This monologue series is a blunt, brutal, but ultimately celebratory foray into how we handle human interactions.
Eirwaves is a satirical radio sketch show, taking an offbeat look at the not-so-swinging sounds of 1960s Ireland.
This playful, innovative and interactive play follows a young engineer trying to follow her heart and fall in love for the first time, against the ever-present pressure from her st…
The type of anger that you can’t normally show, but also the power we have to overcome things. Gary Thomas’s debut play transfers from Theatre N16.
Marilyn Monroe, movie star.
Reactivists bring you a new show each week, based on the news of the week before.
This play tells the story of Sophia, a street prostitute, and Serephina, a high class escort.
In their ninth Fringe run, Shellshock! bring you Shellshock! Improv Live!, a cheery mix of improvised sketches, stories and games.
Satirical pitch-black comedy chronicling the social media-induced breakdown and homecoming of a D-list celebrity.
This short, sweet and interactive one-woman show is an autobiographical journey through a life labelled as “disabled”.
The monstrous new comedy show by Sallyann Fellowes, is full of true and extraordinary tales.
Thought-provoking but with a humorous tone, this spoken word and physical theatre piece explores what it means to be a girl growing up today and the choices offered to young women.
Nonsilence is a solo piano and song performance with bilingual singer/songwriter Emer O’Flaherty.
Live sitcom from writer of Edinburgh Fringe hit Adrift.
Watch the evolution of Mickey Sharma from an Indian teenager into a British comic.
Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland.
Man And Boy is a perfectly poetic way to punctuate an otherwise hectic day at the Fringe.
Award-winning public speaker, comedian and psychotherapist Ola Aralepo presents his innovative practice, Stand Up Therapy: featuring jokes, storytelling, singing, TED Talks-style p…
Comedian Danny Lobell (This American Life, WTF, Modern Day Philosophers) has always been broke.
‘Tell me Connor, what happens when you run out? What happens when you take that last pill?’ With the clinical drug trial of Exspiravitacillin coming to an end, Connor faces losing …
Improved but not new, Wildly Unprepared return to the Fringe for our third year running! Our hour-long show is rife with quick and fun improv games that use audience suggestions to…
Typically performed from the back of a truck in New York, this surreal take on a seminar exhorting the effective use of language achieves the desired level of oddness, but seems to…
Date night: the time when friends, family and lovers come together (though not all together) to spend time, catch up and share stories.
Britain Does Variety 2016 finalist Johnny Kingshott brings his stand-up comedy show to Edinburgh.
Marcy loves Kanye West.
In 2015, Henry C Krempels was commissioned by VICE to write an article on the refugee crisis which was then at its peak.
The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond is one of those shows made up from two guys (most of the time), a collection of wigs, cloaks, scarves and, guns that are mixed together with a w…
Funny Bones and Wisdom Teeth is a one-man comedy show written and performed by ex-doctor and dentist, and retired comedy writer and performer, Ray Lowry.
Procrastination may confound human progress and productivity, but it also provides the inspiration for Brick by Brick’s fantastic, multimedia clown show.
Growing Pains Theatre Company offers its Edinburgh debut, a confessional piece of drama exploring the fraught path from adolescence to adulthood.
No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers.
Two quirky ladies.
The fact that Home is “partly based on true events” makes Cate and Gia’s situation all the more distressing.
Human, a recently deceased teenager, full of life (ironically) and unwilling to move on.
Wisebowm is the musical comedy scene’s rising star, a self-titled Urban Poet and a ‘very deep thinker’.
Jack and Louisa stand up so that you can sit down. Or stand up too. Just please stay.
PALP are back with a riotous melange of contemporary comedic parables.
Drolls, Brice Stratford tells us in the show’s scholarly introduction, were originally performed by half-drunk actors in covert locations on raucous evenings during the Puritan I…
Spoonface Steinberg, written by Lee Hall, premiered as a radio play which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.
Shellshock! returns for their eighth Fringe run with Shellshock! Improv Live!, a fun improvised comedy show filled with scenes, sketches, stories and games improvised entirely on t…
Tagged follows Glaswegian teens Seanette and Lynn as they navigate a cycle of crime, reoffending and breaching court orders.
Shite takes you on a romp through the trials and tribulations of the modern-day workplace.
You don a white mask and read a list of instructions upon entering The Space at Jury’s Inn.
Catherine Waller’s ‘body morphs almost supernaturally into distinct personalities.
TV comic Bentley Browning stars as himself, North London’s most boring priest Rev Rupert Williams, failed rock star Steve Plimpton, and ex glamour model Melinda Middleton.
How does breaking up work in the digital age? Are we really that OK? A comic examination of one woman’s race to the bottom both on and offline and the gap between the two.
