Scotland’s queen of comedy, Fern Brady (Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg), is back on tour with a brand-new show.
In Trust Me, I’m from Essex, Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett will take you on a journey through life growing up in notorious Essex, England.
Tim toured 10 different places last year.
A man attempts to map the aspects of his mental health through perhaps the worst medium possible: poetry.
Worm is a brand-new, female-led solo play with a sprinkle of spoken word.
Booger Red survives a rough childhood, becoming a renowned hellfire and brimstone Southern Baptist preacher.
Based on true events.
In the 60s, Walt Disney was rumoured to have frozen himself to cheat it.
To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong.
Cringe Effect unfolds in a Portland Anorexia Rehabilitation Centre where Ce, a long-time anorexia struggler, confides in the audience, embarking on a treatment journey.
Brett Epstein – host of the decade-long smash Rule of 7x7 (New York Times, Time Out New York, Playbill highlight) and the very very co-star of Friends from College and Ray Donova…
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote, returns to the Fringe with his hilarious and moving one-man show: a deep dive into the enduring appeal…
2023 Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe/sold-out run in Edinburgh! ‘A sold-out Fringe classic!’ **** (BritishTheatreGuide.
Dr Phil (Private Eye, Doctor Doctor, Sex, Sleep or Scrabble?) dissects the ins and outs of pleasure using science, stories and stuff he’s made up.
Last year Dave won an award who’s title felt like a back-handed compliment.
Keyworth returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a joyous new show about family, acceptance and a pair of big (well, not super-big) losses.
Tics Towards Puffection is an in-depth look at Alex Mitchell’s (You Can Laugh, You Know Disabled Comedian of the Year 2023) ever-present desire for perfection, its effect on his li…
Gareth’s desperately trying to be a modern man, but it isn’t easy.
Jessie Cave opens up about a number of things: social anxiety and monogamy, couple’s therapy and parenting failures.
Kathleen isn’t sure of anything anymore.
Eliott has never cared for sex.
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
Your favourite dilettante sociopath is back, fresh from an acclaimed off-Broadway run, to perform his multiple award-nominated show one last time.
Better known as, That French TikTok Lady, Tatty Macleod has gained a huge online following thanks to her hilarious and astute observations of French and British culture.
“Tomorrow is a big day.
Fresh off her 1961 Academy Awards triumph and a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself.
What happens when truth, rage and purpose converge upon a metaphorical moon? A displaced narrator must face her past and find out.
‘You’re the one with the identity crisis mum, not us!’ Middle-class, middle-aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons Sudha invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and shar…
Bobak dances, clowns and flings himself about the stage for an hour as he tells the audience about his Iranian heritage and growing up in Bristol in the 90s where Islamophobia and …
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
‘You don’t know what to be, or not to be’ – Shakespeare’s best loved clown, Bottom, is reimagined in Fresh Life Theatre’s one-person show.
Comedian Matt Storrs (San Francisco SketchFest) makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his critically acclaimed solo show Portly Lutheran Know-It-All.
Internal tells the story of crippingly shy 20-something, Melanie.
The first Cantonese show at this festival is coming! 2011’s funniest person in HK, Tim’s Instagram has 50k+ followers.
Pam Ford Stand-Up Comedian has worked in a care home before and after the pandemic and has met many amazing “oldies” with amazing life stories to tell.
Arriving in Australia in 1989, Bob planned a six month stay.
His father died at 45.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
Sex, Art and the Art of Survival is a solo comedy show, performed by a British comedian with Ukrainian-Russian ancestry, Helen Prior.
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
The Brighton Fringe sell-out show is coming to Edinburgh Fringe.
What’s a woman looking for love to do in the 21st century? Hi, I’m Zoë.
Amy spins a sparkling web of comedy magic between the two states she finds herself caught between – stability and restlessness.
A bit of a crazy, hazy time for Stu this year.
A show about trying to be a good person while staying a badman.
This acclaimed one-woman show is a rollicking extravaganza, told by a gal who has seen a few things.
Award-winning musician, broadcaster and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter delivers an hour of classic songs and scurrilous stories spanning five decades of adventures in the music indust…
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Lara Ricote comes back to Edinburgh to work out her next show.
Australian comedian white-knuckling sobriety, often spotted running through the woods at 2am with blister plasters and an estrogen prescription.
The Victorian music hall: a hotbed of scandal and home of betrayal, discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
Plunge into the strange world and grotesque characters of self-help culture, augmented with clown-esque physicality and hectic tech.
Norma Jeane Mortenson (more famously known as Marilyn Monroe) once reportedly said, ‘it takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde’.
Romping through the joys, disappointments and semen of her 30s in Berlin, Anna stays surprisingly optimistic.
Sharp, silly and sublime solo character comedy from Luke Manning, formerly one half of veteran Fringe sketch duo, In Cahoots, and a writer-performer for BBC Radio 4’s Sketchtopia a…
Sex, Art and the Art of Survival is a solo comedy show, performed by a British comedian with Ukrainian-Russian ancestry, Helen Prior.
Chappelle’s opener.
10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show.
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Lara Ricote comes back to Edinburgh to work out her next show.
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote presents a new one-man show: a hilarious and moving exploration of the enduring appeal of murder myster…
Throwing the gauntlet down and challenging dominant narratives on women’s need to be vulnerable to be loved, Helen Bauer’s Grand Supreme Darling Princess is an incredibly empow…
Black comedy/drama. Jodi and Danny are True Spirits and are destined to be together forever. The only problem is that Danny doesn’t know it yet…
Where are you from? The age-old question that mixed-raced people just love to answer.
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
A reconstructed fairy tale about Clover, a castle worker who is mistaken for the princess and kidnapped by a sorcerer.
Two of Charles Dickens’ creepy tales – with a comic twist.
Lesbian actor Kate struggles to create a self-tape audition as Virginia Woolf, revealing that she is frozen in the midst of running away from her healthy relationship.
Zany, fast-paced and poignant, Furious is a wildly honest and hilarious roller-coaster ride of a solo show.
The Great Lakes High School board bans the graphic novel Maus.
Chris Difford is the founding member of Squeeze, formed 50 years ago in South London.
Claire is an actor – not a very popular one.
Join Sam, a chronically online twentysomething, at the airport in Terminal, directed by Jett Fink and starring Samantha Vita.
Fringe First and Spirit of the Fringe award winner Apphia Campbell’s stunning solo show, inspired by the life of Nina Simone.
Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright is Travolta’s debut show that tells the story of her crippling shopping addiction and how she manages to abscond a steadily increasing mountain o…
Jen’s Evolution is Nigh: One woman.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
Sex cults with fake feminism, pretend shamans, Burning Man, Lower East Side “nightclub photographers” and Tinder f*ck boys all make an appearance in this educational and hilari…
Star of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle, Hypothetical and the surveillance camera when she forgot to pay for petrol, Harriet’s at the Fringe for…
Dazzling is a one-woman show following Alix, a quirky twenty-something living through the obligatory suffering which comes with discovering oneself, especially in the shadow of her…
It is March 2020 and the public is demanding action against the coronavirus.
Toxicity.
Toxicity.
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote some of the finest songs for a golden age of musical theatre.
Megan Stalter (incredible comedian, curious author, plus-size model) invites you for an evening of mischief and play.
I thought I knew what to expect from The Devil’s Passion.
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
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Andy Williams was one of the world’s greatest light music entertainers and, in celebration of his legacy, Paul performs many of Andy’s biggest hits.
Blackflowersstudio gallery presents drawings, paintings and sculpture from I Jordan’s early ‘Crow’ series.
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What if the great and tragic story of King Lear were to be told through the eyes of his closest companion? In this award-winning, one-woman tour-de-force, Susanna Hamnett plays the…
After his much younger girlfriend leaves him for a better-looking, richer, more successful friend, Searles dissolves into a gibbering, chain-smoking, suicidal insomniac! In despera…
Olga Koch turned 30, got a master’s degree, went on an adult gap year, got salmonella, lost herself, found herself and washed it all down with a delicious prawn cocktail.
Better known as, That French TikTok Lady, Tatty Macleod has gained a huge online following thanks to her hilarious and astute observations of French and British culture.
Gie’s Peace sees Morna Burdon take audiences on a journey of courage, creativity and resilience as she highlights women worldwide who have found daring, inventive, courageous way…
On The Evils Of Tobacco is a bittersweet vaudevillian monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic and marital misery.
Apollo calls the poets of the nations, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modern life, teaching a universal celebration of life.
Family, faith, and flan.
How do you summarise a whole life? Is it in the knick knacks and curios we collect? Do the objects we surround ourselves with truly represent who we are inside? And even if you lov…
Evokes and summons up the atrocities we human beings perpetrate on one another and affirms our deepest human capacities for cooperation and peace.
Brand-new stand-up show from Edinburgh Award-nominated viral sensation Josh Pugh.
Whether it’s a relationship problem, how to word a sensitive work email or the best way to cook a brisket, this Jewish mother has all the answers you need.
‘The brilliantly topical Alistair Barrie, one of the UK’s sharpest comedians’ (Herald) returns to the Fringe with ‘an absolutely stunning hour of political comedy’ (Entertainment-N…
The debut hour from Fiona Ridgewell.
Party girl Lorraine is the first to order shots, start drinking games and make cocktails in the kitchen.
When Edinburgh’s iconic One o’Clock Gun is stolen by shady Glaswegians only our hero Morningside Malcolm, quiet resident of the douce suburbs, can prevent strife and aggro between …
When the particulars of your bespoke Waste Land reveal themselves, the least we can hope for is some practical advice in language we can understand… One woman’s encounter with TS…
Burt Williamson, ‘hilarious at every turn’ **** (Scotsman), brings his debut hour of stand-up comedy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in an unmissable comedic offering of offbeat o…
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows Legs, Logs and Jeremy Segway) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
France 1817.
Imagine Sartre did stand-up, but mainly about his dick.
Enter the dragon! Or maybe don’t.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
The American comedian’s sophomore Fringe effort is a raw, unfiltered dive into sex, dating, relationships and his career as a professional dog walker.
A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling.
Writer and solo performer, Zoë Kim, leads the play, oscillating between Mother and Daughter, unraveling a candid semi-autobiographical story about our love languages and how we of…
‘Would you rather be lost or fallen?’ In this erotic, fury-infused, modern-day revisioning of the legend of Salomé, psychology professor Ana Mozol powerfully stirs the depths of t…
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
On a whim, a young businessman buys the deed to a ghost town in the California desert, hoping to turn it into a tourist attraction.
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Beyond Borders presents their debut play Runaway, a semi-biographical story wrapped in a generous coat of unapologetic humour, exploring themes of home, belonging and finding your …
Getting out of a toxic relationship is hard, especially when you happen to be dating Jesus Christ.
Fresh from Vietnam, a past colony of France for more than 100 years, comes an expat Parisian to give you a better perspective on the global epidemic: French Bashing.
In this insider’s guide to his eccentric homeland, award-winning Kiwi comedian Sully O’Sullivan answers all the questions about New Zealand you didn’t know to ask in the first plac…
This highly awarded, inspirational true story returns to Edinburgh after an exceptionally successful 2022 visit.
Mix one of cup of Eat, Pray, Love with three tablespoons of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and you’ll get something a little like A Trilogy: bag—, one of three standalone shows …
Jamali Maddix is working up a brand-new hour.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022.
Lear Alone uses just King Lear’s lines from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s tragedy to explore themes of loneliness, ageing and homelessness: a study of one man’s vulnerabilit…
JJ Pyle finds herself accidentally, unfortunately, home for Christmas and stuck in this little truck with her dad in Indiana, where everything is surrounded by cornfields.
‘I thought this Earth was dead, no stirring life, a pile of tinkering bones.
Mistakes are bound to happen.
For her first Fringe the French humourist Aude Lener tells her story in this intimate and hilarious tale and takes us into her world of unfiltered humour.
Jamie, once a talented young sommelier, is on a downward spiral.
Do you misplace your glasses so often that you now have six pairs so you aren’t trapped inside and half-blind? How often do you have the brilliant idea to paint your nails five min…
Four Letter Word – a solo autobiographical account, presented by the performer’s vocals and self-written music, detailing her real life, raw to the bone, experience with domestic…
Quirky, surreal, highly original stand-up.
Holly Penfield’s eclectic collection of original songs is a heady fusion of blues, rock and pop.
A personal trainer, aspiring actor and seriously hot mess, Cindy has unresolved mommy issues, childhood trauma and makes horrible choices in men.
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
In 1634, Galileo is ordered to stand trial for heresy.
A two-part show exploring Natasha and Shaharah’s under-represented Indian identities, navigating diaspora, discrimination, and coming of age to find what Indian can mean and look l…
Jay Sodagar returns with his brand-new stand-up show.
Welsh comedian and popular podcaster (The Comedy Arcade) Vix Leyton has the gift of affability.
Coor Cohen is an American stand-up comic who was born in the North and raised in the Deep South.
Tragically weird.
Dibubuismo, by the poet Paes Loureiro is letting the spirit work in its daydreams, while the body rests floating, ‘dibubuia in the river’.
Why would a woman leave her career as the lead singer of a multi-platinum band? Was it fate, family, or something else? When she hears a compelling voice within her closet, urging …
I’m Positive! is the comical journey of Geena Andrews and her life with an STI.
Janitor/Manager: Inspired by the expression ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere’, Sean Conrad booked a one-way flight to NYC to become a stand-up comedian and quickl…
In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye…
Country-rock crooner Sebastian Saint performs a selection of songs exploring what it means to be an American man while sharing intimate stories about life, loss, addiction, sex, an…
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
‘Kasen Tsui’s work is not only a performance, but the embodiment of social memory and the spirit of humanity’ (Kuh Fei, the Hong Kong Theatre Libre).
Elizabeth Holmes claims her biotechnology will revolutionise medicine – and people believe her.
Using some of Shakespeare’s best-loved works, Annie Lightbody explores the traumatic events of 2020 and connects them to her own personal story of crisis and reinvention.
Wake up to the World Premiere of this raw, funny, and poignant solo show from narcoleptic comedian Sarah Albritton, host of the podcast Sleeping with Sarah.
Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine? (what are you saying girl?) finds Ava, seemingly alone, in her Grannies cottage on the north-east coast of Scotland.
Bang is a monologue delivered by the apparition of Joan Vollmer, immediately after she was shot by William Burroughs, her common-law husband, in Mexico City in 1951.
When a Jane Austen heroine, unlucky in love, finds herself thrown into the modern world of dating, she must set aside her customs and expectations to brave this new world of courts…
‘The best job in life is to be the father of a daughter.
Watch Eleanor’s love life unfold, as she escapes the grasp of her ex-boyfriend and finds liberation in the dating game.
It’s Berlin 1914, a younger, pre-crazy-haired Albert Einstein awaits news from an eclipse expedition that will prove his theory of general relativity.
Pete Giffen is one of the fastest-growing stars in Irish comedy.
A young man visits his dying father in the ICU and uncovers a shocking revelation: his father’s secret second family.
‘So, I’ve decided to become a Golden Retriever.
Written as a love letter to brown girls, Coconut is a one-act, one-actor play that tells the story of a slightly lost, slightly confused, incredibly chaotic brown girl doing things…
In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye…
Wake up to the World Premiere of this raw, funny, and poignant solo show from narcoleptic comedian Sarah Albritton, host of the podcast Sleeping with Sarah.
With only one ticket sold on opening night last Fringe, ‘it was every good thing it should be’ (Kate Copstick, Scotsman).
The adventures and hilarious mishaps of a new dad.
Heavily influenced by his alter ego Quentin Crisp, seasoned raconteur Robert Inston charts family, career, education and domestic nightmares – aspects of how their lives converge…
Eva Bindeman has made it to every comedy semi-final there is and absolutely no further.
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
Best New Show Nominee 2023 (Leicester Comedy Festival).
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
Stuart is terrified of the climate crisis, but no-one he knows ever mentions it, so it must be fine.
Raising kids is tough; add to the mix puberty, cultural differences and a complicated language, topped with questionable organisational skills and the comedy show writes itself! Aw…
Gaslighting Is My Love Language by Fielding Edlow (Bojack Horseman) is about an intimacy-avoidant woman who just wanted a boyfriend but ended up in a 13-year marriage/light hostage…
With the brash vocals of an Australian zookeeper addressing an unruly tour group, Davis commands the room, immediately taking charge with her distinct brand of offbeat comedy.
Molly works at Greggs.
After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe last year with his show Entertainer, comedian AMJ is back with his new show, Adder.
In 1941 a precocious young upstart of New York’s glittering theatre scene tried his hand at making a movie and accidentally created the greatest motion picture of all time.
Did Cerys cause their parents’ divorce? Did they just make that interaction really awkward? Is a new year’s resolution ever going to be enough to fix their personality? In this sur…
Madeleine Hamilton is bringing Piping Hot to the Fringe after a sold-out run in Los Angeles.
Comedy’s best nepo baby (and there’s a lot) returns.
Adele’s back, funnier and more dangerous than ever! Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee (2023).
Award-winning New Zealand comedian; master of interaction, consummate raconteur.
A play about six wildly different people, coping and connecting during one year on the Common, telling their unexpected tales of love, life, death and downright dottiness, while a …
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ahir Shah returns to the Fringe with ENDS: a show about family, immigration, marriage, history, politics, and beans.
Slut drop it like it’s hot! Join award-winning comedian Kirsty Munro, as she chats about sexy times, nights out and prosecco-fuelled confidence.
Following a sell-out 12-country tour for his critically-acclaimed 2021 show, one of the UK’s most exciting storytellers is back with a candid new hour about the remarkable unimport…
Whisk(e)y Wars: ‘Hypnotic enough to stop time itself’ ***** (EdFringeReview.
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
Stand-up comedian, social media star and ultimate try-hard Abi Clarke performs new material in an intimate venue, developing her highly anticipated debut show.
At times hard to follow and at others uniquely resonant, Maggie Widdoes’ one-woman show Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em is the perfect example of how the Fringe brings what you least e…
Good things will happen.
What happens when a philosopher and a comedian come into a bar? In this case, a long night of drinking alone.
An international Jewish comedian in a new solo show.
Rizal Van Geyzel (as seen on Comedy Central Asia) was put in jail for telling jokes about his Islamic heritage.
A hilarious and life-affirming story about how one free session with a life coach and a death threat changed Matt Price’s perspective on everything.
How can you be yourself when others are watching? Wisdom of the Crowd is the new stand-up comedy show in 2023 from former philosophy teacher Alex Farrow.
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ **** (Guardian).
After 17 years teaching, Mark Row longs to escape the barrage of inane questions, the endless carousel of uninspiring lessons and the attitudes of kids that stinks worse than their…
We all know Tennessee Williams the playwright, but the man behind the plays has faded somewhat into the background.
‘A love letter to my mother that I’ll never send.
David Ellis is a terrible Jew.
Join award-winning comedian Kathryn Mather in this slightly dark, slightly whimsical show about finding love and finding yourself against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Success.
Síomha is in her celibate era.
It’s the year 1991; the Soviet Union has collapsed and everyone is ready for a new start.
‘It’s the familiarity of herself, somehow, that she sees reflected in his eyes.
Following the award-winning, sell-out festival hits, The Man and Colossal, Patrick McPherson’s new play The Way Way Deep debuts in Edinburgh.
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Thao almost died on a bus, almost died on a refugee boat and almost died of embarrassment after drinking seven ciders on an empty stomach.
I don’t think you can ever go wrong watching a Guy Masterson production in the Assembly Rooms.
New Year, new you! Come laugh with Brooke, as she trips and falls trying to make our world a better place, fighting Spacetime continuum, economy, patriarchy, fertility, generations…
A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff.
An uncompromising portrait of Pablo Picasso by Terry D’Alfonso.
North-East comedian Amy Wright is going up in the world, even if technically she’s come down.
Arriving at his latest theatre, long-standing pantomime dame Harold Thropp finds that he’s been moved to a dilapidated dressing room.
MEAT is an electrifying roar of fury, a rallying cry of protest and unifying celebration of strength packed with heroism and heart.
Think there’s no humour in tumours? Former Daily Telegraph music critic Tom GK (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra) is celebrating a decade of treatment at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Chemoth…
The worse the political career, the more lucrative the subsequent entertainment opportunities.
Are you a little cheeky guy? Interested in the lifestyle? Come and join Freya as she navigates the struggles of trying to remain cheeky when it’s raining trauma.
When working class, Cornish comedian Tamsyn Kelly (BBC New Comedy Awards, Comedy Central Live), discovers footage of her estranged father in a Channel 4 documentary, she’s forced t…
Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise shi…
Better known as, That French TikTok Lady, Tatty Macleod has gained a huge online following thanks to her hilarious and astute observations of French and British culture.
Chris Grace, Chinese-American character best known for playing Jerry on Superstore, portrays the greatest living Asian actor Scarlett Johansson through comedy, theatre, stand-up an…
Amy Matthews’ I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders is a stand-up comedy with an edge.
Leroy makes his hotly anticipated Fringe debut, about becoming a Dad at 18, 24 and 38.
What’s the worst lie you’ve told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth.
