Fest 2018 Issue 4

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FRINGE WIVES CLUB HIGH KICKINGTHE PATRIARCHY INTHE NUTS Inside:

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Your FREE Festival Guide

17– 20 August

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Gruff Rhys Steen Raskopoulos Pussy Riot

Director George Sully Co-editors Evan Beswick & Jo Caird Sales Executive Sebastian Fisher Cover Photo Jacinta Oaten

Lead Theatre Critic Matt Trueman Lead Dance Critic Donald Hutera Lead Comedy Critic Veronica Lee Artworker Silvia Razakova Production Manager Alexander Smail

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Comedy 21 Steen Raskopoulos A comic tour de force from an assured storyteller

Fringe Wives Club

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Theatre

The all-singing, all-dancing Aussie trio giving the patriarchy a run for its money

30 The Political History of Smack and Crack Thatcher’s Britain gets a kicking in this lyrical drama

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus

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41 The Spinners Detailed choreography and evocative storytelling bring Greek myth to life

The Super Furry Animal on his Fringe debut

Cabaret & Variety 43 Lady Rizo The American chanteuse works out her troubled relationship with her native land, in song 75

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Lou Sanders: Shame Pig Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 7–26 Aug, not 15, £5.0 Clif Knight Sucks!

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12:35 The Hangover Cure Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5.0 Punel Show Voodoo Rooms, 7–26 Aug, £0.0

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Playlight Robbery Just the Tonic at The Caves, 14–26 Aug, £5.0

Catch of the Day (A Sturgeon Story) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £10.0

Russell Hicks: A Fist Full of Ideas Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 7–26 Aug, £0.0

Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7–26 Aug, not 14, £0.0

Richard Wright: Virgin Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 7–26 Aug, not 13, £5.0

Briony Redman: Sketch Artist Pleasance Courtyard, 7–27 Aug, not 11, prices vary

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Nathaniel Metcalfe: Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 7–26 Aug, not 14, £0.0 Andy Onions – PowerPointless Sweet Grassmarket, 7–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £7.0 Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 15–24 Aug, prices vary

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Orwell That Ends Well: The Musical Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5.0

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Perfect Day Can’t decide what to see? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a perfect day at the Fringe, courtesy of Fest.

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It’s True, It’s True, It’s True

47 South Clerk 12pm

You’re on your way to your first show of the day, you’re a bit hungover, and you haven’t eaten in a day and a half. What you need is a slice of pizza – Dough have an extensive array of bythe-slice pies, all delicious sea water crusts and fresh ingredients. Go to them; they’ll see you right.

Underbelly, Cowgate 2:50pm – 3:50pm

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Sure to keep your kids’ attention, Captain Cauliflower and Marvin the Mischievous Moose is wonderful, silly fun. This clowning pair are hilarious, inventively recreating a dragon battle, a dance with a shark, and a journey into space.

Based on the court transcripts of a 1612 rape trial in which Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi accused her painting tutor of rape, Breach Theatre’s new play is powerful, bold and resonating, yet funny too. Anchored by a terrific performance from Ellice Stevens as Artemisia, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True is a devastating adaptation.

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The Ellon brewery dominates the taps alongside an ever-changing cast of guest beers, a great food menu and, as the name suggests, they are dog friendly. Perfect for an end of the night pint!

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A Fringe institution and all-round winner, the Mosque Kitchen serves up delicious curry all day long with huge plates of spicy goodness starting at just a few quid. If you haven’t been yet, go now. It’s also in a great location; just a few minutes walk from the four major venues.

Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut Pleasance Courtyard

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After two years away, and fresh off her new BBC Radio 4 show Appisodes and a Netflix special, Felicity Ward makes a welcome return to the Fringe with Busting a Nut. A hilarious hour of relatable, family-themed comedy, Ward’s new show is further elevated by some excellent physical comedy.

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The Good Wives The sparkling Fringe Wives Club unite to educate, entertain and take down the patriarchy

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This is just one of many questions posed to the Fringe Wives Club post-show after their debut Edinburgh comedy show, Glittery Clittery. They’re working hard to wake people up, one sequin-studded cabaret song at a time.

The show is the fruit of two years development by the Australian entertainment power trio of Tessa Waters, clown and comedian extraordinaire; Rowena Hutson, whipsmart comedian and writer; and Victoria Falconer-Pritchard, cabaret wünderkind and musical polymath. All award-winning performers in their own right, the three long-time friends (who sport matching “FWC” tattoos) joined forces professionally in 2016 to tackle the patriarchy.

The result is a high-energy, hilarious and sexually liberating hour of catchy tunes and fun games. It’s a riot, but painfully necessary at a time when people are more confused than ever.

“Two years ago, I was doing a feminist comedy about sexual assualt, as you do,” says Hutson.

“Someone had come up to me afterwards and said, ‘I want you to write a show about how I can be a feminist but still dance to songs like Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’!”

This was the pebble that started a landslide. As soon as Hutson started writing, soon to be joined by Waters and Falconer-Pritchard, more and more ideas for songs tumbled out: fake pockets on women’s

clothes; fake ally “feminist fuckboys”; genitalia misconceptions; consent.

“We started writing it before all of the stuff with Harvey Weinstein came out, before the #MeToo movement started, before any of that,” explains Falconer-Pritchard. When it did, the scandal and consequent backlash confirmed they “weren’t the only ones using whatever we had to bring this stuff to light, and share stories.”

But, as Waters explains, they wanted Glittery Clittery to be an antidote to the cliché of the “angry feminist”, and a demonstration of a more inclusive type of feminism.

“ If we have to keep fighting the patriarchy, let’s fucking do it in sequins and with a glass of champagne in our hands!” - Tessa Waters “We obviously pay respect to those that have come before us,” she says. “But as entertainers, as makers, our weapons are comedy, music and dance, because that’s where we come from. It’s our feminism. Feminism is now intersectional – there are so

many different voices: it’s not just white, it’s not just straight, it’s not just cis, it’s not just women.”

It’s a feminism that “can help people to break down their own barriers, even if they didn’t realise they had them in the first place,” adds FalconerPritchard. “You don’t have to be an angry one. You can be a party one. If you want.”

“If we have to keep fighting the patriarchy,” says Waters, “let’s fucking do it in sequins and with a glass of champagne in our hands!”

If the mission is to change people’s perspectives, there is a risk at arts festivals—famously liberal environments—that they’re just preaching to the converted. But even at the Fringe, people sometimes mistake Glittery Clittery for a “titty show” and, little by little, are walking away galvanised.

If anything, that’s their target audience. “Our view is that everybody’s gotta be in the room – it’s about equality,” says Waters. “Men can be empowered by feminism.”

There’s talk of taking the show on regional tours, particularly to high schools. They know they’d be able to say things to the kids their teachers can’t.

And it’s becoming critical, if the responses of some 18-year-old girls the Wives had up on stage recently to discuss female gentialia is anything to go by: “None of them knew the names for any of the bits!” says Falconer.

“That generation is actually the most misin-

formed at the moment,” Waters explains. “When we were doing the research, we found that the age group who gets labioplasty the most is 17-24 year olds.”

The stakes are higher than just sexual understanding. In the wake of what happened to Eurydice Dixon, a young Melbourne comic raped and murdered walking home after a gig in June this year, the trio express continued bafflement at the deafening public silence around similar cases. Violence against women and queer communities is still a serious problem, but given short shrift in the media despite the tragic statistics (on average, one woman per week in Australia is murdered by their current or former partner).

The Fringe can feel like something of an echo chamber for right-on views, but it can help the Wives reach those that live outside the liberal bubble nonetheless. “The more visible we are, the more they have an in,” says Waters. “Festivals are a marketplace and they’re an amplifier.”

On the future of the Wives, Waters says, “It’s just gonna be this thing that always evolves.” As long as there is a fight to fight, there will—unfortunately— always be new material to write, and new allies to recruit. / George Sully VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Assembly Roxy 8:50pm – 9:50pm, 1–26 Aug, not 13 £11 – £12

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Gruff Rhys:

Signs of the Times The Super Furry Animal tells Si Hawkins about diversifying his live shows, debuting at the Fringe, and selling a tank to Don Henley

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f Gruff Rhys ever diversifies into a different artistic field, it may not be spoken word or theatre, even though the singer now flirts with both in live concerts. It will probably involve signs. He continues

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“I got to make my biggest sign yet!” says Rhys, down the phone from Cardiff, his splendidly sonorous North Wales tones suddenly rising. “We hired one of those vans, with the billboards either side.

That was quite exciting.”

music in recent years. American Interior, in 2014, was a concept album about the Welsh explorer John Evans, and the tour show introduced elements of storytelling and even puppetry.

“That was a lot of fun to do, and I remember at the time people telling me, ‘You should take this to Edinburgh’. But I didn’t know the workings of it.”

Then an invite arrived, so he put this new show together, mixing songs from the archives—including his most recent album, Babelsberg—with the cuecards and another low-tech visual aid.

“This is just me, with a slideshow, so I can talk crap between songs without making other musicians feel uncomfortable,” he explains.

“Diversification is all the rage if you’re a farmer, Signs will also figure heavily in his new show, but I don’t know about music. I’ve fallen into this and kicking off on the 17th. Rhys—best known as never really planned it; it’s all an extension of the frontman for the fine Welsh band Super Furry songs. But hopefully it’ll put some pressure on, it’ll Animals—is making his Fringe debut with Resist help me change the show every night as well. You get Phony Encores! which features songs from his repetitive strain injury if it’s too similar, it becomes 25-year career, and more. Definitely involved in the weird. Because I don’t have the traveling to do, during eight-date run will be cue cards, an idea that initially the day I can practise different songs. In theory.” came about because he doesn’t like “patronising Rhys is still relatively clueless about the Fringe stage banter”, he says. experience, in truth, although he has performed at “That started for my first solo tour. I was doing Edinburgh’s film festival. On YouTube you can find a a lot of sampling, so I got a blackboard to commubizarre duet with the comic actor Kevin Eldon, who nicate with the audience what I was doing, give appeared in a film that he soundtracked: Set Fire to some commands. Then I started using printed signs. the Stars. “He offered to be a human saxophone,” It started to get a bit out of hand. All the signs I’ve Rhys explains. ever used, I’m going to bring up. That’ll be a lot of The singer has also tackled weightier topics, in instruction. Quite extreme levels.” recent years. During the run up to the EU referenChallenging music’s norms is Rhys’s natural dum he released a catchy ballad called ‘I Love EU’, state. He emerged with the Super Furries during which, he admits, “failed!” Still, if that period taught the heady 1990s Britpop era, on the same label as us anything, it’s that writing stuff on a big vehicle Oasis (Creation Records) but with a very different can be oddly effective. So, by now tankless, he perapproach. SFA took off in all sorts of interesting sonally pasted the NHS lyrics of another of his issue directions: going techno, releasing albums in Welsh, songs—’No Profit in Pain’—onto the aforementioned buying an actual military tank to take to festivals. billboard van.

Where is it now? “The tank,” he says, nonchaThe track was more caustic than anyone lantly, “was sold to Don Henley.” Don Henley from expected, railing against privatisation and certain the Eagles? “From the Eagles. He’s got a ranch where individuals. “Just going, ‘I love the NHS’, would be he keeps them. He had no interest in the band. He like saying, ‘I love oxygen’,” muses its author. painted over our logo.”

He certainly made a point. So might more mighty That conjures quite a picture too, Henley covvisuals be forthcoming? ering up SFA’s badge, like some statement against “I’m sure there’s scope for bigger signs,” he says, alternative music. “It’s a beautiful image,” Gruff and turns slightly wistful. Watch that space. agrees. “Off the royalties of ‘Lyin’ Eyes’, he drives VENUE: Pleasance Courtyard around rural Texas in armoured vehicles.”

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And so, despite a recent CV that includes West End runs, Marcus Brigstocke is here again with Devil May Care (4 stars) in which he is in character as Lucifer.

Its central premise is that as modern society is becoming more atomised—we throw words such as snowflake, Remoaner, Brextremist and feminazi around without thought or care—we end up marginalising ourselves. So having divided each other up into these unpleasant categories, maybe it’s time to establish who is good and who is bad, he says.

It’s a wonderful conceit that allows the Radio 4 favourite more latitude in guying the audience than if he were appearing as himself, delving into our consciences. You use plastic straws or are a manspreader? You have direct entry to a fiery eternity. While Marcus Brigstocke lecturing us about morality may grate, you can’t really argue with the Prince of Darkness, can you?

The idea is that Hell is full, so he’s appearing on Earth to tell us what proper sinning is. Brigstocke covers a lot of territory – Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, Brexit, tax-avoiding comedians, Rupert Murdoch all get a kicking. But he reserves one of the best for himself, referencing his recent TV advertisements: “It was a fuck of a lot of money” for what he admits was selling his soul.

Brigstocke wears his learning lightly and there are some wonderfully subtle lines. When he asks who in the audience is a person of faith, only a few people put their hands up. “You only have two more times to deny me,” he says, as the very fine joke goes undiscerned by a large section of the audience.

A grounding in Christian mythology really does help to appreciate some of the gags as Lucifer talks about how his relationship with God is ever evolving, and how humans owe their sex drive to him. He introduced Adam and Eve to the Tree of Knowledge, remember. There’s also some terrific crowd work that runs through the show and Brigstocke is more playful than I have seen him in some years – it’s as if the character has freed him up as a performer. A

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Veronica Lee

There was a time when the Fringe was a fixed point on every comic’s calendar, but over the past decade or so television and, increasingly, the stage and film, have provided a more enticing career trajectory. But there’s something about Edinburgh in August that still has its lure.

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devilishly funny hour.

Helen Lederer, who is returning to the Fringe after 14 years, has done a lot in the intervening period, including appearances in fine television comedies including Naked Video, Bottom and Absolutely Fabulous. More recently she has become a regular in reality shows such as Splash! and Celebrity Big Brother.

She has a lot of stories to tell, and in I Might as Well Say It (3 stars) there are the beginnings of many promising anecdotes, but she has a scattergun approach. Just as you think she’s going to deliver the goods on the many people in the industry she has worked with, she’s on to another tale.

She does, though, tell us that the producers on Splash! wanted her to be “frightened but funny”, and wouldn’t let her wear a more modest swimsuit.

She talks about being on her second marriage. At 63 she's “too old for Donald Trump and too young for Harry Styles”, and about the naïve girl she once was, taking a job as a masseuse without realising what it entailed. The material about having to hustle for work when she was a single mother is poignant, too, and reveals a side of an industry that spits out talent when it’s no longer young or flavour of the month.

Lederer is an appealing presenter and there are some very good lines here, but the hour would have benefited from a more focused approach.

Jim Tavaré was last at the Fringe 20 years ago, when his shtick was performing deadpan comedy with a double bass as a prop. He was part of the acclaimed The Sketch Show and more recently he has been in the Harry Potter films. He may never have come back to Edinburgh but for a major life event in 2017, which prompted From Deadpan to Bedpan (2 stars). In it he describes the serious road accident he was involved in early last year, and his subsequent recovery.

Tavaré moved to Los Angeles several years ago, and it’s not a place to be ill. His medical bills totalled $652,000 (about half a million pounds). Not surprisingly, he hymns the NHS and US medical insurance which, by a fluke, he had bought just a few days before his accident.

He talks about his life in LA with his wife, their dog and three chickens—Nuggets, Barbecue and Soup (actually they keep them just for the eggs)—and how it was building a new coop for them that landed him in hospital. Popping out to get some building materials, his sporty Mazda was no match for a Dodge Ram on a blind bend.

You might think that such a story would be gripping, but there’s no jeopardy here, as we can see Tavaré alive and well before us (albeit with his right foot in a surgical boot), and Tavaré’s determinedly dry presentation doesn’t help. There are some laughs, though, and it’s good to see him back. /︎ Veronica Lee

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Supernatural shit, special powers, Gandalf’s daily bread: none of that’s what we mean when we talk about magic. Magic—actual magic, stage magic—is, by definition, just a trick. Real magic isn’t real magic, then. It’s theatre. Pretence. Illusion. Suspension of disbelief.

Or is theatre, rather, a form of magic? After all, as Evans goes on to explain, “Magic doesn’t happen in my hands, it happens in your heads”. Watching a good trick, we lose sight of reality and see only a fiction; not sleight of hand, but a card plucked from the air. The only difference with theatre is that we fool ourselves into believing a fiction; not an actor, but a character.

Both are equally based in illusion.

David Aula and Simon Evans shuffle the two in their bewilderingly clever double-bill. The Vanishing Man (4 stars) and The Extinction Event (4 stars) can and do stand alone, but like a magician’s assistant, they’re best seen as two halves of the same whole. Each is both a magic show and a play with magic, raising the question: what’s the difference between performing a trick and acting one out?

The Vanishing Man tells the story of Hugo Cedar, an Edwardian magician who made himself disappear.

Standing on London Bridge in broad daylight, Cedar held out his right hand with a playing card on his palm. After three hours, somehow, the card started to stand then—whoosh—Cedar was gone. How he did it, whether for real or not, nobody knows. Was it a trapdoor? A trick of the light? A jump to death? Search for Cedar online and nothing shows up.

Or rather, The Vanishing Man tells the story of Evans and Aula’s attempt to tell Cedar’s story. Charting the story of putting the show together, performing it in front of test audiences, it becomes clear that—as in all good magic—something went very wrong. In a swirl of close-up card trickery and theatrical transubstantiation, The Vanishing Man really does make a man disappear – all without resorting to magic.

The Extinction Event, which plays immediately afterwards, might be even sharper. A sequel of sorts, it re-enacts the infamous bullet catch – specifically, one in which a magician, Chung Ling Su, lost his life, shot through the heart by his new assistant. Magic, Evans explains, takes practice.

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Matt Trueman

“Real magic isn’t real magic.” If Simon Evans sounds cryptic, he’s saying something quite simple.

Magic—real magic—doesn’t actually exist.

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The Vanishing Man

The Extinction Event is full of restarts. Couched in hypnosis, another technique rooted in repetition, The Extinction Event connects mind-control and computer programming. Both, it suggests, are forms of artificial intelligence, and both can drive human beings to their deaths. Just as robots might overrule their creators, so magicians’ assistants can betray their bosses.

Both shows are brilliantly bamboozling – as magic routines, but even more so as theatre. Their structure is, effectively, scripted sleight of hand, each teeming with dramatic misdirection and theatrical trapdoors.

By doubling up their illusions, layering lies on top of truths, both shows start to give reality the slip. Evans is a really proficient magician, a whisker away from the top pros, and Aula, though not, uses fumbles to further sell the trick. Bit by bit, you stop trusting what you see as identity unspools and you fall under their spell. This is theatre at its most tricksy, but it’s elegant too, and artfully ironic. For just as a show about disappearance makes a magician materialise, a show about death brings a man back to life. Abracadabra, baby.

