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Fragments of Fatigue

Fragments of Fatigue

Brand new play about the rare neurological illness narcolepsy from a true-life perspective. 

Jeju

Jeju

The island of Jeju draws everyone with its charm and beautiful Korean dialect. 

The Three Marias: Women of Word

The Three Marias: Women of Word

Censored. 

love you, bye

love you, bye

Colly, Kaia, Mercy and Theo have shared a decade of highs and lows – promotions, breakups, illness and recovery. 

The C Word

The C Word

Back by popular demand! The C Word is a radical awakening to the extreme objectification, competition, and overall nonsense women face today. 

A Montage of Monet

A Montage of Monet

Monet’s paintings are world-famous. 

Why Won't They Eat the Cake?

Why Won't They Eat the Cake?

A messy kitchen, an uneaten cake, a shoe in the bath and two… friends? Why Won’t They Eat the Cake? is a raw exploration of the insecurities that shape our relationships. 

3...2...1! Celebration of Short Narrative Works

3...2...1! Celebration of Short Narrative Works

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Forget-Me-Nots

Forget-Me-Nots

Two young people fall for each other with a strange sense of déjà vu in a story of love, loss and intimacy. 

The Colour Red

The Colour Red

Michael is a man who has decided that the best thing to do is to end his life. 

If You Don't Laugh

If You Don't Laugh

If You Don’t Laugh, you’ll cry. 

113

113

49 and 64 are in the room. 

Chickens

Chickens

Chickens is a sharp comedy-drama that explores the chaos of love, life and obsession. 

The Hammer and Helena

The Hammer and Helena

The true story of the most evil book ever written and its horrifying legacy. 

Derby Day

Derby Day

A murder in a small Fife town has shaken the community to its core. 

Placebo

Placebo

Often used in clinical trials, the Placebo is renowned for its power of illusion, whether through the form of a sugar pill, a sham injection or an empty procedure dressed as a cure… 

This Play Sucks!

This Play Sucks!

A brand-new, bite-sized absurdist comedy that you can really sink your teeth into! Small-time Scottish criminals, Cammy and Lee are no strangers to running into a spot of bother in… 

Nuns of Fury!

Nuns of Fury!

Hellfire gets in the habit in this original comedy rock musical. 

4's a Crowd (Or What Not to Do When Stuck in a Bunker During the Apocalypse)

4's a Crowd (Or What Not to Do When Stuck in a Bunker During the Apocalypse)

Ever wondered what happens when a LadBible-loving geezer, a pretentious C-List actor, a sadomasochist Wotsit-lover and an overbearing faux-liberal billionaire get thrown under the … 

Eggs and Baskets

Eggs and Baskets

Self-love. 

Uggdeath

Uggdeath

Faced with imminent starvation, two cave-people discover a C. 

Around the Table

Around the Table

Where do we sit through it all? Who are we with our friends? Six separate lives interwoven over meals. This is where we start, but also how it ends. 

Kings on Thrones

Kings on Thrones

Seven men are trapped in toilet cubicles within purgatory. 

Ollipops

Ollipops

Dark comedy about Stockholm syndrome and class difference. 

Bear

Bear

Man or bear? Which would you choose? Intertwining fairytales and folklore with the viral Man vs Bear debate, Bear is about a girl who goes on a camping trip, where she is saved fro… 

Unravel

Unravel

There is no journey more uncertain than new parenthood, especially when you’ve never been given an example. 

For Eva

For Eva

Through everything, through their speech, their body, the lights, the barn, the staging and memories of before they were born, Cray tries to express what they mean. 

The Great Pistachio

The Great Pistachio

Future world-renowned artist, Bertrand Brambles, has buried himself in a dirt hole for decades to craft the greatest play ever written, uninfluenced by the world around him. 

Dirty Money

Dirty Money

A dynamic, fast-paced musical about desperation, deception and a daring prison break. 

Human Nature

Human Nature

In the seemingly peaceful town of Little Heath, the shocking murder of a local boy pulls seven unsuspecting residents into an emergency meeting. 

1612

1612

A community turns on itself. 

All Over the Plate: A Stand-up Comedy Tasting Menu

All Over the Plate: A Stand-up Comedy Tasting Menu

Join us for a post-lunch comedy tasting menu served up by seven comedians who’ll guide you on a journey from Bromley to Boston via Bangalore. 

My Friend, The Mountain

My Friend, The Mountain

The hills are where Skye feels safe. 

First Aid

First Aid

First Aid is a girl meets boy medical romcom, ‘As witty as early Tim Rice’ (DailyInfo. 

Pilgrim of Hope

Pilgrim of Hope

Scott is taking a day off work. 

Dissonance

Dissonance

In a school music club, a group of students wrestles with the frustrations of youth. 

Service Please

Service Please

A brand new relatable and comedic monologue following Lara, a creative writing graduate, hoping to write the next best-selling fantasy romance novel. 

No Room at the Inn

No Room at the Inn

Grouchy innkeeper Isaac isn’t expecting anymore guests. 

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Reconstruction is an unmissable new one-man play about the process of grief leading to eventual emotional growth. 

Missed Connections

Missed Connections

What would you do if your home away from home of 30 years was gone tomorrow? As the heart of its local community, Southside Bar has seen just about everything. 

The Lodger

The Lodger

Pigeons, a landlady, a Butlins Redcoat – caught in the chaos of the housing crisis. 

Leglock

Leglock

Set in the north-west of England, Leglock follows amateur cage fighter James, a teenager who’s just won the biggest fight of his career and is looking forward to finally going pr… 

A Writer's Mind

A Writer's Mind

Teddy, a writer with a passion for unique and crazy stories, welcomes the audience into the world of fiction that he has created. 

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony

A speed dating event at a church turns queer in more ways than one. 

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

Set in a small town in Fife, Wish You Were Here follows a trio of working-class young men who are brought together for the first time in three years. 

The Players of Diadon

The Players of Diadon

In a far-off kingdom, King Diadon spends each night watching his life story performed by a company of players. 

Lost Girls / At Bus Stops

Lost Girls / At Bus Stops

One last night at the Fringe, Jess and Iona wander the city looking for that best show, finest view, that perfect moment to confess. 

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Through powerful original music and spoken word, a folk-rock band retells Mary Queen of Scots’ story. 

Aud the Deep Minded

Aud the Deep Minded

A groundbreaking music drama by Scottish New Music Awards shortlisted Joanna Nicholson, combining projections, voice, electronic soundscapes, clarinet and horn. 

Body Count

Body Count

‘Every woman is a killer. 

Lost Paws

Lost Paws

Two cats. 

Pandora's Bowl

Pandora's Bowl

Inspired by Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, this is a play about a woman’s survival and a bowl called Pandora. 

Swiping Right

Swiping Right

Can (online) dating help bridge political divides? In Swiping Right, Sophie Anna Veelenturf explores what happens when political opposites connect. 

Perfect Dead Girls

Perfect Dead Girls

Two girls find themselves trapped in limbo following their sudden deaths, only to discover that they are not alone. 

20/20

20/20

What if Orpheus took a different deal? What if it all turned a bit differently, someone who could not bear to see their love pass on, in the process triggering something perhaps ev… 

King

King

King tells the story of Geok Yen, a public relations executive who seemingly has it all – a stable job and a boyfriend who is about to propose. 

Infection Eradicated

Infection Eradicated

History repeats itself, but so does nature. 

Hingin' Oan Fir Googsie by John McColl

Hingin' Oan Fir Googsie by John McColl

Celebrated Scottish actor Jimmy Chisholm (Braveheart, River City, RSC, London West End) stars in this compassionate and darkly funny tale of confusion, friendship and love against … 

Messiah

Messiah

In a post-war society, two dear friends, Null and Kels, find themselves at odds when Kels falls into a new-wave movement fronted by the ever-charismatic Asher. 

Saria Callas

Saria Callas

This sexy, camp, pop-filled tragicomedy unpacks aspirations of becoming a singer while growing up where it is forbidden for women to sing. 

Nowhere – Here & Now Showcase

Nowhere – Here & Now Showcase

In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla… 

UNCLE TOM'S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine

UNCLE TOM'S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the beginning of a new age of enlightenment, where every revolution is a part of the world revolution – or else it is a betrayal. 

Cody and Beau: A Wild West Story

Cody and Beau: A Wild West Story

Cody and Beau have two things on their mind: becoming cowboys and. 

Gladiatrix

Gladiatrix

In 200 AD, Emperor Septimius Severus decreed that women could no longer compete in the Gladiator Games. 

Time Bends

Time Bends

More than twenty years ago, literature student David met an older man called Michael in the bar of an independent cinema. 

Soul Sucking

Soul Sucking

Our parents worked to live. 

Abhorrent Little Scrotum

Abhorrent Little Scrotum

Following acclaimed productions Blush of Dogs and Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough which took London by storm, Fragen Network returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since th… 

Someone Has Got to Be John

Someone Has Got to Be John

Speakbeast are doing a tribute act – and we think we’re doing a pretty convincing job. 

DRAMA GIRLS

DRAMA GIRLS

Ever wondered what turns your favourite stars into household names? The exact conditions that formed their rise to the top? Take a peek into the outrageously elite world of prestig… 

No Higher Purpose

No Higher Purpose

Speckle cannot shake the feeling that something is not right. 

Going

Going

A train grinds to a halt after a suicide. 

Note of Concern

Note of Concern

When two childhood friends, distant strangers to each other now, find themselves trapped in the classroom of their least favourite teacher at a 10 year high school reunion, they ca… 

Everything and Nothing

Everything and Nothing

Do you believe in love at first sight? Oscar doesn’t. 

Waiting in Love

Waiting in Love

Alan is a deadbeat stoner. 

Casino?

Casino?

Casino? follows the lives of four restaurant workers down on their luck struggling in a minimum wage job in a capitalist world gone mad. 

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

It was the faeries who taught the witches, the wise women, all that they know. 

I Didn't Know I Was Polish

I Didn't Know I Was Polish

Kaitlyn has spent the past two years soaking in the magic of Paris, but her time is running out. 

Intoxicated Honeymoon

Intoxicated Honeymoon

A brutal bildungsroman soaked in love and blood, featuring a story of self-fulfilling prophecy, a friend group corrupted by artistry and two girls who give their best to love each … 

Fruitcake

Fruitcake

Set during the lockdown, Fruitcake is a tender and comedic exploration of how the pandemic affected young people and their relationships. 

What the Flowers Think (About the Apocalypse)

What the Flowers Think (About the Apocalypse)

If the world was ending, where would you go? Sam is going home, only it’s not home anymore, not since they and Jamie broke up two years ago. 

Edward (in Memoriam)

Edward (in Memoriam)

The 2000s. 

Same

Same

‘Friends are the family you choose. 

Jack Off the Beanstalk: An Adult Pantomime

Jack Off the Beanstalk: An Adult Pantomime

Jack’s off, his beanstalk’s throbbing and the fairies are filthier than your browser history. 

How to Escape

How to Escape

Following a young woman who, after a psychedelic experience at a music festival, runs away with two hippies who introduce her to a magical world. 

Bitchfight

Bitchfight

Mia and Amber never had their spitting, screaming bitchfight, but would it have been better for everyone if they had? Five years since their friendship fizzled out, Amber appears o… 

Will You Be Praying the Entire Flight?

Will You Be Praying the Entire Flight?

Will You Be Praying the Entire Flight? is a comedy about how a Hasidic woman and a secular woman change after a six-hour flight sitting next to each other. 

Pictures of Willy

Pictures of Willy

When his son’s history class gets a face-full of stormtrooper erotica, gay artist Cal fights to stay true to his queer identity and role as a single parent. 

Good Tidings

Good Tidings

After the death of a commune’s spiritual leader, its people must gather to crown a successor. 

Guns in Dragonland

Guns in Dragonland

Navigating youth is a universal challenge, but with the threat of firearms, American students face their mortality before they stop wearing tutus to school. 

No More Bull

No More Bull

No More Bull is a bold reimagining of the myth of the Minotaur, exploring the complex dynamics of power, resistance and political autonomy. 

Ding Dong! Avon Calling

Ding Dong! Avon Calling

Four ladies, one Costa coffee, a bleached moustache and a dream. 

Tim Kenneth Kicks the Bucket

Tim Kenneth Kicks the Bucket

When their philosophy professor, Tim Kenneth, suffers a meltdown in class, obnoxious prankster Scooter and teacher’s pet Pencil embark on an odyssey through the suburbs of New Je… 

Saloon Girls

Saloon Girls

Saloon Girls is a dark comedy set in a 19th-century saloon and brothel of the Great American West. 

Static Lives

Static Lives

Adam, a social media moderator, witnesses a man kill himself on a livestream. 

Women Who Kill: A Detective Mystery

Women Who Kill: A Detective Mystery

An immersive musical experience like no other. 

How Can(t) I Help?

How Can(t) I Help?

GP receptionists AKA the gatekeepers from hell. 

Read My Lips

Read My Lips

Lia and Bryn have built a relationship rooted in the belief they are forever. 

Crocodile Tears

Crocodile Tears

When viewership tanks for the latest season of a survival TV game show, the producers realise they must go to extreme lengths to make sure the show doesn’t get cancelled – no m… 

Three Queens from the Opera

Three Queens from the Opera

Presented by the Queen of the Night and Lady Macbeth – with Cinderella as a last-minute replacement – the “concertino” designed to celebrate opera queens goes off the rails… 

ScotlandsFest: Poets Don't Drive!

ScotlandsFest: Poets Don't Drive!

Screaming train rides, red-hot buses, Tartan Army, boxing ring, Botox, love. 

ScotlandsFest: Ghosts of the North – A Gothic Love Story

ScotlandsFest: Ghosts of the North – A Gothic Love Story

From selkies to sprites, Scottish folklore inspires fiction. 

Fun at Parties

Fun at Parties

Berlin Open Theatre presents Fun at Parties: an electrifying new play set in the underbelly of Berlin’s legendary club scene. 

Merrily Merrily Merrily

Merrily Merrily Merrily

In Merrily Merrily Merrily, three friends gather for a boozy night of laughter and existential debates, unraveling the mysteries of love, the universe, God, and the proper way to e… 

Life Cycle of a Star

Life Cycle of a Star

When they were four years old, Anna and Lily promised to be best friends for life, to sit side by side next to each other in their wheelchairs in the nursing home. 

Daphne

Daphne

Daphne, the muse of Apollo, Ovid, Lorenzo Bernini . 

Seconds

Seconds

Seconds delves into the complexities of heartache, loneliness and redemption through two women’s stories as they grapple with new beginnings. 

Death on the Clyde

Death on the Clyde

A Scottish folk tale murder mystery, based on the legend of the Bean Nighe, also known as the Washerwoman. 

Damn the Dark

Damn the Dark

Set in 1977, Damn the Dark follows five women navigating Soho’s vibrant discotheque scene. 

A Brief History of Neurodivergence

A Brief History of Neurodivergence

‘Christmas Morning 2018, and I’m hiding in a graveyard from my family…’ Part disability history lecture, part autobiography, part agility course, part rant, part quiz and a… 

Eating Satsumas in the Sun and Forgetting About Heartbreak

Eating Satsumas in the Sun and Forgetting About Heartbreak

Emily started writing poetry for the incredibly healthy reason of trying to impress a boy. 

Good For You

Good For You

‘I knew this place would ruin my life, I just didn’t see it happening like this. 

Holly Street

Holly Street

A new play set in the mixing pot of a writer’s room. 

Romance on Repeat

Romance on Repeat

Romance on Repeat: Lizzie has always dreamed of a whirlwind romance like in the movies. 

Life’s a Drag

Life’s a Drag

Three troubled queers walk into a dressing room: a seasoned veteran of the drag runway, a jaded queen cursed to always play second-fiddle and a newbie on the scene with a bold, con… 

Saint Dymphna's Ward

Saint Dymphna's Ward

Two women, a century apart, find themselves in the same psychiatric institution. 

The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness

The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness

How will history remember you? As the person you are or, the person you want to be? It’s 1939, Philomena is on her way from Dublin to London to join the British war effort. 

A Geography of Rain

A Geography of Rain

This intimate show invites the audience into a multimedia coming-of-age story about my life growing up as a working-class girl in Edinburgh and my powerful connection to Scotland. 

Cockaigne Drinking Society

Cockaigne Drinking Society

It’s the week before the Cockaigne high school drinking society fundraiser and something’s gone terribly wrong, if only everyone could agree on what that something was. 

God, the Devil and Me

God, the Devil and Me

Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems. 

Sex, Drugs and...?

Sex, Drugs and...?

Sex, Drugs and. 

But We're Right

But We're Right

Europe is not what it used to be. 

Screaming Into the Void

Screaming Into the Void

Put a finger down if one day you looked at the world around you and said there has to be another way – a better way. 

Confessions of a Lunatic

Confessions of a Lunatic

Waking up having witnessed a brutal murder – by his own hand, incapable of stopping the madness, he stood and watched. 

Seltzer Boy

Seltzer Boy

Finally, a one-man show that’s brave enough to ask the question: why can’t we, as humans, get enough of fizzy beverages? On a sweltering summer day, Seltzer Boy can only find relie… 

The Big Day

The Big Day

Glasgow holds a music festival – The Big Day. 

Four Horses

Four Horses

When Pestilence accidentally kills Death, the whole world stops. 

Unhinged

Unhinged

Unhinged is a compelling collection of five short plays that blend wild humour with deep introspection. 

Wired for Connection

Wired for Connection

Find true love for only $15. 

Jimmy Made Parole

Jimmy Made Parole

Join ex-con Jimmy as he brings you along to get ready for his first date since he got out of prison that morning. 

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

When the stakes are high and the future is on the line, what are the stories we tell about ourselves? In Personal Statement, twenty-three American students enter a brutal college a… 

Milly’s Musical Adventure

Milly’s Musical Adventure

Milly comes from a world without music. 

Operation Blank

Operation Blank

Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen. 

Bing!

Bing!

Written and performed by Jason Woods, Bing! captivated New York audiences and critics, and received a 2023 Off-Broadway Alliance Award nomination for Best Solo Performance. 

Penelope Quadrangle and the Meaning of Friendship

Penelope Quadrangle and the Meaning of Friendship

What would you do if your best friend murdered someone? For Penelope Quadrangle, the answer is simple: hide the body. 

Almost Famous

Almost Famous

Emily Benton, veteran actor and star of stage and screen, is back in the UK after a career that took her to Broadway and Hollywood. 

Roadkill Bambi

Roadkill Bambi

Portia and Alison are driving home from a wedding. 

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

After a sell-out Fringe run in 2024, Fresh !nk Theatre Company returns with a sky-high spectacle! This must-see two-person show is a hilarious theatrical journey set 30,000 feet ab… 

Out of Character

Out of Character

When reality fails to answer desire, the fictional world becomes home. 

Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare

Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare

A cri de coeur from author/performer Sandra Laub, wrestling with characters like Golda Meir and a Palestinian mother of martyrs, to make sense of the insane horror of October 7th. 

Seizure

Seizure

A typical rehearsal quickly deteriorates when the actors find themselves unable to depict the difference between fiction and reality. A play within a play. 

A Mad, Mad Wonderland!

A Mad, Mad Wonderland!

Jason Woods tackles the madcap world of Wonderland, embodying every zany character in A Mad, Mad Wonderland! – from the anxious White Rabbit to the volatile Queen of Hearts, the … 

Mary's Daughters

Mary's Daughters

‘Powerful call to arms… three remarkable women’ (ThePegReview. 

Tall Tails

Tall Tails

Five mermaids. 

Devil's Point

Devil's Point

Ailsa and Sean are a young couple, at the height of bliss – for now. 

Dance Dance Involution

Dance Dance Involution

Three Gen Z Hong Kong actors hustle for stardom – will they shamelessly scam your ticket by just lying flat or will they blow your mind and shine? A daring, hilarious rollercoast… 

How to Become a Movie Star?

How to Become a Movie Star?

Felix Culpa Theatre Company successively produced The Woman He Lived With **** (One4Review. 

Gross Domestic Product

Gross Domestic Product

Finlay McGowan, consultant, has woken up tied to a chair. 

Shirley: A Ghost Story

Shirley: A Ghost Story

Why do people write ghost stories? Is it to explain away the fear, or to reveal the ghosts inside? Shirley is a dark and intimate one-person play, inspired by the life of Shirley J… 

Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh

Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh

Join us for a tilt-a-whirl trip through the mind and letters of Vincent Van Gogh. 

Ah-Ma

Ah-Ma

Ah-Ma – Fujianese for grandmother. 

Anatomy of Pain

Anatomy of Pain

Anatomy of Pain is a powerful and unflinching exploration of the dysfunctional healthcare system, following Alex’s journey to seek a diagnosis for the rare and debilitating condi… 

The Naked Neds

The Naked Neds

Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement. 

A Murder in Motley

A Murder in Motley

After a murder is committed in Jacobean London by a man wearing motley, two playing fools from different productions must prove their innocence with the help of a bard, an innkeepe… 

Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism

Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism

What exactly is the difference between a medieval monk and a modern-day academic? Shockingly, nothing. 

ENOUGH.

ENOUGH.

Winner: Best Drama, Greater Manchester Fringe. 

Wilde

Wilde

Tír na nÓg Theatre Company are delighted to present the world premiere of Wilde, a captivating new original musical that brings to life an intimate portrayal of Constance, wife o… 

The Wonder Drug

The Wonder Drug

Would you take an experimental drug to feel your feelings? The Wonder Drug examines the nature of “recovery” through the interactions of two drifters who move from strangers to fre… 

Goodbye Postie

Goodbye Postie

Goodbye Postie follows the story of two lads, Postie and Sparkie, living in Dumfries together. 

Midnight in Nashville

Midnight in Nashville

Country singer Marcy Aurora is out of prison after 20 years for murder, and she’s ready for a comeback. 

Nightmares by Sandy Jack

Nightmares by Sandy Jack

Is it scary? We all reach that crossroads in life. 

Boxed In

Boxed In

Trapped in a bleak, cold, featureless room utterly devoid of natural light, A is a young woman teetering on the brink of collapse. 

Frankenstein: Afterglow

Frankenstein: Afterglow

What if the story didn’t have to end? Just imagine what would have happened if the Doctor and his creation had lived… Frankenstein: Afterglow is a neon-gothic battle of self-de… 

Lioness

Lioness

Just a game? An Amazon All or Nothing documentary – but without the sponsorship money. 

The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse

The Real Housewives of the Zombie Apocalypse

The dead have risen! But that won’t stop our seven Housewives from hashing out their drama in the most high-body-count reunion episode yet! Will these OGs of reality TV survive t… 

The Idiot's Guide to Breaking Your Own Heart

The Idiot's Guide to Breaking Your Own Heart

The Infinity Repertory Theatre company presents a new musical from George Griggs and Paul Andrew Perez. 

Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space?

Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space?

In an overpopulated Britain, a law called the Parental Act requires everyone to obtain a license to have children. 

Failsafe

Failsafe

Ivy and Jones, two deadbeat, dead-end 20-somethings are looking for a way out. 

The Queen is Mad

The Queen is Mad

Joanna has always spoken her mind. 

Marble Cake

Marble Cake

Marble Cake is a new play which takes a snapshot look at the relationship between a mixed-race brother and sister, Kumi and Keisha, as they reunite for the first time in months. 

Meg & Marge

Meg & Marge

Megan is a perfect wife. 

Wenches!

Wenches!

In 1423 Berlin, two peasants find themselves at the center of hysteria, hypocrisy and impending doom. 

Because

Because

‘Why do you hurt yourself?’ Partial to his own methods of self-therapy, chronic overthinker Jade has all the answers. 

The Pornstar Martini Effect: A Bartender's Guide to not K*lling Yourself at Christmas

The Pornstar Martini Effect: A Bartender's Guide to not K*lling Yourself at Christmas

On Christmas Eve, bartenders Kat and Tom endure a night of bad music, difficult guests and endless Pornstar Martinis. 

Strangers and Revelations

Strangers and Revelations

‘People can be strange and scary and complicated, up and down like the tides…’ Zodwa and Malcolm, two Zimbabweans in London who meet for their first date in unusual circumstances… 

Is There Work on Mars?

Is There Work on Mars?

Can an Asian with a maths learning disability pass Nylon Tusk’s Mars Immigration Test? Welcome to an absurdist testing lab of dystopian speculations. 

Woman in the Arena

Woman in the Arena

A funny, moving and uplifting one-sided conversation about neurodivergence, trauma, dead bodies and other lighthearted topics. 

Goodness Me

Goodness Me

Goodness Me is a one-woman-and-a-Furby dramedy about millennial struggles, unexpected consequences and the crushing weight of responsibility. 

The Lolita Apologies

The Lolita Apologies

In this one-act play, a young woman in a liminal space confronts a series of famous men whose poor adaptations of Lolita have done Nabokov’s story, and women at large, a great diss… 

Moving On: A New Musical

Moving On: A New Musical

Combining the spooky, silly and sentimental, this brand-new musical is about confronting the past and knowing when to let go. 

The Dropbox

The Dropbox

A group of Earth’s survivors rush onto the last vessel escaping from AI bots that have left the planet a wasteland. 

The Scold’s Bridle

The Scold’s Bridle

1642. 

Chameleon

Chameleon

Confined to a psychiatric hospital, Delaney retreats into vivid, often disorienting daydreams about his complicated family history. 

86

86

It’s New Year’s Eve. 

A Minor Theft

A Minor Theft

‘I think pregnant woman are ugly. 

Hexed

Hexed

A new work from the award-winning playwright, P Shane Mitchell. 

MacPlebs

MacPlebs

What would you do if you had to stage Shakespeare’s famous tragedy with two actors who haven’t even read the script?! Two plebs are the only surviving members left of the cast of M… 

Unprofessional

Unprofessional

Guy is a jobbing actor whose blind enthusiasm, sub-par ability and unhealthy obsession with Matt Damon leaves him in a rut. 

8-bit Dream

8-bit Dream

Eight teenagers take you back in time to an analogue age when telephones had wires and television was not so demanding. 

Or Die Trying

Or Die Trying

The artist Leah McBride is missing, presumed dead. 

Girlz

Girlz

A feisty, charismatic, new girl band, a ruthless music industry mogul, and a struggling, idealistic singer/songwriter. 

Climate Change Theatre Action 2025

Climate Change Theatre Action 2025

Venue 13 hosts a special series of CCTA plays, marking 10 years of bold, climate theatre. 

Medium Dead

Medium Dead

Bennie really puts the ghost in ghostwriter. 

Sheepish

Sheepish

Chaotic, ridiculous and oddly tender exploration of identity and purpose – through the eyes of Dolly the Sheep. 

Kaddish (How to be a Sanctuary)

Kaddish (How to be a Sanctuary)

Sam and his dead grandpa have a conversation about everything from fighting fascism to growing up with mobsters – all with the help of a mystical creature from Yiddish folklore. 

Chrome Yellow

Chrome Yellow

Aspiring nihilist (and accidental optimist) Wayne Stewart wrestles with meaning and purpose as he reflects on why he walked 650 miles across France alone in July 2021. 

Mr Jones

Mr Jones

144 lives. 

Kafka for Beginners

Kafka for Beginners

A poet languishes in solitary confinement for “heresy,” under relentless pressure to “recant”. 

Top of the World

Top of the World

Audrey has everything under control. 

Jello Brain

Jello Brain

Alzheimer’s at 55 my mom moves into memory care I try to make her feel at home but it’s more like welcome to your worst nightmare I don’t think she understands when I tell he… 

Strangers With Benefits

Strangers With Benefits

Tired of Tinder? Once upon a time, we trolled Craigslist Casual Encounters for the ‘M seeks F for DL meet-up’ ads. 

Sponsored by The Void

Sponsored by The Void

Fresh from its sold-out premiere in Seattle, this psychosexual queer feminist horror comedy explores despair, agency and women’s erotic relationship with The Void. 

People We Bury Alive

People We Bury Alive

Rita is an immigrant. 

Becoming Maverick

Becoming Maverick

Inspired by the character of Mrs Danvers from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca* – a wholly imagined creative origin story. 

Pirates Carrying Beans

Pirates Carrying Beans

SpiceRack is back in Edinburgh for the third time with another devised work, this time about pirates and coffee. 

Pour Decisions

Pour Decisions

A cabaret bar. 

Dial 1 for UK

Dial 1 for UK

Every night in New Delhi, Uday Kumar (UK) answers panicked calls at the Goldmine Crypto GB Helpline, all while growing his YouTube channel with glossy snapshots of the British life… 

All In

All In

All In is a gripping, tense two-hander about love, power and the fallout of addiction. 

Hands Up!

Hands Up!

Two armed robbers have interrupted Billy and Elise’s morning to steal. 

Outing

Outing

Jamie’s girlfriend is expecting a proposal. 

Batty!

Batty!

Have you got a wild side? Batty has – she dreams of running barefoot, wild swimming, of talking trees and the scent of the seasons turning. 

Playback

Playback

It’s 2013. 

I Kissed Batman

I Kissed Batman

It’s Halloween and the Rugby Team are throwing the party of the century. 

The Sculpture

The Sculpture

It’s 1928 and teenage actress Molly O’Day is Hollywood’s newest star – and newest product to be packaged and sold. 

WANTED

WANTED

It was never meant to get to this point. 

Daniel Moore's Definitive Guide to Failure-Free Living

Daniel Moore's Definitive Guide to Failure-Free Living

One man. 

The Monkeypox Gospel

The Monkeypox Gospel

In a magical reimagining of a real-world event, Ngofeen gets his first big assignment at The New Yorker. 

CADEL: Lungs on Legs

CADEL: Lungs on Legs

The epic true story of the first Australian to win the Tour de France, live on stage. 

AETHER

AETHER

An existential PhD student hunting dark matter, a disillusioned illusionist, a medium with a secret and a murdered mathematician star in the greatest unsolved mystery of the univer… 

Anthem for Dissatisfaction

Anthem for Dissatisfaction

A ‘. 

Colours Run

Colours Run

‘I loved this brilliant new working-class play’ ***** (Edinburgh Evening News). 

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY dives headfirst into the whirlwind life of Ollie, a chaotic but lovable Scot navigating London’s queer nightlife. 

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

Blowjobs, bleach and beef bourguignon. 

Chat Sh*t, Get Hit

Chat Sh*t, Get Hit

What if your anger just simmers underneath? If it never quite reaches boiling point, but it’s present, burning your insides? Combining spoken word, football chants, live art and th… 

Shake Rag Hollow

Shake Rag Hollow

After serving 18 years in prison for her uncle’s murder, Denise returns to her mother’s home in a small mountain town, confronting the daughter she hasn’t seen since birth. 

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.

When you think of me, do you think of me? Or the me you made up in your head? The one who’s words you write… A self-destructive writer struggles to construct a play that unfurls … 

Julia. 1984

Julia. 1984

After enduring torture in the Ministry of Love, Julia is finally released and reunited with her sister. 

Strangewife

Strangewife

What if you could build the perfect partner from scratch? When Lauren’s husband dies, the young widow stumbles upon an unsettling solution to her loneliness – one that involves m… 

Paldem

Paldem

Megan and Kevin are close friends bonded by their love of takeaways, Rick and Morty and Jeremy Paxman – a match made in adult heaven. 

RIFT

RIFT

Direct from its sell-out North American premiere. 

Amazons

Amazons

Discover the real Amazon (not the online store!) Plant-sitting and live-streaming from her friend’s flat, Gayara unearths the untold history of her Amazonian ancestors, from those … 

PUMP

PUMP

Step into the club. 

Centre of the Universe

Centre of the Universe

‘This has never been done before. 

Don't Tell Dad About Diana

Don't Tell Dad About Diana

Dublin, 1997. 

Bury The Hatchet

Bury The Hatchet

Lizzie Borden took an axe. 

Parody of the Rings

Parody of the Rings

At the local cinema, all hell breaks loose when the ushers misplace the DVDs of The Lord of the Rings trilogy – every single copy! With only the soundtracks left in hand, the tea… 

The Uncrackable Case

The Uncrackable Case

Humpty Dumpty is dead – was he pushed? Did he jump? Or was it simply a great fall? Enter Jill, a filmmaker with big dreams and an even bigger problem: she’s on trial for egg-icid… 

Lovett

Lovett

‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich’ (Rousseau). 

Tilly No-Body

Tilly No-Body

In a deserted circus, drama, humour, music and songs tell the true story of actress Tilly Wedekind and her controlling, famous husband, Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening). 

The Essence of Audrey

The Essence of Audrey

Celebrate the true-life story of one of the world’s most beloved icons, Audrey Hepburn. 

In the Land of Eagles

In the Land of Eagles

Her and Grandpa are different and not the same. 

r/Conspiracy

r/Conspiracy

r/Conspiracy is a play for messy girls, hungry sleuths, and the chronically online. 

House Party

House Party

One young woman from East London is on a mission to bring back house parties. 

Blaze FM

Blaze FM

Electrifying political gig theatre – Blaze FM is a pirate radio station that keeps on kicking in the midst of court orders, injunctions, shutdowns by DTI, and outright attacks ag… 

FLUSH

FLUSH

April Hope Miller’s debut play is a fiercely relevant and urgent exploration of the sanctity of sisterhood, set within the seemingly mundane yet magical space of the ladies bathroo… 

Hold the Line

Hold the Line

A routine NHS111 health assessment goes horribly wrong over the phone resulting in the death of a patient. 

Seating Plan

Seating Plan

What if you were sat next to the love of your life and just didn’t know it? Stuck beside each other at a dinner party year after year. 

I Dream in Colour

I Dream in Colour

‘You’re fighting for equal rights or some shit: I’m still fighting for the right to exist’. 

How To Kill Your Landlord

How To Kill Your Landlord

How To Kill Your Landlord is a fatal comedy of errors focusing on three young housemates. 

LEI – LDN

LEI – LDN

London’s calling, but is Chardaye ready? LEI – LDN follows Chardaye, a mixed-race 17-year-old with a sharp tongue and a lot to say. 

PALS

PALS

Female-led and female-produced, PALS is a Scottish adventure-comedy play telling the story of four, crude, chaotic yet completely normal gal pals as they embark on a camping trek i… 

Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor

Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor

‘EXCLUSIVE: ELTON IN VICE BOY SHAME’. 

BAIRNS

BAIRNS

Lottie’s just made the mother of all promises and needs to grow up. 

Well Behaved Women

Well Behaved Women

It’s 1883. 

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception

A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception

A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos. 

Fuselage

Fuselage

On the 21st December 1988, a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am 103 over the quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie. 

Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte

Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte

Spilling the chai at his new book launch! Here Sanjay Lago’s neuro-delicious mind takes you on a whirlwind of love, identity and Bollywood-fuelled daydreams. 

Motorhome Marilyn

Motorhome Marilyn

Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill. 

Down to Chance

Down to Chance

Anchorage, Alaska, 1964. 

Jumper Bumps

Jumper Bumps

What happens when the thing you wished for your whole life turns out to be your worst nightmare? Eris wants a baby. 

Cara and Kelly are Best Friends Forever For Life

Cara and Kelly are Best Friends Forever For Life

Cara and Kelly are best friends, soulmates even. 

Lunchbox

Lunchbox

Lunchbox is about the impact of bullying, through the eyes of a troubled Scottish boy, Steven and Pakistani girl, Lubna. 

Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x)

Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x)

If there’s one thing worse than classism and the disparity of wealth in this country… It’s FOMO. 

Skinny

Skinny

It’s more than a word – it’s a societal chokehold. 

24Weeks

24Weeks

Something’s wrong with Becca. 

#CHARLOTTESVILLE – The play that Trump does not want you to see!

#CHARLOTTESVILLE – The play that Trump does not want you to see!

‘Stunning, unflinching, poignant’ ***** (DCTheaterArts. 

The Pink List

The Pink List

1957, West Germany. 

After the Service: Tales of Love and Loss

After the Service: Tales of Love and Loss

Arran R Hawkins, Director of Black is the Color of My Voice and creator of Lost in the Woods, brings you a new series of monologues based around the universal themes of love and lo… 

This Side of Life

This Side of Life

Manhattan buskers, cockney con-men, Broadway dreams. 

Eggs Aren't That Easy to Make

Eggs Aren't That Easy to Make

‘If I’m in a lesbian relationship when I’m older, I want you to be the sperm donor’ a woman says to her best friend, while drunk at a birthday party in uni. 

Up

Up

The odds of perishing in a commercial plane accident are 29. 

This Blighted Star

This Blighted Star

During a long summer in a stifling Midlands town, local student Ivan goes missing. 

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

Back for a third and final year after sell-out runs and international acclaim, the multi award-winning bum flare play tells the story of ardent football fan Billy Kinley, who stick… 

The UnderNeath

The UnderNeath

If you suddenly found yourself in an unfamiliar room with no memory of how you got there, what would your response be? If the only thing in that very room was a strange woman, how … 

The End of the Line

The End of the Line

‘Incredibly funny and genuine in its expression of human connection’ (TheBroadOnline. 

Single Use

Single Use

Tired of washing out your hummus pot? Sick of sorting through your plastic? Yep! Ella, a karaoke-loving procrastinator with a taste for Deliveroo, felt the same – until her water… 

Dead Air

Dead Air

Since Alfie’s dad died, he’s visited everyone’s dreams but hers. 

The Truman Capote Talk Show – Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award

The Truman Capote Talk Show – Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award

Glitzy, bitchy, chic, unique. 

Brainsluts

Brainsluts

Brainsluts: a slang term used for participants of clinical drugs trials. 

Tri Service Veterans Talent Show

Tri Service Veterans Talent Show

Use creativity to help our veterans with their Mental Wellbeing. 

Pretty Little Lawyers

Pretty Little Lawyers

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… 

Black Velvet

Black Velvet

‘You know, I never liked flowers for graves. 

What the F*ck Happened to Love and Hope?

What the F*ck Happened to Love and Hope?

Teenager Nina and best friend Faye are tangled in the terrifying culture of spiking and assault in this powerful new work written by an 18-year-old. 

The Division of Labour

The Division of Labour

A short caprice in gaslighting. 

Can't Stop Carrying On

Can't Stop Carrying On

As an ageing film producer plans to resurrect his past cinematic successes, an audience are invited to share his memories and triumphs as he flicks through his back catalogue of wo… 

Persistent Shadows

Persistent Shadows

Persistent Shadows is a narrative-driven piece of work exploring the historical, political and social landscape of Britain throughout the 1980s and drawing parallels to issues face… 

I Did Something I Shouldn't Have...

I Did Something I Shouldn't Have...

Marketing a show as a thriller often raises hopes that are not met. 

*Smoke Not Included

*Smoke Not Included

*Smoke Not Included. 

A Rustle

A Rustle

Having finally moved away from the quiet village that raised her, Emmy’s perspectives on life are changing. 

All This Must Pass

All This Must Pass

A woman embarks on an epic quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be. 

Bedsheets

Bedsheets

Puddle Theatre Company presents a relatable one-woman play. 

SOS BRN

SOS BRN

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. 

Darren Walsh: New Puns

Darren Walsh: New Puns

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. 

Galentine's Day

Galentine's Day

In Deptford, South London, a routine hair appointment becomes a *slightly* less intense version of John Tucker Must Die. 

Last Orders

Last Orders

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… 

I See My Sister

I See My Sister

When sisters Mhairi and Caoimhe run away from home, Mhairi is determined to stay isolated from the world. 

The Duchess of Buckingham Regrets to Inform You That Her Husband is Dead

The Duchess of Buckingham Regrets to Inform You That Her Husband is Dead

August 1815. 

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

‘There’s no greater love story than female friendship’. 

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

If you are looking for a funny family show, Cabin Fever by Fresh !nk Theatre Company at theSpace @ Sugeon's Hall is a show where kids will get the jokes (most of them) and adul… 

The Traitor's Wife

The Traitor's Wife

In the glamorous, bohemian world of pre-war Paris, a beautiful American heiress meets a dashing British diplomat. 

What Matters in the End?

What Matters in the End?

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… 

Disco, Baby?

Disco, Baby?

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… 

Sammy Blew Up a Toilet

Sammy Blew Up a Toilet

New Scottish writing: Sammy Blew Up a Toilet is a whimsical, heart-warming and partly autobiographical play set around the early years of school. 

Hungry Like the Future

Hungry Like the Future

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. 

Love, Loss and Cake

Love, Loss and Cake

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… 

We Kidnapped an Artist

We Kidnapped an Artist

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… 

Babe Alien

Babe Alien

Whales sometimes make hit songs that get repeated through the ocean. 

In Our Defense

In Our Defense

Remember your first day of university? The people you met? The awkward small talks you had? It doesn’t have to be like that. 

These Days

These Days

Take a picture, it’ll last longer. 

Souvenirs (A Relaxed Show)

Souvenirs (A Relaxed Show)

Souvenirs is a story of neurodiversity, self-acceptance and service stations. 

Flytrap

Flytrap

Meet Georgie, Felix and Lola, three university students delivering a sex education play to secondary school students. 

No Place Called Home

No Place Called Home

Privilege has long served as a protective veil from the realities of the climate crisis. 

Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew

A workplace comedy about a pirate crew. 

My Cousin Won An Oscar (Now She Lives on My Sofa)

My Cousin Won An Oscar (Now She Lives on My Sofa)

Misty Last: Academy Award Winner, Buzzfeed ‘where are they now’-er. 

Until I Met Maggie

Until I Met Maggie

This touching and tragic new play follows the friendship of Maggie and Johnny and lets us love and laugh along with them on their unique journey as a pair. 

This Porno Does Not Pass the Bechdel Test

This Porno Does Not Pass the Bechdel Test

‘The chance to win the night of your dreams with semi-famous porn star Lance Hardwood. 

Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime

Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime

The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual. 

The Mort Hoose

The Mort Hoose

An unpleasant reunion follows another unpleasant reunion as five school friends catch-up on old times. 

Penny and Forever

Penny and Forever

School-girl Penny lives in a world on fire. 

Ante Beckett

Ante Beckett

This original one-act comedy by Joel Smith reflects Samuel Beckett’s work and themes. 

Worm Teeth

Worm Teeth

Worm is quite happy being just that: a worm. 

Tit(s) for Tat

Tit(s) for Tat

Five girls, one friendship, and a therapist named Fanny. 

Bad Habit

Bad Habit

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the free trip to California. 

Well Played

Well Played

Broadway, 1955. 

Cherry

Cherry

‘I think I felt so happy in my label up until now that it feels so scary for it suddenly not to fit right any more. 

Ambiguous Proposition

Ambiguous Proposition

A controversial sexual harassment allegation pushes Margaret to the edge of reason. 

Someone Has To Be Counting

Someone Has To Be Counting

Someone has been keeping a record. 

This Side of the House

This Side of the House

Oxbridge and its debating unions are known to be places of political intrigue, where the future politicians of the day test their mettle and learn the skills they will be using whe… 

Deadheads

Deadheads

Miriam works in finance in Singapore. 

RUM by Joe Mallalieu
BOBBY WINNER

RUM by Joe Mallalieu

The exposed brick of a top-floor cavern at Underbelly Cowgate is the ideal setting for actor/writer Joe Mallalieu’s premiere of Rum, a solo play rooted in his experience of growi… 

Moscow Love Story

Moscow Love Story

Moscow 2001. 

MAN: A One-Woman Show

MAN: A One-Woman Show

Inspired by a Hungarian gangster dad, a Sunday school mother, teenage years with Hell’s Angels, Emma Taylor (NewsRevue producer) takes us on an unforgettable ride. 

Is There Work on Mars?

Is There Work on Mars?

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… 

Rat House

Rat House

Welcome to Hackton! Cyclists can’t get to Hackton library, literacy rates are dropping, cyclists can barely name a single book, library membership is dwindling and Hackton counci… 

Divided

Divided

When their daughter announces that she wants to transition, a couple find themselves divided in their attitudes and judgements. 

ScotlandsFest: The Places We Inhabit – Bashabi Fraser

ScotlandsFest: The Places We Inhabit – Bashabi Fraser

People, locations, nature – Bashabi Fraser deftly challenges conventions in her poetry, weaving her dual cultural experiences into a tapestry of interconnectedness. 

A Knock on the Roof by Khawla Ibraheem

A Knock on the Roof by Khawla Ibraheem

Mariam prepares for war. 

The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)

The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)

Five would-be somebodies find themselves united in Hell, part of a trial run to solve Hell’s oncoming population problem. 

Maladaptive Mouse

Maladaptive Mouse

Name? Where is here? Where is nowhere? Mouse, by name, but they are still to find out if it’s by nature. 

Would You Like a Bag?

Would You Like a Bag?

Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy. 

Headache

Headache

AJ doesn’t like karaoke, but she does like the girl who asked her to go. 

Cringe

Cringe

It began with a show. 

Somewhere

Somewhere

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… 

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: ...and Helen

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: ...and Helen

In an afterlife, Gilbert and Sullivan decide to acknowledge Helen Carte’s contribution to their legacy. 

