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Stories of a Dish

Stories of a Dish

A global pandemic may have struck, but we have a chef who’s just stuck. 

Classical Dance of India

Classical Dance of India

Classical dance genres performed by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students of Dr Radha Krishnan showcasing their talent. 

A Frickin' Crazy Year

A Frickin' Crazy Year

A stolen backpack, a break-up and a global pandemic – Austria’s most famous (and only) lesbian is ready to become British. 

Immaculate

Immaculate

Immaculate is based on a true story about Louise Mathews, an artist struggling to piece together the life of her uncle Anthony who tragically died in London in the early 90s and wh… 

The Shedding of Skin

The Shedding of Skin

Time is different here. 

The Preacher

The Preacher

One of the strangest Fringe shows of recent memory is A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for 56 Minutes and Then Leaves – a sh… 

Perfect Forth – Lost and Found

Perfect Forth – Lost and Found

Making their debut at the Fringe this year, Perfect Forth are an a cappella ensemble that formed just before the first lockdown struck. 

House of Hundred

House of Hundred

A unique take on the transition from the Ottoman Empire’s period to the Republican era through the story of an old mansion and its demolition. 

Paradi Inclusioni Der Film

Paradi Inclusioni Der Film

Roll up, roll up to Paradi Inclusioni: an animation about wonderful, varied characters with and without disabilities on the search for inspiring personalities for the World Parade … 

Teague Goodvoice Native American (Indian)

Teague Goodvoice Native American (Indian)

Born in Missoula, and growing up on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana, riding horses, swimming in the clear glacier water, Teague Goodvoice draws some of his inspirati… 

Taiwan Hengchun Folk Songs Singing Club – Sing To the World (Free)

Taiwan Hengchun Folk Songs Singing Club – Sing To the World (Free)

The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar. 

Violate

Violate

A filmed solo performance art piece based on the terrible statistics and devastating psychological effects of sexual violence. 

William Shakespeare's Henry V

William Shakespeare's Henry V

King Henry, recently come to the British throne, sets forth to claim the throne of France. 

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary… 

Bach'n'Roll: The Unconventional Life of Virgil Fox

Bach'n'Roll: The Unconventional Life of Virgil Fox

In 1970 Virgil Fox played the music of JS Bach at the Mecca of rock’n’roll, Fillmore East. 

Husbands, Hair and Other Stories...

Husbands, Hair and Other Stories...

Ripe Fruit are two older women trying to make sense of the world they live in when they explore Husbands, Hair and Other Stories. 

Carnegie – The Star-Spangled Scotchman

Carnegie – The Star-Spangled Scotchman

As Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world, lies on his death bed, Peterson, the embodiment of St Peter, brings John, a steelworker killed in the infamous Carnegie Steel Home… 

Beware: The Night Witches

Beware: The Night Witches

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Royal Mile Tours

Royal Mile Tours

Come and join us online or live for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town. 

CITY

CITY

This is CITY. 

Queens of the Blues

Queens of the Blues

Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show after a year-long hiatus, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years with an intimate perform… 

When These Rocks Were Still Young

When These Rocks Were Still Young

An immersive journey through music and film into the magnificent and ancient landscapes of Scotland, featuring a beautiful original score for voice, piano, percussion and electroni… 

Four Horses

Four Horses

A blasphemous dark comedy about the end of the world. 

Ubu Roix

Ubu Roix

An ill-advised spectacle for the digital stage. 

The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends

The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends

France 1789. 

Call Me Elizabeth

Call Me Elizabeth

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. 

Ithaca

Ithaca

It’s not all in your head. 

C*nt!

C*nt!

Malcolm Hardee and Morecambe Fringe Award winner presents her C*nt! C*nt! is an irreverent poke into the controversy and clout of the C-word and an opportunity to indulge the simp… 

Belfast

Belfast

‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain’. 

Journey Across the Impossible

Journey Across the Impossible

An hour-long selection of short films, many from the experimental days of film in the early 1900s, set to original scores by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. 

HaHanitarian Intervention

HaHanitarian Intervention

HaHanitarian Intervention is a standup comedy show by diverse international com(ic)batants from different countries (Russia, USA, UK-Zimbabwe, Canada, Malaysia) united by comedy a… 

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert (BSL-Interpreted)

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert (BSL-Interpreted)

Including The Wrong Trousers. 

