We open on Protagonist’s 30th birthday at the Alton Towers, where her life takes an unexpected turn.
LA clown Natasha Mercado invites you to a mass that’s equal parts holy and horny – hosted by God’s sexiest son, Father Greg Orian.
A sell-out season at 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, shortlisted for Best Show in Comedians’ Choice Awards 2023.
Haus of Dench’s monstrous Fringe hit rises from the grave for two nights only! Drag superstars Kate Butch and Crudi Dench have their cabaret show crashed by brain-hungry zombies.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
Ben Tomalin, Maisie Fawcett and Sophie Holmes’ Without is an interesting contender at this year’s Fringe Festival in that it has a very strong cast that handles an equally stro…
To loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away.
Vulnerability and sexual awakening go hand in hand in Declan, an unnerving one-man play set in rural Wiltshire.
Lady Clementine has until her 27th birthday to find The One.
It’s the year 1991; the Soviet Union has collapsed and everyone is ready for a new start.
If there’s one 44th birthday party you want to be going to this year, it’s Bill’s.
The total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Are you truly satisfied with how you are living, or do things feel.
Fresh from a TV appearance two years ago, Joe Sutherland returns with a brand-new PR strategy.
In 2018, Adam Riches was The Guy Who You Meet Right After You Come Out Of A Long-Term Relationship.
Two IT consultants, Lloyd and Pete, plugged computers into a bingobot and the only way to stop them is to play along on your phone (but in a fun way).
Winner – Critic’s Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023.
Singer-songwriter and self-obsessed internet addict Connor Morel fronts a live three-piece band in this original gig-theatre show that asks: are we doing the internet right? Is the…
‘It’s the familiarity of herself, somehow, that she sees reflected in his eyes.
The total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
In what could be crowned the most uplifting show of the Fringe, The House of Life aka Ben Welch and Laurence Cole from Sheep Soup combine preaching, live music, comedy and all roun…
Step aside Stallone! Sam Dugmore is locked and loaded as the greatest action hero of all time, unearthing his ruthless man skills to confront his worst nemesis.
There is nothing campier than flying to Transylvania to perform in the Eurovision Song Contest.
A karaoke bar.
A campy variety show that mimics an overenthusiastic kick-off event for a corporate retreat for the fictional company Men-ses Period Panties.
Telling five short tales from the mystical fictional world of Jianghu, Fall and Flow showcases the beauty and physicality of Hong Kong theatrical traditions in combination with Th�…
Life With Oscar is Nicholas Cohen's brutally honest first person (and occasionally third person) account, detailing his own personal heroes journey from Lewisham, South-east Lo…
Following the award-winning, sell-out festival hits, The Man and Colossal, Patrick McPherson’s new play The Way Way Deep debuts in Edinburgh.
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in the most ridiculously playful adventure comedy you’ve never had.
A unique new musical with a fully actor-muso cast, this Charlie Hartill Award finalist blends contemporary pop, soul, and folk music in a dynamic story of convent school life.
The planet is melting and life’s spinning out of control.
Four students find themselves stuck in dugsi detention – what did they do to end up here? And is there any chance of them getting on? Salma, Yasmin, Munira, and Hani each see the…
Long, long ago, in the Land of the Rising Sun, four Warriors used the power of laughter to capture Batsu no Akuma, the Spirit of Punishment, within a sacred gong.
Josh Baulf has appeared on ITV and BBC Three, but you may know him as “that guy from TikTok”, with his online sketches amassing millions of views worldwide.
A one-woman show about growing up with a trans female parent, written and performed by Maria Telnikoff.
‘New York downtown legend’ (Time Out) Ruby McCollister (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Search Party) presents Tragedy, her one-woman show exploring her life-long addiction to making her lif…
Meet Beanie: the love child of George Clooney and a Nespresso machine.
‘Who are you Jamie!?’ ‘I’m that bitch!’ Jamie is not in fact, that bitch.
The Durham Revue presents: Death on the Mile.
First featured as a radio drama on BBC Radio 4, The Death of Molly Miller now takes to the stage with its plucky hostage comedy that addresses pertinent social issues.
It’s time.
Niamh O’Reilly is a Frigid, meaning she’s never been kissed.
A captivating new theatre piece about a Black British woman who finds herself homeless and alone after an earthquake.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Help award-winning comedians build a new invention to save the world in this chaotic, hilarious show where you are in control.
Molly works at Greggs.
Comedy’s best nepo baby (and there’s a lot) returns.
MUSH is an all-out journey of absurdity for anyone who loves playfulness, silliness and delightful whimsy! Jeromaia Detto (Aus) is an improvisor and Gaulier-trained clown who once …
A two-troll clown show about friendship, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood.
Surviving the streets of Coventry in his NAF NAF jacket, discovering the gay scene in 90s Soho, exploring the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft, Declan Bennett’s electric, funny and raw …
Not for the faint of heart or light of stomach, Butchered takes its audience into an absurdist descent of meat and madness.
‘I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew.
Winner: Best Comedy, 2022 (Hollywood Fringe).
Winner of the 2023 Edinburgh Untapped Award, One Way Out is a powerful exploration of the injustices suffered by the Windrush generation, through the lens of four boys from South L…
‘What do Jamie, Mark, and Fitzwilliam Darcy all have in common? They’re white, problematic, and played by Colin Firth.
10 years of war have ended.
After a sold-out run, The B Collective returns with their exhilarating high-octane show Murder Ballads, adapted from the album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Returning for a limited run following a sell-out Fringe in 2021! Stand-up is the outlet that keeps you sane.
Everybody needs a break.