Sonnets from Suburbia

Sonnets from Suburbia

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… 

i am george massey

i am george massey

What does it mean to be English anymore?. 

Night Train

Night Train

A young woman, Maia (Soraya Pouilly), awakens tied to a chair and blindfolded. 

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story. 

Hometown

Hometown

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… 

Murder! At The Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard

Murder! At The Cirque Du Banquet! The Terrible, Final Case of Detective Ace Dekkard

Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724. 

Gruoch: Lady Macbeth

Gruoch: Lady Macbeth

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. 

Boardroom

Boardroom

Television at the turn of the Millennium was truly like the Wild West. 

Nettles

Nettles

Nettles is a captivating and thought-provoking exploration of the human psyche, presented through a lens of dark comedy and existential introspection. 

Bad Dog

Bad Dog

Upon a young woman’s decision to admit herself to rehab, she decides to get back into contact with her estranged mother. 

Shapiro: A Pop Star Musical

Shapiro: A Pop Star Musical

Shapiro is a new musical based on the early life of UK singer Helen Shapiro. 

Placeholder

Placeholder

Placeholder follows the early-life crisis of a somewhat dramatic twenty-something. 

Seven Steps to Feel Completely Happy Again

Seven Steps to Feel Completely Happy Again

The seven stages of grief are a familiar concept to those who are grieving, have grieved or will grieve. 

My Blood

My Blood

A gripping piece of new writing, My Blood is a psychological thriller loosely based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia. 

Ever Yours

Ever Yours

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. 

Flat 2

Flat 2

Two couples move into a flat together. 

It's OK, I Still Think You're Great

It's OK, I Still Think You're Great

Two chairs, a table and a back wall filled with train tickets, polaroid selfies, drama posters and a cardboard cutout of Shakespeare – is this a re-creation of my university flat… 

Pulse

Pulse

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… 

SmallTalking

SmallTalking

This world-premiere musical explores how a shared moment of stress among strangers can bring them to form a fast bond. 

BURNOUT

BURNOUT

‘Don’t worry. 

Bucket List

Bucket List

Ghosts have the most appalling quality of life. 

Untitled

Untitled

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. 

The C Word

The C Word

Developed by and featuring UCLA and Loyola Marymount University students, this offbeat feminist comedy playfully examines the unspoken nuances of female relationships in the contex… 

Reject Me, Already

Reject Me, Already

Reject Me, Already is an original romcom musical where you play the matchmaker! Step into the story of Cameron and Casey, two hopeless romantics looking for their “someone”, th… 

Sardark

Sardark

Emily loves books, Elena loves trees. 

Krystal Evans: Hospitality Horror Show (WIP)

Krystal Evans: Hospitality Horror Show (WIP)

Following her critically acclaimed, award nominated debut hour The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp, Krystal is back with a brand new hour of stand-up. 

Edinburgh Tales

Edinburgh Tales

They are called Edinburgh Tales but are not really about Edinburgh, in the same way the model for this show, The Canterbury Tales, is not actually about Canterbury. 

Escher's Children

Escher's Children

Paradox becomes reality in this suspenseful journey tracking philosophy, art and David Bowie. 

4 girls the first letter e

4 girls the first letter e

In 2012, two girls stabbed their friend 19 times at Slenderman’s instruction. 

Dead End

Dead End

Bea visits her grieving friend Olivia in her ceramic studio. 

Pretty Good, Not Bad

Pretty Good, Not Bad

The long walk home. 

Wasps

Wasps

Four women. 

Hardly Working

Hardly Working

Trust, truth, and tequila. 

Singing Sands

Singing Sands

Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds. 

Chameleon

Chameleon

Embarking on a journey of self-discovery following her autism diagnosis, Chameleon grapples with the complexities of love, identity and - most importantly - soggy chips. 

/ and Her

/ and Her

The infamous words added by King Edward VI to his last will and testament ‘/ and her’ unexpectedly thrust the 15-year-old Jane Grey onto the throne of England for a mere 9 days… 

Dick.

Dick.

Dick. 

Letters From My Dad (Who Is Dead)

Letters From My Dad (Who Is Dead)

This new play by Michael Bryceson focuses on the relationship between a dying father and his son, Charlie. 

Dead Animals

Dead Animals

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be a brutal environment. 

VEGAS

VEGAS

Poppy and Freddie wake up in the 'honeymoon suite' of a bed and breakfast in Slough. 

Lee and the Black Hole

Lee and the Black Hole

Lee always wanted to be an astronaut. 

Picasso 2033

Picasso 2033

Set in a future where AI has gradually replaced human beings in the field of art, Picasso 2033 reflects on the future of art through the story of AI-drawing trainer “Mr Satisfact… 

22 Mirrors – A Musical Journey Through the Tarot

22 Mirrors – A Musical Journey Through the Tarot

Joined by two musicians and two dancers, Brazilian singer/songwriter Giulia Drummond takes us through a ritualistic performance exploring the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. 

Trashed

Trashed

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. 

Paradok Platform: Daily Routine at the Farcical Castle

Paradok Platform: Daily Routine at the Farcical Castle

‘Darling, your wicked brother The Duke greased me up in butter and rolled me down a hill. 

Spectrums of British Indian Identity

Spectrums of British Indian Identity

‘Sometimes I wonder how white people look at me’. 

Outwith Words: Tinderbox Orchestra and Loud Poets

Outwith Words: Tinderbox Orchestra and Loud Poets

Bringing together rappers and singers with heavy brass, strings, woodwind and a thundering backline, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be. 

Fix Your Mind

Fix Your Mind

Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown. 

Hot Goss: Double Feature

Hot Goss: Double Feature

Bold reimaginings of classic tales by queer, and POC misfits! Saadiya Ali’s Real Housewives of Bible serves up feminist, funny twists on ancient stories. 

2018: Launch on Warning

2018: Launch on Warning

False missile alert. 

Hi, Sid!

Hi, Sid!

The original Chinese musical Hi, Sid! is a work performed by both professional musical theatre actors and child actors. 

Dissent

Dissent

Born from an experimental class series in narradrama, a dramatherapy modality, this half-autobiographical therapeutic performance, half D&D fairytale adventure follows Satya, a… 

Two Friends and Social Anxiety

Two Friends and Social Anxiety

Two friends, one party, zero social skills. 

Triggerfish

Triggerfish

There are things you shouldn’t move. 

Waiting

Waiting

It is September 1997. 

Parents

Parents

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… 

Ghost Light

Ghost Light

‘I think if you’re going to write a ghost story worth its salt you must experience ghosts for yourself’. 

A Singular Deception

A Singular Deception

James Barry was born Margaret Anne Bulkley, but she fooled the world in order to become a doctor in the British army, which in the very early nineteenth century was an unthinkable … 

Little Beast

Little Beast

‘No woman should touch pen and ink: they had too much passion and too little sense. 

Armed Robbery and Suicidal Intent

Armed Robbery and Suicidal Intent

Agnes curated her perfect death, but the thing she couldn’t plan for was a teenage burglar entering her house as she’s facing oblivion. 

ScotlandsFest: Fower Legs Guid, Twa Legs Better! – Thomas Clark

ScotlandsFest: Fower Legs Guid, Twa Legs Better! – Thomas Clark

Once bleakly satirical masterpiece on totalitarianism, now Scots Language Book of the Year, George Orwell’s Animal Farm still casts its shadow over everything we think we know ab… 

Blood of My Father

Blood of My Father

The neighbour heard the screams from next door. 

smokeshow

smokeshow

What happens when three friends accidentally date the same guy? They take it to the boxing ring. 

We Used to be Girl Scouts

We Used to be Girl Scouts

Drew thinks she’s pregnant. 

Di(n)e

Di(n)e

A man has decided to take his own life and finds himself in a state of limbo between life and death. 

Modern Love Is Not a Dream

Modern Love Is Not a Dream

‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have. 

Rat King Gospel

Rat King Gospel

Three childhood friends reunite after one of them finds success in her children’s book series The Rat King Gospels. 

Influenced

Influenced

With seven nominations and two wins at the Durham Drama Festival 2024 (including Best Actor), Influenced is a cautionary tale of online influencers and their world of unchecked pow… 

You Deserve It

You Deserve It

Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse. 

Zelda and Hadley: Together at Last

Zelda and Hadley: Together at Last

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 … 

Ticket to Wonderland

Ticket to Wonderland

Bumping into your ex at work covered in baby vomit can be awkward. 

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Six friends plan a night of folklore and song. 

Take Me to Your Leader

Take Me to Your Leader

Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein. 

Badger

Badger

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. 

Until the Next Wedding

Until the Next Wedding

A heartfelt, heartbreaking, crass and hilarious look into the relationship of two childhood friends gone wrong reuniting at a wedding. 

Alfie

Alfie

Alfie is an original musical about two boys, their journey through life and experiences in the army. 

I'd Like a Job Please

I'd Like a Job Please

Shady wellness gurus, audacious business bros and one desperate graduate collide in this hilarious hour of brand new comedy. 

The Sound Inside

The Sound Inside

An Ivy league professor (Madeleine Potter) reveals herself to us in slices at Traverse Theatre. 

Asshole in Retreat: An Ego's Journey to

Asshole in Retreat: An Ego's Journey to "God"

A smart and funny 50 minutes by formerly Twitter-famous journalist Lauren Duca, who went viral, got cancelled, then ran off to the mountains to join a psychedelic cult. 

Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party

Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party

Rey is checking out their neighbour’s 80s record collection when a mysterious recording sends them on a mission to bury nuclear waste in an underground nightclub. 

A Time Traveller's Life

A Time Traveller's Life

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… 

Eleanor

Eleanor

As the daughter of one of the most influential political and philosophical figures ever to have lived, Eleanor Marx was cursed to travel through life and death shackled by her fath… 

A Play by John

A Play by John

For lovers of absurdist theatre, A Play by John at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall is not to be missed. 

The Italians in England by Action Theatre (Italy)

The Italians in England by Action Theatre (Italy)

1572. 

Girlhood

Girlhood

‘My mother always said she wouldn’t make the same mistakes her mum did. 

Addict

Addict

Addict introduces us to the central character of John, who, after a tweet (or whatever it is we're meant to call them these days) goes viral, slips into the murky world of soci… 

Three Bed (No Living Room)

Three Bed (No Living Room)

How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do. 

Patsy Byrne is Dead! (B*tch Eat B*tch)

Patsy Byrne is Dead! (B*tch Eat B*tch)

Sexy, camp and nepotistic. 

Mother

Mother

Meet Molly Briton (with one 't'), the utterly loveable and irrepressibly charming central character of David Martin's new play Mother. 

Passing Likeness

Passing Likeness

Step back into the Edinburgh of the eighteenth century! Passing Likeness is a new verse drama by local writer Ash Caton. 

Beach Babe

Beach Babe

A dark romantic comedy that explores the topics of death and the afterlife. 

The Hatter's Requiem

The Hatter's Requiem

Searching for his beloved Alice in a race against time, Hatter leaves home. 

Galahad Takes a Bath

Galahad Takes a Bath

‘I got very little, little to no media training, so. 

A Montage of Monet

A Montage of Monet

Claude Monet’s works are some of the most immediately identifiable of art history. 

Get Thee to a Nursery

Get Thee to a Nursery

Alex Norcott and the team at Exi Attica have created a show that is quintessentially Fringe and unashamedly Shakespeare. 

Unseen

Unseen

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… 

Four More Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime

Four More Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime

Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter. 

The 100-Year-Old Letter

The 100-Year-Old Letter

In 1916, Christabel Mennell writes a letter of apology to Katie Marsh. 

God, the Devil and Me

God, the Devil and Me

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. 

MacPlebs

MacPlebs

Following a tram-related accident, the renowned cast of Macbeth have been all but wiped out. 

The Freemartin

The Freemartin

Speakbeast are doing an agricultural conference, and it’s got all the things we think agricultural conferences usually have. 

Birdwatching

Birdwatching

School friends Amelia, Poppy and Lauren are wild camping in the Northumberland forest. 

Window Seat

Window Seat

‘I became the Jeremy Clarkson of tits. 

Sardines

Sardines

Have you ever wondered what would happen if your favourite poets from the 1800s got stuck in an inflatable life raft in the middle of the ocean with no nautical know-how and a frac… 

I Cut My Nipples Off Today

I Cut My Nipples Off Today

How do you look non-binary? Everyday your brain is bombarded by images and opinions about your body. 

Kev Campbell Was He

Kev Campbell Was He

After a failed graffiti attempt in a nightclub toilet, Kev Campbell ends up meeting a stranger who completely changes the course of his life. 

The Bronze Boy

The Bronze Boy

A powerful, provocative and funny new play by Nancy Hamada about love, loss and America’s twisted obsession with guns. 

It's a Sheet Show

It's a Sheet Show

Two people, one bed and no connection. 

I Am Yours Sincerely

I Am Yours Sincerely

Writer and performer Ed Saunders-Lee presents the remarkable untold true story of his step-grandfather, Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent John Cox MC in the charming solo sh… 

Journey to the West

Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a new musical play, originating from the Chinese literary masterpiece by the same name. 

Keep Watching It

Keep Watching It

The audience is seated. 

Shower Chair

Shower Chair

Shower Chair is an hour long comedic play about mistakes, growing up, and learning how to save life from going down the drain. 

The Selkie

The Selkie

Local lads Finlay and Ciaran are working the last ferry to the Isle of Bute, trying to distract themselves from the unusual happenings on board. 

Sleepover

Sleepover

You’re invited to the sleepover! Won’t you join us? Through the eyes of our 12-year-old protagonists, we teeter between childhood make-believe and stone-cold adult reality. 

Thor the Walrus

Thor the Walrus

A walrus comedy (for adults). 

Dead Mom Play

Dead Mom Play

This is a beautiful play. 

Long Distance

Long Distance

Long Distance is a new play which explores intimacy and connection through a series of text messages. 

MILF and the Mistress

MILF and the Mistress

Ali is living the rainbow family dream – but something is missing. 

Tartan Tat

Tartan Tat

Meet the staff of Tartan Treasures, a tourist-trap gift shop on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile selling Jimmy Hats, Highland cows and knock-off wands. 

Dear Annie, I Hate You

Dear Annie, I Hate You

Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie. 

Anne Bayne of Dunsapie Loch

Anne Bayne of Dunsapie Loch

Experience the captivating tale of Anne Bayne who welcomes her husband, the renowned artist Allan Ramsay, home from the Grand Tour, only to discover that London and a friendship wi… 

Dummy in Diaspora

Dummy in Diaspora

Chicago-based American actor and writer Esho Rasho is the child of an Assyrian-Iraqi refugee and an Assyrian-Lebanese immigrant, both of whom are war survivors. 

Baby Steps

Baby Steps

Shows like this are the absolute heart of the Fringe. 

Lonesome Tonight

Lonesome Tonight

Chris has been having horrid thoughts – thoughts that led to his break-up with Anya, thoughts that have since kept him from reaching out to Len. 

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me

The story of one of country music’s most iconic voices: June Carter Cash. 

The Shadow Boxer

The Shadow Boxer

Portsmouth’s most promising featherweight boxer races towards his ultimate goal – competing in the 1968 Olympic Games and proving himself as a true champion. 

Apricot

Apricot

Apricot is a dark comedy set in modern day London. 

Sessions

Sessions

Working Progress Collective is ‘a Midlands-born theatre company, making theatre for, by and with working class communities’. 

Godfather Death: A Grimms' Musical

Godfather Death: A Grimms' Musical

Based on a little-known Grimms’ fairytale, Godfather Death is an award-winning and gleefully macabre new musical exploring mortality, healthcare and class. 

Where Are We Going With This?

Where Are We Going With This?

In this touching debut, two university students meet on a bench at 2am after a bad night out. 

The Archives of the Hopeless Romantic

The Archives of the Hopeless Romantic

This semi-autobiographical one-woman play adapted from Sophia Marie George’s debut book follows a woman researcher as she enters into the archives of a romantic. 

Plotters

Plotters

It’s a Grave Business. 

Me For You

Me For You

‘Choosing sperm is weird. 

Marriage With Benefits

Marriage With Benefits

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. 

Pillock

Pillock

Pillock has ADHD. 

Polishing Shakespeare

Polishing Shakespeare

A dotcom billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait. 

Benji Waterhouse: Maddening (Work in Progress)

Benji Waterhouse: Maddening (Work in Progress)

NHS psychiatrist, comedian and Sunday Times best-selling author of You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here road-tests more ‘humane, hilarious and eye-opening’ (Guardian) tales from t… 

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me

As artfully dishevelled studios go, Arthur’s is on the more organised side of shambolic. 

Mary, Queen of Rock!

Mary, Queen of Rock!

Musicals that aim to reinvent historical figures are in fashion at the moment, as shown by the success of Hamilton and Six. 

Sisters Three

Sisters Three

Inside Chekhov’s masterpiece, Olga, Masha, and Irina are trapped in a cycle of disappointed hopes, heartbreak, and inertia. 

Out of Woodstock

Out of Woodstock

Whatever the mention of Woodstock conjures up in your mind it's probably represented in this ‘99-inspired show by Tom Foreman Productions, written, directed and produced by T… 

Conversations We Never Had, As People We'll Never Be

Conversations We Never Had, As People We'll Never Be

A couple has thirty minutes to decide whether to erase the memory of their failed relationship. 

Paradok Platform: Lights Out

Paradok Platform: Lights Out

‘Witty, yet painfully authentic’ (The Student), Lights Out is an intimate, real-time conversation following two sisters, as they slowly move from playful banter, such as hypothetic… 

Piskie

Piskie

Presented initially as a lecture on the paranormal by self-confessed skeptic, Dr Ouida Burt PhD, Piskie is really about one person’s struggle with childhood trauma and the easily… 

Catafalque

Catafalque

Fern doesn’t get invited to dinner parties anymore. 

LITTLE DEATHS

LITTLE DEATHS

‘This is just the start. 

SalFUNNI presents: No Backup Plan

SalFUNNI presents: No Backup Plan

Returning again to the Fringe, and as always featuring students from the University of Salford. 

Oh, Calm Down

Oh, Calm Down

1999. 

Surrender

Surrender

Mother is in prison. 

Son of a Bitch

Son of a Bitch

Written and performed by award-winning comedian, actor and writer Anna Morris, Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman who is caught on camera … 

How I Learned to Swim

How I Learned to Swim

Jamie can’t swim. 

Divine Invention

Divine Invention

Sergio Blanco’s latest offering with Tangram Theatre Company, which he directs, is radically different from his other works. 

Lynn Faces

Lynn Faces

There’s a band set up on stage, but this is no ordinary music show. 

Bellringers

Bellringers

There’s less Quasimodo and more Quasi-oh-no in Daisy Hall’s somewhat uneven belltower-based exploration of climate catastrophe in England’s green and pleasant back garden. 

Summer of Harold

Summer of Harold

Admiration. 

VL

VL

Two figures in matching eye-popping day glo tracksuits burst into the arena. 

The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return

The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return

Two best mates. 

Identities

Identities

Happy boobs. 

The State of Grace

The State of Grace

Grace was a high-class sex worker, who rose to meteoric fame on social media. 

Float

Float

Revel in quiet rebellion; gently let go and loudly move forward with four Belfast housemates. 

In Defiance Of Gravity

In Defiance Of Gravity

There lived a certain man in Russian long ago…. 

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

With her notorious gang-leader brother heading off to WW1, Alice Diamond seizes her chance to take his place and stamp her mark on the streets of London. 

3 Couples, 2 Breakups, 1 Barbie and The Berlin Wall

3 Couples, 2 Breakups, 1 Barbie and The Berlin Wall

Square Pegs, the Macready Theatre Young Actors’ Company are back again at C Arts Aquila with another joyous bag of wild imagination, comedy and physicality. 

In Two Minds

In Two Minds

Four-time Fringe First and Olivier award-winning Fishamble returns to Traverse. 

A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams

A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams

Told through paper mementos, A History of Paper is an epic love story. 

My English Persian Kitchen

My English Persian Kitchen

Attending the world premiere of My English Persian Kitchen at The Traverse Theatre is a real treat. 

Cyrano

Cyrano

“Why do we keep telling the old stories?” asks the titular character of Virginia Gay’s adaptation. 

Weather Girl

Weather Girl

Emotional, environmental, and existential crises collide in the whirlwind hour or so of the Brian Watkins-penned Weather Girl. 

Playfight

Playfight

Playfight is a visceral, fast-moving production from Theatre Uncut, that relentlessly demands your attention from the first moment to the last. 

Boy in Da Korma

Boy in Da Korma

Tupac never died. 

PALS

PALS

Any Scot has experienced that feeling where the solution to overcoming one of life's minor criss seems to be to go bouncing up a Munro somewhere in the highlands. 

The Emu War: A New Musical

The Emu War: A New Musical

The Emu War is a joke. 

Barbies and Drillas

Barbies and Drillas

‘Hey, we’re not students anymore – who the f*ck stole my avocado?!’ A comedy about five housemates gloriously wasting their youth as they try to avoid the hell of growing up. 

It's the Economy, Stupid!

It's the Economy, Stupid!

A famous quote coined as part of the US 1992 election campaign, and a stark reminder that when it comes to voting intentions, the public are prone to vote with their pockets. 

Knives and Forks

Knives and Forks

Friends of seven years, Iris (Ianthe Bathurst) and Thalia (Thea Mayeux) share their lives in the same flat. 

Did You Mean to Fall Like That

Did You Mean to Fall Like That

Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job. 

Good Luck, Cathrine Frost!

Good Luck, Cathrine Frost!

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. 

Love's a Beach

Love's a Beach

What happens six months after your five minutes of fame? Cyrus and Ben are the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality show. 

Sisyphean Quick Fix

Sisyphean Quick Fix

Krista lives in London. 

The Shroud Maker

The Shroud Maker

Hajja Souad sells shrouds for burying the dead in Gaza. 

Why Did I Crush My Balls? And Other Tales from the Generation of Too Much

Why Did I Crush My Balls? And Other Tales from the Generation of Too Much

It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level. 

no one is coming to save us

no one is coming to save us

There’s a climate emergency. 

Come Dine With Me: The Musical

Come Dine With Me: The Musical

Come Dine With Me is a British staple. 

Beyond Krapp

Beyond Krapp

Cormac wanted a funeral no one could forget: knock-knock jokes for the opening prayers, a roll call of his shags for the First Reading, his cutout of Zendaya escorted to the altar … 

Born in the USA (Leaving Vietnam)

Born in the USA (Leaving Vietnam)

Vietnam veteran Jimmy lives an okay enough life, poking around his garage in rustbelt Michigan, enjoying the gruff banter between friends and customers. 

