An ageing film producer plans to resurrect his past cinematic successes by revitalising the Carry On franchise with a brand-new film.
16 year-old Sean Parker has never known his Dad and wants to change that.
*Smoke Not Included.
Having finally moved away from the quiet village that raised her, Emmy’s perspectives on life are changing.
A woman embarks on an epic quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Puddle Theatre Company presents a relatable one-woman play.
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.
Join award-winning punslinger Darren Walsh fresh from his appearance on Comic Relief, as he road-tests new jokes, with some old jokes thrown in for good measure.
In Deptford, South London, a routine hair appointment becomes a *slightly* less intense version of John Tucker Must Die.
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…
When sisters Mhairi and Caoimhe run away from home, Mhairi is determined to stay isolated from the world.
August 1815.
‘There’s no greater love story than female friendship’.
Fresh !nk Theatre Company presents a sky-high spectacle! This must-see two-person show is a hilarious theatrical journey set 30,000 feet above the Atlantic.
When a grieving Olivia is suddenly left alone in her apartment, her only companion is a painting she stole in a desperate demonstration of love for her partner.
In the glamorous, bohemian world of pre-war Paris, a beautiful American heiress meets a dashing British diplomat.
Are you ready to ask yourself the hard questions we face within society, family, love and culture? If so, come and witness the journey of four troubled souls who unwittingly explor…
Prom to after-party via generational identity crisis – what if the best night of your life turns into the rest of it? Set to an original score combining pop, funk, jazz and of co…
New Scottish writing: Sammy Blew Up a Toilet is a whimsical, heart-warming and partly autobiographical play set around the early years of school.
Set in the 1980s when Duran Duran were in their prime, personal computers the latest fad and Pacman and Space Invaders the games of choice.
Inspired by the style of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and that of traditional storytelling by a single narrator, this play weaves four humorous and moving narratives into one man…
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…
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…
Whales sometimes make hit songs that get repeated through the ocean.
When their daughter announces that she wants to transition, a couple find themselves divided in their attitudes and judgements.
Five would-be somebodies find themselves united in Hell, part of a trial run to solve Hell’s oncoming population problem.
Name? Where is here? Where is nowhere? Mouse, by name, but they are still to find out if it’s by nature.
Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy.
AJ doesn’t like karaoke, but she does like the girl who asked her to go.
Created by Sarah Bishop, Somewhere is a brand-new fantasy musical with music and lyrics by internationally acclaimed indie-folk duo The Dunwells and other established Yorkshire sin…
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…
What does it mean to be English anymore?.
Tellus Theatre presents Night Train, an exciting physical-theatre production.
Can an Asian with ADHD and dyscalculia pass Elon Musk’s Mars immigration test? Set in a dystopian future of space colonisation, Is There Work on Mars? rants about many things: bein…
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
College is the best four years of your life! So, what happens when it ends? What was supposed to be a relaxing trip to a small town ends up turning Alex, Mallory, Stella and Bailey…
Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724.
Gruoch is a feminist, myth-centred examination of the bereaved and abused girl who became Lady Macbeth as an act of revenge for the death of her father.
2000’s reality TV graced our screens with extremities, from swapping wives to fixing diet “crimes”.
Nettles is a captivating and thought-provoking exploration of the human psyche, presented through a lens of dark comedy and existential introspection.
Upon a young woman’s decision to admit herself to rehab, she decides to get back into contact with her estranged mother.
Shapiro is a new musical based on the early life of UK singer Helen Shapiro.
Placeholder follows the early-life crisis of a somewhat dramatic twenty-something.
The seven stages of grief are a familiar concept to those who are grieving, have grieved or will grieve.
A gripping piece of new writing, My Blood is a psychological thriller loosely based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia.
Two couples move into a flat and after just one week, one-half of each couple dies.
It’s Tibby’s 25th birthday and she is throwing a big party: after years, her friends from uni are coming together — and they are all doing better than her.
We need not stay dormant forever… When everything around Devin continues to grow and decay, why is the flower in his room showing no signs of change? Intertwined with a score ins…
This world-premiere musical explores how a shared moment of stress among strangers can bring them to form a fast bond.
Ghosts have the most appalling quality of life.
Untitled: How does a life unfold through conversation and can you trust your own brain to guide you down memory lane? Untitled invites your curiosity on a journey.
Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown.
Two friends, one party, zero social skills.
There are things you shouldn’t move.
It is September 1997.
What do kids really think about their parents? How do parents feel about being parents? If parents could do it all over again, what would they do differently? In Parents, we explor…
‘I think if you’re going to write a ghost story worth its salt you must experience ghosts for yourself’.
The astonishing true story of Dr James Barry, a pioneering doctor for nearly 50 years who achieved the highest medical rank in the British Army.
‘No woman should touch pen and ink: they had too much passion and too little sense.
Drew thinks she’s pregnant.
A man has decided to take his own life and finds himself in a state of limbo between life and death.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
A coincidence or an act of a god? Are the children who created a god as a game truly responsible for the unexplained events unfolding around them? Ten years after their last plea, …
Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse.
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 …
Bumping into your ex at work covered in baby vomit can be awkward.
Six friends plan a night of folklore and song.
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
Trying to get through the many challenges of their day, a team of young co-workers in a broken system begin to have their limits pushed to the extreme.
Rey is checking out their mum’s 80s record collection when a mysterious recording sends them on a mission to bury nuclear waste in a Berlin nightclub.
Following in the footsteps of the great time travellers of the past, present and future, the woman with the purple hat, the painted boots and the little wheelie suitcase invites yo…
A life lived in the shadows of her father, of her lover and of her own sadness, Eleanor Marx’s light shone fiercely upon fin-de-siècle England, until its untimely extinction.
How is it possible: we all watch this, we all agree, we all shake our heads, yet we all get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again? Matteo and Reggie, fuelled by John’s sugge…
1572.
‘My mother always said she wouldn’t make the same mistakes her mum did.
How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do.
Sexy, camp and nepotistic.
A hilarious, nostalgic and heart-breaking tale of one woman’s descent into motherhood and mayhem.
Step back into the Edinburgh of the eighteenth century! Passing Likeness is a new verse drama by local writer Ash Caton.
A dark romantic comedy that explores the topics of death and the afterlife.
Searching for his beloved Alice in a race against time, Hatter leaves home.
‘I got very little, little to no media training, so.
Monet’s paintings are world famous.
Get thee to a…Nursery? In this absurdist comedy, a band of four-year-old rascals are cursed by the spirit of Shakespeare for shredding his beloved folio.
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…
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
In 1916, Christabel Mennell writes a letter of apology to Katie Marsh.
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 a tram-related accident, the renowned cast of Macbeth have been all but wiped out.
Speakbeast are doing an agricultural conference, and it’s got all the things we think agricultural conferences usually have.
School friends Amelia, Poppy and Lauren are wild camping in the Northumberland forest.
‘I became the Jeremy Clarkson of tits.
How do you look non-binary? Everyday your brain is bombarded by images and opinions about your body.
After a failed graffiti attempt in a nightclub toilet, Kev Campbell ends up meeting a stranger who completely changes the course of his life.
A powerful, provocative and funny new play by Nancy Hamada about love, loss and America’s twisted obsession with guns.
Two people, one bed and no connection.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
‘Choosing sperm is weird.
Embark on a journey with Marriage with Benefits, a captivating one-woman show delving into the comedic complexities of love, ambition, and bureaucracy in a post-Brexit landscape.
A dotcom billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait.
Rising-star comedian (Evening Standard), NHS psychiatrist and author Benji Waterstones returns from a sold-out Edinburgh run with more tales from the psych ward.
Arthur is just trying to finish his painting.
You think you know the story of Mary, Queen of Scots? Think again.
Tupac never died.
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 in the west of Scotland.
Inspired by the true events of The Great Emu War of 1932, this new comedy musical tells the story of WW1 veterans trying to grow wheat in the Australian outback.
‘Hey, we’re not students anymore – who the fuck stole my avocado?!’ A comedy about five housemates gloriously wasting their youth as they try to avoid the hell of growing up.
Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells embark on a quest to uncover how the economy wins elections, and why the force that dominates our lives is so bloody complicated! Armed with bag…
From the company that brought you Bluewater (‘a true original’ ***** (BingeFringe.
Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job.
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.
What happens six months after your five minutes of fame? Cyrus and Ben are the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality show.
Krista lives in London.
Hajja Souad sells shrouds for burying the dead in Gaza.
World premiere of Gabriel McDerment’s new mental-health work! As Andrea, a high school senior, fights through the daunting US college application process, she experiences the menta…
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy.
What happens when truth, rage and purpose converge upon a metaphorical moon? A displaced narrator must face her past and find out.
Lured into metaphorical deep water by a mixture of intrigue and desire, a bewildered Emory Holdridge grapples with life on the remote but stunningly beautiful West Coast of Scotlan…
Have you danced so hard that you felt you could achieve anything? Mili’s inner persona says yes, but Mili’s body always caves with embarrassment amongst a world of serious people.
“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok says this show might do that but don’t worry we can just trauma bond.
Finn and Isabelle are trapped in an unhappy relationship.
The year is 1990.
The UK premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who’s kind of like Hugh Gr…
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
Chance by Yolan Noszkay follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been exclud…
William Wallace is in a London dungeon awaiting his fate, he knows what’s in store for him yet he faces up to his demise with bravery and determination, this is a stirring tale as …
Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one.
In the early hours of July 17th 1918, four young women were executed by shotgun and bayonet in a grubby basement in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Picture This is a new musical-thriller that follows stop-motion animation filmmaker Mary.
A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room.
Suzie Depreli – not a typically Jewish name, is it? – brings you one woman’s passive aggressive mission to educate the world about what it means to have an orthodox family that…
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.
Using music, dance and drama, SLP have created an original love story that celebrates self-discovery and diversity as lovers choose to cross the societal boundaries of different wo…
Eager to stand out from the crowd, a group of teenagers turn to the assistance of AI – but what starts as a fun experiment soon turns to alarming obsession.
‘I think something’s happening to me.
Good and Gaslit.
From a troublesome priest to a mystery guest and a very, very late hearse, expect family fallouts, secret affairs and lots of chaos.
A captivating one-woman show, based on the critically acclaimed Amazon bestseller Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda.
A comedy told by mad people, for mad people.
Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of healing.
Eloise’s Dad taught her to play the piano.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
A story of love, loss and how to let go, The Stall, an original one-act play written and performed by award-winning actor Jack Twelvetree, cuts to the heart of the human experience…
The cosy, safe world of three flatmates is rocked by a woman’s murder.
Waiting for Champagne follows former friends and roommates, Annie and Frances, who haven’t spoken to each other in more than a year.
Are you destined to repeat ancestral patterns forever? If you could know the entire history of your bloodline, and everything you’re passing on to your children, would you want t…
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
Abby Vicky-Russell presents her ‘masterclass in character comedy’ **** (LostInTheatreland.
A violent relationship can happen to anyone.
Vulnerability and sexual awakening go hand in hand in Declan, an unnerving one-man play set in rural Wiltshire.
Ben Tomalin, Maisie Fawcett and Sophie Holmes’ Without is an interesting contender at this year’s Fringe Festival in that it has a very strong cast that handles an equally stro…
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.
Don’t be put off by the topic - this dance show about death is far from gloomy.
Blue Dragon.
It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
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.
After the sudden death of her grandfather, Lisa Blanche is left with the task of carrying out one of the wishes on her grandfather’s will: to find out what happened to his brother …
Deep beneath the streets of Regency Edinburgh lies a labyrinth of pitch-dark vaults, housing the downtrodden and hiding a criminal underworld.
Black comedy/drama. Jodi and Danny are True Spirits and are destined to be together forever. The only problem is that Danny doesn’t know it yet…
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
How long would you wait for a moment of inspiration? 1860s Paris is a place of romance and art, but for Victorine, it is an escape from her grey life in Dublin.
The last day of anyone’s retirement is usually calm and peaceful, that is unless your name is Victor ‘The Knuckles’ Norman.
Hollywood, 1950.
How far can you push a sex metaphor, a romantic friendship, and questionable interior décor choices? When Ash and Zee move into their tiny Edinburgh apartment, they begin to navig…
We begin, as most trauma does, in the distant past.
Based on a true event in New York City, 1911.
What happens when you love your life and want to be dead? Join Sadia Gordon with her Fringe debut dark comedy.
This firecracker of a comedy explores the relationships between four young women embarking on a disastrous camping trip.
Tom and Isaac are two mice who have lived inside a cuckoo clock their entire lives.
BBC Studios, November 1991.
Washington DC’s iconic sketch duo, Lots of Feelings, finds meaning amidst the chaos of life through mouth and eye-watering sketches.
You’ve been trying to work on your coolness.
A woman is tied to a bed – a sex game or something more sinister? Is he still angry about the mushy peas? It’s about family, betrayal, god, sex and a girl who just wants to be lo…
Would you rather watch, or be watched? Julia is hosting a dinner party.
Seven women attend a wake where they discover that their lives are mysteriously intertwined.
‘To be, or not to be? That is the question.
Jen’s Evolution is Nigh: One woman.
Part homage to Charlie Kaufman’s 2002 film, part testimony to Gabor Maté’s Myth of Normal, a corporate trainer reluctantly wakes up to the impossibility of society’s invisib…
What happens when you fall so deeply into another’s world that you forget who you are? A one-woman experimental exploration of identity, self-worth, body image and relationships’…
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
Alma is a whale specialist on her final field mission before being forced into an early retirement.
A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker.
This completely original chamber musical by Shaye Poulton Richards is a darkly charming piece of new writing.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
2020 the musical follows main characters Emily Goodhand and Adam Pictor, two musical theatre performers who have faced a lot of rejection, finally get their big break in a show tha…
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
Dazzling is a one-woman show following Alix, a quirky twenty-something living through the obligatory suffering which comes with discovering oneself, especially in the shadow of her…
Mary is dead.
‘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.
Puppets is a new and exciting play, fresh from its debut at the Durham Drama Festival.
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.
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.
A heartfelt, humorous investigation into the things mothers pass onto their daughters – for better or worse.
‘Alexa, Google how to delete my digital footprint.
Teenage chaos, comedy, and (mis)communication – wrapped neatly into five episodes spotlighting the intimate conversations that take place in the corners of a house party.
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 …
Lydia Whitbread’s Winging It is a vague yet very intense coming of age musical.
Get ready to witness a rollercoaster of emotions as our heroine navigates angst, office politics and the ultimate betrayal by her boyfriend Joe, all whilst trying to maintain her s…
Expecting a retelling of the Greek myth, the office set is initially a little confusing.
The Stall by Jack Twelvetree is an abstract show that uses a childhood memory of flying as an extended metaphor to explore grief, loss, regret and mental health.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
Would you watch the worst things on the internet for a living? Written by Rebekah King, this award-winning play follows two former social-media moderators on a mission to sue the c…
Examining the clashing forces on climate change, from eco-activists to oil barons and airheaded celebrities trying to make a change, Crash and Burn not only delivers on a very funn…
If you knew my story, your heart would break too.
Self Actually is about Anthony, who is part of a scientific experiment.
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Welcome to LATER, Paines Plough’s late-night roster of one-off performances.
How did a Jewish immigrant to London’s East End end up as a General in the Chinese army and become “Two Gun” Cohen? This incredible true story is recounted by Cohen from his cell i…
Will is a popular GP but when a teenage patient kills himself, everything starts to unravel.
A boy seeks solace in the woods after the loss of his brother.
Café L’Arté is a brand-new immersive musical set in real time in a coffee shop.
A new dramatic musical with music by Tim Nelson and lyrics by Vincent Aniceto tells the story of a group of everyday people working on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center on …
Smith is having big dreams.
‘Two cousins unalike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene…’ In 1596, courtship is complicated.
Written and composed by Bethany, Cameron and Natasha Lythgoe, Pandemonium is a biblical musical of mundane proportions built upon a confusing amalgamation and re-telling of stories…
When Victor drives into Vi’s life in his dodgy Volvo, things change forever.
When the flints of the old strike with the new, what story can be lit from the sparks? The ancient ballad of Tam Lin is reimagined in a near-future dystopian Scotland, exploring th…
Pandemic making you stir crazy? Log into The Feed! Created by Freed-Hardeman University in Tennessee, The Feed began in 2021 as a series of quirky Facebook posts about a crockpot t…
If there’s one thing that makes a hard worker, it’s desperation.
Shaun Woods has been a football manager for the last 30 years.
Seven days.
A tale about life, loss and love after the well-known happily-ever-after.
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 …
Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions.
Set not too far in the future, Twenty People a Minute follows four refugees of tomorrow on a perilous journey across the earth.
The Scottish witch hunts – sanctioned by the state, fuelled by the Church, fed by hysteria, and buried by history.
Dara is not a ghost.
Mild-mannered Ned Burger is 57 years old, happily married and running a sandwich shop in San Francisco.
A bloody war is brewing.
France 1817.
Roe vs Wade is synonymous with the debate around abortion rights.
A year into the zombie apocalypse and Logan and his fellow survivors are doing just fine.
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…
A writer urges a star to come down to earth and collaborate with him on a play.
Wendy and Liam embark on a first date both assume is doomed for failure.
Brand-new original musical drama comedy based on the true stories of Jill Morrell and John McCarthy.
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.
A curse causes Nathan to skip into the future whenever he falls asleep.
Narcissism, noun – a condition in which somebody is only interested in themselves and what they want, and has a strong need to be admired.
Chopped Liver and Unions tells the story of workers’ activist and trades unionist Sara Wesker, now largely lost to the footnotes of twentieth century history, but in her time a n…
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life.
Describing itself as “a retelling of Rapunzel” for the climate age, Debating Extinction, the first of a double bill entitled Climate Fables, by Padraig Bond, contains several i…
‘Have you ever been told that you’re too much? Too loud? Too chaotic? Too ambitious? Too Scottish? I have.
Can’t Wait To Leave is a deeply heartfelt and surprisingly humorous story by Stephen Leach and is performed exceptionally well by Zach Hawkins.
A powerful new play from today’s Russia brought to the Fringe by artists in exile due to their anti-war position.
An autobiographical, solo rock musical about growing up in the entertainment industry and fighting diet culture, sexual harassment, mental illness and addiction to find authenticit…
This courtroom drama centres around the question of euthanasia.
Alfie and George are two well-loved but aging panto stars, but will this duo last as we reveal the tension between the pair – what will become of them? And will their friendship …
From three-time Booker-nominated author Andrew O’Hagan (Mayflies), a cautionary tale of literary life, a hilarious a brilliant new play.
If you’ve ever been a corporate cog, this is the show for you.
The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office.
Alan doesn’t understand Carol after they met via a dating app which was organised by bestie Karen, but now Carol has met Tony to complicate matters as she becomes the Queen Of T…
The play follows Billy, a young man whose love of football is the dominant feature in his life, religiously attending every match day without fail.
Twenty-something Audrey is struggling with her latest phobia… the local supermarket.
From the writer of 2019’s acclaimed Butterflies (‘playwright to watch’ (FringeReview.
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.
A 62-year-old woman in an insane asylum closes her eyes and becomes a 28-year-old, stand-up comedian with everyone in the audience being part of her imagination, including you.
Welcome to everyone’s favourite flat-pack megacorporation’s new reality TV show! The premise is simple – people are profitable.
‘I thought this Earth was dead, no stirring life, a pile of tinkering bones.
Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals.
The Stranger is a statue in a small Yorkshire town, her exact story unknown.
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.
The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand.
On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story.
Jamie, once a talented young sommelier, is on a downward spiral.
Captain Macbeth is Vice-President.
Cornwall’s rising.
Another chance to see the Broadway Baby Bobby Award Winner Best Theatre Show at the Fringe 2019.
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
Written in Hawaiian language, Pai’ea is a glam-rock opera that covers the early life, tests, and battles of Kamehameha I, the chief who united the Hawaiian Islands.
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
‘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.
Hello, and welcome everyone to a play that explores death, loss, legacy and obsession.
‘When I say sleep, you’re free again’.
World premiere from award-winning Korean/Irish playwright Rena Brannan.
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?…
When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors.
Would you watch the worst things on the internet for a living? Written by Rebekah King, this award-winning play follows two former social-media moderators on a mission to sue the c…
‘Breathtaking, heart-stopping, terrifying’ ***** (Cherwell.
New Year’s Eve, London.
Contrasting pandemic situations portrayed in a colourful collage of scenes and characters, this is a one-of-a-kind experience to witness.
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.
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
12-year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian Outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne.
That moment when your life flashes before your eyes.
Jesse James, the famous outlaw, finds himself in hot water with the authorities and the rest of his crew.
Using some of Shakespeare’s best-loved works, Annie Lightbody explores the traumatic events of 2020 and connects them to her own personal story of crisis and reinvention.
Direct from a sold-out NYC run, 4/4/4 is a radical new play that features 4 real Asian actors playing 4 White men playing 4 fake Asians.
Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine? (what are you saying girl?) finds Ava, seemingly alone, in her Grannies cottage on the north-east coast of Scotland.
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.
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.
A buddy comedy for an existential generation.
Writer/performer Jenny Witzel tells her story of living on a boat in an “up-and-coming” neighbourhood in South-East London.
It’s summer.
Much more a comedy gig than a lecture, James Sheldrake brings the spirit of his podcast (Sheldrake on Shakespeare) to Edinburgh for an hour of anecdote, insight, performance, analy…
Join us in an exploration of love, loss and learning, seen through the lens of an old woman leaving her wisdom with a younger woman.
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
A cocksure and impassioned performance.
Somewhere far inland, lakes that once stretched across the desert are now shallow pools of dust.
‘So, I’ve decided to become a Golden Retriever.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
Are you truly satisfied with how you are living, or do things feel.
Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
“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.
Molly works at Greggs.
Watson is alone.
An annual work review that goes horribly wrong.
Shortlist is a two-hander written by Brian Parks, directed by Margarett Perry, performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams and Matthew Boston.
A captivating new theatre piece about a Black British woman who finds herself homeless and alone after an earthquake.
A play about six wildly different people, coping and connecting during one year on the Common, telling their unexpected tales of love, life, death and downright dottiness, while a …
Transfixing, she’s staring at us through a doorframe – or is it a painting? We’re invited to draw, then bid…Created by Diana Feng, Tegan Verheul and Clarisse Zamba of the W…
Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and a thundering back-line, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.
Niamh O’Reilly is a Frigid, meaning she’s never been kissed.
Theatre Paradok, Edinburgh’s premier experimental theatre society returns with Paradok Platform! More than six brand new experimental pieces of theatre, ranging from comedy and dra…
Surviving the streets of Coventry in his NAF NAF jacket, discovering the gay scene in 90s Soho, exploring the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft, Declan Bennett’s electric, funny and raw …
Winner of the 2023 Edinburgh Untapped Award, One Way Out is a powerful exploration of the injustices suffered by the Windrush generation, through the lens of four boys from South L…
It was the first truly beautiful summer’s day of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Heaven is set in County Offaly, Ireland, during the weekend of a local wedding.
Soldiers of Tomorrow tells the story of Itai Erdal’s conflicted relationship with Israel, specifically his time as a soldier and the prospect of his nephew’s future as a soldie…
A new gig-theatre show featuring songs by Kyle Falconer of The View.
The Birth of Frankenstein tells us the story of Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, on her fateful trip to Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
‘It’s the familiarity of herself, somehow, that she sees reflected in his eyes.
The Hunger is a chilling horror, following mother and daughter Deborah and Megan as they attempt to fend for themselves amid an apocalyptic pandemic.
A unique new musical with a fully actor-muso cast, this Charlie Hartill Award finalist blends contemporary pop, soul, and folk music in a dynamic story of convent school life.
A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff.
City trader, Olly, still recovering from the death of his boyfriend, Sam, has a chance encounter with homeless teenager Aaron.