Vincent Gambini tries a similar trick in The Chore of Enchantment (2 stars). It doesn’t quite come

off. Framed as a re-enactment of a show that went wrong—maybe even a recurring dream—it too muddles scripted theatre with live magic, delighting in the overlap. Gambini’s tricks woozily unpeel perception from reality or vice versa: a coin spins through his fingers in a blur of distraction, a handkerchief whips through a mic stand until it gets stuck.

In repeating his routines, Gambini lets us track their secrets down. He has a slow, dreamy style of delivery and his sleight of hand isn’t always slight enough, but in letting you glimpse the underlying technique, Gambini makes the point that we allow ourselves to be deceived.

His creaking tricks—joke shop blank scripts and extending canes—only work if we ignore the evidence in front of us. There is, of course, a politics in that; a suggestion that our world might be a waking dream.

However, structurally, it’s more confused than confounding, and the swerves into standup and street theatre muddle things up. Gambini’s a curiously uncertain stage presence too, either unwilling or unable to sell us his show. We might have come here, as he says, to delight in being deceived, but this is a theatrical trick that trips itself up. / Matt Trueman

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The following four productions are a generally positive reflection of that flux of responses, and a good indicator of the diverse (some might say perverse) range of what’s on offer in the catch-all category of dance, physical theatre and circus.

Wayne McGregor’s place at the top of the UK’s dance food chain is secure, not least because of his position (since 2008) as resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet. He also heads his own eponymous company.

Founded in 1992, it used to be named Random Dance.

Both randomness and science are built into McGregor’s latest work, Autobiography (3 stars), programmed as part of the International Festival. Last year his entire genome was sequenced as part of a research study. Autobiography is based upon the resultant 23-part genetic “library”. What’s more, at each performance McGregor’s genome is selected and sequenced afresh thanks to a handy-dandy algorithm created by Nick Rothwell. This means that, structurally speaking, no two performances are ever alike.

What an ego trip it must be to shape your cellular or molecular self into a show and parade it in all its abstract glory on the international stage. And make no mistake, Autobiography very much qualifies as a large slice of abstract art even if interpreted by a cast of 10 physically superior young human beings. Lasting 80 (too long) minutes, the piece is divided into discrete, titled and non-consecutively numbered segments that vary—but ultimately maybe not enough—in terms of mood and content. The cast is exceptionally flexible and beautifully disciplined, moving with an athletic and at times animalistic articulacy.

But there’s a price to be paid for all that hyperactive fluency. What poses problems is not the dancers but rather the often overly busy, clinical and seemingly arbitrary dance itself. Although there are plenty of fast moments and stretchy body displays, most of the time Autobiography is as sensual as ice. It is also principally accompanied by an abrasive, nerve-grating score (from American electronic musician Jlin) that, at its worst, is like having nails air-gunned into your brain. Long-time McGregor collaborator Lucy Carter’s

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Donald Hutera

The mid-festivals experience can be a weird, wired, tired, any and everything goes beast of a thing.

Typically by the end of the second week you’ve had the pleasure of climbing at least a few new artistic peaks, but also fallen down just as many creative holes.

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lighting is, however, sheer genius – aside, that is, from the moments when she blinds us.

Presented by Summerhall as part of Army @ The Fringe, The Troth (3 stars) is no less ambitious but substantially different in style, scale and tone.

Produced by the South Asian dance organisation Akademi and choreographed and directed by Gary Clarke, this is a well-crafted hour of narrative dance-theatre that pays tribute to the estimated 60,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives in service to the Allied Forces in World War One. It’s a good, solid and accessible piece of entertainment devised from a valuably particular historical angle.

Aptly pegged as a “wartime story of love and sacrifice”, the production is receiving a somewhat cramped but workable staging in a not-so-central army reserve centre. Clarke and company pack a lot into an hour. He puts the cast of six through some lively, dramatically enveloping and, for them, emotionally charged paces against a backdrop of archival film footage (as well as some startling, present-day but made to look vintage close-ups).

BBC Young Dancer finalist Vidya Patel is especially memorable as a mournful, large-orbed object of Subhash Viman Gorania’s affections. The latter is a most sympathetic doomed male lead, well-supported by four other men including Daniel Hay-Gordon in a dual role as a starchy English officer and a slightly camp German baddie.

Independent choreographer Roberta Jean’s Brocade (3 stars) is described as a “meditation on the working body”. Staged, unusually, in Edinburgh’s City Chambers under the auspices of Dance Base, this hour-long female quintet features marginally

experimental, relatively textured live music for voice and violin. The audience occupies two facing rows of chairs. The black-clad, bare-legged cast steps, bounces, skips, hops, scurries and sails in the space between and around us.

Although their highly rhythmic, consciously mechanical movement conveys considerable variety, it’s not so easy surrendering to an experience that seems more functional than fun. Creditable as Brocade is, the oddly joyless, non-exhilarating first night performance only hints at a richer human potential. The most notable performer is Stephanie McMann, who at various junctures seems irritated, wearied, mischievous or possessed. Unlike some of her temperamentally cooler, less emotionally transparent colleagues, you can see McCann thinking through her actions and processing the consequences of her physical choices. She helps make Brocade that bit more involving and alive.

Finally there is Tabarnak (4 stars) by Cirque Alfonse, the French-Canadian company responsible for the wonderfully wacky yet poetic hit Barbu a few Fringes ago. This lot makes circus like no one else, imbuing their shows with a Québécois flavour and a buoyantly oddball, literally whip-cracking sensibility that remains very winning. Much of what the four men and two women under the Underbelly big top do consists of acrobatic feats and demonstrations of skill, but usually deployed straight-faced and tongue-incheek. These folks are strong. And funny. Essentially an off-the-wall send-up of small-town organised religion, Tabarnak is further carried along on the waves of a storming, live electro-trad score. It all builds to the kind of climax that leaves you thinking, “I’ll have what they’re having!” / Donald Hutera

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Comedy Reviews Steen Raskopoulos: Stay HHHHH VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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The show starts in party mood, with Steen Raskopoulos showing his dance skills, and the crowd whoops in encouragement. It’s an opening intended to wrongfoot, as by the end of the hour we’re somewhere else entirely.

This dislocation is central to the routine’s theme, and it’s a show

you might spend some time afterwards trying to unpick. For this is an intricate meditation on identity and sanity, as multiple narratives and characters—seemingly unconnected at the outset—start to collide in unexpected ways. It’s an assured narrative structure that rewards attention.

All of which makes this sound heavy, more a play than a comedy gig. But it’s properly funny too.

Raskopoulos is an astonishing comic performer, confident enough to give his audience just enough to sell a joke and no more. He plays multiple characters, all clearly defined, and all with a backstory to explore. What seems like wilful

silliness—the trial of the iceberg that sank the Titanic, for example—turns out to have much more meaning, yet still functions in itself as a discrete and funny skit. Audience interaction is well-handled, and small acts of physical comedy justifiably garner louder and longer laughs than most other comics would manage.

But there’s a nagging sense of something larger and menacing lurking somewhere, and it slowly rises to the surface. The emotional wallop at the end is brave and heartfelt, and its sincerity is earned. It’s a show I immediately want to go back and watch again. / Brett Mills

Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother!

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Forgive Me, Mother! feels like Lazy Susan’s coming-of-age show – the moment Celeste Dring and Freya Parker truly make good on the promise of their double-act.Though not without its flaws, shifting the emphasis more to their own on-stage personas than characters affords it real narrative coherence and zip,

with Dring flirtatiously upfront, Parker a wild-eyed maelstrom of anxiety.

After a memorable introduction, their room is a safe space, they reassure. And, they protest rather too much, the show definitely has no agenda, certainly not about gender. Right. From their portrait of a whimsical Frenchwoman conceived by a man (Dring’s Gallic-manic pixie dream girl bringing out the awkward, Anglo-Saxon pragmatist in her partner), to strutting their stuff as “sexy women with a catch” (because there’s always a catch, isn’t there fellas?) they present deliberately over-the-top satires on the current climate of sexual harassment exposure.

The appeal of witnessing them

pull on balaclavas is not so much wondering if they’re going to be park rapists, but anticipating how they will pull off this grim skit. As it is, their insecure, snowflake-y and perversely modern felons are a bit too signposted, their millennial preoccupations over-elaborated.

And Dring chatting up a guy in the crowd feels like filler.

But there’s more going on than is initially obvious. The pair string their sketches together with little episodes of tension between them, setting up a dementedly funny, subversive finale in which they reveal their true selves. Zeitgeisty but playfully arch, it’s supremely well done from a duo capably extending themselves. /︎ Jay Richardson

in some strong political material about Donald Trump, Russian interference in the West, the Scottish independence referendum and Brexit. But there are much bigger problems to address, he tells us: ketchup in the fridge or not? And why, he wonders, do people who move away from the North of England spend the rest of their lives obsessed by gravy? Then he mentions the Manchester Arena

attack and, while he pays due homage to those murdered and the effect it had on his beloved home town, he subtly references the grief industry elsewhere. It’s a tricky subject, but one that Moorhouse carries off. And just when you think the hour is taking a dark turn, he ends on a terrific takedown of his level of fame, a nicely judged undercutting of his own celebrity. / Veronica Lee

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If good old-fashioned joke-telling is your thing, then Justin Moorhouse is your man, and Northern Joker has a very high gag rate. The title is an ironic nod to the unPC club comedians of old, because here he is telling us about being a teetotal vegan. He talks about being a dad to a teenage girl, with all that that entails: “hormones, emotions and opinions”. He tries to be a good father but it’s her keenness to talk about feelings that gets him, because when he was a lad it was very different: “My dad didn’t have emotions. He had an allotment.”

Moorhouse swerves between the serious stuff and silliness in the space of a sentence, weaving

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Adam Riches is Coach Coach 2: Coach Harder HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Sport and the Fringe usually go together like strawberries and cheese.

Chalk and cream. A mighty arts festival is really the place to get away from players and pundits, at least for a while. In comedy, the general wisdom is that a blatant sporty theme

will scare off half the audience, so it takes a maverick entertainer to go balls out.That ball-bearing maverick is Adam Riches.

Back in 2015 the Edinburgh Award-winning comic launched his most ambitious Fringe epic yet: Coach Coach, the tale of Eric Coach, a grizzled US college trainer and his sizeable, financially risky cast. Eric became something of an icon, and so the sequel is now finally upon us. Coach Coach 2, Coach Harder follows a similarly joyous formula—although now incorporating tragedy and time-travel—and more genuine sporting tension.

This time, Coach is drawn into a Rocky 4-style New Cold War quasi-netball drama against a team

infiltrated by Russkies, whose head apparatchiks are played by Stevie Martin and Ben Target. Our hero has to call up reinforcements from the bleachers—and the past— culminating in actual edge-of-yourseat stuff. Will these new recruits hit the target (not Ben) before the show massively overruns?

Like all great sporting affairs, Coach Harder is a glorious mess, although might well tighten up.

It’s on intermittently thoughout the month, so takes longer to get match fit. Which would be a shame, in a way, as every mishap lets the inspirational Riches improvise around it. He’s the LeBron James of lovingly crafted interactive lunacy. /︎ Si Hawkins

And the comic steps outside the pressure cooker oppressiveness to incredulously critique his parents’ stockpiling tendencies.

Her own mother affords her plenty of material, her laissez-faire attitude to cultural integration and ingratiating yourself with the locals making for an interesting Italian holiday.

Ward receives a decidedly mixed vision of her future. Although most of her comedy is intrinsically personal, her social observations rendered in the broadest of strokes, she offers a distinct if illogical take on slut-sham-

ing and is quotably witty on the small print of unconditional love.

As ever, Ward’s standup is elevated by some sublimely funny act-outs, from the carefully timed mime of her lobbing grenades into her marriage, to the various tactics big-nosed people employ to quaff wine. The aforementioned mental health battles lend the show a little emotional heft at the end.

But it’s done with a light touch, as Ward draws you into her intense world and vivacious, expressive comedy. /︎ Jay Richardson

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After two years away, Felicity Ward’s controlled mania makes a welcome Fringe return, her irritations and neuroses once again the cornerstone of an assured hour of standup. Although it belatedly touches upon her depression and alcoholism, Busting A Nut is a relatable summary of her pique with the world, of try-hard motivational slogan memes and oppressive yoga. Most strikingly though, and after moving in with her in-laws, it’s a portrait of cumulative, micro-aggressive tension. The cramped environment sharpens arguments with her husband, even though politeness keeps them superficially civil.

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There’s an argument to be made that the most effective parodies come from those who have a genuine affection for their subject matter; Don Rodolfo certainly adds credence to this view, because the evident love Ciarán Dowd has for the genre of swashbuckling romance he so brilliantly sends up elevates his creation immeasurably.The result is a magnificently realised piece of character comedy that packs an incredible amount of storytelling into its single hour.

The ludicrous, legendary Don Rodolfo—self-professed greatest swordsman in the world, lover of women, men and household furniture, who habitually sets every

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Flo & Joan’s opening song welcomes the audience, outlining their desire to be as inclusive as possible. But the joke here is that they’re not as liberal as they appear, instead reeling off a list of personality types and behaviour misdemeanours that could lead to exclusion. The contrast between

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building he leaves on fire and rides a horse called Horse—owes his existence to Don Juan, Don Quixote, theThree Musketeers, Zorro and Inigo Montoya. Yet he emerges onto the stage fully formed and entirely compelling.The story of his life, his loves and his quest for revenge is entrancing as well as hilarious, and keeps the audience gripped just as Dowd keeps them laughing.

There is no shortage of comedians at the Fringe inhabiting grotesque idiots as their alter-egos, but Don

Rodolfo, while never threatening to take himself (or anything else) seriously, emerges as a surprisingly effective anti-hero. He’s a goodnatured, bloodthirsty lothario whose stupidity utterly befits the epic nature of his setting, and who achieves an almost cinematic grandeur that should be impossible for one man in a cramped basement waving a plastic sword. And yet, achieving the impossible is what Don Rodolfo does. A spectacle worth witnessing. /︎ Sean Bell

the piece’s lighthearted performance and the tartness of their accusations neatly encapsulates their comic conceit, and so sets the tone for the rest of the show.

But it also highlights their limitations. While the targets of their bile (Crocs wearers, for example) are likely to be shared by their audience they’re also of a kind that can routinely be called on to garner a laugh. The world being presented in the songs is one we can all recognise, but it stubbornly fails to challenge the audience or take in topics that might lead to unexpected areas.

They introduce each song via scene-setting exposition, but this

renders the show rather disjointed, jumping from one topic to another.

Their responses to online abuse they’ve received hint at a desire to challenge trolling, but this too is presented mildly.

It’s only towards the end that something more biting is revealed, as two songs offer a pleasing bitterness. The first methodically unpicks the romance of marriage. And in the show’s climax they finally let rip, delivering a routine that is both unexpected and yet logically arises from what has come before. Here’s hoping that in the future they’ll embrace such grittiness more readily, adding some bite to their routine. /︎ Brett Mills

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Cheng made headlines last year by winning the Joke of the Fringe competition, which is not necessarily a sign that someone’s full-length show will be worth catching. Best Dad Ever is far from a pun-fest however, as the maths-loving comic is making the most of the Bedlam Theatre’s grand, Gothic ambience

by giving his show proper theatrical trappings: a little stage-scenery side table, some surprise props and a well-worked finale. Despite the title, much of this hour is actually about his mother, whose remarkable story is well worth such a stage.

The semi-scripted feel does lead to a slightly stiff start. Cheng launches into an observational riff with little introduction, and sails straight past a couple of audience whoops when he mentions his old hometown of Cambridge, where a response would have warmed the room nicely. But he eventually relaxes into the material, with the aid of some big-screen visual aids, and the show markedly improves as

it progresses.

His family background is fascinating – one of his ancestors created one of the first big Chinese productions in London’s West End. But it’s his parents who provide the story here, and both reveal hidden depths, for better or worse.

Why did his father return to China, then stop sending money? Was his translator mother having an affair with a policeman she worked a case with? And how did young Ken sort of invent Amazon Prime?

This is an unfolding tapestry of a tale, with interesting asides about race, immigration and Excel spreadsheets. Eventually, it all adds up. /︎ Si Hawkins

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Grace the Former Child—formerly Grace the Child—is at a difficult age to be performing standup. Now 15, he’s a little too old to trade on the novelty of his youth, but could come off as irritatingly precocious should he attempt to speak to adults on their level. All that can be done is to acknowledge the purgatory he finds himself in. The phrase “you guys are adults”, is heard throughout the set in a tone of alienated desperation. The star is an outsider on so many levels.

It’s a privilege watching Grace grow up in public, though all his routines suffer from the impermanence of his world view. While the performer seems to have found a

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voice, his general outlook is very much in development. For instance, he’s still coming to terms with being diagnosed as bipolar, and is looking ahead to potential gender alignment procedures. Grace has so many life changing events to experience.

So, this show is a valuable insight into a prodigious comic’s present frame of mind. It’s

comedy as a diary entry in which the protagonist finds something to laugh at in his mental health and the various other torments to which he’s subjected. It’s a compelling, hugely auspicious set, but the performer struggles to tie his ongoing experiences together or arrive at any sort of satisfying conclusions. /︎ Lewis Porteous

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If you’re really jazzed about replacing lines in pop songs with the word “Duff” in an incongruous male monotone, the good news is you’ve come to the right place. The female anatomy (and undetermined depth thereof) features heavily in

Rhod Gilbert.

So what you get here is pretty much what you’d expect from him at this point in his career, a consummate hour of funny, each punch line hitting exactly where it is intended. It’s a disparate set with no discernable theme, just simply a catch up since the last time we listened to him chat amiably. There’s

huge warmth in Langford’s material too; it’s with disgruntled affection that he talks about his dad’s penchant for giving presents he’s found washed up on the beach.

There are a couple of places where Langford teasingly dips into more edgy territory, including the story on which he closes the show. /︎ Marissa Burgess

an expressive, entertainingly weird hour from Helen Duff.

The show itself, taking the form of a one-woman dramatic monologue in parts, exists almost as a satire of the pressure on female comics to promote a message with their art. Duff celebrates femininity for sure, but draws back a little when it comes to packaging it in any sincere form. She’s just having fun with it, a ball of kooky energy with a penchant for the theatrical.

It’s briefly meta, but without the associated “phor”.

