Despite everything that’s happened, Tom is still talking about his penis.
Good people do bad things and bad people do good things.
A world comedic debut, one-woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
A play about consent, castings and cappuccinos.
Living in repressed times when to choose your husband wasn’t a right but a rare privilege, PM Jones finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage.
My WIP will likely include songs about buying a Pritt Stick, sleepy eyes and absolutely loads of double entendres if I have my way.
Stand-up, sarcasm and uncomfortable confessions combine in this true story about life as a Jesus girl.
A moving one-woman show about the trials and tribulations of living with chronic pain.
Toby, an unambitious 30-something wants to make the world a better place, but takes umbrage at most of its citizens because he doesn’t have a pension.
Warped telly nostalgia from award-winning character comedian Tom Burgess.
There’ll be no deep storytelling, no moral messages at the end but there might just be quick-fire jokes, wordplay, characters, impressions and if you’re lucky some meaty layers b…
A hilarious and edgy stand-up hour that examines what it’s like to see the world through cum-tinted glasses.
Fantasy, escapism, stand-up comedy.
Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing.
Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Witchfinder, Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme) is back with an all-new show.
Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams is a solo acoustic concert showcasing many of Andy Williams’ greatest hits.
Attention Needed is a fearless ride through stupidity and chaos.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
Spending well over half his life as a much-loved stand-up comic, the award-winning star of Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake returns to Edinburgh for one last time with the show he’s alw…
How did a Pakistani family cope when arriving in cold and wet Scotland? Like many migrants they used food to make friends.
If all the best people are in all the best jobs, why is Britain such a f*cking bin fire? Orwell prize-winning author, BAFTA nominated broadcaster and celebrated hip-hop artist Darr…
Set under the white-hot glare of Hollywood and celebrity, Wild Son is the story of Marlon Brando’s troubled, headline-making son… in his own words.
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.
William ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
After months of fighting to save her home from developers, Val has finally conceded.
A brand-new stand-up show from David Watson about getting rid of the things that hold you back, which would be: vanity, pastry and Twitter.
Darkly comedic one-woman show about our natural inclination to go with the flow.
Rural Ireland meets the Middle East when Paddy, a proud Irish man, loses his lust for life after a family tragedy.
Before Dylan Thomas drank himself to death at the tender age of 39, he and his bohemian wife, Caitlin, binged and brawled their way round the bars of Britain in the 1930s and 40s.
Following a sell-out UK tour, Lost Voice Guy returns to Edinburgh with his brand-new show.
Two hilarious and explosive plays written by Steven Berkoff, performed back-to-back by the same actor.
Travel – always exciting, especially when the man of your dreams pops up to join you.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
The role of the weather girl is one of the most iconic in the TV landscape.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
The hilarious and profound emotional roller-coaster true story of renowned storyteller, Ted McGrath.
Texas, July 2021.
Almost 13 is a solo drama about a young girl surviving a hot, violent summer in Brooklyn.
Clara tells the story of 19th century piano star Clara Schumann.
Have you ever felt isolated and confused about the world? Surrounded by judgement, pressure and horrifically high beauty standards, Jess confesses her innermost thoughts to you all…
There will be cake.
Watch in awe as quiet man Nick Everritt establishes a comedic persona and performs a series of jokes.
Rising star Mamoun wants to share with you his unfiltered, idiosyncratic and unorthodox world view – the things you think about and never say out loud.
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who does? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fin…
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
Having had plenty of time to practise, Caspar returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand new magic show.
If you were conceived to fix your parent’s marriage, obsess over whether people like you, and have visited your dad in prison, then this show is for you! Left to raise himself by…
Breaking down? Lost the manual? Book in for this funny (meta)physical dive into how to keep going.
In mid 2020 Angus Coutts tried to make money by selling naked pictures of himself online.
As a teenager, Joey didn’t expect to be in a hospital bed from a near-death penis injury with three traumatic surgeries, two clumsy catheters and one overwhelming desire to wreak…
There’s a time and place for a monocle: 2022 and a New York high school are neither of them.
In 1992 Gavin Webster was in a double act where he was actually the straight man, so he decided to go it alone.
Weapons of mass destruction.
Lee never understood why people sometimes thought he was unusual.
A ground-breaking piece of comedic theatre that asks a simple question: Is it possible to please everyone, all of the time? And at what cost to your family and health? In this fast…
Charming Scottish mind reader Cameron Gibson has been amazing audiences all over the world with his fun, engaging and interactive style of stage shows for several years.
‘I call myself an octogenarian, but I cannot prove it.
Lobster is not a fish, or an oyster, or a bird, and certainly not a kangaroo.
A solo show about a gender identity crisis, in the high-pressure isolation of lockdown.
Zav is a comedy drama, a one-person show set over 20 years in the life of Zav, an ordinary road worker who becomes a successful photographer.
Why does a victim become a predator? In isolation, Ghislaine Maxwell maintains innocence whilst reliving the psychological abuse endured from her father.
Once upon a time, there was a Princess born to a King and Queen who were banished from the island of Ériu and forced to flee to America in a coffin ship.
She’s not your average little old lady.
Meg lives a promiscuous, carefree life of hedonism, with little responsibility.
From a single fateful phone call taken reluctantly from the toilet, a Shakespearean actor finds his world collapsing around him.
A young man called Milo arrives in Scotland with an urn and a promise – to eulogize the recent death of his childhood best friend.
Part stand-up, part TED talk, part Vagina Monologue, this sex-positive solo show dives deep into the ancient art of going down, and what it takes to make the pussy purr.
Transatlantic is a true story of the French immigrant experience.
Cynthia grew up playing classical piano in a Colorado town, but she was determined to achieve the keys to success by attending a prestigious New York City music school.
A one-person comedy show based on comedian Erick Acuña’s real life as a Peruvian Latino living in the United States.
This is a play about courageous survival.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up 2021.
UK Underdog is a solo show based on true events in a London, Jewish boy’s life.
Comedy award winner 2021.
Menopausal Mayhem is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause.
A hillbilly gothic tale of an Appalachian tobacco farmer’s love for his family and the extremes he will go to protect them.
My show is about growing up, getting old and having an 88-year-old Jewish mother (now with no filter) who is making me ‘Jewrotic’ (neurotic and Jewish.
The most famous characters of the Commedia dell’arte in a one-man show: two couples of lovers, a silly old father, two twin brothers detached for a long time… Among funny and u…
An insistent palm-reading drag queen declares Jenny will never find love, sending her reeling back to a high school match-making scheme that horrifyingly matched her with the bigge…
On the occasion of the centenary of Kurt Vonnegut’s birth, Fringe veteran Todd Wronski presents a portrait of one of the 20th century’s great writers using Vonnegut’s own unique sp…
Dear Little Loz is a poetic exploration of love – love for the scabby boys in Blackpool, dodgy dates with Dave and the desperate need for a daddy-daughter connection.
After a sold-out Fringe run in 2021, Michael Welch is back to examine his struggles in a technology-dependent world in which he increasingly grapples to pay attention.
From running an online pun show gaining hundreds of thousands of views to the culmination of an appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, a lot has happened over the last two years for t…
Ireland’s own Duffy Connors is taking his solo show to Edinburgh.
Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She.
Direct from sell-out shows, an extensive UK tour and London season, Fringe First award winner Apphia Campbell’s stunning solo show inspired by the life of Nina Simone returns with …
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year finalist Louise Leigh was supposed to write her Magnum Opus: a searing commentary on men, menopause and menthol rub, a meditation on the natu…
Knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is bad, Adele is good.
Nina was going through life quite nicely, when – pow! Suddenly she wasn’t! Fear and anxiety crept into normal everyday situations.
Amy’s hotly anticipated debut hour explores ‘main character syndrome’ – that feeling of being the lead in a film of your life (even when you don’t always feel like the writ…
Debut show from award-winning (and he will prove it) internet comedy sensation, Jim Daly (50+ million views).
Take a chill pill! Stay calm! Relax! I know, the exclamation marks aren’t helping! Over the last two years, Jacob somehow predicted the pandemic in his 2019 show, got hitched and w…
Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey presents some very silly characters exploring a very serious topic.
Milo hasn’t received a voicemail in some time.
Kirsty overshares her funny bits.
Join this multi award-winning comedian for his debut hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great questions of our time, like: Why does anyone believe the Earth is flat? Can you…
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to (NB you’ll still have to).
