Brand new play about the rare neurological illness narcolepsy from a true-life perspective.
The island of Jeju draws everyone with its charm and beautiful Korean dialect.
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Colly, Kaia, Mercy and Theo have shared a decade of highs and lows – promotions, breakups, illness and recovery.
Back by popular demand! The C Word is a radical awakening to the extreme objectification, competition, and overall nonsense women face today.
Monet’s paintings are world-famous.
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.
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Two young people fall for each other with a strange sense of déjà vu in a story of love, loss and intimacy.
Michael is a man who has decided that the best thing to do is to end his life.
If You Don’t Laugh, you’ll cry.
49 and 64 are in the room.
Chickens is a sharp comedy-drama that explores the chaos of love, life and obsession.
The true story of the most evil book ever written and its horrifying legacy.
A murder in a small Fife town has shaken the community to its core.
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…
A brand-new, bite-sized absurdist comedy that you can really sink your teeth into! Small-time Scottish criminals, Cammy and Lee are no strangers to running into a spot of bother in…
Hellfire gets in the habit in this original comedy rock musical.
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 …
Self-love.
Faced with imminent starvation, two cave-people discover a C.
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.
Seven men are trapped in toilet cubicles within purgatory.
Dark comedy about Stockholm syndrome and class difference.
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…
There is no journey more uncertain than new parenthood, especially when you’ve never been given an example.
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.
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.
A dynamic, fast-paced musical about desperation, deception and a daring prison break.
In the seemingly peaceful town of Little Heath, the shocking murder of a local boy pulls seven unsuspecting residents into an emergency meeting.
A community turns on itself.
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.
The hills are where Skye feels safe.
First Aid is a girl meets boy medical romcom, ‘As witty as early Tim Rice’ (DailyInfo.
Scott is taking a day off work.
In a school music club, a group of students wrestles with the frustrations of youth.
A brand new relatable and comedic monologue following Lara, a creative writing graduate, hoping to write the next best-selling fantasy romance novel.
Grouchy innkeeper Isaac isn’t expecting anymore guests.
Reconstruction is an unmissable new one-man play about the process of grief leading to eventual emotional growth.
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.
Pigeons, a landlady, a Butlins Redcoat – caught in the chaos of the housing crisis.
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…
Teddy, a writer with a passion for unique and crazy stories, welcomes the audience into the world of fiction that he has created.
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.
In a far-off kingdom, King Diadon spends each night watching his life story performed by a company of players.
One last night at the Fringe, Jess and Iona wander the city looking for that best show, finest view, that perfect moment to confess.
Through powerful original music and spoken word, a folk-rock band retells Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
A groundbreaking music drama by Scottish New Music Awards shortlisted Joanna Nicholson, combining projections, voice, electronic soundscapes, clarinet and horn.
‘Every woman is a killer.
Two cats.
Inspired by Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, this is a play about a woman’s survival and a bowl called Pandora.
Can (online) dating help bridge political divides? In Swiping Right, Sophie Anna Veelenturf explores what happens when political opposites connect.
Two girls find themselves trapped in limbo following their sudden deaths, only to discover that they are not alone.
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 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.
History repeats itself, but so does nature.
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 …
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.
This sexy, camp, pop-filled tragicomedy unpacks aspirations of becoming a singer while growing up where it is forbidden for women to sing.
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…
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 have two things on their mind: becoming cowboys and.
In 200 AD, Emperor Septimius Severus decreed that women could no longer compete in the Gladiator Games.
More than twenty years ago, literature student David met an older man called Michael in the bar of an independent cinema.
Our parents worked to live.
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…
Speakbeast are doing a tribute act – and we think we’re doing a pretty convincing job.
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…
Speckle cannot shake the feeling that something is not right.
A train grinds to a halt after a suicide.
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…
Do you believe in love at first sight? Oscar doesn’t.
Alan is a deadbeat stoner.
Casino? follows the lives of four restaurant workers down on their luck struggling in a minimum wage job in a capitalist world gone mad.
It was the faeries who taught the witches, the wise women, all that they know.
Kaitlyn has spent the past two years soaking in the magic of Paris, but her time is running out.
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 …
When May and Bea experience writer’s block for an upcoming poetry competition, they decide to use personal information about their flatmates as inspiration.
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.
The 2000s.
‘Friends are the family you choose.
Jack’s off, his beanstalk’s throbbing and the fairies are filthier than your browser history.
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.
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? is a comedy about how a Hasidic woman and a secular woman change after a six-hour flight sitting next to each other.
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.
After the death of a commune’s spiritual leader, its people must gather to crown a successor.
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 is a bold reimagining of the myth of the Minotaur, exploring the complex dynamics of power, resistance and political autonomy.
Four ladies, one Costa coffee, a bleached moustache and a dream.
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 is a dark comedy set in a 19th-century saloon and brothel of the Great American West.
Adam, a social media moderator, witnesses a man kill himself on a livestream.
An immersive musical experience like no other.
GP receptionists AKA the gatekeepers from hell.
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…
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…
Screaming train rides, red-hot buses, Tartan Army, boxing ring, Botox, love.
From selkies to sprites, Scottish folklore inspires fiction.
Berlin Open Theatre presents Fun at Parties: an electrifying new play set in the underbelly of Berlin’s legendary club scene.
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…
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, the muse of Apollo, Ovid, Lorenzo Bernini .
Seconds delves into the complexities of heartache, loneliness and redemption through two women’s stories as they grapple with new beginnings.
A Scottish folk tale murder mystery, based on the legend of the Bean Nighe, also known as the Washerwoman.
Set in 1977, Damn the Dark follows five women navigating Soho’s vibrant discotheque scene.
‘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…
Emily started writing poetry for the incredibly healthy reason of trying to impress a boy.
‘I knew this place would ruin my life, I just didn’t see it happening like this.
A new play set in the mixing pot of a writer’s room.
Romance on Repeat: Lizzie has always dreamed of a whirlwind romance like in the movies.
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…
Two women, a century apart, find themselves in the same psychiatric institution.
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.
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.
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.
Gabe is a perfectly average teenager, with perfectly average problems.
Sex, Drugs and.
Europe is not what it used to be.
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.
Waking up having witnessed a brutal murder – by his own hand, incapable of stopping the madness, he stood and watched.
Finally, a one-man show that’s brave enough to ask the question: why can’t we, as humans, get enough of fizzy beverages? On a sweltering summer day, Seltzer Boy can only find relie…
Glasgow holds a music festival – The Big Day.
When Pestilence accidentally kills Death, the whole world stops.
Unhinged is a compelling collection of five short plays that blend wild humour with deep introspection.
Find true love for only $15.
Join ex-con Jimmy as he brings you along to get ready for his first date since he got out of prison that morning.
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 comes from a world without music.
Someone has dropped an atom bomb on Copenhagen.
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.
What would you do if your best friend murdered someone? For Penelope Quadrangle, the answer is simple: hide the body.
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.
Portia and Alison are driving home from a wedding.
After a sell-out Fringe run in 2024, Fresh !nk Theatre Company returns with a sky-high spectacle! This must-see two-person show is a hilarious theatrical journey set 30,000 feet ab…
When reality fails to answer desire, the fictional world becomes home.
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.
A typical rehearsal quickly deteriorates when the actors find themselves unable to depict the difference between fiction and reality. A play within a play.
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 …
‘Powerful call to arms… three remarkable women’ (ThePegReview.
Five mermaids.
Ailsa and Sean are a young couple, at the height of bliss – for now.
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…
Felix Culpa Theatre Company successively produced The Woman He Lived With **** (One4Review.
Finlay McGowan, consultant, has woken up tied to a chair.
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…
Join us for a tilt-a-whirl trip through the mind and letters of Vincent Van Gogh.
Ah-Ma – Fujianese for grandmother.
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…
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
After a murder is committed in Jacobean London by a man wearing motley, two playing fools from different productions must prove their innocence with the help of a bard, an innkeepe…
What exactly is the difference between a medieval monk and a modern-day academic? Shockingly, nothing.
Winner: Best Drama, Greater Manchester Fringe.
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…
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 follows the story of two lads, Postie and Sparkie, living in Dumfries together.
Country singer Marcy Aurora is out of prison after 20 years for murder, and she’s ready for a comeback.
Is it scary? We all reach that crossroads in life.
Trapped in a bleak, cold, featureless room utterly devoid of natural light, A is a young woman teetering on the brink of collapse.
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…
Just a game? An Amazon All or Nothing documentary – but without the sponsorship money.
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 Infinity Repertory Theatre company presents a new musical from George Griggs and Paul Andrew Perez.
In an overpopulated Britain, a law called the Parental Act requires everyone to obtain a license to have children.
Ivy and Jones, two deadbeat, dead-end 20-somethings are looking for a way out.
Joanna has always spoken her mind.
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.
Megan is a perfect wife.
In 1423 Berlin, two peasants find themselves at the center of hysteria, hypocrisy and impending doom.
‘Why do you hurt yourself?’ Partial to his own methods of self-therapy, chronic overthinker Jade has all the answers.
On Christmas Eve, bartenders Kat and Tom endure a night of bad music, difficult guests and endless Pornstar Martinis.
‘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…
Can an Asian with a maths learning disability pass Nylon Tusk’s Mars Immigration Test? Welcome to an absurdist testing lab of dystopian speculations.
A funny, moving and uplifting one-sided conversation about neurodivergence, trauma, dead bodies and other lighthearted topics.
Goodness Me is a one-woman-and-a-Furby dramedy about millennial struggles, unexpected consequences and the crushing weight of responsibility.
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…
Combining the spooky, silly and sentimental, this brand-new musical is about confronting the past and knowing when to let go.
A group of Earth’s survivors rush onto the last vessel escaping from AI bots that have left the planet a wasteland.
1642.
Confined to a psychiatric hospital, Delaney retreats into vivid, often disorienting daydreams about his complicated family history.
It’s New Year’s Eve.
‘I think pregnant woman are ugly.
A new work from the award-winning playwright, P Shane Mitchell.
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…
Guy is a jobbing actor whose blind enthusiasm, sub-par ability and unhealthy obsession with Matt Damon leaves him in a rut.
Eight teenagers take you back in time to an analogue age when telephones had wires and television was not so demanding.
The artist Leah McBride is missing, presumed dead.
A feisty, charismatic, new girl band, a ruthless music industry mogul, and a struggling, idealistic singer/songwriter.
Venue 13 hosts a special series of CCTA plays, marking 10 years of bold, climate theatre.
Bennie really puts the ghost in ghostwriter.
Chaotic, ridiculous and oddly tender exploration of identity and purpose – through the eyes of Dolly the Sheep.
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.
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.
144 lives.
A poet languishes in solitary confinement for “heresy,” under relentless pressure to “recant”.
Audrey has everything under control.
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…
Tired of Tinder? Once upon a time, we trolled Craigslist Casual Encounters for the ‘M seeks F for DL meet-up’ ads.
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.
Rita is an immigrant.
Inspired by the character of Mrs Danvers from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca* – a wholly imagined creative origin story.
SpiceRack is back in Edinburgh for the third time with another devised work, this time about pirates and coffee.
A cabaret bar.
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…
It’s 2013.
It’s Halloween and the Rugby Team are throwing the party of the century.
It’s 1928 and teenage actress Molly O’Day is Hollywood’s newest star – and newest product to be packaged and sold.
It was never meant to get to this point.
One man.
In a magical reimagining of a real-world event, Ngofeen gets his first big assignment at The New Yorker.
The epic true story of the first Australian to win the Tour de France, live on stage.
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…
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‘I loved this brilliant new working-class play’ ***** (Edinburgh Evening News).
DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY dives headfirst into the whirlwind life of Ollie, a chaotic but lovable Scot navigating London’s queer nightlife.
Blowjobs, bleach and beef bourguignon.
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…
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.
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 …
After enduring torture in the Ministry of Love, Julia is finally released and reunited with her sister.
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…
Megan and Kevin are close friends bonded by their love of takeaways, Rick and Morty and Jeremy Paxman – a match made in adult heaven.
Direct from its sell-out North American premiere.
Lizzie Borden took an axe.
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…
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…
‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich’ (Rousseau).
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).
Celebrate the true-life story of one of the world’s most beloved icons, Audrey Hepburn.
Her and Grandpa are different and not the same.
r/Conspiracy is a play for messy girls, hungry sleuths, and the chronically online.
One young woman from East London is on a mission to bring back house parties.
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…
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…
A routine NHS111 health assessment goes horribly wrong over the phone resulting in the death of a patient.
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.
‘You’re fighting for equal rights or some shit: I’m still fighting for the right to exist’.
How To Kill Your Landlord is a fatal comedy of errors focusing on three young housemates.
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.
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…
‘EXCLUSIVE: ELTON IN VICE BOY SHAME’.
Lottie’s just made the mother of all promises and needs to grow up.
It’s 1883.
A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos.
On the 21st December 1988, a bomb exploded aboard Pan Am 103 over the quiet Scottish town of Lockerbie.
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.
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
Anchorage, Alaska, 1964.
What happens when the thing you wished for your whole life turns out to be your worst nightmare? Eris wants a baby.
Cara and Kelly are best friends, soulmates even.
Lunchbox is about the impact of bullying, through the eyes of a troubled Scottish boy, Steven and Pakistani girl, Lubna.
If there’s one thing worse than classism and the disparity of wealth in this country… It’s FOMO.
It’s more than a word – it’s a societal chokehold.
Something’s wrong with Becca.
‘Stunning, unflinching, poignant’ ***** (DCTheaterArts.
1957, West Germany.
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…
Manhattan buskers, cockney con-men, Broadway dreams.
‘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.
The odds of perishing in a commercial plane accident are 29.
During a long summer in a stifling Midlands town, local student Ivan goes missing.
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…
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 …
‘Incredibly funny and genuine in its expression of human connection’ (TheBroadOnline.
Tired of washing out your hummus pot? Sick of sorting through your plastic? Yep! Ella, a karaoke-loving procrastinator with a taste for Deliveroo, felt the same – until her water…
Since Alfie’s dad died, he’s visited everyone’s dreams but hers.
Use creativity to help our veterans with their Mental Wellbeing.
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…
‘You know, I never liked flowers for graves.
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.
A short caprice in gaslighting.
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 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…
Marketing a show as a thriller often raises hopes that are not met.
*Smoke Not Included.
Having finally moved away from the quiet village that raised her, Emmy’s perspectives on life are changing.
A woman embarks on an epic quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Puddle Theatre Company presents a relatable one-woman play.
How are you supposed to deal with a tragedy? In Brian’s case, step one is obviously to drink heavily and then hope that somehow step two reveals itself.
Join award-winning punslinger Darren Walsh fresh from his appearance on Comic Relief, as he road-tests new jokes, with some old jokes thrown in for good measure.
In Deptford, South London, a routine hair appointment becomes a *slightly* less intense version of John Tucker Must Die.
Kenneth starts his first day and manager Chris has big plans for the McGonagle Tavern: clean the place up, serve gourmet dishes, but above all else make the place a stylish and tra…
When sisters Mhairi and Caoimhe run away from home, Mhairi is determined to stay isolated from the world.
August 1815.
‘There’s no greater love story than female friendship’.
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…
In the glamorous, bohemian world of pre-war Paris, a beautiful American heiress meets a dashing British diplomat.
Are you ready to ask yourself the hard questions we face within society, family, love and culture? If so, come and witness the journey of four troubled souls who unwittingly explor…
Prom to after-party via generational identity crisis – what if the best night of your life turns into the rest of it? Set to an original score combining pop, funk, jazz and of co…
New Scottish writing: Sammy Blew Up a Toilet is a whimsical, heart-warming and partly autobiographical play set around the early years of school.
Set in the 1980s when Duran Duran were in their prime, personal computers the latest fad and Pacman and Space Invaders the games of choice.
Inspired by the style of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and that of traditional storytelling by a single narrator, this play weaves four humorous and moving narratives into one man…
What ruins a good game night? Losing all the vowels in Scrabble? Flipping the Monopoly board after going bankrupt? Accidentally kidnapping someone? It’s definitely the last one, is…
Whales sometimes make hit songs that get repeated through the ocean.
Remember your first day of university? The people you met? The awkward small talks you had? It doesn’t have to be like that.
Take a picture, it’ll last longer.
Souvenirs is a story of neurodiversity, self-acceptance and service stations.
Meet Georgie, Felix and Lola, three university students delivering a sex education play to secondary school students.