The sequel to their award-winning debut! Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear-splitting music; try not to be sick if you see too much flesh.
‘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…
The holiday meal gone wrong is a classic sitcom episode and genre of comedy, as surprise revelations and drama abound.
There is wonder here in Edinburgh, and it is being ignored.
Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding.
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.
Cassie is a hot mess.
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
On Hollywood Boulevard, a group of actors are posing as famous characters for photos with tourists.
What connects two seemingly unrelated killings, 27 years apart? In 1993, Steve’s mother dies suddenly; can he trust GP Harold Shipman’s ‘Natural Causes’ diagnosis? And in 2020, whe…
UK Theatre Award Nominee 2022: Best New Play.
Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies.
Time to sweat out the sadness: Spin Cycles gives a cathartic look into why we search for something deeper when the inconceivable happens to us.
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 not a play,” we’re told.
In this poignant and compelling new work, an ambitious manager introduces a new first violinist to a longstanding string quartet with an uncertain future.
A meditation on motherhood, feminism and fame, two-time Emmy award winner Dorothy Lyman premiers her story at this year’s Fringe.
Winner of the 2021 Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize.
This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical.
Emily’s life is falling apart.
'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.
All Terrence wants is to “make it” as a dinosaur entertainer, land a Netflix deal, and get his ex back.
What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation.
Real-life events of a first-generation immigrant navigating the duality of two cultures, Habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian) heritage and British identity.
So they’ve both swiped right.
A good story is surely one that absolutely demands to be told.
***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide).
Get on the Lash! Just in time for last orders.
‘Mum, I’m a lesbian.
It’s club night and the tracks are spinning.
No one knows what happens after we die.
‘Any nation that devours another will one day devour itself.
A thrilling new play by Eve Leigh and directed by Debbie Hannan, Salty Irina is about two girls falling in love and fighting nazis.
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.
Hello Kitty Must Die is a musical adaptation of the Angela S.
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…
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye.
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…
Greek myths have been told and retold, lost, translated and re-translated over and over.
In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording studio to complete an Americana album, unaware that materials in the walls are dri…
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom, written and performed by Raymond Wilson and produced by All Those Figs, is an expert fringe show.
The works of Tennessee Williams rank as some of the greatest and most iconic plays ever written.
‘Such a discovery is playwright Lia Romeo’ ***** (TheaterMania.
What if Shakespeare had a daughter who inherited his wit and creativity? A retelling of the life of Judith Shakespeare, Upstart gives voice to a feminist born before her time.
Lena is on a mission to veganise her tinder dates.
Returning to the Fringe for the fifth time, Hughie Shepherd-Cross debuts his latest play, Ringer.
‘Simply Brilliant.
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
Much like a dramatisation of a family game of Monopoly, Dough looks at money with a kind of argumentative helplessness.
If you need to restore your faith in what Fringe theatre has to offer, look no further than Eva O’Connor’s Chicken, showing in the Former Women’s Locker room at Summerhall �…
A brutally honest, hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show navigating the impossibly confusing gender dynamics of modern love.
Murder in London: The Butterfly Butcher strikes again.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu…
In the pressurised worlds of football and finance, two women carve their own path.
Who needs a pair of heels, a coconut, and a doorbell…? The answer: a foley artist.
For Charly, every day is the same.
Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz is a touching solo play written and performed by Nathan Queeley-Dennis.
Mixing documentary footage, storytelling, and live music, The Death & Life of All of Us is a funny and poignant exploration of family secrets, shame, and embracing our imperfection…
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.
Two Truth and a Lie.
Bubblegum and Pop.
Cora is 23, self-obsessed, a compulsive liar* (*harmless bullshitter), and an absolute hot mess.
10 years of war have ended.
Jordan and Connie want their next-generation AI voice assistant – Alivia – to make their perfect lives just that little bit better.
How many voices must be taken before we are heard? Join the studio audience of this comedic and dystopian gameshow and follow the friendship of two young women and their experience…
Even a prince needs a woman’s first gift.
It’s 1947 and Catherine has just shot dead her husband, Philip, in their Regent’s Park flat.
An original new musical that puts a bluegrass twist on contemporary musical theatre.
Ancient Greece.
Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C…
1930s England.
They say a bull sees red when it loses the plot.
Remember that time you pooed yourself in public? Or when you swore at your mum for asking you to tidy your pigsty of a room? Maybe you’re still blushing over the time someone poi…
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.
Inspirational, passionate and unconventional; the world famous dancer Isadora Duncan was one of America’s greatest performing artists and is widely known as the mother of modern da…
Two sisters.
A world comedic debut, one-woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
An intimate short play focused on the complex deterioration of a wife and the relationship with her husband.
A new comedy with a backstage pass to the magic and mayhem of music performance.
A play about consent, castings and cappuccinos.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding.
One of the best Cornish zombie apocalypse comedies ever made.
This is a play about birthdays.
Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather …
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
The world is ending.
Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends.
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.
The year is 1925; the place is New York City.
Welcome to LoudScribble, Karl’s first one-man show which views the world through his poetic prism in ridiculous detail and invites you to scribble a line or two of your own.
Four students stuck in an elevator, with nothing to do except to talk to each other.
What happens to characters when the curtain comes down? How do we know if they ever learn from their mistakes and move beyond the confines of their story, or whether they remain tr…
Rebound by Allegra Peres.
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
The morning after a drunken rendezvous with an old boyfriend, a woman and her friend discuss autonomy, identity and bad sex.
David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.
Do you believe in magic? Boo and Bunny are best friends.
Explore environmental icon Rachel Carson’s nature in this wildly inventive solo show from fellow Pittsburgher Elise Robertson, who uses puppets, found objects, and stage wizardry…
A heated argument and an all-night conversation leaves childhood friends Max and Kieran shaken, with suppressed emotions exploding to the surface.
The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.
Surrealist stand-up comedian George Bricher will take you on a path of bizarre thought experiments, strange rants and lessons in how to stay optimistic in the face of middle-class …
That’s what a trigger pull is worth.
An experimental nosedive into Jamie’s fractured past.
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
In a city just like yours, hope is in short supply.
Daughter is 17, living with Mother, whom she loves, and Father, whom she hates.
Birds of Passage in the Half Light is a dark comedic excavation exposing the complicated relationship between Her faith and the generational impact that it has had on Her female li…
And is a tribute to all that has graced this earth.
A solo show about motherhood, the forest and the universe.
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…
It’s Richard’s fourth day in hospital, involuntarily detoxing, and he’s itching for a drink.
Ancient Greece.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
A childless man volunteers to mentor a troubled, fatherless boy.
In 2017, I was raped.
There is a distinctly medieval feel to Ross Stephenson’s Artorigus from the start, despite its modern trappings.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
‘Perspectives.
Written by Joffrey himself, this retelling of the first season of Game of Thrones as a traditional pantomime is the true story of Joffrey’s fight to secure his rightful place on …
Rural Ireland meets the Middle East when Paddy, a proud Irish man, loses his lust for life after a family tragedy.
Written and preformed by Tamara Al-Bassam in her debut Fringe production, Able(ish) is a lighthearted monologue about one woman’s uphill struggle applying for disability support…
John and May were sixth form lovers, they haven’t seen each other in five years.
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.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
In a steel-lined basement in a near-future Thursday morning, Conor and Julia are waiting for the world to end.
In this dark comedy, Ophelia and Gertrude are in limbo and on their way to Hell.
Following on from the sell-out production of Our Teacher’s a Troll at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, Stage Door Enigma Theatre Company presents Game On! Join 14-year-old Ben on …
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
Welcome to Clapham South tube station – home to the last five survivors of the climate crisis.
When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man.
Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues …
The Changeling Girl explores experiences of neurodivergency through the captivating story of Agnes, an autistic girl living in medieval England accused of being a fairy changeling.
Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’s just a nicer word for different.
Football, fathers, friendship.
Cat is a one-woman, twisted comedy show by Connie Harris.
Everybody needs a break.
If you were given a chance to travel back in time, would you take it? This story starts when a letter arrives from someone who is believed to be dead.
This reconstruction of Macbeth for Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s annual Shakesperimental play reimagines the narrative within a modern political context.
In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people.
Love and Piss is both a carnival of rebellion and a celebration of queer identity.
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
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…
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…
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
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…
Mediocre everyman Samuel Green has one week to prove himself worthy of permanent residence in Heaven.
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
When Coretta Scott King became widowed after an assassin’s bullet murdered her husband, the iconic Martin Luther King Jr, it propelled her voice, activism and leadership onto the i…
The Calligrapher is a new, award-winning, student-written play by Abraham Alsalihi.
Real, Mad World is a brilliant piece of new writing following the joys and heartbreaks of trans life.
A birthday wish plunges the world into a hellish playground of 90s nostalgia.
Frankie wants to conform.
Robert is a poet.
If life is about the journey and not the destination, then the passengers on the 15:00 train from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley don’t know which way to go.
Welcome to Scarbados! Written and directed by Sam Milnes, brand-new comedy-drama Scarbados is a play about love, life, grief, hope, relationships, and fish and chips! On Shazza and…
Three young people tell us they don’t feel.
In the aftermath of a terrible break-up, Nick takes a job out of town as a private tutor to two young children.
Come traverse the world with me! No hotels to book.
We think we know this story.
Butter Bath is the psych-pop project of Sydney/Eora based artist Toby Anagnostis.
Suddenly kettled at a climate change protest on the hottest day of the year, Kelly finds herself trapped with a volatile and unlikely mix of people.
Originally published in 1915, The Rainbow was extraordinarily ahead of its time as Lawrence explores the experiences of three generations of Polish women living in Nottinghamshire …
Do you believe in magic? Bev does, but after the death of her son Jess she thought she’d never find her magic again.
A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast.
A woman grieving for the loss of her daughter is drawn to the mystery of the Wishing Well.
Gabbi Bolt really hopes her keyboard doesn’t break.
By invite, the Windrush Generation came to rebuild Britain following the end of the Second World War.
1915, Ypres, Belgium.
A tale of unrealised dreams.
Cassie, a young twenty-something from the Northwest of England, has moved to the arse end of London, looking for better opportunities and new beginnings.
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…
Sugar? is a brand new show exploring utterly hilarious, painfully relatable and beautifully told real-life stories of homelessness through a blend of verbatim theatre, physical sto…
The Wyrd Systers present In the Small Hours.
A Mighty Fall from Grace follows the life of a Bradford Bulls fan, who over several years watches his club deteriorate on and off the field and whose mental health deteriorates thr…
As society, evidence and our wider understanding progresses, and so does our ability to assign labels to things, because, let’s be honest, we have a deep desire and need to attri…
After an ecological disaster unleashes a neurotoxin into the air, two people are thrust into a series of emotionally-charged vignettes, where they are forced to confront both the n…
Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) finds itself in a double bind.
Zaibatxu presents: MaX-XiM.
Three cavemen debate the nature of life while trying to survive. When one invents the wheel that’s when life really gets hard.
A coming of age for your 20s.
The story Shakespeare never told.
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.
At a wedding banquet in Hong Kong, guests grapple with absurdist small talk, social awkwardness and an unshakable sense of paralysis in the changeable city.
Sally MacAlister collaborates with upcoming theatre company koi collective to premiere a new comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Jez, Luke, Gary and Mark are die-hard football fans podcasting about the club they love: Third-division Invercreiff FC.
Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe.
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…
Help Mike Lemme leave his NYC apartment.
Paul Richards returns as Harvey; always running, always late and now about to get married.
Jess meets Jim.
As we come into nearly eight years of rule of the UK Government by the Conservative Party – or 12 Years depending on your feelings for the Liberal Democrats – we have seen a ri…
Violet’s scared walking home.
Paper.
Business partners Ross and Wilson use their vacation time to collect coins from Magic Fingers machines in American motels.
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, What You Will is set on Long Island’s Gold Coast in the 1920s and follows the antics of Vi Candor as she circumvents a man’s world in …
Chloe, Maia and Anna are reunited under the most painful of circumstances, the death of their mother.
Murder has come to Rothersdale, where nothing ever happens.
Medea in space.
Lauren Brewer and Will Geraint Drake’s The Single Lady is a musical extravaganza, giving Elizabeth I the same treatment that Hamilton did to the Founding Fathers.
Gosh this is good.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
Disaster strikes aboard the S.
A play about love transcending separation.
Lucy is average, awkward and unassuming.
A ticking clock.
Recalling Banksy’s famous graffiti, originally painted on the side of Waterloo Bridge in 2002, Amy Wakeman’s The Girl and Her Balloon is a similarly ubiquitous depiction of hop…
As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth has witnessed, first hand, the consequences of when love goes wrong.
The true story of how a cute, attention-seeking lamb became the most famous sheep in history – the world’s first cloned mammal.
Absolutely Probably Unless focuses on two people at the end of a relationship, or maybe at the beginning of one.
To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.
Blue loves the sea.
Carnival kissing booth: sometime, someplace.
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.
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
An improvised play inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams, The Glass Imaginary exposes the problems inherent in improvising tragedy.
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…
Runner-up for Best Comedy at Standing Ovation Awards 2021.
After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person.
An original musical with plenty of spark, Vote Macbeth! aims to present a fresh take on the well-worn story of the Scottish play.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Will has fallen hopelessly in love with the seductive singer, Candy.
Jack has recently lost his best friend Michael to a tragic accident and is trapped in a damaging, depressive state.
Join The Glittering Prince of Magic for a world-class magical premiere extravaganza.
An unexpected event will lead three roommates on an intense journey through the adult industry.
When Will seeks out Alina’s insight for his paper on Iran, he has no idea that he will meet the love of his life.
Turning what we know about morality on its head, Gabrielle James and Joshua Newman’s Living With Sin is an interesting twist on the traditionally 'evil' seven deadly sins…
Any one person show relies heavily on the performance of the central cast member and the quality of the script, luckily The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuiness is blessed with exc…
Fast-paced, bold and hilarious.
‘They said it’s your fault.
‘Come on Angel, don’t you ever want to fly?’ 1948.
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
How can you change the world? Stereotypes are shattered when two misfit mums meet outside the school gate. A dramedy about an Iranian and an American living in Middle England.
When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man.
Let me tell you about Ryan.
A shiny new flat.
Brothers tells the story of two estranged brothers Matt and Jay, in their early 30s, who re-unite as one fights testicular cancer and the other battles addiction.
Award-winning political theatre based on the movie about the harmless, loser boxer Rocky, who against all odds defeats his own inferiority and unreasonable loser life.
Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and a thundering back-line, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.
The story of William Wallace as seen through his eyes.
A unique opportunity to return to the experimental roots of the Fringe joining emerging actors from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in a real time, live rehearsal of plays and …
A unique, genre-bending, two-man romp sees one panto dame’s life come crashing down around her.
After years of patching up a rapidly deteriorating airport on an island lost in a Foie Gras scandal, Lick is staring down the propeller of a cargo plane.
It is 1952 and the spiffing summer hols are here at last, what larks indeed! Young Lady Iris Bungle finds herself in bonnie Scotland assisting her theatrical, spunky cousin Lord Di…
At the start of the pandemic, PE teacher Aniqa’s school transforms into a food bank, as the East London community pulls together to get through lockdown.
Dudley’s favourite space is at Jeanie’s shop.
Follow the journey of a fictional American president and delve into the murky underbelly of the struggle for power.
Chronic Insanity’s 52 Souls is a series of monologues that correspond to each indiviudal playing card (plus one Joker) along the subject of death and mortality, all in an hour.
Concha is a one-person semi-autobiographical play exploring the intersectionality within the queer experience.
Have you ever read the secret confessions written on the walls of a toilet stall? If so, you know you are in for a treat! Bathroom Confession follows four young women embarking out…
1588 examines the story of the Spanish Armada from the Spanish and English stand point.
A character comedy set in Philadelphia about struggling to maintain one’s authenticity while facing inevitable change.
Greetings, weary traveller.
Edinburgh-based award-winning Siamsoir Irish dancers return with their fifth original show – an Irish dance play.
Are you Yes or No or Maybe Aye or Maybe No? This play takes us from 2014 up to the present day and looks at the independence debate with wit and humour as two families decide how t…
When Raina arrives at her spoken word gig to see her exes in the audience, all the questions she’s had about her past sexual experiences begin to surface.
The world will end in seven days.
Everyone knows that Ayesha is going places.
A heart-warming play illuminating the significant contributions of the Windrush Generation to Britain, the scandal around their wrongful treatment and their journey in overcoming t…
Intellectual writing, well elaborated characters and compelling themes of control in human and non-human relationships make Assisted at Surgeons' Hall a rewarding and entertain…
A hurricane survivor watches rising sea water consume their home.
Three by Nigro.
Curtains drawn, lawns burnt brown; a townscape is melting.
Two pantomime stars keep complaining about people walking through their dressing room as they prepare for their performance, but not everything is good between them.
A plane crash leaves only teenagers alive on an uninhabited Indonesian island.
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.
Left alone while her family searches for the missing herd, a Neolithic girl seeks comfort in imaginary friends.
Well, hello there! How do you boo? Teenage playwright Jaz Skingle brings her sell-out debut play, Ghost Therapy, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
All families have secrets.
Presenting a one-woman show about a planet-saving superhero who’s lost her mojo.
When flyered for Matthew Gouldesbrough’s new play Truth / Reconciliation, I was told I could expect “serious theatre” from the Elegy group.
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
The pilot is set in a fictional Drama School, MAMA.
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…
Returning to Edinburgh following a near sell-out 2016 Assembly season, Alison Skilbeck’s critically acclaimed one-woman show reveals the public and private life of one of the most …
Destiny dreams big.
Earwig is an engaging and classy piece which tells the story of entomologist Marigold Webb, trapped in a loveless marriage and a society as uncomfortable with her deafness as it is…
Sandcastles by Steve McMahon moves back and forth in time and memory to depict the tumultuous lifelong friendship of millennials Hannah and Beth.
Sick and tired of everyone laughing at them, the Revue decides to get serious.
Billed as a ‘queer manifesto against Grindr’, Looking for Fun is one of the new plays showcased at the Paradok Platform.
A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school.
Gen Z has arrived.
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
Your Aunt Fanny are an all-womxn theatre company from the North East of England.
After a sold-out run at London’s Vault Festival, Irish stand-up Comedian Mairead Doyle-Heffernan makes her Fringe debut with stories from her hilariously colourful journey to a w…
Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor.
Can kids be parents? When Cassie’s mother disappears, the teenager wants to care for her sisters on her own.
In 2014, residents of Fairbourne were watching their local news when they found out they were to be Britain’s first climate refugees, with their town set to be decommissioned and d…
By Tabby Lamb (they/she).
Yes, I know it’s the Edinburgh Fringe but this is the Edinburgh Fridge! Come along to hear poems and monologues from a fridge called Smeg, robots, spiders, goats and so much more!
Meet Lady Clementine.
Psycho Productions and Cusack Projects Ltd.
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…
Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub.
Today I Killed My Very First Bird, a piece of new writing by poet, playwright and performer Jason Brownlee and directed by Lee Hart, is a strange beast.
A young couple are separated by an outbreak they cannot speak of.
This new folk musical seeks to explore our heritage and legacy, weaving two parallel stories; one of a crofter and a wandering soldier in the 18th Century, and one of an old pensio…
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
Gloria is not a gorilla, but she is stuck in the zoo’s gorilla enclosure.
Maggie McKenzie is a self-professed mad woman who passes a day addressing her sacred audience – a caged pack of wolves.
‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy.
Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s.
Success demands sacrifice.
‘There’s no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend.
How does a queer, GenZ comedian survive her past, the pandemic, and the indignities of a stand-up career? Vincent (aka Bird) takes the audience on a (seriously) funny flight, often…
The Fringe is nearing its close, but do you have space for more? Chris Bush’s bittersweet Hungry is serving up a Fringe hit.
The end of show speech to an audience.
Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.
When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide.
Working-class means many things now.
In an inner-city hostel, Jams is trying to record a rap video.
‘No, she’s not my sister.
This unflinching case study scrutinizes one of the most pertinent conversations of our time: women’s safety.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Sweet sixteen would’ve been alright.
The Silent Treatment.
New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill.
Following her multi award-winning theatre debut, Passionate Machine, Rosy Carrick is back.
The premise is simple.
The 2014 plan was a simple one, I would Casanova myself around our nation’s capital looking for consenting heterosexual adult males.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru.
This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence.
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…
In a Sheffield basement, two men try to bury the bodies of their past to find a hopeful future.
After an uncomfortable fling with an average guy, a woman falls in love in one of the few remaining lesbian bars that haven’t yet been colonised by Pret.
Caste-ing explores the experiences of three black actresses using beatboxing, rap, song and spoken word.
The Paines Plough Roundabout has become a symbol of the Fringe, developing its own signature style in the process.
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…
Theatre has proved one of the greatest allies of those seeking to speak to truth to power throughout the ages.
The award-winning production Grav returns for 2022.
Catriona has a history of making stuff up.
This is a visceral and vitally important piece in which playwright Eliza Gearty and director Alex Kampfner have wrought an exquisite little nugget of social political theatre: subl…
‘I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you.
We all live under the same sky.
‘Our modern life was built on the backs of the oppressed – if they were to demand repayment, would you be afraid?’ In 1791, a voodoo ceremony begins the Haitian Revolution to end…
‘Utterly compelling’ (Lyn Gardner, StageDoorApp.
Fifteen-year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S.
‘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.
Hate your job? Come work for us.
Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act…
Ever thought you should run the world, even though you’re ‘only fourteen and a girl?’ Priya and Lou have.
Full-time girls and part-time bosses, Dulcie and Ella discover what it takes to be ‘that’ girl.
In the summer of 2020 as a pandemic raged, Yoshika was processing the death of her beloved grandmother, Ann.
A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors.
Long Lane Theatre return the Edinburgh with their hit play The Giant Killers.
One of the Scotsman’s Best Duos at the Fringe, Thick ‘n’ Fast return to take on the world.
The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre.
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London.
Vibrant, inspiring play about Eglantyne Jebb; visionary, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children.
Shortlisted for Adrian Pagan Playwriting Award and BBC Writersroom.
We are told from the start that America’s history is one of violence, and of wars.
What happens when the things we covet hide us from ourselves? Opening up to new experiences in her late 30s, Sophie is exploring long repressed sides of herself.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1.
When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide.
The hit Canadian production from one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary playwrights, Wajdi Mouawad, and performed by Gabe Maharjan – ‘a gifted, multi-faceted actor’ ***…
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
A dark comedy about daddy issues, sex work, fantasies, taboos, imperfect feminism, immigration and trauma.
During the bawdy years of Charles II’s restoration to the throne, one of his more shocking choices was to alleviate the perceived threat to the heterosexuality of female-imperson…
Brown Boys Swim is Karim Khan’s hilarious, touching tale of best friends Kash and Mohsen learning how to swim for a pool party.
Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks.
1967, Susan, a runaway from a troubled home, escapes her past by hitchhiking to LA.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
Rowan is a geospatial engineer earning good money, and Nic is a freelance illustrator who is.
Son and father-in-law duo, Dave Watt and Pretty Good Nick, invite you to jump on their absurd comedy bandwagon as they explore the world of idioms.
6/1/2021: One day replayed on repeat in @R3alAm3rican99’s head.
An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
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…
A solo female show exploring the depths of the mind of a young woman, who suffers from anorexia.
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
A one-woman performance about knitting through grief, heartache and depression. All in a pandemic. Knitting or crocheting is encouraged.
Time is different here.
Inspired by ancient keening rituals, Move is a performance about migration, collective grief and communal healing.
Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors.
Love Me is one of three plays bought to the Edinburgh Fringe 2021 by York DramaSoc.