A hilarious and edgy stand-up hour that examines what it’s like to see the world through cum-tinted glasses.
A twisted stand-up comedy quest to understand fatherhood.
The affable, internationally well-travelled comedian returns to the Fringe with more hilarious anecdotes, observations, audience interaction and banter as well as some insightful c…
From Vogue magazine to putting Piers Morgan in his place and zombifying politicians on Question Time.
A one-man show set in early 90s London about a band who didn’t become rich or famous but had a manager who did.
Real-life doctor and award-winning comedian Stefania Licari brings her alter ego to the stage in Medico – a hysterical and moving exploration of the medical world, immigration an…
Into every generation, a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one.
A strong female lead (detective) faces the toughest case of her career in this comedy crime show by Tamar Broadbent (BBC Radio 4, Boom Chicago).
In her first solo show, Swiss Comedy Talent Award finalist Michelle Kalt tackles the aftermath of an embarrassingly peaceful break-up, covering everything from bad dates (or whatev…
Sid Singh: comedian, human rights lawyer and idiot.
World premiere of a new murder mystery starring Arthur Bostrom (‘Allo ‘Allo!) set in the golden age of BBC sitcoms, from the acclaimed Father Brown writer David Semple.
‘Naturally charismatic storyteller’ (Fest) weaves a shocking but very funny account of her youth.
Debut stand-up hour from your favourite, local American.
Self-doubt? Low self-esteem? Well, this sounds cheery.
New York Comedian Gabe Mollica started comedy the day after he got broken up with.
Comedian by night, stay-at-home-dad / trophy husband by day! International comedian Ryan Wingfield shares his take on the challenges of family life and other experiences in this so…
Last year, while clearing out my grandfather’s house, I stumbled across hundreds of hidden envelopes.
He’s a stand-up and a clown.
Dogs on Instagram and more excruciatingly hilarious revelations from one of Scotland’s fastest-rising stars who’s stormed New York’s Off-Broadway and opened for Daniel Sloss,…
Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a child-free badass, this award-winning stand-up is back with a sex-positive…
Reality is overrated.
A show about mental health, not just mental illness.
‘Downright hilarious!’ (Edinburgh Evening News).
Inconceivable comes from the mind of wannabe mama and stand-up comedian Casey Balsham.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and star of Live at the Apollo returns with a brand new hour of ‘confessional storytelling at its funniest’ ***** (Herald).
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Eliott has never cared for sex.
What if your mum’s death turns out to be one of the best things that happened to you? The nonsense of Italian bureaucracy and a grotesque email from the cemetery lead Luca to a bri…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
A show about mental health, not just mental illness.
Unapologetically Indian, irreverently American.
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
An ode to every man who has belittled her, made her feel unsafe, objectified her, told her she can’t be funny, called her a slut, told her to smile more.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
‘Russell’s mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the…
A new work in progress from the host of The Comedian’s Comedian podcast.
‘Thanks for coming to audition.
Tom’s been trying to remember what was important before responsibility and fear got in the way.
The show contains nothing but jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes …
Laura Davis is internationally acclaimed as one of the strongest, most distinctive comedy voices around.
Destiny dreams big.
Social media sensation and Chortle Award winner Rosie Holt debuts an hour of character comedy based on her hit satirical videos.
‘Utterly compelling’ (Lyn Gardner, StageDoorApp.
Growing up with a schizophrenic mom, and a grandmother who stole from buffets and fed her false realities, Atsuko is now stunted as an adult.
In her Fringe debut, one of the hottest names on America’s comedy circuit shares her journey from daughter, to best friend, to caregiver in a poignant but laughter-filled hour.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Lauren is back with a brand-new show.
Could you see the funny side to going blind? Ten (well, now twelve) years on from losing most of his sight, Tom looks back at a decade of being blind and wonders what might have be…
Welcome to the great indoors.
Your life from the day of your 25th birthday through to your death.
Winner of Les Enfants Terribles Award 2022.
Alex is a social success.
In aid of the suicide charity CALM, and sound-tracked live with songs from his upcoming second album, the acclaimed beatboxer is back with Breathe: a breathtakingly theatrical disp…
Performer: Fringe legend Pip Utton, Stage Special Award for Excellence, etc.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
A powerful production telling the remarkable story of the short life and lost work of Kerala writer PM John, shortly before India’s independence from British rule.
The iconic American comedian and actress returns with her acerbic wit, following multiple sell-out runs.
Debut hour from nice young man, Sam Lake.
Alison loves to do star jumps in the water.
One time, Alice got kicked out of an airport because her passport was covered in glow stick – and that’s just the start.
Finally – the scandalous truth behind EastEnders revealed! Gasp as walk-on actor Tony Coventry lifts the lid and spills his beans! Performed by James Holmes.
Brassy, abrasive, rude, belligerent.
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? It’s Saturday night, the big girls’ night out and this girl is trying to get ready on time.
Safe everyone.
Red Richardson is one of Britain’s best up-and-coming comedians.
The stunning debut hour full of ‘sharp and observant gags’ (Joe Lycett) from one of comedy’s most exciting breakthrough voices.
Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Witchfinder, Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme) is back with an all-new show.
The Queens of Cups draw upon their years teaching, in OffFest nominee Bad Teacher.
Teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the mic to rehab her ‘bloody’ image.
‘If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses’ (Henry Ford).
Physical comedy meets Hollywood.
Amused Moose New Comic winner and BBC New Comedy Award-nominated northerner Lew had a breakdown and ran away from home, forever.
Debut hour from one of the most exciting acts on the UK comedy circuit and one of the most pathetic cringing worms (as seen on The Mash Report (BBC2), BBC3 and Channel 4 Online.
Woman, warrior, legend.
What have I been doing this past two years? Apart from sitting on the settee in my pyjamas, squeezing my ingrowing hairs whilst watching documentaries on Ted Bundy? I have been sta…
Ever read your grandmother’s suicide note? Sophie has.
Join Mary Beth for her eagerly anticipated debut hour, as she shares her checkered journey as an aspiring young starlet through to the present day, covering a range of topics like …
This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence.
‘Whining folk singer’ (Telegraph), lesbian and checked-shirt collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir everyday of her adult life, and, having exhausted her capacity f…
Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another.
In her award-winning stand-up show, Esther Manito (Live at the Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show) looks back at the era of lad mags, landlines and cock-n-ball graffiti.
Charlie Russell wants to do a show in Edinburgh, but all she can think about is what she wants people to think of it and, ultimately, of her.
Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub.
Join rising star Jamie D’Souza as he performs his highly anticipated debut stand-up show about the terrible teen emo band he was in and also his first school crush.
After 21 years and 224 days Hal’s back being single.
Sportsperson is written and performed by Cerys Bradley (Soho Theatre Young Company, Amused Moose semi-finalist, 2020).
In the last ever performances of this show, Stewart Lee, ‘the world’s greatest living stand-up’ (Times), looks at how the Covid-Brexit era has impacted on the culture war declare…
The true story of a complicated young woman’s attempts to survive anorexia and maintain a debilitatingly positive attitude in post 9/11 New York City.
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
After an enormous UK and Australia tour and an Amazon special, the Taskmaster runner-up and accidental YouTube cult leader brings his most popular show so far back to where it bega…
Welcome to the afterparty, but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the music’s got we…
Justin is back: still funny, yet middle-aged.
Watson is alone.
Debut hour from fast-rising star, award-winning stand-up Finlay Christie, who in less than a year has amassed over 100 million views on YouTube and TikTok and an online following o…
Debut stand-up hour from sarky Londoner Lily Phillips.
The unachievable expectations of African Jesus! The unholy shame of premarital cohabitation! The unwavering healthcare professionals who dare to oppose the will of God! Edinburgh C…
Comedy’s miserable, cheeky scamp is returning with the weight of the world across his shoulders and some burning questions in his soul.
This dark-comedy love letter to Britney Spears is a nostalgia-fest for anyone who has ever dropped to that Hit Me Baby One More Time beat and for anyone who came of age against the…
The New York Times – America’s “Daily Record” – asked: what’s the worst that could happen to you? Blindness won! Jamie’s not sure it’s that bad.
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ (Guardian).
Rob Rouse (Bottom, BBC’s Upstart Crow) has performed stand-up since winning So You Think You’re Funny? at Edinburgh in 1998.