Twin orphans The Creepy Boys are throwing their very first birthday party.
Comedy with a conservation twist.
For regular Fringegoers who aim to tick all the most talked-about and cultest shows off your list, I’m going to make a prediction: you’ve seen Spank! before.
With not a zombie in sight, we are taken into a sanctuary of “normality” while the outside world rots.
You have a one in 250 chance of being an identical twin, so for Hugo and Patrick McPherson, they started life by being a bit unusual.
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped 2022.
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award 2022.
In 2014, residents of Fairbourne were watching their local news when they found out they were to be Britain’s first climate refugees, with their town set to be decommissioned and d…
Destiny dreams big.
‘What if it was you, you were the last individual of the species, The Endling?’ Visually beautiful and laugh-out-loud funny, Strange Futures use their ‘powerful physicality’ (Scots…
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).
Imagine if Prince and Mae West were best friends.
Oooh, tell me stories.
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
Have you ever thought you were making a genuine difference in a broken world, when really you were just stuck down a well in an unspecified location with your bothersome twin? Us n…
416 years ago, Macbeth was first performed.
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award 2022.
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award, 2022.
Woman is sat in a therapist’s office.
Following his sold-out, five-star debut show, The Man, Patrick McPherson makes his anticipated return with Colossal.
Ellie MacPherson is oddly obsessed with the Presidents of the United States.
Mr Brightside hasn’t left the UK charts in 18 years.
Prepare for an hour of dazzling character clowning that feels dangerous but is actually safe as milk.
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…
After three years away, the group that brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod, Jeremy Vine and many more, are finally back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
Despite the hyper atmosphere and start of Garry Starr’s Greece Lightning, there is something vaguely unsettling about the manic nature of the way that Starr approaches this show.
A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school.
Naughty Corner Productions’ eighth show promises to be the immersive event of the year.
This Moment in America: America beyond the news.
Camp cult favourites Mother are back with an unapologetic hour – sorry, closer to 55 minutes really – of deranged characters and unhinged sketches in a live mockumentary so clo…
Absurd character comedy.
Unassuming at the start, A V Brodrenkova and Aimee Dickinson’s Foundations quickly breaks all boundaries and assumptions.
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.
Following their sell-out shows in Manchester and London So La Flair make their Edinburgh debut with their cabaret campaign against keeping up culture.
Can kids be parents? When Cassie’s mother disappears, the teenager wants to care for her sisters on her own.
A hilarious new stand-up show from the star of Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Impractical Jokers UK and Stand Up Central.
Tobias hates mash and Steve hates Tobias, but when they discover their mom to be patient zero in a world of flesh-eating zombies, the torn apart brothers get pieced back together, …
The Fremonts have been married ten years and have the therapy bills to prove it.
Spank! returns for an incredible 17th year with hilarious hosts, awesome comedians and gratuitous nudity.
A hilarious new stand-up show from the star of Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Impractical Jokers UK and Stand Up Central.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe’s best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCAs have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman …
From a very young age, Nicola has been determined to prove to her four older siblings, and the world, that she is more than just a little sister.
Hello sweetie! Get ready for a new sense of comedy and performance which, together, produce a raw and physically engaging show.
Civilisation (or a day in the life of a woman following a tragic event).
In a world where we see some form of video footage every day – on small and big screens, down on our phones, around us on animated billboards – and where we can tumble headfirs…
An award-winning, one-woman science comedy-musical about the neuroscience of love and loneliness.
This year’s hottest product has just hit the city.
Making a show with your ex must be awkward, right? Maybe.
After directing ungrateful clown duo Zach & Viggo, starring in an award-winning funk opera with Thumpasaurus, and touring the world three times over, Jonny Woolley (AKA Mr X) rolls…
Winner: Best Comedy at Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award (2017).
Sold-out run: Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2019).
Calling the courageous, faithless and broken to the late-night, interactive ceremony of the present moment we always hoped we’d never need.
Spank! returns for an incredible 16th year with hilarious hosts, awesome comedians and gratuitous nudity.
Tony Cantwell’s live feed: a heart-pounding night of incognito browsing.
The National Youth Theatre have put Mark Zuckerberg on trial.
Before 30 follows Chris, a Deliveroo driver trying to make his way in the world.
In our modern world, convenience is king and Amazon wears the crown.
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…
Part safari party.
James Barr is single.
‘Three nights to save a soul.
On his way home through the forest, Beauty’s father picks her a rose from the enchanted palace gardens.
An intense, enthralling and fascinatingly uncomfortable exploration of the ageing of an American woman, played with a perfected bleak clowning approach that toys with the crowd and…
All Mr Sand wanted to do was relax and enjoy the breeze of the sea air on his skin, and the sunshine on his face.
Total sell-out 2005-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Jeneane Morris is here to tell you some shit about life: buckle up.
In the last couple of years, Paul McCaffrey has performed to over half a million people while supporting his comedy heroes Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges on their UK tours, and has go…
The Girl Guide Promise, an oath taken by all Guides and Brownies, highlights how a girl guide member must always do their best, be true to themselves and develop their beliefs.
Two young women from different sides of Dublin city attending the same festival meet in the girls' toilets (always the best place to make new friends) and strike up a connectio…
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
‘I’m sorry.
New year.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
Sir Trevor Brierly – writer, director, occasional cat-sitter – was many things to many people.
Late 1800s: there’s a heavy fog surrounding London.
An American artist must decide whether to overstay her visa or give up her chance to become a UK citizen.
The year is 1969 and NASA has just put the first man on the moon.