Privilege has long served as a protective veil from the realities of the climate crisis.
A workplace comedy about a pirate crew.
Misty Last: Academy Award Winner, Buzzfeed ‘where are they now’-er.
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.
‘The chance to win the night of your dreams with semi-famous porn star Lance Hardwood.
The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual.
An unpleasant reunion follows another unpleasant reunion as five school friends catch-up on old times.
School-girl Penny lives in a world on fire.
This original one-act comedy by Joel Smith reflects Samuel Beckett’s work and themes.
Worm is quite happy being just that: a worm.
Five girls, one friendship, and a therapist named Fanny.
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the free trip to California.
Broadway, 1955.
‘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.
A controversial sexual harassment allegation pushes Margaret to the edge of reason.
Someone has been keeping a record.
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…
Miriam works in finance in Singapore.
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 2001.
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.
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…
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…
When their daughter announces that she wants to transition, a couple find themselves divided in their attitudes and judgements.
People, locations, nature – Bashabi Fraser deftly challenges conventions in her poetry, weaving her dual cultural experiences into a tapestry of interconnectedness.
Mariam prepares for war.
Five would-be somebodies find themselves united in Hell, part of a trial run to solve Hell’s oncoming population problem.
Name? Where is here? Where is nowhere? Mouse, by name, but they are still to find out if it’s by nature.
Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy.
AJ doesn’t like karaoke, but she does like the girl who asked her to go.
It began with a show.
Created by Sarah Bishop, Somewhere is a brand-new fantasy musical with music and lyrics by internationally acclaimed indie-folk duo The Dunwells and other established Yorkshire sin…
In an afterlife, Gilbert and Sullivan decide to acknowledge Helen Carte’s contribution to their legacy.
After a sold-out run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (Winner of the Encore! Award) Lady Penelope, the Los Angeles laureate of iambic pentameter and rhyme brings her songs, sonnets…
What does it mean to be English anymore?.
A young woman, Maia (Soraya Pouilly), awakens tied to a chair and blindfolded.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
College is the best four years of your life! So, what happens when it ends? What was supposed to be a relaxing trip to a small town ends up turning Alex, Mallory, Stella and Bailey…
Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724.
Gruoch is a feminist, myth-centred examination of the bereaved and abused girl who became Lady Macbeth as an act of revenge for the death of her father.
Television at the turn of the Millennium was truly like the Wild West.
Nettles is a captivating and thought-provoking exploration of the human psyche, presented through a lens of dark comedy and existential introspection.
Upon a young woman’s decision to admit herself to rehab, she decides to get back into contact with her estranged mother.
Shapiro is a new musical based on the early life of UK singer Helen Shapiro.
Placeholder follows the early-life crisis of a somewhat dramatic twenty-something.
The seven stages of grief are a familiar concept to those who are grieving, have grieved or will grieve.
A gripping piece of new writing, My Blood is a psychological thriller loosely based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia.
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.
Two couples move into a flat together.
Two chairs, a table and a back wall filled with train tickets, polaroid selfies, drama posters and a cardboard cutout of Shakespeare – is this a re-creation of my university flat…
We need not stay dormant forever… When everything around Devin continues to grow and decay, why is the flower in his room showing no signs of change? Intertwined with a score ins…
This world-premiere musical explores how a shared moment of stress among strangers can bring them to form a fast bond.
‘Don’t worry.
Ghosts have the most appalling quality of life.
Untitled: How does a life unfold through conversation and can you trust your own brain to guide you down memory lane? Untitled invites your curiosity on a journey.
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 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…
Emily loves books, Elena loves trees.
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.
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.
Paradox becomes reality in this suspenseful journey tracking philosophy, art and David Bowie.
In 2012, two girls stabbed their friend 19 times at Slenderman’s instruction.
Bea visits her grieving friend Olivia in her ceramic studio.
The long walk home.
Four women.
Trust, truth, and tequila.
Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds.
Embarking on a journey of self-discovery following her autism diagnosis, Chameleon grapples with the complexities of love, identity and - most importantly - soggy chips.
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…
This new play by Michael Bryceson focuses on the relationship between a dying father and his son, Charlie.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be a brutal environment.
Poppy and Freddie wake up in the 'honeymoon suite' of a bed and breakfast in Slough.
Lee always wanted to be an astronaut.
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…
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.
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
‘Darling, your wicked brother The Duke greased me up in butter and rolled me down a hill.
‘Sometimes I wonder how white people look at me’.
Bringing together rappers and singers with heavy brass, strings, woodwind and a thundering backline, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.
Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown.
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.
False missile alert.
The original Chinese musical Hi, Sid! is a work performed by both professional musical theatre actors and child actors.
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, one party, zero social skills.
There are things you shouldn’t move.
It is September 1997.
What do kids really think about their parents? How do parents feel about being parents? If parents could do it all over again, what would they do differently? In Parents, we explor…
‘I think if you’re going to write a ghost story worth its salt you must experience ghosts for yourself’.
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 …
‘No woman should touch pen and ink: they had too much passion and too little sense.
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.
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…
The neighbour heard the screams from next door.
What happens when three friends accidentally date the same guy? They take it to the boxing ring.
Drew thinks she’s pregnant.
A man has decided to take his own life and finds himself in a state of limbo between life and death.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
Three childhood friends reunite after one of them finds success in her children’s book series The Rat King Gospels.
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…
Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even …
Bumping into your ex at work covered in baby vomit can be awkward.
Six friends plan a night of folklore and song.
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
Trying to get through the many challenges of their day, a team of young co-workers in a broken system begin to have their limits pushed to the extreme.
A heartfelt, heartbreaking, crass and hilarious look into the relationship of two childhood friends gone wrong reuniting at a wedding.
Alfie is an original musical about two boys, their journey through life and experiences in the army.
Shady wellness gurus, audacious business bros and one desperate graduate collide in this hilarious hour of brand new comedy.
An Ivy league professor (Madeleine Potter) reveals herself to us in slices at Traverse Theatre.
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.
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.
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…
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…
For lovers of absurdist theatre, A Play by John at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall is not to be missed.
1572.
‘My mother always said she wouldn’t make the same mistakes her mum did.
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…
How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do.
Sexy, camp and nepotistic.
Meet Molly Briton (with one 't'), the utterly loveable and irrepressibly charming central character of David Martin's new play Mother.
Step back into the Edinburgh of the eighteenth century! Passing Likeness is a new verse drama by local writer Ash Caton.
A dark romantic comedy that explores the topics of death and the afterlife.
Searching for his beloved Alice in a race against time, Hatter leaves home.
‘I got very little, little to no media training, so.
Claude Monet’s works are some of the most immediately identifiable of art history.
Alex Norcott and the team at Exi Attica have created a show that is quintessentially Fringe and unashamedly Shakespeare.
Grab your “all access” pass into the mysterious world of Broadway’s backstage! Follow veteran “star dresser” Pam as she works her magic through complex costume changes, confrontati…
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
In 1916, Christabel Mennell writes a letter of apology to Katie Marsh.
God, the Devil and Me is a brave new comedy exploring and average teenage life… if you’re best friends with God and the Devil that is.
Following a tram-related accident, the renowned cast of Macbeth have been all but wiped out.
Speakbeast are doing an agricultural conference, and it’s got all the things we think agricultural conferences usually have.
School friends Amelia, Poppy and Lauren are wild camping in the Northumberland forest.
‘I became the Jeremy Clarkson of tits.
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…
How do you look non-binary? Everyday your brain is bombarded by images and opinions about your body.
After a failed graffiti attempt in a nightclub toilet, Kev Campbell ends up meeting a stranger who completely changes the course of his life.
A powerful, provocative and funny new play by Nancy Hamada about love, loss and America’s twisted obsession with guns.
Two people, one bed and no connection.
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 is a new musical play, originating from the Chinese literary masterpiece by the same name.
The audience is seated.
Shower Chair is an hour long comedic play about mistakes, growing up, and learning how to save life from going down the drain.
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.
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.
A walrus comedy (for adults).
This is a beautiful play.
Long Distance is a new play which explores intimacy and connection through a series of text messages.
Ali is living the rainbow family dream – but something is missing.
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.
Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie.
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…
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.
Shows like this are the absolute heart of the Fringe.
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.
The story of one of country music’s most iconic voices: June Carter Cash.
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 is a dark comedy set in modern day London.
Working Progress Collective is ‘a Midlands-born theatre company, making theatre for, by and with working class communities’.
Based on a little-known Grimms’ fairytale, Godfather Death is an award-winning and gleefully macabre new musical exploring mortality, healthcare and class.
In this touching debut, two university students meet on a bench at 2am after a bad night out.
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.
It’s a Grave Business.
‘Choosing sperm is weird.
Embark on a journey with Marriage with Benefits, a captivating one-woman show delving into the comedic complexities of love, ambition, and bureaucracy in a post-Brexit landscape.
Pillock has ADHD.
A dotcom billionaire pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English (Wait.
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…
As artfully dishevelled studios go, Arthur’s is on the more organised side of shambolic.
Musicals that aim to reinvent historical figures are in fashion at the moment, as shown by the success of Hamilton and Six.
Inside Chekhov’s masterpiece, Olga, Masha, and Irina are trapped in a cycle of disappointed hopes, heartbreak, and inertia.
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…
A couple has thirty minutes to decide whether to erase the memory of their failed relationship.
‘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…
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…
Fern doesn’t get invited to dinner parties anymore.
‘This is just the start.
Returning again to the Fringe, and as always featuring students from the University of Salford.
Mother is in prison.
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 …
Jamie can’t swim.
Sergio Blanco’s latest offering with Tangram Theatre Company, which he directs, is radically different from his other works.
There’s a band set up on stage, but this is no ordinary music show.
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.
Admiration.
Two figures in matching eye-popping day glo tracksuits burst into the arena.
Two best mates.
Happy boobs.
Grace was a high-class sex worker, who rose to meteoric fame on social media.
Revel in quiet rebellion; gently let go and loudly move forward with four Belfast housemates.
There lived a certain man in Russian long ago….
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.
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.
Four-time Fringe First and Olivier award-winning Fishamble returns to Traverse.
Told through paper mementos, A History of Paper is an epic love story.
Attending the world premiere of My English Persian Kitchen at The Traverse Theatre is a real treat.
“Why do we keep telling the old stories?” asks the titular character of Virginia Gay’s adaptation.
Emotional, environmental, and existential crises collide in the whirlwind hour or so of the Brian Watkins-penned Weather Girl.
Playfight is a visceral, fast-moving production from Theatre Uncut, that relentlessly demands your attention from the first moment to the last.
Tupac never died.
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 is a joke.
‘Hey, we’re not students anymore – who the f*ck stole my avocado?!’ A comedy about five housemates gloriously wasting their youth as they try to avoid the hell of growing up.
A 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.
Friends of seven years, Iris (Ianthe Bathurst) and Thalia (Thea Mayeux) share their lives in the same flat.
Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job.
Smash-hit, one-woman show from the award-winning Det Andre Teatret is coming to Edinburgh! Nominated for Best Theatre Play by the prestigious Hedda award.
What happens six months after your five minutes of fame? Cyrus and Ben are the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality show.
Krista lives in London.
Hajja Souad sells shrouds for burying the dead in Gaza.
It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level.
There’s a climate emergency.
Come Dine With Me is a British staple.
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 …
Vietnam veteran Jimmy lives an okay enough life, poking around his garage in rustbelt Michigan, enjoying the gruff banter between friends and customers.
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’s joyful and comic paintings are known and loved throughout the world but little is known of the very private person behind them.
Birdy is 19.
Fest Magazine Top Theatre Picks 2024! Winner: 2024 Adelaide Fringe Award.
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 …
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…
Bea works three full-time jobs.
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 more or less brought to an end a dark period of contemporary UK history.
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.
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.
A poetic anthology.
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…
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…
Winner: 2023 Best Theatre Award.
Murder? Mystery? Toilets?! Slash is a new black comedy whodunnit set in the toilets at a school reunion.
From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award winning plays Jesus, Jane Mother and Me, and Heroin(e) for Breakfast.
Emma-Louise Howell will go far.
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…
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.
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.
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�…
Estelle models for the Artist.
World premiere of Gabriel McDerment’s new mental-health work! As Andrea, a high school senior, fights through the daunting US college application process, she experiences the menta…
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy.
What happens when truth, rage and purpose converge upon a metaphorical moon? A displaced narrator must face her past and find out.
Lured into metaphorical deep water by a mixture of intrigue and desire, a bewildered Emory Holdridge grapples with life on the remote but stunningly beautiful West Coast of Scotlan…
Have you danced so hard that you felt you could achieve anything? Mili’s inner persona says yes, but Mili’s body always caves with embarrassment amongst a world of serious people.
“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok says this show might do that but don’t worry we can just trauma bond.
Finn and Isabelle are trapped in an unhappy relationship.
The year is 1990.
The UK premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who’s kind of like Hugh Gr…
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
Chance by Yolan Noszkay follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been exclud…
William Wallace is in a London dungeon awaiting his fate, he knows what’s in store for him yet he faces up to his demise with bravery and determination, this is a stirring tale as …
Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one.
In the early hours of July 17th 1918, four young women were executed by shotgun and bayonet in a grubby basement in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Picture This is a new musical-thriller that follows stop-motion animation filmmaker Mary.
A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room.
Suzie Depreli – not a typically Jewish name, is it? – brings you one woman’s passive aggressive mission to educate the world about what it means to have an orthodox family that…
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
If your walls could talk, what would they say? This solo show dives into the history of an immigrant family, following their decision to move into a new house in the hope to mend t…
You’re invited to a private meeting of The Leading Lady Club! At this meeting, the women are sharing their experiences with dating apps, heartbreak, self-defense, workplace interac…
The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring.
Using music, dance and drama, SLP have created an original love story that celebrates self-discovery and diversity as lovers choose to cross the societal boundaries of different wo…
Eager to stand out from the crowd, a group of teenagers turn to the assistance of AI – but what starts as a fun experiment soon turns to alarming obsession.
‘I think something’s happening to me.
One bedroom.
Good and Gaslit.
From a troublesome priest to a mystery guest and a very, very late hearse, expect family fallouts, secret affairs and lots of chaos.
A captivating one-woman show, based on the critically acclaimed Amazon bestseller Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda.
A comedy told by mad people, for mad people.
Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of healing.
Eloise’s Dad taught her to play the piano.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
A story of love, loss and how to let go, The Stall, an original one-act play written and performed by award-winning actor Jack Twelvetree, cuts to the heart of the human experience…
The cosy, safe world of three flatmates is rocked by a woman’s murder.
Waiting for Champagne follows former friends and roommates, Annie and Frances, who haven’t spoken to each other in more than a year.
Are you destined to repeat ancestral patterns forever? If you could know the entire history of your bloodline, and everything you’re passing on to your children, would you want t…
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
Abby Vicky-Russell presents her ‘masterclass in character comedy’ **** (LostInTheatreland.
A violent relationship can happen to anyone.
Vulnerability and sexual awakening go hand in hand in Declan, an unnerving one-man play set in rural Wiltshire.
Ben Tomalin, Maisie Fawcett and Sophie Holmes’ Without is an interesting contender at this year’s Fringe Festival in that it has a very strong cast that handles an equally stro…
When Death calls for Liv, she doesn’t expect her to be such a bitch. Call Me Suicidal is an exploration into the inconvenience of being alive.
Don’t be put off by the topic - this dance show about death is far from gloomy.
Blue Dragon.
It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
After the sudden death of her grandfather, Lisa Blanche is left with the task of carrying out one of the wishes on her grandfather’s will: to find out what happened to his brother …
Deep beneath the streets of Regency Edinburgh lies a labyrinth of pitch-dark vaults, housing the downtrodden and hiding a criminal underworld.
Black comedy/drama. Jodi and Danny are True Spirits and are destined to be together forever. The only problem is that Danny doesn’t know it yet…
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
How long would you wait for a moment of inspiration? 1860s Paris is a place of romance and art, but for Victorine, it is an escape from her grey life in Dublin.
The last day of anyone’s retirement is usually calm and peaceful, that is unless your name is Victor ‘The Knuckles’ Norman.
Hollywood, 1950.
How far can you push a sex metaphor, a romantic friendship, and questionable interior décor choices? When Ash and Zee move into their tiny Edinburgh apartment, they begin to navig…
We begin, as most trauma does, in the distant past.
