Fest 2022 Issue 2

FELTNEVERBETTER Reviews Features Listings 17 - 23 Aug Free Festival Guide festmag.com Randy Feltface takes on humanity Inside: Sugarcoated Sisters The Chosen Haram Bianca Del Rio Stewart Lee GoodBrotipoGrief

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Contents5Fest 2022 Issue 2 Image credits (top to bottom, left to right): Iain Laidlaw; Matt Crockett; Steve Ullathorne; Rebecca Need Menear; Jack Ehlen; Glen McCarty; Youssef Shoufan8Alienation Never Felt Better Randy Feltface takes on the world 12 Bianca vs Myra A waspish chat with Bianca Del Rio and Myra DuBois 36TheatreGood Grief Profound and riotiously funny Dance, Physical Theatre and Circus 51 The Chosen Haram Astonishing circus and storytelling 15 Bring it Online Fringe stars going viral 21ComedyVidura Bandara Rajapaksa The sit down stand-up UnionCanalTowpath TheRadical Plac Melvin BainfieldPlace GroveStreet GroveStreet Terrace Lennox StreetOxfordTerraceDeanParkCrescent AnnStreetRoadow Brae UCH OR HorseQueen’sHolyroodParkDriveeen'sDrivilmorePlaceFountainbridgeDundeeStreet bbey Abbeyhill WestApproachRoad tonPlace HOWE DE HA WE DeanBridge Road ERKTREET MelvilleStreet StaordStreet WilliamStreet AMBERSSTREET RR 391 170 288 272 124 43 15 59 23 76 231 302 64 Map & Listings Find a show with our hour-by-hour listings and street map 60KidsBrotipo Stripped back circus

walk from Dean Village to Stockbridge along the Water of Leith. I sometimes go there with a book and sit on a bench whilst the world walks by. Morning

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The best show that clashes with ours? I would have to say The Smeds and the Smoos at Pleasance Courtyard. Luckily for us it is being performed on our day off so I might get the chance to see it. I am also quite intrigued by the giant puppet show Dragons and Fantastical Beasts at McEwan Hall. Perfect Day

FortunaofCourtesyImage: UnsplashonMichaelaImage: DeanstonCameronPhoto: If I go out for breakfast I might head to the Fortuna Cafe on Queen Street. It’s quite close to where we stay when in Edinburgh – the coffee is great and the staff are lovely. As are theirThere’spastries.anice

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People think that The Gruffalo lives in a deep dark wood but actually he lives in a cave and has been scared away from woodland by the mouse in the story. So maybe you could find him in the Edinburgh Vaults under the South Bridge, if you go on one of the historic or ghost tours. No promises though. For all I know he might have ventured out to Arthur’s Seat.

SHOW The Gruffalo, the Giant and the Mermaid with Julia Donaldson

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F or lunch I would suggest Howies on either Waterloo Place or Victoria Street where you get Scottish food at its very best.

M y favourite restaurant for supper is Cafe Marlayne on Thistle Street. It isn’t a big restaurant and has a brilliant reputation so we have to plan ahead if we want to go there. We are big fans of the Edinburgh Filmhouse. We can walk there and there are always really interesting films, sometimes foreign ones with subtitles which I like be cause my hearing isn’t great.

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I love strolling around the Royal Botanic Garden, and there are plenty of benches to flop on if the strolling gets tiring.

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We’ve booked for Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time which promises to be a brilliant musical experience, and for a play called Bloody Difficult Women, about the court case against Theresa May. And because our own show is in Underbelly’s Purple Cow we get free passes to see any Underbelly show which isn’t fully booked, and that is bound to mean some great comedy shows.

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Tamara Mathias jumps on an extraordinary Zoom call with our favourite purple comedian to chat about bad felt days, the climate emergency and his longawaited return to the Fringe

I t’s been six years since Randy Feltface graced the Edinburgh Fringe with his cer ebral, digressive brand of funny. Since then the globetrotting puppet has released five specials, made his American TV debut and found fame on YouTube and TikTok. “The last time I was at the Fringe I got nominated for best comedy, so I thought it best never to return!” he says. Luckily for audiences, the apocalypse is coming and the planet is dying, which means Randy’s return to Edinburgh can shake us all out of our pessimistic inaction. As can be expected from someone adept at performing from the waist up, the puppet’s Zoom call manner is impeccable. Dressed in a spiffy blue waistcoat and chequered tie, he breaks into a trademark jig when the word ‘Edinburgh’ is brought up. “I am SO EXCITED to perform for a Scottish audience again. What I’ve noticed when I’m on tour now is that people who’ve seen me on the internet are showing up to see me in real life. It’s so much fun and I’d love to see how that phenomenon translates to the Fringe. Besides, I can never have a bad felt day in Edinburgh weather.” So far, Randy has written a novel and started a religion (it helped that he already had a cult following), so it comes as little surprise he’s now here to save the world with some welltimed reflections from an outsider’s perspec tive. For a generation mired in climate change, political disillusionment, an energy crisis and a fast-spreading viral disease, there is a ten dency to become disenchanted with the idea of working towards change, simply because achieving a utopian future seems impossible. With his new show Alien of Extraordinary Ability, Randy takes on the Sisyphean task of challenging that mindset in a theatrical performance. There’s music, swearing and ‘all the bells and whistles that come with a Randy Feltface live stage event’, even as he aims to deliver audiences with (a glimmer? A ray? Randy will accept even a soupçon of) hope. After all, the only way forward is living in the now and recognising that working toward an imperfect, but improved, future is a worthy goal in itself. “I’m talking about the eradication of spe cies, evolution and my own personal extinc tion,” he says. “While there’s a lot to be angry about at the moment, I just want to celebrate that we’re still here and there’s still time.”

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For Randy, fighting the good fight is per sonal. Like many endangered creatures, he’s the last of his kind. A fact which makes him passionate about social change. “I spent the COVID-19 lockdown like everyone else – baking "I’m talking about the eradication of species, evolution and my own personal extinction"

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the Randy we know does pos sess an extraordinary ability – he manages to challenge audiences to introspect, learn and grow, all while doubling over with laughter.

As an alien who spends his days traveling the world, Randy admits he is not quite the person of colour people are accustomed to meeting. “I’ve never experienced xenophobia since no one has ingrained biases about the way I look. So I’m in this incredible position of privilege to disarm folks and then talk about a whole range of subjects,” he explains. “If I walk on stage as a bearded, 41-year-old white man, the audience will have preconceived ideas of what the show might be. When I look like this, they’re curious and I can sneak a few more thingsRandyin.” tells stories about his experiences as an alien – an identity he’s never felt more acutely than when the American immigration department required him to demonstrate he had exceptional talent in order to enter the United States. “The visa is actually only granted if you can show that you are an ‘Alien of Extraordinary Ability’,” Randy laughs. “Somehow this idea of proving one’s worth as an artist really made me think.”

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The result is a show that aims to envision a path forward from the chaos that is now, and the Armageddon that is tomorrow. For a puppet inclined to be verbose, Randy has a surprisingly succinct answer when asked what he hopes the legacy of his new performance will be: “I just want people to have a good time.” Just kidding. His exact words were, “Financial security for me and conscious escapism for my Eitheraudience.”way,

all the bread, planting all the vegetables and having all the existential crises. But I also got a lot of writing done and I’ve spent the last year touring with two shows concurrently. My tolerance for intolerance is at an all time low and I’m going to unapologetically use my platform to say exactly what I want and have a very nice time.”

SHOW Randy Feltface: Alien of Extraordinary Ability

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Bianca: The thing is, after Myra goes on I have to go on and bring some beauty to the evening. Usually, we get to hear certain jokes here and there from the wings, but I have not sat down and watched a full Myra show. I’m looking forward to getting to do it at the festival for the first time.

Interview: Ben Venables B en: How would you describe each other’s shows?

Myra: It’s not that we’ve seen each other’s work and liked it, it’s more that we make each other laugh in real life. I think that goes a long way. It’s less about being on stage, it’s more about how you get on in a dressing room.

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Ben: The difference here in Edinburgh though is that this is Bianca’s first time at the Fringe, whereas Myra is a seasoned performer here, if you don’t mind me describing you that way Myra?

Myra: I too have never really seen a full Bianca show. I have been in the building while they’ve been happening, but I turn the monitor off.

Bianca Del Rio and Myra DuBois are used to touring together but now perform their separate shows in Edinburgh. We sat down for a waspish chat

Bianca: Don’t you lie! The monitor never works in your room. Myra: No, I always make sure I watch Bianca because I want to learn. Because, you know, sometimes it’s important to learn what not to do.

Bianca: He just called you old. Myra: Yes, he’s saying ‘It’s your first time Bianca Del Rio Feature

Bianca: Well, what’s funny is I’ve never seen a full Myra show. So this will be the first time I actually get to be an audience member.

Bianca: For me, when I’m touring in the UK and Myra opens I know I can trust her. I know that she knows what she’s doing. I know that she’s a professional. You don’t want somebody that’s a bigger pain backstage than they are onstage.

SHOW Myra DuBois’ A Problem Shared VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square TIME: 7:45pm – 8:45pm, 3–28 Aug, not 16

Bianca Del Rio doing the Fringe, Bianca, but Myra’s career has stagnated for five years’!

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Ben: Is it particularly nice to do all these things because we’re coming back from the pandemic? Bianca: Last August, right after the pandem ic, I was amazed because the audiences were exciting, they were fun, they were energetic. I think everybody had this built up energy from being at home. During the pandemic, what Myra and I both talked about was: are we ever going to work again? Is there ever going to be an audience? Are we ever going to have people wanting to see us? Myra: And, I’ve certainly come out of it with a ‘say yes to everything’ attitude. There were moments in the pandemic where I thought, will I ever get to stand on a stage and do what I do again? Now, every time someone wants me to do something, if I can fit it in, I’ll do it.

Ben: Now, Bianca has come to the UK, are there plans for, or have you been, Myra, to support Bianca in America at all? Myra: No, I fucking haven’t! She won’t pay for a visa for me. Bianca: You wouldn’t believe what we have to pay in hotel room fees after she leaves. I’m not gonna say much, but last time we were in Scot land we were charged a pet fee for Myra’s room. A pet fee was involved and added to the bill.

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Bianca: And no offence, Ben, but we’re doing this interview with you. We’ll do anything.

Bianca: Well, I don’t think he needed to ex plain the obvious... I think since I met Myra, and it’s been eight years, I’ve been chasing what ever was in front of me. In my life I have a lot of, ‘Well, you should come to do this, then you should do that’. And the Fringe is a different thing. I’m like, let’s go, let’s try this, let’s do the challenge. Also, I get to see other performers.

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The Sugarcoated Sisters and Kylie Brakeman chat about their experiences on TikTok

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Interviews: Funmi Lijadu T he Sugarcoated Sisters have a TikTok audience of almost 400,000. Together, Chloe and Tabby Tingey perform satirical songs and aren’t afraid of getting personal. A video they shared in March – on their experiences with diabetes and bipolar disorder respecively –struck a chord, with the video currently at 1.2 million likes and counting.

Tabby adds: “Performance is a really inter esting landscape to navigate. I trained as an actress and Chloe trained as a musician. But

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“When we first joined the app we weren’t going into it to do musical comedy,” Chloe says. “But we started scrolling and realised there’s comedy on here, there’s acting on here. And then we went, ‘oh we could do that’.”

On Instagram, I feel like that’s my comfort zone right now for sketches. TikTok is a mystery to me. There are these kids with seven million followers and I’m like, I will never compete with them.” The virtual sphere, where follower counts mean so much, may seem like a difficult place to compete but both Brakeman and The Sugarcoated Sisters can argue that they’ve surpassed this world by turning their online success into a fully-fledged Fringe debut.

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For the duo, there is a difference between performing virtually and performing live, with Chloe noting that on TikTok “the video sinks or swims within the first 24 hours”. There’s also the dynamic spirit of live performance, which can’t be fully replicated online.

Kylie Brakeman also arrives at the Fringe with a healthy social media following. The US comedian and actor is known for thrilling her 186,000 TikTok followers with socially relevant quips and zany ‘wine mom’ characters. But Kylie’s journey started on the stage before she ever built a following online. “I was doing improv in college for a full year and it instilled a lot of the rules of comedy in me,” she says. “Then when the pandemic hit, everything shut down. I was making videos to hold myself accountable and I never thought that they would blow up in the way that they did. It became part of the routine of ‘okay, you get up, it’s anoth er day in quarantine, we’ll try and make a video’. And if not, we do a Brakemanpuzzle.” has garnered audiences across multiple social platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Twitter. Noting the differences, she says, “Each site wants diatelyatsensesecondtopicalTwittercompletelysomethingdifferent.wantscerebralstuffbuttheTwittercanthatyoutriedsomething,itimmeturnspeopleoff.

“When you’re doing a comedy song where there’s audience interaction, laughing and they’re reciprocating something in that mo ment, it’s like all of the songs are alive, there’s push and pull there,” Tabby says. “And it’s like, how far can we go in this section? There’s a level of judging it as you go along.”

Chloe and Tabby reiterate a number of times how grateful they are to be able to bring their work to a live audience, while Brakeman is keen to interact with that audience as much as possible“There’s going to be a little bit of audience interaction,” she says. “My favourite moments on stage are when I find something new. If the

when I was at drama school, I was always told by our mum that I should do comedy. We have quite a big family and we have always had comedy as a form of catharsis for dealing with things. Everything has always come back to comedy for us.” The Sugarcoated Sisters explore everything from the mundane to the problematic in their videos. As Tabby explains: “Feminism is political and misogyny is political. It’s all interlinked; satire has been around for as long as people were standing up and talking about things. Performance is a refreshing way for us to deal with things that are going on in the world and it’s also a universal language, really.”

SHOW Kylie Brakeman Presents: Linda Holly wood’s Big Hollywood Night

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A coach once told me that you have to have sympathy for your character no matter what. And I like to try and punch up and sideways. “I think I’m generally attracted to stories with women who are delusional,” she says. “I think delusion is very funny. I’m trying to put myself out there and have a delusional, hope ful summer. You have to be slightly delusional to succeed, that’s what I’m

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The general aim for The Sugarcoated Sisters with this show is to celebrate woman hood and female perspectives, but with a side of tenderness and biting humour as well.

SHOW Sugarcoated Sisters: Bittersweet

audience says something unexpected and you’re able to bat it off, it can be a very fun moment because nobody knows what’s going to happen Speakingnext.”ofwhat to expect from their show Bittersweet, Tabby says: “Men are over represented in comedy and we’re not happy about it. You’ll love one of our songs in the up coming show. It’s called Women Aren’t Funny.”

Brakeman, meanwhile, aims to critique power structures in her comedy: “I always like to try and punch up as much as possible.

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A big thank you to everyone that made it along on the night and to The Skinny’s Tom McCarthy for all his efforts with the planning and organisation. See you next year?

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B elieve it or not, Fest celebrates its 20th anniversary this August and so naturally, a banging party was in order.

First launched as a thrice-weekly paper in 2002 by a pair of young journalists (Helen Pidd, now the North of England editor at The Guardian, and Dan Lerner), we’re now proud to be a long-serving official media partner to the Fringe with market-leading criticism, award-winning writers and a bur geoning presence in Adelaide, Australia. All of this and more make this year’s mag azines extra special but we were also keen to mark our grand return after a pandemic-induced hiatus. So as well as the beautifully updated design you have in your hands, we threw a lovely shindig for our industry friends and colleagues at Fruitmarket to honour the anniversary. Fueled by delicious local ginsmiths Pickering’s, we danced the night away to tunes supplied by The Skinny and Fest DJs. All guests were also treated to free tote bags co-branded by our friends at From Start to Finnish, which included delicious Blanco Niño tortilla chips and cans of post-social replenishment drink Bounce Back

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VENUE: Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive) TIME: 1:55pm – 2:55pm, 4–28 Aug, not 15, 16

HHHHH There are no great revelations in Vidura Bandara Rajapas ka’s anecdotal Fringe hour, no radical reinvention of the stand-up form. Indeed, in this relaxed, undemanding afternoon show, which he performs seated throughout, only occasionally leaning forward to make the mildest emphasis, the much-travelled 27-year-old Sri Lankan gives the impression that comedy is only the latest phase in his drifting vagabond existence, hardly his vocation. Regard less, he’s a gifted storyteller and has already lived quite the cross-continental life, having spent time in the US, Malaysia and Berlin after departing his homeland, before ultimately arriving in the UK. He offers a well-judged balance of personal mate rial and informed cultural analysis, on everything from Buddhist militancy to Teutonic sex clubs. Even when the whips and chains are flailing, he remains a wry, detached observer. And when it emerges that a girlfriend has been covertly using him as an ethnic case study for her thesis, he’s not outraged but incredulous, envisioning the ridiculous logical end point of her method. At various times poor or comfortable, marginalised or accepted, privileged or disenfranchised, depending on where he’s been, Rajapaska is especially compelling on the immigrant experience. He marvels at the illegal daring of his gay friend in Malaysia. And he has a keen satirical eye for inequality, coercing you into seeing afresh aspects of Western and UK society that you’d otherwise take for granted. Shared in a light, unshowy spirit of connection, it makes for a thoroughly enjoyable debut. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Hag HHHHH In 2019, Sophie Duker made her Edinburgh debut with Venus, a show about her life as a Black, pansexual woman. It earned her an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Newcomer; she was the first Black woman ever to be up for the award – but now she’s back, older, wiser and mature enough to properly speak her mind. “I don’t know what your dreams are, but I know they’re stupid,” she says to a group of themeansyears,19-25-year-oldsinnocent-looking(theworstaccordingtoDuker).Shebusiness.Ittakesawhiletokickstartmainnarrativeof

Hag, but once it does, it flies. With glee ful knowingness, she takes us back to her childhood spent in Ghana with her “power stinking” Granny, affectionally known as Ma. But it is the tales from her journey on a lesbian cruise, alongside “700 adult women”– that she “accidental ly” and “deliberately” ended up on in her early 20s that get the most belly laughs. It is a whirlwind of sexual awakening – and we are right there with her. There’s an elaborate and bawdy re-enactment of heterosexual sex, where she likens the role of women to a cup. She urges us, over and over again to have a threesome. It’s spikier and more frisky than her first show, but Duker’s gentle prodding of her audience for being white and rich remains. Not scared to push the boundaries, she has perfect ed a cool-girl persona that has us clinging to her every word. ✏︎ Anya Ryan

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Alok Vaid-Menon moves from playful to intense and intense to playful in a many-hued hour of comedy and poetry. Their delivery is similarly layered. Sometimes their voice stabs with staccato rhythms, beating with a resolute pur pose. Western traditions and institutions are compared to a performative art; the strange preoccupation people have when asked to enlarge their

ALOK creates vivid pictures from their family history, such as their father’s bribes to cheer them on to the sports field. Not that ALOK plays ball, an irony given today’s culture war about sports. Later, they present a concise history of medicine. A history which in forms a current lack of refine ment, forcing doctors to hand out non-diagnoses which are no more than a blame game. It’s a situation which leaves patients in flailing attempts to find answers elsewhere – hyp notism via Zoom, anyone? If the enraged spleens that blame outsiders for the col lapsing structure of western civilisation are correct, it perhaps isn’t unreasonable to ask those with experiences such as ALOK to help replace it. At least then it’d be a civi lisation with nuance. Mean while, more modestly, we can settle for a comedy hour with a refreshing point of view. Traverse Theatre TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 9–21 Aug,

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Keyworth speaks fondly of their friend and writing part ner, Paul Byrne who passed away last year. He was the funniest person, they tell us –and it certainly seems like they had a blast. To cheer them up in lockdown, he even made an X-rated version of a Where’s Wally puzzle, with a willy hidden instead to find. ✏︎ Anya Ryan

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HHHHH This is not the show that Sarah Keyworth had wanted to perform. But, after a year dominated by coronavirus, grief and the breakdown of their five year relationship, a “silly” show where they were supposed to be carried in by a wrestler just didn’t feel right. Instead, most of their jokes come from moments of difficulty and upset. They are in sessions with “the cheapest therapist in London”, whose sky-high prices make them aware of the cost of every second that ticks by. Their “covid-casualty” break-up has meant they could write a “thesis” in the art of female masturbation. They even start ed sleeping with their best friend of 10 years. Spoiler, they are now together, but that only means Keyworth has to con stantly fight against not being a paedophile for first meeting her when she was 16. Still, it is as tender as it is amusing.