If a show combining maths, poetry, comedy and rap sounds like it may be up your street, then boy, oh boy, do I have a show for you?! The youngest ever World Slam Poetry champion, H…
There are worse ways to start a show than with free sweets, and no better way to end it than with a singalong.
Multi award-winning US playwright Jonathan Caren’s razor-sharp dark comedy follows four friends on a river-rafting stag party that’s turned upside down when a mysterious woman kaya…
Heist films are great, aren’t they? Whether it’s the effortless style of the The Italian Job or the precision of an Ocean’s film, heist movies amaze by tricking the audience …
The premise of Bismillah! An Isis Tragicomedy, in the Fringe guide, "a story of radicalisation, disenfranchisment and the rock band Queen" was compelling enough to want t…
Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi.
Solo gig-theatre digging under the skin of anti-heroine Jess, imprisoned for selling drugs on her lover’s behalf.
She’s hot, rich and f*cking powerful.
If you’ve been unlucky in love, nothing makes you feel better about yourself than laughing at someone else.
Tokyo Rose is a complex story, told phenomenally well by a company quickly proving itself to be one of the hottest theatre groups in the country.
A cabaret with desserts could have been light, fluffy fare but Michelle Pearson isn’t afraid to get into the more bitter ingredients in life.
A one-handed show about making a one-handed show might be becoming a little passé at the Fringe but there is at least one final offering you should devour before you write the gen…
Following sell-out shows in New York, London and LA, award-winning comedian Zach Zucker returns with a new hour of absurdist stand-up! Important: Jack Tucker is a very funny stand-…
After a swift rise to fame with her Nobel-nominated book Diary of a Drag Queen, DENIM’s Crystal is back.
Flora and Nic have been friends for years, for pretty much the whole of history.
The Edinburgh Fringe is awash with shows designed to shock and push our buttons.
You've probably heard plenty of stories about lucky couples who fall in love, get married and live happily-ever-after.
Selfless to a fault, Garry Starr is ready to share the lessons he’s learned about the actors’ craft, the art of pretending.
Ripped, by Alex Gwyther is a heroic confrontation with the aftermath of a male sexual assault.
You are watching three actors sat at a table.
What an honour to have New Zealand’s self-proclaimed ‘only popstars’ at our humble festival.
As recently as the early 20th century it was not uncommon for women to be medically diagnosed with “hysteria”.
After Fringe hit Speechless, Cambridge Footlights Comrie and Dan present the hyperkinetic, garish and gothic Obsolete: a sinister tech company presentation, combining the Silicon V…
What happens when a touring stand-up comedian can no longer stand up? A food-obsessing cheese lover tries veganism for a month? After a near career-ending knee injury, O’Brien is t…
Sell-outs in 2017/18.
Winner: Stamptown Newcomer Award, 2019.
Award-winning actor, writer and composer AJ Holmes makes his Edinburgh debut with an hour of stand-up, storytelling, and songs! Known from The Book of Mormon on Broadway, London’s …
Scotty D, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a journey, showing how karaoke saved his life and how it can save yours, too.
I have a slight confession of bias.
Once famed for coal, copper and steel production, Wales’s industry has now ground to a halt.
Fix Us, presented by the BareFace Collective playing at the Underbelly Cowgate, is a defiant and inspiring look at how theatre and role play can help all of us to find our true sel…
Stamptown Newcomer Award winner 2018, Roisin Crowley Linton returns to Edinburgh with her signature blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting stand-up and personal storytelli…
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…
Very few of Edinburgh Fringe’s 4,000+ shows this year are able to boast being incomparable to all others.
Have you ever been to a supermarket and thought, “Hey, I really wish the staff would sing more?" Well, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society are here to make that wis…
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
Albert Einstein used to work in a patent office, reportedly because the mundanity and ease of the job allowed his mind to wander to more complicated concepts.
Sex Shells is a rampant and rambunctious hour of reverie, a camp cabaret that’s exceptionally remarkable in style.
Best Comedy winner, Brighton Fringe 2016 (Zach & Viggo).
Billed as part cabaret, part wannabe warehouse rave, my expectations were prepared.
Edinburgh-raised drag queen Ripley makes his Fringe debut this year with Like A Sturgeon.
Childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back after their smash-hit Fringe debut, serving up their dirtiest, most disturbing and patently misguided VHS finds from 25 year…
There is never a dull moment with Billie.
The legendary late-night variety show returns for one night only! An incredible line-up of cabaret, comedy and music acts from across the Fringe presented by Rhymes with Purple and…
Winner: Rising Star Award (TheMediaEye.
Wonder: a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable.
Jericho is a show about internet journalism, liberal hot takes, and professional wrestling, which is to say that it's managed to be about a lot of my niche interests.
Strike a pose at our gay and glamorous Les Odalisques inaugural gala, a riotous romp of lighthearted frivolity and hot-headed hijinks on and off the stage.
Ahir Shah returns to Edinburgh with a new hour of stand-up about life and what comes after, death and what comes before, and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Winner: Best Comedy Brighton Fringe (2016).
A raunchy, chaotic and full-on Fringe experience, Stamptown Comedy Night is a late-night variety show featuring the best comedy and cabaret on the international scene! Hosted by Za…
The Bear Pack is Sydney’s Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Steen Raskopoulos (Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia, BBC’s Top Coppers) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout) accompanie…
There’s a lot teenagers don’t know about the world.
Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe’s best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCA have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman a…
Their apartments share a view of the parking lot, but Dora and Ronnie haven’t met.
Spank! returns for an incredible 15th year with hilarious hosts, awesome comedians and gratuitous nudity.