Originally a gothic-horror novella (written in 1872!), this stage adaptation has been passionately crafted by playwright, author and director, Laura J Harris to be premiered at Edi…
Writer and director Annabel Lunney used the inspirations from anonymous submissions to create the play Sweating the Small Stuff.
‘Ahhhh Gaaaa Do Do Do!’ This exciting new comedy takes place behind the scenes at a family entertainment resort, somewhere up North.
A unique take on the transition from the Ottoman Empire’s period to the Republican era through the story of an old mansion and its demolition.
When a collection of colourful characters come together to perform their most recent play adaptation via Zoom, surely nothing can go wrong.
SKANK is about a woman in crisis.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
Patricia has been concocting the perfect speech in her head over the last year, of what she would say if she were ever to face her ex-abusive boyfriend again.
Press sets its satirical sights on Hollywood.
Following the death of their manager, four bartenders are faced with the impossible task of resurrecting their bar before it is taken over by a massive corporate chain.
Although it’s something we will all go through, death is one of the least understood parts of the human experience – so Chronic Insanity has decided to dive into the deep end.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
Join Doctor Whom for a wibbly-wobbly adventure across time and space as they traverse the cosmos with their impressionable sidekick and talking robot dog.
A dark comedy that portrays all the nuances of trying to maintain a childhood friendship you’ve grown out of.
Perthshire maverick Gussie McCraig joins No.
In 2019, Fede and his mother, went on a quest to look for América.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Jack Docherty, the BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, and one of Scotland’s favourite comic performers, returns to the festival with a tender, playful, darkly c…
At the Colorado premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, a community was torn apart by gun violence.
You’ll clock in at the beginning.
An old soldier faces one more battle – with himself.
A group of teenage friends celebrate after their final exams and look towards the future.
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
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.
Smile.
Ripe Fruit are two older women trying to make sense of the world they live in when they explore Husbands, Hair and Other Stories.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Paddy the Cope, written and directed by Raymond Ross, makes its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the delightful Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Cen…
The Manchester Revue are proud to present their new sketch show, Free Shot On Entry! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manchester has to offer, prepare to question eve…
Siblings Ansel and Gretchen explore the complexities of human connection.
There’s a new man in Máire’s life.
In association with Smock Alley Theatre, acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey brings you his weird and wonderful part-theatre, part-stand-up comedy show, In One Eye, Out the Other…
‘I am a man of my time.
Why would a spirit be trapped in the mortal plane, not alive but not quite dead? The Ghost Matchmaker seeks to free ghosts of the chains that bind them to the land of the living, f…
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
On Your Bike comes with a lot of hype.
Like Fresh Skin.
Suffragettes is compelling, visceral epic theatre with 12 original songs in the style of our acclaimed, award-winning show, That Bastard Brecht.
The climate apocalypse has hit.
Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country.
‘I wish Justine would leave me alone, so I could imagine being with her.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes.
Originally a gothic-horror novella (written in 1872!), this stage adaptation has been passionately crafted by playwright, author and director, Laura J Harris to be premiered at Edi…
Four stories.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman.
Double Drop by Lisa Jên Brown / Dirty Protest Theatre.
Designed specifically to be experienced with headphones, alone, with the lights off and the curtains drawn, Covid Lockdown Breath Machine is a fantastical, transformative and uplif…
Do you believe in love at first sight? Will has a secret.
She’s on her bed in her room staring at the ceiling.
She’s on her bed in her room staring at the ceiling.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
When a fire rips through Serbia, Peter’s Instagram posts of the dramatic wilderness abruptly stop.
Deserted Shores / Negative Photographs focuses on a woman imagining a family gathering that never happened after a tragedy connected to the uneasy political atmosphere of the 90s i…
How can we reconcile the need for freedom and security in a relationship? Where does mindful self-protection end and where does compulsive self-isolation begin? At what point is it…
Your Servant, Mephistopheles follows the demonic deuteragonist as they keep up after a young John Faustus and dodge their boss, Lucifer.
When Vee embarks on her cycling commute, she has no idea that she’ll never make it home.
In 2019, Fede and his mother, went on a quest to look for América.
Lockdown Love Story is a UK-based comedy created by Alice Fforde and Charlie Dryden, highlighting the ups and downs of online dating during a pandemic.
The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright.
On February 7th 1991, James Casey was found guilty of murder.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
With Sistas Before Mistas as their rally cry, the girls of St.
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
Recovering Misogynist is a magical realist #MeToo story by Rachel Mariner (Bill Clinton Hercules).
Open the door to No 19, where love hits the rocks like gin and tonic… In Eva’s world, time has eclipsed.
Lucifer, the fallen angel, begs God’s permission to return to Heaven: ‘You forgave everyone, but me.
Do you believe in magic? Bev does.
‘Pain trumps pleasure.
V-Card is a new comedy by Alison Hall about Hazel, a young woman whose friends take it upon themselves to help her resolve her lack of sexual experience when they find out that she…
It’s 1360 and John Carpenter has started work on the new church spire in Chesterfield.
Storyteller Elise Robertson embarks on a journey of discovery about Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist, who was born 12 miles from her in Pittsburgh, PA, 60 years earlier.
Cambridge-based theatre company, The Two Jays, present five short Zoom plays; some funny and some tragic, in which truths are spilled.
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye.
Following its West End and Off-Broadway runs, Olivier Award-winning Fishamble presents On Blueberry Hill, by current Laureate for Irish Fiction, and Costa Novel of the Year Award w…
The past stalks the present in this gripping drama with the world in a state of flux.
‘Laugh-out-loud funny, bold, fascinating, whip-smart’ **** (Everything-Theatre.
Fear of Roses follows three women as they grapple with each other’s careers in a power struggle which soon turns deadly.
Come forth for a cautionary tale venturing through ancient history to modern masculinity; welcome to Mediocre White Male.
Transgressing borders, ethnicity and culture, MOVE is an epic tale of women across the world and how their stories intertwine.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who grew up watching her immigrant Cypriot mother work in a vibrant little hair salon in North London in the 1980s.
A powerful musical about living with dementia.
Told through the lens of teenagers on the verge of adulthood, a group of friends decide to camp in a public park, exposing the intricacies of youth culture and a generational tempe…
Travel – always exciting, especially when the man of your dreams pops up to join you.
A small theatre company are performing their murder mystery play, Death at Sea, but during the show, everything goes wrong.
Boot – a new one-act play by Eliza Williams.
A playful, one-woman comedy about a single mum’s trials and adventures in the year 2000 at the dawn of Internet dating.
Sugar and spice / partners in crime / he-said-she-said / not talking / can’t believe / only joking / why did I / hate you / forgive you / miss you.
It’s 2086.
Is that mole cancer? Is that cough coronavirus? If I’m not eligible for free prescriptions then who is? In a world where Google is the family doctor and knows you better than you…
Suddenly kettled at a climate change protest on the hottest day of the year, Kelly finds herself trapped with a volatile and unlikely mix of people.
Murder has come to a quiet Yorkshire village where nothing ever happens.
Six generations of women, their lives spanning 100 years from the final months of World War One to the present.
In a world where we ignore any films past Shrek 2.
The NHS has a funding crisis.
Set in 1950s England and based on the controversial 19th-century play Spring Awakening; A Children’s Tragedy by Franz Wedekind, Awakening is a story about the struggles of the t…
#16Candles2SayAnything – 80s movies are reimagined for 2020! Chicago’s award-winning Wego Drama returns to the Fringe with an all-new production inspired by all the classic 80s…
Beowulf sets out to save the Danes, redefine heroism and crack some legendary jokes along the way.
Sr Clarissa has grown somewhat tired of her marriage to Christ.
A snapshot of the life of an eccentric woman living on the streets of South East London.
France 1789.
An emotional, touching and hilarious piece of original theatre.
The world premiere of a brand new musical! In a London nightclub at the height of the Blitz, a female impersonator falls for an army officer, but finding a happy-ever-after ending …
Based on the 19th-century German play Spring Awakening; A Children’s Tragedy by Franz Wedekind, Spring explores the lives of a group of teenagers growing up in a rural Christian …
Breaking down? Worn out, but can’t find the manual? Book in for this funny, tender, toolbox talk about how to keep going.
After their mother’s death, two estranged sisters, Jenny, an introvert who cared for their ailing mother, and Jackie, an ambitious socialite who left home at sixteen never to retur…
Birth, death, upheaval, wild animals, buried secrets and massive amounts of coffee.
The Giant Killers tells the true story of the first working-class men to compete in the FA Cup.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After many successful Fringe sell-outs, we’re back for our fabulous 15th anniversary! Three new, stimulating, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15-minute c…
Charles II has returned to England, the theatres have been reopened and a woman is about to take the stage for the first time.
Rosy’s multi-award-winning theatre debut ‘Passionate Machine’ took Edinburgh by storm in 2018 – now she’s back for more.
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland is informed by a treatment for psychosis that has seen amazing results in Western Lapland.
A new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First award winner Emily Jenkins.
This play is about dreams, where forgotten memories go, déjà vu, laughter, the inability to laugh, that sense you get when you can tell someone is staring at you, the song Girls …
The Community Centre! is a comedy show written, acted and directed by multi-ethnic artists.
A fanfic no one asked for, a sprawling eulogy to a deceased robot that wears it’s fragile heart on it’s sleeve, a meme made by someone you can’t relate to.
An original musical composed by Annie Scalmanini, an Apple engineer straight out of the Silicon Valley pressure cooker.
A contemporary reimagining of classic horror characters.
Tanya is a woman with a lot on her mind.
Four people.
I was young when I chose to love my city.
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
What would you think of if I told you this was a play about radicalisation? Who would you picture? What did they look like? Where were they from – here, or there?
Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago.
You’re getting ready to go out but your depression has other ideas.
A scholar and an amnesiac find themselves on the shore of the river Styx.
Na na na na na na na na Batman! Na na na na na na na na panto! Panto! Batman! Pantooooo! After a sell-out adult pantomime in 2018’s Fringe, WDG is back with a new not-family-frie…
This fresh, original piece of writing, set in a modern day witch trial, is a meditation on what it means to be a woman; the challenges we face, and how they break us, bind us and s…
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alice Birch’s writing.
September, 1988.
Over a drunken McDonald’s, two girls start a viral tweeting frenzy over a subject they know little about.
‘When did no become a turn on? No.
Das Stuck’s The Mannequin is a contemporary Edda of intertwining tales: bohemians enwrapped in the fashion industry whilst isolated in the LGBTQ+ community.
Kira was perfect; until her eating disorder threatened to shatter everything in her path.
One room, one baby, thirty days.
A classroom comedy.
Join today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of performed readings and interviews with presenter Shereen Nanjiani.
It’s Andie’s last night in her childhood home before going to uni and she’s throwing the party to end all parties.
Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix.
Moon Walk is a funny play, with fast paced, quippy dialogue, but it is also a sad and gripping portrait of the effects of mental illness on American men.
Deep, dark subway.
Brickhouse Theatre Company tackle a difficult task: remoulding Emily Bronte’s passionate, intricate and dark Wuthering Heights into a new musical, written and composed by Michael…
A contemporary exploration on the journey of the English language.
Greenwich Village, 1961. These Streets follows the lives of four young artists immersed in the folk music scene.
They have been dreaming of this since they were young and now the day has finally come.
1983, a boarding school in the German Democratic Republic.
Tired of the lack of progress in gender equality, Sal and Libby decide to take things into their own hands in the only sensible way they can think of: by starting a terrorist organ…
Come in from the rain, put your feet up and chill the f*ck out.
Irene Possetto’s one-woman play presents a young girl named Isabelle living a life of true tragedy in 1301.
Yellow, written by Conky Campfner, is a modern adaptation of a Victorian short story The Yellow Newspaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Atmospheric drama about Second Opium War, populated by rarefied creatures of Chinese and British royal courts.
When two scientists struggle to parent their youngest son, they create Inka.
How many years does it take to unspool a man? An odd king sails the waves of the wine dark sea in a bathtub.
Want Some More explores the harsh realities of living with a whole range of eating disorders from binge eating to diabulimia; retelling word for word accounts in Stage Strong Produ…
For centuries three witches have gathered on the solstice to create a potion to avoid being turned to stone at midnight.
Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes.
Steph and Rhona work part-time in dead-end jobs and rent a flat they can’t afford.
MTM Musical Theatre Awards nominee: Best Composer for Sailing to Tomorrow, 2007.
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
Why does your shadow keep following you? Does it really have to? And what is it up to while you are asleep? Sina finds a way to get rid of her shadow.
Poor Verity.
Have you ever loved a show so much that you wished you could kidnap the actors, keep them in your basement and get them to perform it again for you? No? Just Rupert? A troupe of yo…
When so many songs written by men are condescending (Wake Up Little Susie), dangerously demeaning (Blurred Lines) or darn right creepy (Every Breath You Take) towards women, it is …
Arising out of Berlin and Hollywood open stages, this group showcase raises a fist with one hand and holds a glass with the other against the fact that the world we live in is a co…
Remarkably, if you wander into The Traverse at 9am, you will find an audience willing to watch a rehearsed reading of a brand-new play and not a spare seat in the house.
By mixing fiction and non-fiction, this performance transports the audience to the moment before the inevitable eruption, allowing them to understand and feel the causes that led t…
With a melancholy Chopin Nocturne running through her veins and fragments of Caruso’s haunting opera echoing across the shimmering night sky, the haunted composer goes on a past …
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
HighTide, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts present two interweaving plays, written by talented writers Vinay Patel (Doctor Who) and Tallulah Brown (Songlines).
Set in a TV studio, News@1066 puts history straight! Roving reporters get to the bottom of history’s biggest stories.
Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua.
Local celebrity Jeremy Shaw is shot on his way to work one morning.
Secrets is the brand new show by the two-time Edinburgh Close-Up Magician of the Year, Cameron Young.
On the verge of a natural disaster, a prison guard is called into work and discovers a newcomer to the team – an artificial intelligence named Sally.
Adam, a hyper-intelligent AI, is cold, awkward and doesn’t make sense.
‘Welcome to the Dead Parents Society.
After a hugely successful debut with their show iDENTiTY, Anomaly Theatre Company returns with three new dark comedies scrutinising the world that scrutinises us.
Are you part of the 51% that is told to change every part of your body? Laser off all your hair? Cover yourself in expensive products because you’re worthless! Tea?…(With Milk) i…
A block of flats.
1983.
‘Together we can build our fortresses and break their foundations.
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
The Edinburgh Fringe exists as a kind of suspended adolescence allowing creatives to live the experience of their art being the most important thing in the world.
The jolly summer hols have arrived at last! Young, brave Lady Iris Bungle and her beloved housekeeper, Mrs Squidgyfeet, find themselves at Hardwick Heights on the edge of Loch Ness…
Smelling: there’s an app for that.
It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.
The Heresy Machine, by Seth Majnoon, claims to be about Alan Turing.
England, 1585.
‘When you leave here, everything else will be exactly the same.
The final 24 candidates for the Mars Mission Programme have been observed for a month by the public in a reality TV show designed to choose the final four.
Frank’s son Alex is facing a mental health crisis, and Frank hasn’t a clue what to do about it or how to get Alex to talk about it.
Trapped in a house, flood waters rising, Susan plays out all the influences on her life.
Leaves is a new play by New York City based, all-female theatre collective Don, Pat & Tom.
Eliza Drake used to believe in fairies.
What happens when we bring era-defining characters back to life? A thought-provoking avant-garde history-play, exploring the self through the epic, Paradise Lost.
No matter how long the winter – spring is sure to follow.
Une bonne dose de excitement.
1979.
Frances has decided to fly to Dublin to spit on Sister Ina Marsh’s grave.
Alena and Kat are splitting up.
Have you ever felt so lost in the game of life that you don’t really remember who you are? Combining personal stories with physical theatre, vulnerability and ferocity, Ana creates…
Cook and clean and not be seen.
The world is ending.
Making a show with your ex must be awkward, right? Maybe.
Memories erased.
Activising For Change are an Edinburgh-based theatre group and the brains behind 2018’s emotive performance of 147Hz Can’t Pass, an intimate window into the experiences of livi…
Near Bristol, a clueless Swindonian encounters a secluded town with a distaste for strangers.
Harry and Ella walk into a bar.
If we started the world again, would we do a better job? The world they’re in has fallen apart.
Wolfgang Borchert.
Who can be a mother? What makes them a mother? Do we actually need one? Cariad and Catrin confront the dysfunction of their relationship past and present and the division that an u…
Sam is ill.
Part I: fool me once.
Selling Like Hot Takes is the debut sketch show from newly-formed comedy duo, Finlay and Joe.
This new musical follows the story of Alex Peel, whose life is changed by a diagnosis which will eventually lead to her going completetly blind.
This summer, a hero will brew.
Dorothy Wordsworth has finally found her place, living in domestic and literary bliss in the Lake District with her famous brother, William.
The scene is set, the story is well known, the outcome for most is death.
A mysterious case.
Seventeen-year-old Catherine lives a quiet life in the country with only Gothic novels for excitement.
It’s the final year of university for Tom, but he’s afraid he’ll never be good enough to become a superhero.
Gill Mcvey’s play focuses on the struggles of dealing with dementia and the sacrifices that are inevitably made.
Living in a world where people don’t say what they mean or mean what they say can be tricky, and Reilly has questions.
In near-future England, two girls are thrilled to be accepted into the playground, the final stage of their education, but all is not as it seems.
Two front gardens, two women with the wit to talk for Ireland, a washing line and a brick wall.
Introducing Carol Ann Duffy to the stage with a trumpet call, indicating a rally of the troops, seems befitting for the hour with the world-renowned poet.
Whitechapel, 1888.
A partially sane imprisoned zombie tries outwitting his zookeeper interrogator, swearing a zombie army is coming to free him.
This five-star show returns to the Fringe following last year’s success.
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’.
Question: what does a recalcitrant crow, an irascible mouse, a Shakespeare loving scarecrow and an impressionable young girl have in common? Answer: they’re all in this story.
Based on the classic Scottish folk song, Kelty Clippie follows the comic adventures of a bus conductress in Fife.
The 2018 Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning show returns for just two performances.
A combination of live performance and short film, with a focus on new material and experimentation, The Paddock is a showcase of exciting and innovative work from the most ground-b…
Internationally renowned artist Concha Vidal presents an evocative site-specific performance in a hairdressing salon.
Any piece of art that tackles a complicated subject like mental health is worthwhile.
An army of foreign invaders, bad guys, rapists and thieves, fake news, sensationalist tweets and buckets of ice cream, Creon rules Thebes with ungoverned rage.
“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y…
Vanity Airlines holds the prestigious title of Airline of the Year 2012 but how did the most popular airline lose their touch? Is it because the majority of people are flying budge…
When the UK’s finest spy, Bonnie, is sent on a mission in the Swiss Alps, everything goes wrong when she discovers that her arch-rival, Soviet spy L, is at the same hotel with a mi…
Based on true stories and interviews, an original play asking pivotal questions with humour and directness.
A new play with music by Rachel Flynn.
Where do you stand on the burning issues of today? Who do you trust? Is anything so important you’d stake your life on it? Passion Perspectives is a challenging piece of new writin…
Tired of being ignored, attention-seeking Grief takes it upon herself to be seen.
Where can you go to find all the dirty scandals on campus? The Sinners Club is the only radio show where people can call in anonymously and tell the whole university their biggest …
Accidentally On Purpose (sponsored by Goldsmiths Drama Society) presents Piano Man, a short play in which four characters discover the true meaning of acceptance and understanding …
Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’.
A dark, comedic production which explores mental illness in the mind of an everyday young woman.
Nancy and Alex fell in love when they were teenagers.
Hal is struggling to come to terms with her mother’s death and meet with her father’s expectations.
New plays by Francisca da Silveira, Ansley Echols, Joanna Glum, Davey Goodwin, Amy Rhianne Milton, Ahmad Musta’ain Bin Khamis, Karolina Oleskiewicz and Morgan Powell.
Karen, 17, on her parents: loving and lovable; secret devotees of University Challenge.
Lost boy on a bridge, a hungry talking crow, old documents float on the river below.
The National newspaper and ELT short playwright winners.
Join two of The Oxford Revue’s brightest talents as they take you through an hour of rogue, wild and laugh-out-loud comedy.
What makes Shakespeare funny after 400 years? Theatre OCU (Bad Shakespeare, Fringe 2016 and 2018) explores, answers and celebrates the giddy mysteries of love and romance in scenes…
Newly engaged Jimmy and Natasha feel they’re the perfect match.
Scotland’s most progressive orchestra take on the Pianodrome – an extraordinary amphitheatre made entirely of upcycled pianos.
At a time of schisms within feminism, where sirens are the soundtrack to our newsfeeds, This Script combines poetic memoir with a fierce call for empathy.
Sociologist-turned-detective Caleb Rutherford steps into a hall of mirrors exposing real people through their professions while thinking he has nothing to reveal about himself.
Another Fringe day, another single figure on a stage dissecting a “big issue of today”.
@SimCos3000.
TERRAtory follows Emma on her rollercoaster ride navigating her own DNA helix.
Seesome Theatre’s new production Parasites is presented as an issue play, getting to the heart of problems with the welfare state, domestic abuse and teenager stuck in an unforgi…
The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health.
World premiere.
Helene is excited to throw Gordon’s birthday party, but Gordon isn’t happy about turning 70.
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf refers to a statutory line used by professionals, enabling foster carers to speak on behalf of children in the care system.
Some women aspire to wearing their mother’s shoes.
Witness the struggle between good and evil, order and chaos, taste and.
Have you ever wondered what your favourite fairy tale characters are up to off-duty? Well, there’s a good chance they’re just like you and me in the break room – simply tryin…
Phosphorus Theatre works with refugees and asylum-seekers to create original collaborative autobiographical storytelling.
When Dexter’s mum is sent to jail for getting mixed up in a jewellery robbery, it’s up to Dexter and his best friend Winter to get her out.
In It’s Beautiful, Over There, Stephanie Greenwood relates the death of various members of her broad family tree with vignettes about grandparents, resistance fighters and Polish…
Bea’s vagina can narrate, DJ, and dance, but she can’t have sex.
It’s the most pressing question of our time: what’s it like to be white and male in #MeToo America? Luckily for you, Kurt and Bradley have answers! Two years after high school …
X is a prisoner confined to the walls of their cell, placed there for a crime they refuse to discuss.
The Shipping Forecast has stopped ships becoming wrecks since 1911.
Love! Death! And a pantomime camel! After extensive audience research, we listed the 47 things people demanded in operas and shoehorned them into this show.
The story of two plebs trying to navigate the infamous story of Hamlet with nothing but their wits, songs and wacky behaviour.
This provocative, comic and life-affirming one-man show invites you to the core of spiritual debate to experience a journey of life, death and transcendence.
The Words Are There is a moving and innovative piece of physical theatre that appeals both for its approach to male domestic abuse, and for its style of performance.
Europe is occupied by the Nazis and fearing imminent invasion, the British launch Operation Columba – parachuting sixteen thousand spies across the Channel.
After their successful run of Greyhounds in 2018, Time & Again return with Edwardian epic, Clouds! The year is 1913 and women are rising up.
Discover the true story of Valentina Tereshkova, a young textile worker plucked from obscurity to lead the Soviet Union’s race to the stars.
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
In an afterlife, Gilbert brags to Sullivan that, as fathers of the modern musical, all new musicals are basically just variations on their own plots! Sullivan challenges him to tel…
Whether you bought a ticket for the slightly unnerving image design or for the sheer length of the title, you would be forgiven for rethinking your choice once you notice a dauntin…
A woman walks into a bar.
Welcome tae Camby! If ye need tae know anyhin’ aboot roon here, there’s five hings ye need tae remember: neds, fitbaw, shite, shoaps n’ the cooncil.
The rock’n’roll diary of Marshall Stax.
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Hard drugs and hard times are a recipe for mayhem in Saltire Sky’s latest production.
Wayne is a conman.
Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble.
Saltire Sky’s hit debut show is back.
Following the success at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with the five-star show After Today, Stage D’Or returns with their latest work from acclaimed playwright Tim Connery.
Comedy actress Tami Stone presents her debut one-woman Edinburgh show.
Fisherman’s Tail is a hearty, all age, actor-musician musical about four humble fishermen whose everyday lives are blown out of the water when they are caught up in the whirlwind o…
In the wake of a terrible decision, Tommy is burnt out.
Up and Away is a drama set in rural Wisconsin.
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
Told through an enticing striptease of revelations, this poignant and funny solo performance is a complex and deeply felt examination of life’s unplanned turns, deliberate shifts, …
Stoner comedy is a strange subgenre.
The Good Scout treads an extraordinarily fine line as a play.
A powerful drama interspersed with original songs, looking at the lives of the main protagonists involved in the struggle for the vote between Emmeline Pankhurst’s Suffragettes a…
Knock knock.
Annie comes back earlier than anticipated.
There are only two remaining vacant graves in the family plot – and Uncle John will not miss out on one.
It’s very tempting to conclude your musical with a clearcut happy ending, where every loose end is neatly tied and all of your favourite characters ride off into the sunset.
On 20th July, 1969, thousands of people gathered to watch two remarkable firsts: the first all-night broadcast on British television, and the first man walking on the surface of th…
Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room.
Are you saving the world? If you’re reading this, you’re a win-winner.
Limbo: The Twelve is one of the latest pair of musicals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, allowing a group of talented young performes the opportunity to perform an origina…
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
A murder mystery exploring relationships where anyone could be the perpetrator! Will Inspector LeFevre, through his love of music, apprehend the villain? Are you the next Miss Marp…
A clever, conversational creation which examines differing experiences and attitudes to feminism, misogyny and the patriarchal structures which limit women in society.
Part insider look at the making of the film Jaws and part musings on what constitutes an artist, The Shark is Broken, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and directed by Guy Maste…
To some, Reverend Sheen is a walking miracle.
Gordon and Helene are stuck in South Africa and in their rut.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Part stand-up, part gig, with a sparkling performance by Inês Sampaio, The Trial is an interactive new play that questions gender constructions in the 21st century.
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
Rebel, geek, emo, which were you? Or were you the popular one? Scotland’s brightest new talents, The Network, take on the cliques in a homage to classic coming-of-age movies.
Forget everything your history teachers told you, not all pirates had beards.
What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose finally meet.
The pieces of the puzzle that make up Laura’s brain don’t seem to fit.
Ellie, Liz and Tig have worked in the factory for a very long time.
Ten friends.
In order for theatre to be political, it certainly does not have to make any truly profound statement on the state of the world.
Northern Ireland, 1989.
A woman reveals her daughter’s terrible secret which only surfaces as the daughter becomes a young woman.
Asterglow theatre is a new amateur company focused on new writing centered on female and non-binary individuals.
Four work colleagues reunite after 30 years, in this delightful intergenerational analysis of motherhood.
The Almanac has been destroyed.
We all are a mess, I guess. In Mess, Kirsten Vangsness of Criminal Minds explores the non-linearity of time, visible quantum objects, monsters, kittens and Christian rock.
Self Portraits plays with notions of gender, sexuality and the effects that time and age have on our bodies, our perception of who we are and who we have been and who we might beco…
Who is Analeise? I don’t know.
This hilarious dark comedy welcomes you into Kurl Up and Dye, a warm and friendly though largely unsuccessful Yorkshire beauticians.
Written/performed by John McCann and directed by Erasmus Mackenna, who brought you last year’s Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning play DUPed.
Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show about heart break and madness is crammed with life, wit and tragedy.
Some people have called it ‘the biggest scam or our age’.
This talented all-female ensemble offer an original and inventive take on traditional fairytales.
‘Too young to stay in, too old to go out!’ Nigel Osner casts a quizzical eye over life’s challenges for those that little bit older.
‘This place is a human rat trap.
What happens after you die? Angels? A black hole? Perhaps.
A young woman calls a helpline.
Christine Devaney’s And the Birds Did Sing is a gentle, moving meditation on the loss of her father, expressed through story-telling and some expressive physical movement to an e…
At age seven, Phil was sent to Dublin by his single mother, Philomena, to be raised by her parents so she could earn enough money to survive.
The Room.
Join comedy jumble sale Joby Mageean on a swashbuckling stand-up comedy adventure as he takes you on a whimsical tale of the seven seas, recounting his life as a troubadour and hei…
When he is attacked on the street, drag performer Anthony, aka Theresa Mayhem, has a choice to make; does he repress the trauma and become a reality TV star? Or listen to his best …
Three siblings.
From early Celtic tradition, through Shakespearean superstition to modern high fantasy, everyone has heard of fairies.
Muse 90401 is a one-woman show written by, and starring, internationally acclaimed actress Fadik Sevin Atasoy.
With their country plunged into political crisis by anti-Government strikes – a group of young East German students are ordered to “persuade” the protesters to go home peacefully…
Anything With A Pulse begins with boy meets girl in a nightclub.
This thought provoking production by Want the Moon Theatre is a compelling exploration of connectedness – to ourselves, to those around us, and to reality.
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Based on a true story.
Growing up in Kilburn, siblings Madani, Maryam and school mate Alex hit it off from the moment they meet.
Six lives uprooted by war.
Honey, a freelance journalist and single mother of four (and a half) seeks control, agency, confirmation and solvency from her rebellious daughter, disappointed mother, skeptical f…
Lola’s funny, confident, and always striving for perfection.
Model, singer of Velvet Underground, muse of Andy Warhol, mother, heroin addict, rock composer, actress.
In a time of hard borders and systematic segregation, enigmatic stranger Roman arrives at Checkpoint-4 and attempts to bluff and bribe his way past two incompetent border guards.
Brace yourself for Liz Cotton: she is a comic songwriter unlike any other.
Max has just been sectioned and she doesn’t know why.
You are watching three actors sat at a table.
Tokyo Rose is a complex story, told phenomenally well by a company quickly proving itself to be one of the hottest theatre groups in the country.
The Edinburgh Fringe is awash with shows designed to shock and push our buttons.
Limbo: City of Dreams charges itself with the difficult task of cramming an entire world into its hour-long runtime.
After getting dragged along to the smelliest, most infamous night club in Edinburgh by her new friends, Frida the Fresher meets Matt, a posh English guy from the rival university.
The University of York’s Dead Ducks take to the Fringe with their brand-new sketch show: York du Soleil.
Lanky sketch duo Jackman and Bones debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with an hour of madcap, energetic, Oscar-worthy shenanigans, answering the questions you never knew you had: Is Doc…
Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi.
‘If you’re gonna kill a man, better make sure you do it properly.
Salmon hits you hard from the moment you step in the venue.
1979, a beach in Brazil, a drowning man meets a mysterious woman who cajoles, questions and flatters him into defending the indefensible.
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
She’s hot, rich and f*cking powerful.
Ivory Wings is a one-woman show with a live piano score.
Writer and performer Mika Johnson delivers a powerful, poignant and relatable queer narrative, which voices the story of a masculine-identifying lesbian, navigating life and love t…
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
What if it’s all true? Every weird theory, everything you can’t quite see from the corner of your eye.
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
A writer/producer of television’s Supernatural spins a series of intimate, darkly comic vignettes in this modern thriller.
When Dave dies and is sent back to the living, he is only visible to his best friend Jimmy.
Following the death of his predecessor, an established theatre producer takes on the most expensive Broadway musical of all time.
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…
If you’ve been unlucky in love, nothing makes you feel better about yourself than laughing at someone else.
Flora and Nic have been friends for years, for pretty much the whole of history.
Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants.
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
In 1961, Hannah’s mum, Angela, was in the Australian premiere production of The Sound of Music.
Is it possible to please everyone, all of the time? And at what cost to your family and health? In this fast and frenetic comedy, award-winning writer/performer Paul Richards (‘Thi…
Numbers starts with Jack (Henry Waddon) in a therapy session on a sparse stage and moves through the chain of events that took him there.
You've probably heard plenty of stories about lucky couples who fall in love, get married and live happily-ever-after.
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…
Lucy (Kirsten Vangsness of Criminal Minds) is just trying to work out how to be the best cool girl, lady boss, and all around woman she can be when suddenly, the fate of universe i…
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch is an hour-long, one-man, hyper-immersive, character comedy extravaganza.
A fast-paced, farcical retelling of one of South Africa’s most infamous criminals, Andre Stander, the policeman turned gunman.
Tonight’s the night.
Albert Einstein used to work in a patent office, reportedly because the mundanity and ease of the job allowed his mind to wander to more complicated concepts.
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.
Multi award-winning US playwright Jonathan Caren’s razor-sharp dark comedy follows four friends on a river-rafting stag party that’s turned upside down when a mysterious woman kaya…
An American artist must decide whether to overstay her visa or give up her chance to become a UK citizen.
Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault.
The university’s oddest professor has made a remarkable discovery.
This multimedia theatrical experience explores an old Istanbul mansion’s transition from Ottoman to modern eras, through video art and traditional Turkish music, live looping and…
A struggling artist working at a movie theater, Chris goes on a surreal adventure into his subconscious while popping popcorn.
Drunk Lion follows an alcoholic lion who spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina until he meets Chris, a young foreigner learning how to speak Spanish.
Google Me is the new offering from 2018 Fringe debut comedian Eleanor Colville.
The Professors of Logic present the songs of Anna Durkacz Ryan with a fresh look at approaching age.
Written and performed by David Colvin.
How much of your future would you sacrifice in order to preserve the past? Sarah Burns is a mother and wife, but in 1865 she gave up her life in Australia to return to Britain.
This one-woman show, written and performed by Isabelle Kabban, is a tender, thoughtful and deeply moving account of a mother-daughter relationship affected by mental illness.
‘It was about getting rid, not counting’ she said, but they needed to know where the bodies were.
Brendan Galileo is determined to make his mark on Irish political life and save the local school of music from being converted into apartments for racehorses, by joining the ranks …
No one ever said that life was easy, but it’s what you make of it which defines who you are.
Collapsible follows the story of Essie, who at the outset feels like she’s crumbling.
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.
This gripping true story of a terrifying night-time Lancaster Bomber raid in WWII uncovers the triggers of the lifelong legacy that traumatised those airmen who survived.
Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t…
Saul Boyer explodes on stage, a blast of energy and vigorous vocals, as he delights us with a punchy song about being a Jew.
After discovering a comet hurtling towards Earth, Toby snaps and turns into the action hero in his own movie on a mission to save the world from impending doom.
A new world where cheerful totalitarianism is the fashion; where cities promote hilarious mass deportations and funny exterminations; where its leopard-pattern clad locals will do …
This raucous monologue from Sadie Clark gives us a tale of dating and identity from the bleeding edge of the 21st century.
“I am not a bad person”.
This innovative piece by Cut The Chord Theatre is a fresh perspective on sexual violence, consent and how to open conversations that empower both men and women.
In his debut show, character comedian Raphael Wakefield charts the rise and fall of his idol, Arsène Wenger, and asks what it means to become successful.
Tay has returned to her hometown of Dundee for a summer of relaxation, drinking and self-discovery.
Amateur dramatics: the unspoken past of many a Fringe performer.
Pip Utton is one of the world’s most respected performers of solo theatre and a Fringe legend.
In the past 20 to 30 years, our world has drastically changed, especially within the realm of politics and culture.
Nadia and Daniel are about to sign the lease on a new flat.
Pops is a complex contemplation of intergenerational addiction, featuring a father and daughter trapped in co-dependence.
It’s 1999, soon to be 2000, and two sisters are wandering the woods of the Bournemouth area after fleeing a party.
United by love, broken by reality.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After Fringe sell-outs in 2017 and 2018, we’re moving to a lovely new venue.
Drawing the line between the exaggerated and the tender is no easy feat.
Some assert that homophobia, for the most part, has been eradicated.
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
Subverting the Saturday night staple, meet Maz, Jo and Dee: three women on the wrong side of 40 – your chat show hosts.
In the late 1960s three women were murdered by an Old Testament quoting serial killer by the name of Bible John.
Wild Swimming is the story of two friends across centuries of change and development.
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
Daughterhood by Charley Miles seeks to tell the story of two sisters separated by nine years of age and half a decade lived separately, coming back together to try and work out who…
Exploring the experiences of those seeking refuge in the UK, The Claim is a compelling examination of language, power and storytelling.
When Katie was little, she was brave: climbing trees and riding bikes too fast.
I’m not gonna pretend like I know a lot about the UK's schooling system, because I don’t.
Archaeologist Nuala unearths a skeleton and her ordered life starts to unravel.
Part stand-up set, part kitchen-sink drama, Pits will take you on a massive Geordie bender of a night out on the Toon, make you laugh until you cannit breathe, and then corner you …
Two girls go on a journey.
"It looks nice.
Best friends Emm and Leo have made the bold artistic decision to graduate without any skills or job prospects.
He was exhausted by life.
A gay themed Friends for the Grindr generation, Fudge, playing now at the Gilded Ballroom Patter House, is a funny slice of gay life play.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Andrew Maxwell (Live at the Apollo; winner: Time Out Live Award, ***** (Herald, for Showtime)) makes his theatre debut playing.
Timmy plays hurling, the fastest field sport in the world.
For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
This one person play, written and performed by Sarah-Jane Scott, introduces us to Sorcha who is fresh from fleeing her wedding.
We enter stage to a flash of porn images, a seductive voiceover beckoning ‘come all over my face’, and ‘dominate me’.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Max has done something stupid.
This monologue, written and performed by Katie Guicciardi, addresses the underreported issue of post-partum depression through a thoughtful combination of analogy, props and heartf…
It’s a late Friday afternoon and Polly is packing her things before she starts her PhD.
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
FATTY FAT FAT, performed by Katie Greenall, explores one woman’s journey of growing up fat and surviving in a world where your body is viewed as wrong, unhealthy and disgusting.
While watching Piano_Play it is easy to be taken in by the illusion which the show sets up.
An abandoned party; a neglected bedroom; a cluttered AV desk.
Rocking a minimalist set of a stool and a book, Lucy Roslyn performs this one person play drawing parallels between Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, and her own tumultuous foray i…
We enter stage and Jonathan Ashby-Rock delicately tends to his flowers, encased in boxes across the stage.
Cleopatra’s death by asp is a common myth, largely scientifically disproven.
Fat Rascal Theatre should be pleased with their Fringe so far.
‘To be free is very sweet.
On a bare stage at Pleasance Upstairs, Bobby & Amy promises storytelling in its purest form.
"Poor Fellow.
In a bizarre but glorious amalgamation of all things good, Parakeet stands as a protest piece that calls for greater measures against climate change and, well, a commitment towards…
One island, split in two with a thundering crack: half for the fishermen and half for the farmers.
It’s 11:24am and day two of Sinead’s hereto disastrous hen party.
This is the first year that 4 Brown Girls Who Write have showcased at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and they better keep coming back.
Aoife’s hungry and bored.
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
A painful yet uplifting true story of a child asylum-seeker arriving in the UK.
Harriet Stand (Hatty to her friends) is auditioning for a part in the critically acclaimed play Life.
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk.
A must-see, hilarious and deeply moving one-woman show from Belfast! In one moment a woman’s jaded world is turned upside down and the dying embers of her spirit are reignited.
This curious interactive lecture given by actress and software business advisor Zoe Cunningham offers some great advice and practical tips for anyone who wants to do acting (proper…
What happens when a fortysomething single woman rediscovers her childhood crush on an 80s pop icon? A liberation from pissed off boredom and an awakening of sexual fantasies.
Rural Ireland - rich in personality and culture yet teeming with the stigma and prejudice of another age.
Good grief is full of sarcasm, laughter and the occasional tear as we try to show that there is no “correct” thing to say to someone who is grieving.
What if you met someone who was perfect.
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
‘If I had a name for every woman with a story, I’d run out of space and I’d be writing forever’.
Malcolm is in his mid-40s and going to be a grandad.
Inspired by the blistering 2007 film This Is England, this hard-hitting new play examines working class life in early 80’s Yorkshire through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who becom…
An algorithm is a plan for solving a problem, but how many more does it create? Instagram’s official blog 2016: ‘To improve your experience, your feed will soon be ordered to show …
Over 50 years ago, thousands of young American women went to Vietnam to serve their country during the war.
December, 1979.
Welcome to the Hotel, a magnificent establishment offering luxury beyond fantasy.
E and V are women, or so they think.
An Irish, black comedy set in 1980s Dublin where the fish factory floor becomes the stage for three women’s stories of one life-changing night.
A journey of a kid from foster care to superstardom.
In a comic exploration of the disjoint between what we think and what we say, The Interview questions the meaning of living a life worth rewarding.
Warden, a young single mother, is determined to fight to get her addict son Ryan the treatment that he needs, before it’s too late.
When Dave dies and is sent back to the living, he is only visible to his best friend Jimmy.
I can’t imagine that anybody has nostalgia for life in their early teen years.
This unbelievably ambitious, deluded, multiple job-applicant failure attempts to inspire his audiences to become the best they can be.
We protested because we believe in a better country.
What was it like to paint Muriel Spark’s portrait? What is the connection between computer code, myth and magic? How do we grow a better Scotland? Does politics matter? All this …
Eva is a stand-up comedian.
Census night, 1911.
In collaboration with TV producer/eco campaigner Phil Williams and Ecuadorian Kichwa tribe this new multimedia play will connect you with what is happening now in the Amazonian rai…
A new musical by Helen Brown and John Moore, based on Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Inspired by the famous fig tree passage from Sylvia Plath\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s novel The Bell Jar, these semi-fictional characters gather in a pub to share their storie…
Beginning in a frightening dystopia with five people wearing surgical masks manhandling one other as the audience enters, then as the show starts transforming to a happy young part…
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
Brawn is a portal into the world of a young man named Ryan.
An intensely dramatic short play inspired by authors such as Sarah Kane and Martin Crimp, our script is an original attempt at an absurdist horror story.
Bare Knuckle sheds light on the brutal (and often hidden) male world of bare knuckle fighting.
‘And I tell myself, I think – if you f*ck it up, you f*ck it up.
Three lovers.
Washington State, 1910.
Last night, Roxy had a phone call from her mum.
The Way Out is a dark absurdist comedy based on the frustration of living in the modern age.
A funny play set to a dark backdrop.
Two tales overlap in this National Theatre New View’s Award longlisted dark comedy set in Backmuir Forest, 20 miles outside Dundee.
A social experiment like no other.
Feminism is a tricky word.
Questing Voles – All’s Well That Ends As You Like It, 2017: ‘a pretty anarchic hour of fun and frolics’ (FringeReview.
‘No-one leaves home – unless home is the mouth of a shark.
How does it feel to be loved? A lonely office worker reflects on a past life in an idyllic countryside with his university friends.
Colin McKenzie has only forty minutes left to live! Come join us for the final moments of Colin’s brilliant, majestic and totally mundane existence! A once in a lifetime opportunit…
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…
‘If I don’t know you and you don’t know me, then you’re free in your anonymity.
Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
As old as humanity itself.
‘It doesn’t matter how we do it, we’re always going to end up with the same result.
Three young Scottish playwrights from the Traverse Young Writers’ group join forces with three leading British writers (Ella Hickson, Kieran Hurley and Sabrina Mahfouz) to explor…
Mis(s)treated – a dark and twisted comedy about human trafficking and prostitution.
Three Northerners and three Southerners residing in one nursing home.
Imagine knowing when you’re going to die, exactly when you’re going to die.
A verbatim play created from interviews conducted across America in late 2016, Women for Trump explores why five women were, or were not, persuaded to vote for Donald Trump.
A new musical adaptation of the classic tale of Cinderella, by Charles Perrault.
Set in rural England, this pale ale drenched parable explores village life juxtaposed with urban sprawl.
Cold Dinner Theatre return to Edinburgh with their new comedy.
THE BACCHANALS A Comedy Tell me what they are those rituals of yours? Mikra Theatricals invite you to draw back the curtain and take a peek backstage, into a world of paranoia, m…
The latest comedy from Theatre with Teeth.
‘They say life begins at 80.
Two unlikely friends find a camaraderie against a backdrop of bitter conflict, questionable politics and moral debate waged overseas.
When three sisters come together on their autistic brother’s 30th birthday, they can’t help but mull over their childhood with him, which was shaped by his insistence that he w…
Bertolt Brecht: genius or charlatan? The question is answered in a piece of pure Epic theatre featuring 15 new songs and choreography.
The Electra Legacy: a modern telling of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy with a brilliant new music score, this is a tale of revenge, passion and crime.
The flat is empty.
Getting power is easy.
This epic rock comedy tells the story of a young rocker JB, from Kickapoo, journeying to find his counterpart in rock KG, and together they form the band… Tenacious D! Once forme…
UnderOwl Theatre present their debut show: Upcastle Downcastle.
Project Venture seeks to establish a permanent human colony on Mars and Dr Aysha Malik will be among the first brave souls to make the trip, but she’ll have to contend with her t…
At a time of schisms within feminism, ongoing revelations of #MeToo, endless discussions about womanhood, and sirens being the soundtrack to our newsfeeds, Jenny Lindsay found hers…
What happens when a DNA test gives an adoptee a brand-new view… of herself? Playwright and performer Monica Bauer (The Year I Was Gifted) takes on her own unexpected results, alo…
There’s a monster in your closet.
What is your idea of love? There’s a very blurred line between a protective, loving relationship and one that’s abusive.
Cameron and Maddie meet at a singles night.
Hundreds of thousands marched for peace but when war came, only a few dared to be different.
Button your shirt.
Maddy and Jim’s relationship is having problems.
A new one-woman show.
Nigel (Jonny Davidson) and his wife Sarah (Ella Dorman-Gajic) are sitting down to a dinner of soup and parsnip wine when they are interrupted by a knock on the door.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world this student-run, original musical theatre production takes place after humankind has destroyed the surface of our planet.
Rat Race is a dark tragicomedy set in a rat cage that is at the center of a badly handled experiment.
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.
You’d usually begin with the start, but here the end explodes first.
Two walks a day, food, water and love is enough for dogs, but what about their owners? It’s a complex world in the park and only the dogs can make sense of it all.
The chilling time travel story of the genesis and death of Lady Macbeth.
Trans Pennine is a funny, fast-paced, and emotional play about family disagreements, gender-identity, and caravan holidays.
‘The more I drink in real life, the more my babies are taken away by social services in my Sims life.
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age is a new work inspired by real-life occurrences in the life of Rowlett High School students.
When age and illness takes hold, sometimes there is a burning desire to tell the disturbing truth of life’s great triumphs and sadness.
History Boys meets Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour as we follow four girls on the cusp of adulthood in this new take on the classic coming of age tale.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Three men arrive to an audition, only to be trapped there by none other than God himself.
Ever felt like you were a princess in a fairy tale of Tinder-ella and the seven twats? Me too.
A traumatic event involving her husband and a fish leaves Annabelle feeling emotionally abused and vulnerable, heightening her existing empathy towards the issues of animal cruelty…
A play in 10 short scenes.
In the moments before his death, America’s most celebrated author of the macabre reveals how his sins and the tragedies of his life lead to his descent into madness and alcoholis…
A one-to-one performance for a group of individuals.
A powerful performance that weaves together memoir and myth in a blend of theatrical storytelling and digital and live drawing response.
‘Zoe.
A new piece devised for this year’s festival sees Aletia Upstairs, cabaretist extraordinaire, follow-up her Mata Hari Fringe success with an exploration of Weill, Brecht, and Wei…
Set in the heyday of glam rock and science fiction, Rocket Man is the story of a young man with bipolar disorder.
Bizarre is the word that has stalked my mind since watching Bullingdon Revisited.
The Bird, the Bell, the Fish, and the Tree.