Global Taskmaster Champion

Global Taskmaster Champion

One man’s quazary expensive, time-consuming quest to become the Global Taskmaster Champion. 

Funny Answers to Happy Questions

Funny Answers to Happy Questions

Comedian Ryan Wingfield takes a funny look into the science of what makes us happy. 

Dead Mother's Underwear

Dead Mother's Underwear

Some inherit from their mothers material possessions. 

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

A unique two-woman retelling of F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. 

Shakespeare's Schoolroom Live

Shakespeare's Schoolroom Live

Interactive Virtual Museum Tour live from Shakespeare’s Schoolroom and Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon. 

Arthur J Peabody

Arthur J Peabody

Have you ever noticed how unusually loud and chatty birds are? Or ever wondered what they might say if they could speak? Meet Arthur J Peabody, a very well-spoken bird who befriend… 

If You Find This

If You Find This

If You Find This is about a young woman working as a carer, who finds herself on the brink of life and death. 

Through Bush, Through Briar

Through Bush, Through Briar

Through Bush, Through Briar: An adaptation of a Midsummer Night’s Dream in which a Scrooge-like town councilman is planning to tear down a fairy forest to build a theatre. 

I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won't Die

I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won't Die

‘Sensational’ is how one viewer described this high-quality filmed version of Mark Wheeller’s moving play. 

Till Love Do Us Part

Till Love Do Us Part

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes. 

Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

The untold side to the story of Aladdin’s Jafar and how he went from a selfless royal advisor to a man desperate to make things right again… 

When We Died

When We Died

He’s dead, and it’s her job to prepare and present his body for his family’s final goodbye. 

This Odd Geometry of Time

This Odd Geometry of Time

Like Fresh Skin. 

Moya

Moya

Moya is an acrobatic art film, rooted in South African culture and seen through the eyes of our youth. 

Five Times As Wise

Five Times As Wise

A writer enters his studio and is visited by five eccentric and imposing characters with the purpose of creating a play that defines the 21st century. 

Banana and the Ice Cream Crew

Banana and the Ice Cream Crew

Banana and the Ice Cream Crew is a story about acceptance, friendship and, yes, singing bananas. 

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert. 

Silver Feet

Silver Feet

Silver Feet: The hundreds of feet and silver pole are part of a sculpture by Hiroshi Kinoshita. 

Timmy's World

Timmy's World

Timmy was in showbusiness for 28 years, he was a child actor, appeared in the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone. 

Deserted Shores / Negative Photographs

Deserted Shores / Negative Photographs

Deserted Shores / Negative Photographs focuses on a woman imagining a family gathering that never happened after a tragedy connected to the uneasy political atmosphere of the 90s i… 

La Nela De Socartes

La Nela De Socartes

La Nela De Socartes is an uplifting musical tragedy on love, opportunity and change. 

Yin Wee Ceilidh

Yin Wee Ceilidh

Yin Wee Ceilidh or a rollickin’ good time. 

Wrong Number

Wrong Number

The residents of Heather Avenue are in lockdown, forced to rely on the phone and Zoom to communicate. 

Dishonour

Dishonour

Dishonour is a powerful drama that explores the terrifying practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). 

Practice Room 99

Practice Room 99

Brass players Ida, Ally and Clara have just a 30-minute rehearsal to fix the fallout from post-show drinks the night before. 

We Just Need to Get Through This

We Just Need to Get Through This

A couple whose relationship just isn’t working. 

Cartography of Peace

Cartography of Peace

This cross-disciplinary 32-minute performance work features opera, violin, poetry and contemporary dance and is presented by the South Chicago Dance Theatre and choreographer Kia S… 

Gayatri the Royal Queen Consort of the Majapahit Kingdom

Gayatri the Royal Queen Consort of the Majapahit Kingdom

Follow Princess Gayatri from the Singhasari Kingdom evolve and blossom as she strives to attain her youthful dreams alongside preserving the long-time legacy of her deceased father… 

Coro Edina: Byrd, Bruckner and Stanford

Coro Edina: Byrd, Bruckner and Stanford

The Edinburgh chamber choir Coro Edina return to the Fringe with a socially distanced programme of Byrd, Bruckner and Stanford, recorded live at Old St Paul’s church. 

