‘Many times I wanted to step off the train of life, but faith and hard work kept me tethered to my seat.
Özen Yula’s highly acclaimed play takes the audience on a journey to the Ottoman Empire in 1558.
Jaja has done everything right.
In an era where migration, exile, and political oppression remain urgent global issues, Büke Erkoç plays a young immigrant woman caught in the currents of history, as she grapple…
An intimate, one-on-one multimedia piece inspired by the novel Fahrenheit 451.
Compelling interactive physical theatre installation that investigates whether it is not necessarily a kind of love that we crave, but a physiological need for human touch in order…
The Fringe is an Odyssey – where will your journey take you? Artist is a card-based workshop created for Fringe artists.
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They’re sisters! They’re lovers! They’re cross-dressing murders! Two maids play out a sadomasochistic wet dream of killing their boss… until the line between their fantasie…
In this fast-paced, cabaret-style solo musical comedy, one actress plays six vibrant characters to tell the story of Tomi – a luxury-obsessed teen whose world flips when she disc…
In its 75th anniversary year, we have forgotten why we have the ECHR.
Juul, anxious and plagued by compulsions, discovers their fetish for choking.
‘Christmas Morning 2018, and I’m hiding in a graveyard from my family…’ Part disability history lecture, part autobiography, part agility course, part rant, part quiz and a…
A mysterious message from the “future self” invites participants into an immersive space where AI unveils their projected histories.
After experiencing loss, a solo neuroscientist spirals inward, journeying through memory, mysticism, science and the mind in this poetic exploration of altered states.
After eating from the tree of the Fruit of Knowledge and leaving Paradise, Adam dreams that Lucifer shows him the entire history of humanity and its unavoidable failure.
Discussion, conversation and debate about the arts, society and life.
Celebrity designer Mat Sanders’ fabulously designed existence implodes spectacularly when sudden betrayal triggers a hysterical, one-man meltdown.
In the not-too-distant future, ecological catastrophe has ripped society’s flesh clean off and civilization is nothing but a rancid husk.
Caspar returns to showcase his renowned sleight of hand with an all-new Fringe show.
A fully-improvised narrative play in the style of William Shakespeare from Thorn and Petal Stick, alias of veteran improvisers Hal Munger and John Mistele, founders of the first Un…
This captivating one-person show dives deep into the life of mysterious aviator, Amelia Earhart, known for her daring ambition.
Hand-picked shows from our digital performance programme and highlights from our critically acclaimed short film programme.
A laugh-out-loud stand-up comedy show that dives into the messy, magical madness of motherhood.
How We Sound.
The infamous words added by King Edward VI to his last will and testament ‘/ and her’ unexpectedly thrust the 15-year-old Jane Grey onto the throne of England for a mere 9 days…
Sammy and Clyde are on their first date.
Half Trick Theatre company certainly knows how to entertain.
Enter the world of university lecturer Cassandra, living in “close-call-apocalypse-averted” times, aka the 2030s.
At dawn, the nation of the Gummy Bears declares war against the nation of the Dinosaurs.
In the digital world there’s no greater joy than talking face to face.
Jim Carrey meets Ricky Gervais as Alexander steps up to the mic in his new biting and satirical hour of comedy.
Is a strong wind all it takes to tip people over the edge? This multimedia thriller is inspired by Joan Didion’s essay on the Santa Ana.
A mad dash through 10,000 years of history from the perspective of a sex worker.
Parodying the famous male philosophers of ancient Greece as a funny woman-horse thinker – whose punchline is ‘sh*t happens’ – Laura Fincias makes her Edinburgh solo debut in th…
Inspired by the work of Dr Gabor Maté, this is a play for women who do too much and the men who love them.
If your idea of entertainment is brutal violence, the rattle of hi-falutin’ Jacobean verse, pervy sex and lots and lots of blood, then this is the show for you.
Playwright Winsome Pinnock gives a compelling voice to the enslaved woman who was the the first person to be accused of witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
A darkly comic one-woman show created by writer-performer and cancer survivor, Valery Reva.
Vietnam veteran Jimmy lives an okay enough life, poking around his garage in rustbelt Michigan, enjoying the gruff banter between friends and customers.
Discover the experiences of Dirmit, the youngest girl in a large migrated family struggling to adapt to city life.
Embark on a raw, transformative journey through one man’s battle with cancer.
Jim Henson meets Oscar Wilde in this gay old romp through Victorian England that offers a modern interpretation of classic English farce – heightened energy, slapstick physicalit…
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 more or less brought to an end a dark period of contemporary UK history.
Hand-picked shows from our digital performance programme and highlights from our critically-acclaimed short film programme.
Award-winning flamenco dance from an international duo based in Spain.