A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Maeve Press spent 17 years under special education observation.
Celebrating their 10th year at the Fringe! A classic murder mystery is created on the spot from audience suggestions in this ingenious and hilarious show from Fringe favourites, De…
Wondering how to attract press to your Brighton Fringe event? Join this panel session to learn about press releases, reviews, and more! This Fringe Academy will operate in a Q&A s…
Mortal SinChallenging authority in 1960s rural Ireland.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry …
Nashville-based international singer-songwriter Stephanie Staples has shared her passionate and contemplative music for over two decades, performing all over the world.
Bryony’s done with clowning.
Weighty poetical subject matter explored in depth by complete idiot/absolutely the perfect person for the job/Suki Tawdry.
The candid and comical tale of a mad tranny from Burnley in the north of England; how a little boy who secretly wore their sister’s dresses, moved to Berlin, became a Drag King, gr…
From the iconic themes of Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, to the funky beats of Sonic and Persona 5, this gig has something for everyone! With a fusion of different genres and sty…
Over 10 years, Chris Cook has brought magical, thought-provoking comedy shows to the Fringe.
The World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year.
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.
The Improv Fringe is alive and kicking this year, as witty and inventive as ever.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Based on her passion for rave, dancing and social justice, Debris brings an evening of lively, funny and thought-provoking musical poetry, with music producer Gabriel May and Drumm…
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
Bertie doesn’t need you to like him.
Come and join us for a special evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Are you a writer who is interested in having your work produced? Join us for Stage Write Open House where producers, writers and course participants will be giving …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
A classic murder mystery is created on the spot from audience suggestions in this ingenious and hilarious show from Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error.
‘Stop the press!’ said Mr Thomas, his hand clenching yesterday’s issue.
Stepsisters have never been portrayed well in fairy tales, so how can real-life stepsisters be expected to get along? Robin and Jessie suddenly find themselves sharing a new home a…
She’s back, the 6’5” towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Multi award-winning musical comedy duo Flo & Joan are climbing out of their pits, armed with a piano and percussion section to bring you a brand new show of their critically acclai…
The World Press Photo exhibition connects people to the stories that matter.
In this workshop, physical performer and pole dancer Sofie Kramer will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body.
In this workshop, physical performer and pole dancer Sofie Kramer will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Press sets its satirical sights on Hollywood.
Come and air your dirty laundry with us at ‘Harriett’s Press: Wash and Create’ in the Brighton Open Market.
Come and air your dirty laundry with us at ‘Harriet’s Press: Wash and Create’ in the Brighton Open Market.
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Out of the Wings and Inti Press present six new translations from Cuba, Spain, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Portugal.
A Season of New Digital Performances - written and performed by an acclaimed and international female-led creative team.
Oliver Yellop, (Further Theatre) brings you a workshop on the process of making I Am Gavrilo Princip.
A classic murder mystery created on the spot in this ingenious and hilarious show from The Bristol Improv Theatre’s resident company.
‘What an egregious folly it is for a man of my years to attach himself too strongly to one of yours – I know the tear will be in your eye when you read this, as it is in mine whe…
If you have a problem, Nancy will solve it.
Paul Currie is bringing his sell out 2014/2015 award-winning masterpiece back to Edinburgh.
Martin Pilgrim can’t go on like this.
To say that Murder She Didn’t Write, from Degrees of Error, is a slick production is an understatement.
This is the first year that 4 Brown Girls Who Write have showcased at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and they better keep coming back.
78,801 photos and 4,738 photographers from 129 countries.
Stephen Don’s one-man show has him reading his long short story which is about a violent young man with a penchant for Japanese films and samurai swords.
Grand Final on Monday 25th February, 7.
Shortlisted Showcase on Tuesday 19th February, 7.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
'Degrees of Error' & 'Something for the Weekend' present.
Nancy Crook will be returning to the Fringe with her annual afternoon organ recital of music by Bach, de Grigny and Jackson at Stockbridge Church.