Born in the depths of the underground LA music scene, funk-punk, intergalactic dance gods Thumpasaurus return to Edinburgh with an eclectic, homemade aesthetic unlike any other mus…
The electrifying new show from the gifted character comedian and improviser.
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…
A story of one of the 200,000 Koreans who were deported from the Russian-Korean boarder by the Soviet government in 1937.
Starr is a bag of nervous insecurity, wrapped up in a paper thin façade of theatrical overconfidence.
She’s a myriad of paradoxes.
Lil’s husband is lost in Gulliver’s Travels and now she has a mission of mercy to perform.
Winner: Best Cabaret, Melbourne Fringe 2017.
‘Is it too much to ask for everything?!’ she shouted drunkenly at a bin.
Giving up on your dreams isn’t always the worst thing in the world.
A one-man medley of action, comedy, characters and a car chase: Lewis Doherty presents WOLF.
London’s campest musical sketch comedy quartet is here to flame on your parade! Sex Shells is an explosion of original music, surreal sketches, wayward choreography and twisted rew…
A dynamic new play combining new writing and physical theatre, Loop is a journey through 50 years of life, love and music, a story of people evolving with the music they listen to.
Go and see this show right now.
Following the first space war of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, a lone detective is contracted to find the love in this absurdist, avant-garde, funk opera.
Felicity’s on a fantastic date.
A microphone shaped like the human head.
Mixing get-on-the-dance-floor music, rap and spoken word, Love Songs explores the personal and political puzzles of our love lives through the autobiographical poems of a hopeless …
Award-winning Irish comedian Danny O’Brien went to prison.
Pickle Jar takes us on the journey of an egocentrically flawed central character as she struggles to find her place in the world.
Winner: VAULT Festival Comedy Award.
Total sell-out 2005-2017 returns with a brand new line-up.
There are going to be two kinds of people who read this review: fans of Paul Foot, and people who are curious about Paul Foot.
Balloonatics is the award-nominated, world-travelled family comedy show for anyone crazy about balloons! Scottish comedian Chris Henry guarantees a chaos-filled, fun-packed hour of…
Character comedians Lola and Jo (**** (List)) are pretty certain they have a revolutionary show on their hands.
The invincible William Brown considers he is ‘jolly well equal’ to solving most of life’s trickier problems, although devising a plan to get the elder brothers of the Outlaws marri…
Welcome to the subconscious fantasy realm of oppressed white American men! Davey Anderson’s new play follows young Samuel into the alt-right.
In Underbelly’s Big Belly, the slow dripping from a leak in the roof onto the stage has never been a more apt presence in a production.
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.
All month I have spotted Scott Swinton, star of Karaoke Saved My Life, on the streets of Edinburgh, flyering for his show.
Experimental multimedia sketch show from Cambridge Footlights regulars for the fake news era.
The jig is up! Paul Williams is a quadruple threat – song, dance, comedy and opinion.
Hollywood has fallen.
Set in a near-future Britain where healthcare is privatised, a young couple’s relationship is quietly pulled apart by an aggressive lack of sleep.
Imagine the love-child of Saved by the Bell and Art Attack! That’s Lead Pencil and they’ve made a sketch show by literally sketching it.
Two women, one diagnosis and approximately seven different bathrooms: Flushed follows a changing time in the lives of inseparable sisters, Jen and Marnie.
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What does the transcript of a 17th century Italian rape trial reveal about the state of the world nowadays? That, despite 400 years of supposed social progress, the impulse to blam…
Walking into the dark depths of the Big Belly at Underbelly, my expectations are low as I take my seat and note there’s a leak in the roof above my chair.
Come onstage and fight for your life, hunt down the werewolves or laugh from the audience in this immersive comedy game show! A theatrical reimagining of the classic game of decept…
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s…
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 …
It’s time for the Big Shop, not to be confused with your ‘bits shop’ (which you might do at the little Tesco) or your ‘big wash’ (which is like the Big Shop but that’s not what we’…
You awake to find yourself in The Dark Room! You (the audience) must choose an option – will you A) Find the light switch? B) Cry for help? C) Go north? Come and play a live-acti…
One-night stands are awkward.
Comedy.
For most of us, our clothes are a major part of our identity.
Vice Captains are here.
Harpy is an intricate portrayal of a nuisance neighbour, with more nuances than one would expect to squeeze into a one hour show.
After their multi award-winning debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the hot gays are back.
A show about life.
A surreal and anarchic two-woman comedy packed with glitter, bug juice and desperation.
Bron is going on first dates.
Experience catchy AF original bangers*, too much confetti and distractingly sexy dance moves as NZ’s hottest new comedy duo take on all the most ridiculous trends in the world of p…
Nominee: Best Comedy Award – Fringe World 2018.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
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…
Join us for a one-off performance of The Starship Osiris, performed the way George Vere originally intended.
The multi award-winning show about Joan of Arc returns! Performed by drag king champion Lucy Jane Parkinson, history’s greatest gender warrior takes the stage dragging up as the me…
Uncle Glen’s Menagerie is the show that mixes top actors and improvisers — from the National Theatre, London’s West End and beyond — in scenes from theatre, film and television…
The Bear Pack is Sydney’s Steen Raskopoulos (Whose Line Is It Anyway – Australia, BBC’s Top Coppers) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout, Big Head Mode).
Ami and Tami is a reimagined Hansel & Gretel for the modern day.
Set in a bush, this play gets quickly into its own stride, with a persistent odd humour which flips on its head anything you thought you knew about a conversation between three you…
I spent last night from the hours of midnight to 2am being belittled, insulted and berated in every way I could imagine.
Beadledom, HQ of the universe.
Grandma is a drug dealer.