The Taskmaster favourite and star of The Change is hot, but not in a good way.
Packed into a very small room on Chambers Street, Almost Adult certainly didn’t win the venue lottery, but once settled into your seat Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s protagonist Hope …
Ever wonder sometimes, is my life really this sad? Why’s my credit rating so bad? And who drank the last of my oat milk, now I’m mad! These are just some of the things Eme expl…
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for eight years now, and it’s time for that to change! So he’s attempting to do something he’s never done before.
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
Double Emmy Award winner and star of Smack The Pony is doing her first ever show.
Having never seen Alice Fraser before, I was apprehensive about what to expect from her comedy.
Join the winner of Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Best Show Award – Geraldine Hickey as she shares stories about acknowledging and enjoying new-found privileges, like …
Time to sweat out the sadness: Spin Cycles gives a cathartic look into why we search for something deeper when the inconceivable happens to us.
Juliette Burton opens her new show, No Brainer, clad in a t-shirt emblazoned with the typically Burtonesque "Brains are the new tits".
William Thompson (BBC New Comedy Awards finalist 2021, as seen and heard on Dave, Channel 4 and BBC Scotland) is a rising star from Belfast.
With Purple Pill, Nabil Abdulrashid takes to the stage, promising an intriguing dive into comedy through the multifaceted lens of the comedian himself.
“This is not a play,” we’re told.
It Gets Worse is a raw, comedic exploration about the horrors of being in relationships, specifically with oneself.
Breakup Addict depicts the journey of a woman who hits rock bottom after having two simultaneous crash-and-burn relationships with unavailable men.
Extremely famous Hollywood actress Isabel Klein showcases her jaw-dropping talent in her debut solo show.
From a producer on Silicon Valley and Beavis and Butt-head comes an irreverent true story about belly dance, cancer, fiddling, beekeeping, and a psychotic deathbed wish.
If you do meal prep and watch Ted Lasso you’re typical.
The Edinburgh Fringe is increasingly awash with solo shows – primarily because of spiralling accommodation costs.
Lucifer, fallen angel, begs God’s forgiveness.
A show about finding out who you are when your TV show ends and your “real life” begins.
Ginava just can’t seem to get their head straight.
Île, by award-winning writer/actor/comedian Sophie Joans, from Cape Town, South Africa, takes you on a fast and funny excavation of her maternal roots on the island, Mauritius.
In 2021, Hannah Maxwell moved back to the Home Counties to care for her recently bereaved grandmother.
Catch India’s stand-up star Sapan Verma live for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe.
How does a man find his purpose when he grows older and all the major life events come thick and fast? Should he retire to the solitude of The Shed as usual and escape from the wor…
Urooj is an Indian stand-up who hails from a tiny, unknown city called Mumbai.
Daniel Newton stars in Shadow Boxing, directed by Mdu Kweyama and written by James Gaddas, a heavy-hitting one-man show coming to the Fringe this year.
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
NYC/Philly-based comedian Kelly McCaughan (HBO, Apple TV+) presents Catholic Guilt.
Celya AB’s Second Rodeo is a patchwork quilt of jokes, as she moves on from the subject of hating on England - although since we’re in Scotland, such jokes are more than welcom…
From award-winning writer Raymond Friel, Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots) is a one-woman play with a cast of thousands! Join citizen historian and proud Shetlander Mary Fraser …
Melbourne-born and based but cosmopolitan at heart, Hannah flies to Edinburgh for the very first time to give you a taste of her funny little bag o’ sketch comedy sweets.
One of the most established comedians in India, Biswa brings his trademark observational comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the very first time.
Navigating growing up gay in a straight world, Looking for fun? explores overcoming gay shame, queer nightlife and dealing with the agony of online gay dating.
Following 2022’s sell-out Edinburgh run, cult-comedy icon Patti Harrison (I Think You Should Leave, The Lost City) returns with an hour of comedy that refuses to be categorized.
Side by Side is a gripping and profound comedy show about Maggie Crane’s childhood jealousy of her brother’s disability.
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
Stunning magic.
Silver Stand-Up 2023 winner, Fringe First winner (Tonight I’m Entertaining Richard Gere) and Airbnb’s five-star ‘gem of a guest’, Cecilia Delatori brings her debut full-length musi…
The world is in crisis and so is Sian Clarke.
A while back, I found a video online of an animated snake crawling, made for entertaining cats.
Charlie has cystic fibrosis, a condition that causes a build-up of mucus.
James has been touring his storytelling theatre shows for half his adult life.
Brand-new stand-up show from Edinburgh Award-nominated viral sensation Josh Pugh.
Micky Overman’s The Precipice is an in-depth look into the concept of motherhood and the role a mother plays in society, and pursues this subject with carefully structured jokes …
There is just something so wholesome about Priya Hall’s Grandmother’s Daughter.
Every time I leave one of Olga Koch’s shows, my notes are filled with snippets of advice or wisdom that she imparts in the guise of a comedy hour.
Tom Ballard’s It Is I is a bubbly and smugly riotous hour full of puns and political commentary.
A bit of a crazy, hazy time for Stu this year.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Despite everything that’s happened, Tom is still talking about his penis.
Gangs of London star Andrew Laithwaite returns to the Fringe for the first time in a decade for his singer-songwriter debut as Laith Andrews, in an intimate journey of love and los…
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 choosing 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.
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.
Stand-up, sarcasm and uncomfortable confessions combine in this true story about life as a Jesus girl.
‘I think I might be ill.
McKenzie presents a stage act of performing alter egos.
Hyenas! won Pick of the Fringe at Edinburgh Fringe 2021 and is a dark comedy jaw dropper.
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.
Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing.
Fantasy, escapism, stand-up comedy.
Charlotte Palmer turned 50.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Witchfinder, Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme) is back with an all-new show.
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…
As seen on Mock The Week, QI and others, Eshaan Akbar comes to Edinburgh for 13 nights only.
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…
Sense of Centre is a moving dance solo from award-winning choreographer Jack Webb.
And is a tribute to all that has graced this earth.
The Guardian’s #1 Comedy Show of 2021 comes to the Fringe for a limited run.
Nikki Lowe: Nongenue is the answer to the question: what happens when the supportive fat friend finally gets her own show? Actress and comedian Nikki Lowe takes audiences on a hila…
Aalex had a breakdown so you don’t have to.
Two hilarious and explosive plays written by Steven Berkoff, performed back-to-back by the same actor.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Travel – always exciting, especially when the man of your dreams pops up to join you.
Following a sell-out UK tour, Lost Voice Guy returns to Edinburgh with his brand-new show.
Before Dylan Thomas died 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.
The role of the weather girl is one of the most iconic in the TV landscape.
Rural Ireland meets the Middle East when Paddy, a proud Irish man, loses his lust for life after a family tragedy.
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.
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.
After months of fighting to save her home from developers, Val has finally conceded.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
Darkly comedic one-woman show about our natural inclination to go with the flow.
William ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
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.
Hailing all the way from the bright lights of New York, Sarah Sherman’s self-described horror comedy show - with the emphasis on the horror - is incredibly ghastly and overly gra…
Directed by Guy Masterson.
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have.
Gangs of London star Andrew Laithwaite returns to the Fringe for the first time in a decade for his singer-songwriter debut as Laith Andrews, in an intimate journey of love and los…
A Sri Lankan teenager’s quest to stage a live theatre show amidst post-AL angst, a pandemic and a country in crisis, told through a comedic, musical and dramatic multi-character …
Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
The most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see.
Want to know why they call me 5 Fingers? An absurdist play exploring a petty thief’s self journey.
The hilarious and profound emotional roller-coaster true story of renowned storyteller, Ted McGrath.
What’s just happened in the corridor? A comedy inspired by childhood dreams and final goodbyes.
One Single Thread is a form-bending character and sketch “solo-ish” show written by NYC comedian Lauren Gamiel, featuring Slaney Rose Jordan.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Texas, July 2021.
Almost 13 is a highly thoughtful and at times disturbing portrayal of the childhood experiences of a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York.
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…
Davina is searching for a long-lost family member.
There will be cake.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Polly Peculiar, at Greenside Nicholson Square, is a joy from beginning to end: the sort of play that under normal circumstances you might not be tempted to see.
POV: you’re a vlogger.
Once upon a time, there was a young girl – not a princess or a pretty girl waiting to be one.
When an old woman discovers a set of mysterious notebooks in the nursing home, she’s sucked into the story of a 20-something who can’t catch a break.
Having had plenty of time to practise, Caspar returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand new magic show.
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
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…
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.
Arriving in Australia in February 2020 just before covid struck meant that Lloyd couldn’t see his family for over two years.
Dan Willis (The Walking Dead, Ferris Buellers Way Of, The Whinging Pom) brings his brand-new show celebrating eight years of married life.
Zany music and a psychedelic multimedia screen await the audience as we take our seats for Sam Nicoresti’s show Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture.
From #1 best-selling author on Amazon, unicycle jousting champion of New Zealand and performer of the best (and first) English comedy show ever in Madagascar, John Allis gets into …
Where are the knights of yesteryear? A masterclass in barebones storytelling, Debbie Cannon’s one-woman Green Knight has us spellbound.
Jack Campbell did his first stand-up gig in 2010, aged 19.
Friendly Cornishman Matt Price tried to win a boxing trophy for his grandad.
What colour is the sound of a cello? How do you show the taste of an apple? A colourful, complex solo performance exploring autobiographical experiences of synaesthesia.
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.
UK Underdog is a true solo show where bullies, Kung Fu and a small willie lands Steve in very deep trouble! Does he have what it takes to fight back? From celebs and critics: ‘T…
A one-person comedy show based on comedian Erick Acuña’s real life as a Peruvian Latino living in the United States.
About courageous survival, the play tracks the journey of the central character, William, from ten years old to middle age.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
From a single fateful phone call taken reluctantly from the toilet, a Shakespearean actor finds his world collapsing around him.
Comedy award winner 2021.
She’s not your average little old lady.
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…
To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.
Menopausal Mayhem is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause.
Death is sad enough, but growing up seems worse.
Many of us will have known someone like Meg.
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.
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.
After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person.
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.
Lee never understood why people sometimes thought he was unusual.
Weapons of mass destruction.
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.
William ‘Cavaliero’ Kempe was one of the finest performers of the Elizabethan age.
Warhol: Bullet Karma is a solo show stuffed full of characterisations from Warhol’s artistic heyday; Roost’s performance really brings these characters to life.
71BODIES 1DANCE is an interdisciplinary and choreographic initiative by Daniel Mariblanca.
A comic look at the agony of adoption.
‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Join South Coast Comedian of the Year finalist and viral sensation Horatio Gould, for a bold hour of high-octane stand-up about everything from hyper-reality to pegging.
How do you live your best ho life? Have you accidentally become your parents? These are the questions NYC-based comedian Ann Chun (SF Chronicle, Timeout) explores in her solo show …
Screen royal, Nicole Kidman, holds an AMC audience captive while sharing some of cinema’s greatest moments.
Thurgood is an inspiring, vivid bio-drama rich in humour and humanity, about the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Saved is a multi-layered, retro-mechanical music show built around rescued 70s home organs.
Red Alert – Cancer! Meet the Wilsons, five children, three with red hair, who came to Scotland in 1959.
A Roots Mbili Theatre and Sheffield Theatres co-production.
In 1828, Burke and Hare killed 16 people in Edinburgh and they sold the bodies to an anatomist.
Merrill gets diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and tries to make sense of her life and chaotic childhood.
Scotland was once full of magical beasts, absolutely full of them: bog goblins, dragons, naughty fairies, brownies, bony-backed horsemen.
Gangs of London star Andrew Laithwaite returns to the Fringe for the first time in a decade for his singer-songwriter debut as Laith Andrews, in an intimate journey of love and los…
1939: Bette returns home knowing she’s to lose, as the press leaked the Oscar winners.
The first in her family born in the US, Meg Lin shares a raw personal account of growing up Chinese American that is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching.
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage…
Eliott has never cared for sex.
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).
A show about mental health, not just mental illness.
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).
Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.
The title of this show and the sweet, open and slightly goofy face staring at you from the posters should tell you everything you need to know about this show: and stand-up Luca Cu…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
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…
Unapologetically Indian, irreverently American.
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
Destiny dreams big.
Most Outstanding Show nominee at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022.
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 …
Tom’s been trying to remember what was important before responsibility and fear got in the way.
‘Thanks for coming to audition.
A new work in progress from the host of The Comedian’s Comedian podcast.
Marrow is a love letter to memory and to what makes us: us.
‘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…
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
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.
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…
Last year, while clearing out my grandfather’s house, I stumbled across hundreds of hidden envelopes.
New York Comedian Gabe Mollica started comedy the day after he got broken up with.
‘Naturally charismatic storyteller’ (Fest) weaves a shocking but very funny account of her youth.
Debut stand-up hour from your favourite, local American.
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…
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…
Nina was going through life quite nicely, when – pow! Suddenly she wasn’t! Fear and anxiety crept into normal everyday situations.
Knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is bad, Adele is good.
The power and poise of a 20th century cultural icon is brought to brilliant life by Apphia Campbell in Black is the Color of My Voice, a deeply moving mix of music and theatre.
Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She.
Ireland’s own Duffy Connors is taking his solo show to Edinburgh.
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…
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.
Filled with classically and subtly nihilistic British humour, Milo Edwards’ Voicemail is full of intelligent and thought provoking commentary that turns Mash House into a safe sp…
Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey presents some very silly characters exploring a very serious topic.
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.
Self-doubt? Low self-esteem? Well, this sounds cheery.
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.
Kirsty overshares her funny bits.
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.
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
Authors: Jeremy Towler and Pip Utton.
10 April 1998, Belfast.
A triceratops is revived from the dead.
Al Lubel talks about his love of space, hatred of time, fear of death, ambivalence toward his parents and concern for his mental health.
Al Lubel talks about his name for fifty-six minutes and about something else for four minutes.
Daniel Willis attempts to show his audience and his digital therapist that his life is absolutely, definitely fine, with an hour of quick, quirky comedy sketches.
Bullies don’t toughen you up or teach you life lessons.
You’ll always find him in the corner at parties, but is it time for Chris to put himself in the middle of things? If not, a trip to the buffet table or maybe the toilet would be id…
Comedian Tom GK has decided to record the greatest album of all time and he has just 50 minutes to prove he’s up to the job.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r…
Debut stand-up hour from sarky Londoner Lily Phillips.
When Finlay Christie won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2019, it seemed like his next year would be filled with preparation for his first Edinburgh sho…
Watson is alone.
Justin is back: still funny, yet middle-aged.
Richard Stott returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners.
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…
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
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…
Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another.
Sportsperson is written and performed by Cerys Bradley (Soho Theatre Young Company, Amused Moose semi-finalist, 2020).
After 21 years and 224 days Hal’s back being single.
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.
Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub.
As the title Charlie Russell Aims to Please suggests, the entire show is an amalgamation of various theatre techniques from musical to slapstick to the dramatic in Russell’s atte…
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.
Comedy’s miserable, cheeky scamp is returning with the weight of the world across his shoulders and some burning questions in his soul.
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.
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.
It has been an interesting couple of years, with a global pandemic showing us a different perspective on life and its meaning.
‘I’m not a whirlwind of sexual energy.
Highly anticipated debut hour from comedian and junior doctor.
‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once’ (Albert Einstein).
‘A gem of a show’ ****½ (One4Review.
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 …
The siren of south Yorkshire steps away from the songs and dedicates her attention to the dying art of conversation.
Cyclist Vee has no idea why she’s woken up in hospital.
A bold exploration into chronic pain experience by Sarah Hopfinger, which unashamedly celebrates the rich complexities of living with pain.
A new show about private things, public things and trying to wrap your big sexy arms around time to keep it still.
It’s a loud and rowdy Saturday night at Monkey Barrel.
How does a queer, GenZ comedian survive her past, the pandemic, and the indignities of a stand-up career? Vincent (aka Bird) takes the audience on a (seriously) funny flight, often…
In this one-woman thriller, we see how a loving relationship can sometimes be anything but.
Rob Rouse (Bottom, BBC’s Upstart Crow) has performed stand-up since winning So You Think You’re Funny? at Edinburgh in 1998.
There’s not really any way to describe how much I enjoyed Glenn Moore’s show other than to say that by the halfway point, I had put my notepad away and was just enjoying the ri…
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…
‘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…
Safe everyone.
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 …
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.
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…
The ephemeral beauty of a flower in bloom carries the unspoken narrative of decay and death.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
Pip Utton really is extraordinary.
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…
Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru.
Watching No Place Like Home was an experience unlike any other I’ve had so far at the Fringe.
This is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her own ambivalence.
Welcome to the great indoors.
Ten years (well, now twelve…) after losing most of his sight, ‘deliciously talented’ (Guardian) Tom looks back, sees the funny side and wonders what might’ve been.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Lauren is back with a brand-new show.
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.
Growing up with a mother with schizophrenia and a grandmother who stole from buffets and fed her false realities, Atsuko is now stunted as an adult.
‘Utterly compelling’ (Lyn Gardner, StageDoorApp.
Rosie Holt is much loved on Twitter for her razor-sharp parodies of the thick Tory politician with Good Hair, haplessly spouting any porkie and defending any porker in the hope of …
Debut hour from nice young man, Sam Lake.
The iconic American comedian and actress returns with her acerbic wit, following multiple sell-out runs.
One time, Alice got kicked out of an airport because her passport was covered in glow stick – and that’s just the start.
Forget everything you may know about Bloody Mary; the cocktail, the game, the queen who burned Protestants at the stake.
Pauline is a one woman show, written and performed by the talented Sophie Bentinck.
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…
Woman, warrior, legend.
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.
Amused Moose New Comic winner and BBC New Comedy Award-nominated northerner Lew had a breakdown and ran away from home, forever.
Physical comedy meets Hollywood.
‘If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses’ (Henry Ford).
I’m sure we can all remember seeing our teachers feeling the pressure on the cusp of parents evening, and as we’re beginning to realise in light of the unprecedented events of …
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.
Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Witchfinder, Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme) is back with an all-new show.
The stunning debut hour full of ‘sharp and observant gags’ (Joe Lycett) from one of comedy’s most exciting breakthrough voices.
Red Richardson is one of Britain’s best up-and-coming comedians.
The Pleasance Attic on a sunny afternoon is hot, especially sitting in a sold-out crowd.
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.
Brassy, abrasive, rude, belligerent.
Erin Hunter’s Surfing the Holyland is a dynamic and fast-paced one-woman show in which she tells the autobiographical story of her year living in Tel Aviv, the colourful cast of …
My Dad is the most important man in the country* but this isn’t about him.
A dark comedy about daddy issues, sex work, fantasies, taboos, imperfect feminism, immigration and trauma.
A ‘new comedy phenomenon’ (Hollywood Times), this Fringe debut is a stand-up hour showcasing Lamarr’s trademark brand of edgy comedy; complete with a splash of tech, NFT’s and Broa…
One of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch 2019, Patti Harrison makes her highly anticipated Edinburgh debut.
It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-…
It’s the Fringe.
A one-man performance spoken directly to the audience.
A stand-up performance of extracts from the works of some of the great writers of the past from Ireland, with no particular theme, just wonderful material full of humour and pathos…
One-woman show about being a sibling to someone who’s autistic.
A solo female show exploring the depths of the mind of a young woman, who suffers from anorexia.
Why does time often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show and part heart-rending personal quest, this theatrical, musica…
When Harriet Kemsley was young, she daydreamed about her perfect secluded hideaway, Honeysuckle Island, and her memories of that have inspired her latest stand-up show at the Monke…
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.
This year Stuart got alopecia.
Alison Kinnaird is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and musician.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
Lucifer, fallen angel, begs God’s forgiveness.
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.
Maxwell’s back in Edinburgh for the last weekend of August.
‘My name is mandla.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
‘My name is mandla.
‘My name is mandla.
‘My name is mandla.
How many times can a woman be objectified before deciding she’s more human than that? More angry than that… more vengeful than that.
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.
It is absolutely not Fraser Brown who needs to be afraid.
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.
Hoo Hah House's production Brave Face is by far the bravest and powerful production I have seen at the Fringe this year.
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…
Jody Kamali presents a multi-character comedy/variety show.
Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know.
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…
So far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
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 …
Watson is alone.
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.
A ‘gut-bustingly funny’ (**** (List)) thing in a turtleneck gives you a makeover for the interior design of your mind.
Multiple Fringe First winner David Calvitto (The House, The Professor) returns with his award-winning 2009 hit.
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.
Award-winning comedian.
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…
‘Impressively evocative’ (Chortle.
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
Ah, the 90s! The decade that Shaparak was in her twenties and ‘ladette’ culture ruled the school.
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.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
Award-winning gag merchant (2016 UK Pun Champion winner) Masai Graham delivers over one hundred clean jokes in just half an hour.
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.
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.
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…
Chaucer, but with insects.
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.
SAVED is a multi-layered, retro-mechanical music show built around rescued 70s home organs.
Combining childlike wonder, adult cynicism, and Shakespearean gravitas in his impressively compelling story, master storyteller Dennis Elkins poses increasingly difficult questions…
After spending 5+ decades on the stage, Siobhan Bremer’s life is more than just a bit theatrical.