Based on a true event in New York City, 1911.
What happens when you love your life and want to be dead? Join Sadia Gordon with her Fringe debut dark comedy.
This firecracker of a comedy explores the relationships between four young women embarking on a disastrous camping trip.
Tom and Isaac are two mice who have lived inside a cuckoo clock their entire lives.
BBC Studios, November 1991.
Washington DC’s iconic sketch duo, Lots of Feelings, finds meaning amidst the chaos of life through mouth and eye-watering sketches.
You’ve been trying to work on your coolness.
A woman is tied to a bed – a sex game or something more sinister? Is he still angry about the mushy peas? It’s about family, betrayal, god, sex and a girl who just wants to be lo…
Would you rather watch, or be watched? Julia is hosting a dinner party.
Seven women attend a wake where they discover that their lives are mysteriously intertwined.
‘To be, or not to be? That is the question.
Jen’s Evolution is Nigh: One woman.
Part homage to Charlie Kaufman’s 2002 film, part testimony to Gabor Maté’s Myth of Normal, a corporate trainer reluctantly wakes up to the impossibility of society’s invisib…
What happens when you fall so deeply into another’s world that you forget who you are? A one-woman experimental exploration of identity, self-worth, body image and relationships’…
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
Alma is a whale specialist on her final field mission before being forced into an early retirement.
A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker.
This completely original chamber musical by Shaye Poulton Richards is a darkly charming piece of new writing.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
2020 the musical follows main characters Emily Goodhand and Adam Pictor, two musical theatre performers who have faced a lot of rejection, finally get their big break in a show tha…
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
Dazzling is a one-woman show following Alix, a quirky twenty-something living through the obligatory suffering which comes with discovering oneself, especially in the shadow of her…
Mary is dead.
‘The fact that I’m sitting here as a real life vicar actually blows my mind.
A young English doctor rushes an elderly Scottish lady onto a lift, taking her to surgery many floors below.
Puppets is a new and exciting play, fresh from its debut at the Durham Drama Festival.
Palindrome is Cambridge University Musical Theatres Society’s latest Edinburgh Fringe offering.
All About Eve? More like, Everyone’s Worried About Eve! The new sitcom! It’s Eve‘s birthday but for some reason this year feels different and Eve doesn’t quite know why.
Searching for escape from her mind and body, an anti-heroine finds solace in a seal skin that allows her to remove herself from her responsibilities on land as a young mother.
A heartfelt, humorous investigation into the things mothers pass onto their daughters – for better or worse.
‘Alexa, Google how to delete my digital footprint.
Teenage chaos, comedy, and (mis)communication – wrapped neatly into five episodes spotlighting the intimate conversations that take place in the corners of a house party.
What’s the worst thing about cancer? The intrusive medical stuff or the emotional rollercoaster that it sends you on? Join Patient as she navigates sex, friendship and life like …
Lydia Whitbread’s Winging It is a vague yet very intense coming of age musical.
Get ready to witness a rollercoaster of emotions as our heroine navigates angst, office politics and the ultimate betrayal by her boyfriend Joe, all whilst trying to maintain her s…
Expecting a retelling of the Greek myth, the office set is initially a little confusing.
The Stall by Jack Twelvetree is an abstract show that uses a childhood memory of flying as an extended metaphor to explore grief, loss, regret and mental health.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
Would you watch the worst things on the internet for a living? Written by Rebekah King, this award-winning play follows two former social-media moderators on a mission to sue the c…
Examining the clashing forces on climate change, from eco-activists to oil barons and airheaded celebrities trying to make a change, Crash and Burn not only delivers on a very funn…
If you knew my story, your heart would break too.
Self Actually is about Anthony, who is part of a scientific experiment.
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Welcome to LATER, Paines Plough’s late-night roster of one-off performances.
How did a Jewish immigrant to London’s East End end up as a General in the Chinese army and become “Two Gun” Cohen? This incredible true story is recounted by Cohen from his cell i…
Will is a popular GP but when a teenage patient kills himself, everything starts to unravel.
A boy seeks solace in the woods after the loss of his brother.
Café L’Arté is a brand-new immersive musical set in real time in a coffee shop.
A new dramatic musical with music by Tim Nelson and lyrics by Vincent Aniceto tells the story of a group of everyday people working on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center on …
Smith is having big dreams.
‘Two cousins unalike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene…’ In 1596, courtship is complicated.
Written and composed by Bethany, Cameron and Natasha Lythgoe, Pandemonium is a biblical musical of mundane proportions built upon a confusing amalgamation and re-telling of stories…
When Victor drives into Vi’s life in his dodgy Volvo, things change forever.
When the flints of the old strike with the new, what story can be lit from the sparks? The ancient ballad of Tam Lin is reimagined in a near-future dystopian Scotland, exploring th…
Pandemic making you stir crazy? Log into The Feed! Created by Freed-Hardeman University in Tennessee, The Feed began in 2021 as a series of quirky Facebook posts about a crockpot t…
If there’s one thing that makes a hard worker, it’s desperation.
Shaun Woods has been a football manager for the last 30 years.
Seven days.
A tale about life, loss and love after the well-known happily-ever-after.
Set 28 years in the future, Kingdom is a comedy which imagines a dystopia where Scotland has become independent but subsequently divided, women have finally risen up against years …
Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions.
Set not too far in the future, Twenty People a Minute follows four refugees of tomorrow on a perilous journey across the earth.
The Scottish witch hunts – sanctioned by the state, fuelled by the Church, fed by hysteria, and buried by history.
Dara is not a ghost.
Mild-mannered Ned Burger is 57 years old, happily married and running a sandwich shop in San Francisco.
A bloody war is brewing.
France 1817.
Roe vs Wade is synonymous with the debate around abortion rights.
A year into the zombie apocalypse and Logan and his fellow survivors are doing just fine.
A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre.
Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and bu…
A writer urges a star to come down to earth and collaborate with him on a play.
Wendy and Liam embark on a first date both assume is doomed for failure.
Brand-new original musical drama comedy based on the true stories of Jill Morrell and John McCarthy.
It’s 1969 and Pope Paul VI, much to the chagrin of many holy spirits, has made an announcement that puts into question the existing canon of Catholic saints.
A curse causes Nathan to skip into the future whenever he falls asleep.
Narcissism, noun – a condition in which somebody is only interested in themselves and what they want, and has a strong need to be admired.
Chopped Liver and Unions tells the story of workers’ activist and trades unionist Sara Wesker, now largely lost to the footnotes of twentieth century history, but in her time a n…
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life.
Describing itself as “a retelling of Rapunzel” for the climate age, Debating Extinction, the first of a double bill entitled Climate Fables, by Padraig Bond, contains several i…
‘Have you ever been told that you’re too much? Too loud? Too chaotic? Too ambitious? Too Scottish? I have.
Can’t Wait To Leave is a deeply heartfelt and surprisingly humorous story by Stephen Leach and is performed exceptionally well by Zach Hawkins.
A powerful new play from today’s Russia brought to the Fringe by artists in exile due to their anti-war position.
An autobiographical, solo rock musical about growing up in the entertainment industry and fighting diet culture, sexual harassment, mental illness and addiction to find authenticit…
This courtroom drama centres around the question of euthanasia.
Alfie and George are two well-loved but aging panto stars, but will this duo last as we reveal the tension between the pair – what will become of them? And will their friendship …
From three-time Booker-nominated author Andrew O’Hagan (Mayflies), a cautionary tale of literary life, a hilarious a brilliant new play.
If you’ve ever been a corporate cog, this is the show for you.
The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office.
Alan doesn’t understand Carol after they met via a dating app which was organised by bestie Karen, but now Carol has met Tony to complicate matters as she becomes the Queen Of T…
The play follows Billy, a young man whose love of football is the dominant feature in his life, religiously attending every match day without fail.
Twenty-something Audrey is struggling with her latest phobia… the local supermarket.
From the writer of 2019’s acclaimed Butterflies (‘playwright to watch’ (FringeReview.
The title, Dead Man’s Suitcase, doesn’t give much away and even at the end it’s a little unclear what the message of Felix Westcott’s musical is supposed to be.
A 62-year-old woman in an insane asylum closes her eyes and becomes a 28-year-old, stand-up comedian with everyone in the audience being part of her imagination, including you.
Welcome to everyone’s favourite flat-pack megacorporation’s new reality TV show! The premise is simple – people are profitable.
‘I thought this Earth was dead, no stirring life, a pile of tinkering bones.
Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals.
The Stranger is a statue in a small Yorkshire town, her exact story unknown.
London bachelor Monty Button-Purse spies Gracie at his friend’s New Year Ball 1922, and is determined to woo her through the flourish of his penmanship.
The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand.
On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story.
Jamie, once a talented young sommelier, is on a downward spiral.
Captain Macbeth is Vice-President.
Cornwall’s rising.
Another chance to see the Broadway Baby Bobby Award Winner Best Theatre Show at the Fringe 2019.
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
Written in Hawaiian language, Pai’ea is a glam-rock opera that covers the early life, tests, and battles of Kamehameha I, the chief who united the Hawaiian Islands.
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
‘When I thought of my favourite Spielberg films I’d want my life’s adventure to be like, I hoped for maybe Back to the Future or, I don’t know, ET, not Jaws.
From emerging talent Charles Edward Pipe comes an anthology of five dynamic, new, short plays.
Hello, and welcome everyone to a play that explores death, loss, legacy and obsession.
‘When I say sleep, you’re free again’.
World premiere from award-winning Korean/Irish playwright Rena Brannan.
You know that feeling when you bump into the person you’re cheating on your partner with, just to find out he’s also cheated on you with her but she’s your couples therapist?…
When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors.
Would you watch the worst things on the internet for a living? Written by Rebekah King, this award-winning play follows two former social-media moderators on a mission to sue the c…
‘Breathtaking, heart-stopping, terrifying’ ***** (Cherwell.
New Year’s Eve, London.
Contrasting pandemic situations portrayed in a colourful collage of scenes and characters, this is a one-of-a-kind experience to witness.
Ready to peel back the layers? Join everyone’s favourite anti-hero for a delve into dysfunction, disaster and danger with an up-close and personal session.
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
12-year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian Outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne.
That moment when your life flashes before your eyes.
Jesse James, the famous outlaw, finds himself in hot water with the authorities and the rest of his crew.
Using some of Shakespeare’s best-loved works, Annie Lightbody explores the traumatic events of 2020 and connects them to her own personal story of crisis and reinvention.
Direct from a sold-out NYC run, 4/4/4 is a radical new play that features 4 real Asian actors playing 4 White men playing 4 fake Asians.
Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine? (what are you saying girl?) finds Ava, seemingly alone, in her Grannies cottage on the north-east coast of Scotland.
People You Know Productions are going for a cross between Posh, and an Agatha Christie novel, except that nobody here actually wants to work out who the killer is.
Boasting the tagline, “who hasn’t thought about killing an ex?”, Emilie Biason’s I Killed My Ex shows us about the practical difficulties involved in such an endeavor.
A buddy comedy for an existential generation.
Writer/performer Jenny Witzel tells her story of living on a boat in an “up-and-coming” neighbourhood in South-East London.
It’s summer.
Much more a comedy gig than a lecture, James Sheldrake brings the spirit of his podcast (Sheldrake on Shakespeare) to Edinburgh for an hour of anecdote, insight, performance, analy…
Join us in an exploration of love, loss and learning, seen through the lens of an old woman leaving her wisdom with a younger woman.
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
A cocksure and impassioned performance.
Somewhere far inland, lakes that once stretched across the desert are now shallow pools of dust.
‘So, I’ve decided to become a Golden Retriever.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
Are you truly satisfied with how you are living, or do things feel.
Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
“What if you meet the right man down the line? You might change your mind!” “Why waste a good pair of ovaries?” Carmel is a lesbian with no interest in having children.
Molly works at Greggs.
Watson is alone.
An annual work review that goes horribly wrong.
Shortlist is a two-hander written by Brian Parks, directed by Margarett Perry, performed by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams and Matthew Boston.
A captivating new theatre piece about a Black British woman who finds herself homeless and alone after an earthquake.
A play about six wildly different people, coping and connecting during one year on the Common, telling their unexpected tales of love, life, death and downright dottiness, while a …
Transfixing, she’s staring at us through a doorframe – or is it a painting? We’re invited to draw, then bid…Created by Diana Feng, Tegan Verheul and Clarisse Zamba of the W…
Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and a thundering back-line, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.
Niamh O’Reilly is a Frigid, meaning she’s never been kissed.
Theatre Paradok, Edinburgh’s premier experimental theatre society returns with Paradok Platform! More than six brand new experimental pieces of theatre, ranging from comedy and dra…
Surviving the streets of Coventry in his NAF NAF jacket, discovering the gay scene in 90s Soho, exploring the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft, Declan Bennett’s electric, funny and raw …
Winner of the 2023 Edinburgh Untapped Award, One Way Out is a powerful exploration of the injustices suffered by the Windrush generation, through the lens of four boys from South L…
It was the first truly beautiful summer’s day of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Faye’s afraid.
Heaven is set in County Offaly, Ireland, during the weekend of a local wedding.
Soldiers of Tomorrow tells the story of Itai Erdal’s conflicted relationship with Israel, specifically his time as a soldier and the prospect of his nephew’s future as a soldie…
A new gig-theatre show featuring songs by Kyle Falconer of The View.
The Birth of Frankenstein tells us the story of Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, on her fateful trip to Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
‘It’s the familiarity of herself, somehow, that she sees reflected in his eyes.
The Hunger is a chilling horror, following mother and daughter Deborah and Megan as they attempt to fend for themselves amid an apocalyptic pandemic.
A unique new musical with a fully actor-muso cast, this Charlie Hartill Award finalist blends contemporary pop, soul, and folk music in a dynamic story of convent school life.
A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff.
City trader, Olly, still recovering from the death of his boyfriend, Sam, has a chance encounter with homeless teenager Aaron.
The sequel to their award-winning debut! Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear-splitting music; try not to be sick if you see too much flesh.
‘I felt this pressure to be sexy from the second I got tits.
Award-winning writer Izzy Tennyson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in the shadow of her previous show Brute to tell the story of two dissimilar sisters who must navigate strained r…
The holiday meal gone wrong is a classic sitcom episode and genre of comedy, as surprise revelations and drama abound.
There is wonder here in Edinburgh, and it is being ignored.
Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding.
The Chatham House Rule is an agreement which allows those in power to share ideas with impunity: the discussion itself can be reported upon, but names are protected.
Cassie is a hot mess.
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
On Hollywood Boulevard, a group of actors are posing as famous characters for photos with tourists.
What connects two seemingly unrelated killings, 27 years apart? In 1993, Steve’s mother dies suddenly; can he trust GP Harold Shipman’s ‘Natural Causes’ diagnosis? And in 2020, whe…
UK Theatre Award Nominee 2022: Best New Play.
Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies.
Time to sweat out the sadness: Spin Cycles gives a cathartic look into why we search for something deeper when the inconceivable happens to us.
Bad Teacher is a solo show by Erin Holland with contributions from other teachers that follows Holland’s character through a hectic day in the life as a drama teacher.
“This is not a play,” we’re told.
In this poignant and compelling new work, an ambitious manager introduces a new first violinist to a longstanding string quartet with an uncertain future.
A meditation on motherhood, feminism and fame, two-time Emmy award winner Dorothy Lyman premiers her story at this year’s Fringe.
Winner of the 2021 Platform Presents Playwright’s Prize.
This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical.
Emily’s life is falling apart.
'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.
All Terrence wants is to “make it” as a dinosaur entertainer, land a Netflix deal, and get his ex back.
What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation.
Real-life events of a first-generation immigrant navigating the duality of two cultures, Habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian) heritage and British identity.
So they’ve both swiped right.
A good story is surely one that absolutely demands to be told.
***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide).
Get on the Lash! Just in time for last orders.
‘Mum, I’m a lesbian.
It’s club night and the tracks are spinning.
No one knows what happens after we die.
‘Any nation that devours another will one day devour itself.
A thrilling new play by Eve Leigh and directed by Debbie Hannan, Salty Irina is about two girls falling in love and fighting nazis.
In a world where queer characters are often two-dimensional, Cowboys And Lesbians pokes brilliant fun at romantic cliches while creating a sparklingly camp coming-of-age romcom.
Hello Kitty Must Die is a musical adaptation of the Angela S.