The show extols female empowerment in whichever form the audience chooses to infer. Duff’s

own mountain to climb has been one of sexual frustration, and we’re treated (or punished) with an unfiltered account of her journey to achieve orgasm. As a storyteller she doesn’t elicit many big laughs, but she’s endearingly hyper, which just about keeps things ticking over.

She’s like a runaway-train, descending into stuttering gibberish if the mood takes her and even pulling some convincing mime out the bag – watch out for her particularly inventive gesturing. You’ll find funnier shows this Fringe, but you’re unlikely to find a more candid account of embarrassing oneself in the pursuit of love. /︎ Matthew Sharpe

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Lloyd Langford cements his unassuming demeanour before the show has even started, patiently waiting on stage for us to file in.

Granted there aren’t many places you can spring theatrically from in this tiny room but it’s typical of his unshowy personality.

He’s very much still the everyman from South Wales, despite the fact that much of what follows are his tales of gigging around the world and having meetings with pushy American producers.

This international level of interest is no surprise. After all, here in the UK he’s contributed to many comedy shows as a performer or writer, as well as doing the rounds of the comedy panel shows and working with fellow Welshman

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To Lewis Schaffer, guilt is something that has to be demonstrated. As it turns out, so does comedy, which is where the wheels fall off almost immediately. Schaffer’s familiar style of performative misanthropy

does not aid his standup, nor the questionable thesis behind it.

Via a rambling and suspiciously vague narrative, Schaffer explains that he has been accused of something – something sufficiently terrible that it has lost him friends and erstwhile fans, as well as raising questions about the possible toxicity of his presence on the comedy scene. And yet, to hear Schaffer tell it, he has no idea what exactly he has been accused of, resulting in what he frames as a Kafkaesque trial for an unnamed offence.

Around this dubious premise, Schaffer delivers what can only be seen as a cranky, defensive critique of the #MeToo movement. Though

never mentioned by name, its controversies hang over Schaffer’s mixture of recrimination and selfjustification, not least because the mysterious accusation in question came from a former partner.

Schaffer warns us early on that by the end of the night, we will not like him; his dispiriting, half-hearted sparring with the audience might prove him right for some. Even if it doesn’t, his aim—to convince us that society should refrain from judgement based on rumour and innuendo—is undercut from the outset. Schaffer tells us only one side of the story – his.

That’s not much to go on, and by the end, there’s not much to laugh about. /︎ Sean Bell

Fortunately, this is not an extended advert for the assemblies—Jones’s funniest observations have more to do with the media reaction they elicited—but the thinking behind them does inform what follows. The result is mixed – not least because, as standup, it is both thin on material and uncomfortably padded.

Jones wrings some decent comedic mileage out of the fact that, in promoting his show as a “secular spiritual experience”, he

has inadvertently hit upon a concept almost perfectly phrased to repel punters, regardless of their religious beliefs. Nevertheless, the remaining jokes cannot sustain a half-baked hour, in which Jones relies on his exuberance to cajole the audience into dance routines, full-length karaoke recitals without apparent cause or punchline, and relaxation exercises which could charitably be described as good-humoured, but not humorous. /︎ Sean Bell

Sanderson Jones: That’s the Spirit!

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Sincerity in any artform is a nebulous business – perhaps especially so in standup, which often hinges on crafting a persona and reframing reality to garner the greatest laughs. Nevertheless, Sanderson Jones’s new show—his return to the Fringe after six years—is by all appearances a sincere endeavour, and that allows him to get away with a few stunts that would grate more in the hands of another performer.

Which isn’t to say these antics— or the show as a whole—are entirely successful. During his absence from the festival, Jones became best known as the co-founder of the Sunday Assembly, a gathering for the non-religious who seek the communality faith often provides.

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There’s a point right at the end of Steve Bugeja’s hour that invests all that’s preceded it with an emotional heft previously absent. The atmosphere in the room changes, and suddenly the humour’s charged with sincerity that gives it a tangible edge. But it’s a shame that this

when a performance of standoffish arrogance would be better suited to the material. And all this takes place in a cavernous space that she never manages to own, when the self-centred character she’s aiming for should feel comfortable taking up that much room.

While the majority of the set is grounded in an everyday realism, a later sequence is instead imagi-

native and dreamlike, and this jars given what’s preceded it. To be sure, there’s an intriguing premise that underpins what’s on offer, constantly hinting at something with vitality just out of reach. Maybe she should embrace the “bitch” persona, and throw her desire to be liked out of the window. The outsider should embrace being an outsider. /︎ Brett Mills

transformation comes so late, as there’s little time left for its implications to be comically explored.

For preceding this has been an efficient but largely soulless routine. Bugeja’s persona is that of the regular guy, and his comedy explores topics unlikely to offend or trouble. The overarching narrative recounts being stuck on a long-haul flight with a talkatave passenger in the next seat, but the digressions take in girlfriend woes, his fondness for trains, and the differences between the young and the elderly.

All of this is proficently done, but sequences are sometimes longer than they need to be, continuing

beyond their comic peak. There are callbacks that have the effect of evidencing a coherent narrative, rather than being comically surprising in their yoking together of hitherto disparate parts.

So it’s a delight that there’s a hint of something more potent in the revelation that concludes the routine. But by then it’s too late.

If he comes back next year with an hour that starts where this one ends he could have something with real vitality. The show is called Almost and this is apt, given the real comic matter is ready and waiting, almost but not quite on display. /︎ Brett Mills

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Clara Bijl is French but lives in America, and it is this juxtaposition that informs her comic persona.

Forever feeling like the outsider, she’s able to pass as American even if there’s much about the nation she doesn’t like. It’s an interesting foundation for comedy, but the ideas and jokes just aren’t strong enough for this to be fully exploited.

She clearly wants to critique domestic norms, and she riffs on the horrors of men, marriage, divorce and children. But rather than string all of this together to develop a coherent persona, the set is delivered as short gags that never coalesce into something more. She repeatedly calls herself “bitch”, but seems keen for the audience to like and accept her,

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The matter-of-fact title belies a dynamic and sensitive new play

by Ed Edwards, but that’s part of its charm. It’s as though a highly lyrical play has smashed into a political treatise, and the result is unrelentingly human.

The play tracks how decisions taken under Margaret Thatcher’s

government lead to the prevalence of heroin in the UK, bolstering a crisis of poverty and homelessness. We follow Neil and Mandy, children of the ‘80s in Manchester.

Both are facing addictions, homelessness and their own pasts. The remarkable humanity of the story bears the hallmark of the writer’s deep understanding of the subject matter, and the characters are thankfully afforded the complexity required to stage this hugely sensitive subject with care.

Brilliant lighting design and movement work support the text with mesmerising force and theatricality. The play affords little respite. Even the many humour-

ous moments come with a sharp reminder of the harsh realities of Neil and Mandy’s lives. Jagged structure flitting between direct address, dialogue and history lesson works to maintain momentum, but may be to the detriment of letting the characters expand and evolve.

Still, Eve Steele and Neil Bell are perfect in their roles, mastering nuanced playfulness and heaviness in tune with the writing.

The play digs incisively into how political decisions impacted the lives of working class people.

In melding politics with a deeply human story of two people touched by addiction, it is an urgent and powerful production. / Naomi Obeng

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Boys, bullies and ‘90s wrestling – from this, Fringe First winners Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair have created a show that succeeds in looking at masculinity in a pulse-racing, light-touch way.

Thirteen-year-old Max (Scott Fletcher) anxiously counts down an hour in the school toilets, awaiting his fight—his “square go”—with the fearsome Danny Guthrie.

Meanwhile, his friend Stevie (Gavin Jon Wright) only succeeds in scaring him more.

Hurley and McNair freshen this familiar scenario by channelling it into fantasy sequences straight

out of Max’s religiously-watched VHS wrestling tapes. Through Max and Stevie, then, we get the full gravel growl and macho posturing of wrestlers as a metaphor for the cyclical pressures on boys to be and act a certain way.

It’s handled slickly by director Finn den Hertog, who fills the RoundaboutTheatre with a booming soundtrack, flashing lights and a ringside atmosphere. Fletcher and Wright winningly engage in some fun audience banter as they rally us up.

Wright also plays a number of people in Max’s imagination – from a

silhouetted, beast-like Danny, to his deadbeat, runaway dad. His comic timing is excellent. But Fletcher anchors Square Go with his, by turns, hilarious and touching portrayal of his character’s awkward-angled, teenage flail for male identity.

This is a rollicking show, with some fitting pot shots at visiting southerners. The buzz of the wrestling conceit wears itself out before the end and the show really pummels its message home in its final scenes. But it’s also energetic, funny and refreshingly hopeful about changing the rules. / Tom Wicker

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It’s True, It’s True, It’s True HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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There’s a gut-deep scream of fury which reverberates through history in BreachTheatre’s newest show.

Based on the court transcripts of a 1612 rape trial where the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi accused her painting tutor of rape, Billy Barrett’s unflinching direction resists the urge for overt references to the #TimesUp movement. It’s not necessary because the links are already there. Barrett simply presents the verbatim text with an unwavering gaze against Luke W. Robson’s ascetic, steely set, which neatly evokes the brutality of the trial.

Ellice Stevens gives a toweringly dignified performance as Artemisia, her righteous fury shining out as

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Explosive from the off, a crutch is held as a gun. A group of young soldiers recover in rehab, clutching at dark humour and forbidden drinks to get by in this 1993 play updated for modern warfare. When Potential Officer Hope (referred to as POSH, Nick Howden-Steenstra) joins the dorm, he’s unwelcome. At first uncomfortable around their disabilities—most of the patients have been blown up by IEDs—he

she bellows the titular words at the audience over and over again until they dissolve into air. As a counterpoint, Sophie Steer gives a terrifying, magnetic performance as AgostinoTassi, Artemisia’s accused rapist who continually belittles and gaslights the women in the courtroom. Barrett intercuts the unsettlingly prescient court transcripts with interludes wherein Artemisia is given space to explicate and unfurl her paintings’ meanings

to the audience. It’s in stark contrast to her courtroom brutalisation, and Barrett’s scoring of the show with Courtney Barnett and Mitski lends the production a rough and fierce contemporary edge.

It’s True… however, loses a little direction at its close, with an ending which feels rushed out and somewhat sloppy. That is, however, a small price to pay for the power and depth that precedes it. /︎ Ava Wong Davies

quickly settles in and joins the macabre jokes.

Once they’re a unit, loyalty means everything. Leader of the gang Joe (Declan Perring) is terrifying when betrayed, his cheeky grin snapping into a snarl. Ian (Michael Larcombe) has the furthest journey to recovery, almost unable to speak and move, trembling with frustration at what war has done to him. It’s a strong cast, performances nuanced in their anger.

Their language is military, all acronyms and instructions. In Jonathan Lewis’s script there are some subtle conversations around mental health not being taken as seriously as a missing limb, and however laddish the

jokes, their dealing with each other is tender and sensitive. Class battles are layered and reveal the absurdity of having to decide on a future in the army aged 16 in order to afford an education.

Infantilised by rehab, a sense of survivor’s guilt lingers. The lack of proper medical attention to Keith (Christopher Alan Lowry) suggests that soldiers who are fallen but still breathing are forgotten rather than sufficiently supported.

Having seen their friends in bits, their hope and potential seem to drip away. But through it all their camaraderie beams. In the army, it’s clear: you do it all for your mates, that’s the only way you get through. / Kate Wyver

Zugunruhe HHHH VENUE: TIME:

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Overwhelmingly, Zugunruhe is intriguing. And unsettling. And very interesting. A German scientific term for a “migratory restlessness” observed in birds, 'Zugunruhe' describes the discovery that birds know when they should be flying across the globe, so if they find themselves stuck in a cage they

start to twitch and flutter.

Restless is a perfect descriptor for this production, performed with impressive physical, transformational commitment by Tom Bailey.

For this performance, he is a bird.

It’s unsettling, but in a beautiful way that reflects back on ourselves more than anything. Why shouldn’t he be a bird? This is theatre after all.

The comparison between bird migration and human migration is an easy one, but it occurs to us in subtle waves. A cry. A laugh.

Language or birdsong. A sound that could be birds, could be electrical interference, could be bombs. The production is hard to pin down.

Immersive sound design from Rowan Evans places us effectively in landscapes across the world, hearing the birds and humans that occupy these spaces, while Bailey delicately controls mesmerising moments followed by plaintive bursts of energy, as though fighting an invisible force. Are we that force?

Zugunruhe’s focus is global and international and it is a unique and accomplished production. We see the world anew and place ourselves next to the birds, perhaps less willing to ignore them and their epic travels, and certainly more likely to consider how we are impacting their lives. / Naomi Obeng

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James Rowland is a magical storyteller. He weaves tales of wonder and woe using just his imagination and a loop pedal. But before Revelations—the third in his “Songs of Friendship” trilogy— begins, he captivates the audience with an earnest plea to record a song for his niece’s birthday. It reveals the person behind the narrator.

Interactivity is inherent to Revelations and Rowland approaches each instance with positive encouragement. Individuals pray in tongues and catch him when he falls. Everyone clamours at the play’s conclusion. A transcendental din of noise results in an ear-splitting outburst of raw emotion. Rowland is a preacher, the Revelations sermon magnified by how vividly he brings detail to life.

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As well as faith, Revelations is a personal account about being a sperm donor for his best friend and her wife. Emma and Sarah make appearances in previous shows – he returns to characters that his followers know well. Rowland is an adorable puppy-dog, eager to please and energised by the little joys of life. Stories about snow days and semen are vivid anecdotes of pride and love.

Foxes and maternity leave become

life-changing downturns. As he remembers, Rowland breaks down. Time stops. The 73 bus, or the pooling blood from a dying body, do not.

The two disparate strands, a religious upbringing and impending parenthood, are brought together

by Revelations in a blinding flash.

All there is to do is pray and hope and smile. Rowland’s journey leaves his audience fervently doing all three. / Daniel Perks

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What is sex, exactly? What “counts” as sex? It’s the question that haunts Alana (a magnetic Lydia Larson) throughout Skin a Cat, Isley Lynn’s intensely intimate coming-of-age narrative. Alana has vaginismus, a psychosomatic condition which prevents her from having penetrative sex, and which increasingly hangs over her romantic relationships and

her own sense of self-worth.

Blythe Stewart directs with a deftness of touch which is most apparent in her adroit handling of Lynn’s alternately excruciatingly funny and horrific sex scenes: Stewart aptly draws out the ridiculousness of teenage sexual encounters without being overly coy or exploitative. And in a play about female sexuality, there is no unnecessary nudity: rather, Larson is clad in layers upon layers of nude underwear, her body protected from external forces in a shell of flesh-coloured armour. It makes sense: Alana has too much control; she is constantly overthinking, narrating a stream of consciousness to her audience, rarely just

in the moment. Libby Rodliffe and Joe Eyre frame and support Larson, slickly playing the other characters in Alana’s story, most notably her overbearing but well-meaning mother and a string of confused boyfriends.

As well meaning as the play is, however, its denouement feels awkwardly realised by Lynn.There is an implication that Alana’s eventual self-discovery is triggered by her relationship with an older man. It’s a plot point which sits strangely with the play’s ultimate message of self-discovery and needs more unpacking. Despite this however, Skin a Cat still feels absolutely vital, the type of play I needed to see when I was 15. / Ava Wong Davies

about Dr Horror’s existence.

Despite an ending that’s obvious pretty much from the word go, the performances are largely engaging.

Some delightful comedy comes from the trio of actors playing the friends as children, and good physical comedy when Elliot’s suspect new girlfriend arrives.

While billed as a satirical dark comedy, the play is let down by touching on aspects of the genre without really committing to them.

The satirising of Stephen Kingstyle childhood trauma horror is not bold enough to read as satire, and the comedy is outweighed by the dull and familiar drama of friends falling out.

While built on an intriguing central premise, with some impressive performances and staging choices, You’ve Got To Be Kidney Me! needs to be more satirical, funnier and scarier to deliver on its promises. / Naomi Obeng

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A man living in a suburban Canadian town who harvests kidneys from unwilling donors sounds like solid ground for a dark comedy. And it’s based on a true story too. Jackpot.

You’ve Got To Be Kidney Me! frames the threat of this “Dr Horror” as a jostle between the spooky rumours discussed by three childhood friends, and their realisation as adults that the threat is real, and very close.

An exploration of rumour and fact, specifically relating to stories we hear as children, works well as a premise for this tale. It seems a huge flaw however that we as an audience, unlike Elliot and his two best friends, are never in any doubt

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Paralysed by the pain of an unspecified family tragedy—we assume the death of a child—Adam (Jack Bence) is lost. It’s a common response to deep emotional trauma, but is manifesting more literally than usual in this particular case, with Adam convinced he’s Lemuel Gulliver, adrift in Jonathan Swift’s fictional world. Lil (Cathy Conneff) is playing along, humouring her husband in an attempt to help him heal, but there’s only so many times a woman can be compared to a “Yahoo” before she snaps.

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This is a lovely, affecting piece on what it means to take on a seemingly outlandish task, to try, to fail, to try again. Life, you see, is about finding “your thing”, and however daft that thing is, there’s meaning in it because it’s yours. To that end, Laura Hendry signed up to compete in the 2017 world tetradecathlon championships, having never run on a track, jumped into a sandpit, or hurled a spear.

To the uninitiated (that’s most of us) the tetradecathlon is the

most gruelling of all the ‘athons – 14 track and field events over two days. Hendry, in an energetic solo performance, leads us through the highs and lows of her training and competition. There’s some clear gold medals here: Hendry’s impersonation of her gruff Scottish coach, one leg permanently up on a bench (the one-sided conversations work extremely well to maintain pace and avoid clunky dialogue); the illuminated timing display sets the scene well and give some sense of jeapardy as the big day approaches; a well-weighted middle section that moves this medium-distance

event from early enthusiasm to exhaustion. Scott Twynholm’s score is minimalist and evocative.

Some of the blocking is a bit inexplicable – movement which seems designed only to do something rather than nothing. Moving the lockers about, in particular, doesn’t really achieve much. At times, also, this flirts a bit with Chariots of Fire-style winner worship, Hendry’s final (implied) victory in the coach’s cup giving her more pleasure than feels comfortable in a piece which emphasises self-validation. Hendry is a winner, cup or not. /︎ Evan Beswick

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Dawn State Theatre is at its best in the moments when Lem recounts his adventures. There’s lovely, understated puppetry work from Conneff, with soft toys standing in for Lilliputians. And lighting, set (Ben Hughes) and sound design (Julian Starr) are an effective aid to Coleman’s lyrical script, taking us with Adam on his journey.

But there’s too much left unexplained—why Gulliver’s Travels?; why hasn’t Lil sought professional help dealing with the clearly very serious state of Adam’s mental health?—and Gulliver Returns makes for something of a meh hour as a result. That’s a shame because Coleman is obviously a talented storyteller, and Bence and Conneff both offer engaging performances.