Ollie has chronic insomnia, a mental and physical illness that affects 10% of people in the UK.
Based on the popular traditional folk song, Kelty Clippie follows the comic adventures of a bus conductress in Fife.
World premiere.
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
All Change is a new bittersweet comedy about growing old.
Are men really from Mars and women from Venus? Is it still just a man’s world? Will wearing the trousers make a difference and what is wrong with wearing skirts anyway? Do I have t…
The BBC is creating an intimate live pop up radio studio at Summerhall.
Winner of the 2017 Best International Performance Award at the 2017 Fringe Festival, Amsterdam and hit of the 2018 Brighton Fringe.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
Chriss and Damon are in love.
There’s a lot teenagers don’t know about the world.
Becs is a single mum and leader of the opposition party in Scotland.
Meet Liv – clever, funny, confident – everything a 15-year-old girl wants to be.
The greatest master is passion, who makes slaves of us all.
Tony believes in the healing powers of stories; Iain’s been scrubbing his fingers since 3am; Saffron’s stalking her piano teacher.
Inspired by the short stories of Anais Nin, NYT present new fables of modern love and ritual.
Four readings from brand-new plays by Erica Mack, Felix Maxwell, Madison Pollack and Derek Roland, who are graduating from the MSc in Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.
An original piece exploring the words we let fly, stop signs, and those we meet at the crossroads.
Is that a panto I see on the Fringe? Oh yes it is! Join Dick Whittington, his cat and a host of colourful characters on a fun-filled family adventure from Liverpool to London.
The world is full of wonderfully different people – dramatic, dreamy, daring and disturbing! Join our medley of characters on an energetic journey through their dreams, hopes and…
Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
Can you decide how you’re remembered? Would you want to? Would you leave a video behind just in case? Two people on stage.
If the thought of watching a one woman play about a Kurdish refugee turned lawyer helping to broker a major arms deal for a Swedish law firm doesn’t thrill you then think again, …
Fringe First and DarkChat Best Director winner Renny Krupinski’s new one-woman play is funny, poignant, touching and disturbing.
There is a man who reads minds and predicts the future.
This is the story of Tinderella on the hunt for a sexy fella.
Bucket Men takes place in a small basement studio at C Royale where two men coincidentally have jobs in a small basement of a faceless government building.
Summer.
Survivors on a desert island, siblings in their mother’s attic, magicians preparing a new show.
After a hugely successful run in 2017 – ‘I didn’t expect for it to be that damn excellent’ (LexicalLunacy.
Big Squirrel return to Edinburgh with their latest award-winning comedy.
Working Class Hero’s biggest flaw is that it isn’t about anything.
Ever get that sinking feeling that you will never be enough? Take a nose dive into toxic millennial sex and online dating in this brutally honest, highly comic look at a very mille…
The Bristol Revunions return to the free Fringe with their show Hoops.
Dana’s 39, happy, comfortable.
At first glance The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's two collaborative productions with the American Music Theatre Project may seem remarkably similar to last year's pair.
Joanna Ward and Ryan Hay’s hunger is an original short opera inspired by Kafka’s A Hunger Artist.
Inspired by the true story of Dr Horror: a 2008 case against a man from Brampton, Canada guilty of organ theft.
Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present their first piece of original writing: Scratch.
What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told? The biggest secret you’ve ever kept? Claude the fraud is a deliciously despicable Frenchman that we love to hate, hate to love… But…
Neverwant: the algorithm of life.
Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.
BBC and UK slam poetry champion performs poems and songs from The River Was a God (published this year by Stairwell Books), a collection of three poetry shows performed at the Frin…
Dark comedy exploring morality and mortality.
Colleen is angry at her peers, angry at her teachers and angry at her brother, Parker, who imagines himself as an undersea explorer in a one-man submersible.
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
The nation has never been healthier.
The bathroom of a student flat is not a place you'd want to spend 5 minutes, let alone an hour.
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…
From the Burds that brought you Bawsoot Theatre – inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, Moonlight On Leith is a love letter to Edinburgh’s wayward daughter.
Technology is becoming a greater force within our society; everyday we are becoming more dependent on it.
Creating Rumours recounts the lives of Fleetwood Mac at the time of the recording of their most notorious album, Rumours.
Set in the small village of Shuttlefield, Greyhounds sees the local amateur dramatic society attempt to raise money for a Spitfire fighter aircraft by putting on a production of Sh…
“Who are we, now that we don’t have kids?” Matthew Roberts performs as three key characters in this touching one-man performance: as two fathers, David and Tom, that lose the…
Brenda’s Got a Baby was birthed from a concept created by Molly Rumford, financed via Crowdfunder and the culmination of interviews and news stories from real people.
Glasgow ’14 is a one man show, inhabiting the minds of four very different men and their experiences of mental illness.
In 1918, the letters stopped and Lucy had to face life having lost her fiancé and brother in the last few weeks of the war.
Abbey Road Studios, 1975.
Born in Scotland, Bon Scott emigrated to Australia and joined rock band AC/DC to become a legend.
The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo…
Cara, a college student from America, is having the time of her life traveling overseas in Europe for the summer.
Amid the hubbub of cafe chatter and the hiss of milk steaming a mobile phone vibrates with messages of condolences.
Cast Iron Theatre have rocked a minimalist set – an intimate three chairs and floor space surrounded by a ring of audience members – and have stretched it expertly to the peak …
“Up, up, up.
An hour of stand-up from a trio of bumpkins.
Meet Jeanie.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story most people know, but the life of Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Caroll, and the real Alice Liddell is much less popular.
Four twenty-something-year-old friends come back to their hometown to celebrate the life of Jessica, their best friend’s late wife.
Have you ever felt that life was more a grocery list than a box of chocolates? Social media feeds are filled with people ticking events off the list, yet you feel you that you’ve…
Greetings from The Giant’s Causeway, Spring 1967.
A heart-warming comedy play following Rosie and Vera who are brought together through a ‘befriend the elderly’ scheme.
When did you last speak to your Mum? Last week? Last year? We’ve been asking everyone from grandparents to schoolkids.
A sexier, more violent Waiting for Godot, Definition of Man is a physicalised post-apocalyptic decreation myth that won Best in Dance and Physical Theatre and Ripest Show at the 20…
After last year’s sell-out D Day Dodgers, the Woolly Sheep Theatre Company’s Not Dead Yet! is a one man play which challenges preconceptions about memory loss through real-life…
Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers.
**** (TimeOut).
Since the 1st January 2018, five writers have worked collaboratively, writing a new scene each week in response to socio-political events.
A physicist is on the brink of being able to explain the mysteries of the universe but still can’t figure out his volatile relationship with a rising star.
John Chesterton works in a world where political correctness is paramount.
Four friends decide to ignore the warnings about their local woods and meddle with seemingly demonic forces in the hope to create a film about a local urban legend.
The Enquiry: Generation Z – not tough enough or the victims of an anxious world that just doesn’t care? The Experiment: one observation room, two psychologists and seven patien…
A one-woman theatre piece with cello accompaniment.
Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher.
A critically-acclaimed comedy about the struggles of working life.
Philosophy student Chloe discovers she has chlamydia and, in the interest of economising, decides to throw a party to announce the news to all of her ex-lovers.
This odyssey for the migrant era takes us through the great storm of 20th-century history in the company of literary hero Leopold Bloom.
Popular or unknown, apps are part of our daily lives.
Albert thinks something’s a bit off when Big Darren sends him to the shops with a list for a bottle of milk, a pack of J-cloths and three balaclavas.
Grace comes home to find a crime scene in her living room.
‘The history of England jumps off its axis.
From chasing girls to catching spiders, James knows what’s expected of him as a man.
As funeral bells chime, a mysterious woman whispers a terrible secret to a grieving wife.
Rachel’s life is a Mess, and her best friend Adam always seems to have his life together.
John Lennon spent his Scottish boyhood holidays in Durness, Sutherland: not fake news! This thoughtful, comic fable of modern Scotland, adapted from the novel by Scottish Governmen…
Sometimes we feel sad.
Tommy is four-and-a-quarter years old, and a hard-boiled private investigator on the mean streets of Little Monkey’s Daycare.
‘The realities of life, dream and hallucination are beautifully interwoven offering the spectator an amazing journey’ (Marcin Rudy, Song Of The Goat).
Everything in Hal’s life is looking up.
There’s no such thing as vanilla, boring or prudish.
Beaker’s only friend in the world, his cat, is dead.
Scilly Isles, shortly after WWI.
After a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2017, we return with the story of Harry Poppers and the Deathly Swallows! You may have heard a similar story before, but we will take you o…
Lucy is young, fresh-faced and feeling lucky.
A frantic, romantic comedy by Paul Richards which follows the lives of three intelligent but bored office workers, who also happen to be fire wardens.
Modern dating and a devastating terrorist attack do not, at first, seem like complimentary subject matters for a romantic comedy, and yet in 52Up Production’s new show 9/11 Was a…
In this mixture of drama and black comedy, we meet TV presenter Bill Grundy some three years after his profanity-littered, car-crash interview with the Sex Pistols live on teatime …
From the writers of Birds of a Feather, Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, Early Birds tells the incredible yet true story of the birth of one of the nation’s favourite situation c…
Join Shoogalie Road as you’ve never seen them before for an evening of musical theatre as we perform excerpts from Jekyll and Hyde, Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd.
Karen and Tom met and married when they were really young.
Rage, nymphomania, ecstasy and numbness.
‘Dreamland tackles pressing social and political issues with bracing theatricality’ (Jesse Briton, Bear Trap Theatre).
Dave and Vince wake up in a morgue.
Being in love is.
‘Today is the day I make a decision.
Their apartments share a view of the parking lot, but Dora and Ronnie haven’t met.
Driven by faith to resurrect the IRA, Annie battles to bring her family the honour they deserve.
‘I’ve been modelling so long now it’s who I am.
You can’t just take a break from your life.
Want to experience doing your bit? Meet and hear from characters involved in the WWI war effort such as a field nurse, a coastguard, a canary girl and the mother of a soldier.
It’s 2005 and somehow Liverpool are back in the European Cup Final.
‘Dearest Elsie, if you’re reading this, I’m dead.
What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose, finally meet.
Punk and theatre aren't the strangest of bedfellows, but there is something that often feels false when collectives of art school graduates and professionally-trained actors at…
Violet is starting to forget.
I tried to put myself in a neat, cosy nutshell.
Saltire Sky’s hit debut show is back.
‘I used to think love was about not knowing where I end and you begin.
An Abundance of Tims is, quite clearly, all about Tim.
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with ‘a sackful of promise’ (Chortle.
Welcome to the subconscious fantasy realm of oppressed white American men! Davey Anderson’s new play follows young Samuel into the alt-right.
The synopsis of this intriguing one-woman drama can more or less be summed up by its title: Ailsa Benson Is Missing.
A surreal and anarchic two-woman comedy packed with glitter, bug juice and desperation.
Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show.
Acclaimed writer David Ireland’s new play is a visceral, violent and incredibly explosive punch to the gut that passionately tears into the confused state of British identity, th…
For a long time the system in the city was different.
A darkly comic new musical about love, loss and being different.
Spyro and Jim. Two squaddies. Find themselves trapped in an old warehouse. Why are they there? Is there a way out? And how long can they keep going before the cracks begin to show?
Doomsday preppers: people who ready themselves and their homes for survival in the event of an apocalypse.
Dangerous Giant Animals is a one-person show about growing up with a disabled sibling, based on writer/performer Christina Murdock's real life experiences.
Scotland’s landowners were in retreat.
Three wayward women on a hunt for international liturgical dance stardom.
"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori…
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
What does it mean to be a millennial? One stands before you, trying to process her three most pressing concerns: job exploitation, crumbling friendship and the imminent apocalypse.
August 5, 1962.
The St Andrews Revue are back for their eighth Edinburgh Fringe! This year they’re on the run from the law, and their ‘extremely funny’ (BroadwayBaby.
Other Peoples Teeth is a unique, visceral and violent vignette, exploring the emotional depths of brutality.
There is a woman.
An anarchic, unprecedented and hilarious insight into the life of a stripper in London’s fast-changing cityscape.
‘Inspired look at society through the prism of a parent-teacher meeting’ ***** (Sunday Times).
Now in its eleventh year, Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe brings you, once again, the best in Scottish writing.
Flattered addresses, honestly and frankly, the issue of public harassment towards women.
Warhol: Bullet Karma invites you to meet everyone’s favourite eccentric pop artist.
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 �…
‘Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for real life’.
A comedy about the impossible task of making friends.
Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus.
Two women, one diagnosis and approximately seven different bathrooms: Flushed follows a changing time in the lives of inseparable sisters, Jen and Marnie.
What if you didn’t know you were dead? A dark new comedy.
Amid the violence that followed the British withdrawal from Basra in 2007, a sharp-witted Iraqi woman searches for her missing husband at the behest of her mother-in-law.
Self identity, depression, sexual awakenings and The Smiths are all topics central to writer/director Ben SantaMaria’s incredibly touching and heartfelt play about growing up gay…
In a tiny living room in Edinburgh, a fraught long-term friendship reaches its breaking point.
Life’s a journey, chauffeur driven by someone else.
When famous author/pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived many different lives, meets The Little Prince, two adventurous explorers discover the world and what is important in l…
A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House.
A tense, suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller.
Following a series of failures at music festivals, a Bulgarian musician faces a midlife crisis.
‘The end of the world needn’t be the end of the world!’ Join the last survivors of the global nuclear catastrophe in Lotta Quizeen’s boutique bunker.
This gripping new play is a dramatic exploration of three characters’ struggle with anorexia, as we watch Libby, Kate and Jonathan fight to regain control of their lives from the…
Drunk Lion follows an alcoholic lion who spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina, until he meets Chris, a young foreigner learning how to speak Spanish.
Waves is the tale of Elizabeth Moncello and how, growing up on Gabo Island (Australia) in the 1930s, by emulating fish, penguins and dolphins to learn how to swim, she came to be t…
Inspired by real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14-year-old black girl, Vivian, was shot by a white cop, igniting one…
Mengele by Philip Wharam and Tim Marriott.
It’s the day of the referendum and Mary is on a high.
In Brexit Britain happily ever after (and UK residency) is just a marriage visa away.
Following a sell-out 2017 Fringe, nine five-star reviews and two awards, the Kweens are back – and they’re bringing glitter! From the producer of Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho …
An outstanding singular performance by Peter Clements, that draws upon - yet uniquely embraces - the fine traditions of drag queen finesse, dark humour, sexual allure and celebrati…
“You always thought it would be you”.
He is Generation X.
Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays.
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.
Felicity’s on a fantastic date.
A love story, set on Preston Road, and also in space and in time.
“Arf, Arf, Arffff.
11:87 returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show by John Casey.
Lil’s husband is lost in Gulliver’s Travels and now she has a mission of mercy to perform.
‘Free copy of Risk magazine with chocolate biscuits’ shout Gabby and Matt at South Kensington Tube station.
Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world.
There are shades of Beckett but without the plodding pretentiousness in Signals, Footprint Theatre’s new show all about human connection and the search for life beyond Earth.
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…
By Magne van den Berg, UK premiere.
Knowledge = Belief and Truth.
Let’s talk about drugs.
Those familiar with the work of the National Theatre of Scotland won’t be surprised by the style or the content of First Snow / Première Neige.
James Rowland may not strike you as a sperm donor if you met him in the street, but this is a man prepared to go to the ends of the earth to help his best friend and her wife find …
Fran, Jo and Ger live in isolation.
Layla McKinnon is days away from saying ‘I do’ to Andy McKinnon.
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.
Critically acclaimed company return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
‘I think you’re really talented.
‘She’s scared of what I might get up to out here in the countryside.
Alex Stone is a hotshot lawyer about to make partner, when an urgent call from an old friend drags her back to the town she thought she’d left behind.
Rob Oldham, Amused Moose Breakthrough Comic 2017 and tour support for John Kearns and Abandoman, considers politics, youth and death.
‘I just had to see you.
The nation’s favourite appliance-themed comedy troupe returns for the heavenliest of seventh years at the Fringe.
Ever feel confused about love? Where to find it and keep it? Do you think you touch yourself too often? Meet Cupid in training as she tests the waters with her flashy love skills: …
A terrible crime has been committed.
After last year’s millennial-bashing debut, Avocado! are back and invite you to take a leap into the twisted little world of two twenty-something nothings for a second helping of…
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff is tough.
A solo theatrical performance by Sam Ross, which aims to convey how it feels to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
In an empty and decaying room four performers armed only with limited props, a beat up collection of instruments, and a selection of microphones bring to life a tale of anger, rage…
‘Yer a wifie.
‘My neighbours leave their flat one morning but don’t return.
‘Fall in love in my early 20s, get married in my late 20s, have at least one child by the time I’m 30.
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
A powerful and uplifting, one-woman show about triumph over adversity.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Three funny, thought-provoking “menus” of ten-minute plays.
At first sight it would seem that Boondog Theatre's latest outing at the Edinburgh Fringe is somewhat ironically titled.
A bold and convention-bashing introspection on the impact of HIV, through the medium of two young gay men.
If you break my heart, I’ll break yours too.
I’ll begin by noting that this particular viewing was unfortunately tarnished by a very inconsiderate audience, where both latecomers and six mid-show phone calls bombarded the f…
Kirsty Osmon captivates the audience from the first moment her drunken anti-heroin wakes.
Vibrant, inspiring play about Eglantyne Jebb, the visionary, courageous, passionate, human rights pioneer and founder of Save the Children.
Fever Dream Theatre’s BaseCamp promises an immersive experience in the rivalry between two world-class mountain climbers preparing for a joint ascent of a Himalayan mountain.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
Multi award-winning Grid Iron, in association with Platform, bring you a hilarious road movie for the stage.
Tim is acting strangely.
Fran wants to want sex.
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
As the UK emerges from a state-mandated curfew, three young friends see their newfound freedom arrive but with shackles of its own.
Single person monologues have long been a fringe staple, but nevertheless they are incredibly difficult to successfully pull off.
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
The Fetch Wilson is the type of play that might work very well as a film, or so you might think upon leaving the theatre.
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
Sitting, the debut play by comic actor Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans), explores the lives of three characters who are sitting for portraits.
Inspired by real events, Killymuck is a housing estate built on a paupers graveyard in 1970s Ireland.
The Paines Plough Roundabout is an incredibly versatile venue.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
A one woman show, Proxy delves into the lives of mother and daughter Dee Dee and Gypsy, two women from the southern states of America.
Alan Ledger didn’t want the limelight and he didn’t want the praise.
Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed.
With little more than a bedside lamp, a leather armchair and a helpful cadaver, The Thelmas have brought to life a deliciously morbid monologue that will please fans of Fleabag, Ma…
This is an intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable window into the relationship of two sisters at the toughest point of their lives so far.
Becky works in a café in Edinburgh.
As anyone who’s been to an Edinburgh Festival Fringe can attest, word of mouth is crucial to a show’s success.
The After School Club join Irish playwright Conor Burke to present their debut production.
Multi-award winning playwright Henry Naylor returns to the fringe with a stunning two-hander set in Nazi Germany that is both incredibly poignant and unnervingly timely.
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…
Optioned for TV by Lime Pictures, Ed Fringe 2018 SELLOUT SHOW, Manchester Theatre Awards 'Best New Play', Stagedoor 'Most Anticipated Show' at VAULT Festival 2019.
With the Japanese army rampaging through the South Pacific in 1942, the battle to save Australia is being fought along New Guinea’s infamous Kokoda track by a motley militia of poo…
‘Why should I continue to be tolerant, when the world has been so intolerant of me?’ Trojan Horse was a local story that hit the national press, accusing ‘hardline’ Muslim te…
What can you remember from five years ago? Or five days ago? Five minutes ago, even? What can you be absolutely sure, beyond all doubt that you remember? MALAPROP Theatre’s new s…
A new musical about a day in the life of a plumber’s kingdom – a men’s toilet.
I’ve never seen a play in a 20-seat theatre before but, with the gentle storytelling of Starfish, a small venue seems right.
Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s.
On a train heading south, the eyes of a tired man meet those of a woman weeping, if only for a moment.
At the end of 60 minutes, mankind will vanish.
Home is a powerful concept.
Sherman Theatre: Regional Theatre of the Year – The Stage Awards 2018.
Elise Cowen.
A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner.
What’s a ‘square go’? Noun: A rammy.
A Work in Progress is just that, a work in progress.
Winner: The Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Award.
The Traverse Festival program has jumped into action, already selling out full days' worth of shows at a time.
Setting the modern obsession with putting your own child first against our responsibility as a society towards children as a whole, this dark tale, written by and starring BAFTA aw…
Setting the modern obsession with putting your own child first against our responsibility as a society towards children as a whole, this dark tale, written by and starring BAFTA aw…
There are moments of brilliance in this one-person-variety-show, but Joan’s intriguing idea is let down by lack of critical editing.
There’s a great variety of women in Wife – taking as a cue Carol Anne Duffy’s The World’s Wife – from ‘Mrs Quasimodo’ to Michelle Obama, whose farewell speech is pred…
‘Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
In this show, you will empathise with a child killer.
Deeply political, magnificently performed and filled with tense action and witty dialogue, Girls manages to grip and amaze the audience with its characters and powerful message fro…
In 1950s Britain there is a rose garden.
This touching new musical explores the interior monologues of three interconnected characters through acoustic songs, focusing on their lack of communication and the difference bet…
This monologue series is a blunt, brutal, but ultimately celebratory foray into how we handle human interactions.
A group of school friends reunite for fond reminiscences, only to rekindle old rivalries, leaving them wondering how much they’ve really changed.
When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick.
Before Chris’s wife died, after over 30 years of marriage, she made him promise to be himself.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
The multi award-winning show about Joan of Arc returns! Performed by drag king champion Lucy Jane Parkinson, history’s greatest gender warrior takes the stage dragging up as the me…
A homeless person, a gambling addict, a political preacher, a television presenter.
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.
Sad Girls is a play about three girls: Miley, Lottie and Flo.
The worldwide smash-hit is back in Edinburgh for one week only.
Scotland.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
Half past five on a Friday evening, and a school’s electronic door-locking system shuts down for the weekend… with four teachers still in the staff room.
Exploring the relationship between a brother and a sister growing up in a climate change fuelled apocalypse, Towers of Eden explores many classic dystopian themes as well some more…
Reactivists bring you a new show each week, based on the news of the week before.
The type of anger that you can’t normally show, but also the power we have to overcome things. Gary Thomas’s debut play transfers from Theatre N16.
This playful, innovative and interactive play follows a young engineer trying to follow her heart and fall in love for the first time, against the ever-present pressure from her st…
An anti-terrorist government official is forced to reconsider all of his preconceptions regarding illegal immigrants when he comes face to face with the experiences of a desperate …
A couple of couples meet for a drink and talk again and again and again and again and.
Internationally acclaimed imitating the dog premiere their latest work.
The Mantles have issues that probably need to be addressed, only problem being none of them talk to each other, not properly anyway.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
This show is for anyone who’s ever looked at a stranger in the street and wondered who they are.
Can you hear the silent scream in the song of the cabaret? This gripping new drama exposes the twists and turns of a family ripped apart by secrecy and prejudice.
England, 1823: the Industrial Revolution and a changing world.
Maddie Rice has been put into a difficult position with performing this script.
Welcomed back to Edinburgh after its rave performances last year, Scorch is new writing for one performer.
When Camille transfers to London, she finds herself blissfully following a well-travelled road.
Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality.
Farce has a proud place in British theatre history.
Charlotte has a pen pal, but he sends her his letters from death row.
Coming of Age showcases songs on a theme of embracing age.
Three unconnected prisoners are thrown into the same cell on the day that the Earth’s population of bees go missing.
After a sell-out debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Giants return with their sophomore hour.