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HHHHH You’ll likely have an opinion on Stewart Lee. There’s a good chance that it’s related to your politics – he’s beloved of sensi tive left-leaning types and singled out for savage oppro brium by right wing grifters, who view him as a torchbearer for politically correct comedy. Even for those who find them selves in agreement with the gist of Lee’s social commen tary, the shows can be hard work, heavy on repetition and of deconstruction of the form, punctuated with the odd conventional joke – but only to show you that he can, how easy this is. Snowflake is a magnificent hour of comedy. Lee is at his irrepressible best, hitting the sweet spot between meandering subversion and punchy, instant laughs. Few are better at playing to a small club with a mic and righteous fury – but there’s adventure here, some production value for your entrance fee; a be spoke neon sign bearing the show’s title, an acoustic guitar waiting to be played, and a dress code – Lee is kitted out in a baby blue suit jacket more befitting of a Eurovision host than the gritty, sweary, shouty voice of the liberal elite. The narrative focus sees Lee reckon with and reflect on his role in the current comedy landscape. He plays with the idea that comedians “can’t say anything”, but simultaneously get to say all of those things in exchange for considerable streaming dollar. Hardly a groundbreaking observation, but it’s how he does it. There’s a gleeful spring in his step as he goes about his business. A wordless stretch about Ricky Gervais’ Sisyphean struggle to “say the unsayable” ranks as one of his best ever bits. Fury aside, the whole thing feels like a celebration of stand-up. He acknowledges those lonely pandemic years and breaks character to disarmingly tell us how he missed playing to audienc es, recommending half a dozen shows at his hour’s conclusion. It seems like he’s having fun. The king of woke, politically correct comedy? Long live the king. ✏︎ Craig Angus The Stand’s New Town Theatre 1:50pm – 2:50pm, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 16

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HHHHH VENUE: Laughing Horse @ The Counting House TIME: 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 4–28 Aug a bit of everything: romance, global politics, explicit sex scenes, graphs, a virginity guessing game and, most importantly, Sam See, who ra diates effervescent positivity even when the subject turns darker. He even provides branded hand-fans, having played the toasty Attic before –which then advertise this show everywhere else they’re flapped, of course. See really has thought of everything. Si Hawkins Comedy

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It is, you have to admit, an intriguing title. What hap pens when a gay comedian is asked to run a series of sex seminars in the National Library of Singapore, a nation where being a gay anything is definitely not encouraged? He takes the job and writes a show about it, naturally. Quite a few weeks it was too, as those panel discus sions were the catalyst for an intense affair with a leading medical figure, and an eventual revelation that leads See to look at relationships in a whole new light. And he’s very keen to share the knowl edge he amassed during that process: you will walk out of this show armed with facts about our procreational pro clivities that should enliven even the dreariest dinner party. Not that our host is big on important take-homes: “Don’t take advice from come dians!” he yelps, and cites the ludicrous amounts many comics are gambling to stage Fringe shows. Admittedly that’s the set-up for an excel lent bucket speech – there’s an entertaining donation chart, and rewards – and lots of thought has clearly gone into this show generally. It has Sam ApprovedGovernmentSee:Sex

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Emu up there as a master of most of the trades he’s plying. Emu’s back after a disas trous 2016 Scandinavian gig where he accidentally insulted one of his biggest fans, and this is his mission to get everyone in the world to like him again. With his dad on his back – beaming in on FaceTime to explain how disappointed in him he is –and an irate goblin to win over, he tries all the tricks to make himself more palatable to his global audience. This is achieved mainly through a combination of musical comedy, quick-fire multimedia and unexpected existentialism – although mashed together in Emu’s inimitable way, they do make You Shouldn’t Have feel like a mild fever dream. There’s just something not quite right about how E mu’s mind works, and the introduction of Rice Krispies’ uncanny fourth mascot, alongside Emu’s unforgiving goblin nemesis, gives the show the off-kilter bent that makes it worth spending an hour in his company. ✏︎ Kirstyn Smith Jazz Emu

In the way he moves his limbs and body, as though they’re separate from each other, but still somehow in sync, Jazz Emu is like someone crossed Jarvis Cocker with his eponymous flightless bird. His absurd physicality, added to impressive wordsmithery and musical aptitude, puts Jazz

HHHHH VENUE: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose TIME: 9:15pm – 10:15pm, 8–21 Aug 30 Comedy festmag.com

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JerrardGabyofCourtesyImage: unpack in what amounts to an hour of horror-inspired psycho drama. Maybe even too much. One key theme is around the psychological trauma adults inflict upon children, which they then completely disown – a theme lovingly linked to the novels of Stephen King whose child pro tagonists know they can see monsters, though the adults responsible for them deny it. A repeated motif of her mother and others delivering bizarre truths at bedtime provides reliable, complicated laughs, and a great deal to think about as Lyons’ grapples with her own daytime profession as a teacher trying to both validate and nurture the young people in her charge. A further theme is around sexual violence, and there’s a fantastic exposition of the ways performance and clowning can be used to confront and externalise rather than internalise this trauma. Lyons is a) hilariously self-aware about her Philippe Gaulier training and b) able to put it to use in one of a handful of utterly inspired set pieces. The final one of these amounts to an orgy of violence against fruit and veg which is entirely artistically justified. And hilarious. But the whole isn’t quite as slickly delivered as these extraordi nary parts. There’s a delib erate, Hammer-horror vibe to a lot of this which strays sometimes into haphazard. I still can’t work out why Lyons spent half the show with mop heads down her tights. ✏︎ Evan Beswick – 9:30pm, 3–29

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How many people live inside the tall, wiry frame of Elf Lyons? How many voices? How can the svelte mannerisms and (inexplicably) French accent of Lyons’ mother live alongside the furious snarling and dick-chopping of the monster she has in there? How can Lyons function with the appalling ghost of her boarding school matron in side, every night victim sham ing her for sexual assault? There’s an awful lot to

With no live audiences to play for, many stand-ups turned to platforms like Twitch during the unprecedented lockdown of 2020. When it came to streaming, few had the ingenuity of Bilal Zafar. The mild-mannered stand-up coaxed a soap-opera style drama out of Pro Evolution Soccer’s Master League mode, giving back stories and per sonality traits to a computer generated motley crew of international athletes. Niche, but brilliantly imaginative. On today’s evidence Zafar doesn’t have quite the same confidence on stage as he does on screen. He takes time to get going, and there’s some stilted back and forth with some latecomers. But he settles in, and Care – the story of his year working for mini mum wage looking after the elderly – reveals itself to be a big-hearted show, delivered with a laid back charisma that releases itself slowly into theHeaudience.hasanatural gift with strange detail (a posh cat with a deep voice, a breadstick used in place of a cigarette) but the guts of the show is grounded in cold harsh reality, in his recollections of debt collectors, dementia patients, and in the highs and lows of his relationship with Barry, a resident of the care home. The

PittByronLesliePhoto: two’s friendship is beauti fully, subtly rendered. It’s a relationship that lingers in your mind long after the show, and maybe there’s an age gap bromance comedy-drama for Zafar to explore further. For now, we have a touching Fringe hour that shows Zafar is a comedian with pathos to spare as well as conceptual chops. ✏︎ Craig Angus Bilal Zafar: Care HHHHH

VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square TIME: 5:30pm – 6:30pm, 3–29 Aug, not 15

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33ReviewGowlettKarlaPhoto: coming thick and fast from the get-go. Working her way through a list of people that have wronged her, she man ages to find parallels between Taylor Swift and Santa Claus as well as golf and comedy, drawing on her experiences playing competitive golf from an early age. She sets up a lot of jokes at the start of the show, rewarding the audience in unexpected ways throughout the hour. Most of it is whole some fun, but she doesn’t shy away from risqué jokes about incest, which are particularly effective because she – as she alludes to herself – looks so prim and proper. In addition to a refreshing take on mental health, she also talks about all.isn’tbyergeticCarolina,oncatedarewardshershetheexperiencesuncomfortableasawomanincomedyindustry,whichsuggestsmightnotdoanyfavours.Theshowlosespacetotheend,whenthejokesfewerandlesssophistiassheputsthefocushergolfingdaysinSouthbutthisisafun,enandwell-craftedhoursomebodywhoclearlytherevengefulkindat ✏︎ Veronica Finlay

Hannah Fairweather: Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge HHHHH VENUE: Just the Tonic at The Caves TIME: 2:25pm – 3:25pm, 4–28 Aug, not 15 Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge is a fun and fast-paced show by golf er-cum-comedian Hannah Fairweather, who may have more in common with her idol Taylor Swift than it first seems.

Heidi Regan has got serious. So serious, in fact, that she’s got PowerPoint for her 2022 Fringe hour (and is trying to make a baby, to which we’ll come). And slides mean structure – a structure which Regan largely sticks to in this enjoyable collection of nerdy, delib erately overwrought gags and delightfully odd thought experiments. It’s hard, really, to imagine Regan bristling at almost anything. The low-sta tus, lovable persona which she uses as a stylish vehicle for her comedy comes across as pretty amenable to anything. Anything, that is, except the constrants of a slide deck. It’s hard to escape the feeling that, despite some wonderful moments, she’s made an un ecessarily formal rod for her distintively informal back. The best moments come when she draws attention to that formality, launching into the sort of ideas that shouldn’t go anywhere near a business presentation with an awkwardness which draws attention to just how fun and inventive they are. A drawn out exposition of her favourite joke in the set isn’t so much a deadpan deconstruction of the joke, more a deliberately self-indulgent layering and accreting on top of a notably shaky foundation. It’s like a joke Jenga, unfathomable, fantastical and inspiring in its ability to remain standing. But too often the set pieces peter out with an offhand “so, yeah...” to link to the next ‘bit’. It does a disservice to the care with which she weighs out the beats of the majority of her punchlines. And an unre solved baby narrative, while it provides some moments of pathos, feels like an unec essary anchor which Regan has chained herself to for no good reason. Somewhere in Regan’s

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HHHHH VENUE: The Stand’s New Town Theatre TIME: 4:40pm – 5:40pm, 4–28 Aug, not 16

“Welcome to my biggest ever selling Fringe show,” deadpans Paul Sinha, star of ITV’s The Chase, international quizzer and, today, consummate co median. While it’s always obvi ous that Sinha is the smartest guy in the room, seeing him off the screen and onstage is a welcome reminder that, for the past two decades, he’s often been the funniest, too. Over the past few years, he’s also acquired a new and sub stantially bigger audience. And it’s exactly what he deserves.

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VENUE: Underbelly, Cowgate TIME: 3:40pm – 4:40pm, 4–28 Aug, not 15

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Good Grief HHHHH This show sucks you in from the very first minute. Nightclub dance moves and pumping synths, and a man emerging from beyond the grave kicks off an hour, and a bit of explo ration of death, and grief that is profound, heartbreaking, and riotously funny. Ugly Bucket made this for their friend Tim, at his request. A comedy about death; it’s not just about him, though. At times it almost feels like a series of sketches, not too dissimilar to Old Trout Theatre Company’s Famous Puppet Death Scenes. Interviews with grieving sons, daughter, sib lings and partners create trig gers for different vignettes. That’s how they make you cry at a rendition of All I Want For Christmas. That’s how they make you laugh at a physical theatre interpretation of a tumour attacking the lower intestine. A moment where a chorus of aliens serenade a grieving woman who de scribes feeling as if she’s been isolated on another planet is particularly affecting. The set design is incredi ble at elevating the work of the cast. The words of the grieving, written in invisible ink, are revealed at various turns, before a powerful ending that ties that conceit together in a way that hits like a punch to the gut. Really, this is an exercise in empathy. The empathy the cast afford to the people they interview, the empathy they afford to each other, and the empathy they afford to us – the audience. Because it is a heavy show. They acknowledge as much in the piece, in a moment where the cast mime being crushed by the weight of their grief. But, the space they create is such a brave one, such a strong one, that you never feel as if you can’t cope with that heaviness. They pull you in, and the collective strength in the room carries you through. A breathtaking, important piece of work. Go. It’ll make you feel alive. ✏︎ Harry Harris

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HHHHH Matt Wilkinson’s Psychodrama is billed as a revenge tale but really its focus is the career death by a thousand humili ations of a talented thespian in her 40s who’s reached breaking point. The show unravels as a fierce and funny monologue from Emily Bruni, who’s perched on a high stool on a black box stage with only a light dusting of dry ice for props. She explains that in her 20s, when she hardly ate, she was never off the telly. The work dried up in her 30s, however. A breakdown fol lowed and now she works as a sales assistant in a preten tious boutique. But out of the blue, there’s a reprieve: the great theatrical ‘genius’ Peter Coevorden has requested she audition for his new stage adaptation of Psycho Bruni’s character, who re mains unnamed, would be per fect for the play. After all, she’s no stranger to the reckless desperation of Marion Crane, played by Janet Leigh in the Hitchcock film, although her wild shifts in temperament, swivelling from meekly pliable to apoplectic in a heartbeat, suggest she knows a thing or two about Norman Bates too. Her subsequent close collaboration with Coevorden exposes the dark underbelly of the theatre world: the sexism, the starfucking, the double standards. Run to this show for Bruni’s scorching performance, which fizzes with indignation and more than a hint of catharsis as the play takes a sledgeham mer – and Bruni’s character a Stanley knife – to the deep injustices at the heart of show business. Jamie Dunn

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VENUE: Traverse Theatre TIME: times vary, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22

Don’t be scared. The room is mainly dark and the pile of yel low bricks is there for a reason. work.txt defies the usual categorisation for theatre. It’s perhaps best described as immersive theatre where the audience participates in a working day. In doing so, it questions capitalist systems, the ever imbalanced worklife balance, and the financial instability which refuses to quit. The audience have paid to enjoy their precious free time away from work and suddenly they’re working yet again, with no say – or, more accurately, too much forced say – in the matter, something that’s all too similar to our real lives. This play/experience/ thing is utterly hilarious and depressing and somehow even heartbreaking. It’s experimental, obviously, but it doesn’t leave anyone behind with ugly preten tiousness. Rather, it (or, we) speaks of our relationship with work – how we keep doing it and hating it yet pinning all of our self worth on it – with penetrating insight. There is something confessional to it, each audience member taking on this simultaneously individ ual and collective role of the worker. Through this, it’s an exercise in trust: the audience must trust the ‘script’ to put on a ‘show’: the script must trust the audience to say and do what needs to be said and done; and, the audience must trust each other, to carry one another through. Frankly, there is something quite beautiful about the collectivi ty it so forcefully fosters. It’s a joy to be part of. By the end, the audience’s tone is confused and appro priately so: the text is sinister and it gets caught in the throat with unease, but it’s also brilliantly funny. For work.txt, the phrase “if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry” is a false dichotomy – you’ll prob ably do both and be grateful forIsit.”it working?” it asks, again and again. It is working as hard as hustle culture, stagnant wages, and the 50 hour work week – and it is a triumph to witness. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade

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Made India/Britainin HHHHH Rinkoo Barpaga has led an extraordinary life. The actor, filmmaker and multidisci plinary artist, who regularly worked as a BSL presenter on telly, has navigated racism, ableism and a multicultural upbringing since he was a child in 1980s’ Birmingham. In this monologue,autobiographicaltoldinBSLwith an English-speaking interpreter, Barpaga candidly narrates his experiences of: growing up deaf in a hearing world; being Brown in a white supremacist country; and, working in a time when disabled people are still considered expendable. Barpaga is a remarkable storyteller. Though simply told with only a few design elements, his range of physical and emotional expression is vast and hugely engaging. He also does not hold back when describing his treatment at the hands of racists. While his performance is often entertaining, he prompts reflection on how ableism and racism are perpetuated in everyday circumstances. Including an English speaking interpreter smartly subverts the norm of having a BSL interpreter sign for hearing performers. Here, hearing audience members – who presumably don’t use BSL – are granted provisions to meet their access needs. This situates the entire produc tion within the deaf world. Though simple in concept, it’s remarkable progress in terms ofOverall,accessibility.there’s little to fault in this production. Apart from a few instances where the lighting choices cast stark shadows over Barpaga’s face and a disjointed ending that hasn’t quite come together with the rest of his story, this is vitally important theatre. Kressly

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Caste-ing HHHHH There is something particu larly affecting in the way they first take the stage – full and together and ready. In Casteing, rap, beatbox, spoken word, and song connect to follow three Black actresses, navigat ing their industry and all itsThecomplexities.trioareadelight, their onstage chemistry utterly striking. Attired with accents of green and black, they’re a vision individually and as one. We go through the motions of their precarious careers with them – there’s competition, rejection, objectification, and, of course, downright racism. It’s not so much a linear story as a series of vignettes, moving from one to the next seamlessly. Throughout, each member takes on multiple roles, charmingly mocking whiteness and all its scripted micro-aggressions. A particu lar kind of incisive humour carries it and there’s some thing vulnerable and poignant about the honesty behind each joke. With an admirable grace, it sharpens then sof tens, softens then sharpens. Here, Black womanhood is allowed to be more than one thing at once, something we don’t get to see all that often. Notably, the show’s discussion of colourism is deftly lay ered, providing a particularly insightful nuance. While the theatre in the round fosters a certain intima cy, Caste-ing demands some thing a little larger. At times, the sound seems capped, the dancing restricted. The trio’s presence yearns for more. The slight moments where vocals seemingly fall a little flat ensure a musical tender ness and honesty persists. It’s performance without feeling over-performative – precise but not polished to a point of rigidity, making for a truly af firming watch. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade

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HHHHH VENUE: Greenside @ Infirmary Street TIME: 8:50pm – 9:40pm, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21 which feels painfully received rather than experientially giv en. There’s the slightly grating cod self-help exhortations of it being ok not to be ok. And yet, despite all of that, this is gorgeous theatre, sweet enough to win over even the most curmudg eonly of audience members; technically adept enough that to gripe at perceived flaws is to miss the careful composi tion of the whole. The story of Kalish’s (ongoing) experience of grief after the death of the love of her life does exactly what the best theatre should do: expanding the imagina tion and empathy, opening a window into an experience we’ll all have, but so few of us will have the words or skill to articulate usefully.

