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Comedy 26 Rose Matafeo

We gathered together more glamour than should be possible in one photo shoot.

A Beckettian Bromance

Michael Colgan and Barry McGovern have been honing their Beckett skills together for decades.

Fest’s first five star of 2017.

Theatre 45 Eggs Collective A witty, committed and fun anatomy of a night out.

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus 58 Together Alone Two naked, twisting bodies are a highlight of the Dancebase programme.

Cabaret & Variety 62 Anya Anastacia

Demi Lardner

The lovechild of Kate Bush and Tim Minchin. Great fun.

This young Aussie comic hates all the rules.

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Conformity is Bland

Perfect Day What to see? Where to eat? It’s basically a festival of admin. Luckily, Fest is on hand as your personal assistant to help you skip the paperwork and get straight to business. Or, even, just have a lovely day

Breakfast Brunch and Lunch

Salt Summerhall 2:30pm – 3:30pm

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With a big day at the Fringe ahead of you, you’ll no doubt need some hearty Scottish sustenance to set you up – best found at local favourite BBL, which has become something of a breakfast cult spot thanks to proper portions, homemade sausages and plenty to please the veggie/vegan constituents of the group.

The Listies Make You LOL Pleasance Courtyard 12:30pm – 1:30pm

If you’ve the younger type in tow, Aussie “kidult comedians” The Listies return with a new show that’s packed with the requisite silliness (alien attacks, toilet paper guns and disgusting pants) to keep little attention spans amused. It’ll appeal to the grown-ups too, with wee jokes by the bucketload to prove you’re not as mature as you might think.

Grab some lunch on the go from George Square (we’ve fast become fans of jerk wraps from Spice Boy, FYI) and hot foot it to Summerhall for Selina Thompson’s intensely personal solo show that retraces the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle, taking the audience from Europe to Africa to the Caribbean and back again. Honest, heavy-going and powerful.

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Rose Matafeo A Hundred Different Words For Love

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Summerhall 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Rowland embarks on this moving but untrue love story, imparting it in a style that’s not dissimilar to the likes of Fringe veterans Daniel Kitson and Ben Moor. It also comes complete with its very own rom-com-style music, as soundtracked by Rowland himself.

Field West Nicolson St 7.30pm

Being the perfect day, it’d be rude not to treat yourself to some Michelin-recommended, locally-sourced scran, right? Luckily at Field the Michelin ethos doesn’t extend to the cost, with the prices of mains hovering reasonably around the £15 mark – and there’s also a great selection of world-class wines for that all-important pre-show buzz.

The sharp-witted and effortlessly funny 25-yearold New Zealander chats through image, birth control and Mills and Boon novels (“Women have to actually masturbate to this shit!”), with a little help from the back catalogues of Michael Jackson, Celine Dion and a whole host of American rappers intent on getting into your panties. Revel in that five-star afterglow with a pint round the corner at Holyrood 9A.

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Queens of the

Drag is back and storming the mainstream. We speak to some of the global circuit’s favourite names about contemporary queer performance, and its tenacious role in transgressing normative ideas of gender and sexuality. Conformity be damned! Gingzilla

Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre 12:00am – 2:00am, various dates between 6 Aug and 28 Aug, £12.00

It’s important because it is artistic freedom. It is gender explosion. It’s a celebration of creativity and that’s why I think drag is so important for 2017. It’s bravery, it’s courage – it’s all these words combined with tenacity… And it’s fuckin’ balls-deep in your face. The best thing about drag is that it allows you to be free.

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“ Drag is hope. How’s that for deep and meaningful?!” - Reuben Kaye Reuben Kaye

Assembly Checkpoint, 9:00pm – 10:10pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8.00 – £13.00

“What is drag to me? Drag to me is anything you use to get through the day, and get through the fact that the world is turning to shit. Drag is hope. How’s that for deep and meaningful?!

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Why is drag important? Because drag is a ‘fuck you’ to normality, and normality is conformity, and conformity is bland, and conformity is oppression, conformity is laziness. Drag says: here is a line that is meant to be broken – not broken to the oppression of others, but broken to the celebration of everyone. Drag is a celebration. It’s also fuckin’ difficult to take off at 4am when you’re trying to blow a guy.”

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CRYSTAL VAGINOVA “Drag is important because it’s one of many ways of disrupting normative ideas of gender, gender dressing and performance. It’s been really important for our community historically—the LGBTQIA+ community—as a means of escape, or even finding acceptance.

SHIRLEY DU NAUGHTY “It seems like now more than ever that drag is entering the mainsteam, which is a really exciting thing. It means that more people are being introduced to drag in 2017, more people feel like they can get involved in drag themselves.”

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“Drag’s not about an aesthetic, it’s about politics, and politics to disturb and discomfort normative ideas of gender and sexuality. It’s got a history of being at the forefront of transgressive performance and I think of drag as queer performance – queer people playing with what’s normal. It’s also important to have spaces where queer people can come together and celebrate things outside of the norm together.”

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“I do drag because it’s the most complete type of performance. The role you can create stays with you for years and years. It’s really exciting and it’s a form of absolute self-expression.”

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A Beckettian

As Krapp’s Last Tape comes to the EIF, its actor and director discuss their long-held love of Beckett

ince their very first meeting as students in Dublin in 1970, actor and director Barry McGovern and Michael Colgan have enjoyed a fruitful working relationship. It was a shared love of Beckett that brought them together. When Colgan saw McGovern in a production of Endgame as part of a student drama festival, he immediately recognised a kindred spirit: “I thought he was extraordinary. We could’ve been out chasing girls, but instead we did Beckett productions.” He admits there is something of a competitive element to his admiration for his colleague. “I determined 50 years ago to know more about Beckett than he does. Since then I’ve produced more Beckett productions than any other living soul on the planet, but the bastard still knows more about it.” Together they form a living encyclopedia of their fellow Irishman’s canon. For their latest production, of Beckett’s seminal one-act monologue Krapp’s Last Tape, they didn’t even need a script. Colgan reveals that when McGovern recorded the taped portions of the play—which sees the ageing Krapp listening to his

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Bromance Barry McGovern & Michael Colgan

younger self—he did it in a single sitting. There’s something appropriately Beckettian about this theatrical bromance. It’s easy to imagine them in the rehearsal room, endlessly correcting each other like a real world Vladimir and Estragon. Like any long-established pairing, the teasing and bickering masks a deeply-held admiration and affection. Despite their status as self-confessed “pedants”, McGovern—whose performance of I’ll Go On, adapted from three Beckett novels, was a major hit at the 2013 EIF—insists they are far from slavish. “Like any play you want to find your own angle on it. We’re approaching it like a new work, doing it as honestly as we see it.” He joins a distinguished line of Krapps, from originator Patrick Magee to Harold Pinter and Michael Gambon. Colgan previously directed John Hurt in the role as part of his epic ‘Beckett on Film’ series, which he subsequently performed on Broadway. He’s been listening to Hurt’s and other interpretations daily during rehearsals, and says he never gets bored. continues

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› “When I first loved Krapp aged 19 it was a different play. For instance the directions say ‘a late evening sometime in the future’. The reality is the tape recorder first came out after the war, so for Krapp to look back over 30 years in 1958 it had to be set in the future. But for me now, it refers to the audience’s future. It makes us wonder ‘will this be me when I’m 69’?” This notion haunts Colgan. He was once told by an ex-girlfriend, “You’re going to end up just like Krapp”. He laughs at the memory, but admits the prophecy remains a concern.

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McGovern also feels close to Krapp, who is seen as being among Beckett’s most autobiographical creations. It’s striking that he is now 69 himself. “Beckett always avoided sentimentality, but there is sentiment in the piece. It’s very moving about loss and missed

opportunity – what might have been. And there’s the duality of the older Krapp talking to the younger Krapp. It’s like a debate with the self. It’s really about what it is to be.” Speaking to McGovern and Colgan is like meeting two musicians with an unparalleled knowledge of and passion for a single composer. It is fitting they both refer to the musicality of Beckett’s language. You would be hard pressed to find two more seasoned interpreters. But fundamentally, they’re just two fans bonding over a shared love. Colgan describes their “deep, unspoken understanding” of the meaning of the plays, which gives them a shortcut in the rehearsal room. “To put it another way,” he adds, “we know what Beckett was on about.” It’s perhaps this more than anything that holds the key to their enduring relationship. And for any fellow Beckett aficionados, Krapp’s Last Tape will be a must-see for the collection. / Theo Bosanquet VENUE: TIME:

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Demi Lardner: “I just wanna get weirder” The award-winning Australian comedian embarks on a surreal trip as a 46-year-old man named Gavin. George Sully joins Demi Lardner in the basement

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fuckin’ love performing in Edinburgh,” reminisces Demi Lardner, two whiskies deep on what is for her—in the southern hemisphere—a July Friday night. “It’s my favourite thing. People have horror stories about losing money and stuff—not that I didn’t do that—but it was also just a dreamhole. I ate shadows and fuckin’ leapt into the sun – it was the best.” The 23-year-old Australian returns to the Fringe having missed 2016, and she arrives on a gilt wave of awards from her home country. 2013 may have seen her win Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny award in Edinburgh, but it was the last 18 months that saw her scooping gongs at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe. Such awards haven’t gone to her head, though. “It makes me feel like a fraud. I’m like: it’s not a tale to be told, I just won awards. I like being told I’m alright at stuff, but I mean... I need another bloody mantelpiece! “That’s so lame, I’m sorry I said that. Also, awards don’t mean anything, everything is fake, time doesn’t exist – it really doesn’t matter.” Despite her Australian accolades, it’s at Edinburgh she feels most at home. “All the other festivals are

maybe toddlers, and Edinburgh is this angsty teenager that just wants to get in your pants and do awful things. Like wedgie you and throw coffee into your lap in the mornings. I really like it though, ‘cause I don’t like being given time to breathe, and Edinburgh definitely doesn’t do that for you.” She began performing comedy in her teens (“I kinda thought I was too old to be getting into comedy at 15”), favouring a self-aware offbeat style that still bore the beats of conventional standup. It wasn’t until befriending Melbourne sketch troupe Aunty Donna (and taking the opportunity to have the troupe’s Mark Bonanno direct her new show) that Lardner found the confidence to break out of the typical standup format. “It made me be like, ‘Ah yeah, I’m just gonna do the thing I’ve wanted to do for like five years’, and it came out as... a stepdad. I just became a middle-aged man. It was great.” A stepdad? What, exactly, is this new show about? “In a nutshell: I’m Gavin; I’m 46-years-old; I’m trapped in my basement; I’m on the phone to a life insurance agent. But technically the show is— and this is the real thing—it’s based on every stepdad I’ve ever had. Which is a whole bunch of guys... like, a tonne of ‘em. And it’s maybe my favourite thing

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I’ve ever done. It’s really stupid. And super fun. “I wanted to do this for ages, and it was hard to transition because I was fuckin’ 15 when I started. So I was like, [in a robot voice] ‘THIS IS THE WAY YOU DO THINGS. THERE ARE RULES, THERE ARE GHOSTS FOLLOWING ME TELLING ME THE RULES.’” The end result is the clear product of a liberated outlook; Look at What You Made Me Do is a surreal trip through loose, associative improv and an absurd narrative, held together by an increasingly bizarre customer support phonecall. And though the show was inspired by a merged pastiche of past stepfathers, she’s deliberately stayed away from making it serious.

“I’m not going to say anything with the show, but it all comes from a pretty real place. It’s fuckin’ silly, and I just want people to have a good time. There are moments in it that are quite close to my heart, but I think it’d be hard for anyone except for me to tell.” It’s a borderline hallucinogenic trip through Lardner’s mind, made all the more present by the elfin, playful spontaneity bridging the sketches. “There are beats to the show but a lot of it is pretty loose and, dare I say, very yelly.” The easy fun that Lardner seems to have on stage—and crawling over the crowd—is clear to see. “It’s the only place where I’ve never felt anxious,” she explains. “Which is weird, ‘cause when I started, I used to not be able to do a gig without puking. Now I’m like, ‘This is where I’m supposed to be’. Not talking about my feelings or anything, but just screaming and throwing milk crates around and talking about Wife Swap.” Growing up in the late nineties/early noughties, Lardner found idols in the fertile Australian comedy scene, and cites bumbling duo Lano and Woodley as a major influence. Comedians like them—and popular American observationalists like Paul F. Tompkins and Maria Bamford—seemed like impossible puzzles to the quick-witted young Aussie. “This is super lame, but sometimes it’s like: I can pick apart how my brain works and it’s not magical or anything, but those guys seem like they’re aliens.

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“I kinda thought I was too old to be getting into comedy at 15”

I just want to suckle at the teat and be like, ‘Make me talented!’ You know? They’re magical unicorns to me. Like a Pez: I just want to flip the neck back and eat the brick of knowledge that comes out.” So what does she want to do next? “Dead! I wanna be dead!” she yells down the WhatsApp call. “No, sorry, I mean... I think... I just wanna get weirder? It’s been eight years since I started comedy and I’ve just figured out what I wanna be doing. I wanna do the stupid character stuff, I wanna keep doing a million podcasts... I had an idea to do a YouTube series where I read out my legal will and leave all my shit to people. “I think I just wanna do everything. I think the next thing for me is to do literally everything I possibly can.” VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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ichu Tesfamariam’s description of the first time he and his brother Bibi tried juggling sounds like any anecdote about a childhood fascination: the inspirational teacher, the sparked curiosity, the ensuing home-made crafts. After school one day in Jimma, Ethiopia, the brothers caught sight of one of their teachers—Elmar Brunner from Canada—juggling three oranges. Intrigued, they asked him to show them how he did it. The next day he brought them a video of Cirque du Soleil. “I remember one of the Cirque du Soleil classic shows where there’s a guy with seven bouncing balls. We were literally amazed,” says Bichu. Brunner showed them how to make juggling balls: cutting socks and stitching seeds inside. “Then we went back home and we pretty much did exactly as he showed us – and we got into trouble for cutting our socks. But it was all good. Our parents understood once they saw what we were trying to do.” Most childhood fixations fade. Bichu and Bibi’s grew stronger. Using clubs they made from wood, they began performing on the streets of Jimma, then were cast in a circus bound for the Brighton Fringe. But with little-to-no circus tradition at that time in Ethiopia against which to measure themselves, they had no idea how proficient they had become. The pair, Bichu says without a hint of conceit, were “shocked” at the response they received in the UK. Invitations to circus conventions followed as they completed their tour. At the time, he and Bibi didn’t even have a lexicon for the tricks they had mastered. “The triple singles and all the throws – we didn’t have names and we would never have thought, ‘Okay, this trick’s called this and this is called this.’”

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Professional jugglers approached them, tossing out vocabulary in siteswap, the choreographic juggling notation. “We were just like, ‘What? What are you talking about? We just do tricks.’” It was an encounter at Circus Space—now the National Centre for Circus Arts—that formed the turning point in their practice. “We were quite scared. We were very young – I was 16 and my brother was 17. So we were just in the corner, juggling.” The room went quiet. “We actually thought we’d done something wrong, and we stopped juggling. And then everyone started clapping.” Others in the workshop began flinging them more clubs until they had seven, then eight on the go. Afterwards, the same name was mentioned to them repeatedly. “Everyone was coming past and grabbing us. They told us, ‘You have to meet Sean Gandini.’” If you have come across juggling in the UK, it is likely you will recognise the Gandini name. Outrageously skilful and restlessly imaginative, Gandini Juggling has developed a reputation for pushing juggling beyond its circus boundaries and fusing it with disciplines such as ballet, contemporary dance and avant-garde theatre. Founded in the ‘90s by husband and wife team Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala, recent Fringe productions have included the Pina Bausch-inspired interrogation of human behaviour, Smashed, and the elegant, playful 4 x 4 Ephemeral Architectures. Perhaps the anecdote that best sums up the route that Gandini has taken juggling down is that he used to perform in the piazza outside the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, then years later helmed the nine-strong Smashed inside on its stage. continues

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› Bichu wrote Gandini a letter. Gandini turned up to one of the Circus Space sessions, and by the time the brothers got home that day there was a message on Bichu’s answerphone with the offer of a job at the Barbican. It’s a relationship that has lasted since the early 2000s, with Gandini describing the brothers as “Gandini family. The first show they did with us, they performed as if they had been performing for all their lives.” He still has Bichu’s letter.

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Bichu describes juggling as “much like mathematics” and credits his relationship with his brother as giving the pair an advantage – they don’t count when juggling together, and can adapt to each other’s drops. Similarly Gandini compares the skillset required to that of a classical musician “in its need for incessant practice...I think it appeals to minds which enjoy patterns.” For the viewer these patterns can be mesmerising. Watching YouTube clips of Bibi and Bichu feels similar to watching fractals unfurl, or twisting a kaleidoscope. This year the Gandinis—sans Bibi and Bichu— have turned to the patterns of bharatanatyam dance, partnering with choreographer and bharatanatyam specialist Seeta Patel to explore juggling and classical Indian geometries, in new piece Sigma. If it seems another unusual direction for the form, that’s part of the point. “I think juggling”, says Gandini, “as a malleable and choreographic tool is very embryonic, so there is much still to do.” Meanwhile Bibi and Bichu’s career has been as

varied as the patterns they create. They have worked on traditional circuses, CBeebies, and with Gandini Juggling on the Philip Glass opera Akhnetan – for which they won an Olivier Award. But perhaps their greatest achievement to date has been starting their own circus, Circus Abyssinia. The project, says Bichu, grew out of the Circus Wingate school they began sponsoring in Addis Ababa in 2010 “to give back what we never had”. On a visit there they were bowled over by the talents of the school’s acrobatic Konjowoch troupe, and decided to form a 14-strong circus with them. Ethiopian Dreams was born, mixing narrative with circus to tell the brothers’ story. Also at the Circus Hub, flying the flag for postmodern juggling, Belgian troupe Cie Ea Eo have set their sights on deconstructing juggling so that “even the artists won’t be able to tell if there is really a statement to it”. And for younger audiences, Australian pirate-ship circus Arr We There Yet? is full of skilful derring-do with flying cutlasses. If juggling is here to stay, there is no predicting the directions in which you may see it flying. “Juggling is its golden age!” says Gandini. “There is a fantastic new generation of jugglers springing up.” / Lucy Ribchester SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Salt

Salt is an intensely personal show; its heaviness offset with a light touch. Between time at sea with a racist, misogynist Italian seacaptain (“the master”), a week out of sorts in Elmina, Ghana and a lush stint in Kingston, Jamaica, Thompson tries to determine her place in the world as a black British woman, as an adopted child and as an ancestor of slaves. The sense is of someone permanently other: uncomfortable with “wealthy, wealthy Europe”, built out of blood money, but fundamentally removed from her ancestral roots. Does belonging to a diaspara mean belonging to nowhere? She carries her close family with her: grief for her late grandmother; her father’s cheery, sceptical phone calls. Throughout, Thompson slams a sledgehammer into a slab of salt. The action—heavygoing, hard work— draws a line between her body and those before it. The salt splits into shards; a mark of how long it takes to break down old structures and crystallised attitudes. As a white man, watching, it’s startling to be reminded how much racism—overt or underhand, micro and macro—Thompson and others endure day-to-day; how draining it must be to bear up against that: the looks, the asides, the silences, the weight of history. It’s a work of its own. That’s testimony to Thompson’s scrupulous honesty. She demands so much of herself, such precision and exactitude, that it’s incumbent on us to listen in kind. Salt never parrots inherited ideas, but weaves itself into a web of cultural thinking and references, and if the show can only scratch the surface of such a huge undertaking, so vast a subject, it’s still a start. I’d like to read the full book, but in a Fringe where so much feels throwaway—one hour of slightness and style—Salt leaves a real residue. The journey in Flight has become all too familiar. Ayran and Kabir, two brothers, 15 and 8, set off from Afghanistan after their parents’ death. They’re aiming for London via Tehran, Istanbul, Athens, Rome and

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Two years ago, weighed down by a world that beats down on black bodies, Selina Thompson stepped onto a cargo ship. She planned to trace the triangle of the transatlantic slave trade: Europe to Africa to the Caribbean and back. It would be the first time she’d left Britain as an adult; a journey that stretches self-discovery to the max.

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Paris; on foot, by boat and in the back of various lorries. We know these images and we know this story. Glasgow’s Vox Motus make us lean in and look closely. Their International Festival offering turns Caroline Brothers’ novel Hinterland, written three years before the refugee crisis really set in, into a moving model. We sit in a booth, headphones on, as a series of dioramas pass in front of us. A family of figurines sit at their dining table. Two tiny boys start a hike over the hills. A rubber dinghy packed with silhouettes bends on a breaking wave. The sound of the sea swims in our ears. Sometimes the road stretches out in a long panorama; sometimes the world closes in like the back of a truck; sometimes the boys escape into frosted glass dreams. The effect is like a 3D graphic novel – a clever marriage of story and form. It’s told moment by moment, and a story of flight seems to come to a standstill. We jump frame to frame, and we watch on the go, and as the story spins, it feels, for all the world, like we’re the ones moving. It’s disorientating (isn’t the world?), but doubly so when the story seems to come full circle. Is this dinner table the same as the first? Have the boys been here before? This bed? This truck? Life on the road is a life on repeat: always travelling, getting nowhere. It can’t fully overcome over-familiarity, and after a while, you sit back and settle in. The lack of human

presence, eye contact perhaps, lets us off the hook, and the craftwork tends to cutesify something horribly real. Flight’s almost a monument to those on the move. Henry C. Krempels travelled part of that journey. Two years ago, he wrote a piece for Vice about a night aboard the “train of second chances” from Venice to Paris; an artery for refugees pushing into mainland Europe. Returning to his bunk, he found a young Syrian woman inside. For a second, they saw each other – then she bolted. The Sleeper abstracts that experience, turning it over and over. Krempels becomes Karina, a young British woman. Ameena, an Arab-speaker, is her opposite. The French train steward, George, mediates as the encounter glitches and repeats. Sometimes Karina demands an upgrade, sometimes she asks for Ameena’s ejection. She tries to translate or she hands over her ticket. Though nowhere near strict enough with either form or dialogue, it’s a neat distillation of the refugee crisis. A privileged woman finds her rightful place occupied. Should she share the space or stake her claim to it? The Sleeper’s smart enough to rotate the perspective. Aya Daghem’s Ameena is anxious, but independent. She’s made it this far and might need no help. Joshua Jacobs’ George, meanwhile, is more than a mere medium. He’s torn between his job and his humanity, caught between privilege and privation.

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Inhabiting some guise or another since the mid-naughties, Colin Hoult returns this year as his theatrical lady alter ego Anna Mann, who struts onto the stage in red lippy, dragging with her a list of ludicrously named former husbands and an over-inflated ego. Though many at the Fringe this year are inevitably touching on the shift of Western politics to the right, Anna is here to offer some practical advice with How We Stop the Fascists. If only we’d had her back in ‘39. The message is clear – know your enemy, talk to them, understand them, then report back to the arts crowd. And so Ms Mann bravely ventures about the country to talk to Ukippers and even the token lefty, which is convenient as, anyone who knows Hoult’s stuff will already be aware, he’s adept at transforming from one character to the next with just the flick of a wig. She even courageously wades in the depths of the north of England. The chortles just keep on coming as we join Anna on her quest to find the Farages in the provinces with some fantastically nuanced impressions – Nick Griffin being one of the best. Dazzlingly silly, there are many small moments that will keep you giggling far down the road from the venue: trout in the Trent; the sight of a hapless man from the front row selected to take the brunt of the blame for fascism; and even an interpretive dance. And you can never go wrong with one of those. Who knows who the real Milo McCabe is either? He’s always bobbing about pretending to be someone else, too. For the last few Fringes it’s been the gloriously fey Troy Hawke. And why not? He’s a pretty spectacular character – sporting a tiny moustache, silk smoking jacket and a camp flirtatiousness. These days McCabe’s so comfy in Hawke’s cravat and excitable hip wiggle, he can effortlessly take on anything the audience throw at him, whether it be a guy eating pizza in the third row or a random contribution from a pissed bloke. For the more demure members of the audience there’s the promise of sweeties and a display of some astounding skill with Scrabble letters. But in The Talented Mr Hawke, McCabe’s agenda is bigger than just gaining triple word scores. Having escaped from Mother’s clutches Hawke has discov-

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ered the delights of his local Wetherspoon’s, where he has unexpectedly unearthed a microcosm of global politics as displayed through his new found friends. There’s "The Arsehole" Tory of course, "Miami Pete", the conspiracy nut calling out fake news, and a man shaped like an avocado who’s the left winger. They argue between them but Troy has found the perfect political system next door in Poundland, and it’s about to bring them all together. As ever McCabe is brilliantly sharp, lacing his wit with just a touch of the surreal – you won’t forget the imagined appearance of a pop superstar on Troy’s local high street in a hurry. Maybe we should give him a go at leadership – he surely can’t do any worse than Trump or May and it looks like there might be a vacancies there some time soon. Also looking to improve the world, and an act who’s not averse to creating a character or two, is Pippa Evans. Not that there are any characters as such in Joy Provision! but Evans does conjure plenty of voices and personae. An Evans show is pretty much a Fringe banker these

days: she’s a hugely talented all rounder. There are songs, improv and impressions, and of course it’s all irreverently funny. Her wit is an easy one, fast dispensing apparently throwaway lines and, in a nod to her times in Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, some big laughs from gags made up on the spot. Times are grim as we are all aware, world news oscillating between feeling like we’re on the verge of world war three and being in an episode of Veep, so for Evans there’s only one way to deal with it: embrace the joy and try not to be a prick. She’s straight in there with the mimicry skills – within a couple of minutes she’s done a Rupert Murdoch impersonation. Evans has good musical back up too, in the shape of a talented duo playing keyboard and plywood box in a wide range of styles. Pharrell’s Happy gets a reworking, there’s a tribute to Chas and Dave, and even old time music hall. There are some nice touches of the absurd in the humour, with a quiz show idea inspired by service station reviews, and the importance of accents when considering terrorism. Go see.

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Denim: World Tour «««« "If the arches of the Underbelly had roofs they would surely tear them off" - p. 28

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Rose Matafeo has previously come across as a natural, effortlessly funny performer, but this latest offering is something else altogether. With no apparent cynicism on her part, she’s put together a genuinely important show, one which nonchalantly distils the experiences of politically engaged millennials while sidestepping heavy-handed polemic. In a comedy scene still dominated by the viewpoints of stagnant white men, she is a genuinely exciting prospect. The slight premise informing Sassy Best Friend is that, just as her status as a person of colour would render Matafeo ineligible for the role of leading lady in a romantic comedy film, so too has it affected

the way in which she’s come to perceive herself. Going on to explore concepts of image and self-care, the 25-year-old makes no apologies for observational material with which only women in her age group will likely identify first hand. The show is defiantly feminist through this omission alone. If the above sounds overtly cerebral, it’s important to stress that Matafeo is a goofy jerk with a knack for slapstick. Her physicality embellishes audio recordings to inspired effect, while her commitment to clowning frees the show of vanity. Sharp, warm and honest, it’s possible the comedian herself doesn’t quite realise how badly audiences need her. / Lewis Porteous

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A disclaimer before you read this review: this particular reviewer has never watched a single episode of the ubiquitous RuPaul’s Drag Race. Drag remains unexplored territory. But after a quick drag primer from the septuagenarian sat adjacent I’m fully immersed in the World Tour of Denim. Playing to what they presumed in their heads was to be a 90,000 crowd at Wembley, the five members more than make use of the modest space. If the arches of the Underbelly had roofs they would surely tear them off – or at the very least damage the keystone. Made up of a diverse group including “a

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The disparity between how we see ourselves and the perceptions of others is an easy source of material for the self-aware comic. Ed Gamble exploits it masterfully however during this casually assured hour, touching briefly on his dramatic weight loss once again, but laying bare all manner of additional insecurities with which

man, a woman, a Jew, Islam and Virgin Mary” they nail five-part harmonies and individually wow with solo turns. It’s hard to pick favourites, but stand outs include the sororicidal, filthy-mouthed falsetto Crystal, plus the confessional Glamrou who brings to light the difficulty of mixing a Muslim heritage with a desire to dazzle in a dress. With a relentless mix of songs, sketches and silky pins they don’t

let up until the final note – even if their giant party popper tonight wilts under the pressure of the climax. There is a strange lull as the veneer of their imaginations cracks and they realise they aren’t quite playing to a stadium. But I’ll leave the final words to the septuagenarian sat next door who dances and sings along as much as any of the much younger crowd: “Very good.”

to trouble his ego. A dodgily tattooed, heavy metal devotee with a sensible haircut and desire to see everyone home safely, his misfit status inspires some lovely whimsy on the exercise regimes of various deities, and a tremendous paedophilia gag. The latter is elaborately set up, but as ever, Gamble is at ease making light of his process and amiably playing the crowd, in no rush through his well-ordered setlist. Privately educated, his lording over his local secondary school rivals is recalled with an apt visual metaphor and there’s a lengthy section about him running the London Marathon, nailing the smugness that accompanies this aggrandizing

endeavour. A throwaway, observational bit about halloumi could happily grace any television showcase, while he’s crudely inventive and very funny about the admin inherent in the 69 sexual position. Pernickety to the point of resenting his girlfriend for shedding hair, he acknowledges his moral compass is compromised after blasting a baby with four-letter invective, though he handles his father’s failings with indiscreet but loving grace. Gamble’s conversational style also belies his ability to choose the right word to conjure an image, with his uproarious account of repressing a fart during a massage bursting with great lines. /

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Alex Kealy has faith in his convictions, but then it’s not hard to substantiate his claim that private school bullies made him left-wing. The Art of the Keal is political comedy at its most tactfully apologetic. In a testement to Britishness he’ll surely regret (patriotism isn’t

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Assembly George Square Theatre 9:00pm – 10:00pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14 £13 – £15

World-weariness has gripped this year’s selection of Fringe comedy the only way a mass outpouring of apathy can: reluctantly. Few who’ve fallen prey to the melancholy have taken more inspiration from it than Andrew Maxwell, who uses Showtime to examine the political fallout of the last year alongside the squabbles within his own (recently enlarged) family. The Irish comic, returning for his 22nd Fringe as a performer, is an undeniable crowd pleaser, and the addition of a newborn hasn’t dampened his knack for conjuring a damn funny image (accents are an underrated skillset for comedians). There are good routines on

really his vibe, the rotten traitor) he eschews the polemicist style employed by most of his contemporaries in favour of muttered grumbling and polite suggestions. It’s the nasal neuroses schtick you’ve probably seen before but packaged with enough endearing wit to pull it through. The familiar topics (Brexit, Trump et al.) all get at least a cursory shout out, if not a measured take-down. As a nerdy, white, straight, middle-class man doing standup he checks a lot of boxes, but it seems he wants to uncheck a few of them, so burdened by the weight of his own archetype is he. He’s creative in his use of logical fallacies in the

a Sweeney-influenced priest and a Cork local encountering what Maxwell assumes is Britain’s main trade export to the Emerald Isle: stag weekends. Unfortunately what betrays the potential of his wider premise is that he never really breaks stride into the kind of biting satire that made him famous. By his standards, he’s on autopilot here, not branching out beyond the Trump and Brexit polemics you could hear almost anywhere else this festival. That’s not even to say that satire of such things has jumped the shark, just that the insights he’s offering on them have. There are recycled jokes from his previous, superior sets and, ironically despite all the topical issues he primes for takedown, his best work here is in spoofing the timeless family dynamic. His talent is undiminished, and the zinger count is still higher than average. It’s just not the unequivocal triumph that, in a year where comedic targets lined themselves up like sitting ducks, it probably should’ve been.

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service of punchlines, and taking artistic licence for the benefit of the satire is a good idea in this context.There are no extra points for cross-partisan converts; the laughs are there and that’s what counts. It’s not so much righteous ire as it is forlorn musings, presenting his points as a sort of take it or leave it proposal. His delivery borders on jittery at times but he’s an enjoyable stage presence with shrewd comic chops. Your favourite nephew got a copy of Das Kapital for Christmas and he’s come up with some jokes. Fortunately, they’re pretty good ones.

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There’s a real pleasure in a show slowly winning you over. What starts with the feeling of an energetic but unfocused student revue incrementally and surprisingly turns inself into something with genuine comic vigour, revealing thoughtful structuring that belies imaginative effort. That initial impression arises because the Princes of Main are three white men whose opening skits unpick the nature of funny sketches in a manner reminiscent of troupes playing with comedy for the first time. It all seems a bit too cool and detached, unwilling to commit. But then a narrative arises, in which the three have decided to host a new year’s eve party because 2017 has been so terrible it’s logical to get it over with now and move on. And while that conceit appears at first to be little more than a nod to the need for coherence, it persistently returns until a series of callbacks demonstrates that there’s been a plan all along. It’s a technically complex show, and doesn’t always run smoothly. There are smart sequences that use audience interaction well, even if the three don’t always have the quickfire skills needed to respond to participant behaviour. And in Ben Pope they have a significant comic performer whose character is well-defined; it’s a shame this acuity doesn’t extend to all parts of the show. But the persistent exuberance coupled with a denouement that evidences skill with comic narrative means there’s more here than at first appears. Give it time. / Brett Mills

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Namaste, Bitches, in just two words, is so perfectly neat a condensation of the show’s tone that it’s almost not worth turning up to see its delineation. Abigoliah Schamaun makes it worth your while, though, in an hour brimming with enthusiasm (if not laughs). With a persona somewhere between a giddy schoolgirl and Joan Rivers, Schamaun offers an ode to all the things that liven up her life. They all manifest themselves as vices one way or another, be they drug habits, musical cabarets, or

yoga. Ultimately she plays fast and loose with the take-home morale, but it doesn’t really matter. Her message is one of simple hedonism in any form, and if we could all have as much fun as she seems to be having, it’ll catch on fast. It’s not quite a set of memoirs but there is surprising emotional depth, as she documents the phases and fallacies that have sparked her into life. Underpinning it all is a genuine love for the craft (both standup and showbusiness). It’s not all sunshine of course, and her hoarse voice (a physical token of her larger-than-life mantra) pairs well with her occasionally prickly turn of phrase. Material-wise there are shortcomings, and some of the anecdotes are crying out for a properly constructed punchline. She’s funny, but often her stories aren’t. With FIERCE GRACE emblazoned on her top, though, and a natural rapport with her audience, it doesn’t matter all that much. / Matthew Sharpe

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Pleasance Courtyard 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 2–27 Aug, not 16 £8.50 – £10

This show’s distinctly prosaic title is in no way reflective of its content. On just a couple of occasions does Ken Cheng refer to his race, and only then it is used as a tool to expose and condemn the prejudices heaped upon other minority groups. Instead, the words

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Gilded Balloon Teviot 5:15pm – 6:15pm, 2–27 Aug, not 15 £8.50 – £9.50

“I’m not an edgy comedian, I’m just an immature one”, proclaims Bec Hill. The line between edge and immaturity will scarce be toed more precariously this Fringe than in the “pop-up book of terrorism” she’s brought along with her this year. Sinister show-and-tell, or playful creativity? Your answer to this is probably a decent gauge for your enjoyment of Out Of Order. The Aussie comic is self-confessedly a standup who thrives on a live rapport with her audience, rather than a clean-cut TV-friendly act. She specialises in organised

‘Chinese Comedian’ are indicative of the performer’s deadpan manner and the uncluttered precision with which he delivers his punchlines. A promising mathematician who dropped out of Cambridge University so he could apply himself to online poker, Cheng’s approach to comedy is surprisingly mercurial. Rather than attempt to reduce humour to a precise formula, he litters his set with all manner of idiosyncratic observations, going off on odd tangents at the expense of the show’s overall structure. He seems to think his unfocussed pedantry will amuse the audience as much as it does him, and for the most part his faith is rewarded.

chaos, no better illustrated than by the structural gambit at the heart of this hour: the entirety of her material is compartmentalised into post-it notes arranged on stage, and she calls on her audience to shout out the joke they want to hear next. It’s more than just a gimmick (there’s genuine, anarchic fun to be had in deciding the order of her show) but her deconstruction of the comic form does tend to disrupt her flow, and the result is slightly disjointed. The material itself is a blend of throwaway puns and narrative bits. The gags are performed with cheery whimsy, offsetting the mordant sting at the heart of her sense of humour. At times it feels a little too close to PG-13; a stifled attempt at something darker. Perhaps she’s casting her comic net too wide and trying to please too many. The good news is that means you’re bound to find something to your taste here.

/ Matthew Sharpe

Cheng may be lacking in delivery and stage presence, but he’s a strong writer whose quiet self-confidence is transfixing. It has to be said though that our hero doesn’t always have the audience laughing. There are stretches of tonight’s show in which he loses us thanks to jarring changes in subject matter and protracted multimedia presentations which fail to build any real sense of momentum. It’s at these moments that his schtick feels over-scripted and we wish he could do more to address the shifting mood within the room, to respond to the variables that make live comedy so exciting.

/ Lewis Porteous

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Njambi McGrath is something of a rough diamond, though you would hesitate to describe her as such, with the precious gems one of the most obvious resources plundered from Africa by the West. Unpolished and lacking much of the basic stagecraft to engage an audience effectively, McGrath nevertheless

has a compelling, rarely heard perspective within UK comedy – that of a Kenyan-born woman, standing up and extolling the benefits of immigration into this country, while shaming it with the racism she’s experienced. Opening with a routine about female genital mutilation makes for a difficult listen, the wry, humorous intent almost suffocated by the attendant squirming. Still, it’s part of a piece that challenges the media’s focus on negative stories about Africa. Suggesting it harms the continent’s “brand”, she can point to the well-intentioned but patronising consequences it’s brought to relations with her London neighbours. Persuasive on why immigrants are

unlikely to try to undermine the British way of life, she’s witty too about the foreign arrivals who want to pull up the rope ladder with their support for Brexit. Compromised by a delivery that veers unpredictably between impassioned and dryly sardonic, she rarely delves beyond the most superficial analysis of wider social issues and is stronger with personal anecdote, delivering a shocking account of police collusion in racially-motivated exploitation. Fitfully amusing and occasionally insightful, Breaking Black would benefit from some judicious editing. But there are some decent lines in there if you strain to hear them. / Jay Richardson

and the need to have conversations about white privilege lest it remain invisible, the Caucasian Burns and aboriginal Quartermaine effectively establish the foundation of their differing perspectives, from mischievously toying with each other’s prejudices in their partnership’s origin story, to the frankly staggering disparity in symbolism for them of the tourist attraction Rottnest Island. There’s a fair bit of Australian and Perth context to be established, as well as the pair’s personal history. And they haven’t yet found the balance of what they can take for granted and what they should expand upon for audiences

who may or may not follow Burns’s podcast or have caught the previous show. But Burns for one never tires of confronting the British arrogance behind imperial ignorance. Channelling Chris Rock, he extols the home nations, maintaining that “Brits...have got to go”. He and Quartermaine chuck in a glossary of phrases white people should and shouldn’t be allowed to say for good measure. The strong bond between the pair rather works against the illusion of spontaneous stage looseness they’re trying to project. But regular bellylaughs, deliberate awkwardness and the occasional revelation remain. / Jay Richardson

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Gilded Balloon Teviot 6:45pm – 7:45pm, 2–28 Aug, not 17 £12 – £13

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine have really hit upon something provocative with their double-act exploring race issues. Currently though, this follow-up to 2016’s Dumb White Guy doesn’t make good on that show’s promise. Race Off sends up any pretensions to fix racism in an hour. But it does have ambition and theatrical audacity, just rather too much to let journalists see it before it’s fully gelled. Acknowledging friction though,

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Annie Sertich: How Not to Kill Yourself for 30 Days... and the Next 330 HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Pleasance Courtyard 8:30pm – 9:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14 £8.50 – £12.50

Informed by a confessional, therapy culture that’s yet to properly take hold in the UK, Annie Sertich’s compelling account of seriously contemplating suicide is nevertheless surprisingly relatable. A graduate of LA’s prolific Groundlings improv theatre, she’s had a successful career as a bit-part player in a string of top sitcoms and as a (dental) model, but still gets excited when she sees the likes of Luke Wilson and Ben Folds in her

Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017 HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Pleasance Courtyard 4:45pm – 5:45pm, 2–28 Aug, not 14 £7 – £12

As befits someone whose day job is directing commercials, Ben Fogg’s debut hour is a superficially entertaining blast of self-promotion with a deeper agenda operating beneath. This is a show about the elusive quality of success, explains the eccentrically attired, self-ac-

local stores and coffeeshops. Unfortunately, her personal life has been more tumultuous and her ex-husband’s infidelity drove her to the brink of drastic action. A friend made her sign a contract promising not to kill herself for 30 days and she recounts that journey as a step-bystep recovery. If that sounds relentlessly grim, it’s not. Sertich never underplays the despair, numbness and anger she felt as her marriage disintegrated. But she’s as breezily funny as she is frank and there’s a lot of familial warmth and the love of friends woven through her tale to leaven the darker episodes.

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knowledged “likeable arsehole”. And he starts by explaining how a high-achieving, driven schoolboy turned 19-year-old US television executive with more money than God, snorting coke at the Emmys with a Friends star, became a 37-year-old comic, trying to blag his way to the Best Newcomer Award. Despite a weed habit that genuinely seems to have damaged his memory, necessitating setlist prompts held by an audience member, he’s a charming storyteller, supplementing his unusual narrative with droll material on dinner party gossip, aspirational quotes and parenting bores. He’s particularly funny on the ingredients of a successful relationship. Family comes to play an increas-

ingly large part in the show and there’s a significant gear change when he shares an email sent by his intimidatingly successful father, urging him to abandon a reasonable media career for something more lucrative and secure. Getting better and better as the hour develops, and considerably more revealing, Fogg strips away his personal artifice as he ramps up the theatrical tricks. The latter aren’t entirely successful and smack of the award-bait tactics he mocked at the start, either a tad unoriginal or too postmodern and in-jokey if they’re a deliberate nod. Regardless, the ambition is admirable in an Edinburgh introduction and there are some memorable routines throughout. / Jay Richardson

Sending up her self-help strategies as well as the bullying mean voice inside of her, Sertich proves herself a gifted character actor. Her portrayal of her friend trying to keep her alive while neglecting her child is blackly comic. Jaw-dropping in at least one instance but rarely a tough listen, it’s an emotional, entertaining and ultimately optimistic monologue that doesn’t suggest Sertich’s life henceforth will be a bed of roses, containing allusions to further issues in her family that might inform subsequent hours. Hopefully, we’ll get to hear about them.