Experienced organ virtuoso, Nancy Crook, plays a varied programme of familiar and less well known organ masterpieces, including: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 by J S Bach; …
Find out what life is really like as a local newspaper reporter in a rural town, covering hard-hitting stories such as parish council meetings, charity bike rides and dogs winning …
Jasper Red invites you to a special healing session.
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
This summer, the World Press Photo Exhibition returns to the Scottish Parliament.
A classic murder mystery is created on the spot from audience suggestions in this ingenious show from Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error.
After a severe case of writer's block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
Three rounds.
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a six year old child write his show for him.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends: not with a whimper, but a bang! Join the hottest up-and-coming acts from all across Brighton Fringe for our late night revue.
'Degrees of Error' & 'Something for the Weekend' present.
The worldwide touring exhibition of award-winning photos will come to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends: not with a whimper, but a bang! Join the hottest up-and-coming acts from all across the Edinburgh Fringe for our late-night revue.
A murder has been committed.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
The competition to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the country has to offer.
Anyone can write a romance novel.
“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends: not with a whimper, but a bang! Join the hottest up-and-coming acts from all across the Edinburgh Fringe for our late-night revue.
We always strive for those eureka moments, the top 1% of ideas, but what about the other 99%? Rubbish right? Wrong.
There are a fair number of improvised comedies this year, but Degrees of Error’s Murder She Didn’t Write is causing a particular buzz.
Let Harry Venning, Guardian cartoonist and award-winning writer of BBC Radio 4’s Clare In the Community, help you to Release Your Inner Cartoonist.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends: not with a whimper, but a bang! Join the hottest up-and-coming acts from all across Brighton Fringe for our late night revue.
Move over Sherlock! You become the author in this original and hilarious improvised comedy! Each night, Degrees of Error presents an unplanned, unscripted and never-before-seen mur…
Technology and the evolution of the Artist’s Book: the exhibition features the work of notable book artists from across the world, selected by New York-based curator and artist …
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The comedy duo Nancy, made up of Colin O’Brien and Michael Wolf, presents this very funny twist on musical sketch with a concert about the highs and lows of love, sex, and ti…
Channel 4 celebrates the excellence of female writers and performers in 2015 with great comedy commissions from Sharon Horgan, Jessica Knappett, Caitlin and Caz Moran and Julia Dav…
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends, not with a whimper, but a bang! Join us as we present the hottest up and coming acts from all across the Fringe for our late night revue.
John Lennon was not only a Beatle, but also a skilled short fiction writer, poet and doodler.
Learn the secrets of the cartoonists art with the award-winning creator of Clare in the Community (BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian) and Hamlet (the stage and in and around The Pleasan…
A remarkably intricate and engaging murder mystery is created from scratch every night.
The title of Steve Budeja’s show is misleading.
Paul Currie returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his anarchic, bread-filled 2014 masterpiece Release the Baboons after a triumphant run at Adelaide Fringe.
A longtime writer for Conan O’Brien’s late-night show, Mr.
Ms. Esposito, host of the podcast “Put Your Hands Together,” celebrates the release of her new album, “Same Sex Symbol,” with a night of stand-up.
Join Scotland’s Biggest drag queen for a spectacular hour of her own brand of risqué comedy.
TV personality Nancy Dell’Olio reveals her secrets to surviving with glamour: this is a woman who has never let fate smudge her make-up.
A farcical feast of nautical nonsense.
Need more media coverage? Can’t afford a publicist? (Not happy with the one you have?) Learn to generate positive publicity in print, online - everywhere! - with easy steps from me…
A delightfully eccentric murder mystery is created within the hour as audience members choose the title, location, victim and murderer.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends, not with a whimper, but a bang! Join Peter Antoniou as he presents the hottest up and coming acts from all across the Fringe for our late…
‘This is the most inventive and hilarious act I have seen in years’ (Director, Leicester Comedy Festival).
Join us as we celebrate and launch our 34th Festival Fringe season.
The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher…
‘Who are you here for?’ asks the Assembly ticket-tearer as he works his way through the sizeable queue.
This play has a great plot.
Given that Edinburgh is something of a Glastonbury equivalent for guardianistas, Steve Bell’s show seethes with lively, middle-aged enthusiasm.