Have you ever felt like you didn’t have the words? Have you ever felt like you wanted to say the exact right thing, but couldn’t? Have you ever wanted to make someone stop crying a…
He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye.
Four women.
A vital new comedy play by Glaswegian playwright Mikael Philippos about the real struggles, judgement and most importantly, laughs, a family affected by the incarceration of a love…
Greek myths have been told and retold, lost, translated and re-translated over and over.
In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording studio to complete an Americana album, unaware that materials in the walls are dri…
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom, written and performed by Raymond Wilson and produced by All Those Figs, is an expert fringe show.
The works of Tennessee Williams rank as some of the greatest and most iconic plays ever written.
‘Such a discovery is playwright Lia Romeo’ ***** (TheaterMania.
What if Shakespeare had a daughter who inherited his wit and creativity? A retelling of the life of Judith Shakespeare, Upstart gives voice to a feminist born before her time.
Lena is on a mission to veganise her tinder dates.
Returning to the Fringe for the fifth time, Hughie Shepherd-Cross debuts his latest play, Ringer.
‘Simply Brilliant.
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
Much like a dramatisation of a family game of Monopoly, Dough looks at money with a kind of argumentative helplessness.
If you need to restore your faith in what Fringe theatre has to offer, look no further than Eva O’Connor’s Chicken, showing in the Former Women’s Locker room at Summerhall �…
A brutally honest, hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show navigating the impossibly confusing gender dynamics of modern love.
Murder in London: The Butterfly Butcher strikes again.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu…
In the pressurised worlds of football and finance, two women carve their own path.
Who needs a pair of heels, a coconut, and a doorbell…? The answer: a foley artist.
For Charly, every day is the same.
Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz is a touching solo play written and performed by Nathan Queeley-Dennis.
Mixing documentary footage, storytelling, and live music, The Death & Life of All of Us is a funny and poignant exploration of family secrets, shame, and embracing our imperfection…
Kieran Hurley's Adults was like being taken for a 1 hour and 20 minute gripping joyride, which consisted of belly laughs and thrills throughout.
Two Truth and a Lie.
Bubblegum and Pop.
Cora is 23, self-obsessed, a compulsive liar* (*harmless bullshitter), and an absolute hot mess.
10 years of war have ended.
Even a prince needs a woman’s first gift.
It’s 1947 and Catherine has just shot dead her husband, Philip, in their Regent’s Park flat.
An original new musical that puts a bluegrass twist on contemporary musical theatre.
Ancient Greece.
Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C…
1930s England.
They say a bull sees red when it loses the plot.
Denmark.
Remember that time you pooed yourself in public? Or when you swore at your mum for asking you to tidy your pigsty of a room? Maybe you’re still blushing over the time someone poi…
A Londoner travels to America finding himself amongst incels, or, men who hate women.
That’s A Bit of Sheer Luck! – A Sherlock Holmes Parody.
Inspirational, passionate and unconventional; the world famous dancer Isadora Duncan was one of America’s greatest performing artists and is widely known as the mother of modern da…
Two sisters.
A world comedic debut, one-woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
An intimate short play focused on the complex deterioration of a wife and the relationship with her husband.
A new comedy with a backstage pass to the magic and mayhem of music performance.
A play about consent, castings and cappuccinos.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding.
One of the best Cornish zombie apocalypse comedies ever made.
This is a play about birthdays.
Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather …
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
The world is ending.
Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends.
Edinburgh-based dark comedy collective The Counterminers are back for their third Fringe, putting on a new-writing piece by Florence Carr-Jones – Cheeky Girls.
Every family has its drama, and every wedding has its secrets.
The year is 1925; the place is New York City.
Welcome to LoudScribble, Karl’s first one-man show which views the world through his poetic prism in ridiculous detail and invites you to scribble a line or two of your own.
Four students stuck in an elevator, with nothing to do except to talk to each other.
What happens to characters when the curtain comes down? How do we know if they ever learn from their mistakes and move beyond the confines of their story, or whether they remain tr…
Rebound by Allegra Peres.
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
The morning after a drunken rendezvous with an old boyfriend, a woman and her friend discuss autonomy, identity and bad sex.
Jordan and Connie want their next-generation AI voice assistant – Alivia – to make their perfect lives just that little bit better.
How many voices must be taken before we are heard? Join the studio audience of this comedic and dystopian gameshow and follow the friendship of two young women and their experience…
David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.
A heated argument and an all-night conversation leaves childhood friends Max and Kieran shaken, with suppressed emotions exploding to the surface.
Do you believe in magic? Boo and Bunny are best friends.
Explore environmental icon Rachel Carson’s nature in this wildly inventive solo show from fellow Pittsburgher Elise Robertson, who uses puppets, found objects, and stage wizardry…
The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.
Surrealist stand-up comedian George Bricher will take you on a path of bizarre thought experiments, strange rants and lessons in how to stay optimistic in the face of middle-class …
That’s what a trigger pull is worth.
The Rain Men.
An experimental nosedive into Jamie’s fractured past.
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
It’s the big day.
In a city just like yours, hope is in short supply.
Birds of Passage in the Half Light is a dark comedic excavation exposing the complicated relationship between Her faith and the generational impact that it has had on Her female li…
And is a tribute to all that has graced this earth.
A solo show about motherhood, the forest and the universe.
Daughter is 17, living with Mother, whom she loves, and Father, whom she hates.
Based on a wild and hilarious true story, Reservoir Knobs follows the aftermath of a botched supermarket robbery, as the hapless criminals gather in a warehouse to confront an inju…
It’s Richard’s fourth day in hospital, involuntarily detoxing, and he’s itching for a drink.
Ancient Greece.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
A childless man volunteers to mentor a troubled, fatherless boy.
In 2017, I was raped.
There is a distinctly medieval feel to Ross Stephenson’s Artorigus from the start, despite its modern trappings.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
‘Perspectives.
Written by Joffrey himself, this retelling of the first season of Game of Thrones as a traditional pantomime is the true story of Joffrey’s fight to secure his rightful place on …
Written and preformed by Tamara Al-Bassam in her debut Fringe production, Able(ish) is a lighthearted monologue about one woman’s uphill struggle applying for disability support…
John and May were sixth form lovers, they haven’t seen each other in five years.
Alex loves church because it has Hobnobs and singing, and she’s not allowed either at home because one, she’s tone-deaf, and two, she’s diabetic.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
In a steel-lined basement in a near-future Thursday morning, Conor and Julia are waiting for the world to end.
In this dark comedy, Ophelia and Gertrude are in limbo and on their way to Hell.
Following on from the sell-out production of Our Teacher’s a Troll at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, Stage Door Enigma Theatre Company presents Game On! Join 14-year-old Ben on …
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
Welcome to Clapham South tube station – home to the last five survivors of the climate crisis.
When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man.
Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues …
The Changeling Girl explores experiences of neurodivergency through the captivating story of Agnes, an autistic girl living in medieval England accused of being a fairy changeling.
Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’s just a nicer word for different.
Football, fathers, friendship.
Cat is a one-woman, twisted comedy show by Connie Harris.
Everybody needs a break.
If you were given a chance to travel back in time, would you take it? This story starts when a letter arrives from someone who is believed to be dead.
This reconstruction of Macbeth for Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society’s annual Shakesperimental play reimagines the narrative within a modern political context.
In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people.
Love and Piss is both a carnival of rebellion and a celebration of queer identity.
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
Can fiction save you from reality? Aimlessly wandering and trapped in her nine-to-five, Rachel is inadvertently catapulted through a rift in the space-time continuum, landing in th…
When faced with the drama and indignities of growing up, five toes must contend with smelly socks, ballet injuries and a dose of existential dread in their journey to discover what…
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
Welcome to Pharmtec, the fastest-growing dietary supplement provider in the country! More specifically, welcome to its customer-facing contact centre, where a crack team awaits eve…
Welcome to The Horse’s Mouth! We’ve got comedy on tap! Watch our hero work his first shift at the pub, and meet the rather strange bunch of regulars he encounters along the way, ea…
Mediocre everyman Samuel Green has one week to prove himself worthy of permanent residence in Heaven.
Influencers, social pressures, selfies and shame.
When Coretta Scott King became widowed after an assassin’s bullet murdered her husband, the iconic Martin Luther King Jr, it propelled her voice, activism and leadership onto the i…
The Calligrapher is a new, award-winning, student-written play by Abraham Alsalihi.
Real, Mad World is a brilliant piece of new writing following the joys and heartbreaks of trans life.
A birthday wish plunges the world into a hellish playground of 90s nostalgia.
Frankie wants to conform.
Robert is a poet.
If life is about the journey and not the destination, then the passengers on the 15:00 train from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley don’t know which way to go.
Welcome to Scarbados! Written and directed by Sam Milnes, brand-new comedy-drama Scarbados is a play about love, life, grief, hope, relationships, and fish and chips! On Shazza and…
Three young people tell us they don’t feel.
In the aftermath of a terrible break-up, Nick takes a job out of town as a private tutor to two young children.
Come traverse the world with me! No hotels to book.
We think we know this story.
Suddenly kettled at a climate change protest on the hottest day of the year, Kelly finds herself trapped with a volatile and unlikely mix of people.
Originally published in 1915, The Rainbow was extraordinarily ahead of its time as Lawrence explores the experiences of three generations of Polish women living in Nottinghamshire …
Do you believe in magic? Bev does, but after the death of her son Jess she thought she’d never find her magic again.
Butter Bath is the psych-pop project of Sydney/Eora based artist Toby Anagnostis.
A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast.
A woman grieving for the loss of her daughter is drawn to the mystery of the Wishing Well.
Gabbi Bolt really hopes her keyboard doesn’t break.
1915, Ypres, Belgium.
A tale of unrealised dreams.
Cassie, a young twenty-something from the Northwest of England, has moved to the arse end of London, looking for better opportunities and new beginnings.
Inspired by shocking true events, Fiji is a gripping two-hander that blends true crime with romantic comedy to deliver a thrill-ride as hilarious and warm as it is fascinatingly da…
Sugar? is a brand new show exploring utterly hilarious, painfully relatable and beautifully told real-life stories of homelessness through a blend of verbatim theatre, physical sto…
The Wyrd Systers present In the Small Hours.
A Mighty Fall from Grace follows the life of a Bradford Bulls fan, who over several years watches his club deteriorate on and off the field and whose mental health deteriorates thr…
As society, evidence and our wider understanding progresses, and so does our ability to assign labels to things, because, let’s be honest, we have a deep desire and need to attri…
By invite, the Windrush Generation came to rebuild Britain following the end of the Second World War.
After an ecological disaster unleashes a neurotoxin into the air, two people are thrust into a series of emotionally-charged vignettes, where they are forced to confront both the n…
Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) finds itself in a double bind.
Zaibatxu presents: MaX-XiM.
Three cavemen debate the nature of life while trying to survive. When one invents the wheel that’s when life really gets hard.
The story Shakespeare never told.
A tale of three Highland sisters who live in a shack in the woods disconnected from society, each of them with different views on how they should be living their lives.
At a wedding banquet in Hong Kong, guests grapple with absurdist small talk, social awkwardness and an unshakable sense of paralysis in the changeable city.
Sally MacAlister collaborates with upcoming theatre company koi collective to premiere a new comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Jez, Luke, Gary and Mark are die-hard football fans podcasting about the club they love: Third-division Invercreiff FC.
Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe.
All Terrence wants is to earn a living as a dinosaur impersonator, have his talents appreciated by the world, land a Netflix deal, embark on a US tour, and design a line of branded…
Help Mike Lemme leave his NYC apartment.
Paul Richards returns as Harvey; always running, always late and now about to get married.
Jess meets Jim.
As we come into nearly eight years of rule of the UK Government by the Conservative Party – or 12 Years depending on your feelings for the Liberal Democrats – we have seen a ri…
Violet’s scared walking home.
Paper.
Business partners Ross and Wilson use their vacation time to collect coins from Magic Fingers machines in American motels.
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, What You Will is set on Long Island’s Gold Coast in the 1920s and follows the antics of Vi Candor as she circumvents a man’s world in …
Chloe, Maia and Anna are reunited under the most painful of circumstances, the death of their mother.
A coming of age for your 20s.
Murder has come to Rothersdale, where nothing ever happens.
Medea in space.
Lauren Brewer and Will Geraint Drake’s The Single Lady is a musical extravaganza, giving Elizabeth I the same treatment that Hamilton did to the Founding Fathers.
Gosh this is good.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
Disaster strikes aboard the S.
1942.
A play about love transcending separation.
Lucy is average, awkward and unassuming.
A ticking clock.
Recalling Banksy’s famous graffiti, originally painted on the side of Waterloo Bridge in 2002, Amy Wakeman’s The Girl and Her Balloon is a similarly ubiquitous depiction of hop…
As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth has witnessed, first hand, the consequences of when love goes wrong.
The true story of how a cute, attention-seeking lamb became the most famous sheep in history – the world’s first cloned mammal.
Absolutely Probably Unless focuses on two people at the end of a relationship, or maybe at the beginning of one.
To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.
Blue loves the sea.
Carnival kissing booth: sometime, someplace.
A one-woman show that is absolutely not a drama because Young Woman’s life is not sad! In three days, her first novel, a bodice-ripper, comes out.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
An improvised play inspired by the works of Tennessee Williams, The Glass Imaginary exposes the problems inherent in improvising tragedy.
Saltire Sky is back! The multi award-winning 1902 takes an access-all-areas approach to working-class life in Scotland as we follow four young wannabe football hooligans in their q…
Runner-up for Best Comedy at Standing Ovation Awards 2021.
After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person.
An original musical with plenty of spark, Vote Macbeth! aims to present a fresh take on the well-worn story of the Scottish play.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Will has fallen hopelessly in love with the seductive singer, Candy.
Jack has recently lost his best friend Michael to a tragic accident and is trapped in a damaging, depressive state.
Join The Glittering Prince of Magic for a world-class magical premiere extravaganza.
An unexpected event will lead three roommates on an intense journey through the adult industry.
When Will seeks out Alina’s insight for his paper on Iran, he has no idea that he will meet the love of his life.
Turning what we know about morality on its head, Gabrielle James and Joshua Newman’s Living With Sin is an interesting twist on the traditionally 'evil' seven deadly sins…
Any one person show relies heavily on the performance of the central cast member and the quality of the script, luckily The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuiness is blessed with exc…
Fast-paced, bold and hilarious.
‘They said it’s your fault.
‘Come on Angel, don’t you ever want to fly?’ 1948.
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
How can you change the world? Stereotypes are shattered when two misfit mums meet outside the school gate. A dramedy about an Iranian and an American living in Middle England.
When Jimmy Vanderberg leaves the Ford factory in Detroit and volunteers to serve in Vietnam, he wants to prove himself a man.
Let me tell you about Ryan.
A shiny new flat.
Brothers tells the story of two estranged brothers Matt and Jay, in their early 30s, who re-unite as one fights testicular cancer and the other battles addiction.
Award-winning political theatre based on the movie about the harmless, loser boxer Rocky, who against all odds defeats his own inferiority and unreasonable loser life.
Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and a thundering back-line, Tinderbox transform preconceptions of what an orchestra can be.
The story of William Wallace as seen through his eyes.
A unique opportunity to return to the experimental roots of the Fringe joining emerging actors from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in a real time, live rehearsal of plays and …
A unique, genre-bending, two-man romp sees one panto dame’s life come crashing down around her.
After years of patching up a rapidly deteriorating airport on an island lost in a Foie Gras scandal, Lick is staring down the propeller of a cargo plane.
It is 1952 and the spiffing summer hols are here at last, what larks indeed! Young Lady Iris Bungle finds herself in bonnie Scotland assisting her theatrical, spunky cousin Lord Di…
At the start of the pandemic, PE teacher Aniqa’s school transforms into a food bank, as the East London community pulls together to get through lockdown.
Dudley’s favourite space is at Jeanie’s shop.
Follow the journey of a fictional American president and delve into the murky underbelly of the struggle for power.
Chronic Insanity’s 52 Souls is a series of monologues that correspond to each indiviudal playing card (plus one Joker) along the subject of death and mortality, all in an hour.
Concha is a one-person semi-autobiographical play exploring the intersectionality within the queer experience.
Have you ever read the secret confessions written on the walls of a toilet stall? If so, you know you are in for a treat! Bathroom Confession follows four young women embarking out…
1588 examines the story of the Spanish Armada from the Spanish and English stand point.