“This isn’t going to be fun for you,” Kalish warns us, in one of a number of varied and unforced interactions with the audience. Indeed, it’s her management of tone and pace that’s most impressive here, bringing us in to punctuate the story and support step changes in the emotional force. Elsewhere she leavens the tough tale with comedy, pitched just right and with joke-writing as good as any you’ll find on the Fringe. We’re given a proper dramatic structure, a range of beauti ful characterisations, some genuinely romantic moments and an emotional climax which resists easy resolution. There’s nothing flashy or fancy here: just great writing and wonder ful acting, and that’s a privilage to watch. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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There are things not to like about Kim Kalish’s monologue. A self professed “theatre kid”, there’s a bit here that feels off-the-shelf drama school: the rolling hands and open palms. There’s the rom-com ideal of what true love looks like (a partner who knows your needs before you do)

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Bernays delivers a master piece of an onstage diaze pam trip. And Habiba Saleh performing her play-within-a play part of Manjula Aunty gets a beautiful part written for her by Uma Nada-Raja, and makes hay out of it (though an earnest monologue is also the clumsiest, pace-killing piece of writing in the play). But it’s as an ensemble piece that Exodus really leaps from text toButstage.there’s a problem: in the programme notes, Uma Nada-Rajah and Debbie Han nan write of the “proximity of tragedy to farce” and Darius Fo’s idea of laughter which provokes anger rather than mollifying it. In the short years of this play’s development, the gap between lived tragedy and the play’s farcical world has continued to close, with more dinghies capsized in the channel, and a Rwandan outsourcing policy which is no less obscene than the “Project Womb” of Nada-Raja’s sharp imagination. A line about a lame duck Prime Minister is played for wry laughs, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that this farce is struggling to keep ahead of tragedy. In this context, the play’s final peroration about immigration feels spot on, and horribly underpowered. In an inward, navel-gazing country gripped by the idea that it is under seige, what purpose does a scream against that within the four walls of a the atre acheive? Without a bold answer to this question, Exo dus feels like fun, slick, siege mentality.

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From the opening video montage, Exodus wears its farcical pips on its sleeves. An ambitious Home Secretary and person of colour (remind you of anyone?) heads to Dover to dip her feet in the Channel as part of her anti-immigration posturing. An interview about a policy launch on the train north, well, it gets out of hand very quickly as all good farces should. And this is good farce: a tight four hander and there’s not a weak link in this cast.

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K orean S eason 2023 ? ? AWARDS @ Assembly George Square 24(WED) ~ 28(SUN) AUG. 2022~ SEOUL PHOTO PHOTOOULBOOTHBOOTH Each August since 2015, Korean Season has brought a selected Korean programme of music, dance, physical theatre and family shows to the Fringe. With the 7th Korean Season run by AtoBIZ and Assembly, the Awards will be unveiled and announced this October. And a special award ceremony will be held at Edinburgh every year from 2023. The photo booth runs from 1pm till 6pm at Studio bar (EH8 9JX). Take a picture with your family and friends.

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Toxic masculinity, toxic positiv ity and toxic love – this is the cheery trio of issues brought to the forefront in Faith Bran don’s autobiographical Love Me or I’ll Kill Myself. Detailing her doomed relationship with the elusive Juan, Brandon shows how all three of these toxicities manage to have such a chokehold on her, exploring what can go wrong when you hear what you want

HHHHH VENUE: ZOO Playground TIME: 4:50pm – 5:50pm, 5–28 Aug, not 10, 16

BrennerAlexPhoto: to hear and ignore the parade of red flags thrown up by the person you think is ‘The One’. Using examples from love songs and television (Brandon really spills the tea about Sex and the City’s ultimate ick, Mr Big), she deep dives into the restrictive concept of relying on just one person to make us happy in life. In one second funny – Brandon is a master of physicality and has her comic timing on point – in the next tragic, Love Me or I’ll Kill Myself veers dizzyingly from her deliberately heartbroken-by-Juanoverwroughtpersona to a very real, very raw person who just wants to know why she’s been treated so badly. Brandon breaks fourth wall after fourth wall as she dips into psychologist Arthur Aron’s romantic experiment, The 36 Questions That Lead to Love and tries to coax an audience member into falling for her. Through these specific questions, Brandon depicts exactly how she went from open-hearted and excited to finding herself in one of the darkest places she could be. It’s irreverent, it’s hopeful, it’s darkly funny: Love Me or I’ll Kill Myself is ultimate ly a balm for anyone who’s ever been a little bit crazy in love.

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She/Her HHHHH The first full-length play directed by Nicole Ansari-Cox, made by her company Actors Rising Productions, delves into the personal stories of a diverse group of women laying themselves bare on stage. In a multimedia performance that explores a wide range of topics, including identity, parent-child relationships and drug abuse, the cast share their feminine experiences from different perspectives. Premiering in New York in 2021, She/Her adapts for each location it’s set in, with each local cast member co-writ ing their own monologues together with Ansari-Cox. It’s a collaborative take on story telling that allows individual experiences to be told within a collective space of female sol idarity and empathy. The cast members each anchor their story in a universal theme, such as love and connection, making it relatable and giving it integrity in their own voice.

Interweaving live music and movement with monologues adds pace and variety to a show that aims to promote healing through art. Performances are uneven and some stories are more gripping than others, but they all share a vulnerability and authenticity that binds them, the performers and, ultimately, the audience together. She/Her is a polished, original production by women sharing their hopes, fears and truths. ✏︎ Veronica Finlay Assembly George Square Studios

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The HaramChosen HHHHH Under Islamic law, haram is an act that is forbidden by God, a sin of sacrilege against divine order. Sadiq Ali’s astonishing fusion of circus and storytell ing navigates the shame-lad en paradox of intimacy as profanity, exploring his own experience of reconciling his queerness with his faith. As two men, Ali and Alexandre Du ran Davins, pull their bodies up and over two Chinese poles, weaving through and around each other even as structures of shame try to push them apart, Ali’s tender, meticulously crafted double-hander inves tigates the heady possibilities of sin, the simultaneous excess and pleasure of electing transgression. It is a gut-wrenching, heartin-mouth work from start to finish, both in the sheer level of skill of the two performers and the stunning stagecraft, which conjures emotion from striking, economical story telling. A square of light is a prayer mat whose luminous residue haunts the stage, while plastic wrap – in all its suffocating, malleable, and kinky possibilities – flies through the air, crafting stunning geometric tableaux from light and bodies andThroughmovement.thepulse and sinew of these bodies, Ali carves out space for a bold and flagrant eroticism, transformed and subverted for our queer modern age. Underpinned by an electric chemistry between Ali and Duvans, The Chosen Haram reveals the gravity-de fying possibility of two bodies and people in tandem, bound in affection and desire. Circus as consecration, sexuality as devotion. Watching it, it’s impossible not to feel the same dizziness of pleasure. Behrooz –and

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French-Canadian circus com pany FLIP Fabrique play with gender roles in this journey from a tentative bite of the forbidden apple to exuberant play on a trampoline wall, pro viding jeopardy, humour and impressive acrobatics along theWhatway.does it mean to be a woman? Muse explores the spectrum of gender and iden tity through play and physical performance, managing to say more with breathtaking stunts and visual poetry than words ever could. Following in the footsteps of previous shows Attrape Moi, Transit and Blizzard, the acrobatics are nothing short of outstanding. The expressive performers, their colourful costumes and comical facial expressions stand out on the no-frills stage at the Assembly Hall. As they choose between football outfits and ballet skirts, everything is sensitively judged and precise, without feeling overly laboured. The live singer doesn’t stay in the background, which adds to the feeling of inclusivity. The tempo drops in the middle, and the French lyrics are lost on anyone who doesn’t speak the language, but there’s something for everyone in this multi-layered, contemporary circus show. Whether you come for the acrobatics or the commen tary on gender roles, Muse is undeniably a joyful expression of body and mind that is sure to entertain all ages. Veronica Finlay Hall 5:20pm – 6:20pm, 4–28 not 15,

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HHHHH Fifty minutes of PVC, glitter, and sexual thrusting makes for a good time. And Ganesh and Cydney’s Clinic is exactly that. The cabaret welcomes audi ences into the duo’s sex clinic, healing us – and themselves –of the dreaded lovesickness. Exploring sexual awakenings, queer identity, and all the awk ward bits of dating, the show is held together by the hosts’ enviable wit and charisma. They’re true performers. Any reluctant audience participa tion is met with a lap dance and a cheeky grin, managing to create a space which feels as sexy as it is safe. One num ber of Cydney’s is particularly impactful, raising conversa tions of consent. Vulnerable and unashamed, its approach to women’s bodily autonomy is truly affirming and Cydney carries it with grace. Admittedly, the show clings to narrative for the sake of narrative and it is consequen tially a bit frustrating to watch the sultry musical numbers wrangled into fictionalised sex clinic bulletpoints. They most definitely have the voices and stage presence for it and the songs themselves are pretty hilarious, brought to life by the ever deft and dutiful col lar-wearing pianist. It’s a good time; not a particularly revolutionary time, but a good time all the same. ✏︎ Eilidh Akilade Underbelly, Cowgate TIME: 11:00pm – 11:50pm, 4–28

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The Idiot Circus looks death in the eye and laughs in this chirpy tribute to the ma cabre. Mingling influences from cabaret, Parisian circus and Dostoevsky, the four musicians walk us through a colourful history of different kinds of death. One song lauds the French revolution’s “Madame la Guillotine”. Another is a romantic meditation on “la petite mort”. The ground

StephensMelissaPhoto: that their lyrics cover is vast, though the music itself – fun and tightly performed as it is –variesEachless.song is rich in nar rative, conjuring images of heartbroken lovers, family tragedy and a world marching on after your demise. If all of this sounds too existential, the band livens things up with cheerfully stac cato notes on the ukulele and piano. One number about the Battle of Normandy mimics the absurdly upbeat tone of Oh! What A Lovely War (“It’s a bit of fun, isn’t it?” bellows pianist James Rowland, adding bari tone harmonies to frontman Nick Court’s vocals). But the real triumph comes in the penultimate song, which depicts what Court calls “the worst kind of death of all – a living death”. “Do you drink early in the morning? Do you drink last thing at night?” he cries out, while Rowland ac companies him with mournful, Elton John-esque piano keys. Although somewhat static at the start, once the band hit their stride they bring a de cent theatricality to their per formance. Rowland especially makes a charismatic Pierrot. Less sad clown and more a clownish take on sad, The Idiot Circus is ideal for those predisposed towards black comedy. ✏︎ Becca Inglis

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The Idiot Circus: Death is Coming

HHHHH Assembly George Square Gardens

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Leak warns us at the start there is “some text, but it doesn’t mean anything” –referring to some of the lyrical content that

Saved is so named for the salvaged equipment that powers the show – particularly the two 1970s-era Yamaha Electone organs which he sometimes plays simultane ously, tickling out melodies over gorgeously retro arpeg gios and drum loops. And it’s this affectionate preservation – and occasional modification – of these instruments that shines through the hour, to say nothing of the rebellious way he plays some of them with very non-standard techniques.

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Saved HHHHH Walking into Saved feels less like entering a Fringe show and more like intruding into someone’s personal music lab. Two old home organs, a drum kit and myriad radios, cas settes and other devices pop ulate the centre of the room, while Graeme Leak – Aussie by birth, now Scotland-based –waits proudly by his toys. We’re not intruding, of course – this storied maestro clearly revels in entertaining, navigating his miscellany with a blend of childish glee and stone-faced professionalism (something delightfully at odds with his unusual set-up).

Saved is a joyful way to spend the afternoon. ✏︎ George Sully

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Written and directed by Jon Brittain, with music and lyrics from Matthew Floyd Jones, this murder mystery takes musical theatre to the next level with a gripping plot, excellent per formances and a healthy dose ofBestsilliness.friends Kathy (Bronté Barbé) and Stella (Rebekah Hinds) love a good murder and

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RichardOtherThePhoto: are the passionate hosts of a true crime podcast dedicated to their mutual obsession. When their favourite crime author is suddenly killed, they find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunnit, which they attempt to solve with the help of their “murder gang” podcast fans. Like any good crime story, it has plenty of twists and turns, making it a captivating mystery with a surprising conclusion. The witty script is brought to life with perfect timing and comedic flair, touching on issues such as in ternet trolling, misinformation going viral and obsessive on line fans, which adds cultural relevance. But this is really a story about two friends trying to do the right thing, and it’s difficult not to root for them, even as their hopes and dreams are belted out over a corpse in a morgue. The pace drops in the mid dle, and it’s a challenge to pick up every word of the lyrics over the live keyboard and multiple voices. This doesn’t lessen the entertainment val ue of this crowd pleaser from the team behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, which sets the bar high at the Fringe. Veronica Finlay and Stella Solve

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What happens in the show? A pair of clowns struggle to work with each other and the audience, but ultimately learn that collaboration allows you to do amazing things. Along the way there’s acrobatics, increasingly complex hand stands, diabolos and many, many arguments. There are also some brooms, a big plus for this sweeping fan, and the audience is sprayed with water – hilarity ensues. Describe the show in five words Joyous interactive clowning, acrobatics, diabolos. What did you think about the show? “Maybe this happens every day. Does it happen every day? Why do we not go to it every day?” Who was your favourite character and why? Oran was convinced the shorter man was the child so naturally sided with him against the slightly taller, and possibly younger, man. The characters aren’t overly developed as individuals – it’s mainly about the ebb and flow of the fractious interaction followed by collaborative acrobatic performance. What did you like most about the show? Oran was grinning from ear to ear at the clowning, particu larly the various arguments. Getting sprayed with water was also a hit, and the diabolo tricks drew some silent awe. What didn’t you like about the show? It’s maybe a touch too long for the youngest kids. That said, Oran is under the 5+ suggested age range and pretty much kept it together, on a very very hot day. If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of it/them? In stripped-back staging the music is perfectly selected and used to add a layer of pathos to the clowns’ disputes. What did your grown-up think of the show? It was fun! I went in feeling nervous about how Oran would respond given we had spent the entire morning arguing and it wasn’t a big pile of LEGO, but he was entranced. Massive relief!

Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Yes, I’m doing that right now.

Four-year-old Oran reflects on Brotipo’s stripped back circus Brotipo Assembly George Square Gardens, TIME: 11:55am – 12:55pm, 4–29 Aug, not 16, 23

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SHOW The Adventures of Sleepyhead VENUE: Assembly Roxy TIME: 11:10am – 12:10pm, 4–29 Aug, not 16

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What happens in the show? It’s a fun one-woman show by American performer Gemma Soldati, who brings a gentle, warm cartoonish energy to her storytelling, with some subtly sassy asides for the adults. Sleepyhead loves her bed and looks forward to dreaming about being a hair dresser when she’s grown up, or growing a moustache like her dad. When she loses her dreams she asks the Sun, the Moon and Father Time for their help. (The last two are voiced by Soldati’s mum and dad.) Who was your favourite character and why? Sleepyhead was fun to watch when she came up the stairs in her pyjamas and napped on people. Were there any characters you didn’t like? Nope. What did you like most about the show? Floating feathers, talking clocks, funny faces, a good soundtrack with songs like Dream a Little Dream of Me

What didn’t you like about the show? Alvie loved it –he was formesmerisedquietlymostofit and had a short nap in the middle, which seemed very fitting. What did your grown-up think about the show? Gemma Soldati is great; a laid back natural. She riffs nicely with both the kids and adults in the crowd and makes all her own silky Sun and Moon props. It was funny and the whole message about using your imagination, napping through stressful times and not losing sight of your dreams – that works for all ages. Would you tell your friends to come to the show? I already have!

Kids Critics The Adventures of Sleepyhead Alvie, 14 months, reacts to to Gemma Soldati’s imaginative show

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What happens in the show? There’s a monster, but he’s the least scary monster ever. He makes friends with a kid he was trying to scare! Who was your favourite char acter and why? The monster Leonardo. Were there any characters you didn’t like? The other monsters because they are stereotypical Disney bullies. What did you like most about the show? The production is amazing. The voice-overs were really good. It sounded like a TV pre senter. I didn’t notice at the start, but halfway through I re alised the voice-over was one of the people on the stage! What didn’t you like about the show? The way that the scared kid keeps screaming. When I’m scared of something I don’t say anything – I just freeze in one place. What did your grown-up think about the show? She enjoyed seeing all the people working hard behind the scenes. Would you tell your friends to come to the show? Yes, it was awesome! I would recommend it to anyone. I have a little friend and he’s three and he would love it too – he wouldn’t stop blabbing about it for the next month!

David Koleola, 10, has a wonderful time at Manual Cinema’s Leonardo!

