It will make you laugh and cry, make your heart swell and your muscles flex.
Guided Tours.
They say you can get lost in a good book.
Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel, and see the beautiful mural scheme by celebrated Arts and Craft artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic novel, staged in a bespoke venue unique to the show.
Nominated for Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is a site-specific piece for one audience member about a woman’s retreat from everyd…
In this brief installation piece, Darkfield conjure a range of realities for the audience aboard their Airbus 320.
In 2014 the 100kg iron “welcome” gate was stolen from Dachau concentration camp.
Part letter project, part sound project, and part city-wide planting project, this fizzy triptych will begin with you collecting a Listening Pack from the Pleasance Courtyard.
Your guide will take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby and the final resting place for many of Edinburgh’s most notorious characters.
Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults, once the haunt of criminals, body snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tell…
Our guide will enlighten you on the dark history of Old Town Edinburgh’s most extensive haunted underground vaults, dating back to the 1700s.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults, once the haunt of criminals, body snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tell…
Away from the hurly-burly of the centre of the city, one of the Sisters Hope parades the silent streets, ringing the bell to call the initiates to the ritual.
Sherlock Holmes has gone missing; we need your help to find him! Using the Worldwide Automated Tracking System Online Network (WATSON), you will go on an immersive adventure across…
A provocative brew of physical comedy, absurdism and American naivety.
Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany.
Drop in daily to enjoy emerging and established artists playing for free at our specially curated lunchtime concerts.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums.
Burials have been taking place in Greyfriars Kirkyard since the mid-16th century, situated at the southern edge of the Old Town.
A guided walking tour that will take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby and the final resting place for many of Edinburgh’s most notorious characters.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults once the haunt of criminals, body-snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tells…
Trees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate… Or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened, reminding us that human…
Acclaimed immersive adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s classic, staged in a bespoke venue unique to the show.
Think you know your Shakespeare? Think again! This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before – ‘trippingly on the tongue’… Migrant actors take on the Bard, reinterpr…
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull it out of the wardrobe.
Dandelion, by Creative Electric, takes place in the garden opposite the Army@theFringe building.
Bunk beds line the walls, a sterile cream colour melting into plastic mattresses.
Amid the hubbub of cafe chatter and the hiss of milk steaming a mobile phone vibrates with messages of condolences.
As an aficionado of all things Olde Edinburgh, there are a few basics I've come to expect from an underground tour.
In Seagulls, visuals are everything.
This isn’t an eccentric metaphor or a pseudonym for a filthy cabaret, it is exactly what it says.
Tripadvisor meets Pokemon Go in this absurd, fantastical tour that proves how liable we are to being led.
The beginning of Last Resort definitely hooks you in.
In the era of Serial, Making a Murderer and Casting JonBenet, it can be easy to forget that the public’s taste for true crime is not a particularly modern phenomenon.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
Staged in a crashed car, Wrecked is a compelling piece of immersive theatre that brings an audience of six face-to-face with a young woman piecing together the narrative that broug…
As you enter the white clinical looking surroundings of a backroom in the medical quad of the Underbelly you are greeted by a Stepford smiling woman who calmly leads you to your se…
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.
Come for an immersive ‘clubbing’ atmosphere and free face paint; stay for perceptive political dilemmas and great naturalistic performances.
An inconspicuous townhouse in Fiveways plays host to the promenade performance Dancing in the Dark.
‘Brighton looks like a town helping the police with their enquiries’ quotes our white-coated guide at the top of the stairs in Brighton Town hall and raises a laugh as she intro…
There can’t be a more perfect setting for In Conversation With An Acid Bath Murderer than the bowels of Brighton’s Town Hall, where 368 Theatre Company takes full advantage …
We are on the border between England and Scotland, life and death, fluid and solid.
Site specific theatre is a great way to immerse an audience into the world that the piece creates.
Guided by the contours and movements of squash and the confining size and layout of a squash court, Squish Squared is a unique and searching dance sequence that invites some fascin…
Hula House, created by Permanently Visible Productions, is an immersive, semi-interactive look at the life of sex workers.
Poor Boy Theatre’s latest offering, Pirates and Mermaids, is everything one hopes to find at the Fringe.
There is a room in C Nova that you have never seen before: up endless winding staircases and through many closed doors, a small attic store has been meticulously transformed into t…
Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption…