by…
Jetting in from Toronto come clown sisters Morro and Jasp, masters of their craft and hilarious to boot.
If you think that swashbuckling adventures are only for children, think again.
Nailed It! is introduced by singer Andrew Strano and keyboardist Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer as being “about life, about love, about relationships”, and they succeed fantastically in …
Out she comes, toes pointed, slim legs scissoring the air, arms pressed stiffly to her sides.
This year marks the 10th year the Comedians’ Theatre Company appears at the Fringe.
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
Blind Summit bring a mastery of puppetry to the stage, layering meta-narrative upon verbatim performance upon crime headline in an original look at the aftermath of the Jack and th…
“Doesn’t she look lovely?” Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit coo again and again, spitting irony.
What would the word be like if homosexuality was the norm? Zanna Don’t is here to answer that question and bleed the concept dry, long after the amusement has left the building.
“Shout! The Mod Musical” has an exclamation mark in the title, which inevitably garners a certain level of expectation: you want explosive energy and a load of volume.
This is one of the strangest hours I have ever passed.
When two particles collide – or bump together – they are forever marked by each other: inseparable, unified, joined at the hip, like star-crossed lovers whose destinies are hen…
There’s a whole lot going on in Derby Day.
Ruaraidh Murray’s new play is a solid - though far from stunning - tale of a marriage turned very sour.
Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption…
You know those moments that happen on the bus, or in the street, where you eavesdrop on someone’s conversation and gain a brief window into their world? Do you ever think that yo…
La Clique has been a feature on the Fringe for over ten years and has a well deserved reputation for slick circus cabaret and variety.
The aptly named Bungabunga Productions have implored you to see this show before they get sued.
Inspired by her participation in beauty pageants last year, Victoria Melody became fascinated by the origins of the hair that made up her glamorous hair extensions.
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There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot.
When their estranged father dies, twins Nicky and Jake reunite to execute his will.
Tar Baby is a show caught between two worlds, comedy and drama, poignant and silly, white and black.
The Great British Bake Off – what’s not to love? Cake, puns galore and HRH Mary Berry showing her soft spot for gin.
Ayckbourn fans will love this comedy of manners from Durham University’s Fourth Wall Theatre.
When I consider Charles Dickens, a man whose life was seemingly a stumble from one tragedy to the next, I tend not to think ‘comedy stage show material’.
A slow-burn comic piece of theatre about theatre, To She or Not to She will have you chuckling all the way though, and absorbing the deeply felt feminist message without notice.
Double act Flossy and Boo present their curiosity shop, a magical hour of stories inspired by an eclectic collection of novelty objects in their mobile cart.
What if there is no toilet? Well, you needn’t worry.
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.
Sunset Five puts a quirky British twist on a thrilling heist drama.
Sebastien Rambaud and Yann Coste’s Incredible Drum Show thoroughly deserves its seemingly immodest title.
Hijinks and flying kicks abound in this piece of non-verbal physical comedy from the Hong Kong-based Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, last unleashed on an unsuspecting Fringe in 2012.
Amelia Ryan is accustomed to accidents, inclined to insult, prone to gaffs, whoopsies, and boobies.
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
Troy Diana’s comedy These Troubled Times focuses on Charles (John Curtis), an openly gay man who arrives at his brother’s family home to babysit his niece and nephew.
Haste Theatre’s new take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one full of charm and humour.
As roommates, young London singletons Zoe and Ruth are as mismatched as Peep Show’s Mark and Jeremy.
Tokyo Tapdoare a company of Japanese tap dancers, percussionists, circus artists.
Shakespeare for Breakfast is to Fringe as dawn is to day: whilst you could technically have one without it, it really wouldn’t feel very right.