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SHOW Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster VENUE: BristoUnderbelly,Square TIME: 1:45pm – 2:35pm, 3–29 Aug, not 15 MartinLesleyImage:festmag.com62 Kids

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Mark Simmons: Quip Off the Mark PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–27 Aug Character ExperienceBuilding Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 23 The Alternative Book Club Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug AMJ Entertainer Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–28 Aug Further Adventures in Dementia Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Elliot Wengler: Let Wengler Be Wengler Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–28 Aug Love and Sex on the Spectrum Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–19 13:50Aug ❤ Stewart Lee: Snowflake HHHH The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Merrill Means Well theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug 13:55 Carr Crash: Father/ Daughter Comedy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Sunil Patel: Faster Horses Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug ❤ Vidura SeasonRajapaksa:BandaraMonsoon HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug 14:00 Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can’t Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Hatty Ashdown: The Worry Drawer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug The Duncan and Judy Murray Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug Sloss and Humphries on the Road Just the Tonic Nucleus, 20 Aug Aaaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 21 Aug, 28 Aug, 29 Aug The Guilty Feminist Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25–28 Aug John Hegley’s Biscuit of Destiny Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Future of Free Stand-Up: Steffan Alun + Support PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Vlad and Kuan-wen: The Wee Aliens Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Daniel Downie: There’s Something About Mary Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug John Bishop and Tony Pitts: Three Little Words Podcast – Presented By Amazon Music Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–20 Aug Amelia Bayler: Greatest Hits! Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 17–28 Aug The Political Party with Matt Forde Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug 14:05 Vittorio TranslationsAngelone: Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 18–28 Aug Cynically Dead PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 18–21 Aug The Edinburgh Fridge Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 18–28 Aug, not 24 14:10 Wil Hodgson: Barbicidal Tendencies Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–28 Aug The Silliad: Improvised Myths and Legends Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–21 Aug Josh Pugh: Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips and Beans Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug A Rush of ShowcaseLaughter Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug 14:15 Grubby Little Mitts Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Duncan(PresentedBalancebytheBrothers)

Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Captain Breadbeard’s Bready Brilliant Comedy Cookbook C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug The Delightful Sausage: Nowt but Sea Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 12:50Aug

Pearly Gates: A Kafkaesque Romcom in Heaven theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–24 Aug Benji Waterstones: You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug 101 – What Women Want! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Comedy Hour: Prue Blake, Peter Jones and Sonia Di Iorio Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Where’s Your Head At? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 20 Aug 13:00 Esyllt Sears: Absolutely Not Just the Tonic at The Tron, 18–28 Aug Mark Watson: More Banging on About Time and Similar Issues (Work in Progress) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–19 Aug Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie? St Columba’s by the Castle, 20 Aug, 27 Aug An Objectively Funny Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Daphna Baram: Out and About Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Gabe Mollica: A Show About Friendship Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug, not 23 13:05 Michelle Kalt: God Hates You Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Kirsty Mann: Mess PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–19 Aug Sheraz Yousaf: The Google Man Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug 13:15 Mick Neven: Nevolution PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 17–28 Aug Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug, not 24 Aaaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug 4 Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Morgan Jay – Emotional Damage Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Edfringe Hot Ticket Lucky Dip! Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 27–28 Aug Sharlin vs The United Kingdom (A Love Story) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug This is Not a Subject for Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Weapons of Mass Distraction Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug On the Run: Dame Over! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 13:20 Jon Long: Still a Planet Killer Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug The Dead Ducks Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Best of ShowcaseEdinburghShow Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Rachel Jackson – Almost Famous The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug, not 24 13:25 John Kearns: Varnishing Days (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 22–27 Aug Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I’ve Got? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–18 Aug Pat Cahill: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 22–28 Aug Film Club – An Improvised Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolu tion Bar, 17–26 Aug, not 20 Jacob Hawley: Bump HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug Rahul Somia and a Friend PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brew Dog Lothian Rd, 17–28 Aug 13:30 Pottervision Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–24 Aug Toby Isaacs: Existence is Futile Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–28 Aug Mark Thomas: Black and White The Stand Comedy Club, 17–28 Aug Mary Flanigan: Pick Your Own Escapade! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–21 Aug All-American Snack Attack Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, Various dates from 18 Aug to 28 Aug So My Dad F*cked the Nanny PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 17–28 Aug Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Uncle Daddy’s Comedy Disco Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 25–28 Aug Huge Davies and Janine Harouni Do New Jokes (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Bad Clowns: Invasion Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Nice Time Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–29 Aug Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 20 Aug, 27 Aug Mary O’Connell: There’s Something Wrong With Mary (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug, not 23 The Fourth Annual Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banner mans, 17–28 Aug Andy Macleod: Anoint My Head – How I Failed to Make it as a Britpop Indie Rockstar Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Gareth Mutch: Mutch in Progress (WIP) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–25 Aug An Irish Disgrace Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–28 Aug, not 18, 13:3522 Joe Bates Speaks Truth to Power Tools PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–28 Aug 13:40 Bulletproof Unicorn Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug 100 Songs in an Hour Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug Sarah Scandalous!Southern: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 25 The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–2813:45Aug

PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Oleg Denisov: Escaped Artist Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Max Fosh: Zocial Butterfly Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug

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Will Duggan: Iceberg Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Matt Price: Raging Bill PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug 15:30 Amy Gledhill: The Girl Before The Girl You Marry Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 18–28 Aug Matty Hutson: Matty Goes Electric PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 17–21 Aug A Bookish Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Just the AfternoonTonic’sDelight Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 18–28 Aug, not 22, 23, 24 Joseph EqualiserParsons: Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Alfie Moore: It’s a Fair Cop – Live! RSE Theatre, 17–26 Aug Boorish Trumpson Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug Spontaneous Sherlock Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 27 Aug The Leeds Tealights: Imposter Syndrome Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Come Sit on the Couch With Me Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 15:35Aug Mark Cram: Cramagotchi PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–28 Aug Ian Smith: Talking and Shouting Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17 Aug Danielle NostalgiaWalker:HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Danny Ward – You Get What You Pay For PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug John-Luke Roberts: A World Just Like Our Own, But... Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 15:40Aug God Damn Fancy Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Adele Cliff: In the Dark Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug Michael Spicer: The Room Next Door Assembly George Square Studios, 19–28 Aug Lou Conran: A Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Lucy Frederick’s Big Fat Wedding Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug ❤ Chelsea Birkby: No More Mr Nice Chelsea HHHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Listings69

George Zacharopoulos – How I Nearly Met Your Mother Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Dirty Anxious Vampire Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 18–28 Aug, not 24 BC:AD – Before Children: After Diapers Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug

Nina Gilligan: Late Developer Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Will Mars: My Life in One-Liners Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Luca Cupani: Happy Orphan Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 14:25Aug

14:20 Richard TransferableTodd:Skills PBH’s Free Fringe @ Leg ends, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Platonic Love Triangle – A New York Stand-up Comedy Show ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug, not 21 The Awkward Silence’s Big Break Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 Aug Sooz PlayStationKempner: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug

Hannah Fairweather: Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge HHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–2814:30Aug

Anthony Jeannot: The Middle Bit Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 22–28 Aug Jason Byrne: The Paddy Lama – Shed Talks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Worst Show on the Fringe – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 17–28 Aug Don’t Make Me Hate You Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Stand-Up Philosophy – Free! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Simon Fanshawe: The Power of Difference Assembly Rooms, 19–23 Aug The Durham Revue: Déjà Revue Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Ageing Folks Telling Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–19 Aug Xander and Cheng: Pig Business Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Tom Crosbie: Nerd’s Eye View Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 14:35Aug Amy Moreover,Matthews:TheMoon Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Mudfish: Might as Well Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 14:40Aug Phil Green: 90s Boy – Blair, the Lovegun and Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug Vix Leyton: Pedestrian Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Sam and Joe: Strikeout! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 17–28 Aug, not 20, 27 Mary Bourke: The Brutal Truth The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug David Ephgrave: Good Grief Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Nobody Panic: Live Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug Jody Kamali: Ironing Board Man Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug 14:45 Trevor Lock’s New Show PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banner mans, 17–28 Aug Are We All in a Cult? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Out of Order! The Quiz With Just One Question Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–28 Aug The Early Late Show Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–23 Aug Alex MacKeith: Thanks for Listening HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug Eh! Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Edfringe Hot Ticket Lucky Dip! Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 27–28 Aug Ben Moor: Pronoun Trouble Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug Ben Moor and Joanna Neary: TalkBookBookTalkBook Pleasance Courtyard, 26–27 Aug Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18–21 Aug Ross Leslie: Massive Queue At The Tip Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Bruce Willis Is My Dad Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–28 Aug Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 24–28 Aug 14:50 Josie Re-EnchantmentLong: Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Eric’s Tales of the Sea: A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Geriatric Millennial (Work in Progress) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Leg ends, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Rob Auton: The Crowd Show HHH Assembly George Square, 17–2915:00Aug AC/DC: ComedyComediansAustralian/Dope Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug Stokes and Summers: Careering Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Action Figure Archive Volume 2: WTF!? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Roti, 17–27 Aug, not 23 Aidan Jones – Looking for Work Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie? St Columba’s by the Castle, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Starship Improvise Pleasance Dome, 17–21 Aug Ian Lynam: Autistic License Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Murder, She Didn’t Write Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Olaf Falafel: STOAT Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–28 Aug Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 20 Aug, 27 Aug General Secretary Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Sylus 2024! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Al Lubel: Talks About His Name for Fifty-Six Minutes and About Something Else for Four Minutes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Raul Kohli: Makes It Up as He Goes Along Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 18–28 Aug The Meaning of Wife PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug, not 24 15:10 Stefania Licari: Medico Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug Krystal KaleidoscopeEvans: Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 17–28 Aug Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug CSI: Crime ImprovisationScene Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2815:15Aug Shaggers Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Filthy Funny Females Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–28 Aug Alex Leam: The Joy of Decks PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Lorraine Hoodless: Bumpy PBH’s Free Fringe @ South sider, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Kill The Frippery theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Dalia Malek: Another Castle HHH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Billy Kirkwood: Energetic Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug, not 18, 22 Simon Munnery: Trials and Tribulations The Stand Comedy Club, 17–28 Aug Jeena Bloom: HomecomingTheQueen Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 19 Jacob Hatton: Relax! (Exclamation Mark) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug 15:20 ❤ Lara Ricote: GRL/ LATNX/DEF HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 18–28 Aug Radu Isac: Pandemic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Aaron Simmonds: Hot Wheels Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Julie Jay: Oops, This Is Toxic Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Adam Greene in No Time to Diet Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Catherine Bohart: This Isn’t For You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 15:25Aug

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Laura Davis: If This Is It Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Ian Stone: Righter of Wrongs Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Rik Carranza Presents Clash of Fandoms Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 20–28 Aug Darkest Thoughts –Stand-Up from Your Thoughts Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–28 Aug Annie and Angela’s Disco Divorce Party Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Katie Norris and Lou Taylor: Edinburgh’s Next Top Models

George Egg: Set Menu (The Best of George Egg) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–28 Aug Rajiv Karia: Gallivant Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2816:30Aug

The Year Is Podcast Live w/ Bobby Mair and Red Richardson Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 21–25 Aug Nature’s Worst With Ella Al-Shamahi (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, Various dates from 17 Aug to 28 Aug

Kevin ExplodingShepherd:Biscuits (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug What’s Upset You Now? Live Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–28 Aug Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Greg Winfield and Charlie Bowers: Split the Winnings PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 17–28 Aug Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Jay Lafferty: Club Sets Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 18–28 Aug 16:35 Jacob’s Ladder theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Stella Graham –Porcupine PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brew dog Doghouse, 17–28 Aug Standing at the Back Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–19 Aug Milo Edwards: Voicemail Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Pam Ford: 24 and Counting! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 20–28 16:40Aug

Paul Sinha: One Sinha Lifetime HHH The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Ben Lund-Conlon: Lies, Damned Lies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug Nic Sampson: Marathon, 1904 Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Jon Pearson: What Have You Been Up To Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Cerys SportspersonBradley:HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–2916:45Aug

Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 17–28 Aug Are You Interested in a Comedy Compilation Show? Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug The New Rock’n’Roll theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Eme Essien: Flat Shoes In The Club Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug 1 Ball Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Aaaaaaaaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug The Marriage Pact Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Isabelle IrresponsabelleFarah: Assembly George Square, 17–28 Aug Nick Everritt: Quiet Paradise in The Vault, 17–20 Aug Charlie Hopkinson: Deep (Work in Progress) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 15:50Aug The Oxford Revue and Other Farmyard Animals Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug 15:55 Choir? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 17–28 Aug, not 20, 27 Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege II PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug Popstar Hair Show Paradise in The Vault, 22–2816:00Aug

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug Mitch Benn: It’s About Time Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Eric Rushton: I Had a Dream and You Were All in It Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Darren Walsh: Work in Progress Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–19 Aug Joe McTernan: The Joe Must Go On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug Chuck Salmon: Pool Noodles Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Exe-a-Sketch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Jonny & The Baptists: Dance Like It Never Happened HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 18–29 Aug, not 24 Tom Lawrinson: Cheeky Monkey Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Marjolein Robertson: Thank God Fish Don’t Have Hands The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug Filippo Spreafico – One Hour of Italian Rhapsody in 50 minutes Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–23 Aug 16:05 The Invisible Woman is Not Invisible, She’s Merely Over 50 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–20 Aug Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Menopausal Mayhem Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug Neil O’Rourke: Midwit (Work in Progress) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–27 Aug Practice Room 99 theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug 16:10 The Eric ExperienceTinker Greenside @ Riddles Court, 19–20 Aug Dan Kelly: How I Came Third in the North Korean Marathon Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug The Ugly PreservationAnimalSociety Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Adelaide vs Edinburgh: The Clash of the Fringes Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–1816:15Aug Adam Greene and Peter Bazely: Bi and Large Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Alistair AlistaircraticBarrie: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug Microscope: Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 24 Aug Richard Stott: Afterparty Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug 60 Minutes About Scotland Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Sofie Hagen: Fat Jokes Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Sasha Ellen: Creeps and Geeks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Illegally Funny Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug Card Ninja Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Wrestling With the Champ: Better Red Than Dead PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 20–28 Aug Microscope: Live Monkey Barrel Live Stream, 24 Aug Edfringe Hot Ticket Lucky Dip! Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 27–28 Aug The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Alex Kealy: Winner Takes All Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug 16:20 Healing+ Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Ange Lavoipierre: I’ve Got 99 Problems and Here’s an Exhaustive List of Them Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug Paddy Raff: Raff Out Loud Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–20 Aug Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing Assembly George Square, 17–28 Aug Alice Brine: Brinestorm Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Chris Cantrill: The Bad Boy HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 18–28 Aug Harriet Dyer: Trigger Warning Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 16:25Aug

CUMTS: SLEEPOVER Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Jim Daly: Football and Fatherhood Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 20–28 Aug Paul Williams: In the Moonlight Assembly Roxy, 18–28 Aug Martha McBrier: Who Knew? Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Rich Hardisty: Silly Boy Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Paul Savage: Well Groomed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 18–27 Aug

Samantha Pressdee: Clown Pray Love (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Pearly Gates: A Kafkaesque Romcom in Heaven theSpace @ Niddry St, 27 Aug Stephen Mullan: Ouch! Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Joffrey! The Pantomime theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 70 Comedy

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#Jollyboat – The Best of Jollyboat PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug Robyn Perkins: Million Dollar Maybe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Stella Graham –Porcupine PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 27 Aug Smurf Etiquette Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Spontaneous Potter: The Unofficial Improvised Parody Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Dan Wye Am I Sam Smith Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, 21 Aug Eryn Tett Finds Her Audience HHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Diane Chorley’s Chatting with Chorley: The Podcast Assembly George Square Studios, 17 Aug Weegie Hink Ae That? Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Notflix: Binge Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Child Wuhan:FromTrauma, Love and Diarrhea – Moni Zhang Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Pernille Haaland: Resting Confused Face Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Gareth Waugh: Doozy The Stand Comedy Club, 17–29 Aug Christof Epaminondas and Friend(s): Too Much Encouragement Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Alcohol Is Good For You Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug, not 23 17:05 Who Murdered My Cat? Assembly George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Casey InconceivableBalsham: Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Durham University’s Stand Society Presents: Dungaree Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–28 17:10Aug Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Markus Birdman – The Bearable Heaviness of Nearly Not Being PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Can You Put This in the Bin for Me? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolu tion Bar, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug 17:15 Nathan ObservationalCassidy: Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Stranded Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–19 Aug Silly Words from My Stupid Face Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–29 Aug Aaaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Michael Porter: Is It Just Me? Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–29 Aug Vappow! Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–28 Aug Ann Chun: Asian Divorce Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whis tlebinkies, 17–28 Aug Enter the Vortex Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–29 Aug How to Live a Jellicle Life: Life Lessons from the 2019 Hit Movie Musical CATS Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 17:20 Omid Djalili: The Good Times The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–20 Aug Aboriginal Comedy Allstars Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Adam Flood: Clayhead Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Choose Your Own Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 24–28 Aug Lucy Porter: Wake-Up Call Pleasance Courtyard, 17–20 Aug Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism PBH’s Free Fringe @ Leg ends, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Geoff Norcott: I Blame the Parents Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Newcastle United Ruined My Bloody Life The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug NDOG: GentrificationDeliberatingNorthernersOver Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The ThereTourFootlightsCambridgeInternationalShow2022:AreWeYet? Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 24 Aug 17:25 Nick Helm: What Have We Become? Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug Vir Das: Wanted Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Marc Jennings: Original Sound Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 18–28 Aug Ali Woods: Best Friend Ever Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2817:30Aug Irish Comedy Invasion Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug Bilal Zafar – Care HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Matt Hobs: Follow the Science Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 21–28 Aug Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 23 Aug Maisie Adam: Buzzed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Potty Training With Joey Rinaldi Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Disabled Cants Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Little Drummer Boy Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–20 Aug Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 27 Aug Christian GermanComebackSchulte-Loh:ofthe50-FootComedian Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Al Lubel: The Narcissistic Personality Disorder and ME Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug The Lovely Boys Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Lucky Maclean’s Festival in the Bin BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 17–21 Aug From Ukraine with Laughs Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17 Aug Andrew O’Neill – We Are Not In the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Shamilton Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug 17:35 MATES: The Improvised 90s Sitcom theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug After Dusk: ImprovisedTheTwilight Zone theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 17:40Aug Motivational Sleeper Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 ❤ Lou Sanders: One Word: Wow HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 Aug Rachel Fairburn: Can I Be Awful? Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug Paddy Young: Laugh, You Rats! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Sian Davies: About Time HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 25 Aug Helen Bauer: Madam Good Tit Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug ❤ Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2817:45Aug Experiment Human Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Gary Little Just About Done Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–29 Aug Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... [Perfect and Arena-Ready Show] Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 18–28 Aug Comedy Boxing Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Daniel Sloss: New Work in Progress Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 John Robins: Work InProgress/ProgressInWork Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 23 Aug Britney: Friends and Nothing More Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Caitlin Cook: The Writing on the Stall Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–29 Aug Call Me Me ZOO Playground, 21–28 Aug Edfringe Hot Ticket Lucky Dip! Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28 Aug 17:50 Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Njambi McGrath: Black Black Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Abigail Rolling: Shit Lawyer Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Crybabies: Bagbeard Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Wordz Makez Jokez – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 17–28 Aug, not 27 Anthony Schuman: I Just Want to Be a Good Dad Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug HarleQueen Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 17:55Aug Heidi Regan Gives Birth Live on Stage Every Night or Your Money Back HHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 20, 21 Tudur Owen: Alive Huw Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–27 Aug 18:00 Aaaaaaaaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug, not 23 ❤ Chloe TransiencePetts:HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug The David EmergingJohnsonTalentAward Assembly George Square, 28 Aug Nina Conti: The Dating Show Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Chris Gethard: A Father and the Sun Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug

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Absolute Onions: Improv Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brew Dog Lothian Rd, 17–28 Aug Stuart McPherson: The Peesh Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Looking Wolverhampton’sfor Latin Quarter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2717:00Aug

316:45-28AUG ROOMS GEORGE STREET The Scotsman Into our Hearts 2020 Entertainment blackbluesbrothers 316:45-28AUG ROOMS GEORGE STREET 317:20-28AUG (not 11) ROOMS GEORGE STREET A PARODY MUSICAL ABOUT FRIENDS Broadway World ★★★★ Fairy Powered Productions ★★★★ Creative Reviews UK ★★★★ STUPENDOUSLYIMPRESSIVE-THESTAGE DEFYING BOTHGENDER NORMSAND GRAVITY 417:20-28AUG (not 8, 15 + 22) HALL MOUND PLACE621:40-28AUG (not 15 + 22) ROOMS GEORGE STREET 419:00-28AUG (not 10, 15 + 22) HALL MOUND PLACE

Lloyd Langford: DILF PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–18 Aug Rob (GimmeMainstreamCopland:MuckSomeofThat)