Perhaps an hour is just not enough time in which to tackle mental health, family breakdown and one of the greatest novels of the 18th century. /︎ Jo Caird

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Rosy Carrick has drawn a relatively small audience on the day I’m seeing her latest piece of theatrical spoken word. There’s nothing wrong with this, obviously, as numbers should and do vary over the course of the month. What the modest attendance does do, however, is render her show’s high production values something of an incongruous distraction, the performer taking to the stage accompanied by a fanfare of rock music and slick digital graphics. Passionate Machine feels high budget, like the

science fiction staples it references, but a glossy sheen distances us from what is actually an intensely emotional narrative.

The star is enamoured with poet and dissident Vladimir Mayakovsky. At the beginning of the show she kisses a picture of his face before going on to reveal that she learned Russian specifically to gain a better understanding of his work, and that she forced his New York-based daughter into a long-distance friendship. Most recently, she completed a PhD on

Mayakovsky and edited a book of his work. The story presented to us concerns time-travelling Carrick’s attempts to meet her hero before his suicide at age 36, and the various set backs, disappointments and traumas art has helped her endure.

Passionate Machine is an engaging piece that deftly blends fact and fiction, though ultimately too many pop culture references threaten to suffocate the compelling autobiography at its core. /︎ Lewis Porteous

time to think. Her long-term boyfriend’s waiting at the finish with a sign and a ring, oblivious that she’s seeing someone else, and all those late-twenties parties and late-night kebabs are catching up. Stitches kick in with a foghorn squeal, and her strained smile masks the pain burning within.

The problem is that marathons make blunt metaphors for life and, in looking to the milestones coming up—marriage, motherhood, mental decay—Chapman’s script tends to get stuck in cliché. With a string

of temp jobs behind her, no hope of owning a house and fears about fertility in the mix, Maddy’s less an individual than an amalgam of millennial angst.

Jogging on the spot, working up a sweat, Chapman pushes a likeable performance to the max, but the race structure makes it all entirely predictable. As soon as the starting gun goes off, you’re waiting for the breakdown 20 miles in and, even at an hour, It’s Not a Sprint starts to test your endurance. /︎ Matt Trueman

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Life is a long-distance race, old chum – at least, it is in Grace Chapman’s monologue about a millennial marathon runner striding through a quarter life crisis. Newly 30, Maddy’s seeing her 26.2 miles as a fresh start, but she’s paid more heed to her playlist than to her race plan.

She pumps her fist: “I’m totally going to smash it.” She’s not.

That’s no thanks to her running companion – her own nagging doubt. With a balloon bouncing unhelpfully behind her, Maddy finds pounding the pavement provides

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Making hay from the fact that John Lennon famously used to holiday in Durness in the north of Scotland as a boy—and not Dornoch, location of Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s wedding, as one joke in the piece has it—this ensemble comedy from Best Of Productions has more than a touch of the 1983 film Local Hero to it, although the soundtrack is

the Beatles and not Mark Knopfler.

Specifically, it tells of US tycoon Hamish Hardman—a gruff and somehow familiar character with a liking for baseball caps and golf courses—and his attempt to develop Durness into a tourist-friendly destination founded around a house bearing a wall entirely graffitied by a young Lennon.

Standing in his way are hapless young academic Donald Keays (James Ruskin), the American but Scots-descended Susan Mackay (Cristal Cole) and the staff and regulars of the local Durness Hotel.

There’s a sugary thwarted love story going on between Donald and Susan, and also a vague and somewhat

cursory attempt to examine what it is to be Scottish, through the medium of Donald’s academic musings.

Judging by Jane Gordon’s adaptation of Michael Russell’s book, this essential Scottishness is to be found in resistance to rapacious capitalism, in the communality of pub banter, and in love of music; specifically the music of an artist with a tenuous geographical link whose songs are beloved more or less everywhere.

George Damms’ soundtrack of acoustic Beatles tracks is pleasant and Grant Lawson is particularly amusing as Hardman and gruff local fool Archie, but otherwise the sense of soapy cliché around the piece is cloying. / David Pollock

never confusing is because it’s all spelled out is such smothering fashion. In particular, it’s the music and the lighting that wear quickly.

No movement occurs without SFXs and a lighting bump; a soundtrack plays more or less consistently and always loudly. Sure, there’s plenty of family theatre that creates thick, immersive textures. The real problem here, though, is that this is precisely against the moral of a story which warns against the soporific effects of easy-to-swallow television, where flashy lights, simple stories and a wall of sound

assault the senses and strip kids of the need to work their brains.

Physician, heal thyself.

There’s a particularly excellent moment where Jonjo finds a spaceship. There’s a moment of silence, out of which we hear a greeting – a four-note motif from its spaceshippy brain. This theme is then transformed, symphony-like, into a celebratory, techno-inspired piece.

It’s a neat way of taking the kernal of a challenging musical idea and doing something emotional with it. Otherwise, though, this is just popcorn. / Evan Beswick

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There’s a lot to like in this energetic piece (for kids age five and up). The tale of an intergalactic conspiracy by a bunch of rotten aliens to kidnap kids, hypnotise them with TV, fatten them up with cakes, and devour them is told with all the slickness you’d expect fromTheatre Clwyd and Paines Plough. It’s funny, physical, and feels unforced played in the round. The threestrong cast use the space well to play a host of characters, especially when it comes to using different entrance points to mark differences between characters and scenes. There’s a lot going on, but it’s never confusing.

But part of the reason it’s

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The three Fates spin out human lives through exciting dance theatre that transforms them into a captivating, non-human goddess machine. Australian choreographer Lina Limosani and Scottish physical theatre icon Al Seed have teamed up to create this mysterious and gripping show, in which Limosani also performs alongside Tara Jade Samaya and Kialea-Nadine Williams. Between

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The four performers of Infinita are undoubtably masters of character mask work. They keep their sensitively sculpted papier-maché identities expertly animated through responsive clowning and subtly acrobatic movement, as they take us from nursery to nursing home and back, drawing parallels between the dependency experienced at each end of a long life. The heightened physicality of a just-ambulatory toddler contrasts with the stillness of aged muscles in the German company’s very human portrayals.

We see phases of an old man’s life, from meeting his wife in kindergarten to mourning at her grave, established through live action and

clever black and white sillhoette projections. A rejuvenating love of music is the key to his memories, cleverly integrated with the live action for some scenes, though forgotten elsewhere. Sombrely coloured housefronts that flank the stage transform into a piano, or an oversized table and chair that allow for an effective shift in scale.

The tone is sentimental from the start, interspersed with excellent comedy scenes from both pre-schoolers and care home residents. Periods between are, however, rather dull once you’ve done admiring the cast’s technical abilities, and there is no emotional punch to pay off the drawn out sentimentality. A harried and under-resourced nurse hints at the desperate reality of the care home industry, but any bubbling politics is left unexamined. Some fun gimmicks with a large ball jolt us to attention midway through, but a 90-minute running time feels too long. / Katharine Kavanagh

cultural periods and these other representations are also suggested through choreographic choices.

Lighting design from Chris Petridis fortifies Wendy Todd’s strong design concept, and further suggests an unknown power that even these three are answerable to. From the initial sounds of metallic and earthy tones that weave together throughout Guy Veale’s original soundtrack, the complex mechanics of natural process are beautifully spun out.

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them, they provide a welcome picture of diverse representation for the endless human lives they control, while their unity—in hypnotically intertwined patterns of hands and heads—is impeccable.

The detailed choreography includes storytelling sequences that measure life and death—played out through the expansive cats-cradle creation of small string dolls that line the walls of their eyrie—and intricate motifs of martial and insectile movements. Once the ritual is set, disruption ensues, and it’s admirable how drama is injected without ever disrupting the conceit of unchanging fate. Originating in Greek myth, other versions of these three women who control our destiny have appeared through various

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As a bearded, six foot chanteuse, Le Gateau Chocolat makes for an unlikely teenage dream. In Icons he bops about in stocking-clad feet, belting pop songs into a hairbrush in front of a bedroom clad with posters of his idols, from

Dolly Parton to Obama. No sugary tribute act this; rather, in recreating the atmosphere of a giggly sleepover, Chocolat sets the tone for whispered secrets and intimate soul baring.

His warm, extraordinarily versatile voice is well supported by an excellent band, taking us on a whistle-stop tour of hits from Kate Bush to Xanadu. These are the bright lights that made Chocolat the luminary he is today and now he is shaping them for his own purposes. He endows songs with new narratives, from a hilarious diva hair-whipping take on Meatloaf to a poignant interpretation of Wicked’s syrupy

‘For Good’, so weepy that it could be Leonard Cohen.

Chocolat demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the power of drag to be revelatory in its masking: the magic of a flash of peacock eyeshadow and the swirl of a cape to transform and enable the wearer to say things they never could before.

“I’ve sold out of CDs,” he says at the show’s closing, “but you’re welcome to a hug.” It’s a short float from the hold of the music to the arms of this marvellous, whole-hearted artist – let him sweep you up in this emotive and empathetic embrace. / Francesca Peschier

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Oh, this is a glorious parade of the Fringe’s finest freaks. With a line-up that changes every night, Midnight Marauders is a riotous rumpus of anarchic acts and filth likely leave you covered in glitter and booze.

The nightly turnover means that your experience will differ every visit. However, this sampler evening’s menu featuring chem-sex themed cabaret from Sex Shells; Amanda Palmer leading a mosh pit; and a sing off with a theremin courtesy of Ali McGregor, gives a pretty fair impression of the tastes catered for.

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punctuated with sleazy rock ‘n’ roll.

Madame of ceremonies Carla Lippis is the epitome of butch-camp – a riot grrrl with the throaty punk vocals to back up her swagger. She is our Voodoo priestess leading the revels with her skull topped staff (a warning maybe of what happens if you displease our host). Hyper sprite of a keyboard player Victoria Falconer is Ariel to Lippis’s sexy

Prospero, keeping the changeovers quick and the energy high.

The magic of the marauders is that in a festival that can sometimes feel exclusionary, everyone is invited. If the foggy streets of Edinburgh are looking a bit quiet, come the witching hour. You know where to find the best of the weirdos. / Francesca Peschier

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50 tricks in an hour is a difficult goal to set yourself, so this is some pretty quick-fire magic we’re talking about.

Ben Hanlin goes through a collection of his favourite tricks from magic’s illustrious history, and pulls off a couple of spot-on impressions of his magic heroes (rest in peace Paul Daniels). It’s easy to suspend your disbelief as Hanlin takes simple illusions and makes them into spectacular stage moments.

Hanlin is effortlessly charming.

A lot of modern TV magicians have pretty repellant personalities for one reason or another. They can come off as arrogant or rude, or just plain odd. But Hanlin is warm, witty and very generous with his audience and stage hands. He seems to have retained his boyhood wonder at watching magicians at birthday parties or on the telly. You’ll love watching him,

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Ask not what America can do for you, ask what Lady Rizo can do for America. The glittering queen of the New York cabaret circuit fills the stage with her deadly sharp wit and eyelashes long enough to kill

because he loves peforming.

There is the odd trick that doesn’t come off tonight, but that is sometimes because of the audience member helping out and sometimes because of the show running, perhaps unsurprisingly, a little late.

Hanlin has so little time to cram everything in he has to rush a bit.

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without spoiling the show and revealing what tricks have the whole audience making that *gasp* noise together. People turn round to look at each other with gaping mouths at certain moments, and volunteers for tricks are met with cheers and support. Ben Hanlin: 50 is a wonderful community Fringe show. / Joanna Trainor

a man. It’s jukebox politics with a mix of covers and original songs interspersed with Lady Rizo’s qualms and questions about being an American patriot. Red, White and Indigo is her “international apology tour”, sparked by the growing horror of the orange baby in the White House.

Rizo’s patriotic concerns are sincere and her breath control rivals Mariah Carey but this show is more diamante than direct action. Her voice has huge range, from Nina Simone to Portishead, building to dramatic crescendos. Lady Rizo embodies a particular brand of

cynical glamour – think the acerbity of Joan Crawford on her third martini rather than a purring Marilyn. But the anecdotes that link the numbers are erratic and lack impact.

The show’s lack of political punch is perhaps a victim of Lady Rizo’s spiky sarcasm, the sincerity of her message lost in hilarity and well-timed eye rolls. But it might also be that we are all so exhausted with the daily injustices and oppressions she ticks off her list that it’s going to take more than vodka shots and torch songs to pull us out of this funk. / Francesca Peschier

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Somewhere between punk, prayer and protest, Pussy Riot tell their story.The anti-Kremlin activists trace their chronology like a chant, their words translated and illustrated with archival footage on screens above the stage. Glares fixed and voices low, the thrill comes from their radiating tension, while the performance itself is simple storytelling, orchestrated by overdriven bass and synthesized shrieks.

Riot Days is Maria Alyokhina’s story, based on her book of the same name.That only days ago she was stopped from leaving Russia by plane

and had to sneak through a land border is a reminder that this isn’t just political theatre, but performance feeding into the fight against fascism.

It’s rare that a musical performance gets into the history books.

The gig feels angry though not anarchic, a punk manifesto with rules and objectives. With increasing fury, they describe the logistics of sneaking an electric guitar into the Russian Orthodox Church, the thrill at performing their 40 seconds of crime and their tortuous treatment in a Russian detention centre. Bathed

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in red light, they belittle Putin and invite rebellion. Hardcore techno pummels louder behind the words, taking over to wash them in digital punk as they dance.

At some points, their faces are covered in their trademark balaclavas and ghoulish metallic masks. At others, they bare their faces, hair ragged and stares fierce. Even when they release their limbs and throw themselves around the stage, their faces stay fixed in a frown. Get to the front and join the riot. / Kate Wyver

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I Have Always Been a Storm Ruby Foster (age nine) had some fun with this lightly interactive show about self-expression What happens in the show?

The show is about a girl who is a weather pattern. It is her job to create weather by dancing; she knows how to create the weather from orders she receives from her boss. If she makes the wrong weather or takes an order that is not meant for her she is punished by having to spend time in a box.

Describe the show in five words.

Interactive, entertaining, gentle, inspiring, fun.

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What did you like most about the show?

I liked that the show encouraged people to be themselves and move around.

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If there was something the performers could have done better next time, what would it be?

There could maybe be more use of special effects to show what type of weather was being acted.

What was your favourite moment in the show?

When the weather pattern realised she could be any weather she liked and could express herself.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

“The show is wonderful. The core message of the show was a great one: that everyone should be free to express themselves, be ambitious and follow your instincts. Dancing and moving is encouraged, and so would be fantastic for children who become restless or easily bored.”

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There’s as much for the parents as for the babies in MamaBabaMe. This beautiful show by Scottish dance companies Starcatchers and Curious Seed presents everyday moments in the lives of mothers and babies, Nerea Gurrutxaga and Hayley Earlam rolling, toddling, gurgling and cuddling to an atmos-

pheric live sound track performed by cellist Robin Mason.

The set, by visual artist Yvonne Buskie, is immediately calming— an important quality for a show aimed at the under-threes and performed smack in the middle of both morning and afternoon naptimes—its colours, textures and shapes easy on the eye and pleasing to the touch.

Christine Devaney’s choreography evokes the mother-child relationship with real heart yet never falls into sentimentality.

Gurrutxaga and Earlam portray both mother and baby, switching back and forth again and again in a way that suggests theories of child

development that describe how babies ultimately come to mentally separate from their mothers and develop their own sense of self – or perhaps I’m reading too much into it.

Interaction with the babies in the audience is limited, which is a shame, because the little there is— including the balloon free-for-all at the end—goes down a storm. Each time the dancers reach out to us over the low cloud-like barrier that delineates their playing space, it feels like we’re being invited in to play, rather than just witness this jewel of a performance from the outside. It’s a feeling that bears repeating. / Jo Caird

skill that goes into the work.

Jamie Bretman, Simon Wright and Jack Coleman make the most technically challenging tricks look like they’re just goofing about and it makes Splash Test Dummies all the more enjoyable to watch.

The synchronised swimming on unicycles is enormously impressive as they hop up and down, and hold each other on their shoulders while riding, and yet their hapless expressions look

as though it’s something that’s happened accidentally. It’s a world away from the serious-faced acrobats you’re perhaps used to seeing at the circus.

Towards the end some of the children do get a bit restless, which makes the atmosphere a little tense. There’s definitely the odd scene, like the juggling, that could probably be cut to save on time but really this show is just plain joyous. / Joanna Trainor

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Did you know that there’s a disco version of Sesame Street’s ‘Rubber Duckie, You’re The One’ from the album Sesame Street Fever?

Because there is and it’s glorious.

Thank you to Splash Test Dummies for introducing us to that.

Shadow puppets, water pistols, Baywatch running and a fight with a skeleton – this show has everything. It’s billed as a kids show but there will never be an age where hitting a giant inflatable ball that’s been chucked into the audience, or bubbles, or watching a grown man be hit with a giant foam finger isn’t funny. There’s something for everyone, and you’d be remiss not to notice the incredible

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Late-Night Lucky Bag Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–27 Aug, FREE

Daniel Kitson: Good for Glue The Stand Comedy Club, 20–27 Aug, weekdays only, £8

Sam Campbell: The Trough Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–27 Aug, £6

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Carl Donnelly Speaks to Dead People Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 19–23 Aug, £6

Relatively Normal Waverley Bar, 17–27 Aug, FREE Niteskreen Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–27 Aug, FREE

Electric Frog Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

00:20 Sameer Katz: Treesonous Thoughts Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, FREE

00:25 Cool Story Bro Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–27 Aug, FREE

00:30 What’s Mark Zuckerberg Got to Do With It? Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–27 Aug, not 21, FREE The Late Night Evil Show Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–27 Aug, FREE The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 17–28 Aug, £8

09:30 A Political Breakfast Natural Food Kafe, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, FREE

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Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–27 Aug, not 21, FREE

01:00 Pigs in Residence Just the Tonic at The Caves, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–28 Aug, £12.50–£16 Oxford Revue: Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 22–27 Aug, FREE Diamond Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, FREE

01:10 Bob Slayer: NeverMind the BusStops Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–18 Aug, £5

01:30 Late-Night LOLs Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–27 Aug, FREE

Bob Slayer: NeverMind the BusStops Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–18 Aug, £5

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On Earth As It Is Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Mystery Meat (Showcase) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

10:20 Present and Correct Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Lee Kyle – Kicking Potatoes Into the Sea Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 19, FREE

10:40 Jake Donaldson: Help!