In this one-woman thriller, we see how a loving relationship can sometimes be anything but.
A solo show about a train wreck and her trauma.
Fresh from his celebrated debut on Live at the Apollo, Tom Ward returns with a brand-new construction of offbeat observations and top-notch whimsical detours.
A new show about private things, public things and trying to wrap your big sexy arms around time to keep it still.
A bold exploration into chronic pain experience, featuring playful choreography, experimental dance, intimate autobiographical text and new classical music composition.
Cyclist Vee has no idea why she’s woken up in hospital.
The siren of south Yorkshire steps away from the songs and dedicates her attention to the dying art of conversation.
What’s it like growing up when your parents can’t hear? In this poignant and captivating solo show, Joe, therapist and Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), explores his life to answer the …
‘A gem of a show’ ****½ (One4Review.
‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once’ (Albert Einstein).
Highly anticipated debut hour from comedian and junior doctor.
‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy.
It has been an interesting couple of years, with a global pandemic showing us a different perspective on life and its meaning.
Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry through her two remaining false eyelashes.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s complications.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Cockroach is an hour of dark, gut-wrenching stand-up from one of the best comedians in the country.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
Alison Kinnaird is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and musician.
This year Stuart got alopecia.
Oh, you like Josie Long? Political and personal in one sentence, angry but tender, did a brilliant and much-lauded Fringe show when we last had civilization.
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
It is absolutely not Fraser Brown who needs to be afraid.
Maxwell’s back in Edinburgh for the last weekend of August.
Hoo Hah House's production Brave Face is by far the bravest and powerful production I have seen at the Fringe this year.
‘My name is mandla.
‘My name is mandla.
‘My name is mandla.
‘My name is mandla.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
How many times can a woman be objectified before deciding she’s more human than that? More angry than that… more vengeful than that.
Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
Be prepared for some funny and revealing stories from Dr Colin Thomas on his journey from watching television as a child to wanting to perform at Footlights and finally making it a…
After six years together, one of which was particularly crazy, an American says goodbye to Scotland with the help of a song and a puppet and tries to figure out why she’s leaving.
Stuart is an observational comedian who doesn’t fully understand what he’s observed.
Eddie Mullarkey brings you on a hilarious, almost entirely honest and wild journey of growing up as a mama’s boy in the west of Ireland, being a failed Catholic, and coming to term…
Stefan Warzycki presents a programme of piano music for the left hand including Godowsky’s studies on Chopin’s Op 10 Études, Scenes of Iceland by Thordur Magnusson and Scriabin’s …
So far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Jody Kamali presents a multi-character comedy/variety show.
What if the last time you dated, you were doused in Impulse Body Spray and The Spice Girls were at number one? Finding a phwoar-some trouser-shape to replace her ex-husband won’t…
At 41, skinny national treasure Mark Watson is halfway through his days on earth according to his £1.
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Watson is alone.
Multiple Fringe First winner David Calvitto (The House, The Professor) returns with his award-winning 2009 hit.
A ‘gut-bustingly funny’ (**** (List)) thing in a turtleneck gives you a makeover for the interior design of your mind.
With nothing but the titular suitcase, a trench coat and a scarf, this true story centers on questions of identity, immigration, women’s rights and involuntary displacement in a hu…
Cockroach is an hour of dark, gut-wrenching stand-up from one of the best comedians in the country.
Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry through her two remaining false eye lashes.
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
The Hyenas are taking you out-out on the hen do of your life! So buckle up and suck into that polyester dress! Expect audience participation, crap karaoke and pray we make it out a…
Award-winning comedian.
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
‘Impressively evocative’ (Chortle.
Ah, the 90s! The decade that Shaparak was in her twenties and ‘ladette’ culture ruled the school.
There is an incredible sense of comfort that I feel upon entering the Dining Room at Gilded Balloon to see Jay Lafferty’s Blether.
A tale of the songs that lead us into the future and the ones that call us home; this show is a masterpiece in storytelling and soul.
Ben’s getting older, what should be the final flurries of youth sees him fall squarely into middle age with new ailments to contend with, medical dilemmas, alarming levels of grump…
An old soldier faces one more battle – with himself.
Gangsters, attempted murder and actual sharks? Award-winning comedian and TV writer Kate Smurthwaite tells the most mind-blowing lockdown story you’ll ever hear.
Ross Cullum (Bridgerton) plays villainous English bastards on TV, depicting the cis-het-masc-posho-twat demographic.
If you’re looking for big blowouts and even bigger bouffants, why not stop by El Greco of Hornsey; a salon, a kitchen and a confessional all rolled into one.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
It’s a Fringe 1st.
Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is a supercharged combination of old-school joke-telling and modern, autobiographical wit.
Award-winning gag merchant (2016 UK Pun Champion winner) Masai Graham delivers over one hundred naughty jokes in just half an hour.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the master of wordplay.
Award-winning gag merchant (2016 UK Pun Champion winner) Masai Graham delivers over one hundred clean jokes in just half an hour.
Chaucer, but with insects.
Eddie Mullarkey brings you on a hilarious, almost entirely honest and wild journey of growing up as a mama’s boy in the west of Ireland, being a failed Catholic, and coming to term…
Combining childlike wonder, adult cynicism, and Shakespearean gravitas in his impressively compelling story, master storyteller Dennis Elkins poses increasingly difficult questions…
A quirky, short show with songs. One woman reflects on her day, by talking and singing to her dog.
SAVED is a multi-layered, retro-mechanical music show built around rescued 70s home organs.
Comedian Ryan Wingfield takes a funny look into the science of what makes us happy.
Storyteller Elise Robertson embarks on a journey of discovery about Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist, who was born 12 miles from her in Pittsburgh, PA, 60 years earlier.
1939: Bette returns home knowing she’s to lose, as the press leaked the Oscar winners.
In the early 90s, Australian comedian Tania Lacy was so famous she couldn’t walk down the street without being mobbed.
Quaker singer-songwriter, poet and eco-worrier, Majk Stokes, brings his quirky humour (and his mild obsession with superheroes) back to the Fringe for an online charity concert com…
An aspiring actress, Evie Edwards, clutches the sides of the Hollywood sign.
After spending 5+ decades on the stage, Siobhan Bremer’s life is more than just a bit theatrical.
How many times can a woman be objectified before deciding she’s more human than that? More angry than that… more vengeful than that.
Fresh off her triumph as Best Actress and recovery from a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself.
A palm-reading drag queen tells Jenny she’ll never find love, sending her mind reeling back to high school and a matchmaking scheme that went horribly wrong.
Some inherit from their mothers material possessions.
With nothing but the titular suitcase, a trench coat and a scarf, this true story centers on questions of identity, immigration, women’s rights and involuntary displacement in a hu…
Melissa Center is.
SAVED is a multi-layered, retro-mechanical music show built around rescued 70s home organs.
Dishonour is a powerful drama that explores the terrifying practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
‘My name is mandla.
Ah, the 90s! The decade that Shaparak was in her twenties and ‘ladette’ culture ruled the school.
Fringe legend Guy Masterson returns for his 27th festival with the perfect Covid antidote! Only six unmissable performances of Dylan Thomas’ timeless masterpiece, made famous by Ma…
Alison Kinnaird has an international reputation as a glass artist and exponent and teacher of the Scottish harp.
Through storytelling poetry, this show transports you back to Westeros to narrate a different version of the Game of Thrones story.
A woman tries to reconcile her identity as a Canadian-born child of British parents living in the United States while she desperately tries to score a ticket to the final show of C…
In 2017, Watson – prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour again after his incredible 2018 W…
A woman on the cusp of turning 30 pours over the last decade of her life.
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970’s. Performed by ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits, …
Brand-new show from star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 cats, Celebrity Mastermind and regular on The News Quiz and Fighting Talk.
A romantic Greek comedy.
The Coming Out Play is a 40-minute one-woman play that follows the twenty-six-year-old and sucre-sweet Lucy Moran as she travels to her parents’ house to tell them that not only …
Climb up to the dizzy heights and slip down to some awkward lows in the company of award-winning Jacob Hulland’s warm and youthful, yet middle-aged, persona.
Led by local historian and actor Colin Brown, Rebustours run throughout the Fringe, starting and finishing at The Royal Oak pub on Infirmary Street.
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, Nelly Power was a force to be reckoned with in an era before female emancipation.