Christopher Bliss: Captain Words Eye Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Luke Kempner: Macho Macho Man Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug Phil Ellis: Hedgehog Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–2818:45Aug Clandestina Queer Comedy Triple Bill PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17 Aug Andy’s Moon Show – How to Fake the Moon Landing PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 17 Aug, 19 Aug Kai Humphries: Mischief! The Stand Comedy Club, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Andy’s Moon Show – How Much is the Moon Worth? PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 18 Aug, 20 Aug Roisin Crowley Linton: Medusa Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–28 Aug Europe’s Most Wanted! Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Spontadeity: Who Let the Gods Out? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 18:50Aug Thanyia Moore: Just Being Funny Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 18–28 Aug Andrew White (But Not in a Gay Way) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Dreamgun: Film Reads Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug 18:55 Jenny Bede: The First Pregnant Woman in the World Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Bella Hull: Babycakes Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Mimi Hayes: 20-Nothing PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17–28 Aug 19:00 Not My Audience! The Comedy Show You Control! Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Aidan Goatley: Tenacious ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug Just These Please: Honestly No Pressure Either Way Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Alasdair NevermoreBeckett-King: Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Stand Up At Seven With Ella Al-Shamahi and Suse Steed Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Lew Fitz: Soft Lad Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Ruth Hunter and the Ruth-hunter PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug, not 23

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug Katie Pritchard: Disco Ball Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Nathan Mosher is Injured C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Tessa Coates: Get Your Tessa Coates You’ve Pulled Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug 18:10 Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Micky Overman: Small Deaths Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug MARVELus: All the MARVEL Movies... Kind Of! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug How to Record the Greatest Album of All Time Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug, not 19, 20, 21 Emmanuel EmancipatedSonubi:HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Lee Kyle: Parochial Glitter Implosion Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Morgan Rees: Bi and Large Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2818:15Aug 2022 Greek Comedian of the Year –ZacharopoulosGeorge PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 17–28 Aug Jake Cornell and Marcia Belsky: Man and Woman Assembly George Square Studios, 18–28 Aug One Bite Only Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Magnum Opus, Lembit Opik Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–28 Aug

Julie Grady Thomas: American Scum Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Sam Morrison: Sugar Daddy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Spanking The Monkey: The Etymology of Onanistic Euphemisms RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug

Macarthur-Boyd:Christopher Oh No Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 18–28 Aug The People vs The Oxford Revue Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17–23 Aug Abigoliah Schamaun: Legally Cheeky Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going? (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17 Aug A Flamingo Called Frank Presents: Five in the Pink theSpaceTriplex, 19–27 Aug

Tom DeTrinis: I HATE NEW YORK Assembly Rooms, 18–27 Aug 18:25 Michelle Brasier: Average Bear Assembly George Square, 17–28 Aug Good Kids: Appetite Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug

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Jarred and Hobbit: The Big Beatbox Comedy Mess Around Gameshow Show! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Troy Hawke: Sigmund Troy’d! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug George Fox: Night of the Living Dread Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 18–28 Aug Kylie Brakeman Presents: Linda Hollywood’s Big Hollywood Night Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug 3am Brain Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 28 Aug Mamoun Elagab: Work in Progress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 18–26 Aug, not 20 Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Star Spangled Stand-Up Smoke & Mirrors, 17–18 Aug Poetic Stupidity Smoke & Mirrors, 25–26 Aug

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug 18:35 Al Murray: Gig for Victory Assembly George Square Gardens, 29 Aug On the Run: Dame Over! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 18:40Aug Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect and Other Ideas BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 17–18 Aug Pear Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Robin Grainger: Robin Time The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug Emmy Blotnick: The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez: A Show About Death, Betrayal and Financial Ruin Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Ted Hill: All the Presidents Man Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug

Patrick Spicer: Who’s This All of a Sudden? Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug

Big Mick Energy Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–29 Aug Danny O’Brien: The God of All Things Bad Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–29 Aug Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel 25 Aug Lost Voice Guy: Cerebral LOLsy Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–28 Aug Shaun Patrick Flynn RN: Healthcare Anti-Hero RSE Theatre, 18 Aug Sindhu Vee: Alphabet Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Nik Coppin: Shark Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Mischief Movie Night Pleasance at EICC, 17–28 Aug, not 22 We’re Sorry (Best of Canada) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Church Girl, Interrupted theSpace on North Bridge, 21–27 Aug Basil Brush: Unleashed... And Uncut Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 25 Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Nikki Lowe: Nongenue Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–27 Aug The Best of Irish Comedy

John Robins: Work InProgress/ProgressInWork Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 Garrett Millerick: Just Trying to Help Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug Abigail’s 3rd Birthday Party Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug 18:30

The Laughter Must Go On Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 22 Aug Finlay Christie: OK Zoomer HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–28 Aug Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Tim Vine: Breeeep! Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 17–29 Aug, not 21, 28 Russell Arathoon: The Curious Incidents of the Gay in the Night-Time Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug The Impro All Stars Frankenstein Pub, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen’s Guide to Life Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 18:05Aug

Raul RussianKohli:Weapon of Mass Destruction Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 18–28 Aug Wordz Makez Jokez – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 27 Aug Stand Up, Weather Girl! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–21 Aug Christopher Titus: Carrying Monsters Assembly George Square Studios, 18–28 Aug, not 23, 24 100% Cotton: In a Spin Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Ramble On with CJ Hooper PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 18–28 Aug Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Eleanor Tiernan: Away With The Fairies Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 18:20Aug

Angela Barnes: Hot Mess HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Dixie Longate’s Happy Hour Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Raymond Mearns Has No Filter Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–29 Aug Henning Wehn: It’ll All Come Out In The Wash The Queen’s Hall, Various dates from 18 Aug to 27 19:05Aug

Mark Nelson: “Comedian” Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug, not 22 Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Kiri HomePritchard-McLean:Truths Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug Crazy Broken Chinese Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Absolute Improv! theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug Jake Lambert: Liminal Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 19:10Aug

Justin StretchMoorhouse:&Think Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug David O’Doherty: whoa is me Assembly George Square, 17–29 19:35Aug Rob Kemp: Agenda Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug Olga Koch: Just Friends Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug Nikki Britton: One Small Step Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Rob Duncan: Baby Trains PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 26 Aug 19:40 Shazia Mirza: Coconut Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Scummy Mummies Underbelly, George Square, 18–27 Aug Aliya Kanani: Where You From, From? HHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug Mark Dean Quinn: Has a Stroke but at Least He Got a Show Out of It PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 17–28 Aug, not 19, 20, 26, 27 Davina Bentley: Never Again 2 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Melissa Stephens: HOT DOGS & TEARS Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Kate Humanity’sSmurthwaite:LastHope PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug Rich Hall SOLD OUT: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug Bird With Kylie Vincent Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug Yasmine Day: Songs in the Key of Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Schalk Bezuidenhout: I’ll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–2919:45Aug Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 17–28 Aug, not 20, 27 Larry Tadlock: Bipolar Vegan Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–28 Aug, not 22 It Has to Be Said Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–21 Aug Simon Evans and His Big Ideas Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Myra DuBois’ A Problem Shared Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug Men With Coconuts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug BriTANicK Assembly George Square, 18–28 Aug Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Kate Butch: Wuthering Shites Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Chris Laker: Bully Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Best of Adelaide’s Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Ashley Haden: On the Outside Pissing in Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Liam Withnail: Hot Sauce Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Freestyle ImprovisedComedy:Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug Melting Pot Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 22–28 Aug ❤ Susie McCabe: Born Believer HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Jamie ReasonablyMacDonald:Adjusted Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 19:50Aug

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Yuriko Kotani: Kaiju About Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug Molly Leigh-Moy and Carla Gordon: As Per My Previous Apology... Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug Jo Griffin: People Person Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug Liam Farrelly, Brother-in-LawGod’s Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22 2022 The Beginning of the End – Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Sh!t-Faced Showtime: A Pissed-mas Carol The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Jamie D’Souza: Stop Drawing Willies on My Poster Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug A Depression-Cure Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2719:15Aug

Ian Cognito: A Life and A Death On Stage Just the Tonic at The Caves, 25–28 Aug Biscuit Barrel: Wafering Heights Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Martin Mor – the Antidote Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–21 Aug Dr John Cooper Clarke – I Wanna Be Yours Edinburgh Playhouse, 24 Aug Bulletproof Unicorn Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–27 Aug Still Got It Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22–28 Aug Buffy: Revamped Pleasance at EICC, Various dates from 18 Aug to 29 Aug The Retirement Game Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug Big Value Early Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug ❤ Sophie Duker: Hag HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Ivo Graham: My Future My Clutter Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Scott Bennett: Nine Lives Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–24 Aug Ray Fordyce’s Cosy Evening In With Pals Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug ❤ Sam SexGovernment-ApprovedSee: HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Palindrome Fight! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Sindhu Vee: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug Anthony DeVito: My Dad Isn’t Danny DeVito Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Ray Bradshaw: Bald Ginger Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 18–29 Aug, not 24 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Nicole Harris: No Brainer Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Stand Up for the People Frankenstein Pub, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Bad Man Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 22–28 Aug Tatty Macleod: Fugue WIP Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–21 Aug Jason Byrne: Unblocked Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug, not 22 So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug

Jen Ives: Peak Trans HHH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Police Cops: The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 18–29 Aug, not 27 Broke in Barcelona Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Gabbi Bolt: I Hope My Keyboard Doesn’t Break House of Oz, 23–28 Aug Peter Fleming’s Woefully Inaccurate History of the BBC Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22 Aug

Janeane Garofalo: Pardon My Tangent Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Where’s Your Head At? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 17–27 Aug, not 20, 23 Shelf: Hair Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Alex Hylton: Love, Probably Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Aaaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Edfringe Hot Ticket Lucky Dip! Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, Various dates from 22 Aug to 28 Aug Tom Skelton: 2020 Visions (What If I Hadn’t Gone Blind?) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–28 Aug Celya AB: Swimming Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Daniel Muggleton: Oh, More Mr White Guy? Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Hannah Pilkes: A Woman on the Verge Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Science Magic XXX Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Sara Barron: Hard Feelings Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Craig Hill: I Always Knew I Had it in Me! Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Ravenclaw Kanye PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 17–28 Aug, not 23 19:20 The Big Fat C PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–28 Aug Neil Delamere: Liminal Assembly George Square, 17–28 Aug Paul Foot: Swan Power Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Pete Wells: Success Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Ryan Wingfield: Trophy Husband Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Merrill Means Well theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug Gabby Killick’s Game Of Thongs Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug Esther #NotAllMenManito: Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 19:25Aug Lily Phillips: Smut Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Eric SuperDavidson’sDailySpin We Gaily Ukulele Ceilidh theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–21 Aug Philliam and Willipp Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Paul McCaffrey: We Go Again Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–2819:30Aug

There’s No Mystery in Murder! theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 ❤ Zach ShowcaseSpectacularZucker:Industry HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 19:55Aug Charlie Vergos –Barbecue Rich PBH’s Free Fringe @ Roti, 17–28 Aug, not 22 74 Comedy

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Susan Riddell: Living My 2nd Best Life Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 17–28 Aug, not 22 Hal Cruttenden: It’s Best You Hear It From Me Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Dr Hammond’s Covid Inquiry theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug Flo & Joan: Sweet Release Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug Ray Badran: Sweet Baby Ray Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Chris Turner: Rap God Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug Jake Baker: Unity Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Sami Abu Wardeh: Bedu Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–2820:15Aug

Larry Dean: Fudnut Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug Kai Samra: Native Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Robin Morgan: Snip Snip, Bitch (Work In Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Come See – Evan Desmarais Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Emo Majok: African Aussie Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Elf Lyons: Raven HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Geraldine Quinn: BROAD House of Oz, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Siblings: Siblage Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase 2022! Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug Tim Key: Mulberry Pleasance Dome, 17 Aug Grant Busé: SentiMENTAL! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Hard Knock Life Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug

Patrick Monahan: Classy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Middle Rage Shout – Scottish Music Centre @ 111 Holyrood Road, 17–28 Aug Ireland’s Best Themed Show: Tree Fiddy Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug Sascha LO and Friends Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Dave UnderdogChawner: Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Mother: Colleagues Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug #Jollyboat – Daft Puns PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 17–28 Aug

Robert Garnham, Yay! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–20 Aug Dan Cook: Loud Bit, Quiet Bit, Loud Bit, Quiet Bit Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Eddy Brimson: A Comedian Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–29 Aug

Mary Beth Barone: Silly Little Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Gerry Carroll: A Man in My Position Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug

John Hastings: Do You Have Any Ointment My John Hastings Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug NewsRevue Pleasance at EICC, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Alex Farrow: Philosophy Machines Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–28 Aug 20:20 Jo Caulfield: Here Comes Trouble The Stand Comedy Club, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Jayde Adams: Men, I Can Save You Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Connor Burns: Live, Laugh, Loathe Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Ignacio Lopez: El Cómico Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Clare McCartney:HarrisonBox Ticker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brew dog Doghouse, 24 Aug Menopause Party theSpace @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug Sharon Wanjohi and Abbie Edwards: Not Too Shabby Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Al Murray: Gig for Victory Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–29 Aug ❤ Joz Norris: Blink HHHH Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug Deirdre DementedO’Kane: Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–21 Aug Brennan Reece: Crowded Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug James Roque: Badong Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Business Casual: FERAL Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug Shitegeist Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Eleanor Morton: Craig On Tour The Stand Comedy Club, 22 20:25Aug The Cougar and the Cub PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brew Dog Lothian Rd, 17–21 Aug Rhys Nicholson – Rhys! Rhys! Rhys! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug Sikisa: Life of the Party HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2820:30Aug

Josh Jones: Waste of Space Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Michelle Shaughnessy: Be Your Own Daddy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 20:35Aug Dr Brown: Workdsff intlsdjfj Progressdsdfdfn Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–28 Aug Mad Ron: Crime School Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Michael Akadiri: No Scrubs Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Thom Tuck and Tim FitzHigham: Macbeth Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–20 Aug Nick Elleray: Passionate About Compromise PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–28 Aug AfroPolitiCool The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–21 Aug Abby Wambaugh and Bronwyn Sweeney The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22–28 Aug Harmon Leon in The Jokes Saved My Soul PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug 20:40 Awkward Sex... and the City with Natalie Wall Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Macho Daddy Punchfist Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Jimeoin: The Craic! Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Pete Heat: Blimey Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 Aug Chris Hall and Mark Bittlestone: Two Sour Gays Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug Jake Farrell: Sky Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2820:45Aug Comedy Sassafras Pleasance Courtyard, 17–20 Aug Filthy Funny Females Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–19 Aug Alice-India: Be Brave (Or Whatever) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Food Fight ‘95 Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 17–27 Aug, not 22 The Best Man in Ireland Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 17–29 Aug, not 18, 22 James Barr: Straight Jokes Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–28 Aug Aidan Greene: I Know What You Did Last Stammer Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Dave Johns: A Comic’s Tale Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug 20:50 Mark Ritchie: Too Close for Comfort Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Two Hearts: We’re Pregnant and the Baby is Music Assembly George Square, 18–28 Aug gosh! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Eli Matthewson: Daddy Short-Legs Underbelly, George Square, 18–28 Aug Babysitting Calvin theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 20:55Aug

Rachel Bradley: Beauty for Ashes Assembly Rooms, 18–28 Aug, not 23, 24 Sean McLoughlin: So Be It Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2820:00Aug Eshaan Akbar Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Comedy for the Curious Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug

Sam Nicoresti: Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture HHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug ❤ Garry Starr: Greece Lightning HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 18–28 Aug Andy Field: Ideas (,) Man Assembly George Square Studios, 18–28 Aug The Shambles theSpace on the Mile, 22–2721:00Aug Ah! My Name is Yoky Yu. Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–29 Aug Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Kate Barron: Losing Myself Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug Mark Watson: This Can’t Be It Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 Leah Lamarr: NFTs (Nice F%cking Titties) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug This Is Your Trial Frankenstein Pub, Various dates from 18 Aug to 29 Aug Rosco McClelland: Goblin Mode Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive), 17–28 Aug 76 Comedy festmag.com

Matt Forde: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug

Pete Firman: Bag Of Tricks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 25 Tom Stade: The High Road Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–28 Aug Dan Lees: Mustard or Custard? BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 24–27 Aug Jew Talkin’ To Me? Assembly George Square, 17 Aug Ryan Cullen: Caveat Emptor* The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug Tiff Stevenson: Sexy Brain Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Leah MacRae Weighs In Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–28 Aug Impromptu Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug A Cut Above Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Tina del Twist: Caravan in the Sky Assembly Checkpoint, 17–28 Aug, not 22 20:05 Read for Filth theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 20:10Aug

Fin Taylor: Daddy Self-Care Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug C*nt! PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 17–28 Aug

Frankie Thompson: Catts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Abandoman aka Rob Broderick: Discography Underbelly, George Square, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Ben Clover: Best Newcomer C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo, 17–28 Aug 21:30 Best of Scottish Comedy Awards Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–27 Aug Comedy Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 18–28 Aug Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back Assembly Checkpoint, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 Ellie MacPherson: Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Carter Morgan: Dick Jokes for End Times Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Paul Zerdin: Hands Free Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug Aidan Jones – Taco Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Darius Davies: AgreementNon-DisclosureThe Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Nancy Clench: If Your Symptoms Life-Threatening,Aren’tPlease Hold! Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Hot Ticket PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 17–28 Aug Andrew KrakatoaMaxwell: Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 25 Dumbelles PBH’s Free Fringe @ South sider, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Bianca Del UnsanitizedRio: Pleasance at EICC, 18–26 Aug, not 22 21:35 Richard Brown: Horror Show Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St), 17–28 Aug ❤ Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Cyclopath Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 21:40Aug Erika Ehler: Femcel HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Christy Bangarang!Coysh: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Stand Up for Your Planet Assembly Rooms, 22 Aug The Club Valentine Comedy Hour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–28 Aug Here Goes Nothing! RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug Christian Brighty: Playboy Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug Catherine Cohen: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 17–21 Aug How I Ruined Medicine theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug, not 22 21:45

All About the Drama Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Tom Mayhew: Trash Rich The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug Rich Wilson: You Could Have It So Much Better Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Alfie Packham and Luke Chilton: Hot New Talent Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Sam Taunton: Yoho Diabolo Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Jess Robinson: Legacy Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Riss Obolensky: Healing King Herod BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 19–23 Aug Amrita Dhaliwal: Driving Around BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 17–18 21:25Aug

Lil Saffron: Ragu to Riches Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Tom Walker: Javelin Assembly George Square, 18–28 Aug Tom Henry, Jack Hester: Tom and Jack Having the Craic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Your Aunt Fanny: Muff Said Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug The Shambles theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 21:10Aug

Jodie Mitchell and Hannah Platt: Thanks for Sharing PBH’s Free Fringe @ Roti, 18–28 Aug Reginald D. Hunter: Bombe Shuffleur Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Harriet HoneysuckleKemsley:Island Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–25 Aug Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2821:15Aug

Paul Currie: The Chorus of Ghosts Living in My Skull Keep Telling Me to Take a Shit in the Fruit Salad Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug, not 24 Diane Chorley: Modern Love Assembly George Square Studios, 23–28 Aug Simon David: White Gay Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Anna Clifford: I SEE DEAD(LY) PEOPLE Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Adam Kay: This is Going to Hurt... More (Work in Progress) Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23 Aug Brown Sauce Assembly George Square Studios, 17–21 Aug Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Silent Disco Boogie Shoes Walking Party with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug ❤ ALOKHHHH Traverse Theatre, 17–21 Aug Spiegeltastic – The Best Mixed-Bill Show at the Fringe Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 17–28 Aug, not 20 Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–28 Aug Vanlord Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Phil Wang: The Real Hero in All This Assembly George Square, 17–21 Aug Dan Tiernan: Cherub Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Chris ForgivenessMcGlade: Frankenstein Pub, 17 Aug, 24 Aug Jasmin RazzmajazzGleeson: Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug An Idiom’s Guide to the Galaxy C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Absolute Friendship! RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug I Got Bit by a Monkey Once PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait, 17–28 Aug Alfie Brown: Sensitive Man Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug Nish Kumar: Your Power, Your Control Assembly George Square, 22–28 Aug Down and Out in Glasgow and Berlin Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 I’m With Stupid Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 21:05Aug