Paper Swans

Paper Swans

In a closed park at night, a security guard on his patrol finds a young woman in a ballet dress sitting on the bench making paper swans. 

Beryl Cook: A Private View

Beryl Cook: A Private View

Beryl Cook’s joyful and comic paintings are known and loved throughout the world but little is known of the very private person behind them. 

Lost Girl

Lost Girl

Birdy is 19. 

Fool's Paradise – A Comedy of Cross-Continental Courting, Clowns and Catastrophes

Fool's Paradise – A Comedy of Cross-Continental Courting, Clowns and Catastrophes

Fest Magazine Top Theatre Picks 2024! Winner: 2024 Adelaide Fringe Award. 

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York … 

The Book of Mountains and Seas

The Book of Mountains and Seas

In this new play from award-winning writer Yilong Liu, a California dad arrives in New York to visit his late son’s last boyfriend to propose an impossible mission: visit all 179 r… 

Jobsworth

Jobsworth

Bea works three full-time jobs. 

Lies Where It Falls

Lies Where It Falls

The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 more or less brought to an end a dark period of contemporary UK history. 

Will Shea, Won't Shea?

Will Shea, Won't Shea?

Inspired by the will-they-won’t-they relationships of our time (think Harry and Sally, Ross and Rachel), Shea orchestrates the one-woman romantic comedy of her dreams. 

You Can't Escape an Aussie Boy

You Can't Escape an Aussie Boy

Hailed by the company as ‘loud, obnoxious and darkly humorous’, one is left wondering what happened to those elements in You Can’t Escape an Aussie Boy. 

Across a Love Locked Bridge

Across a Love Locked Bridge

A poetic anthology. 

This Town

This Town

An overture of The Jam’s A Town Called Malice rings in the opening of Rory Aaron’s one-man play as we begin in the dingey local, soon to be an upscale café, as old compatriots… 

Duck

Duck

It’s the summer of 2005, England prepares to win the Ashes and Ismail (Smiley to his friends), a British Indian schoolboy, is about to become the youngest ever player in his elit… 

Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out!

Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out!

Winner: 2023 Best Theatre Award. 

Slash

Slash

Murder? Mystery? Toilets?! Slash is a new black comedy whodunnit set in the toilets at a school reunion. 

Shellshocked – An Explosive New Play

Shellshocked – An Explosive New Play

From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award winning plays Jesus, Jane Mother and Me, and Heroin(e) for Breakfast. 

I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

Emma-Louise Howell will go far. 

Òran

Òran

Combining spoken word, lyrical storytelling and a pulsating electronic live score, this is the thrilling story of Òran and his journey to rescue his best friend from the Underworl… 

The Santa Ana

The Santa Ana

Is a strong wind all it takes to tip people over the edge? This multimedia thriller is inspired by Joan Didion’s essay on the Santa Ana. 

Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Believed in Fairies

Sherlock Holmes and the Man Who Believed in Fairies

The game is afoot, this time it’s not murder that Holmes is solving but a case of deceit perpetrated against his own creator - Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Don't Call Me China Doll

Don't Call Me China Doll

As she prepares for the audition of a lifetime (playing Anna May Wong in a biopic about Hollywood’s first East Asian starlet) China Doll must confront and untangle the ingénue�… 

LIFE

LIFE

Estelle models for the Artist. 

Acceptance Pending

Acceptance Pending

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… 

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play. 

Heart of the Mind and A Useful Tragedy

Heart of the Mind and A Useful Tragedy

This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy. 

Rise

Rise

What happens when truth, rage and purpose converge upon a metaphorical moon? A displaced narrator must face her past and find out. 

Uisge

Uisge

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… 

Move

Move

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. 

Horizon Showcase: The Trauma Show

Horizon Showcase: The Trauma Show

“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok says this show might do that but don’t worry we can just trauma bond. 

Cooked

Cooked

Finn and Isabelle are trapped in an unhappy relationship. 

The Caravel

The Caravel

The year is 1990. 

The Queen of England (A Staged Reading)

The Queen of England (A Staged Reading)

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… 

Maybe Things Are Okay

Maybe Things Are Okay

This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward. 

Chance

Chance

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… 

Wallace

Wallace

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 … 

I've Never Met Anyone Quite Like You Before

I've Never Met Anyone Quite Like You Before

Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one. 

OTMA

OTMA

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

Picture This

Picture This is a new musical-thriller that follows stop-motion animation filmmaker Mary. 

Messhead

Messhead

A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room. 

Rules Schmules – How To Be Jew-ish

Rules Schmules – How To Be Jew-ish

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 Working Title

A Working Title

A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece. 

The Other

The Other

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… 

The Leading Lady Club

The Leading Lady Club

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

The Last Vagabonds

The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring. 

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

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… 

Ctrl

Ctrl

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. 

Punk

Punk

‘I think something’s happening to me. 

Blueballs

Blueballs

One bedroom. 

Good and Gaslit

Good and Gaslit

Good and Gaslit. 

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

From a troublesome priest to a mystery guest and a very, very late hearse, expect family fallouts, secret affairs and lots of chaos. 

A Night With Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda

A Night With Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda

A captivating one-woman show, based on the critically acclaimed Amazon bestseller Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda. 

We're All Mad Here

We're All Mad Here

A comedy told by mad people, for mad people. 

The Thin Place

The Thin Place

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. 

Rhubarb and Custard

Rhubarb and Custard

Eloise’s Dad taught her to play the piano. 

Coconut

Coconut

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… 

The Stall

The Stall

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 Beatles Were a Boyband

The Beatles Were a Boyband

The cosy, safe world of three flatmates is rocked by a woman’s murder. 

Waiting for Champagne

Waiting for Champagne

Waiting for Champagne follows former friends and roommates, Annie and Frances, who haven’t spoken to each other in more than a year. 

Blueprints

Blueprints

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… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation. 

GUSH

GUSH

Abby Vicky-Russell presents her ‘masterclass in character comedy’ **** (LostInTheatreland. 

Survivors

Survivors

A violent relationship can happen to anyone. 

Declan

Declan

Vulnerability and sexual awakening go hand in hand in Declan, an unnerving one-man play set in rural Wiltshire. 

Without

Without

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… 

Call Me Suicidal

Call Me Suicidal

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.  

AFTER ALL

AFTER ALL

Don’t be put off by the topic - this dance show about death is far from gloomy. 

Blue Dragon

Blue Dragon

Blue Dragon. 

It Won't Be Long Now

It Won't Be Long Now

It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation. 

Come Die with Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody

Come Die with Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody

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. 

Carte Blanche

Carte Blanche

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 … 

Brief Candle

Brief Candle

Deep beneath the streets of Regency Edinburgh lies a labyrinth of pitch-dark vaults, housing the downtrodden and hiding a criminal underworld. 

True Spirit Pathway

True Spirit Pathway

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…  

Everything That Annoys Me, and You

Everything That Annoys Me, and You

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 … 

Victorine: The Artist's Model

Victorine: The Artist's Model

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. 

Knuckles

Knuckles

The last day of anyone’s retirement is usually calm and peaceful, that is unless your name is Victor ‘The Knuckles’ Norman. 

It's a Woman's World

It's a Woman's World

Hollywood, 1950. 

Kitchen Underwear

Kitchen Underwear

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… 

Locusts

Locusts

We begin, as most trauma does, in the distant past. 

Paved with Gold and Ashes

Paved with Gold and Ashes

Based on a true event in New York City, 1911. 

I'm Having Distressing Thoughts

I'm Having Distressing Thoughts

What happens when you love your life and want to be dead? Join Sadia Gordon with her Fringe debut dark comedy. 

1 Tent, 4 Girls

1 Tent, 4 Girls

This firecracker of a comedy explores the relationships between four young women embarking on a disastrous camping trip. 

Hickory

Hickory

Tom and Isaac are two mice who have lived inside a cuckoo clock their entire lives. 

When Kurt Met Thora

When Kurt Met Thora

BBC Studios, November 1991. 

Lots of Feelings: Most Improved Award

Lots of Feelings: Most Improved Award

Washington DC’s iconic sketch duo, Lots of Feelings, finds meaning amidst the chaos of life through mouth and eye-watering sketches. 

Yellow Corners

Yellow Corners

You’ve been trying to work on your coolness. 

The Flea

The Flea

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… 

Gaze

Gaze

Would you rather watch, or be watched? Julia is hosting a dinner party. 

Woven

Woven

Seven women attend a wake where they discover that their lives are mysteriously intertwined. 

Ophelia

Ophelia

‘To be, or not to be? That is the question. 

J.E.N.

J.E.N.

Jen’s Evolution is Nigh: One woman. 

Adaptation: Enough Already

Adaptation: Enough Already

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… 

Pinched

Pinched

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’… 

If You Were to Die Tomorrow

If You Were to Die Tomorrow

Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is. 

Sofar

Sofar

Alma is a whale specialist on her final field mission before being forced into an early retirement. 

How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps)

How To Rob a Millionaire (In Five Easy Steps)

A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker. 

Lies All The Way Down: A New Chamber Musical

Lies All The Way Down: A New Chamber Musical

This completely original chamber musical by Shaye Poulton Richards is a darkly charming piece of new writing. 

Coconut

Coconut

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

2020 The Musical

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… 

Here You Come Again

Here You Come Again

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. 

All is Pink in West Berkshire County

All is Pink in West Berkshire County

‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home. 

Dazzling

Dazzling

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… 

In Loving Memory of Mary Mort

In Loving Memory of Mary Mort

Mary is dead. 

Sit or Kneel

Sit or Kneel

‘The fact that I’m sitting here as a real life vicar actually blows my mind. 

33 to 04

33 to 04

A young English doctor rushes an elderly Scottish lady onto a lift, taking her to surgery many floors below. 

Puppets

Puppets

Puppets is a new and exciting play, fresh from its debut at the Durham Drama Festival. 

Palindrome: The Musical

Palindrome: The Musical

Palindrome is Cambridge University Musical Theatres Society’s latest Edinburgh Fringe offering. 

Everyone’s Worried About Eve

Everyone’s Worried About Eve

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. 

Sealed

Sealed

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. 

Mother Mama Mommy

Mother Mama Mommy

A heartfelt, humorous investigation into the things mothers pass onto their daughters – for better or worse. 

Garage Warriors

Garage Warriors

‘Alexa, Google how to delete my digital footprint. 

Secreting

Secreting

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. 

Brain Freeze

Brain Freeze

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 … 

Winging It

Winging It

Lydia Whitbread’s Winging It is a vague yet very intense coming of age musical. 

Karen

Karen

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… 

Atalanta

Atalanta

Expecting a retelling of the Greek myth, the office set is initially a little confusing. 

The Stall

The Stall

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 Working Title

A Working Title

A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece. 

A Funeral for My Friend Who Is Still Alive

A Funeral for My Friend Who Is Still Alive

‘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). 

Moderation

Moderation

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… 

Crash and Burn

Crash and Burn

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… 

Havisham

Havisham

If you knew my story, your heart would break too. 

Self Actually

Self Actually

Self Actually is about Anthony, who is part of a scientific experiment. 

Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker Man

Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker Man

Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War. 

The Abrupt Son

The Abrupt Son

When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn. 

LATER

LATER

Welcome to LATER, Paines Plough’s late-night roster of one-off performances. 

Two Gun Cohen – The Improbable True Story

Two Gun Cohen – The Improbable True Story

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… 

crackers

crackers

Will is a popular GP but when a teenage patient kills himself, everything starts to unravel. 

Merry Wanderers

Merry Wanderers

A boy seeks solace in the woods after the loss of his brother. 

Café L'Arté

Café L'Arté

Café L’Arté is a brand-new immersive musical set in real time in a coffee shop. 

Bright Blue Sky: The 9/11 Musical

Bright Blue Sky: The 9/11 Musical

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 … 

Am I Nuts!

Am I Nuts!

Smith is having big dreams. 

Rosaline and Juliet

Rosaline and Juliet

‘Two cousins unalike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene…’ In 1596, courtship is complicated. 

Pandemonium – The Musical

Pandemonium – The Musical

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… 

Victor, Vi and the Volvo

Victor, Vi and the Volvo

When Victor drives into Vi’s life in his dodgy Volvo, things change forever. 

Tam Lin: A Future Tale

Tam Lin: A Future Tale

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… 

The Feed

The Feed

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… 

The Rejects

The Rejects

If there’s one thing that makes a hard worker, it’s desperation. 

The Gaffer

The Gaffer

Shaun Woods has been a football manager for the last 30 years. 

Wishbone

Wishbone

Seven days. 

Mara's Story of Arabella

Mara's Story of Arabella

A tale about life, loss and love after the well-known happily-ever-after. 

Kingdom

Kingdom

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 … 

Things To Do in Mull

Things To Do in Mull

Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions. 

Twenty People A Minute

Twenty People A Minute

Set not too far in the future, Twenty People a Minute follows four refugees of tomorrow on a perilous journey across the earth. 

Prick

Prick

The Scottish witch hunts – sanctioned by the state, fuelled by the Church, fed by hysteria, and buried by history. 

The Night Children

The Night Children

Dara is not a ghost. 

Garry Bonds' Balanced Breakfasts

Garry Bonds' Balanced Breakfasts

Mild-mannered Ned Burger is 57 years old, happily married and running a sandwich shop in San Francisco. 

The Serpent's Tooth

The Serpent's Tooth

A bloody war is brewing. 

The Madwoman

The Madwoman

France 1817. 

Sugar and Blood

Sugar and Blood

1903. 

Jane/Norma

Jane/Norma

Roe vs Wade is synonymous with the debate around abortion rights. 

Strays

Strays

A year into the zombie apocalypse and Logan and his fellow survivors are doing just fine. 

The Relationship Plays: Married Life and Sibling Rivalry

The Relationship Plays: Married Life and Sibling Rivalry

A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre. 

Sean and Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It

Sean and Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It

Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and bu… 

The Ocean And The Star

The Ocean And The Star

A writer urges a star to come down to earth and collaborate with him on a play. 

The Bad Daters

The Bad Daters

Wendy and Liam embark on a first date both assume is doomed for failure. 

After This Plane Has Landed

After This Plane Has Landed

Brand-new original musical drama comedy based on the true stories of Jill Morrell and John McCarthy. 

The Canonized Club: The Curious Lives and Deaths of the Saints

The Canonized Club: The Curious Lives and Deaths of the Saints

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 Year and a Day

A Year and a Day

A curse causes Nathan to skip into the future whenever he falls asleep. 

The Mind of a Narcissist

The Mind of a Narcissist

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

Chopped Liver and Unions

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… 

The Quality of Mercy: Concerning the Life and Crimes of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman

The Quality of Mercy: Concerning the Life and Crimes of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman

From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life. 

The Climate Fables

The Climate Fables

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… 

Lost and Found

Lost and Found

‘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

Can't Wait to Leave

Can’t Wait To Leave is a deeply heartfelt and surprisingly humorous story by Stephen Leach and is performed exceptionally well by Zach Hawkins. 

Vanya Is Alive

Vanya Is Alive

A powerful new play from today’s Russia brought to the Fringe by artists in exile due to their anti-war position. 

Frizz!

Frizz!

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… 

The Court

The Court

This courtroom drama centres around the question of euthanasia. 

Alfie and George

Alfie and George

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 … 

The Ballad of Truman Capote

The Ballad of Truman Capote

From three-time Booker-nominated author Andrew O’Hagan (Mayflies), a cautionary tale of literary life, a hilarious a brilliant new play. 

Ants

Ants

If you’ve ever been a corporate cog, this is the show for you. 

The Typewriter

The Typewriter

The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office. 

Queen of the New Year

Queen of the New Year

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… 

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

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. 

Top of the World

Top of the World

Twenty-something Audrey is struggling with her latest phobia… the local supermarket. 

When It Rains

When It Rains

From the writer of 2019’s acclaimed Butterflies (‘playwright to watch’ (FringeReview. 

Dead Man's Suitcase

Dead Man's Suitcase

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. 

Before the Drugs Kick In

Before the Drugs Kick In

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. 

The Wonderful Everyday

The Wonderful Everyday

Welcome to everyone’s favourite flat-pack megacorporation’s new reality TV show! The premise is simple – people are profitable. 

Persephone

Persephone

‘I thought this Earth was dead, no stirring life, a pile of tinkering bones. 

Midnight Building

Midnight Building

Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals. 

Meet Me by The Stranger

Meet Me by The Stranger

The Stranger is a statue in a small Yorkshire town, her exact story unknown. 

Love, Monty

Love, Monty

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 Wreck of the Queen Thomasina

The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina

The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand. 

DARLING BOY

DARLING BOY

On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story. 

Scent

Scent

Jamie, once a talented young sommelier, is on a downward spiral. 

Vote Macbeth!

Vote Macbeth!

Captain Macbeth is Vice-President. 

Tre

Tre

Cornwall’s rising. 

Letter to Boddah

Letter to Boddah

Another chance to see the Broadway Baby Bobby Award Winner Best Theatre Show at the Fringe 2019. 

KING

KING

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… 

Pai'ea

Pai'ea

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. 

Be Home Soon

Be Home Soon

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… 

The Adventures of Supernova de Loutherbergh

The Adventures of Supernova de Loutherbergh

‘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. 

Five Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime

Five Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime

From emerging talent Charles Edward Pipe comes an anthology of five dynamic, new, short plays. 

Gory Details

Gory Details

Hello, and welcome everyone to a play that explores death, loss, legacy and obsession. 

An Oak Tree

An Oak Tree

‘When I say sleep, you’re free again’. 

Ginzel's Little Cordoba: A Double Bill

Ginzel's Little Cordoba: A Double Bill

World premiere from award-winning Korean/Irish playwright Rena Brannan. 

Stuck In The Mud

Stuck In The Mud

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?… 

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors. 

Moderation

Moderation

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… 

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy

‘Breathtaking, heart-stopping, terrifying’ ***** (Cherwell. 

Nail Polish

Nail Polish

New Year’s Eve, London. 

Extreme (The New Norm)

Extreme (The New Norm)

Contrasting pandemic situations portrayed in a colourful collage of scenes and characters, this is a one-of-a-kind experience to witness. 

Reflected

Reflected

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. 

A Funeral for My Friend Who Is Still Alive

A Funeral for My Friend Who Is Still Alive

‘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). 

Lightning Ridge

Lightning Ridge

12-year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian Outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne. 

Mister E of Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

Mister E of Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

That moment when your life flashes before your eyes. 

The Yassification of Jesse James by the Coward Samantha Clementine

The Yassification of Jesse James by the Coward Samantha Clementine

Jesse James, the famous outlaw, finds himself in hot water with the authorities and the rest of his crew. 

That is the Question

That is the Question

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. 

4/4/4: 4 Real Asians, 4 White Men, 4 Fake Asians

4/4/4: 4 Real Asians, 4 White Men, 4 Fake Asians

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?

Fit Ye Sayin' Quine?

Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine? (what are you saying girl?) finds Ava, seemingly alone, in her Grannies cottage on the north-east coast of Scotland. 

Trust

Trust

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. 

I Killed My Ex

I Killed My Ex

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. 

End of the World

End of the World

A buddy comedy for an existential generation. 

CREEKSHOW

CREEKSHOW

Writer/performer Jenny Witzel tells her story of living on a boat in an “up-and-coming” neighbourhood in South-East London. 

And I Must Scream

And I Must Scream

It’s summer. 

Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live!

Sheldrake on Shakespeare: Live!

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… 

Be Merry

Be Merry

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. 

Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn't Fear The Dark)

Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn't Fear The Dark)

When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil. 

Packed House

Packed House

A cocksure and impassioned performance. 

Everything Under the Sun

Everything Under the Sun

Somewhere far inland, lakes that once stretched across the desert are now shallow pools of dust. 

Collar

Collar

‘So, I’ve decided to become a Golden Retriever. 

Coconut

Coconut

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… 

The Society for New Cuisine

The Society for New Cuisine

Are you truly satisfied with how you are living, or do things feel. 

The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project

The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project

Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 

Hersterectomy

Hersterectomy

“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

Molly

Molly works at Greggs. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson is alone. 

Appraisal

Appraisal

An annual work review that goes horribly wrong. 

Shortlist

Shortlist

Shortlist is a two-hander written by Brian Parks, directed by Margarett Perry, performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams and Matthew Boston. 

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

A captivating new theatre piece about a Black British woman who finds herself homeless and alone after an earthquake. 

Alison Skilbeck's Uncommon Ground

Alison Skilbeck's Uncommon Ground

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 … 

Artist/Muse

Artist/Muse

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… 

Tinderbox Orchestra

Tinderbox Orchestra

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. 

Frigid

Frigid

Niamh O’Reilly is a Frigid, meaning she’s never been kissed. 

Paradok Platform

Paradok Platform

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… 

Lena

Lena

1974. 

Boy Out The City

Boy Out The City

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 … 

One Way Out

One Way Out

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… 

Polko

Polko

It was the first truly beautiful summer’s day of the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Lie Low

Lie Low

Faye’s afraid. 

Heaven by Eugene O'Brien

Heaven by Eugene O'Brien

Heaven is set in County Offaly, Ireland, during the weekend of a local wedding. 

Soldiers of Tomorrow

Soldiers of Tomorrow

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… 

No Love Songs

No Love Songs

A new gig-theatre show featuring songs by Kyle Falconer of The View. 

The Birth of Frankenstein

The Birth of Frankenstein

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. 

Looking for Giants

Looking for Giants

‘It’s the familiarity of herself, somehow, that she sees reflected in his eyes. 

The Hunger

The Hunger

The Hunger is a chilling horror, following mother and daughter Deborah and Megan as they attempt to fend for themselves amid an apocalyptic pandemic. 

We'll Have Nun of It

We'll Have Nun of It

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. 

My Dad Wears a Dress

My Dad Wears a Dress

A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff. 

Love is Blue

Love is Blue

City trader, Olly, still recovering from the death of his boyfriend, Sam, has a chance encounter with homeless teenager Aaron. 

Grubby Little Mitts: Hello, Hi

Grubby Little Mitts: Hello, Hi

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. 

Bampots

Bampots

Bampots. 

Please Love Me

Please Love Me

‘I felt this pressure to be sexy from the second I got tits. 

The Great Ruckus

The Great Ruckus

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… 

Crash and Burns: A New Comedy

Crash and Burns: A New Comedy

The holiday meal gone wrong is a classic sitcom episode and genre of comedy, as surprise revelations and drama abound. 

Poof!
BOBBY WINNER

Poof!