A one-person comedy show based on comedian Erick Acuña’s real life as a Peruvian Latino living in the United States: from filling out a medical form in English or never trying h…
Sr Clarissa has grown somewhat tired of her marriage to Christ.
Velvet Determination – a musical journey about wrong notes, hard knocks and the keys to success.
Adena Walker is a Black Jewish Woman living in Trump’s America… and somehow she’s still single! Watch as she sings and dances her way through the NYC dating scene in this hil…
One traveler is catapulted on a journey through space-time, only to find himself on a desperate hunt to reconnect with those he left back home.
Sometimes we all feel different but not everyone has that confirmed by a professional.
If you want to make the finest wine, use the sweetest grape on the vine.
Birth, death, upheaval, wild animals, buried secrets and massive amounts of coffee.
Things are getting way too tense out there, aren’t they? The powers that be are peddling anger to the masses and we’re all becoming rage junkies.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
The kid’s back with another hour of lo-fi stand-up comedy to chill or study to.
What happens when our youthful expectations of love and sex, those formed in the 90s by movies, TV and music get crushed by the realities of adulthood and, in this one case, a terr…
Unapologetically Indian.
A brand new hour of jokes from Alfie Brown; the country’s best non-famous comedian.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner is back at the Fringe with her highly anticipated, brand-new show.
Patrick McPherson returns to Edinburgh with The Man revamped following its sold-out run at the Fringe 2019 where it received exclusively five-star reviews.
Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another.
Watson, at 40, is halfway through his life according to the life expectancy calculator.
Why shouldn’t a middle-aged, middle-class, middle-eastern single mother of two relate to Stormzy, the King of Grime? In this new show, Shappi connects with her truth, her ‘Inner St…
Born in Iran and raised in a Teeside caravan, Patrick reflects on life today in his mixed-class relationship.
Meet Sam Morrison: a 24-year old American comedian with a theatrical flair and a penchant for daddies.
Those not lucky enough to have enjoyed the naff golden years and dubious social content of 1970s and 80s television may not immediately understand the appeal of a one-woman show ab…
Star of Live at the Apollo, Laura Lexx is a ‘bouncy, bubbly stand up star’ (Telegraph) shining a hilarious light on how hard it is to be a good person these days.
Join the star of Parks and Recreation and Fargo for an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better sid…
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Viceland’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix has just come back from his first world tour.
‘One of the world’s great cabaret singers’ (Time Out) presents unique interpretations of Dylan and Brel alongside her own material.
Kenneth Wilson performs a solo show of dramatic poetry from his 2019 collection, The Definitions of Kitchen Verbs, abetted and illustrated with solo airs, ballads and Bach beautifu…
Sea Sick is a beautifully simple and affecting piece of storytelling about climate breakdown and the oceans - and about one woman's mission to understand the damage that's …
Josie Long has spent twenty years being a beacon of hope amongst the cynical cruelty of stand-up comedy.
Within is one man’s quest to find the meaning of life.
When he was seven years old, Edward Hilsum attended a party at which a magician was performing.
This play is about dreams, where forgotten memories go, déjà vu, laughter, the inability to laugh, that sense you get when you can tell someone is staring at you, the song Girls …
Three nights only! After a sell-out run in 2018 and a BBC One series of the same name, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and star of Live at the Apollo, Luisa returns with her third smash-hi…
A fanfic no one asked for, a sprawling eulogy to a deceased robot that wears it’s fragile heart on it’s sleeve, a meme made by someone you can’t relate to.
The award-winning Aussie comedian is back with a brand-new show, taking on the end of the world.
Very few of Edinburgh Fringe’s 4,000+ shows this year are able to boast being incomparable to all others.
Character comedian David McIver’s Teleport takes us on a deliciously low-budget, self-deprecating, dynamic quest through the online fantasy character games he used to play as a c…
After last years sell-out performances at the Fringe, English Comedian of the Year finalist Adam Rowe has bought his show Pinnacle to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tash is trying to fit into her clothes as well as her role in society.
11+ explores the strange and funny challenges we go through in trying to get into a grammar school.
Tanya is a woman with a lot on her mind.
Join Luisa Omielan (What Would Beyonce Do?!, Am I Right Ladies?! and Politics For Bitches) as she tries out some stuff for an upcoming project.
Charming.
An hour with Harriet Dyer is an hour of absurdism where literally anything can happen.
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
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.
International, award-winning concert pianist Veronica Yen returns to Edinburgh.
Aspiring to be more vacuous? Thanking strangers for no reason? Hyper-Nice is a new, original, one person stand-up show in which David Watson mostly apologises for breathing and tri…
‘When did no become a turn on? No.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
An agoraphobic phone sex dominatrix goes on a whirlwind journey across the Bavarian countryside – and deep within herself – in order to rescue a friend from the claws of a myth…
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
Not Today’s Yesterday.
Zoe Lyons packs out the Gilded Balloon with stand-up that raises the bar for Fringe comedy.
The Perfect Body is a one woman show written and performed by Lavinia Savignoni.
It’s 1816, and Mary Shelley is about to recite the words that would be Frankenstein.
Leyla Josephine presents us with 'Daddy', a seeming parody of Rab C Nesbitt, oozing toxic masculinity.
The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre.
It needs to be said, you must go into this show with an open mind.
Beyoncé’s Diva is blasting out as we wait for London Hughes to arrive.
Buzzing is the story of Julie, a 50-something recent divorcee who is wanting to discover herself and “find meaning”.
Stage mist and ethereal warfare sounds are the backdrop to this wonderful hour of bloodthirsty battle and adventure, with a cast of thousands resonating through the medium of Lewis…
International, award-winning concert pianist Veronica Yen returns to Edinburgh.
Eliott has never cared for sex.
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens is a man of many songs, and many hats.
We all have a nationality.
“I wanna be woke, but I’m tired.
Late 1800s: there’s a heavy fog surrounding London.
You see a person, she sees the colour blue.
Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant! A fun comedy show about migration, identity and belonging from award-nominated comedienne.
Remember OMD before OMG, Phil Oakey’s fringe and onyx ashtrays? Tales of growing up before the New Romantics landed in 80s Leeds, with threads of a Catholic upbringing, Irish mot…
Writing a Fringe show on the premise of an audience member who hated your show last year is a bold move, but Catherine Bohart pulls it off and even manages to make a political poin…
If character comedy tickles your funny bone then look no further than An Audience With Yasmine Day at Pleasance Courtyard.
We live in challenging times.
I’m 55.
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
Three thousand years ago, the Queen of Sheba travelled with a huge entourage and wealthy gifts to listen to King Solomon’s wisdom.
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…
How did the first person to watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge perform Fleabag feel; confused, enlightened, so profoundly altered they could barely put words to it? Jodie Irvine’s origin…
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
What’s going on? Why is everyone fighting? Why does everyone hate each other? Who the hell is Alexa? And why are there no women left with real eyebrows? Women are in fashion now bu…
Almost 40 and totally single, Mandy takes us on a hilarious, raw 55-minute rollercoaster ride unearthing the magic elixir for her unmarried soul.
Total Theatre Award-winning Rachel Mars returns following her gleeful sell-out hit Our Carnal Hearts.
‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard), Alison Thea-Skot, returns to the Fringe for two nights with her five-star smash-hit show.
Watson presents a show that’s no more than 50% ready for public consumption and hopes for the festival’s legendary supportive vibe to carry him through.
Fringe First winner returns for six shows only.
Gays everywhere! Since Spring Awakening in 1890, the stage and screen has depicted schools as hotbeds of gay romance, passion, sex and joy – but also bullying, blackmail, trauma …
Have you ever felt so lost in the game of life that you don’t really remember who you are? Combining personal stories with physical theatre, vulnerability and ferocity, Ana creates…
An elderly sister and brother are brought together by a family tragedy that starts them on a hero’s journey, in a senior Hansel and Gretel fairytale sort of way.
[SFX: FANFARE] Michael Brunström is an Olympic athlete striving for gold medal glory.
Sincerity has expanded on Mark Ravenhill’s creepy monologue The Experiment, where we follow the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator.
Oxford Revue alumnus John Rayner (‘laugh-out-loud.
Apphia Campbell’s solo show inspired by the life of Nina Simone.
The star of BBC2’s The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and his own BBC Radio 4 special returns to the Fringe.