Muriel (Janine Harouni, Meg Salter and Sally O’Leary) are multi award-winning actresses and comedy performers.
Worklight Theatre return to Edinburgh with their brand new show Fix; a fusion of song, science and soliloquy investigating addiction in the UK today.
It’s a fair statement to make that there are both straight-up sceptics and those who actively try to believe when it comes to magic, but the fact still remains that an audience f…
It’s very easy to write a story that grabs someone’s attention.
If you are looking for an unpretentious, heart-warming comedy show at the festival, Quarter Life Crisis is where you will find it.
Accidental clown turned multi award-winning performer Sam Goodburn plays a dumbstruck young man the morning after his first steps into manhood.
Laughing Stock are a sketch comedy foursome who incorporate live music, dance and mime to create a narrative-driven show with hysterical characters and a quick, witty script.
Winner (People’s Champion) Amused Moose Comedy Award, ‘16 Edinburgh Fringe.
Award-winning Irish comedian Danny O’Brien returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his most adventurous and unique solo show to date.
One Devonshire lass and her cow in search for a tractor may not sound the most captivating plot premise you’ve ever heard, but Cow delivers brilliantly on it.
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
Curating a collection of the most bizarre instances of human behaviour recorded on esoteric VHS tapes, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher do little more throughout the evening than brief…
Gracefool Collective’s This Really Is Too Much blends dance, spoken word and physical comedy in a devised expressionistic theatre piece; revealing the absurd realities of life fr…
Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics.
How do you hold on to the world’s greatest escape artist? 10 years after the death of his father, illusionist extraordinaire The Great Ridolphi, Victor O’Meara is visited by detect…
Abi Roberts adorns her ushanka hat and jovially welcomes her audience into Anglichanka her cavernous theatre space at Underbelly Colgate with a thick Russian accent.
Culminating in an audience member punching a stuffed monkey named Jonnie whilst Paul Foot shouts ridiculous syncopated mottos about equality for all mankind, this show provides alm…
This dark one-man play is full of energy and intensity as David William Bryan perfectly encapsulates the abject isolation of binman Keith Goodman, known to all as Goody.
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.
‘Who is that?’, ‘Harry’, ‘He’s my favourite’, ‘I think he’s everyone’s favourite.
If I could bottle some of Zack Zucker’s confidence, enthusiasm and energy I could create a cure for depression and low self-esteem.
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.
What connects plastic penguins and the floundering middle class? Straight men and empty bottles of Gatorade? Melania Trump and the crumpled foil of a Ferrero Rocher? Julio Torres i…
Looking for a star-spangled adventure into science-fiction? The Starship Osiris is certainly not that: it’s much, much better.
It’s always difficult to tell a story that audiences are familiar with and manage to find a new way to engage them in it, but in Box Tale Soup’s new adaptation of Oscar Wilde�…
Total sell-out 2005-2016 returns with a brand-new line-up.
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.
Meet Diane Chorley, legendary 80s superstar, part-time piccalilli representative and full-time diva.
In The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classic is made ironically self-aware.
A one-man variety show by award-winning comedian Dave Bibby.
Not Cricket’s new production of Alice in Wonderland is a charming and whimsical piece that delights audiences both young and old with its blend of live music, puppetry and dance.
Beadledom, HQ of the universe.
In UCL Graters’ return to Edinburgh, even the refreshments are violent.
Viggo Venn’s act is a hard one to categorise.
An audience with the self-professed queen of the Fringe.
Jack Rooke won a scholarship to attend Westminster University to study Journalism.
Meet Zach & Viggo; Zach is a roguish American oozing with boyish charm.
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.
Denim, a drag Haus come girl band, are on tour and they’ve finally reached Wembley Arena (actually, the Belly Laugh at Underbelly).
Daniel Piper’s Day Off is a one man comedy show that goes through the different anxieties one feels when calling in sick to work.
Dust is not for the faint-hearted.
These four friends are absolutely obsessed with reality TV.
Blackbell House has a new governess: poor, plain, Frances Glass.
Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis does an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of the relationship between the audience and performer.
You’ve seen some comedy.
Steen Raskopoulos makes no effort to be cool on stage.
Take the premise of George Orwell’s 1984 and lighten it up with a few jokes and some pop culture references and you’ll already be halfway towards the dystopian future seen in R…
Fag/Stag written and performed by Aussie duo Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Chris Isaacs, explores what it means to have your best mate by your side when you’re stuck being your worst se…
Turpy – star of Climaxed (BBC Three) and Pop Sludge (4Music) – returns with a stand-up show/hour of performance art/arse flapping gently in the wind, which rodgers the system q…
Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming…
Sibling duo Otto & Astrid have abandoned their punk roots in search of commercial success.
Grigoriy Alexeivich Dhukov is one of the world’s greatest unsung literary talents.
Imagine a blockbuster movie: now imagine that movie where all the characters are played by an unassuming yellow sponge.
This is a very silly comedy about some very serious books (and poems and plays).
Adapting well-loved source material can be a tricky art, but Shedload Theatre have managed to maintain the essence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories in this riotous hour…
There are many different kinds of video games: roleplaying, shoot-em-up, strategy, the list is endless.
From the producers of bold, subversive and wonderfully camp comedy musicals: Margaret Thatcher: Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History, Prom Kween certainly has a lot going f…
Wow! The universe is mind-boggling! Isa Bonachera presents her debut Edinburgh show.
Enlightenment is an unusual concept.
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.
In Christeene’s second visit to Edinburgh she performs her latest show – Trigger.
The Bear Pack is Steen Raskopoulos (BBC’s Top Coppers, Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout).