‘My name is mandla.
Dishonour is a powerful drama that explores the terrifying practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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.
Melissa Center is.
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…
Some inherit from their mothers material possessions.
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.
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.
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
How many times can a woman be objectified before deciding she’s more human than that? More angry than that… more vengeful than that.
An aspiring actress, Evie Edwards, clutches the sides of the Hollywood sign.
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…
In the early 90s, Australian comedian Tania Lacy was so famous she couldn’t walk down the street without being mobbed.
1939: Bette returns home knowing she’s to lose, as the press leaked the Oscar winners.
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.
Comedian Ryan Wingfield takes a funny look into the science of what makes us happy.
SAVED is a multi-layered, retro-mechanical music show built around rescued 70s home organs.
A quirky, short show with songs. One woman reflects on her day, by talking and singing to her dog.
There is an incredible sense of comfort that I feel upon entering the Dining Room at Gilded Balloon to see Jay Lafferty’s Blether.
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.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner is back at the Fringe with her highly anticipated, brand-new show.
A brand new hour of jokes from Alfie Brown; the country’s best non-famous comedian.
Unapologetically Indian.
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…
The kid’s back with another hour of lo-fi stand-up comedy to chill or study to.
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.
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.
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…
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…
‘One of the world’s great cabaret singers’ (Time Out) presents unique interpretations of Dylan and Brel alongside her own material.
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.
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.
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…
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 …
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.
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.
Tash is trying to fit into her clothes as well as her role in society.
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.
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
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…
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
‘When did no become a turn on? No.
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…
Within is one man’s quest to find the meaning of life.
Not Today’s Yesterday.
We all have a nationality.
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens is a man of many songs, and many hats.
Eliott has never cared for sex.
International, award-winning concert pianist Veronica Yen returns to Edinburgh.
It needs to be said, you must go into this show with an open mind.
Buzzing is the story of Julie, a 50-something recent divorcee who is wanting to discover herself and “find meaning”.
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…
Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant! A fun comedy show about migration, identity and belonging from award-nominated comedienne.
You see a person, she sees the colour blue.
Three thousand years ago, the Queen of Sheba travelled with a huge entourage and wealthy gifts to listen to King Solomon’s wisdom.
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…
Fringe First winner returns for six shows only.
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.
‘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.
Total Theatre Award-winning Rachel Mars returns following her gleeful sell-out hit Our Carnal Hearts.
Almost 40 and totally single, Mandy takes us on a hilarious, raw 55-minute rollercoaster ride unearthing the magic elixir for her unmarried soul.
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…
Sincerity has expanded on Mark Ravenhill’s creepy monologue The Experiment, where we follow the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator.
[SFX: FANFARE] Michael Brunström is an Olympic athlete striving for gold medal glory.
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 …
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.
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.
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…
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…
Oxford Revue alumnus John Rayner (‘laugh-out-loud.
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…
A family’s dream holiday becomes a nightmare.
Dorothy Wordsworth has finally found her place, living in domestic and literary bliss in the Lake District with her famous brother, William.
Sweden’s top female comedian Josefin Johansson, TV presenter and singer takes her sold-out show Girl Stuff abroad for the first time.
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.
Grit is in the grips of a full on nightmare so scared he can’t feel the rubble beneath his bare feet.
A funny, touching and self-deprecating account of growing up in 1970s Wolverhampton.
As featured in the top Edinburgh Fringe jokes of all time in The Scotsman, The Independent and The Mirror.
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.
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.
Mrs Shaw Herself is a one-woman show exploring the life of Charlotte Payne-Townshend AKA Mrs George Bernard Shaw.
Zoe Lyons packs out the Gilded Balloon with stand-up that raises the bar for Fringe comedy.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
Scotch pie push-ups, cludgie clenches, haggis swings anybody? You know you want to gie ‘em a go.
A show about food.
Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures.
Icelandic folk songs and bits of Icelandic culture.
BAFTA Award-winning comedian Iain Stirling returns to the Fringe following a sell-out tour, with a load of new jokes, read off notes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Legendary festival favourite, stand-up comedian, film and television star Omid Djalili returns for eight shows only.
Experience the dark and hidden atmosphere of the Detective Inspector John Rebus books which are written by best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin.
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.
It’s 1816, and Mary Shelley is about to recite the words that would be Frankenstein.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s and today.
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…
The funny side of Australia.
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…
When he was seven years old, Edward Hilsum attended a party at which a magician was performing.
Actor, comedian and social media superstar Celeste Barber is the self-proclaimed queen of everyday sophistication and low-budget lifestyle aspiration.
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 …
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Ménage à trois.
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…
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
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.
Bienvenue à bord this non-stop flight from Paris to Cincinnati featuring Crystelle the flight attendant.
Kerry has broken the habit of a lifetime – pleasing people.
Magic as equally stunning as the skill is completely hidden.
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…
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
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.
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
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 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…
Amy Matthews blends observational routines with offbeat whimsy, resigning to the absurdity of modern life.
European premiere.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Stand Up Central and The Chris Ramsey Show.
Ben is milleni-ill.
The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre.
Are you saving the world? If you’re reading this, you’re a win-winner.
Award-winning comedian.
France.
The Perfect Body is a one woman show written and performed by Lavinia Savignoni.
Gordon and Helene are stuck in South Africa and in their rut.
Age is just a number.
A dissection of one of comedy’s rising stars.
Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn.
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
Fresh from touring the UK and Australia, the feel-good comedy maestro.
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.
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind is a show not to miss.
Molly Brenner’s one-woman show about her pursuit of an orgasm is an endearingly-performed trundle through her long search for sexual fulfilment.
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 …
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
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…
Richard Duffy’s been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born.
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.
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.
This is a show for the fans.
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.
Pip Utton returns with last year’s smash hit.
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.
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…
Multi award-winning comedian/activist, putting up her dukes and picking her battles! Trump, terrorists and everything in between.
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.
Help Michelle celebrate her first time.
‘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.
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…
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.
As seen on Live from the BBC, Live from the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour and Live at the Apollo.
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.
Watch in awe as a man in a suit demonstrates his mastery of every genre of comedy.
Impressionist, comedian and singer Naomi brings to life all your favourite stars in her brand-new show.
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.
Despite the title, it transpires that Joz Norris is not dead, but is merely busy having a bath.
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…
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…
Tom Mayhew (BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist 2018) was unemployed for three years from the age of 18.
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…
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).
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, laconic, quirky, surreal, unexpected and awesome.
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.
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.
Phil says goodbye to Edinburgh forever.
Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi.
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.
‘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.
Following a sell-out 2018 Fringe and debut UK tour, the ‘utterly hilarious’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Join me inside my own head for an all-singing, all-dancing exploration of my f*cked-up brain.
Your worst and best possible self.
Stuart McPherson (as seen on BBC1) brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
Brister presents an hour’s whistle stop tour on the nature of privilege, and how we can stop it creating ‘total bell ends’.
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.
The long-awaited debut Fringe show from Leslie is here.
Jim Campbell descends from the infamous Scottish clan who inspired one of Game of Thrones’ most brutal moments.
She’s hot, rich and f*cking powerful.
The Bristolian bumbling ex-darts champ is back.
Very few of Edinburgh Fringe’s 4,000+ shows this year are able to boast being incomparable to all others.
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…
Disappear down the rabbit hole of a fool’s mind.
Laurence Tuck is turning 40, and what has he done? Bugger all! He has been a cataclysmic failure.
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.
Thus far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Josie Long has spent twenty years being a beacon of hope amongst the cynical cruelty of stand-up comedy.
Don’t be bullied into cheering up or thinking positive.
A comedy show about definitely not wanting kids.
With First Impressions, Christina Bianco further cements her reputation as the First Lady of Impersonation.
A presentation of visionary (ridiculous) ideas from an apocalyptic clown man.
Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories.
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.
Award-winning writer and broadcaster, Russ Kane, brings his London and LA sell-out one-man show to Edinburgh for the first time.
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…
‘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.
Late 1800s: there’s a heavy fog surrounding London.
The performance opens to a figure eerily adorned in a rose-embellished mask, a luscious pink rose plugged into her mouth like a pacifier.
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.
Ever try to do two things at once? Sameer is a PhD student and a comedian.
We all have to work.
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.
Multi award-winning Collier is back with her brand new stand-up show.
‘Edgy and very funny’ (Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club).
Amanda donated her kidney for her sister.
Meet Sam Morrison: a 24-year old American comedian with a theatrical flair and a penchant for daddies.
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…
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…
Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley presents ruminations on love, youth and mental health.
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.
A comedy about the autistic spectrum.
Brett Johnson’s Poly-Theist is a charming and quirky peek into the world of polyamory.
Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault.
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…
A struggling artist working at a movie theater, Chris goes on a surreal adventure into his subconscious while popping popcorn.
Drunk Lion follows an alcoholic lion who spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina until he meets Chris, a young foreigner learning how to speak Spanish.
Life’s getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social – life now is guilt, followed by shame.
Google Me is the new offering from 2018 Fringe debut comedian Eleanor Colville.
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.
Mark Nelson struts on stage to banging Rammstein industrial metal, plunging headfirst into a heady rhetoric on Brexit.
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…
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…
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.
Brandi Alexander has reinvented herself; a self confessed D-list night-time personality back in the saddle after a five year hiatus.
Laura Lexx is back with twice the energy and three times the sparkle, courting controversy with her own brand of comicality.
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.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
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 hour with Harriet Dyer is an hour of absurdism where literally anything can happen.
Millennial or non-millennial, any woman will be able to relate to Cat Hepburn's spoken word hour.
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…
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…
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…
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.
If character comedy tickles your funny bone then look no further than An Audience With Yasmine Day at Pleasance Courtyard.
Helen Bauer hits the Fringe hard with this compelling comedy debut which is slick, sassy and super satisfying.
F Scott Fitzgerald’s sparkling, waggish tales of 1939 Hollywood delightfully rendered by LA-born actor Paul Birchard.
All new material from prolific Canadian superstar.
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.
Charlie returns with more historical comedy, characters and stand-up.
Hotly anticipated debut from promising newcomer.
Robin Grainger (Best Newcomer nominee, Scottish Comedy Awards) just got a dog.
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.
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…
I Run is a Danish one-man play about running and grief.
“I wanna be woke, but I’m tired.
Ridiculously self-aware middle-class dreamer Flora does a show about trying and failing to be creative in the big city.
Debut show from Saskia Preston, writer for Radio 4’s The Now Show and News Quiz, and 4 Extra’s Newsjack.
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.
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.
Identity politics.
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 …
Beyoncé’s Diva is blasting out as we wait for London Hughes to arrive.
Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person.
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’…
Catapulting Dickens into the 21st century, this masterstroke genius of spin-offs introduces Emily Halloran, live streaming to us from her penthouse honeymoon suite.
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.
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.
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.
Journalist Lauren Booth’s first solo show, Accidentally Muslim, promises a journey from ‘Soho hedonism’ to a shocking revelation in a mosque.
Leyla Josephine presents us with 'Daddy', a seeming parody of Rab C Nesbitt, oozing toxic masculinity.
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 …
Taigé Lauren presents one woman’s journey to find what makes an American.
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…
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…
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
This is about having sexual fantasies that don’t align with your politics.
Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us.
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.
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.
Bees are immediately punished for their stings.
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…
Black Ulysses awakens on an exotic island where he seeks refuge from a society rife with gun violence and oppression.
This is the debut solo show of the most unknown Norwegian, Martin Marki.
Seeing herself in someone else’s reflection highlights honest thoughts Rachel only admits to herself in the middle of the night.
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…
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�…
A reserved English father turned Tantric Masseur.
In September 1996, Channel 4 screened a documentary about River Phoenix as a gay icon.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
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.
The hypnopompic boy king slam-dunks a sleepover-themed show so hard the hoop disintegrates.
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.
Kevin Jones qualified in Medicine from Liverpool University.
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.
Bare Knuckle sheds light on the brutal (and often hidden) male world of bare knuckle fighting.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
Sam Amos (TrashDollys) explores solitude and man’s inability to articulate emotion in 5 Days of Falling.
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…
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.
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
The show isn’t entirely about space, although it takes place in space.
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…
Death, Dating and I Do.
The Midnight Soup is a piece of theatre during which the audience prepare a meal that they share at the end.
UK folk singer, cult hero and festival legend Beans on Toast makes his debut Fringe appearance.
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
With her cult following for her acerbic doodles online about love, Jessie has stuff to say.
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.
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…
We’ve all encountered the wine wankers’ insufferable diatribe.
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.
Doctor Klevemark isn’t a real doctor, but she believes in the power of positive thinking.
Sam is a young Kiwi who discovers the thrill and adrenaline of following professional rugby.
Bums on seats, eh? Ever wondered what a church pew sees and hears? Come and hear it from the pew itself.
Grace the Former Child was diagnosed at 14 with bipolar disorder.
The award-winning true story of David Kaye’s attempt to bring peace to the Middle East.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
Zugunruhe (zoo-gun-rue): an ornithology term for ‘migratory restlessness in birds’.
Jessimae Peluso is an American stand-up comedian and television personality.
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…
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, …
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.
Henry Café, quiz host and death investigator, investigates death and hosts a quiz.
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.
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 seal woman’s skin has been stolen, stranding her on a reef of rage and tragedy.
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.
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…
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.
PJ Landers brings his new story Searching for Pop to Edinburgh for the first time.
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.
Al Lubel also considered Mean Jewish Boy and Boy of Inaction as titles.
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…
EU exit day is just seven months after the Fringe.
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show in 2017.
“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…
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 …
From the writer of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh and Harry Gibson’s relentless one-man show returns.
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.
The Naked Video and Absolutely Fabulous star feels it’s time to spill, before she forgets and gets taken off the patches altogether.
Come on then! (To my show.
“Up, up, up.
Meet Jeanie.
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.
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…
Admirers of Jennifer Thomson’s cityscapes and seascapes will be intrigued to discover a different focus in her work this year.
A “nearly” comedy about my memories as a professional stripper and near-hero during London Bridge terror attack in 2016.
Fresh from touring UK and Australia, the maestro of feel-good comedy.
2023.
On any given afternoon in the Fringe, you’re likely to find Simon Munnery gracing the stage of The Stand comedy club.
‘Three years ago, while on a hunt for stationery, I opened a desk drawer in my parents’ house.
Steve Chang takes you on an introspective journey to find meaning in life by means of ayahuasca, hookers and gay conversion camp.
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.
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 …
From chasing girls to catching spiders, James knows what’s expected of him as a man.
Jo Caulfield strides on stage with all the self-assuredness of the seasoned performer that she is.
He doesn’t know it all but Silky can make up something plausible really quickly.
Written and performed by Scotsman Fringe First Winner, John McCann (SPOILING, Traverse Theatre, 2014) and directed by Erasmus Mackenna.
You want it.
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…
When it comes to empowerment, Jaleelah Galbraith believes today’s feminists should look to Sense and Sensibility instead of Single Ladies.
Award-winning cult favourite returns after her sell-out Edinburgh debut with new musical comedy characters including the melodramatic Audrey Heartburn.
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.
Miguel de Cervantes is woken from his eternal slumber by celebrations of the anniversary of his death.
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Reflecting myself in the mirror.
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…
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.
@izzybaby1991: ‘You’re invited to a very special 27th birthday party.
When Edinburgh’s famous One O’Clock Gun goes missing the city is outraged.
Limmy is perhaps best known for BBC Scotland’s Limmy’s Show, but when that came to an end, Limmy turned to Vine.
Becky Williams delivers an emotionally charged monologue about murderess Grace Miller somewhat reluctantly seeking a second chance at series of rehab sessions entitled Notes.
Jamali Maddix strides on the stage and immediately takes some shots at the easier targets in the front of the audience.
Ari Shaffir turned his last Fringe show into a Netflix special called Double Negative.
What’s the point of all this? (Life.
A comedy show of searing honesty – too much honesty if anything! Delivered in his usual no-nonsense style and jam packed with plenty of laughs throughout, Jason questions why he’…
From laundry girl to one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars, the tragic and wonderful life of Anna May Wong.
Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show.
A one-woman show, directed by Katharina Reinthaller, telling the comic story of the encounter between modern migrant Cecilia and London – a contemporary El Dorado craved by gener…
Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award, critically acclaimed character comedian Alice Marshall returns with a brand-new show.
Fresh from filming on an upcoming comedy show for Channel 4, Lenny brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
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.
Ireland’s own Duffy Connors is taking his one-man show Johnny Irish to Edinburgh which includes stories from the odd man’s life, well crafted one-liners and musical comedy.
Golden Jester award winner Bob Munro presents Eau de Munro.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Everyone is offended, everyone is a victim, no one is happy.
Suited and booted Australian improv god unleashes pure comedy chaos in a basement with a live blues band.
To make James Veitch better for you, he brings regular updates to improve speed and reliability.
On the back of last year’s critically acclaimed Love Machine and an appearance on Live from the BBC (BBC Worldwide), Tom Ward is going in for a closer inspection of his favourite t…
Go and see this show right now.
Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Spend a rip-roaring hour in the pub with the man himself! He’ll tell you all about his family, what it’s like on tour and the glory days at th…
Devised, new-writing comedy unlike any other.
This one-woman show tells the story of the most prolific ghost singer of all time, Marni Nixon: the best film diva you (almost) never saw.
What does it mean to be a millennial? One stands before you, trying to process her three most pressing concerns: job exploitation, crumbling friendship and the imminent apocalypse.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
Troy Hawke returns with another riotous hour, navigating the detritus of everyday life and the divine properties of Scrabble values.
A one-woman cabaret about history’s greatest female spies.
After his last stretch in the slammer, Tony Corleone has become a sit-down comedian.
What is the secret to marriage? How can you laugh for 40 minutes and still come away motivated to work on the oldest institution in existence? Just come on in and find out how life…
A single creme brûlée can change the course of your whole life.
Canadian comedy veteran and perpetual white belt Kevin Matviw (The Second City) returns to the Fringe with an unhinged solo sketch show filled with improv, “karate” and hilario…
Twice featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week.
Mister Tuesday, potatoes versus knives, 80s, music, future wizard, noise, monkeys, lords, frauds, the saddest pictures in the world, animal band, ways to live, ways to die.
Kinkens is old Scots for the evasive answers to the questions of overly curious children.
Comfortably in his forties, award-winning comedian and new dad Wool delves into his back catalogue of material spanning 25 years to perform some of his more subversive routines.
Josh Pugh: The Changingman.
The 1991 holiday camp talent show winner, frontman of Best Hertfordshire Band 1998 and Most Promising Student 2002 pinpoints where things went wrong.
If you were invited to a 50th birthday party in Ibiza, would you go? To help you decide, Sarah takes you on her journey and it’s one you’ll never forget.
You are cordially invited to the grand reopening of Ali Brice’s Lemonade Stand.
A show about life.
Kevin Precious is a former religious studies teacher.
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
Henry Ginsberg is not your standard Everyman.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an actor in possession of a woman’s story must be in want of a wife – to help him adapt it.
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…
Following his mother’s tragic death (freak accident with a Bic Razor), the misogyny apologist and comedian par excellent presents his debut hour! ‘Works the crowd like an Italian m…
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
Growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the West with no language, culture, personality, looks or even a clue.
Rosie Holt is not for everyone.
Zahra’s never stood in front of a mirror and taken a selfie.
Feel like you're stuck outside the box? Then how do you think inside it? Through heartfelt storytelling, clowning and double-walled chipboard, Unboxed promises more 'brilliant, u…
The women of England demand the vote! The remarkable true story of Muriel Matters: the South-Australian actress and elocutionist who became a leading figure of the UK’s suffragette…
Popular nerd Adele Cliff presents her gag-packed debut hour, all about individuality, searching for friends, following, fitting in and actual sheep.
‘A top class comic’ (Birmingham Mail).
New work-in-progress solo show from Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
Richard Wright is a virgin.
What type of comedian are you Gav? Hard-hitting? Are you one of these edgy types that says the unsayable or a modern consumer complaints comedian? Maybe you’re surreal and are on…
I’m just a comedian, standing in front of literally anything, asking it to love me.
After breaking new ground with their award-winning Richard III (A One Woman Show), Brite Theater are once again reinventing Shakesperian performance with this new production of Ham…
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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…
What happens when you try to tell someone else’s story, but they’re not done talking? Kit has written a show about Mabel Normand, a notorious 1910s movie star, and the murder case …
This is a show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two.
Pebble Trust Award Winner, Runner Up Audience Choice Award, Best Comedy by IYAF nominee, Brighton Fringe 2017.
What does it take to become undeniably good at what you do? Fresh from a sell-out UK tour; Liverpool Comedian of the Year winner and English Comedian of the Year nominee Adam Rowe,…
Luke Rollason is a silly man who made me cry with laughter today.
Aussie Nick Elleray has been described as ‘an under-appreciated purveyor of quality downbeat comedy’ (Chortle.
You’ve seen him in Mad Men, you’ve seen him in Billions, you’ve seen him in Hail Caesar! Now see why he’s one of the best stand-ups in the world working today.