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Assembly George Square Theatre 9:25pm – 10:25pm, 2–27 Aug, not 15 £10 – £12.50

Blessed with cod-Balkan accents and much greater expressiveness than you could credit a faceless leather marionette with, Boris and Sergey are a frequent delight in this throwaway but inventive puppet show. Manipulated by the youthful Flabbergast Theatre, with the six

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Heroes @ The Hive 2:15pm – 3:10pm, 3–7 Aug £5

Though somewhat less pathologically than the title suggests, Al Pitcher’s new show is definitely about Sweden. Or, more accurately, the Swedish words and people that he’s turned into a rich source of standup material. The Antipodean comic has a zeal about him that turns a potentially half-baked hour into something altogether more fun. The Scandinavian motif is more of recurring gag than an underpinning structure: between disconnected ramblings and awkward segues he’ll eventually lurch back to “and over in Sweden, they...”. Having married a Swede and lived

puppeteers ever-visible, voicing their bickering brother charges, Boris and Sergey embrace the classic double act setup of dumb and dumber – Sergey the scheming impresario of their dubious showbusiness operation; Boris the more maverick element forever undermining his sibling’s ambitions. Pursued by loan sharks after Boris’ spectacular and ridiculously expensive entrance, their efforts at an old school dance number creak with the desperation of shysters masquerading as stars. A gameshow with an audience member to try and recoup some money finds Boris still blowing the opportunity despite Sergey rigging the contest. Like Ernie Wise, Sergey has pretensions to cast off his stage partner to deliver a navel-gazing,

there ever since, he’s well-versed in their culture, so if nothing else the show exists as a particularly amusing (and interactive) Lonely Planet guide. His is the playful, everyman charm typical of his compatriots, although he seems shackled by a nervous tendency to self-critique mid-show. Flunked jokes don’t work any better if their failure is restated by the person telling them. His instinct is to go for the offbeat simile, but he doesn’t always nail the balance between the logical and the absurd. These patchy punchlines don’t really undermine his act, though. His cheeky persona is what sells the material, and invariably when he’s having fun, the audience is too. The remaining kinks (rusty delivery, rustier transitions) can be ironed out in time, but for now it’s a show resting firmly in the category of flawed but fun. That’s the game you play, especially this early in the festival, but in this market Pitcher’s worth punting on. / Matthew Sharpe

one-man play. But he’s reckoned without his lack of talent and the blind luck of his brother, setting up an archetypal vengeance tale with origins at least as old as Kane and Abel. Although there are plenty of good jokes in the script, the production really benefits from so nakedly foregrounding its artifice, eking laughs and even plot twists out of there being insufficient puppeteers to operate three characters at once for example. The slick fluidity of the group in bringing the brother’s world to life is similarly striking. Although a mite over-long and especially flabby towards the denouement, the fraternal relationship at the core of the show is a consistent hoot. / Jay Richardson

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Underbelly, Cowgate 10:20pm – 11:20pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14 £9.50 – £10.50

At the halfway point of Danny O’Brien’s RaconTour, the amiable Irishman casually drops in that his father was a heroin addict who he hadn’t spoken to for some twenty years. A ripple flows through the room as the audience bristles at the sadness and heartache this must have caused such a jovial gent, but it does nothing to slow the roll of O’Brien. Much like the motorcycle that forms the backbone of his show, O’Brien is unbreakable, just some of the parts aren’t where they’re supposed to be. After inheriting a 1992 Honda Nighthawk from his Uncle following a stroke that didn’t kill him but made him much kinder to his young nephew, O’Brien decided to use it as a comedy vehicle. Taking his two wheels around the Emerald Isle to various festivals and gigs big and

small (helmet cam footage of which introduces the show), O’Brien leaves no Irish Catholic stereotype left untouched with tales of Midnight Mass, maudlin grannies and family secrets. Fortunately, O’Brien steers clear of cliché with inventive punchlines and some very dark paths. O’Brien rattles along at a spirited pace, cleverly taking water breaks when the laughs come in order to keep his story going and more than earning the pun of his show title. At times it feels like several club sets stitched haphazardly together with the emotional pull of trying to find out the fate of his father an afterthought. But O’Brien’s infectious optimism and boyish charm mean it’s a bumpy ride you’re glad to have grabbed a backie on. / John Stansfield

different hats with only one coat and a chair (and later a picture of his younger self) as props, but the various vignettes begin to feel a little like a collection of auditions for a role in Horrible Histories rather than self contained sketches – something that the actor/performer makes a point of later, but this doesn’t make it any less true. None of the Dhukov stories really stick in the memory, and when they peter out Dickson has a tendency to break character, or rather break into the real narcissist character of Graham Dickson to quarrel with his director Hamish MacDougall.

The direction is smooth and Dickson plays a gallant fool brilliantly, but the constant breakdown in the story within a story within a story does more to confuse than to titillate. Again, this is something that is brought to the attention of the audience, but pointing out that something isn’t working doesn’t fix the problem – especially if it’s your only solution. That having been said, this search for the real Graham Dickson does lead to the best ‘I don’t know how to end the show’ ending of a show you’ll see at the Fringe this year. / John Stansfield

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Danny O’Brien: RaconTour

Graham Dickson is The Narcissist HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Underbelly, Cowgate 8:10pm – 9:10pm, 3–27 Aug, not 15 £10 – £11

Possibly best known for being a player in the improv powerhouse Austentatious, it is not particularly surprising that Graham Dickson would borrow from another literary great for his debut show The Narcissist. The difference being that unlike Jane Austen, Russian polymath Grigoriy Alexeivich Dhukov is a work of pure fiction and leaves Dickson without a cast of improvisational comics to bounce ideas off of. Dickson is clearly a great performer, thrusting himself into many

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The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6 6:15pm – 7:15pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14 £9

Those expecting the live action video game thrills of Robertson’s The Dark Room might be in for a bit of a shock if they follow the white-blond antipodean on his tales of outré sexual predeliction in new hour Dominant. Robertson starts the show late as a number of ticket holders are yet to show (which would nearly double the crowd), which means, teeth bared, our host can get to know his audience more intimately. The problem being that he enjoys playing with the comfort zones of those in front of him so much he barely remembers to start his show, and when he finally does it’s in a staccato fashion that belies Robertson’s storytelling ability. There’s a great show about the sexual awakening of a young bullied boy who grew up to be the master of every room he finds himself in, including drawing a crowd for his prowess during one trip ‘downstairs’ at a sex dungeon. Unfortunately, for tonight at least, this wasn’t it. Robertson assures his audience at the end that tomorrow’s show would be completely different, and it’s hard to see how a 10-minute long, super intense staring contest with a singular audience member— or any of the other tangents he spun off on—could be repeated. He will no doubt hit audience members with even more bizarre surprises as the Fringe rolls on, for good or ill, and you never know: one of them might be the actual show.

/ John Stansfield

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The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4 5:55pm – 6:55pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14 £8

If you leave Louise Reay’s show Hard Mode you’ll have learnt at least one thing: that ‘P.I.M.P’ by 50 Cent sounds infinitely better in the Chinese language. This does mean that the scrambled points being made about an oppressive government already in place in the UK, and musings on the power to leave an abusive relationship get lost somewhere in the mire. Which is a shame, as Reay is clearly an intelligent performer with a vast knowledge of the Chinese government and their rarely publicised dealings. There’s also a personal turn as she discloses her recent divorce. But overall, the show

suffers from too many ideas and not enough clear execution. Throughout the show, three masked authoritarian government workers keep the peace in the audience by placing bibs on the masses. This provides a sense of undeserved dread while Reay trots through half-formed characters and plays shonkily edited footage of a very convincing Ai Weiwei on the screen. Being bilingual Reay excels when speaking Mandarin, and a particular highlight is her re-enactment of a classic Eastenders scene with Grant Mitchell, Peggy and Frank Butcher all in this foreign tongue. There are nice touches, such as observations on the ubiquity of Jeremy Clarkson on state-sponsored television, but the whole thing feels like a substitute teacher trying to impress upon a primary school class that oppression is bad. Not hard hitting enough to be provocative theatre, not funny enough to be solid satire, the whole thing fizzles out rather disappointingly.

/ John Stansfield

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With his initially benign, bookish charm, it’s easy to miscalculate the diminutive figure cut by Bernie Keith onstage. The veteran disc jockey soon establishes himself as a sort of smutty answer to Alan Partridge, though, complete with hoary musings on modern life.

As a debut hour of standup, Life Without Sat Nav isn’t anything to be ashamed of, but there’s too much reliance on campy effeminate style to overcome the lack of fresh substance. Ironically, the BBC Radio Northampton host references said Steve Coogan creation in his material on attitudes to homosexuality. It’s a subject he musters a few chuckles from but, other than an amusing bit on what the DUP might have in common with the LGBT community, he doesn’t have much to offer in the way of original angles. He’s within his right to lean on stereotypes, but comedically it feels like well-trodden ground.

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Assembly George Square Theatre 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14 £16 – £18.50

What can reasonably be expected from a performer of the status of Ed Byrne? Gigging for years, his schtick is a well-honed version of the angry everyman, bemoaning the vicissitudes of ordinary life. In this set the conceit is his concern that we live in a world where everyone is spoiled, resulting in self-centred narcissists who expect everything on a plate. Byrne’s case-in-point is his children, whose failure to recognise the pampered life they lead is acutely demonstrated in a routine about trampolines. It’s clear the audience is laughing in recognition, and so the comedy serves

Similarly, despite his rightful celebration of gay rights being brought into the 21st century, he appears reluctant to enter it himself. Yes, politicians tweet now; yes, lactose intolerance is a legitimate grievance; no, nut allergies aren’t a symptom of a pampered society. He creates for himself a confusing dynamic, on one hand lauding the progression of social attitudes and on the other yearning for “the good old days”. The title itself ostensibly harks back to a simpler time, and perhaps it resonates with a nostalgic core, but here the occasional juicy quip can’t offset a generally hackneyed hour. / Matthew Sharpe

as a salve, helping us accept social norms we can do little about. But is it grumpy to expect more than this? Given Byrne’s considerable skill—and willing audience— couldn’t the humour here function as something in addition to resigned collective guilt? Byrne acknowledges that he’s now resolutely middle class, and effectively mines the dislocating sense of self that gives him. In a couple of places he makes passing references to Brexit and Trump, though he mocks such material, noting its almost-compulsory nature. It all seems too comfortable, as if he’s unwilling to test the areas his audience might follow him into. He notes that getting married, and subsequently having children, generated considerable material for previous Fringe shows, and that maybe now getting divorced would open up new comedic avenues for him to explore. I’m not sure that kind of drastic action can be justified solely to produce comedy, but he needs to get his spark back somehow. / Brett Mills

Eggs Collective Get a Round Millennial angst and idealism in this tear-stained, glitterspattered party of a show HHHH

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Gimme Five Nassim ««««

Tshepang: The Third Testament «««« "Leaves us questioning how we face our own culpabilities and complicity in a vastly unequal world"- p. 46

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"A moving, delicate piece of theatre that draws on a mix of conventions that shouldn't work, but do" - p. 46

Jess and Joe Forever Todd & God ««« "Verbally rich storytelling is brought to us by two previous poetry slam champions"- p. 50

1 Singular Sensation «« "The performances don’t transcend those typical for a school play"- p. 54

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Boy meet girl. Country meets town. Poor meets posh. Zoe Cooper’s adorable play looks like it deals in binaries, but is really about a connection that runs far deeper than any differences. Joe lives in a village in Norfolk, populated by small-minded busybodies. He helps his dad on the farm; he doesn’t have a mum. Jess’s parents have a holiday home there; they bring her to the country so she can “learn to be a child”. She flounces with faux confidence and big words, determined to befriend him; he’s taciturn, reluctant. But over a series of summer encounters, truths are revealed (no spoilers here) and the pair are

transformed by one another. Nicola Coughlan and Rhys IsaacJones are both excellent in this gem of a show. They play Jess and Joe from children, captured perfectly in Isaac-Jones’s twirled awkwardness and Coughlan’s puppyish buoyancy, to more troubled teenage years. The form here is that the pair are re-enacting their story for us, which lends both an emotional punch—they can’t help but well-up at restaging painful memories— and a theatrical self-awareness delivered with the lightest of touch. Moments when they find themselves taking on other characters in their story—or even playing each other—carry a real charge in Derek Bond’s production. Cooper’s writing finds a sweet humour in the gawkiness of teenagers, and is well served by Isaac-Jones’s deadpan delivery, which nonetheless perfectly conveys the agony of being different at that age. Jess and Joe Forever feels gossamer-light, but that’s no criticism – in fact, its delicacy is its strength. / Holly Williams

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Sparkling with witty banter and shots of Caribbean Twist, Sara Cocker, Lowri Evans and Léonie Higgins plunge us into the depths of a Really Good Night. We are all required, but our participation is made easy. After all, who needs encouragment to indulge in plastic cups of wine, whoop praise for an exuberant dancer or sing along to Petula Clarke? Eggs Collective joyfully take us into their arms, then tenderley open their hearts to the 3am truths beyond face lacquer and consumerism. A cheeky hostess style of

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Summerhall 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 20, 21 £10

In the programme entry for this show, James Rowland himself admits there’s no shortage of art exploring love, and jokingly suggests that this might be the definitive piece on the subject. The amazing thing is that for all his

expectation-lowering bravado, no one in this afternoon’s audience doubts his dedication to achieving this impossible goal. It transpires that there’s mileage still to be had in the topic, but to watch the artist reach for such great heights is a moving experience in itself. Rowland tells stories in a manner comparable to Daniel Kitson and Ben Moor, but while these Fringe stalwarts exude a warming sense of safety and calm, he is infinitely more unsettled, intent on harnessing the neurosis that occurs throughout even the most mundane romantic sagas. This story is told in the first person with the artist alternately banging his head against the

floor, taking up residence among the audience, stifling tears at the memory of fictional incidents and stripping himself bare in most every way conceivable. It’s true that no new ground is broken here, but Rowland very nearly succeeds in covering all that’s understood of the subject. Where he slips up is in the more twee moments of the show in which he plays—and then loops— cute piano motifs to underscore his sensitivity. A climactic song meanwhile feels wholly unnecessary. The star’s account of an everyday relationship is ingenious enough without it being necessary that he sweeten the pill.

/ Lewis Porteous

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welcome belies the depths this show reaches as it lays a culture of alcohol-fuelled escapism under a microscope. Bottles of booze and counterweighting microphones dangle from the ceiling, pulled into use to recast an R. Kelly classic as a delicate ballad or to amplify the echo chamber of a political sick bucket. The pervasive societal illness behind the binge-drinking is given a spotlight of its own and, in doing so, shows the much-maligned millennial generation as deeply caring and idealistic in a world gone down the toilet. What’s left of the world if you can’t inject a little fun and beauty, right? The language is everyday girlfriend accessible, even during an impressive extended hashtag rant that flashes the Manchester collective’s smart live art credentials. Teary eyes glitter as much as the trio’s gold mini dresses and generous smiles, and the love-filled show leaves us both shaken and stirred. / Katharine Kavanagh

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Traverse Theatre times vary, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21 £14.50 - £19.50

Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour wasn’t allowed to leave his home country until 2013. His work had been performed around the world by then, but until the Iranian government allowed him to have a passport, he had never seen it staged. His latest play, a touching, autobiographical work, explores the importance of language and family using storytelling, technology and a different actor in each performance. It’s a moving, delicate piece of theatre that draws on a mix of conventions that shouldn’t work, but do. The text is unseen by the performer. An actor on stage who knows nothing about the piece is always a risk, and his script is

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Assembly Roxy 11:45am – 1:00pm, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21 £14 – £15

‘Tshepang’ means ‘hope’. The play that bears her name leaves us questioning how we face our own culpabilities and complicity in a vastly unequal world where the vulnerable are chewed up and destroyed. Lara Foot has redirected her powerful play as part of the Baxter Theatre season at Assembly. Set

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provided by an off-stage, projected live feed that could easily wobble or fail. The text is designed to destabilise the performer, and they must be willing to roll with what they are given. There’s little to look at, and the content that unfolds follows a meandering path that is almost stream-of-conscious. It’s that content that draws in the audience. Immensely personal, funny and touching, most people can relate to learning swear words in another language with a new

friend, homesickness and wanting to please your mum. There are joyful surprises and some audience interaction that is more like an intimate conversation with mates than a performance. The liveness and Soleimanpour’s unique, personal story are some of the reasons for Nassim’s success. More importantly, it unifies rather than politically divides, and displays a compelling vulnerability and love that can soften the hardest of hearts.

in small-town South Africa, the production emphasises the distances between those with a grasp on power and those left trampled, or—perhaps just as damagingly—overlooked. Expansive dusty village squares are conjured, and a macrocosm of social injustice is pinpointed through the microcosm of one woman’s tragedy. Although the play is based on true events of a nine-month-old child’s rape, we end up weeping for widespread and systemic abuses, not just this tiny culmination. Sex, skin colour, youth and age. Poverty. A complex net of symptoms unwinds like a mess of fisherman’s wire. Narrator Mncedisi Shabangu’s familiar manner keeps

the tone from becoming heavy, but devastation, when it comes, is all the more powerful for that. He holds the show with strength, charisma, and a storyteller’s clarity of well-timed gesture, introducing us to the story’s players through a well-blended mixture of the country’s many tongues. The mute female presence of Nonceba Constance Didi is no token either, holding all the playwright’s accusation in a riveting stare of pain, ceaselessly scrubbing her hands to rawness, or catatonic with guilt. On Gerhard Marx’s whimsical set the world’s gaze does nothing, as in history. Will we do better?

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Main Hall, Summerhall Edinburgh Festival Fringe Fri 4 - Sun 27 August 2017 7.45pm (except 14/21 Aug) Preview Wed 2 Aug. BSL (signed) performance Weds 9 Aug 7.45pm Running Time: 60 minutes. Age suitability: 12+ Amal is a Syrian refugee, Gordon a privileged westerner from northern Europe. They meet on the opulent streets and shadowy alleys of Taksim the commercial heart of Istanbul.

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A love story. A war story. A microcosm of our time.

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Writer/director Tom Cooper’s play is a moving tribute to the 167 men who died in a huge gas explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea in 1988. Sprinklers failed; life-boats didn’t inflate. Men dived hundreds of feet into a sea coated with burning oil. Occidental, who

owned the rig, paid out compensation after a public inquiry, but never actually faced charges. It’s a story clearly worth retelling, and one which can’t help but recall the recent Grenfell Tower tragedy, and how capitalism can lead to a callous lack of care towards human lives. But this play gently makes this point through telling human stories; it’s based on interviews with offshore oil workers, although it remains a flexible, fictional thing rather than a verbatim account. Key to Cooper’s way in is the figure of an artist—based on Sue Jane Taylor—who spends time on the Alpha Piper rig, drawing the men at work. She’s our eyes on

this “muscular, hard, salty world”; we see its beauty and toughness through her. She’s also a canny fish-out-of-water device: the only woman in a totally macho environment. Her discussions with the men she draws allow an insight into the softer inner lives of these joshing, just-doing-my-job blokes. Folk music threads through the action, adding another dimension, although some of the lyrics are a bit over-earnest. Young Glasgow company Bletherbox show real promise here: Part of the Picture needs more drive and urgency in its pacing, but this retelling of a tragedy is thoughtful, humane and never mawkish. / Holly Williams

tively generates empathy without patronising the audience or the young character, and strikes a good balance between funny and serious material. A surprising subplot leading to the show’s climax adds gravitas, but is under-explored. The design is one of the production’s strong suits. Large, backlit photographs signify new scenes while evoking a teenager’s bedroom. Records and magazines are piled up in corners of the stage, and a record player holds a key po-

sition. A back wall of audience-facing lights, the sort found at a gig, reinforces the importance of music in the character’s life. Though the characters within the story need further differentiating, the performance is compelling and the detailed text is handled with pathos and care. This is a strong example of solo performance that looks at youth culture with the seriousness and sensitivity it deserves.

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The teen years are hard. Between not fitting in, avoiding bullies and living in a Scottish town known for its suicide bridge, Gary McNair’s unnamed antihero also has other battles to fight. His best friend is the subject of vicious rumours that may have a more ominous source. The school counsellor is nosey and overbearing. And Morrissey isn’t replying to his letters pleading for advice. This coming-of-age solo performance uses sophisticated vocabulary and an engaging structure to capture teen angst without trivialising it. McNair uses contrast well – scenes with his counsellor are funny, while the letters he writes to his idol are vulnerable. He effec-

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Alex Walton’s narration grounds this solo show, injecting pace at just the right moment. Whenever Walton transforms into protagonist Martin, the energy purposefully shifts. He becomes awkward and introverted – Martin is not your average 18-year-old. But all of his troubles—the chaos of home

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Performance poet Luke Wright set a high bar with his 2015 theatre debut. What I Learned from Johnny Bevan was a furious, charging, lyrical strike at Blairite centrism that hit the Fringe in the middle of Labour’s leadership contest. For his latest solo show, Wright has gone back in time, to the early ‘80s. As Tony Benn loses out to Denis Healey in an ideological fight for deputy leadership of Labour, university student Frankie Vah discovers the grassroots power of ‘rant’ poetry. As Vah recounts his life to us, he re-enacts the backroom spoken-word gigs that energise him, take him to fame and ultimately

life; an eating disorder; his absent father—take a backseat to Martin’s love affair with David Bowie (voiced by Rob Newman). From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is a constant punch to the gut. Martin is the underdog and Walton physically shrivels whenever he switches into the character. Adrian Berry’s writing is rhythmic and Walton never misses a beat, manipulating Andie Scott’s deceptively simple set to add volume to the story. A karaoke stage where Martin joyfully screams out ‘Starman’ is also the phone box where he vomits up his guts and breaks down. One minute he is walking on air, bathed in the glow of his

fling him into despair as electability over principle becomes Labour’s goal. Wright is a mesmeric performer, his body humming with the rhythm of his words as Vah rejects the orthodoxy of his vicar father for a new faith in political revolution. He evokes a mood that feels familiar today from Jeremy Corbyn supporters. Co-directors Joe Murphy and Alex Thorpe keep the atmosphere smoky and intimate, and keep Wright moving around Underbelly’s Belly Button studio space. Nervous play with a microphone stand catches the gentle wryness of Wright’s portrait of the younger Vah. But if Wright captures the anger, passion and confusion of an era, it’s tied to a story made up of over-familiar beats. The corrupting effect of Vah’s success on his relationship with artist Eve is just too predictable, too schematic, for the electric poetry that seethes around it. / Tom Wicker

idol; the next, cut short, anxious and alone. Bowie becomes Martin’s surrogate father figure, unsuccessfully plugging the gaping hole in his life. Every mention of Dad comes with a pause in the monologue, a clever nuance to emphasise his obvious absence. From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is bitter, believable and ultimately imperfect. Walton ends on the floor, spent from the effort of containing all the conflicting personalities. The final farewell from Dad is introspective and tender, a dream from which even the audience don’t want to wake up. / Daniel Perks

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The message of a 21st-century religion comes clothed in the language of self-help psychiatry with a feminist perspective in this story of love, sacrifice, bacon sandwiches and the power of belief. Its parables are written in spiritually inspiring rhythms and tongue-tangling wordplay, alongside the more common poetic forms found today in rhyming TV commercials. Verbally rich storytelling is brought to us by two previous poetry slam champions, and Dan Coleman’s simple staging allows the text to hold focus through humour, philosophy and human drama. Writer Richard Marsh delivers his words with aplomb, physically delineating clearly between the three family members in his tale. Narrator Todd is a serial loser whose ultimate win is delivering hope back to a world whose previous religions have torn it apart. His wife Helen, on the other hand, is used to being in the lead and is less positive about the changes coming over her husband. Marsh’s trinity is completed by Helen’s father Pete, a wayward vicar with his own crises of faith. Sara Hirsch is equally limber-lipped as the voice of God herself, disembodied and heavily mic’ed for most of the play. Although the first few scenes suggest the God in question is a Christian-based figure, a more universal representation develops. Meme humour and clever word wit don’t always sit smoothly together but, in a show where humankind’s failure and foolishness are celebrated, this sin is forgiveable.

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Dr Charles Penworth and his assistant Helen Travers are brain surgeons in Holland in 1861. Work is carrying on as usual when a live delivery from newly explored Borneo presents them with a subject for their experiments. Might this creature be human? It seems so. Christened Lilith, her transformation from savage to civilian comments on colonialism, immigration and group dynamics. Australian company Sisters Grimm use absurdity to great effect. Lilith, naked and painted pink, is male-bodied though Penworth determines she is female. Heightened performances and witty dialogue in an exaggerated Victorian world mock lingering attitudes of dominion over other nations, and drag and gender serve this performance style particularly well. Marg Horwell’s entirely plas-

tic-clad set is another strong creative choice. It deliberately inhibits the movement of the three performers, who clumsily slide over the surfaces made slick with Lilith’s body paint. The world they inhabit, while ridiculous, highlights dangerous attitudes of superiority we still see today. The script loses its way near the end, but the concept is generally strong and consistent enough to hold the play together. It tries to do too much, though. As well as the primary themes, Lilith also looks at feminism, gender, bodily autonomy and the characters’ personal relationships. Though the story balances humour and the horror of human history well, it leans too heavily on the laughs. Lilith: The Jungle Girl has a strong, clear concept but is at times overwhelmed by the number of issues it tries to address.

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Wil Greenway might be reaching the limits of his format. Coming out of These Trees the Autumn Leaves Alone, we are disoriented: back in Edinburgh, no longer in a Melbourne autumn storm, and the spell cast by Greenway’s transportive storytelling has broken on the hard cobbles of reality. But it wasn’t

a new spell, nor one that soaked particularly deep into the skin. Ernie is a down-on-his-luck everyman, living an ordinary yet recognisable life in Melbourne (a “city made for autumn”), before a chance tram encounter with an old flame—and a cat—sparks a change. For a breezy hour, Greenway welcomes us into his tale with a bearded grin and wide, open arms. The Australian writer has clear talents. Few fabulists can trot out such tight, sensitively crafted prose and still make it sound casual. He spins small observations into disarmingly relatable flights of poetry. And though never trying to appear spontaneous, neither is the piece overwritten. It’s like experiencing a novel, with Greenway taking our hands and

marking the way with sprightly characterisation and masterful, often comic analogies (a storm erupts “like a two-year-old kicking off in a supermarket”). Scenes are breathable, drinkable. It might be trite to say so, but it’s like you’re really there. But being there isn’t all that interesting, in the end. Leaving aside the predictable and heteronormative ‘awkward boy meets girl’ narrative, the net tone is—unfortunately—one of a twee, punchable, indie romcom; a spoken word Garden State. The gentle guitar and lyrical interludes (courtesy of Will Galloway and Kathryn Langshaw on stage) certainly help accentuate the emotional beats, but it’s gilding a daisy: poignant in the right light, but ultimately lacking substance.

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Cosmic Scallies—the latest show from the deaf and disabled-championing Graeae theatre company—is packed to bursting with the names of people and places. From Dufflecoat Dave to Supergran, its setting, Lancashire new town Skelmersdale, is shored up by memories. Dent (Rachel Denning) and Shaun (Reuben Johnson) went to school together, but they’ve not seen each other since she went to university. Now Dent’s back – her mum has died and she’s in pain. She doesn’t want Shaun’s help, but she needs a prescription and she can barely walk.

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Writer Jackie Hagan was raised in "Skem" and the play is full of fierce love and pride for the town – for its streets, for its inhabitants, for its failings. Dent, who grew up teased about her bookishness and her height, and Shaun, with his drug-addicted mother, aren’t Channel 5 scare stories. As brought to life by Denning and Johnson, they’re broken, funny and unique. Bethany Wells’s set is a jumble of outsized, broken benches, nooks and ledges, mirroring Skem, a town buckling under the weight of

soulless government bureaucracy. Much like Dent and Shaun’s relationship, it’s both an obstacle course and somewhere they fit. The pair’s conversations are projected onto the various surfaces around them. Amit Sharma’s direction is clear and fluid. But Cosmic Scallies could do with a few sharper edges. Not much actually happens. And in its preference for slipping into quip instead, it doesn’t really probe the lurking tragedies that would give its story more weight. / Tom Wicker

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Ross is in his local supermarket’s cereal aisle. Rooted to the spot, he stares at the bran flakes. A pair of yellow shoes passes by. His mind whirs about his girlfriend Fiona, the stone he clutches and the characteristics of stars. The PhD student’s thoughts form a stream-of-consciousness monologue that makes up most of Scribble. Generally circling the theme of mental health and anxiety, there are are a couple of surprises in his ramblings. Unfortunately, however, they aren’t explored in depth and there’s little at stake. Alan MacKenzie as Ross tries

grown-up school friends she left behind. Engaging and sparkly, Barker-Wren comfortably inhabits the physicality and mannerisms of her West Country stereotypes. But the story itself has no meat, despite an overabundance of livestock. Barker-Wren jumps between past and present with little in Lucy Wray’s direction to distinguish between the two. The ongoing commentary establishes an audience connection, but fails to deliver anything more substantial than passing thoughts and opinions.

Each time the scene changes, there is a folk song interlude, or a nostalgic memory, all of which are too long to have any lasting impact. Meat is murder, dairy is rape and Friendly the cow will never be killed or sold. The faithful, static animal displaces the abject loneliness Beth feels with no parents left. Barker-Wren brings her oddities to life in Cow, talking frankly to imaginary kids about BSE and the affection for her animals. The final few minutes deliver a poignant twist that the rest of this beige production lacks. / Daniel Perks

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his best to be engaging, but stumbles on some of the clumsier parts of the script. Another actor supports from an on-stage desk with an angle poise lamp and a script. This performer is different for every performance, but there’s no reason for this variation. If they had more involvement or got stuck into the edgy material that’s barely touched on, this could be an interesting device. But other than reading introductory and closing letters from the creative team and a bit of dialogue in the middle, they do little other than watch MacKenzie’s performance. Running at a mere 45 minutes, this is a show that feels too short to achieve what it sets out to do. A lack of clear focus means it makes generalised comments on the daily struggle of life with an anxiety disorder, but Ross’s story isn’t detailed enough to drive this message home. / Laura Kressly

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A show with Friendly the furry cow, in Underbelly Cowgate. It works – but it’s not innovative, it’s twee. Cow is a pleasant show, trundling along as Beth (Jessica Barker-Wren) describes her return to rural Devon from cosmopolitan London. Mum’s dead, Dad’s on the way out; Beth is all alone to look after the farm. Sorry, not alone – she has Friendly. A competent storyteller, Barker-Wren bumbles along Miranda Hart-style, chopping down trees and borrowing a tractor from the

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1 Singular Sensation, billed as a “satirical vision of contemporary society”, opens with a recorded voiceover: “we should stop wasting money on apathetic, lazy young people.” The 18-strong cast of young actors in the show offer an immediate contrast to the picture that this quotation paints: they are energetic, committed, giving

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Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan want to create a new language. In doing so, they want to throw off the shackles of the patriarchy, and find a new way for women to accurately express their emotional life. These are certainly worthwhile intentions, but the execution of these goals leans heavily on live art tropes that only partially serve the aims of the work. An opening movement sequence doesn’t justify the performer’s toplessness, and the microphone-as-penis metaphor says little. There is some dynamic live mixing that creates sinister soundscapes, though these do more for atmosphere than anything else. Repetition of text and the use of

the performance their all. Whether you should give your money to this show is, however, in question. The satire in Nick Cassenbaum’s script for 1 Singular Sensation is largely heavy-handed, often reduced to a string of empty questions that feel as though they’ve confused the cast as much as anyone. Characters include holidaymakers who say they love to go abroad, but hate everything foreign. There’s a priest who’s horrified at the idea of giving sanctuary to the great unwashed – claiming, in one of the sharper lines, that “food doesn’t grow on trees you know”, and describing in disgusted detail a baby swaddled in newspapers shitting itself in his church. And,

emotive language—”Feminism!” “Theatre!” “Patriarchy!”—with little context soon becomes absurd and funny. The use of music and karaoke is particularly entertaining, but the patriarchy remains unbroken despite the good use of sound technology. Further extended movement sequences showcase the performer’s command of her physicality, and those that exclusively focus on her facial expression are particularly good. But as with other sections, the justification for including them is unclear. A couple of costume changes and an abundance of wigs used conventionally and otherwise provoke more questions than answers. Live art and performance art have the ability to cut through traditional performance conventions and make powerful social and political comments, but Power Ballad relies on existing live art devices too much. While they are ably executed, the reasoning behind their inclusion more often than not is vague or arbitrary. / Laura Kressly

more poignantly, a musician who, told he may no longer play his trombone, tries to use his hands as an instrument. However, many of the caricatures aren’t painted with any clarity, and the performances don’t, apart from a strong turn from the holidaymakers, transcend those typical for a school play. 1 Singular Sensation’s central thrust—which has something to do with moral indifference and hypocrisy—gets lost on a crowded stage and among slapstick moments that, for the most part, the cast finds funnier than the audience do. The singular sensation we’re left with is of an absurdist comedy gone wrong. / Polly Checkland Harding

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As a tribute to an ice skater who, in 1976, won European, Olympic and World titles, Looking for John works hard to reinstate the reputation of a man now largely forgotten, without managing to echo the skill of the athlete it’s dedicated to. Tony Timberlake’s solo performance traces his personal connection to John Curry, known as the "Nureyev of the ice" and outed as gay by the media within 48 hours of winning Olympic gold. Though clearly impassioned, and interspersed with gently comic

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moments—such as a comparison between personal achievements (Curry was being watched by Andy Warhol and Lauren Bacall at around the same time that Timberlake achieved three O Levels)—the show can feel clichéd as Timberlake describes the “invisible thread” that he feels connects him with Curry. Looking for John is at its most poignant when revealing details of Curry’s landmark achievements, contrasted with the memorial void that followed his death, aged just 44, of Aids. Visiting a statue of Curry in Sheffield, Timberlake found it

cordoned off by crude barriers, and was told it would be decorated with a Santa hat come Christmas. The show also captures Curry’s troubled psyche—”thinking is the worst thing a person can do”, he claimed in a letter—and the challenges of being openly gay during his career. Where Timberlake’s delivery lacks nuance, however, the end of this show is redemptive; just as Curry’s performances and persona were progressive, Timberlake finally affects real change by campaigning for a blue plaque to commemorate the champion skater. / Polly Checkland Harding

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A London filmmaker wants his next film to contain authentic people, so his young receptionist has referred him to her gangster uncle Alf and his mate Burt. They now sit in his office with an over-keen assistant director. The director’s in another meeting, so they have to wait. There’s bit of arguing that almost forms a plot, but Irvine Welsh’s otherwise lazy writing and stereotypical characters cause the story to flatline. Burt and Alf are checklist 1960s gangsters – homophobic, racist and violent. They focus on mon-

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ey while hippy Crispin the AD talks about art. The resulting dialogue could be from any vintage gangster film and completely lacks depth or originality. They are so two-dimensional that character comedy is the only way forward, but the occasional one-liner encapsulating their stereotypes is the closest thing to humour the production has. When Crispin informs them that the film requires nudity, things start to kick off. Alf is more receptive than Burt, which leads to a bit of bickering. Will they strip for the audition tape

or not? More creative subplots start to develop, then fizzle out. Homosexuality is hinted at, then discarded. Blackmail is forgotten. Much more offensive is child rape being sorted out with the money and discussed no further. These potential storylines could take the play in a number of more interesting directions, but Welsh’s insistance on focusing on whether or not Alf takes his clothes off is the crux of the play, and a painfully dull experience to endure.

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Backed by a soundtrack from Lunatic Soul that could score a James Bond film, this voyage of doom for mankind is loosely based on Moby Dick, and follows a violently pumped crew of whale hunters in pursuit of a majestic beast. The duets and ensemble pieces between the sailors are all yanks and capoeira kicks, struggles and brash leaps: though the choreography is sometimes repetitive, the execution is arresting from start to finish, with a particularly discomfiting male energy. This vigour and force is counterbalanced by Sarah Jane Taylor as the whale, tumbling across the stage as if she could move an ocean with her arms. When she bends forward in a cetacean ripple she seems to wring every ounce of energy from her muscles. Though on the schlocky side, this is the sort of piece you could bring your non-dance-fan friend to and convince them dance is as exciting as an action movie. At the opposite end of the spectrum, surreal, insouciant The North, from Barcelona-born choreographer Joan Clevillé, is bursting with whimsical, eccentric ideas, conjuring up a projection of what the North might be. Two sprites in gold trousers and winter sweaters lug in a body bag that births a lost man called John. His journey to a sort of comprehension or equilibrium with his new environment involves him learning to converse with a shape-shifter who moves from wolf to sheep to Daffy Duck, being covered in foam snow, and donning a pair of cuddly antlers. It’s a shame John’s storyline feels tacked on and undercooked, with the scripted lines nowhere near matching the passages of silent movement for intrigue and complexity. While there are some beautiful moments in the piece—a puppet cagoule dancing; one scene where John’s arm becomes a mountain road for a tiny precarious truck—as a whole The North feels like a striking collage that hasn’t quite cohered. Dancebase is playing host to two Taiwan Season pieces, both a rich mix of concept and movement fascinating in its own right. 038 takes its title from a

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Dancebase is the obvious first port of call for dance aficionados at the Fringe. But its programme caters for more than those with a taste for the abstract or avant-garde. A good example of this is James Wilton Dance’s Leviathan. A more swashbuckling and blockbuster piece of dance is hard to imagine.

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Taiwan Season: Together Alone

telephone code in Hualien, home to the indigenous Pangcah people. Director Kuo-Shin Chuang, an academic expert in Taiwanese aboriginal dance, has combined movement from the Amis people’s harvest festival dances with contemporary textures. The result is a curious, sometimes unsettling swerve between urban industrial patterns and spiritual discipline, drudgery and devotion. The cast of nine women all wear pale grey smocks—timeless, ageless—and move in drills, shuddering, shuffling, yearning with their arms outstretched to us, spiking their fingers up to the sky. Expressionless at first, their individualism emerges at the gradual pace of a tree bud opening, and by the end we see their hopes, fears, anxieties and longings written into their gestures. It’s a quiet poetry that is hauntingly executed. Showing later on is Together Alone – its timing a good example of the art of scheduling at the Fringe. There’s a night-time buzz, even though the theatre is artificially lit, and it’s likely this piece wouldn’t have the same feel were it performed in the middle of the morning or afternoon. The dreamspace seems necessary for what Zoltán Vakulya and Chen-Wei Lee have

created, a duet between their two naked bodies, which stay in contact throughout. It’s strange to acknowledge that the simple omission of even underwear on a body can change it from bold to vulnerable. But that is how the pair seem, quietly finding strength in the intensity of their connection. When the piece begins, we can only see glimpses of Lee hidden behind Vakulya, her arms echoing his, her shoulder sometimes distorting his shape. They sway, exchange positions, coil and burrow into each other. The nudity renders all dance clichés about trees or sea creatures or insects void; they look like humans, bonding and exploring their bonds. When they face each other belly to belly, a rocking motion travels with imperceptible pace up into their shoulders, then swings into their arms. In a slice of spotlight they seesaw tongues back and forth. The slowness of the early passages, though intoxicating, does however use up some of the patience required for the later part of the piece, which, extraordinary in its knotted shapes, still feels too drawn out. Yet as they glide to a finale, orbiting each other with linked hands, you feel as if you have travelled with them to another planet and back.

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Credit: Hsin-Che Lee

Credit: Chen-Chou Chang

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C venues – C south 5:35pm – 6:25pm, 3–28 Aug, not 15 £10.50 – £12.50

Beginning and ending with intrigue and strong choreographic ideas, this five-person aerial and groundbased dance piece from Switzerland sags towards uninspiring in the middle. Choreographic fight duets—a common feature in much contemporary acrobatic work— present unspecific aggression, fleshing out the space between more innovative concepts. The tantalising zorb-type sphere of

Last Clown on Earth HHH VENUE: TIME:

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus

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Pleasance Courtyard 5:40pm – 7:00pm, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21 £10 – £13

This 80-minute journey through the surreal psyche of a man facing extinction is a solo vehicle for Derevo’s artistic director Anton Adasinsky, an actor/mime/clown of the Russian tradition he digs from his own soul to excavate profound human truths. In this case, our childlike species’ propensity for violence and neverending search for answers. Adasinsky has the gift of watchability, although our pleasure in his absurdity drops in moments when it seems he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing.This is serious theatre clowning, carried off through a vigorous performance that turns all to the absurd with a steely gaze, a twinkling look, or eyes screwed shut

the publicity material is disappointingly under-used, but a human counterweighting section of aerial harness work is given loving attention, transforming the rigging process from workmanlike practicality into slowly spun art. Choreographer Vanessa Cook is serene graceful in the air and, amongst the whip-neck precision of more traditional dancer physiques, the heavier movements of Tobias Spori on the other end of her rope become especially watchable. Likewise, Spori draws the eye on the ground—and when forming a circuit between floor and aerial strap—with a natural roughness to his performance. Synchronised swings across the stage in twos or threes are careful-

/ Katharine Kavanagh

against age and the light. Beginning amongst us, an old man, tattered and tramplike, queues to watch the show. It’s an apocalypse movie, perhaps. A combination of live action footage and Pavel Semchenko’s animations—both digital and hand-drawn—interact with Adasinsky’s Last Clown much as we do: a little, not a lot. Breaking the fourth wall from behind, he is alone even in company. Motifs from the visual canon of Christianity mix with representations of popular entertainments. A dominant soundscape of clanging, crashing, calliopes and clapping audiences drives a succession of bizarre encounters between Adasinsky and the world around him. Special effects are created by a visible crew, mirroring rippled lights onto a backcloth, focusing beams, or shifting a podium of wafting flames, preventing any illusion from sustaining itself for long. There are plenty of visual treats and, under the extravaganza, more than a tinge of sadness too. / Katharine Kavanagh

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ly worked out, the dancers brushing the floor with palms or toes before planting again into the ground, and Alessandra Ruggeri is vibrantly snappy in a floor solo. The strongest ideas though are diluted by surfeit, and at times even individual movements lack follow-through. A theme of separation and attraction is clarified by a recorded speech, including words from essayist John Berger, which closes Moritz Alfons’s soundscape. His compositions lend a touch of humour to the piece with jungle snarls and water drips, as well as providing energy spikes that shift the dynamic onstage, provoking new sections of ideas that don’t quite connect with one another conceptually.

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Anya Anastasia: Rogue Romantic ««« VENUE: TIME:

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Assembly Checkpoint 7:30pm – 8:30pm, 2–27 Aug, not 14 £11 – £13

She is the lovechild of Kate Bush and Tim Minchin – the intelligence of his rhyme with the range of her vocals. But Anya Anastasia is looking for her own kind of perfect love, the one that eventually comes back to herself. Rogue Romantic is a two-way seduction with operatic levels of frantic energy.

A Touch of Mrs Robinson «« VENUE: TIME:

Cabaret & Variety

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Watching A Touch of Mrs Robinson is a phenomenally awkward experience. The show tells the ‘untold story’ of Mrs Robinson from The Graduate through songs, personal musings from cabaret artist and lead Fiona Coffey and reflections on 1960s feminism. Every time the word “touch” is said, the drummer dings a wind chime. Audience members are given two minutes to write a pick-up line; results included: “Take off your thong; I need to water the flowers”. Explanation, helpfully provided in brackets: “Because she’d be wet”. At the end of the performance, people must then confer with their neighbour on whether they too have a touch— *ding*—of Mrs Robinson, and collect a sticker if they do.