There is wonder here in Edinburgh, and it is being ignored. 

Best Man

Best Man

Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding. 

Chatham House Rules

Chatham House Rules

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. 

Break Up With Your Boyfriend

Break Up With Your Boyfriend

Cassie is a hot mess. 

A Manchester Anthem
BOBBY WINNER

A Manchester Anthem

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… 

Super

Super

On Hollywood Boulevard, a group of actors are posing as famous characters for photos with tourists. 

Let the Bodies Pile by Henry Naylor

Let the Bodies Pile by Henry Naylor

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… 

How to Bury a Dead Mule

How to Bury a Dead Mule

UK Theatre Award Nominee 2022: Best New Play. 

I Love You, Now What?

I Love You, Now What?

Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies. 

Spin Cycles

Spin Cycles

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

Bad Teacher

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 (It's A Pathetic Cry For Help)

This Is Not A Play (It's A Pathetic Cry For Help)

“This is not a play,” we’re told. 

Four

Four

In this poignant and compelling new work, an ambitious manager introduces a new first violinist to a longstanding string quartet with an uncertain future. 

Violet and Me

Violet and Me

A meditation on motherhood, feminism and fame, two-time Emmy award winner Dorothy Lyman premiers her story at this year’s Fringe. 

Nuclear Children

Nuclear Children

Winner of the 2021 Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize. 

Death Suits You

Death Suits You

This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical. 

Summer Camp for Broken People

Summer Camp for Broken People

Emily’s life is falling apart. 

Alba

Alba

'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang. 

Terrence the T-Rex

Terrence the T-Rex

All Terrence wants is to “make it” as a dinosaur entertainer, land a Netflix deal, and get his ex back. 

Never Trouble Trouble (Till Trouble Troubles You)

Never Trouble Trouble (Till Trouble Troubles You)

What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation. 

OommoO

OommoO

Real-life events of a first-generation immigrant navigating the duality of two cultures, Habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian) heritage and British identity. 

Strategic Love Play

Strategic Love Play

So they’ve both swiped right. 

Bacon

Bacon

A good story is surely one that absolutely demands to be told. 

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide). 

Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out!

Lash – A Pulsating New Play About Going Out Out!

Get on the Lash! Just in time for last orders. 

30 and Out

30 and Out

‘Mum, I’m a lesbian. 

Bangers

Bangers

It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. 

Living with Skeletons

Living with Skeletons

No one knows what happens after we die. 

England & Son

England & Son

‘Any nation that devours another will one day devour itself. 

Salty Irina

Salty Irina

A thrilling new play by Eve Leigh and directed by Debbie Hannan, Salty Irina is about two girls falling in love and fighting nazis. 

Cowboys and Lesbians

Cowboys and Lesbians

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

Hello Kitty Must Die

Hello Kitty Must Die is a musical adaptation of the Angela S. 

Help Yourself

Help Yourself

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… 

When We Died

When We Died

He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye. 

The Half Moon

The Half Moon

Four women. 

Not Our Crime, Still Our Sentence

Not Our Crime, Still Our Sentence

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… 

God Catcher

God Catcher

Greek myths have been told and retold, lost, translated and re-translated over and over. 

In Everglade Studio

In Everglade Studio

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

I Hope Your Flowers Bloom

I Hope Your Flowers Bloom, written and performed by Raymond Wilson and produced by All Those Figs, is an expert fringe show. 

Tennessee, Rose

Tennessee, Rose

The works of Tennessee Williams rank as some of the greatest and most iconic plays ever written. 

Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy

Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy

‘Such a discovery is playwright Lia Romeo’ ***** (TheaterMania. 

Upstart! Shakespeare's Rebel Daughter Judith

Upstart! Shakespeare's Rebel Daughter Judith

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. 

Meat Cute

Meat Cute

Lena is on a mission to veganise her tinder dates. 

Ringer

Ringer

Returning to the Fringe for the fifth time, Hughie Shepherd-Cross debuts his latest play, Ringer. 

TINK

TINK

‘Simply Brilliant. 

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby. 

Dough

Dough

Much like a dramatisation of a family game of Monopoly, Dough looks at money with a kind of argumentative helplessness. 

Chicken

Chicken

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 �… 

Lovefool

Lovefool

A brutally honest, hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show navigating the impossibly confusing gender dynamics of modern love. 

Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies

Murder in London: The Butterfly Butcher strikes again. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

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… 

Bitter Lemons

Bitter Lemons

In the pressurised worlds of football and finance, two women carve their own path. 

The Booth

The Booth

Who needs a pair of heels, a coconut, and a doorbell…? The answer: a foley artist. 

Lady Dealer

Lady Dealer

For Charly, every day is the same. 

Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz is a touching solo play written and performed by Nathan Queeley-Dennis. 

The Death & Life of All of Us

The Death & Life of All of Us

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… 

ADULTS

ADULTS

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 Truths and a Lie – A Literary Reading by Erin Granat with Live Piano by Gati

Two Truths and a Lie – A Literary Reading by Erin Granat with Live Piano by Gati

Two Truth and a Lie. 

Bubblegum and Pop

Bubblegum and Pop

Bubblegum and Pop. 

Poles: The Science of Magnetic Attraction

Poles: The Science of Magnetic Attraction

Cora is 23, self-obsessed, a compulsive liar* (*harmless bullshitter), and an absolute hot mess. 

Troy Story

Troy Story

10 years of war have ended. 

Mrs Pack

Mrs Pack

Even a prince needs a woman’s first gift. 

In Her Defence

In Her Defence

It’s 1947 and Catherine has just shot dead her husband, Philip, in their Regent’s Park flat. 

Boom Town

Boom Town

An original new musical that puts a bluegrass twist on contemporary musical theatre. 

Antigone: The Musical

Antigone: The Musical

Ancient Greece. 

Alright?

Alright?

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… 

Sylvia vs the Fascists

Sylvia vs the Fascists

1930s England. 

The Roaring of the Voices

The Roaring of the Voices

They say a bull sees red when it loses the plot. 

Hotel Elsinore

Hotel Elsinore

Denmark. 

NASTY:

NASTY: "big" girls being gross, mean and sexy

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… 

Raw Sex Appeal

Raw Sex Appeal

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

That's a Bit of Sheer Luck! – A Sherlock Holmes Parody

That’s A Bit of Sheer Luck! – A Sherlock Holmes Parody. 

Isadora the Barefoot Dancer

Isadora the Barefoot Dancer

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… 

A Change of Heart

A Change of Heart

Two sisters. 

The Six Stages of a Break-Up

The Six Stages of a Break-Up

A world comedic debut, one-woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois. 

Lucika

Lucika

An intimate short play focused on the complex deterioration of a wife and the relationship with her husband. 

Practice Room 99

Practice Room 99

A new comedy with a backstage pass to the magic and mayhem of music performance. 

I'm F*cking My Agent

I'm F*cking My Agent

A play about consent, castings and cappuccinos. 

Living with Sin

Living with Sin

When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis. 

Show Me What You're Maid Of

Show Me What You're Maid Of

Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding. 

Apocalypse Kernow

Apocalypse Kernow

One of the best Cornish zombie apocalypse comedies ever made. 

birthday girl

birthday girl

This is a play about birthdays. 

Battle: A Modern Mystery Play

Battle: A Modern Mystery Play

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 … 

The Last Words

The Last Words

Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder. 

How to Be a Person When the World Is Ending

How to Be a Person When the World Is Ending

The world is ending. 

Love in the Time of Lockdown (The New Variant)

Love in the Time of Lockdown (The New Variant)

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. 

Cheeky Girls

Cheeky Girls

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. 

Plus One

Plus One

Every family has its drama, and every wedding has its secrets. 

Gatsby: A New Musical

Gatsby: A New Musical

The year is 1925; the place is New York City. 

LoudScribble

LoudScribble

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. 

Going Down

Going Down

Four students stuck in an elevator, with nothing to do except to talk to each other. 

Coward Conscience

Coward Conscience

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

Rebound

Rebound by Allegra Peres. 

Average Joe

Average Joe

Joe Smith is a regular bloke. 

Do I?

Do I?

Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame. 

Women You Know

Women You Know

The morning after a drunken rendezvous with an old boyfriend, a woman and her friend discuss autonomy, identity and bad sex. 

ASSISTED

ASSISTED

Jordan and Connie want their next-generation AI voice assistant – Alivia – to make their perfect lives just that little bit better. 

ZIP IT

ZIP IT

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… 

Time’s Plague

Time’s Plague

David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame. 

Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls

Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls

A heated argument and an all-night conversation leaves childhood friends Max and Kieran shaken, with suppressed emotions exploding to the surface. 

Miss Magics

Miss Magics

Do you believe in magic? Boo and Bunny are best friends. 

Imagining Rachel

Imagining Rachel

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… 

S.O.E.

S.O.E.

The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. 

Hummus: After Dark

Hummus: After Dark

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 … 

Eight Hundred Dollar Value

Eight Hundred Dollar Value

That’s what a trigger pull is worth. 

The Rain Men

The Rain Men

The Rain Men. 

The Rip Current

The Rip Current

An experimental nosedive into Jamie’s fractured past. 

Appraisal

Appraisal

We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal. 

Press

Press

It’s the big day. 

The Liberator

The Liberator

In a city just like yours, hope is in short supply. 

Birds of Passage in the Half Light by Kat Woods

Birds of Passage in the Half Light by Kat Woods

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

And

And is a tribute to all that has graced this earth. 

Mother Tree

Mother Tree

A solo show about motherhood, the forest and the universe. 

D

D

Daughter is 17, living with Mother, whom she loves, and Father, whom she hates. 

Reservoir Knobs

Reservoir Knobs

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… 

Sobriety on the Rocks

Sobriety on the Rocks

It’s Richard’s fourth day in hospital, involuntarily detoxing, and he’s itching for a drink. 

Antigone: The Musical

Antigone: The Musical

Ancient Greece. 

By the Light of the Moon

By the Light of the Moon

We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928. 

The Mostest Colour

The Mostest Colour

A childless man volunteers to mentor a troubled, fatherless boy. 

After

After

In 2017, I was raped. 

Artorigus

Artorigus

There is a distinctly medieval feel to Ross Stephenson’s Artorigus from the start, despite its modern trappings. 

Head Girl

Head Girl

A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself. 

Love You More

Love You More

‘Perspectives. 

Joffrey! The Pantomime

Joffrey! The Pantomime

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 … 

Able(ish)

Able(ish)

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… 

100 Seconds to Midnight

100 Seconds to Midnight

John and May were sixth form lovers, they haven’t seen each other in five years. 

Hobnobs and Fruitcake

Hobnobs and Fruitcake

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. 

Living with Sin

Living with Sin

When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis. 

Daylight

Daylight

In a steel-lined basement in a near-future Thursday morning, Conor and Julia are waiting for the world to end. 

Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell

Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell

In this dark comedy, Ophelia and Gertrude are in limbo and on their way to Hell. 

Game On!

Game On!

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 … 

The Collie's Shed

The Collie's Shed

There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past. 

Stop the World, We're Getting Off

Stop the World, We're Getting Off

Welcome to Clapham South tube station – home to the last five survivors of the climate crisis. 

Leaving Vietnam

Leaving Vietnam

When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man. 

Spit Me Out

Spit Me Out

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

The Changeling Girl

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. 

Don't Ask Don't Get, Baby

Don't Ask Don't Get, Baby

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. 

Heroes

Heroes

Football, fathers, friendship. 

Cat

Cat

Cat is a one-woman, twisted comedy show by Connie Harris. 

Happy Place

Happy Place

Everybody needs a break. 

Ineffable

Ineffable

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. 

The Macbeth Inquiry

The Macbeth Inquiry

This reconstruction of Macbeth for Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s annual Shakesperimental play reimagines the narrative within a modern political context. 

The Boy With a Thousand Faces

The Boy With a Thousand Faces

In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people. 

Love and Piss

Love and Piss

Love and Piss is both a carnival of rebellion and a celebration of queer identity. 

Sunsets

Sunsets

Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of. 

Who the F**k Is Don Quixote?

Who the F**k Is Don Quixote?

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… 

A Toe Tale

A Toe Tale

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… 

Horsepower

Horsepower

Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm. 

Contact

Contact

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… 

The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth

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… 

Pearly Gates: A Kafkaesque Romcom in Heaven

Pearly Gates: A Kafkaesque Romcom in Heaven

Mediocre everyman Samuel Green has one week to prove himself worthy of permanent residence in Heaven. 

Do I?

Do I?

Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame. 

Shadow Under a Setting Sun

Shadow Under a Setting Sun

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

The Calligrapher

The Calligrapher is a new, award-winning, student-written play by Abraham Alsalihi. 

Real, Mad World

Real, Mad World

Real, Mad World is a brilliant piece of new writing following the joys and heartbreaks of trans life. 

Playtime

Playtime

A birthday wish plunges the world into a hellish playground of 90s nostalgia. 

The Best Ideas Happen in the Toilet

The Best Ideas Happen in the Toilet

Frankie wants to conform. 

Robert Garnham, Yay!

Robert Garnham, Yay!

Robert is a poet. 

Leaves on the Line

Leaves on the Line

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. 

Lucid

Lucid

What. 

Scarbados

Scarbados

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… 

i don't feel anything

i don't feel anything

Three young people tell us they don’t feel. 

The Stones

The Stones

In the aftermath of a terrible break-up, Nick takes a job out of town as a private tutor to two young children. 

Around the World in 60 Minutes

Around the World in 60 Minutes

Come traverse the world with me! No hotels to book. 

The Not So Ugly Duckling: A Play for Grownups

The Not So Ugly Duckling: A Play for Grownups

We think we know this story. 

The Kettling

The Kettling

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. 

The Rainbow – A Rehearsed Reading of a New Adaptation

The Rainbow – A Rehearsed Reading of a New Adaptation

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 … 

Finding Magic

Finding Magic

Do you believe in magic? Bev does, but after the death of her son Jess she thought she’d never find her magic again. 

Butter Bath

Butter Bath

Butter Bath is the psych-pop project of Sydney/Eora based artist Toby Anagnostis. 

Our Boy

Our Boy

Our Boy. 

Billy Boy

Billy Boy

A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast. 

The Wishing Well

The Wishing Well

A woman grieving for the loss of her daughter is drawn to the mystery of the Wishing Well. 

Gabbi Bolt: I Hope My Keyboard Doesn't Break

Gabbi Bolt: I Hope My Keyboard Doesn't Break

Gabbi Bolt really hopes her keyboard doesn’t break. 

Café van der Brocke

Café van der Brocke

1915, Ypres, Belgium. 

Hopes and Dreams

Hopes and Dreams

A tale of unrealised dreams. 

Doll

Doll

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. 

Fiji

Fiji

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?

Sugar?

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… 

In the Small Hours

In the Small Hours

The Wyrd Systers present In the Small Hours. 

A Mighty Fall from Grace

A Mighty Fall from Grace

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… 

Assigned

Assigned

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… 

Admiral

Admiral

By invite, the Windrush Generation came to rebuild Britain following the end of the Second World War. 

Tales of Vomit, Trash and Broken Glass

Tales of Vomit, Trash and Broken Glass

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)

Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version)

Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) finds itself in a double bind. 

MaX-XiM

MaX-XiM

Zaibatxu presents: MaX-XiM. 

The Philosophy of Cavemen

The Philosophy of Cavemen

Three cavemen debate the nature of life while trying to survive. When one invents the wheel that’s when life really gets hard. 

Waiting for Hamlet

Waiting for Hamlet

The story Shakespeare never told. 

The Weird Sisters

The Weird Sisters

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. 

Double Unhappiness

Double Unhappiness

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. 

Crossing the Void

Crossing the Void

Sally MacAlister collaborates with upcoming theatre company koi collective to premiere a new comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Born Under a Bad Sign

Born Under a Bad Sign

Jez, Luke, Gary and Mark are die-hard football fans podcasting about the club they love: Third-division Invercreiff FC. 

Poems on Gender

Poems on Gender

Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe. 

Terrence the T-Rex

Terrence the T-Rex

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… 

Healing+

Healing+

Help Mike Lemme leave his NYC apartment. 

Harvey Greenfield is Getting Married

Harvey Greenfield is Getting Married

Paul Richards returns as Harvey; always running, always late and now about to get married. 

Palimpsest

Palimpsest

Jess meets Jim. 

Exodus

Exodus

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… 

The Beatles Were a Boyband

The Beatles Were a Boyband

Violet’s scared walking home. 

Are You Still Watching?

Are You Still Watching?

Paper. 

Motor Court 103

Motor Court 103

Business partners Ross and Wilson use their vacation time to collect coins from Magic Fingers machines in American motels. 

What You Will

What You Will

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 … 

Blood Harmony

Blood Harmony

Chloe, Maia and Anna are reunited under the most painful of circumstances, the death of their mother. 

So Close...

So Close...

A coming of age for your 20s. 

There's No Mystery in Murder!

There's No Mystery in Murder!

Murder has come to Rothersdale, where nothing ever happens. 

The Childless Land

The Childless Land

Medea in space. 

The Single Lady

The Single Lady

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. 

The Roaring of the Voices

The Roaring of the Voices

Gosh this is good. 

Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death and Dying for Life

Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death and Dying for Life

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… 

Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space

Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space

Disaster strikes aboard the S. 

The Mistake

The Mistake

1942. 

See You Later Mum

See You Later Mum

A play about love transcending separation. 

GirlPlay

GirlPlay

Lucy is average, awkward and unassuming. 

Locked In

Locked In

A ticking clock. 

The Girl and Her Balloon

The Girl and Her Balloon

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… 

The Single Lady

The Single Lady

As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth has witnessed, first hand, the consequences of when love goes wrong. 

Hiya Dolly!

Hiya Dolly!

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

Absolutely Probably Unless

Absolutely Probably Unless focuses on two people at the end of a relationship, or maybe at the beginning of one. 

Dear Little Loz

Dear Little Loz

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 & Pip

Blue & Pip

Blue loves the sea. 

Take it Away, Cheryl

Take it Away, Cheryl

Carnival kissing booth: sometime, someplace. 

Dried Apricots

Dried Apricots

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. 

Head Girl

Head Girl

A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself. 

Unseen Shepard

Unseen Shepard

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… 

The Glass Imaginary

The Glass Imaginary

An improvised play inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams, The Glass Imaginary exposes the problems inherent in improvising tragedy. 

1902

1902

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… 

Badgers Can't Be Friends

Badgers Can't Be Friends

Runner-up for Best Comedy at Standing Ovation Awards 2021. 

Sugar

Sugar

After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person. 

Vote Macbeth!

Vote Macbeth!

An original musical with plenty of spark, Vote Macbeth! aims to present a fresh take on the well-worn story of the Scottish play. 

Candy

Candy

Do you believe in love at first sight? Will has fallen hopelessly in love with the seductive singer, Candy. 

Giving Up the Ghost

Giving Up the Ghost

Jack has recently lost his best friend Michael to a tragic accident and is trapped in a damaging, depressive state. 

The Magic Show Starring Liam A Black as the Glittering Prince of Magic

The Magic Show Starring Liam A Black as the Glittering Prince of Magic

Join The Glittering Prince of Magic for a world-class magical premiere extravaganza. 

S-ex-iety

S-ex-iety

An unexpected event will lead three roommates on an intense journey through the adult industry. 

tenderly

tenderly

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. 

Living with Sin

Living with Sin

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… 

The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness

The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness

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… 

*not even* Remotely Funny

*not even* Remotely Funny

Fast-paced, bold and hilarious. 

The Gay Train

The Gay Train

‘They said it’s your fault. 

KITES

KITES

‘Come on Angel, don’t you ever want to fly?’ 1948. 

I just like you | a gay myth

I just like you | a gay myth

An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience. 

Outside the Gate

Outside the Gate

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. 

Leaving Vietnam

Leaving Vietnam

When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man. 

Manhood

Manhood

Let me tell you about Ryan. 

Flat Pack Furnished Flat

Flat Pack Furnished Flat

A shiny new flat. 

Brothers

Brothers

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. 

Rocky!

Rocky!

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. 

Tinderbox Orchestra

Tinderbox Orchestra

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. 

Wallace

Wallace

The story of William Wallace as seen through his eyes. 

It Is I Who Must Begin

It Is I Who Must Begin

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 … 

On the Run: Dame Over!

On the Run: Dame Over!

A unique, genre-bending, two-man romp sees one panto dame’s life come crashing down around her. 

This Is Your Captain Speaking

This Is Your Captain Speaking

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. 

The Mystery of the Wee Pirate's Curse

The Mystery of the Wee Pirate's Curse

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… 

Running with Ghosts

Running with Ghosts

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. 

Tangible

Tangible

Dudley’s favourite space is at Jeanie’s shop. 

Mortal

Mortal

Follow the journey of a fictional American president and delve into the murky underbelly of the struggle for power. 

52 Souls

52 Souls

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

Concha

Concha is a one-person semi-autobiographical play exploring the intersectionality within the queer experience. 

Bathroom Confession

Bathroom Confession

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

1588

1588 examines the story of the Spanish Armada from the Spanish and English stand point. 

Queen of Fishtown

Queen of Fishtown

A character comedy set in Philadelphia about struggling to maintain one’s authenticity while facing inevitable change. 

The Last Quest of Visilock

The Last Quest of Visilock

Greetings, weary traveller. 

Decision – An Irish Dance Play

Decision – An Irish Dance Play

Edinburgh-based award-winning Siamsoir Irish dancers return with their fifth original show – an Irish dance play. 

Independence

Independence

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… 

Manic

Manic

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. 

Nympho

Nympho

‘He’s seen my Foo Foo. 

TV Apocalypse

TV Apocalypse

The world will end in seven days. 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Everyone knows that Ayesha is going places. 

Uplift

Uplift

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… 

ASSISTED

ASSISTED

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… 

Upon the Fragile Shore

Upon the Fragile Shore

A hurricane survivor watches rising sea water consume their home. 

Three by Nigro

Three by Nigro

Three by Nigro. 

The Heat Museum

The Heat Museum

Curtains drawn, lawns burnt brown; a townscape is melting. 

Alfie and George

Alfie and George

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. 

The Island

The Island

A plane crash leaves only teenagers alive on an uninhabited Indonesian island. 

Grounded: A Sitcom

Grounded: A Sitcom

We’re grounded! An international hacking scandal means the planes can’t fly and everyone has to stay where they are. 

Stretched

Stretched

How quickly can you write a TV show? A month? A week? A day? Felix, Phoebe and Alice have 40 minutes. 