Masud Abides is the exciting follow-up show to Masud’s 2016 debut Edinburgh show, Routes.
A microphone shaped like the human head.
Bethany Black is back.
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…
The critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe 2017 improvised solo comedy about your crazy life returns! From the New York City comic who brought you the Edinburgh Fringe hit Desperate…
In Brexit Britain happily ever after (and UK residency) is just a marriage visa away.
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…
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
The world’s only motivational mind reader returns to the Fringe, but this time, it’s extreme! Dangerous stunts and death-defying spectacles, all performed for your entertainmen…
Who is Alex Garner anyway? A comedian, that’s who.
Meet the nominees for Woman of the Year in Anna Nicholson’s debut character-comedy show.
Stand-up comic Gareth Berliner was cast in Coronation Street four years ago to play dodgy drug dealer Macca, and was told he didn’t need make-up! He’s also very funny.
Technical issues hampered the comic on more than one occasion, and one occasion too long to forget.
Alfie Brown is charming and disgusting.
Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show nominee 2016 and 2017, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre) returns with a new character comedy show, Sagar Dreamcast.
Ever wanted to know the meaning of life? No, neither has Jen, she’s too busy trying to stop her twins from using her shoes as a toilet.
"If there are any reviewers in tonight, gimme four stars.
Yes, big topics are discussed.
Luke Rollason’s Planet Earth is a low-budget, one-man nature documentary set in a future where our worst predictions came true – following ecological collapse, thousands of endan…
Dana Alexander offers her unique and irreverent perspective in an industry that is dominated by the privileged and homogeneous – a purple sheep in a group of black sheep.
Do you struggle to fit in in an ever-changing world? Does the speed of change make you feel old before your time? Then you know how Paul feels.
Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed on The Island, Watson returns to what he’s best at: being indoors.
Scottish rising star and oddball, Eleanor Morton tries to reinvent herself as the sexy, confident comedian she has always secretly probably been.
An artist draws the same image repeatedly with indomitable zeal.
German comedians are like English cooks, sober Scotsmen or Texan democrats.
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
The world’s never had more knowledge, yet never more stupidity.
It’s hard to tell you to go see Huff at Summerhall’s CanadaHub, but I absolutely must.
In this dark one-man comedy we get a glimpse into the world of Main Character and the everyday struggle of his normal life.
A madcap adventure through the wild mind of a young Australian absurdist.
Winnie is a vagrant.
Welcome to The 24/7 Club, where everyone was born on the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in Charlie V Martin’s new solo show about her birthday.
One is found buried in a culmination of emotions when life takes an unexpected turn.
Layla McKinnon is days away from saying ‘I do’ to Andy McKinnon.
Dave Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics dropout and professional poker player Ken Cheng returns this year with his second stand-up hour.
New Zealand’s David Correos has blown away audiences from Auckland to Adelaide, now he returns to Edinburgh with his debut solo show.
Vladimir McTavish became a full-time stand-up comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences worldwide and gigged with some of the biggest names in the business.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
When Benny Hill died in April 1992, his body lay undiscovered in his flat for two days.
Life is a heavy blanket of sadness and if you want joy, you’ve got to poke some holes.
Rising star Micky Overman presents her highly anticipated debut show.
Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.
Does a story even exist if it’s not on Instagram? Tamsyn Kelly is a hilarious, fresh, new voice.
A terrible crime has been committed.
Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan.
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…
A schoolboy’s dream.
Following his sell-out run in 2017, Akbar returns armed with a copy of the Qur’An in hand.
Character comedian Bryony Twydle (BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, E!’s The Royals) presents her debut Edinburgh show.
What would you do if you had a bet on the horses and won a year’s wages in a day? Quit your job and become a professional gambler? Sure, why not.
It has often been said that Myra DuBois is an act way ahead of her time.
Funny Women award winner Freya Slipper’s (CBBC, The Free Association) debut character show explores the power of social media and what happens when an ordinary person does somethin…
Following the success of Even God Knew I was Gay, Jilberto Soto presents Butterfly.
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…
Joe Rooney is best known for his role in Father Ted as the rebel priest Father Damo.
She won a King’s heart in the 40 year romance known around the world as The Love Story of the 20th century.
Chris Thorpe's solo show for this year is about grappling with national identity as a white british man.
An inspirational story of courage, caution and perseverance and humor.
Comedy phenomenon Luisa Omielan (What Would Beyoncé Do?! and Am I Right Ladies?!) is back.
Multi award-winning comedian and Fringe favourite, returns with another brand new stand-up show, #Goals.
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…
A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.
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.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and medical doctor Kwame was overweight in his late childhood and obese in his early teens.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, Darren Harriott returns with a brand new show that explores everything from the personal to the political with his trademark warmth an…
Emma Sidi’s one-woman show Faces of Grace is absolutely bonkers.
After an absence of two years, the Perthshire farmer returns to Edinburgh with another trailer load of tales of rural life and how country people view the outside world.
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.
Never Vera Blue is a brave and commendable production, which interrogates the effects of gaslighting in an emotionally abusive relationship.
I’ve had over 70,000 pricks… Of the medical kind.
Three lonely men are magically transported to a mythical land through the charms of a Maori busker.
Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed.
Richard is Britain’s leading blind theoretical physicist turned stand-up comedian with a Blue Peter badge… well, definitely in the top three.
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…
Making her UK debut, talented sand artist Irina Titova and her audience will travel Around the World in 80 Pictures in the spirit of Jules Verne.
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.
After last year’s sell-out run, Paul returns to Edinburgh with his life, seemingly, still bordering on disarray.
What do I need to do to make you like me? Just tell me so we can all just relax.
Jacqueline Novak finds everything embarrassing.
Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s.
Ever wondered what happens when nice manners go head to head with a Russian gangster? In a fusion between theatre, comedy and cabaret, James McLean is a one-man theatre company and…
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
The least qualified and most concerned history teacher in the UK (Oskar Schortz) guides you through his biggest worry yet – that history has a purpose! Join him for a lesson to d…
Some years ago, comedian Lucy Frederick appeared in a reality TV show in which she had to get naked.
Join award-winning comedian Benet Brandreth for a comic tale of love, loss, redemption and ramekins.
Bec Hill provides the jokes.
Setting the modern obsession with putting your own child first against our responsibility as a society towards children as a whole, this dark tale, written by and starring BAFTA aw…
Setting the modern obsession with putting your own child first against our responsibility as a society towards children as a whole, this dark tale, written by and starring BAFTA aw…
This show, a high spot of Watson’s notorious Edinburgh career, began as a work-in-progress at the Fringe two years ago.
Kieran Hurley works towards an overwhelming state of urgency with the audience in his solo show Heads Up.
Have you ever made a mistake that you instantly regretted? And then made that same mistake when you really should know better? Then done it a third time and realised you suffer fro…
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
One of the emperor’s favorite concubines in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Gui Fei, was also renowned as one of the four beauties in Chinese history.
The performance of London-based Belarussian actress Alexia Mankovskaya has been critically acclaimed in Russia after the production’s triumphant premiere at the VI Theatre Festival…
Following two shows that sold out through word of mouth alone, Scottish comedian Fern is back for another Scottish hour.
Back due to popular demand! Gary thinks a good joke should be like a drunk Glaswegian, short and punchy.
Martin is one of the world’s most travelled and adventurous comedians.
Where do I belong? What defines me? Where is home? Poetic, poignant solo show by Annie George – Inspiring Scotland Saltire Bursary winner 2016 – contrasting struggles faced by …
Hands-on Messiah, written and performed by F.
Professional idiot Nathan Lang (Pinhead from Neighbours) tells the high-energy, surreal tale of The Stuntman through clowning, characters, physical comedy and real onstage stunts.
In 2017 Alex White has been kicking goals! After a cheeky run through the Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney comedy festivals, this tall drink of water is making his Edinburgh debut! Q…
Late-night one-liners from Phil Pagett, ‘One of the country’s best new gag writers’ (Gary Delaney, Mock the Week), ranging from the absurd to the twisted.
A double-bill of extraordinary power and originality, Hope Hunt & The Ascension into Lazarus performed by Belfast-based Oona Doherty, gets beneath the hard exterior of disaffected …
Following the success of last year’s show, Jenny is returning with a brand-new hour of stand-up comedy.
After years in the sketch show game, Iain Connell, star and co-creator of BBC hit show Burnistoun (a sell-out at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe) is throwing caution to the wind…
Debut stand-up hour from Ben Shannon about cats, growing up and being easily distracted.
A one-man band greatest hits tribute to the legend Johnny Cash featuring Monty Cotton, as seen on The Voice.
Have you ever made a mistake that you instantly regretted? And then made that same mistake when you really should know better? Then done it a third time and realised you suffer fro…
One show only! Dylan Thomas’ enchanting masterpiece is brought vividly to life in an extraordinary solo performance by Edinburgh legend and Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson.
Dante’s History of the Banished is framed around the conceit that Dante Alighieri, legendary poet who penned the Divine Comedy, is writing a new book about the titular ‘banishe…
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Emily Dickinson is flitting about the meeting room in the Quaker Meeting House.
Expect songs of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter Paul and Mary, and more when award-winning singer/songwriter Bruce Davies pres…
The Dead Ringers star in her much anticipated debut Edinburgh show.
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (The Crown, Sunny D, BBC Radio 4) returns to Edinburgh after a smash-hit, sell-out run in 2016.
Harri Soinila is a Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World, 2016 semi-finalist, headliner of shows in a bunch of countries and the godfather (or baby daddy) of English comedy …
Nollywood meets Hyacinth Bouquet via the fictional pan-African nation of Kengeria.
A one-woman dramatic monologue performed with great storytelling skills, Green Knight is an enthralling show.
A friend of mine and I were recently chatting about how – even today – sexism is still very much in existence.
Tokio Myers is a multi-instrumental artist and composer fusing classical piano with electronic sounds and beats, creating an immersive and compelling show.
Nonsilence is a solo piano and song performance with bilingual singer/songwriter Emer O’Flaherty.
Teaching survivor Jo – ‘funny bones and a clownish sensibility’ (Bruce Dessau) – once tweaked a kid’s nips to get them to behave.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Runner-up Best Comedy Show Buxton Fringe 2017, Brain Rinse is a bizarre madcap, interactive sketch show starring you, the audience.
Life as a Goth is not easy.
Fitted out in an elegant tuxedo, in an echo of Marlene Dietrich’s revolutionary turn in 1930’s Morocco, Kate O’Donnell is every inch the smooth Old Hollywood dame.
Tired? Depressed? Your gender getting you down? Experience what this world would be like as a matriarchy! Like a holiday for your gender binary! Lasting results! Free seat to sit i…
America’s gun culture is pervasive.
Join Rosie at Fingers Piano Bar for an afternoon of song and banter, with classics from musical theatre, cabaret and pop.
The critically acclaimed character comic and creator of last year’s award-winning sell-out wedding comedy It’s Got to be Perfect returns.
Harriet Dyer (BBC Live at the Fringe, BBC Ouch, BBC Radio 4 Extra and that idiot that didn’t cook her chicken on ITV’s Dinner Date) for purposes of this show is Detective Dyer.
Back with a brand new show, Danger Dave Reubens takes you on a crash course in daredevil antics, jaw-dropping magic and bizarre comedy.
Ever made the mistake of taking a good hard look at yourself? Rich did and he didn’t like what he saw.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
Escaping his war poetry homework, a schoolboy re-enacts the movie 300 to the spirit of Wilfred Owen.
Thom Peterson is The Amazing Guy! A one-man flash mob of magic and comedy.
The king of late-night comedy is back.
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
A twelve-year-old girl sneaks across the border into her own country.
An action-packed, spy thriller, one-woman musical.
Jan Groenewald takes us on a harrowing journey through a childhood experience of sexual violation to victory and riches.
Winner: Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show 2017.
Award-winning Wild Productions present Mary and Me written and performed by Irene Kelleher, directed by Belinda Wild.
Unhinged physical comedy from Rob Cawsey on dating, sex and trying to find love.
If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.
What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…
Alison Kinnaird has an international reputation as an artist working in glass.
The life and times of Bill Shankly: comedian, philosopher, dictator, god, angel, devil, saint – and tragic hero.
A comedy for anyone who’s been single, and then got someone pregnant.
Sisters (and the rest of the world) unite and enjoy this one-woman show as you are taken through the tumultuous life of the Preston-born suffragette Edith Rigby.
Marcos Madrigal is one of Cuba’s best young concert pianists.
There’s a lot going on in Luke Barnes’ Bottleneck.
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford has his choice Phrases Ready, with wordplay, jokes and puns aplenty.
Danny McLure goes to Argentina to support Scotland in his country’s 1978 World Cup campaign, but then finds himself at war with the people he has fallen in love with.
Sugar Baby satirised the food industry with one eyebrow firmly raised, mocking both the trend of ‘clean eating’ for which vegan titans like ‘Deliciously Ella’ are increasin…
Spencer Jones is a genius but I’m not sure why.
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
Alun Cochrane’s 2017 offering Alunish Cochraneish feels very well-named: with enjoyable skits and well-time delivery, this show is a collection of thoughts that make up what it m…
What happens when you’re in London alone at Christmas for years on end? PBH Free Fringe’s Polaris explores one woman’s search for community in the face of chaos through spoken …
In Oscar Wilde’s timeless twist on the biblical story of John the Baptist’s execution, princess Salome lives luxuriously in a bustling Middle Eastern court with her mother and …
Malcolm is from respectable Morningside.
Experience the power of a live motivational mind reading show! Combining techniques used by motivational speakers, magicians, and stage mind readers, Phil Ainsworth is The MoMental…
The incredible, true story of the Wild West’s greatest Lakota warrior, this original one-man drama depicts the quiet, brilliant figure who defied the mighty US military, attempting…
Marcy loves Kanye West.
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
They say a mother’s love is unconditional, but can you truly still love your child after they commit the most heinous of crimes? Put The Book Down’s Mine brings to light the ex…
Ridiculous and unpredictable, Kit Sullivan dishes out a surreal piece of comedy with mischievous charm.
With over a decade’s experience in the casino industry, Matthew Harrison reveals his hand on what really goes on inside a gambler’s paradise.
Rock’n’roll in all its facets.
Grace Gibson parades awkwardly across the stage in her brightly coloured leotards, she is about to share with us her experience of public failure, inviting us to revel in that mome…
‘I collect bags of sugar from cafes and restaurants I’m in.
A crisis has taken hold of the Heavens.
After an hour of a narcissistic one man show, we were left with the dilemma of whether to applaud the honesty of Sam, or be totally appalled by the stark exposure of his personalit…
If Lena Dunham’s Girls, Requiem for A Dream and political punditry had a brain child, Jeopardy would be it.
Jackie Walker tells the story the media wouldn’t let her tell you.
Award-winning comedian.
‘An absolute must… the next big thing!’ (Skinny).
A monk starts the show.
Created, written, directed and performed by author Angela Jackson, The Darling Monologues is a series of three darkly comic monologues which interweave the lives of three women: Li…
Sandra Hale presents herself as kind of a Bad Grandma type.
At 36, David is still unable to function in society.
We lie to our friends, family, lovers and bosses because it’s easier than telling the truth – we have no idea what we’re doing, and we might have genital warts.
After last year’s joke did so well (Dave’s Top Ten Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2016), Annie returns to Edinburgh with another one.
Original, notable and deplorable characters take to the stage to apologise directly to you for their wrongdoings.
A white-knuckle ride on a character comedy carousel from chameleon woman-host LadyFace, AKA Lucy Farrett, said to be ‘funny’ (Neil Gaiman) and ‘mesmerising’ (Scotsman).
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Buxton Fringe Best Show winner (and triple nominee) explores bravery in a volatile world.
It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton.
After Muslims Do It Five Times A Day and Aatificial Intelligence, Aatif Nawaz returns to the Fringe to have The Last Laugh.
A show for anyone who ever worried they weren’t normal.
Vicki is done with degrading retail jobs, fed up of waiting around for Mr Wrong and ultimately ready to get out of bed.
Following a sell-out 2016 Fringe and nationwide tour, the star of BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and The John Bishop Show, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC Radio 4’s …
It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’.
Tai the Comedybawse lives in a real life rap video, but is it OK for gangsters to have mid-life crises? Trans-Gangster is a comedic journey through urban wit, music, and one-liners…
How far would you go to fit in? What happens when you deny the very thing that defines you? In this deeply personal show, Rik Carranza revisits a past that forced him to choose bet…
I had really high hopes for C’est La Vegan, principally because it’s a subject matter I know about.
It did not take long for Sunil Patel to win me over.
Meet Frank Lavender, comedian.
In his first solo show, stand-up comedian Jacob Hawley (Comedy Store King Gong winner, Fresh Comedian of the Year finalist, four-star Brighton Fringe 2016) brings tales of patrioti…
Delightful and expressionistic one-woman show; Above the Mealy-Mouthed Sea is spoken-word theatre play about the self we present to the world and the self we try to hide.
Even those of us who strive to find nothing inherently embarrassing about mammary glands feel a bit awkward at the box office, and this is part of The B*easts message.
Alice Marshall is a master of character comedy.
Isobel Marmion’s one woman nervous breakdown, entitled This Is My Funeral and I’ll Throw Glitter if I Want To, was a disturbing and joyless foray into a mind no one present wanted …
From a small attic room in the Counting House, Jane Hill is on a mission to prove that she is not the ‘lovely’ lady in a cardigan which review after review has branded her as i…
Dust is not for the faint-hearted.
The star of ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘Episodes’ and ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’, Michael Brandon gave himself two years to star in a Hollywood movie.
Though not the most affecting one-woman show of the festival, Tumble Tuck, written and performed by Sarah Milton, still definitely manages to make a splash.
The tricky thing with a show like The Man On The Moor is balancing the personal, fictional story being told with the larger, true-life event it is connected to.
Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis does an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of the relationship between the audience and performer.
After catching her fiancé screwing her friend, Celeste reads under a Snapple bottle cap: ‘We can’t stop ourselves from suffering, but we can learn how to suffer better’.
Canadian comedian Dylan Gott performs a brand-new hour of stand-up comedy about being a virgin until 23 (he’s 31 now) and how that affected attempting a long distance open relation…
In this one woman show, Ellyn Daniels takes us on an intoxicating ride from Orlando to Togo, from ballet to bulimia, from walking the runways of Paris to blacking out in Hollywood …
Meet Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face, not Tape Face.
Following last year’s five-star sold-out run, BBC Radio 4’s Viv Groskop presents Anchorwoman, a show exploring our relationship with the news, asking why exactly all the news i…
Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow) has tried to answer some of the big questions in life in previous shows, but now seems like a good time to just be funny.
In April 2015, Robin Ince announced that he really had to stop doing stand-up as he was on the cusp of insanity.
Hollywood: home to the fools who dream.
Inspired by the Indian myth of the Elephant God - Ganesha; this is a coming of age story about a boy in search of his head, wandering through a forest where creatures fret over a p…
Wow! The universe is mind-boggling! Isa Bonachera presents her debut Edinburgh show.
Heather Litteer approaches her subject, women on- and off-stage, with a wry eye and deft, humorous touch (admittedly aided by the never-failing power of hindsight).
Cathy’s just been thrown out of the supermarket for stealing, but she’s not a junkie, and she’ll kill any c*nt who says she is.
Let’s chat about your race relations issue.
‘Chaotic and electric’ **** (Skinny).
Why give, only to get kicked in the teeth? Is that saft (soft) or daft? This is the story about the limits of one woman’s kindness.
Puns.
Caroline’s memory isn’t what it once was.
Gentle comedy.
Andrew Doyle has, allegedly, lost quite a few friends this last year.
Hear me roar! In a world full of sound and fury, and bells and whistles, one woman is ready to listen.
How board games can change your life and save the world.
Michael Clarke has felt something.
Apocalypse Now, with its 153 minute running time, multi-million dollar production costs and jungle location, might not seem like the most obvious contender for adaptation into a on…
Very much in the spirit of the Fringe, Phill Jupitus steps out of his comfort zone with a show of improvisational comedy that sees him inhabit two wonderfully diverse characters th…
When Phill Jupitus commits to the Fringe, he does so 100 per cent.
Winner: Piece of Wood (Comedian’s Choice) 2012, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
‘Revell makes you laugh and think; a rare and cherishable combination these days’ (Scotsman).
You are what you eat.
Sweet.
A show about climate change from comedian and environmental economist Matt Winning describing how global warming is destroying both the planet and his life.
Following the success of last year’s show, Jenny is returning with a brand-new hour of stand-up comedy.
Meet the Aussie cleaning lady everybody loves to love! Brain child of Gaulier graduate Marina Margarita, the heavily pregnant and hormonal Odette dreams of stardom and romance on A…
A delirious investigation of American violence, emptiness and nonsense.
Heavyweight sketch maestro (WitTank) and award winning stand-up veteran, Naz, charges back to the Burgh to punch out his first solo sketch show.
The sexy Hodor of Scottish comedy returns to Edinburgh with a whole new hour of self-effacing comedy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Andy Paterson of Fringe and touring hit 3,000 Trees brings you double Fringe First-winning Iain Heggie’s classic 18th century comedy.