Anastasia’s vocals are of diva proportions, complete with effortless control throughout her entire, extensive range. She’s seductive and sultry in every song, but initially awkward speaking in between. Then, after the unexpected (and unwelcome) “apocalypso” interlude, she literally limbers up. Upside down in an audience member’s lap, she orders him to remove her undergarments. This is the one image that best captures the high-octane energy of the show. After this, the connection between Anastasia and her spectators galvanises the evening. Participants play the piano through her outspread legs. She sings personal, un-

When embodying Mrs Robinson herself, Coffey seems deeply uncomfortable. Wearing obligatory leopard print, her attempts to be seductive are hindered by tentative, self-conscious gestures. Some blame here must go to director Peta Lily who simply hasn’t given her enough to do. That said, Coffey pretending to smoke is among one of the more artless moments in the show. Though the lyrics are good, and the two musicians on stage give solid performances, Coffey’s singing voice is beset with nerves; watching a performer in real distress is acutely stressful. Compelling insights—such as the dehumanisation of Mrs Robinson in a new poster for the film, where she’s represented by a leopard— are buried, and Coffey’s imagined conclusion to Mrs Robinson’s life sees her as tamed, penitent: “I’m not as good as I’m gonna get, but I’m better than I used to be,” she sings. We can only hope that, following on from this opening performance, the same can be said of the show. / Polly Checkland Harding

comfortable love songs and watches as the individuals squirm and wither under her gaze. Everything is tinged with the beauty of a minor key and all its delicious sadness. Supported by an all-female alt band, Anastasia skips through a number of different musical genres. It’s a muddled choice of inspirations, but she shows off her musicality and impressively executes every note with precision and poise. In the end, it’s the openness of her lovers that spirals Anastasia into insanity – complete with individuality, ingenuity and intelligence. Rogue Romantic leaves its melodious mark and Anastasia has nothing more to say. / Daniel Perks

Brexit the Musical HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Boris Johnson is no stranger to political satire. In fact, many believe his initial appearance on topical panel show Have I Got News for You was instrumental in getting him elected Mayor of London back in 2008. If this opinion is to overstate that show’s reach, there’s certainly no denying the part it played in establishing the man’s media persona: that of a loveable, oafish bumbler. While Brexit the Musical is critical of recent Conservative politics, and comes off as an altogether less opportunistic addition to the Fringe programme than one might reasonably expect, its overall bite is undermined by a reliance on cuddly caricature. The Johnson serving as

Communism: The Musical! HH VENUE: TIME:

Musicals & Opera

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It would feel like such a terrible shame if the Fringe were to stop playing host to this sort of anarchic, studenty nonsense, even if no one of sound mind could possibly recommend Communism: The Musical over the countless shows against which it’s competing.

protagonist of this musical merely reflects a public image its subject has been careful to manage and maintain. As such, the entire production gives an impression of state-sanctioned satire. Strong and Stable Productions seem torn between conveying a message of righteous anger and delivering a silly feel-good musical. Ultimately, it shoots for the latter and is a resounding success with tonight’s audience. The cast impress with their versatility and slick

choreography, while the original songs featured are hook-laden and often very funny. Lacking difficulty and confrontational edge, however, this work is content to preach to the converted. It ultimately comes off as a glossy distraction from serious events, despite having the tools to meaningfully engage with them. A shame as the ample stage-time devoted to Andrea Leadsom is a good indicator of how thorough a work this is otherwise. / Lewis Porteous

While it’s generally understood that having an unlikely subject form the basis of an upbeat musical will attract both novelty seekers and those with a pre-existing interest in the chosen theme, this show ardently refuses to satisfy either group. The work indulges us with only a passing mention of communist ideology and we are left questioning whether this is the result of a perverse artistic choice or of all-round ineptitude. There’s a bit of conviction in an opening number which ironically extols the virtues of materialism, but following on from this is a meandering, fourth wall-breaking

story of an inept superhero named the Commufist. It’s diverting enough, but delivers too few laughs to justify its lack of focus. In breaking free of their self-imposed theme, the performers ultimately reveal their limitations. The song and dance routines featured are unmemorable though well executed, while there’s better fun to be had at varying cost all over the city. For all these misgivings, it should be stressed that this is throwaway rather than bad and that the entire cast are clearly talented performers, albeit in the embryonic stages of their careers.

/ Lewis Porteous

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Make You LOL Eve Green, aged eight, finds LOLs aplenty in the work of this rambunctious pair of Aussie comics What happens in the show? It’s a comedy show with two people who are very funny and rude. They make silly jokes and let people come on stage to do things. Describe the show in five words Funny, hilarious, rude, excellent, cheeky. Who was your favourite character and why? Matt because he was so funny.

What did you like most about the show? I liked the wee jokes and when people got to go up on stage. What did your grown-up think of the show? “I thought it was hilariously silly, and couldn’t stop giggling.” Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Definitely, I loved it. / Eve Green (aged 8)

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What didn’t you like about the show? Nothing, it was really good.

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The Three Musketeers Seòras Coxon, aged five, savoured the superlative silliness of this swashbuckling show What happens in the show? There are three musketeers who start as two musketeers. The third musketeer leaves home to join the others. The Queen of France is seeing the King of England who gives her a necklace. The cardinal tries to make a war so the people will give the church money. The three musketeers stop the war from happening. Describe the show in five words Family fun, funny, brilliant, wonderful.

Kids

Who was your favourite character and why? Dick Tagnan, because he was so silly and pulled super awesome silly faces.

Were there any characters you didn’t like? The cardinal because he tried to steal money and create a war.

What did you like most about the show? Play fighting (slapstick). What didn’t you like about the show? Nothing – it was all really great! What did your grown-up think of the show? He thought it was great too! Would you tell your friends to come and see the show? Yes. / Seòras Coxon (aged 5)

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One Man Shoe HHH VENUE:

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Somewhere, millennia from now, when humanity is no more than a footnote in the history of our soonto-be robot overlords, an android will be slipping on a banana skin to the cackle of digital laughter. The pratfalling clown is one of the eternal entertainers. There is something innately likeable about a grown adult blundering around a stage with the grace of a toddler,

which is why it’s one of the first comedy experiences kids are exposed to. This Fringe, veteran performer Jango Starr’s One Man Shoe is providing that introduction to clowning. Jango plays a Jaques Tati-style janitor, all oversized trench coat and amiable bumble, tasked with preparing the theatre for a performance by the magician, Fantastico. Spoiler alert: Fanastico doesn’t show, so Jango must do the show himself. At times, the show feels like a box-ticking exercise for slapstick and preschool magic. Bins are tripped over, rabbits are pulled from hats, spoons are bent. And yes, banana skins do feature. This is Clowning 101. The routines will

be familiar for parents of a certain vintage. The whiff of a Royal Variety Performance is never far away. But there is enough wonder and charm within to delight the freshest of eyes. And, like the best clowns, Jango switches like mercury between being an infantile clutz to a dexterous performer juggling whatever is at hand. This perfectly serviceable show is at least one notch above a good children’s party entertainer, but Jango’s enthusiasm for his repertoire means it may be 15 minutes too long for the littlest ones. Great for kids who have never seen a man produce an endless series of balls from his mouth, but maybe not one for parents to trip over themselves to see. / Edd McCracken

presence as the timid yet extremely enthusiastic scientist – most of the young audience appear rapt by her every expression and are kept giggling throughout. Oliver Weatherly, doubling as the hippo and Dr Zeiffal’s tardy assistant, is also enjoyable to watch, but he has far less to do, giving the play an unbalanced feel. Theatre for family audiences can afford to take its time – it’s important to give children of different ages the chance to get the joke, and younger ones particularly love repetition, but Mouths of Lions need to up the pace.

There are too many moments in this otherwise energetic piece that drag, a problem that would be easily solved by cutting the show’s running time by 10 to 15 minutes and condensing the action.The company might consider adjusting the recommended age range on the show too – the babies and toddlers watching the performance I saw were easily distracted, and it’s hard to imagine it doing much for children over the age of 10. If you like spirited, silly, interactive theatre – and bearded men in hippo costumes – Mouths of Lions are worthy company. / Jo Caird

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Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal and the Hippo That Can Never Be Caught HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Assembly Roxy 10:15am – 11:15am, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22 £7 – £8

Hippo scientist Dr Zeiffal is lacking one very important qualification: she’s never actually seen a hippo in the wild. Fortunately, she explains, there has recently been a sighting in Edinburgh – so now is almost certainly her moment. It’s just a matter of tracking the little blighter down. Mouths of Lions theatre company bring real energy and an easy charm to Dr Zeiffal’s hunt for the eponymous mammal, employing plenty of ‘he’s behind you’-style pantomime fun and lots of cheery dashing about. The company’s artistic director, Georgia Murphy, has lovely stage

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Struan Logan: Mingalabar Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

Geoff Hefferson Says Relax theSpace on North Bridge, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £free Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

11:20 Spirit of the Dane Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £8

11:30 Hivemind Presents: Playlight Robbery Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 5–27 Aug, £free

Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 Anders Lee Here Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 16, 17, 19, £free Karoshi Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7

11:40

Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People The Stand Comedy Club, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £10—£12.50

Stateless Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £free

David Callaghan: Let’s Get This Party Startled Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 17, £5

BBC: The Michael Ball Show BBC, 13 Aug, £free

Alice Devlin: Extra-Curricular Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

Generation Hummus Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–11 Aug, £free

Green Bananas Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

David O’Doherty: Big Time Assembly George Square Theatre, 24 Aug, 28 Aug, £16

Taking the Biscuit Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free

11:05

Nathan Willcock: State of the Nathan Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 7–27 Aug, £free

A Monk’s Tale: Relics, Revolt and Reformation Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5–23 Aug, £8—£9

Orwell that Ends Well Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 13, 14, £free—£5

Super Cally Fragile Lipstick Just the Tonic at The Caves, 22–25 Aug, £5

12:00 Too Old to Be a Power Ranger Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free

Franks and Skinner Present: MindfulMess Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–19 Aug, not 14, £4—£6

10:40

Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£7.50

Mary Flanigan Is a Pisces, Obviously Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, £free

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic Scottish National Gallery, 4–10 Aug, £free

BBC: The Janice Forsyth Show BBC, 7–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, £free

11:55

11:50 Two Dunnit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7—£8.50

Conor O’Toole and Ruth Hunter Are Fine With This Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free David Ephgrave: Now Who’s a Comedian? Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Afternoon Delight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

Generation Hummus Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 13–19 Aug, £free Scott Barnett: Quantumly Entangled With a Blobfish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Aaaaaaaaaaargh! It’s the One-Liner Show – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 22, £9 Funny Women Fest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£9 UCL Graters: Smashing Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Instant Sunshine Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 5 Aug to 12 Aug, £11—£12 A Giant Misfit Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–11 Aug, £free Joby Mageean and Edy Hurst: Dead Nice Boys Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 21–25 Aug, £free

12:05 Wretched Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7 Daisy Earl / Kirsty Mann Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 15–27 Aug, £6—£8 Joe Wells: I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative Sneaky Pete’s, 5–27 Aug, £free Eleanor Morton: Angry Young Woman The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £7—£8 Fern Brady: Suffer, Fools! The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 15, £9—£10

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Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, £free

The Hardest Working Men in Show Business Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–12 Aug, £free Be Prepared! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10

Amy Annette: What Women Want Underbelly Med Quad, 16–20 Aug, £6

The Edinburgh Revue’s 2017 Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free

12:20

Mutiny! An Improvised Pirate Adventure Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £5

Dan Attfield: Google Drive Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

12:10

Wake Up and Deirdrealize Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Tom Crosbie: You Can’t Polish a Nerd Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, £free

A Digital Legacy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £7

The Red Emerald: A Farce for the Colourblind theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £7—£10

12:30

12:15 The Silly Iles Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 19, 20, £free Frank Carson: If I Didn’t Laugh, I’d Cry Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Revill’s Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free The Breakup Monologues Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–12 Aug, £free Men With Coconuts La Belle Angèle, 5–27 Aug, £free The Family Friendly(ish) Stand-Up Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Andrew Ryan’s Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free The Rat Pack Presents... Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–27 Aug, £free Jacob Hawley: Fruit Machine Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free

Alistair Green: The Nan Tapes Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Lucy Pearman: Maid of Cabbage Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £5 Gráinne Maguire: What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 5–27 Aug, not 17, 24, £11—£12 Spirit of the Dane Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, £8 The Lunchtime Special Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£6

12:45 Mr Danger’s Really Safe Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, not 14 Aug, £free Lauren Bok: Is That a Burrito in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy You Have a Burrito Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £5—£10 Albrecht Dürer: Renaissance Dude C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50

Tom Toal in Better Than Before Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Idi-chums – A Stand-Up Comedy Showcase Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £free Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Grand Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13 Aug, £12.50

12:50 Peter Brush: A Worm’s Guide to Immortality Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, £free

13:00

Unfinished Business Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 4–24 Aug, not 14, £5—£7

Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£9

Gareth Mutch: Mutch Ado About Nothing The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 7 Aug, 21 Aug, £9

Normal Boy Presents: Normal Boy Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £5

Zinus Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 16–27 Aug, £free

13:05 Out of the Blue theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 8–10 Aug, £6 Cow Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

13:10 Andy Onions – PowerPointless Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Rik Carranza Presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5

How to Suffer Better Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Harriet Braine: Total Eclipse of the Art Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £free Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 7, 14, 21, £8—£9 Arielle Dundas: Vulva Cupcake Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Girl in da Corner – Free Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Ivan Brackenbury’s 10 Year Anniversary Party with Tom Binns, Ian D Montfort and Friends Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, £8—£12.50

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20 Aug, £12.50

Cold Hard Cache Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5

Candy Gigi Presents: Becky Rimmer’s Bat Mitzvah! Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 22, £5

13:20

Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

Daniel Cook: For Money Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Paul ‘Silky’ White’s Food Fight! The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£8

Sandra Hale: Self Helpless! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3—£6

A Comedy Tapas Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free

The Science of Cringe Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Off the Top: Neuroscience With Attitude Ciao Roma, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Adam Larter: L’Art Nouveau Heroes @ The Hive, 4–26 Aug, not 12, £5 Richard Todd: Monsters Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Good Girl Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£8 Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Tales Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £free Wow! Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£10

13:15

Aaaaaaaaaahhh. It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Puns of AnyKey Sneaky Pete’s, 5–26 Aug, not 21, £free On the Edge Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–15 Aug, £free

Being Hueman Being Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6—£9

Michael Legge: Jerk The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

The Durham Revue: Laugh Actually Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10.50 Muriel: Bad Master Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Lou Conran: I Love Lou C Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

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Siân Docksey’s Totally Casual and Freewheeling Mystic Comedy: Lemon Torpedo Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Listings

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, £6—£12

Coates and Cooper Present: Kidnap Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 13–27 Aug, £free

Mike Newall: Desert Boot-Leg Island Discs Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6

Janey Godley’s Podcast Live at the Fringe New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £10

13:25

Maddy Anholt – Herselves Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Sweet Grassmarket, 7–13 Aug, £5

13:55

Seymour Mace’s Magical Shitcakes from Heaven The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12

Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 15, 23, £5

Bad Habits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug, £3.50—£8 Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14–27 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £13—£14

The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7 The Game of His Life Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 21–27 Aug, £5 Super Cally Fragile Lipstick Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 5–20 Aug, not 14, £5 Wisebowm: The Struggle Is Real Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 20, £free

13:30 Guns ‘n’ Rosé With Peter E Davidson / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free The Oxford Imps: Improvised Comedy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Katharine Ferns is in Stitches Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Austentatious Underbelly, George Square, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £9—£14.50 Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Thoroughly Pleasant People Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free Robin Ince’s Rorschach Test Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–13 Aug, £8—£12

Comedy

Trolley Girls Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–27 Aug, £free

Kevin McAleer: Saying Yes to Yes New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10 Gareth Waugh: Honestly? Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£9

Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free The House Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7.50 Jon and Nath Like to Party Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–14 Aug, £free The Stuntman Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–27 Aug, £free Only Fools and Three Courses Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 7–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £42.50 2 Religions 1 Comedy Show – Free Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 14–16 Aug, £free

13:35 Woolly: The Morose Merino Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 25, £7—£10 Mark Watson: This Is Not A Show Yet The Stand Comedy Club, 15–27 Aug, £12 In Conversation With Standard Issue The Stand Comedy Club, 13–14 Aug, £12

13:40 It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl Black Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £free

Bristol Revunions: Walnut theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free—£5

The Patrick Monahan Game Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–19 Aug, £10 The Great Comedy Cooking Challenge Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £free

14:00

Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen – The Final Tribute Pleasance Courtyard, 18–20 Aug, £12.50

Panilla Ice Ice Baby Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

Sofie Hagen: Dead Baby Frog Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £10

This Arthur’s Seat Belongs to Lionel Richie On Top of Arthurs Seat, 19 Aug, £free

Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5

Douglas Walker Has a Nice Sit Down Follow @DouglasSits on Twitter, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

BBC: Round Britain Quiz BBC, 21 Aug, £free

13:45 Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Sue Perkins Live! in Spectacles Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug, £15.50 Clash of the Tight Tens Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free A Giant Misfit Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–20 Aug, £free Henry Cafe: It’s Gameshow Time! Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–26 Aug, not 16, £free Blank Canvas Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Story Poker Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–27 Aug, £free

13:50 Vicki Sargent: One Woman Army – Free Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, not 6, 14, 20, £free The Bugle Live Podcast New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £14 Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast New Town Theatre, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £12

Ahir Shah: Control Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Simon Day – In Character Pleasance Dome, 16–20 Aug, £13.50 Joe Hart: Alpha, Beta, Gamer Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £5—£10 The Duke Pleasance Courtyard, 5–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5 Aside Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, £free Aaaaaaaaargh! It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Margarita Dreams Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Afternoon T With Georgia Tasda Paradise Palms, 3–25 Aug, not 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, £free Yianni Agisilaou: Pockets of Equality Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Daniel Downie: 2 O’Clock Gun Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, £free Aideen McQueen – No Satisfaction Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–26 Aug, £5

14:05 Mick Neven: Killing It Southsider, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £free

14:10 I Can Cure Ciao Roma, 4–28 Aug, £free

14:20 The Harry and Chris Show 2 Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Andy Stedman – Parental Guidance Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Flo & Joan: The Kindness of Stranglers Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Adrian Minkowicz: Best Newcomer Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Kieran Boyd: Sitzpinkler Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Ships Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

John-Luke Roberts: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! (All in Caps) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5

14:15

14:25

A Nice Cup of Tea and a Chat With a Scottish Comedian and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–13 Aug, £free

Charmian Hughes Soixante Mirth The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £7—£8

Shehan Wanigasekera: Wa Niga Wit Attitude Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free

14:30

Always Be Rolling – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free Tom Bell’s Citizen Test Heroes @ The Hive, 13–27 Aug, not 15, 19, 23, 24, 26, £5 Bare Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £free Adrienne Truscott’s a One-Trick Pony (Or Andy Kaufmann is a Feminist Performance Artist and I’m a Comedian) Heroes @ The Hive, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £5

Mickey Sharma – Sharmanator Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £free Aaaaaaand Now It’s Time for Roger Swift’s Puneumatic Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free LGBTQZX Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 20–27 Aug, £free Juliet Meyers: This Flipping Rescue Dog Has Ruined My Life Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Georges the Spider Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

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04 - 28 August 2017 | Tickets available at edfringe.com

70 YEARS OF DEFYING THE NORM

James Bennison: How to be a Winner Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Salt Water: A Comedy Show Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy Waverley Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 15, 19, £free

I Want an Irish Passport! The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£9

Sparkly Unicorn Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–19 Aug, £free #Jollyboat: Pirates of the Karaoke Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Pottervision Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Jon Pearson: Feet First Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Frank Foucault: Shoes (WIP) Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–27 Aug, £free Worst Show on the Fringe – Free Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free

Sam Goodburn: Dumbstruck Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50 Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£10.50 Pippa Evans: Joy Provision! Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £7.50—£13

Metamorphosis Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free John Hegley: Peace, Love and Potatoes Assembly Checkpoint, 13–21 Aug, £11—£13

Dad’s Army Radio Hour Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£13.50

Ali Brice’s Never-Ending Pencil Heroes @ The Hive, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 22, £5

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11

Peter Dobbing: Electric Plum Sneaky Pete’s, 5–26 Aug, £free Phill Jupitus: Achtung!/ Acting! The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 The Birthday Game With Daniel Norcross Assembly Checkpoint, 7–9 Aug, £14

Comedy

Sam and Ben: Shnozzleballers! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Hurt and Anderson: Come What May Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5

WMD Makes Everything Better Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 4–19 Aug, £free

14:40

14:35 Ed Patrick: Comedians’ Surgery Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 8, 14, 15, 22, £7—£9

Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 1–31 Aug, £9

Mitch Benn: I’m Still Here The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £9—£10

David Edwards – How to Get a Second Date Pleasance Courtyard, 2–23 Aug, £6—£9

The Naz Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Pat Cahill: The Fisherman Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5

Old Men at the Gates of Dawn Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free

The Ashes: Comedy Showdown The Liquid Room, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £free

The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, £9—£15

Marcus Ryan – Love Me Tinder – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

14:55

Jez Watts: Sex, Lies & Videogames Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, Various dates from 3 Aug to 25 Aug, £free Funny Cluckers – Afternoon Show – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free The Amazing Guy Show! La Belle Angèle, 5–27 Aug, £free A Singh in the North! Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free Robyn’s Bad Decision Time Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

Jody Kamali: Hotel Yes Please Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6 Christopher Bliss: Writing Wrongs Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Des Kapital’s Never Mind the Cossacks Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £8

15:00 The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 16, £5—£10.50 AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Susie Steed: Money Walks – The Unofficial Story of Capitalism Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £3—£5

14:45

Trumpageddon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£12.50

Eshaan Akbar: Not for Prophet Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £5—£10

Home Truths Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5

Cheekykita: Somewhere in the Ether Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Rightly or Wrongly, for Better or Worse, the Fact Is This Is Tom Little Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free

Bumper Blyton Improvised Adventure Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Relationship Show (Unplugged) – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 12–20 Aug, £free

Sarah Callaghan: The Pigeon Dying Under the Bush Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–11 Aug, £free

Mark Simmons: One-Linerer Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free

Gareth Richards: Idiot Wind Whistlebinkies, 5–27 Aug, not 17, £free Studio 9 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Chris Martin: The One and Only Chris Martin Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 19, £free

14:50 Tom Goodliffe’s Coffee Run Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide The Liquid Room, 5–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £free

Notflix Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

Paul Revill: Revillations – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie? Outhouse, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £7

Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Immigrant Diaries – Sajeela Kershi and Guests The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–13 Aug, £10 Trevor Lock’s Community Circle Bannermans, 5–27 Aug, £free Classic Joke Club – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Trygve vs a Baby Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12.50 Thom Tuck: An August Institution Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5 Inspiration Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Andy Zaltzman: Satirist for Hire (World of 2017 Special Edition) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 15–27 Aug, £12 Tom & Ollie in Wasps Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £free Stephen Carlin: The Rise of the Autistic Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–26 Aug, not 15, £free

Bob Blackman’s Tray? Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15 Aug, £free I Am What I Eat Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 8 Aug, £10

15:05 Funny Bones and Wisdom Teeth theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £7

15:10 Eleanor Tiernan – People Pleaser Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Anna Morris: Bitchelors Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 16, £free Party Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 5–9 Aug, £6—£9 Rose Red: A Grimm Panto theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £6.50

15:15 Robert White: InstruMENTAL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 A Struggle: Work in Progress / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Alex Morris – Apologies Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–13 Aug, £free Inheritance C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£8.50 Rory O’Keeffe: Rorytelling Southsider, 5–26 Aug, £free There’s Always One Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 23, £free

Georgie Morrell: The Morrell High Ground Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10

Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£9.50

Tudur Owen: Normal Wear and Tear Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 10–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Thünderbards: 4nd Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12

Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, £12

Anders Lee Here Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14 Aug, £free

77 Sunil Patel: Titan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Simon Munnery: Renegade Plumber The Stand Comedy Club, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £10—£12 Dates C venues – C royale, 2–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

15:25 Rose Red: A Grimm Panto theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5—£6.50

15:30 Markus Birdman’s Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet and The Laughing Fridge The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

15:40

Stuart Goldsmith: Like I Mean It Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free

Kev’s Komedy Kitchen – The Second Cumin Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Tom Ward: Love Machine Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7

1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10

Bilal Zafar: Biscuit Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Tessa Coates: Primates Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, £6—£9 Chris Coltrane: Make Love and Smash Fascism Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, £free Show Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Great British Mysteries? Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 BBC: Round Britain Quiz BBC, 21 Aug, £free Nina Conti: In Therapy Pleasance Courtyard, 23–27 Aug, £13 lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show Venue150 at EICC, 27 Aug, £14

Martin Huburn: Tiptonite Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–27 Aug, £free The Oxford Revue: Witch Hunt Subway (previously Movement), 12–26 Aug, not 21, £free

Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

Hello Humans Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 1–27 Aug, £free

David Sheeran: I Am Donut Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 18, £free

The Sean Kelly Chat Show Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£12

Will Seaward Goes to El Dorado Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5

Avocado! Sweet Holyrood, 2–27 Aug, not 12, 13, 24, 25, £9.50

Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free

Simon Morley: Naked Ambition Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, £8 Unreal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5

15:45 Aaaaaaaargh! It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free LoveHard: Murdered by Murder Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free Erich McElroy Tops Trump Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free One Romanian Answering Questions Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Northern Power Blouse Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £free

The Oxford Revue: Free Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–19 Aug, £free Marny Godden is One Tooth Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Scott Gibson: Like Father Like Son Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Steve Gribbin: Shunted Again The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £9 Chris Betts vs The Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 12, 14, £5 Dharmander Singh from Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–19 Aug, £free Michael Legge & Caroline Mabey are Two Stupids Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 16–27 Aug, £free Bright Lights, Big City Impro Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 20–27 Aug, £free—£10

15:50 The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

Keir McAllister: Hey, You’re Only Cosmic Dust! The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

15:55 Tom Neenan: Attenborough Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, £6.50—£11 Rob Auton: The Hair Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Col Howarth: End to End Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £5

16:00 The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£13 Beak Speaks Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£10.50 Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Jason Neale: Talking and Pausing Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–10 Aug, £5 Teasing the Funny Bone: A Seminar (For Professionals, Amateurs and Anyone In-Between) Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, £free Jessica Fostekew: The Silence of the Nans Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6 Me and Robin Hood Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £5 We’re Sorry – Canada’s 150th Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

Burning Love to the Ground. (And, Lasagne) Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, £free What Bowie Did Next Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4.50—£7.50 Tony Cowards: Punderdog Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£7 Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Comedy Fam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Tim Vine: Sunset Milk Idiot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, £12—£18 All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, £free The Ayahuasca Diaries Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Clicking Comedians Stills: Centre for Photography, 4–28 Aug, not 14, £free Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £7—£14

16:05 Wombmates Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8—£9 The Oppression Olympics theSpace @ Venue45, 21–26 Aug, £7—£8 Funny for a Grrrl The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £9—£10 The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 20, £4—£7 Jonny Awsum: Honey, I Promised the Kid Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Broke as a Joke theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £9 Rachel Fairburn: Her Majesty Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 MakeyUppers’ Bedtime Stories Heroes @ Dragonfly, 11–15 Aug, £5

16:10

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4 Aug, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £free

Chapshtick New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£9

Daniel Nils Roberts: The Causeway Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10

George Egg: DIY Chef Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

16:15

Michael Brunström: Parsley Heroes @ Dragonfly, 16–27 Aug, £5

Olaf Falafel Presents: The Marmosets of My Mind Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

Sean Hughes’s Blank Book Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–24 Aug, not 18, 19, 20, £12.50

Matt Hutson & Rob Copland: Pack It in You Two Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free

Edd Hedges: Wonderland Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£9.50

Puppet Fiction Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Carmen Lynch: Lynched Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Jimmy McGhie’s Tribal Gathering Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Listings

15:35

Nick Hall: Spencer Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, £free

Suzanne Lea Shepherd: Scrappy Cuddler Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Awkward Confessions of a Homeless Sex God Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free

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Danny Ward – Extra Dates Added Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Abi Roberts: Fat Girl Dancing (Work in Progress) Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free Crossbones Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £8 Adam Vincent: How Not to Kill Yourself When Living in the Suburbs Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Tash Goldstone and Sam Lake: Queens 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Natalie Palamides: LAID Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21 Aug, £free

16:20 Alex Kealy: The Art of the Keal HHH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Laughing Stock Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £6.50—£11 Nomad-a What Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

The Rat Pack Presents... Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Kids With Beards: Fandango! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 15–26 Aug, £free Goose: Amphetawaltz Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, £8—£12.50 Tom Skelton: Blind Man’s Bluff Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Galpals: Because at the End of the Day, That’s What We’d Like to be Known as Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 16, £free Ingrid Oliver: Speech! Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9

Phill Jupitus Up the Stand The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12

Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

17:00

Rotating Bill Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free Richard Brown: Hold Tightly to the Walls Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free John Pendal: How to Escape from Stuff The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £7—£8 Twayna Mayne: Black Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Erin McGathy: MurderTown (One-Woman Murder Mystery) Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Russell Hicks: The Brain is in the Heart Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, £free

Hari Sriskantha: Clown Atlas Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

16:40

Stiff & Kitsch: By All Accounts Two Normal Girls* C venues – C royale, 13–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£11

Jem Brookes: Pull Yourself Together Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free

Next Best Thing: How to Be Good at Everything Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£9.50

The Oxford Revue Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 15, £7—£10

Outdoor Heated Swimming Pool Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free

Pete Johansson: Pete Jo-Handsome Comes Alive! Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5

Sagar Mega Drive Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

Dominic Holland Eclipsed – Free The Voodoo Rooms, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 9, £free

Giants: For an Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Comedy

Juliette Burton: Butterfly Effect Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50

Big Howard Little Howard: Man and Boy Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 10, 11, £free

16:30

Happily Never After Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–13 Aug, £6—£8

16:45 Board Game Smackdown – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free Luke Kempner: Take a Long Hard Luke at Yourself Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 23 Aug, £free

16:50 Frank Lavender: Fragile Masculinity Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, £free

Stephanie Laing: Mad About the Boy Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Marcus Ryan – ¿Hablas Inglés? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free The Long, Miserable Journey to Happiness Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Laughter is the Best Placebo Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5

Imaginary Radio Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £10

Charlotte Gittins: Mirror Image Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

I Am What I Eat Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14–16 Aug, £10

Comedy With a Colourblind Dyslexic Geordie Who Also Has Other Aliments Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free Andrew White: It Was Funnier in My Head Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–13 Aug, £free

The Establishment: Eton Mess Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 6, 14, £6—£10.50

Gary Tro: SupercalifragilisticexpiGARYTROcious Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Declan Amphlett: Verbal Remedies Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–27 Aug, £free

The Sheffield Revue Presents: Comedy in a Basement Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 12–18 Aug, £free

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear? Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free

Mojo and Lew Fitz: Let You In Kilderkin, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free

Steve Bugeja: Summer Camp Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£8

Inglourious Basstard Frankenstein Pub, 14–27 Aug, not 21, £free

Lucy Hopkins: Powerful Women Are About Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, £5 Joe Jacobs: Ripe Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £5 Jenny Collier: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Jen Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Rory O’Hanlon: Getting Serious Opium, 5–26 Aug, £free

16:55

Julio Torres: My Favourite Shapes Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Paul Sinha: Shout Out to My Ex The Stand Comedy Club, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £5—£12

Viv Groskop: Anchorwoman The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

Thrones! The Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 2–28 Aug, £10—£15

Andrew O’Neill’s Black Magick Fun Hour – Free Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, not 21, £free

John Kearns: Don’t Worry They’re Here Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, not 16, £7 Ben Target’s Orangeade Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Stranger in a Strange Land Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–11 Aug, £free Matt Winning: Filibuster Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5 A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, not 21, £free Murder, She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12.50 Self Sabotage Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 14–27 Aug, £free Balamory Doubtfire Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free

Alexander Fox: Ringo Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£9.50 We Stand Amused Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–16 Aug, £free Forks, Sharks and Leafy Greens Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 21–27 Aug, £free Unprecedented and Unpresidential: How Hillary Clinton Lost the Election – Free Festival Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 19–20 Aug, £free What’s in the Happy Shed? Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 14 Aug, £free

17:05 Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma... Comedian! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–12 Aug, £5 Jojo Sutherland and Susan Morrison: Fanny’s Ahoy! The Stand Comedy Club 2, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£9 Date Night With Bristol Improv theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5

17:10 Fish Finger Fridays: Fun Time Friends Black Market, 5–26 Aug, not 16, £free Prestonian Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 12, 16, 23, £free Artificial Intelligence Improvisation theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8 Ruby Wax: Frazzled Underbelly, George Square, 10–12 Aug, £20

Ian Smith: Snowflake Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£12 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, £free Alex Smith – Real Man Whistlebinkies, 5–26 Aug, £free A Sad Joke About Life Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 11, 17, £free Knightmare Live Underbelly, George Square, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, £15 Bec Hill: Out of Order

HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50

Micky Bartlett: Typical Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 Full International Brexit Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Stephen Bailey: Can’t Think Straight Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Hardeep Singh Kohli: Alternative, Fact Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£13 Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 4–13 Aug, not 7, 8, £12.50—£13.50 Komödie Distillery Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–16 Aug, £free Stand Up for Shelter Underbelly, George Square, 9 Aug, £12.50

17:20 Viggo Venn – The Life of Pepito Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Christian Reilly: LOLternative Rock Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free Alice Marshall: Blood Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 Aaaaaaargh! Macbeth… Without the Shakespeare Bollocks The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£10

17:25 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£6.50 David Huntsberger: Big Nothingness Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£5

Harriet Dyer – Dyergnosis Murder Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free

Ellie Taylor: This Guy Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, not 5, 16, £6—£12

17:30 Nick Coyle: Queen of Wolves Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10

Sleeping Trees at the Movies Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£13

Kae Kurd: Kurd Your Enthusiasm Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12

Celtic Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, £free

Lucy Porter: Choose Your Battles Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £7—£15 Anything Can Be a Podcast Returns Again for the Third Time! With John Hastings Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Tamar Broadbent: Get Ugly Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Harun Musho’d: Harun With a View Opium, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

A Voyage of the Easy Sisters C venues – C royale, 14–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Will Duggan: Perspicuator Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Paul Savage is Set to Self Destruct 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 5–27 Aug, not 15, £free

Will Mars: This Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free

Nick Helm: Masterworks in Progress ‘17 Pleasance Courtyard, 14–27 Aug, £10

Hannah Gadsby – Nanette Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£12

The Kagools: Tutti Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7

Audible Presents Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £free

Tiff Stevenson: Bombshell Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12

Chris Kent: Moving on Assembly George Square Studios, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50

Liam Withnail: The Immigration Game Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5

Australia: Still F*cked Black Market, 5–18 Aug, £free

Avril’s Character Assassination: Everyday Problems Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–27 Aug, £free

Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Paul McCaffrey: Suburban Legend Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, £free

Sweet Things Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

Dylan Gott: Cool Guy, Lots of Friends Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

Gusset Grippers Woodland Creatures, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £6

The Starship Osiris Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–26 Aug, £6.50—£11.50

The Older Brothers’ Almanac C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £9.50—£11.50

The Starship Osiris: Special Performance Underbelly, Cowgate, 27 Aug, £10.50

Tobias Persson: Sweden Sour New Town Theatre, 4–27 Aug, not 15, £10

Viva La Shambles The Stand Comedy Club, 14 Aug, £8

Nik Coppin: Globetrotter (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

BBC: Just a Minute BBC, 8 Aug, £free

17:40 I Hate Myself So People Will Like Me (and Other Strategies for Success) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 19, £9 Chris Washington: Dream Big (Within Reason) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Live at the Pleasance Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £free

17:45 Sally-Anne Hayward: Um... I Was Talking About You Not to You Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Christian Schulte-Loh: Rise of the 50 Foot German Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £free Tom Houghton: Class Half Empty Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Barry Loves You (Work in Progress) Sweet Grassmarket, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5 Greg Proops is the Smartest Man in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, £12 Kat Bond: Loo Roll Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

That’s You Now If You Wanna Take Your Wee Card Out! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–14 Aug, £free Dan & Jamie Work On Progress Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £free LadyFace Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11 The Ghosts of Moistly Hollow Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15–22 Aug, £free You’re Never Too Old... Are You? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 23–27 Aug, £free Another Political Comedy Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5 Ahir Shah: Control Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £free

17:50 Athena Kugblenu: KMT Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 The Red Emerald: A Farce for the Colourblind theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £10 Mick Neven: Killing It Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free

17:55

18:00 Alasdair Beckett-King: The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50 Abandoman’s Rob Broderick – The Musical in My Mind Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12.50 What’s in the Happy Shed? Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–20 Aug, £15 Evelyn Mok: Hymen Manoeuvre Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Joey Page: Pretty Boy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–28 Aug, £free Conor Drum: All My Friends Are Dead Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, £free Cat FM Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Audrey’s Absolute Fest of All Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry a Weegie? Outhouse, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £7 Scarlet Sohandsome: Recreational Drag Use Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Louise Reay: Hard Mode

Brennan Reece: Everlong Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£8

Kriss Foster: The Mug Tree Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free

Michael Brandon – Off-Ramps Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15

Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Listings

Morgan & West: Return of the Time-Travelling Magicians Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 23, £6.50—£12

Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 19, £12—£15

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17:15

Only Fools and Three Courses Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £47.50

Ongals: Babbling Comedy Assembly Roxy, 2–28 Aug, £10—£15

Iguana Mum Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

18:10

Gareth Morinan: Brexitocracy (Explained With Graphs) Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, £free Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£17 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, £12 Adam Hess: Cactus Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, £6 Michael Stranney: Welcome to Ballybeg Pleasance Courtyard, 2–25 Aug, £6—£10 Zsa Zsa and Me Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Rhys James: Wiseboy Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11.50 Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 24 Aug, £150 BBC: BBC New Comedy Award Final BBC, 13 Aug, £free The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7–8 Aug, £9.50

Comedy

Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden: Just the Two at Six Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–16 Aug, £14

Sam & Tom: Unrectifiable Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Cream Tea and Incest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–13 Aug, £7 Alcohol is Good for You Too Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

18:15 Darius Davies: Road to Wrestlemania Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £free Bronston Jones: God Bless ‘Merica (3) – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free

James & Jamesy: 2 for Tea Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Spencer Jones: The Audition Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, not 15, £7 Annie McGrath: Ambivert Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11

Jordan Brookes: Body of Work Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Alexander Bennett’s Terrifying Smile Opium, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free

Is Edward Aczel Infinite? Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £7

Gordon Southern: That’s a Fun Fact! Frankenstein Pub, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £free

Kev’s Komedy Klub Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Battered Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free

Al Murray: The Pub Landlord’s Saloon Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–27 Aug, £19.50

The Rise of a Comedy Dictator Waverley Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free

Michael Redmond: I Wrote a Joke in 1987 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Bob Slayer: Whatever Next? Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5

Tony Burgess – Crimbo Sneaky Pete’s, 5–26 Aug, not 13, 21, £free

John Robertson: Dominant HH The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9

18:30

Katy Brand: I Could’ve Been an Astronaut Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £7—£13.50

The RH Experience: Scribble! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–13 Aug, £5

Mark Steel: Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright Assembly Rooms, 12 Aug, £14

Scott ‘The Redman’ Redmond: Departures Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, £free

18:20

Big Cat Small Flap Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 14–27 Aug, £free

Beach Hunks: Hog Wild Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free

My Dad Wrote a Porno: Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 10–11 Aug, £12

Shellshock! Improv Live! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £6.50

Marjolein Robertson: Relations Black Market, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free

Sajeela Kershi: Fights Like a Girl! Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

As If I Hadn’t Slept Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, £free

Womb Raider theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–12 Aug, £7.50

The Edinburgh Revue: Jamboreavement Kilderkin, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Carey Marx: The Afterwife Liquid Room Annexe, 5–27 Aug, not 16, £free

John Shuttleworth: My Last Will and Tasty Mint Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–13 Aug, £14

18:05

Quiz in My Pants Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free

Golfing Comedian of the Year Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 12–13 Aug, £free Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Aaaaah! And We Have the ‘A’s Covered! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 9 Aug, £free Harri Soinila’s a Big Finnish Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 10–11 Aug, £free

Mike Bubbins: Retrosexual Male Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £6—£11 Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes The Stand Comedy Club, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£12

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22 Aug, £free

18:35 Michelle McManus’s Reality: The Musical The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 5, 14, £10—£12 Aditi Mittal: Global Village Idiot Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Escape for Dummies Greenside @ Royal Terrace, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £8

Leeds Tealights: Fix Us Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£9

Britney in: John Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 13, 20, £9—£10

Absolute Improv! theSpace on Niddry St, 4–26 Aug, not 6, £6—£10

Jimeoin: Ridiculous Venue150 at EICC, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 22, £8.50—£18.50

NewsRevue 2017 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10—£17.50

The Ashes: Comedy Showdown The Liquid Room, 15 Aug, £free

Tom Mayhew: Fragile Fragments Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

Chris Henry: Ignorance Is Chris Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Joanne McNally: Bite Me Assembly Roxy, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50

Gary Little: Club Classics Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–28 Aug, £free

Topical Storm 2017 The Stand Comedy Club 2, 15–27 Aug, £10 Glenn Moore: The Very Best of Belinda Carlisle Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Flour theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7 Robin Ince: Pragmatic Insanity The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–13 Aug, £10—£12 Scientology: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug, £10

18:25 Myrtle Throgmorton: Stuffed and Mounted Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 Andy Quirk’s Got First World Problems Black Market, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Domesticated Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7

18:40 I See You – Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Larry Dean: Fandan Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5

Gráinne Maguire: Gráinne with a Fada Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£9.50

Focus On: Lola and Jo Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5

Carol Cates: Lady Carol The Voodoo Rooms, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10

Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 2–26 Aug, £5—£11

Rosie Wilby: The Conscious Uncoupling Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Zach Zucker – Human Person Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10

JoJo Smith: I Was the Ninth Dexys Midnight Runner (Ten True Tales) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free John Scott Delusions Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 21, £free Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic Scottish National Gallery, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £free Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free

Abi Roberts: Anglichanka Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Johnny White Really-Really: Pigeons Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6 Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 16, £6.50—£11.50 Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit Assembly George Square Studios, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14 John Robins: The Darkness of Robins Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£14

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Sean McLoughlin: You Can’t Ignore Me Forever Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–26 Aug, £free Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 17, £7—£13 Al Porter in Campus Maximus Underbelly Med Quad, 12–27 Aug, £12—£14 Andrew Ryan: Did You Get Here Alright? Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £5—£11 Kwame Asante: Open Arms Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£10

00:50

IlluminArchie: Archie Knowledge Is Power Maddocks Paradise in The Vault, Laughing Horse @ 5–19 Aug, not 13,Aug, £7 not Espionage, 3–27 14, £free Siân and Zoë’s Sugar 01:10 Coma Fever Nightmare Our Christian Nation Just the Tonic at The Paradise in Augustines, Community Project, 3–27 6–13 Aug, £10 Aug, not 14, £2.50—£5 Kai Humphries: 01:15 Punch-Drunk Gilded Balloon Teviot,of2–28 The Last Emperor Aug, £6—£12.50 Mexico We Are NotHorse Afraid Laughing @ The Just the Tonic at The Counting House, 4–28 Caves, 3–26 Aug, Aug, not 9, 16, 23,not £free 14, £free

Becky Brunning: 01:30 Beaming Laughing Séance Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–26 Aug, not Sweet Grassmarket, 1714, 21, £free Aug, 24 Aug, £15 Ashley Storrie: Morning Glory 09:00 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House,Plays: 3–27 ❤ Breakfast Aug, Tech£free Will Tear Us Apart (?) HHHH Alexei Sayle Traverse Theatre, 16–28 Underbelly Med Quad, 2–11 Aug,£11—£15 not 22, £14.50 Aug, The Committee: 09:15 Comedy Improvised Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Metamorphoses Aug, not 21, £free Church Hill Theatre, 8 Aug, £5