A family’s dream holiday becomes a nightmare.
In the 12 years since Prospero’s departure, Caliban has painstakingly sifted through the ashes of the books of magic, slowly piecing together a way to save his island from mankind’…
Toby Belch is unwell: the years of drinking, late nights and debauchery have taken their toll and now he faces his end with the knowledge that he’s seen as a buffoon, a drunken sot…
Beth Vyse returns as Olive Hands in this work in progress show: The Hands Have It! where she finds herself running for leader of the Western world.
Dorothy Wordsworth has finally found her place, living in domestic and literary bliss in the Lake District with her famous brother, William.
A combination of cataclysmic events results in the extinction of the human race, leaving behind an AI being programmed to recreate humanity when the time is right, with the complet…
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
Traumgirl explores the myths and stereotypes around sex work, laying bare the women behind the industry in a bold narrative which will change the preconceptions of anyone who didn…
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.
This comic tale examines Phina’s observations on what others have made of her black identity as a model, actress, radio presenter and writer in the fickle media world.
Pip Utton, Fringe legend brings Adolf back for the final time.
Sweden’s top female comedian Josefin Johansson, TV presenter and singer takes her sold-out show Girl Stuff abroad for the first time.
Helen Bauer hits the Fringe hard with this compelling comedy debut which is slick, sassy and super satisfying.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Grit is in the grips of a full on nightmare so scared he can’t feel the rubble beneath his bare feet.
What happens when your mum abandons you at the age of 12 to join a cult and move to Canada? That’s exactly the predicament Anoushka Warden found herself in, subsequent to her par…
We are introduced to Rosa as she jogs on the spot, planning her new years resolutions which include working hard, calling her grandma more and taking better care of her body.
Catapulting Dickens into the 21st century, this masterstroke genius of spin-offs introduces Emily Halloran, live streaming to us from her penthouse honeymoon suite.
A funny, touching and self-deprecating account of growing up in 1970s Wolverhampton.
Notes towards a new show from ‘the world’s greatest living stand-up’ (Times).
Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed by Bear Grylls on Celebrity Island, scrawny Fringe legend Watson returns with his show about empathy: one of the top-ten best…
Internationally renowned artist Concha Vidal presents an evocative site-specific performance in a hairdressing salon.
When Edinburgh’s pandas disappear suspicion falls on gangsters from Glasgow.
As featured in the top Edinburgh Fringe jokes of all time in The Scotsman, The Independent and The Mirror.
What’s better than a one-woman show? A one-woman show with a trapeze hanging from the ceiling, like Chekov’s gun over the mantelpiece.
Character comedy is a difficult discipline at the best of times and, with a trope as thoroughly picked-over as the oblivious action-hero, it asks at lot from a performer to find so…
This is definitely not the first time I have seen a play about being gay or about the AIDS epidemic, but it is the first time I have seen an eclectic and moving look at life post H…
Mrs Shaw Herself is a one-woman show exploring the life of Charlotte Payne-Townshend AKA Mrs George Bernard Shaw.
The performance opens to a figure eerily adorned in a rose-embellished mask, a luscious pink rose plugged into her mouth like a pacifier.
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…
Brister presents an hour’s whistle stop tour on the nature of privilege, and how we can stop it creating ‘total bell ends’.
Molly Brenner’s one-woman show about her pursuit of an orgasm is an endearingly-performed trundle through her long search for sexual fulfilment.
Millennial or non-millennial, any woman will be able to relate to Cat Hepburn's spoken word hour.
In Traumboy, his one-man show about his experiences as a gay male prostitute, Daniel Hellmann emerges as a performer that is as eloquent with his voice as he is with his body.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it.
Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault.
Mark Nelson struts on stage to banging Rammstein industrial metal, plunging headfirst into a heady rhetoric on Brexit.
Google Me is the new offering from 2018 Fringe debut comedian Eleanor Colville.
With First Impressions, Christina Bianco further cements her reputation as the First Lady of Impersonation.
Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures.
A show about food.
Scotch pie push-ups, cludgie clenches, haggis swings anybody? You know you want to gie ‘em a go.
Laura Lexx is back with twice the energy and three times the sparkle, courting controversy with her own brand of comicality.
This is a show for the fans.
Journalist Lauren Booth’s first solo show, Accidentally Muslim, promises a journey from ‘Soho hedonism’ to a shocking revelation in a mosque.
Brandi Alexander has reinvented herself; a self confessed D-list night-time personality back in the saddle after a five year hiatus.
Icelandic folk songs and bits of Icelandic culture.
Kilara Sen, a female Japanese comedian from Tokyo, won’t wear surgical masks like other Japanese! This is her debut one-hour show on the Fringe.
BAFTA Award-winning comedian Iain Stirling returns to the Fringe following a sell-out tour, with a load of new jokes, read off notes.
Sociologist-turned-detective Caleb Rutherford steps into a hall of mirrors exposing real people through their professions while thinking he has nothing to reveal about himself.
Join award-winning comedian James Alderson as he takes a hilarious double A-sided trip down memory lane to see if it really is better now than in the 80s, before he gets much older…
Comedian, author and, most recently, idiot who agreed to be tortured on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!, Shappi is a woman of many parts.
North East comedians on one exclusive line-up! Hot on the heels of our popular compilation showcases, it felt only right to bring you some of finest comics who regularly stand-up a…
Emma Shaw needs help.
Queer, political theatre that tells a tale of feminist self-empowerment and delivers a powerful manifesto of self-realisation, erotic positivity and physical fulfilment.
The Mother Music Daughter Dance is a lively, funny, bittersweet theatrical duet between a real-life mother and daughter.
Bienvenue à bord this non-stop flight from Paris to Cincinnati featuring Crystelle the flight attendant.
Number eight will have you totally whelmed! 10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our …
Searching For My Father is Glen’s personal journey after the loss of his father at a young age and growing up searching through the lessons learned as a child to discovering his fa…
Magic as equally stunning as the skill is completely hidden.
Kerry has broken the habit of a lifetime – pleasing people.
What’s better than a glorious death? Escaping his war poetry homework, 15-year-old Elliot re-enacts the movie 300 to the ghosts of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Was childhood really a simpler time, full of innocence and happiness? Katie Paterson’s weird, anarchic and hilarious solo endurance test invites the audience to play and share in…
Ménage à trois.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Actor, comedian and social media superstar Celeste Barber is the self-proclaimed queen of everyday sophistication and low-budget lifestyle aspiration.
The debut stand-up hour from Arnab Chanda (Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC’s Pls Like, 2018 Writers Guild nominee) who was born in Yorkshire, but grew up abroad, but lives in Londo…
Experience the dark and hidden atmosphere of the Detective Inspector John Rebus books which are written by best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin.
Join three-time Magicians’ Circle Very Good Boy nominee Rory the Retriever as he delights and surprises with his magical repertoire of tricks and illusions.
Legendary festival favourite, stand-up comedian, film and television star Omid Djalili returns for eight shows only.
The host of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Loose Ends and Talks Back makes his much-anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe stage with a one-man show guaranteed to be funnier than Sha…
Helene is excited to throw Gordon’s birthday party, but Gordon isn’t happy about turning 70.
Chris returns to the Fringe with his third solo show.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s and today.
The funny side of Australia.
Despite the title, it transpires that Joz Norris is not dead, but is merely busy having a bath.
Brett Johnson’s Poly-Theist is a charming and quirky peek into the world of polyamory.
Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn.
A woman, a warrior, a Chinese legend – Michelle Yim (The Empress and Me) brings to life the real Mulan who, to save her family’s honour, disguised herself as a man and joined the…
I Pilgrim is a funny and personal evening with Australian actor Alan Lovell.
Alison Kinnaird has an international reputation as an artist working in glass.
Time heals all wounds, but Shane’s healing might take a millennium.
What do you do when life comes to a crossroads? Write a show about it, of course! At 19 years old, Andrew White can’t help but question his next steps: should he keep slogging it…
Silly (adj.
Don’t read this!! These words will force you to see a German/Swiss character-sincere-existentialist stand-up comic taking an exhilarating ride on the dark side of human existence…
A dissection of one of comedy’s rising stars.
Triple Fringe First, Olivier, and Herald Angel award winners Fishamble and Pat Kinevane present Before, a new play with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin on the very day this …
Fresh from touring the UK and Australia, the feel-good comedy maestro.