I’m Trapped in the Body of an Adequate Comedian!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

10:45 A Comedy Brunch 2 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Improvable and the Chapter of Secrets Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE

Orwell That Ends Well: The Musical Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5 About Comedy: StandUp Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £99 The Full Irish Whistlebinkies, 17–26 Aug, FREE

11:10 Mirth in the Morning With Rhodders Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE

11:15 Benet Brandreth: A Hero for Our Times Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–22 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Gráinne Maguire: What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Angry Face Emoji Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

11:20 Jacob Hatton: Ozymandias Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

11:35 Twat Out of Hell Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Rory Jones: Return of the Wizword Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6

11:40 Succubus Fringe Edition Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £5 David Callaghan: Dead Man’s Chest Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, £5

11:45 The Museum of Tat Roadshow Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £10

11:50 Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £5

11:55 Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10

12:00 Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 20–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

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The Cambridge Impronauts: A Series of Improvable Events Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£10.50

Eleanor Morton: Great Title, Glamorous Photo The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £9

Karoshi Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

David Ephgrave: My Part in His Downfall Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Christian Talbot: Desperately Seeking Approval Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – 90s Edition The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £9

Olaf Falafel – There’s no i in idiot HHH Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Sanderson Jones: That’s the Spirit! HH Heroes @ Boteco, 17–25 Aug, £5

Ollie Horn Made Some Funny Friends in Japan Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Anesti Danelis: Songs for a New World Order Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–18 Aug, FREE Some Like It Holt Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–25 Aug, FREE Aidan Goatley’s 10 Films With... Podcast Sweet Novotel, 20–24 Aug, £10 Ryan Ward and Joe Molander: Natural Born Performers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–26 Aug, FREE

It’s No Job for a Nice Jewish Girl PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 18, 25, £11.50 Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the One-Liner Show – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Alex Farrow: Allow It Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Justin Matson: Fatter Than You Think HH Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

Andrew Sim: You Gotta Find Joy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Sausage: Regeneration Game HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

Chris Thorburn: Cineman The Coffee House, 17–24 Aug, FREE Best in Class / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE Trying to Be Good Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

(No) Money in the Bank Sweet Novotel, 17–19 Aug, £7

12:05 Sarah Iles: Ghosted Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Hoo-Ha! Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Here Be Improv theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £3.50

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Nerd Time’s a Charm Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE Bread and Geller: Prime Time Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Bennett Arron: I’ve Never Told Anyone This Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Cam Spence and Jodie Mitchell: The New Babes Banshee Labyrinth, 17–25 Aug, FREE

12:15

Just These, Please Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£9.50

Peter Brush: Chasing Snails Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE Richard Pulsford: Uns-Pun Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, FREE Lemons Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE

12:35

Russell Hicks: A Fist Full of Ideas Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Playlight Robbery Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Richard Wright: Virgin Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

12:55

A Piece of Cake!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Hangover Cure Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Bodily Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

12:20

Punel Show Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE

13:00

Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE Australia: A Whinging Poms Guide Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE The Ashes: A Comedy Showdown Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE

12:40 I Am Ross Smith Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 The Ladies Loo Chronicles theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £7.50

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12:30

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 23, £12

Oxford Revue: Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–21 Aug, FREE

Paul Duncan McGarrity – A Practical Guide to Attacking Castles Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Mickey Sharma’s Mixed Blessings Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–25 Aug, not 22, FREE

Space Doctor Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

Lou Sanders: Shame Pig Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

Clash of the Tight Tens Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Afternoon Delight Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, £5

A Kinder, Gentler Comedy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6

Fopical With Peter E Davidson Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–20 Aug, FREE

Phill Jupitus: Freeviously Bannermans, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Welcome to the Pungle Whistlebinkies, 17–26 Aug, FREE

12:50

The Edinburgh Revue’s Stand-Up Show 2018 Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–27 Aug, FREE

Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Sooz Kempner: Super Sonic 90s Kid HHH Globe Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Wedding Guest Extraordinaire: Sarah Southern Waverley Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Camels Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Kai Samra – Brothers (WIP) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 Catch of the Day (A Sturgeon Story) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £10 Briony Redman: Sketch Artist Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7–£9 Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Rinsed Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Rik Carranza: Still a Fan Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £8–£9

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Abstract Stand-Up Art C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Naked Truth Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Guilty Feminist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 25–26 Aug, £15

13:05 Generation Y Us? Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 African in New York – Almost Famous

by Njambi McGrath Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–24 Aug, FREE

13:10 Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–24 Aug, £14–£16 Nathaniel Metcalfe: Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Andy Onions – PowerPointless Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £7

13:15 Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, FREE AComedyTapas Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

Paul ‘Silky’ White: Ziuq The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £10

13:20

Live Your Best Life Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–18 Aug, FREE Cassie Atkinson – Swan Songs Waverley Bar, 17–26 Aug, not 23, FREE Rob Kemp’s Wheel of Shows Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5 Tom Short and Tom Little – Small World Daylight Robbery, 17–25 Aug, FREE Interdependent Woman Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE A Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

¤ Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids! HHHH Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £12–£15 The Weird and Whacky World of Raymond Bishop Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 19–26 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Oxford Imps: Class of 2018 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10

Foxdog Studios: Robot Chef HHH Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, £5 The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£12

Dad’s Army Lunch Hour Pleasance at EICC, 18 Aug, FREE

Nick Hall: Spencer Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Ron the Plumber Meets God-Cilla Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17 Aug, FREE

Mind the Gap Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Julia Sutherland: Exposed Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Pals Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Curried Mustard Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE MetaMafforphosis Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, not 23, FREE

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The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club, 25 Aug, £10

It’s Not Cute Anymore Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Alex Garner – Who?!

Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £5

Girlfriend from Hell Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Robin Ince: Chaos of Delight Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £12

Rory O’Keeffe: The 37th Question Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £10

Alex Hylton: Everybody’s Different and I’m the Same Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

13:30 The One-Thirty Comedy Cabaret The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £6 Lia Hatzakis – Onion Gum The Clootie Dumpling, 17–25 Aug, FREE Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £15

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £12

Vince Ebert: Sexy Science. Made in Germany Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Impromptu Shakespeare Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Jeremy Nicholas: After Dinner Stories from My Disastrous Broadcasting Career Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Andy Storey: Awkward

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Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club, 17–23 Aug, £10 Men With Coconuts Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 26 Aug, £6

13:40 UCL Graters: Panopticon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Eleanor Tiernan: Success Without a Sex Tape Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE Frank Carson: If I Didnt Laugh I’d Cry Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

13:45 Adventures in Dementia: Steve Day Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Bruce: Just a Pretty Face Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Odd Two Out Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12 Eat Sleep Shit Shag Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–23 Aug, FREE Jew-O-Rama Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE Jen Brister – Meaningless Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

The Whole of Shakespeare theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 The Secret Diary of Scott Mitchell, Aged 43 and 3/4 Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 18–26 Aug, FREE The Second Annual Black Comedy Showcase Bannermans, 17–26 Aug, FREE

13:50 And They Played Shang-a-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

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14:05

Archie Maddocks: Matchstick Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Robbie McShane and Mary Flanigan: One of Us Is a Robot Three Broomsticks, 18–25 Aug, FREE

14:00

My Finest Hour Southsider, 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, £9 Nicky Wilkinson: Happy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Susan Harrison Is a Bit Weepy Voodoo Rooms, 17–25 Aug, FREE A Comedy Show on Top of Arthur’s Seat On Top of Arthur’s Seat, 18 Aug, FREE Claire Ford: Unboxed Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £7

Cold as Icelandic Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Ignacio Lopez: Nine Ig Fails Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–26 Aug, £5 Ella Woods: Wing Defence Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Adam Riches Is The Guy Who...

Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £8

Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure...

Ciao Roma, 17–25 Aug, FREE

No Funny Business C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Will Hall: Netflix and Will Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Ahir Shah: Duffer

Croft & Pearce: Double Take Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Adam Larter: Boogie Knights Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £44.50

Tom Brace: Brace Yourself (It’s Magic Time!)

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–18 Aug, £10

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A Booklover’s Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Daniel Downie: 2 O’Clock Gun Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Day Drinking With Yanks and Hosers Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–19 Aug, FREE Andrea Hubert: Holes of Joy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

14:15

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Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Toby Adams – Tongue in My Head Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE Grace theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6 Cult Comics Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Kevin Precious Unholier Than Thou: The Non-Believing Religious Studies Teacher Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE

14:20 Joey Page: Perhaps Under Stars That Would Stretch Forever (an Idiot Explains the Universe in Under an Hour) Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £6.50

Henry Three Broomsticks, 17–19 Aug, FREE

Crizards Cromedy Show Waverley Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Katharine Ferns: Between One Ferns Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–26 Aug, FREE Agatha Is Missing!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

Tamar Broadbent: Best Life Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Ali Brice’s Lemonade Stand HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £5

Jack Evans: Work Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 Amy Annette: What Women Want Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

14:25

TwentyTwelve – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–18 Aug, FREE

14:35

Jessie Cave: Sunrise The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £10 Please Stop!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–26 Aug, FREE

Aidan Goatley is the Vicar’s Husband Sweet Grassmarket, 17–25 Aug, £9

Britain, Let’s Talk About the Golliwogs Fireside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Róisín and Chiara: Back to Back Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5 David Mills: Focus People!

Underbelly, George Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

The Freedom Machine C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!

Subway, 17–26 Aug, FREE Pottervision Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Peter Dobbing: Pleased With Yourself Isn’t the Same as Being Happy Sneaky Pete’s, 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Rosco McClelland: 29 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £8–£9

Speechless Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Funny Cluckers – Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

A Holy Terror The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £10

Audible Presents Pleasance Courtyard, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Juliet Meyers: Year of the Dog Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

By the Power of Greyskull Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE

Gareth Richards: Prophet Whistlebinkies, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Artcoholic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6

Luke Rollason’s Planet Earth Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Alphabetti Cabaretti BrewDog Lothian Rd, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

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Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, FREE Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Spiffing Personnages Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Harry and Chris Save the World Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, £5

Live the Laugh Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE

David McIver Is a Nice Little Man Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Chris Chopping’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Clootie Dumpling, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Olaf Falafel – There’s no i in idiot HHH Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Matt Watson and Friends Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Still Got It Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–27 Aug, FREE First World Problems Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

14:50 Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

14:45

Dansplaining Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Nathan Lang: The Stuntman Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £8

Stuart Goldsmith: End Of Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Helen Lederer Asks Why The Fuss?

Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Lucy Frederick: Even More Naked Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Wil Greenway: Either Side of Everything

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

15:00 ¤ Tony Law: A Lost Show HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £10 Don’t Be Terrible Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Good Manners Gone Bad Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8–£9 Gareth Waugh: Oh Boy...!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Vice Captains Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Women Aren’t Funny theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £5 The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Outhouse, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £7 Ashley Blaker: Observant Jew HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £10–£11 Andy Zaltzman: Right Questions. Wrong Answers.

The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £12 AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 KEITH. Presents KEVIN. Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–19 Aug, FREE Liam Jeavons: Never Heard of Him CANCELLED PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–23 Aug, £6 Stephen Carlin: The Opinionater Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

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Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–26 Aug, FREE Stand-Up Philosophy – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Captain ‘The Butcher’ Reality Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE The Cutting Room Canons’ Gait, 17–26 Aug, FREE Ania and Riss Are Trying Their Hardest Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Zahra Barri is Zahra: Warrior Not Princess Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

15:20 Johannes Dullin: Come Along and Bring a Friend!

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5 Cat Pictures to Music for an Hour Heroes @ The Hive, 20–26 Aug, £5 Barbara Nice: Raffle Heroes @ The Hive, 17–19 Aug, £7 Lou Conran: At Least I’m Not Dog Poo Darren Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5–£7

¤ Simon Munnery: The Wreath HHHH The Stand Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £12

Gráinne Maguire: I Forgive You; Please Like Me HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Nick Hall: Peninsula Ciao Roma, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Tania Edwards: Not My Dog Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Mitch Benn: Doing It on Purpose The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12

Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour City of Edinburgh Tours, 17–31 Aug, £9

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We’re Sorry Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Kirk Smith’s Stand-up Showcase Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Will Mars: Candid Cafe Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE Shot in the Dark Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, not 22, 23, £3.50–£8 Perry Air Comedy Award Ceremony Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Aug, FREE

Dom O’Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £5

Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, not 23, FREE

Steve Bugeja: Almost

InsTed Talks Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 22–23 Aug, £5 Private Parts Underbelly, George Square, 23–25 Aug, £14 Beard: Baby Come Back Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£12 All Killa No Filla Live Underbelly, George Square, 26 Aug, £14 Ken Cheng: Best Dad Ever HHH Bedlam Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10 Rory Bremner and Jan Ravens Underbelly, George Square, 17–19 Aug, £20 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–21 Aug, FREE Sofie Hagen Tries Something Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, FREE Friz Frizzle: Keyboard Warrior Globe Bar, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Tessa Coates: Witch Hunt Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10

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Katie Pritchard: Tsunamiramirami 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, FREE Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

Aaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–26 Aug, FREE Whispers in the Cosmos Fireside, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Men With Coconuts: Improvised Bond Subway, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Target: Splosh!

Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £5

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £7

Stand-Up Showdown: Improv Apocalypse!

Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

15:50 ¤ Bethany Black: Unwinnable HHHH

Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £10

Tom Neenan: It’s Always Infinity Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Charmian Hughes – Bra Trek Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Nevermind the B*llocks, Here’s Markus Birdman Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Davey Reilly: Disposable Camera Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Alistair Barrie – The InternationAL Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Sara Barron: For Worse Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £5 Manhunt Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

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The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £10

Camilla Cleese and Steve Hofstetter: Produced by John Cleese Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

15:55 Richard Soames: Let’s Make a Movie Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

16:00 Trumpageddon H Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £11.50–£12.50

Jane Hill – Addicted to Fun Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Bilal Zafar – Lovebots

Maxine Jones: My Way 62 Whistlebinkies, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Jacob Hawley: Howl Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5–£6

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Flo & Joan: Alive on Stage HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

Adrian Minkowicz: Tango Tales Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Schalk Bezuidenhout: Leopard Print Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, £5

15:45 Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

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The Trevor Lock Experience Bannermans, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Ruby Wax: Frazzled Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £18–£20

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Underbelly, George Square, 17–26 Aug, not 18, £10–£11

Jenny Collier: A Few Good Jen Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Jason Neale: Happy to Help Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, £5

Des Kapital: Mao That’s What I Call Music!

Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £8

Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £14

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–23 Aug, £12.50

Battle of the Superheroes – The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–25 Aug, not 22, FREE

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Myra Dubois: We Wish You a Myra Christmas

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

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All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Edd Hedges: For Eva, from Forever Ago Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 17–18 Aug, £16

Daniel Muggleton – Mouth Breather Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Brown Guys, Grey Skies The Clootie Dumpling, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE

James Hancox: Sports for the Unsporty Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12.50 Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £5

Mark Simmons – One-Linererer Banshee Labyrinth, 17–25 Aug, FREE Robin Morgan: Honeymoon Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Josh and Lou: Working Classy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Benet Brandreth: A Hero for Our Times Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

16:05

DF Comedy Jam Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Leeds Tealights: Souls for Sale Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £9

Matt Hutson: Brittle Boned Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Dad’s Army Afternoon Tea Hour Pleasance at EICC, 17–18 Aug, FREE

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Louise Reay: Eraserhead Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

John Lynn: Addiction Diction The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Adele Cliff: Sheep Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Viv Groskop: Vivalicious

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Paul Williams: Santa Fe Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Comedy Fam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–22 Aug, £11 I’m Your Man – Letters of the World’s Most Ambitious Job Applicant theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–18 Aug, £8

Father in the Hole Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

That’s My Story Podcast Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Enter the Dragons Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11

Jim Tavaré: From Deadpan to Bedpan Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Hannah and Charlie: Making It Canons’ Gait, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Dave Maher Coma Show Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Arthur Smith: Syd Pleasance Dome, 17–19 Aug, £12.50 Bumper Blyton Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

¤ Catherine Bohart: Immaculate HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

16:20 ¤ Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother! HHHH

Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

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Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13 Sameena Zehra: Existerhood Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £8 Shhh – An Improvised Silent Movie C venues – C, 17–18 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Bendy House Improv Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £8

Free Stand-Up Will Never Die Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE Hurricane Vs Robot Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE Immigrateful Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE The Kagools: Kula Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £8 Emslie and Cooke: Light and Shade Southsider, 17–25 Aug, FREE

¤ Sindhu Vee: Sandhog HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

16:25

James Farmer – Scaredy Cat Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 24, 25, FREE

Blaise White Changes the World Three Broomsticks, 17–18 Aug, FREE

Bad Clowns: Hostage Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5

16:30

Love Letters to Rappers Sweet Novotel, 22–23 Aug, £9

Gyles Brandreth: Break a Leg! Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £16–£19 Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Show Pleasance at EICC, 26 Aug, £14 Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Ross Brierley: Accumulator Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 AART TV Live!

Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £8.50–£11

George Egg: DIY Chef Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £10–£12 Phill Jupitus: Sassy Knack The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £12 Maisie Adam: Vague Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9 Short & Curly: Young at Start Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7–£10

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Graham Fellows Completely Out of Character Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

16:35 Tudur Owen: Undemanding Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, £5 Sixty-Seven Arseholes (Free) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Paul Savage: DoGooder Ciao Roma, 17–25 Aug, FREE

16:40 Nick Elleray: It’s Been Emotional Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5 Tom GK – Hearing Loss: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6.50–£7.50 Anna Morris: Bombastic Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Charm Offensive Sneaky Pete’s, 17–25 Aug, FREE

A Very Brexit Musical Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, £5

Luke Kempner: House of Faces Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12

Appropriately Inappropriate Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Another Time Slot With Ger Staunton Waverley Bar, 17–26 Aug, not 19, FREE

Great British Mysteries: 1599?

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£11

2 for Joy Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–26 Aug, FREE

William Andrews: Willy Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£12

Jeffrey Baldinger: Living in a Hyperbolic Chamber Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Now That’s Who I Call Archie Henderson Globe Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Gusset Grippers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10 Daniel Nicholas: Travaux En Cours Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Luke McQueen: Monster

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Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £5 Ben Clover: Crème Brûlée C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £6.50–£8.50

Matt Rees: Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

Matt Winning: Climate Strange Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Jamie Dalgleish: From Buckfast to Middle Class The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £8

Alex Love: Stop the Press, I Want to Get Off Kilderkin, 17–25 Aug, not 22, FREE

16:50

Liam Withnail: Homeboy Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

Yes, That Nick Page, Apparently. Winner of English Comedian 2017 Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Rory O’Hanlon – Comedy Hour Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Tri-Nations Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £13–£15

Joe Foster: Let’s Get Cynical Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE

I Can Make You Feel Good. By Comparison.

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Arnab Chanda: Stories from Arnab Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 19, FREE

16:55

Oliver Coleman: Delicious The Coffee House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Kit Sullivan: Lad Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Sean McLoughlin: Hail Mary Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE Adam Hess: Seahorse

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10.50 Show Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Suzanne Lea Shepherd: You’re Okay!