18:50 The Dining Room

Catriona Knox: Adorable Church Hill Theatre, 7 Deplorable Aug, £5 Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Holy Day Aug, not 15, £6—£11 Church Hill Theatre, 10 Aaron Twitchen: Curtain Aug, £5 Twitchen The Ticket CChurch venuesHill – CTheatre, south, 3–28 5 Aug, Aug,not £5 15, £7.50—£9.50

09:20 The History of Tom Jones SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, £5

09:25 The Country Wife theSpace on the Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £8—£8.50

09:30

Sooz on Film Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10.50

18:55 (500) Days of Stammer Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free The Wedding Guest Voodoo Rooms, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Sean Kelly: Sold Your Way! Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£14

19:00 Nicola Cross – Tracey Tracey Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Shakespeare on Love SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Adam Rowe: Unbearable Just the Tonic at The Hamlet Mash House, 3–27 Aug, theSpace @ Venue45, not 14, £5 5 Aug, £5 Becky Lucas: LittleClub Bitch The Shakespeare Assembly Square theSpace George @ Venue45, 10 Theatre, Aug, £5 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £7—£12 Raymond Mearns is 10:00 Present and Incorrect Scottish Festival Into theComedy Shadows of @ The Beehive Inn, 3–28 Shakespeare – Free Aug, not 14,on£free theSpace the Mile, 12–14 Aug, £free Sarah Kendall: One-Seventeen Shakespeare for Assembly BreakfastGeorge Square Studios, C venues2–27 – C, Aug, 3–29 Aug, £7—£12.50 not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Jan Difficult Us /Ravens: Them HHH Woman Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 Aug, not 16, £6—£14 A Midsummer Night’s David Correos and Matt Dreaming HHH Stellingwerf: ChaosSt, theSpace on Niddry and 5–13Order Aug, not 7, £7 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Dave Johns: I, Fillum Aug, not 21, £15.50 Star Pleasance Dome, 10:05 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £9.50—£13.50 Eurohouse Summerhall, 16–26 Phil Wang: Kinabalu Aug, £10 Courtyard, 2–27 Pleasance Aug, not 14, £8—£12

10:10Mor: All the Best Martin Laughing Waves Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 3–28 Aug, £free Summerhall, Aug, not 8, Griffith 15, 22, £7.50—£9 Lloyd in:Undated Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Fish and Chips with Aug, Edith£6—£10.50 theSpace on the Milo McCabe: TheMile, 5–13 Aug,Mr notHawke 7, £6 Talented Laughing Horse @ The The Sister Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not Paradise in Augustines, 14, £free 6–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8

10:15 ❤ Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night

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Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £10

Dark of the Moon Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Wasted Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 15–20 Aug, £7—£8

Stuart Laws Stops Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£9.50 C’est La Vegan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free

Date Night With Bristol Improv theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £5

Mindy Raf: Keeping My Kidneys Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12

19:10

AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11

Mediocre as F*ck Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £8.50

John Lynn: Woke Up Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

Sara Pascoe: LadsLadsLads Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£13.50

Shellshock! Improv Live! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £6.50

Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Equality Street Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free What’s in the Happy Shed? Shakespeare’s Romeo Heroes @ Bob’s Blundaand Juliet Bus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5£5 Sara Schaefer: LittleThe War of the Worlds: White PanicBox Broadcast Pleasance Courtyard, Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 2–28 Aug, not 14, The Three Musketeers £6—£12.50 SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 Jess Robinson: Unravelled 10:20 George Square, Underbelly, The Chronicles of 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9—£14.50 Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Tinder Rehab Wardrobe Sweet Grassmarket, 7–20 Church Aug, £7 Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 Police Cops in Space Witch Pleasance Dome, 2–27 theSpace Venue45, Aug, not 14,@23, £8—£12 15–20 Aug, £8 BBC: Just a Minute Big Bite-Size BBC, 8 Aug, £free Breakfast Show IPleasance Am What IDome, Eat Arthur Conan 3–29 Aug, notDoyle 16, 23, Centre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 £8.50—£12.50 Aug, £10 Mine Michele theSpaceDurante @ Jury’s Inn, Arthur 17–20 Conan Aug, £7Doyle Centre, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £20 Around the World in BBC: Fresh from the 80 Days Fringe Church Hill Theatre, 14 BBC, 14 Aug, £5Aug, £free BBC: Now Show PlainThe as Paper BBC, 23 Aug, Greenside @ £free Nicolson Square, 5–20 Gala Aug, not Accessibility 7, 14, £8 Dome, 14 Pleasance Aug, £7

Make Tea, Not War 10:25 Quaker Meeting House, Mine 27–28 Aug, £7 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 16 Aug, £7

19:05 Dog Sees God:

Rahul Kohli: Aof Nota So Confessions Chubby, TeenageBrown Blockhead The Stand on Comedy theSpace NiddryClub St, 322–27 & 4, 2–27 Aug,Aug, £7 not 3, 14, £7—£8 The Country Wife theSpace on the Mile, 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50

10:30 Daffodils (A Play With Songs) HH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £20.50 Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £14.50—£20.50

Paul Foot: ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Piglet Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£12.50 David Kay The Stand Comedy Club, 14 Aug, £10

19:15 Sisters: White Noise Milk HH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Traverse Theatre, Various Aug, dates£6—£9.50 from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Ivor Dembina Show

Bob Blackman’s Tray? Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15 Aug, £free

19:20 Twonkey’s Christmas in the Jungle Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5 Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 Happy Yet? Limmy: That’s Your theSpace @ Surgeons Lot – The Book Tour Hall,Town 15–20Theatre, Aug, £718–20 New Aug, £15

Nick Doody: Interesting Times Liquid Room Annexe, 5–25 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Ayesha Hazarika: State of the Nation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14–20 Aug, £10—£12 Vladimir McTavish: Scotland the State of the Nation The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert

Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£18.50

Aaah Sure, It’s the Irish Comedian of the Year! Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free

Laughing Horse @–The Blood Brothers Play Counting Version House, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Train 8–10 Aug, £4 Laugh Home

10:55 Piff the Magic Dragon: The Road to Piffland Rumpelstiltskin New TowninTheatre, 22–27 Paradise The Vault, Aug, £16 15–20 Aug, £5.50

Comedy Showcase The Forest Laughing @ Bar 50, PleasanceHorse Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, £free 22–25 Aug, £10

Joe Lycett and Friends Prison Psychologist New TowninTheatre, 17 Paradise The Vault, Aug, £14 21–27 Aug, £5

Sarah Bennetto: All My Life’s Mistakes, Catalogued (Volume One) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £free

❤❤ Ed Gamble: Tank HHHH Mammoth Pleasance HHHH Dome, 7–20 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£10 Aug, £8—£12 The America Project

The TheBugle Plum Live TreePodcast New TowninTheatre, 16 Paradise The Vault, Aug, £14 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8

More Classic Stanley Frankenstein Pub, 4–27 Aug, £free

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It’s Better to Lie Than to Tell the Truth and End Up Alone in a Ditch Crying Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Bobby CentralMair: Hall, Loudly 8 Aug, £5 Insecure Exile Heroes @ The 14–19 Hive, 4–27 SpaceTriplex, Aug, Aug,not £6 14, £5 London VolitionHughes: Superstar Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 C venues – C royale, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 10:35 £12.50—£14.50

Terrible Nina Conti: In YourFalse Face ❤ The Deceptionat(AEICC, Four17–24 Act Pleasance Aug, Play£17.50 in 40 Minutes or 43 With Laughs!) Angela Barnes: Fortitude

HHHHCourtyard, 2–27 Pleasance Church Aug, notHill 14, Theatre, £6—£1018 Aug, £5 This Is Your Trial Nancy’s Philosopher Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Summerhall, 16–20 Aug, £6.50—£14 Aug, £12 ForniKATEress Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 10:40 Aug, not 15, £free ThePointing: Country Wife Jon Act Natural theSpace on the Mile, 2–27 Pleasance Courtyard, 22–27 £8—£8.50 Aug, notAug, 3, 14, £6—£11 King Pugh: John A Boy Named Josh theSpace on the Mile, Pugh 22–27 Aug,Courtyard, £7 Pleasance 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10

10:45 If By Chance New Town Theatre, 4–13 Aug, £10 Prospect High: Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

10:50 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

19:25 theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, Jonny & the£8 Baptists: The 2012-2017 SheBest KillsofMonsters Roundabout SummerhtheSpace @ @ Venue45, all, Various 5 Aug, £5 dates from 13 Aug to 19 Aug, £10—£14 Dreaming Under Adele Cliff: CliffBough Notes the Southern Laughing HHH Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, theSpace on Niddrynot St, 16, £free 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Slug Too Fast Laughing The theSpaceHorse on the@Mile, Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, 10–14 Aug, £10 £free

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Single Varietal Tommy Tiernan: Under Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 the Influence Wilde Without the Boy Gilded Balloon Teviot, Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, 4–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 24, £5—£10 £10—£17 Shakespeare Tonight I Can Make You Tory Paradise in Augustines, Laughing Horse @ The 22–27 Aug, £14 Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not In Fidelity 15, £free HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Carl Donnelly: The Nutter 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, on the Bus £18.50 Heroes @ Bob’s Lightless 3–27 Aug, not BlundaBus, Greenside 9, 16, £7 @ Infirmary Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Equations for a Moving Body HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11

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18:45

Samantha Pressdee: Back 2 Basics Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free The Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Kinsey Sicks: Things You Shouldn’t Say Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–13 Aug, not 9, £8—£13 A1: The Long Road to Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, £free Shazia Mirza: With Love from St Tropez Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I’m 50! Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, £10—£14

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10:15

Comedy Gala 2017: In Aid of❤ Waverley StoriesCare to Tell in Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 the Middle of the Night Aug, £25 HHHH Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, So You Think You’re not 15, 22, £10Final Funny? Grand Gilded Teviot, 24 Dark Balloon of the Moon Aug, £15Hill Theatre, 5 Church Aug, £5 Jenny Collier: Fantastic

Beasts Wastedand Where To Greenside Find Jen @ Infirmary Street, 15–20 Laughing HorseAug, @ The £7—£8 Free Sisters, 15 Aug, £free The Girl with the Seriously Funny Quaker Meeting House, 11 Hurricane Hands (and Aug, 18 Short Aug, 25Tales Aug, £5 Other of Woe) Paul Zerdin: All Mouth LaughingHall, Horse @ TheAug, Assembly 22–24 Free Sisters, 4–28 Aug, £16.50 £free So You Think You’re Brothers Grimm Funny? Sketch Spectaculathon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Church Hill Aug, £10 Theatre, 17 Aug, £5 Playing Politics – The Last Hurrah The Queen’s Hall, 25 Aug, £free

War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 The Three Musketeers SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 19:35 Helen Duff: When the 10:20 Going Gets Duff Assembly Roxy, 2–27 The Chronicles of Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and It’s the Gavin Webster: Wardrobe About Time We Had More Church in HillThere Theatre, 16 Women Aug,Stand £5 Comedy Club The 2,Witch 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, £8—£9 theSpace @ Venue45, 15–20 Aug, £8

19:40 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Abigoliah Schamaun: PleasanceBitches Dome, Namaste, 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, HHH £8.50—£12.50 Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, Minenot 15, £6.50—£10 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Alun Cochrane: Alunish 17–20 Aug, £7 Cochranish The Standthe Comedy Around WorldClub in 3 &80 4, 4–27 DaysAug, not 14, £12 Church Hill Theatre, 14 Jack Barry: High Treason Aug,the £5Tonic at The Just Mash 3–27 Aug, PlainHouse, as Paper not 14, £5 @ Nicolson Greenside Square, 5–20 Aug, not Glenn Wool: Viva Forever 7, 14, £8 Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50

10:25 Craig Hill: Someone’s Gonna Mine Get Kilt! Venue150 theSpaceat @EICC, Jury’s Inn, 3–27 Aug,£7not 14, 22, 16 Aug, £8.50—£18.50 Dog Sees God: Organ Freemanof a Confessions Just the Tonic at The Tron, Teenage Blockhead 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 St, theSpace on Niddry 22–27 Aug, Phil Ellis Has£7Been on Ice Just Tonic at The Thethe Country Wife Mash House, Aug, theSpace on3–27 the Mile, not 14, £5 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 Caroline Mabey: Quetzals Just the Tonic at The 10:30 Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £4—£5 Daffodils (A Play With Songs) Iain Stirling: U OK Hun? X HH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £8—£12 Aug, £20.50 Revolt. She Said. 19:45

Revolt Again. Traverse Theatre, 16 Matt Price: The Weed Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, Fairy £14.50—£20.50 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, £free ViewAug, from ❤ The3–27

dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50

Blood Brothers – Play Version Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Chris Forbes: Unquiet Mind The Forest Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Pleasance Courtyard, Aug, notAug, 15, £6—£10 22–25 £10 Pelham: Tank HHHH ❤ Jonny Just Shout Dome, Louder7–20 Pleasance

Aug, £6—£10 HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 The America Project Aug, £6—£11 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Urzila Exile Carlson – First Edition SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Assembly Aug, £6 George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 15, Volition £7—£11.50 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection 10:35 Horse @ EspioLaughing nage, 4–27Terrible Aug, £free False ❤ The Deception (A Fouris Act Andrew Silverwood a Play in 40 Minutes ‘Self-Absorbed Tw*t’ or 43 With Laughs!) Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, HHHH 3–27 Aug, Church Hill Theatre, 18 £free Aug, Desmarais: £5 Evan I Nancy’s Like Me Philosopher Summerhall, 16–20 Laughing Horse @ The Aug, £12House, 3–27 Counting Aug, £free Hung Up 10:40 Greenside @ Infirmary The Country Wife Street, 7–12 Aug, £5 theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50

19:50 King John

theSpace on the Mile, Spontaneous Sherlock 22–27Room Aug, £7 Liquid Annexe, 5–27 Aug, £free

Jo Caulfield: Older. Wiser. 10:45 Smarter. Meaner. If By Chance The Stand Comedy Club 5New & 6,Town 4–27Theatre, Aug, not4–13 14, Aug, 21, £10£10 Prospect Hilda & TheHigh: Spectrum Brooklyn Voodoo Rooms, 5–28 Aug, theSpace @£free Venue45, not 8, 15, 22, 8 Aug, £5 Vikki Stone – Concerto for Comedian and Orchestra 10:50 Pleasance Courtyard, 27 Avalon Aug, £16.50 Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

19:55 Sink

theSpace @ Surgeons Bristol Revunions: Glass Hall,the 14–19 Aug, £8 Just Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, Nothing £5—£7 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug,

Castle Cassidy: Rock by Alice Nathan The Man inMunro the Arena HHHH artSpace@StMarks, Laughing Horse @ The11 Aug,Sisters, 12 Aug,3–27 13 Aug, 15not Free Aug, Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 14, £free

not 7,Edmonds: 14, 21, 22, £7—£10 Anne No Offence, None Taken __ Happens Underbelly Med Quad, theSpace @ Venue45, 2–27 Aug, 9 Aug, £5not 14, £7—£12

Aaaaaaargh! It’s theThe ❤ Mark Thomas: Red Shed Monster Stand-Up Show HHHH 12 Aug, –Traverse Flamin’Theatre, Hot – Free 19 Aug, 24 Aug,@ 28 Aug, Laughing Horse £20.50 Murphys, 3–27 Dropkick Aug, £free

(Ensemble Version) 20:00

God Hates Me: I’m Trans Brewhemia, 4–28 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£11

CSI Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–20 Aug, £free

The Amish Project

theSpace @ Venue45, Mae Martin: 7 Aug, £5 Dope Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

10:55 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Joseph Morpurgo: Hammerhead Prison Psychologist Pleasance Courtyard, Paradise in The Vault, 2–28 Aug, 21–27 Aug,not £514, £7—£12 Accidents The PlumHappen Tree to Sasha Ellen Paradise in The Vault, Just Tonic 5–19the Aug, notat 13,The £8 Mash House, 3–27 Aug, Private not 14, £5Peaceful theSpace on Niddry St, Jon Long – Winded 14–19 Aug, £8 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret She Kills Monsters Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free theSpace @ Venue45, The Cat£5 Man Curse 5 Aug, Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Dreaming Under Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £8 the Southern Bough Patrick HHHMonahan: Rewind Selector 90sSt, theSpace on Niddry Gilded Balloon 5–13 Aug, not Teviot, 7, £7 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£14 Too Fast Tom Allen:on Absolutely theSpace the Mile, Pleasance 2–27 10–14 Aug,Courtyard, £10 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Sophie Willan: Branded 11:00 Courtyard, 2–27 Pleasance Aug, not Varietal 16, £6—£12 Single Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, Donald Alexander and£5 Stuart Wilde McPherson Without the Boy Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, Assembly Hall, 4–29not Aug, 14, £free £5—£10

Micky P Kerr is Lay-Z Shakespeare Tonight Just the Tonic at The Paradise in Augustines, Caves, Aug, not 22–273–26 Aug, £14 14, £5 In Fidelity HHH Tom Walker: Bee Boo Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Underbelly, George 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Square, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £18.50 £6.50—£11 Lightless Neal Portenza Greenside @ Infirmary Underbelly, Street, 8–13Cowgate, Aug, £8 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11 Meet Me At Dawn John Robertson: Traverse Theatre,The 5 Aug, Dark Room 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Underbelly, £21.50 Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, £6.50—£11 Equations for a Moving Mark BodyNelson: HHHIrreverence Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Northern Stage at SumAug, not 15, £6—£12.50 merhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11 Lily Lovett Lovett Lovett, I’m It Like That My Eyes Went Dark ❤Lovin’ Laughing Horse @ EspioHHHH nage, 3–27 Aug, £free Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, Nazeem £18.50 – Hussain In The Hussain Membrane Expensive Shit Assembly HHH George Square Studios, Aug, 5not 15, Traverse2–27 Theatre, Aug, £7.50—£12.50 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, £18.50 10 Films With My Dad, His TheGranddaughter, Taming of the My Wife and Her Shrew Mother-In-Law C venues – C south, 14– Sweet Grassmarket, 4–11 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Aug, £10 Planet Caramel: Hot, Sexy, Kind and Desperate Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 16, £free

Steen Raskopoulos – The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50

Fred MacAulay: IndyFred2 The Stand Comedy Club, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 18, 19, £10—£15

Charlie Baker: The Hit Polisher Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£11

The Agony and the Ivories theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8

Popular Comedian Rob Mulholland Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Big Fat Gay CC Blooms, 5–27 Aug, £free The Papa CJ Happiness Project Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 21–27 Aug, £free What’s in the Happy Shed? Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 5–26 Aug, not 9, £5 Comic Relief Live Assembly Hall, 21 Aug, £16.50 BBC: Global Beats BBC, 16 Aug, £free I Am What I Eat Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, £10 BBC: BBC Asian Network Comedy BBC, 11 Aug, £free Liam Withnail: True Defective Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15 Aug, £10 The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug, £12 BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour BBC, 17 Aug, £free

20:05 Alistair Williams: Food Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 An Imp-Revised History of the World Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free Ava Rage Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Alternative 2 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £5

Martin Mor: Adventure Comedian The Stand Comedy Club, 18 Aug, £12

20:10 Whose Line is It Anyway? – Live at the Fringe Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£17.50 Butt Kapinski Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£10 Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7 Graham Dickson is The Narcissist HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 Jenny Bede: Eggtime Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£13.50 Martini Dry Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £8 Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Ian Talk Three Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £10—£12.50 Laura Davis – Cake in the Rain Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

20:15 Nai Bowen is Brave! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Who, Me Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Appropriate Adult Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

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Sean Patton: Number One Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Ivo Graham: Educated Guess Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 The St Andrews Revue presents: The Big Time Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 David McIver: Stop It, David, We Are Having Too Much Fun Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Mark Forward Wins All the Awards Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11.50 For Godley’s Sake! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Elliot Steel: Near Life Experience Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Jan Ravens: Difficult Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £12

20:20 The Matriarchy Experience Ciao Roma, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Dirty Laundry Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–13 Aug, £4

Marcel Lucont’s Whine List Pleasance Dome, 15–27 Aug, £10—£14 Rachel Parris: Keynote Pleasance Dome, 3–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£11.50 Damien Power – Utopia: Now in 3D! Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Nick Cody: On Fire Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£14.50 Hivemind Presents: An Offer You Can’t Refuse Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 15–27 Aug, £7 Simon Evans: Genius Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£14 Maria Shehata: Wisdomless Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Max & Ivan: The Reunion Pleasance Dome, 2–13 Aug, not 9, £6—£12.50

20:25 Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5—£11 Trump’d! C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £11.50—£13.50

20:30 Tez Ilyas: Teztify Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12

Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again! Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £8—£14

Lewis Schaffer: Unopened Letters from My Mother Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Adam Kay – Fingering A Minor on the Piano Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–28 Aug, not 16, 23, £13—£14

Paul Currie: Cats in My Mouth Heroes @ The Hive, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5

Tom Ballard: Problematic Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6—£13 Luca Cupani: It’s Me! Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 Aug, not 17, £5 Bald Man Sings Rihanna Globe Bar, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Improv Cage Match Black Market, 15–26 Aug, £free Playing Politics – A Fringe Taster Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 18 Aug, £12.50 Phil Jerrod: Submerged Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Jay Lafferty: Besom Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Ed Night: Anthem for Doomed Youth Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9.50 Annie Sertich: How to Not Kill Yourself for 30 Days... and the Next 330

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Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£12.50

The Midnight Beast: All Killer Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£12 Garrett Millerick: The Devil’s Advocate Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 Andy Daly: Monsters Take Your Questions Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–13 Aug, £7—£13.50 Andrew Roper’s Superhero Secret Origins: The Movies Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 4–27 Aug, £free Georgie Morrell: A Poke in the Eye Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £free Barnardo’s Big Comedy Benefit Venue150 at EICC, 10 Aug, £20 Sally-Anne Hayward: Um... I Was Talking About You Not to You Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £free

20:35 The Thinking Drinkers: History of Alcohol Underbelly Med Quad, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£14

Eric, Kat and Joe: Gig Together, Die Alone Black Market, 5–26 Aug, £free

Can’t Dance, Won’t Dance Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free

20:40

Nasty Women on the Fringe – Sajeela Kershi and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Frank and Cynthia C venues – C royale, 2–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Fresh Prince of Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Banged Up! C venues – C royale, 20–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

20:45 Ben Van der Velde – Sidekick Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free The Rule of Threes Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free LJ DA FUNK in... Last Brexit to ‘ooklyn Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 4–28 Aug, £free An Aussie Abroad Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, £free Mat Ewins Presents Adventureman 7: The Return of Adventureman Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, £5

Bernie Keith: Life Without Sat Nav HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£12 Clusterf**k Subway (previously Movement), 5–27 Aug, £free Squeeze Harder, Zanni! C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 George McGoldrick: The Good Herb Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–27 Aug, £free David Quirk: Cowboy Mouth Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not 9, £5 Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Irish Comedy @ Finnegan’s Wake Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 3–27 Aug, £free Foil, Arms and Hog: Oink Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, £7—£15 Dope Friction – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, £free Auntie Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 8–20 Aug, £free

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James Nokise: Britain, Let’s Talk About the Golliwogs The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£8

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Tales from a Tampon Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 21–27 Aug, £free

20:50 Iain Connell: Some Buzz (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club 2, 15–27 Aug, £9 Keith Farnan: Work and Words in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 2, 3–13 Aug, £8—£9

21:00 Femmetamorphosis Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50

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kespeare Club @ Venue45, 10

Shadows of eare – Free on the Mile, g, £free

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James Acaster: The Trelogy Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£14 Shakespeare’s Romeo Phil andNichol: Juliet Your Wrong Heroes Monkey Barrel, Central@Hall, 4 Aug, £5 3–27 Aug, £7 War of the Worlds: The Nath Valvo – Not In Panic Broadcast This House Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 Assembly George Square The Three Studios, 2–27Musketeers Aug, not 15, SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 £7.50—£12 Rik Carranza: I’m a Fan 10:20 Horse @ The Laughing Counting House, 3–27 The Chronicles of Aug, not 16, £free Narnia: The Lion, the Witch andMore the Jimeoin: Even Wardrobe Ridiculous! Church Hill 16 Venue150 atTheatre, EICC, Various Aug, £5 dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £15.50 Witch theSpace @Pick Venue45, Scotland’s of the 15–20 Aug, £8 Fringe Scottish Comedy Big Bite-Size Festival @Breakfast The Beehive Inn, 4–27 Show Aug, not 7, 8,Dome, 14, 15, 21, 22, Pleasance £5—£10 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, £8.50—£12.50 Laughing Horse Free Pick Mineof the Fringe Laughing @ The theSpaceHorse @ Jury’s Inn, Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, 17–20 Aug, £7 £free Around the World in 80 Days Church Hill Theatre, 14 Aug, £5

Plain as Paper Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 5–20 Aug, not 7, 14, £8

10:25

hall, 3–28 Aug, 22, £7.50—£9

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Mine theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 16 Aug, £7 Dog Sees God:

Andrew Maxwell: Showtime HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15 Tom Stade: I Swear Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 24, £8—£16 Jason Byrne: The Man with Three Brains Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£19.50 Harriet Kemsley: Bad at Doing Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Loyiso Gola: Unlearning Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–27 Aug, not 14, Milk HH £10—£14 Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug Comedy World Warto526 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4–27 Aug,–£free Blood Brothers Play

Version Neil Delamere: Butch Greenside @the Infirmary Cassidy and Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Sundance Pensioner

The Forest Gilded Balloon at the Pleasance Courtyard, Museum, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 22–25 Aug, £10 £8—£13.50 Tank HHHH World Tour ❤ Denim: Pleasance Dome, 7–20 HHHH

Aug, £6—£10 Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, 14, £6.50—£11 Thenot America Project Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Dane Baptiste: G.O.D. (Gold. Exile Oil. Drugs.) Pleasance Courtyard, SpaceTriplex, 14–19 2–27 Aug, Aug,not £616, £7—£14

Sharma VolitionSharma Sharma Sharma Sharma... Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Comedian! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 10:35 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Terrible False ❤ The Lolbot Wars Deception (A Four Laughing Horse @ Act Play in 40 Minutes Dropkick Murphys, 3–27 or 43 With Laughs!) Aug, £free

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Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

Nancy’s Philosopher Summerhall, 16–20 Aug, £12

10:40 The Country Wife theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 King John theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £7

Daniel Sloss: NOW Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 11 Aug to 26 Aug, £17.50—£18.50 Carl Hutchinson Live! The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £10 Danny McLoughlin: 01/02 Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Gone Clear Nightcap, 15–27 Aug, £free Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free—£5 James Loveridge: Suspiciously Happy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 #AA Abnormal Asian Happy Yet? Laughing Horse @ EspiotheSpace @ Surgeons nage, 3–27 Aug, £free Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 Emotional Terrorism Just the Tonic at The 10:55 Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5—£10 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, Daniel Sloss: NOW 15–20 Aug, Venue150 at £5.50 EICC, 3–27 Aug, not Psychologist 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, Prison 22, 25, 26,in£8.50—£18.50 Paradise The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £5 Others More Equal Than Laughing Horse The Plum Tree@ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, Paradise in The Vault, £free 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8

Harmon Infiltrates Private Leon Peaceful Trump America theSpace on Niddry St, Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 14–19 Aug, £8 Aug, She£free Kills Monsters

Gillian Cosgriff: To the theSpace @ Venue45, 5 Aug,and £5 Back Moon Gilded Balloon Teviot, Dreaming Under 2–27 Aug, 15, £6—£11 the not Southern Bough

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theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7

Too Fast theSpace on the Mile, 10–14 Aug, £10

11:00 Single Varietal Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 Wilde Without the Boy Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, £5—£10 Shakespeare Tonight Paradise in Augustines, 22–27 Aug, £14 In Fidelity HHH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug,

21:05 Will Shakespeare’s ImproMusical SpaceTriplex, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, £14 Blind Mirth theSpace on the Mile, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7 Improvabunga! theSpace on Niddry St, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6.50—£7 Wildly Unprepared theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £4 North-South Divide theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8

21:10 Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £12

The MMORPG Show – No Rolls Bard Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Shit I’m in Love With You Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8

Kate Butch in Kate If You Wanna Go Butcher Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 15, 23, £free

21:20

Dan Antopolski: Return of the Dan Antopolski Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12 Best of Chortle Student Comedy Award Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Semi-Pro 4 Life Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–19 Aug, £free Rhys Nicholson: I’m Fine Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Aug, £7.50—£12

The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £12

The Really Great Compilation Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20–27 Aug, £free

Standard Issue Stands Up The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 14–15 Aug, £12

James Adomian: Lacking in Character Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £6—£12.50

Bob Doolally’s Load of Old Balls The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–22 Aug, £12

Two Plus Ones: Huge Night In Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £2—£6

Bona Fide The Stand Comedy Club, 14 Aug, £10

21:15 John Hastings: Audacity Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10.50

Alex Williamson: Make the World a Banter Place Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£12.50 Alastair Clark: Herding Cats Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 15, £free Shit I’m in Love With You Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, £5—£8

Demi Lardner: Look What You Made Me Do Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Damien Slash: Demographic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Lee Nelson: Serious Joker Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, £14—£17.50 Eleanor Colville: Bigamous Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£7 Phil Kay: Euphoric Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 10–27 Aug, £7 Frankie Boyle: Prometheus Volume I Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 5 Aug to 24 Aug, £17.50 Gary Delaney: There’s Something About Gary Pleasance Courtyard, 18–26 Aug, £12—£14 Dirty White Boys: Stupid Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Francesco De Carlo: Comfort Zone Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11

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3 - 27 AUG

ASSEMBLY ROOMS GEORGE STREET

14:30

3 - 27 AUG

16:30

ASSEMBLY ROOMS GEORGE STREET

GEORGE SQUARE

3 - 28 AUG (not 14, 21) THEATRE

Tim Renkow Has Accepted Satan as Lord and Savior Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–8 Aug, £5

Princes of Main: New Year’s Eve HHH Bedlam Theatre, 2–27 Aug, £9—£10

21:25

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Sam Garlepp: Well, There You Go Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £2—£10 Alpha Child Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5

ge Is Power n The Vault, not 13, £7

stian Nation n Augustines, £10

Emperor of

Horse @ The House, 4–28 9, 16, 23, £free

assmarket, 17 ug, £15

kfast Plays: Tear Us Apart

Lee Kyle: Somewhat Adorable Man Baby The Stand Comedy Club 3 on14, Love &Shakespeare 4, 4–27 Aug, not £8 SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Boris & Sergey’s One Hamlet Man Extravaganza theSpace @ Venue45, HHH 5 Aug, £5 Assembly George Square The Shakespeare Club Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, theSpace @ Venue45, 10 £7—£12.50 Aug, £5

21:30 10:00

Baby Wants Candy: The Into the Shadows of Completely Improvised Shakespeare – Free Full Band Musical theSpace on the Mile, Assembly George Square 12–14 Aug, £free Studios, 2–27 Aug, £10—£15 Shakespeare for Breakfast Red Bastard: Lie With Me C venues –Courtyard, C, 3–29 Aug, Pleasance 2–27 not 15, Aug, not£7.50—£9.50 14, £6—£11 Us / Them Jayde Adams is Jayded HHH Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, not 8,Aug, 15, 22, £8—£10 2–28 £6—£12 A Midsummer Night’s Aaaaaaargh! How Can IDreaming Drive to a Gig With a HHH theSpace on Bonnet? Niddry St, Jakey on My 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 3–27 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Aug, not 14, £3—£5 Traverse Theatre, 15–27

Theatre, 16–28 22, £14.50

Aug, Glanc: not 21, £15.50 Josh Manfül Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£11

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Left Wing Conspiracy Eurohouse Theorist (With Dyspraxia) Summerhall, 16–26 Laughing Horse @ The Aug, £10 Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

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10:05

10:10 99 Club Stand-Up Selection Waves – Free Laughing Horse @ The Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Free Sisters, Aug, not 8, 15, 22,3–27 £7.50—£9 £free Fish and Chips with

Jerry EdithSadowitz: Comedian, Magician, theSpace on the Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £6 Psychopath! Assembly Rooms, 14–20 The Sister Aug, £16.50 Paradise in Augustines, 6–28&Aug, not 14, 21, £8 Zach Viggo Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£11

10:15

❤ Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night HHHH

Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £10

Phoebe Walsh: I’ll Have What She’s Having Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Andrew Lawrence: The Happy Accident Tour Assembly Rooms, 3–13 Aug, £6—£13 Best of... So You Think You’re Funny? Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 18–27 Aug, £10 Darren Harriott: Defiant Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Shakespeare’s Romeo Aug, not 16, £6—£10 and Juliet The Comedy Reserve Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5 Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Warnot of the Worlds: The Aug, 14, 21, £6—£9.50 Panic Broadcast Elf Lyons: Swan Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 Underbelly Med Quad, The Three Musketeers 2–28 Aug, not 15, SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 £6.50—£10 Matt Richardson: Slash Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 10:20 Aug, £8—£12 The Chronicles of Tom Allen: Absolutely Narnia: The Lion, Pleasance the WitchCourtyard, and the 11–12 Aug, £11 Wardrobe Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5 21:35 WitchSteel: Every Little Mark theSpace @ Venue45, Thing’s Gonna Be Alright 15–20 Aug, £8 Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, Big14, Bite-Size not £10—£14 Breakfast ShowWhy Sarah Keyworth: Pleasance Dome, Not? (WIP) 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, Ciao Roma, 5–27 Aug, not £8.50—£12.50 13, £free

Mine theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21:40 17–20 Aug, £7 American Immigrant: Around the World in Zoltan Kaszas 80 Days Just the Tonic at The 14 Mash Church Hill Theatre, House, Aug, £53–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£8 Plain as Paper Big Value Comedy Greenside @ Nicolson Show – Late Square, 5–20 Aug, not Just 7, 14,the £8Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10

10:25 Goodbear

Mine Pleasance Dome, 2–27 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Aug, £6—£11 16 Aug, £7

Yuriko Kotani: Green Sees Blue God: in inDog English, Confessions of a Japanese Teenage Blockhead Heroes @ Dragonfly, 3–27 theSpace Aug, not 14,on £5Niddry St, 22–27 Aug, £7 50% Canadian, 100% The Country Wife Crazy, Let’s Laugh theSpace on the Mile, Just the Tonic at The 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

10:30 Daffodils (A Play With Songs) HH Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Aug, £20.50

ntry Wife on the Aug, not 7, 0

Dark of the Moon Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5 Wasted Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 15–20 Aug, £7—£8

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £14.50—£20.50

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The Girl with the Hurricane Hands (and Other Short Tales of Woe) Laughing Horse @ The

❤ The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro HHHH artSpace@StMarks, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15

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Tape Face Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£17 Adele Is Younger Than Us Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10.50 Barry Crimmins: Atlas’s Knees The Stand Comedy Club, 15–27 Aug, £12 Sam Simmons A-K Assembly George Square Studios, 11–27 Aug, £14—£16 Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit Assembly George Square Studios, 12 Aug, £14 Simon Evans: Genius Milk HH Assembly George Square Traverse18Theatre, Various Studios, Aug, £14 dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50

21:45 Blood Brothers – Play Version Ranney is Glossolalia: Greensidein@Tongues Infirmary Speaking £4 CStreet, venues8–10 – C Aug, royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, The Forest £8.50—£10.50 Pleasance Courtyard, 22–25 Aug, £10 Tank Matafeo: ❤❤ Rose HHHH Sassy Best Friend Pleasance Dome, 7–20 HHHHH Aug, £6—£10 Pleasance Courtyard, The America Project 2–27 Aug, not 15, Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 £6—£9 Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19 The Carl Donnelly and Aug, £6 Chris Martin Podcast Volition Live! Central@Hall, Aug,6–24 £5 Heroes The8Hive, Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £5

The Inane Chicanery of a 10:35 Certain GC Riches Terrible False ❤ TheAdam Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Deception (A Four Act Aug, £7—£14 Play in 40 Minutes Chris What a or 43Turner: With Laughs!) Time to Be Alive HHHH Pleasance Church HillCourtyard, Theatre, 182–27 Aug, Aug,£6—£10 £5 Hell to Play: The End Nancy’s Philosopher Times Summerhall, 16–20 New Aug,Town £12 Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 15, £9—£10 Chris Betts: 10:40 Bewilderbeest The Country Wife Pleasance Courtyard, theSpace on the 2–28 Aug, not 14, Mile, £6—£12 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 Suzi Ruffell: Keeping King John It Classy theSpace on the Mile, Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 22–27 Aug, £7 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 The Andy Field 10:45 Experience Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 If By Chance Aug, not 16, £6—£10 New Town Theatre, 4–13 Pierre Novellie Aug, £10 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Prospect High: Aug, £6—£10 Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

10:50 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

Zahra Barri: Talk Like an Egyptian Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–28 Aug, £free

The First Gag is the Cheapest Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–27 Aug, £free

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: The Boyd With the Thorn in His Side Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9

James Bone: Townies Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Amy Howerska Goddess... *Unless Tired or Hungry. Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free So You Think You’re Funny? Heats Gilded HappyBalloon Yet? Teviot, 2–10 Aug, £10 @ Surgeons theSpace Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7

21:50 10:55 Party – Comedy Abigail’s Cabaret Rumpelstiltskin Underbelly Paradise inMed TheQuad, Vault, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 £6.50—£10 Prison Psychologist

Belonging Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £7 Comedians Film Club Assembly Rooms, 4–26 Aug, not 14, £12.50 Rob Oldham: Brink Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £free Doug Anthony All Stars: Near Death Experience Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £10—£15

Reformed Grand Paradise inWhores: The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £5 Ole C*ntry Sweet Grassmarket, The Plum Tree 3–27 Aug, £7 in The Vault, Paradise

Cosmic Comedy Berlin / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 3–19 Aug, £free

5–19 Aug, not 13, £8

Mark Dean Quinn: My Heart on a Plate Heroes @ The Hive, 3–27 Aug, not 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, £5

21:55 Private Peaceful

theSpace Niddry Alex White:onWhat in St, 14–19 Aug, £8 Tarnation?! Laughing @ The She KillsHorse Monsters Free Sisters, Aug, theSpace @16–27 Venue45, £free 5 Aug, £5 It’s My Funeral and Dreaming Under I’ll Throw Glitter IfBough I Want to the Southern Laughing HHHHorse @ The Free Sisters, Aug, theSpace on3–15 Niddry St, £free 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7

Too Fast

theSpace on the Mile, 22:00

10–14 Aug, £10 A Drinking Game! Laughing Horse @ The 11:00 Golf Tavern, 3–20 Aug, not 13, £free Single Varietal Desiree Burch: Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 Unf*ckable Wilde Without the Boy Heroes @ Bob’s Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, BlundaBus, 3–27 Aug, not £5—£10 15, 22, £5 Shakespeare Tonight Head Sets Paradise in Augustines, Laughing Horse @ 22–27 Aug, £14 Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not In £free Fidelity HHH 15, Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, We Are Still All C*nts 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Laughing Horse @ South£18.50 side Social, 3–27 Aug, not 8,Lightless 15, 22, £free Greenside @ Infirmary The Idiot’s Guide to Kink Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Laughing Horse @ The Meet Me At3–12 Dawn Newsroom, Aug, Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, £free 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

Equations for a Moving Body HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11

❤ My Eyes Went Dark HHHH

Sink theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £18.50

Nothing Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10

Expensive Shit

__ Happens theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5

Shit-Faced Showtime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£12.50

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, £18.50

The Taming of the

Alice Fraser: Empire Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Bob Blackman’s Tray? Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £free Omar & Lee’s Countercultural Comedic Cavalcade Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 20–27 Aug, £free All Hail the Rat King! Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 15–19 Aug, £6

22:05 Harry Poppers and the Deathly Swallows Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50 Polyphony theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 14, 20, £5 The Oppression Olympics theSpace @ Venue45, 14–19 Aug, £3.50—£8 Man Up theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £6

22:10 Otto & Astrid: Eurosmash! (Die Roten Punkte) Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 15, £6.50—£11.50 #AlmostFamous Nightcap, 3–27 Aug, £free Date Night With Bristol Improv theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £5

22:15 Dana Alexander: The Milk Is Not Free, But Sometimes It Is on Sale The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£9 Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady’s Face Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Khaled Khalafalla: Loose Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6—£10 The Shambles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 The Stevenson Experience: Identical as Anything Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50 Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Underbelly, George Square, 2–28 Aug, £7—£15 Schutte the Unromantic Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–14 Aug, £free Smug Roberts: Just Me Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–28 Aug, £free Rhiannon Vivian’s Office Meltdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 15–27 Aug, £free Boys & Girls Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free D’Arcehole Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–31 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, £free Comedy Boxing: The Rematch Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

FROM OFFIE-NOMINATED DIRECTOR JACK SILVER

THE SWEET SCIENCE

Listings

BOXING, BULLYING SEXISM, TECH STARTUPS

C TOO (VENUE 4) • 5.50pm (1hr) 3-28 AUG (NOT 14) • £7.50-£11.50

Michael Clarke: A Felt in Progress Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free Bard’s Bitches Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £8 Danny O’Brien: RaconTour HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50 Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 4–27 Aug, £8—£10 Gein’s Family Giftshop: Volume 3 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10.50 Fin Taylor: Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50 Bill Beteet: If You Feel Like Killing Yourself, Call Me Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £5 Brendon Lemon, Prophet of Doom Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £5

22:30 Reginald D Hunter: Some People vs Reginald D Hunter Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 15, 21, £10—£17 LOLympics Live 2017 The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £12

Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£14.50 Single Comedians Trying to Impress You! Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, £free Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis Assembly George Square Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£15 The Ruby Darlings: Lil’ Darling’s Lady Power Voodoo Rooms, 5–16 Aug, £free Dante’s History of the Banished Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £4—£8 Frenchy Unleashed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£11 Hambone : enobmaH C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Rachel Jackson: Bunny Boiler Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 24, £6.50—£9.50 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 2–27 Aug, £7—£9 Myra DuBois: DuBois Entendre Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–26 Aug, not 25, £free Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 The Abersham Flat Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, £free

Puppetry of the Penis Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–28 Aug, £15—£16 Mae Martin and Nick Coyle: Show Party Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 4–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Terry Alderton: All Crazy Now Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 The Walk of Shame Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Gayshit Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7.50

Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £5

Aunty Donna: Big Boys Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–14 Aug, £7—£13.50

Thoughts That Count Canons’ Gait, 5–18 Aug, £free

2017 Chortle Student Comedy Awards Final Pleasance Courtyard, 14–15 Aug, £10

Patrick Turpin: Itty Bitty Little Titty Piece Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

22:35

Found Footage Festival Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11

David Trent: Here’s Your Future Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £5 Eleanor Conway’s Walk of Shame The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £9—£10

22:40 Douglas Walker: Zuschauer Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £6 The Bear Pack Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£11

Good Vibes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–16 Aug, not 14, £5 Andy Barr: Tropic of Admin Heroes @ Dragonfly, 4–27 Aug, not 16, £5 Data Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–27 Aug, £5

22:45 AA-AA The Adventures of Rich and Morty (The ‘A’s Are Silent) Southsider, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Rosco McClelland: How I Got Over Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Daniel Muggleton – Let’s Never Hang Out Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free

Bendiana Jones and the Temple of Huge Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 The Craig Ferguson Show Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 7–18 Aug, weekdays only, £16 The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12.50 The Death Hilarious: The Scum Always Rises Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £6—£11 AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3.50—£7 Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Joe Sutherland: Model / Actress Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9 Pussy Play Masterclass Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15 Molotov Cocktail Party Bar Bados Complex, 6–26 Aug, £free Mark Watson’s Festival of Bad Ideas Pleasance Courtyard, 15–27 Aug, £5 Pontoon Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 21–27 Aug, £free