A character comedy set in Philadelphia about struggling to maintain one’s authenticity while facing inevitable change.
Greetings, weary traveller.
Edinburgh-based award-winning Siamsoir Irish dancers return with their fifth original show – an Irish dance play.
Are you Yes or No or Maybe Aye or Maybe No? This play takes us from 2014 up to the present day and looks at the independence debate with wit and humour as two families decide how t…
When Raina arrives at her spoken word gig to see her exes in the audience, all the questions she’s had about her past sexual experiences begin to surface.
‘He’s seen my Foo Foo.
The world will end in seven days.
Everyone knows that Ayesha is going places.
A heart-warming play illuminating the significant contributions of the Windrush Generation to Britain, the scandal around their wrongful treatment and their journey in overcoming t…
Intellectual writing, well elaborated characters and compelling themes of control in human and non-human relationships make Assisted at Surgeons' Hall a rewarding and entertain…
A hurricane survivor watches rising sea water consume their home.
Three by Nigro.
Curtains drawn, lawns burnt brown; a townscape is melting.
Two pantomime stars keep complaining about people walking through their dressing room as they prepare for their performance, but not everything is good between them.
A plane crash leaves only teenagers alive on an uninhabited Indonesian island.
We’re grounded! An international hacking scandal means the planes can’t fly and everyone has to stay where they are.
How quickly can you write a TV show? A month? A week? A day? Felix, Phoebe and Alice have 40 minutes.
Left alone while her family searches for the missing herd, a Neolithic girl seeks comfort in imaginary friends.
Well, hello there! How do you boo? Teenage playwright Jaz Skingle brings her sell-out debut play, Ghost Therapy, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
All families have secrets.
Presenting a one-woman show about a planet-saving superhero who’s lost her mojo.
When flyered for Matthew Gouldesbrough’s new play Truth / Reconciliation, I was told I could expect “serious theatre” from the Elegy group.
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
The pilot is set in a fictional Drama School, MAMA.
A spoof true-crime documentary* with all the ingredients of your favourite true-crime docs! The mysterious murder of a victim, pushed down the stairs and hidden in the town’s wat…
Returning to Edinburgh following a near sell-out 2016 Assembly season, Alison Skilbeck’s critically acclaimed one-woman show reveals the public and private life of one of the most …
Destiny dreams big.
Earwig is an engaging and classy piece which tells the story of entomologist Marigold Webb, trapped in a loveless marriage and a society as uncomfortable with her deafness as it is…
Sandcastles by Steve McMahon moves back and forth in time and memory to depict the tumultuous lifelong friendship of millennials Hannah and Beth.
Sick and tired of everyone laughing at them, the Revue decides to get serious.
Billed as a ‘queer manifesto against Grindr’, Looking for Fun is one of the new plays showcased at the Paradok Platform.
A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school.
Gen Z has arrived.
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
Your Aunt Fanny are an all-womxn theatre company from the North East of England.
After a sold-out run at London’s Vault Festival, Irish stand-up Comedian Mairead Doyle-Heffernan makes her Fringe debut with stories from her hilariously colourful journey to a w…
Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor.
Can kids be parents? When Cassie’s mother disappears, the teenager wants to care for her sisters on her own.
In 2014, residents of Fairbourne were watching their local news when they found out they were to be Britain’s first climate refugees, with their town set to be decommissioned and d…
By Tabby Lamb (they/she).
Yes, I know it’s the Edinburgh Fringe but this is the Edinburgh Fridge! Come along to hear poems and monologues from a fridge called Smeg, robots, spiders, goats and so much more!
Meet Lady Clementine.
Psycho Productions and Cusack Projects Ltd.
Jack Docherty, BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, returns to the festival with a tender, playful, darkly comic tale, where he grapples with lost youth, love, fa…
Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub.
Today I Killed My Very First Bird, a piece of new writing by poet, playwright and performer Jason Brownlee and directed by Lee Hart, is a strange beast.
A young couple are separated by an outbreak they cannot speak of.
This new folk musical seeks to explore our heritage and legacy, weaving two parallel stories; one of a crofter and a wandering soldier in the 18th Century, and one of an old pensio…
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
Gloria is not a gorilla, but she is stuck in the zoo’s gorilla enclosure.
Maggie McKenzie is a self-professed mad woman who passes a day addressing her sacred audience – a caged pack of wolves.
‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy.
Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s.
Success demands sacrifice.
‘There’s no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend.
How does a queer, GenZ comedian survive her past, the pandemic, and the indignities of a stand-up career? Vincent (aka Bird) takes the audience on a (seriously) funny flight, often…
The Fringe is nearing its close, but do you have space for more? Chris Bush’s bittersweet Hungry is serving up a Fringe hit.
The end of show speech to an audience.
Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.
Working-class means many things now.
In an inner-city hostel, Jams is trying to record a rap video.
‘No, she’s not my sister.
This unflinching case study scrutinizes one of the most pertinent conversations of our time: women’s safety.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Sweet sixteen would’ve been alright.
The Silent Treatment.
New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill.
Following her multi award-winning theatre debut, Passionate Machine, Rosy Carrick is back.
The premise is simple.
The 2014 plan was a simple one, I would Casanova myself around our nation’s capital looking for consenting heterosexual adult males.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru.
This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence.
Who is the bandaged man, obsessively in love and held captive inside an upmarket flat, counting down the seconds until it’s time for Her to return and the ‘thing I can’t say’ to be…
In a Sheffield basement, two men try to bury the bodies of their past to find a hopeful future.
After an uncomfortable fling with an average guy, a woman falls in love in one of the few remaining lesbian bars that haven’t yet been colonised by Pret.
Caste-ing explores the experiences of three black actresses using beatboxing, rap, song and spoken word.
The Paines Plough Roundabout has become a symbol of the Fringe, developing its own signature style in the process.
According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du…
Theatre has proved one of the greatest allies of those seeking to speak to truth to power throughout the ages.
The award-winning production Grav returns for 2022.
Catriona has a history of making stuff up.
This is a visceral and vitally important piece in which playwright Eliza Gearty and director Alex Kampfner have wrought an exquisite little nugget of social political theatre: subl…
‘I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you.
We all live under the same sky.
‘Our modern life was built on the backs of the oppressed – if they were to demand repayment, would you be afraid?’ In 1791, a voodoo ceremony begins the Haitian Revolution to end…
‘Utterly compelling’ (Lyn Gardner, StageDoorApp.
Fifteen-year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S.
‘D’you wanna come back to mine?’ New comedy about what we say to each other when the lights are off and no one else is listening.
Hate your job? Come work for us.
Two Fingers Up.
Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act…
Ever thought you should run the world, even though you’re ‘only fourteen and a girl?’ Priya and Lou have.
Full-time girls and part-time bosses, Dulcie and Ella discover what it takes to be ‘that’ girl.
In the summer of 2020 as a pandemic raged, Yoshika was processing the death of her beloved grandmother, Ann.
A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors.
Long Lane Theatre return the Edinburgh with their hit play The Giant Killers.
One of the Scotsman’s Best Duos at the Fringe, Thick ‘n’ Fast return to take on the world.
North Wales, 1995.
The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre.
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London.
Vibrant, inspiring play about Eglantyne Jebb; visionary, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children.
Shortlisted for Adrian Pagan Playwriting Award and BBC Writersroom.
We are told from the start that America’s history is one of violence, and of wars.
What happens when the things we covet hide us from ourselves? Opening up to new experiences in her late 30s, Sophie is exploring long repressed sides of herself.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1.
When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide.
The hit Canadian production from one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary playwrights, Wajdi Mouawad, and performed by Gabe Maharjan – ‘a gifted, multi-faceted actor’ ***…
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
A dark comedy about daddy issues, sex work, fantasies, taboos, imperfect feminism, immigration and trauma.
During the bawdy years of Charles II’s restoration to the throne, one of his more shocking choices was to alleviate the perceived threat to the heterosexuality of female-imperson…
Brown Boys Swim is Karim Khan’s hilarious, touching tale of best friends Kash and Mohsen learning how to swim for a pool party.
Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks.
1967, Susan, a runaway from a troubled home, escapes her past by hitchhiking to LA.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
Rowan is a geospatial engineer earning good money, and Nic is a freelance illustrator who is.
Son and father-in-law duo, Dave Watt and Pretty Good Nick, invite you to jump on their absurd comedy bandwagon as they explore the world of idioms.
6/1/2021: One day replayed on repeat in @R3alAm3rican99’s head.
An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
Written and performed by Rachel Stockdale.
In a brightly lit cottage on a dark, dreary night, a desperate architect and a gormless schoolteacher make panicked last-minute touches to their home while they wait for a long-ant…
A solo female show exploring the depths of the mind of a young woman, who suffers from anorexia.
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
A one-woman performance about knitting through grief, heartache and depression. All in a pandemic. Knitting or crocheting is encouraged.
Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors.
Love Me is one of three plays bought to the Edinburgh Fringe 2021 by York DramaSoc.
Writer and director Annabel Lunney used the inspirations from anonymous submissions to create the play Sweating the Small Stuff.
SKANK is about a woman in crisis.
Patricia has been concocting the perfect speech in her head over the last year, of what she would say if she were ever to face her ex-abusive boyfriend again.
Press sets its satirical sights on Hollywood.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
A group of teenage friends celebrate after their final exams and look towards the future.
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place.
Smile.
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 comes with a lot of hype.
Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country.
Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman.
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
Fear of Roses follows three women as they grapple with each other’s careers in a power struggle which soon turns deadly.
Come forth for a cautionary tale venturing through ancient history to modern masculinity; welcome to Mediocre White Male.
Transgressing borders, ethnicity and culture, MOVE is an epic tale of women across the world and how their stories intertwine.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alice Birch’s writing.
Das Stuck’s The Mannequin is a contemporary Edda of intertwining tales: bohemians enwrapped in the fashion industry whilst isolated in the LGBTQ+ community.
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…
Irene Possetto’s one-woman play presents a young girl named Isabelle living a life of true tragedy in 1301.
Yellow, written by Conky Campfner, is a modern adaptation of a Victorian short story The Yellow Newspaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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 …
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.
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.
It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.
The Heresy Machine, by Seth Majnoon, claims to be about Alan Turing.
Making a show with your ex must be awkward, right? Maybe.
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…
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.
Gill Mcvey’s play focuses on the struggles of dealing with dementia and the sacrifices that are inevitably made.
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.
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’.
Any piece of art that tackles a complicated subject like mental health is worthwhile.
“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…
Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’.
Another Fringe day, another single figure on a stage dissecting a “big issue of today”.
Seesome Theatre’s new production Parasites is presented as an issue play, getting to the heart of problems with the welfare state, domestic abuse and teenager stuck in an unforgi…
The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health.
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Full Consent To Speak On My Behalf refers to a statutory line used by professionals, enabling foster carers to speak on behalf of children in the care system.
Phosphorus Theatre works with refugees and asylum-seekers to create original collaborative autobiographical storytelling.
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.
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
Whether you bought a ticket for the slightly unnerving image design or for the sheer length of the title, you would be forgiven for rethinking your choice once you notice a dauntin…
A woman walks into a bar.
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble.
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
Stoner comedy is a strange subgenre.
The Good Scout treads an extraordinarily fine line as a play.
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.
Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room.
Limbo: The Twelve is one of the latest pair of musicals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, allowing a group of talented young performes the opportunity to perform an origina…
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
A clever, conversational creation which examines differing experiences and attitudes to feminism, misogyny and the patriarchal structures which limit women in society.
Part insider look at the making of the film Jaws and part musings on what constitutes an artist, The Shark is Broken, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and directed by Guy Maste…
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
In order for theatre to be political, it certainly does not have to make any truly profound statement on the state of the world.
Asterglow theatre is a new amateur company focused on new writing centered on female and non-binary individuals.
Four work colleagues reunite after 30 years, in this delightful intergenerational analysis of motherhood.
Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show about heart break and madness is crammed with life, wit and tragedy.
This talented all-female ensemble offer an original and inventive take on traditional fairytales.
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 begins with boy meets girl in a nightclub.
This thought provoking production by Want the Moon Theatre is a compelling exploration of connectedness – to ourselves, to those around us, and to reality.
You are watching three actors sat at a table.
Tokyo Rose is a complex story, told phenomenally well by a company quickly proving itself to be one of the hottest theatre groups in the country.
The Edinburgh Fringe is awash with shows designed to shock and push our buttons.
Limbo: City of Dreams charges itself with the difficult task of cramming an entire world into its hour-long runtime.
Salmon hits you hard from the moment you step in the venue.
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…
Writer and performer Mika Johnson delivers a powerful, poignant and relatable queer narrative, which voices the story of a masculine-identifying lesbian, navigating life and love t…
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
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…
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 starts with Jack (Henry Waddon) in a therapy session on a sparse stage and moves through the chain of events that took him there.
You've probably heard plenty of stories about lucky couples who fall in love, get married and live happily-ever-after.
Have you ever been to a supermarket and thought, “Hey, I really wish the staff would sing more?" Well, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society are here to make that wis…
Albert Einstein used to work in a patent office, reportedly because the mundanity and ease of the job allowed his mind to wander to more complicated concepts.
The Girl Guide Promise, an oath taken by all Guides and Brownies, highlights how a girl guide member must always do their best, be true to themselves and develop their beliefs.
Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault.
Google Me is the new offering from 2018 Fringe debut comedian Eleanor Colville.
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.
No one ever said that life was easy, but it’s what you make of it which defines who you are.
Collapsible follows the story of Essie, who at the outset feels like she’s crumbling.
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t…
Saul Boyer explodes on stage, a blast of energy and vigorous vocals, as he delights us with a punchy song about being a Jew.
This raucous monologue from Sadie Clark gives us a tale of dating and identity from the bleeding edge of the 21st century.
“I am not a bad person”.
This innovative piece by Cut The Chord Theatre is a fresh perspective on sexual violence, consent and how to open conversations that empower both men and women.
In the past 20 to 30 years, our world has drastically changed, especially within the realm of politics and culture.
Nadia and Daniel are about to sign the lease on a new flat.
Pops is a complex contemplation of intergenerational addiction, featuring a father and daughter trapped in co-dependence.
It’s 1999, soon to be 2000, and two sisters are wandering the woods of the Bournemouth area after fleeing a party.
Drawing the line between the exaggerated and the tender is no easy feat.
Some assert that homophobia, for the most part, has been eradicated.
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
In the late 1960s three women were murdered by an Old Testament quoting serial killer by the name of Bible John.
Wild Swimming is the story of two friends across centuries of change and development.
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
Daughterhood by Charley Miles seeks to tell the story of two sisters separated by nine years of age and half a decade lived separately, coming back together to try and work out who…
Exploring the experiences of those seeking refuge in the UK, The Claim is a compelling examination of language, power and storytelling.
I’m not gonna pretend like I know a lot about the UK's schooling system, because I don’t.
"It looks nice.
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 is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
This one person play, written and performed by Sarah-Jane Scott, introduces us to Sorcha who is fresh from fleeing her wedding.
We enter stage to a flash of porn images, a seductive voiceover beckoning ‘come all over my face’, and ‘dominate me’.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Max has done something stupid.
This monologue, written and performed by Katie Guicciardi, addresses the underreported issue of post-partum depression through a thoughtful combination of analogy, props and heartf…
It’s a late Friday afternoon and Polly is packing her things before she starts her PhD.
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
FATTY FAT FAT, performed by Katie Greenall, explores one woman’s journey of growing up fat and surviving in a world where your body is viewed as wrong, unhealthy and disgusting.
While watching Piano_Play it is easy to be taken in by the illusion which the show sets up.
An abandoned party; a neglected bedroom; a cluttered AV desk.
Rocking a minimalist set of a stool and a book, Lucy Roslyn performs this one person play drawing parallels between Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, and her own tumultuous foray i…
We enter stage and Jonathan Ashby-Rock delicately tends to his flowers, encased in boxes across the stage.
Fat Rascal Theatre should be pleased with their Fringe so far.
On a bare stage at Pleasance Upstairs, Bobby & Amy promises storytelling in its purest form.
"Poor Fellow.
In a bizarre but glorious amalgamation of all things good, Parakeet stands as a protest piece that calls for greater measures against climate change and, well, a commitment towards…
One island, split in two with a thundering crack: half for the fishermen and half for the farmers.