Jokes can be heard anywhere, but for comedy fans who want more bang for their buck, The Obscurist is the show to see this summer.
Taking a leaf from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, The Black that I Am is a compilation of stories that delve into the minds of various women and their experiences of being black…
As a white Irish person, reviewing a person of colour’s experience of their treatment in the UK feels disingenuous.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
Executed by student acting troupe The Hurtwood Corner from performing arts college Hurtwood House, Seven Devils is a play exploring the trials of down-on-their-luck Manhattan resid…
In 1875, a group of first and second generation immigrants, from the greatest refugee crisis of the age, fed up with their lack of opportunity, founded a football team called Hiber…
Meet Jim Arrandale, once a household name (he won an Oscar, you know!).
The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make Breakfast Plays: B!rth worth getting up for.
Prescribed (A Life Written For Me) by performance artist Viv Gordon opens a window for us to peer into the claustrophobically grim life of a GP working at an NHS practice today.
Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…
‘Catchy riffs and rapid-fire word play’ ***** (Kryztoff.
A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it.
Marilyn Monroe, movie star.
The 11:87 Theatre Company’s debut at the Fringe is a new musical following the lives of Sophie and George as they are guided by both angels and demons.
A touching piece of theatre, the young performers of Parker & Snell Youth Company have created an effective retelling of The Edelweiss Pirates and their struggle during the Second …
Two men meet in a club.
Exploding Whale Theatre’s coming of age romp Heroes is set against the backdrop of Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972.
Can the state go into your home, uncover your secrets and trap you with what it finds? Domestic is a love story between Mia – an activist, and Cal – the policeman sent to spy o…
In a world full of hatred and ignorance, Simply Surreal, fresh from our sell-out show last year, welcomes you to our exciting play.
This play tells the story of Sophia, a street prostitute, and Serephina, a high class escort.
Walking into theSpace on the Mile this morning, I had very little knowledge about what Columns had in store for me.
Not the 2006 Broadway musical, but the 1981 play on which that was based, Spring Awakening is notable for its controversies upon original publication.
The debut play from Haylo Theatre, comprising Hayley Riley and Louise Evans, Over the Garden Fence, follows Annabelle and her Gran, Dolly who is suffering from dementia.
Macbeth.
Snow is the newest prisoner at HMP Young Offenders Institution, Hull.
Annie is just a normal girl with normal problems.
The Teeth of Haros follows the recently deceased Malcolm on a dream-like journey through purgatory and memories of his last day alive as he searches for his daughter Anna.
Imagine a lifetime of feeling invisible.
Vaccine is a searing new drama created by the newly formed Warwick University company, Juvenilia.
A new comedy by Dan Freeman starring Sylvester McCoy, Richard Oliver and Robert Picardo. An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a joke…
Mimi’s Suitcase explores identity and the consequences of displacement as it follows Iranian teen Mimi’s involuntary return to her war-torn homeland after a happy childhood in Ba…
Deep below an English manor house, in which a beloved member of the British royal family sleeps, a young woman is dressed as Shakespeare’s tragic hero Macbeth.
Jesus here! Belief in Dad is at an all-time low, but pre-marital sex is at an all-time high.
Jack and Annie had the perfect relationship, right up until the day they didn’t anymore.
Young Scottish YouTube star Bex has convinced her English boyfriend Philip to move to Glasgow with her.
‘A new label on an old tin of beans won’t change the flavour.
It is 2057 and the world’s population has reached 10 billion.
Reactivists bring you a new show each week, based on the news of the week before.
New writer Priscilla Berringer collaborates with Joanna Faith Habershon (2016’s Soft, the Moon Rose), taking a fresh look at old time classic Jane Eyre through the eyes of a fail…
What do Andy Murray, Google and Bordeaux’s number one philosophizer François Fromage have in common? Yes, that’s right – wasps.
An Actor’s Tribute combines new writing with devised content and improv to create a piece of theatre that explores the highs and lows of life from an actor’s point of view.
EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale.
Welcome to the story of Harry Poppers and the Deathly Swallows! You may have heard a similar story before, but we will take you on a very different journey.
New town.
Narrative direction is hard to achieve but is essential to a good musical.
A veteran teacher, Edna Stubbs, stumbles across a device that allows her to alter her classroom based on a student’s performance or life decisions.
A woman, a bear, some cub-support money and questionable morals: What Do Bears Eat? is an irreverent, bizarre and satirical take on the relationship between man and nature.
‘I didn’t even know your name.
Life is ordinarily quite reasonable for POIROT – the Penrith Organisation for Investigating the Reasonably Ordinary T (it’s a silent T).
A brand new dark comedy exploring the hilarious dynamics between the brightest young minds of our generation, and the expectations and demands of their parents.
Home from university for the holidays, Sam and Alice have met to fulfil the promise they made, aged 10, to spend one whole, glorious day as their superhero alter egos.
Based on the true story of the senseless, unsolved stabbing of a teenager, Dan Bishop’s dark comedy explores the impact random acts of violence have on young people, and their un…
What do an Indian banker, a Chinese nurse and a Polish housekeeper have in common? Three young women search for love and find themselves in a unique love triangle.
Celebrating the music of Peter D Robinson (MTM nominee, Best Composer on the Fringe, 2007) this concert features music from a range of productions.
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
I think this show is emblematic of a lot of the problems that new musicals at the Fringe tend to have.
Nestled away in the Scottish Arts Club is a collection of Canadian poets performing a variety of their work with different styles and a few excerpts from their novels, both publish…
The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea is inspired by John Lyly’s pastoral comedy, Galatea.
On a cliff edge somewhere, a man is about to jump to his death when he is stopped by a psychology professor.
A musical marvel – a magical journey undertaken by three little children, each with their own striking personality, who unite their efforts and complete a series of challenging t…
Although the world becomes ever smaller, big questions about our existence and purpose remain.
NATO Summit, 2014, Newport, Wales: Pippa is dazed, hungover and staging her own personal protest on the Coldra roundabout.
This short, sweet and interactive one-woman show is an autobiographical journey through a life labelled as “disabled”.
There are lights in the sky.
Antler Theatre are no strangers to the Edinburgh Fringe, making their debut with This Way Up and Maria, 1968 in 2012.
An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes.
10 Rillington Place is successful in creating a chillingly uncanny aura; a domestic scene is twisted from the familiar into the unthinkable.
Shakespeare’s life, in Shakespeare’s words.
Sweetmeat is about the consented cannibalism between two men who are also lovers.
‘What is an artist without his muse?’ Beauty constantly asks this question as it delves into what it really means to create a legacy as an artist, and investigates how mo…
A boy washed up on the tide.
Glasgow Central is a play based on true events, written and directed by Lauren Dowie.
‘And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness’.
How long will your adult child be staying? Should you make an ultimatum? Can you steer them away from war games and into the archives? What’s the point of it all? Will the story of…
A child is born.
In the library of a grammar school in Stockport, a group of school pupils gather who appear to lead typical teenage lives.
Traverse Theatre is currently hosting rehearsed readings of pieces from graduates at the University of Edinburgh’s Playwriting Masters course.
1533: Henry VIII’s London, the height of negotiations for Britain’s separation from Europe – and Jean and Georges are having their portrait painted.
Sink is a poignant and fascinating drama about one of China’s greatest playwrights, Lao She; a man who wrote for his country and was once honoured as an ‘Artist of the peo…
Suicide: The Musical is a one-man show that discusses male depression and disconnection due to social media.
Once you open the door there’s no going back… A late night band rehearsal in Aberlladd goes badly wrong with deadly consequences in this spine-tingling horror musical.
Just how low can reality TV go? When sinister American cult leader Chuck pitches a gruesome dating show with death as the ultimate prize, a couple of desperate television producers…
Was Shakespeare ever really in love? On 27 November 1582, he registered to marry Anne Whateley.
Company of Rogues invites us into an intriguing, yet convoluted, tale of a time-travelling gent sent to redeem himself by saving a schizophrenic in 1980s Australia.
Grieving is a universal human experience, and The Other Half Lives is a play which analyses grief in the years after someone’s passing.
Gordon and Paul are classic slackers and up until now their lives have consisted of dodgy deals, shady characters, and daytime television.
Take three different couples and get them all pregnant.
Think is a powerful piece of new writing from Evangeline Osbon, recent graduate from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, in collaboration with MindOut Theatre.
Manchester dark comedy duo Powder Keg (Ross McCaffery and Jake Walton) scream out their political statements in Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) but none which make an impact…
The first half is a cut-down, 30-minute version of Shakespeare’s play.
Ballot Box from Tea and Tonic productions may be categorised under ‘New Writing,’ but it fails to provide an original scope on Brexit.
These Walls is about young women facing walls in their lives.
The stage is awash with cold, blue LED light.
Graeae Theatre Company champions the working-class misfits of Skelmersdale, Lancashire – or ‘Skem’ as Dent and Shaun call it – in their new show Cosmic Scallies.
Deep in the vaults of an ancient priory a deadly creature awakens… Bold knights flee in terror! Can a humble nun defeat the beast? Two muddle-headed storytellers use puppetry, li…
Making a Murderer meets Rosemary’s Baby.
The soul of Richard Nixon attempts to justify his actions while the audience act as the jury.
Moni’s got guts and a promiscuous disposition.
1960s America.
Adam tells the story of Adam Kashmiry, a trans man born in Alexandria, Egypt.
Hot, new(ish) comedy trio are back in Edinburgh with a playful new sketch show.
The concept behind Sunscreen Productions’ Radio is pretty familiar: a group of flatmates at the end of their university careers grapple with past tensions and future anxieties wh…
Though common in film and literature, it is rare to see a play which fits the bill of psychological thriller.
‘You live your whole life and then it’s just you.
This is an insight into a piece of work in its infancy, and it does have a long way to go before it stands on its own two feet.
Take one community centre, three evening classes, six skill-seekers and then stand back! Night class-aholic Karen and newly separated daughter Izzy tackle Zumba.
Stuck in a lift, Ruth waits to escape in order to visit her husband who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
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.
Just Like the Movies is a cheery musical exploring the world of show business as the characters battle to make a statement in a world where success is often decided by major realit…
A naturalistic drama with a cast of eight and duration of 60 minutes with strong elements of Brechtian theatre.
Benjamin Teel, a paranoid schizophrenic, believes he is responsible for the murder of millions.
Threadbare is a creation of the Minotaur Theatre Company which is run by students from the University of East Anglia.
Pucqui Collaborative’s Changelings is a thoughtful story about two very different existences colliding and attempting to translate one another.
We are all Going to Die is a devised piece by Dead Person Productions.
Opening with an audio recording of various real-life political statements – given by both normal citizens and political leaders – Sleepwalkers quickly registers its interest in…
There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.
Film stars in the 50s and 60s needed to sing.
The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea is inspired by John Lyly’s pastoral comedy, Galatea.
Woke is a searingly powerful and important one-woman performance about racism in the United States.
The Florence Theatre Company presents Cannonball, an irreverent new drama making its Edinburgh Fringe debut following the company’s sell-out production of America at the Chelsea …
Typically performed from the back of a truck in New York, this surreal take on a seminar exhorting the effective use of language achieves the desired level of oddness, but seems to…
The age-old story of boy meets girl.
Simone James stars in Wondr, Poppy Burton-Morgan’s debut as a playwright with Metta Theatre.
Following the accident, Kat’s struggling with the basics of everyday life.
This hour-long dramatic and comedic monologue is a persistent exploration of why the existence of the gadulka – a traditional Bulgarian folk instrument – is the worst thing tha…
For a play about personified jizz, War of the Sperms is surprisingly unsexy.
A hidden gem of the fringe, this authentically Scottish play has fantastically realist, understated acting throughout, and it offers an emotional portrayal of the familial tensions…
One clown.
“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’…
As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’.
The Medea of Euripides is a story of love, of life, of murder and of how all three interlink.
The young performer Suzanne Grotenhuis won a prize for her previous theatre show at a Belgian theatre festival.
Quilliam transported us into their world with this innovative, captivating, controversial performance which examined Islamic radicalisation in a series of complex twists and turns.
Business is bad for conservative relationship counsellor Sandra.
Live sitcom from writer of Edinburgh Fringe hit Adrift.
The invigorating and inventive Babolin are winners of the 2015 Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre Award.
Mimi’s Suitcase explores identity and the consequences of displacement as it follows Iranian teen Mimi’s involuntary return to her war-torn homeland after a happy childhood in Ba…
Manwatching is a monologue written by an anonymous woman to be performed by a famous comedian.
The key to a happy life is avoiding all forms of useless and unproductive time – Leere Zeit – as propagated by the Institute of Positive Lifestyles.
A part devised, part verbatim piece of theatre that delves deep into the effects that pornography, with its growing popularity and influence, has on individuals in the 21st century…
Charlie, a foreign correspondent out to do her job, is kidnapped and put in an underground cell.
Alex In Shadow from UCLU Runaground proves that puppetry is not just for children.
‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall – does this selfie make my nose look big?’ Your favourite fairy tales in disguise, this once upon a time is happening now.
Older egg seeking hot, young sperm.
A historical comedy exploring the life of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico.
They say a mother’s love is unconditional, but can you truly still love your child after they commit the most heinous of crimes? Put The Book Down’s Mine brings to light the ex…
Glimpses of a toxic relationship.
It begins with a simple yet beautifully plucked tune followed by eerie voices echoing out until they fill the room.
It’s a rainy day in Edinburgh and I’m not in the mood for a My Sister’s Keeper type of cancer play.
Danny has an interview for his dream job as a football reporter at The Times – he just hasn’t told them he’s deaf.
Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.
Confronting head-on complex ethical dilemmas that co-exist with modern Western imperialism, this new play written by Rory Horne is urgent, engaging and also deeply entertaining.
(FEAR) grabs your attention as soon as you enter the venue.
A good storytelling piece is lovely.
A crisis has taken hold of the Heavens.
Jane extravagantly showers her son with love and affection on his birthday, giving him cake and presents galore.
Five of them carried out the robbery.
In a Black Mirror-esque near future, two men face each other across a table.
Static Assembly attempt to give us an insight into the lives and rivalry of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla but really just leaves the audience confused.
‘The more I try to remember her, the more I’ve forgotten her.
Stopgap: a temporary way of fixing a problem or satisfying a need.
In our youth-obsessed society, women become sexualised at a very young age.
Sam is in a coma.
Sometimes, all a show needs to be good is to be simple and earnestly performed.
Ewan is one of the country’s most intelligent young bankers.
Cockamamy is an adjective meaning ludicrous or nonsensical.
Let me preface by saying that Hero suffered from technical issues when I saw it, which was announced at the play’s beginning and therefore meant that some of the lights for the p…
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.
Good theatre should make you feel something and by that definition alone, this was great theatre.
This cleverly written piece by Sam Steiner may be back for a third year at the Fringe, but Walrus Theatre has still managed to create something fresh in this wonderful, captivating…
Writer Monsay Whitney’s Box Clever is one of the most important shows up at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
I’ll make no bones about it: Pike St.
Written by award winning playwright Elinor Cook, Out of Love is a stunning piece of new writing which conveys the absolute power of female friendship, something which is often over…
Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive …
‘Tell me Connor, what happens when you run out? What happens when you take that last pill?’ With the clinical drug trial of Exspiravitacillin coming to an end, Connor faces losing …
Dad’s floating in the harbour, Nana’s back before a judge, and there’s a guy in his bedroom with a knife, but at least Joe Bacon has a job.
A homeless person, a gambling addict, a political preacher, a television presenter.
Natural philosophers Edmund Halley and Robert Hooke are engaged in a scientific wager that will crown the man who can prove why the planets move elliptically the victor.
‘I love this country, but who loves me?’ The play is based on the true story of Lao She, a Chinese writer of great esteem, who, at one stage, was given the title of People’s Ar…
Created, written, directed and performed by author Angela Jackson, The Darling Monologues is a series of three darkly comic monologues which interweave the lives of three women: Li…
This dark one-man play is full of energy and intensity as David William Bryan perfectly encapsulates the abject isolation of binman Keith Goodman, known to all as Goody.
CultureClash Theatre consume the audience in Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s gripping political play Under My Thumb.
Is it a curse to stay? What if we couldn’t travel, could never leave home and see the world? Can we still be happy? A girl looks across the ocean and longs to discover.
Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses.
Pixel Dust is a rare thing: a piece of theatre about the internet that isn’t utterly technophobic.
Worklight Theatre return to Edinburgh with their brand new show Fix; a fusion of song, science and soliloquy investigating addiction in the UK today.
Take the premise of George Orwell’s 1984 and lighten it up with a few jokes and some pop culture references and you’ll already be halfway towards the dystopian future seen in R…
Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth.
Even those of us who strive to find nothing inherently embarrassing about mammary glands feel a bit awkward at the box office, and this is part of The B*easts message.
Bran flakes, anxiety and gravity.
Described by its creator as a two-actor play of “a relationship rotting” and a manifestation of domestic “purgatory”, it quite quickly becomes apparent through this tense a…
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…
Dust is not for the faint-hearted.
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…
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
In a world created by your imagination it can be difficult to work out what is fictional and what is reality.
To Hell in a Handbag shares a most important quality with its inspiration: the infectious nature of the prose.
One Devonshire lass and her cow in search for a tractor may not sound the most captivating plot premise you’ve ever heard, but Cow delivers brilliantly on it.
How do you hold on to the world’s greatest escape artist? 10 years after the death of his father, illusionist extraordinaire The Great Ridolphi, Victor O’Meara is visited by detect…
The tricky thing with a show like The Man On The Moor is balancing the personal, fictional story being told with the larger, true-life event it is connected to.
Natasha Marshall’s Half Breed is a vibrant and moving monologue about what it is like to grow up mixed race in a parochial white community.
Some Riot theatre’s new play is a rollercoaster of love, loss and the passion and pain of being young that hooks you from the first word, makes you fall in love with it then breaks…
There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
Making a show about science interesting to a general audience is an extremely difficult feat.
Cambridge University Musical society hits Edinburgh to redefine the stories of Henry VIII’s six wives through a contemporary pop girl-band SiX.
Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics.
‘Who is that?’, ‘Harry’, ‘He’s my favourite’, ‘I think he’s everyone’s favourite.
All hell breaks loose when a tortured young misfit named Catherine strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Anita.
Hi! I’m Jonas Müller (Age 27).
Apocalypse Now, with its 153 minute running time, multi-million dollar production costs and jungle location, might not seem like the most obvious contender for adaptation into a on…
In a month where white supremacists have marched through the streets over Charlottesville in protest against the removal of a Confederate statue, there could not be a more relevant…
As we enter the shadowy theatre of Assembly Hall we see an imposing set of gallows upon which a young man sits shackled as a lone pianist plays quiet discordant music.
America, 1863.
A darkly comic, Mel Brooks-style parody following the storyline of the DH Lawrence novel… with a few twists.
The Traverse Theatre is onto a winner with its programming this year.
‘There’s two rules: first, the person you choose must be dead.
Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey.
Of all the things one expects to see when attending the Edinburgh Fringe, a public tying of the knot is likely to be towards the end of the list.
The perfect image of youth and boyhood is projected onto the mirror-like panels which hang from the ceiling as Jo Clifford gazes thoughtfully the photo of herself.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
For anyone who has suffered mental illness themselves, or has lived with someone who is afflicted, this piece will cut close to the bone.
There is a lot to like about this package.
Two days, 15 years later.
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
‘Men are from Earth.
‘You will be taken hence to the prison you were last confined.
I can resist everything except the temptation.
In UCL Graters’ return to Edinburgh, even the refreshments are violent.
A darkly comic, Mel Brooks-style parody following the storyline of the DH Lawrence novel… with a few twists.
Boy meets girl.
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.
Replay is a tense and atmospheric play which deftly explores loss, trauma and determination.
What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors is an examination of homelessness and the situations which lead to it which matches the pace of how those problems develop.
Bare Skin On Briny Waters is part of the Hull Takeover of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is one of five plays presenting from the 2017 UK City of Culture.
With so many comedy double acts at the Fringe – many of whom are also middle-class white boys from London – Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick have their work cut out to stand out…
In a darkened room surrounded by blinking lights a young angry man tells us his life story, from childhood through teen years to the miseries of universities we see what the strugg…
Testosterone is a touching, funny and incredibly brave piece of theatre from Rhum and Clay Company and Kit Redstone.
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
Pierre Novellie is a South African from the Isle of Man who lives in London.
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is about a woman’s struggle with depression, told through a simple, storytelling format and soundtracked by original music from Fris…
It’s been a particularly tough year for Mark and Fran.
Bletherbox provide an alternative insight into the lives of the men who worked and died on the Piper Alpha oil rig.
The Wardrobe Ensemble returns to the Fringe festival with a fast-paced and incredibly entertaining look at the education system in BritainThe play focuses on the last day of school…
50 years ago, Ken Loach’s TV drama, Cathy Come Home, won plaudits for its gritty and honest treatment of homelessness.
Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th…
The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries.
What if how I feel about myself and the world at 4am is the truth? What if people really do think I’ve got a disappointing face? What if I take off all my clothes and my lover ju…
Nestled in what seems, somewhat appropriately, to be a shipping container in the Pleasance Courtyard, two creatures on a journey with no origin point or destination try to figure e…
Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
The latest production from Lion House Theatre is a visually pleasing experience, executed with dexterity and grace by a cast of three.
It’s time to think outside the box, go crazy, go skydiving or just go to a different pub this Friday.
Pain! Shame! Confusion! Or.
Frank and Cynthia meet and fall in love in a whirlwind croissant-inspired love affair, which is tragically cut short.
How to Act is set up as a masterclass in acting with a fantastic twist that brings questions of race and gender into a topical debate.
From NYC comes a darkly comic guide for brothers everywhere: how to teach, protect and permanently traumatise each other.
Putney Light Operatic Society are bringing a famous English haunting back from the dead with their new musical The Poltergeist of Cock Lane, composed by Steven Geraghty and written…
Nearly everyone is dead and Taylor is alone.
A Gym Thing is narrated by Will, a person obsessed with his body, for whom staying in shape becomes a kind of unpaid profession.
A play that will make you laugh, cringe and cry in equal measure, Poll Function is a masterstroke.
What’s your life worth? In a horribly plausible near future, a government obsessed with capping the spiralling pensions deficit has come up with a price.
Fémage a Trois is Loquiter Theatre’s production of three twenty-minute monologues, performed by three women in three different circles of life.
Three couples come together to celebrate some exciting news: Natasha is going to live to 82.
This mesmerising adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novella gives you no choice but to be completely immersed into a tiny room with a Nazi prisoner, as he attempts to cling to sanity u…
Joanne Ryan’s ode to motherhood, Eggsistentialism, is emotionally poignant and amusingly informative.
China Plate’s The Shape of the Pain is an innovative artistic and scientific collaboration combining words, sound and projection to start a conversation about Complex Regional Pa…
The initial experience one is met with when the lights dim for Seanmhair (pronounced shen-a-var) is breathtaking.
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.
Jackie is pregnant.
1902 sheds a light on the dark side of football, telling real stories about real people, but showing that not all football fans are as bad as they are perceived to be.
Gloria and Padraic are best friends whose relationship changes forever.
A short play for two humans and two robots.
Fifty years ago, Roland Barthes told us to forget what we know about an author when reading a text.
A Young Vic Taking Part Production.
Performing to a deservedly sold out crowd, this piece aims to start a conversation with its audience about a topic that is too often neglected.
It’s 1979 and Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson is in America to play an exhibition match.
Henry Naylor’s new play Borders reminds us not to close ourselves off from the plight of Syrian refugees, though it has fizzled out of our daily news.
Football wasn’t always a game for the masses.
‘I thought they wanted soldiers.
Jelly Beans is a really, really horrible play.
A one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between a prison guard and criminal as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate.
New York, 1906.
Unveiled, a deeply moving one-woman play characterising the lives of five women, all victims of the Magdalene Laundries.