22:50 New Town’s Very Best of the Fest New Town Theatre, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £15 Anarchy Cabaret III Ciao Roma, 5–25 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free The Noise Next Door: 10 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£14

22:55 Odette! Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Death Ray Cabaret Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 3–13 Aug, £free Spectaculus Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey, 14–27 Aug, not 23, £free

23:00 Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do Summerhall, 18–27 Aug, £15 Late Night Gimp Fight Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £7—£13 Phil Dunning: The House of Pigs Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£9 Henry Ginsberg: Molesting the Corpse of Traditional Masculinity Since 1987 Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 3–27 Aug, £free

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22:20

@PIERRENOVELLIE

9.45pm 2-27 AUG The Free Association: Jacuzzi Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Tim Key: Work in Progress Pleasance Dome, 14–27 Aug, £10—£12 Questing Time Pleasance Dome, 10–14 Aug, £8—£10 Asian Comedy Fusion Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 12–27 Aug, £free Comedians Bullseye Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–27 Aug, not 24, £10 Juan Vesuvius: I am Your Deejay Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11 Infant Hercules Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Rob Cawsey: Just Cruising Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Comedy

2 Girls 1 Cup of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £5 Tim and Gendle’s Famous First Words Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–13 Aug, £7—£11 Josie Long Summerhall, 14–16 Aug, £10 Folie à Deux Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £9—£11

Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 4 Aug to 20 Aug, £7 Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Murder, She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, 27 Aug, £12.50 Goose: The Game Show Assembly George Square Studios, 24–25 Aug, £10 Tom Allen: Absolutely Pleasance Dome, 25–26 Aug, £11 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Last Ever Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 25–26 Aug, £free Berk’s Nest Mid-Fest Comedy Special Pleasance Dome, 14–15 Aug, £10

23:10 Stoph Demetriou - The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–28 Aug, £free

Afterhours Comedy: Amused Moose Comedy theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12.50 Hot Gay Time Machine Underbelly Med Quad, 7–28 Aug, £9—£10

23:15 Jolly Goodfellow: Fooling a Part Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 4–27 Aug, £5 Kevin James Doyle: 30 Year Old Virgin Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £free Double Denim Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£11 Splitting the Bill Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Underbelly Med Quad, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £6.50—£13.50

Guardians of Imperfection Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 16–27 Aug, £free

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10—£15

Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £10

Siblings Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 23, £6—£9

Paul Williams: Summertime Love theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–25 Aug, weekdays only, £5

Chris Coltrane: Make Love and Smash Fascism Banshee Labyrinth, 5–14 Aug, £free

Njambi McGrath and Guests Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 4–25 Aug, £free

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £17 Shit I’m in Love With You Again theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £8 Political Animal The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 15 Aug to 24 Aug, £12 Mark Watson: I’m Not Here Pleasance Courtyard, 24–26 Aug, £14.50—£16

23:25

Consignia’s Panopticon Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 8–15 Aug, £free Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–20 Aug, £free

23:40

Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £7

Stuart Black: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Just the Tonic at The Tron, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £3—£5

Leebo Luby - Farucchio Peru Is Extraordinaire theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7

23:30

23:45

23:05

It’s a Wretched Life Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 21–27 Aug, £free

Grimmprov: The Improvised Fairytale theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7

Fernando – Dog Poo on a Shoe Sweet Grassmarket, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Kaitlyn Rogers: Can I Get an Amen?! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£10

Wank Bank Masterclass Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15

Ultimate Comedy Championship Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, not 20, £free

Hate ‘n’ Live Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–28 Aug, not 25, £free

23:20 Simon Amstell: Tour Previews (Work in Progress) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £15

2 Girls 1 Capo – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 21–27 Aug, £free

23:50 Phil Nichol: The Asylum Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

Aatif Nawaz: The Last Laugh Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, £free

Chicago’s Stand-Up Showcase Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5

Austentatious Presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care Underbelly, George Square, 17–18 Aug, £10

Trans-Gangster Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–16 Aug, £free

F*ck Me Like Dry Vegetable Just the Tonic at The Caves, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5

The Wrestling Pleasance Courtyard, 15–16 Aug, £20

The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £15

In Between Nightmares Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Javier Costales: The Invisible Blind Man Heroes @ Dragonfly, 4–27 Aug, £5

23:55 Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show Just the Tonic at The Community Project, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £9

“ELECTRIc”★★★★★ The Cherwell

HENRIK IBSEN’S

PEER GYNT translated by

a new adaptation by

michael Meyer gruffdog theatre

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2016

00:10 Our Christian Nation Paradise in Augustines, 6–13 Aug, £10

00:15 The Last Emperor of Mexico Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

09:55 Prison Psychologist Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £5

00:30 Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

The Plum Tree Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8

09:00

10:00

Breakfast Plays: B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £15.50

Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50

09:15

Shakespeare on a Shoestring: Cymbeline! Paradise in Augustines, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £6 Volition Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 The America Project Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

09:45

Theatre

__ Happens theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5

Private Peaceful theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8

09:30

Sink theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Hero Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–14 Aug, £8

Prospect High: Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

The Whip Hand Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50

09:50

The Comedy of Errors theSpace on Niddry St, 22–26 Aug, £8.50

Nothing Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

Adam Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £15—£21.50

10:15

10:30

Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £10—£14

Adulting SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £7.50

The Second Copy: 2045 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£12

Day Dream Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

Rainbow Soapbox Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9

Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans theSpace on the Mile, 7–12 Aug, £8

Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Wild Bore Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £15—£21.50

10:05 Cockroaches theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £7—£9 Salome theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £8 DROLL theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8.50 NSFW theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, £9.50

10:10 Pronoun Paradise in Augustines, 21–26 Aug, £10 Maria Ornata Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £8.50 Action at a Distance Zoo Southside, 4–22 Aug, not 10, 17, £6—£10

Young and Fresh theSpace on the Mile, 22–26 Aug, £8 Girls Like That Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £6.50 Hyperion Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–19 Aug, £7 Waiting for Spring Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9.50

10:20 Next! Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 22–26 Aug, £5 Gun Show Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £2—£5 The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 7–11 Aug, £6

10:25 Undercover Refugee theSpace on the Mile, 15–19 Aug, £8

Twenty Something Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £8.50—£12.50 Bombastic Declaration of Love – Julie Cafmeyer Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 Sink SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £8 Plan B for Utopia Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £12 #Magical Mystery Walking Tour of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Meeting Outside Burgers and Beers Grillhouse, 14–27 Aug, £free Home Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 28 Aug, £12.50 Broken Episodes Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–19 Aug, £15 Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Paradise in Augustines, 7–12 Aug, £12 The Sleeper theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £6—£8 Joseph K C venues – C, 20–26 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Fate of the Date theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13–14 Aug, £5

10:35 NSFW theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £9.50

10:40 Things We Find in the Dark ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12 Ingo’s War Pleasance Dome, 2–20 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

10:45 Crimes of the Heart theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £6—£8 Scorch Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £14—£16 The Dame theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £10

10:50 Just William’s Luck Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Birdland by Simon Stephens theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–19 Aug, £8 Donors theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£10 When the Sky Falls In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7

10:55 Columns theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Julius Caesar theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £6

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Panic Broadcast No Miracles Central Hall,Here 7 Aug, £5 Northern Stage at SummerThe Three Musketeers hall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, Milk HH 5–6 SpaceTriplex, Aug, £5 23, £10—£12 Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug 26 Hats Off to Laurelto and 10:20 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Hardy Sweet Grassmarket, 19–20 The Chronicles Blood Brothers of – Play Aug, £10 The Lion, Narnia: Version the Witch@ and the A Greenside Infirmary Adventurers Wanted: Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Wardrobe 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Church Hill Theatre, Roleplaying Game 16 The Forest Aug, £5 Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, not 24, 25, £3£10 22–25 Aug, Witch theSpace @ Venue45, Jess Joe Forever Tankand ❤ HHHH 15–20 Aug,Dome, £8 7–20 HHHH Pleasance Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, Aug,Bite-Size £6—£10 Big 12 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, Breakfast Show The America Project £19.50 Pleasance Central Hall,Dome, 8 Aug, £5 3–29 Aug, not 16, The Empress and 23, Me Exile £8.50—£12.50 Assembly George Square SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 21, Mine Aug, £6 £5—£10 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Volition 17–20 Aug, £7 of Mary The Testament Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 CAround venues – C cubed, the World 3–28 in Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 80 Days 10:35 Church HillHearts Theatre, 14 Our Carnal Aug,The £5 Terrible Summerhall, 15–26False Aug, ❤ £10—£12 Deception (A Four Act Plain as Paper Play in 40 Minutes Greenside @ Nicolson Lilith: The Jungle Girl Square, 5–20 Aug, not or 43 With Laughs!) HHH 7, 14, £8Theatre, 4 Aug, HHHH Traverse Church HillAug, Theatre, 18 27 10 Aug, 16 22 Aug, Aug,£19.50 £5 Aug, 10:25 Nancy’s Philosopher Looking for John HH Mine Summerhall, 16–20 Assembly 3–27Inn, Aug, theSpaceHall, @ Jury’s Aug, £12 not 16 15, Aug,£6—£12 £7 Indian Kaleidoscope Dog Sees God: 10:40 Underbelly Medof Quad, Confessions a 21–28 Aug, £11—£12 The Country Wife Teenage Blockhead Mile,St, Bone Warson the theSpace Niddry £8—£8.50 Laughing Horse @ The 22–27 Aug, £7 Counting House, 3–13 King John The Country Wife Aug, £free theSpace on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £7 Bad Roads 15–20 £8—£8.50 The Studio, 8 Aug, £10 How I Said ‘F**k You’ 10:45 10:30 to the Company When If ByTried Chance Daffodils (AMake Play Me With They to New Town Theatre, 4–13 Songs) Redundant 00:50 HH Aug, £10Horse Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Laughing @ The Knowledge Is Power 11 Aug, 18House, Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Counting 20–27 Prospect Paradise inHigh: The Vault, Aug, £20.50 Aug, £free Brooklyn 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 theSpace @ Venue45, Revolt. Said. You NeverShe Touched 8 Aug, Revolt Again. The Dirt£5 01:10 Traverse The Studio,Theatre, 11 Aug, 16 £10 Our Aug,Christian 20 Aug, 25Nation Aug, Bottles 10:50 Paradise in Augustines, £14.50—£20.50 C venues – C, 22–26 Aug, Avalon 6–13 Aug,View £10 from The £7.50—£9.50 ❤ Paradise in The Vault, Castle Rockand by Alice The Shaken 5–27 Aug, not 13,the 20, £8 Munro HHHH 01:15 Stirred Sink artSpace@StMarks, Scottish Arts Club, 10 11 Aug, theSpace @ Surgeons The Last Emperor of 1217Aug, 1318Aug, 11Aug, Aug,14–19 Aug, Aug,1519 Hall, Aug, £8 Mexico Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 Aug, £12 Laughing Horse @ The Nothing Mark Thomas: The ❤ Letters to House, Morrissey Counting 4–28 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, Red Shed HHHH HHH Aug, £free not 7,not 14,9, 21,16, 22,23, £7—£10 Traverse Theatre, Aug, Traverse Theatre, 312 Aug, Aug, Aug, Aug, __ Happens 919 Aug, 1524 Aug, 2028 Aug, 26 £20.50 theSpace @ Venue45, 01:30 Aug, £13—£19.50 9 Aug, £5 Séance The Amish Project 17 Sweet Grassmarket, (Ensemble Aug, 24 Aug,Version) £15 theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5

09:00

❤ Breakfast Plays:

Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?) HHHH Traverse Theatre, 16–28 Aug, not 22, £14.50

09:15

Metamorphoses Church Hill Theatre, 8

Milk HH Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 00:00 Drainage Alley The Studio, 10 Aug,–£10 Blood Play A ClockBrothers Face Version – Free Eve Exhibition Greenside @ Infirmary Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Laughing Horse @ The Yet? Street, 8–10 £4 11Happy Aug, 17 Aug,Aug, 23 Various Aug, Counting theSpaceHouse, @ Surgeons £19.50 dates from 3Aug, Aug£7 to 11 The Hall, Forest 15–20 Aug, £free Pleasance Courtyard, Speech (Discurso) 22–25 Aug,13£10 The Studio, Aug, £10 An Evening With an

10:55 Immigrant Tank HHHH Nassim ❤ HHHH

Rumpelstiltskin Traverse Theatre, Pleasance Dome,822–25 7–20 Traverse Theatre, Aug, Paradise The25 Vault, Aug, £19.50 £6—£10 13 Aug, 19 in Aug, Aug, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 £19.50

The America Project Prison Psychologist Central 8 Aug, £5 Fashionable Medicine: 00:05Hall, ParadiseSpas in Theand Vault, Syphilis, Exile Cloud Avenue 21–27 Aug, £5 Melancholy SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Greenside @ Nicolson The Royal College of PhysiThe Plum Tree Aug, £6 Various dates Square, cians, 8–12inAug, £10 Paradise The Vault, from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7 Volition 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 There Is Hall, No One Between Central 8Chronicles Aug, £5 The Barista You and Me Private Peaceful Greenside @ Infirmary The Studio,on 12 Niddry Aug, £10 theSpace St, Street, 14–26 Aug, not 10:35 14–19 £8 Ghalia’s Miles 20, £10Aug, The Terrible False ❤ The Studio, 9 Aug, £10 She Kills Monsters Crave Deception (A Four Act theSpace theSpace @ onVenue45, North Play 40 Minutes 5 Aug,in£5 Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10 11:05 or 43 With Laughs!) Dreaming UnderEat? What Do Bears The Truman Capote HHHH the Southern Bough Greenside Nicolson Church Hill@Theatre, 18 Talk Show HHH Square, Aug, £5 Various Assembly Rooms,dates 3–27 theSpace on Niddry St, £7 from£6—£12 14 Aug to 25 Aug, Aug, Nancy’s Philosopher 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Summerhall, 16–20 Human Animals Too Fast Aug, £12 14–19 Aug, £9 00:10 SpaceTriplex, theSpace on the Mile, Cherry Pride Southanger Park 10–14atAug, £10 theSpaceon @North Venue45, theSpace Bridge, 10:40 7 Aug, £7 £8 8–12 Aug, The Country Wife 11:00 Leaf theSpace on the Mile, Greenside @£8—£8.50 Infirmary SingleAug, Varietal 22–27 11:10 Street, 4–26 Aug,Aug, not£5 6, Spotlites, King John16–19 The Picture of Dorian Gray 13, 20, £5—£11 Wilde Without theSpace on thethe Mile,Boy Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, 22–27 Aug, £7 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£9 £5—£10 00:15 Cult-ure Shakespeare Tonight theSpace on North Bridge, 10:45 Blurred Justice Paradise Augustines, 14–26 Aug,innot 20, £8 New Town Theatre, 16–22 22–27 Aug, £14 If By Chance The Machine Aug,Time £10—£12 New Town Theatre, 4–13 In Fidelity HHH Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, Revolution Aug, £10Theatre, 7 Aug, Traverse not 15, £8—£13 Greenside @ Infirmary 13 Aug, 19 Aug, Prospect High:25 Aug, Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £18.50 Brooklyn £5—£11 11:15 theSpace Lightless@ Venue45, Cherry 8 Aug, £5 @ Infirmary Greenside The Black That I Am theSpace @ Venue45, Street,Church 8–13 Aug,Summer£8 Upper Shakespeare Love 9 Aug, £7 @on hall hosted by RBC, 10:50 Meet Me At Dawn SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug,17–27 £5 Aug, £8 Theatre, 5 Aug, Traverse Avalon Hamlet 00:20 10 Aug, 19inAug, 25 Aug, Screaming Body – Paradise The Vault, theSpace @ Venue45, £21.50 Losers Découpage Collective 5–27 13, 20, £8 5 Aug,Aug, £5 not Underbelly, Upper ChurchCowgate, @a SummerEquations for Moving Sink Thehosted Shakespeare Club 3–27 not 14, 4–14 hall by RBC, BodyAug, HHH theSpace @ Surgeons theSpace @ Venue45, 10 £6.50—£10 Aug, £8 Stage Northern at SumHall, 14–19 Aug, £5 Aug, £8 merhall, 6–27 Fahrenheit 451Aug, not 10, Nothing 17, 24, £9—£11 Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 00:25 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, Aug, £10 10:00 Went Dark ❤ 7,My14,Eyes not 21, 22, £7—£10 Cherry HHHH Let Methe Look You of theSpace @at Venue45, Into Shadows __ Happens Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 14–19 Aug, £7 Shakespeare – Free theSpace Venue45, 14 Aug, 20@Aug, 26 Aug, Aug, not 14, £6—£10 theSpace 9 Aug, £5 on the Mile, £18.50 On OneAug, Condition 12–14 £free 00:45 The Amish Shit Project Expensive Zoo Southside, 20–28 Shakespeare for Aug, (Ensemble Version) HHH £9—£14 Knowledge Is Power Breakfast theSpace @ Venue45, Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Paradise in The Vault, 4–5 Medea venues – C, 3–29 Aug, 7C Aug, £5 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, £7Hall, Central 16 Aug, £5 not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Aug, £18.50 All King’s Women Usthe / Them The TamingHHH of the Central Hall, 183–28 Aug, Aug, £5 Summerhall, Shrew not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 C venues – C south, 14– A Night’s 20Midsummer Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Dreaming HHH theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £15.50

10:05 Eurohouse Summerhall, 16–26 Aug, £10

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 00:50 An Actor’s Tribute Central Hall, 18IsAug, £5 10:55 Knowledge Power Paradise in The Vault, Alice and the Black Hole Rumpelstiltskin 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 Blues Paradise in The Vault, Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5 15–20 Aug, £5.50

01:10Psychologist Prison 11:20 Paradise in TheNation Vault, Our Christian

21–27 Aug, Paradise in £5 Augustines, Maria Ornata 6–13Plum Aug,@£10 Greenside Infirmary The Tree Street, Various dates from 4 Paradise in The Vault, Aug toAug, 26 Aug, 5–19 not £8.50 13, £8

01:15

Scenes Punk Rock Privatefrom Peaceful The Laston Emperor of7–11 theSpace theSpace onNiddry NiddrySt, St, Mexico Aug, £7Aug, £8 14–19 Laughing Horse @ The Avery Pierson She Kills Monsters Counting House, 4–28 Central Hall,@15 Aug, £5 theSpace Venue45, Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free 5 Aug, £5 The Marowitz Hamlet Central Hall, Under 9 Aug, £5 Dreaming 01:30 the Southern Bough

HHH Séance 11:25 theSpace on Niddry St,

Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Beam 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Aug, 24 Aug, £15 Zoo Southside, 4–17 Aug, Too Fast £7—£12 theSpace on the Mile, 09:00 Fish Food 10–14 Aug, £10 Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Breakfast ❤ not Aug, 13, £7 Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart 11:00 Julius Caesar (?) HHHH theSpace on Niddry16–28 St, Single TraverseVarietal Theatre, 14–19 Aug,22, £8£14.50 Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 Aug, not NSFW Wilde Without the Boy theSpace Niddry St,Aug, AssemblyonHall, 4–29 09:15 21–26 Aug, £9.50 £5—£10 Metamorphoses Hyperion Shakespeare Tonight Church 8 Greenside @Theatre, Royal Terrace, ParadiseHill in Augustines, Aug, £5Aug, 4–12 Aug, not£14 6, £5—£7 22–27 TheFidelity Dining Room The The Lucky Durhams: In HHH Church 7 First DayHill of Theatre, the Somme Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Aug, £519 Aug,21–27 Zoo Southside, 13 Aug, 25 Aug, Aug, £9 £18.50 Holy Day Church Hill and Theatre, 10 The Soldier Death Lightless Aug, £5 in @ Paradise TheInfirmary Vault, 21–27 Greenside Aug, £8 Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 The Ticket Church HillAtTheatre, Meet Me Dawn 5 Aug, £5 Theatre, 5 Aug, Traverse 11:30 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Your Love Is Fire £21.50 09:20 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not Equations for Moving History of aTom 7,The 14, 21, £8—£12 Body JonesHHH Lamentations Shakespeare’s Romeo Northern Stage at SumSpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 Assembly George Square and merhall, Aug, Juliet £5 6–27 Aug, not 10, Studios, 3–28 Central Hall, 4Aug, Aug,not £514, 17, 24, £9—£11 21, £8—£14 War My of the Worlds: The Eyes Went Dark ❤ 09:25 Re: A Midsummer Panic BroadcastNight’s HHHH Dream The Country Traverse Theatre, Aug, Central Hall, 7 Wife Aug,9 £5 CtheSpace venues20 – on C primo, 14–15 the26 Aug, 14 TheAug, ThreeAug, Musketeers Aug, £7.50 Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £18.50 SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 £8—£8.50 Labels Expensive Shit Pleasance Courtyard, HHH 10:20 10–27 Aug,Theatre, not 14, 15, 16, Traverse 5 Aug, 09:30 21, 23, 11 22, Aug, 17£9 Aug, 23of Aug, 28 The Chronicles An Original Aug,Evening £18.50 Narnia: The of Lion, Chatroom Theatre the Greenside @and Infirmary The Witch Taming of the the Church Hill Aug, Theatre, 6 Wardrobe Street, 7–12 £7.50 Shrew Aug, £5Hill Theatre, 16 Church C venues – C south, 14– Hyperthymesia Aug, £5 £8.50—£10.50 20 Aug, Greenside @ Infirmary Witch4–19 Aug, not 13, 09:45 Street, theSpace @ Venue45, £5—£9 Measure Measure 15–20 Aug,4£8 (Abridged) Big Bite-Size theSpace @ Venue45, Breakfast Show 6 Aug, £5 Pleasance Dome, 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, £8.50—£12.50

Mine theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 17–20 Aug, £7 Around the World in 80 Days Church Hill Theatre, 14 Aug, £5 Plain as Paper Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 5–20 Aug, not 7, 14, £8

91 Shakespeare Hopes, Dreamson andLove the SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Bits In-Between theSpace Hamlet on the Mile, 21–26 Aug,@ £6Venue45, theSpace 5 Aug, The Girl£5 Who Jumped Off The SignClub TheHollywood Shakespeare Assembly 3–28 Aug, theSpaceRoxy, @ Venue45, 10 not 14,£5 15, £8—£13 Aug, Exile SpaceTriplex, 10:00 21–26 Aug, £6 A While With Seamus Into the Shadows of Heaney Shakespeare Free15–19 The Royal Scots –Club, theSpace Aug, £10 on the Mile, 12–14 Aug, £free Primal Instincts Shakespeare theSpace on thefor Mile, 14–18 Breakfast Aug, £8 C venues – C, 3–29 Aug, Deleted not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5 Us / Them HHH Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, 11:35 not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 AAMatter of RaceNight’s Midsummer Greenside @HHH Infirmary Dreaming Street, 21 Aug, 22 Aug,St,24 theSpace on Niddry Aug, Aug,not 267,Aug, 5–1325 Aug, £7 £8 Breakfast Plays: B!rth

Traverse Theatre, 15–27 11:40 Aug, not 21, £15.50 Girls Will Be Girls Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 10:05 20, £10 Eurohouse The Room at the Top of Summerhall, 16–26 the House Aug, £10 ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12

10:10

Kafka and Son Waves Courtyard, 2–27 Pleasance Summerhall, Aug, Aug, not 15, 16,3–28 £6—£11 not 8, 15, 22, £7.50—£9 Somethings Old, Fish and Chips with Somethings New Edith The Stand Comedy Club 5 & on £12 the Mile, 6,theSpace 15–22 Aug, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £6 The Sleeper The Sister theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 4 Aug to 6–28 not 14, 21, £8 26 Aug,Aug, £5—£8 Boondocks Underbelly, 10:15 Cowgate, 7–11 Aug, £9.50—£10.50 to Tell in ❤ MilkStories HH Karoo Mooseof– the No Fathers the Middle Night Traverse Theatre, Various Assembly George Square HHHH dates from 6 Aug, Aug to 2614, Studios, 3–27 notAug, Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 21, not£10—£15 15, 22, £10 Blood Brothers – Play And Then There Were Dark of the Moon Version None Church Hill@Theatre, 5 Greenside Infirmary Greenside @ Nicolson Aug, £58–10 Aug, £4 Street, Square, 21–26 Aug, £9 Wasted The Forest Greenside Infirmary Pleasance@ Courtyard, Street, 15–20 Aug, 11:45 22–25 Aug, £10 £7—£8 Tank HHHH The Third ❤ Tshepang: The Girl with the7–20 Pleasance HHHH Dome, Testament Hurricane Hands Aug, £6—£10 Assembly Roxy, 3–27(and Aug, Other Short Tales not 14,America 21, £10—£15 The Project of Woe) Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Sink Laughing Horse @ The SpaceTriplex, ExileSisters, 4–12 Free 4–28Aug, Aug, not 6, £8 SpaceTriplex, 14–19 £free Aug,Drive £6 The Brothers Grimm ZOO, 4–19 Aug, £6—£12 Volition Spectaculathon Central Hall,Theatre, 8 Aug, £5 Church Hill 17 Aug, £5

10:35 ❤ The Terrible False Deception (A Four Act Play in 40 Minutes or 43 With Laughs!)

HHHH

Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

Nancy’s Philosopher Summerhall, 16–20 Aug, £12

Shakespeare’s Me and My Bee Romeo and JulietCourtyard, 2–28 Pleasance Central Hall,£6—£10 4 Aug, £5 Aug, not 15, War ofHH the Worlds: The (FEAR) Panic Broadcast ZOO, Various dates from 21 Central Aug, £5 Aug to 28Hall, Aug,7 £10 The All Three Musketeers Hear About It SpaceTriplex,21–26 5–6 Aug, SpaceTriplex, Aug,£5 £7 Migrant Sisters 10:20 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 7–11 £5 TheAug, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,

the Witch and the 11:50

Wardrobe Taha Church Hill Theatre, 16 Summerhall, 2–13 Aug, not Aug, £5 7, £8—£12 Witch Jogging theSpace @ Venue45, Summerhall, 15–23 15–20 Aug, £8 Aug, £12 Big Bite-Size Fragile Man Breakfast Show theSpace on the Mile, Pleasance Dome, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 20, 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, £8—£10 £8.50—£12.50 A Heart at Sea Mine Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Aug, not 15, £6—£9.50 17–20 Aug, £7 The Unravelling Around the World in theSpace on the Mile, 4 80 Days Aug, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Church Hill Theatre, 14 Aug, £5—£6 Aug, £5 Plain as Paper 11:55 Greenside @ Nicolson Games Square,and 5–20 Aug, not 7, 14,Liverpool £8 After by James Saunders Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 10:25 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Mine The Glummer Twins theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 16 Aug, £7 21–26 Aug, £9 Dog Sees God: The OS Map Fan Club Confessions of a theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Teenage Blockhead 4–12 Aug, not 6, £6—£8 theSpace on Niddry St, She Kills Monsters 22–27 Aug, £7 theSpace @ Venue45, 9 The£5 Country Wife Aug, theSpace on the Mile, 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50

12:00 Happy Yet? 10:30 The Power Behind the theSpace @ Surgeons

Crone Hall, 15–20(A Aug, £7With Daffodils Play Assembly George Square Songs)3–28 HHAug, not 14, Studios, Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, £6—£12 10:55 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Agent November: Major X Rumpelstiltskin Aug, £20.50 Paradise in/The Plow-Shun TheVault, Murder Revolt. She Said. 15–20 of Mr E Aug, £5.50 Revolt Again. New Town Theatre, 2–27 Prison Psychologist Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, not 15,in£8—£15 Paradise Aug, 20 Aug,The 25Vault, Aug, 21–27 Aug, £5 Adventurers Wanted: A £14.50—£20.50 250-Hour Epic Tabletop The The Plum Treefrom View ❤ Roleplaying Game Paradise in The Castle Rock byVault, Alice Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Aug, Munro HHHH not 24, 25, £3 artSpace@StMarks, Private Peaceful 11 Safe Place Aug, 12 Aug, Aug,St, 15 theSpace on 13 Niddry Gilded Balloon at Rose Aug, Aug,£8£10—£15 14–1929 Aug, Theatre, 13–28 Aug, £10 Thomas: The She Mark Kills Monsters ❤ Red Shed@HHHH theSpace Venue45, Traverse 5 Aug, £5Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug, Dreaming Under £20.50 the Southern Bough

HHH

theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7

Too Fast theSpace on the Mile, 10–14 Aug, £10

11:00 Single Varietal Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 Wilde Without the Boy Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug,

Milk HH Marie Traverse Horse Theatre, Laughing @ Various The dates from Aug to 26not Hanover Tap,63–26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 7,Aug, 14, 19, 20, 21, £free

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Sur Hall, 15–20 Aug,

Bloodand Brothers Frost Lorca – Play Version Gilded Balloon at the MuseGreenside @ Infirmary um, 17–23 Aug, £12 Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Part of the Picture

10:55

Listings

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5

Theatre

are on Love

Rumpelstiltsk Paradise in The 15–20 Aug, £5.5

The Forest HHH

PleasanceDome, Courtyard, Pleasance 2–28 22–25 £10 Aug, notAug, 14, £6—£10

Prison Psycho Paradise in The 21–27 Aug, £5

Tank Nature of ❤ The HHHH Pleasance HHHH Dome, 7–20 Forgetting Aug, £6—£10 Pleasance Courtyard, 3–27 Aug, 14, £6—£12.50 Thenot America Project

The Plum Tree Paradise in The 5–19 Aug, not 13

Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Eurohouse Summerhall, 23–26 Exile Aug, £10 SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £6 Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons VolitionLemons Roundabout Central Hall,@8 SummerAug, £5 hall, 4–20 Aug, not 8, 15, £9—£13

10:35

Girls False ❤ The Terrible Pleasance Courtyard, Deception (A Four Act 22–27 Aug, £11—£12 Play in 40 Minutes In Conversation With… or 43 With Laughs!) David Hayman HHHH New Town Theatre, 20 Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £10 Aug, £5 In Conversation With… Nancy’s Philosopher Mark Thomas Summerhall, 16–20 New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £12 Aug, £10 Luke Wright: What I 10:40from Johnny Learned Bevan The Country Wife Underbelly, Cowgate, theSpace on the Mile,21–27 Aug, £12—£14 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 The Actor’s King John Nightmare Gilded Balloon at Rose theSpace on the Mile, Theatre, 7–11 Aug, 22–27 Aug, £7£10—£12 Not About Heroes Pleasance 10:45 Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£12.50 If By Chance New Town Theatre, 4–13 DeLorean Aug, £10 Rooms, 3–27 Assembly Aug, not 14,High: £10—£15 Prospect

Brooklyn Last Resort theSpace @ 2–27 Venue45, Summerhall, Aug, not Aug, 7,814, 21,£5 £8—£10 The Chess Player C10:50 venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, Tobacco 5–27 Aug,George not 13,Square 20, £8 Assembly Studios, Sink 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8 Werewolves Gilded Balloon at the MuseNothing um, 20–27 Aug,2–27 £10Aug, Summerhall, not 7, 21, 22,More £7—£10 Daniel14, Cainer: Gefilte Fish and __ Happens Chips Underbelly, George Square, theSpace @ Venue45, 2–28 Aug, 9 Aug, £5£6.50—£11 The Pilgrims The Amish Project Follow Twitter:Version) @ (Ensemble ThePilgrimsMove, 12–26 theSpace @ Venue45, Aug, £free 7 Aug, £5

Private Peacef theSpace on Nid 14–19 Aug, £8

She Kills Mons theSpace @ Ven 5 Aug, £5

Dreaming Und the Southern B

HHH

theSpace on Nid 5–13 Aug, not 7,

Too Fast theSpace on the 10–14 Aug, £10

11:00

Single Varietal Spotlites, 16–19

Wilde Without Assembly Hall, 4 £5—£10

Shakespeare T Paradise in Augu 22–27 Aug, £14

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ex, 8 Aug, £5

In Fidelity HH Traverse Theatre 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 2 £18.50

Lightless Greenside @ Infi Street, 8–13 Aug

Meet Me At Da Traverse Theatre 10 Aug, 19 Aug, £21.50

Equations for Body HHH Northern Stage merhall, 6–27 A 17, 24, £9—£11

❤ My Eyes W HHHH

Traverse Theatre 14 Aug, 20 Aug, £18.50

Expensive Shit

HHH

Traverse Theatre 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 2 Aug, £18.50

The Taming of Shrew C venues – C so 20 Aug, £8.50—

The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 Stranger Than Truth Paradise in Augustines, 22–25 Aug, £free Your Ever Loving Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–20 Aug, £6.50—£11 The Patchwork Odyssey Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£10 Every Brilliant Thing Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £20 Distortion Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 26–27 Aug, £6 Strangers: A Magic Play II theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £10

In Conversation With… Allan Little New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… Hugh McIlvanney New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £10 In Conversation with… Jeremy Corbyn New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… Rab Noakes New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £10

Neil Hilborn – Live Poetry The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 21–27 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… Graeme Obree New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10

In Conversation With… Paul Sinha New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10

The City – A Detective Hip Hop Opera Drummond Community High School, 8–10 Aug, £12.50

In Conversation With… Barry Crimmins New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10

Hear All About It theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £7 In Conversation With… Amy Macdonald New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £10 If Only: An Audience With Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 23–27 Aug, £8 The Birds theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5 Not I Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10—£13

Theatre

In Conversation With… David Mach New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £10

In Conversation With… Barbara Dickson New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10

In Conversation With… Hazel Irvine New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10

Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, £15

The Hong Kong Three Sisters SpaceTriplex, 10–12 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… John McDonnell New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… Val McDermid New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

In Conversation With... Judy Murray New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £10 In Conversation With… Stuart Braithwaite New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

12:15 Gazing at a Distant Star Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 The Dog Daze of Summer Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £8 Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Izzy’s Manifestos Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£12

12:20 Harry Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10.50

12:10 Brothers Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 The Sound of Extras theSpace on the Mile, 7–12 Aug, £8 Wandering Bones Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 23, £8 Chaucer Retold theSpace on Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £5 Cow HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10

Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Best Bites Pleasance Dome, 5–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £7—£10.50 Cockamamy Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–14 Aug, £9 That’s Life on Lisgar C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 A Gym Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Everyman theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, £8

Perfectly Imperfect Women Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9.50

12:40

Talkabout Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8

Oyster Boy Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £5—£10 Rupture Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£10 Last of Their Generation Zoo Southside, 4–13 Aug, £10 Woyzeck Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £7

Half Breed Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies in an Hour Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Slooshy Wordshow Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £5—£10

Phools Bedlam Theatre, 4–12 Aug, £10

The Growing Pains of the Mantle Family Living Room theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £7

Cold Fronts and Hot Flushes: The Short Stories of Kevin Spacey Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £10

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 4–13 Aug, £12

Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in Survivalve Bannermans, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free

Threadbare theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6

These Walls Sweet Grassmarket, 5–20 Aug, not 14, £7.50

Dahling, You Were Marvellous Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 7–12 Aug, £8.50

Wife The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6, 23–27 Aug, £9

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £10

From Dust Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

Katie and Pip C venues – C, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

12:05 The Way It Is theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £8

Not the Horse theSpace @ Venue45, 22–26 Aug, £9

12:25 Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew C venues – C, 13–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

This Is Soap C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £10 Bassett theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–17 Aug, £8

A Different Way Home Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £12

Distinctively Scottish St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 16 Aug, £7

Pip Utton’s Greatest Hits Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£11

12:35

To Hell in a Handbag Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 22, £8—£11 Undercover Refugee theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

12:30 Up the Hill Jackie Bedlam Theatre, Various dates from 2 Aug to 28 Aug, £10

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders) Zoo Southside, 14–28 Aug, £5—£9 She and Her Cat – Eddies in the Ebb and Flow Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–19 Aug, £10 The Tinder Tales Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £free

12:45

The Great Big Beautiful Sky C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Follow Suit Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 15, 21, £6.50—£11 A Play, A Pie and A Pint Le Monde, 4–25 Aug, not 5, 12, 19, £12.50 What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10

Museum Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6–12 Aug, £10

Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here ZOO, 13–28 Aug, £7—£12

Marni – The Secret Voice of Hollywood Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, not 7, £6—£10

1 Singular Sensation

Human Animals SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £9 Hyperion Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £7

C venues – C royale, 4–11 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Walls ZOO, 4–12 Aug, £5—£10 The Believers Are But Brothers Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12

Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little Music theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£9.50 Dead People Don’t Have Secrets Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 7–10 Aug, £7 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, £15

12:50 100 theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50 A Clockwork Orange theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8 Service! theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 Sleepwalkers theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5—£8.50

12:55 Mary and Me Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 Woman on Fire theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £6—£9 Hi. (Entering Burned Area) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £4—£8 Adulting SpaceTriplex, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £9 An Unexpected Electric Nativity C venues – C royale, 2–18 Aug, not 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, £7.50—£9.50 Comedy of Errors theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–26 Aug, £7 Two C venues – C royale, 3–19 Aug, not 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, £8.50—£10.50 Loud in Babel theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £7

93 Eamonn Fleming in association with LittleMighty presents

Listings

CONFABULATION! A comedy about memory and making stuff up Written and Performed by

Eamonn Fleming Directed by Nick Lane

Pleasance Courtyard 2 - 28 Aug (not Weds) 13:40 (14:40)

Our Man in Havana Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£10 Home is Not the Place Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18–27 Aug, £10 The Revlon Girl Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, £10—£13 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15

Eggsistentialism Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 22, £6—£10

Schiz theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £9

Whalebone Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9

Hive theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9

Storyteller Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 3–28 Aug, £6—£9

A Woman’s Wit, Wisdom and Pratfalls theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 16–19 Aug, £5

Wild Bore Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

13:10

Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 11–19 Aug, £free

Bare Skin on Briny Waters Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11

Autopsy. The Soul of Richard Nixon Natural Food Kafe, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

Adam Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

Snowflake by Mark Thomson Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £6—£10.50

The Whip Hand Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50

Macbeth Kills the Duchess theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7

Gypsy Queen Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£10

Real Magic The Studio, 26 Aug, £25

Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 You Forgot the Mince Pleasance Courtyard, 7–28 Aug, not 21, £7.50—£10 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Guerilla Aspies - Third Autism and Aspergers Converting Year Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £free Foreign Radical CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10

Trial by Media theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–12 Aug, £7 Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £21.50 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, £21.50 An Evening With an Immigrant Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £19.50

13:05 Heroes theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Strangers: A Magic Play II theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10

Wondr Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 4 Aug to 28 Aug, £7—£11 Merrily We Roll Along theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 21–26 Aug, £8 How to Act Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £13—£15 Pixel Dust Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £7—£11 The Naked Dietitian Quaker Meeting House, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Chips and Cheese theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7 Catch SpaceTriplex, 22–26 Aug, £8

Odyssey Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 15, 22, £7.50—£13.50 The Hero Who Overslept Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Playback Impro Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free Palmyra Summerhall, 2–13 Aug, £8—£10 Up Periscope Laughing Horse @ Southside Social, 4–28 Aug, not 18, 25, £free The Domino Effect theSpace on the Mile, 7–12 Aug, £5 The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything! Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 15–28 Aug, £14

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Big Brother Hamlet: A Surveillance Adaptation SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £5 Play On! Central Hall, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £5 War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5 The Black Cat Underbelly Med Quad, 13 Aug, £10 Joan Underbelly Med Quad, 24 Aug, £10.50

13:20 Once Were Pirates Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 15, £6.50—£11

Probably Still Drunk Collective Presents: Inebriated Venue 13, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £9 Avery Pierson Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

13:25 Black Mountain Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 5 Aug to 26 Aug, £15—£17 Out Of Love Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£17 Hamlettes Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5 The Great Ridolphi Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10.50

Macbeth / Redux Venue 13, 5–11 Aug, £9

Mary Go Nowhere Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£14

Reeling Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5

13:30

Victorian Gothic Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 13, 20, 24, 25, £8

The Expiration Date of Jonas Müller (Age 70) Pleasance Dome, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£9.50

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6.50—£12.50

Almost, Maine Central Hall, 4 Aug, 8 Aug, £5

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5

Dickens for Dinner C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50

Alice and the Black Hole Blues Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

Edgartown theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£7

Love, Bombs and Apples Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£12

Glitter Punch Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£12

Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 All the King’s Women Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5

13:15

Medea Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50

An Actor’s Tribute Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5

Syd and Sylvia Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £free Jennaration Y Venue 13, 12–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 16, 18, 21, £9

Impromptu Shakespeare Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–13 Aug, £7—£8 A Single Tree Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–12 Aug, £free Tayberry Tales Eric Liddell Centre, 15–16 Aug, £free

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13:00

FINDING NANA

The Stage

Pleasance ABOVE 10.20am DAILY

by Jane Upton

George Devine Award Winner 2016

Pleasance BESIDE 3.30pm DAILY

2-28 August

Pleasance Courtyard www.pleasance.co.uk 0131 556 6550

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HHHH Church Hill @ Theatre & StutheSpace Venue45, Church Hill11Theatre, dio, 4 Aug, Aug, £1518 15–20 Aug, £8 Aug, £5

Reduced Shakespeare Big Bite-Size Nancy’s Philosopher Company – William Breakfast Show Summerhall, 16–20 Pleasance Dome, Shakespeare’s Long Lost Aug, £12 3–29Play Aug,(Abridged) not 16, 23, First £8.50—£12.50 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£14 10:40 Mine theSpace @ Jury’s City TheLove Country Wife Inn, 17–20 Aug, Bourbon Bar, 5–27 Aug, not theSpace on£7 the Mile, 7,Around 14, 21,Aug, £free 22–27 the£8—£8.50 World in Days A80 Thousand King John Doorways 14 CChurch venuesHill – on CTheatre, primo, 2–19 theSpace the Mile, Aug, £5Aug, £7 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 22–27

Plain as Paper Eve Greenside @ Nicolson Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 10:45 Square, not 12 Aug, 185–20 Aug,Aug, 24 Aug, 7, £19.50 If 14, By £8 Chance New Town Theatre, The Emily Triptych 4–13 Aug, £10 Quaker Meeting House, 12

10:25

Aug, 15 Aug,High: 16 Aug, 18 Aug, Prospect Mine 19 Aug, £8 Brooklyn theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, theSpace @ Venue45, The Headless 16 Aug, £7 Woman and 8 Aug, £5

Other Delights Dog Sees God: Scottish Storytelling Centre, Confessions of a 8–12 Aug, £9 10:50 Teenage Blockhead theSpace Avalon on Niddry St, 22–27 Aug, £7 Vault, Paradise in The 5–27Country Aug, not Wife 13, 20, £8 The theSpace on the Mile, Sink 15–20 Aug,@£8—£8.50 theSpace Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

Nothing 10:30

Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, Daffodils Play With not 7, 14, 21,(A22, £7—£10 Songs) HH __ Happens Traverse 7 Aug, theSpaceTheatre, @ Venue45, 11 Aug,£5 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 9 Aug, Aug, £20.50 The Amish Project Revolt. SheVersion) Said. (Ensemble Revolt Again.