Record-breaking beatboxer and looping technologist Shlomo has collaborated with Bjork, Damon Albarn, Rudimental and Ed Sheeran.
Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic.
Music + comedy x outstanding talent = Musical Comedy Awards! Fresh from our sold-out final at the iconic Udderbelly on Southbank, ‘wonderfully entertaining’ (Chortle.
Spank! returns for an incredible 13th year with sexy hosts, awesome comedians and the inevitable gratuitous nudity.
Jane Austen’s satirical novel, itself a pastiche of recognisable and well-worn tropes of the Gothic literary genre, is here given new life by company Box Tale Soup, consisting of…
The Hours Before We Wake presents us with a world where you can customise your dreams and upload them to DreamShare when you wake up.
Settling into my seat, I glance at the leaflet which had occupied it moments before.
Join New Zealand’s North Island provincial leader and stand-up comedian Heidi O’Loughlin in an insightful and no obligation orientation into the wonderful yet commanding power of t…
Double act Best Boy present an hour of sketch comedy.
Deadpan Theatre return to the Fringe after their sell-out success Get Your Sh*t Together, premiered at the Fringe in 2015.
Daniel Piper is in four gangs, and he’s going to tell you about them.
Nobody should spend their birthday alone.
A varied sketch comedy, Laughing Stock lives up to its name, parading numerous situations of self-deprecation before us providing much hilarity.
In the future, mimes are no longer physical theatre practitioners and have become the sole operators of the world’s time machines.
“You awaken to find yourself in a dark room”, it’s a phrase shouted many times during The Dark Room.
Some shows stick in your head even if they are flawed.
Too often Joan of Arc is depicted as a very quiet, very pure young woman who keeps her gaze firmly on her feet or to the Heavens: not very fun at all.
Using poetry, physical theatre, music and a limited amount of props, The Fast Food Collective’s new show is a thrilling romp through a night on the town.
Back again for his fourth time at the Edinburgh Fringe, Australian Rhys Nicholson’s fast-paced, intelligent wit has his audience engaged from the get go.
Kate Bush may well have adopted a new receptacle in the form of a skimpy harlequin from down under.
Imagination and reality collide in the world of Simon Slack.
Winner: Best Comedy, 2016 Adelaide Fringe.
For those who don’t know, the Grimm brothers are the authors of the famous book Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a huge source of inspiration for all kinds of modern myths and fables.
In a desolate space, probably in the middle of nowhere, stands a group of curious looking people.
For a comedian with such a cult following, renowned for surrealist originality, I was very excited about my first encounter with Paul Foot’s comedy.
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
Nicole Henriksen is an Aussie comedian and stripper and in this show, which harnesses skills from both professions, she gives the audience a clear rundown of what they’re going t…
Nowadays, stories of celebrity nudes abound, attracting much unwanted media attention and accusations of who’s to blame flying in every direction.
While acknowledging his immense talent, some reviewers have accused Steen Raskopoulos of going through the motions, trotting out the same tired routines he’s been spinning for…
In their homemade red and black jumpsuits (emblazoned with an enormous Z and V respectively), Zach Zucker and Viggo Venn are an odd pair — even at the Fringe, the spiritual home …
Triple Threat is a gloriously transgressive flurry of punky, feminist mayhem.
In Our Hands tells the story of Alf — trawler fisherman, boat captain, father — as he struggles with a changing industry, big business rivals, and his estranged son.
I attribute quite a lot of my adult personality to my love affair with girl power and how swept away I got in all things noughties.
Liz Miele is a smart, sardonic firecracker from New Jersey who’s been on the comedy circuit since the tender age of 16.
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
After the success of his Foster’s Award-winning hit show Funz and Gamez, Phil Ellis (north Manchester’s most reliable comedian) returns with a brand new hour of padded out fun.
Have you ever met someone so beautiful that you didn’t know what to say? And then have you ever found yourself just saying ‘Yeah’ to everything that they say because you’re…
At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed.
Patrick and Adele dream of having children of their own, yet their biological clock is ticking and here comes her solution: she picks up a homeless boy in Lidl (of all places) a…
Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice.
**** (Scotsman).
“So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.
Zoe Coombs Marr attracted attention at last year’s Fringe with her debut show Dave, performing in drag as a sexist stand-up with a severe distaste for political correctness who i…
Moving and funny, Maria Ferguson’s one-woman show, Fat Girls Don’t Dance, deals with issues relevant to today’s young women.
Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social work only to find herself involved in a controversial case bringing her into the media’s unforgiving gaze.
To say Dolly Wants to Die is a dark comedy is like saying water is wet: the irreverent jokes come left, right and centre, but only a few of them properly hit their target.
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
A solo piece of feminist writing from theatre company Flipping the Bird, Torch looked right up my street.
You’ve seen some comedy.
It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.
“I so wanted to please him.
Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years.
Forsaken love.
2016’s been a bit of a bumpy year to say the least so, it was only a matter of time before we started receiving advice from extra-terrestrials.
Dark humour can be a bit hit-or-miss.
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
Almost every review of Spencer Jones takes the lazy route of saying he’s like Mr Bean meets something/someone wacky.
There something quite exciting about the prospect of a new musical running at an hour without a big stage or fancy lighting or even a band and only three performers.
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…
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, you racist.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
US writer, actor and stand-up Joe DeRosa makes his highly anticipated UK debut.
Come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘sublime’, ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy, showcasing 60 minutes of student comedy at its finest.
Multi award nominated Inel Tomlinson is back with his sell-out show, Kinetic Comedy.
The wordless, 2014 sell-out hit returns for one week only.
Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick.