A feminist show about wanting a stag do.
Join youthful South-London songwriter Benji Tranter as he takes on the grim business of living via his original, off-beat songs! Benji, accompanied only by his guitar, performs son…
Come and meet Holly Bidgood, author of The Eagle and The Oystercatcher.
Growing Pains Theatre Company offers its Edinburgh debut, a confessional piece of drama exploring the fraught path from adolescence to adulthood.
Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper.
Grace and Laurie are two friends who decide to become prophets, in order to disprove the dying words of their friend, Eve, who recently committed suicide.
Growing pains.
The Hearty Toadstool, classic English bed and breakfast, has gone downhill in recent years, but elderly proprietor Lavinia Gerania keeps the place going.
‘Don’t you find, that the good thing about home is that leaving, as coming back, can equally be the greatest thing?’ ‘Mr.
Lifted is a play about Scotland, identity, immigration, police violence, racism and mermaids.
‘When growing up makes you feel as if you’re on trial, and people are building a case against you the moment you step out of line.
West End Has Faith gathers professionals working within London’s West End and on tour who have a desire to share their journey and life experiences.
In the sleepy town of Pickford in 1949 three sisters are bored of their post-war existences and want to start living.
Nuclear winter has descended upon the globe.
I’ve finally found it: the Fringiest show at the Fringe! Hyena is a free-wheeling, difficult, often uncomfortable and sometime revelatory experience.
Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together.
A grandad may have passed on, but he wasn’t the only thing that died on stage.
It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public.
The Monologues of a Tired Nurse.
Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and the Hatton Garden safe deposit heist this is a dark, psychological thriller being delivered on stage to coincide with its product…
Join us for this special event, presented by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and the Traverse Theatre.
Join us for Nightmare, a piece of new writing by Sophie Paterson where the boundaries between subconscious and reality have been destroyed.
‘Three of us will lose the show and the other one could walk into the hands of the most horrible man alive.
Hella Granger – Superstar recounts the life story of singer Hella Granger, the first white musician to be signed to Motown.
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
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…
Spot the cliché.
One comic book fan tries to figure out what the real meaning of his life is by becoming a superhero.
Conman, faith healer and US Army reservist.
Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour.
‘Three of us will lose the show and the other one could walk into the hands of the most horrible man alive.
Five woman poets, five unique performances of new writing, one Sunday in one beautiful venue. Please see bowdykitebooks.com for full details on line-up.
Comedy duo Ronnie and Jonny split up five years ago and haven’t spoken since.
‘Three of us will lose the show and the other one could walk into the hands of the most horrible man alive.
Life presents us with many opportunities, be it falling in love, finding a career or killing your parents.
Put your drinks down and your hands together, all the way from Domremy in France (via Soho and 600 years) it’s JOAN! An earthy story of courage, conviction, hope, survival and love…
Set in small, Irish living room - somewhere between cosy and claustrophobic - Three Days’ Time is a thoughtful domestic comedy about weird parents, leaving home and mysteriously …
A Working Title is about the belated coming-of-age and struggles of millennials as they confront a world of expectations and disappointments.
Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company.
As hilarious as it is poignant, Lost in Blue is an individual and gripping story from one of the UK’s top storytellers.
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.
The Traverse’s Breakfast Plays series is an intriguing prospect: four plays on the same theme by their Associate Artists, presented as script-in-hand rehearsed readings at 9am ea…
“Revolutionise the world”.
Bob Stourton has an orchard.
With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing.
Following their sell-out Fringe run in 2014, Make Theatre CIC return with their brand new, original show, Stop! A lighthearted, observational musical comedy based on overheard real…
If you’re expecting an uncomfortable exploration of mental health issues and the stigmas associated with them, the tone of Happy Yet? might catch you off-guard.
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
The world premiere of a new musical from Ian Hammond Brown, the composer/lyricist of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Pitlochry Festival Theatre hit: Whisky Galore a Musical.
Ramone comes clean to best mate Carl on his stag night.
It’s all in the mind you know.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show aims to explore the warm relationship between Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra as they appear on the titular Christmas special.
‘The string is the thing’ – in the centre of the stage there is a giant sculpture.
“If I’m feminine, does that mean I’m effeminate? Or if I’m effeminate, does that mean I’m feminine?”Looking at the nature of what it means to female in this modern worl…
In this new musical, a piece which has flashes of The Picture of Dorian Gray crossed with psycho-dramatic elements of an Edgar Allen Poe ballad, a story of clandestine love, beauty…
Following their sell-out Fringe run in 2014, Make Theatre CIC return with their brand new, original show, Stop! A lighthearted, observational musical comedy based on overheard real…
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
If you want to see a show that constructs John Knox as a talking point for oversimplified political views, may I suggest Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off? It’s not on…
An autobiographical play about hope.
Meet Sisu – one part salty liquorice, two parts Moomin, three parts snow – from the land of saunas, kiosks and Sibelius.
‘When it’s working, you won’t even pay attention to the time; there is no time, there is just that win.
Punch, Fleur, Dog and Sid.
Playwright Anthony Maskell’s Fringe debut is as student as they come.
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
Texas, early evening, the 1980s.
The Point is a daring and challenging project driven by female artists.
Human, a recently deceased teenager, full of life (ironically) and unwilling to move on.
An explosive, brand new musical from platinum selling songwriters Guard and Rice.
On the day that his new book is published, come and hear this controversial and outspoken figure in the church discussing it in conversation with the minister of St Andrew’s and St…
Welcome to the world’s worst school disco.
Four youngsters and their dog battle an unexpected apocalypse on a small Scottish island.
Spoon-Feeders follows the daily lives of four actors working for STN News; exploring the interaction between the worlds of information and entertainment.
Created, written, and performed by students from Oxford University, Queenside Productions new musical Pawn is an impressive, if imperfect, piece of new student writing that, whilst…
War profiteering veers into a mess of explosive highways and backroom deals in this blues-rock Greek-style tragedy.
‘We are the reckless, we are the wild youth!’ In the ruins of an old derelict church, secrets and lies strain friendships to breaking point.
The fact that Home is “partly based on true events” makes Cate and Gia’s situation all the more distressing.
‘– it’s only a game.
Emma Bailey is a modern day Madame Bovary, battling with a stifling middle-class lifestyle, thwarted dreams and untreatable depression.
What happens when a barely functioning boy band get the chance to perform at the Reading Festival? The Lizards is a darkly witty yet poignant look at fame (or lack thereof) in the …
What would you say if you met Caesar in a lift in Sheffield in the 1980s? The miners’ strike is ongoing and Caesar doesn’t know himself.
‘A brilliant play and another success for Punchline Theatre’ ***** (BroadwayBaby.
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together for the fourth year in a row to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the Americ…
An expedition to the North Pole.
Lucky 6 were massive in the nineties.
Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers.
Exploring the impact of creeping corporatism and excessive accountability.
Glasgow’s big darling brings her distinct brand of magic to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Current affairs can be baffling, and we have all been overcome with the need to turn off the news and pretend that horrific acts of terrorism around the world aren’t happening.
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 two weeks before AniMazing Con and six high school theatre kids are gunning to win the anime convention’s group cosplay contest with a scene from Madsummer! – a modern-d…
There’s an unspoken rule on the tube: never try to start a conversation.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Written, directed and composed by three 20-year-old students, this is a brand new musical exploring the story of a man who effectively changed the course of history.
Geneva Rust-Orta is the miracle child of two beautiful lesbians.
Grace has a fairy tale life; she has the perfect job and the perfect house in a perfect city.
A powerful and compelling drama set in 1979.
This is my last morning.
After reading a page of a favourite book, Clinky’s eyes begin to droop.
Every day he writes to her from his cell.
By Joan Greening (ITV’s The Cabbage Patch) from five-star-rated adrunkensailor.
The Red Letter gang are newly formed and trying to take over the West End.
Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company’s Best Intentions focuses on the perspectives of two regularly overlooked characters in Shakespearean fiction: Angelica the nurse from Romeo and …
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wisdom-packed novella is brought to Edinburgh by the Waldorf Wayfarers – 18 multi-faceted performers, both students and teachers, from Waldorf or Stei…
What would your dog say if she could talk? Furry angel philosophers Trinny and Kato share their insights on the travails and foibles of the (not always wonderful) humans they love,…
Madeline and Joe want to have a baby.
Join Dracula’s arch-nemesis Professor Van Helsing in a gothic camp vamp romp of biting satire punctuated with sucky songs.
Shite takes you on a romp through the trials and tribulations of the modern-day workplace.
Readings from seven new plays.
Dark comedy and dynamic verbatim theatre.
With the parliamentary Labour party at apparent loggerheads with a huge chunk of its ordinary party members, and a Prime Minister arguably governing without a strong mandate, the g…
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, appeared the letter A.
When a child’s choice is to be a suicide bomber or an invader’s informant, his Afghan mother sends him away to save him.
Sam, Catherine and David get into the elevator together to leave work, each in a world of their own.
A show about those people you love to hate.
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…
One of the wonderful things about the Fringe Festival is that it’s the only time of year that theatre in Scotland truly panders to our increasingly short attention spans.
Lest We Forget is a play centered on the human cost of World War One directly in its aftermath.
Connections missed and made are set in motion in this playful, algorithmically-generated piece exploring love and chance from young company Poltergeist Theatre.
The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not the only force of nature that ripped families apart.
This is a kids show for adults featuring puppets, awkward art attacks and one too many cats.
If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
A Royal Flush is a dark political comedy turned farce, featuring a princess stuck in a portaloo and a ransoming of The Daily Star.
There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing.
‘Of course, you shouldn’t use sign language’.
In a sitcom-esque black comedy, three bohemian students lazily speculate about the end of the world, until they begin to suspect that one of them might have taken drastic action ag…
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.
Sexual Fears of A Modern Day Virgin.
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.
Lotta and Erik should be happily married but there’s one problem – the sex.
In 2012, geneticist Joseph Fowler illegally used the gene editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 to save the life of his unborn daughter, Amelia.
Absence of Separation is a tender and evocative play about the frustrating search for the meaning of life.
Words from the heart by award-winning poet, David Lee Morgan (London, UK, and BBC slam poetry champion).
Following their ‘simply superb’ (AllEdinburghTheatre.
Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers.
Follow Terry’s unsupportive support group as they cope with bizarre addictions: monologuing, interpretive dance, wordplay, the internet, puns and more! The Idle Playthings return t…
What if you could see into the future for a thousand years? Would that be long enough? A battle for the future, a battle for a child, a battle for a dream.
In a darkly comic, brutally honest and extremely current piece of new writing, Martin Murphy depicts the life of one woman who is striving to make a difference in the world.
I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession.
Spiders by Night is one of the more intimate Fringe shows: two monologues about spiders and mental health difficulties.
Do you know your Green Onions from your Uptown Funk? We got the funk and it’s all here, played by Scotland’s finest eight-piece live band, Lights Out by Nine.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
Over scrabble, Jenni and David discuss their excitement about meeting their ‘perfect’ baby; then receive the news that the pregnancy is high-risk.
On average, 12 men take their own life every single day.
Isabel(le) concerns Isabel Brade, a freewheeling brothel owner with a penchant for dance, and Emma, her great-granddaughter and narrator of the show.
Ladies in Waiting, written by and starring James Cougar Canfield as the lascivious and misogynistic King Henry VIII, is a steamy, feminist critique of the most notorious of England…
The Fringe Festival will always be best used as a place for experimentation and experience building, both for performers and for audiences.
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…
Triumvirette takes the form of a three part show – two monologues sandwiching a romantic comedy short play.
‘I was looking in the mirror and thinking, who the hell is that?’ Caitlin and Sophie have always been best friends, so Sophie has always looked after Caitlin.
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.
Jane Postlethwaite brings her debut solo show, Made in Cumbria, to the Edinburgh Fringe, where she will introduce you to a selection of dark female characters who will welcome you …
Often, the expectation brought to mind by the genre “Musical” means that successfully producing a new and original one at the Fringe Festival is no mean feat.
In a world of increasing crime, someone has to fight back against villainy, someone with abilities beyond comprehension: fire breathing, super strength, or the power to produce pot…
The Hours Before We Wake presents us with a world where you can customise your dreams and upload them to DreamShare when you wake up.
Science fiction is a rare thing to find at the Fringe; even rarer is finding it done well, but the Sundial Theatre company has little to fear with their latest offering, After the …
Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
In the wake of the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, Allison struggles to come to terms with losing everything.
The country’s only student-run theatre presents an hour of sketch comedy in the form of Tyrannosaurus Sketch! Featuring six actors fueled mostly by coffee and the desperate need …
In the same way that a musical blends theatre with music, Strangers: A Magic Play blends theatre with magic.
Lifted is a play about Scotland, identity, immigration, police violence, racism and mermaids.
Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence.
Follow the ridiculous antics of social rugby club, Old Fatonians, where foolishness, stupidity and brutal male banter are order of the day.
Charlotte goes back to Stuart who still lives in their once shared university flat to find him still taking care of the habitual mess made by their mutual friend David.
It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description.
Stephanie Ridings does a lecture on state homicide with drama.
Nassim Soleimanpour is known for his intelligent plays that have no need for a director, designer or even rehearsals.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
Following the story of an Irish emigrant’s relationship with her father, Remember to Breathe is quietly affecting rather than arresting; assured and well-rounded rather than boun…
Welcome to Woodburn.
We begin with a boy meeting a girl.
One soldier’s patriotism, as he battles both for his country and with himself, is pushed to the breaking point in this clever and current piece of new writing.
Ethan, William and Fiona are about as different as three almost-teens can be.
In any romantic relationship, one finds oneself developing an intimate, coded language of in-jokes and pet names, a dialect that reflects a couple’s time together.
Think you’ve had quite enough of women in activewear shouting at you for one lifetime? Think again: Help, the comedy self-help seminar from London comedy duo, Bae, is the most fu…
Behind every icon is a dysfunctional family, cut-throat PR and an angry Rabbi.
In this thought-provoking, inventive and touching piece of new writing, we hear about the lives of ten individuals, linked only by their mode of transportation.
A darkly absurd exploration of power dynamics, this latest production from Dutch Kills Theater is a thrillingly surreal family drama by playwright Eric John Meyer.
How does breaking up work in the digital age? Are we really that OK? A comic examination of one woman’s race to the bottom both on and offline and the gap between the two.
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? This girl will tell you! Written and performed by Eme Essien, this hilarious new one-woman show invites viewers…
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
One of the things I’ve noticed about this year’s Fringe is the number of stellar one-woman shows, and Prime Cut Productions’ Scorch is the best so far.
Josef K wakes up one morning, hungry and disconcerted, only to find himself arrested.
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.
An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds.
The difficult relationship between political and personal affairs are addressed in the devastating drama Generation Zero.
We all have our price.
Three of the ‘seven ages of man’ populate the Traverse stage: a pair of 14-year-olds, Steph and Ash, wrestling for the first time with the ideas of love and sexuality; a couple…
Steam lives up to its name, delivering a staggeringly intense hour of physical theatre.
Neil Smith’s latest play begins as a domestic drama, but spirals uncontrollably into a claustrophobic nightmare of violence.
Put a person in a stressful situation, maybe, for instance, as a child.
This play follows James, an agency worker with no experience or real knowledge of autism, as he is thrown into a job at a care home for adults with low-functioning autism.
A dark comedy about a woman who will do anything to stay young who meets a scientist who carries the perfect solution in her pocket.
Winners of the 2015 Derek award for Best Sketch Show, the Tealights return with Tension.
The Other tells the story of a young girl named Mana who escapes from her war-torn home on the Red-Yellow Planet to begin a cruel and poignant coming-of-age journey to the beautifu…
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
One of Edinburgh’s Fringe’s many newly written dramas, Ciaran Drysder’s 2044 is a surprisingly gripping performance by the still budding North East Theatre Company.
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
The setting is intimate, and encroaching on the personal space of a frail man, in a battered armchair listening to the television (news of the Gulf War is on – the year is 1991) …
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
A congregation of strangers, brought together by the need to give body, voice and space to their other selves – to explore the lives unlived and words left unspoken.
Lip Theatre Company’s offering at the Fringe this year presents an interesting take on the classic Greek myth of Medusa: one that is unfortunately plagued with tonal shifts and a…
“This shit definitely passes the Bechdel test,” is a statement that can be found emblazoned on the show’s marketing material.
First things first.
“So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
Fringe newcomers, Dude Looks Like A Lady, bring their award-winning sketch show to Edinburgh with heaps of enthusiasm, a fluctuating quality of comedy and an abundance of false (an…
“I so wanted to please him.
A solo piece of feminist writing from theatre company Flipping the Bird, Torch looked right up my street.
Forsaken love.
There something quite exciting about the prospect of a new musical running at an hour without a big stage or fancy lighting or even a band and only three performers.
Settling into my seat, I glance at the leaflet which had occupied it moments before.
Five-star performance in a three-star play.
Too often Joan of Arc is depicted as a very quiet, very pure young woman who keeps her gaze firmly on her feet or to the Heavens: not very fun at all.
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
Nowadays, stories of celebrity nudes abound, attracting much unwanted media attention and accusations of who’s to blame flying in every direction.
At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed.
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
Queen Lear is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Lear story from the perspective of his queen, confined in her chamber while pregnant with his expected male heir.
Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice.
Adventure Quest is a dark comedy modelled on the style of old-school Sierra On-Line computer adventure games.
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.
Major Oscar Hadley is flown to the Middle East front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled Bully Boy unit of the British army.
Death is a funny thing when you think about it: it’s the only certain thing in this world yet the majority of us deny its existence, but as performer Liz Rothschild points out, i…
A man and his unseen companion in a tent.
Have you ever met someone so beautiful that you didn’t know what to say? And then have you ever found yourself just saying ‘Yeah’ to everything that they say because you’re…
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
Nobody should spend their birthday alone.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French pilot, poet and writer, who is best known as the author of children’s classic The Little Prince.
Through raw emotion, compelling stories and snippets of reality, we learn the story of Holly, a woman living on the streets in Edinburgh.
Deadpan Theatre return to the Fringe after their sell-out success Get Your Sh*t Together, premiered at the Fringe in 2015.
For those who don’t know, the Grimm brothers are the authors of the famous book Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a huge source of inspiration for all kinds of modern myths and fables.
Returning Fringe classic White Rabbit Red Rabbit is Nassim Soleimanpour’s experimental monologue, in which the relationship between actor, writer, audience and text is …
Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social work only to find herself involved in a controversial case bringing her into the media’s unforgiving gaze.
It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.
How Is Uncle John? is a story about the relationship of mother and daughter: of protector and protected, and of victim and survivor.
What does it mean to be British? That’s the question that underlies this political, anarchistic play Octopus.
London-based Clean Break fit two plays into one show: House, a tight family drama set in a British-Nigerian household, and Amongst the Reeds, a nondescript tale of homelessness, fr…
The St Andrews Revue are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their brand new sketch comedy spectacular Loop: 50 minutes of mind-blowing comedy that will make you laugh so ha…
Who is that strange Frenchman signalling from the island? What’s in Aunt Fanny’s famous fish pie? Has anyone actually seen Timmy? The Famous Five are back! Shedload presents Robert…
Through a series of devised monologues, pieces of physical theatre and slam poetry, Lies.
When an error cuts her public benefits, Sarah banks on secular sensibility and starts her own post-rapture pet sitting service.
Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe.
A comical and haunting play about a young generation’s morality and its desperate search for connection.
The classic musical fairy tale, or is it? A chance encounter makes Earnest reflect on how his fairy tale life began.
Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled…
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
Ray’s dead.
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
Little remains of Gogol’s original short story, Diary of a Madman, with Al Smith taking much artistic licence in updating it to post-Brexit Britain and turning it into a story of…
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
Rob Drummond is known for being one of Scotland’s most experimental and accessible theatre makers and his new show In Fidelity is no exception.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
In a melancholic solo show about growing up and facing the inevitable realisation that there is no Narnia, only the real world, we accompany Lucy Grace on an exploration of the ‘…
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
Drug-smuggling.
Imagine Hot Fuzz meets Hollyoaks meets Hammer Horror.
Bloody Happy Dave.
It is my objective and dream, when at the Edinburgh Fringe, to discover great new writing – plays that are just beginning to make their way onto the world’s stages, at the forefr…
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…
On every front, this show is a winner.
This is a pretty great show.
The reason to go and see Don’t Wake the Damp is simply for the moment after you’ve walked out, sat down with your pint, and think: ‘There’s no way I could’ve predicted an…
Beach Comet have secured themselves as masters of a B-movie musical genre, inviting guests aboard a doomed cruise liner for a riotous hour of exaggerated figures and fantastically …
It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue than the Demonstration Room at Summerhall for Nick Cassenbaum’s coming of age tale.
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…
Workplace drama can become pretty intense.
Following its run at the Royal Court in London, Tim Crouch’s play reflects on our modern-day obsession with artists’ lives and how this interferes with and indeed obscures our …
Yinka Kuitenbrouwer welcomes you into her shed, pours you a cup of tea, gives you a house-shaped biscuit, and the words come out in a torrent.
With the feel of an interactive workshop rather than a theatrical ‘show’, The Castle Builder is a lo-fi exploration of outsider art that alternates between informal lecture and…
A television journalist and a politician clash live on-air.
A loophole in Irish law allows for the legal of consumption of Class-A drugs for 24 hours, and the youth of Dublin are not going to let Yokes Night slip by without taking full adva…
Michael Laurence’s dense, complex and lyrically-beautiful script reworks Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in an exploration of expectation, ageing and memory.
Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m…
A man and his microwave live on the top floor of a forgotten block of council flats.
Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us imagines a future in which humanity has simply ceased to exist, and it’s surprisingly soothing.
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
Annie Siddon’s (almost) one-woman show, How (Not) To Live In Suburbia, is an absolute treat from Siddon’s first smile to the audience as she takes the stage, until she exits.
Life is transient.
Thriller meets fairy tale.
At first glance, there are other plays by Shakespeare that would offer more fruitful parallels with the Kurt Cobain story than Macbeth.
The story of young Aussie Elizabeth Moncello, the unofficial inventor of the famous butterfly stroke.
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…
Welcome to the biggest swim race on the planet – The Super Pool Mega Cup X.
William, having just been fired from his position as the world’s worst drama teacher, thinks he might join the navy; a headmaster reflects on his “illustrious” past, while Tim is…
It’s not often you get to see theatre in what is essentially an attic.
Anyone looking for important and assured new writing would be well-advised to give Ecce Theatre’s Crazed a look.
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…
The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm.
Smart may seem innovative in putting Facebook and Tinder at the heart of a drama, but this cannot compensate for boring and one-dimensional characters and a tedious plot.
The description of this touching piece of work as advertised in the Fringe guide does not do it justice.
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�…
The female object of Beethoven’s widely known composition for solo piano is unknown, though in this devised production by the York Drama Soc, she is given form and identity as th…
The ever experimental Flanagan Collective is back with their new show, From the Mouths of the Gods, all about maths, free will, and determinism, with a little bit of kissing thrown…
It is hard to tackle a subject such as campus rape in America and get the tone right.
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
Tomorrow, Maybe – the newest offering from writing duo Amies & Clements – is a touching musical, set to an absolutely exquisite score which is brought to life with passion by b…
A good crack at absurdist sketch comedy, this piece from Australian company 7blue is good fun and at times bitingly clever, the puns and witticisms are nineteen to the dozen, but f…
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…
Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate.
It’s all queasily familiar: a small badly lit room, a table littered with bottles of vodka and plastic cups, and several alarmingly costumed twenty-somethings sprawled over the f…
What to expect from Bea Roberts’ modern day update of Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary? Instead of surrounding herself with romantic literature to distract her from the b…
The beauty of a new play, from a new company, is that expectations are at rock bottom.
The invigorating and inventive Babolin are winners of the 2015 Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre Award.