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Sam Russell: Lucky Bastard Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £7 Tom Taylor: Abridged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Paul Sinha: The Two Ages of Man HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £12

17:00 Andrew O’Neill: I Am a Rich Man and I Have Many Sons Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Big Shop Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Sister Mary’s Playtime @ Teatime Frankenstein Pub, 17–26 Aug, FREE World Cup of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, FREE

¤ Garrett Millerick: Sunflower HHHH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £6

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(The Best Of Jollyboat) Subway, 17–26 Aug, FREE Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Checkpoint, 17–26 Aug, £8 Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12.50 Adam Vincent: Stuck in the Suburbs With You Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Steve Bennett: Irish Comedian of Last Year Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, FREE Jon & Nath Like to Party Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Tessa Waters: Fully Sik Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17–26 Aug, £5

17:05 Helen Lederer: I Might as Well Say It Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Jim Campbell: Trampoline Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5–£6 Fanny’s @ Five The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £9 Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

17:10 Old Movies Saved My Life theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, £8 Henry Paker: Man Alive Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE I’m Your Man – Letters of the World’s Most Ambitious Job Applicant theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £8

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Christian Elderfield: Bolloxed Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Best of English Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £12–£15

Bark and B theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, £8

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £11–£13

#1 Comedy Great Fun Best Show Jez Watts Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Alison Spittle: Worrier Princess HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

¤ Sunday Service With Ola HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, £14 Ian Smith: Craft

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12.50 Jimmy McGhie Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Jessica Michelle Singleton: Codependent Arising Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE

¤ Laura Lexx: Trying HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Stephen Bailey: Our Kid Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Hardeep Singh Kohli: You-topia Assembly George Square Studios, 17–25 Aug, £11–£13 Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable Optimist

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes – Free Entry Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE Carey Carey Quite Contrary Whistlebinkies, 17–26 Aug, FREE Alcohol Is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

Luca Cupani: God Digger

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Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Chris Betts vs the Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, £5 Christian Reilly: Gig Economy Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE Zach Zucker: Human Person Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 T2 Brainclotting theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £7

17:25 Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £8–£10 Alistair Williams: Great White Male Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £7

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Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves (Work in Progress) Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Alice Marshall: The Strike HH Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6 John Pendal: We Are Family Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Keara Murphy: Furious! #MeToo Time’s Up! No Bawbaggery Allowed!

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE Lucy Porter: Pass It On Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12–£16 Athena Kugblenu: Follow the Leader HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Godley’s Cream 20 Years and Counting Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Comedy Freak Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Good Grief Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £13.50

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Roberts: All I Wanna Do Is [FX: GUNSHOTS] With a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and Perform Some Comedy!

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Assembly George Square Studios, 14–27 Aug, not 15, £9–£10 Graham Dickson: Timber Underbelly, Cowgate, 17– 26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£11

Robyn Perkins: 10,000 Decisions Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

Laura Davis: Ghost Machine Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Made in Spain Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

¤ Laurence Clark: An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting

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Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

17:45 NewsRevue Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £14.50–£16.50 Keith Fox is... Here and Now? 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, FREE A New Political Comedy Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £5 Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

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Clay Nikiforuk: Fun to Be Around Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £7

17:55 Scott Bennett: Leap Year Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 Singalong Sitcom Quiz The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £10 Harriet Kemsley: Slutty Joan Voodoo Rooms, 17–25 Aug, FREE

18:00 Egg: Richard Pictures Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£10 James Meehan – Gaz Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Stephanie Laing: Quitter Nightcap, 17–27 Aug, not 21, FREE

Andrew White: Coming of Age PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £5

Henning Wehn: Get on With It Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £12.50

Twonkey’s Night Train to Liechtenstein Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £13–£17

Kriss Foster: Thimble Map Globe Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £7

Jake Lambert: Little Lost Lad Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10

Brennan Reece: Evermore Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11

Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 23 Aug, £190

Plumbing the Death Star Live Outhouse, 26 Aug, £15

Evelyn Mok: Bubble Butt Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

Natalie Palamides: Nate Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13

Darren Walsh: Massive Punt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5–£7

InsTed Talks Just the Tonic at The Caves, 20–21 Aug, £5

Only Fools and 3 Courses Kama Sutra Restaurant, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £49.50

Struan Logan: Struan All Over the World Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Unexpected Inheritance PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–18 Aug, £8

Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 minutes – Free Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Simon Caine: Sex, Drugs and Other Things I Never Do Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Frank Lavender: Gotta Laugh Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 18, FREE

...What the Frick?!

Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £12.50

Russell Hicks: Love Song for the Viciously Ambitious HH Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Shady With a Chance of Sunburn Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Notflix Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12.50

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George Lewis: A Man, a Plan, a Girl With Fake Tan Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10

Josh Berry: Voice Thief Assembly Hall, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

California Backstage C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Joanne McNally: Wine Tamer Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Say It Ain’t Show Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Outhouse, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £7

Red Richardson: Seeing Red Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Stuart McPherson and Donald Alexander Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9

Mawaan Rizwan: Juice Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Imran Yusuf: Saint, Sinner, Sufi The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 The Full Irish Bannermans, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE

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The Oxford Revue: Wasted Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Gyles Brandreth: Break a Leg! Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, £19

The Establishment: Fool Britannia Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £7

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Novak: How Embarrassing for Her HHHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Jamali Maddix: Vape Lord Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £8

Stevie Martin Vol. 1 Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10 Beta Test 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 24–25 Aug, FREE

Sparkle Deli Southsider, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

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Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Dave Green: Melt Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE Synchronised Swimming – The Dry Version Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

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It’s All My Mother’s Fault! theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7–£8

18:10 Telling the Wrong Man He Had Cancer and Other Hilarious Stories theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10 Sagar Dreamcast Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Rob Auton: The Talk Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Hal Branson: Mbolo Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

18:15 Joke Addict Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE Aidan Greene: Stutter Island Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE Fat Chance The Coffee House, 17–26 Aug, not 18, 25, FREE James Cook: Sarcasmic Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Travelling Sisters: Toupé HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 The Travellin’ Man Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Russian Comedy Experience La Vida, 17–25 Aug, FREE Dominic Holland – The Glory Year Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE Fat Girl Slim... Chance Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Ivor Dembina Show Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Rich Wilson’s Still Relevant Sneaky Pete’s, 17–25 Aug, FREE Northern Power Blouse – Up Your Promenade Waverley Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE Maddie Campion: 20 Uses for a Lovedoll Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Tales Part II Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Stand-Up Power Hour Fireside, 17–25 Aug, FREE Gordon Southern: A Man for Two Seasons Frankenstein Pub, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £6 Quiz in My Pants Subway, 17–25 Aug, FREE

18:20 Glen Davies – Gagging Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £9 Hayley Ellis: Once, Twice, Three Times a Hayley Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Tony Slattery’s Crimes Against Improv The Stand Comedy Club, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £14

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane McDonald?

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 22–26 Aug, FREE

AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11.50

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £13–£15

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Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£11

Darius Davies: The Art of the Troll Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Gavin Webster: I Am Stand-Up Comedy

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The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £10 Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–25 Aug, £10 Glenn Moore: Glenn Glenn Glenn, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £6 Marny Godden: Marny Town HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £5

Rik Wolters – Heroic Failure The Clootie Dumpling, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, £5

Jay Lafferty: Wheesht!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10

One More Cup of Coffee, and Then We’ll Save the World Quaker Meeting House, 17–18 Aug, £8

18:25 Sid Singh: American Bot Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Gary Little: Big Mouth Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–27 Aug, FREE

I Can’t Do This theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10

Butterfly C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

The Eve Complex Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, FREE #AA: Absurdly Asian 2018 by Jinx Yeo Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Lucy Pearman: Fruit Loop Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–27 Aug, £6

Stuart Mitchell: Gordon Ramsay’s Karma Cafe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

The Fresh Prince of Comedy – Kyle Legacy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE

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Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £12.50–£14.50

Brett Blake: Reckless Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–21 Aug, FREE Duke Pop Bedlam Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £8 Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos The Stand Comedy Club, 17–19 Aug, £17.50

Henry Café: Quiz Machine Whistlebinkies, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Police Cops Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £12 Chris McCausland: Speaky Blinder Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12 The Biscuit Barrel Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £7

18:40 David Earl Is Brian Gittins: Don’t Feed the Monkey Man Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £7

Siblings: Acting Out

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Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

¤ Ivo Graham: Motion Sickness HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£12 Best of Irish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £12–£15

Mike’s Back Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

25 Years of Stand-Up: Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

James Veitch’s Work in Progress Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Chris Kent: Looking Up Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

EdinBra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Clara Cupcakes – The Worst Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

Conor Drum: ...If Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Yuriko Kotani: Moreish Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, £5

Daniel Cook: Carpet Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£10

Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Aaron Simmonds and the Person That He Loves Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 17–25 Aug, £7.50–£11

18:45 Geoff Norcott: Traditionalism Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–19 Aug, £12 MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies. Kind of. 2018 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Kai Humphries: Team Smug Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17– 27 Aug, £10.50–£13.50 Strictly Carl Donnelly!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Committee: Improvised Comedy Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Kevin Matviw: Self Defence for Cowards Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE Bennet Kavanagh and Chris Jones: Two Guys Talking Shite Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE I Love You Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–26 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaand Now It’s Time for... Roger Swift’s Pun-U-Matic (The Second Leg) Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, FREE

18:50 Josh Pugh: The Changingman Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Elf Lyons: ChiffChaff Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Bears!

Assembly Hall, 17–26 Aug, £8–£9 Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10.50–£11.50

18:55 One Woman Sex and the City Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

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Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt.

Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

19:00 Vulvarine: A New Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 Dilruk Jayasinha: The Art of the Dil Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12 The Oxford Revue: Group Work Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE Wip It! Southsider, 17–25 Aug, FREE Lauren Pattison: Peachy Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £9–£12

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I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, not 25, £10–£13

Paul Foot: Image Conscious HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17– 26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Milo McCabe: 1001 Moments With Troy Hawke!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Andy Barr: Neustadt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 17–26 Aug, £5

Anuvab Pal: Empire

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13 Kimono My Comedy Show 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Brett Goldstein: What Is Love Baby Don’t Hurt Me Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 24, £10–£12 Daniel Sloss: X Pleasance at EICC, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£17.50

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13

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Daphna Baram: Sugarcoating Sweet Novotel, 17–25 Aug, not 22, £7

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Chris McGlade: Northern Monkey Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Matt Price: Last Night a Weegie Saved My Life Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

Raymond Mearns Is in the House Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–27 Aug, FREE

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 24, 25, £12–£16 Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 25, £10–£14 Rice Krispies With Ketchup Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £16–£19 Tales of the Unacceptable The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 20 Aug, £5

19:05 Aatif Nawaz: Instant GrAATIFication The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £9

Two Faced Bitchin’ PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–22 Aug, £6

Cream Tea and Incest theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8.50

A Complete Waste of Time PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, £7

The Amours of Lillie Langtry theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

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Alan Ayckbourn’s Farcicals theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

Russ Peers: Hereditary Peers Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5 Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

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Brain Rinse HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

19:15 Pierre Novellie: See Novellie, Hear Novellie, Speak Novellie Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

Bisha K Ali and Kemah Bob: Bish and Bob Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Sean Morley: I Apologise for My Recent Behaviour Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

David O’Doherty: You Have to Laugh Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £15–£16

Piff the Magic Dragon and the Dog Who Knows The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £16 Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Funny Women on the Fringe Assembly Rooms, 20–24 Aug, £10

Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Globe Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Olga Koch: Fight Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£9

(No) Money in the Bank Sweet Novotel, 20–26 Aug, £7

¤ Angela Barnes: Rose-Tinted HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£12

Ivan Aristeguieta: Juithy Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13

Mickey Sharma – Filthy Club Comic Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–25 Aug, not 22, FREE

Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £11.50–£13.50

Gary Meikle – Before All This Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

¤ Heidi Regan: Heidi vs Sharks HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

It’ll Probably Be Alright Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 18–26 Aug, FREE Nick Dixon: Marriage Material Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Allan Havey Stands Up Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £9

AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11.50

Martha McBrier – Fur Coat Nae Knickers Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Phil Cooper: One Phil Over The Cooper’s Nest Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5

19:20 ¤ The Lost Matriarch 2 HHHH

theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, £7–£8 Craig Hill: C’mon the Lads!

Pleasance at EICC, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£18.50 Sally-Anne Hayward: Comedienne-ess Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

19:25 Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Mr Lorraine theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £5

19:30 Mr. Swallow and the Vanishing Elephant Pleasance Courtyard, 17– 26 Aug, £11.50–£14.50 Kate Smurthwaite: Clit Stirrer Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Gamarjobat Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–18 Aug, £12.50 Loose Brie Solve Everything Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE #Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity Liquid Room Annexe/ Warehouse, 17–26 Aug, FREE Daisy Earl and Sukh Ojla Fireside, 17–26 Aug, FREE Henry Ginsberg: Molesting the Corpse of Traditional Masculinity Since 1987 Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23 Aug, £15 Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 22–26 Aug, £17.50 Leo Kearse: Right-Wing Comedian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Is This the Worst Quiz / Game Show Ever?

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Satanic Rites of Robin Ince The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £12

Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience The Coffee House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Empathetically Challenged Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–25 Aug, £5

David Tsonos: Walking the Cat Two Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Reel Comedy Club Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £12.50 Gareth Berliner: I Paid for 50 Minutes of Your Time Laughing Horse @ Ushers, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Ballad of Sarah Callaghan Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

19:40 Lead Pencil Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Mandy Knight: The Dark Knight Voodoo Rooms, 17–25 Aug, FREE Ed Gamble: Blizzard Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

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Chris Stokes: We Don’t Need Roads Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £5

Beach Hunks: Leg Day Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Caution: Deadline Ahead – A Comedy About Procrastination C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Subway, 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Daliso Chaponda: What the African Said Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–26 Aug, £15–£16 Alexander Bennett: Housewives’ Favourite Waverley Bar, 17–26 Aug, FREE Comedy Gala 2018: In Aid of Waverley Care Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £25 The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 19 Aug, 26 Aug, FREE Neil Delamere: Controlled Substance Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17– 26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Tom Ward: Popcorn Lung

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Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £7 Glenn Wool: Wool’s Gold II (The Iron Pirate) Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–25 Aug, £7.50

19:35 Holly Morgan: Madonna or Whore?

Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

Phil Ellis Is Ready for the Big Time Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, £5 Masud Milas: Masud Abides HHH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, £5 Jo Caulfield: Killing Time The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Adam Rowe: Undeniable Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

19:45 Andrew Roper – What Is Best in Life?

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Chris Forbes: Prophecy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Holy $#!% It’s Music and Comedy With Matt Griffo Zoo Southside, 19–27 Aug, £10 Stand Up, Weather Girl!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Curious Incidents of the Gay in the Night-Time Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE Tom Walker: Honk Honk Honk Honk Honk Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Trouble With Being Born Romanian Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE A Pair of Jokers Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer Dance Base, 22–26 Aug, £11–£13 The Problem With Faye Treacy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5–£6.50

19:50 Micky Bartlett: Crucifying Fergal Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

19:55 Alice Fraser: Ethos

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

20:00 The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE John Robertson: The Dark Room Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11 The Pin: Backstage Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£12.50 Tolerate Nightcap, 17–26 Aug, FREE Jarred Christmas: Remarkably Average

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Patrick Monahan: #Goals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £13–£14 Ross Hepburn Is Beetlejuice’d Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8.50

WOLF Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Russian Roulette Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8

Sheraz Yousaf: The Pursuit of Manly-ness Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Linda Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Brendon Burns Mansplainin’ Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, £6.50

An Imp-Revised History of the World Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Steen Raskopoulos: Stay Underbelly, Cowgate, 17– 26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Pelican: Fisk Bedlam Theatre, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £8

Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE Potatoes, Pies and Haggis Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–19 Aug, FREE Dream On – Kirsty Munro / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE Witt ‘n Camp: Swag Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Bitter and Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–26 Aug, FREE Alex Edelman: Just for Us HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£14 Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £14–£15 Late Night Disco Fight CC Blooms, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

Eau de Munro Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Aidan Goatley: 10 Films With My Dad Sweet Grassmarket, 17–25 Aug, £10

Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 21–26 Aug, FREE

Comic Relief Live Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50

Frank Foucault: Shoes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Tom Houghton: The Honourable Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 Me Talking, Mostly Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £9.50

20:15 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Sisters: On Demand Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 James Nokise: Talk a Big Game The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £10 Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£12 Tom Lucy: Reluctant Millennial Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 We Should Know Better 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE BattleActs! Improvised Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Fred Cooke: Fredinburgh Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

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No Success Like Failure Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Fred MacAulay and John Moloney The Stand Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £14

Stella Graham: Uncivilized Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Robin Clyfan: The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

¤ Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Eddy Brimson: Fidgety Tits Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour With a Scottish Twist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Hot Mess: Bezzie Mates Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6

Sam Nicoresti’s Bedtime Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Single Comedians Trying To Impress You Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 Nathan Cassidy: If I Caused the Financial Crash of 2008 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5–£7 Pete Firman: Marvels Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11.50–£15

Chris Henry: Around the World in 80 Dates Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Andrew Lawrence: Clean Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 Joe Sutherland: Toxic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Garry Starr Performs Everything Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

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20:20 Ismo: Words Apart Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Calling My Tribe Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12–£14 Bald Man Sings Rihanna Ciao Roma, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

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George Michael Is Greek Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE BEASTS: Best of BEASTS Pleasance Dome, 17–19 Aug, £12 Here Be Improv theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–18 Aug, £3.50 Simon Evans: Genius 2.0 Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £13–£14

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Ben Pope: Baby Sasquatch HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£10

Sèayoncè Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6

Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5

Mark Nelson: Irreverence Underbelly, Bristo Square, 23–25 Aug, £12.50–£14.50

Lewis Schaffer: What Have You Heard? HH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15

Look, it’s Tom Little, Alright?

Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

The Liverpool Revue theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £6 Jamie MacDonald: Blinkered Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

20:30 Marjolein Robertson: It’s Time Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE Gareth Mutch: Wants Mutch More Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Time Out With Ross Voss Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, FREE Jess Robinson: No Filter Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£14.50 Reginald D Hunter: An American Facing the Beast and Niggas Pleasance at EICC, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15.50–£17 The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue: Ham Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12.50

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Pleasance at EICC, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£18.50

Robert White and His Particularly Silly Organ Pleasance Dome, 20–23 Aug, £12

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Chris Washington: You Beauty!

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE Bronston Jones: God Bless ‘Merica 4 – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 25, £7.50–£10 Jack Barry: Tango Globe Bar, 17–24 Aug, FREE Jordan Brookes: Bleed Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£13 John Hastings: Float Like a Butterfly, John Hastings Like a Bee Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Matt Forde: Brexit Through the Gift Shop Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £12–£14 Bryony Twydle: Flamingo Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

20:35 Gary Tro: Idoit Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £7 Ethnic Cleansing – Ruven Govender Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE The Thinking Drinkers: Pub Crawl Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £13–£15

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Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9.50

Matthew Highton – Insufficient Memory Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–25 Aug, not 22, £5 Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5

Heard the One About Identity Theft? With the Real Bennett Arron The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £9

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Lolly Jones: Fifty Shades of May Assembly Roxy, 17–24 Aug, £8–£10

Spontaneous Potter Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

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Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!