A hundred years ago or yesterday? Strange and distant events or strangely familiar? Feminism, art, war, pop music, revolution, crime fiction, independence, racial violence, crazy p…
On the Richter Scale of humour, if your threshold doesn’t reach the level of sick and sadistic then Carmen Lynch is probably not for you.
An hour of unfortunate experiences and fortunate outcomes, blurred lines is an attempt at understanding human emotions interspersed with frequent references to bodily functions.
Is Nai brave, or is she a big scaredy-pants? One half of Fringe favourites Titty Bar Ha Ha, Nai is going it alone for the first time.
‘There’s two rules: first, the person you choose must be dead.
Award-winning comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from two hugely successful shows and tours of Australia, returns with a show inspired by an incredibly lucky escape, forcing her to re…
Zahra’s a bit like the country of Turkey, in that she’s a mix of Eastern and Western culture, and also she is a bird.
Siân Docksey has given up on politics to join the occult and become a lemon.
Of all the things one expects to see when attending the Edinburgh Fringe, a public tying of the knot is likely to be towards the end of the list.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
In a world on the edge of breakdown, words start to crumble.
The perfect image of youth and boyhood is projected onto the mirror-like panels which hang from the ceiling as Jo Clifford gazes thoughtfully the photo of herself.
This British New Yorker has been seen on Fox’s Showtime at the Apollo (US) and the BBC’s Stand Up for Comic Relief (UK).
To hell with the consequences! Jon loves jumping in feet first when it comes to the big decisions.
This is a show for everyone who feels a lack of fulfilment.
Death invited you to decide the fate of The Poet.
Canadian comedian Evan Desmarais examines what it is to be happy and to love yourself.
Work in progress: Narin Oz plays a looney lecturer in this parody lecture exploring the most vile human behaviour and language.
Sagar Mega Drive is Fiona Sagar’s return to Edinburgh following her 2016 Funny Women Award nominated show Entitled.
Poundland’s plastic communism, the nefarious get rich quick allure of the bingo, the empty capitalistic promise of Waitrose and more come under the inscrutable eye of the Hawke! …
It’s the middle of the night.
Hello, I’m doing a solo show where I play a synth for a while and read some comedic short stories that I’ve written.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
From self-doubt and depression to fabulous and invincible, Pam takes you on a very open and honest journey of when she spent a small fortune on fortune tellers, self-help books, …
Now living in Sweden, it’s time for the Kiwi who has won comedy awards in Australia, the UK and Sweden to make you laugh once again.
Ari Eldjárn is Iceland’s biggest stand-up comedian.
For the third year, American atheist Bronston Jones sees the state of his nation and mutters ‘God Bless ‘Merica.
In a world on the edge of breakdown, words start to crumble.
Join Dana Alexander in her fifth Edinburgh Show, as she navigates through the matrix of the modern world of dating.
Following Fringe sell-outs in 2015 and 2016, and a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand, Vladimir McTavish returns to The Stand with a brand new topical show.
David Crawford’s one man show about the great granddaddy of weird fiction, the one and only H.
Come and join cheeky chappy Dharmander Singh as he entertains with incredibly funny stories and observations about the pressures of being named after a Bollywood legend, the change…
Soon after winning the Edinburgh panel prize in 2014 for Funz and Gamez, Phil was cryogenically frozen until scientists could find a cure for his rare and non-sexually transmitted …
Debut stand-up hour from Ben Shannon about cats, growing up and being easily distracted.
Tom Ward (Chortle Award Winner 2017, BBC Worldwide, Comedy Central) returns with a picnic of broken dreams to share! And the dome-haired, exuberant loner brings forth quite a banqu…
Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.
At the tender age of three, Sasha Ellen accidentally killed a kitten.
Alpha Child is here! The debut show from Alex Oliver (as heard on the BBC New Comedy Show, BBC Radio Norfolk/Suffolk, Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist, 2014).
Alfie Brown is trying out new jokes.
‘One of the most tirelessly silly stalwarts of the Fringe’ (Time Out) provides tales of plumbing woes and his attempts at under-tent heating, and ridicules the insanity of capitali…
Long before Madonna, the world was gaga for Nazimova.
Given the way that Jan Ravens effortlessly reels off her startling array of impressions it begs the question why it has taken so long for her to branch out on her own.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is the hilarious new debut hour from Ed Night.
To a comedian, the structure of their Fringe hour is often held too preciously.
The year is 991 and the Vikings are coming.
For a man who claims to be a ‘professional idiot’ Robin Ince sure seems to know a lot.
Don’t worry, I also had to Google most of the words in the title.
What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors is an examination of homelessness and the situations which lead to it which matches the pace of how those problems develop.
Returning with his charming and surreal style and a new perspective on life, Cork comedian Chris Kent presents his fifth solo show, Moving on.
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (The Crown, Sunny D, BBC Radio 4) returns to Edinburgh after a smash-hit, sell-out run in 2016.
As seen on ITV2, Michael Stranney (NATY winner, Chortle Best Newcomer nominee, BBC New Comedy Award finalist) presents the debut hour from his character Daniel Duffy.
It’s difficult to know when Phoebe Walsh is being ironic, and when she is simply revelling in being a stereotypical millennial.
An antidote to egotistical stand-up, Kwame Asante’s Open Arms is a charming hour of anecdotal and observational comedy.
Ed Byrne’s latest show is based around the notion that as a generation we are all spoilt.
Bunny Boiler is the debut hour from rising star and ever so slightly unhinged comedian Rachel Jackson (BBC Three, Tupperware Party, Scot Squad).
You are cordially invited to The House of Pigs.
It’s a hard task to sum up quite what The Andy Field Experience is about without using the words surreal and odd.
Birmingham born and London-based, Darren Harriott has been billed as one of the most exciting up-and-coming comedians on the circuit right now.
Tired of the conventions of both the left and right, KMT – acronym for the Caribbean Patois expression ‘kiss mi teeth’, a mouth gesture used to show annoyance – is a debut hour…
Cambridge University drop-out and now professional poker player, Ken applies his unique analytical brain to his debut stand-up hour.
Clad in brown flairs and turquoise patterned shirt, Mike Bubbins is instantly a performer who stands out.
Recently I have become a bit disappointed after seeing a few household name comedians as I feel that some of them have become a little out of touch with their audiences in the mate…
Join visionary character comedy maverick Tom Skelton on a wild gallop through the history of blindness and his own sight loss.
Canadian tour de force returns with a new show: prepare for another epic blast of Tom Stade! Carefree and enlightened; no subject is taboo.
The debut Fringe show from Piccadilly Comedian of the Year 2016.
Stuart has got fast-paced, hilarious observations and he ain’t afraid to say them over the course of an hour.
Kane Power makes many admissions at the start of Mental.
Early in his Fringe show Mark Thomas reveals the impressively religious character of his upbringing.
Workshy is a performance art piece by Katy Baird, a lady more experienced in customer service roles than theatrical ones.
Tiff Stevenson starts out with the ‘menstrual stuff’, and immediately challenges a male punter’s appreciation thereof.
Every once in awhile a piece of theatre comes along so powerful that it wobbles you, requiring time long after the curtain call to be processed in its entirety.
Taha Muhammad Ali is the beautiful optimistic picture of the Palestinian people – of all of us.
Inside the mind of a pianist, looking out.
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd genuinely feels like it’s the dawn of the apocalypse.
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
This extremely famous one-handed actor shares his hilarious encounters with the world.
Eleanor Morton’s show takes a smart, but self-deprecating look at feminism and the comedian’s own place in it, but feels full of more potential than she delivers.
If you’re looking for fresh stand-up comedy this Fringe, you could do much worse than Tom Ballard.
‘I recognise this’Daniella Isaacs was in the newest Sweaty Betty zero gravity leggings, making hemp and cacao energy balls, flanked by her nutribullet.
Starving Artists are back with a compelling show about homosexuality in which Mark Pinkosh shares how being gay has affected his life.
Can the audience change a show just by watching it? Douglas invites you to find out, by watching his latest concatenation of mind-searing comic absurdities.
Michelle returns to the Festival with her debut one-woman show, which received five-star reviews across the board on its first sell-out run.
A hilariously naughty cabaret about car accidents, kink and cucumbers.
Amazing tales elegantly told.
Following two shows that sold out through word of mouth alone, Scottish comedian Fern is back for another Scottish hour.
Acclaimed crooner Mikelangelo (Black Sea Gentlemen, La Clique) takes on three great poets of rock’n’roll: Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, in a show filled with beauty, powe…
Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World is a hidden gem of the Fringe that starts off all fun and games (literally) before delving into an account of living with depression that is so h…
Actor-comedian Chris Dingli comes to Edinburgh for a limited run of his hit one-man comedy, Bad Dad, ahead of a US tour.
When comedian Megan Gogerty is told that she hasn’t got the part of Lady Macbeth, a tragic figure of powerful darkness, because Megan is the human equivalent of a golden retrieve…
Award-winning writer and comedian Nathan Cassidy’s new one-man theatre show for 2017.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978.
As the audience files into the dark Rialto theatre space, a lonely figure paces across the stage, dressed in baggy tracksuit bottoms, a grubby white T-shirt and baseball hat, ang…
The Little Creepers by Charlotte Bell is a debut show that explores the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl with schizophrenia in the 21st century.
Nathan Cassidy is pretty angry about a three star review he once received.
Ryan was a bright lad at school.
Stephanie talks about mental health problems and boys for an hour, but it’s totally funny, she promises, and won’t be as awkward as you think it will.
This show is about two things: home and the body.
Satirical, witty and topical.
Polite, comedy-maverick Jim Holland in a funny show about shoes, shyness, and love, where Fred Astaire meets Metallica.
A work-in-progress show from your very own Welsh-wonder, Amy Howerska.
“I am a cog in the wheel of free movement.
Uncomfortable moments full of truth, full of laughs.
Written and performed by Gina George, this one-woman show explores the power of idolisation and isolation within a grandmother, mother and daughter relationship.
One parent refuses to talk about sex.
to know how to recognise the occult in your child? How to be vigilant for signs of Satan? Hoping for practical tips to drive the Devil out? This is the educational lecture for you.
Escape the mundane and the everyday and see the world through the eyes of a magician.
Taken on a whirlwind of what it means to have desires, unconscious and conscious thoughts, Alex Sergeant performed an entertainingly educational stand-up show.
“The UK has voted out.
Harry Harrington leads an ordinary life; family, friends and a good education.
If you could ask a psychic a question what would it be? Fresh off his sell-out international tour, and with sell-out runs in London’s West End, let ‘Psychic’ comedian Peter Ant…
Some people might think that setting the Battle of Stalingrad to Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time is somewhat trivialising the matter.
“A second once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the greatest living comic of every generation.
Tim has many accolades - BBC R2 Folk Awards ‘Musician of the year’, ‘Best duo’ with Brendan Power and many more.
Amidst all the current political debates surrounding nationalism, I was curious as to the sort of person that would put on a show called Jacob Hatton: True Brit.
Unflinchingly honest journey to every mum.
Deeply meaningful and uncomfortably honest at times, purged presents Alex (Orla Sanders) and his desire and failure to verbally explain his mental health problems to the audience…
The WWII official secrets act is over and Eva is ready to set the record straight.
Constance Lloyd is rarely remembered in literary history.
Cornish landscape artist Peter Lanyon’s untimely death after a gliding accident in 1964 is inspiration for this imaginative piece of physical theatre.
A comedy rap musical about urban poet Wisebowm, a working class guy who falls in love with a middle class girl, so goes gluten free and gets into yoga and pilates to win her heart.
The Viking warrior, the HubbaBubba Gum-chewing slut and the Hermit have placed the sign ‘Do Not Disturb’ on the door of the hotelroom.
Do you remember Dave Benson Phillips? If you were a child in Britain from the 80s to the early 00s, there’s a fair chance you watched him on TV.
We’ve all been to a gallery and not paid much attention to the invigilators there to watch over the gallery.
In a time of pre-war political tension, gone are the days of frothy fashion journalism for Pamela More, a feisty and glamorous Times journalist who stubbornly prioritises haute-c…
A comedic whirlwind, Jonny has a feel-good brand of musical comedy.
One-woman cabaret mix of the comic and the surreal, the poignant and the very dark.
Sometimes you stumble on a stand-up so freshly funny that you remember why you started liking unknown comedy shows in the first place.
Responsible for the most popular TED Talk of 2016, James Veitch brings his hilarious new show ‘Game Face’, with more geeky comedy about life, love and enabling Bluetooth.
Rowan Atkinson, move over; there’s a new show in town.
A year ago he inherited his father’s crumbling fast food shop.
Not just a magician but a ‘poet of the impossible’, Scots-Italian conjurer and writer, Lorenzo ‘Renz’ Novani, weaves verbal wizardry and magic into 50 thought provoking and wonder-…
After a (tiny) mental breakdown, Isobel has decided to take her upcoming untimely death into her own hands and throw her own funeral, skeptics be damned! An intimate look at mental…
We can’t all be selfless, honest, principled and moralistic, so, if like Sandra, you are shallow, insecure, an exaggerator with no opinions of your own, then this show is for you.
The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.
Anthony Ayton, mid-forties, middle-class ex-criminal lawyer, raised in the East End of London before attending a public boarding school, a comprehensive, and finally a grammar scho…
World-travelled Canadian comedian, Dylan Gott (JFL42, Canadian Comedy Awards, iChannel), performs an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy that blends skilled storytelling with observa…
A song about science for every letter of the alphabet.
Albert is a lovable nerd who dreams of the big stage.
Sarcastic, satirical and hilariously self-deprecating, Woolly is a sheep with serious issues! But he wasn’t always so.
Forget lovable rogues and artful dodgers, this uncomfortable monologue tells the true story of a London awash with criminal gangs in the interwar years.
Dan Whitehead of Honky Bonk Theatre brings a hilarious solo performance to The Warren.
Some people are life’s heroes; leading men and women full of swash, buckle and derring-do.
Fast hands, smart mouth.
The Moon has got a story to tell about a tippetty-top tap dancer who he has been watching at night.
Critically-acclaimed comedy actress and character comedian Alice Marshall returns to Brighton Fringe with ‘Blood’, the follow-up to her smash-hit 2016 debut show ‘Vicious.
The original Educating Rita met Buddha of Suburbia and pretended to be an ordinary working class housewife whilst she went on strange spiritual quests, educated herself, and got an…
Cinephile comedian Sooz (Funny Women Variety Award winner) really wants to win an Oscar and in this brand new stand-up show for movie fans, she’ll make the case for how she can.
In 1987, celebrated BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish stood up on national television and shrugged off reports of an oncoming hurricane.
Have you ever seen a polar bear in the flesh? Been close enough to notice just how white these magnificent mammals are? Here is your chance to get up close and personal: remove you…
Anglichanka (Englishwoman in Russian) is an exhilarating comedy show about living in the Soviet Union in the 90s and returning after 18 years as the first UK comic to perform comed…
‘Living On The Edge - LIVE’ is the new one-woman stand-up comedy show from Maisie Adam, “one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming young comedians” (Ditto Theatre).
Richard III.
Does the perfect man exist, and at age 83, does Lynn Ruth Miller need to find him? Her 70 minute show, autobiographical, takes us on a journey from 1943-2017 (11 years old - 83yea…
As seen in ‘Derek, Murder in Successville’ and ‘Being Human’, award-winning character comedian Colin Hoult brings his hit show ‘Anna Mann’s Sketch Show for Depressives’ to The Warr…
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground” said Roosevelt.
A light-hearted mind-reading show with amazing and impossible mind stunts! No dead relatives will be contacted throughout the evening, however they may be interrupted with the laug…
Mark Cram has had enough.
‘Professional behaviour’: a series of actions deemed acceptable in the workplace.
In this tapestry of storytelling, poetry and monologues from the afterlife, Arachne the weaver spins tales of darkness, death and feminine mystique.
Life is a hilarious high-energy rant from multi-award-winning South African cult comedic phenomenon Rob van Vuuren.
Take Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’.
An emotional yet comedic performance from Tom Dussek on Sunday evening at the charming Rialto Theatre.
Pianist/composer/musical-explorer Helen Burford performs a programme of global exotica and new commissions for solo piano, toy piano and Indian santoor.
What is the meaning of life? Do aliens exist? And how many is too many raisins? This show will answer a maximum of one of these questions.
Notorious performer Hypnotique tells her personal story about the world’s first electronic instrument (from 1920s Russia) and it’s influence on music today – including Led Zepp…
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub except, in this place, regulars include a new-age traveller, an old-skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met police chief.
Bryony Twydle (New Comedian of the Year 2016 semi-finalist, Funny Women 2015 semi-finalist, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’, one fifth of award-winning sketch group The Jest) bri…
In this unsafe space, with Brexit looming and Trump trumpeting, Daphna Baram attempts to clear us all a path.
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner is an immersive theatre show about sexual fantasy- it’s also funny and true and asks us to look at our own vulnerabilities.
Jane Postlethwaite (Funny Women and Squawker Award finalist 2015) brings her multi-character, one-woman show, ‘The House’, to Brighton.
No Llamas (Dalai or otherwise) were harmed in the making of this show.
At thirty-six, David is still unable to function in society.
After the roaring success of JoJo Bellini’s ‘Kitchen Cabaret’ at Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe in 2016, the salacious songstress brings to Brighton a brand-new, and much naug…
Before John became a comedian he spent ten years as an amateur escape artist.
With humour and sarcasm, a musician tells a story about his relationship with the Gadulka - an instrument often overlooked and unremarkable in its appearance.
For the last five years, Tommy has been trying to recover from an addiction that people struggle to class as an addiction.
What do you do when your child has been arrested for something unspeakable? Can you still love them even if they’re a monster? This is what the unique and creative minds behind P…
Mozzz! A week in the life of an undercover mosquito.
Helen is the only insecure woman in the world trying to navigate through this thing called life.
“Stories can conquer fear, you know.
‘Stick or Wizard?’ It’s your choice! Gaulier-trained clown, Oli Weatherly, invites you to take a trip with him through the wilderness of his imagination and to make a cho…
Stacy Makishi’s new work, ‘The Comforter’, has the intimate quality of a prayer and the rowdy atmosphere of a rally.
Juliet Meyers (Writer on ‘Sarah Millican TV Programme’, ‘8/10 Cats’ and ‘News Quiz’) returns with her show about her clingy rescue dog, unconditional love and being a wolf.
Adele can’t work out how the Tories are in power – everyone she knows voted Labour, and don’t get her started on Brexit.
‘Balancing Acts’ invites you to share in intimate stories of struggle, strength and resistance.
One-man show from established comedian and writer, Dan Evans - “A favourite with audiences as well as with his notoriously hard-to-please comedic peers” (The Guardian).
Harriet’s back with her third and possibly best show yet.
Claire does not contain the following ingredients: slugs, snails, puppy dog tails, sugar, spice or things (nice).
It shouldn’t take long for you to notice that despite his name, Alfie Ordinary is as far from the boy next door as you’re likely to get.
Terriane Falcome offers a tour de force of writing and comedy, playing at the Theatre Box this Brighton Fringe.
Nigel Osner reveals a lifetime of yearnings through original songs and stories by characters ranging from an angel to a vampire.
“I’m sixteen.
After having a nearly fatal illness, he thought things would be different .
Armed with an ocarina, a ukulele and a thirst for revenge, Lecoq-trained Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia in an explosion of Shakespeare, live music and 16-bi…
Bassanio has been murdered and, under suspicion, Gratiano is forced to revisit his Fascist past.
What if you met your younger self? Answer - a comedy trip where stand-up meets time travel.
Following successful runs at Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more close-up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of …
‘Venter’-To speak.
Comedian and vertebrate Alex Kealy presents his second comedy show.
What happens when you move a 12-year-old girl from Basingstoke to a remote corner of Southern Africa? Join Katrina on an energetic, poetic journey as she discovers boys, boob…
From being raised as a Scientologist in the ‘burbs of New Zealand, to the peculiar and pensive realities of sexuality, Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2015 winner, Ja…
Imperial China, with its exotic riches and intrigues, remains as compelling to audiences today as it did in the early part of the 20th century, when the Princess Der Ling toured he…
Forty something years into a lifetime of looking great but feeling fake, Cally Beaton is ready to come out about her double life in her hilarious brand new show, Super Cally Fragil…
From the slapstick physical beginning of this self-penned one-man monologue, through to the show’s philosophical conclusion, the laughs come thick and fast in Bad Dad.
Twig the Pixie has lost his marbles! Help him find them in this hit stand-up comedy spectacular for all generations of the family.
Award-winning comic Dave Chawner premieres his new show about turning vegan.
“Traditionally, unmarried girls were sent into the veg garden to choose the ‘perfect’ cabbage.
In 1812 Spencer Percival became the first, and only, British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated.
Your home is the venue when DOG, former graffiti legend, comes to your house for a consultation in this darkly comic grown-up reworking of Pinocchio.
“Jimmy was my grandfather.
Luke brings his world of fantasy and ridiculousness to Brighton, keen to ignite pure idiocy out of nowhere.