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? This girl will tell you! Written and performed by Eme Essien, this hilarious new one-woman show invites viewers…
Funny moments exist in all relationships.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
Mavericks: A Sketch Show (of Sorts) is the product of talented comedy duo and Cambridge Footlights members Ruby Keane and Luisa Callander.
Welcome to Dreamform.
In the same way that a musical blends theatre with music, Strangers: A Magic Play blends theatre with magic.
We always strive for those eureka moments, the top 1% of ideas, but what about the other 99%? Rubbish right? Wrong.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
Absolutely implausible and performed implausibly too: there are moments where Sins Borne’s premise works but they are too sparse.
London Paris Roam! She’s bossa’d in Brazil, jived in Japan, vamped in the Vatican, feasted in France, indulged in Italy and now, to be honest, needs a bit of a break.
In a desperate attempt to get some Edinburgh nookie, Jiggle & Hyde present a sketch show to woo, amaze and amuse.
Carrie Clairvoyant has never succeeded in raising a genuine spirit until dead rock star Dean takes up residence in her house, leaving Carrie with no option but to call her estrange…
Jack BK’s original written piece deals with class struggles, privilege and ignorance in a clear and effective way.
Two shows, two actors and two classics – hear the true story about the love between two sisters followed by the tale of hatred between two souls.
What do you call a night where you speak to spirits, win prizes and get your hands on toys that would make your nana blush? One actress, seven characters, total mayhem! Double Dipp…
Shellshock! are back at the Fringe for our seventh year running! Join us as we improvise scenes, stories, sketches and games entirely on the spot, based on your suggestions.
It’s 2015.
Corner Talk theatre really manage to capture the chaos of life with their devised piece of compiled short scenes all centred round the single piece of set: a bench.
Trying to keep up with the ever changing and intense plot of Dario Fo’s fast paced and absurd play can often be a challenge that leaves many productions lagging behind the playwr…
More parody, poetry and mischief from the man with the thin white uke. ‘I’ve seen better looking faces on an Easter Island postcard!’ (Polynesian Enquirer).
It is a disturbing but all too common tale: girl meets boy, falls in love, and gets tricked into a life of prostitution.
Banter and silliness are the driving force of this Cheltenham sketch comedy troupe.
A snappy, intelligent, and at times surreal sketch show that readily mocks itself, its members and the meaning of life.
Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl…
A slick absurdist piece, PALP’s One Above is an intelligent offering from the young company.
Offering “a modern, alternative view to the story of Lady Macbeth”, Hell Hath No Fury certainly has an intriguing premise.
A new play from South African playwright Amy Jephta, Flight Lessons sees actress Saria Steel play two friends on opposite sides of the world.
Everyone has a story. This is mine. A one hour autobiographical performance of one man’s story about his drug addiction.
The legal stage is not unlike the theatrical one.
A man is desperate for a job.
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
Different is Dangerous is a production from double team Nyla Levy and Fadia Qaraman’s group Two’s Company.
A darkly comic monologue by DC Moore (Alaska, The Empire) exploring the lies we tell and the fallout when the truth is revealed.
The expression ‘it’s a crime’ is too often used when, perhaps, ‘it’s a disgrace’ would suffice.
Three actors, one hour.
Confessions at 7, 10, 28 and 50 years old, from a Scouser who is now a long way from home.
Tobolly Theatre Company from the States is thrilled to bring you two of Samuel Beckett’s short masterpieces, Not I and Rockaby.
Goethe’s best-known novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, finds elegantly concentrated expression in this short one-man performance.
AhhGee presents the #AhhGeePodcastLive.
Who Rowed Across Oceans is a brave new obituary play that asks the question how does a life get lived? Inspired by Margalit Fox’s New York Times obituary of John Fairfax, a poetic …
Canterbury may have one of the world’s most famous cathedrals, but Manchester had the Hacienda.
A soldier sits in an anonymous room.
Like a Virgin has an intriguing concept, promising bubble-gum pop and teen rites of passage.
In the 1970s, 9,000 people were employed at the Linwood car factory near Paisley.
Susie Sillett has always disliked women, she explains.
Phlash! is a confusing mess of a show.
Winner of the 2014 Scottish Daily Mail and Drama UK Edinburgh Festival Fringe Drama Award.
Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up.
The spoken content of this play, written and directed by Adam Tulloch, is minimal; the direction is bold and brave.
There are some excellent one-woman shows out there, but this one doesn’t have much to offer.
This is a one man production of Voltaire’s Candide, a satire about a young man who believes firmly that this is the “best of all possible worlds”, despite the increasingly ho…
Meet Adele, a single mother from Manchester who nervously steps out of the cold and into a therapist’s room for the first time.
We are promised an “epic tale of love, loyalty and logistics” and, with varying degrees of each, that is what we get.