Stand Up and Slam Subway, 17–25 Aug, FREE LoveHard: Tales from the Elsewhere Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Improv Cage Match Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Jordan Gray: People Change Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Def Comedy Space Jam Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Ashley Haden: We All Die C*nts Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE Interruption Show Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Dreamgun: Film Reads Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Christian Finnegan: My Goodness Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£13

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Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Fitting Image Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Love Like 90s R’n’B Fireside, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Paul Currie: Hot Donkey Heroes @ The Hive, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £5

Fake TV Frankenstein Pub, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £5 Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £5–£10 Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 6: Big O Makes It in New York... or, Does She? – Free Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE Andrew Maxwell: Shake a Leg Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £14–£15 The Boy With the Pearl Necklace The Street Bar, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Max and Ivan’s Prom Night Assembly High, 24–25 Aug, £16

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David Correos: The Correos Effect Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Harriet Braine’s Apocalibrary Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–19 Aug, FREE

Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users – Level 2 Quaker Meeting House, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

Jack Docherty: Miekelson and McGlashan – Serious Men Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £15.50–£16.50

Luxury Split Bill Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, not 23, £14–£15

The Great Irish (Finnegans) Wake Off Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Go Slay Dragons!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£13.50 Jason Byrne: You Can Come in, But Don’t Start Anything Assembly Hall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £17–£19.50 Show And Tell at The Queen’s Hall The Queen’s Hall, 20 Aug, FREE The Lesbian Whisperer Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Bob Slayer Is Bob Slayer (The Eponymous Show) Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Joz Norris Has No Show This Year, but Mr Fruit Salad Does Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 18–19 Aug, £5 Comedy Boxing: New Challengers Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £13.50–£16 Helen Duff: How Deep Is Your Duff? HHH Heroes @ The Hive, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £5 Eleanor Conway: Walk of Shame 2 Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Abigoliah Schamaun: Do You Know Who I Think I Am?!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £9–£10 Church of Phil The Clootie Dumpling, 17–25 Aug, FREE Unhinged Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE Hal Cruttenden: Chubster Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £11–£15 James Loveridge Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 All Hail the Rat King!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £6 Phil Nichol: Your Wronger HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £8

21:05 Rhys Nicholson – Seminal Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12.50 Prom Kween Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, £13–£14 Eric Davidson – Words of a Blether theSpace @ Jurys Inn, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 Trevor Feelgood’s Weird Surreal Alternative Showcase Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE

21:10 The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £15 Jerry Sadowitz: Make Comedy GRATE Again!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £16.50 Terrible Sex Tips: Live and Uncut Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £10 Dylan Moran: Dr Cosmos Assembly Hall, 23–25 Aug, £17.50 This Is Your Trial Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

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Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £12

21:15 Good Evening Edinburgh, It’s Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Funny Dubz Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE The MMORPG Show – Scruffy Looking Nerd Herder Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Bumpkins Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 17–25 Aug, FREE Ed Night: An Aesthetic Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Janeane Garofalo: Put a Pin in That HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–19 Aug, £14 Dan Attfield: Futureproof Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Spring Day: Strong Codependent Woman – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE The LOL Word Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Kate Berlant: Communikate HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12.50 So You Think You’re Funny? Sketch Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £10 Murray Hill: About to Break HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17– 27 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Myq Kaplan: All Killing Aside HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13 Tom Stade: I Swear To...

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Ingrid Dahle: Wingrid Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, £5 Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does the Love Go? Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12 Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

21:25 The 2 Mouthed Men Experience theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 20–25 Aug, £8

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Rahul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Gran The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–25 Aug, £10

Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home Pleasance Courtyard, 17–25 Aug, £14

Lily Lovett and Patrick Monahan: Date Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Blind Mirth theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £7

Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

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Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6–£7

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15–£16

The Man Presents: Women Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro Heroes @ Boteco, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £7 Eli Matthewson: The Year of Magical F*cking Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Darren Harriott: Visceral

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Link and Lorne: Terrestrial Is the Bestrial The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Madame Señorita: QUEST!ON Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 17–26 Aug, £5 Tamsyn Kelly: You’re Welcome Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Moon Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf at the Door Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7.50–£10 Prune 52 Canoes (Grassmarket), 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE Rob Oldham: Worm’s Lament Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11 Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE Abandoman (AKA Rob Broderick) – Pirate Radio HHH Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £14.50–£15.50 Daniel Connell: Mr Personality 1988 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11.50 Alfie Brown: Lunatic Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £7

Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £12

Jake Howie: Read My Lips Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–20 Aug, £14

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 17–26 Aug, £12–£15

‘Aaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£13 Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £12–£13 99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

21:35 Bumble Me Tinders Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Infamous Five Sketch Show theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8 Big Value Comedy Show – Late Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £10

21:40 Caustic Comedy Nights C venues – C aquila, 17– 26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Alun Cochrane: You. Me. Now. The Stand Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £12 Sleeping Trees: World Tour HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £11–£13

Jon Harvey: TreasuRETROve Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Tinderella and the Seven Deadly Sins theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £9 Yianni Agisilaou: I, Human Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 The Improvised Panto!

Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £8 Adele Is Younger Than Us Pleasance Dome, 21–25 Aug, £10–£11 Elsa Pleasance Dome, 17–19 Aug, £12 The Tape Face Show

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £13.50–£17

21:45 ¤ Alice Snedden: Self-Titled HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£9 Dean Hendry: Smells Like Dean Spirit Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Fin Taylor: When Harassy Met Sally Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 Chris Turner: We’re Where We Were Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

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Hangry Americans Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE George Rigden: George-ous Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£10 LJ DA FUNK in... When Will These Fascist Bastards All Be Lined Up and F*cking Shot?!?

Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, not 21, FREE Kwame Asante: Teenage Heartblob HH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Adam Riches Is The Lone Dueller Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £11–£15

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

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Tracy’s Leaving Party: Hot Young Things Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5 Be More, Do Better but Don’t Change Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 David Callaghan: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; Shoes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Edinburgh Revue Is All at Sea Canons’ Gait, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Mark Dean Quinn: You Win You Lose Heroes @ Dragonfly, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

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Snowflake It ‘Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Dan Nightingale: Sex, Drugs and My Nanna’s Bungalow Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £5 The Mad Craic Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

22:00 Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 17–27 Aug, FREE Australian Beauty Opium, 17–25 Aug, FREE Shit-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Neil O’Rourke and Patrick Spicer: Cool Dude Island Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Bob’s Not My Uncle and Other Devastating Truths Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, £5 Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 The Nasty Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £7 Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face? HHH Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

22:05 Unbecoming Ramon Rivas HHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 17–26 Aug, £10

22:10 She Wolf Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Pleasance at EICC, 17 Aug, £17 Jimeoin: Roast Chicken Result!

Pleasance at EICC, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £14.50–£15.50 Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £13.50–£14.50

And Another Thing! An Improvised Show Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £9 Two Hearts: Edinburgh World Tour Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Woman Up Comedy Improv theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8 Dirty White Boys: Manners Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Dragprov Revue Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £7 Iain (Stirling) Does Jokes (With Pals) Pleasance at EICC, 22–24 Aug, £12

Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela HH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £7

Hot Gay Time Machine Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

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Pop Ditz Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5 Ari Shaffir’s Renamed Storyteller Show Heroes @ The Hive, 23 Aug, £5 Damian Clark: Extra Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Godfather of Comedy Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

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Tetchy (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Home Sweet Home Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 Head Sets Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE Danny O’Brien: Lock-In Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 The Neighbours Are Worried Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5 Claire Sullivan: I Wish I Owned a Hotel for Dogs Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

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¤ Denim: The Reunion Tour HHHH Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, not 25, £13–£14 The Stevenson Experience: Spot the Difference Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£11.50 The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £4 Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £14–£15

John Robertson: Sweaty, Sexy Party Party Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Swipe Right Love and Other Comedy Songs Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Wigwam Wonder Jam Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Judah Friedlander: America... Still Number One Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19–22 Aug, £14.50

Two Little Dickheads Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5 Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £10–£12

Njambi McGrath and Guests Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–24 Aug, FREE

The Shambles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Tori Scott Is #Thirsty Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £9.50–£10.50

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Alex Williamson: So Wrong, It’s Wrong Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 17–26 Aug, £13

Micky Overman: Role Model Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7.50–£10 Rik Carranza presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, not 23, £10–£11.50

Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£14.50 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Georgia Tasda Means Business CC Blooms, 17–23 Aug, FREE 52 Days Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug, £10–£12

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Ladylike: A Modern Guide to Etiquette Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Plumbing the Death Star Live Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

22:40 ¤ The Story Beast: This Is Bardcore HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Found Footage Festival: After Dark Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Three’s Company, Where’s Our Crowd? An Improvised Show theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6–£7

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £13 Famous First Words Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

¤ Ciarán Dowd: Don Rodolfo HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10

John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Pleasance Dome, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

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AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11.50

Late Night Bedlam Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Falling With Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Laughterthoughts: A Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Kitchen Party Action Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Norris & Parker: Burn the Witch Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£9.50

Douglas Walker Presents: Of Christmas Past Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Willis & Vere: Comedians After Hours Live Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£11

Agenda Benders: Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £6 The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In! Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10.50–£14

Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£9.50

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Avocado: Definitely Maybe Not Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

The Bear Pack Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11–£12

Bongo’s Bingo The Jam House, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 30 Aug, 31 Aug, £15

Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug, £13

Shaggers (Free Festival) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

A Beginner’s Guide to Bondage Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Michael Hackett: The Late Mike Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Rachel Parris’ Musical Comedy Club Pleasance Dome, 21–22 Aug, £13

The Piece Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Andy Field the Love Tonight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

Michael Clarke: Felt Black Medicine Basement & Heroes, 17–26 Aug, £5

The Ladies Loo Chronicles theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £7.50

Late Night Nonsense: Variety Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Stand Comedy Club at New Town Theatre The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Ben McCarthy: Nevermind Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £15

Drugstore Culture: Live Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Comedians Against Humanity Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Moa Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

Neal Portenza’s Final Edinburgh Show Will Be a Bad Magic Show on a Bus. BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Netflix and Amazon Prime Are All Welcome Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 17–26 Aug, £7

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AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–25 Aug, FREE

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Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £12.50–£15 Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £9–£10

22:55 Plenty of Linguine at Home Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £7.50

23:00 Eleanor Colville: Late-Night Pick and Mix Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 18–26 Aug, FREE

Huge News Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Birthday Girls: Late-Night Comedy Party Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £12 Clingfilm Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £8–£10

Witch Hunt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5 Gloria Hole Presents: The Clinic Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £7 Berlin Survivors’ Comedy Club Frankenstein Pub, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50–£15 Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Bronston Jones: Spilt Milk – Free Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Jon Long – Troubadour Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 22–23 Aug, £15

Tim Key: Megadate Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 21, 22, £14–£16

Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!

Underbelly, George Square, 21–22 Aug, £15

Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches

Jem Brookes: Schizophonic Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Lenny Sherman: Make the World a Better Place Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 17–26 Aug, £5

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Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, £5

Jay Handley: White Jesus Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Anna Mann’s Late Night Cheese and Sex Party Pleasance Courtyard, 21–25 Aug, £12–£14

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The Crooners Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 Questing Time Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8.50–£10 The Free Association: Jacuzii Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Goose: Golden Eggs Assembly George Square Studios, 17–19 Aug, £12

Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 26–27 Aug, £12.50 AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11.50 Clara Saves America Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8 The Lampoons: House on Haunted Hill Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £9–£11

Secret Mountain Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9 Tape Facebook Live!

Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £10.50–£11.50 There Will Be Cake Pleasance Dome, 18–19 Aug, £14–£16 Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17–26 Aug, £5

All Killa No Filla Live Underbelly, George Square, 19–20 Aug, £14 Roman Fraden: Back in the Closet Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10 Rahul Kohli: Kohl and the Gang Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–25 Aug, FREE Bearne the Midnight Oil Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Thomas Green: Doubting Thomas Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9

23:40 Mr Thing Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 23, £10 Wikipedilove Paradise in Augustines, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £9

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The Homesick Submarine Broadcasting Company The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 17–26 Aug, £9

Oleg Denisov: Doublethink HH Just the Tonic at The Tron, 17–26 Aug, £5

23:45 The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 Grant Busé: The Birds and the Beats Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 Getting Away Scott Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, not 19, FREE Wishful Drinking Laughing Horse @ The Place, 17–26 Aug, FREE Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Showcase with a Twist: You Decide the Material!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9–£10

23:55 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £13 Spank!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

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Last Orders Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £5 Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £7

23:59 Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 23–24 Aug, £8 Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–18 Aug, £10

23:35 BEASTS Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £5

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00:00 Werewolves Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–27 Aug, £10

09:00

Bottled Up theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £10

Barry’s Fringe Audio Walking Tour Outside the Tron – Hunter Square, 17–31 Aug, FREE

Swap Shop theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £9

Breakfast Plays: Youthquake Traverse Theatre, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

10:15

09:30 Bruford Warm-Up Mornings Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £4

How to Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Henriad – Histories of Betrayal Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 17–18 Aug, £8

09:55

10:20

Goodbye Rosetta theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–19 Aug, £10

MAD Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8

10:00

A Dog’s Tail Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8

Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Your Alice Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £9

¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

A Collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Too Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £8

Another One HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

10:30

¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50 Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50

Meek Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70

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Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Curio (A Cabinet of Curiosities) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £5 A Midsummer Night’s Droll theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £12.50

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Good Things Come to Those Who theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7

Ganymede Paradise in Augustines, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

10:05 Monday at Golden Oak High theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £9

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Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £5 The Best Play Ever theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

10:45 That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 17–18 Aug, £15 Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12 Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12 The Electra Legacy Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £15 Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £9

10:50 In Addition Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 The Mariner’s Song Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £10

¤ Lights Over Tesco Car Park HHHH

Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £8.50–£11 As It Happened (Contemporaneous Notes) theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £7

The Turn of the Screw Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Death, Dating and I Do theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £7

WHITE Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7.50–£10

¤ The Greatest Play in

Swap Shop theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9

Sticks and Stones Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17

the History of the World...

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Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50 Alabama God Damn Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8.50–£10.50

¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH

Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2018 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–18 Aug, £12

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50

Intro to Chicano History: 101 Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

The Taming of the Shrew C venues – C south, 17–18 Aug, £9–£10

Holy Sh*t Paradise in The Vault, 20–24 Aug, £8

Old Boy Scottish Storytelling Centre, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10 Proxy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9 Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, FREE On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50

11:05

Lonely TWOgether Beijing Version theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12

Walk Swiftly and With Purpose theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £9.50

10:55

11:10

Pomona theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10

Good Women Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–19 Aug, FREE

Treasure Island theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8

11:20

11:25 The Antiscians HH Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 17–18 Aug, £10 Spoiler Alert Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8.50 Definition of Man HHH Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 Elise Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11 Fallen Fruit Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

11:30 How to Spot an Alien HH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

Punching Judy theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £10

Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £5

Hecate Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £12

Sparks HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2018 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 19–25 Aug, £12

She Taught Me How to Breathe Again Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10

Two by Jim Cartwright (Clueless Presents) theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £10

...And This Is My Friend Mr Laurel Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12.50

Are There More of You? Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12.50

The Fetch Wilson Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50

11:15

10:40

The Meeting theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £7

Doors Opening Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £9

Eglantyne Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Reigen theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £8

Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50

Island Town Roundabout @ Summerhall, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £15–£17

Inferno theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Orlando HHH Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £12–£13

Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Leith Dockers Club, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, 27 Aug, £7.50 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £12–£12.50 Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £9

11:00 Under the Fig Tree Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £8 Zoo Assembly George Square Studios, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£11.50

The WWI Wardrobe Project Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £10

Our Man in Havana Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 21 Aug to 27 Aug, £7.50–£10

10:35

¤ Ulster American HHHH

Dining Al Desko HH theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £10

The Laurel and Hardy Story theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £10

11:35 The Interview theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £7 Walk Swiftly and With Purpose theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £9.50 How to Be Amazingly Happy! HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10

11:40 Tarzanne theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £10 No Sanction Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8 An Elephant in the Garden

by Michael Morpurgo Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 The WWI Wardrobe Project Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £10 All the Lights Are On

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Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Trump Lear HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

11:45 1984 Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £10 The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign Assembly George Square Studios, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13 Raise the Roof Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £5 Nine Foot Nine Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£12 That Daring Australian Girl Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug, £12–£13 Warhol: Bullet Karma Sweet Grassmarket, 20–26 Aug, £8.50 See-Through Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Eight theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £10

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Listings

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Finding Fassbender Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10.50

In Conversation With...

Archie Macpherson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12

11:50

The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7

The OS Map Fan Club theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £9

Cat-in-a-Box C venues – C aquila, 17–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

In Conversation With...

Ruby Wax The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12

Alma, a Human Voice Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

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In Conversation With...

Emily Thornberry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12

A Good Enough Girl?

Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £11–£12

In Conversation With...

Barbara Dickson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12

A Necessary Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 20–26 Aug, £9.50

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

11:55 Tetra-Decathlon Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

¤ Unsung HHHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

Individual Medley Sweet Grassmarket, 17–19 Aug, £7

The Accordion Shop PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17 Aug, £5

You’ve Got To Be Kidney Me!

Daniel Cainer: Old Dog, New Shtick!

Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

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Venue 13, 17–18 Aug, £9 Lonely TWOgether Taipei Version theSpace on North Bridge, 21–24 Aug, £12 Brawn theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £8

A Christmas Carol Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £13–£15 @JohnLewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted

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12:00

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Tits ‘n’ Teeth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Dangerous Giant Animals Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £9–£10

Leviticus ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10–£12 The Canterville Ghost PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–22 Aug, £5 The Lucky Durhams theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £10

In Conversation With...

Arnold Brown The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12 In Conversation With...

Richard Leonard The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12

12:05

In Conversation With...

Jonathan Watson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £12

Into the Blue theSpace @ Niddry St, 21–25 Aug, £8

Dominoes Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10

Alfred Hitchcock’s Writers’ Room theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £8.50

Scary Story Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £8

Waiting for Ofsted theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £10

Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15

The Edge of You theSpace @ Jurys Inn, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters) Sweet Grassmarket, 17–19 Aug, £8

12:10

In Conversation With... Mike Russell The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £12 Heroine Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10–£12 In Conversation With... KT Tunstall The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £12 In Conversation With...