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7

10:55 The Illusion of Truth Scottish Storytelling Centre, Rumpelstiltskin 3–24 Aug, in not 8, Vault, 9, 10, 11, Paradise The 12, 18, 19, 20,£5.50 £6—£9 15–20 Aug,

An Evening With the Voices in Annie’s Head Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £5

The LastPsychologist Days of Judas Prison Iscariot Paradise in The Vault, Paradise in 21–27 Aug,Augustines, £5 MilkAug, 5–12 £9 HH The Plum Tree Various Traverse Theatre, Letters toin Morrissey Paradise Vault, dates from 6The Aug to 26 HHH 5–19£14.50—£20.50 Aug, not 13, £8 Aug, Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, Private Peaceful Blood Brothers – Play 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 theSpace Version Aug, £19.50on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8 Greenside @ Infirmary Lilith: The Jungle Girl Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 She Kills Monsters HHH theSpace @ Venue45, The Forest Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 5 Aug, £5 Courtyard, 11Pleasance Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 22–25 Aug, Under £10 £19.50 Dreaming the Jess Southern Bough Tankand Joe Forever ❤ HHHH HHH Dome, 7–20 Pleasance HHHH theSpace on Niddry St, Aug, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 5–13 Aug, not 7,25£7Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, The America Project £19.50 Too Fast Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 theSpace Mile, Richard IIIon (A the One-Woman Exile 10–14 Aug, £10 Show) SpaceTriplex, 14–19 The Royal Scots Club, 15–19 Aug, £6 Aug, £12 11:00 Volition My MindHall, is Free Central 8 Aug, £5 Single Varietal The Salvation Army EdinSpotlites, 16–19 Aug, £510 burgh City Corps, 9 Aug, 10:35 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Wilde WithoutAug, the£8 Boy Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, The Terrible False ❤ £5—£10 (A Four Act Deception 13:35 Play in 40 Minutes Shakespeare Tonight Enterprise or 43 With Laughs!) Paradise in Augustines, Assembly George Square 22–27 Aug, £14 HHHH Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, Church Hill Theatre, 18 In £8—£11 Fidelity HHH 22, Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, The Dame Dolly Donut Nancy’s 13 Aug, 19Philosopher Aug, 25 Aug, Show Summerhall, 16–20 £18.50 CAug, venues £12– C, 2–28 Aug, not Lightless 15, £7.50—£9.50 Greenside @ Infirmary Towers of Eden Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 10:40 theSpace on the Mile, MeetCountry Me At The Wife 21–26 Aug, £8Dawn Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, theSpace on the Mile, And They Played 10 Aug, 19 25 Aug, 22–27 Aug,Aug, £8—£8.50 Shang-A-Lang £21.50 King John The Stand Comedy Club Equations for aMile, Moving thenot 5theSpace & 6, 2–27on Aug, 3, 14, Body HHH 22–27 Aug, £7 £10—£12 Northern Stage at Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 10:45 17, 24, £9—£11

A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Venue45, Happy Yet? 11–19 Aug, not 13, £5 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7

Eyes Went Dark ❤ByMy If Chance HHHH New Town Theatre, 4–13 Traverse Aug, £10 Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, Prospect High: £18.50 Brooklyn Expensive@Shit theSpace Venue45, HHH 8 Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 10:50 Aug, £18.50 Avalon The Taming of the Paradise Shrew in The Vault, 5–27 Aug,–not 13, 20,14– £8 C venues C south, 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Sink

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Rumpelstiltskin Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Paradise in The Vault, Confabulation 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Prison Psychologist Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£12 Paradise in The Vault, Séance 21–27 Aug, £5 Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, The Plum Tree £4—£5 Paradise in The Vault, Frank Carson A £8 Rebel 5–19 Aug, not –13,

Without a Pause Private Peaceful Assembly Rooms, 3–27 theSpace Niddry St, Aug, not 15,on £10—£15 14–19 Aug, £8 Bump She KillsGeorge Monsters Assembly Square theSpace @ Venue45, Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 5 Aug, £5 21, £8—£11 Under ADreaming Compendium of Lost the Southern Bough Things

CHHH venues – C, 20–27 Aug, theSpace on Niddry St, £8.50—£10.50 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7

Patience Fast– C royale, 16–27 CToo venues theSpace on the Mile, Aug, £7.50—£9.50 10–14 Aug, £10 The Recovery Version Sweet Grassmarket, 4–20 11:00 Aug, £8 Gratiano Single Varietal Assembly 3–28 Spotlites,Hall, 16–19 Aug,Aug, £5 not 21, £7—£12 Wilde Without the Boy Smoking With Grandma Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, C£5—£10 venues – C royale, 2–15 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 Shakespeare Tonight No Rest for Lizard Paradise inthe Augustines, Banshee Labyrinth, 22–27 Aug, £14 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free In Fidelity HHH The Laramie Project Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, theSpace Niddry St, 7 13 Aug, 19onAug, 25 Aug, Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £8 £18.50 Lightless Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Equations for a Moving Body HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11

❤ My Eyes Went Dark HHHH Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug,

The Good Person of Sichuan theSpace on Niddry St, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £8

13:45 Lists for the End of the World Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Open Road C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£10 ScotlandsFest 2017 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £5 All My Life Long C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 17, £7.50—£9.50 Alex Salmond... Unleashed Assembly Rooms, 13–27 Aug, £22.50 An Arrangement of Shoes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–12 Aug, £free Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams’ Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £7—£11 DIGS Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Nathan Cassidy: Watch This. Love Me. It’s Deep. C venues – C cubed, 3–27 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Play Something Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–19 Aug, £10

Welcome Question Mark Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £9 The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth Pleasance Dome, 22–26 Aug, £10—£13 30 Neo-Futurist Plays From: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5

The Elephant, Your Majesty! New Town Theatre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 17 Aug, £12 Dae Ye Have a Sick-Line, Ken? New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £8 Can Sustainability Ever Be Mainstream? New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £8

Ape/Essence theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

Fitness to Witness New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £8

13:50

You Don’t Matter New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £8

Busu and the Damask Drum Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10

How to Rebuild a Life New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £8

The Cause of Thunder New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £16

What Keeps You Sharp? New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £8

Doctor Google Will See You Now! New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £8

The Robots are Coming! New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £8

Sad Girls Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £8 That Face Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–11 Aug, £5—£8 Treasure Trove of Shadows C venues – C, 20–28 Aug, £10.50—£12.50

Measuring Humanity New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £8 No Copyright, No Problem? New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £8 Fifty Shades of Green New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £8

Leere Zeit – Idle Time theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

Women, Science Is Not For You: III New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

A Level Playing Field Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £6

Surviving the Storm New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £8

Anti-Vaxxers are Anti-Social! New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £8

Cows Eat Grass, Don’t They? New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £8

In Praise of Useless Languages New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £8 Dr Data: The Answer to Cancer New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £8 Alternative Facts: Is the Truth in the Archives? New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £8

13:55 Hell Has No Fury SpaceTriplex, 22–26 Aug, £10 A Joke theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, £12 From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £7—£12 10 Rillington Place SpaceTriplex, 7–19 Aug, not 13, £10 Peer Gynt ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £8—£12 Jeopardy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10

14:00 Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 21, £6—£10 Deadpan Theatre: Third Wheel Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, £8—£12 Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £49.50—£54.50 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 On Ice – Suzanne Grotenhuis/De Nwe Tijd Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4–28 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £6—£12

Cockroached Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9.50 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Life – To Go... theSpace on North Bridge, 7–12 Aug, £5 All Quiet on the Western Front Pleasance Dome, 2–15 Aug, £6—£12 Vote 100 – Alice Hawkins – Suffragette Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £8 The Divide - Part 2 King’s Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £14 Firewater theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £8 Rhapsodes Pleasance Dome, 14–27 Aug, £10—£12.50 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£10 Victim Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £6.50—£11 From the Ground Up Assembly Roxy, 14–27 Aug, not 21, £9—£10 Meat ZOO, 7–27 Aug, not 20, £5—£9 The Divide - Part 1 King’s Theatre, Various dates from 11 Aug to 20 Aug, £14 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, £8 The Wedding Reception The Principal, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £39 Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, £9 Party Game Traverse at the Wee Red Bar, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, £21.50 A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 20 Aug, £12

Lunacy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 25–26 Aug, £free

14:05 The Edelweiss Pirates theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £10 Desert Bloom theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £9 So I’ve Heard Sweet Grassmarket, 15–20 Aug, £8

14:10 Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

The Shakespeares: Scenes from a Marriage theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £6—£9.50 Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10 Submission C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£7 The Merry Wives of Windsor theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8

Assessment Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £5—£10 A Sudden Burst of Blinding Light Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–19 Aug, £6—£11

Crazy Horse: A Dream of Thunder Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10

Cold Comfort Farm theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £7

Start Swimming Summerhall, 2–13 Aug, not 6, £6—£9

Rhinoceros The Lyceum, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £10

A Machine they’re Secretly Building Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, £11

TalkFest 2017: 02 Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, £7 Wedding Fever Mayfield Salisbury Church, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

14:15 Ballistic Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £5—£12

Call Mr Robeson Quaker Meeting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12

Volte Face Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 14–28 Aug, £8

Ladies’ Day Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 12 Aug, £8

14:25

Guilty Noodle Sweet Grassmarket, 23–27 Aug, £7

Obfuscation theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 Replay Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£12 Goody Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11

Not to Be Seen Outside the EU theSpace on the Mile, 7–11 Aug, £6

Hear Me Raw Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

Improbable Fiction St Ninian’s Hall, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

Just an Ordinary Lawyer Quaker Meeting House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12

Bright Colours Only Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £8—£15

Swan Bake C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Bikeology Assembly Checkpoint, 10–12 Aug, £15 The Amorous Ambassador Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 19 Aug, £12

Derailed Pleasance Dome, 14–28 Aug, £6.50—£11

14:45 Gunshot Medley Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Polaris 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 4–28 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £free Clitorosity, Cocktastrophes and Other Things You Can’t Get Your Mouth Around theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

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14:35

All Hell Toupee Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–13 Aug, £6—£9

The Gardener Summerhall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5—£10

The Cricket C venues – C, 2–19 Aug, £10.50—£12.50

Clonely Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 3–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Poll Function Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£9

Raton Laveur Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 16, £7—£12

La Dispute theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

Locker Room Talk Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

Yvette Pleasance Courtyard, 2–26 Aug, not 14, £6—£11

The Giant Killers Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, £6—£12

Toll C venues – C, 2–15 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Egg Bourbon Bar, 5–27 Aug, £free

A Stool Against the Printed Rule Quaker Meeting House, 14–19 Aug, £7

The Friday Night Effect Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£12

Slash Theatre: The Room in the Elephant Heroes @ The Hive, 8–12 Aug, £5

14:20 Class Mates theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £7—£12 Sugar Baby Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Two Chairs Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, £10 Arlene! The Glitz. The Glamour. The Gossip. Assembly Checkpoint, 22–26 Aug, £15 Dear Home Office 2: Still Pending Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21–27 Aug, £10 salt. Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12 Mies Julie Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£17.50

The Road That Wasn’t There Assembly Roxy, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£11

14:40 Gutted Pleasance Dome, 2–13 Aug, £6.50—£11 Quarter Life Crisis Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 The Accidental Adventures of Sherlock Holmes C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Stegosaurus C venues – C royale, 2–19 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Mia: Daughters of Fortune Summerhall, 8–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15

14:50 3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10 Other Voices Spoken Word Cabaret Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Todd & God HHH Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7—£13

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01:10 Our Christian Nation Paradise in Augustines, 6–13 Aug, £10 Beadledom: Alpha Underbelly, Cowgate, 01:15dates from 4 Aug to Various 26 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 The Last Emperor of Beadledom: Omega Mexico Underbelly, Cowgate, Laughing Horse @ The Various dates from4–28 3 Aug to Counting House, 27 Aug, £6.50—£10.50 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Locus Amoenus Summerhall, 15–27 01:30 Aug, £12 Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 17 14:55 Aug, 24 Aug, £15 For the School Colours: The Life and Works of 09:00 Angela Brazil C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Breakfast Plays: ❤ not Aug, 14, £9.50—£11.50 Tech Will Tear Us Apart Transmission (?) HHHH Assembly George Square Traverse Theatre, 16–28 Studios, Aug, not 9, Aug, not5–26 22, £14.50 14, 21, £8—£10 When We Ran 09:15 Courtyard, 2–28 Pleasance Aug, not 14, £6—£12 Metamorphoses Church Hill Theatre, 8 What Would Cathy Do? £5 – C primo, 3–28 CAug, venues Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 The Dining Room Church Hill Theatre, 7 the Caravaggio: Between Aug, £5 Darkness theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Holy Day Aug, not 13, Church Hill £5—£10 Theatre, 10 Aug,Tale £5 of the Tail The Greenside @ Infirmary The Ticket Street, £6 5 Church7–11 HillAug, Theatre, Aug, £5

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09:20

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Confessions a Personal The CountryofWife Trainer theSpace on the Greenside @ Infirmary Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £8—£8.50 20, £10 Emerald 09:30Boy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £5 An Evening of Original Theatre Pike St. Church Hill Theatre, 6 Roundabout @ SummerhAug, £5 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, all, 4–27 £9—£15

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Moonlight After Midnight The History of Tom Assembly George Square Jones 3–28 Aug, not 9, Theatre, SpaceTriplex, 16, £7—£12 5 Aug, 7 Aug, £5 The Girl Who Loved Stalin theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 09:25

The Man on the Moor 09:45 Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Measure 4 Measure Aug, £6.50—£10.50 (Abridged) Chamberlain: Peace in theSpace @ Venue45, Our Time 6 Aug, £5 Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, £5.50—£11

Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15

The Shakespeare Club theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Aug, £5

Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

The Three Musketeers SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5

Blood Brothers – Play Version Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 The Forest

My Name is Irrelevant 10:00 Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, Into not 14,the 21, Shadows £7.50—£11of Shakespeare – Free Spring Awakening: A theSpace on the Mile, Reimagining 12–14 Aug, £free SpaceTriplex, 14–26 Aug, Shakespeare not 20, £5—£8 for Breakfast Parentcraft C venues – C, 3–29 Aug, C venues – C royale, 2–21 not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Us / Them HHH Struggle Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Lauriston Halls, 21–27 not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 Aug, £8 A Midsummer Night’s Christina Rossetti’s Dreaming HHH Goblin Market theSpace on Niddry St, Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 4–26 Aug, not 6, 7, 13, 14, Breakfast 20, 21, £10 Plays: B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Becoming Scheherazade Aug, not 21, £15.50 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7.50—£10

10:05at 33 Meeting Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Eurohouse Aug, 12 Aug, 1816–26 Aug, £10 Summerhall, Aug, £10 Ensonglopedia of Science Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 10:10 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Waves Jane Doe Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Assembly Square not 8, 15, George 22, £7.50—£9 Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, Fish and Chips with 21, £9—£12 Edith Séance theSpace on the Mile, Summerhall, 5–13 Aug, not2–26 7, £6Aug, £4—£5 The Sister Krapp’s Tape ParadiseLast in Augustines, Church Hill Theatre & Stu6–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 dio, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, 27 Aug, £25

10:15 The Story of Snow and True Stories toTales Tell in ❤ Other According Reet the Middletoof thePetite Night Paradise in Augustines, HHHH 14–18 Aug, £9 13–28 Aug, Summerhall, not 15, 22,Little £10 Fool Beautiful Greenside @ Infirmary Dark of the Moon Street, Aug, £85 Church21–26 Hill Theatre, Aug, £5 and Mr Hardy Mr Laurel Greenside Wasted @ Nicolson Square, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Greenside @ Infirmary Aug, 14 Aug, £11 Street, 15–20 Aug, £7—£8 Frogman Traverse CodeBase, The Girlatwith the 12–20 Aug, not 14, £19.50 Hurricane Hands (and Other Short Tales Hands-On Messiah 00:00 Woe) Church, 19 Aug, StofPatrick’s A Clock Laughing Horse @Aug, The £7 20 Aug, 26Face Aug, 27 Free Sisters,–4–28 FreeAug, AExhibition Wake (For Those Dying £free Laughing Horse @ The for an Honest Job That Counting House, Various Brothers Grimm Always Makes a Killing) dates from 3 Aug to 11 Spectaculathon Brewhemia, 18–19 Aug, £4 Aug, £free Church Hill Theatre, 17 1984 An With an Aug,Evening £5 Greenside @ Infirmary Immigrant Street, 23–26 Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, 22–25 Fuaigh – Interweaving Aug, £19.50 Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 00:05

Under Milk Wood Cloud Avenue Assembly Rooms, 14 Greenside Aug, £15 @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7 The Barista Chronicles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10 What Do Bears Eat? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7

00:10

10:20 15:05 The Chronicles of Woolf Narnia: The Lion,Bridge, theSpace on North the Witch and20, the 14–26 Aug, not £7 Wardrobe The Laramie Project Church Hill Theatre, 16 theSpace on Niddry St, 8 Aug, £5 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £8

Witch The F Word theSpace @ Venue45, ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £6—£9 15–20 Aug, £8 Edgar and Me Big Bite-Size Zoo Southside, 20–28 Aug, Breakfast Show £7—£10 Pleasance Dome, All KIDding Aside 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, £8.50—£12.50 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, Mine £5—£10 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, A17–20 Charlie Montague Aug, £7 Mystery: The Game’s a Around the World in Foot, Try the Fish 80 Days theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Church Hill Theatre, 14 4–26 Aug, not 6, £5—£8 Aug, £5 The Bearpit Plain as Paper Zoo Southside, 4–19 Aug, Greenside @ Nicolson £7—£10 Square, 5–20 Aug, not Maklena 7, 14, £8 theSpace @ Venue45, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8

10:25

Awakening, Sweet Mine and Sour Sensory theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Composition 16 Aug, £7 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 15–19 Aug, £11 Dog Sees God: Confessions Bunker Girls of a Teenage@Blockhead theSpace Surgeons Hall, theSpace 22–26 Aug,on £7Niddry St, 22–27 Aug, £7 All’s Well That Ends As TheLike Country Wife You It: A Lamentable theSpaceand on the Mile, Comedie Hysterickal 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare theSpace 10:30on Niddry St, 20 Aug, £9.50 Daffodils (A Play With The Interview Songs) HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Traverse 7 Aug, 7–12 Aug, Theatre, £8 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 The Person of Aug,Good £20.50 Sichuan Revolt. She Said. St, 7 theSpace on Niddry Revolt Again. Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £8 Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, 15:10 £14.50—£20.50 Ladies Who Lunch View from ❤ The Greenside @ Nicolson Castle Rock by Alice Square, 21–25 Aug, £7 Munro HHHH 00:50 artSpace@StMarks, 11 The Inconvenience of Knowledge Is Power Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Wings Paradise in The Vault, Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 Assembly George Square 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 Studios, 3–27 Aug, notThe 14, Thomas: ❤ Mark 21, £10—£15 Red Shed HHHH 01:10 Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, The Loneliest Girl in 19 24 Aug,Nation 28 Aug, the World OurAug, Christian £20.50 in Greenside @Augustines, Infirmary Paradise Street, 15–26 Aug, not 6–13 Aug, £10 20, £8 Squeeze 01:15My Cans Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, 14,Emperor 21, £5—£12 Thenot Last of Mexico The Jungle Book Laughing Horse @ The SpaceTriplex, 7–12 Aug, £5 Counting House, 4–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free

01:30 Séance Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

09:00 ❤ Breakfast Plays: Tech Will Tear Us Apart (?) HHHH Traverse Theatre, 16–28 Aug, not 22, £14.50

Pleasance Courtyard, 15:15 22–25 Aug, £10

HHHH Tank HHHH ❤ Monster

Pleasance 2–28 PleasanceCourtyard, Dome, 7–20 Aug, 16, £6—£10 Aug,not £6—£10

Jelly The Beans America Project Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£10 Exile Death by Shakespeare SpaceTriplex, 14–19 theSpace Aug, £6 on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8 Volition Naming Culture Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 8–12 Aug, £6

10:35

The Amazing Clinic of Terrible ❤ Theand Armour SmithFalse Deception (A Four Act theSpace @ Venue45, PlayAug, in 40£5Minutes 11–12 or 43 With Laughs!) Ancient Shrines and Half HHHH Truths Church Hill Theatre, 18 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not Aug, £5 7, 14, 15, 21, £9—£11 Nancy’s Philosopher Questioning Summerhall,Aslan: 16–20An Evening Aug, £12With CS Lewis Palmerston Place Church, 26 Aug, £11

10:40

Venus and Adonis Country Wife 2–28 CThe venues – C primo, theSpace the Mile, Aug, not 14,on £9.50—£11.50 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 Empty Shoes King John Paradise in Augustines, theSpace 14–27 Aug,on notthe 20,Mile, £10 22–27 Aug, £7 Medea Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

10:45 An Actor’s Tribute Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5 If By Chance Alice and the Black4–13 Hole New Town Theatre, Blues Aug, £10 Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5 Prospect High: Brooklyn

theSpace @ Venue45, 15:20

8 Aug, £5 This Really Is Too Much Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 10:50

Séance Avalon Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, Paradise in The Vault, £4—£5 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 The Ties That Bind Sink Whitespace Various theSpace @76, Surgeons dates from 3Aug, Aug£8 to 23 Hall, 14–19 Aug, £7 Nothing The Importance of Aug, Being Summerhall, 2–27 Frank not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10 theSpace on North Shakespeare on Bridge, Love __ Happens 14–19 Aug, £8.50 SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 theSpace @ Venue45, Reeling 9 Aug, £5 Hamlet Central Hall,@17Venue45, Aug, £5 theSpace The Amish Project

5 Aug,Pierson £5 Version) Avery (Ensemble Central Hall,@18 Aug, £5 theSpace Venue45, The Shakespeare Club 7theSpace Aug, £5 @ Venue45, 10 Aug, £5 15:25

Out of the Bad New Town Theatre, 4–25 10:00 Aug, not 15, £12 Into the Shadows of Tartuffe Shakespeare – Free Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 theSpace on the Mile, Aug, £10 12–14 Aug, £free Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C, 3–29 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Us / Them HHH Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 A Midsummer Night’s Dreaming HHH theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Aug, not 21, £15.50

10:55 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Prison Psychologist Paradise in The Vault, Side Orders 21–27 Aug, theSpace on£5 North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, The Plum £5 Tree Paradise in The Vault, Home 5–19 Aug,onnot 13, £8 theSpace North Bridge, Various from 4 Aug to Privatedates Peaceful 11theSpace Aug, £10on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8 Hamlettes Central Hall,Monsters 14 Aug, £5 She Kills theSpace @ Venue45, 5 Aug, £5 15:30

Dreaming Under Dick in Space Bough the Southern Laughing Horse @ The HHHHouse, 14 Aug, 21 Counting theSpace on Niddry St, Aug, 5–13£free Aug, not 7, £7 Finding Nana Too Fast Pleasance theSpace Courtyard, on the Mile,2–28 Aug, notAug, 14, £6—£12.50 10–14 £10 Mouthpiece CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in 11:00 with Summerassociation hall, 3–27Varietal Aug, not 8, 15, 18, Single 22, 25, £8—£10 Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 The Concrete Jungle Book Wilde Without the Boy ZOO, 4–14 Aug, Assembly Hall,£7—£12 4–29 Aug, Fémage £5—£10à Trois Gilded Balloon atTonight Rose Shakespeare Theatre, Aug, not 14, Paradise2–28 in Augustines, £6—£11 22–27 Aug, £14 Show Me the Money In Fidelity HHH Bedlam Theatre, 2–13 Aug, Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, not 5, 6, 13 Aug, £10 19 Aug, 25 Aug, PreScribed (A Life Written £18.50 for Me) Lightless ZOO, 15–25 Aug, £10 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Cathy Pleasance Dome, Meet Me At Dawn 2–26 Aug,Theatre, not 9, 14,521, Traverse Aug, £6.50—£11 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50Burns: Rough Cut Robert Scottish Storytelling Centre, Equations for a Moving 4–27 BodyAug, not 14, 21, £10

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Between Crosses Northernthe Stage at SumArmy @ The Fringe As-10, merhall, 6–27 Aug,innot sociation with Summerhall, 17, 24, £9—£11 11–16My Aug, £12.50 Eyes Went Dark

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Alan, We Think You Should HHHH Traverse Get a DogTheatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20Courtyard, Aug, 26 Aug, Pleasance 2–28 £18.50 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50 Expensive Shit Curse of Cranholme Abbey HHH Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, 4–19 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, £6—£10 Shakespeare’s Romeo Aug, £18.50 Sugar & Salt and Juliet The Taming the£5Aug, Bedlam Theatre, 5–28 Central Hall, 4ofAug, Shrew not 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, War of the Worlds: The C venues 21, £6—£7– C south, 14– Panic Broadcast 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Green Knight Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 The Royal Scots Club, 7–23 The Three Musketeers Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 19, 20, £8 ScotlandsFest 2017 10:20Meeting House, Quaker 21–25 Aug, £5 of The Chronicles Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Church Hill Theatre, 16 Aug, £5

All’s Well That Ends As You Like It: A Lamentable Comedie and Hysterickal Tragedie, by William Shakefpeare theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £9.50 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Wired Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 23–26 Aug, £10 Deleted Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5

15:35 Fine, Thanks C venues – C, 20–27 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

15:40 The Greenhouse theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 5 Aug to 25 Aug, £6—£9.50 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, £4—£5 Offside Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£12 Van Gogh Find Yourself #VGFY Natural Food Kafe, 3–26 Aug, not 10, 18, 19, 20, £free

15:45 Bleach Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–11 Aug, £free The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea The Royal Scots Club, 10–26 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, £15 The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything! Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 25–28 Aug, £14 Conspiracy Milk HH Theory: A Lizard’s TraverseTale Theatre, Various Bar Bados dates fromComplex, 6 Aug to5–26 26 Aug, 14, £free Aug,not £14.50—£20.50

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Su Hall, 15–20 Au

iDENTiTY Blood Brothers – Play Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, Version not 9, 16, 24,@25, £8 Greenside Infirmary Street,Women 8–10 Aug, £4 Noose theSpace on the Mile, The Forest Various dates from 6 Aug to Pleasance Courtyard, 26 Aug, Aug, £6—£9.50 22–25 £10 Joe Forever Tankand ❤ Jess HHHH HHHH Pleasance Dome, 7–20 Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, Aug, £6—£10 £19.50 The America Project Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

10:55

Witch theSpace @ Venue45, 15–20 Aug, £8

Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £6

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, £8.50—£12.50

Volition Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Mine theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 17–20 Aug, £7 Around the World in 80 Days Church Hill Theatre, 14

10:35 ❤ The Terrible False Deception (A Four Act Play in 40 Minutes or 43 With Laughs!)

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Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

Rumpelstilts Paradise in The 15–20 Aug, £5

Prison Psych Paradise in The 21–27 Aug, £5

The Plum Tre Paradise in The 5–19 Aug, not 1

Private Peac theSpace on N 14–19 Aug, £8

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Knowledge Is Power Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 00:50 Knowledge Is Power Paradise in The Vault, 01:10 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7 Our Christian Nation Paradise in Augustines, 6–13 Aug, £10 01:10 Our Christian Nation Misterman Paradise in Augustines, 01:15 C6–13 venues C primo, 4–28 Aug,– £10 Aug, 14,Emperor £9.50—£11.50 Thenot Last of Mexico Ivona, Princess of 01:15 Laughing Horse @ The Burgundia – Tibaldus Counting House, 4–28 The Last Emperor of Upper Church @ SummerAug, not 9,by 16,RBC, 23, £free hall hosted 15–27 Mexico Aug, not 17,Horse £8—£10 Laughing @ The Counting House, 4–28 Translunar Paradise Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Pleasance Courtyard,

01:30

Séance 2–28 Aug, not 9, 15, 22, Sweet Grassmarket, 17 £6.50—£13.50 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

01:30

Working Method – Enkidu Séance Khaled Sweet Grassmarket, 17 09:00 Upper Church @ SummerAug, 24 Aug, hall hosted by£15 RBC, 4–13 Breakfast Plays: ❤ Aug, not 7, £8—£10 Tech Will Tear Us Apart 09:00 The (Guru (?) Offering HHHH Dakshina) Traverse Theatre,Plays: 16–28 Breakfast C❤ venues –22, C royale, 2–28 Aug, not £14.50 Technot Will Us Apart Aug, 14,Tear £9.50—£11.50 (?) HHHH Milk Letters to Morrissey HH Traverse Theatre, 16–28 09:15 Traverse Theatre, Various HHH Aug, not 22, £14.50 dates from 6 Aug11toAug, 26 17 Traverse Theatre, Metamorphoses Aug,23 £14.50—£20.50 Aug, Aug, £19.50 8 Church Hill Theatre, 09:15 Aug, £5 Blood Brothers Jocky Wilson Said– Play Version Gilded BalloonRoom at Rose TheThe Metamorphoses Dining Greenside @ Infirmary atre, 2–24 Aug, £6—£12 Church Hill Theatre, 7 8 Street, Aug, £58–10 Aug, £4 Eve The Dining Forest Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, Holy The Day Room Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Church Hill Theatre, 710 22–25 £19.50 Aug, £5Aug, £10

Tank ❤ HHHH HolyNassim Day HHHH The Ticket

Pleasance Dome, Traverse Theatre, 107–20 Aug, Church Hill Theatre, 10 5 16 Aug,22 £6—£10 Aug, Aug, £19.50 Aug, £5

The Ticket America Project Flight The Central Hall, 8 Aug,&£5 Church Theatre ChurchHill Hill Theatre, 5Stu09:20 dio, 4 Aug, Aug, £5 11 Aug, £15 Exile The History of Tom SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Lilith: The Jungle Girl Jones Aug, £6 HHH 09:20 SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 Volition Aug, History £5 The of Tom Aug, 24 Aug, Central Hall,£19.50 8 Aug, £5 Jones The Curious Savage SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 09:25 @ Venue45, theSpace 9 Aug, £5 10:35 Aug, The£5 Country Wife The Terrible ❤ theSpace on the False Deception (A Four Mile, 09:25 5–13 Aug, not 7,Act Play in 40 Minutes £8—£8.50 The Country Wife or 43 With Laughs!) theSpace on the

HHHH Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7,

09:30 Church Hill Theatre, 18 £8—£8.50 Aug, £5

An Evening of Original Nancy’s Philosopher Theatre 09:30 Summerhall, 16–20 6 Church Hill Theatre, £12 Aug, £5 An Evening of Original Theatre Church Hill Theatre, 6 10:40 09:45 Aug, £5 The Country Wife Measure 4 Measure theSpace on the Mile, (Abridged) 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 09:45 theSpace @ Venue45, King 6 Aug,John £5 4 Measure Measure theSpace on the Mile, (Abridged) 22–27 Aug, £7 theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5

Shakespeare on Love SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Hamlet theSpace @ Venue45, Shakespeare on Love 5 Aug, £5 SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Hamlet The Shakespeare Club theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Aug, 5 Aug,£5£5 The Shakespeare Club theSpace 10:00 @ Venue45, 10 Aug, £5 15:50 Into the Shadows of Shakespeare – Free Three Tales of Life and 10:00 theSpace on theLucas Mile, Death by Craig 12–14the Aug, £free 3–26 Into Shadows of Assembly Rooms, Aug, not 9, 15, 22, Shakespeare – £6—£12 Free for theSpace onAnimal the Mile,GIFs Breakfast Anxiety and 12–14 Aug,– £free C venues C,6–26 3–29Aug, Aug, Black Market, not not 9,15, 16,£7.50—£9.50 23, £free Shakespeare for

Breakfast Us / Them HHH Scribble HH Summerhall, C venues Roxy, – C,3–28 3–29 Aug, Assembly 3–27Aug, Aug, not15, 8, 22, 15, 15, £7.50—£9.50 22, £8—£10 not £6—£11 A Midsummer Us / Them HHH Night’s 26.2 Summerhall, 3–28 Dreaming HHH Paradise in The Vault,Aug, 14–19 not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 theSpace on Niddry St, Aug, £7.50 5–13 Aug, not 7, Night’s £7 A Midsummer Closed for Repairs Dreaming Breakfast Plays: B!rth HHH theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Traverse theSpace on Niddry 15–27 St, Aug, £5 Theatre, Aug, not 5–13 Aug,21, not £15.50 7, £7 Breakfast Plays: B!rth 15:55 Traverse 10:05 Theatre, 15–27

Pharmacophilia Aug, not 21, £15.50 Happy Yet? Eurohouse Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 theSpace Summerhall, 16–26 Aug, £7 @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, 10:05 £10 Aug, £7 Blank Tiles Eurohouse Assembly George Square Summerhall, 16–26 10:55 10:10 Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, Aug, £10 £6—£11 Rumpelstiltskin Waves Paradise in The Vault, Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, 15–20 Aug, not 10:10 8, 15, 22,£5.50 £7.50—£9 16:00 Prison Psychologist Fish Waves and Chips with Nina – A Story About Me Paradise in The Vault, Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Edith and Nina Simone 21–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £7.50—£9 theSpace on£5the Mile, Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 5–13 Aug, not 7, £6 The Plum Tree Fish and Chips with Aug, £21.50 Paradise in The Vault, Edith The Sister Cracked Tiles 5–19 Aug, not 13,Mile, £8 Paradise theSpace inon Augustines, the C5–13 venues – not Cnot royale, 6–28 Aug, Aug, 7,14,£621,13–28 £8 Private Peaceful Aug, not 17, £8.50—£10.50 theSpace The Sisteron Niddry St, Meet AtinDawn 14–19Me Aug, £8 Paradise Augustines, 10:15Theatre, 12 Aug, Traverse 6–28 Aug,Monsters not 14, 21, £8 She Kills £21.50 Stories to Tell in ❤ theSpace @ Venue45, the Middle Lost in Translation: A 5 Aug, £5 of the Night 10:15 HHHH Bilingual Journey Dreaming Under Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, Institut français d’Ecosse, Stories toBough Tell in ❤ the Southern not 22,not £10 4–28 Aug, 14, 15, 22, the15, Middle of7,the Night HHH £6—£8 Dark of the HHHH theSpace on Moon Niddry St, Church Summerhall, Hill Theatre, 13–28 5 Aug, The Egg-Born Princess 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Aug,15, not £522, £10 SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £5 Too Fast Wasted Dark of the Little Boy theSpace on Moon the Mile, Greenside Hill @ Theatre, Infirmary 5 CChurch venues – C royale, 2–28 10–14 Aug, £10 Street, Aug, £515–20 Aug, Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 £7—£8 Wasted

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Greenside The Girl with @ Infirmary the Street, 15–20 Aug, (and Hurricane Hands Single Varietal £7—£8 Other Short Tales Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5

of Woe) The Girl with the Wilde Without the Boy Laughing Horse @ The Hurricane Hands Assembly Hall, 4–29(and Aug, Free Sisters, Other Short4–28 TalesAug, £5—£10 £free of Woe) Shakespeare Tonight Laughing @ The Brothers Horse Grimm Paradise in Augustines, Free Sisters, 4–28 Aug, Spectaculathon 22–27 Aug, £14 £free Church Hill Theatre, 17 In Fidelity HHH Aug, £5 Grimm Brothers Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Spectaculathon 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Church Hill Theatre, 17 £18.50 Aug, £5

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5 Shakespeare’s Romeo War of the Worlds: The and Juliet Panic Broadcast Central Hall, 4 7 Aug, £5 War of the Musketeers Worlds: The The Three Panic Broadcast SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 The Three Musketeers 10:20 SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 The Chronicles Austen’s Women of Narnia: The Assembly Roxy,Lion, 3–13 Aug, 10:20 the7,Witch and the not 8, £11—£13 Wardrobe The Chronicles Agent November:of Major X Church Hill 16 Narnia: The Lion, Plow-Shun /Theatre, The Murder Aug,Witch £5 and the ofthe Mr E Wardrobe Witch New Town Theatre, 2–27 theSpace Church Hill@£8—£15 Theatre, Venue45, 16 Aug, not 15, 15–20£5Aug, £8 Aug, The Portable Dorothy Big Bite-Size Witch Parker theSpace @Show Venue45, Breakfast Gilded Balloon at Rose 15–20 Aug, £8Aug, not 14, Pleasance Dome, Theatre, 2–28 3–29 Aug, not 21, £6—£12 Big Bite-Size16, 23, £8.50—£12.50 Breakfast The DelightsShow of Dogs and Mine Pleasance Dome, the Problems of People theSpace 3–29 Aug,@ not Jury’s 16, 23, Inn, SpaceTriplex, Various dates 17–20 £8.50—£12.50 Aug,to£726 Aug, from 4 Aug £6—£10 Around the World in Mine theSpace 80 Days @ Jury’s Inn, Fag/Stag 17–20 £7 ChurchAug, HillCowgate, Theatre, 14 Underbelly, 3–27 Aug, £514, Aug, not Around the£7—£12.50 World in 80 Days Plain as Paper Daniel Piper’s Day Off Greenside Church Hill@ Theatre, Nicolson 14 Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Square, Aug, £514, 5–20 Aug, not Aug, not £6.50—£10 7, 14, £8 Plainand as Paper Flesh Bone GreensideDome, @ Nicolson Pleasance 2–28 Square, 5–20 Aug, not Aug, £6—£10 10:25 7, 14, £8 Sparkleshark Mine CtheSpace venues – @ C royale, 2–12 Jury’s Inn, Aug, £7.50—£9.50 16 Aug, 10:25 £7 Iraq & Loud: DogOut Mine Sees God: We Read the Chilcot theSpace @ Jury’s Confessions of Report a Inn, (Documentary) 16 Aug, £7Blockhead Teenage Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, theSpace Niddry St, Dog Seeson God: 7–19 Aug, not£7 9, £free 22–27 Aug, Confessions of a Oil! Teenage Blockhead The Country Wife Paradise Augustines, theSpaceinon the Niddry Mile,St, 5–12 Aug, £8£7 15–20 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 The Lovers TheFlying Country Wifeof Vitebsk theSpace on the Mile, 10:30 Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 Aug, £21.50(A Play With Daffodils Songs) HH Wild Bore 10:30 TraverseTheatre, Theatre,10 7 Aug, Traverse Aug, 19 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, Aug, 25 Aug, Daffodils (A£21.50 Play With27 Aug, £20.50 Songs) The City –HH A Detective Hip Revolt. Traverse She Theatre, Said.7 Aug, Hop Opera 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 Revolt Again. Drummond Community Aug, £20.50 Traverse Theatre, 16 High School, 8–10 Aug, Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50 Revolt. She Said. £14.50—£20.50 Revolt Again. Traverse 16 The Theatre, View from ❤ Aug, 20Rock Aug, 25 Castle byAug, Alice £14.50—£20.50 Munro HHHH artSpace@StMarks, The View from 11 ❤ Aug, 12 Rock Aug, 13byAug, 15 Castle Alice Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 Munro

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artSpace@StMarks, Mark Thomas: 11 The ❤ Aug, Shed 12 Aug,HHHH 13 Aug, 15 Red Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 24Thomas: Aug, 28 Aug, Mark The ❤ £20.50 Red Shed

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Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 28 Aug, £20.50

Milk HH Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Milk

Traverse Theatre,–Various Blood Brothers Play dates from 6 Aug to 26 Version Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–10 Aug, –£4Play Blood Brothers

Version The Forest Pleasance@ Greenside Courtyard, Infirmary 22–25 Aug, Street, 8–10£10 Aug, £4 TheNassim Tank Forest ❤ HHHH HHHH

Pleasance Dome,47–20 Courtyard, Traverse Theatre, Aug, 27 Aug,£19.50 22–25 £6—£10 Aug, £10 Aug,

The Tank America Project and Joe Forever ❤ Jess HHHH Central Hall,Dome, Pleasance 8 Aug,7–20 £5 HHHH Aug, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, Exile 15 Aug, 20 Aug,14–19 26 Aug, SpaceTriplex, The America Project £13—£19.50 Aug, £6Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Central

The Emily Triptych Exile Volition Quaker House, SpaceTriplex, CentralMeeting Hall, 814–19 Aug, £512 Aug, Aug,19 £6Aug, £8 Adam Volition 10:35Theatre, 11 Aug, Traverse Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 £21.50 ❤ The Terrible False Deception EH16 (Pyre) (A Four Act 10:35 Play in Bar, 40 Minutes Bourbon 5–9 Aug, or 43 With Laughs!) Terrible False £free ❤ The

HHHH Deception (A Four Act The Whip Hand Church 18 Play in Hill 40 Theatre, Minutes Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, £5 or 43 Aug, 24With Aug, Laughs!) £21.50 Nancy’s Philosopher HHHH James Tait Prize Summerhall, Church Hill Black Theatre, 16–20 18 for Drama 2017: The Award Aug, £5 £12 Ceremony Nancy’sTheatre, Philosopher Traverse 21 Aug, £7 Summerhall, 16–20 10:40 Aug, £12 The Country Wife 16:05 theSpace on the Mile, Know 22–27Brexit 10:40 Aug, £8—£8.50 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, KingCountry The John Wife 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, £10 theSpace on the Mile, Whore: A Kid’s 22–27 Aug, £7 Play £8—£8.50 Greenside @ Infirmary King John Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, theSpace 10:45 20, £6—£12on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £7 God Ltd If By Chance theSpace Niddry St, New TownonTheatre, 4–13 10:45 4–19 Aug,Aug, £10 not 6, 13, £5—£8 Fox and Hound Prospect If By Chance High:Presents 1 inNew 2 Chance Town Theatre, 4–13 Brooklyn Greenside Aug, £10 @ theSpace @Infirmary Venue45, Street, Aug, not 13, 8 Aug,4–26 £5 High: Prospect 20, £6—£10 Brooklyn Overshare! theSpace @ Venue45, 10:50 theSpace 8 Aug, £5on North Bridge, Avalon 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8 Paradise in The Vault, The Unaccompanied 5–27 10:50 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 Minor Sink @ Surgeons Hall, Avalon theSpace theSpace Paradise in@The Surgeons Vault, Various dates from 4 Aug to Hall, 5–27 14–19 Aug, Aug, 13,£8 20, £8 26 Aug, £10not Sink Nothing theSpace @ Surgeons Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, Hall, £8 not 7,14–19 14, 21,Aug, 22, £7—£10 Nothing __ Happens theSpace @ Venue45, Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, 9 Aug, not 7, 14, £521, 22, £7—£10 __ Happens The Amish Project theSpace @ Version) Venue45, (Ensemble 9 Aug, £5 @ Venue45, theSpace 7The Aug, £5 Amish Project (Ensemble Version) theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 Happy Yet? theSpace 10:55 @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 10:55 Rumpelstiltskin Prison Psychologist Paradise in The Vault, 21–27 Aug, 15–20 Aug, £5 £5.50 Someone Dies at the End The Plum Prison Psychologist theSpace @Tree Surgeons Paradise in Thenot Vault, Hall, 4–19 Aug, 6, 13, 5–19 Aug, 21–27 Aug,not £513, £8 £free—£8 Private The Plum Peaceful Tree The Play theSpaceon Paradise inonThe Niddry Vault, theSpace the Mile,St, 14–19 14–19 5–19 Aug,not £813, £8 Aug, £7Aug, She Kills Private Peaceful Monsters From Today, Everything theSpace on @ Venue45, Niddry St, Changes. 5 14–19 Aug, Aug, £5 £8 theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug,Monsters £8 Dreaming She Kills Under theSpace @ Venue45, the Southern Bough Super Earth 5 Aug, £5@ Surgeons Hall, HHH theSpace theSpace onUnder Niddry11St, Various dates from Aug Dreaming Aug,£10 not 7,Bough £7 to5–13 18 Southern Aug, the Too Fast HHH theSpace on the Niddry Mile,St, 16:10 10–14Aug, 5–13 Aug,not £107, £7 An Act of Kindness Fast– C cubed, 3–28 CToo venues theSpace the Mile, 11:00 Aug, not 15,on £8.50—£10.50 10–14 Aug, £10 Wil Greenway: These Single Varietal Trees the Autumn Leaves Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 11:00 Alone HHH Wilde Without the Boy Underbelly Med Quad, 3–27 Assembly Single Varietal Hall, 4–29 Aug, Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11.50 £5—£10 16–19 Aug, £5 Spotlites, Tense Vagina: an actual Shakespeare Wilde WithoutTonight the Boy diagnosis Paradise inHall, Assembly Augustines, 4–29 Aug, Underbelly, Cowgate, 22–27 Aug, £14 £5—£10 3–27 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, In Fidelity HHH Shakespeare Tonight £6.50—£11 Traverse Theatre, Paradise in Augustines, 7 Aug, Under My Thumb 13 Aug,Aug, 22–27 19 Aug, £1425 Aug, Assembly Roxy, 3–20 Aug, £18.50 In Fidelity HHH not 14, £6—£10 LightlessTheatre, 7 Aug, Traverse The Tempest Greenside 13 Aug, 19 @ Aug, Infirmary 25 Aug, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 £18.50 21–26 Aug, £7 Meet Me At Dawn Lightless My Second Best Bed Traverse Theatre, Greenside @ Infirmary 5 Aug, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 10 Aug,8–13 Street, 19 Aug, Aug,25£8 Aug, 7–12 Aug, £5 £21.50 Meet Me At Dawn Cannonball Equations Traverse Theatre, for a Moving 5 Aug, Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 10 Aug,HHH 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Body 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £21.50 Northern Stage at Sum£4—£8 merhall, 6–27 not 10, Equations forAug, a Moving The Bothy 17, 24, £9—£11 Body HHH Greenside @ Nicolson Northern My Eyes Stage Went at SumDark ❤ Square, 21–26 Aug, £2 merhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, HHHH Beethoven in Stalingrad Traverse 17, 24, £9—£11 Theatre, 9 Aug, Greenside @Aug, Nicolson 14 Aug, 26 Aug, My 20 Eyes Went Dark ❤ Square, £18.50 14–19 Aug, £12

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Traverse Theatre, Expensive Shit 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, HHH £18.50 Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Expensive Shit Aug, £18.50

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Traverse The Taming Theatre, of the 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Shrew Aug, £18.50 C venues – C south, 14– 20 £8.50—£10.50 TheAug, Taming of the

Shrew C venues – C south, 14– 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Me, as a Penguin theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £10

16:15 I’m Always the Bridesmaid Bar Bados Complex, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free A Great Fear of Shallow Living Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £5—£10 Wrong Tree Adventures Lauriston Halls, 18–27 Aug, not 20, £7 Shame Assembly George Square Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Diary Pilgrim, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Deadly Dialogues C venues – C, 4–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50 The Waiting Game Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5—£9 1917: A Phantasmagoria Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10 #DirtyWoman Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free Wrong Tree Adventures Lauriston Halls, 7–17 Aug, not 13, £7 Attila the Stockbroker – Undaunted Bannermans, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £free Adam Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

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16:20 We Are Not a Muse theSpace on North Bridge, 7–19 Aug, not 13, £6 Broken theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 Arm – Mireille & Mathieu Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10 6x6x6 Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10 Sandman ZOO, 17–28 Aug, £10 Brutal Cessation Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11 Father of Lies Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free One-Man Apocalypse Now Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, £8 What If the Plane Falls Out of the Sky? Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Honestly theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £7 Interrobang theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £5

16:25 The Soft Subject (A Love Story) Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 How to Drown a Fish ZOO, 4–16 Aug, £7—£10 The Alchemist SpaceTriplex, 7–12 Aug, £10 Taiwan Season: Ever Never Milk HH 2–27 Aug, not Summerhall, 3,Traverse 7, 14, 21,Theatre, £8—£12Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Shakespeare’s Hamlet Aug, £14.50—£20.50 theSpace on the Mile, 7–11 Blood Aug, £7 Brothers – Play Version Greenside @ Infirmary 16:30 Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Thein Forest Alex Shadow Pleasance Courtyard, Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 22–25 £10£8 Aug, notAug, 13, 20, Hundred ❤ ATank HHHH Pleasance Dome, Different Words for7–20 Love Aug, £6—£10 HHHH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, The America Projectnot 3,Central 20, 21,Hall, £8—£10 8 Aug, £5 Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug, £6 Volition Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

10:35 ❤ The Terrible False Deception (A Four Act Play in 40 Minutes or 43 With Laughs!)