This is the first year that 4 Brown Girls Who Write have showcased at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and they better keep coming back.
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
I can’t imagine that anybody has nostalgia for life in their early teen years.
Beginning in a frightening dystopia with five people wearing surgical masks manhandling one other as the audience enters, then as the show starts transforming to a happy young part…
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
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 abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
Set in rural England, this pale ale drenched parable explores village life juxtaposed with urban sprawl.
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.
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.
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Bizarre is the word that has stalked my mind since watching Bullingdon Revisited.
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
Piracy is not just a man’s trade in this thrilling piece Care Not, Fear Naught from Temporarily Misplaced Productions.
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 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’s biggest flaw is that it isn’t about anything.
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.
Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
The bathroom of a student flat is not a place you'd want to spend 5 minutes, let alone an hour.
Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r…
Set in the small village of Shuttlefield, Greyhounds sees the local amateur dramatic society attempt to raise money for a Spitfire fighter aircraft by putting on a production of Sh…
“Who are we, now that we don’t have kids?” Matthew Roberts performs as three key characters in this touching one-man performance: as two fathers, David and Tom, that lose the…
Brenda’s Got a Baby was birthed from a concept created by Molly Rumford, financed via Crowdfunder and the culmination of interviews and news stories from real people.
Glasgow ’14 is a one man show, inhabiting the minds of four very different men and their experiences of mental illness.
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…
Amid the hubbub of cafe chatter and the hiss of milk steaming a mobile phone vibrates with messages of condolences.
Cast Iron Theatre have rocked a minimalist set – an intimate three chairs and floor space surrounded by a ring of audience members – and have stretched it expertly to the peak …
“Up, up, up.
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.
Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers.
Two struggling Cher impersonators are disrobed and disheartened in Job-Cher.
Beaker’s only friend in the world, his cat, is dead.
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…
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…
The synopsis of this intriguing one-woman drama can more or less be summed up by its title: Ailsa Benson Is Missing.
Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show.
Acclaimed writer David Ireland’s new play is a visceral, violent and incredibly explosive punch to the gut that passionately tears into the confused state of British identity, th…
Doomsday preppers: people who ready themselves and their homes for survival in the event of an apocalypse.
Dangerous Giant Animals is a one-person show about growing up with a disabled sibling, based on writer/performer Christina Murdock's real life experiences.
"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori…
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
Other Peoples Teeth is a unique, visceral and violent vignette, exploring the emotional depths of brutality.
Warhol: Bullet Karma invites you to meet everyone’s favourite eccentric pop artist.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
With the aid of a tea towel, a glass, and a stool, Sarah MacGillivray skilfully portrays a wide variety of characters in a modern re-telling of the story of Mary, Queen of Scots �…
Rive Productions are shining the light on a condition more common than many realise: vaginismus.
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…
A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House.
An outstanding singular performance by Peter Clements, that draws upon - yet uniquely embraces - the fine traditions of drag queen finesse, dark humour, sexual allure and celebrati…
“You always thought it would be you”.
Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays.
Walking into the dark depths of the Big Belly at Underbelly, my expectations are low as I take my seat and note there’s a leak in the roof above my chair.
“Arf, Arf, Arffff.
Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world.
There are shades of Beckett but without the plodding pretentiousness in Signals, Footprint Theatre’s new show all about human connection and the search for life beyond Earth.
Hunch, one of two productions from DugOut Theatre this festival (along with Songlines at the Pleasance Courtyard) continues the company’s new approach of single-person storytelli…
Knowledge = Belief and Truth.
Let’s talk about drugs.
Those familiar with the work of the National Theatre of Scotland won’t be surprised by the style or the content of First Snow / Première Neige.
James Rowland may not strike you as a sperm donor if you met him in the street, but this is a man prepared to go to the ends of the earth to help his best friend and her wife find …
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 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…
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…
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
At first sight it would seem that Boondog Theatre's latest outing at the Edinburgh Fringe is somewhat ironically titled.
A bold and convention-bashing introspection on the impact of HIV, through the medium of two young gay men.
I’ll begin by noting that this particular viewing was unfortunately tarnished by a very inconsiderate audience, where both latecomers and six mid-show phone calls bombarded the f…
Kirsty Osmon captivates the audience from the first moment her drunken anti-heroin wakes.
Fever Dream Theatre’s BaseCamp promises an immersive experience in the rivalry between two world-class mountain climbers preparing for a joint ascent of a Himalayan mountain.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
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.
Single person monologues have long been a fringe staple, but nevertheless they are incredibly difficult to successfully pull off.
The Fetch Wilson is the type of play that might work very well as a film, or so you might think upon leaving the theatre.
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
Sitting, the debut play by comic actor Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Humans), explores the lives of three characters who are sitting for portraits.
The Paines Plough Roundabout is an incredibly versatile venue.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
A one woman show, Proxy delves into the lives of mother and daughter Dee Dee and Gypsy, two women from the southern states of America.
Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed.
With little more than a bedside lamp, a leather armchair and a helpful cadaver, The Thelmas have brought to life a deliciously morbid monologue that will please fans of Fleabag, Ma…
This is an intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable window into the relationship of two sisters at the toughest point of their lives so far.
Becky works in a café in Edinburgh.
As anyone who’s been to an Edinburgh Festival Fringe can attest, word of mouth is crucial to a show’s success.
Multi-award winning playwright Henry Naylor returns to the fringe with a stunning two-hander set in Nazi Germany that is both incredibly poignant and unnervingly timely.
The Fringe is all about first impressions; the opening minutes of a free stand up show, the six word spiel spurted at you by flyerers with an outstretched hand, the carefully chose…
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…
I’ve never seen a play in a 20-seat theatre before but, with the gentle storytelling of Starfish, a small venue seems right.
Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s.
On a train heading south, the eyes of a tired man meet those of a woman weeping, if only for a moment.
Home is a powerful concept.
Elise Cowen.
A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner.
What’s a ‘square go’? Noun: A rammy.
The Traverse Festival program has jumped into action, already selling out full days' worth of shows at a time.
There are moments of brilliance in this one-person-variety-show, but Joan’s intriguing idea is let down by lack of critical editing.
There’s a great variety of women in Wife – taking as a cue Carol Anne Duffy’s The World’s Wife – from ‘Mrs Quasimodo’ to Michelle Obama, whose farewell speech is pred…
In this show, you will empathise with a child killer.
Deeply political, magnificently performed and filled with tense action and witty dialogue, Girls manages to grip and amaze the audience with its characters and powerful message fro…
When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
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.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
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…
Maddie Rice has been put into a difficult position with performing this script.
Welcomed back to Edinburgh after its rave performances last year, Scorch is new writing for one performer.
Theatre is always at its most powerful when you feel truly transported into someone else’s reality.
Farce has a proud place in British theatre history.
Taking a leaf from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, The Black that I Am is a compilation of stories that delve into the minds of various women and their experiences of being black…
As a white Irish person, reviewing a person of colour’s experience of their treatment in the UK feels disingenuous.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
Executed by student acting troupe The Hurtwood Corner from performing arts college Hurtwood House, Seven Devils is a play exploring the trials of down-on-their-luck Manhattan resid…
The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make Breakfast Plays: B!rth worth getting up for.
Prescribed (A Life Written For Me) by performance artist Viv Gordon opens a window for us to peer into the claustrophobically grim life of a GP working at an NHS practice today.
Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…
A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it.
The 11:87 Theatre Company’s debut at the Fringe is a new musical following the lives of Sophie and George as they are guided by both angels and demons.
A touching piece of theatre, the young performers of Parker & Snell Youth Company have created an effective retelling of The Edelweiss Pirates and their struggle during the Second …
Exploding Whale Theatre’s coming of age romp Heroes is set against the backdrop of Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972.
Walking into theSpace on the Mile this morning, I had very little knowledge about what Columns had in store for me.
Not the 2006 Broadway musical, but the 1981 play on which that was based, Spring Awakening is notable for its controversies upon original publication.
The debut play from Haylo Theatre, comprising Hayley Riley and Louise Evans, Over the Garden Fence, follows Annabelle and her Gran, Dolly who is suffering from dementia.
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.
Narrative direction is hard to achieve but is essential to a good musical.
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
I think this show is emblematic of a lot of the problems that new musicals at the Fringe tend to have.
Nestled away in the Scottish Arts Club is a collection of Canadian poets performing a variety of their work with different styles and a few excerpts from their novels, both publish…
On a cliff edge somewhere, a man is about to jump to his death when he is stopped by a psychology professor.
There are lights in the sky.
Antler Theatre are no strangers to the Edinburgh Fringe, making their debut with This Way Up and Maria, 1968 in 2012.
An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes.
10 Rillington Place is successful in creating a chillingly uncanny aura; a domestic scene is twisted from the familiar into the unthinkable.
Sweetmeat is about the consented cannibalism between two men who are also lovers.
‘What is an artist without his muse?’ Beauty constantly asks this question as it delves into what it really means to create a legacy as an artist, and investigates how mo…
Glasgow Central is a play based on true events, written and directed by Lauren Dowie.
Traverse Theatre is currently hosting rehearsed readings of pieces from graduates at the University of Edinburgh’s Playwriting Masters course.
Sink is a poignant and fascinating drama about one of China’s greatest playwrights, Lao She; a man who wrote for his country and was once honoured as an ‘Artist of the peo…
Suicide: The Musical is a one-man show that discusses male depression and disconnection due to social media.
Company of Rogues invites us into an intriguing, yet convoluted, tale of a time-travelling gent sent to redeem himself by saving a schizophrenic in 1980s Australia.
Grieving is a universal human experience, and The Other Half Lives is a play which analyses grief in the years after someone’s passing.
Think is a powerful piece of new writing from Evangeline Osbon, recent graduate from the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, in collaboration with MindOut Theatre.
Manchester dark comedy duo Powder Keg (Ross McCaffery and Jake Walton) scream out their political statements in Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) but none which make an impact…
Ballot Box from Tea and Tonic productions may be categorised under ‘New Writing,’ but it fails to provide an original scope on Brexit.
The stage is awash with cold, blue LED light.
Graeae Theatre Company champions the working-class misfits of Skelmersdale, Lancashire – or ‘Skem’ as Dent and Shaun call it – in their new show Cosmic Scallies.
1960s America.
Adam tells the story of Adam Kashmiry, a trans man born in Alexandria, Egypt.
The concept behind Sunscreen Productions’ Radio is pretty familiar: a group of flatmates at the end of their university careers grapple with past tensions and future anxieties wh…
Though common in film and literature, it is rare to see a play which fits the bill of psychological thriller.
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.
Stuck in a lift, Ruth waits to escape in order to visit her husband who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
If you are hoping to find your comrades in arms and chant the internationale alongside like-minded people I regret to inform you that you will be disappointed.
Venture Wolf’s production of Lipstick and Scones is a combination of familial drama and comedy that raises questions about love, identity and relationships.
Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.
Just Like the Movies is a cheery musical exploring the world of show business as the characters battle to make a statement in a world where success is often decided by major realit…
Threadbare is a creation of the Minotaur Theatre Company which is run by students from the University of East Anglia.
Pucqui Collaborative’s Changelings is a thoughtful story about two very different existences colliding and attempting to translate one another.
We are all Going to Die is a devised piece by Dead Person Productions.
Opening with an audio recording of various real-life political statements – given by both normal citizens and political leaders – Sleepwalkers quickly registers its interest in…
There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.
Woke is a searingly powerful and important one-woman performance about racism in the United States.
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…
Simone James stars in Wondr, Poppy Burton-Morgan’s debut as a playwright with Metta Theatre.
This hour-long dramatic and comedic monologue is a persistent exploration of why the existence of the gadulka – a traditional Bulgarian folk instrument – is the worst thing tha…
For a play about personified jizz, War of the Sperms is surprisingly unsexy.
A hidden gem of the fringe, this authentically Scottish play has fantastically realist, understated acting throughout, and it offers an emotional portrayal of the familial tensions…
“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’…
As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’.
The Medea of Euripides is a story of love, of life, of murder and of how all three interlink.
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 is a monologue written by an anonymous woman to be performed by a famous comedian.
Alex In Shadow from UCLU Runaground proves that puppetry is not just for children.
They say a mother’s love is unconditional, but can you truly still love your child after they commit the most heinous of crimes? Put The Book Down’s Mine brings to light the ex…
Glimpses of a toxic relationship.
It begins with a simple yet beautifully plucked tune followed by eerie voices echoing out until they fill the room.
It’s a rainy day in Edinburgh and I’m not in the mood for a My Sister’s Keeper type of cancer play.
Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.
Confronting head-on complex ethical dilemmas that co-exist with modern Western imperialism, this new play written by Rory Horne is urgent, engaging and also deeply entertaining.
(FEAR) grabs your attention as soon as you enter the venue.
A good storytelling piece is lovely.
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.
In our youth-obsessed society, women become sexualised at a very young age.
Sometimes, all a show needs to be good is to be simple and earnestly performed.
Cockamamy is an adjective meaning ludicrous or nonsensical.
Let me preface by saying that Hero suffered from technical issues when I saw it, which was announced at the play’s beginning and therefore meant that some of the lights for the p…
Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
Good theatre should make you feel something and by that definition alone, this was great theatre.
This cleverly written piece by Sam Steiner may be back for a third year at the Fringe, but Walrus Theatre has still managed to create something fresh in this wonderful, captivating…
Writer Monsay Whitney’s Box Clever is one of the most important shows up at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
I’ll make no bones about it: Pike St.
Written by award winning playwright Elinor Cook, Out of Love is a stunning piece of new writing which conveys the absolute power of female friendship, something which is often over…
Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive …
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.
Created, written, directed and performed by author Angela Jackson, The Darling Monologues is a series of three darkly comic monologues which interweave the lives of three women: Li…
This dark one-man play is full of energy and intensity as David William Bryan perfectly encapsulates the abject isolation of binman Keith Goodman, known to all as Goody.
CultureClash Theatre consume the audience in Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s gripping political play Under My Thumb.
Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses.
Pixel Dust is a rare thing: a piece of theatre about the internet that isn’t utterly technophobic.
Worklight Theatre return to Edinburgh with their brand new show Fix; a fusion of song, science and soliloquy investigating addiction in the UK today.
Take the premise of George Orwell’s 1984 and lighten it up with a few jokes and some pop culture references and you’ll already be halfway towards the dystopian future seen in R…
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.
Described by its creator as a two-actor play of “a relationship rotting” and a manifestation of domestic “purgatory”, it quite quickly becomes apparent through this tense a…
One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe…
Dust is not for the faint-hearted.
Fag/Stag written and performed by Aussie duo Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Chris Isaacs, explores what it means to have your best mate by your side when you’re stuck being your worst se…
To Hell in a Handbag shares a most important quality with its inspiration: the infectious nature of the prose.
One Devonshire lass and her cow in search for a tractor may not sound the most captivating plot premise you’ve ever heard, but Cow delivers brilliantly on it.
The tricky thing with a show like The Man On The Moor is balancing the personal, fictional story being told with the larger, true-life event it is connected to.
Natasha Marshall’s Half Breed is a vibrant and moving monologue about what it is like to grow up mixed race in a parochial white community.
Some Riot theatre’s new play is a rollercoaster of love, loss and the passion and pain of being young that hooks you from the first word, makes you fall in love with it then breaks…
There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
Making a show about science interesting to a general audience is an extremely difficult feat.
Cambridge University Musical society hits Edinburgh to redefine the stories of Henry VIII’s six wives through a contemporary pop girl-band SiX.
Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics.
Apocalypse Now, with its 153 minute running time, multi-million dollar production costs and jungle location, might not seem like the most obvious contender for adaptation into a on…
In a month where white supremacists have marched through the streets over Charlottesville in protest against the removal of a Confederate statue, there could not be a more relevant…
As we enter the shadowy theatre of Assembly Hall we see an imposing set of gallows upon which a young man sits shackled as a lone pianist plays quiet discordant music.
The Traverse Theatre is onto a winner with its programming this year.
Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey.
Of all the things one expects to see when attending the Edinburgh Fringe, a public tying of the knot is likely to be towards the end of the list.
The perfect image of youth and boyhood is projected onto the mirror-like panels which hang from the ceiling as Jo Clifford gazes thoughtfully the photo of herself.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
Nassim.
There is a lot to like about this package.
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…
In UCL Graters’ return to Edinburgh, even the refreshments are violent.
Boy meets girl.