Madame Komondor Will See You Now is a wildly interactive solo comedy show that probes everything from excessive male masturbation to enhancing a woman’s pleasure.
Pip Utton returns with last year’s smash hit.
Gordon and Helene are stuck in South Africa and in their rut.
Age is just a number.
France.
The Stand Comedy Club’s hand-picked selection of great comedy at the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre almost every Friday and Saturday night.
The closest I get to remembering my dreams are the ideas that occur during the thin veil between sleep and awake, where your mind wanders unimpeded and undirected.
Multi award-winning comedian/activist, putting up her dukes and picking her battles! Trump, terrorists and everything in between.
Amy Matthews blends observational routines with offbeat whimsy, resigning to the absurdity of modern life.
In a house in the hills at the end of the day a grandmother remembers her first date, the man she married and the ups and downs of their life together.
Richard Duffy’s been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born.
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind is a show not to miss.
Wonderfully weird characters collide as award-winning cabaret comedian Tracey Collins returns with her new show Tina T’urner Tea Lady and Freaks! Fantasy, obsession and loss come…
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
After receiving a scathing audience review, failed performer Oskar Schortz saw two options: to deal with it and move on; or to dwell, lament and plan the downfall of his arch-criti…
We all are a mess, I guess. In Mess, Kirsten Vangsness of Criminal Minds explores the non-linearity of time, visible quantum objects, monsters, kittens and Christian rock.
Award-winning comedian.
In a remote graveyard in the October dusk, it’s time for newly orphaned Jen to learn that the monsters were in her heart all along.
‘One morning as Greta Samsa was waking from anxious dreams she discovered that in bed she had changed.
At age seven, Phil was sent to Dublin by his single mother, Philomena, to be raised by her parents so she could earn enough money to survive.
Following her critically acclaimed debut show Woman of the Year, meet Anna’s brand-new characters and join some returning favourites all trying to Get Happy.
European premiere.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Stand Up Central and The Chris Ramsey Show.
Funny Stories About Pain is a one-hour journey through some decidedly not-funny events in the life of comedian Troy Alan, which would amount to a depressing Ted Talk if Troy couldn…
Hilarious yet uncomfortable, The Sensemaker shows a woman battling with an answering machine.
Conversations With Van Gogh – Hannah has lost faith in everything and everyone, except maybe Vincent van Gogh; but if all life is creation, then surely she can find the meaning o…
Fans (and foes) of Eat Pray Love will love this Just For Laughs Award-nominated show which takes you on the hilarious journey of what “finding yourself” actually looks like.
Ever felt like you’re not quite the full fruit bowl? Comedian Anna Clifford brings you hilarious stand-up comedy weaved together with clever spoken word to leave you feeling like y…
Star of Scot Squad, Darren Connell comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for one night only! Nominated for a BAFTA, Darren is best known for portraying the lovable Bobby Muir on B…
Help Michelle celebrate her first time.
Ben is milleni-ill.
Are you saving the world? If you’re reading this, you’re a win-winner.
Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us.
Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley presents ruminations on love, youth and mental health.
See That Bloke Who Does Voices where impressionist Danny Posthill tells us about how Johnny Vegas helped him get over his anxiety, the incident of Dianne Abbot blocking him on Twit…
The ever-evolving show returns! Still trying to be good, still failing.
It’s March as I write this, so who knows what the show will be by August.
Scottee grew up around mould, mice and clothes off the market.
Comedy.
Amanda donated her kidney for her sister.
‘Edgy and very funny’ (Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club).
Ireland’s own Duffy Connors is taking his one-man show Johnny Irish to Edinburgh, which includes stories from the odd man’s life, delicately crafted one-liners and musical come…
A struggling artist working at a movie theater, Chris goes on a surreal adventure into his subconscious while popping popcorn.
A comedy about the autistic spectrum.
Hungover, perhaps, but not yet hung out to dry, Robert Burns awakes in Auld Reekie 2019 sharing his thoughts, poems and songs, casting a satiric eye around his Scotland and ours.
After an exciting year of nationwide festival debuts, Richard Wheatley returns to where it all began one year ago.
Godmother of Scottish comedy.
Javier is boring.
After being nominated for the Best Comedy award at the Perth FringeWorld, Justin Heyes brings his new show White Muslim to the Fringe! A British comedian living in Malaysia, conver…
Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is fast making a name for himself as a down-at-heel yet lovable international star.
A half-hour from half a man (her father was a man).
Can you be a perfect wife and mother and stay true to your inner weirdo? For years, Louise Leigh has been listening to the voice telling her that to be a proper woman you have to b…
Drunk Lion follows an alcoholic lion who spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina until he meets Chris, a young foreigner learning how to speak Spanish.
Life’s getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social – life now is guilt, followed by shame.
A hilarious and cathartic stand-up show by comedian Zane Helberg.
Multi award-winning Matt brings a brand-new ‘high wattage’ (Guardian) show to Edinburgh.
Since she was seventeen, Caitlin Cook has lived by a code: if something scares her, she has to do it.
Multi award-winning Collier is back with her brand new stand-up show.
As seen on Live from the BBC, Live from the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour and Live at the Apollo.
We all have to work.
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, laconic, quirky, surreal, unexpected and awesome.
Following a sell-out 2018 Fringe and debut UK tour, the ‘utterly hilarious’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The star of Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Crackerjack embarks on a brand-new show, in this, his last tour ever! See him before he heads off.
This is a brand-new hour from Alfie Brown about family, friendship and inherited belief.
‘The angriest man in UK comedy is back at the Fringe for another hour of spleen-venting, more misanthropic, bitter and agitated than ever’ **** (Chortle.
Orlando Baxter explores the struggles of trying to reconnect with an absentee parent and the conversation that led to him discovering that he might have a half-sister.
Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi.
Watch in awe as a man in a suit demonstrates his mastery of every genre of comedy.
Phil says goodbye to Edinburgh forever.
Lee didn’t have a show this year, he was worried he was going to have to start knowing about politics or something to find something to write about.
Nick Dixon is considering doing something so controversial and shameful he will be ridiculed and hated by the comedy community, his family, and most of the country.
Impressionist, comedian and singer Naomi brings to life all your favourite stars in her brand-new show.
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Join me inside my own head for an all-singing, all-dancing exploration of my f*cked-up brain.
Nobody wants to see a film about somebody who had a great life, was successful and lucky in love! Whilst everybody would love that life, it’s not very compelling! In fact it’s bori…
All the Pigs presents an endearing dark comedy about Alquist, who is suspended in an adolescent mindset trying to start life over, leading him to challenge his beliefs about what i…
A debut hour of material from one of the fastest-rising acts in the UK.
Retired children’s TV pioneer Peter Fleming needs your help.
Dave is a number-one bestselling author, he has presented for BBC, written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, Metro and Cosmopolitan and even got an award at the Houses of Parliament…
Buddhism? Absolute nonsense! I’m appalled about it or something.
In 2018 Samantha, ‘one of the funniest ladies on the planet’ (RemoteGoat.
The craziest third of The Dinks and The Lumberjacks comedy trios, this ‘fantastic yarn weaver’ (Time Out) surges into his 30th year of stand-up and 20th since first performing at t…
Tom Mayhew (BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist 2018) was unemployed for three years from the age of 18.
Fake news, global warming, austerity, terrorism, the car crash that is Brexit.
What is love? An unknown quantity, a mesmerising spiritual gift or a song by Haddaway? Love guru Dr Lara Love heals our loveless society in one enlightening hour.
Everyone wants an Irish passport but what does being Irish really mean? Is there more than just drinking and the craic? Award-winning comic Mary Bourke presents a hilarious show on…
Ever try to do two things at once? Sameer is a PhD student and a comedian.
Your worst and best possible self.
Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories.
Stuart McPherson (as seen on BBC1) brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Thus far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Don’t be bullied into cheering up or thinking positive.
A comedy show about definitely not wanting kids.
A presentation of visionary (ridiculous) ideas from an apocalyptic clown man.
Nick Elleray brings the mellow thunder to the Fringe with a brand-new stand-up show with a great new zeitgeisty title that the kids will love.
Laurence Tuck is turning 40, and what has he done? Bugger all! He has been a cataclysmic failure.
Award-winning writer and broadcaster, Russ Kane, brings his London and LA sell-out one-man show to Edinburgh for the first time.
‘Character comedy at its finest’ ***** (EdFestMag.
Whoever said that women should rule the world clearly hadn’t met Naomi.
Madame Chandelier guides you through her favourite opera plots, with jokes, dramatic death scenes, and a Nessun Dorma singalong! The joyfully ridiculous and self-proclaimed anti-di…
2018 was going to be Emily’s year.
Award-winning classical pianist Ingrid Cusido will give a piano recital with works including Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor, Beethoven Pastoral Sonata and works of Brahms and Granad…
Times are tough for George.
Glenn Grimwood has never been on TV so you know what he’s doing must be good.
BBC is the debut show from British-born Chinese comedian Matthew Fong.
Disappear down the rabbit hole of a fool’s mind.
The long-awaited debut Fringe show from Leslie is here.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
Following the murder of his father, hard hitting and critically acclaimed northern comedian Chris McGlade is attempting to lay to rest the ghosts that have haunted him ever since.
In 1998, Sam Nicoresti was abducted by aliens.
David’s not for everybody, but is being an acquired taste an advantage? And after 38 years on the planet, is this daily-blogging comic any closer to finding his niche? Among best j…
Jim Campbell descends from the infamous Scottish clan who inspired one of Game of Thrones’ most brutal moments.
The Bristolian bumbling ex-darts champ is back.
She’s hot, rich and f*cking powerful.
Alaska is a funny, magical trip to the moon, with singing and dancing thrown in: one woman’s extraordinary story of how she survived growing up with severe depression.
Do your genes fix your future? Do you have any say? Performed in your home, this is a startling confrontation with the inescapability of being you.
Black Ulysses awakens on an exotic island where he seeks refuge from a society rife with gun violence and oppression.
Archaeologist Nuala unearths a skeleton and her ordered life starts to unravel.
What does it take to be a man these days? After #MeToo, incel attacks and man buns, Eshaan Akbar explores masculinity and his relationship with men, women and himself.
The future is uncertain.
Performing nerd Tom Crosbie may not have the answers to any global issues, but, for an hour, he transports you to his land of whimsy, where his concentrated nerdistry reduces life’…
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
Star of BBC Radio 4’s Chinese Comedian and co-host of E4’s The Hangover Games, Ken Cheng is back with a complete treatise on racism.
A reserved English father turned Tantric Masseur.
Taigé Lauren presents one woman’s journey to find what makes an American.
Bees are immediately punished for their stings.
Seeing herself in someone else’s reflection highlights honest thoughts Rachel only admits to herself in the middle of the night.
This is about having sexual fantasies that don’t align with your politics.
This is the debut solo show of the most unknown Norwegian, Martin Marki.
In September 1996, Channel 4 screened a documentary about River Phoenix as a gay icon.
F Scott Fitzgerald’s sparkling, waggish tales of 1939 Hollywood delightfully rendered by LA-born actor Paul Birchard.
Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person.
Meet the man who invented circuses! From cavalry hero to circus founder, Sergeant-Major Philip Astley is the real Greatest Showman, telling first-hand of the dawn and spread of cir…
Nobel Prize-winning comedian JJ Whitehead returns with a show about lying.
Daliso shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent and has gone on to amass over 100 million YouTube views, write and star in his critically acclaimed Radio 4 show Citizen of Nowhere, and…
Jan Ravens is best-known as the star of BBC’s Dead Ringers.
Last year’s smash hit show is back (and slightly updated) by popular demand.
Winner of Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after performing as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve in …
Konstantin Kisin, who made international headlines by refusing to sign a safe space contract for a university gig, offers an intelligent, uncompromising look at free speech and “wo…
Josh has appeared on BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, The Tracey Ullman Show, BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers and 4Extra’s Newsjack.
Paul Simon is a name that has cemented itself into the Hearts and Bones of audiences all over the world.
After a total sell-out run in 2018 with In Loyal Company, David William Bryan returns with a brand-new solo play exploring the effects of one man’s lifelong battle with the justice…
Three years ago comedian Lucy Frederick – ‘Delightful’ (BroadwayBaby.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
George Fouracres, Wolverhampton’s fancy-pantsiest son, tells stories of a Black Country childhood, sings ancient ballads, becomes occasional grotesques and splatters his odd brain …
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically-acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
After discovering a comet hurtling towards Earth, Toby snaps and turns into the action hero in his own movie on a mission to save the world from impending doom.
Who are we? What are we doing here? Do you like me? And what are you saying behind my back? Let’s all get together and definitively find out if I’m the best or worst person you…
Identity politics.
In 2017, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
The Man is a sketch comedy and one-man performance piece from the side-splittingly funny Patrick McPherson, returning to Edinburgh after 2018’s five-star, Fringe sell-out Camels.
Ridiculously self-aware middle-class dreamer Flora does a show about trying and failing to be creative in the big city.
I Run is a Danish one-man play about running and grief.
Debut show from Saskia Preston, writer for Radio 4’s The Now Show and News Quiz, and 4 Extra’s Newsjack.
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Robin Grainger (Best Newcomer nominee, Scottish Comedy Awards) just got a dog.
Hotly anticipated debut from promising newcomer.
Charlie returns with more historical comedy, characters and stand-up.
In his debut show, character comedian Raphael Wakefield charts the rise and fall of his idol, Arsène Wenger, and asks what it means to become successful.
All new material from prolific Canadian superstar.
Jo Caulfield strides on stage with all the self-assuredness of the seasoned performer that she is.
When it comes to empowerment, Jaleelah Galbraith believes today’s feminists should look to Sense and Sensibility instead of Single Ladies.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed.
The hypnopompic boy king slam-dunks a sleepover-themed show so hard the hoop disintegrates.
It has often been said that Myra DuBois is an act way ahead of her time.
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
"If there are any reviewers in tonight, gimme four stars.
Ivy Paige opens her show gliding on stage in full sequins and crystals, elegantly poised as the heady beats of It’s Raining Men blasts in the background.
Becky Williams delivers an emotionally charged monologue about murderess Grace Miller somewhat reluctantly seeking a second chance at series of rehab sessions entitled Notes.
Chris Thorpe's solo show for this year is about grappling with national identity as a white british man.
Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show.
This curious interactive lecture given by actress and software business advisor Zoe Cunningham offers some great advice and practical tips for anyone who wants to do acting (proper…
What happens when a fortysomething single woman rediscovers her childhood crush on an 80s pop icon? A liberation from pissed off boredom and an awakening of sexual fantasies.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
Luke Rollason is a silly man who made me cry with laughter today.
Bare Knuckle sheds light on the brutal (and often hidden) male world of bare knuckle fighting.
Can the liberation of one award-winning self-harming poet-dietitian be connected to all liberation? A powerful look at one woman’s story of living through a traumatised body in the…
The legendary retired football manager turned alcoholic pundit from hell is back.
This unbelievably ambitious, deluded, multiple job-applicant failure attempts to inspire his audiences to become the best they can be.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
Brawn is a portal into the world of a young man named Ryan.
Kevin Jones qualified in Medicine from Liverpool University.
Up ‘til now, I had only ever seen Tom Crosbie perform short spots at Fringe cabaret shows where his skill with a Rubik’s Cube and his awkward, amiable persona intrigued me.
Sam Amos (TrashDollys) explores solitude and man’s inability to articulate emotion in 5 Days of Falling.
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.
Technical issues hampered the comic on more than one occasion, and one occasion too long to forget.
Virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West in two recitals centred on favourite works by Bach and Chopin.
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Emma Sidi’s one-woman show Faces of Grace is absolutely bonkers.
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, …
Join Aaron Ayjay as he takes a comedic and very twisted musical journey through relationships from childhood, dating, marriage, divorce and other life experiences.
Join this utterly compelling performer and teacher in a one-man comedic journey through education.
The show isn’t entirely about space, although it takes place in space.
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
With her cult following for her acerbic doodles online about love, Jessie has stuff to say.
The Tetra-Decathlon is a gruelling 14-event athletics competition, requiring a unique combination of skills to complete.
Last year, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Gryll…
The Midnight Soup is a piece of theatre during which the audience prepare a meal that they share at the end.
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
Death, Dating and I Do.
UK folk singer, cult hero and festival legend Beans on Toast makes his debut Fringe appearance.