A mundane canteen situated in the unusual location of heaven itself, full of Hollywood legends trying to get a bit of peace in the afterlife.
Imagine a one-night stand you had resulted in a pregnancy and four months later you started a relationship off the back of it.
Spank returns for an incredible 12th year with sexy hosts, awesome comedians and inevitable gratuitous nudity.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
Three poles, three performers and a whole lot of juice.
Best word to describe Bruce, a show built entirely around a block of yellow sponge: Absorbing.
Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’.
What’s the deal with pizza? Single with cats? Finding Nemo’s girlfriend.
Keith Farnan recently became father to a baby girl.
In a field on the outskirts of Glastonbury sit Joel and Dave, recent university graduates, taking any work they can find.
Thrown into the lives of five characters, Ken Jaworoski’s Acts of Redemption reveals moments of loss, regret, realisation and confession, where a snippet of life is captured in a…
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…
This show is about ghosts having a pizza party.
Join the Mixtapers for their hilarious bitesized theatre inspired by music.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
On top of talent and comic-timing, McKeever has charm by the bucket-load.
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
I wanted to write you a heart-breaking song so epic it would get her back.
Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
“This is the story of the best week of my life”.
Billed as both musical theatre and performance art, the audience for Brigitte Aphrodite’s My Beautiful Black Dog, her autobiographical account of depression, is likely to bring v…
Outrageously over-the-top characters, a raucous Edinburgh Fringe audience and lashings of inappropriate advice from a self-styled flirt coach, sexologist and dating guru.
“He is my father… somehow,” says Ben Norris, cutting to the heart of a feeling many people have at some point in their lives.
John Robertson’s send up of classic text based video games succeeds in being an hilarious evening of retro fun.
The Durham Revue has a lot going for it this year – the group are all on top form.
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
Kraken, devised and performed by Trygve Wakenshaw, is a physically charged one man mime show.
“In hip hop, we create our own mythology”.
With her bright red hair and black-lined eyes, Penny Arcade looks like some sort of cartoon superhero – and she has the commanding stage presence you’d expect of one too.
Poppy must make a rather rapid readjustment to Year 11 after being abruptly relocated from Spain to a girls’ school in a remote British town.
‘God, what a day’ is the first thing said to us by Scaramouche Jones, the red-nosed, white-faced clown who – sensing the ghosts of an audience in his dressing room – decide…
Stuart Bowden’s voice emerges behind a curtain.
Written by Avital Lvova and George Vere, Rebounding Hail is set in a 13 year old girl’s room surrounded by her books.
Jack Rooke: Good Grief could probably win a prize for ‘comedy show with the least likely to be funny subject matter ever that actually turns out to be absolutely hilarious�…
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
Three performers and twenty five sketches, presented in a random order each night.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
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…
Multi-award winning performer Gabriel Bisset-Smith will take you on a journey of intergalactic travel, strange sexual positions, bizarre dance routines, Kanye West and unhinged mur…
Improvised comedy with a twist.
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…
Jean is sitting in a cafe enjoying a lobster bisque when a phone nearby starts to rings.
Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…
In her khaki jumpsuit and ponytail, writer-actor Rebecca Crookshank looks like a cute suburban 30-something.
From Fine Mess Theatre comes Kyle Ross’ play Islands, an insight into upper-middle class marriage which typifies the lifestyle of the ‘rah’.
Australia-based Malaysian comedian Ronny Chieng is bringing his multi award-winning stand-up comedy back to the UK.
‘Welcome to my mind.
Sad Faces challenge themselves and you with their adaptation of JR Chapterhouse’s devastatingly heartbreaking novel.
Antler’s If I Were Me is a visual treat.
Brand new stories-in-song from this award-winning master songwriter.
Sheffy is a lad on a mission.
Hips, tits and glamour galore.
‘Scripted comedy of the highest quality’ (Buxton Fringe).
There is something inherently heartbreaking about the small metal-framed chair standing centre-stage as the audience comes in, but no more so than when one of the show’s co-devis…
Delightfully oddball stand-up featuring stowaways, unsung heroes and a woman talking.
Giraffe are back! And they’re stampeding through the Underbelly with their third offering of charming silliness.
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
Alternative comedian, Joey, 30, one previous owner, with all of his own teeth and hair, has been on television (as seen on Nevermind the Buzzcocks, BBC Three Comedy Presents and No…
**** (Scotsman).
Surrealist comedian Paul Foot is an Edinburgh Fringe institution.
Luke Wright is a veteran Fringe performer and one of the UK’s leading spoken-word artists.
From the sweaty depths of their library on Cowgate, Matt Stevens and Glenn Moore give an entertaining hour of sketch comedy.
There’s no one quite like Neil Hamburger.
Spank! returns for an incredible 11th year with sexy hosts, awesome comedians and the inevitable gratuitous nudity.
Jana and Heidi starts with the blasé observation that Heidi Stransky had seen a comedian at last year’s Fringe Festival and thought “I could do that”, deciding to put toge…
The Secret Wives of Andy Williams is an enjoyable hour of theatre that is occasionally funny and often moving, with plenty of eccentricity to keep things interesting.
This raucous romp with a proclivity for puns and a lot of alliterative ardour flails ferociously to amuse.
Puppetry.
The first impression I got of Itai Erdal was of a man far too self-absorbed, verging upon vanity instead of showmanship; a man who proclaims he has travelled far and wide to some o…
What sounds can you make with just your body? Most us can manage the usual: speaking, shouting, applause.
‘The problem with being white, male, and privileged’ states Adamsdale in the opening few minutes of his latest show Borders, ‘is that I have absolutely nothing to say’.