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Theatre, 14

Church Hill Theatre, 18 Aug, £5

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Nancy’s Philosopher Summerhall, 16–20

Help! ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £10 Borders by Henry Naylor

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–28 Aug, not 16, £7—£12.50

The Missing Girl of Grigglewood C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Velvet Evening Séance Assembly Hall, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £8—£12 Lula del Ray by Manual Cinema Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£14 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50 Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free The Gardener Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £5—£10 Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, £15 Multitudes Quaker Meeting House, 7–11 Aug, £free Poacher’s Pilgrimage – An Island Journey St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 9 Aug, £7

16:35 Ursula, Queen of the Jungle C venues – C primo, 13–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50

Instructions for Border Crossing Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12

16:45 Penthouse theSpace on Niddry St, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £8—£10 Performers H Assembly Rooms, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10—£15 Matt Panesh – Freedom...! Banshee Labyrinth, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Scene Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £6

16:50 Teahouse Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–18 Aug, £10

16:55 Seanmhair Bedlam Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £9—£12 An Audience With Ted Pendleton Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £7 Teddy Bears’ Picnic Natural Food Kafe, 4–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Alice – Underground Lives My Buried Mind (Deflowering Lewis Carroll’s Script) ZOO, 4–20 Aug, £8—£10

17:00

Private Peaceful theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8

Places New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£12

The Odyssey C venues – C, 20–27 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Amy, 25, Almost Cool C venues – C royale, 2–22 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Happy Yet? 16:40 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug,Seven £7 Sarah, Sky and Other Guys C venues – C royale, 2–28 10:55 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 Rumpelstiltskin Lemonade Paradise in The Vault, Assembly Rooms, 3–27 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Prison Psychologist Dust Paradise in The Vault, Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 21–27 Aug, £5 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11 The Plum Tree Box Clever Paradise in The Vault, Roundabout @ Summerh5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 all, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, Private Peaceful £11—£13 theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8 She Kills Monsters theSpace @ Venue45, 5 Aug, £5 Dreaming Under the Southern Bough

HHH

theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7

Too Fast theSpace on the Mile, 10–14 Aug, £10

11:00 Single Varietal

My Mind is Free The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 18 Aug, £8 Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3

Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £6—£11

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, £5—£8 Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £10

ScotlandsFest 2017 Quaker Meeting House, 21–25 Aug, £5 100 Years of Balfour Just Festival at St John’s , Various dates from 11 Aug to 19 Aug, £10 Fleabag Underbelly, George Square, 21–27 Aug, £12—£14

1902 Wee Red Bar, 2–28 Aug, not 6, 7, 10, 17, 24, £12

Died Blondes theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 15–19 Aug, £5

Think Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £6

Death High Bar Bados Complex, 5–28 Aug, not 21, £free

A Feyre Tale theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £7

Alice and the Black Hole Blues Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

17:10

All the King’s Women Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5

Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Leaf by Niggle Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 4 Aug to 28 Aug, £12 What If I Told You Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 11–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12 Mairi Campbell: Pulse Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £12 Nocturnes ZOO, 21–26 Aug, £14

Waggo theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £8 Conversations With Rats theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7—£8 The Korean Tale of Princess Bari C venues – C cubed, 3–12 Aug, £9.50—£11.50 Lipstick and Scones theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £9 Commons theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8

Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, £9

The Other Side of the Flood Banshee Labyrinth, 5–25 Aug, not 16, £free

The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £8

The Course of True Love C venues – C cubed, 13–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

TalkFest 2017: 02 Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, £7

Doreen’s No-Brainer Lectures – Live theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £10

Freshlings Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21–25 Aug, £5 Parable of Lysistrata Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 17–18 Aug, £6 Tatterdemalion Assembly George Square Theatre, 14 Aug, £14

17:05 Sweetmeat theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–13 Aug, £7

Dead Men Tell No Tale theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £8

An Actor’s Tribute Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5

17:20 Richard Carpenter is Close to You Underbelly, George Square, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6.50—£11.50 Sign of the Times theSpace on North Bridge, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10 Guy Fawkes It Up theSpace on North Bridge, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Jack Rooke: Happy Hour Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 Sleepwalkers theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50 Education, Education, Education Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, 25, £6—£11 The Tinder Tales Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £free Freshers Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–18 Aug, £7

Boy in a Bottle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–12 Aug, £6

Teresa di Maggio Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £15

Dirty Bitches theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 14–19 Aug, £8

For the Record Central Hall, 4 Aug, 8 Aug, £5

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17:25

The Damned United Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 22, £6—£12.50

Dada Surrealist Cookbook Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free

Torn Apart – By Romeo and Juliet Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £8

Testosterone Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 20, £6—£11.50

Mental Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £8—£12

Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £4—£8

Burnt Toast Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£10

Bella Freak: Unwritten theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10

In Pieces Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £5—£9 A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10 (My Father) John Gabriel Borkman SpaceTriplex, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£9

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Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15

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Hamlettes Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5

Siren Pleasance Dome, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£11

17:30 Good With Maps 00:00

Tom and Bunny Save the World HHH 00:50 George Square Assembly Theatre, 3–28Is Aug, not 14, Knowledge Power £7—£11 Paradise in The Vault,

C venues – C primo, 2–28 A Clock Face Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50

Exhibition – Free Occam’s LaughingChainsaw Horse @ The Greenside Infirmary Counting @ House, Various Street, 6, 10, dates 4–26 from 3Aug, Augnot to 11 13, 17, 20, 24, Aug, £free £4.50—£9 Suspicious An EveningMinds With an Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Immigrant Aug, not 9, 16, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, 22–25 Iraq & Loud: We Aug,Out £19.50 Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) 00:05 Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, Cloud Avenue 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free Greenside @ Nicolson The End, the End, the Square, Various dates End… from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7 Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not The 14, 21,Barista £10 Chronicles Greenside @ Infirmary Siri Street, 14–26 Aug, not CanadaHub @ King’s 20, £10 Hall in association with Crave Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not on North 7,theSpace 14, 21, £8—£10 Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10 The Wedding Reception What Do Bears The Principal, 3–27Eat? Aug, Greenside @ Nicolson not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, Square, Various dates £39—£43 from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7 Dying to See You 00:00 Lauriston Halls, 7–17 Aug, not 13, £5Face A Clock 00:10 Exhibition – Free Turntable Cherry / Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Scottish Storytelling Centre, theSpace @ Venue45, Counting House, Various 14–20 7 Aug,Aug, £7 £6—£8 dates from 3 Aug to 11 Spect-Act Leaf£free Aug, Just Festival@atInfirmary St John’s , Greenside An Evening With an6,£8 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25not Aug, Street, 4–26 Aug, Immigrant 13, 20, £5—£11 Deleted Traverse Theatre, 22–25 Central Hall, 14 Aug, £5 Aug, £19.50 A00:15 Picture’s Worth Five Dollars 00:05 Blurred Justice Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5 New Town Theatre, 16–22 Cloud Avenue Aug, £10—£12 Greenside @ Nicolson 17:35 Square, Various dates Revolution from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7 Bluebeard’s Greenside @Ghost Infirmary Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Street, 14–26 Aug, notAug, 20, The Barista Chronicles not 14, 24, 25, £7 £5—£11 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Cherry14–26 Aug, not

Theatre

20, £10 @ Venue45, theSpace 17:40

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9 Aug, £7 Crave Amy Conway’s Super theSpace World on North Awesome Bridge, Aug,Aug, £10not Summerhall, 00:2014–192–27 3,What 14, £8—£11 Do Bears Eat? Losers Greenside @Cowgate, Nicolson Fix Underbelly, HHH Square, Various Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14,dates3–27 from 1416, Aug£6.50—£11.50 to 25 Aug, £7 Aug, not £6.50—£10

Baba Brinkman’s Rap 00:10 Guide to Consciousness 00:25 Assembly George Square Cherry Cherry 2–28 Aug, not 15, Studios, theSpace theSpace @ @ Venue45, Venue45, £8—£10 7 Aug, Aug, £7 £7 14–19 Deep Leafin the Heart of Me Sweet Grassmarket, 8–26 Greenside @ Infirmary 00:45 Aug, not4–26 9, 11, Aug, 13, 15, 17,6, Street, not 19, 21, £8 13, 20, £5—£11 Knowledge Is Power Paradise in The Vault, 4–5 Aug, £7

00:15

Theatre

Blurred Justice New Town Theatre, 16–22 Aug, £10—£12 Revolution Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5—£11 Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £7

5–19 Fall ofAug, Dutynot 13, £7 Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 7 Aug to 01:10 19 Aug, £8 Our Christian Nation Little Shakespeare Paradise in Augustines, New Town Theatre, 10 6–13 Aug, £10 Aug, £free

01:15 17:45 The Last Emperor of I Am Faransis W. Mexico Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not Laughing 14, 21, £12 Horse @ The Counting House, 4–28 That’s What She Aug, not 9, 16, 23,Said £free Bar Bados Complex, 16–26 Aug, £free

01:30

Mission Abort Gilded Balloon at Rose Séance Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not1714, Sweet Grassmarket, £6—£11 Aug, 24 Aug, £15 Edison Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, 09:00 £5—£10 Breakfast Plays: ❤ Me You, and Everything Tech Will Tear Us Apart Else (?) HHHH ZOO, 4–14 Aug, £5—£9 00:50 Traverse Theatre, 16–28 Celebration Knowledge Is Power Aug, not 22, £14.50 ZOO, 15–28inAug, Paradise The £5—£8 Vault, Aug,Artist not 13, £7 A5–19 Hunger (Kafka 09:15 Adaptation) ZOO, 4–28 Aug, not 8, 15, Metamorphoses 01:10 22, £5—£11 Church Hill Theatre, 8 Our Christian Nation 30 Neo-Futurist Plays Aug, £5 Paradise in Augustines, From: Too Much Light The Dining Room 6–13 Aug, £10 Makes the Baby Go Church Hill Theatre,Blind 7 (30 Plays Aug, £5 in 60 Minutes) theSpace @ Venue45, 8 01:15 Holy Day Aug, £5 Church HillEmperor Theatre, 10 The Last of Mary and Pru Aug, Contini £5 Mexico Irvine – Unscripted Laughing Horse @ The The Ticket Valvona & Crolla, 11–12 Counting House, 4–28 Church Theatre, 5 Aug, £10Hill Aug, Aug, not £5 9, 16, 23, £free Ape/Essence theSpace @ Venue45, 9 01:30 09:20 Aug, £5 The History of Tom Séance JonesGrassmarket, 17 Sweet 17:50 SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 24 Aug, £15 The Aug,Sweet £5 Science C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 09:00

09:25

The North! The North! Breakfast Plays: ❤ The Country2–27 WifeAug, not Summerhall, Tech Will on Tear Us Apart 3,theSpace 14, £6—£11 the (?) HHHH Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, Sex Education Traverse Theatre, 16–28 £8—£8.50 Paradise The Vault, 21–27 Aug, notin 22, £14.50 Aug, £9

09:30 Rock and Hunt 09:15 Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 An Evening of Original Aug, not 13, £8 Metamorphoses Theatre Church Hill Theatre, 8 Birthday Cake Church Hill Theatre, 6 £5 – C, 13–19 Aug, CAug, venues Aug, £5 £8.50—£10.50 The Dining Room Church Hill Theatre, 7 09:45 Aug, £5 Holy Day 4 Measure Measure Church Hill Theatre, 10 (Abridged) Aug, £5 @ Venue45, theSpace 6 Aug, £5 The Ticket Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, £5

09:20 The History of Tom Jones SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, £5

17:55 Heather Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£12 Shakespeare on Love

SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 18:00

Hamlet A Girl and a Gun theSpace @ Venue45, Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 5 Aug, £5 3, 7, 14, 21, £5—£10 The Shakespeare Club Agent November: Major X theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Plow-Shun / The Murder Aug, £5 of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 10:00 The B*easts HHH Into the Shadows of Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Shakespeare – Free Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 theSpace on the Mile, Trainspotting Live 12–14 Aug, £free Venue150 at EICC, Shakespeare for 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, Breakfast £10—£17.50 C venues – C, 3–29 Aug, Carried Away not 15, £7.50—£9.50 C venues – C royale, 2–20 Us / Them HHH Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Adventurers not 8, 15, 22,Wanted: £8—£10A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop A Midsummer Night’s Roleplaying Game Dreaming HHH Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, theSpace on Niddry St, not 24, 25, £3 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Iraq Out & Loud: We Breakfast Plays: B!rth Read the Chilcot Report Traverse Theatre, 15–27 (Documentary) Aug, not 21, £15.50 Shakespeare on Love Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, SpaceTriplex, Aug, £5 7–19 Aug, not 9,8 £free 10:05 Hamlet Oresteia: This Restless theSpace @ Venue45, Eurohouse House 5 Aug, £5 22–27 Summerhall, 16–26 The Lyceum, Aug, £10 Aug, £10 The Shakespeare Club theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Seagulls Aug, £5 Volcano, 8–26 The Leith 10:10 Aug, not 14, 21, £12 Waves Lilith: The Jungle 10:00 Summerhall, 3–28Girl Aug, HHH not 8, 15, 22, £7.50—£9 Into theTheatre, Shadows of Traverse 25 Aug, Fish and Chips with Shakespeare – Free £19.50 Edith on the Mile, theSpace Frogman theSpace the Mile, 12–14 Aug,on £free Traverse at not CodeBase, 5–13 Aug, 7, £6 Shakespeare for22, 23, 12–27 Aug, not 14, The Sister Breakfast 24, 25, £19.50 Paradise Augustines, C venues in – C, 3–29 Aug, Behind Our Skin 6–28 not 14, 21, £8 not 15,Aug, £7.50—£9.50 C venues – C royale, 21–26 Us /£8.50—£10.50 Them HHH Aug, Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, 10:15 Blackwell’s Writers at not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 the Fringe Stories to Tell in ❤ A Midsummer Night’s Blackwell’s 3 the MiddleBookshop, of the Night Dreaming Aug, 10 Aug, HHH 17 Aug, 24 HHHH theSpace St, Aug, £free on Niddry Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 not 15, 22, £10 – Whisky, Unquiet Spirits Breakfast Plays: Ghosts Dark ofand theSherlock Moon B!rth Traverse Theatre, 15–27 Holmes Church Hill Theatre, 5 Aug, not 21, £15.50 Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Aug, £5 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 14 Wasted Aug, 16 Aug, £8 10:05 Greenside @ Infirmary Joe’s NYC BarAug, Street, 15–20 Eurohouse Assembly George Square £7—£8 Summerhall, 16–26 Studios, 3–28 Aug, not 14, Aug, £10 The Girl with the £8—£13 Hurricane Hands (and Other Short Tales 10:10 of Woe) Waves Laughing Horse @ The Summerhall, 3–28Aug, Aug, Free Sisters, 4–28 not 8, 15, 22, £7.50—£9 £free Fish and Chips Brothers Grimmwith Edith Spectaculathon theSpace on the Mile,17 Church Hill Theatre, 5–13 £5 Aug, not 7, £6 Aug, The Sister Paradise in Augustines, 6–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8

10:15 ❤ Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night

Break Up (We Need to Talk) Summerhall, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 The Wonderful, Horrible Shakespeare’s Romeo Life of Leni Riefenstahl andLiddell JulietCentre, 10 Eric Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5 Aug, £10 War of theMessiah Worlds: The Hands-On Broadcast StPanic Patrick’s Church, 17–21 Central Hall, 7 Aug, Aug, weekdays only, £5 £7 The Three The Making Musketeers of Chariots 5–6 Aug, £5 ofSpaceTriplex, Fire Eric Liddell Centre, 9 Aug, £10 10:20 The Chronicles of

18:05 Narnia: The Lion,

the and Witch and the Man Boy Wardrobe theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Church Hillnot Theatre, 16 £6 4–26 Aug, 6, 13, 20, Aug, £5 #Vile: The Untimely DeWitch mise of a Manufactured theSpace Pop Star @ Venue45, 15–20 Aug, £8 Inn, theSpace @ Jury’s 14–26 Aug, not 20, £6.50 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Sugar Baby Pleasance Dome, Roundabout @ Summerh3–29 Aug, notnot 16,8,23, all, 4–27 Aug, 15, 22, £8.50—£12.50 £9—£15 Mine Time Marking theSpace@@Surgeons Jury’s Inn, theSpace Hall, 17–20 Aug, 4–19 Aug, not£76, 13, £8 Around the World Lord Dismiss Us in Shakespeare’s Romeo 80 Days@ Surgeons theSpace Hall, and Juliet Church Hillnot Theatre, 14 4–26 Aug, 13, £7—£9 Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5 Aug, £5 Whodidit? War the Worlds: The Plainofas Paper theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Panic Broadcast Greenside @ Nicolson Aug, not 6, £6 Central Hall, Aug,not £5 Square, 5–207Aug, Ripe 7, 14,Three £8 Musketeers The theSpace on the Mile, SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 21–26 Aug, £7

10:25 10:20 Mine 18:10

theSpace @ Jury’s The Chronicles ofInn, Givin’ It Some 16 Aug, £7 Narnia: The Lion, theSpace @ Venue45, the and the15 Aug DogWitch Sees God: Various dates from Confessions toWardrobe 26 Aug, £8 of a Church HillBlockhead Theatre, 16 Teenage Frozen Aug, £5 on Niddry St, theSpace C venues – C cubed, 22–27 Aug, £7 Witch 13–28 Aug, not 21, theSpace @ Venue45, The Country Wife £10.50—£12.50 15–20 Aug, £8 theSpace the Mile, The SecondonComing 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 Big Bite-Size theSpace on North Bridge, Breakfast Show 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Pleasance Dome, 10:30 Lunch Girlsnot 16, 23, 3–29 Aug, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, £8.50—£12.50 Daffodils (A Play With 14–19 Aug, £7 Songs) HH Mine Space Dogs Traverse Theatre, Aug, theSpace @ Jury’s7 Inn, theSpace Venue45, 11 Aug,Aug, 18@Aug, 23 Aug, 27 17–20 £7 Various dates from 14 Aug Aug, £20.50 toAround 25 Aug,the £8 World in Revolt. 80 DaysShe Said. Wishing on aTheatre, Stopgap Revolt Again. Church Hill 14 theSpace on the Mile, Traverse 16 4–19 Aug, £5 Theatre, Aug, not 6, 13, £5—£7 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, Plain as Paper £14.50—£20.50 Did I Choose Greenside @These Nicolson Shoes? ViewAug, fromnot Square, ❤ The5–20 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 7–11 Castle by Alice 7, 14, £8Rock Aug, £6 HHHH Munro artSpace@StMarks, 11 10:25 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Mine Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Mark Thomas: The ❤ 16 Aug, £7

Red Shed HHHH Dog Sees God: 12 Aug, Traverse Theatre, Confessions a Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug,of28 £20.50 Blockhead Teenage theSpace on Niddry St, 22–27 Aug, £7 The Country Wife theSpace on the Mile, 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50

10:30

Goldilock, Stock and Three Smoking Bears ZOO, 4–20 Aug, not 14, £12 Rich Hyde, Homicide theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Milk HH 21–26 Aug, £6 Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 18:15 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Blood Brothers – Play Ancient Shrines and Half Version Truths Greenside @4–27 Infirmary Summerhall, Aug, not Aug, £4 7,Street, 14, 15,8–10 21, £11 TheFall Forest The PleasanceHall, Courtyard, Assembly 3–27 Aug, 22–25 Aug, £10 not 14, 21, £10—£15 Tank HHHH ❤ Nassim HHHH

Pleasance Dome,117–20 Traverse Theatre, Aug, 17 Aug,23 £6—£10 Aug, Aug, £19.50

The America Project Then There Were Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 None – Free Laughing Exile Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 3–9 Aug, £free SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug,Murderous £6 The Philanthropist of Croydon Volition Town Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

10:35

One for the Road... False ❤ The Terrible theSpace on the Mile, Deception (A Four Act 21–26 Aug, £9.50 Play in 40 Minutes Macblair or 43 With Laughs!) C venues – C primo, 13–28 HHHH Aug, not 21, £9.50—£11.50 Milk HH Church Hill Theatre, 18 Traverse Theatre, Various Open Heart Surgery Aug, £5 datesHolyrood, from 6 Aug to 26 Sweet 4–13 Nancy’s Philosopher Aug,£8 £14.50—£20.50 Aug, Summerhall, 16–20 Blood Brothers Women – Play Fourth Monkey’s Aug, £12 ofVersion Greece: Pandora Greensideon@Niddry Infirmary theSpace St, 10:40 Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 4–12 Aug, £6—£11 Country Wife The Forest The Fair Intellectual Club theSpace on theClub, Mile,14–19 Pleasance Courtyard, The Royal Scots 22–27 22–25 £10 Aug, £10Aug, £8—£8.50 King John Tankand ❤ Jess HHHH Joe Forever theSpace on the Mile, Pleasance Dome, 7–20 HHHH 22–27 Aug, £7 10 Aug, 16 Aug, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, Aug, 22 Aug, £19.50 The America Project Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Lilith: The Jungle Girl 10:45

HHH Exile

If By Chance Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 SpaceTriplex, 14–19 New19 Town Theatre, 4–13 Aug, Aug, £6Aug, £19.50 Aug, £10

Letters to Morrissey Volition Prospect High: HHH Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Brooklyn Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, 18 theSpace @£19.50 Venue45, Aug, 24 Aug, 8 Aug, £5 10:35 Death on the Nile False ❤ The Terrible theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Deception (A Four Act 10:50 Aug, £8 Play in 40 Minutes Avalon Eve or 43 With Laughs!) Paradise in The Vault, Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, HHHH 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 £19.50 Church Hill Theatre, 18 Sink The Farmers Lit the Fields Aug, £5 theSpace on Fire @ Surgeons Nancy’s Philosopher Hall, 14–19 £8Bridge, theSpace onAug, North Summerhall, 16–20 7–12 Aug, £5 Nothing Aug, £12 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug,– Attila the Stockbroker not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10 Undaunted 10:40 La Belle Angèle, 15 Aug, __ Happens £free The Country Wife theSpace @ Venue45, theSpace 9 Aug, £5 on the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 The Amish Project King John Version) (Ensemble theSpace the Mile, theSpace on @ Venue45, 22–27 Aug, £7 7 Aug, £5

10:45 If By Chance New Town Theatre, 4–13 Aug, £10 Prospect High: Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

18:20 Professional theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £7 Cheeks Happy Yet? Silk, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £free theSpace @ Surgeons Hall,Matters 15–20 Aug, £7 Size Sweet Holyrood, 15–27 Aug, not 21, 24, 25, £8 10:55 Thy Name is Woman Rumpelstiltskin theSpace North Bridge, Paradise on in The Vault, 22–26 15–20Aug, Aug,£10 £5.50 Prison Psychologist

18:25 Paradise in The Vault,

21–27 Aug, £5 Atlas theSpace onTree North Bridge, The Plum 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7 Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, Wyrd £8 Terry Pratchett’s Sisters Private Peaceful Paradise inon Augustines, theSpace Niddry St, 14–27 14–19Aug, Aug,not £820, £9.50

Teresa di Maggio She Kills Monsters Greenside theSpace@ @Infirmary Venue45, Street, 5 Aug,4–19 £5 Aug, not 13, £15 Dreaming Under Penetrator the Southern Bough CHHH venues – C cubed, 3–12 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 theSpace on Niddry St, 5–13 Aug,innot £7 Elephant the7,Room Assembly Rooms, 3–26 Too Fast Aug, not 14,on £8—£12 theSpace the Mile, 10–14 Wood: Aug, £10 Jamie I Am a Tree Happy Yet? Assembly George Square theSpace @ Surgeons Theatre, 14–27 Aug, not 21, 11:00 Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 £10—£12 Single Varietal Welcome to Paradise 10:55 Spotlites,George 16–19 Aug, £5 Assembly Square Theatre, 2–13 Aug, Rumpelstiltskin Wilde Without the Boy £6.50—£12 Paradise The4–29 Vault,Aug, AssemblyinHall, 15–20 Aug, £5.50 £5—£10 Tatterdemalion Assembly GeorgeTonight Square Prison Psychologist Shakespeare Theatre, £14 Paradise21inAug, The Vault, Augustines, 21–27 22–27 Aug, Aug, £5 £14 The Plum Tree In Fidelity HHH 18:30

Paradise in The Vault, Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Secret Life of Humans 5–19 Aug, 13, 13 Aug, 19 not Aug, 25£8 Aug, Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 £18.50 Peaceful Private Aug, not 14, £7—£12.50 theSpace Lightlesson Niddry St, La Maladie de la Mort 14–19 Aug,@ £8Infirmary Greenside d’Après Marguerite Street, 8–13 Aug, £8Duras She Kills Monsters Institut français d’Ecosse, theSpace @ Dawn Venue45, Meet Me At 4–28 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 22, 5 Aug, £5Theatre, 5 Aug, Traverse £6—£10 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Dreaming Under Volpone £21.50 the Southern Bough The Royal Scots Club, 7–12 Equations for a Moving HHH Aug, £10 theSpace on Niddry St, Body HHH Wrecked 5–13 Aug,Stage not 7, at £7SumNorthern Greenside @ Royal merhall, 6–27 Aug,Terrace, not 10, Too Fast Various dates from 4 Aug to 17, 24, £9—£11 theSpace on the Mile, 26 Aug, £8 10–14 Aug, £10 ❤ My Eyes Went Dark Queen of the F*cking HHHH World Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 11:00 The Street, not 14 Aug, 206–26 Aug, Aug, 26 Aug, 16, £free £18.50 Single Varietal The Gin Chronicles at Sea Expensive ShitAug, £5 Spotlites, 16–19 artSpace@StMarks, 3–19 HHH Wilde Without the Boy Aug, not 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, 15, 16, 11 Aug,£12 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 £5—£10 Aug, £18.50 Shakespeare Tonight The Taming of the Paradise in Augustines, Shrew 22–27 Aug, £14 C venues – C south, 14– In HHH 20Fidelity Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £18.50

Lightless Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Equations for a Moving

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Listings Milk HH Traverse Theatre, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Blood Brothers – Play Version Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 8–10 Aug, £4 Cosmic Scallies

HHH

The Forest Northern Stage at SummerPleasance Courtyard, hall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 22–25 Aug, £10 23, £10—£12 Tankand Joe Forever ❤ Jess HHHH Pleasance Dome, 7–20 HHHH Aug, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 27 Aug, The£19.50 America Project Central Hall, 8 Aug,Thorns £5 Dreaming Amidst Quaker Exile Meeting House, 14–19 Aug, £8 SpaceTriplex, 14–19 Aug,Out £6 & Loud: We Iraq Read the Chilcot Report Volition (Documentary) Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free

10:35 Shakespeare in the Terrible False ❤ TheThe Garden: Tempest

Four3–28 Act CDeception venues – C (A south, Playnot in 14, 40£8.50—£10.50 Minutes Aug,

or 43 With Laughs!) Bin Laden: The One Man HHHH Show Church Hill Theatre, 18 C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not Aug, £5 15, £9.50—£11.50 Nancy’s Philosopher The Burning Gadulka Summerhall, 16–20 Laughing Horse @ The Aug, £12 Mockingbird, 4–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

10:40 in Stalingrad Beethoven Greenside @ Nicolson The Country Wife Square, 4–12 £12 theSpace onAug, the Mile, 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 Sylvia Plath, Your Words Are Just Dust King John Greenside theSpace@ onNicolson the Mile, Square, 21–26 22–27 Aug, £7Aug, £10 Mimi’s Suitcase Quaker Meeting House, 10:45 21–26 Aug, £12 If BySatanic Chance Dark New Town@Theatre, 4–13 Greenside Infirmary Aug, £10 Street, 21–26 Aug, £7

Prospect Home FrontHigh: – Front Line Brooklyn@ Nicolson Greenside theSpace @ Venue45, Square, 14–19 Aug, £free 8 Aug, £5 £¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend Goed 10:50 Upper Church @ Summerhall hosted by RBC, 4–27 Avalon Aug, not 7,in 14,The 21,Vault, £10—£14 Paradise 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

Happy Yet? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7

10:55 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, Eve 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, Prison Psychologist 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, Paradise in The Vault, £13—£19.50 21–27 Aug, £5 Meeting at 33 The Plum Tree Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Paradise in The Vault, Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Aug, £9 Private Peaceful Last Resort theSpace on Niddry St, Summerhall, Various dates 14–19 Aug, £8 from 4 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 She Kills Monsters Flight theSpace @ Venue45, Church Hill Theatre & 5 Aug, £5 Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, Dreaming 12, 13, 16, 22,Under £15 the Southern Bough

HHH 18:35 theSpace on Niddry St,

Sage 5–13Francis Aug, notand 7, £7B Dolan Present: Too FastTricknology New Town Theatre, 4–27 theSpace on the Mile, Aug, notAug, 7, 14,£10 21, £15 10–14 Choir of Man Assembly Rooms, 3–27 11:00 Aug, not 14, £10—£16 Single Varietal

Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 18:40

Wilde Without the Boy Katsura Sunshine: Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, Rakugo! £5—£10 Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 7, Tonight 8, 14, 15, Shakespeare 21, 22, £7 in Augustines, Paradise 22–27 Aug, £14 Cognitions Greenside @HHH Infirmary In Fidelity Street, 4–19 Aug, not Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 6,1313, £6 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Aug, £18.50 Bruce Underbelly, Lightless Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14,@ £7—£14 Greenside Infirmary Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Dark Matter Greenside Meet Me @ AtInfirmary Dawn Street, 22–26 Aug, 5£10 Traverse Theatre, Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

18:45

Equations for a Moving Morgan Stern Body HHH CNorthern venues –Stage C primo, 6–28 at SumAug, not 14, £9.50—£11.50 merhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11

❤ My Eyes Went Dark HHHH

Sink theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £18.50

Nothing Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10

Expensive Shit

__ Happens theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5 The Amish Project (Ensemble Version) theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28 Aug, £18.50

The Taming of the Shrew C venues – C south, 14– 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

Stand By Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 11–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £14 Awake Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free The HandleBards: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – West Gate, 22–26 Aug, £15 The HandleBards: As You Like It Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – West Gate, 9–13 Aug, £15 Tea and Nuisance Leith Depot, 22–26 Aug, £free

18:50 The Last Queen of Scotland Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–26 Aug, not 9, 16, £6.50—£14 Dickless New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £9—£10

18:55 The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £9

19:00 Echoes ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £10 The Jurassic Parks Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 2 Aug to 27 Aug, £8—£12

Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 Speaking in Tongues: The Lies Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £6—£9.50 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15 Mars Actually Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 3 Aug to 26 Aug, £8—£12 Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 (More) Moira Monologues Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£15 Nikola and His Travelling Lux Concordia C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50

I Ran With The Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller Le Monde, 4–18 Aug, not 5, 12, £15

A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 20 Aug, £12

Real Magic The Studio, 22–27 Aug, £25

19:05

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, 28 Aug, £49.50 Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £21.50 Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, £21.50 Locker Room Talk Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £9 Frogman Traverse at CodeBase, Various dates from 4 Aug to 11 Aug, £13—£19.50 Dying to See You Lauriston Halls, 7–17 Aug, not 13, £5

Mine Zoo Southside, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7—£10

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

The Principle of Uncertainty Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10

The Whip Hand Traverse Theatre, 3 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £15—£21.50

Nerdf*cker: a solo play with bad boundaries Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £9

Great Expectations Inveresk Lodge Garden, 26 Aug, £11.50

Iraq Out & Loud: We Read the Chilcot Report (Documentary) Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 7–19 Aug, not 9, £free At the Illusionist’s Table The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 19, 21, £69

The Wedding Reception The Principal, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £39

Letters Live King’s Theatre, 27 Aug, £18

Hopeless theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7 My Name Is... theSpace on North Bridge, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7 Two Sides of the Curtain theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £4 The Rape of Artemisia Gentileschi theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10 Jimmyville theSpace on the Mile, 4 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £5—£7 Bubbles and Martini theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10 The Other Half Lives theSpace on the Mile, 5 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £5—£7

19:10 Five Kinds of Silence C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, £10.50—£12.50 Don’t Cry for Me Kenny Dalglish theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £7

MINEFIELD The Studio, 6–9 Aug, £19

Roaming Collisions – Free Serenity Cafe, 5–27 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, £free

Adam Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £21.50

Your Point of View theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £10

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BlackCatfishMusketeer Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£11 Ballot Box Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £10

Shakespeare’s Big Brother Paradise in Augustines, 14–18 Aug, £8

Wild Bore Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

Love+ Summerhall, Various dates from 2 Aug to 24 Aug, £9—£11

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Central Hall, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

The Staff Room theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £10

Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15 Double Feature Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8—£16 Cafe Voices Scottish Storytelling Centre, 10 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

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Almost, Maine Central Hall, 5 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

Demise theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 8–12 Aug, £7

First Light Whitespace 76, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £10

Wordplay Bourbon Bar, 12–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free Adrian Plass: Out of His Head Palmerston Place Church, 24–25 Aug, £11 Medea Central Hall, 15 Aug, £5

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Was it good for you? Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £7

Would You Adam and Eve It? Palmerston Place Church, 21–22 Aug, £11

19:15

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Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50

(FEAR) HH ZOO, 4–20 Aug, not 9, 15, £5—£10

Slap and Tickle ZOO, 21–26 Aug, £10

Pleasance Courtyard

MANWATCHING Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £9—£17

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Wedding Fever Mayfield Salisbury Church, 4–18 Aug, weekdays only, £12 Americana Psychobabble Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free Knock Knock C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50

The Last Burrah Sahibs Bar Bados Complex, 12–16 Aug, £free

Spect-Act Just Festival at St John’s , 22–23 Aug, £10

Meeting at 33 Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £9

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid The Hub, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £15

Power Ballad HH Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £10—£12

Voicelessness The Studio, 14–15 Aug, £15

Sad Little Man Paradise in The Vault, 23–27 Aug, £10

19:35

Doglife Summerhall, 4–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

Rhinoceros The Lyceum, 3–12 Aug, not 7, £10

Tiger Natural Food Kafe, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

Curse of the Mummy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 3–26 Aug, not 14, £3—£10

All the King’s Women Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

Hamlettes Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

An Extract from Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Going AWOL Paradise in The Vault, 14–19 Aug, £7

Plan 9 from Outer Space Sweet Grassmarket, 21–27 Aug, £7

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience The Principal, Various dates from 3 Aug to 27 Aug, £59

Questioning Aslan: An Evening With CS Lewis Palmerston Place Church, 23 Aug, £11

19:30

Ladies’ Day Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 7–12 Aug, £8

Fourth Monkey’s Women of Greece: Persephone theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, £6—£11

Improbable Fiction St Ninian’s Hall, 7–19 Aug, not 13, 17, £12

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5

19:20

Thus Spoke... CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8—£10

Neighbourhood Watch The Royal Scots Club, 21–26 Aug, £12

Cold Fronts and Hot Flushes: The Short Stories of Kevin Spacey Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, £7.50—£10

Desperation Bingo The Biscuit Factory, 15–19 Aug, £7.50

The Divide - Part 2 King’s Theatre, 9–20 Aug, not 10, 14, 16, 18, £14

Red Button theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10

Stuart Maconie: Jarrow Road to the Deep South Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21–27 Aug, £12

1902 Wee Red Bar, 25–26 Aug, £12

The Gun Show SpaceTriplex, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £9

The Divide - Part 1 King’s Theatre, 8 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £14

Julius Caesar theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £8

My Mind is Free The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, £8

Everest Calling Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £10

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Joan Underbelly, Cowgate, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £10.50—£11.50 The Black Cat Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–20 Aug, not 13, £6.50—£11 Reeling Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5

19:25 Hide theSpace on the Mile, 4–25 Aug, not 6, 14, 20, £6.50—£8.50

Cacophony Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 24, 25, £8

A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £10.50—£12.50 Hands-On Messiah St Patrick’s Church, 23–25 Aug, £7 The Amorous Ambassador Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 5–18 Aug, not 6, 13, £12 The Shape of the Pain Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £10—£15

Pistorius: A Shakespearean Tragedy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £7 Descent Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 4–20 Aug, not 18, £6—£12 Deleted Central Hall, 18 Aug, £5

Adam Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50

Pre-View Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £7 A Picture’s Worth Five Dollars Central Hall, 4 Aug, 8 Aug, £5

My Pet, My Love C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 The Teeth of Haros Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8 Golf Course War Machine theSpace on North Bridge, 8–12 Aug, £8

19:40

Staging Wittgenstein C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £9.50—£11.50

100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 13, £8.50 Anathema theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £8

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19:45 The Sky Is Safe Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£15 Baby Mama: One Woman’s Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, £10 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£17.50 Nora and Jim Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–26 Aug, £9 Dates – At the Speed of Sound! Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 14, 21, £8—£12 A Field of Our Own Hibernian Football Club, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £12 Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50

19:55 Looking for Mummy: Nazanin’s Story C venues – C cubed, 20–28 Aug, £8.50—£10.50

20:00 Dick in Space Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–27 Aug, £free Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5 Outside Mullingar The Royal Scots Club, 14–19 Aug, £12 Shell Shock Sweet Grassmarket, 12–27 Aug, £10 (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow Summerhall, 11–27 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 25, £10 Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15

Over the Garden Fence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–19 Aug, £8

An Evening with the Plague Doctor The Edinburgh Dungeon, 4 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Prospect High: Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5

The Darling Monologues Waterstones Edinburgh West End, 3–11 Aug, £10

19:50 Skeptics on the Fringe: Enlightening the Fringe - Free Banshee Labyrinth, 5–27 Aug, £free

Adventurers Wanted: A 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Roleplaying Game Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, not 24, 25, £3 The Pitchfork Disney C venues – C royale, 14–28 Aug, not 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, £8.50—£10.50 Girls Like That C venues – C south, 4–10 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

Krapp’s Last Tape Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 4–27 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £25 Strangers: A Magic Play II theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8—£10

POV theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7

Séance Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 3, £4—£5

The Emotional Immune System theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 22–26 Aug, £7

Just an Ordinary Lawyer Quaker Meeting House, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 Call Mr Robeson Quaker Meeting House, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12

Like Dolphins Can Swim C venues – C royale, 13–27 Aug, not 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, £8.50—£10.50

The Charlie Question theSpace on the Mile, 14–19 Aug, £7

My Real Life Assembly Hall, 3–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £10—£14

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What Keeps You Sharp? New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9

Elegy for an Echo theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 20, £5—£7

Hug More Thugs New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

Seven Devils theSpace on the Mile, 15–19 Aug, £6.50

Psychiatry is the Best Medicine! New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £9

How To Get Paid... To Play With LEGO! Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 5 Aug to 22 Aug, £15 Like a Prayer C venues – C south, 20–28 Aug, £9.50—£11.50

Angels in Erotica theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–26 Aug, £8

Flight Church Hill Theatre & Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15

Sex Offence New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £10—£12

The City – A Detective Hip Hop Opera Drummond Community High School, 8–10 Aug, £12.50 The Emily Triptych Quaker Meeting House, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

20:05 Cradle to Coffin theSpace on the Mile, 7–11 Aug, £6 Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £7—£12 #Instalove theSpace on North Bridge, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £8—£9 Year Zero theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8

20:15 Vines C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50 Like Blood From a Cheap Cigar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£8 Space Rocket Oddity Man Zoo Southside, 4–28 Aug, not 10, 21, £5—£9