Joanne Hartstone’s one-woman show is a brilliant send up to classic Golden Age Hollywood that keeps the glitz and glamour of the period whilst showing the grimy and exploitative …
As a character actor, Pip Utton is renowned for his depictions of world-famous figures, ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Charles Dickens and everything in between.
What happens when a DNA test gives an adoptee a brand-new view… of herself? Playwright and performer Monica Bauer (The Year I Was Gifted) takes on her own unexpected results, alo…
147Hz Can’t Pass is the culmination of lived experience.
Some people choose their alter ego.
On any given afternoon in the Fringe, you’re likely to find Simon Munnery gracing the stage of The Stand comedy club.
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.
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…
Meet three women whose lives show that vision plus action can change anything! Join Madam C J Walker (the first self-made American female millionaire and hair-product queen), Amy A…
Ollie has chronic insomnia, a mental and physical illness that affects 10% of people in the UK.
Ashley Blaker isn’t your average Orthodox Jewish man.
We’ve all encountered the wine wankers’ insufferable diatribe.
Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan.
It’s hard to tell you to go see Huff at Summerhall’s CanadaHub, but I absolutely must.
Doctor Klevemark isn’t a real doctor, but she believes in the power of positive thinking.
Go and see this show right now.
I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s…
Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.
Bums on seats, eh? Ever wondered what a church pew sees and hears? Come and hear it from the pew itself.
Sam is a young Kiwi who discovers the thrill and adrenaline of following professional rugby.
Grace the Former Child was diagnosed at 14 with bipolar disorder.
Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab…
“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…
The award-winning true story of David Kaye’s attempt to bring peace to the Middle East.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
So what exactly IS the Trouble with Scott Capurro? Is it that this left-leaning liberal American (yes, he’s the one, apparently) seemingly talks without pausing for breath? (“Are y…
Jamali Maddix strides on the stage and immediately takes some shots at the easier targets in the front of the audience.
Zugunruhe (zoo-gun-rue): an ornithology term for ‘migratory restlessness in birds’.
Jessimae Peluso is an American stand-up comedian and television personality.
“Up, up, up.
Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s.
Never Vera Blue is a brave and commendable production, which interrogates the effects of gaslighting in an emotionally abusive relationship.
As the lights go down, the audience are met with a film playing on a screen, with a voiceover asking various people of diverse identities what utopia means to them.
Because he’s an idiot, in thrall to his own imagined past, Daniel Kitson (41) has decided to perform an unfinished show that starts at midnight in a room that gets debilitatingly h…
Fringe First and DarkChat Best Director winner Renny Krupinski’s new one-woman play is funny, poignant, touching and disturbing.
Are you fork-friendly? Do you have spoon-sense? Can you safely operate a butter knife? If you own or use cutlery or know someone who does then this deadly serious presentation is f…
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
Willy Hudson’s heart-filled, charming and hysterical one man show storms the stage at Summerhall and sheds light on the hugely under-discussed areas of gay sexual politics with d…
Henry Café, quiz host and death investigator, investigates death and hosts a quiz.
PJ Landers brings his new story Searching for Pop to Edinburgh for the first time.
Al Lubel also considered Mean Jewish Boy and Boy of Inaction as titles.
The seal woman’s skin has been stolen, stranding her on a reef of rage and tragedy.
Stunning, skilful magic from Caspar Thomas.
He came to our home with my Grandmother.
Join Jewish comedian of the year and wheelchair enthusiast Aaron Simmonds for his show all about love, sex and Harry Potter. BBC New Comedian finalist 2017.
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
James Farmer (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Last Leg) is back for an hour of jokes about being a big scaredy cat.
The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4’s Lee and Dean celebrates four sell-out shows at the Voodoo Rooms with a mash-up of her favourite creations.
‘Unpretentious, informal, belly-laughs-a-minute stand-up’ **** (ThreeWeeks).
Awkward jokesmith Peter Brush takes on today’s hot topics, the Bayeux Tapestry, socks, the reason why snails move so slowly, and whether you’ll think more favourably of this sh…
It’s a psychological striptease with tales of love, lust, men, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, mastitis, sexist bosses, teenage daughter wrangling, ageing, toy boys and Close Enco…
Who Cares? Tracy is a mobile care worker helping people wash, dress and eat.
The funny side of Australia.
After the success of last year’s show, Hansplaining, Jay Handley returns to the Fringe to share more wrong-headed opinions on matters he should probably leave well alone.
Maxine Jones, 62, has left home on a bicycle to become a nomad.
Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm has long been an adult, but still feels like a problem child.
No man is an island.
Susan Harrison’s latest multiple-character show.
Following her five-star smash-hit It’s Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), Alison Thea-Skot brings you a sizzling explosion of chaotic character comedy.
What if you were taught how to be a man but you weren’t yet a man? So you un-taught yourself and then you learned again from someone else and they were also wrong.
Are you one of the good ones? Did you go to a women’s march? Would you boycott Becky? Tonight someone’s gonna.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2014 finalist, and appeared in both Pleasance Comedy Reserve and Big Value showcase…
Lia Hatzakis delivers a multi-character show, playing every member of the Onion family.
As a kid you’re told you know nothing.
William Whitehurst’s savage and unflinching examination of abuse and isolation is given wings in the shape of Arthur Cork, performed by the award-winning Corin Rhys Jones.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? As seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC and Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto – ‘exceptionally funny’ (Ma…
Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio…
Limmy is perhaps best known for BBC Scotland’s Limmy’s Show, but when that came to an end, Limmy turned to Vine.
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
When Edinburgh’s famous One O’Clock Gun goes missing the city is outraged.
Tormented souls, evil villains, cliched employees, best friends and invisible men – enjoy a humorous look at the evolution of gay male characters on stage and screen in the past …
Written and performed by Scotsman Fringe First Winner, John McCann (SPOILING, Traverse Theatre, 2014) and directed by Erasmus Mackenna.
This two-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist and master of dark comedy brings an hour of finely crafted jokes with the occasional silly pun.
He doesn’t know it all but Silky can make up something plausible really quickly.
A distinguished company breathes life into the lusty age of Falstaff, including Sir John’s audacious revels with his “King-in-waiting” Prince Hal, his preoccupation with sherry sac…
From chasing girls to catching spiders, James knows what’s expected of him as a man.
Superstar Donny Stixx is finally in town! Prepare to be amazed and expect the unexpected as Donny goes down in history as the greatest magician of our time! But please, no question…
Miguel de Cervantes is woken from his eternal slumber by celebrations of the anniversary of his death.
Award-winning cult favourite returns after her sell-out Edinburgh debut with new musical comedy characters including the melodramatic Audrey Heartburn.
August 1916, the great explorer Alexandra David-Néel has been in her hermitage cavern in the Himalayas for two and a half years, following the teachings of her guru, the Lama Gomc…
Award-winning actor Ingvild Haugstad from Det Andre Teatret tells the story of a person who retreats from the world after losing a soulmate to a freak raspberry accident.
@izzybaby1991: ‘You’re invited to a very special 27th birthday party.
EU exit day is just seven months after the Fringe.
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show in 2017.
Reflecting myself in the mirror.
Steve Chang takes you on an introspective journey to find meaning in life by means of ayahuasca, hookers and gay conversion camp.
Allison Hetzel (University of Alabama) returns to the Fringe after two successful runs of her solo show, Considering Georgia O’Keeffe (2009 and 2010).
Paris, 1971: The optimism of the last decade is faltering, and women are fighting for equal rights.
Admirers of Jennifer Thomson’s cityscapes and seascapes will be intrigued to discover a different focus in her work this year.
Contemporary shamanic theatre inspired by the enchantment of timeless magician poets, mystics and dervish trance, unravels the threads of our time-spun space of dreams.
Meet Jeanie.
A “nearly” comedy about my memories as a professional stripper and near-hero during London Bridge terror attack in 2016.
From the writer of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh and Harry Gibson’s relentless one-man show returns.
You want it.
Come on then! (To my show.
The Naked Video and Absolutely Fabulous star feels it’s time to spill, before she forgets and gets taken off the patches altogether.
Fresh from touring UK and Australia, the maestro of feel-good comedy.
2023.
Tired of watching middle-class white boys try to be funny? Come watch a middle-class brown boy (who grew up in a white society) try to be funny! After performing alongside the Camb…
A glimpse into the mind of a 29-year-old boy, trying to be a man! The making of an Edinburgh show from the POV of a terrified performer battling against himself.