Bear Hands

Bear Hands

Presenting Bear Hands, new writing by Gatlin Perrin. 

Shades of White

Shades of White

Shades of White is set in 1990s Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA during the year of the 75th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. 

We'll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse

We'll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse

This evocative play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a young couple living in a world ravaged by climate change. 

Ansel and Gretchen

Ansel and Gretchen

Siblings Ansel and Gretchen explore the complexities of human connection. 

Open

Open

An LGBTQ love story. 

My House

My House

What secret did the Chaplins, Carole Lombard, William Powell and a host of other film stars from the last century share? Witness the mystery unravel in one of the most notorious ho… 

Seven Deadly Sins

Seven Deadly Sins

This presentation of the almost-century-old seminal composition, crafted by renowned composer Kurt Weill and theatre innovator Bertolt Brecht in 1933, blends the strengths of theat… 

Your Perfect Life

Your Perfect Life

Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler. 

Fantastic Vehicles (4 Decay)

Fantastic Vehicles (4 Decay)

What do you get when a renowned psychoanalyst marries a hasty widow who relocates into the family estate, Elsewhere Manor – mansion slash mental ward – with her bastard son who… 

Sacha Guitry: Reflections (Monologue)

Sacha Guitry: Reflections (Monologue)

Marco Malgioglio portrays French actor, playwright, director, author and collector of fine things, Sacha Guitry (1885-1957). 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band – On Demand

Edinburgh Renaissance Band – On Demand

A unique opportunity to enjoy this award winning, ever popular Early Music group, who have performed at every Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1973. 

Weavers of Grass

Weavers of Grass

Award-winning poet Chrys Salt and acclaimed harper Wendy Stewart weave the extraordinary stories of Angus MacPhee, the Hebridian crofter hospitalised with schizophrenia during WW2 … 

Suffragettes: Deeds Not Words

Suffragettes: Deeds Not Words

Suffragettes is compelling, visceral epic theatre with 12 original songs in the style of our acclaimed, award-winning show, That Bastard Brecht. 

A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach

Winner of Best Ensemble at a Tucson Fringe Festival 2021. 

Disrobed – The Virtual Event

Disrobed – The Virtual Event

It’s Meet The Parents with a twist! Skye is eager to introduce her buttoned-up fiancé Eric to her free-wheeling family at their monthly Zoom happy hour. 

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

In his own opinion, by far the most important, Doctor Faustus is a certified genius. 

Bytesize Theatre

Bytesize Theatre

A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group. 

Blackwomanology

Blackwomanology

Tell me what you think that you know about Black American womanhood? How do you imagine it feels? How do you imagine it looks? How does it smell? How does it sound? Well, maybe my … 

Becoming Adorable

Becoming Adorable

Why! Why did she do it? Amy Williams thought taking a class in making online videos would be fun. 

Outta The Books

Outta The Books

Witches, wolves, fairies, frogs, princes. 

Three Chords and the Truth

Three Chords and the Truth

It’s only rock’n’roll, till it isn’t. 

Drone Bone Jetty

Drone Bone Jetty

I am not a hologram, I’m a beating heart. 

Those People: A Play About QAnon

Those People: A Play About QAnon

Those People: A Play About QAnon is based on interviews with young people from the UK, conducted online and from accounts written on the subreddit: r/QAnoncasualties. 

Caledonian Sleeper

Caledonian Sleeper

‘Pain trumps pleasure. 

Murmur

Murmur

Murmur is an absurdist audio drama; an experimental ‘sound cartoon’ for the listener. 

Treasure Hunt for the Imagination

Treasure Hunt for the Imagination

Treasure Hunt for the Imagination. 

How Do You Know You Are Home?

How Do You Know You Are Home?

An immersive feel-good experience that comprises personal storytelling and comedy to tell a story about growing up and making a home in the world. 