Jack stayed on when the guns fell silent, to search amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs for those that could never go home.
Everyone has a crazy family.
In 1977 NASA launched Voyagers 1 and 2 to explore the outer solar system.
Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
A 70 minute tour in the company of either Silas, Jasper or Ebenezer, visiting eight sites, around Brighton’s most haunted quarter.
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, brings a stand-up show to Brighton Fringe.
In case you were wondering.
Inspiring solo play about Eglantyne Jebb, a courageous, passionate, Edwardian human rights activist.
Inspired by the age-old legend ‘The Faerie Boy of Leith’, ‘Fallen Angel’ is a disturbing new supernatural thriller.
Hilarious.
Out of the 29 years the amiable-natured Helena has been alive, 5 were spent in her birth country Slovakia and 24 in England.
Hannah, a 15 year old girl, dies giving birth in a grotto.
Poetry show about what makes us feel confident – or not.
Experience the power of a live motivational mind-reading show! Combining techniques used by motivational speakers, magicians, and stage mind-readers, Phil Ainsworth is ‘The MoMenta…
I, Marjorie Willmott (MA, PhD, MpDA), invite you to my very interesting and very important introductory lecture.
An art alchemy of raw metals.
A woman lays an egg a day and faces a tumultuous decision: will she raise her egg, or eat it? In this hysterical (in every sense of that word) show, Natalie Palamides takes a relat…
There is more to life than happiness, right? A not-so-perfect guide to happiness is explored in this one-woman show, written and performed by Yvette May who, after finding hersel…
Luisa Omielan, Queen B of comedy is back for one weekend only.
Unveiled, a deeply moving one-woman play characterising the lives of five women, all victims of the Magdalene Laundries.
After a seven-year break from stand-up, during which she had babies, made a movie in Vietnam and became the mother of Moone Boy, Deirdre O’Kane returns with a brand new show.
Luisa Omielan, Queen B of comedy is back for one weekend only.
Seriously seeing the funny side.
Join youthful South-London songwriter Benji Tranter as he takes on the grim business of living via his original, off-beat songs! Benji, accompanied only by his guitar, performs son…
The problem with epic poetry is that it’s just so….
Award-winning comedian Lost Voice Guy started off in a disabled Steps tribute band.
Join the charming Mr Chalmers as he opens his heart for you, spilling song, magic, comedy, dance, poetry and beer in this beautifully melodic, melancholy journey.
A warning should be given to the audience of this show: the Bit of Sunshine one expects from the title is limited to less than five seconds of optimism and hope for the future in t…
Lesley Lightfoot has worked in theatres all over the United Kingdom, in productions both large and small.
One actress in an authentic, theatrical and compelling performance that breathes life into long-forgotten African-American women’s voices from slave narratives, personal letters,…
Right in the heart of Edinburgh are 120 miles of underground shelves that store the National Library of Scotland’s collection of 24 million things.
In six years of bible storytelling, Yorick has built a reputation for delivering John’s Gospel with a gripping performance storytelling style that is authentic and accessible.
Ellen spent six months volunteering in Europe’s refugee camps.
Join Nicola as she tells her poignant story of leaving religion.
Hella Granger – Superstar recounts the life story of singer Hella Granger, the first white musician to be signed to Motown.
Life in the office, it is dull.
‘Downton Abbey with gardening tips’ (Guardian).
The legendary retired football manager, turned alcoholic pundit from hell, is back from the European Championships in France, and still talking balls.
Following last year’s sell-out tour, Limmy returns to the stage with a new selection of stories from his Sunday Times bestseller.
Tracey likes to dream.
After last year’s sell-out performances, Mark is back for a second year with his hilarious and uniquely thought-provoking storytelling.
‘Poster Girl for awkward’ (Chortle.
The triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, BBC Radio 4 star and cult optimist Josie Long returns to The Stand with an hour of new material and knockabout fun, as she works towards …
Reacting to political turmoil, class struggles and bothersome intrusive thoughts, Neary attempts escapist talent show Opportunity Knockers.
Join the Fringe’s favourite housewife for an hour of proper good fun.
Twentieth anniversary performance of David Benson’s Fringe First Award-winning tour de force, showing Kenneth Williams at his funniest and his most badly behaved.
On October third, 1849, Edgar Allen Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
After an explosion Firefighter Woman Brenda Feuerle wakes up in heaven – or not? Angels, gods, freedom, beauty… how did she end up here? What will be her mission from now on? A…
Older, wiser, funnier.
“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
David Stuart Davies presents the story of the great detective Sherlock Holmes along with his creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Delighted to turn 40, Julia is having a breakthrough, not a breakdown! Typically a time to reflect, re-assess.
The force of nature that is named Henry Rollins graces the Edinburgh Fringe once again, bringing with him another hour of profound advice and big laughs.
Alfred Hitchcock has already firmly established that birds are terrifying beyond doubt.
Jay returns to this year’s Fringe for two nights only.
Meet Sisu – one part salty liquorice, two parts Moomin, three parts snow – from the land of saunas, kiosks and Sibelius.
Record-breaking beatboxer and looping technologist Shlomo has collaborated with Bjork, Damon Albarn, Rudimental and Ed Sheeran.
Firefighter Woman Brenda Feuerle is on duty.
From Bach to the Beatles, Spanish classical and flamenco to Led Zeppelin to blues and Celtic harp on unique 10-string Spanish guitar! Lord of the Strings is the ultimate music jour…
Singer/songwriter Joanna Eden traces the musical journey of her hero Joni Mitchell.
Following extraordinary interest in his 2016 Fringe show, Blue Rose Code has added a second gig at AMC @ St Bride’s for the Fringe.
Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night is both exactly what it says it whilst also proving to something rather different altogether.
When adult life isn’t going to plan sometimes you have to take charge and do something about it.
Shakespeare the enigma – finding clues to sketching out the man behind the prose and the poetry.
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
Returning once again to the Pleasance stage, Mark Watson is not all there.
David Kay, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 as one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit.
Gary Delaney has been touring all over the UK for months.
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Culturally Inquisitive touches on the life of the sublime stand-up force that is Wis Jantarasorn, known on the circuit for putting great twists on punchlines and whipping the crowd…
In 1853, the great art critic John Ruskin delivered four lectures at the Philosophical Institution in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, appeared the letter A.
Magician and comedian Jerry Sadowitz says ‘Caspar’s sleight of hand and mentalism is of a standard rarely seen anywhere, and never attempted by the current generation of magician…
Sunrise is a time of renewal, a fresh start, a new day! Anna Snapp shares her personal passage through the darkness to the bright sunrise in her battle with everything from Crohn’s…
For many, the Edinburgh Fringe is a joyous escape from reality.
A sure contender for Best Title for a Comedy Show at this year’s Fringe, George Zacharopoulos’s riches-to-rags tale is just as entertaining as it sounds.
Come and join adulthood denier James Farmer (writer for Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Never Mind the Buzzcocks) for his debut solo hour.
Jack Evans’ debut hour.
What’s in your shopping basket? Probably not the same as what’s in Steve’s.
On paper, this show sounds excellent.
The critically acclaimed character comic and star of ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid and BBC One’s Outnumbered returns with her smash hit, sell-out 2015 show.
“All the Australians in the room put your hands up,” a splattering of us raise our hands, and little do we realise that Dan Willis will heavily rely on us to make up a good pro…
Jay Handley has set himself a task with this show title.
Friz Frizzle has ruined songs for West End Shows, #1 Comedy Albums and BBC Radio 4, and now he is going to ruin them live.
Interactive experience.
Most seven-year-olds don’t pick a ghost as a role model.
‘The world’s most talented nerd!’ (The Trickery, Aberdeen).
‘The attractively impish Matt Winning’ (Guardian) returns with a show within a show and more utter nonsense.
Join Cassie Atkinson, ‘Future national treasure’ **** (ToDoList.
Frantic, fun and frivolous, this fast-paced one-man show is an entertaining comic thriller of Cold War intrigue and Scrabble.
Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle.
You may know Susan from QI, HIGNFY, News Quiz, or Mock the Week, now she’s back at the Fringe with a brand new hour of comedy.
Van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous artists but many people know very little about him other than strange stories of missing ears.
Kane Brown has a lot to get off his chest.
Max needs to start making money from comedy, so he’s decided to adapt the great transcendentalist novel Walden into a comedy show.
In this one-woman show, Klahr Thorsen takes her audience on a whirlwind journey that dips and glides – sometimes gracefully, sometimes not – between fiction and personal histor…
Osner enters with a song in which he repeatedly exclaims “don’t label me.
Bones is one of the most high-energy monologues you will see this Fringe.
See one of the UK’s most in-demand comedians as he does what he does best: hilariously squares off against life’s petty annoyances.
TV comic Bentley Browning stars as himself, North London’s most boring priest Rev Rupert Williams, failed rock star Steve Plimpton, and ex glamour model Melinda Middleton.
It’s clearly an uncomfortable time of life for Jo Caulfield; a succession of musical heroes have died, she’s moved from middle-class Morningside to somewhat more “cosmopolita…
Bridget Christie is one of the funniest comedians I’ve ever seen.
London Paris Roam! She’s bossa’d in Brazil, jived in Japan, vamped in the Vatican, feasted in France, indulged in Italy and now, to be honest, needs a bit of a break.
Don’t you hate it when.
Welcome to the village fête in Llanfairchwaraesboncen, nestled in the South Wales Valleys.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner already exists as a work of enviable length.
I have to start this review with an admission; I had never heard of Lady Colin Campbell and I’ve never watched I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
Morningside Malcolm’s daughter has married into a family of Glasgow gangsters.
Jason turns up, picks up the mic and talks.
Stephanie Ridings does a lecture on state homicide with drama.
One of Ireland’s top comedians is back in Edinburgh.
It’s a familiar scene to many a Fringe-goer: a black-box stage, a chair and an actor with his story.
There were two actresses in Strindberg’s play: one I called his white rose, the other his red rose.
The Edinburgh Fringe has recently seen a surge in theatrical adaptations of Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman.
A look at life in 2016, from being a dad, husband and keen observer of, er, stuff!
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
Daisy is the hottest thing in Scottish comedy.
The Other tells the story of a young girl named Mana who escapes from her war-torn home on the Red-Yellow Planet to begin a cruel and poignant coming-of-age journey to the beautifu…
Arielle Dundas is an American comedian living in the Netherlands with an analytic insider/outsider perspective on both American and European lifestyles.
How to review something like Woody Allen(ish)? The comedy equivalent of a tribute act, it’s a show which sees English comic Simon Schatzberger adopt the material and persona of t…
As Yet Undecided is an intriguing piece of ‘nonfiction’ with a cast of characters including Doubt, Time and Procrastination.
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
Born in New York to an Irish Catholic immigrant family, Maureen Langan has been brought up to think that traditional values matter, and that life rewards hard work.
Jokes and stories from a life on the road.
As seen on The Jonathan Ross Show, Loose Women and The Late Late Show, Shazia Mirza performs her acclaimed show The Kardashians Made Me Do It for 10 nights only.
Comedians can sometimes manifest as a raw nerve, desperate not to shield themselves from slings and arrows, but to erupt in glorious rage at the injustices and ridiculousness of th…
Any good joke can fall flat on its face if the delivery is rubbish, but for Laura Lexx with her bubbly personality, infectious smile and merry sense of wit, this is never going to …
BBC Radio 4‘s multi award-winner Viv Groskop presents Be More Margo, the follow-up to her sold-out five-star 2015 debut.
New York-based Irish comedian Colum Tyrrell brings his debut hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
Scottish comedian and Fringe veteran McTavish has celebrated his 60th birthday this year, and has therefore adopted a more ponderous and docile approach in his set, instead of dedi…
This is an Irish housewife’s guide to life, love and hip hop.
If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you.
Master of the slow burn.
Settling into my seat, I glance at the leaflet which had occupied it moments before.
Masai Graham has assembled an act so far from risky that it is bubble wrapped in woefully predictable innuendos, presumably to retain its innocence.
Suzanne Lea Shepherd is a new New Yorker who has appeared on Comedy Central, performed across Asia, America and Europe, and was a featured comedian for Comedy Central Asia in 2015.
Two years ago Matt spent six hours in a car with Hollywood star Harvey Keitel.
“If you don’t laugh at the disabled guy, you are going to hell!” Lee Ridley begins, and immediately inspires unanimous laughter.
Even in this drizzle-filled August, every Fringe venue is a different kind of sweatbox.
Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system.
Being a teenager in the 90s was hard (is your favourite band Blur, Oasis or Throbbing Gristle?), but now there’s a whole new set of things to worry about.
Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne…
Simon Munnery performs for his 30th year at the Fringe.
Milo McCabe steps onto the stage as Troy Hawke with the swagger of an assured performer.
This fast-paced, multimedia stand-up show takes the audience from Lucille’s deranged upbringing in Normandy, all the way to her poker triumph in Monte Carlo where she became that r…
Aidan Goatley’s stand-up show isn’t, despite its title, about ELO; indeed, there’s no obvious guarantee that he will get round to telling us why he chose one of that band’s…
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
Despite coming across as likeable and charming, Romina Puma’s stand-up set doesn’t provoke too many laughs.
Clair Whitefield’s one-woman show tells the story of Ajna Jan, a martial arts master from Kerala, India.
Guy Masterson and Gareth Armstrong deliver a tour-de-force of history, drama and comedy in this one-actor show.
Throughout history, every generation has thought they would witness the end of the world.
Hi, Lee here.
If you find it in your heart to forgive the failings of Masai Graham’s previous show, Aaaaah! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes, and stuck around for the follow-up, you�…
Bethany Black is a forthright, funny, and unapologetic comedian, cheerfully rousing the audience as she lets fire her jokes.
‘I swear to God, Keith, if another over-confident idiot pushes a flyer into my face, I won’t be held responsible for my actions.
A stand-up show for miserable grown-ups, fuelled by self-loathing, paranoia and a course of anti-psychotic medication.
Join JoJo Bellini for a hilarious show filled with fun, food and the songs of Tom Jones.
I was there when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, when Emu bit Michael Parkinson.
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
How board games can change your life and save the world. Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play. Won’t you join him?
Alistair Williams is a bit of a lad.
I remember the World Wrestling Federation Attitude Era well.
So You Think You’re Funny? 2015 winner, Italian Luca Cupani returns to the Fringe! The man who was too funny for Italy and moved to the UK tells the truth, the whole truth and noth…
A man and his unseen companion in a tent.
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
Following rave reviews on a buzzing Australian tour, award nominated alternative comedian Nicole Henriksen returns to Edinburgh with a fresh dose of her high energy hot mess comedy…
Though Shakespeare is something which has been revisited and reproduced time and time again, it is rare that one of the minor characters is given a starring role.
Twenty-six years after winning universal rave reviews for his Edinburgh solo debut, George Dillon is again Stunning the Punters! Herald Angel winner returns with stories by Berkoff…
People are vicious.
Deliciously tragic character comedy from So You Think That’s Funny? winners Tom Burgess and Sam Nicoresti.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Spencer Jones is once more going full tilt in the surrealism stakes, and the result is a fantastically strange success.
Returning Fringe classic White Rabbit Red Rabbit is Nassim Soleimanpour’s experimental monologue, in which the relationship between actor, writer, audience and text is …
Don’t miss stand-up veteran Grace, formerly The Child, revealing all about being a 13-year-old.
‘Shift yer arse, yer lazy gett’ – Granny’s words in 1995 made a lasting impression.
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
Following 2015’s Character Activist, Funny Women Variety Award winner Sooz Kempner is back with four more characters/figments of her imagination for you to meet.
Some shows stick in your head even if they are flawed.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
The queen who ruled a kingdom (and an empire) as you’ve never dared think of her before.
Do your other senses get stronger? Is it wrong to fancy your doctor? Will I get a new eye that shoots lasers? Just some of the questions our heroine answers whilst telling us how s…
Set at some point in a dystopian, not so distant future, one Scottish man is trying to go about his day to day life, living each moment as it comes, not in search of anything that …
Although still in his early 20s, newcomer Adam is already one of the most sought after acts in the country and is fast becoming a favourite at the UK’s biggest comedy clubs and f…
A while ago my best friend Tom died of heart cancer.
German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn is back at the Caves and like every year, Westphalia is not an option.
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
To borrow from one of Glenn Moore’s own references, this show is a tale of two cities.
Enter the fascinating mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
A celebration of screwing up, an ode to making a balls of it, an hour of ‘sublime standup’ (Evening Standard) in praise of failing and failing better while flicking the V sign …
Is Komischer, starring Doug Walker, of Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised fame, too clever for it’s own good?This one-man sketch show, with a yoghurt-based theme runn…
Christopher is a novelist; a passionate, committed and self-confident novelist.
Helene and Gordon are stuck in South Africa and in their same rut.
The proper teaching of sex education remains a rather thorny topic, and this one-woman comedy-drama with songs positions itself to probe some of the more profound issues of this fi…
Hastings Comedian of the Year (yes that accolade is as good as it sounds) brings his brilliant debut hour.
Lynne Jassem brings her moving solo show From Como to Homo to Edinburgh.
Christine Khandjian presents a Celtic musical inspired by Irish migration.
One of Edinburgh’s indigenous comedians presents a show with the most factually accurate title on this entire website.
Good People is a light-hearted exploration of what should be a natural journey towards being a better person.
He suuuuure can’t.
The image of a twisted spindly shadow with long crooked fingers, along with pointy ears and even pointier fangs ascending the stairs, is one that is burned into the imaginations an…
There’s an egg here to find other eggs and see if they’re OK? 30 minutes of relaxing nonsense.
Michael Porter takes his first highly anticipated solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A clean hour of hilarious stand-up from a British New Yorker.
Eleanor Conway’s basic style involves storytelling based on her own life events.
Michael first took to the stage at a local open mic in Derry/LondonDerry, 2009.
Meet Celia, housewife, 49ish and devoted mother.
You may know Susan from QI, HIGNFY, News Quiz, or Mock the Week, now she’s back at the Fringe with a brand new hour of comedy.
Mary Lynn (Chloe from 24) gets knocked up by a hunky stranger, becomes the good wife and mother, blows all her cash, and takes an ex-girlfriend’s advice to invest in miniature ho…
A triumphant come-back for sell-out performer Rebecca Perry.
Jamie MacDonald comes from a tradition of endearingly grumpy comics, ranting affably about all of life’s niggles, from racist taxi drivers to obnoxious ramblers.
‘Terrifyingly funny’ (Times).
Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.
As the Willie Loman quote goes “Attention must be paid”.
Monoglot is a show about linguistics and languages.
In a melancholic solo show about growing up and facing the inevitable realisation that there is no Narnia, only the real world, we accompany Lucy Grace on an exploration of the ‘…
Deliciously Stella is what you expect her to be: if you’ve seen the Instagram account which has become a viral hit with its piss-take of ‘fitspiration’ and other smug hashtag…
The whole fish-out-of water shtick is a difficult one to pull off – the performer has to be au fait with local idiosyncrasies while at the same time be looking in at them from th…
Attacking her material with a mixture of nervous energy and enthusiasm Juliette Burton launches into her act by describing her difficulties in making decisions, then tracing the bi…
Naomi Petersen is a newcomer to the Fringe and in this whirlwind hour of musical and character comedy the laughs fail to keep pace with her sky-high enthusiasm.
Power yourself up with a cult Edinburgh favourite.
There’s a specific challenge involved when reviewing autobiographical shows surrounding horrendous personal suffering, in this case performer Karen Hobbs’ diagnosis and treatme…
On a hovercraft, no one can hear you bark.
Des Clarke is a much loved performer in Edinburgh.
When Richard Burton appeared on the Dick Cavett show in 1980, the host would later describe the actor as “already a beautiful ruin.
Swapping her musical trappings for the theatre, Horse McDonald takes to the stage to present an undeniably intriguing and raw, if occasionally sensational, biopic of her own life.
She put her hopes and dreams on hold supporting him and helping him achieve his.
Life from a bear’s point of view is as strange and wonderful as you would expect it to be.
Fresh from her BBC Radio 4 Show, Ria Lina’s new show is about death, motherhood and the EU referendum.
Joe Sellman-Leava has lived with labels his entire life and he also has to live with the consequences of them.
Silly, imaginative, stupid and more stupid, blah, blah, blah and more blah.
It’s a struggle to review Holly Burn.
Inside the workings of the piano concert, looking out.
Delphine is a gently comical one-woman show about about a shy and sheltered woman falling in love for the first time.
What is meant by being cool? Does anything else matter? Are acronyms in? OOAAFLT mixes contemporary dance with storytelling and comedy to question what is cool these days.
On the surface Jenna Watt’s new show Faslane sounds like it should be a simple comparison of the reasons for and against renewing the Trident nuclear base; it turns out to be jus…
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With last year’s Cry me a Liver Lucy Pohl proved herself to be an exceptional actor, throwing herself into each of her characters with impressive resolve.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Following a sold-out run with the critically acclaimed Diary of a Dating Addict last year, Maddy Anholt is back with Rent Girl.
The true account of Helie Lee’s remarkable six-month journey living as a man.
Has performed to sold out audiences around the country to rave reviews.