In a Cave, a Voice

In a Cave, a Voice

Left alone while her family searches for the missing herd, a Neolithic girl seeks comfort in imaginary friends. 

Ghost Therapy

Ghost Therapy

Well, hello there! How do you boo? Teenage playwright Jaz Skingle brings her sell-out debut play, Ghost Therapy, to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Hey, You

Hey, You

All families have secrets. 

Elementa

Elementa

Presenting a one-woman show about a planet-saving superhero who’s lost her mojo. 

Truth/Reconciliation

Truth/Reconciliation

When flyered for Matthew Gouldesbrough’s new play Truth / Reconciliation, I was told I could expect “serious theatre” from the Elegy group. 

Heroin to Hero

Heroin to Hero

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. 

MAMA

MAMA

The pilot is set in a fictional Drama School, MAMA. 

Cordelia Butters Investigates

Cordelia Butters Investigates

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… 

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

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

Destiny

Destiny dreams big. 

Earwig

Earwig

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

Sandcastles

Sandcastles by Steve McMahon moves back and forth in time and memory to depict the tumultuous lifelong friendship of millennials Hannah and Beth. 

No Laughing Matter

No Laughing Matter

Sick and tired of everyone laughing at them, the Revue decides to get serious. 

Paradok Platform

Paradok Platform

Billed as a ‘queer manifesto against Grindr’, Looking for Fun is one of the new plays showcased at the Paradok Platform. 

Love Them to Death

Love Them to Death

A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school. 

CUMTS: SLEEPOVER

CUMTS: SLEEPOVER

Gen Z has arrived. 

An Afternoon With the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield 1995

An Afternoon With the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield 1995

Sutton Coldfield, 1995. 

Your Aunt Fanny: Muff Said

Your Aunt Fanny: Muff Said

Your Aunt Fanny are an all-womxn theatre company from the North East of England. 

Mairead Doyle-Heffernan: Here Comes The Ride

Mairead Doyle-Heffernan: Here Comes The Ride

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… 

How to Build a Wax Figure

How to Build a Wax Figure

Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor. 

Cassie and the Lights

Cassie and the Lights

Can kids be parents? When Cassie’s mother disappears, the teenager wants to care for her sisters on her own. 

Swell

Swell

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… 

Happy Meal

Happy Meal

By Tabby Lamb (they/she). 

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

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! 

Clementine

Clementine

Meet Lady Clementine. 

Psychodrama

Psychodrama

Psycho Productions and Cusack Projects Ltd. 

Jack Docherty: Nothing But

Jack Docherty: Nothing But

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… 

Make-up

Make-up

Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub. 

Today I Killed My Very First Bird

Today I Killed My Very First Bird

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. 

Swallowed

Swallowed

A young couple are separated by an outbreak they cannot speak of. 

Land – A Scottish Musical

Land – A Scottish Musical

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… 

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me. 

Posey Mehta: I Am Not a Gorilla

Posey Mehta: I Am Not a Gorilla

Gloria is not a gorilla, but she is stuck in the zoo’s gorilla enclosure. 

She Wolf

She Wolf

Maggie McKenzie is a self-professed mad woman who passes a day addressing her sacred audience – a caged pack of wolves. 

The Unicorn

The Unicorn

‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy. 

Luke Wright: The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Luke Wright: The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. 

Svengali

Svengali

Success demands sacrifice. 

Tinted

Tinted

‘There’s no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend. 

Bird With Kylie Vincent

Bird With Kylie Vincent

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… 

Hungry

Hungry

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 Land of Lost Content

The Land of Lost Content

The end of show speech to an audience. 

Second Summer of Love

Second Summer of Love

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. 

Block'd Off

Block'd Off

Working-class means many things now. 

Rapsody

Rapsody

In an inner-city hostel, Jams is trying to record a rap video. 

Fire Signs

Fire Signs

‘No, she’s not my sister. 

20 Minutes of Action

20 Minutes of Action

This unflinching case study scrutinizes one of the most pertinent conversations of our time: women’s safety. 

In the Weeds by Joseph Wilde, Produced by An Tobar and Mull Theatre

In the Weeds by Joseph Wilde, Produced by An Tobar and Mull Theatre

Kazumi is hunting a sea monster. 

PASH

PASH

Sweet sixteen would’ve been alright. 

The Silent Treatment

The Silent Treatment

The Silent Treatment. 

The Great Almighty Gill

The Great Almighty Gill

New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill. 

Musclebound

Musclebound

Following her multi award-winning theatre debut, Passionate Machine, Rosy Carrick is back. 

Ultimatum

Ultimatum

The premise is simple. 

Sticky Door

Sticky Door

The 2014 plan was a simple one, I would Casanova myself around our nation’s capital looking for consenting heterosexual adult males. 

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me

A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast). 

Please, Feel Free to Share

Please, Feel Free to Share

Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru. 

PUSH

PUSH

This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence. 

Twisted Tales

Twisted Tales

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… 

Fritz and Matlock

Fritz and Matlock

In a Sheffield basement, two men try to bury the bodies of their past to find a hopeful future. 

Sap

Sap

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

Caste-ing

Caste-ing explores the experiences of three black actresses using beatboxing, rap, song and spoken word. 

Half-Empty Glasses

Half-Empty Glasses

The Paines Plough Roundabout has become a symbol of the Fringe, developing its own signature style in the process. 

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

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… 

Bloody Difficult Women

Bloody Difficult Women

Theatre has proved one of the greatest allies of those seeking to speak to truth to power throughout the ages. 

Grav by Owen Thomas

Grav by Owen Thomas

The award-winning production Grav returns for 2022. 

The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying

The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying

Catriona has a history of making stuff up. 

About Money

About Money

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… 

Wreckage

Wreckage

‘I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you. 

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

We all live under the same sky. 

BOGEYMAN

BOGEYMAN

‘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… 

Opal Fruits

Opal Fruits

‘Utterly compelling’ (Lyn Gardner, StageDoorApp. 

My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored

My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored

Fifteen-year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S. 

Changing the Sheets

Changing the Sheets

‘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. 

Work.txt

Work.txt

Hate your job? Come work for us. 

Two Fingers Up

Two Fingers Up

Two Fingers Up. 

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

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… 

SHEWOLVES

SHEWOLVES

Ever thought you should run the world, even though you’re ‘only fourteen and a girl?’ Priya and Lou have. 

Girlboss

Girlboss

Full-time girls and part-time bosses, Dulcie and Ella discover what it takes to be ‘that’ girl. 

Invisible Mending

Invisible Mending

In the summer of 2020 as a pandemic raged, Yoshika was processing the death of her beloved grandmother, Ann. 

What the Heart Wants

What the Heart Wants

A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors. 

The Giant Killers

The Giant Killers

Long Lane Theatre return the Edinburgh with their hit play The Giant Killers. 

General Secretary

General Secretary

One of the Scotsman’s Best Duos at the Fringe, Thick ‘n’ Fast return to take on the world. 

Double Drop

Double Drop

North Wales, 1995. 

Angel by Henry Naylor

Angel by Henry Naylor

The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre. 

Almost Adult

Almost Adult

Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. 

Eglantyne

Eglantyne

Vibrant, inspiring play about Eglantyne Jebb; visionary, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children. 

Intruder / Intruz

Intruder / Intruz

Shortlisted for Adrian Pagan Playwriting Award and BBC Writersroom. 

Americana: A Murder Ballad

Americana: A Murder Ballad

We are told from the start that America’s history is one of violence, and of wars. 

Breathless

Breathless

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. 

Move Fast and Break Things

Move Fast and Break Things

Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1. 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide. 

Alphonse

Alphonse

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’ ***… 

We Should Definitely Have More Dancing

We Should Definitely Have More Dancing

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 … 

Daddy Issues

Daddy Issues

A dark comedy about daddy issues, sex work, fantasies, taboos, imperfect feminism, immigration and trauma. 

The Actress

The Actress

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

Brown Boys Swim

Brown Boys Swim is Karim Khan’s hilarious, touching tale of best friends Kash and Mohsen learning how to swim for a pool party. 

The Greatest Hits of Lily and John

The Greatest Hits of Lily and John

Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks. 

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

1967, Susan, a runaway from a troubled home, escapes her past by hitchhiking to LA. 

9 Circles

9 Circles

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… 

Autopilot

Autopilot

Rowan is a geospatial engineer earning good money, and Nic is a freelance illustrator who is. 

An Idiom's Guide to the Galaxy

An Idiom's Guide to the Galaxy

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. 

Beg For Me

Beg For Me

6/1/2021: One day replayed on repeat in @R3alAm3rican99’s head. 

Grubby Little Mitts

Grubby Little Mitts

An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers. 

Fat Chance

Fat Chance

Written and performed by Rachel Stockdale. 

It's Always the Quiet Ones

It's Always the Quiet Ones

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… 

Seen 00:25

Seen 00:25

A solo female show exploring the depths of the mind of a young woman, who suffers from anorexia. 

The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen

The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen

The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope. 

Sweater Worthy – Free

Sweater Worthy – Free

A one-woman performance about knitting through grief, heartache and depression. All in a pandemic. Knitting or crocheting is encouraged. 

Intricate Rituals

Intricate Rituals

Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors. 

Love Me

Love Me

Love Me is one of three plays bought to the Edinburgh Fringe 2021 by York DramaSoc. 

Sweating the Small Stuff

Sweating the Small Stuff

Writer and director Annabel Lunney used the inspirations from anonymous submissions to create the play Sweating the Small Stuff. 

SKANK

SKANK

SKANK is about a woman in crisis. 

Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her)

Patricia Gets Ready (For a Date With the Man That Used to Hit Her)

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

Press

Press sets its satirical sights on Hollywood. 

For All The Love You Lost

For All The Love You Lost

For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall. 

Afterparty

Afterparty

A group of teenage friends celebrate after their final exams and look towards the future. 

Saving Mr Ultimate

Saving Mr Ultimate

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… 

Corpsing

Corpsing

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 Like You're Happy

Smile Like You're Happy

Smile. 

Paddy the Cope

Paddy the Cope

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… 

On Your Bike

On Your Bike

On Your Bike comes with a lot of hype. 

Love in the Time of Lockdown

Love in the Time of Lockdown

Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country. 

Plasters

Plasters

Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman. 

Sugar

Sugar

At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe. 

Fear of Roses

Fear of Roses

Fear of Roses follows three women as they grapple with each other’s careers in a power struggle which soon turns deadly. 

Mediocre White Male

Mediocre White Male

Come forth for a cautionary tale venturing through ancient history to modern masculinity; welcome to Mediocre White Male. 

Move

Move

Transgressing borders, ethnicity and culture, MOVE is an epic tale of women across the world and how their stories intertwine. 

[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP

[BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP

I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alice Birch’s writing. 

The Mannequin

The Mannequin

Das Stuck’s The Mannequin is a contemporary Edda of intertwining tales: bohemians enwrapped in the fashion industry whilst isolated in the LGBTQ+ community. 

Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights

Cathy: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights

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… 

Isabelle

Isabelle

Irene Possetto’s one-woman play presents a young girl named Isabelle living a life of true tragedy in 1301. 

Yellow

Yellow

Yellow, written by Conky Campfner, is a modern adaptation of a Victorian short story The Yellow Newspaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 

Rock'n'Roll Girls

Rock'n'Roll Girls

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 … 

Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...]

Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...]

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. 

Torch Town

Torch Town

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

Play Before Birth

Play Before Birth

It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this. 

The Heresy Machine

The Heresy Machine

The Heresy Machine, by Seth Majnoon, claims to be about Alan Turing. 

HOTTER

HOTTER

Making a show with your ex must be awkward, right? Maybe. 

Sad Eyes to Smile With

Sad Eyes to Smile With

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… 

The Art of Skipping

The Art of Skipping

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. 

A Shadow of Doubt

A Shadow of Doubt

Gill Mcvey’s play focuses on the struggles of dealing with dementia and the sacrifices that are inevitably made. 

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson

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. 

21 Futures by Olly Hawes

21 Futures by Olly Hawes

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’. 

Suicide Pact

Suicide Pact

Any piece of art that tackles a complicated subject like mental health is worthwhile. 

Ugly Youth

Ugly Youth

“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… 

The Brave Anthology

The Brave Anthology

Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’. 

Marrow

Marrow

Another Fringe day, another single figure on a stage dissecting a “big issue of today”. 

Parasites

Parasites

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 27 Club

The 27 Club

The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health. 

Fight Song

Fight Song

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

Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf

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. 

Pizza Shop Heroes

Pizza Shop Heroes

Phosphorus Theatre works with refugees and asylum-seekers to create original collaborative autobiographical storytelling. 

The Words Are There

The Words Are There

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. 

Teach

Teach

Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy. 

Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the House in the Forest

Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the House in the Forest

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… 

Hitman and Her

Hitman and Her

A woman walks into a bar. 

(Ab)solution

(Ab)solution

(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St. 

The Last Bubble

The Last Bubble

Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble. 

Bacon

Bacon

Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’. 

Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale)

Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale)

Stoner comedy is a strange subgenre. 

The Good Scout

The Good Scout

The Good Scout treads an extraordinarily fine line as a play. 

Rust

Rust

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. 

Judas

Judas

Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room. 

Limbo: The Twelve

Limbo: The Twelve

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

Dream of a King

Dream of a King

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… 

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

A clever, conversational creation which examines differing experiences and attitudes to feminism, misogyny and the patriarchal structures which limit women in society. 

The Shark is Broken

The Shark is Broken

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… 

Stanley

Stanley

There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play. 

Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky

Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky

In order for theatre to be political, it certainly does not have to make any truly profound statement on the state of the world. 

Never None (but She)

Never None (but She)

Asterglow theatre is a new amateur company focused on new writing centered on female and non-binary individuals. 

Ladies Who Lunch

Ladies Who Lunch

Four work colleagues reunite after 30 years, in this delightful intergenerational analysis of motherhood. 

Mustard

Mustard

Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show about heart break and madness is crammed with life, wit and tragedy. 

Honeypot

Honeypot

This talented all-female ensemble offer an original and inventive take on traditional fairytales. 

And the Birds Did Sing

And the Birds Did Sing

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… 

Anything With a Pulse

Anything With a Pulse

Anything With A Pulse begins with boy meets girl in a nightclub. 

Shadows

Shadows

This thought provoking production by Want the Moon Theatre is a compelling exploration of connectedness – to ourselves, to those around us, and to reality. 

CONSPIRACY

CONSPIRACY

You are watching three actors sat at a table. 

Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose

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

America Is Hard to See

America Is Hard to See

The Edinburgh Fringe is awash with shows designed to shock and push our buttons. 

Limbo: City of Dreams

Limbo: City of Dreams

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

Salmon

Salmon

Salmon hits you hard from the moment you step in the venue. 

She Sells Sea Shells

She Sells Sea Shells

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… 

Pink Lemonade

Pink Lemonade

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

Shaving the Dead

Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin. 

When the Birds Come

When the Birds Come

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… 

Electric

Electric

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… 

Numbers

Numbers

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. 

Monsoon Season

Monsoon Season

You've probably heard plenty of stories about lucky couples who fall in love, get married and live happily-ever-after. 

Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area

Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area

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… 

A Table Tennis Play

A Table Tennis Play

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. 

Do Our Best

Do Our Best

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. 

Ripped

Ripped

Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault. 

Google Me

Google Me

Google Me is the new offering from 2018 Fringe debut comedian Eleanor Colville. 

Love (Watching Madness)

Love (Watching Madness)

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. 

Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone

No one ever said that life was easy, but it’s what you make of it which defines who you are. 

Collapsible

Collapsible

Collapsible follows the story of Essie, who at the outset feels like she’s crumbling. 

A Womb of One's Own

A Womb of One's Own

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. 

Typical

Typical

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… 

Jew...ish

Jew...ish

Saul Boyer explodes on stage, a blast of energy and vigorous vocals, as he delights us with a punchy song about being a Jew. 

Algorithms

Algorithms

This raucous monologue from Sadie Clark gives us a tale of dating and identity from the bleeding edge of the 21st century. 

Drowning

Drowning

“I am not a bad person”. 

Endless Second

Endless Second

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. 

It'll Be Alt-Right on the Night

It'll Be Alt-Right on the Night

In the past 20 to 30 years, our world has drastically changed, especially within the realm of politics and culture. 

Rust

Rust

Nadia and Daniel are about to sign the lease on a new flat. 

Pops

Pops

Pops is a complex contemplation of intergenerational addiction, featuring a father and daughter trapped in co-dependence. 

00

00

It’s 1999, soon to be 2000, and two sisters are wandering the woods of the Bournemouth area after fleeing a party. 

You and I: A New Musical

You and I: A New Musical

Drawing the line between the exaggerated and the tender is no easy feat. 

A Partnership

A Partnership

Some assert that homophobia, for the most part, has been eradicated. 

Naughty Boy

Naughty Boy

Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour. 

Bible John

Bible John

In the late 1960s three women were murdered by an Old Testament quoting serial killer by the name of Bible John. 

Wild Swimming

Wild Swimming

Wild Swimming is the story of two friends across centuries of change and development. 

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

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

Daughterhood

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… 

The Claim

The Claim

Exploring the experiences of those seeking refuge in the UK, The Claim is a compelling examination of language, power and storytelling. 

The Canary and the Crow

The Canary and the Crow

I’m not gonna pretend like I know a lot about the UK's schooling system, because I don’t. 

On the Other Hand, We're Happy

On the Other Hand, We're Happy

"It looks nice. 

Fudge

Fudge

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. 

For All I Care

For All I Care

For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women. 

Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott

Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott

This one person play, written and performed by Sarah-Jane Scott, introduces us to Sorcha who is fresh from fleeing her wedding. 

Such Filthy F*cks

Such Filthy F*cks

We enter stage to a flash of porn images, a seductive voiceover beckoning ‘come all over my face’, and ‘dominate me’. 

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back. 

Square Go

Square Go

Max has done something stupid. 

Fox

Fox

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… 

E8

E8

It’s a late Friday afternoon and Polly is packing her things before she starts her PhD. 

The Last of the Pelican Daughters

The Last of the Pelican Daughters

The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family. 

FATTY FAT FAT

FATTY FAT FAT

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. 

Piano_Play

Piano_Play

While watching Piano_Play it is easy to be taken in by the illusion which the show sets up. 

All of Me

All of Me

An abandoned party; a neglected bedroom; a cluttered AV desk. 

Orlando

Orlando

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… 

Getting to Know Katie

Getting to Know Katie

We enter stage and Jonathan Ashby-Rock delicately tends to his flowers, encased in boxes across the stage. 

Vulvarine: A New Musical

Vulvarine: A New Musical

Fat Rascal Theatre should be pleased with their Fringe so far. 

Bobby & Amy

Bobby & Amy

On a bare stage at Pleasance Upstairs, Bobby & Amy promises storytelling in its purest form. 

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

"Poor Fellow. 

Parakeet

Parakeet

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… 

Islander: A New Musical

Islander: A New Musical

One island, split in two with a thundering crack: half for the fishermen and half for the farmers. 

4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE

4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE

This is the first year that 4 Brown Girls Who Write have showcased at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and they better keep coming back. 

R'n'J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Roz and Jules

R'n'J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Roz and Jules

Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered. 

Drip

Drip

I can’t imagine that anybody has nostalgia for life in their early teen years. 

Beep

Beep

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… 

In Your Own Sweet Way

In Your Own Sweet Way

Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way. 

The Fun Club Presents...

The Fun Club Presents...

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… 

Goodbye Rosetta

Goodbye Rosetta

Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion. 

Nowt as Queer as Folk

Nowt as Queer as Folk

Set in rural England, this pale ale drenched parable explores village life juxtaposed with urban sprawl. 

Grace

Grace

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. 

Alfred Hitchcock's Writers' Room

Alfred Hitchcock's Writers' Room

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. 

Waiting for Ofsted

Waiting for Ofsted

Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself. 

Kids Play
BOBBY WINNER

Kids Play

Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph. 

Bullingdon Revisited

Bullingdon Revisited

Bizarre is the word that has stalked my mind since watching Bullingdon Revisited. 

Shell Shock

Shell Shock

"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims. 

The Gin Chronicles in New York

The Gin Chronicles in New York

The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following. 

The Dame

The Dame

Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings. 

Care Not, Fear Naught

Care Not, Fear Naught

Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions. 

The Big Lie

The Big Lie

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, … 

Bucket Men

Bucket Men

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. 

Working Class Hero

Working Class Hero

Working Class Hero’s biggest flaw is that it isn’t about anything. 

Legacy: The Book of Names

Legacy: The Book of Names

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

Eat Your Heart Out

Eat Your Heart Out

Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors. 

Man Down

Man Down

Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA. 

Shower Thoughts

Shower Thoughts

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

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls

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… 

Greyhounds

Greyhounds

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… 

Canoe

Canoe

“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

Brenda's Got a Baby

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

Glasgow '14

Glasgow ’14 is a one man show, inhabiting the minds of four very different men and their experiences of mental illness. 

What Girls Are Made Of

What Girls Are Made Of

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… 

User Not Found

User Not Found

Amid the hubbub of cafe chatter and the hiss of milk steaming a mobile phone vibrates with messages of condolences. 

Year Without Summer

Year Without Summer

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 … 

How to Swim in Hollywood

How to Swim in Hollywood

“Up, up, up. 

Your Alice

Your Alice

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. 

The Meeting

The Meeting

Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers. 

Job-Cher

Job-Cher

Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher. 

Beaker's Place

Beaker's Place

Beaker’s only friend in the world, his cat, is dead. 

9/11 Was a Conspiracy

9/11 Was a Conspiracy

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… 

The Half Moon Shania

The Half Moon Shania

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

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

Ailsa Benson Is Missing

The synopsis of this intriguing one-woman drama can more or less be summed up by its title: Ailsa Benson Is Missing. 

Harpy

Harpy

Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show. 

Ulster American

Ulster American

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… 

Doom’s Day

Doom’s Day

Doomsday preppers: people who ready themselves and their homes for survival in the event of an apocalypse. 

Dangerous Giant Animals

Dangerous Giant Animals

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. 

Providence

Providence

"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… 

Free and Proud

Free and Proud

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… 

Other People’s Teeth

Other People’s Teeth

Other Peoples Teeth is a unique, visceral and violent vignette, exploring the emotional depths of brutality. 

Warhol: Bullet Karma

Warhol: Bullet Karma

Warhol: Bullet Karma invites you to meet everyone’s favourite eccentric pop artist. 

The Cat's Mother

The Cat's Mother

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. 

Marie

Marie

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 �… 

Skin a Cat

Skin a Cat

Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus. 