Fibre Optic Sensors Can Save the World! New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9 Can Recipes Help Gender Equality? New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £9 Our Genes Tell Us What to Do New Town Theatre, 27 Aug, £9 Turn to the Darknet New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9 Is Your Online Reputation Hurting You? New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £9

Speaking in Tongues: The Truths Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 17, 18, £6—£9.50

Physics vs Psychology: Which is the Hard Science? New Town Theatre, 8 Aug, £9

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Is Pee a Feminist Issue? New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £9

Fred and Rose Venue 13, 5–11 Aug, £9 Golem Sweet Grassmarket, 21–26 Aug, £10

A Virus to End Humanity? New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9

Are Aliens Coming to Eat Your Face? New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £9 Doing Drugs (Policy) New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £9 Fitness to Witness New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £9 Is Monolingualism Making Us Ill? New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9 Find Your Neurotribe! New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 25 Aug, £9 Eyewitnesses Are Futile New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £9 The Romance Novel as High Art? New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9 Shiver Me Liver New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £9

20:25 Evocation theSpace on the Mile, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£8

20:30 Joe’s NYC Bar Assembly George Square Studios, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £8—£13 You’ve Changed Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–26 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£12 Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Different Party Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £7—£12

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Heads Up Summerhall, 22–27 Aug, £12

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Hamlet theSpace @ Venue45, 5 Aug, £5

Panic Broadcast Blood Brothers – Play August 14 – 7 Aug, 19£5 / 21 – 26 Central Hall, Version The Shakespeare Club theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Aug, £5 £¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend

00:00 Shakespeare on Love Goed SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Upper Church A Clock Face@ Summer10:00 hall hosted by–RBC, Hamlet Exhibition Free4–27 Aug, 14, 21, @ £14 theSpace @ Venue45, Intonot the7,Shadows of Laughing Horse The 5 Aug, £5 Shakespeare – Various Free ACounting Robot inHouse, Human Skin theSpace on the Mile, dates from 3 Aug to 112–28 Underbelly Med Quad, The Shakespeare Club 12–14 Aug, £free Aug, £free Aug, not 15,@£6.50—£11 theSpace Venue45, 10 Aug, £5 Shakespeare for an An Evening With Mimi’s Suitcase Breakfast Immigrant Quaker Meeting House, C venues –£12 C, 3–29 Aug, Traverse 22–25 14–19 Aug,Theatre, 10:00 not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Aug, £19.50 Party Game Into the Shadows of Us / Them HHH Traverse at the Wee Red Shakespeare – Free Summerhall, Aug, Bar, 8–20 Aug,3–28 not 14, 00:05 theSpace on the Mile, not 8, 15, 22, £8—£10 £15—£21.50 Cloud Avenue 12–14 Aug, £free A Midsummer Night’s The Gin Chronicles at Sea Greenside @ Nicolson Shakespeare for Dreaming HHH artSpace@StMarks, 3–19 Square, Various dates Breakfast theSpace on Niddry St, Aug, 7, 8, 14,£7 fromnot 156, Aug to9, 2613, Aug, C venues C, 3–29 5–13 7, £7 Aug, 15, 16,Aug, £12 –not The Barista Chronicles not 15, £7.50—£9.50 Breakfast Plays: An Evening@with theB!rth Greenside Infirmary Us / Them Traverse Theatre, HHH Plague Doctor Street, 14–26 Aug,15–27 not Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Aug, not 21, £15.50 The Edinburgh Dungeon, 20, £10 8, 11 15,Aug, 22, £8—£10 4not Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Crave Aug, £25 A Midsummer Night’s 10:05 theSpace on North Dreaming HHH Letters Morrissey Bridge,to 14–19 Aug, £10 Eurohouse theSpace on Niddry St, HHH Summerhall, 16–26 What Do Bears Eat? 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Traverse 25 Aug, Aug, £10Theatre, Greenside @ Nicolson £19.50 Breakfast Plays: B!rth Square, Various dates Traverse Theatre, Eve from 14 Aug to 2515–27 Aug, £7 10:10 Aug, not 21, £15.50 Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, Waves £19.50 00:10 Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, 10:05 Mary Contini and Pru not 8, 15, 22, £7.50—£9 Cherry Irvine – Unscripted Eurohouse theSpace @ Venue45, Fish and Chips with Valvona & Crolla, 17 Aug, 23 16–26 7Summerhall, Aug, £7 Edith Aug, £10 Aug, £10 theSpace on the Mile, Leaf 5–13 Aug, not 7, £6 Greenside @ Infirmary 20:35 10:10 Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, The Sister 13, 20, £5—£11 Lovecraft’s Waves Paradise in Monsters Augustines, Sweet 3–19 Summerhall, Aug, 6–28 Grassmarket, Aug, not3–28 14, 21, £8 Aug, not15,6,22, 13, £7.50—£9 £8 not 8, 00:15

Church Blitz Fish and Chips with 10:15 theSpace on the Mile, 22 Blurred Edith Justice Aug, Aug, 26 £9 New24 Town Theatre, 16–22 theSpace on theAug, Mile, Stories to Tell in ❤ Aug, £10—£12 5–13Middle Aug, not £6 Night the of7,the Revolution HHHH 20:40 The Sister

Greenside @Augustines, Infirmary Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, Paradise in The Class Project Street, 14–26 not£8 20, not 15,Aug, 22, not £10Aug, 6–28 14, 21, Summerhall, 15–27 Aug, £5—£11 Dark the Moon not 21, of £10—£12 Cherry Church Hill Theatre, 5 10:15 theSpace Aug, £5 @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £7 to Tell in Stories Wasted

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the Middle@ofInfirmary the Night Greenside Street, 15–20 Aug, HHHH 00:20 £7—£8 Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, Losers not 15, £10the The Girl22,with Underbelly, Cowgate, Dark of the Moon Hurricane Hands 3–27 Aug, not 14, (and Church Hill Theatre, Other Short Tales 5 £6.50—£10 Aug, £5 of Woe) Laughing Wasted Horse @ The 00:25 Free Sisters, Aug, Greenside @ 4–28 Infirmary £free Cherry Street, 15–20 Aug, theSpace @ Venue45, £7—£8 Brothers Grimm 14–19 Aug, £7 Spectaculathon The Girl with the Church Hill Theatre, 17 Hurricane Hands (and Aug, £5

The Three Musketeers SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 Ramy: In the Frontline 00:50 Shakespeare’s Summerhall, 2–13Romeo Aug, not Juliet Is Power Knowledge 3,and 7, £10—£12 10:20 Central Hall, 4 Aug, £5 Paradise in The Vault, Séance The Chronicles 5–19 Aug, 13, of £7 The War of thenot Worlds: Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not Narnia: The Lion, Broadcast 3,Panic £4—£5 the Witch and the£5 Central Hall, 7 Aug, 01:10 The British Idles Wardrobe The Three Musketeers theSpace onTheatre, theNation Mile,16 21 Our Christian Church Hill SpaceTriplex, Aug, Aug, 255–6 Aug, £9 £5 Paradise in Augustines, Aug,23 £5Aug, 6–13 Aug, £10 Witch 10:20 theSpace @ Venue45, 20:45 15–20 Aug, £8 of The Chronicles 01:15 Flight Narnia: The Lion, Big Bite-Size Church Hill Theatre & of The Last the WitchEmperor and the Breakfast Show Studio, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 11, Mexico Wardrobe Pleasance Dome, 12, 13, 16, 22, £15@ The Laughing Church HillHorse Theatre, 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23,16 Counting 4–28 All We£5 EverHouse, Wanted Was Aug, £8.50—£12.50 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £free Everything Witch Mine Roundabout @ SummerhtheSpace @ Venue45, Jury’s Inn, all, 4–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, 01:30 15–20 £8 17–20 Aug, £7 £9—£14 Big Bite-Size Around the World in Séance The Alien Chicken Breakfast Show 17 80 Days Sweet Grassmarket, Remembers Galatea Pleasance Dome, Church Theatre, Aug, 24Hill Aug, £15 14 Greenside @ Infirmary 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, Aug, £5 Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50—£12.50 Plain as Paper 20, £15 09:00 Mine Greenside @ Nicolson Doris, Dolly and the theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, Square, 5–20 Aug, not Plays: ❤ Breakfast Dressing Room Divas 17–20 Aug,Tear £7 Us Apart 7, 14, £8 Tech Will Gilded Balloon at Rose (?) HHHH Around the World in 14, Theatre, 2–28 Aug, not Traverse 80 DaysTheatre, 16–28 21, £10—£15 10:25 Aug, notHill 22,Theatre, £14.50 14 Church War of the Sperms Mine Aug, £5 Greenside theSpace@ @Infirmary Jury’s Inn, Plain as£7Paper Street, Aug, not 6, 09:15 16 Aug,4–19 Greenside 13, £6—£8 @ Nicolson Dog Sees God: Metamorphoses Square, 5–20 Aug, not Letters to Morrissey Confessions of a 8 Church 7, 14, £8Hill Theatre, HHH Teenage Aug, £5 Blockhead Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, theSpace on Niddry St, 13 The Dining Room Aug, 19 £19.50 10:25 22–27 Aug, £7 Church Hill Theatre, 7 Eve Mine The Country Wife Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, Aug, theSpace @ Inn, onJury’s the 16 Mile, Holy Day 22 Aug, £19.50 16 Aug, £7 £8—£8.50 15–20 Aug, Church Hill Theatre, 10 Matt – DogPanesh Sees Aug, £5 God: Greyhound! Confessions of a 10:30 The Ticket Bar Bados Complex, 5–27 Teenage Blockhead Church Hillon Theatre, 5 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £free theSpace Niddry St, Daffodils (A Play With Aug, £5Aug, £7 22–27 Songs) HH Cursed Traverse Theatre, Greenside @ Infirmary The Country Wife7 Aug, 11 Aug,21–26 18 on Aug, Aug, 27 09:20 Street, Aug, £9 theSpace the23Mile, Aug, £20.50 15–20 Aug, £8—£8.50 The History of Tom Revolt. She Said. Jones Revolt Again.5 Aug, 7 SpaceTriplex, 10:30 Traverse Aug, £5 Theatre, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, Aug, Daffodils (A25 Play With £14.50—£20.50 Songs)

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Traverse 7 Aug, The Theatre, View from ❤ The Country Wife 11 Aug, 18 Aug,by 23Alice Aug, 27 Castle Rock theSpace on the Aug, £20.50 Munro HHHH Mile, 5–13 Aug, not 7, artSpace@StMarks, Revolt. She Said. 11 £8—£8.50 Aug, 12 Again. Aug, 13 Aug, 15 Revolt Aug, 29 Aug, £10—£15 Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug,Mark 20 Aug, 25 Aug,The 09:30 Thomas: ❤ £14.50—£20.50 Red Shed HHHH An Evening of Original Traverse 12 Aug, The Theatre, View from ❤ Theatre 19 Aug, Rock 24 Aug, Aug, Castle by28 Alice Church Hill Theatre, 6 £20.50 Munro

Greenside @ Infirmary Street,Monkey’s 8–10 Aug,Women £4 Fourth

Shakespeare on Love The Forest ofMilk Greece: HHMedusa SpaceTriplex, 8 Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, Pleasance theSpace onCourtyard, NiddryVarious St, Hamlet dates from 6£10 Aug to 26 22–25 Aug, 4–12 Aug, £6—£11 theSpace @ Venue45, Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Tank Nassim ❤ HHHH 5 Aug, £5 HHHH Blood Brothers –7–20 Play Pleasance Dome,12 Traverse Theatre, Aug, 18 The Shakespeare Version Aug,24 £6—£10 Aug, Aug, £19.50 Club theSpace @ Venue45, 10 Greenside @ Infirmary The America Project Lilith: The Jungle Girl Aug, £5 Street, £4£5 Central8–10 Hall, Aug, 8 Aug, HHH The Forest Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, Exile 10:00 Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, SpaceTriplex, 14–19 22–25 Aug, £10 £19.50 Aug, £6 Into the Shadows of Tankand Jess Joe Forever ❤ HHHH Shakespeare – Free Volition Pleasance Dome, 7–20 HHHH theSpace on Mile, Central Hall, 8the Aug, £5 Aug, £6—£10 Traverse Theatre, 12–14 Aug, £free11 Aug, 17 Aug, Aug, £19.50 The23 America Project Shakespeare for 10:35 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Breakfast The Terrible ❤ 20:50 C venues – C, 3–29False Aug, Exile Deception (A Four Act not 15, £7.50—£9.50 SpaceTriplex, Joy Donze: 1314–19 and Not Play£6 in 40 Minutes Aug, Pregnant Us43 / Them HHH or With Laughs!) Greenside @ Infirmary Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, Volition HHHH Street, Aug, not£5 13, not 8, 4–26 15,Hill 22, Central Hall, 8£8—£10 Aug, Church Theatre, 18 20, £5—£10 Aug, £5 A Midsummer Night’s Certain Young Men Dreaming HHH 10:35 Philosopher Nancy’s theSpace theSpace@onVenue45, Niddry Summerhall, 16–20 St, The ❤ 21–26 Aug,Terrible £9 7, £7False 5–13 Aug, not Aug, £12 Deception (A Four Act Medea on Media Breakfast B!rth Play in 40 Plays: Minutes CTraverse venues –Theatre, C, 2–2815–27 Aug, or 43 With Laughs!) 10:40 £10.50—£12.50 Aug, not 21, £15.50 HHHH The Country Wife Church Hill Theatre, 18 theSpace on the Mile, Aug, £5 21:00 10:05 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 Nancy’s Philosopher Eurohouse Loud Poets King John 16–20 Summerhall, 16–26 Summerhall, Scottish Storytelling Centre, theSpace on the Mile, Aug, £12 Aug, £10 4–28 Aug, not£714, 21, £10 22–27 Aug, Paper Doll 10:40 @ Infirmary 10:10 Greenside 10:45 Street, 4–26 Aug, not 7, 13, The Country Wife Waves 14, 20,Chance 21, £8 theSpace on the Mile, If By Summerhall, 3–28 Aug, 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 New Town Theatre, 4–13 X not 8, November: 15, 22, £7.50—£9 Agent Major Aug, £10 King John Plow-Shun / The Murder Fish and Chips with theSpace the Mile, Prospect High: ofEdith Mr E on 22–27 Aug, Brooklyn New Town Theatre, 2–27 theSpace on£7the Mile, theSpace Venue45, Aug, not 15,@ £8—£15 5–13 Aug, not 7, £6 8 Aug, £5 Adventurers The Sister Wanted: A 10:45 250-Hour Epic Tabletop Paradise in Augustines, If By Chance Roleplaying Game 10:50 6–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 New Town Theatre, 4–13 Sweet Holyrood, 2–28 Aug, Avalon Aug, not 24,£10 25, £3 Paradise in The Vault, 10:15 Prospect High: 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 Brooklyn ❤ Stories to Tell in Sink theSpace @of Venue45, the Middle the Night theSpace @ Surgeons 8 Aug, £5 HHHH Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8 Summerhall, 13–28 Aug, Nothing not 15, 22, £10 10:50 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, Dark of the Moon not 7, 14, Avalon 21, 22, £7—£10 Church Hill Paradise in Theatre, The Vault,5 __ Happens Aug, £5 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8 theSpace @ Venue45, Wasted 9 Aug, £5 Sink Greenside @Surgeons Infirmary theSpace @ The Amish Project Street, 15–20 Aug, Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8 (Ensemble Version) £7—£8 Nothing theSpace @ Venue45, The Girl the Aug, Summerhall, 7 Aug, £5with2–27 Hurricane (and not 7, 14, 21,Hands 22, £7—£10 Other Short Tales

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10:55 Rumpelstiltskin Paradise in The Vault, 15–20 Aug, £5.50Romeo Well Thumbed Shakespeare’s Happy Yet?76, 5–27 Whitespace and Juliet Prison Psychologist theSpace @ Surgeons Aug, £10Hall, Paradise Central in The 4 Aug, Vault, £5 Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 21–27ofTowers Aug, Faulty The Dining War the £5 Worlds: The Experience The Plum Tree Panic Broadcast 10:55 The Principal, Paradise in The Vault, Central Hall, 7Various Aug, £5dates from Aug not to 27 5–193Aug, Rumpelstiltskin 13,Aug, £8 The Three Musketeers £49.50—£54.50 Paradise in The Vault, Private Peaceful SpaceTriplex, 5–6 Aug, £5 15–20 Aug,on£5.50 Séance theSpace Niddry St, Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not 14–19 Aug, Prison Psychologist £8 3,10:20 £4—£5 The Vault, Paradise She KillsinMonsters 21–27 Aug, £5 The Chronicles of Miss Julie, Clarissa theSpace @ Venue45, Narnia: Lion, and John 5 The Aug, Plum £5The Tree the Witch and the Greenside @ Nicolson Paradise in Under The Vault, Dreaming Wardrobe Square, 8–26 not 13, 5–19 Aug, notAug, 13, £8 the£15 Southern Bough Church Hill Theatre, 16 20, Private Peaceful HHH Aug, £5 Frogman theSpace on Niddry St, Witch Traverse at not CodeBase, 14–19 Aug, £87, £7 4 5–13 Aug, theSpace Venue45, Aug, 21 Aug,@26 Aug, 27 She Kills Too Fast 15–20 Aug,Monsters £8 Aug, £13—£19.50 theSpace @ onVenue45, the Mile, Big Bite-Size Trainspotting Live 5 Aug, £5 £10 10–14 Aug, Venue150 at Show EICC, Various Breakfast Dreaming Under dates from 5Dome, Aug to 26 Pleasance the £17.50 Southern Bough Aug, 11:00 3–29 Aug, not 16, 23, HHH £8.50—£12.50 Beauty theSpace on Niddry St, Single Varietal The Royal Mine 5–13 Aug,Scots not 7,Club, £7 Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, 7–12 £5 Aug, £10 @ Jury’s Inn, theSpace Too Fast Wilde Without the Boy 17–20 Aug, £7 Eve theSpace the4–29 Mile,Aug, Assembly on Hall, Traverse Theatre, 4 Aug, Around the£10 World in 27 10–14 Aug, £5—£10 Aug, £19.50 80 Days Shakespeare Tonight Church Hill Theatre, 14 The Wedding Reception Paradise 11:00 Aug, £5 in Augustines, The Principal, 5 Aug, 12 22–27 Aug, £14 Aug, 19as Aug, 26 Aug, £43 Plain Paper Single Varietal In Fidelity Greenside @HHH Nicolson Spotlites,Theatre, 16–19 Aug, £5 Traverse Aug, Square, 5–20 Aug,7not 21:05 1314, Wilde Aug, Without 19 Aug, 25 theAug, Boy 7, £8 £18.50 Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, Changelings £5—£10 theSpace Lightlesson North Bridge, 10:25 4–26 Aug, not 6,Tonight 13, 20, Greenside Shakespeare @ Infirmary £free—£10 Mine Street, 8–13 Paradise in Augustines, Aug, £8 theSpace @£14 Jury’s Inn, 22–27 Aug, We AreMe All Going to Die Meet At Dawn 16 Aug, £7 theSpace onHHH North5Bridge, Traverse In Fidelity Theatre, Aug, 4–19 Aug, not 13,25 £5—£7 Dog Sees God: 10 Aug, Traverse 19Theatre, Aug, 7Aug, Aug, Confessions £21.50 13 Aug, 19and Aug,of 25aAug, Catherine Anita £18.50 Teenage Blockhead Assembly Rooms, Equations for a 3–26 Moving theSpace St, Aug, notHHH 15,on 22,Niddry £6—£10 Lightless Body 22–27 Aug, Greenside @£7Infirmary Northern Stage at SumVaccine Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 The Country Wife merhall, 6–27 Aug,Bridge, not 10, theSpace on North theSpace on the Mile, 17, 24,Aug, £9—£11 21–26 £7.50 Meet Me At Dawn 15–20 £8—£8.50 Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, MyAug, Eyes Went Dark

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£21.50 Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, Aug, Equations for a26Moving £18.50 Daffodils (A Play With Body

HHH Songs) HH Expensive Northern Stage Shitat SumTraverse Theatre, Aug,10, merhall, 6–27 Aug,7 not HHH 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 27 17, 24, £9—£11 Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Aug, £20.50 11 Aug, Aug,Went 23 Aug, 28 My17 Eyes Dark ❤ Aug, £18.50 Revolt. She Said.

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Revolt Again. The Taming of the Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 2616Aug, Shrew Aug, 20 Aug, Aug,14– £18.50 C venues – C 25 south, £14.50—£20.50 20 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Expensive Shit The View from ❤ HHH Castle by Alice TraverseRock Theatre, 5 Aug, Munro HHHH 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 28

Church Blitz Milk HH theSpace on the Mile, 15 Traverse Theatre, Various Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £9 dates from 6 Aug to 26 Radio Aug, £14.50—£20.50 Paradise in Augustines, Blood Brothers – Play 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Version The British@ Idles Greenside Infirmary theSpace on the Street, 8–10 Aug,Mile, £4 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £9 The Forest Pleasance Courtyard, 22–25 Aug, £10 21:10 TankCollective ❤ Eggs HHHHGet A

Pleasance Dome, 7–20 Round HHHH Aug, £6—£10 Summerhall, 2–25 Aug, not 3,The 5, 14, 21, £8—£10 America Project

Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Adulting SpaceTriplex, 21–26 Aug, £9 Exile SpaceTriplex, 14–19Do? What Would Kanye Aug, £6 @ Jury’s Inn, theSpace 4–26 Aug, not 6, 8, 15, 20, Volition 22, £6—£9 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Workshy Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 10:35 3, 9, 16, 21, £9—£12 The Terrible False A❤ Glass of Nothing Deception (A Four Act theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Play 40 Minutes 5 Aug, in 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, orAug, 43 With Laughs!) 10 £5—£9

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Women Church at HillWar Theatre, 18 CAug, venues £5 – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50 Nancy’s Philosopher The Sandman16–20 Summerhall, theSpace Aug, £12 on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £8 Making 10:40a Murderer – A Conversation with The Country WifeJerry Defence Attorney theSpace on the Mile, Buting 22–27 Aug, £8—£8.50 New Town Theatre, 9–13 Aug, King£17 John theSpace the Mile, The Britishon Idles 22–27 Aug, theSpace on£7 the Mile, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £9 Make me 10:45 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, If By Aug, Chance 12–13 £6 New Town Theatre, 4–13 Aug, £10 Prospect High: Brooklyn theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

10:50 Avalon Paradise in The Vault, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £8

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theSpace @ Surgeons DollyWould Hall, 15–20 Aug, £7 Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 21, £6—£8

10:55

Stiff Dicky Rumpelstiltskin SpaceTriplex, Various dates Paradise from 4 AugintoThe 19 Vault, Aug, £7 15–20 Aug, £5.50 Mine Prison Psychologist SpaceTriplex, Various dates Paradise from 5 AugintoThe 18 Vault, Aug, £7 21–27 Aug, £5 Glasgow Central The Plum Tree Sweet Grassmarket, 7–13 Paradise Aug, £9 in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £8 Church Blitz Private theSpacePeaceful on the Mile, 4 theSpace Niddry Aug, 5 Aug,on 8 Aug, 10 St, Aug, 14–19 12 Aug,Aug, £9 £8 SheofKills Monsters War the Worlds: The theSpace @ Venue45, Panic Broadcast 5 Aug, £5 Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Dreaming Under the Southern Bough 21:20

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Not: Lady Chatterley’s theSpace on Niddry St, Lover 5–13 Aug, not 7, £7 Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, Too Fast not 24, 25, £8 theSpace on the Mile, Frankie Vah£10 by Luke 10–14 Aug, Wright HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 11:00 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£14.50 Eric Davidson: When John Single Varietal and Yoko Waved Goodbye Spotlites, 16–19 Aug, £5 theSpace on the Mile, Wilde Without the Boy 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, Assembly Hall, 4–29 Aug, £10—£12 £5—£10 Séance Shakespeare Tonight Summerhall, 2–26 Aug, not Paradise in Augustines, 3, £4—£5 22–27 Aug, £14 Avery Pierson In Fidelity HHH Central Hall, 16 Aug, £5 Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, Reeling 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, Central £18.50Hall, 14 Aug, £5 Lightless

Greenside @ Infirmary 21:25

Street, 8–13 Aug, £8 Alpha Me–At Dawn 2–28 CMeet venues C primo, Traverse Theatre, 5 Aug, Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

Equations for a Moving Body HHH Northern Stage at Summerhall, 6–27 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9—£11

❤ My Eyes Went Dark HHHH

Sink theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–19 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £18.50

Nothing Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £7—£10

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Scribbles ZOO, 4–28 Aug, £7—£10 Tatterdemalion Assembly George Square Theatre, 15 Aug, £14 Ubu Roi Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 8, 14, 21, £7—£11

Hidden theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, 21–26 Aug, £8

Werewolves Summerhall, 20–27 Aug, £10

21:45

Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, £21.50

Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) Northern Stage at Summerhall, 5–20 Aug, not 9, 16, £10—£12

Bottleneck theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 18 Aug, £5—£10

21:50

21:30 Play on Words C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £7.50—£9.50

5 Guys Chillin’ Assembly Roxy, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £10—£15

Probably Still Drunk Collective Presents: Inebriated Venue 13, 20–26 Aug, £9

The Amish Project (Ensemble Version) theSpace @ Venue45, 8 Aug, £5

Wanna Dance With Somebody! Or, A Guide To Managing Social Anxiety Using Theoretical Physics Zoo Southside, 4–28 Aug, not 16, £5—£12

Closed for Repairs theSpace @ Venue45, 9 Aug, £5

Guilty Noodle Sweet Grassmarket, 16–20 Aug, £7

Pulled C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50

Frogman Traverse at CodeBase, 8–11 Aug, £19.50

Bone Woman Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5—£10

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 5–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10

21:55

Trumpus Interruptus: The Impeachment of Donald J Trump Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, £8

22:00

Wild Bore Traverse Theatre, 11–12 Aug, £21.50 Adam Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 13 Aug, £21.50

Bacchae theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £10

22:05

Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

The Best Play Ever theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £7 DROLL theSpace on North Bridge, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10 DROLL theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £13 Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 21–26 Aug, £10 Vaccine theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £7.50

22:10 Electra theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5

Agent November: Major X Plow-Shun / The Murder of Mr E New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 15, £8—£15

Mimi’s Suitcase Just Festival at St John’s , 5 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £12

We Are Ian Pleasance Dome, 7–28 Aug, £8—£10.50

Anathema theSpace on North Bridge, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8

I Am My Own Wife Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12

Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave Fable) theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £10

Freedom Just Festival at St John’s , 15–16 Aug, £10 The America Project Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5

21:35 300 to One Bar Bados Complex, 5–27 Aug, not 14, £free How to Be a Sissy with Percy Q Shun C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50

21:40 Losing Days New Town Theatre, 3–27 Aug, not 15, 21, £9—£10

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Kara Sevda Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £7—£9 Letters Live King’s Theatre, 27 Aug, £18 Brodsky Station Novotel Swimming Pool, 21–27 Aug, £8 Wolf Meat Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£11 The Darling Core Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 21–26 Aug, £8

Lucille & Django’s Totally Restorative Yoga Retreat! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–26 Aug, £7

Meet Me At Dawn Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, £21.50

Freedom Just Festival at St John’s , 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

Volition Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5

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Dirty Poetry Laughing Horse @ 48 Below, 3–27 Aug, £free

The Trial theSpace on the Mile, 21–26 Aug, £7

F*ckboys for Freedom Sweet Grassmarket, 3–27 Aug, not 15, £7

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I Am Your Love Story Paradise in Augustines, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £8

The Future of Desire Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5—£8

Two Man Show Northern Stage at Summerhall, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12 Adam Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21.50

Thief Sweet Holyrood, 3–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £10

All Cashed In theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£8

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid The Hub, 3–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £15

23:15

Mixed Brain Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–19 Aug, £10

Revolution Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5—£11

Wild Bore Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 27 Aug, £21.50

Neil Hilborn – Live Poetry New Town Theatre, 9–15 Aug, £10

About a Goth theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 5 Aug to 19 Aug, £5—£10

Blurred Justice New Town Theatre, 16–22 Aug, £10—£12

22:35 The Unmarried Underbelly Med Quad, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£10

22:45 Hotter Paradise in Augustines, 5–27 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Gathering Dust theSpace on the Mile, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5

22:50

The Writers’ Room theSpace on Niddry St, 21–26 Aug, £9

The Prophetic Visions of Bethany Lewis Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

22:25

23:00

Indie as F*ck C venues – C royale, 2–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50

An Evening With an Immigrant Traverse Theatre, 22–25 Aug, £19.50

Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 10–26 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, £7

A Clock Face Exhibition – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Various dates from 3 Aug to 11 Aug, £free

22:30

23:05

The Whip Hand Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

The Pit Ponies’ Penultimate Life Drawing Class Paradise in The Vault, 5–12 Aug, £8

The Barista Chronicles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10

Titus Andronicus theSpace on Niddry St, 4 Aug, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £11

Pornography by Simon Stephens C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £9.50—£11.50

22:15 The Burial of the Rats theSpace on Niddry St, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, £11 The Optimists theSpace on Niddry St, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8

23:10 Leaf Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £5—£11

That Moment C venues – C cubed, 3–28 Aug, not 15, £8.50—£10.50

One Hander C venues – C primo, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £8.50—£10.50

Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 14–19 Aug, £10

Ginger Beer theSpace on the Mile, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8

22:20 Vichy Goings-on Paradise in The Vault, 14–27 Aug, not 20, £10

What Do Bears Eat? Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7

Cloud Avenue Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £7

Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 9–10 Aug, £7

23:20 Losers Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£10

23:25 Cherry theSpace @ Venue45, 14–19 Aug, £7

23:45 This Is Not Culturally Significant Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 4–26 Aug, not 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, £7—£10

23:50 Knowledge Is Power Paradise in The Vault, 5–19 Aug, not 13, £7

The Mystery at Ginger Creek: An Interactive Adventure Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, £9

09:15

Brave Macbeth Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 18–27 Aug, £8

09:30 09:35 Jason and the Argonauts theSpace on Niddry St, 14–19 Aug, £8

09:45 Worst Birthday Ever! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–13 Aug, £free

10:00 The Giant’s Loo Roll theSpace @ Venue45, 11–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Zoo Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–12 Aug, £5

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–15 Aug, £free

10:20 The Giant Jam Sandwich Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 14, £7—£11.50

10:30 The Tale of the Cockatrice Venue 13, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £9 The Wonderful World of Lapin Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–27 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, £6—£8 AnimAlphabet the Musical Pleasance Dome, 2–28 Aug, not 21, £6—£10

BambinO The Edinburgh Academy, 8–20 Aug, not 14, £free

Ami and Tami Underbelly, Cowgate, 11–24 Aug, £9—£10

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 11–12 Aug, £10

King Arthur Stockbridge Church, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £15

The Story of China Venue150 at EICC, 10 Aug, £18

10:05 You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

10:10 Robin Hood: The Panto! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–16 Aug, £7

10:15 Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal and the Hippo That Can Never Be Caught HHH Assembly Roxy, 3–28 Aug, not 15, 22, £5—£8 Magic Travel With Hello Potter and Uno Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Jihan’s Smile Summerhall, 2–13 Aug, not 7, £8—£12

Hairy Maclary Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–20 Aug, not 16, £10 La Vie Dans Une Marionette Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 2–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9 The Gruffalo’s Child Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 5, 9, 16, £7—£11.50

How to Be a Kid Roundabout @ Summerhall, 4–20 Aug, not 8, 15, £5—£10 Africa Weird and Wonderful Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1–26 Aug, £free

10:50 The Magic Wand With Three(!) Ends theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 15–19 Aug, £7.50—£8

11:00 One Man Shoe HHH Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £5—£10 1000 Cranes theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 4 Aug to 11 Aug, £7 The Polar Bears Go Up Pleasance at EICC, 10–27 Aug, not 14, 21, 23, 24, £8 Princess Pumpalot: The Quest for the Purple Super-Farting Bean Le Monde, 4–18 Aug, not 5, 6, 12, £8 Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 4 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50 Baby Loves Disco The Jam House, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £9 Calvinball Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5 Mavis Sparkle Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6—£9.50

Happy Birthday Mia Paradise in Augustines, 22–26 Aug, £7

Ruby Redfort Assembly George Square Theatre, 3–28 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£9

10:40

Goblin’s Peter and the Wolf Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–17 Aug, £5—£8

The Star Seekers Pleasance Dome, 10–27 Aug, not 15, £6—£9 The Runner Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–19 Aug, £8.50—£9.50

10:45 A Strange New Space Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5—£8 Flamenco for Kids C venues – C too, 5 Aug, 7 Aug, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £9.50

Bubble Show with Mini Milkshake C venues – C, 2–12 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Grumpy Pants Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 4–27 Aug, £free Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine Pleasance Courtyard, 16–23 Aug, £7—£9 Aladdin Zoo Southside, 11–19 Aug, £10

Flying Atoms The Leith Volcano, 22–26 Aug, £10

Creepy Macbeth The Royal Scots Club, 7–12 Aug, £10

The Magic Circus Paradise in Augustines, 5–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £7

Around the World With Bessy and Friends (Part 1 – Europe) Stockbridge Church, 11–12 Aug, £10

Junk in His Trunk Sweet Holyrood, 4–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 24, 25, £7

David Walliams’ The First Hippo on the Moon Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 15, £7—£12

Bambino Beats Summertime Boogie Stockbridge Church, 4 Aug, 5 Aug, 10 Aug, £5

11:05 Jazz Cat theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £6

11:10 Sarah and Duck Underbelly Med Quad, 2–20 Aug, not 14, £8—£12 Tilda’s Magic Attic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £6—£8.50 The New Maths Magic Show Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, £free

11:15 Nick Cope’s Family Song Book Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–20 Aug, £5—£7.50 Somebody Catch My Homework Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5 Ella Enchanted Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, not 9, 14, 21, £6—£9.50 CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, not 17, 22, 24, £free The Complete History of Europe (More or Less) C venues – C, 2–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50 Wiley and the Hairy Man SpaceTriplex, 5 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, £5

11:20 Father Christmas Comes Up Trumps theSpace @ Venue45, 11–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £11

Toasty’s Day-Dreaming C venues – C south, 3–15 Aug, £8.50—£10.50 Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 1–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 Beasts & Beauties Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £5—£7 Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5 Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Zoo Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 9–12 Aug, £5 Mortimer Sparks and the Sands of Imaginaria The Writers’ Museum, 10 Aug, £free

11:40 Gobland for the Goblins! Paradise in Augustines, 5–26 Aug, not 6, 13, 20, £6—£9

Brave Macbeth Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 4–16 Aug, £8 Science Magic Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free Rodney’s Really #Good Family Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 3–27 Aug, £free Kidocracy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 3–20 Aug, £7—£8 The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £7—£12 This Is Your Trial (PG) Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £8

The Showstoppers’ Kids Show Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6—£10

The Legend of Finn McCool: A Silly Tall Tale of Giant Proportions! Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 3–20 Aug, not 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, £14

11:45

Alice in Wonderland Underbelly, Cowgate, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6.50—£9.50

Taiwan Season: The Backyard Story H Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £6—£10 Robin’s Hood C venues – C too, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Kid/Dub Gilded Balloon Teviot, 9–13 Aug, £10

11:50 Oskar’s Amazing Adventure Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £5—£7.50

11:55

11:30

5 Children and It C venues – C royale, 13–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

BambinO The Edinburgh Academy, 8–20 Aug, not 14, £free

12:00

The Amazing Bubble Man Underbelly, George Square, 3–28 Aug, £7—£12

Pub Quiz for Kids With Patrick Monahan Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 20, £6—£10

Home Sweet Garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 4–15 Aug, not 9, £7

Festival Strings St Giles’ Cathedral, 17–18 Aug, £free

12:10 The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen New Town Theatre, 2–27 Aug, not 3, 15, £7—£8

12:15 Eaten Summerhall, 2–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £4—£8 Children Are Stinky Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–28 Aug, not 9, 16, 23, £6—£9 Doktor James’s Akademy of Evil Sweet Grassmarket, 4–20 Aug, £7

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Jason and the Argonauts theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

09:00

Listings

107

12:20 There May Be Pirates... There May Be Dragons... Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

12:25 The Topsy-Turvy Hotel Sweet Grassmarket, 3–20 Aug, not 9, £7

12:30 Aladdin theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, £6—£9 Children’s Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 1–31 Aug, £6 The Listies Make You LOL Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, £6.50—£9.50 Robin Hood: The Panto! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–12 Aug, £7

Gunge! – A Show With Gunge in It The Stand Comedy Club, 5 Aug, 6 Aug, 9 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £6

At a Stretch Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–15 Aug, £6—£9 Cinders: The Folk Tale Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 1–15 Aug, £6 Morgan & West: More Magic for Kids! Underbelly Med Quad, 12–25 Aug, not 23, £10.50—£11 Class Clowns Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre, 13 Aug, £5

13:10 Clowntown theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–19 Aug, not 6, £8

13:15 Jellybean: When Will I Be Famous? Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £free

Balloonatics Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, £5—£9

13:25

Yoggle and the Wonderful Waterfall Quaker Meeting House, 7–12 Aug, £5 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 4–28 Aug, £10 Baby Loves Silent Disco: Juniors vs Seniors The Jam House, 19 Aug, £9 Baby Loves Pop Bingo Disco The Jam House, 27 Aug, £9

12:45 Small Laces Pleasance Courtyard, 2–27 Aug, not 14, 21, £6—£10

Kids

13:35

Trash Test Dummies Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, £9.50—£12.50

Funny Stuff for Happy People Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 3–27 Aug, £free

Bubble Show with Mini Milkshake C venues – C, 13–28 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

108

13:00

Three Half Pints Present The Three Musketeers Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 21, 22, £6—£11 Andrew Roper’s Superheroes for Kids 2 Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free

Dommy B Presents... Hispaniola, 5–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £free

13:30 Funz And Gamez: Flogging a Dead Horze Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£8.50 Robin Hood Assembly George Square Gardens, 3–20 Aug, £8—£10 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 4–28 Aug, £10 The I Hate Children Children’s Show theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 4–26 Aug, £8—£12 Home Sweet Garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 4–15 Aug, not 9, £7 Singing Hands Summer Spectacular Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug, £11 Snigel and Friends Dance Base, 5 Aug, 12 Aug, 26 Aug, £8—£9

Gary Dunn Presents Monkey Magic The Stand Comedy Club, 4 Aug, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, £6

13:45 Cockadoodlemoo C venues – C too, 3–19 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

13:50 Bitey and Bertie’s Grand Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 4–19 Aug, not 6, 13, £8

This is My Life Army @ The Fringe, 15 Aug, £5

Tomfoolery’s Beans on Toast Kids Show Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 4–12 Aug, £4—£8

14:05

Snigel and Friends Dance Base, 4–27 Aug, not 7, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £8—£9

Stone theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

14:30 Wriggle Around the World Stockbridge Church, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £15 Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free Baby Loves Pop Bingo Disco The Jam House, 6 Aug, 27 Aug, £6—£9

14:00

The Glorious Invention of Emmanuel Stork Quaker Meeting House, 7–12 Aug, £8

Future Perfect Pleasance Courtyard, 2–20 Aug, not 9, 16, £2

The Giant’s Loo Roll theSpace @ Venue45, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £11

Calvinball Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5

Mortimer Sparks and the Sands of Imaginaria The Writers’ Museum, 10 Aug, £free

Shakespeare for Kids: Toil and Trouble C venues – C south, 3–28 Aug, not 14, £7.50—£9.50 Arr We There Yet? Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 5–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £6.50—£12.50

The Magical Trip of a Bead – Stories from China Venue150 at EICC, 10 Aug, £15 Baby Loves Silent Disco: Juniors vs Seniors The Jam House, 19 Aug, £9

14:40

Bambino Beats Summertime Boogie Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 4 Aug to 12 Aug, £5

Morgan & West: More Magic for Kids! Underbelly Med Quad, Various dates from 2 Aug to 27 Aug, £6.50—£11

Huggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 31 Jul–27 Aug, £free

14:45

Nutty Noah – Wear Your Pants With Pride Pleasance Courtyard, 21–28 Aug, £8—£10 Baby Loves Disco The Jam House, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, £9 Jo Jingles – Jo Visits the Zoo Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, £5 The Polar Bears Go Up Pleasance at EICC, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £8 Flying Atoms The Leith Volcano, 25–26 Aug, £10

Grimblewitch theSpace on Niddry St, 4–12 Aug, not 6, £8

15:00 Three Wee Kings: Grandad’s Cut Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 2–13 Aug, £7 Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 3–20 Aug, not 10, 17, £6—£9 Calvinball Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 5–27 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £5

16:50 Roses in the Salad C venues – C royale, 2–12 Aug, £7.50—£9.50

17:15

Funbox at the Fringe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7–8 Aug, £12

This is My Life Army @ The Fringe, 14 Aug, £5

The Story of China Venue150 at EICC, 9 Aug, £18

17:30

Alice Through the Looking Glass Inveresk Lodge Garden, 26 Aug, £8.50

15:15 Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–27 Aug, £free The Little Prince and the Pilot Pleasance Courtyard, 2–28 Aug, £6—£10

15:30 Rapunzel! Rapunzel! A Very Hairy Fairy Tale Central Hall, 4 Aug, 8 Aug, £5

15:45 ComedySportz UK Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 3–15 Aug, £free

Card Ninja Gilded Balloon Teviot, 2–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£11 Amazing Magic Christopher – Family Magic Show! Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 3–13 Aug, £free

17:40 Comedy Club 4 Kids Assembly Roxy, 4–27 Aug, £8—£10

17:45 Pinkalicious the Musical Central Hall, 9 Aug, £5

18:00 Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 3–27 Aug, not 14, £6—£10

Pinkalicious the Musical Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

19:00

15:50

Three Wee Kings: Grandad’s Cut Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 15–19 Aug, £7

Father Christmas Comes Up Trumps theSpace @ Venue45, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £11

16:00 Stories from China Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 5 Aug to 11 Aug, £10

16:10 Jason and the Golden Fleece Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–26 Aug, £8

16:30 The Dark Room for Kids Just the Tonic at The Community Project, 4–27 Aug, not 14, £5—£10

19:10 Fringe Fantasmic St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 8–11 Aug, £12

19:15 This is My Life Army @ The Fringe, 14 Aug, £5

20:30 This is My Life Army @ The Fringe, 15 Aug, £5

Credit: Kat Gollock

Fringe SOS: Otto & Astrid

OTTO: I do pilates everyday and I like to eat as many bananas I can for energy. My record is 44 bananas in one day. It’s also good to drink well and stay hydrated. ASTRID: I stay hydrated with vodka. Also just before I go on stage I eat three sausages and two cakes. OTTO: I make sure that after the show I get at least eight hours of sleep to be ready for the next day. ASTRID: After the show, I drink beers with new friends from the audience. Then we find a kebab shop and eat lots of deep fried things. Edinburgh is heaven. / Die Roten Punkte VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Underbelly, Cowgate 10:10pm – 11:20pm, 3–27 Aug, not 9, 15 £10.50 – £11.50

Credit: Kat Gollock

The festivals are many things. But mostly they are an exercise in survival. How is it possible to get to the end of August intact? Exclusively in Fest, Otto & Astrid from Die Roten Punkte divulge their survival strategy

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2nd AUGUST - 28th AUGUST

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