Hailing from the US, now based in Sweden, super-star clown Angela Wand comes to Edinburgh with comedy, circus, stand-up, performance, roller skating, rap, jazz hands, and a touch o…
A man and his microwave live on the top floor of a forgotten block of council flats.
Fifteen-year-old David Ralfe knows that with “warmth, guidance, and gentle nudging”, Kate, his anorexic girlfriend, can be guided towards a healthier existence.
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
Life is transient.
A surprisingly moving hour of theatre, Something Borrowed deals with the struggles of a 21st-century, 20-something feminist trying to reconcile the desire for the perfect fairy tal…
In a very personal set, Shappi talks growing up in Britain as the child of refugee parents and being English.
Erin McGathy (This Feels Terrible, Drunk History, Community) presents a comedy show about love, guts, despair and wearing wedding dresses covered in candy for approval.
Cleo Sylvestre tells the fascinating story of the Jamaican/Scottish woman who braved the Crimean War to tend to wounded soldiers, described as ‘a warm and successful physician, w…
Australian comedian’s Edinburgh debut.
Being middle-aged, gay and married is difficult enough without having a mildly annoying vegetarian accent.
Striding onto the stage accompanied by thunderous fanfare, taking his place on a podium and decrying the evil of tyrants and the chains of authority, Dominic Allen’s blistering a…
With referendum fever sweeping the country, Haggis’s face was on every TV.
This is an entertaining and informative tasting, aimed at those who would like to improve their knowledge of whisky.
After a sell out, 5 star run at Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, Alison Thea-Skot brings her surreal, joyous and unhinged character comedy show to Brighton.
Masculinity meets Artificial Intelligence in jukebox sci-fi ‘The Daddy Blues’.
Character comedian Nick Hall brings a one-man Cold War thriller to Brighton.
Join the fresh-faced former Scottish Comedian of the Year for a riotous hour of stories about Battling the Bottle, Aristotle.
Inspired by the true life of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, ‘High As Sugar’ is a one-person musical about a trans woman living in 1970 New York City.
Can you really not talk? Are you just in it for the parking? These are just a few of the questions that BBC New Comedy Award Winner Lost Voice Guy gets asked on a regular basis.
Brighton-based musical comedian Hannah Brackenbury performs silly songs on the themes of pound shops, vodka, selfies, tiny horses, cake, country music, cats and more!
Maxx Silver writes and performs all of his own music.
Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind; and reconnect with the world.
Low budget, international comic Neil McFarlane has travelled extensively and inexpensively round the world, bringing laughter and confusion to many hundreds of people whose first l…
Professional harpist Alice Kirwan brings an unique and innovative harp recital programme to One Church Brighton.
Gecko finds former RE teacher, Kevin Precious falling out with a Brighton ‘New Age’ type, bemoaning a Facebook request from a successful former associate (who is keen to show it), …
Straight from London’s comedy duo ‘Carroll and Hodgson!’ Paul brings his absurd and sometimes downright nasty characters to life in this one hour spurt of bad language, bad d…
Gerry is a time traveller from 1952.
Decked out in her Nevada-based caravan, it is initially unclear in what direction Rosa Rita’s tale will take.
How do the dying do their dying? What is this end-of-life thing all about? This show asks questions about dying, has no answers about living.
Jack stayed on when the guns fell silent, to search the battlefields for those that could never go home.
Something Rotten, not to be confused with the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, is this time Hamlet’s villainous uncle, Claudius’s version of events, told as if he wer…
This is a true story.
In a dynamic and totally charming free performance, Owen Elton spreads half-truth and misinformation in original song.
Surreal Lecoq/Gaulier-trained clown Brickhead returns to Brighton with more bonkers nonsense! [newline] “Hard to explain and impossible not to like” (Fringe Review), [newline] “Lud…
Izzard, Brand, Hardee - comedian Charmian’s had steaming hot cuppas with them all.
This is certainly not a light hearted show.
A story of self-acceptance, of passion meeting obsession, and of stereotypes dancing to a dazzling Anglo-Iranian beat.
Rosie is living in the theatre due to a case of agoraphobia.
A one-man drama about Indian chief, Crazy Horse that captures the high adventure of the Sioux Wars of the Wild West.
A man with a severe stammer teams up with a massive pile of cards that detail his thoughts, to tell his love how he feels.
Dom and Mark were a double act.
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Award-winning comedian Amadeus Martin takes you on a journey through Brixton urban legends, anecdotes and observations, from the failed Viking Invasion of 885AD, the Victorian Era …
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.
Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way is the star of ‘My Immortal’, the world’s worst fanfiction.
John Hastings, your great friend, is back to work on new jokes about his moral compass and probably masturbation.
So Comedy presents: ‘Myra Dubois: Self Admyra’.
Award-winning docu-comedian Juliette Burton must make a BIG decision.
Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has died and Jim smells a rat.
A thought-provoking, one-woman show exploring the themes of feminism, love, media, society and nature vs nurture.
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date? An engaging and amusing…
TV-featured Bentley Browning, founder of Comedy Novices and Comedy for Clergy (the course featured on BBC Breakfast,’The One Show’ and ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’), stars in this …
This character-driven play from Moving On Theatre had something for everyone.
Canadian monologist John Arthur Sweet undertakes a comedic odyssey to medicine, psychotherapy and religion in search of answers about queer love, sexual awakening, and obsession.
Close-up, sleight-of-hand magic and mentalism performed for the stage.
Twelve Labours, Sixty Minutes – One Man.
Being bustled and barged out of the way on entering the theatre was a novel experience as a bucket hat, backpack and zip up hoody darted past the queue to desperately claim his …
The Bookbinder is Trick of the Light’s enchanting fairy tale of a young apprentice bookbinder’s encounter with an old woman and her mysterious book.
An award-winning comedian and writer for BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, Tom brews up his brand new show all about coffee.
Gaël Le Cornec (Argus Angel award-winner with Frida Kahlo) returns to Brighton with a new play on immigration based on refugees’ stories.
In 2014 stand-up comedian Colin became an amputee, making full use of his surname Leggo.
A one-woman show questioning how socio-political conditions shape us as individuals, while attempting to give a perspective on how our realities differ greatly depending on where w…
Having left the UK for sunny Australia, Dr Ahmed returns to share the comical aspects of being a modern day GP.
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (BBC Radio London, ‘Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People’, ‘Call the Midwife’) needs space.
Inspired by the arrest and tribunal of 24-year-old Joanne Hayes, ‘And The Rope Still Tugging Her Feet’, written/performed by Caroline Burns Cooke, explores the 1984 Kerry Babies Sc…
Local Brighton pianist, Johan de Cock, presents an hour-long recital of Baroque sonatas by Antonio Soler, a classical sonata by Joseph Haydn, two late elegies by Franz Liszt, selec…
They say “there’s no place like it” and I know it’s “where the heart is” but I don’t care - I don’t want to go home.
A brand new work-in-progress about snobbery, class, Britishness and The Good Life, fuelled entirely by gin.
Step right up and behold the one and only Daggers MacKenzie, the gal who defies death with every toss of the blade.
Josh is good at dancing, but not at people.
Cheekykita, a ridiculous comedian like “no one else out there” (The Alarmist).
Brand new show from the former Funny Women award winner.
Zahra’s a bit like the country of Turkey, in that she’s a mix of Eastern and Western culture, and also she is a bird.
My name is Rachael, I’m 36 years old and I’m from Nottingham.
A “Bold, subversive and very funny” clown cookery show about searching for self worth in a cheesecake.
Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, secret agent 007, stands before the audience, pink gin in hand, a terrified look in his eyes.
As soon as Taylo Aluko, in the guise of Paul Robeson, takes to the stage we know we’re in for a treat.
The back end of the comic duo Doggett and Ephgrave turns the spotlight on himself for an hour of solo stand-up.
Show about my life growing up in the deepest, darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the West with no language, culture, looks or intelligence.
We learn to lie at 3-years-old.
When little in your life seems to be easy then perhaps, for some, the only way to take control is to adopt a persona.
At 18, despite weighing 10 stone and having no athletic ability, Darius decided to become a professional wrestler.
Belle and Sebastian/God Help the Girl’s lead singer performs a story set to song, celebrating our modern day notions of home and belonging.
Detailing the many instances of one finding a metaphorical thorn in their side, Tom Jordan’s first came when he was five.
Thoroughly entertaining, cleverly written and immaculately performed.
“Mate, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out you’d snapped one day and gone on a killing spree.
If you have known Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and all their forest friends, David Benedictus, who wrote the only officially sanctioned sequel to A.
Critically-acclaimed pianist Helen Burford returns to Brighton Fringe with a fascinating solo programme, featuring works by Somei Satoh, Piazzolla, Handel and Timo Andres.
It is the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the year that Calchas the soothsayer has predicted the city will fall.
Actor/singer/storyteller Richard Spaul tells stories from Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre masterpiece.
Neil Frost has a story to tell.
Lamb Comedy returnee Luke Stephen comes with his very own self-destruct button, and far too often he decides to hit it.
David Benedictus sipped champagne at 2am while sitting on Joanna Lumley’s bed.
Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.
“Hello, my name is Delphine.
With his unique take on drag, Alfie has become a stand-out act in the UK cabaret scene.
“Narnia isn’t real.
Elsie Diamond, international burlesque performer, compere and singer, presents her one woman show inspired by her day job- a dresser in the unpredictable world of costume.
Performed previously to North London audiences by writer Seth Jones, Polly tells the story of Benjamin, a down-on-his-luck toymaker who begins to love his favourite creation (Polly…
“Heart thumping.
Death.
Sy Thomas serves-up the best bits from his 2015 Edinburgh show ‘Jumper’ and some brand spanking new stuff for 2016.
Escape all that horrible stuff, for about an hour, with comedian Dave Bailey’s debut solo stand-up show: ‘Beige Against The Machine’.
One year on from “the closest election in modern times” ‘I Demand a Recount!’ tackles the questions that can’t wait until GE2020.
The star of BBC’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘The Impressions Show’, ITV’s ‘Newzoids’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Bad Girls’ takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impression…
A bar stool.
This solo stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th annual ‘International …
When you were five you wanted to be an astronaut, but you never got near NASA with your media degree.
Debonair.
With a name like Confessions Of A Red-Headed Coffeeshop Girl you might expect a raw, bittersweet expose of the disappointments of a young dreamer, crushed by the tsunami of Post-Re…
Scattershot, irreverent and a bit wobbly, Ade takes all the things you hold dear and does unspeakable things to them right in front of your brain, before washing everything in laug…
The award-winning comic returns with twenty farcical characters including men and an inanimate object.
A fascinating, disturbing and hilarious childhood growing up in Hollywood with the children of the stars.
Three estranged friends get back together for the funeral of a fourth.
SHE had HER hopes and dreams on hold supporting HIM and HIS.
Gus Watcham hurries onto the stage as Kathy, looking frazzled, determined and slightly deranged.
Fresh from his sell-out run in Edinburgh, comedy writer for Channel Four’s ‘The Last Leg’, Adam judges himself and the world with wanton cynicism but now wonders if this is just …
Especially for you, Sarah Blanc recounts her past dating life through the songs of her first love – Jason Donovan.
Based on the true story of Crookshank’s time in the R.
At Insignia Asset Management, Lucy is in charge of the photocopier, printer, and scanner.
When you see the joy on a small child’s face as he’s about to press the button to call the lift, you realise that your adult life will never offer you that same level of joy ever a…
Golem is an intense experience that proves being taken out of the normal fringe comfort zone of cabaret or comedy is what makes Brighton such an interesting and divers…
Affable funnyman and “intelligent youngster” (Time Out), Rory O’Keeffe brings his first stand-up show to Brighton.
Sindhu Vee is probably the tallest Indian woman you’ll ever meet.
Stories from the Grand Canyon that sit between our dreams and our achievements.
“Scotland’s brightest comedy talent” **** (The Sun) presents his hilarious and hugely anticipated debut.
One man takes on the concept of love in a raging battle to the death.
Funny, poignant, sublime and ridiculous; an hour of singing and telling stories about Jimmy, a grandfather whose contrary and difficult life was instrumental in a grandson’s embrac…
“Cook it how you like, it’s still a potato” is an Italian expression for the many words and ways we keep coming up with to describe something, without in fact changing its meaning.
London comedian Heather Jordan brings her debut show to Brighton Fringe.
Animation, mime and speech come together in this neat one-man show about love at first-sight going wrong.
A pixie-fuelled comedy riot packed with adventure, mischief, stand-up comedy and storytelling to warm your heart and tickle your toes.
A one-woman character comedy show set in the village fête in Llanfairchwaraesboncen, Wales.
Groomed is an incredibly difficult show to watch but such a necessary one.
Hello people of Brighton! I’m bringing my show to you as part of Brighton Fringe.
Award-winning comedian James Bennison has had enough and has decided to take over the world.
I love ghost stories but I have never heard one quite like this.
The Clifton Hill and Montpelier area is a charming, inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style.
Award-winning comedian with a random set-list in a quest to find the meaning of life.
A unique, honest and funny show from award-winning comedian, Dave Chawner, on having to be circumcised aged 26! Using comedy to talk about sex, sexuality and gender, this is a di…
May 6 marked the official opening of Brighton’s famous Fringe Festival, with glorious sunshine all day and a wonderfully warm evening, the British weather played its part in…
Charles Booth (Time Out character comedian to watch) makes his Brighton debut with an eclectic concoction of characters fizzing with heart-warming lunacy, dazzling originality and …
An intimate, audience-collaborative theatre show with projected imagery and text messaging, exploring love, desire and dating with your clothes on.
A cathartic and corrosively funny new play about a young professor who has shrouded herself in studies to numb the pain of grieving.
They say you should never meet your heroes.
Performer James Cairns (‘Dirt’, ‘The Three Little Pigs’, ‘The Snow Goose’) teams up with writer Gwydion Beynon (‘The Epicene Butcher’) to tell the epic, unforgettable and hilarious…
An audience with Hella Granger, a white soul diva. How a simple Brooklyn girl became a global superstar. Her life, her loves, sex, drugs and soul music.
The story of Fr Damien, leper priest and patron saint of outcasts.
Thoughtful wastrel Ahir Shah does another funny and good stand-up comedy show.
Join Fernando in the back of his Honda Acty Romahome for a surreal show that you’ll not forget in a hurry.
I went into Tim Drain’s show fully prepared for some offensive stuff.
Desert Bloom.
There is no shortage of solo shows about valiant teachers.
Two shows, two actors and two classics – hear the true story about the love between two sisters followed by the tale of hatred between two souls.
There’s something infectious about certain ad jingles.
Do you know how to safely operate a butter knife? Do you know how to minimise injury from an unsupervised fork? Do you have spoon-sense? Health and safety really has gone mad, cour…
Sarah Calver begins her spirited, witty show with a disclaimer: this show is ideally watched in Berlin at 10pm while a couple of pints down.
Manty was taken back by some man touching her large backside.
After 60 years, Liz Aggiss finally gives herself permission to do what she damn well pleases.
Killing most of an hour, and murder to sit through, The Ted Bundy Project does bait-and-switch on its audience.
Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual i…
Do you know how to safely operate a butter knife? Do you know how to minimise injury from an unsupervised fork? Do you have spoon-sense? Health and safety really has gone mad, cour…
Caroline Horton enters laden with suitcases against a pastel French tricolour.
Visit ‘the shadowy lowlands of Oli Bettesworth’s psyche’ (Chortle.
His show Flaws was probably the most acclaimed show of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
After a sold out run at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival, affable everyman Jason Neale brings a highly enjoyable hour of Proper Funny real life stories, cheeky observations and u…
Award-winning comedian and singer Sooz Kempner presents her first cabaret, a vibrant array of songs by the greatest composer in musical theatre: Stephen Sondheim.
Visit ‘the shadowy lowlands of Oli Bettesworth’s psyche’ (Chortle.
To the Celts, Brigid was everything, Goddess of fire, healing and poetry.
Some show titles aim to tease, titillate or intrigue but American Cunt, the name of US comic Jena Friedman’s Edinburgh Fringe debut, is a proud, badge-wearing member of the let’s-c…
It’s town meets country as the Perthshire farmer performs his debut Edinburgh Fringe show.
At 70, Virginia Ironside writes a regular agony column for the Independent and the OIdie, and her latest comic novel is Yes! I Can Manage Thank You! In her one-woman show she expla…
For fans of the unusual and the alternative, Macolm Hardee Award nominee Michael Brunström (AKA The Human Loire) investigates the nature of reality and illusion through a collecti…
Musical comedian Jamie Kilstein has an utterly charming stage presence.
Samuel Johnson said ‘He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man’.
Ferdinand from Tasty Monster Productions is genuinely one of the nicest productions I have seen.
What do you call a night where you speak to spirits, win prizes and get your hands on toys that would make your nana blush? One actress, seven characters, total mayhem! Double Dipp…
The Secret of My Failure is a farcical, eclectic sketch comedy show hosted by the energetic Dr Postscript, which weaves through sarcastic appraisals of bad comedy sketches (a cleve…
Ever got locked in a loo before a blind date? Or fainted because your steak was too rich? Or spent your birthday money on a snazzy winter coat only later to see a teenage girl wear…
The legendary retired football manager, turned alcoholic pundit from hell is back from his fact-finding mission to Qatar, and still talking balls.
This roller coaster of a tale follows a married man’s transcontinental trip to screw an ex-girlfriend.
At the heart of Dendritical, the latest performance art piece by Christy Ann Brown, lies a contradiction.
There’s a lot to live up to as a 21st century woman – having it all isn’t quite working out.
What do you do when you move your family from the burbs to the city to begin a new adventure and then get diagnosed with stage four-breast cancer? You go on a mission to put everyt…
Undermined was going to be called Shafted, but a guy named Godber had already beaten Danny Mellor to it.
Definition mocking: treat with ridicule or contempt, to imitate in fun or derision.
Kim Chinh has mastered the art of storytelling in her new one-woman show Reclaiming Vietnam.
Ever got locked in a loo before a blind date? Or fainted because your steak was too rich? Or spent your birthday money on a snazzy winter coat only later to see a teenage girl wear…
Come and laugh along with the Saga Lout, John Turner, as he entertains you on the subject of growing old disgracefully – being a big mouth show-off is not the exclusive territory…
Burke is back and this time it’s personal.
Is who we are who we appear to be? Award-winning performer Juliette Burton’s been fat, thin and everything between.
Hurry, hurry, step right up and behold the one and only Daggers MacKenzie, the gal who defies death with every toss of the blade, as she runs away from the circus in this one-woman…
Burke is back and this time it’s personal.
A young Filipina-American confronts the mystery of her origin and her experience of molestation in an attempt to crush the damaging shadows of her past and find a love of self.
This is what happens when you come up with a good pun and have to tenuously link your show back to it: Inside Simon Hofmeister’s head (here we go) are answers to many of life’s…
Born sixty years ago into the grief of betrayal and abandonment and raised in the repressive chaos of alcoholism, Sheila internalised a deep-seated sense of loss and emptiness.
Ever had the moment when you’ve shouted this out? Mark Ritchie’s effortlessly funny storytelling will make you laugh, cry and even make you think about God in this original and…
Elaine C Smith the comedienne, actress, singer, writer, raconteur, political activist and star of Rab C Nesbitt returns to the Fringe with a new one woman show – a brilliant mix …
Award-winning Scottish musician Shona Brown presents a one-woman show with her original songs and instrumentals.
With tremendous flair and dramatised extracts, David Stuart Davies presents the story of the genesis, career, influence and fame of the Great Detective, along with that of his crea…
Crime and the treatment of criminals ought to be black and white.
When her late ex-husband visits her in a dream, Deborah wonders if she should be worried or not.
Half Scottish, half Italian, and all heart, Lorenzo Novani’s solo show is well worth getting out of bed early for.
For fans of the unusual and the alternative, Macolm Hardee Award nominee Michael Brunström (AKA The Human Loire) investigates the nature of reality and illusion through a collecti…
Famous characters from the novels of Charles Dickens brought to life by author and actor Chris Foote Wood, Victoria Wood’s brother. Animated readings, as done by Dickens himself.
Alice Hauptmann (Helena de Crespo) invites you, her acquaintances, to tea in this one-woman play by American playwright David Adjmi.
Based upon the life of the influential and acerbic comedian, Bill Hicks: Dark Poet is a fusion between traditional storytelling monodrama and modern stand-up.
Multi award-winning musician Mairi Campbell draws on her deep well of Celtic ancestry through improvisations and songs.
Dr Niamh Shaw is that relatively rare thing – a skilled and engaging stage performer who also happens to be a scientist and engineer, with both a degree and PhD to her name.
Poor Boy Theatre’s latest offering, Pirates and Mermaids, is everything one hopes to find at the Fringe.
Ruskin Live: The 1853 Edinburgh Lectures.
Come and join Mr Cooper Sullivan as he tells the tale of how he became embroiled in a murder which takes him on a wild adventure that will have you giggling the whole way though.
Robertson returns after last year’s solo hit, Bond! Following performances in the USA, Europe and Australia, this unique, darkly comic show creates an urban cinematic world where…
I’ve always somewhat despised weddings.