Really Want to Hurt Me

Really Want to Hurt Me

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… 

The House

The House

A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House. 

Frau Welt

Frau Welt

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… 

On the Exhale

On the Exhale

“You always thought it would be you”. 

The Squirrel Plays

The Squirrel Plays

Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays. 

Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner

Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner

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. 

Lucille and Cecilia

Lucille and Cecilia

“Arf, Arf, Arffff. 

Zoo

Zoo

Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world. 

Signals

Signals

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

Hunch

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… 

The Vanishing Man

The Vanishing Man

Knowledge = Belief and Truth. 

Stardust

Stardust

Let’s talk about drugs. 

First Snow / Première neige

First Snow / Première neige

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. 

Revelations

Revelations

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 … 

Timpson: The Musical

Timpson: The Musical

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. 

In for a Penny

In for a Penny

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… 

Prehistoric

Prehistoric

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… 

Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse

Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse

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

Showmanship

Showmanship

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

Fronting

Fronting

A bold and convention-bashing introspection on the impact of HIV, through the medium of two young gay men. 

Blackout

Blackout

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… 

Awakening

Awakening

Kirsty Osmon captivates the audience from the first moment her drunken anti-heroin wakes. 

BaseCamp

BaseCamp

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

No One Is Coming to Save You

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. 

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

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. 

The Egg Is a Lonely Hunter

The Egg Is a Lonely Hunter

Single person monologues have long been a fringe staple, but nevertheless they are incredibly difficult to successfully pull off. 

The Fetch Wilson

The Fetch Wilson

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. 

Nina's Got News by Frank Skinner

Nina's Got News by Frank Skinner

It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is. 

Sitting by Katherine Parkinson

Sitting by Katherine Parkinson

Sitting, the debut play by comic actor Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans), explores the lives of three characters who are sitting for portraits. 

Island Town

Island Town

The Paines Plough Roundabout is an incredibly versatile venue. 

Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones

Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society. 

Unsung

Unsung

With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny. 

Proxy

Proxy

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. 

Grace

Grace

Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed. 

Ladykiller

Ladykiller

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… 

3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle

3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle

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. 

Chihuahua

Chihuahua

Becky works in a café in Edinburgh. 

Vivarium

Vivarium

As anyone who’s been to an Edinburgh Festival Fringe can attest, word of mouth is crucial to a show’s success. 

Games by Henry Naylor

Games by Henry Naylor

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. 

Finding Fassbender

Finding Fassbender

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… 

Everything Not Saved

Everything Not Saved

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… 

Starfish

Starfish

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

Alma, a Human Voice

Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s. 

The Myth of the Singular Moment

The Myth of the Singular Moment

On a train heading south, the eyes of a tired man meet those of a woman weeping, if only for a moment. 

Blackthorn by Charley Miles

Blackthorn by Charley Miles

Home is a powerful concept. 

Elise

Elise

Elise Cowen. 

A Generous Lover

A Generous Lover

A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner. 

Square Go

Square Go

What’s a ‘square go’? Noun: A rammy. 

Meek

Meek

The Traverse Festival program has jumped into action, already selling out full days' worth of shows at a time. 

Joan

Joan

There are moments of brilliance in this one-person-variety-show, but Joan’s intriguing idea is let down by lack of critical editing. 

Wife

Wife

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… 

Hell Has No Fury

Hell Has No Fury

In this show, you will empathise with a child killer. 

Girls

Girls

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… 

When the Sky Falls In

When the Sky Falls In

When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick. 

Sylvia Plath, Your Words Are Just Dust

Sylvia Plath, Your Words Are Just Dust

The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath. 

The Staff Room

The Staff Room

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. 

Beautiful Little Fool

Beautiful Little Fool

As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F. 

Towers of Eden

Towers of Eden

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… 

Fleabag

Fleabag

Maddie Rice has been put into a difficult position with performing this script. 

Scorch

Scorch

Welcomed back to Edinburgh after its rave performances last year, Scorch is new writing for one performer. 

The Ballad of Paragon Station

The Ballad of Paragon Station

Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality. 

All's Well That Ends As You Like It: A Lamentable Comedie and Hysterickal Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare

All's Well That Ends As You Like It: A Lamentable Comedie and Hysterickal Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare

Farce has a proud place in British theatre history. 

The Black That I Am

The Black That I Am

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… 

Mixed Brain

Mixed Brain

As a white Irish person, reviewing a person of colour’s experience of their treatment in the UK feels disingenuous. 

Your Point of View

Your Point of View

The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in. 

Seven Devils

Seven Devils

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… 

Breakfast Plays: B!rth

Breakfast Plays: B!rth

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)

PreScribed (A Life Written for Me)

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. 

The Loneliest Girl in the World

The Loneliest Girl in the World

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… 

Give Me Your Love

Give Me Your Love

A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it. 

The Way It Is

The Way It Is

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. 

The Edelweiss Pirates

The Edelweiss Pirates

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 … 

Heroes

Heroes

Exploding Whale Theatre’s coming of age romp Heroes is set against the backdrop of Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972. 

Columns

Columns

Walking into theSpace on the Mile this morning, I had very little knowledge about what Columns had in store for me. 

Spring Awakening: A Reimagining

Spring Awakening: A Reimagining

Not the 2006 Broadway musical, but the 1981 play on which that was based, Spring Awakening is notable for its controversies upon original publication. 

Over the Garden Fence

Over the Garden Fence

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. 

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

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. 

Cashmere

Cashmere

Narrative direction is hard to achieve but is essential to a good musical. 

Stand By

Stand By

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. 

Forgive Us, Oh Father!

Forgive Us, Oh Father!

I think this show is emblematic of a lot of the problems that new musicals at the Fringe tend to have. 

The Shaken and the Stirred

The Shaken and the Stirred

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… 

Fragile Man

Fragile Man

On a cliff edge somewhere, a man is about to jump to his death when he is stopped by a psychology professor. 

Church Blitz

Church Blitz

There are lights in the sky. 

Lands

Lands

Antler Theatre are no strangers to the Edinburgh Fringe, making their debut with This Way Up and Maria, 1968 in 2012. 

The Interview

The Interview

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

10 Rillington Place

10 Rillington Place is successful in creating a chillingly uncanny aura; a domestic scene is twisted from the familiar into the unthinkable. 

Sweetmeat

Sweetmeat

Sweetmeat is about the consented cannibalism between two men who are also lovers. 

Beauty

Beauty

‘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… 

Glasgow Central

Glasgow Central

Glasgow Central is a play based on true events, written and directed by Lauren Dowie. 

Pre-View

Pre-View

Traverse Theatre is currently hosting rehearsed readings of pieces from graduates at the University of Edinburgh’s Playwriting Masters course. 

Sink

Sink

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

Suicide the Musical

Suicide: The Musical is a one-man show that discusses male depression and disconnection due to social media. 

Morgan Stern

Morgan Stern

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. 

The Other Half Lives

The Other Half Lives

Grieving is a universal human experience, and The Other Half Lives is a play which analyses grief in the years after someone’s passing. 

Think

Think

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. 

Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope)

Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope)

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… 

Ballot Box

Ballot Box

Ballot Box from Tea and Tonic productions may be categorised under ‘New Writing,’ but it fails to provide an original scope on Brexit. 

The Believers Are But Brothers

The Believers Are But Brothers

The stage is awash with cold, blue LED light. 

Cosmic Scallies

Cosmic Scallies

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. 

Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone

Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone

1960s America. 

Adam

Adam

Adam tells the story of Adam Kashmiry, a trans man born in Alexandria, Egypt. 

Radio

Radio

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… 

Black Mountain

Black Mountain

Though common in film and literature, it is rare to see a play which fits the bill of psychological thriller. 

Avalon

Avalon

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. 

Marking Time

Marking Time

Stuck in a lift, Ruth waits to escape in order to visit her husband who has recently been diagnosed with cancer. 

Communism: The Musical!

Communism: The Musical!

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. 

Lipstick and Scones

Lipstick and Scones

Venture Wolf’s production of Lipstick and Scones is a combination of familial drama and comedy that raises questions about love, identity and relationships. 

The OS Map Fan Club

The OS Map Fan Club

Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club. 

Just Like the Movies

Just Like the Movies

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… 

Threadbare

Threadbare

Threadbare is a creation of the Minotaur Theatre Company which is run by students from the University of East Anglia. 

Changelings

Changelings

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

We Are All Going to Die

We are all Going to Die is a devised piece by Dead Person Productions. 

Sleepwalkers

Sleepwalkers

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… 

Atlantic: America and the Great War

Atlantic: America and the Great War

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

Woke

Woke

Woke is a searingly powerful and important one-woman performance about racism in the United States. 

Obfuscation

Obfuscation

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… 

Wondr

Wondr

Simone James stars in Wondr, Poppy Burton-Morgan’s debut as a playwright with Metta Theatre. 

The Burning Gadulka

The Burning Gadulka

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… 

War of the Sperms

War of the Sperms

For a play about personified jizz, War of the Sperms is surprisingly unsexy. 

The Recovery Version

The Recovery Version

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… 

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

“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’… 

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
BOBBY WINNER

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’. 

Screaming Body – Découpage Collective

Screaming Body – Découpage Collective

The Medea of Euripides is a story of love, of life, of murder and of how all three interlink. 

Deadly Dialogues

Deadly Dialogues

Quilliam transported us into their world with this innovative, captivating, controversial performance which examined Islamic radicalisation in a series of complex twists and turns. 

MANWATCHING

MANWATCHING

Manwatching is a monologue written by an anonymous woman to be performed by a famous comedian. 

Alex in Shadow

Alex in Shadow

Alex In Shadow from UCLU Runaground proves that puppetry is not just for children. 

Mine

Mine

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… 

The Bearpit

The Bearpit

Glimpses of a toxic relationship. 

Walls

Walls

It begins with a simple yet beautifully plucked tune followed by eerie voices echoing out until they fill the room. 

The F Word

The F Word

It’s a rainy day in Edinburgh and I’m not in the mood for a My Sister’s Keeper type of cancer play. 

You, Me and Everything Else

You, Me and Everything Else

Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one. 

Action at a Distance

Action at a Distance

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)

(FEAR)

(FEAR) grabs your attention as soon as you enter the venue. 

A Great Fear of Shallow Living

A Great Fear of Shallow Living

A good storytelling piece is lovely. 

Edison

Edison

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. 

Whore: A Kid's Play

Whore: A Kid's Play

In our youth-obsessed society, women become sexualised at a very young age. 

The Local

The Local

Sometimes, all a show needs to be good is to be simple and earnestly performed. 

Cockamamy

Cockamamy

Cockamamy is an adjective meaning ludicrous or nonsensical. 

Hero

Hero

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… 

Was it good for you?

Was it good for you?

Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey. 

Sugar Baby by Alan Harris

Sugar Baby by Alan Harris

Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall. 

Descent

Descent

Good theatre should make you feel something and by that definition alone, this was great theatre. 

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

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… 

Box Clever

Box Clever

Writer Monsay Whitney’s Box Clever is one of the most important shows up at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. 

Pike St.

Pike St.

I’ll make no bones about it: Pike St. 

Out Of Love

Out Of Love

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… 

Bella Freak: Unwritten

Bella Freak: Unwritten

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 … 

Atlas

Atlas

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. 

The Darling Monologues

The Darling Monologues

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… 

Trashed

Trashed

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. 

Under My Thumb

Under My Thumb

CultureClash Theatre consume the audience in Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s gripping political play Under My Thumb. 

Gazing at a Distant Star

Gazing at a Distant Star

Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses. 

Pixel Dust

Pixel Dust

Pixel Dust is a rare thing: a piece of theatre about the internet that isn’t utterly technophobic. 

Fix

Fix

Worklight Theatre return to Edinburgh with their brand new show Fix; a fusion of song, science and soliloquy investigating addiction in the UK today. 

Rupture

Rupture

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… 

The B*easts

The B*easts

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. 

Brutal Cessation

Brutal Cessation

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… 

Performers

Performers

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

Dust

Dust is not for the faint-hearted. 

Fag/Stag

Fag/Stag

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… 

To Hell in a Handbag

To Hell in a Handbag

To Hell in a Handbag shares a most important quality with its inspiration: the infectious nature of the prose. 

Cow

Cow

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. 

The Man on the Moor

The Man on the Moor

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. 

Half Breed

Half Breed

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. 

Glitter Punch

Glitter Punch

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… 

Bleach

Bleach

There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well. 

The Gin Chronicles at Sea

The Gin Chronicles at Sea

Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles. 

The Principle of Uncertainty

The Principle of Uncertainty

Making a show about science interesting to a general audience is an extremely difficult feat. 

SiX

SiX

Cambridge University Musical society hits Edinburgh to redefine the stories of Henry VIII’s six wives through a contemporary pop girl-band SiX. 

Frankie Vah by Luke Wright

Frankie Vah by Luke Wright

Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics. 

One-Man Apocalypse Now

One-Man Apocalypse Now

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… 

The Fall

The Fall

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… 

Velvet Evening Séance

Velvet Evening Séance

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. 

The Whip Hand

The Whip Hand

The Traverse Theatre is onto a winner with its programming this year. 

Letters to Morrissey

Letters to Morrissey

Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey. 

Eleanor Colville: Bigamous

Eleanor Colville: Bigamous

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. 

Eve

Eve

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 Forever

Jess and Joe Forever

Jess and Joe want to tell us their story. 

Nassim

Nassim

Nassim. 

Stop

Stop

There is a lot to like about this package. 

The Last Queen of Scotland

The Last Queen of Scotland

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… 

UCL Graters: Smashing

UCL Graters: Smashing

In UCL Graters’ return to Edinburgh, even the refreshments are violent. 

Monster

Monster

Boy meets girl. 

Flesh and Bone

Flesh and Bone

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

Replay

Replay is a tense and atmospheric play which deftly explores loss, trauma and determination. 

What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors

What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors

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

Bare Skin on Briny Waters

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. 

Giants: For an Hour

Giants: For an Hour

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… 

Ballistic

Ballistic

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

Testosterone

Testosterone is a touching, funny and incredibly brave piece of theatre from Rhum and Clay Company and Kit Redstone. 

A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)

A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)

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

Part of the Picture

Part of the Picture

Bletherbox provide an alternative insight into the lives of the men who worked and died on the Piper Alpha oil rig. 

Education, Education, Education

Education, Education, Education

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… 

Cathy

Cathy

50 years ago, Ken Loach’s TV drama, Cathy Come Home, won plaudits for its gritty and honest treatment of homelessness. 

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

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… 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

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. 

Goody

Goody

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

Mental

Mental

Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental. 

Alan, We Think You Should Get a Dog

Alan, We Think You Should Get a Dog

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. 

From Dust

From Dust

The latest production from Lion House Theatre is a visually pleasing experience, executed with dexterity and grace by a cast of three. 

How to Act

How to Act

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. 

The Poltergeist of Cock Lane

The Poltergeist of Cock Lane

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… 

A Gym Thing

A Gym Thing

A Gym Thing is narrated by Will, a person obsessed with his body, for whom staying in shape becomes a kind of unpaid profession. 

Poll Function

Poll Function

A play that will make you laugh, cringe and cry in equal measure, Poll Function is a masterstroke. 

Fémage à Trois

Fémage à Trois

Fémage a Trois is Loquiter Theatre’s production of three twenty-minute monologues, performed by three women in three different circles of life. 

The Chess Player

The Chess Player

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… 

Eggsistentialism

Eggsistentialism

Joanne Ryan’s ode to motherhood, Eggsistentialism, is emotionally poignant and amusingly informative. 

The Shape of the Pain

The Shape of the Pain

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… 

Seanmhair

Seanmhair

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

(More) Moira Monologues

(More) Moira Monologues

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. 

Heather

Heather

Fifty years ago, Roland Barthes told us to forget what we know about an author when reading a text. 

Brothers

Brothers

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. 

Borders by Henry Naylor

Borders by Henry Naylor

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. 

Jelly Beans

Jelly Beans

Jelly Beans is a really, really horrible play. 

ABCs to LSD

ABCs to LSD

Growing Pains Theatre Company offers its Edinburgh debut, a confessional piece of drama exploring the fraught path from adolescence to adulthood. 

Abberline's Artefact

Abberline's Artefact

Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper. 

God's Anointed

God's Anointed

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. 

Hyena

Hyena

I’ve finally found it: the Fringiest show at the Fringe! Hyena is a free-wheeling, difficult, often uncomfortable and sometime revelatory experience. 

Twix

Twix

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. 

Grandad Died

Grandad Died

A grandad may have passed on, but he wasn’t the only thing that died on stage. 

The Telemachy

The Telemachy

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. 

Hella Granger – Superstar

Hella Granger – Superstar

Hella Granger – Superstar recounts the life story of singer Hella Granger, the first white musician to be signed to Motown. 

Death and the Data Processor

Death and the Data Processor

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… 

Communicate

Communicate

Spot the cliché. 

Grey Matter

Grey Matter

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 Days' Time

Three Days' Time

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

A Working Title

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

Shoot the Women First

Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company. 

Lost in Blue

Lost in Blue

As hilarious as it is poignant, Lost in Blue is an individual and gripping story from one of the UK’s top storytellers. 

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

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. 

Breakfast Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?)

Breakfast Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?)

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… 

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

“Revolutionise the world”. 

Single Varietal

Single Varietal

Bob Stourton has an orchard. 

The Maiden's Toy

The Maiden's Toy

With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing. 

Happy Yet?

Happy Yet?

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. 

The Man Who Built His House to Heaven

The Man Who Built His House to Heaven

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 Dean Martin Christmas Show

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

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 F Words

The F Words

“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… 

A Gentleman's Game

A Gentleman's Game

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… 

John Knox

John Knox

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… 

Canon Warriors

Canon Warriors

Punch, Fleur, Dog and Sid. 

Foxtrot

Foxtrot

Playwright Anthony Maskell’s Fringe debut is as student as they come. 

Six Characters in Search of a Handout

Six Characters in Search of a Handout

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… 

Pawn

Pawn

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… 

Home

Home

The fact that Home is “partly based on true events” makes Cate and Gia’s situation all the more distressing. 

Chinese Women’s Whispers

Chinese Women’s Whispers

Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers. 

The Echo Chamber

The Echo Chamber

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 Wives of Others

The Wives of Others

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. 

Missed Connections

Missed Connections

There’s an unspoken rule on the tube: never try to start a conversation. 

Best Intentions

Best Intentions

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 … 

The Surge

The Surge

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… 

Dead Wright

Dead Wright

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… 

Criminology 303

Criminology 303

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

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget is a play centered on the human cost of World War One directly in its aftermath. 

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Connections missed and made are set in motion in this playful, algorithmically-generated piece exploring love and chance from young company Poltergeist Theatre. 

We Are Not Criminals

We Are Not Criminals

If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals. 

Dark Heart

Dark Heart

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

A Royal Flush

A Royal Flush is a dark political comedy turned farce, featuring a princess stuck in a portaloo and a ransoming of The Daily Star. 

Confetti

Confetti

There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing. 

Irrelevant

Irrelevant

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… 

Growth

Growth

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

Sexual Fears of a Modern Day Virgin

Sexual Fears of A Modern Day Virgin. 

Contactless

Contactless

Contactless is not your regular drama. 

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

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. 

Absence of Separation

Absence of Separation

Absence of Separation is a tender and evocative play about the frustrating search for the meaning of life. 

Shakespeare on Love

Shakespeare on Love

Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers. 

Villain

Villain

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

I'm Missing You

I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession. 

Spiders by Night: A Double Bill of Exciting New Monologues

Spiders by Night: A Double Bill of Exciting New Monologues

Spiders by Night is one of the more intimate Fringe shows: two monologues about spiders and mental health difficulties. 

Two Kittens & A Kid (A Gay Man Raising His Inner Diva)

Two Kittens & A Kid (A Gay Man Raising His Inner Diva)

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. 

In Utero

In Utero

Over scrabble, Jenni and David discuss their excitement about meeting their ‘perfect’ baby; then receive the news that the pregnancy is high-risk. 

Isabel(le)

Isabel(le)

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: The Judgement of Henry VIII

Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII

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… 

Emerald Diaries

Emerald Diaries

The Fringe Festival will always be best used as a place for experimentation and experience building, both for performers and for audiences. 

You Tweet My Face Space

You Tweet My Face Space

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

Triumvirette

Triumvirette takes the form of a three part show – two monologues sandwiching a romantic comedy short play. 

A Dog's Tale

A Dog's Tale

This is a tale about dogs: specifically Johnny the young puppy piano player in a shady speakeasy in 1920s New York City. 

Shakespeare Syndrome

Shakespeare Syndrome

In Shakespeare Syndrome, brought to Edinburgh by the talented Mermaidsgroup from the University of St. 

The House of Edgar

The House of Edgar

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. 

The Hours Before We Wake

The Hours Before We Wake

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. 

After the Flood

After the Flood

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 … 

5 Out of 10 Men...

5 Out of 10 Men...

Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that. 

Mine

Mine

Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe. 

Family Values

Family Values

Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence. 

Deadline

Deadline

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. 

A Remarkable Person

A Remarkable Person

It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description. 

The Road to Huntsville

The Road to Huntsville

Stephanie Ridings does a lecture on state homicide with drama. 

Blank

Blank

Nassim Soleimanpour is known for his intelligent plays that have no need for a director, designer or even rehearsals. 

Broken Fanny

Broken Fanny

Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe. 

Remember to Breathe

Remember to Breathe

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… 

Love, Lies and Taxidermy

Love, Lies and Taxidermy

We begin with a boy meeting a girl. 

This Earth

This Earth

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. 

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

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. 

Help

Help

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… 

Going Underground

Going Underground

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. 

The Sister

The Sister

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. 

The Life and Times of Lionel

The Life and Times of Lionel

New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so. 

Scorch

Scorch

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. 

Our Man

Our Man

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. 

The Trial

The Trial

An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds. 

Generation Zero

Generation Zero

The difficult relationship between political and personal affairs are addressed in the devastating drama Generation Zero. 

Three for Two by Phil Booth

Three for Two by Phil Booth

We all have our price. 

Milk

Milk

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

Steam

Steam lives up to its name, delivering a staggeringly intense hour of physical theatre. 

Echoes

Echoes

Neil Smith’s latest play begins as a domestic drama, but spirals uncontrollably into a claustrophobic nightmare of violence. 

Eat. Sleep. Bathe. Repeat

Eat. Sleep. Bathe. Repeat

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. 

The Other

The Other

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

I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator

I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator. 

The Ones

The Ones

The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play. 

Shaedates: or How I Learned to Love Myself

Shaedates: or How I Learned to Love Myself

Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally. 