Tom Lucy: Melt Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Aurie Styla: Green Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Samantha Day: Careering PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 17–28 Aug Your Dad’s Mum: Tonight at the Social Club Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug Spiegeltastic – The Best Mixed-Bill Show at the Fringe Just the Tonic at St James Quarter, 20 Aug Star Quest: The Next Improvisation theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Würk Paradise in Augustines, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Conrad Koch: White Noise Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Big Value Late Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug 21:50 Three Grams and a Baby Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug Sam Lake: Cake Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Tamer Kattan – An Alien from New York PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug Ciarán Dowd: King Rodolfo Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour Pleasance Dome, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug Troy Hawke: Sigmund Troy’d! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–20 21:55Aug Dirty Laundry Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Kiran Saggu and Sarah Roberts: Cake Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug How Not to Owl theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Red Richardson: Shots Fired Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Thor and Freya: Norse as F*ck Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug Jordan Brookes: This Is Just What Happens Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Julia Masli: CHOOSH! HHH Assembly Roxy, 18–28 Aug 22:00 A Celebration of Father Ted With Joe Rooney The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–21 Aug Adam Riley: Saxon Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Tehran Von Ghasri: GONNA GET CANCELLED Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 24, 25, 26, 27 Alex Kitson and Julia Stenton: Good Influences PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends, 17–28 Aug Seann Walsh: Is Dead. Happy Now? The Stand Comedy Club, 17–28 Aug Rebels Without Applause Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug

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Norris and Parker: Sirens HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 Aug Stand-Up Science Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug AMJ Entertainer Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Don’t Start Me on White Jesus Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug ❤ Randy Feltface: Alien of Extraordinary Ability HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Chaotic Neutral theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Diane Spencer Slid Off the Turkey Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Sex, Lies & Improvisation theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug ❤ Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t HaveHHHH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–21 Aug An Aussie, African and Englishman Walk Into a Bar... Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Alice Fraser: Chronos Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Adults Only Magic Show Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Foil Arms and Hog –Hogwash Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 21:20Aug

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Brian Gallagher: Another Funny Irishman, Blah Blah, Diddley Diddle Dee Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 18–27 Aug

BeComedy UK Presents: No Limits Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe theSpace @ Venue45, 26–27 Aug Sammy Obeid Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug 22:50 Desmond Hinks: Tesco Sacked Me After Eight Days Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug Alex DinosaurusesusesFranklin: Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug The Rodney Buzzard Tapes: Evidence of an Honourable Man theSpace on the Mile, 23–27 Aug Sex Me I’m Irish Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 22:55Aug A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25–27 Aug Trash Salad Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug, not 24 The Improverts theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2723:00Aug An Evening With Tara Boland Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–28 Aug Wacky Racists Comedy Club Assembly George Square Studios, 21–22 Aug The Wrestling Assembly Hall, 23–24 Aug John-Luke Roberts: Terrible AdaptationsWonderful Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug Murder, She Didn’t Write Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, 28 Aug Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 17–28 Aug An American Comedy Showcase. Free! Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug SNORT Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug Lemon Party Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Spank! You and Goodnight Underbelly, Bristo Square, 28–29 Aug Nobody Panic: Live Pleasance Courtyard, 19–20 Aug The KimprovKeepingImpronautsCambridgePresent:Upwiththe Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Diane Chorley: Down The Flick Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 21, 22 Drag His Ass with Mary Beth Barone Pleasance Dome, 20–21 Aug Big Boys and Friends Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug 23:05 Tales of an ConsciousnessAlteredWithin a Comical Lunatic Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Bobby Mair: Cockroach Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–25 Aug AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug One Single Thread Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 23:10 Marmalade theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 21 Indoor Kids theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug The All Irish After Party Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–28 Aug, not 22 23:15 Bomb and Get Bombed: A Stand-Up Comedy Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Alex Leam: ProvocateurImprov PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour Pleasance Dome, 21 Aug, 28 Aug Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular! Underbelly, George Square, 25–26 Aug Stamptown Comedy Night Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 18 Aug to 27 Aug Listings79

The Many Faces of Horatio Gould Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 17–29 Aug Beak: Cocktail Boys PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–28 Aug Horrible Herstories Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Tim Key: Mulberry Pleasance Courtyard, 18–28 Aug, not 21, 22 The Room Above’s Comedy Hour Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug John Robertson: The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 27 The Kids of Canada Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Séayoncé: (Seayonce)Res-Erection Assembly Roxy, 18–28 Aug The Best (and Worst) of The Dirty Tattooed Circus Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17 Aug Phil Differ: My Medical Hell The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22–28 Aug Posey Mehta: I Am Not a Gorilla Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Liz One-WomanKingsman:Show Traverse Theatre, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Laughing Stock Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Tarot: Cautionary Tales Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Best of Scandinavia Gilded Balloon Teviot, 24–27 Aug That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians – 2 Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug 22:05 Al Murray: Gig for Victory Assembly George Square Gardens, 22 Aug It’s Fraser Brown, I’m Afraid theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Blind Mirth Presents: F*ck It, You Decide theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 22:10Aug No Laughing Matter Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug .22 Comeback Special –Sir Dickie Benson PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 23 The Flop: A Band of Idiots PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–20 Aug Frank Foucault: Songs Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug Dogs Love Chocolate theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2722:15Aug Best of So You Think You’re Funny? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 25 Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–23 Aug The Jam Society PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 23–24 Aug Gavin Webster: Greatest Hits Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug The Good, the Bad and the Irish! Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker, 17–29 Aug Set List: WithoutStand-upaNet Just the Tonic Nucleus, Various dates from 18 Aug to 27 Aug Crizards: Cowboys Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug James NaturalCrampton:Disaster theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug The Mr Thing Show Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug, not 24 Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug 22:20 Dreamgun Video Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Perdidos (Lost) in Translation Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Drag Queens vs Zombies Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Lippy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen Assembly Hall, 25–27 Aug Gearóid Farrelly: Glamour Hammer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 22:25Aug Alice Cockayne: Attention Needed Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Best of the Fest: The New Class Assembly George Square Gardens, 18–28 Aug, not 22, 23, 24 Jordan Gray: Is It a Bird? Assembly George Square, 18–28 Aug Now: Shame Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Tom Ward: Anthem Monkey Barrel Comedy, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Emily Wilson: Fixed Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug Chris Thorburn’s Monday Mash-Up Meltdown Monkey Barrel Comedy, 22 Aug Late Night Laughter with Aaron Levene PBH’s Free Fringe @ Roti, 17–28 Aug, not 23 22:30 Mat Ewins: Danger Money Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug OK, Let Me Explain Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Anxiety vs Depression: A Comedy Game Show –Pay What You Can Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Sarah Sherman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–21 Aug Ashley Brain Damage Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22–28 Aug Horseplay: Bareback Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Raul Kohli: Kohl and The Gang Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 18–28 Aug Existential Queer Laughing Horse @ Dragon fly, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Ivo Graham: My Future My Clutter Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug, 25 Aug Comedy Estonia Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug 22:35 Oliver Coleman: Sublime Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Flat and the Curves The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug 22:40 Dan Rath: Cockroach Party Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Biscuit Barrel: Xtra Comedy Tin Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–27 Aug Lee Brophy: False Prophet The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–28 Aug Jack Barry: Don’t Happy Be Worry Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–28 Aug ❤ Sophie Duker: Hag HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Aug Lachlan Werner, Laurie Luxe and Paulina Lenoir: Movements in Motion BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 17–18 Aug Edy Hurst’s Comedy Version of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of HG Wells’ Literary Version (Via Orson Welles’ Radio Version and Steven Spielberg’s Film Version) of the War of the Worlds Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–23 Aug Alasdair NevermoreBeckett-King: Pleasance Courtyard, 19 Aug, 26 Aug Crone Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 24–28 Aug 22:45

Angus Coutts: Spicy Accountant Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar, 17–28 Aug, not 24 Andy Roach: Laughing at Conspiracy Theories Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug 23:20 Jamali Maddix: King Crud Pleasance Courtyard, 25–27 Aug Monkey Barrel Comedy presents... Live! Monkey Barrel Live Stream, 17–28 Aug Brexico Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Gigless Live Monkey Barrel Live Stream, 18–19 Aug 110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Live Stream, 22–23 Aug 110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 22–23 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase 2022! Monkey Barrel Live Stream, 20 Aug, 27 Aug Gigless Live Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18–19 Aug Get Off FundraiserComedy Pleasance Courtyard, 24–25 Aug AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug The Comedy Arcade Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug Dave Cerwonka: FFS Just the Tonic at The Grass market Centre, 17–28 Aug The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Fringe Showcase 2022! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, 27 Aug 23:25 White Jesus: Ascension PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug Pearly Gates: A Kafkaesque Romcom in Heaven theSpace on the Mile, 17–2023:30Aug Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Ram Adithya Arangi – The Local Tourist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–20 Aug Luke Oseland: Drunk Magic Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 26 Midnight Snacks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Henry and–RomanticGinsberg:ComedianPersonalGrowth,SexNazis

Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 18–28 Aug Ralph Brown: Petty Man Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Eh! Comedy Tour Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug Found Our Funny at the Fringe Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–28 Aug 23:35 Anarchy Presents:CabaretTheWest End New Act of the Year Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–27 Aug, not 23 23:40 Triple Threat Comedy Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 Broken Zoo: The Texas Takeover Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–2823:45Aug Nikki Hartung: Love, Pierre Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Comedy Queers

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug Afterhours Comedy: Amused Moose Comedy Zoo Southside, 20 Aug, 27 Aug Aaaaaaaand now! Roger Swift’s Machine Pun: Reloaded Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–27 23:55Aug Mr Chonkers Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore), 17–28 Aug Spank! Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–27 Aug The Drunk and Heckle Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–28 Aug Cabaret Impedimenta Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–18 Aug The LOL Word Monkey Barrel Comedy, Various dates from 18 Aug to 27 Aug Creepy Boys Underbelly, Cowgate, 19–20 Aug The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 18–28 Aug, not 22, 23, 24 The Jam Society PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 22–23 Aug 23:59 Shannon Matthews the Musical Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Elf Lyons: Talks Dirty for an HourHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, 27 Aug The Disgraceful Club Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, 26 Augfestmag.com80

When We Were Normal theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Major X Ploe-Shun Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug ❤ Psychodrama HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug Water Fruit Loops theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Patience: Zero Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–28 Aug, not 18 Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel (SpokenStockbridgeWord) St Vincent’s, 19–20 Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Robyn Yew Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug This is Paradise Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Steve Richards Presents: Rock’n’Roll Politics theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug ❤ Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical HHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems and Why Truth Matters Paradise in Augustines, 17–26 Aug, not 21 ❤

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug 10:30 Blood Harmony HHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug

Helter Skelter Assembly George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 19 The Chairs Revisited Pleasance Dome, 18–29 Aug #FOMO Clinic Paradise in Augustines, 23–27 Aug The Choir of Man Assembly Hall, 18 Aug, 25 Aug No Time For Strangers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug 82 Theatre

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When We Were Normal theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug A Eulogy for Roman theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug An Audience with Stuart Bagcliffe ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug, not 25 Joshua (and Me) Pleasance Dome, 18–29 Aug Head Girl theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug The Church of the Fall theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2711:00Aug

The Ofsted Massacre theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2709:55Aug

Apocalypse Kernow Paradise in The Vault, 22–28 Aug Half-Empty Glasses Roundabout @ Summerhall, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug Able(ish) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Life Before the Line theSpace @ Venue45, 17–27 Aug, not 21 A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Words Without Consent Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug 11:25 Coarse: The Brontës Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 18 Aug, 20 Aug Harvey Greenfield is Running Late Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 ObjectsUnwantedHHH Zoo Southside, 17–28 Aug Who the F**k Is Don Quixote? Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Quartet theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Optimistic Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, 19 Aug 11:30 Is This the Real Life? theSpace on the Mile, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Everything That’s Me Is Falling Apart Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Apradhini – Women Without Men Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 22–28 Aug S.O.E. Assembly Rooms, 19–27 Aug Lucid ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Death of an Author Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Beneath theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Boy Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Shakespeare’s Fool theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Tom Assembly Rooms, 17 Aug The Tempest Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug Parky Players: Shake It Up theSpaceTriplex, 25–27 Aug Daylight Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug 11:35 The Final Approach Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Lord of the Flies theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Who Here’s Lost? Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug Daddy Issues Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug, not 22 A Young Girl’s Guide to Madness theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 11:40 Palimpsest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Appraisal Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Anne Harper – Stop the Bus! Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug 100 Seconds to Midnight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 EastEndless Pleasance Courtyard, 18–27 Aug Room – A Room of One’s Own Pleasance Courtyard, 18–27 Aug Whispers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2711:45Aug Long Nights in Paradise theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Diary of an Australian Outback Woman Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 20–28 Aug The Land of Lost Content Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug The Rip Current Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug, not 23 One of Two Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not11:5022

The Changeling Girl theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Do I? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2710:10Aug Heroes theSpace @ Venue45, 17–20 Aug Call Mr Robeson theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–27 Aug Civilisation Zoo Southside, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug Midsummer theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Alice Through the Looking Glass theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug 10:15 A Non-Emergency theSpace @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug birthday girl theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Rebound theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Hart Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug ❤ Happy Meal HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug 10:20 About Money Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 25, 26 The Boy With a Thousand Faces theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Elementa Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Space Hippo Assembly George Square, 17–2910:25Aug

Shakespeare for Breakfast C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Beautiful Nothing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug We Were Promised Honey! Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Midsummer theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug I Am From Reykjavik Summerhall, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 10:05Aug

Shakespeare for Breakfast C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Boy: Looking for Friends Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–28 Aug Fake It Till You Make It theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Average Joe theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–2911:20Aug

The Last Return HHHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug Fat Chance Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug, not 22, 23 Exodus HHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug How My Light Is Spent theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Old Town History and Tales Statue of Adam Smith, 17–29 Aug Coward Conscience theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug ❤ Wilf HHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 10:40Aug Ludomachy! The Summoning of Games PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 17–28 Aug 10:45 Camino Man theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Banana Crabtree Simon theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug The Mistake theSpace on North Bridge, 17–2710:50Aug Gulliver Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–2810:55Aug

The Guardian INGENIOUS San Francisco Chronicle 00:00 MaX-XiM PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug 09:00 I Don’t Like Mondays theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–2009:40Aug

The Changeling Girl theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Pramkicker theSpace on the Mile, 17–2710:00Aug

Happy Place Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Fan/Girl PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 19–28 Aug 11:15

Members BackstageEvent:Tourof ROOM King’s Theatre, 17 Aug 11:05 Foundations Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–21 Aug Troy Story Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–28 Aug War of the Worlds (On a Budget) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Rebound theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Eglantyne Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–2911:10Aug

Do I? theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug 09:50

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11:55 The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Kafkaesque theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug The Olive Tree theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2012:00Aug

Pavementology Meeting Point at East Princes Street Gardens, Corner of Market Street and Waverley Bridge, 17–29 Aug, not 23 The Anniversary Pleasance Dome, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug It’s Always the Quiet Ones C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 17–21 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Will Tell and the Big Bad Baron Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–21 Aug In Conversation with… Elaine C Smith The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug Billy Boy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 22 In Conversation with... Andy Burnham The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Cordelia InvestigatesButters

Hotel Elsinore theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Ultimatum Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Love in the Time of Lockdown (The New Variant) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Sunsets Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug Sandcastles Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Glister theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug Isabelle Farah: Ellipsis Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–27 Aug, not 22, 23 Godot is a Woman Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug, not 22 What Keeps You Awake at Night Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Sap Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Out to Lunch Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Please, Feel Free to Share Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Bubblegum and Pop Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–27 Aug 12:55 The Silver Bell Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Blood, Sweat and Vaginas Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug One Week in Magaluf theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug Love, Loss and Chianti HHH Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 23 How to Build a Wax Figure Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug, not 23 13:00 Twisted Tales Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Major X Ploe-Shun Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Ondine Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug C digital performance and film C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug Fashion Spies Assembly George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 23 I Feel the Need Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Land – A Scottish Musical Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug In the Interest of Health and Safety Can Patrons Kindly Supervise Their Children at All Times Assembly Rooms, 17–21 Aug Vermin Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug The Ghosting of Rabbie Burns Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Myra’s Story Assembly George Square, 18–29 Aug, not 24 Swell Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Sweet FA Tynecastle Park, 21 Aug Beg For Me Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Robyn Yew Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Kevin Flynn: Fear of Heights Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug Birds of Passage in the Half Light by Kat Woods Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 22 This is Paradise Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug Hyenas! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–28 Aug Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Mansfield Traquair The Mansfield Traquair Centre, 18 Aug Swallowed Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Something About Simon Assembly Rooms, 17–18 Aug Hard Shoulder theSpace on the Mile, 17–2013:05Aug Tiger Lady HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug, not 22 13:10 An Evil Thing Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug Listings83

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3RD - 28TH AUGUST (NOT 15TH) 60 MIN A MUST SEE, TheatreManchester

Lucika theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Burn theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug The Murder Club theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Ten Men – The Lives Of John Bindon theSpace on the Mile, 22–2712:30Aug

The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Hedda Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 I just like you | a gay myth Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Cassie and the Lights Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug The Stones Assembly Roxy, 17–29 Aug, not 23 12:35 Coarse: The Brontës Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug The Maids Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Assigned theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Utter Mess! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Practically Perfect! Julie Andrews from Broadway to Hollywood Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Optimistic Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 2612:40Aug Intelligence Assembly Roxy, 17–29 Aug This Moment in America Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Stop the World, We’re Getting Off theSpace @ Venue45, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Scotland’s Oldest Poem – The Gododdin Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Baxter vs The Bookies Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Cecil Beaton’s Diaries Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21, 22 The Graveyard Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug 12:45 The Giant Killers Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug The Heat Museum ZOO Playground, 17–20 Aug Press Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Colossal Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug SHEWOLVES Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Torn theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–2712:50Aug

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–18 Aug Carnegie Panmure House, 20 Aug, 27 Aug In Conversation with… Deborah Meaden The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug In Conversation with... Tam Cowan The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug ❤ Ghosts of the Near Future HHHH Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Alphonse Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Guerilla Autistics Year 8 – Scenes From an Undiagnosed Life Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–19 Aug In Conversation with... Alex Thomson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug In Conversation with... Darren McGarvey The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug In Conversation with... Jim Sillars The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug Wreckage Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 In Conversation with... Ian Rankin The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 27 Aug Dear Little Loz theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug In Conversation with... Hugo Rifkind The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 28 Aug The Tragedy of Macbeth HHH Assembly Roxy, 18–29 Aug In Conversation with… Ian Blackford The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug In Conversation with... Christopher Brookmyre The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug Shall I Compare Thee theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug In Conversation with… Nicola Sturgeon The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug 12:05 Zav Paradise in Augustines, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Kafkaesque theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 22–27 Aug Blue & Pip theSpace on North Bridge, 21–2712:10Aug