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

Based on the award-winning young adult novel by Sonia Manzano and including original music and songs by Sartje Pickett, this new play by Tlaloc Rivas tells the story of Evelyn, a y… 

James Casey is Innocent – The Judge's Misdirection

James Casey is Innocent – The Judge's Misdirection

On February 7th 1991, James Casey was found guilty of murder. 

I, Anatolia

I, Anatolia

I, Anatolia is an adaptation of the Turkish play Ben Anadolu by Güngör Dilmen, translated by Talat S Halman. 

A Bohemian Rainbow

A Bohemian Rainbow

Come and join the Bohemians on a spectacularly colourful musical journey! We’ll be featuring songs from musical theatre and film, both old and new, which include In The Heights, Wi… 

The Oxford Revue Kills God, Again

The Oxford Revue Kills God, Again

The Oxford Revue plunges you into a journey of madness, from Louis Theroux’s frustrating upbringing to the mind of a therapy dog. 

Carmilla

Carmilla

Originally a gothic-horror novella (written in 1872!), this stage adaptation has been passionately crafted by playwright, author and director, Laura J Harris to be premiered at Edi… 

My First...

My First...

An English adaptation of an award-winning comedy from Iceland that looks at all the firsts: first class, first place, first rate, and even love at first sight. 

Corona Cutie: A Digital Quest for Love

Corona Cutie: A Digital Quest for Love

Corona Cutie is a student-written-and-produced virtual musical created completely remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Ghost Matchmaker

The Ghost Matchmaker

Why would a spirit be trapped in the mortal plane, not alive but not quite dead? The Ghost Matchmaker seeks to free ghosts of the chains that bind them to the land of the living, f… 

Lost in Love

Lost in Love

The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright. 

Five Explosive Little Truths

Five Explosive Little Truths

Cambridge-based theatre company, The Two Jays, present five short Zoom plays; some funny and some tragic, in which truths are spilled. 

Bonnie Bayou Blues

Bonnie Bayou Blues

Scots-Cajun music, Louisiana French classics and vintage blues jostle with distinctively Scottish straight-from-the-heart original songs by Jennifer Ewan and the blues-drenched Caj… 

Recovering Misogynist

Recovering Misogynist

Recovering Misogynist is a magical realist #MeToo story by Rachel Mariner (Bill Clinton Hercules). 

Pitchblenders

Pitchblenders

Edinburgh-based Venue 67 regulars Pitchblenders hit your living room with another smorgasbord of swing jazz, blues, Latin and continental vocals from Christine Adams, with suitably… 

The Story of Game of Thrones in Poetry and Illustration

The Story of Game of Thrones in Poetry and Illustration

Through storytelling, poetry and illustration, this show transports you back to Westeros to narrate a different version of the Game of Thrones story. 

What Are We Watching?

What Are We Watching?

A comedy about four working-class friends, Nick, Dan, Michelle and Lucy. 

Between Friends

Between Friends

The past stalks the present in this gripping drama with the world in a state of flux. 

Cash Point Meet by Niamh Murphy

Cash Point Meet by Niamh Murphy

Emma and Sinéad know all that glitters isn’t gold, but when given the opportunity to go from €3. 

Hear. Speak. See.

Hear. Speak. See.

Dinner with strangers is always awkward, especially when you’re the guest of honour. 

The Day the Devil Came for Tea

The Day the Devil Came for Tea

Three flatmates are in their final year of university, working through the aftermath of the death of one of their best friends. 

(Extra)ordinary, (Un)usual

(Extra)ordinary, (Un)usual

Fresh from winning a Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award at the South African NAF, (Extra)ordinary, (Un)usual is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! This monologue showcase written by A… 

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary… 

Ali Affleck’s Speakeasy Sessions Live from Los Angeles

Ali Affleck’s Speakeasy Sessions Live from Los Angeles

Award-winning Ali joins up with pals back in California for this unique show filmed live from the true home of jazz! All-star band of Katie Cavera, Clint Baker, John Reynolds and C… 

Lockdown Love Story

Lockdown Love Story

Lockdown Love Story is a UK-based comedy created by Alice Fforde and Charlie Dryden, highlighting the ups and downs of online dating during a pandemic. 

Feelgood Academy

Feelgood Academy

At the Feelgood Academy of Performing Arts, competition is tough, even for the school’s two best singers. 

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