Imagine a one-night stand you had resulted in a pregnancy and four months later you started a relationship off the back of it.
Alastair Clark is not getting better.
Freddie should never leave the house, if he’s not caught eating chicken naked, he’s accidentally involved in gangland gunfights.
Aidan Goatley strikes me as an organised, practical and variably fearless fellow.
Join James (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You) as he worries about worrying too much, about worrying too much.
Maxine (RTE, BBC R4, Embarrassing Mother, Invisible Woman) plans to move back to the UK after raising sons in Ireland.
New material in preparation for the next series of BBC Two’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Nottingham’s third best lady female hip hop MC (from the Bestwood Park/Top Valley area) Dani Frankenstein brings her unique mix of sexy ballads and high energy beats to Edinburgh.
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
The only 12-year-old comedian performing on a bus.
Anything is possible.
Winsome Brown’s one-woman show is an affecting portrait of her mother and the life Brown and her siblings shared with her.
A tragicomic spoken word show that dives into the paradoxical nature of goodness.
Canadian Caroline Bierman coined the phrase ‘ONEymoon’ and reinvented a long standing social convention.
Moderately anticipated debut hour of idiosyncratic nonsense from Winning (The Comedy Zone 2013, finalist BBC New Comedy Awards 2012, winner Hilarity Bites New Act 2011, finalist Ch…
Some of the best comic characters out there are likeable but misguided individuals, chronically lacking in self-awareness.
The true story of a remarkable 19th-century journalist and daredevil, whose adventurous articles and determination made her the most famous reporter in America by the time she turn…
Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show.
Dancing with Crazies is a wild tale about one woman’s search for love and a place to call home.
A one-man play about an aspiring screenwriter who, having just bombed his first Hollywood pitch, returns to his ratty apartment, defeated.
BBC Radio 4 regular revamps award-winning investigation into the science of attraction, which she was invited to perform in New York in 2013, incorporating some new ideas and highl…
Stephanie Laing is Chesney Hawkes’ number one fan.
How I Became Myself (by Becoming Someone Else) is a show about changing your name, finding freedom through reinvention, and gaining the power to tell your own story.
Surreal clown Brickhead takes you on a journey to worlds both weird and profound.
Phantom Owls present the Skylight Theatre production of New York Times best-selling author, acclaimed American humorist, Annabelle Gurwitch’s I See You Made an Effort.
A young man’s life is turned upside down when he discovers he is HIV positive.
This one-woman musical show sets out with a pleasant and watchable enough idea.
Renny Krupinski’s script is an ambitious one: chronicling the lives of one family across three generations, The Alphabet Girl aims to show the destruction of family values and the …
Everyone always speaks in the third person doing these things.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
Luc Valvona returns to the Fringe with his third full show, featuring multiple instruments and musical technology, and this time his stand-up and funny songs will be based on all t…
The little known stories of the women and girls who were sent to wash away their sins in commercial laundries run by orders of nuns in mid twentieth-century Ireland are revealed in…
Join a woman – and her multiple personalities – on a journey through the twisted corridors of her mind, where you’ll meet some of the mad and quirky women of musical theatre …
Hawaii, not just the home of Dog the Bounty Hunter, it’s a metaphor for something she hasn’t made up yet.
It has come to Stephanie’s attention that she is a very silly young woman.
Beautiful, Terrifying, Love written and performed by award-winning actress, director and playwright Debra De Liso.
It’s a mark of Tony Law’s success as a surrealist that when he buggers up the start of the show, one wonders if it’s supposed to happen.
Fans of Charles Dickens will love this charming one-man show performed by Ian Pearce, which he adapted from a short story.
Meet Bill, Wild Bill.
Loud, crude and primarily drunk, Gloria Hole has been entertaining crowds of boisterous gays for 27 years.
Everyone has a story. This is mine. A one hour autobiographical performance of one man’s story about his drug addiction.
‘You can’t run from the corn!’ A fairy’s tale of a town that might be a little rough – but it’s also got its bloody blinding diamonds! A trip home to Runcorn can be far fro…
He’s a true-blue, straight-talking Aussie and he’s in town for some old fashioned stand-up, knock-em down comedy.
‘Remarkable’ (Press).
A man is desperate for a job.
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
Charles Hawtrey was one of the leading lights of the Carry On film franchise, but as his career waned so his behaviour became more drunken and eccentric.
Surreal clown Brickhead takes you on a journey to worlds both weird and profound.
If there were a prize for the solo standup show at the Fringe with the greatest number of comic props, Naomi Paul’s Price Include Biscuits would be a strong contender.
Adam Hess: Salmon is an hour of almost non-stop jokes, spoken at breakneck speeds by a guy who is going places.
Offering “a modern, alternative view to the story of Lady Macbeth”, Hell Hath No Fury certainly has an intriguing premise.
‘Gallivanting.
Jo Caulifield is sardonic, cutting and fantastically witty.
Cynicism is a mistrust of people.
One morning Wyatt decided he didn’t need to listen to voicemails anymore.
Rob Mountford, a man saddled with a mess of cultural identity is challenged by the statue of his hero – Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott – to tell that rockstar’s swashbuckling sto…
Shut Your Cakehole.
This is Glasgow-based comedian Harry Garrison’s debut festival show, but with his confident, flawless delivery and natural charm, one would never know.
Nelson: The Sailors’ Story.
Clément Dazin’s Bruit de Couloir is a mesmerising solo, and a deep and intimate homage to life.
Alison Chabloz returns to the Fringe this year with bespoke music show Autumn’s Here, a refreshing blend of acoustic song and musical satire.
We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans.
Therapist Clara Milly has over 20 years’ worth of experiences on which to draw from the huge amount of people she has met and helped in her career.
The Great War: while millions of men struggle and fight in the mud and hell of the trenches, one woman’s story begs to be told.
How I Became Myself (by Becoming Someone Else) is a show about changing your name, finding freedom through reinvention, and gaining the power to tell your own story.
Robin Cairns is famous across Scotland for his riotous band of characters.
Rosie has not been dating Jim for long but she’s got some devastatingly embarrassing news.
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
Juxta-Position is an experimental performance art piece inspired by the song stylings of the defiant folk singer, Ani DiFranco.
Inspired by the work of medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, this stark solo explores issues of religion, religious art, judgement of bodies and quality of life.
Can comedy change Western misconceptions about Islam? Join Aatif as he makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with a show that drew critical acclaim and packed houses to the Leicester Sq…
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
Can comedy change Western misconceptions about Islam? Join Aatif as he makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with a show that drew critical acclaim and packed houses to the Leicester Sq…
Cleansed in the Blood of the Lamb, one can be forgiven of any sin.
Phone Whore is a show that is equal parts witty, sexually frank and dripping with cynicism.
Katherine Ryan makes it clear from the moment she wanders onto the stage and discusses the logic behind R&B song Smell Yo Dick that she doesn’t give a rat’s ass what you think.
What have you done in your life that you can say you’re proud of? This is what Carl Hutchinson asks at the top of his show Learning the Ropes.
Lots of people are surprised when other people turn out to be idiots.
Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences.
An Essex princess, a posh Soho vlogger, a mediocre athlete and a West End legend – following 2014s (minor) Edinburgh Fringe hit Defying Gravity, Sooz Kempner (Funny Women Variety…
Since marrying the man of her dreams at last year’s Fringe, Alex has been sadly forsaken by her husband, Jim.
Like a pissed nutter at a bar chatting you up, Susie McCabe could rant for Scotland.
The everyday story of sex, drugs, being a headmaster in a red dress and doing stand-up comedy.
So like I said.
He likes Bad Manners and football and dislikes bad manners and liver.
Persuader.
Last year Chris Davis performed brilliantly in Drunk Lion and garnered great reviews.
Mitch (Eric Sigmundsson) loves movies.
How difficult is comedy when you’re a nice guy who’s had a nice life? What well can you draw from for your material? It’s a problem that Sy Thomas has grappled with, and one …
Tom Parry, formerly a third of sketch group Pappy’s, presents Yellow T-Shirt, his first solo show, at this year’s Fringe.
Margaret Thatcher was – still is, two years after her death – a divisive figure, loved and hated in equal measure.
Comedy’s bleak philosopher is back asking the questions nobody else will.
Micheal Legge - Prince of Bitterness, Lord of Fury - has his sights on an award.
This is an Irish housewife’s guide to life, love and hip hop.
The highly anticipated Fringe debut from London comic Gurpal Gill.
Award-winning comic Keith Carter presents a stand-up situation comedy musical game show satire about how good manners and boundless optimism will triumph over life’s hardships.
Born out of 500 talks to students about what they want from life, Moj Taylor is seriously in the pursuit of crappiness.
An audience with Rodney Bewes.
One of the fastest rising young comedians from across the pond, Michael Che is back in Edinburgh for a third year running with his new show Six Stars.
Though billed as theatre, 101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins is essentially a lecture on odious media figure Katie Hopkins, complete with biography and PowerPoint presentation, b…
The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War.
How do you become an adult, in a world that doesn’t seem to let you grow up? A regular on the UK and Ireland circuit, Conor has performed on both RTÉ and BBC’s New Comedy Awards.
I will be trying out new material, never done material, some good material, and maybe some outstanding material.
This stifling performance by young talent Greg Fossard will make you uneasy as the traumas of a troubled Belfast man’s life unravel.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
If pirates wore signet rings and possessed anything in the way of eloquence, I’d feel as if I were watching a one-man shanty as Ahir Shar (aka Shit Shag, via autocorrect) sways a…
Sailor – he had a real name once, but he believes “Sailor” suits him now – is a street hustler, thief and raconteur; the illegitimate son of a prostitute who has taken up h…
Suzanne Lea Shepherd is from Kansas, but that doesn’t mean she would pick the same side as Dorothy because who wants to hang around with a tin man when the alternative is a witch w…
Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy’s, co-star/co-writer of BBC Three’s Badults) returns to Edinburgh with another lovely little show.
Gecko finds former RE teacher Kevin Precious falling out with a Brighton New Age type, bemoaning a Facebook request from a former associate who’s doing very well (and is keen to sh…
When Tom Stade walks on stage you can tell he’s at home.
It has been four years since Steve Hall last appeared at the Fringe.
The boy who went up the mountain was very different to the man who came back.
Where Do Little Birds Go? follows the story of Lucy Fuller in the heat of London’s swinging sixties, where she has hopes of landing her dream job as a West End star (or a barmaid…
From the moment Marny Godden’s first character walks onto the stage to a decidedly creepy soundtrack it’s clear that the comedian will be leading the audience down an unusual p…
How is life for Fred since leaving BBC Radio Scotland after all these years? And why did he leave? Did someone forget to get him a hot latte? Were any punches thrown? If you miss h…
Grounded is written, performed and directed by Linda McDade.
Fringe favourite returns with limited run presenting reworked classics alongside newly crafted tales that always challenge, enlighten and leave you laughing.
According to Baudelaire, the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
A regular performer in Edinburgh and confident stage actress, Dillie Keane returns with her ‘first solo show for 557 years’.
Following on from last year’s Drunk Lion, Chris Davis’ Bortle 8 is nothing if not strange.
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
A simple set, a modest stage and enough enthusiasm for magic in one man to inspire his audience to audible, astonished gasps.
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Katharine Ferns appears to be a sweet Canadian comic but stories about her misadventures are both dark and brutally funny.
A superb one-woman show from Kate Cook, Invisible Women tells of the thrilling adventures of a repressed housewife and sometime poet turned WWII operative.
When you sit down for a show named as ridiculously as Kraftwerk Badger Spaceship, you should be ready for the surreal.
Simon returns once again to what he does, being himself for an hour.
Seymour Mace Niche as F*ck! Here’s my hundred words, well ninety one now, make that eighty seven, bugger! Eighty three! Eighty! Phew, shit! Seventy nine! Eight! Seventy two! Spac…
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
In Goose: Kablamo, comedian Adam Drake has created a comedy show that doesn’t so much defy description, it just stuffs so much in that it is very difficult to do the act justice …
Hey guys! ‘I am become Death.
See such honest turns as Who’s Blown an Egg? and Quite Busy by Pat Cahill.
Toby begins by racing through a history of his life in numbers - how many days he’s been alive (9424), how many minutes he has spent kissing (not enough), and how long it’s bee…
The same show as last year? Well, not exactly.
Join Richard Pulsford, UK Pun Championship finalist 2014 and 2015, for a free stand-up comedy show packed full of his finest wordplay, gags and one-liners.
Matt is a comic, and like many comics he was excruciatingly lonely.
If you’re going to see one show this year, make it Count Arthur Strong.
It’s hard not to like Funmbi Omotayo.
On Christmas Eve last year Gavin Webster had his finest hour.
Following a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2013, and a successful first UK tour, Tony Jameson gives his critically acclaimed show Football Manager Ruined My Life a bit of an end …
Speaking to those of us in her audience who have never seen her perform before, Tiff Stevenson says ‘You’re so lucky… I remember seeing me for the first time.
International Comedian and British job thief Dana Alexander is back with her fourth Edinburgh Show.
New show.
Okay, he doesn’t promise much - the title was his son’s butchering of the ‘one-man show’ term.
Set in an attic sewing room, Saoirse’s life is presented to us as a form of patchwork quilt.
Milo McCabe’s latest hour - and his first in the one-man sketch format - is incredible.
I’m writing this on deadline day, for Fox Sake.
Rob Coleman’s Ocean Going Idiot is less of a piece of theatre and more an hour’s friendly chat about a largely failed adventure in the top room of a pub.
Fishing for chub on the Thames in winter.
Evan Wonders of the World is a show that jumps into Evan Desmarais’s head and tries to figure out what’s wrong.
George McNeill came from a small mining village called Tranent where he started out as a professional soccer player.
Will Mars is outspoken, white and very much just a guy.
Pundamental Christian is a light-hearted look at faith from Christian comedian Richard Wright.
They say write what you know so Jake Bourke wrote about being a failure. And he wants you to be one too. Learn why getting it wrong is right, an F is good for you and how to fail.
Punching pigeons comes surprisingly easily to Martha McBrier, whose hour of engaging and funny storytelling draws on run-ins with pesky birds of all kinds, all the while unmasking …
‘Demitris Deech is a great story-teller’ (BroadwayBaby.
Gregory Akerman, a hilarious esoteric mind, is curious and wants to know when the world will end, why the Smithsonian museum didn’t want people to know about giants, why his father…
Don’t be frightened, little deer, be fabulous! Charles Booth (one of Time Out’s Character Comedians to Watch and graduate of Second City) returns to Edinburgh with a brand new,…
Surrealist comedian Paul Foot is an Edinburgh Fringe institution.
On top of talent and comic-timing, McKeever has charm by the bucket-load.
“He is my father… somehow,” says Ben Norris, cutting to the heart of a feeling many people have at some point in their lives.
A dirty afternoon party hosted by the king of alternative cabaret, Tomás Ford.
On any given night during the Edinburgh Fringe there are dozens of funny comics standing on stage talking about the life and loves of a performer.
As featured on Live at the Apollo (BBC One), The Royal Variety Show (ITV), Wild Things (Sky), Snaptastic (TV3), the Sony Radio Gold Award-winning The Jason Byrne Show (BBC Radio 2)…
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
No women present would allow a middle-aged supply teacher and other men who are repeatedly ignored, to weep in peace.
The Soaking of Vera Shrimp may seem at first like a fairly quirky premise.
‘I find something that I’m passionate about and then write the comedy around that’.
In this debut performance, Miss Bellini will play, sashay, season and sauté an evening of song and salacious sensations that will pique your senses and get your juices flowing wit…
Ria Lina presents a comic show on political correctness that purports to raid society’s taboos.
Tom Allen is afraid of death.
Jamie MacDonald is a gentle comic, even when brandishing his white cane as a weapon.
You cannot criticise Rhys Nicholson for a lack of clarity.
An unassuming teenager, Donny Stixx, tries to keep his calm as he meets fans for a televised Q&A, just like he’s always dreamed.
From ‘Free Mandela!’ to free WiFi! From rights for women to everyone has the right to a cool kitchen! The joy of reducing human struggle to soundbites, and world events to hashtags…
This show begins with the sound of drums and then a dreadful storm and so gives its audience certain expectations of what is to come but, as Russell himself exclaims, “prepare yo…
This is a big year for Nish Kumar.
Burgeoning Fringe comedy legend and self-professed borderline alcoholic John Robins indulges his audience with a startlingly self-referential hour of stand-up comedy.
Come see the birth of a true modern jester, a voice for the people.
British Asian, Paul Sinha, makes a very welcome return to the Stand Comedy Club during the Fringe after a four-year absence.
‘Hi, Eric Swineblade,’ says a bluetooth-enabled gumph-bot at the door, proffering his executive, solutions-providing hand.
Not every comic has the wherewithal to build the feedline of a joke into the title of their show.
Garden is the deeply personal monologue of Lucy, whose life changes when she rescues an abused Dracaena pot plant from her office and takes it home.
Using only the bare essentials of a guitar, some toy instruments, and a few lighting changes, Jonny Awsum delivers an hour of musical comedy with plenty of laughs and the sort of t…
George Egg has twenty years experience on the comedy circuit.
Andrew Lawrence isn’t a fan, to say the least, of strident, militant lefties.
A solo show is a delicate thing.
The trip from busy Edinburgh to sleepy Wiltshire is down a short flight of stairs and through a door, upon which you’re greeted with complimentary sherry (dry or sweet, your pref…
Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual i…
‘I know why you’re here’, James Acaster begins, ‘for the celebrity gossip’.
‘Finding a partner’s like finding a job: you’ve got to put the work in’, says Maddy Anholt, and she would know.
Can you really not talk? Have you considered an exorcism? Are you just in it for the parking? Have you ever tried talking just to see what happens? How do you have sex? Seriously, …
There’s more than a touch of Stewart Lee when it comes to Andrew Doyle’s comedic concerns.
Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi, You Rang M’Lord) returns in his sell-out one-man show about friendship, memories and a couple of remarkable lives.
A deep familiarity with the beloved UK television star portrayed in the warm and witty solo comedy Victoria Wood + ME isn’t necessary to enjoy the vibrant impersonation of her by…
Georgie Carroll’s nursing show guides you through 15 years of nursing on the front line, which proves that the nurses are oftentimes a lot sicker than the patients.
Feminasty is a rollercoaster of irreverent, witty humour with a real agenda at hand.
Noman’s Land is an autobiographical one-woman comedy about Natasha’s experiences as a gay, female journalist in Pakistan.
When you boast a cast of characters as diverse as Lucie Pohl’s new act it’s no surprise when the results are so mixed.
Fear is the ultimate fantasy.
Singular actor and writer of Clairvoyant, Bettine Mackenzie is funny.
Alfie Brown has a real problem with moral absolutism.
The nervous Barry Twyford (from Crackwhore and Mingpiece Market Research) takes to the stage and explains that he has accidentally booked himself to do a show at the Edinburgh Frin…
We are welcomed into the Stand 2 by a red-headed young woman in the guise of an older man.
One-man sketch show Will Franken serves up another smorgasbord of multi-voiced madness.
It all begins with a suicide threat.
Slick, quick and packed with funny material, high energy comedy from 2013 Amused Moose Award winner and 2013 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee.
‘Brilliant, original, visual comedy’ (Harry Hill).
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Tar Baby is a show caught between two worlds, comedy and drama, poignant and silly, white and black.
In 1885 Sarah Henley throws herself off a bridge.
Alex Edelman, New York-based upstart and winner of 2014’s Foster’s Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, returns with another gosh-darned show comprised of jokes and stories about hi…
Like most comedians, Ro Campbell lies awake at night wondering if he is going to hell.
We’ve all got ‘em: struggles, self-orchestrated pitfalls, flat tyres, ball cancer… Un/fortunately we can’t all make a living droning on about them to room full (dreamer) of peopl…
Luke Toulson’s grandfather was a Royal Engineer during World War Two who served in France, North Africa and the Middle East.
Australian comedian John Robertson has become a well-known Fringe regular with his hit interactive gameshow, The Dark Room.
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
A slow-burn comic piece of theatre about theatre, To She or Not to She will have you chuckling all the way though, and absorbing the deeply felt feminist message without notice.
Noun (Doh-dek-uh-hee-drun).
Sixty episodes.
There may be no I in team, but this absurd romp through the history of an imagined football club is performed by one man.
At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea…
Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy, has cerebral palsy, and as such has been asked questions ranging from the ridiculous to the downright offensive.
In 2017, Andrew White debuted his first solo show, It Was Funnier in My Head, unable to legally drink, have debt, or even get into some venues he was set to perform in! But this ye…
From the Paris catwalks, to the office boardroom, Australian choreographer/performer, Erin Fowler, brings Femme to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time.
Join rising star of Scottish comedy Marc Jennings for his debut solo show at The Stand Comedy Club.
Australian comedian and tracksuit enthusiast Daniel Muggleton’s just woke enough to know he’s an asshole.
Bri is not who she used to be, so she’s revisiting the five parties that changed her.
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex presents… For one night only, Colin Cloud will perform his Las Vegas show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! This is your one and only chance to come and…
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…