Tinted Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Last Words theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug Sobriety on the Rocks theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Pauline Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2912:25Aug

The Collie’s Shed theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Age Is a Feeling Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 War of the Worlds (On a Budget) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Conflict in Court Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug Harry Baker: Unashamed PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolu tion Bar, 17–26 Aug, not 20 12:15 Ideation theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug After theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Fanboy Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug, not 22 20 Minutes of Action Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug, not 23 Hobnobs and Fruitcake theSpace on the Mile, 17–2012:20Aug

VIBRANT & INNOVATIVE

The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much Pleasance Dome, 18–29 Aug In the Weeds by Joseph Wilde, Produced by An Tobar and Mull Theatre Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Watson: The Final Problem Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug In the Name of the Son Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug, not 22 By the Light of the Moon theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug We Are What We Overcome theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 22–27 Aug Raw Sex Appeal theSpace on North Bridge, 22–2713:15Aug

The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 17 Aug to 29 Aug

The Roaring of the Voices theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug New Labour PASS Theatre, 22–27 Aug Truth/Reconciliation ZOO Playground, 17–20 Aug PUSH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Muster Station: Leith Leith Academy, 20–21 Aug The Road to Ballina Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–28 Aug A Hundred Words for Snow Leith Arches, 17–20 Aug Sad Girls Club Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge St Vincent’s, 19 Aug Cat RSE Theatre, 17–21 Aug The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker and Merryn Somerset Webb Panmure House, 25–28 Aug Hiccups Dundas Street Gallery, 25 Aug Almost Instinct Almost True theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Kaye Adams – How to Be 60: Live! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–24 Aug Traditional Tales of Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–28 Aug The Taste of Sweat and Sand Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–27 Aug Twelfth Night Assembly George Square Gardens, 19–20 Aug I Was Naked, Smelling of Rain ZOO Playground, Various dates from 22 Aug to 2814:05Aug Badass Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Fritz and Matlock Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Brainstorm theSpaceTriplex, 17–19 Aug 14:10 The Endling Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–19 Aug Period Dramas Pleasance Courtyard, 17–21 Aug Poles: The Science of Magnetic Attraction Pleasance Courtyard, 23–29 Aug Dorian C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–21 Aug Pulse C ARTS | C venues | C place, 22–28 Aug How to Be Lost C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 22–28 Aug Hopes and Dreams theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Seeds of Memories theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug The Lacehouse theSpace on North Bridge, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Earwig Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug The Conversation theSpace on North Bridge, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug We Are What We Overcome theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–21 Aug Today I Killed My Very First Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug 84 Theatre festmag.com

The Masks of Oscar Wilde Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 What the Heart Wants Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 23 This is Not a Show About Hong Kong Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug

WILDLY ORIGINAL

The After-Dinner Joke theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Miss Lindsay’s Secret Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 18 Aug to 28 Aug ❤ The Last Return HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug ❤ Work.txt HHHH Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Exodus HHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug The Great Almighty Gill Assembly George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 22 13:20 1972: The Future of Sex theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Ideation theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug ❤ Never Let Go: An Unauthorized Retelling of James Cameron’s Titanic HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Make-up Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug Locked In theSpace on the Mile, 17–21 Aug

The Guardian INGENIOUS San Francisco Chronicle

Americana: A Murder Ballad Assembly Checkpoint, 17 Aug 13:25 In Her Defence theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Winston and David Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2913:30Aug 9 Circles Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Evil Psychiatrists and Sexy Refugees The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug Eco-Nappies Are Shit The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Blood Harmony HHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Keep It Simple Stupid? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug The Importance of Being... Earnest? Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug ❤ Psychodrama HHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug Looking Bad Is Good for You! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug Convicting the Innocent The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug Psychiatrists Are Evil! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 28 Aug Are You Being Murdered? Pleasance at EICC, 18–20 Aug Our Boy The Royal Scots Club, 17–20 Aug Pip Utton as Dylan Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Mary, Chris, Mars Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov, Translated and Adapted by Michael Frayn Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug My Neighbour Hacked My Toothbrush! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Dance and Stop Learning English! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug And They Shang-A-LangPlayed Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug Old Town History and Tales Statue of Adam Smith, 17–29 Aug ❤ Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical HHHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug What Does Your Skin Say About You? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 27 Aug Stop Learning English! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug High Performance Sport? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Imagination Workshop: Hilton Carlton , 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug ❤ Happy Meal HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug Shame on You! HHH Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Go to Your Room! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug 13:35 Sound Cistem Pleasance Dome, 23–29 Aug The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me Pleasance Dome, 17–21 Aug Doll theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Autopilot Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Poems on Gender Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 13:40 Almost Adult Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug ❤ Made in India/Britain HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Man of 100 Faces Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Our Field at Twilight theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Artorigus theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–2713:45Aug Fly Me to the Moon Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug ❤ Svengali HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Hippie Shakes Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Terrence the T-Rex Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Activities of Daily Living Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Boys Who Punch Holes in Walls PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 20–28 Aug Don’t Ask Don’t Get, Baby Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 5 Finger$ PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17–28 Aug ❤ Wilf HHHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug I Shall Not Be Moved Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–2613:50Aug

She Wolf Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Heroes theSpace @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug The Silent Treatment Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Down to Earth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 13:55 Fiji Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Contact Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug 14:00 The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Freddie PotatoheadHayes: Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug A Little Life Festival Theatre, 22 Aug The Art of Facing Fear, World United Fringe Online, 20–21 Aug The Beat Goes On theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Man With a Guitar Plays Story Songs

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Fifteen Minute Break The Mother Superior, 17–28 Aug Joy theSpace @ Venue45, 17–20 Aug The Weird Sisters theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

The Golfer Assembly George Square Studios, 18–29 Aug Tales of Vomit, Trash and Broken Glass theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Daniel Defoe – The Lockdown Diaries Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–27 Aug Imagining Rachel C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug 15:10 Isadora the Barefoot Dancer Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Glimmer of a Rainbow C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug OCD Me Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug Closure Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Making Exceptions Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug It’s Not Rocket Science theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Block’d Off HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 15:15 Ghost Quartet by Dave Malloy theSpace @ Venue45, 17–20 Aug Caino – Il Figlio del Primo Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug Enter Mr Citrus Man ZOO Playground, 17–20 Aug Aural Picnic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug, not 23 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Charlie Russell Aims to Please Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug Maternity Zoo Southside, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Like a Sack of Potatoes theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Tales of Xenia C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 22–28 Aug A Thousand Sons Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–20 Aug 15:20 #Bleep Paradise in The Vault, 22–28 Aug Jimmy Mack Follies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug Double Drop Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Pool (No Water) theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Second Summer of Love Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2915:30Aug I, Marigold PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Oedipus Electronica HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug Ruckus Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Liv Ello: SWARM Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 High Five! The Royal Scots Club, 23–24 Aug Love Them to Death HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Attenborough and His Animals Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 18–21 Aug Splintered Paradise in The Vault, 17–20 Aug ❤ Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical HHHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 15:35Aug A Mighty Fall from Grace theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Crossing the Void theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Headcase Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 15:40 Leaving Vietnam theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug REDEEMher – How I Screwed Up My Perfect Mormon Life Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug We Should Definitely Have More Dancing Assembly George Square Studios, 17–18 Aug ❤ Good Grief HHHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Darren McGarvey’s The Social Distance Between Us – Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–21 Aug Listings85

Lightweight Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug Harvey Greenfield is Getting Married Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Visiting Cezanne Hill Street Theatre, 18–28 Aug Under Heaven’s Eyes – The Systemic and Systematic Unjustified Killings of Black Lives theSpaceTriplex, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 27 Aug Dream of a King theSpaceTriplex, 25–26 Aug Word Up The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Admiral theSpaceTriplex, 22 Aug Locked In theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug The Echo Salon The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, weekdays only 14:55 Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 No Place Like Home Pleasance Dome, 18–29 Aug Broken Funnies Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Surfing the Holyland Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Trouble on Six Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 15:00 Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Major X Ploe-Shun Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug Tradition! Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug ROOM King’s Theatre, 17 Aug The Bush Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Medea The Hub, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug

Tickled: The Ken Dodd Story Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug Cock-Tales: The Antidote to The Vagina Monologues theSpace @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug Shadow Under a Setting Sun theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug Playing God Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 The Intervention Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 Aug S-ex-iety French Institute in Scotland, 17–27 Aug, not 23 The Village and The Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Robyn Yew Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Black is the Color of My Voice Pleasance at EICC, 18–20 Aug Mama Love Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Glass Slippers and Silver Bullets PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 17–28 Aug Look at Me Don’t Look at Me Pleasance Dome, 24–28 Aug The Glass Imaginary Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Breathless HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2915:05Aug Freedam theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Mrs Simpson Gets Divorced Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug

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VIBRANT & INNOVATIVE

14:15 Return to the Hiding Place Palmerston Place Church, 27 Aug Every Word Was Once an Animal Zoo Southside, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Are You Still Watching? Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 She/Her HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug, not 23 Man Shed Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 14:20 A Change of Heart theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Half-Empty Glasses Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 17 Aug to 28 Aug Confetti Assembly George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 23 KITES Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug The Elephant in the Room Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain Roundabout @ Summerhall, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Charles Dickens’ The Signalman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, 20 Aug Speed Dial Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug He’d Murder Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17 Aug, 19 Aug 14:30 The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Ladies Day Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 20 Aug Grav by Owen Thomas Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Bloody Difficult Women Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug, not 22 ❤ Brown Boys Swim HHHH Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Nell Gwynn St Ninian’s Hall, 20 Aug The Liberator Palmerston Place Church, 20 Aug Walking with Ghosts King’s Theatre, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug The End of Eddy Church Hill Theatre, 20 Aug Sherlock’s Excellent Adventure theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Something About George Assembly Rooms, 17–18 Aug Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug You Know We Belong Together The Lyceum, 27 Aug The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart University of Edinburgh Playfair Library, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug The Deil’s Awa! Mayfield Salisbury Church, 2014:35Aug

The Six Stages of a Break-Up theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Around the World Backwards theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Yippee Ki Yay Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 Aug, not 24 14:40 Sport on the Fringe RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug Payday Party Pleasance Dome, 23–27 Aug Classic! Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Hands And Flowers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 23–2714:45Aug ZIP IT theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Opal Fruits Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Bad Teacher Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Mustard Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Rapunzel theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–2014:50Aug

15:45 Luke Wright: The Remains of Logan Dankworth Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug Pulp Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug A Lady Does Not Scratch Her Crotch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake, 17–22 Aug 15:50 Seen 00:25 C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–21 Aug Candy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug In PurSUEt Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–2815:55Aug

Blood Harmony HHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug The Greatest Hits of Lily and John Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 18 Tea Ceremony ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug, not 21 ❤ The Last Return HHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug The Penelopiad C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 22–27 Aug Whirlpool IllusionDeconstructingPeople:theoftheSelf PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Lessons Learned Army @ The Fringe, 18–21 Aug Look, No Hands Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Bàrdachd Cogaidh – War Poetry Army @ The Fringe Online, 17 Aug Exodus HHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Bàrdachd Cogaidh – War Poetry Army @ The Fringe, 17 Aug Cicely and David The Royal Scots Club, 17–20 Aug I Am Gavrilo Princip Army @ The Fringe, 23–28 Aug My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Les Dawson: Flying High Assembly George Square, 17–28 Aug ❤ Wilf HHHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug The Twenty-Sided Tavern HHH Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 27–28 Aug

MindTravels: Reflections, Meditations and Attentions 22–23artSpace@StMarks,Aug16:35 Near To C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 22–2816:40Aug Imprints Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug The Actress Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Skank Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug The Seed of the Holyman theSpace on North Bridge, 22–2716:45Aug ASSISTED theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Horse Country Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug With The AssistanceDevil’s Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 18 Aug to 28 Aug The Not So Ugly Duckling: A Play for Grownups Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 16:50Aug La Merda Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Nightmare Magic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 17–28 Aug Queen of Fishtown Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21, 22 Love Me or I’ll Kill Myself HHH ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug Victoria Melody: Head Set Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Irvine Welsh’s Porno Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug, not 22 16:55 The Importance of Being Earnest theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug Three Women Shakespeare’sandWill theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2017:00Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Major X Ploe-Shun Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Return to the Hiding Place Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug The Magic Mountain King’s Theatre, 28 Aug 1902 Leith Arches, 17–29 Aug, not 18, 25 Fire Is Not the Only Element Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–21 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug menkind LIVE Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug Peaceophobia Summerhall @ Q Park – OMNI, Greenside Row, 24–27 Aug Paradok Platform Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–28 Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Robyn Yew Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug Blanket Ban Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug The Importance of Being Earnest Assembly George Square Gardens, 17 Aug Boris Live at Five Gilded Balloon at the Muse um, 18–28 Aug, not 24 Sport on the Fringe RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug Stop Trying to Be Fantastic Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22

Triple Bypass: Three Ten Minute Plays About Living for Death and Dying for Life theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Vinegar PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 17–28 Aug, not 20 ❤ Psychodrama HHHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Hiding Anne Frank RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The War of the Worlds Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 17 Aug to 29 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Carnegie Panmure House, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Attila the Stockbroker –40 Years in Rhyme PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banner mans, 17–19 Aug Past Life Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–27 Aug Hamlet with Ian McKellen Ashton Hall, Saint Stephens Stockbridge, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Dick Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Let’s Talk About Philip HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–28 Aug Careless theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Kathputli Colony: A Tale of Art and Resistance Pianodrome at the Old Royal High, 17–21 Aug Cassie AberdeenWorkman: Just the Tonic Nucleus, 17–28 Aug, not 22 This is Paradise Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug Muster Station: Leith Leith Academy, 26 Aug The Ballad of Mulan Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 18 Aug to 28 Aug Megalith Zoo Southside, 21–28 Aug Sticky Door Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Angel by Henry Naylor Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Afghanistan Is Not Funny by Henry Naylor HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug Fills Monkey: We Will Drum You Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 ❤ Happy Meal HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug 16:05 #MineToo Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Stop The Press theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–18 Aug Under Heaven’s Eyes – The Systemic and Systematic Unjustified Killings of Black Lives theSpaceTriplex, 19–20 Aug Dream of a King theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug Charlotte Johnson: My Dad and Other Lies Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug The Birds theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 22–27 Aug 16:10 Boris the Third HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Katie’s Tales Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug Once Upon a Midnight Dreary theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Taiwan Season: The Whisper of the Waves Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 KC Finn: Free Agent C ARTS | C venues | C place, 18 Aug Antiques Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Miss Magics C ARTS | C venues | C place, 20–24 Aug Brother’s Keeper theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Shattered C ARTS | C venues | C place, 25–2816:15Aug

The Macbeth Inquiry theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug Messiah Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21–27 Aug 52 Souls ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug The Roaring of the Voices theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug Battle: A Modern Mystery Play theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Manic Street Creature Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 BOGEYMAN Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug, not 22 16:00

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VIBRANT & INNOVATIVE

Badgers Can’t Be Friends Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug Rob Madge: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do) Underbelly, George Square, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Delicious Fruit Pleasance Dome, 17–29 Aug Almost 13 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug 16:20 Into the Deep Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Pip Utton as Bacon The Stand’s New Town The atre, 18–28 Aug, not 23, 24 The Mostest Colour Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug The Names I Have Known You By Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug The Last Romantic Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 21–2816:25Aug A Dark Place Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug Blue theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 How to Be a Person When the World Is Ending Paradise in Augustines, 22–28 Aug Plus One Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–2716:30Aug

❤ Hungry HHHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 17:30

The GrimmGrandmothers Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Comoedia Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 All By Myself ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug Marrow Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug 18:30 Dr Glas Paradise in Augustines, 17–28 Aug, not 21 The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Moira in Lockdown Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug

The Azure Sky in Oz, Yellow and Special – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 17–28 Aug, not 20, 23

The Rain Men RSE Theatre, 19–28 Aug Thunderstruck Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–29 Aug, not 18, 20, 21, 23

The Unicorn Pleasance Courtyard, 18–29 Aug The Mystery of the Wee Pirate’s Curse theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Silent Night

The Trojan Women Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug 17:15 We Are Traffic: An Uber Adventure Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug A Two Woman Hamlet Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Brain Hemingway Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug The Richard Osman Fan Club Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 17:20 Destiny Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Rapsody HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug Time’s Plague The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21–28 Aug Val from Anfield Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug The Choir of Man Assembly Hall, 29 Aug Far Gone Zoo Southside, 17–20 Aug 17:45 Marginal Gains for Brighter Brains! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Nosy Apps and Doping in Sport The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug Become a Sexy Refugee in Five Easy Steps! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug What Can You Create from Data? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug An Evening with Great Irish Writers C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo, 17–28 Aug Will I Need a Light Licence? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug Lots and Not Lots Summerhall, 17–21 Aug Waterloo Summerhall, 17–27 Aug, not 22 The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Wrongful Convictions and a ToothbrushHacked

The Royal Scots Club, 17–20 Aug Planetarium Lates – You Are Here Dynamic Earth, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug This is Paradise Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug The Horse’s Mouth Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug Caligari Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Independence Hill Street Theatre, 17–28 Aug Frighthouse Presents: The Wheel of Misfortune Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 17–28 Aug, not 23 ❤ Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug Too Fat for China Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Two Fingers Up Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Famous Puppet Death Scenes Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug, not 22 ❤ Happy Meal HHHHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Box’d Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug 18:35 Woyzeck / Marie theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Almost 13 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug 18:40 Ghislaine/Gabler Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 88 Theatre

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The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 GirlPlay theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug Velvet Determination Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Fata Morgana Pleasance at EICC, 17–28 Aug Two’s Company Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug The Diary of a Nobody theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug tenderly Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug Just an Ordinary Lawyer C ARTS | C venues | C place, 22–28 Aug Bundle of Joy? Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 2617:35Aug

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Nightmare theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Color Inside the Lines theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18–27 Aug, not 21, 24 17:40 Masterclass Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Going Down theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Dreamsick Zoo Southside, 21–28 Aug My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored HHH Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Eve: All About Her Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–28 Aug 17:05 Fool Muun Times]Spank:SOfun_Grate_Hi5.4sure.TruLuv;Spank[BeBgWunderful/YEsyes/Komming! Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Done to Death, By Jove! theSpaceTriplex, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Waiting for Hamlet theSpaceTriplex, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 17:10 Crumbled theSpace @ Venue45, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug A Toe Tale theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug It All Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug Manic ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug Jungle Door Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Born Under a Bad Sign theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 27 Aug Will Killer Robots Save Humanity? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 28 Aug Do Well. Be Well. And Dance. The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug The Wild West of the Crypto Economy! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug How Much Do Apps Know About You? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug The Sian ExperienceClarke Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 27–28 Aug Manbo Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–29 Aug, not 24 My Hormones Made Me Do It! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug Everyone Speaks Another Language! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug 17:50 Pillows theSpace on North Bridge, 18–27 Aug, not 21 Musclebound Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug, not 23 A Matter of Time C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 17–28 Aug Hey, That’s My Wife! Hill Street Theatre, 17–2817:55Aug Rocky! Zoo Southside, 17–20 Aug 18:00 Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 A Little Life Festival Theatre, 20–21 Aug The Woman He Lived With Shout – Scottish Music Centre @ 111 Holyrood Road, 17–19 Aug The Magic Mountain King’s Theatre, 26–27 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Love You More theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Blood and Gold Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 How to Be a Better Human Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us Army @ The Fringe, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Spoons HHH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug One Man Two Guvnors Rose Theatre, 18–28 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 18–28 Aug, not 22 Mystic Poetry Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 18 Aug, 25 Aug 18:05 Spit Me Out theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug Cheeky Girls theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Don’t Shoot the Albatross ZOO Playground, 21–27 Aug Chips and Ice Cream ZOO Playground, 17–20 Aug Puppet SugunggaPansori theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–2018:10Aug D theSpace @ Venue45, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug Ineffable theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Project Dictator Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 22 18:15 The Best Ideas Happen in the Toilet theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug 18:20 Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party) Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Dreamliner C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–2118:25Aug Love and Piss Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Hedda, Nora, Julie and Me Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug

The Guardian INGENIOUS San Francisco Chronicle Learning to Fly Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Chaos by Laura Lomas Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug War of the Worlds (On a Budget) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21 17:25Aug

❤ Psychodrama HHHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug Exposure Summerhall @ Lyra Artspace, 25–27 Aug

Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame –Major X Ploe-Shun Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 John Bell: A Few of My Favourite Things House of Oz, 17–18 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Hamlet with Ian McKellen HH Ashton Hall, Saint Stephens Stockbridge, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 The StorytellingGlengoyneExperience Yotel Edinburgh, 24 Aug Agent OutdoorNovember:EscapeGame

Return to the Hiding Place Palmerston Place Church, 24–26 Aug Heroin to Hero Army @ The Fringe, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Isto é um Negro? (This is a Black?) Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 19, 22, 23, 26 Self Service theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Still Floating Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 19:20 Encore C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug, not 27 Home is Not the Place Summerhall, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Gertrude and Ophelia in Hell theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Human Fountains C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–28 Aug Twa Summerhall, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug 19:30 Blood Harmony HHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug Ladies Day Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17–19 Aug Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug The Smile Off Your Face C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug, not 22 1902 Leith Arches, 17–29 Aug, not 18, 25 Nell Gwynn St Ninian’s Hall, 17–20 Aug ❤ The Last Return HHHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug Detention Dialogues The Studio, 21 Aug Tales from the City Below Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19 Aug, 23 Aug A Time Traveler’s Guide to the Present theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug Barefoot in the Park The Royal Scots Club, 22–27 Aug The Liberator Palmerston Place Church, 17–19 Aug Exodus HHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug Caitlin Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Planetarium Lates –Under Pressure: The Ocean Show Dynamic Earth, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug Muster Station: Leith Leith Academy, 17–25 Aug, not 22 Walking with Ghosts King’s Theatre, 24–27 Aug The End of Eddy Church Hill Theatre, 19–21 Aug When You Walk Over My Grave Church Hill Theatre, 25–28 Aug ❤ Wilf HHHH Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug You Know We Belong Together The Lyceum, 24–27 Aug Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Imagination Workshop: Hilton Carlton , 17–28 Aug, not 23 The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart University of Edinburgh Playfair Library, 17–27 Aug, not 21, 22 The Deil’s Awa! Mayfield Salisbury Church, 17–1919:35Aug

VIBRANT & INNOVATIVE

Sugar? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug They’ve All Gone and We’ll Go Too Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Do Androids Dream of Electric Friends? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug 18:45 Sylvia vs the Fascists theSpace on North Bridge, 22–27 Aug Reservoir Knobs theSpace on the Mile, 17–19 Aug Science Stories for Grown-Ups PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 21–28 Aug The Girl and Her Balloon theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug See You Later Mum theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Alright? theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 2618:50Aug The Wild Unfeeling World Summerhall, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug A Place That Belongs to Monsters Summerhall, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Silkworm Assembly Roxy, 18–29 Aug, not 24 18:55 Dot Dot Dot Dash theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Living a Little Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo, 17–2819:00Aug

The Gay Train RSE Theatre, 17–28 Aug ASSISTED theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Do I? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–20 Aug 1:2:2192 (Retribution Day) theSpace on the Mile, 22–2720:15Aug Tay Bridge The Royal Scots Club, 17–20 Aug Let’s Try Gay theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug Thunderstruck Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–21 Aug Tim Crouch: Truth’s A Dog Must to Kennel Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 The Tragic-Comedy of Things C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo, 17–28 Aug UK Underdog theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 27–2820:20Aug

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–Robyn Yew Meeting Point at Assembly George Square Studios, 17–29 Aug A Rose by Any Other Name Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 1588 Fringe Online, 17–29 Aug SK Shlomo: Breathe: The Play That Becomes a Rave Pleasance Dome, 17–28 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 27–2819:05Aug Sugar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Raging Mother Zoo Southside, 17–20 Aug 19:10 Tam O’ Shanter, Tales & Whisky theSpace @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug Horsepower theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2019:15Aug

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Wistful theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–2020:10Aug

Stretchmarks! Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Unseen Shepard theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Party Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Being Frank About Sinatra Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 Around the World in 80 Events: The Journey PBH’s Free Fringe @ OMNi Centre, 17 Aug 19:40 Sex and Sculpture Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 19:45 Dedication Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Door-to-Door Poetry: Nationwide PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 17–28 Aug, not 20 Sweet FA Tynecastle Park, 19–23 Aug The Zoo Story by Edward Albee Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 The Ecstasy of Victoria Woodhull theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 You’re Safe Til 2024: Deep History Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 23 That’s a Bit of Sheer Luck! – A Sherlock Holmes Parody theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug 19:55 SAY IF IT’S NOT OKAY Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Another Universe Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–27 Aug Things We (Never) Learned in Sex Ed theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Faith: The MichaelAccordingGospeltoGeorge Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug 20:00 Something in the Water HHH Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Concept for a Film Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug Guide to MasculinistSurvivingTerritory Summerhall, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug For Example Theatre present: Boat! BlundaGardens: BlundaBus, 17–18 Aug Medea The Hub, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Floodgate theSpace @ Niddry St, 22–27 Aug Hiya Dolly! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Dykegeist Summerhall @ The Biscuit Factory, 22–23 Aug Jack Docherty: Nothing But Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug as british as a watermelon The Studio, 23–26 Aug Buzzing Anonymous Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 2620:05Aug

Ned Kelly’s Mother C ARTS | C venues | C cubed, 17–28 Aug 27 Lost Years: Diary of a Compulsive Hoarder Fringe Online, 17–28 Aug 20:25 NASTY: “big” girls being gross, mean and sexy theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug ❤ Caste-ing HHHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 20:30 The Gods, The Gods, The Gods Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug, not 23 Guide to MasculinistSurvivingTerritory Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug Sunny Makes a Scene C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 24–28 Aug Blue & Pip theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug Loud Poets: Best of Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 18 Aug to 28 Aug Listings89

The Choir of Man Assembly Hall, 17–28 Aug, not 23 Johnny Got His Gun Zoo Southside, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Mr Moon C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 1720:45Aug Gayboys Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Broke Her theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Salamander Greenside @ Riddles Court, 22–27 Aug Dried Apricots Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Lighthouse Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug 20:50 ❤ The Funny Thing About Death HHHH Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Chicago, Chicago! Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–2020:55Aug

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The Guardian INGENIOUS San Francisco Chronicle Temping Assembly George Square Studios, 17–28 Aug What Broke David Lynch? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Black Sheep Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug Dog / Actor Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Peaceophobia Summerhall @ Q Park – OMNI, Greenside Row, 24–27 Aug Pip Utton is Adolf The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20–21 Aug Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC, 18–28 Aug, not 22 21:05 You’re Dead, Mate theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Cicada’s Children theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 21:15 Plan V: The Joyful Cult of Pussy Worship theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug Changing the Sheets Assembly Rooms, 17–28 Aug 21:20 Lucinda Spragg: An Evening With Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2921:25Aug Olives and Blowjobs theSpaceTriplex, 22–27 Aug 21:30 Guide to MasculinistSurvivingTerritory Summerhall, Various dates from 19 Aug to 28 Aug Real, Mad World theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 21:40 Cake and Violence theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21 PASH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Coming Out of My Cage (And I’ve Been Doing Just Fine) Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Ram of God Assembly Roxy, 18–28 Aug This Is Memorial Device Wee Red Bar, 18–29 Aug, not20:3524 Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchett Assembly Roxy, 18–27 Aug Have You Seen This Woman? ZOO Playground, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Collie’s Shed theSpace on North Bridge, 22–2720:40Aug

Jetty Stars theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug My Own ShakespearePrivate Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Herviss Family C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–2822:10Aug Playtime Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Murder Ballads Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–28 Aug Cottage Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug 22:15 head/lining theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–27 Aug Bella Donna theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–27 Aug Toast, Pudding Lane Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 24–28 Aug Olives and Blowjobs theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug Mythos: Ragnarok Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Finding Melania Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2922:25Aug Gash Theatre Needs Some Space Assembly Rooms, 18–27 Aug, not 24 KC Finn: Free Agent C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo, 19 Aug Doris Does EdinboigerTheFridge theSpace on the Mile, 17–2022:30Aug Bits ‘N’ Pieces Leith Arches, Various dates from 17 Aug to 23 Aug Reclaiming Harry PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 17–28 Aug, not 22 i don’t feel anything theSpace on North Bridge, 17–2022:40Aug Eight Hundred Dollar Value theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–22 Aug 22:45 Apartness theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–27 Aug Paul Richards: My Function Band Hell PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 17–27 Aug 22:50 LoudScribble theSpaceTriplex, 22–26 Aug 23:00 An Audience With Milly-Liu Pleasance Courtyard, 17–29 Aug, not 22 Tam O’ Shanter, Tales & Whisky theSpace @ Venue45, 17–20 Aug Luke Wright’s Late Night Dance Floor Fillers (Poems) Pleasance Dome, 18–29 Aug Bluewater Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug, not 21 23:10 The One TEEN Show Paradise in Augustines, 17–20 Aug Steve and Tobias Versus Death Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–2123:15Aug

Grecian Idolatry Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 23–27 Aug Concha theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–20 Aug Animal Form Paradise in The Vault, 17–28 Aug, not 21 What Does It Mean to You? Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug The Church of the Fall theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2023:20Aug Matt and Ben theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–27 Aug A Shoddy Detective and the Art of Deception theSpace on North Bridge, 17–20 Aug The Coven theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–2723:30Aug

Wild Son: The Testimony of Christian Brando Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–20 Aug The Three theSpace on the Mile, 17–20 Aug Tickbox Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not21:0022 Tuesday Night Sleeping Club ZOOTV, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug Why I Hate My Penis Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Good Enough theSpace on the Mile, 17–27 Aug, not 21, 22 21:45 Bathroom of a Bar on Bleecker Paradise in The Vault, 17–27 Aug, not 21 I’m F*cking My Agent theSpace on North Bridge, 22–2721:55Aug Up Her Sleeve Greenside @ Riddles Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21 The Calligrapher Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–20 Aug Dried Apricots Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Doris Does EdinboigerTheFridge theSpace on the Mile, 22–2722:00Aug Bloody Mary: Live! Pleasance at EICC, 17–29 Aug Agent November: Indoor Escape Game – Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–28 Aug Flat Pack Furnished Flat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Shit-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth Pleasance at EICC, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Game Night Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 22–27 Aug Loud Poets: Best of Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 18 Aug to 27 22:05Aug

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Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–21 Aug Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+) Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 17–28 Aug Pirates and Princesses vs Sea Monsters (3+) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–29 Aug The Smeds and The Smoos (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–21 Aug Story Builders (5+) St Columba’s by the Castle, 17–27 Aug, not 21 First Piano on the Moon (5+) Pianodrome at the Old Royal High, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Bubba-Licious (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–21 Aug Kid’s Circus Workshops (5+) House of Oz, 17 Aug Fox Tales: The Pied Piper (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Tales from a Haunted Bookshop (8+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–21 Aug Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 17–27 Aug The Gruffalo, the Giant and the Mermaid with Julia Donaldson (3+) Underbelly, George Square, 17–2911:10Aug

Science Magic (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug Den of Enquiry (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–20 Aug Sean Choolburra: Didj and Dance! (5+) Assembly Rooms, 17–21 Aug The Circus Sonas Family Show (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–21 Aug Is This a Dagger? (8+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Smashing Shakespeare (5+) Rose Theatre, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug Science Adventures: The Power Pickle (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–21 Aug A Ladder to the Stars (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–29 Aug, not 23 11:35 Strictly Come Barking (5+) Assembly George Square Studios, 18–29 Aug 11:40 Magic Roman’s Summer Holiday (5+) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 18–2811:45Aug

Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+) Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 17–28 Aug ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–20 Aug The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (3+) Musselburgh Racecourse, 27 Aug The Listies: Hamlet –Prince of Skidmark (5+) House of Oz, 17–28 Aug, not 18, 22, 25 Clowntown In Space @ theSpace: Adventures Back to Earth (0+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2013:25Aug Chores (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–28 Aug, not 22 13:30 Inside the Robot: Quick, I Need Your Help! (5+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–2113:45Aug

PotterSpontaneousKidz:The Unofficial Improvised Parody (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug 10:50 Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–19 Aug Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 10:55Aug Around the World with Nellie Bly (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–2011:00Aug

The MunchausenAdventuresTime-TravellingExtraordinaryofBaron(5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–29 Aug Bee Story (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–28 Aug, not 22 Captain Zak and the Space Pirates (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2111:50Aug

12:25 Magic Gareth’s Magic Eye (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2912:30Aug

Once Upon a Raindrop (0+) Deaf Action, 17–18 Aug WhirlyGig (5+) Dance Base, 17–21 Aug Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–21 Aug Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours @ Old Police Box, 17–27 Aug 12:35 Oliver! Jr (5+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 25–2712:40Aug

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Peppa Pig – My First Concert (0+) Assembly Hall, 20–21 Aug Prehysterical (3+) Assembly Checkpoint, 17–28 Aug, not 22 11:55 Brotipo (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–29 Aug, not 23 12:00 Lee Kyle: An Actual Giant (5+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–28 Aug Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–21 Aug Yellow Bird Chase (3+) Assembly George Square Studios, 18–29 Aug, not 24 Doktor Kaboom and The Wheel of Science! (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2112:05Aug

Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake (0+) theSpaceTriplex, 17–20 Aug 10:15 The Song of Fergus and Kate (0+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–28 Aug, not 22, 23, 24 10:20 Shakespeare for Kids: This Rough Magic (3+) C ARTS | C venues | C aquila, 17–2810:25Aug

Dolly StorytimeDiamond’s(0+) House of Oz, 19–20 Aug Mark ShowSpectacularThompson’sScience(5+)

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Game On! (8+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–19 Aug 10:30 Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Kids! (3+) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 17–28 Aug Arty’s Ani-Magination (5+) Assembly Roxy, 17–29 Aug, not 23 The Bubble Show (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–29 Aug Wriggle Around the World! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug

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The Adventures of Sleepyhead (0+) Assembly Roxy, 17–29 Aug 11:15 There’s Nothing Quite Like Bolognese!Spaghetti(3+) theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug Once Upon a Raindrop (0+) Deaf Action, 17–18 Aug 11:20 The Ultimate Pickle (5+) Roundabout @ Summerhall, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Dragons and Mythical Beasts (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 18–2111:30Aug

Wee Seals and Selkies (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug Scotland’s Magic Sensation (3+) Le Monde, 17–29 Aug, not 23

Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–2914:00Aug Game On 3 (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–28 Aug 14:05 Captain Jake and the Forbidden Island (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–2114:20Aug Panto She Wrote (0+) theSpace on North Bridge, 17–27 Aug, not 21 Kids

Splash Test Dummies (0+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 17–27 Aug, not 22 Shlomo’s AdventureBeatboxforKids (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2812:15Aug

Adventure!Academy:SuperheroEnvironmental(3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–24 Aug 12:55 Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 17–2913:00Aug

10:00 Shark in the Park (3+) Assembly George Square, 18–21 Aug Once Upon a Raindrop (0+) Deaf Action, 17–18 Aug School’s Out Comedy Club (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug Papageno’s Quest (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–19 Aug Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish (3+) Assembly George Square Studios, 17–21 Aug C digital performance and film for kids (0+) C ARTS | C venues | C place, 17–28 Aug Peppa Pig – My First Concert (0+) Assembly Hall, 17–21 Aug Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–19 Aug CeilidhKids at the Fringe (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–28 Aug, not 18, 25 Cat in the Hat (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–22 Aug A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (5+) Summerhall, 17–28 Aug, not 22 The Girl and the Dragon (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–2110:10Aug

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The Return of the Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+) Assembly Rooms, 17–27 Aug The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (3+) Musselburgh Racecourse, 27 Aug 16:15 The Grimm Tales (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–20 Aug 17:25 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23, 24, 25 17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (8+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, not 27 reviews, round-ups online at /FestMagUKfestmag.com

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The Greatest Magic Show (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–29 Aug, not 22 15:00 Children’s Underground Vaults Tour (5+) Welcome Edinburgh Tourist Information Booth Outside of the Bank of Scotland, 17–21 Aug Carnival of the Animals by Circa (3+) House of Oz, 17–28 Aug, not 22, 23 15:15

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ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 17–20 Aug 15:20 The Suitcase (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18–2115:30Aug

FlamenKids (0+) St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug The Lion and the Mouse (0+) Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 14:35Aug

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SHOW Michelle Shaughnessy: Be Your Own Daddy

how would your dog describe your show ?!? A bit ruff around the edges but quite fetching! they say a dog is a “mans” best friend but how does your dog feel about you ?!? He loves me. He puts up with my separation anxiety though and knows I’m working on it. He also knows I’m a pushover cause even when I say no I always cave in and he gets what he wants. good gig or bad gig is your dog supportive when you come home ??? Robo always sits at the door and waits for me. He doesn’t care if I have a bad show, good show or no show. His tail is wag ging the second I get through the door and waiting for pets and treats and walks. if you were a breed of dog what would you be and why ??? I’d be a becauseChihuahuaI’mcutebut

Edinburgh’s canine journalist meets Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy, and her dog Robocop

hallo ms michelle !!! i hear you has brillant show about bullyin’ ,poverty and sobriety in edimbrugh ,so for my first question it’s important for me to ask, do you have a dog ??? I do have a dog. His name is Robocop. He’s two years old and he’s a chocolate Pomer anian and he’s 10/10 a good boy. Follow him on @robocopthepominsta!

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VENUE: Underbelly, Bristo Square TIME: 8:30pm – 9:30pm, 3–29 Aug, not 15

Illustration: Lauren Hunter lots of people find me annoy ing and yappy. what is the most dangerous animal you’ve ever cuddled ?!? I only ever cuddle cute dogs and baby goats. Everything else is gross. I had a hamster when I was little and it bit me a lot. what is the best life tip you have learned from your dog ??? To never share your food. You never know when you’ll get another treat! what shows is your dog most looking forward to in edimbrugh ??? Mine and mine only. He’s too loyal. I keep telling him there’s lots of other great performers going but he doesn’t want to hear it. I’m sure he’ll venture out but as of right now he’s just helping me prepare like the good boy he is.