Imagine William Shakespeare wrote Attack the Block and you get Flesh and Bone, a tale of an East London tower block and it’s residents.
Replay is a tense and atmospheric play which deftly explores loss, trauma and determination.
What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors is an examination of homelessness and the situations which lead to it which matches the pace of how those problems develop.
Bare Skin On Briny Waters is part of the Hull Takeover of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is one of five plays presenting from the 2017 UK City of Culture.
With so many comedy double acts at the Fringe – many of whom are also middle-class white boys from London – Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick have their work cut out to stand out…
In a darkened room surrounded by blinking lights a young angry man tells us his life story, from childhood through teen years to the miseries of universities we see what the strugg…
Testosterone is a touching, funny and incredibly brave piece of theatre from Rhum and Clay Company and Kit Redstone.
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…
Bletherbox provide an alternative insight into the lives of the men who worked and died on the Piper Alpha oil rig.
The Wardrobe Ensemble returns to the Fringe festival with a fast-paced and incredibly entertaining look at the education system in BritainThe play focuses on the last day of school…
50 years ago, Ken Loach’s TV drama, Cathy Come Home, won plaudits for its gritty and honest treatment of homelessness.
Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th…
The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries.
Nestled in what seems, somewhat appropriately, to be a shipping container in the Pleasance Courtyard, two creatures on a journey with no origin point or destination try to figure e…
Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
The latest production from Lion House Theatre is a visually pleasing experience, executed with dexterity and grace by a cast of three.
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.
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 is narrated by Will, a person obsessed with his body, for whom staying in shape becomes a kind of unpaid profession.
A play that will make you laugh, cringe and cry in equal measure, Poll Function is a masterstroke.
Fémage a Trois is Loquiter Theatre’s production of three twenty-minute monologues, performed by three women in three different circles of life.
This mesmerising adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novella gives you no choice but to be completely immersed into a tiny room with a Nazi prisoner, as he attempts to cling to sanity u…
Joanne Ryan’s ode to motherhood, Eggsistentialism, is emotionally poignant and amusingly informative.
China Plate’s The Shape of the Pain is an innovative artistic and scientific collaboration combining words, sound and projection to start a conversation about Complex Regional Pa…
The initial experience one is met with when the lights dim for Seanmhair (pronounced shen-a-var) is breathtaking.
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
Fifty years ago, Roland Barthes told us to forget what we know about an author when reading a text.
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.
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 is a really, really horrible play.
Growing Pains Theatre Company offers its Edinburgh debut, a confessional piece of drama exploring the fraught path from adolescence to adulthood.
Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper.
Grace and Laurie are two friends who decide to become prophets, in order to disprove the dying words of their friend, Eve, who recently committed suicide.
I’ve finally found it: the Fringiest show at the Fringe! Hyena is a free-wheeling, difficult, often uncomfortable and sometime revelatory experience.
Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together.
A grandad may have passed on, but he wasn’t the only thing that died on stage.
It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public.
Hella Granger – Superstar recounts the life story of singer Hella Granger, the first white musician to be signed to Motown.
The Cock and Bull’s Death And The Data Processor follows the adventures of office worker Ian, whose murders of two co-workers lead him into the strange world of Harton, a communi…
Spot the cliché.
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.
Set in small, Irish living room - somewhere between cosy and claustrophobic - Three Days’ Time is a thoughtful domestic comedy about weird parents, leaving home and mysteriously …
A Working Title is about the belated coming-of-age and struggles of millennials as they confront a world of expectations and disappointments.
Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company.
As hilarious as it is poignant, Lost in Blue is an individual and gripping story from one of the UK’s top storytellers.
Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens.
The Traverse’s Breakfast Plays series is an intriguing prospect: four plays on the same theme by their Associate Artists, presented as script-in-hand rehearsed readings at 9am ea…
“Revolutionise the world”.
Bob Stourton has an orchard.
With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing.
If you’re expecting an uncomfortable exploration of mental health issues and the stigmas associated with them, the tone of Happy Yet? might catch you off-guard.
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
The Dean Martin Christmas Show aims to explore the warm relationship between Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra as they appear on the titular Christmas special.
“If I’m feminine, does that mean I’m effeminate? Or if I’m effeminate, does that mean I’m feminine?”Looking at the nature of what it means to female in this modern worl…
In this new musical, a piece which has flashes of The Picture of Dorian Gray crossed with psycho-dramatic elements of an Edgar Allen Poe ballad, a story of clandestine love, beauty…
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…
Punch, Fleur, Dog and Sid.
Playwright Anthony Maskell’s Fringe debut is as student as they come.
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
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…
The fact that Home is “partly based on true events” makes Cate and Gia’s situation all the more distressing.
Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers.
Current affairs can be baffling, and we have all been overcome with the need to turn off the news and pretend that horrific acts of terrorism around the world aren’t happening.
The spaghetti-strewn finery of a New York dinner party is transformed into a scene of untold carnage in The Wives Of Others - a gleefully bloody comedy by Tom Stuchfield.
There’s an unspoken rule on the tube: never try to start a conversation.
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 …
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…
Here is all the chaos of a Fringe-like show turned into a Fringe show: a farce about two plays being performed by one cast while their unreasonable and definitely shady writer/dire…
One of the wonderful things about the Fringe Festival is that it’s the only time of year that theatre in Scotland truly panders to our increasingly short attention spans.
Lest We Forget is a play centered on the human cost of World War One directly in its aftermath.
Connections missed and made are set in motion in this playful, algorithmically-generated piece exploring love and chance from young company Poltergeist Theatre.
If you’re in the mood for chilling, hard-hitting drama, look no further than We Are Not Criminals.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
A Royal Flush is a dark political comedy turned farce, featuring a princess stuck in a portaloo and a ransoming of The Daily Star.
There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing.
In a sitcom-esque black comedy, three bohemian students lazily speculate about the end of the world, until they begin to suspect that one of them might have taken drastic action ag…
The stellar reputation of Paines Plough’s championing of new writing for the theatre means that each new offering is welcomed with a great deal of anticipation.
Sexual Fears of A Modern Day Virgin.
Contactless is not your regular drama.
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
Absence of Separation is a tender and evocative play about the frustrating search for the meaning of life.
Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers.
In a darkly comic, brutally honest and extremely current piece of new writing, Martin Murphy depicts the life of one woman who is striving to make a difference in the world.
I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession.
Spiders by Night is one of the more intimate Fringe shows: two monologues about spiders and mental health difficulties.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
Over scrabble, Jenni and David discuss their excitement about meeting their ‘perfect’ baby; then receive the news that the pregnancy is high-risk.
Isabel(le) concerns Isabel Brade, a freewheeling brothel owner with a penchant for dance, and Emma, her great-granddaughter and narrator of the show.
Ladies in Waiting, written by and starring James Cougar Canfield as the lascivious and misogynistic King Henry VIII, is a steamy, feminist critique of the most notorious of England…
The Fringe Festival will always be best used as a place for experimentation and experience building, both for performers and for audiences.
Ever wondered, or perhaps dreaded, what it would be like if your search history could talk? With a host of zany characters and one wonderfully surreal party, You Tweet My Face Spac…
Triumvirette takes the form of a three part show – two monologues sandwiching a romantic comedy short play.
This is a tale about dogs: specifically Johnny the young puppy piano player in a shady speakeasy in 1920s New York City.
In Shakespeare Syndrome, brought to Edinburgh by the talented Mermaidsgroup from the University of St.
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 presents us with a world where you can customise your dreams and upload them to DreamShare when you wake up.
Science fiction is a rare thing to find at the Fringe; even rarer is finding it done well, but the Sundial Theatre company has little to fear with their latest offering, After the …
Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence.
Charlotte goes back to Stuart who still lives in their once shared university flat to find him still taking care of the habitual mess made by their mutual friend David.
It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description.
Stephanie Ridings does a lecture on state homicide with drama.
Nassim Soleimanpour is known for his intelligent plays that have no need for a director, designer or even rehearsals.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
Following the story of an Irish emigrant’s relationship with her father, Remember to Breathe is quietly affecting rather than arresting; assured and well-rounded rather than boun…
We begin with a boy meeting a girl.
One soldier’s patriotism, as he battles both for his country and with himself, is pushed to the breaking point in this clever and current piece of new writing.
In any romantic relationship, one finds oneself developing an intimate, coded language of in-jokes and pet names, a dialect that reflects a couple’s time together.
Think you’ve had quite enough of women in activewear shouting at you for one lifetime? Think again: Help, the comedy self-help seminar from London comedy duo, Bae, is the most fu…
In this thought-provoking, inventive and touching piece of new writing, we hear about the lives of ten individuals, linked only by their mode of transportation.
A darkly absurd exploration of power dynamics, this latest production from Dutch Kills Theater is a thrillingly surreal family drama by playwright Eric John Meyer.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
One of the things I’ve noticed about this year’s Fringe is the number of stellar one-woman shows, and Prime Cut Productions’ Scorch is the best so far.
Anybody who finds themselves rooting for a couple in a film or show will love the responsibility handed out by Ae-Ja Kim in Our Man.
An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds.
The difficult relationship between political and personal affairs are addressed in the devastating drama Generation Zero.
We all have our price.
Three of the ‘seven ages of man’ populate the Traverse stage: a pair of 14-year-olds, Steph and Ash, wrestling for the first time with the ideas of love and sexuality; a couple…
Steam lives up to its name, delivering a staggeringly intense hour of physical theatre.
Neil Smith’s latest play begins as a domestic drama, but spirals uncontrollably into a claustrophobic nightmare of violence.
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 tells the story of a young girl named Mana who escapes from her war-torn home on the Red-Yellow Planet to begin a cruel and poignant coming-of-age journey to the beautifu…
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
The story of a relationship told entirely out of sequence as a play within a play.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
One of Edinburgh’s Fringe’s many newly written dramas, Ciaran Drysder’s 2044 is a surprisingly gripping performance by the still budding North East Theatre Company.
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
The setting is intimate, and encroaching on the personal space of a frail man, in a battered armchair listening to the television (news of the Gulf War is on – the year is 1991) …
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
Lip Theatre Company’s offering at the Fringe this year presents an interesting take on the classic Greek myth of Medusa: one that is unfortunately plagued with tonal shifts and a…
“This shit definitely passes the Bechdel test,” is a statement that can be found emblazoned on the show’s marketing material.
First things first.
“So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
Fringe newcomers, Dude Looks Like A Lady, bring their award-winning sketch show to Edinburgh with heaps of enthusiasm, a fluctuating quality of comedy and an abundance of false (an…
“I so wanted to please him.
A solo piece of feminist writing from theatre company Flipping the Bird, Torch looked right up my street.
Forsaken love.
There something quite exciting about the prospect of a new musical running at an hour without a big stage or fancy lighting or even a band and only three performers.
Settling into my seat, I glance at the leaflet which had occupied it moments before.
Five-star performance in a three-star play.
Too often Joan of Arc is depicted as a very quiet, very pure young woman who keeps her gaze firmly on her feet or to the Heavens: not very fun at all.
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
Nowadays, stories of celebrity nudes abound, attracting much unwanted media attention and accusations of who’s to blame flying in every direction.
At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed.
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
Queen Lear is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Lear story from the perspective of his queen, confined in her chamber while pregnant with his expected male heir.
Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice.
Rhombus Ensemble’s Your Mother’s Vagina is a whirlwind of subject matter wrapped up in the lives of its two protagonists: Layla and Sue Anne.
Femmetamorphosis is an easy going play that explores the relationships of five very different characters as they help one of their own through a nasty break up.
Death is a funny thing when you think about it: it’s the only certain thing in this world yet the majority of us deny its existence, but as performer Liz Rothschild points out, i…
A man and his unseen companion in a tent.
Have you ever met someone so beautiful that you didn’t know what to say? And then have you ever found yourself just saying ‘Yeah’ to everything that they say because you’re…
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French pilot, poet and writer, who is best known as the author of children’s classic The Little Prince.
Through raw emotion, compelling stories and snippets of reality, we learn the story of Holly, a woman living on the streets in Edinburgh.
Deadpan Theatre return to the Fringe after their sell-out success Get Your Sh*t Together, premiered at the Fringe in 2015.
For those who don’t know, the Grimm brothers are the authors of the famous book Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a huge source of inspiration for all kinds of modern myths and fables.
Returning Fringe classic White Rabbit Red Rabbit is Nassim Soleimanpour’s experimental monologue, in which the relationship between actor, writer, audience and text is …
It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.
How Is Uncle John? is a story about the relationship of mother and daughter: of protector and protected, and of victim and survivor.
What does it mean to be British? That’s the question that underlies this political, anarchistic play Octopus.
London-based Clean Break fit two plays into one show: House, a tight family drama set in a British-Nigerian household, and Amongst the Reeds, a nondescript tale of homelessness, fr…
Through a series of devised monologues, pieces of physical theatre and slam poetry, Lies.
Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe.
Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled…
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
Little remains of Gogol’s original short story, Diary of a Madman, with Al Smith taking much artistic licence in updating it to post-Brexit Britain and turning it into a story of…
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
Rob Drummond is known for being one of Scotland’s most experimental and accessible theatre makers and his new show In Fidelity is no exception.
In a melancholic solo show about growing up and facing the inevitable realisation that there is no Narnia, only the real world, we accompany Lucy Grace on an exploration of the ‘…
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
Drug-smuggling.
Imagine Hot Fuzz meets Hollyoaks meets Hammer Horror.
Bloody Happy Dave.
It is my objective and dream, when at the Edinburgh Fringe, to discover great new writing – plays that are just beginning to make their way onto the world’s stages, at the forefr…
Before the play starts, you can glean some idea of where this hour is headed from the onstage desk: bottles of wine and vodka, a line of cocaine, a singed teddy bear and a dildo ar…
On every front, this show is a winner.
This is a pretty great show.
The reason to go and see Don’t Wake the Damp is simply for the moment after you’ve walked out, sat down with your pint, and think: ‘There’s no way I could’ve predicted an…
Beach Comet have secured themselves as masters of a B-movie musical genre, inviting guests aboard a doomed cruise liner for a riotous hour of exaggerated figures and fantastically …
It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue than the Demonstration Room at Summerhall for Nick Cassenbaum’s coming of age tale.
Shrapnel theatre’s new Fringe show The D-List attempts to address the issues of celebrity and fame in the modern day world of Twitter, reality TV and a culture that idolises thos…
Workplace drama can become pretty intense.
Following its run at the Royal Court in London, Tim Crouch’s play reflects on our modern-day obsession with artists’ lives and how this interferes with and indeed obscures our …
Yinka Kuitenbrouwer welcomes you into her shed, pours you a cup of tea, gives you a house-shaped biscuit, and the words come out in a torrent.
With the feel of an interactive workshop rather than a theatrical ‘show’, The Castle Builder is a lo-fi exploration of outsider art that alternates between informal lecture and…
A loophole in Irish law allows for the legal of consumption of Class-A drugs for 24 hours, and the youth of Dublin are not going to let Yokes Night slip by without taking full adva…
Michael Laurence’s dense, complex and lyrically-beautiful script reworks Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in an exploration of expectation, ageing and memory.
Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m…
Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us imagines a future in which humanity has simply ceased to exist, and it’s surprisingly soothing.
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
Annie Siddon’s (almost) one-woman show, How (Not) To Live In Suburbia, is an absolute treat from Siddon’s first smile to the audience as she takes the stage, until she exits.
Life is transient.
At first glance, there are other plays by Shakespeare that would offer more fruitful parallels with the Kurt Cobain story than Macbeth.
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…
It’s not often you get to see theatre in what is essentially an attic.
Anyone looking for important and assured new writing would be well-advised to give Ecce Theatre’s Crazed a look.
There is a theory in literary circles that, at some point in the writing process, the characters will take on a life of their own and as such, will dictate their journey to the wri…
The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm.
Smart may seem innovative in putting Facebook and Tinder at the heart of a drama, but this cannot compensate for boring and one-dimensional characters and a tedious plot.
The description of this touching piece of work as advertised in the Fringe guide does not do it justice.
The Madwoman in the Attic is a famous piece of feminist literary criticism that dissects the feminine ideal and its opposite, as exemplified by the relationship between Jane Eyre�…
The female object of Beethoven’s widely known composition for solo piano is unknown, though in this devised production by the York Drama Soc, she is given form and identity as th…
The ever experimental Flanagan Collective is back with their new show, From the Mouths of the Gods, all about maths, free will, and determinism, with a little bit of kissing thrown…
It is hard to tackle a subject such as campus rape in America and get the tone right.