MOONFACE

MOONFACE

Adulthood. 

2044

2044

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. 

Partial Nudity

Partial Nudity

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. 

Scorched

Scorched

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) … 

Bad Shakespeare

Bad Shakespeare

Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance. 

The Gorgon Girl

The Gorgon Girl

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… 

Fran & Leni

Fran & Leni

“This shit definitely passes the Bechdel test,” is a statement that can be found emblazoned on the show’s marketing material. 

In Tents and Purposes

In Tents and Purposes

First things first. 

Pond Wife

Pond Wife

“So tell me what you want, what you really, really want. 

Call of Dudey

Call of Dudey

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… 

Fabric

Fabric

“I so wanted to please him. 

Torch

Torch

A solo piece of feminist writing from theatre company Flipping the Bird, Torch looked right up my street. 

Captured

Captured

Forsaken love. 

Ruby and the Vinyl

Ruby and the Vinyl

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. 

Be Prepared

Be Prepared

Settling into my seat, I glance at the leaflet which had occupied it moments before. 

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Five-star performance in a three-star play. 

JOAN

JOAN

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. 

Growing Pains

Growing Pains

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. 

Blush

Blush

Nowadays, stories of celebrity nudes abound, attracting much unwanted media attention and accusations of who’s to blame flying in every direction. 

My World has Exploded a Little Bit

My World has Exploded a Little Bit

At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed. 

Mr Incredible

Mr Incredible

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

Queen Lear

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. 

Exactly Like You

Exactly Like You

Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice. 

Your Mother's Vagina

Your Mother's Vagina

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

Femmetamorphosis

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. 

Outside the Box – A Live Show About Death

Outside the Box – A Live Show About Death

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… 

Tent

Tent

A man and his unseen companion in a tent. 

Jonas Müller Regrets Writing This F*cking Masterpiece

Jonas Müller Regrets Writing This F*cking Masterpiece

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

Life by the Throat

Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh. 

The Nine Lives of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Nine Lives of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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. 

Unseen

Unseen

Through raw emotion, compelling stories and snippets of reality, we learn the story of Holly, a woman living on the streets in Edinburgh. 

Predrinks | Afterparty

Predrinks | Afterparty

Deadpan Theatre return to the Fringe after their sell-out success Get Your Sh*t Together, premiered at the Fringe in 2015. 

Grimm: An Untold Tale

Grimm: An Untold Tale

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. 

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Returning Fringe classic White Rabbit Red Rabbit is Nassim Soleimanpour’s experimental monologue, in which the relationship between actor, writer, audience and text is … 

A Good Clean Heart

A Good Clean Heart

It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work. 

How is Uncle John?

How is Uncle John?

How Is Uncle John? is a story about the relationship of mother and daughter: of protector and protected, and of victim and survivor. 

Octopus

Octopus

What does it mean to be British? That’s the question that underlies this political, anarchistic play Octopus. 

House and Amongst the Reeds

House and Amongst the Reeds

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… 

Lies. All Lies.

Lies. All Lies.

Through a series of devised monologues, pieces of physical theatre and slam poetry, Lies. 

Happy Together

Happy Together

Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe. 

Expensive Shit

Expensive Shit

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

My Eyes Went Dark

My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light. 

Greater Belfast

Greater Belfast

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… 

Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

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 (A Play With Songs)

Daffodils (A Play With Songs)

Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves. 

In Fidelity

In Fidelity

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. 

Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield

Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield

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 ‘… 

They Built It. No One Came.

They Built It. No One Came.

This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing. 

Mule

Mule

Drug-smuggling. 

Kill the Beast: He Had Hairy Hands

Kill the Beast: He Had Hairy Hands

Imagine Hot Fuzz meets Hollyoaks meets Hammer Horror. 

Happy Dave

Happy Dave

Bloody Happy Dave. 

Swivelhead

Swivelhead

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… 

The Club

The Club

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… 

How to Win Against History
BOBBY WINNER

How to Win Against History

On every front, this show is a winner. 

Epic Love and Pop Songs

Epic Love and Pop Songs

This is a pretty great show. 

Kill the Beast: Don't Wake the Damp

Kill the Beast: Don't Wake the Damp

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… 

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair

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 … 

Bubble Schmeisis

Bubble Schmeisis

It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue than the Demonstration Room at Summerhall for Nick Cassenbaum’s coming of age tale. 

The D-List

The D-List

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… 

Last Call

Last Call

Angst. 

Tracy

Tracy

Workplace drama can become pretty intense. 

Adler & Gibb

Adler & Gibb

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 … 

One Hundred Homes

One Hundred Homes

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. 

The Castle Builder

The Castle Builder

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… 

Yokes Night

Yokes Night

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… 

Krapp 39

Krapp 39

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

Hamlet in Bed

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… 

World Without Us

World Without Us

Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us imagines a future in which humanity has simply ceased to exist, and it’s surprisingly soothing. 

Denton and Me

Denton and Me

Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift. 

How (Not) to Live in Suburbia

How (Not) to Live in Suburbia

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. 

Happiness is a Cup of Tea

Happiness is a Cup of Tea

Life is transient. 

MacBain

MacBain

At first glance, there are other plays by Shakespeare that would offer more fruitful parallels with the Kurt Cobain story than Macbeth. 

Cautionary Kate

Cautionary Kate

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… 

Every Wild Beast

Every Wild Beast

It’s not often you get to see theatre in what is essentially an attic. 

Crazed

Crazed

Anyone looking for important and assured new writing would be well-advised to give Ecce Theatre’s Crazed a look. 

Our Writer

Our Writer

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… 

Squirm

Squirm

The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm. 

Smart

Smart

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. 

Small Hours

Small Hours

The description of this touching piece of work as advertised in the Fringe guide does not do it justice. 

Madwomen in the Attic

Madwomen in the Attic

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�… 

Für Elise

Für Elise

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… 

From the Mouths of the Gods

From the Mouths of the Gods

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… 

The Interference
BOBBY WINNER

The Interference

It is hard to tackle a subject such as campus rape in America and get the tone right. 

Life According to Saki

Life According to Saki

Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please. 

Tomorrow, Maybe

Tomorrow, Maybe

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… 

Deep-Fried Language

Deep-Fried Language

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… 

A Series of Unfortunate Breakups

A Series of Unfortunate Breakups

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… 

Immaculate

Immaculate

Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate. 

Fingertips

Fingertips

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… 

Infinity Pool: A Modern Retelling of Madame Bovary

Infinity Pool: A Modern Retelling of Madame Bovary

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… 

Circleville, Circlevalley

Circleville, Circlevalley

The beauty of a new play, from a new company, is that expectations are at rock bottom. 

Cosmic Fear or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia

Cosmic Fear or The Day Brad Pitt Got Paranoia

This is a bold and ambitious production, brought to life by three very talented young actors: Sam Ducane, Jack Gordon, and Jessica Sian. 

Plain English

Plain English

There is no shortage of solo shows about valiant teachers. 

By the Bi

By the Bi

By the Bi is a show that offers to tackle the heady subject matter - of the difficulties of being bisexual - head on. 

Iphigenia In Splott

Iphigenia In Splott

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. 

For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country. 

Academy of Risk

Academy of Risk

Academy of Risk explores the tremendous pressure placed on students through their own eyes. 

Loch Ness Monster Hunter

Loch Ness Monster Hunter

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. 

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them. 

What a Load of Skit

What a Load of Skit

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. 

The Misfit Analysis

The Misfit Analysis

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… 

The Edinburgh Concerts

The Edinburgh Concerts

The Edinburgh Concerts was, believe it or not, a concert series organised in Edinburgh. 

Confirmation

Confirmation

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… 

Savage

Savage

Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”. 

Touch

Touch

Touch is the new one-woman play from Asylon Theatre exploring the difficulties of genuine human connection. 

The Sea Child

The Sea Child

The Sea Child, adapted by Carolyn Sloan from her novel of the same name, is a tender and evocative play. 

The Garden

The Garden

The Garden is an off-site performance that takes place a short walk away from the Traverse Theatre. 

Supertown

Supertown

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… 

The Dolphin Hotel

The Dolphin Hotel

It is a disturbing but all too common tale: girl meets boy, falls in love, and gets tricked into a life of prostitution. 

The Colours of Kenny Roach

The Colours of Kenny Roach

Kenny Roach is an artist, lecturer and alcoholic. 

The King of Monte Cristo

The King of Monte Cristo

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 … 

A Matter of Life and Debt

A Matter of Life and Debt

From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear. 

Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast

Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast

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… 

Raft

Raft

Drifting down the river is a rather appropriate metaphor for describing the experience you have when watching this show. 

If Only Diana Were Queer

If Only Diana Were Queer

Three drag queens in a dressing room talk us through their life stories, from coming out to discovering drag. 

Detached

Detached

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

Free for All

Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility. 

The Daily Tribunal

The Daily Tribunal

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… 

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

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. 

Odd Shaped Balls

Odd Shaped Balls

‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me. 

war war brand war

war war brand war

Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling. 

A Little Respect

A Little Respect

Here we go again. 

Let England Shake

Let England Shake

Let England Shake is a dark and funny performance full of good ideas and performed by a great all-female ensemble. 

Bench

Bench

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 State of Concrete

The State of Concrete

The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex. 

Elysium Fields

Elysium Fields

Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions. 

The Cupboard

The Cupboard

Turn the Key’s Gothic delight, The Cupboard is outstandingly professional. 

Village Pub Theatre

Village Pub Theatre

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… 

Edinburgh Book Fringe

Edinburgh Book Fringe

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… 

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill

This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark. 

Marching for Necie

Marching for Necie

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 … 

Since Maggie Went Away

Since Maggie Went Away

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. 

Angelus

Angelus

Angelus is a theological comedy taking place in the cavernous space of the Library Theatre in the Royal College of Physicians. 

Iolite the Musical

Iolite the Musical

First things first, a notable mention must be awarded to the sterling efforts of the two-piece band. 

Cracked Tiles

Cracked Tiles

Half Scottish, half Italian, and all heart, Lorenzo Novani’s solo show is well worth getting out of bed early for. 

The Selkie and the River God

The Selkie and the River God

Celtic myth and legend have provided a huge array of inspiration for painting, music, film and theatre. 

The Gin Chronicles

The Gin Chronicles

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. 

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, or ACMS, is a late-night comedy showcase. 

The Exeter Revue: Sketchup

The Exeter Revue: Sketchup

Four students, a full house and a series of clever sketches make for a very enjoyable hour in The Exeter Revue: Sketchup. 

My Name is...

My Name is...

When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her. 

Patriots

Patriots

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. 

Reconciling

Reconciling

Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature. 

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant. 

This is Mary Brown

This is Mary Brown

Winsome Brown’s one-woman show is an affecting portrait of her mother and the life Brown and her siblings shared with her. 

Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)

Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)

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. 

Women of the Mourning Fields

Women of the Mourning Fields

This is a play for fans of Greek tragedy and theatre nerds. 

Hey Hey 16K

Hey Hey 16K

Two stand-up (not in the comedic sense) guys riffing on Doctor Who and the origins of programming doesn’t sound scintillating. 

Health Under Fire

Health Under Fire

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

The Paradise Project

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… 

Dead Letter Office

Dead Letter Office

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 … 

Five Drinks

Five Drinks

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. 

Americans in Breshkistan

Americans in Breshkistan

Ten high school seniors find themselves in a strange room, in the middle of nowhere, lit only by a dim overhead lamp. 

Key Change

Key Change

Key Change, directed by Laura Lindow, is devised by women in HMPYOI Low Newton and follows the stories of 4 female inmates. 

Somebody Out There Loves Me

Somebody Out There Loves Me

Peculiar Spectacles’ Somebody Out There Loves Me is another theatrical examination of the trials and tribulations of online dating. 

One for My Baby

One for My Baby

Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all. 

After We Danced

After We Danced

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. 

Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth: Age of Oberon

Shakespeare's Avengers Assembleth: Age of Oberon

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. 

Touched by Fire

Touched by Fire

This is immersive theatre. 

The Last Kill

The Last Kill

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. 

Incarnadine

Incarnadine

Macbeth gets the prequel it never needed in Chiaroscuro’s portrait of the thane as a young warrior. 

Light Boxes

Light Boxes

A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest. 

The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers

The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers

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

Reunion

Reunion, by Neil Smith, is the story of an older couple, George and Jude, recounting their youth together and their love for one another. 

Stain

Stain

In this tense drama the audience is thrown before a confrontation between former A-grade student Amy and her history teacher Mr Reilly. 

Building God

Building God

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. 

Happy Girl

Happy Girl

Nine school students navigate the pressures they face as girls: pressures from society and pressures from each other. 

5 Kilo Sugar

5 Kilo Sugar

Tik-sho-ret (‘communication’) Theatre Company have achieved their manifesto of giving a platform to Israeli and Jewish theatre. 

Lungs

Lungs

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. 

Method in Madness

Method in Madness

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. 

Avicide

Avicide

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

Consumption

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… 

Sweetness and Light

Sweetness and Light

Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent. 

The Sacred Obscene

The Sacred Obscene

Set mainly in a London strip club, The Sacred Obscene is a new play following the stories of the women who work there. 

Glitter and Tears

Glitter and Tears

Appetite Theatre, lead by young playwright Serafina Cusack, are distressingly cool. 

Pope Head (The Secret Life of Francis Bacon)

Pope Head (The Secret Life of Francis Bacon)

Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon. 

I'm Not Here Right Now

I'm Not Here Right Now

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? … 

Bear Hug

Bear Hug

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. 

BED

BED

Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat. 

The Gambit

The Gambit

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. 

Macaroni on a Hotdog

Macaroni on a Hotdog

A masterwork of parallax, Macaroni on a Hotdog gently uncovers its affecting core through a focused 50 mins of understated wit. 

Complex

Complex

A man is desperate for a job. 

What I Learned From Johnny Bevan

What I Learned From Johnny Bevan

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. 

The Ascension of Mrs Leech

The Ascension of Mrs Leech

This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable. 

Dean Martin and Friends (Christmas Special)

Dean Martin and Friends (Christmas Special)

The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft. 

An Illuminating Yarn

An Illuminating Yarn

“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… 

Styx

Styx

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…. 

A Face That Fits

A Face That Fits

Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors. 

1972: The Future of Sex

1972: The Future of Sex

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

We May Have to Choose

We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall. 

Flight Lessons

Flight Lessons

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

Cheque Please

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. 

Poppies

Poppies

A new musical set at the beginning of the First World War. 

Two From Texas: New Plays in Performance

Two From Texas: New Plays in Performance

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… 

The Communist Threat

The Communist Threat

A hotel room in Vienna, 1950. 

Swallow

Swallow

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. 

Miss Sarah

Miss Sarah

Someone has gone missing. 

Leftovers

Leftovers

Leftovers follows the story of a young woman Elizabeth and her tragic experiences of the break-out of war. 

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons

123,205,750. 

This Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage)

This Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage)

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

Wonderland

Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen. 

Souvenirs

Souvenirs

Ashley (Ellice Stevens) has just moved to a new town. 

The Raven

The Raven

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… 

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

Six passengers travel on the tube from Stratford to Ealing Broadway. 

A Sudden Burst of Blinding Light

A Sudden Burst of Blinding Light

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. 

A Study on the Stillness of Love

A Study on the Stillness of Love

This is a show with an ambitious script, which shows real emotional intelligence. 

Underneath

Underneath

From award-winning and internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company Fishamble: The New Play Company, comes this extravagant one-man show. 

On Track

On Track

A gallery space with assorted artworks: chainsaw, feathered headdress, a map of the world. 

Chicken

Chicken

In this play, the North/South divide is a reality. 

Twin Primes

Twin Primes

As any GCSE maths student will tell you, a prime number is one that has only two factors: one and itself. 

501 Things I Do in My Bedroom

501 Things I Do in My Bedroom

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. 

Much Further Out Than You Thought

Much Further Out Than You Thought

Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television. 

Islands

Islands

From Fine Mess Theatre comes Kyle Ross’ play Islands, an insight into upper-middle class marriage which typifies the lifestyle of the ‘rah’. 

Night + Daze

Night + Daze

Sheffy is a lad on a mission. 

A Fine Line

A Fine Line

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

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank

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. 

The Lost Art of Lost Art

The Lost Art of Lost Art

Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream. 

Weekend Rockstars

Weekend Rockstars

“This is the story of the best week of my life”. 

Some Big Some Bang

Some Big Some Bang

Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death. 

Two Sore Legs

Two Sore Legs

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

The Human Ear

The Human Ear is a production that is crafted with all the beautiful complexity of the appendage to which its title refers. 

Billy Through the Window

Billy Through the Window

Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’. 

Rossetti's Women

Rossetti's Women

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

Leper + Chip

Leper + Chip will hold you by the throat and squeeze the tears from your eyes. 

RAZ by Jim Cartwright

RAZ by Jim Cartwright

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. 

Our Teacher's a Troll

Our Teacher's a Troll

It’s amazing how much you can get out of the word ‘Ak’ – the only word in the troll language. 

Rebounding Hail

Rebounding Hail

Written by Avital Lvova and George Vere, Rebounding Hail is set in a 13 year old girl’s room surrounded by her books. 

Where Do Little Birds Go?

Where Do Little Birds Go?

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… 

Charolais

Charolais

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. 

The 56

The 56

The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world. 

Brute

Brute

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. 

Knowledge and a Girl

Knowledge and a Girl

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. 

Bortle 8

Bortle 8

Following on from last year’s Drunk Lion, Chris Davis’ Bortle 8 is nothing if not strange. 

A Life With The Beatles

A Life With The Beatles

For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives. 

Little Thing, Big Thing

Little Thing, Big Thing

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. 

Tether

Tether

It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio. 

Heartlands

Heartlands

A new play by Dave Fargholi, Heartlands is a taut tangle of ethics and emotion for the modern age. 

Things Can Only Get Bitter

Things Can Only Get Bitter

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

Ross & Rachel

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… 

My Name is Saoirse

My Name is Saoirse

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

The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater

The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder. 

Crash

Crash

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. 

Pardon / In Cuffs

Pardon / In Cuffs

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… 

Lifted

Lifted

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. 

Not the End of the World

Not the End of the World

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… 

The Effects of Solitude

The Effects of Solitude

Written and performed by Noni Townshend, The Effects of Solitude unfolds with a disarming serenity. 

If I Were Me

If I Were Me

Antler’s If I Were Me is a visual treat. 

Captain Morgan 2: The Sea of Souls
BOBBY WINNER

Captain Morgan 2: The Sea of Souls

Captain Morgan is back – and now he is armed with the Sands of Time. 

Comfort Slaves

Comfort Slaves

Suitability: 16+ (Restriction). 

65 Days of Tracy the Marquis Mannequin

65 Days of Tracy the Marquis Mannequin

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… 

RUN

RUN

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

Goodstock

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… 

Idiots

Idiots

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. 

This Will End Badly

This Will End Badly

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. 

Angel in the Abattoir

Angel in the Abattoir

Dave Florez’s new play Angel in the Abattoir questions the role and even the possibility of the modern hero. 

Wasted

Wasted

Emma (Serena Jennings) and Oli (Will Merrick) meet on a chaotic, booze-fuelled night out. 

Giant Leap

Giant Leap

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. 

The Year of The Hare

The Year of The Hare

I would like to preface this review by saying that I think this production could be fantastic. 

CUT

CUT

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… 

Some Thing New

Some Thing New

Delivered as an interactive art workshop, with a narrative line slowly emerging, Some Thing New is a great idea with an unsatisfying execution. 

2 Become 1

2 Become 1

50 minutes of Britney, Shania Twain, All Saints and the Spice Girls: every 90s girl’s dream. 

Broken Windows

Broken Windows

Più Theatre have created an honest and thoughtful piece of slick verbatim theatre platforming the voices of young women from across the country. 

Cornermen

Cornermen

Cornermen treads a well-worn narrative path: the tale of a young man, plucked from obscurity to rise to fame and success. 

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

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 – A Love Story

Spillikin – A Love Story

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

Eating Seals and Seagulls' Eggs

Eating Seals and Seagulls’ Eggs is a poetic telling of Ireland’s ‘most hated woman’ – Peig Sayers. 

I Am Not Myself These Days

I Am Not Myself These Days

This adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography by writer/performer Tom Stuart is in turns sympathetic and shocking. 

Heartbeats & Algorithms

Heartbeats & Algorithms

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… 

Paintings and Cake

Paintings and Cake

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… 

The Remnants: As Thyself

The Remnants: As Thyself

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

Splitfoot

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. 

The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster

The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster

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… 

Portrait

Portrait

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… 

I Am Beast

I Am Beast

Returning for their fourth Fringe, Sparkle and Dark bring their own fascinating and fantastical take on experiences of death and loss. 

10x10x10

10x10x10

This year marks the 10th year the Comedians’ Theatre Company appears at the Fringe. 

A Cinema in South Georgia

A Cinema in South Georgia

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… 

Walking the Tightrope: The Tension Between Art and Politics

Walking the Tightrope: The Tension Between Art and Politics

Walking the Tightrope was created as a response to the cancellation of three high profile cultural events last summer. 

Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943

Talking with Angels: Budapest, 1943

A crucifix, a menorah, the smell of incense. 

The Remnants: Threadbare

The Remnants: Threadbare

Archimedes (Alexander Wilson) is interested in scopophilia, pleasure derived from looking. 

The Stolen Inches

The Stolen Inches

The Small Things Theatre Company’s The Stolen Inches brilliantly puts family relationships under a microscope. 

Allie

Allie

Ruaraidh Murray’s new play is a solid - though far from stunning - tale of a marriage turned very sour. 

Molly

Molly

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. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

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

Labels

Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun. 

Clickbait

Clickbait

Those headlines are everywhere these days: “You won’t believe what happens next,” “#8 will blow your mind,” “This video is everything”. 

Swing By Around 8

Swing By Around 8

Ayckbourn fans will love this comedy of manners from Durham University’s Fourth Wall Theatre. 

Can I Start Again Please

Can I Start Again Please

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… 

Girl from Nowhere

Girl from Nowhere

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. 

S.E.N

S.E.N

You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country. 

A+E

A+E

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. 

Counting Stars by Atiha Sen Gupta

Counting Stars by Atiha Sen Gupta

“Some people would kill to have what we have,” says Sophie, describing her job as a toilet attendant in a nightclub. 

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

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’… 

Queens of Sheba

Queens of Sheba

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… 

Hustlers

Hustlers

The stage is strewn with detritus, traces of lives lived on the margin. 

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