Presented in a university lecture hall, Hashtag Double Standards: Twitter on Trial is a talk given by Paul Motion, a solicitor since 1984 with an interest in social media.
‘Fed up with grim, hand-wringing, one-man shows?’ asks this production’s flier: ‘Go and see something funny.
Pirates, exclamation mark.
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
Cape Wrath is an intimate one man show.
I watched Shhhh in a state of complete bafflement.
S/He is Nancy Joe is more than just an exuberant dance performance.
Despite the promise of five ”appenings’ on the poster, on arrival at Beside The Greenside, it is immediately clear that very little is ‘appening there at all.
This is how your night at the Fringe ends, not with a whimper, but a bang! Join the hottest up-and-coming acts from all across the Fringe for our late night revue.
The ‘office comedy’: mastered in ‘The Office’ and storming the Fringe this year in Blam!; here that well-loved genre takes on a new guise in the first theatre adaptation of Danish …
Welcome to the biggest show to end your Fringe day with! Join amazing acts from all across the fabulous festival for a revue that changes every night! Comedy, magic, music, burlesq…
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Join us as we celebrate our 33rd year and launch into another season of the Fringe’s best shows. The gala gives you a sneak peek at a selection of shows from our 2013 programme.
Join us as we celebrate our 32nd year and rocket into another season of the Fringe’s best shows.
The writers of Darts Wives bring a new concept to the comedy circuit.
One of the most memorable pieces on show at Amazing Amber is a beautiful piece of genuine Baltic amber containing a small, perfectly preserved fly.
Shirtwaist is a brilliant piece of grim theatre.
First impressions can be misleading.
The 1960s hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a fast-paced, rollicking farce.
This puppet’s nose isn’t growing when he comments that The Table is,‘difficult to put your finger on, as you’ll discover when you try and tell your friends what you came to…
Only a few things feel strained in this transposition of Les Mains Sales to 1982 Northern Ireland.
The most prominent feature of this production’s adaptation is its swingin’ sixties setting.
‘Well Done You’ calls itself a character sketch show, but Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt are in character even when not doing sketches.
Not long ago, the Rubberbandits were just a couple of schoolboy pranksters.
Dominic Allen’s adaptation of this old pirate classic is fast paced and good fun.
Louise Ford’s character Jenny Fawcett has an earnest, alarming smile, slightly mad eyes behind unsexy specs and a gurgling voice.
For the first ten minutes, Shane Dundas’ material revolves entirely around his fear of a solo show.
When a show is going badly, repeatedly telling the audience that they’re a tough crowd only ever exacerbates matters.
Roisin Connaty may describe herself as ‘almost good looking,’ but she has a weapon of attraction quite independent from her sunny, open expression or her bleached blonde hair.
Boothby Graffoe, the only comedian named after a Lincolnshire village, is a Fringe comedy institution.
The blurb describes this performance as a ‘sobering, gloriously juvenile collision between foresight and hindsight’.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
With an intense stare, Jen Brister describes her set as ‘a beige lesbian in a darkened room.
There’s a difference between absurdist theatre and ridiculous theatre.
ICON Theatre bring to this year’s Fringe a hard-hitting piece of devised work.
Hannibal Buress is a really chilled-out entertainer.
It’s a relief when Mary Bourke promises that she won’t be doing any clichéd ‘female comic’ stuff.
James and Craig - the comedy duo behind Best Days of Our Lives - earn their stars as much through likeability as humour.
In her white shirt, grey knee length skirt and black brogues, Sara Pascoe looks like a schoolgirl.
This show is exactly what it is.
It’s not why she’s called the Inbetweeny Lady, but Sally-Anne Hayward’s set details what happened to her in between last year’s Edinburgh Fringe and this year’s.
Peer Gynt is, according to our storyteller, ‘the most self-centred, egotistical liar in literary history’.
Barry Morgan’s act rests heavily on double entendre.
You should brace yourself before seeing Nights At The Circus, and not just because of its circus setting.
I’d never been enticed by terrible dancing before I saw Celia Pacquola.
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
Writing a press release that a journalist will use is a skill even experienced PRs can get wrong.
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