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
Tomorrow, Maybe – the newest offering from writing duo Amies & Clements – is a touching musical, set to an absolutely exquisite score which is brought to life with passion by b…
A good crack at absurdist sketch comedy, this piece from Australian company 7blue is good fun and at times bitingly clever, the puns and witticisms are nineteen to the dozen, but f…
From Mountview London graduate’s company Some Riot Theatre, A Series of Unfortunate Breakups is a rollercoaster of storylines and emotions that impresses and moves in equal measu…
Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate.
It’s all queasily familiar: a small badly lit room, a table littered with bottles of vodka and plastic cups, and several alarmingly costumed twenty-somethings sprawled over the f…
What to expect from Bea Roberts’ modern day update of Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary? Instead of surrounding herself with romantic literature to distract her from the b…
The beauty of a new play, from a new company, is that expectations are at rock bottom.
This is a bold and ambitious production, brought to life by three very talented young actors: Sam Ducane, Jack Gordon, and Jessica Sian.
There is no shortage of solo shows about valiant teachers.
By the Bi is a show that offers to tackle the heady subject matter - of the difficulties of being bisexual - head on.
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.
Academy of Risk explores the tremendous pressure placed on students through their own eyes.
From the creators of Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and GhostCop comes another cult pop culture theatre comedy show that once again gets its audience in hysterics.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
It’s clear that the sketch trio made of Oli Gilford, Edd Cornforth and Jake Shoolheifer have good comic potential, and bounce nicely off each other.
Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec…
The Edinburgh Concerts was, believe it or not, a concert series organised in Edinburgh.
At a certain point in Confirmation’s 85 minutes of perspective-smudging, you just want to get up and scream – so inescapably does Chris Thorpe’s script put you face-to-face w…
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
Touch is the new one-woman play from Asylon Theatre exploring the difficulties of genuine human connection.
The Sea Child, adapted by Carolyn Sloan from her novel of the same name, is a tender and evocative play.
The Garden is an off-site performance that takes place a short walk away from the Traverse Theatre.
Robert Sanders and James Sidgwick have created a lightly entertaining musical around superhero tropes and aesthetic, making for cute if not somewhat pantomime-esque hour and a half…
It is a disturbing but all too common tale: girl meets boy, falls in love, and gets tricked into a life of prostitution.
Kenny Roach is an artist, lecturer and alcoholic.
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Traveling Showcase from California bring their musical cabaret to the Fringe for the first time as Lydia Trueblood The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast takes centre stage at the t…
Drifting down the river is a rather appropriate metaphor for describing the experience you have when watching this show.
Three drag queens in a dressing room talk us through their life stories, from coming out to discovering drag.
Lucy (Sarah-Beth Brown) is lonely, so to work out where she’s going wrong, she shows us some climactic moments from her previous relationships.
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
Within five minutes of entering the space, The Daily Tribunal cast have sat me down in the front row and appropriated my pen for the purpose of the show – an examination of the m…
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.
‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me.
Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling.
Here we go again.
Let England Shake is a dark and funny performance full of good ideas and performed by a great all-female ensemble.
Corner Talk theatre really manage to capture the chaos of life with their devised piece of compiled short scenes all centred round the single piece of set: a bench.
The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex.
Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions.
Turn the Key’s Gothic delight, The Cupboard is outstandingly professional.
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…
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…
This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark.
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 …
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 is a theological comedy taking place in the cavernous space of the Library Theatre in the Royal College of Physicians.
First things first, a notable mention must be awarded to the sterling efforts of the two-piece band.
Half Scottish, half Italian, and all heart, Lorenzo Novani’s solo show is well worth getting out of bed early for.
Celtic myth and legend have provided a huge array of inspiration for painting, music, film and theatre.
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, or ACMS, is a late-night comedy showcase.
Four students, a full house and a series of clever sketches make for a very enjoyable hour in The Exeter Revue: Sketchup.
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
Having to read the blurb on the back of the flyer at the end of the show, checking that the point hasn’t flown over heads, is never a good sign.
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
Winsome Brown’s one-woman show is an affecting portrait of her mother and the life Brown and her siblings shared with her.
This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.
This is a play for fans of Greek tragedy and theatre nerds.
Two stand-up (not in the comedic sense) guys riffing on Doctor Who and the origins of programming doesn’t sound scintillating.
If you are a fan of comedy, film noir, or just free shows in general, you should probably check out Health Under Fire.
The Paradise Project by Third Angel and mala voadora is set in a futuristic shelter-in-construction, inhabited by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick as they create a society within w…
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
Ten high school seniors find themselves in a strange room, in the middle of nowhere, lit only by a dim overhead lamp.
Key Change, directed by Laura Lindow, is devised by women in HMPYOI Low Newton and follows the stories of 4 female inmates.
Peculiar Spectacles’ Somebody Out There Loves Me is another theatrical examination of the trials and tribulations of online dating.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
After We Danced depicts a love affair between two people, cut short before unexpectedly rekindling sixty years later, Love in the Time of Cholera-style.
When William Shakespeare is kidnapped by Oberon, the fairy king, it is up to his team of Avengers to rescue him and keep Oberon from re-writing his plays (and the sonnets.
This is immersive theatre.
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
Macbeth gets the prequel it never needed in Chiaroscuro’s portrait of the thane as a young warrior.
A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest.
The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers is a witty and intelligent black comedy with psychopathic humour that will chill and charm you in the same sitting.
Reunion, by Neil Smith, is the story of an older couple, George and Jude, recounting their youth together and their love for one another.
In this tense drama the audience is thrown before a confrontation between former A-grade student Amy and her history teacher Mr Reilly.
David Lee Morgan’s Building God is a poetry performance that discusses, deals with, judges and examines past state revolutions and the present state of affairs.
Nine school students navigate the pressures they face as girls: pressures from society and pressures from each other.
Tik-sho-ret (‘communication’) Theatre Company have achieved their manifesto of giving a platform to Israeli and Jewish theatre.
Lungs is a) a remarkable piece of writing by Duncan Macmillan and b) a remarkable show brought to life by director, George Perrin, and actors, Sian Reese-Williams and Abdul Salis.
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.
Roger (Greg Birks) isn’t like other people, and when all the birds start to disappear from outside his flat in Waterloo, he starts to panic.
Consumption is a somewhat-successful commentary on the state of 21st century society, one obsessed with technology, appearances and consumerism, navigated by the central story of S…
Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent.
Set mainly in a London strip club, The Sacred Obscene is a new play following the stories of the women who work there.
Appetite Theatre, lead by young playwright Serafina Cusack, are distressingly cool.
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
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? …
Billed as a rom-com, Bear Hug looked to be a pretty safe bet for some laughs – described as a story about how coming out is easy but how getting back in is harder.
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
The Gambit, written by Mark Reid and directed by Matthew Gould, opens to the ticking of a chess stop-clock and, of course, a chess set centre stage.
A masterwork of parallax, Macaroni on a Hotdog gently uncovers its affecting core through a focused 50 mins of understated wit.
A man is desperate for a job.
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
“It’s amazing how therapeutic knitting can be,” says one of the three characters in An Illuminating Yarn, a one-act play by Jane Pickthall, produced by Newcastle’s Button Box…
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
Following The Wardrobe Ensemble’s previous creations, including the depicted opening of a Swedish furniture store (RIOT) and an account of the Chilean Mining Accident of 2010 (33…
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall.
A new play from South African playwright Amy Jephta, Flight Lessons sees actress Saria Steel play two friends on opposite sides of the world.
Cheque Please centres on Ivy, who describes herself as a high-functioning depressive, as she endures her job as a waitress with a boss who is constantly threatening dismissal.
A new musical set at the beginning of the First World War.
Why go to the trouble of raising the funds and making the trip to the International Collegiate Theatre Festival, only to present plays nobody back home would want to see, much less…
A hotel room in Vienna, 1950.
Shef Smith’s new play presents three damaged, complex, engaging characters, each trying to continue their lives in spite of a new sense of chaos surrounding them.
Someone has gone missing.
Leftovers follows the story of a young woman Elizabeth and her tragic experiences of the break-out of war.
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This Much (or An Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage), despite its lengthy title, is a fast-paced, intense and powerful piece of new writing, filled with intriguing…
Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen.
Ashley (Ellice Stevens) has just moved to a new town.
Edgar Allen Poe’s seminal poem, which charts the gradual descent into madness of a heartbroken lover compounded by the incessant repetitions of a talking bird, gives its name and…
Six passengers travel on the tube from Stratford to Ealing Broadway.
This piece of new writing from Ben Maier is the latest addition to the succession of plays at this year’s Fringe which in some way seek to deal with issues of mental health.
This is a show with an ambitious script, which shows real emotional intelligence.
From award-winning and internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company Fishamble: The New Play Company, comes this extravagant one-man show.
A gallery space with assorted artworks: chainsaw, feathered headdress, a map of the world.
In this play, the North/South divide is a reality.
As any GCSE maths student will tell you, a prime number is one that has only two factors: one and itself.
Nicola Wren’s one-woman show describes the hundreds of modern-day anxieties we all face in the dating world due to social media and technology.
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
From Fine Mess Theatre comes Kyle Ross’ play Islands, an insight into upper-middle class marriage which typifies the lifestyle of the ‘rah’.
Sheffy is a lad on a mission.
As Rita (Judith Paris) carefully sorts through the trunk packed with artefacts from her past, she recounts the tale of her evolving friendship with Angie, her childhood playmate an…
The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank is directed by Conrad Sharp and performed by Familia de la Noche, taking place in the home and imagination of Edward Blank.
Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
“This is the story of the best week of my life”.
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
Two Sore Legs is an affecting testament to the fierceness of a mother’s love and the determination of one woman in the face of oppressive societal expectations.
The Human Ear is a production that is crafted with all the beautiful complexity of the appendage to which its title refers.
Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’.
His name might feature prominently in the title, but prolific Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti takes a back seat in this new production written by award-winning playwr…
Leper + Chip will hold you by the throat and squeeze the tears from your eyes.
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
It’s amazing how much you can get out of the word ‘Ak’ – the only word in the troll language.
Written by Avital Lvova and George Vere, Rebounding Hail is set in a 13 year old girl’s room surrounded by her books.
Where Do Little Birds Go? follows the story of Lucy Fuller in the heat of London’s swinging sixties, where she has hopes of landing her dream job as a West End star (or a barmaid…
The woman who invented the most efficient method of slaughtering an animal was a vegetarian, we are told as the lights come up on Charolais.
The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world.
Poppy must make a rather rapid readjustment to Year 11 after being abruptly relocated from Spain to a girls’ school in a remote British town.
It is not often that Howard Barker’s plays are produced in Britain (he is far more popular in Europe and America) in spite of his prodigious output and well-known name.
Following on from last year’s Drunk Lion, Chris Davis’ Bortle 8 is nothing if not strange.
For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
A new play by Dave Fargholi, Heartlands is a taut tangle of ethics and emotion for the modern age.
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
Ross & Rachel is an exploration of beyond ‘happily ever after’, using the two Friends characters we all know so well as a medium through which to explore the artifice of relati…
Set in an attic sewing room, Saoirse’s life is presented to us as a form of patchwork quilt.
The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder.
Though this is a story about a trader, the crash of the title refers not only to the financial crash but also to a car crash that turns the trader’s life upside down.
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…
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 is based on the novel by Geraldine McCaughrean which reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark from the point of view of Noah’s daughter, Timna, as she grappl…
Written and performed by Noni Townshend, The Effects of Solitude unfolds with a disarming serenity.
Antler’s If I Were Me is a visual treat.
Captain Morgan is back – and now he is armed with the Sands of Time.
Suitability: 16+ (Restriction).
Serving in many ways as an exploration of grief, mental illness and the intricacies of the bond between mothers and daughters - all wrapped up in a one-woman show - 65 Days of Trac…
In 2013, 21-year-old Moritz Erhardt, an intern at an investment bank, was found dead in his London flat after working for 72 hours without any sleep.
Goodstock is directed by Lucy Wray and written by Olivia Hirst, and follows the writer’s real-life experiences with breast cancer and how this affects her family and relationship…
The act of judging is at the centre of The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 19th century masterpiece about a naïve and simple minded prince in St Petersburg.
After a rave reception for his controversially-named Fringe debut last year, Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked, Rob Hayes has penned another one-man show.
Dave Florez’s new play Angel in the Abattoir questions the role and even the possibility of the modern hero.
Emma (Serena Jennings) and Oli (Will Merrick) meet on a chaotic, booze-fuelled night out.
The idea behind Giant Leap is fascinating: a group of writers attempt to pen Neil Armstrong’s first words as America fakes the 1969 moon landing.
I would like to preface this review by saying that I think this production could be fantastic.
Combining the intensity of a psychological thriller with the power of a theatrical poem is an intriguing notion, but CUT proves its effectiveness as the two come together in this e…
Delivered as an interactive art workshop, with a narrative line slowly emerging, Some Thing New is a great idea with an unsatisfying execution.
50 minutes of Britney, Shania Twain, All Saints and the Spice Girls: every 90s girl’s dream.
Più Theatre have created an honest and thoughtful piece of slick verbatim theatre platforming the voices of young women from across the country.
Cornermen treads a well-worn narrative path: the tale of a young man, plucked from obscurity to rise to fame and success.
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…
Eating Seals and Seagulls’ Eggs is a poetic telling of Ireland’s ‘most hated woman’ – Peig Sayers.
This adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography by writer/performer Tom Stuart is in turns sympathetic and shocking.
What do you do when your computer knows you better than you know yourself? In a self-penned monologue about the dangers of data-mining and artificial intelligence, actor/writer Jen…
Do you like weird and impenetrable absurdist drama? The kind of play that seems to bend time with its slowness? Do you find pleasure in watching characters say meaningless things t…
A short and beguiling piece of theatre, As Thyself is presented here as the first part in a conceptual series of plays by Isla van Tricht, although it was originally a standalone p…
Splitfoot by Piper Theatre tells the tale of the Fox sisters “Devil Daughters” who, in post-civil war New York, convinced the public that they could communicate with the dead.
The events reflected in Dawn State Theatre Company’s The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster happened in 1612, roughly 80 years before the Salem witch trial…
In her one-woman play, Portrait, Racheal Ofori fuses poetry, music and monologues as she gives her take on the perception of role models and cultural stereotypes with black women i…
Returning for their fourth Fringe, Sparkle and Dark bring their own fascinating and fantastical take on experiences of death and loss.
This year marks the 10th year the Comedians’ Theatre Company appears at the Fringe.
Co-written by Susan Wilson and Jeffrey Mayhew, A Cinema in South Georgia follows the misadventures and travels of a group of Edinburgh Whalers in a desolate outpost in South Georgi…
Walking the Tightrope was created as a response to the cancellation of three high profile cultural events last summer.
A crucifix, a menorah, the smell of incense.
Archimedes (Alexander Wilson) is interested in scopophilia, pleasure derived from looking.
The Small Things Theatre Company’s The Stolen Inches brilliantly puts family relationships under a microscope.
Ruaraidh Murray’s new play is a solid - though far from stunning - tale of a marriage turned very sour.
This year, Squint presents Molly – a show investigating the mindset of a sociopath with eerie echoes of the things you might see in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank…
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Those headlines are everywhere these days: “You won’t believe what happens next,” “#8 will blow your mind,” “This video is everything”.
Ayckbourn fans will love this comedy of manners from Durham University’s Fourth Wall Theatre.
Pay attention as this breathtaking production desiccates, then dissects childhood trauma via its exploration of Wittgenstein and semantics: there’s a wordless sucker punch in Can…
Filtered through the consciousness of the bright eyed and burnt out Jeannie, Victoria Rigby’s new play explores all that was best and worst about the sixties.
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Lottie Finklaire’s new play A+E tells the story of three women waiting in the hospital to find out if their friend will ever wake from her coma.
“Some people would kill to have what we have,” says Sophie, describing her job as a toilet attendant in a nightclub.
Kings Hall has been taken over by Summer Hall and transformed into the Canada Hub over the festival, showcasing a series of Canadian acts exploring the issues surrounding Canada’…
Great theatre often takes deeply personal experiences and weaves them together into stories and sequences that tap into a universality and profundity that the experiences alone wou…
The stage is strewn with detritus, traces of lives lived on the margin.