This is a bold and ambitious production, brought to life by three very talented young actors: Sam Ducane, Jack Gordon, and Jessica Sian.
2014 Caine Prize shortlisted author Tendai Huchu reads from his new novel and reveals how the heritage, traditions and vibrancy of African storytelling continue to inspire and infl…
Uttoradhikaar (The Inheritance) is the story of a time of change that revolves around the DeCunha family estate and the disintegration of its once glorious past.
Fran Macilvey is a bestselling author.
Author Leila Aboulela, the first winner of the Caine Prize in 2000, reads from her new novel and reveals how the heritage, traditions and vibrancy of African storytelling continue …
Six performances only! The multi award-winning international hit play returns for its final Edinburgh performances.
This interactive one woman show follows a plucky American adventurer from the 1800’s as she navigates the joys and consequences of time travel.
Carrie Clairvoyant has never succeeded in raising a genuine spirit until dead rock star Dean takes up residence in her house, leaving Carrie with no option but to call her estrange…
The discovery of a room full of abandoned paintings reveals remarkable stories that have long been forgotten.
It’s Cold Light’s last gig.
Desert Bloom.
There is no shortage of solo shows about valiant teachers.
Once there was Pangaea, now we have a broken world.
Life and death, unlike knitting, doesn’t come with instructions! Hospital patient Marigold is intrigued by her new roomie.
By the Bi is a show that offers to tackle the heady subject matter - of the difficulties of being bisexual - head on.
Award-winning Clod Ensemble returns to Edinburgh with the fabulous tale of a man who eats himself into the chair he is sitting upon, the woman doomed to cook his meals, and their o…
Throwing a great party in an amazing house, what could possibly go wrong? Except you’re supposed to be house-sitting.
Following her highly acclaimed one-woman show For the Love of Chocolate, renowned actress, writer and director Amanda Waring returns with a unique and inspirational comedy revue.
The link between Greek myth and a deprived district of Cardiff is not an obvious one, and Iphigenia in Splott raises this intriguing question tantalisingly.
Waste of Time takes the audience both back and forwards in time from the grounds of an abandoned scrap heap.
They were more like sisters than best friends until a devastating tragedy shatters both their lives and friendship.
For Queen and Country.
Academy of Risk explores the tremendous pressure placed on students through their own eyes.
From the creators of Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and GhostCop comes another cult pop culture theatre comedy show that once again gets its audience in hysterics.
Scarlett Lane is about a dangerous journey down the red carpet.
The wordless, 2014 sell-out hit returns for one week only.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
It’s clear that the sketch trio made of Oli Gilford, Edd Cornforth and Jake Shoolheifer have good comic potential, and bounce nicely off each other.
Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec…
Staircases is a piece of collaborative new writing from Antonym Theatre.
Dealing with the gritty, controversial subjects of dementia and care of the elderly, Bedsocks and Secrets explores the changing relationship between mother and son as her symptoms …
A serial killer recounts his tale of revenge in this retelling of the classic novel.
For a third year Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the American Songbook,…
The Edinburgh Concerts was, believe it or not, a concert series organised in Edinburgh.
At a certain point in Confirmation’s 85 minutes of perspective-smudging, you just want to get up and scream – so inescapably does Chris Thorpe’s script put you face-to-face w…
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
Touch is the new one-woman play from Asylon Theatre exploring the difficulties of genuine human connection.
Actor comedienne Kate Perry performs her solo character comedy show featuring six costumes, two pairs of glasses and a rubber hat.
How far would you go for a cause you believe in? Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the international charity Open Doors – God’s Smuggler is an exciting new play about the jou…
The Sea Child, adapted by Carolyn Sloan from her novel of the same name, is a tender and evocative play.
What does Tomorrow mean to playwrights across the globe? This year the Traverse has commissioned six leading playwrights from China, Egypt, Ukraine, Canada, Turkey and Scotland to …
The Garden is an off-site performance that takes place a short walk away from the Traverse Theatre.
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…
Matt has been losing his best friend Sam to sport for years.
It is a disturbing but all too common tale: girl meets boy, falls in love, and gets tricked into a life of prostitution.
Kenny Roach is an artist, lecturer and alcoholic.
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 …
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Traveling Showcase from California bring their musical cabaret to the Fringe for the first time as Lydia Trueblood The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast takes centre stage at the t…
Drifting down the river is a rather appropriate metaphor for describing the experience you have when watching this show.
Three drag queens in a dressing room talk us through their life stories, from coming out to discovering drag.
Lucy (Sarah-Beth Brown) is lonely, so to work out where she’s going wrong, she shows us some climactic moments from her previous relationships.
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
Within five minutes of entering the space, The Daily Tribunal cast have sat me down in the front row and appropriated my pen for the purpose of the show – an examination of the m…
A new play by the writer C R Giles based on the nineteenth-century rebel Adam Lindsay Gordon, Aberdeenshire’s heir and Australia’s poet laureate.
Britain 2015 - we take, we buy and then we put it on credit… Sebastian and Penelope are in love, inseparable and living beyond their means.
Four people are onstage at the start of this play: Sean Campion and Scott Turnbull, the actors playing a mother/daughter pair, and a real-life mother/daughter pair.
What do you do when you move your family from the burbs to the city to begin a new adventure and then get diagnosed with stage four-breast cancer? You go on a mission to put everyt…
Seven of those angry youths that you’ve been hearing about on the news have stopped drinking and whining long enough to build something they can actually be proud of.
‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me.
Based loosely around Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Storybook Musical follows two best friends, two boys and a sadistic narrator intent on ruining their lives.
Welcome to the Mabinogion, a tale of myth, magic and adventure! When Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed meets the mysterious Rhiannon, he must find a way to cheat Gwawl, her unwelcome suitor.
Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling.
Here we go again.
Let England Shake is a dark and funny performance full of good ideas and performed by a great all-female ensemble.
Corner Talk theatre really manage to capture the chaos of life with their devised piece of compiled short scenes all centred round the single piece of set: a bench.
The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex.
Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions.
Come and explore the streets of Milton Keynes.
Turn the Key’s Gothic delight, The Cupboard is outstandingly professional.
A new satirical comedy that asks what it really means to be a female and have a personality.
Teen sex, lies and gossip.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f…
Produced by triple award winners Conscious Theatre.
As part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe, for an hour on Sunday afternoon theatre director and performer Morna Burdon takes the audience through a series of real-life stories and songs…
By Heathcote Williams (Herald Lifetime Achievement Award winner).
Valour is a WWI Centenary-inspired composition by the composer and poet Dom Mason.
This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark.
Award-winning Scottish musician Shona Brown presents a one-woman show with her original songs and instrumentals.
We open with a group of young Southern belles, beautifully attired in vintage-style dresses, learning how to apply make-up to please their husbands, so setting up the conservative …
Experimentation, dissipation, drug trips and k-holes.
This rehearsed reading of Peter Arnott’s new play is an experiment about theatre.
Amid the discussion over the Irish Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill this year, Since Maggie Went Away could not come at a more relevant time.
Crime and the treatment of criminals ought to be black and white.
Angelus is a theological comedy taking place in the cavernous space of the Library Theatre in the Royal College of Physicians.
1949: Maggie, an Irish country girl, secretly gives birth to a baby boy and is forced to give him away.
First things first, a notable mention must be awarded to the sterling efforts of the two-piece band.
When her late ex-husband visits her in a dream, Deborah wonders if she should be worried or not.
Half Scottish, half Italian, and all heart, Lorenzo Novani’s solo show is well worth getting out of bed early for.
MUSE reveals the inspiration for Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles and Jugé Productions’ new musical uncovers a far more complex and talented woman.
The Thomas Clifford Show is a theatrical spoof of a chat show resembling The Jonathan Ross Show.
Celtic myth and legend have provided a huge array of inspiration for painting, music, film and theatre.
Four readings, four brand new plays, four emerging writers, from Scotland, England and the USA.
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.
Brashly comic and acutely emotional, bravely exploring a woman’s intrinsic role in life’s creation.
The Thomas Clifford Show is a theatrical spoof of a chat show resembling The Jonathan Ross Show.
A new one-man show from performance maker Josh Gardner.
Dr Harry Reid, author of Outside Verdict, discusses his new publication The Soul of Scotland.
Are you watching carefully? Alec’s professor and his girlfriend frantically search through the diaries and essays of the man and mind they love.
The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, or ACMS, is a late-night comedy showcase.
Enter a world where time doesn’t move in a straight line and men are eaten by grandfather clocks at regular intervals.
Let these sketch clowns lure you into a world of fractious characters who flirt with the bizarre, as their social facades unravel.
Four students, a full house and a series of clever sketches make for a very enjoyable hour in The Exeter Revue: Sketchup.
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
One-man musical comedy about a young man, Barry, who works in a cafe where he gets told off by his boss but has a real crush on his daughter, the waitress, Mary.
Having to read the blurb on the back of the flyer at the end of the show, checking that the point hasn’t flown over heads, is never a good sign.
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
A snappy, intelligent, and at times surreal sketch show that readily mocks itself, its members and the meaning of life.
Winsome Brown’s one-woman show is an affecting portrait of her mother and the life Brown and her siblings shared with her.
This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.
‘Did you know that the German word gift means poison? It used to mean present – like in English – but then people started using it sarcastically.
This is a play for fans of Greek tragedy and theatre nerds.
How do you restart your life on £47? Hemmed In is a new musical by Ruth Cobbin.
Two stand-up (not in the comedic sense) guys riffing on Doctor Who and the origins of programming doesn’t sound scintillating.
If you are a fan of comedy, film noir, or just free shows in general, you should probably check out Health Under Fire.
The Paradise Project by Third Angel and mala voadora is set in a futuristic shelter-in-construction, inhabited by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick as they create a society within w…
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
For all of his life, Nick Purves has sought to think himself above anything and anyone.
Ten high school seniors find themselves in a strange room, in the middle of nowhere, lit only by a dim overhead lamp.
Key Change, directed by Laura Lindow, is devised by women in HMPYOI Low Newton and follows the stories of 4 female inmates.
What does it take to get a gentleman to face up to his past? From part of the team that brought you Fringe sell-out Assassins (*****) and the Scottish premiere of In The Heights (*…
Peculiar Spectacles’ Somebody Out There Loves Me is another theatrical examination of the trials and tribulations of online dating.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
After We Danced depicts a love affair between two people, cut short before unexpectedly rekindling sixty years later, Love in the Time of Cholera-style.
When William Shakespeare is kidnapped by Oberon, the fairy king, it is up to his team of Avengers to rescue him and keep Oberon from re-writing his plays (and the sonnets.
This is immersive theatre.
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
Macbeth gets the prequel it never needed in Chiaroscuro’s portrait of the thane as a young warrior.
A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest.
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.
Reunion, by Neil Smith, is the story of an older couple, George and Jude, recounting their youth together and their love for one another.
A show for anyone who ever felt a little bit different growing up.
In this tense drama the audience is thrown before a confrontation between former A-grade student Amy and her history teacher Mr Reilly.
Desperately hunting last minute leading man, Lucy Frederick reluctantly presents her father, keen rambler and tropical fish enthusiast Peter Henderson in the lost Russian classic C…
David Lee Morgan’s Building God is a poetry performance that discusses, deals with, judges and examines past state revolutions and the present state of affairs.
Nine school students navigate the pressures they face as girls: pressures from society and pressures from each other.
Tik-sho-ret (‘communication’) Theatre Company have achieved their manifesto of giving a platform to Israeli and Jewish theatre.
Lungs is a) a remarkable piece of writing by Duncan Macmillan and b) a remarkable show brought to life by director, George Perrin, and actors, Sian Reese-Williams and Abdul Salis.
Beautiful, Terrifying, Love written and performed by award-winning actress, director and playwright Debra De Liso.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
New writing and Shakespeare, dance and physical theatre, all accompanied by the evocative music of Laura Marling; Method in Madness is a truly mesmerising show.
Meet Bill, Wild Bill.
Roger (Greg Birks) isn’t like other people, and when all the birds start to disappear from outside his flat in Waterloo, he starts to panic.
Consumption is a somewhat-successful commentary on the state of 21st century society, one obsessed with technology, appearances and consumerism, navigated by the central story of S…
Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent.
Set mainly in a London strip club, The Sacred Obscene is a new play following the stories of the women who work there.
Appetite Theatre, lead by young playwright Serafina Cusack, are distressingly cool.
Everyone has a story. This is mine. A one hour autobiographical performance of one man’s story about his drug addiction.
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
Wet Behind the Ears brings you the finest new comedy talent from across the country.
How do we choose what we believe? Do we believe what we see with our eyes? Or do we believe what others find believable? What happens when these two things contradict one another? …
Dead Duck Productions brings you another hilarious and original sketch show from the Present and Correct series! We need one more member for our cast to be complete and we’re wai…
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.
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
The Gambit, written by Mark Reid and directed by Matthew Gould, opens to the ticking of a chess stop-clock and, of course, a chess set centre stage.
A masterwork of parallax, Macaroni on a Hotdog gently uncovers its affecting core through a focused 50 mins of understated wit.
A man is desperate for a job.
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
“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…
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
This interactive one woman show follows a plucky American adventurer from the 1800’s as she navigates the joys and consequences of time travel.
Following The Wardrobe Ensemble’s previous creations, including the depicted opening of a Swedish furniture store (RIOT) and an account of the Chilean Mining Accident of 2010 (33…
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall.
A new play from South African playwright Amy Jephta, Flight Lessons sees actress Saria Steel play two friends on opposite sides of the world.
Cheque Please centres on Ivy, who describes herself as a high-functioning depressive, as she endures her job as a waitress with a boss who is constantly threatening dismissal.
A new musical set at the beginning of the First World War.
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…
By Gustave Akakpo (translation Katherine Mendelsohn).
A hotel room in Vienna, 1950.
Shef Smith’s new play presents three damaged, complex, engaging characters, each trying to continue their lives in spite of a new sense of chaos surrounding them.
Leftovers follows the story of a young woman Elizabeth and her tragic experiences of the break-out of war.
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This Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage), despite its lengthy title, is a fast-paced, intense and powerful piece of new writing, filled with intriguing…
Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen.
Ashley (Ellice Stevens) has just moved to a new town.
Edgar Allen Poe’s seminal poem, which charts the gradual descent into madness of a heartbroken lover compounded by the incessant repetitions of a talking bird, gives its name and…
Six passengers travel on the tube from Stratford to Ealing Broadway.
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.
This is a show with an ambitious script, which shows real emotional intelligence.
From award-winning and internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company Fishamble: The New Play Company, comes this extravagant one-man show.
A gallery space with assorted artworks: chainsaw, feathered headdress, a map of the world.
In this play, the North/South divide is a reality.
As any GCSE maths student will tell you, a prime number is one that has only two factors: one and itself.
A fractured and disconnected city, rows of cubicles and two colleagues.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
Inspired by the bothy ballads of Scotland’s North East, playwright Elspeth Turner (The Idiot at the Wall, 2012) and acclaimed director Matthew Lenton (Vanishing Point) explore th…
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.
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
From Fine Mess Theatre comes Kyle Ross’ play Islands, an insight into upper-middle class marriage which typifies the lifestyle of the ‘rah’.
Sheffy is a lad on a mission.
As Rita (Judith Paris) carefully sorts through the trunk packed with artefacts from her past, she recounts the tale of her evolving friendship with Angie, her childhood playmate an…
The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank is directed by Conrad Sharp and performed by Familia de la Noche, taking place in the home and imagination of Edward Blank.
Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
“This is the story of the best week of my life”.
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
Two Sore Legs is an affecting testament to the fierceness of a mother’s love and the determination of one woman in the face of oppressive societal expectations.
The Human Ear is a production that is crafted with all the beautiful complexity of the appendage to which its title refers.
Meet Pramkicker.
This heart-wrenching play by award-winning Irish/American playwright Noel O’Neill explores the lives of two sisters, Holly (Catriona M Coe) and Ivy (Sandra Sando), brought back tog…
Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’.
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…
Leper + Chip will hold you by the throat and squeeze the tears from your eyes.
‘Wildly unpredictable and completely unforgettable.
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
It’s amazing how much you can get out of the word ‘Ak’ – the only word in the troll language.
Written by Avital Lvova and George Vere, Rebounding Hail is set in a 13 year old girl’s room surrounded by her books.
Exactly 100 years apart, two women’s lives are defined by conflict.
Where Do Little Birds Go? follows the story of Lucy Fuller in the heat of London’s swinging sixties, where she has hopes of landing her dream job as a West End star (or a barmaid…
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.
Tom Dowling and Kieran Ahern are current members of the Oxford Revue, but they’re also bloody good kids.
The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world.
Poppy must make a rather rapid readjustment to Year 11 after being abruptly relocated from Spain to a girls’ school in a remote British town.
It is not often that Howard Barker’s plays are produced in Britain (he is far more popular in Europe and America) in spite of his prodigious output and well-known name.
Following on from last year’s Drunk Lion, Chris Davis’ Bortle 8 is nothing if not strange.
For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
A new play by Dave Fargholi, Heartlands is a taut tangle of ethics and emotion for the modern age.
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
Ross & Rachel is an exploration of beyond ‘happily ever after’, using the two Friends characters we all know so well as a medium through which to explore the artifice of relati…
After directing two sell-out Fringe runs with The Oxford Imps in 2013 and 2014, Dom O’Keefe presents the Fringe debut of his one-man character comedy show.
Do we choose the journeys we make or do the journeys choose us? A one-woman bittersweet comedy told through 80s tunes, old tapes, childhood memories and cake and tea.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
The post-war scientific elite suspect botanical fraud, and want working-class Professor Heslop-Harrison’s scalp – at any cost.
Everybody thinks that I’m lonely.
Set in an attic sewing room, Saoirse’s life is presented to us as a form of patchwork quilt.
The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder.
Though this is a story about a trader, the crash of the title refers not only to the financial crash but also to a car crash that turns the trader’s life upside down.
Ste and Dave In Training is a brand new character comedy show, written and performed by Ste Johnston (Channel 4’s No Offence) and Dave Jackson (ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid).
The ever-prevalent story of the individual being caught up in, or fighting against, the machine of society – not always nobly – is told with skill and beauty by the three actor…
Now in its eight year, Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe brings you once again the best in Scottish writing.
If you can find it, there is some brilliant (and also free – bonus!) storytelling nestled beneath a dark, dingy pub at this year’s Fringe.
‘They’ve done it again! The champions of the parody musical genre are back!’ (TheatreBlogOnline.
Not the End of the World is based on the novel by Geraldine McCaughrean which reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark from the point of view of Noah’s daughter, Timna, as she grappl…
Written and performed by Noni Townshend, The Effects of Solitude unfolds with a disarming serenity.
Antler’s If I Were Me is a visual treat.
Captain Morgan is back – and now he is armed with the Sands of Time.
Suitability: 16+ (Restriction).
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…
‘Yes, 30 may be the new 20 but no one’s told that to my south-facing tits.
Desperately hunting last minute leading man, Lucy Frederick reluctantly presents her father, keen rambler and tropical fish enthusiast Peter Henderson in the lost Russian classic C…
Desperately hunting last minute leading man, Lucy Frederick reluctantly presents her father, keen rambler and tropical fish enthusiast Peter Henderson in the lost Russian classic C…
In 2013, 21-year-old Moritz Erhardt, an intern at an investment bank, was found dead in his London flat after working for 72 hours without any sleep.
Goodstock is directed by Lucy Wray and written by Olivia Hirst, and follows the writer’s real-life experiences with breast cancer and how this affects her family and relationship…
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.
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.
Dave Florez’s new play Angel in the Abattoir questions the role and even the possibility of the modern hero.
Emma (Serena Jennings) and Oli (Will Merrick) meet on a chaotic, booze-fuelled night out.
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.
Combining the intensity of a psychological thriller with the power of a theatrical poem is an intriguing notion, but CUT proves its effectiveness as the two come together in this e…
Delivered as an interactive art workshop, with a narrative line slowly emerging, Some Thing New is a great idea with an unsatisfying execution.
50 minutes of Britney, Shania Twain, All Saints and the Spice Girls: every 90s girl’s dream.
Più Theatre have created an honest and thoughtful piece of slick verbatim theatre platforming the voices of young women from across the country.
Cornermen treads a well-worn narrative path: the tale of a young man, plucked from obscurity to rise to fame and success.
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…
Eating Seals and Seagulls’ Eggs is a poetic telling of Ireland’s ‘most hated woman’ – Peig Sayers.
This adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography by writer/performer Tom Stuart is in turns sympathetic and shocking.
What do you do when your computer knows you better than you know yourself? In a self-penned monologue about the dangers of data-mining and artificial intelligence, actor/writer Jen…
Do you like weird and impenetrable absurdist drama? The kind of play that seems to bend time with its slowness? Do you find pleasure in watching characters say meaningless things t…
A short and beguiling piece of theatre, As Thyself is presented here as the first part in a conceptual series of plays by Isla van Tricht, although it was originally a standalone p…
Splitfoot by Piper Theatre tells the tale of the Fox sisters “Devil Daughters” who, in post-civil war New York, convinced the public that they could communicate with the dead.
Celebrated children’s author Edith Nesbit retreats to her attic writing room to escape her husband’s annual Christmas party.
The events reflected in Dawn State Theatre Company’s The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster happened in 1612, roughly 80 years before the Salem witch trial…
In her one-woman play, Portrait, Racheal Ofori fuses poetry, music and monologues as she gives her take on the perception of role models and cultural stereotypes with black women i…
Returning for their fourth Fringe, Sparkle and Dark bring their own fascinating and fantastical take on experiences of death and loss.
This year marks the 10th year the Comedians’ Theatre Company appears at the Fringe.
Co-written by Susan Wilson and Jeffrey Mayhew, A Cinema in South Georgia follows the misadventures and travels of a group of Edinburgh Whalers in a desolate outpost in South Georgi…
LET Award Finalist.
Walking the Tightrope was created as a response to the cancellation of three high profile cultural events last summer.
A crucifix, a menorah, the smell of incense.
Archimedes (Alexander Wilson) is interested in scopophilia, pleasure derived from looking.
The Small Things Theatre Company’s The Stolen Inches brilliantly puts family relationships under a microscope.
Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre – the Front of House staff – and portraying t…
Ruaraidh Murray’s new play is a solid - though far from stunning - tale of a marriage turned very sour.
This year, Squint presents Molly – a show investigating the mindset of a sociopath with eerie echoes of the things you might see in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank…
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Those headlines are everywhere these days: “You won’t believe what happens next,” “#8 will blow your mind,” “This video is everything”.
Ayckbourn fans will love this comedy of manners from Durham University’s Fourth Wall Theatre.
Pay attention as this breathtaking production desiccates, then dissects childhood trauma via its exploration of Wittgenstein and semantics: there’s a wordless sucker punch in Can…
Filtered through the consciousness of the bright eyed and burnt out Jeannie, Victoria Rigby’s new play explores all that was best and worst about the sixties.
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Lottie Finklaire’s new play A+E tells the story of three women waiting in the hospital to find out if their friend will ever wake from her coma.
There may be no I in team, but this absurd romp through the history of an imagined football club is performed by one man.
“Some people would kill to have what we have,” says Sophie, describing her job as a toilet attendant in a nightclub.
A lively new musical telling the life story of Robert Burns, starring BBC award-winning traditional Scots singers Claire Hastings and Robyn Stapleton, and introducing Kieran Bain a…
Kings Hall has been taken over by Summer Hall and transformed into the Canada Hub over the festival, showcasing a series of Canadian acts exploring the issues surrounding Canada’…
Great theatre often takes deeply personal experiences and weaves them together into stories and sequences that tap into a universality and profundity that the experiences alone wou…
Sören Bergen was just an ordinary guy.
The stage is strewn with detritus, traces of lives lived on the margin.