“This is the time for you to win.
There perhaps could not have been a more timely play than We Have Fallen.
‘I see life as basically tragic and futile and the only thing that matters in life is making little jokes,’ wrote Edward Lear, a Victorian best known for his nonsense poetry an…
In this feminist retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, the desire to be human is not borne out of desire to find a Prince, but a desire to experience motherh…
Natasia Demetriou is new to solo shows.
Manuelita uses physical theatre, music, storytelling and comedy to tell the story of the lover and co-strategist of Latin America’s 19th century revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Man…
A quick glance into the Fringe brochure may lead an innocent punter to think The Interview is an intriguing show.
Journey into Dublin’s final port at the end of the night as wildlife reporter David Edenborough examines the mating rituals of the Irish.
Ned Kelly look-alike Ryan Coffey arrives in the burgh with vocal looping and a Fender Stratocaster to deliver some songs about relationships.
Returning to the Fringe for the third year running, this text adventure game-gone-big seems to have more lives than it gives its players.
The queue for this show was in itself an experience.
Rachael Clerke is Scot-ish (a category whose ambivalence, being Jew-ish, I totally get), as she demonstrates by wearing kilt hose with knackered trainers.
There is a single chair on stage, opening music plays and a phone rings.
At the opening of the show, we are invited to “follow the bee” and head to the bizarre land of zazU - a futuristic dreamworld where singing is outlawed and, when someone dies, the …
Over the years Vikki Stone has accumulated a wide array of musical instruments - twenty to be exact.
In the most private of places you can flush away dirt in an instant.
Paul Foot’s offstage microphone isn’t working, so the pre-show announcement of Paul Foot - Hovercraft Symphony in Gammon # Major is apparently ruined.
Under Peter Darney’s direction, Sasha Ellen’s Signal Failure is a romantic comedy that wanders happily between the serious and the downright silly.
If The Vagina Monologues was all about empowering women and reclaiming the C-word, it is fair to say that The Tarzan Monologues is the antithesis.
Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked is f*cking great.
With more raucous energy than a crate of Red Bull sprinkled with cocaine, Rob Cawsey and Gabe Bisset Smith under the collective guise Guilt & Shame bring their new show Going Strai…
Deadpan theatre’s Edinburgh debut touches upon many areas of life, from the most mundane to the deeply moving.
Inspired by changeling myths and the poetry of WB Yeats, Human Child is a blazing fantasy adventure story that mixes theatre, puppetry and live music for children from 8 to 80.
You can sense when an audience is tense even without turning around.
For the second year running, Sex With Animals hits the Fringe in an outrageously hilarious fashion with solo star Ryan Good taking to the stage in a lion onesie.
Bud wants to leave home, but when doing so breaks the tradition of four generations of farmers in rural West Wales, it is a tough decision for the aspiring artist.
On the day that I saw it, The Durham Revue was a victim of its own small audience.
**** (Scotsman) ***** (BroadwayBaby.
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has been running in various iterations since 1988, with an ever-changing roster of extremely short “plays.
Foil, Arms and Hog are a group of stylish Irish lads with an old-school, vintage look.
At first glance, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall appears a mild mannered, softly spoken young man, cutting an endearing figure as he gently chatted with the audience throughout the show…
It’s a habit of some shows to tell true and tragic stories in a good way.
Sabrina Mahfouz’s talent as a poet shines through in her latest play, Chef, and Jade Anouka gives a stunning performance in the titular role of this one-woman piece.
Thomas Pocket presents: Me (Oscar Jenkyn-Jones) is the debut solo show from exciting young absurdist Oscar Jenkyn-Jones.
Mush and Me is a fresh retelling of an old story, one in which faith catalyses what seems a painfully unnecessary conflict between lovers.
“I’m not going to speak” writes Hannah Moss on a whiteboard, silently, before wiping it clean, “It’s easier”.
The cult Irish festival makes its Fringe debut.
Bonenkai is a Japanese term meaning “forget the year gathering.
Creepy, award-winning and hilarious.
What is The Bastard Children of Remington Steele? It has enough energy to be many things and enough intelligence to do them well.
Take one man’s story telling of events from his past about which he still feels guilt, remorse, shame and weave through a good helping of physical theatre-cum-breakdancing par ex…
Ben Hart is the kind of magician that makes sceptics become believers.
There are quite a few shows every year which can’t be categorised in the traditional sense of the Fringe programme.
Stuart Bowden has fashioned his costume out of a lime-green sleeping bag, which becomes baggy and puffy like an emptied out bean bag around his body.
Tessa Waters is back this festival with the new solo show, Womanz.
Ali James, George Kemp and John Oakes comprise Giraffe, a hysterical sketch comedy trio bent on filling an hour of your lives with their own brand of hilarious original comedy.
The Lead Pencil sketch show is colourful, unabashedly silly and highly hyper.
The critically-acclaimed Oxford Revue returns to the Fringe for its 50th year, bringing an hour of hilarious sketch comedy written and performed by this year’s finest student comed…
Much like a comedian, only more hilarious, Charlie O’Connor promises laughter, confusion, merriment, and pungent hair envy in his sparkledragon of a show.
The nation’s favourite puppet clown duo are back with a spanking new cabaret.
Billed as ‘Comedy (mime, physical theatre)’ I was a little unsure about what to expect from Kraken, but whatever it was that I had been expected was soon proven to be way out.
The Grandees present the latest instalment of their totally stupid and completely hilarious sketch comedy.
Great theatre often takes deeply personal experiences and weaves them together into stories and sequences that tap into a universality and profundity that the experiences alone wou…