Judy Murray The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12 After the Cuts HH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15 Laura theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £7

Offstage HH Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10 Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £11–£12

Kokoda Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9 Banana Boys theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £8 Heimatmann Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE On Their Own Ground C venues – C royale, 17–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

All Change Assembly George Square Theatre, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug, £10–£12 Good Grief theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £8 Kit Finnie: Mabel and Mickey Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

12:25

Molière’s The Miser C venues – C, 17–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Merry Wives of Seoul C venues – C south, 17–18 Aug, £9–£10

Vivarium Bedlam Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £10

Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger’s) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£9.50 I’ll Have What She’s Having Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£11

12:20 Marsistan Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £7.50

Beaker’s Place theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8.50 Courtroom Play: A Courtroom Play Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

12:30 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7

Stupid Cupid Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Mengele Assembly George Square Theatre, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £10–£12

Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12

Let’s Inherit the Earth Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Just William’s Luck Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

Gate 64 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £5

3000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Yen C venues – C cubed, 17–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Fcuk’d Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10

Haggis, Neeps and Burns

12:15

Hill Street Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12

Titus Andronicus Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £10

Uninvited C venues – C royale, 19–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

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Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12

Simon Callow in De Profundis Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £17–£19

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Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10 A State of Mind Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10

Power Play: Somebody

A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, £12.50

Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 17–25 Aug, not 21, £12

Statements Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17 Aug, £9.50 Sisterhood Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£11

A Play, A Pie and A Pint Le Monde, 17–27 Aug, not 18, 25, £12.50

Busking It Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7–£12.50

No One Is Coming to Save You Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10.50

UnSpoken C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

¤ Daughter HHHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £11 12:35 147Hz Can’t Pass Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Everything Is Going to Be KO Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £8.50–£11 Fronting Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£11

12:50

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Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £8 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 About Lady White Fox With Nine Tales...

Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £12–£13

¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50 Guerilla Aspies Year Four – Autism. Amusement.

Conversion.

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–26 Aug, FREE Chwedl: Fairytales from Wales PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 23–27 Aug, £6

Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Henriad – Histories of Betrayal Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £8

The Monster in the Hall theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

A Beginner’s Guide to Populism theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £9

Jumpers for Goalposts theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50

A Substitute for Life Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11.50

Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

12:40

Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

Born on a Monday Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Meek Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

Keep the Change ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10

¤ Mark Thomas – Check

The Half Moon Shania

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Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10 My Name Is Dorothy Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 17–18 Aug, £8 Tarzanne theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10 Gratiano Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £10–£12 An Evening With Miss Wong Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12

Theatre

12:45

Matthew 19:14 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9.50 Pyg Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8

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12:55 Tonight I Sleep in Peace (or How to Cure Involuntary Nocturnal Bruxism) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £7–£8 Love Song to Lavender Menace Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Polaris Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Boxes PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–22 Aug, £5 Propeller HH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £7–£9 Dummy Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, not 22, FREE

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

In Loyal Company Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11.50

My Left Nut Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

The Trip PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 25–26 Aug, £7

The Burning Gadulka Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE

The Time Machine theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £9

13:05 Dickens for Dinner C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Never Vera Blue Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Crave theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £7

Twelfth Night Assembly George Square Gardens, 22–26 Aug, £15

Vessel Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

❤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH

DUPed Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £8

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50 Diary of an Expat Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Up: Our NHS at 70

Manx Fairy Tales and Legends theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £10

❤ Blackthorn by Charley Miles HHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £14–£15

13:10 Don Juan Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21.50

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Jericho Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Ladykiller Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

Who Cares?

Natural Food Kafe, 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Gie’s Peace Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Little Sparks theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, £8

The 39 Steps: A Disaster in a Radio Studio!

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17 Aug, £5

13:00

Romeo and Juliet Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–19 Aug, £15

The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7

Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 Marie Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

13:15 Dangerous Giant Animals Underbelly, Bristo Square, 21 Aug, £9

Signals Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10.50 Panopticon theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £7 Do You Think That’s Wise? – The Life and Times of John Le Mesurier Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17–26 Aug, FREE

What Makes You a Woman theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £7 Dolly theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £7 The Grimm Truth theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £7.50 The Red Shoes theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £8 Don’t Kill Your Darlings ZOO Charteris, 17–26 Aug, £10 The First Love Project C venues – C, 19–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Sinatra: Raw Frankenstein Pub, 17–27 Aug, £7.50 The Quest: A Fantasy Musical theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £9.50 Red and Boiling HH Venue 13, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

13:20 The Hit Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Gypsy Queen Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10–£12 Darlings C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 As We Like It Paradise in Augustines, 17–18 Aug, £8 The EU Inspector theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

¤ The Fishermen HHHH

Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £11.50–£12.50

13:25

¤ The Approach HHHH

Assembly Hall, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £12–£13 The Black Dahlia Paradise in The Vault, 17 Aug, £6 Don Quixote Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £8–£10

13:30 It’s Not a Sprint HH Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £9–£11 On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £20.50 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Adventurers Wanted: Rebellion Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £5 Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, £13–£14 May Contain Neanderthal The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9 Footballers Have Feelings Too The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

❤ Ulster American HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50 The Spy Who Doped Me The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £9 Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 Brexit HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£16.50 Yer Aul’ Da The Royal Scots Club, 21–25 Aug, £10 The Cat’s Mother Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 The Dark Side of Fluorescence The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

¤ Baby Face HHHH

Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Will Pigs Save Our Bacon?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9

Erewhon Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

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13:45

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My Mate Dave Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £7

the History of the World...

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50

¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50 Shadow Hour Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5 Chemo Barbie HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 The Naked Blind Data Show The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9 Door-to-Door Poetry Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, FREE Monolinguals, Where Are You? The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9

The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and His Narcissistic Mother Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Bummer and Lazarus Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £9

The Marilyn Conspiracy Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £15–£18

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

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Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–19 Aug, £11.50

A Robinson Crusoe of the Soul Sweet Novotel, 18–26 Aug, not 22, £5

Feed Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12

Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £10

WEIRD HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12

Starfish C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £10 The Poets’ Republic – Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5 Annie Brassey Paradise in Augustines, 17–18 Aug, £8

14:05 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Community theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £5

14:10 The Vanishing Man Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£13

Grace Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 17–27 Aug, £49.50

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BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

All That Remains Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8

A Sight of Abject Pity and Ruin theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £5

(sorry) Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £13–£15

The Sisters of CastleKnock House C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

City Love C venues – C cubed, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Words Is Words Is Words theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £6

Evros | The Crossing River Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

An Act Of Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8

Chimes at Midnight theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

The Spider Glass theSpaceTriplex, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

13:50

Politics of the Tooth Fairy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9

You Only Live Forever Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11 Twelfth Night: The Ship of Fools C venues – C, 17–18 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

13:40 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Camp Be Yourself Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 A Clown Show About Rain Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£11 Tonight With Donny Stixx theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Bite-Size Plays Presents: Neverwant Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £9.50–£11

Wired Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

Treasure Island theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £10

Legacy: The Story of Martin Luther Palmerston Place Church, 18 Aug, £10

14:20

Cambusdonald Royal Mayfield Salisbury Church, 18 Aug, £12

I, Sniper theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7 Dracula Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12.50 The Song of Lunch Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £11–£14.50 Ailsa Benson Is Missing Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11 Impact Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

14:25 Chase Scenes HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

Power Play: Funeral Flowers HHH Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 17–25 Aug, not 21, £12 The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20–27 Aug, £12 The Famous Five C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 The Steamie HHH Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 18 Aug, £12 Rainforest Dreams Paradise in Augustines, 20–26 Aug, £8.50 The Prisoner The Lyceum, 25 Aug, £17

Nitro theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50

The Providence of Neighboring Bodies Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

The End of Eddy The Studio, 23–26 Aug, £11

Jet of Blood ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £10

3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

A World Beyond Man Quaker Meeting House, 20–25 Aug, £6

Scratch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 18 Aug, £8.50

The Half Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £7–£12.50

Side Effects Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8

Losing My Mindfulness Natural Food Kafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Island Town Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £15–£17

Diagnosed Paradise in The Vault, 21–25 Aug, FREE

Bowjangles: Excalibow Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

14:15

In Their Footsteps theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8

One Woman Alien Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £8

Osric Omand and the Story of Hope Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8

Happimess theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £8

Decibels Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £9

The Pieman Cometh: A Cautionary Football Tale Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

Blink Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17 Aug, £8.50 Medea Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 23–25 Aug, £7 Last Tango in Little Grimley Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £5 Falkland – The War the World Forgot Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Agent November Investigates: Rob Berry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 18–19 Aug, FREE Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Eight Bedlam Theatre, 20–27 Aug, £10

Bad Dog theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £10

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Taking it Badly theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £9

Olorine C venues – C too, 19–23 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Gulliver Returns Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

VELVET Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12.50

The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £7

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

¤ What I Talk About When I Talk About Running HHHH

ZOO Charteris, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £10 The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 25 Aug, £11 The Bench Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Pricks HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £8.50–£11 Integrity theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10 UNCONDITIONAL Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 Casanova Dreaming theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9

The Lucky Durhams theSpace @ Venue45, 19 Aug, £10

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Sticks and Stones Roundabout @ Summerhall, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17

Spaces Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £9 Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50

The Front Page St Ninian’s Hall, 18 Aug, £12 Drip Feed HH Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13

14:35

14:30 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, £13–£14

Man Down Venue 13, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12 Heaven Burns Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11 Duck Gutters theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £10 DNA – Alexandra David-Néel theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £11

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I Love You... But theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

The Rockford File Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£11

Awakening Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50

Other People’s Teeth C venues – C aquila, 17–19 Aug, £9–£10

14:40 Ruth Cockburn – Love Letters from Blackpool Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo HH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12 Love Songs Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

14:45 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 The Egg Is a Lonely Hunter Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £10 The Big Time C venues – C royale, 17–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Fallout Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE Not Yet Suffragette Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 Bonqrz Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Benny Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 In for a Penny Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 A Self-Help Guide to Being in Love With Jeremy Corbyn Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, not 20, FREE The Canterville Ghost

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10–£13

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Sophie, Ben and Other Problems Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10–£11 Once Seen on Blue Peter Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, £19.50–£22.50 Nina’s Got News by Frank Skinner Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £14–£16

Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 Walk the Oars Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £9

Orpheus Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

The Last Straw Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

The Unknown Soldier Assembly Rooms, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12

Dreamland Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10

The Straw Man Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £10–£12

Woyzeck Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 23, £7.50–£10

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12 The House Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £11–£13

14:55 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Drowning Our Babies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Free and Proud Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £12–£13 Much Ado About Nothing theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £10

15:00 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

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Your Alice Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £9 Alternative Bedtime Stories Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £7 HOME King’s Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £17 After Today PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10–£12.50 The Anglican Tradition of Poetry St Vincent’s, 17 Aug, FREE Drifting Towers C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Really Want to Hurt Me Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Phill Jupitus Is Porky the Poet in Living in a World Where They Throw the Ducks at the Bread Voodoo Rooms, 17–26 Aug, FREE Queen of the Air theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £9 Puffin Island HH Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £9 Face 2 Face theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Framed! theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £8

15:10 Pig Circus Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10 Bride of the Gulf C venues – C cubed, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Life on Venus theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–18 Aug, £7 Other Voices Spoken Word Cabaret Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Nutshells theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–18 Aug, £8

15:15

Drenched Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

Midsummer The Hub, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £32

Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £8

Extro-Terrestrial Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £7

Toby Thompson: For the Record Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£12

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £13–£14

BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Hello Georgie, Goodbye Best Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

La Maladie de la mort The Lyceum, 18–19 Aug, £17

Unspoken Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £7–£12.50

Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £10

Tobacco Road HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Me, Myself and AI Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £7

The Unsung Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £9

Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Conflict of Interest Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, £8.50 It’s Alright, Everything’s Okay HH Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £6–£7 Hamlet (An Experience) Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £10 Quines Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £9

Century Song HHH Zoo Southside, 17–18 Aug, £12–£14

15:05 Grace Notes theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Congratulations You Bastard! theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £5

Susan Macbeth Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–26 Aug, FREE Sitting by Katherine Parkinson Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–26 Aug, £14–£16 Narcissist in the Mirror Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 19, £9–£11 Trojan Horse Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £12

Terra Is a Warm Gun theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10

Outside Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£10

The Imagicarium of Mr Dickens theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

Marmite Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12

15:20 The Poetry of Sticking an Egg Up a Hen’s Butt!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–26 Aug, FREE An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE An Algorithm Named Kevin theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £5–£7 Ken Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £11–£14.50 The Pleasantries of Peasantry theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7 Romeo and Juliet theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £10 To the Ocean theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–19 Aug, £5 Brollies and Bumbershoots Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5 Lu-ting the Merman Paradise in Augustines, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £10

❤ Angry Alan by Penelope Skinner HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £13–£14 15:25 Alan Bennett’s A Visit from Miss Prothero theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–23 Aug, £12

Henry HHH Pleasance Dome, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 Ad Libido Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £8–£10.50 Dietrich: Natural Duty Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12 Passionate Machine

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ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £10 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 17 Aug, £24 The Red Shoes Pleasance Courtyard, 17–18 Aug, £10 Off-Kilter Dance Base, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £13 The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8 Ciara The Royal Scots Club, 17–18 Aug, £10 Misha Glenny: McMafia Assembly Checkpoint, 20–26 Aug, £14–£15

15:35 Choking to Death on a Currant Bun theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9 Metamorphosis of One C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Sirens Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£11

15:40

F**k You Pay Me HHH Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £10–£11

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy Natural Food Kafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 24–25 Aug, £12

No Kids Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10.50–£13.50

15:30 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, £13–£14

The Extinction Event Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£13 I Love You Mum... I Promise I Won’t Die! theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8 Flushed Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Don Quixote Unbound Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £10

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15:50 Chihuahua Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

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15:55

Luke Wright, Poet Laureate Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Taiwan Season: The Delusion of Home Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

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Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Wings Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20–26 Aug, FREE Urban Unrest Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £7.50 Flattered Fireside, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7 Breathing Corpses theSpace on the Mile, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50 Drunk Lion Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Stand and Deliver C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Come Die With Us Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £8.50

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50

Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 17–25 Aug, not 21, £12

Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15

James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2018: The Award Ceremony Traverse Theatre, 20 Aug, £7

Kin Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

16:05

Looking for Lightning C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £8.50–£10.50

The Welcome Revolution Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10

¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH

Expendable Chapters Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8

James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean) C venues – C aquila, 19–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 InValid Voices Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12 Rocket Man Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Not in Our Neighbourhood Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE

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Power Play: Next Time

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Up: Our NHS at 70

16:00

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50

¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50

Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £10

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Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, 17–26 Aug, £12

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Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50

Meek Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50

Harpy HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13 Slacker-in-Law Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, FREE Alice Hawkins – Suffragette Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 17 Aug, £8 Ripper theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £5 Sob Story theSpace on the Mile, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £9.50 Eat Your Heart Out Paradise in Augustines, 17–18 Aug, £10

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It’s a Dog’s Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, £10.50 The Laramie Project theSpace on the Mile, 21–25 Aug, £10 Hug the Bunny Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10 Gayface theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Tremor HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £14–£16

16:10

Strangers: Pairs Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Attila the Stockbroker – Ancient and Modern Bannermans, 20–24 Aug, FREE

Last Hive Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, not 25, £10

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Dib Dib Dead theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £9

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50

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Huff HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

Eat Your Heart Out Paradise in Augustines, 20–26 Aug, £10

Alan Bennett’s Say Something Happened theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–21 Aug, £12

Birth Control Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £7 Nutshells theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 20–25 Aug, £8

Diamond by Beryl Richards Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £14–£16

¤ Timmy HHHH Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

16:15 Reigen theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £8 Ah Dinnae Ken theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–18 Aug, £8 Portraits in Motion

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Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50

Party Night - CANCELLED theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 20–25 Aug, £8

Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Lost Lore theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–18 Aug, £10

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You Are Frogs Venue 13, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£12

Roman Candle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £9.50

A Generous Lover Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

Achilles Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 Alan Bennett’s Green Forms theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 22–25 Aug, £12

The Quest: A Fantasy Musical theSpace @ Venue45, 19 Aug, £9.50

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Where the Hell is Bernard?

Assembly George Square Studios, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£11

A Broad Abroad C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

BaseCamp HHH C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

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Dysney Disfunction Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

The Devil You Know: A Horror Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Brenda’s Got a Baby theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Fan Girl theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Stardust Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£11.50 Son of Jim Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

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Willis & Vere: A Serious Play About World War II Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Blackout Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Working Class Hero Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 Your Bard Assembly Hall, 17–27 Aug, £12 Nazanin’s Story C venues – C, 19–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 The River Was a God Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Hymns for Robots C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Crave theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £7 Can’t Stop Can’t Stop C venues – C royale, 18–27 Aug, not 20, 24, £7.50–£9.50

16:40 Henry V – Lion of England Assembly Rooms, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £12–£13 Pigeon Man Apocalypse Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE

A&E theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Nowt as Queer as Folk theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £7

The Journey Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £9–£11

Revenants HHH Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12.50

17:15

Sod’s Law Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Artificial theSpace on North Bridge, 17–19 Aug, £12

BBC Pop-Up Radio Drama Studio at Summerhall Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6 Live Before You Die Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE Old Souls PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £8 Don’t Tell Me Not to Fly Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £17–£19.50 Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15

16:25

Hamlet – Horatio’s Tale Assembly Rooms, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £12–£13

A Joke Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £14–£16

Loyalty theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Loki, the Scottish Rapper: Poverty Safari Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12

Badgered C venues – C cubed, 17–18 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

¤ Pickle Jar HHHH

War With the Newts Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

Kids Play theSpace @ Niddry St, 17–25 Aug, £9 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 Umbrella Man Scottish Poetry Library, 17–18 Aug, £8 The Isle of Muck Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 17–18 Aug, £8 Welcome to Self Co Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE Re: Production Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10–£12 This Is Yorkshire theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6 Henchmen Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8

1902 Wee Red Bar, 17–27 Aug, not 23, £12

Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £12.50–£14.50

Gutted theSpaceTriplex, 23–25 Aug, £9

Honey’s Happening Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £11

16:50

¤ Build a Rocket HHHH

Providence Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

A Modern Guide to Heroism and Sidekickery ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £10

A Fortunate Man HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

Same Old Same Oldies theSpace @ Venue45, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

That Woman!

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, not 19, 26, £11–£12

No Home Like This Place Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 17 Aug, £10

Freeman HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8–£11

Bottom Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

16:30 Wrecked Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–27 Aug, £13–£14

Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12

This Script and Other Drafts Scottish Storytelling Centre, 20 Aug, £10

❤ Games by Henry Naylor HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £12.50–£13.50 Who Will Separate Us? Leith Depot, 24–26 Aug, £5 Rise of a Humble Poet Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Theatre

16:35

Doom’s Day C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £12 Pigs in Blankets Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £10

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Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

16:45 Testament ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £10

16:55 The Flop Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Grail Project Bedlam Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £10

Our Country Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15

17:20

Rights of Passage C venues – C too, 20–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Roxy Likes Cats Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £7

It Is a Truth...

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, £6

Chamberlain... Peace in Our Time Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £11

17:05

Remember Scarborough theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £7.50

17:00

Hunch Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Flies Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10.50–£13.50

Blue Heart C venues – C too, 17–18 Aug, £11.50

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

17:10

The Bacchae Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

Departure Date theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9

Good Vibes Only theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £8

Bare Knuckle Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £10

Power, Fame and Sex Venue 13, 17–18 Aug, £10

The Laird’s Big Breaxit Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

bloominauschwitz Just Festival at St John’s , 17–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Loop Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

The March theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £7

17:25 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Mis(s)treated – Free Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Beep theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £8

Jasper Red: Press Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6.50

Showmanship C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Lucille and Cecilia C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

17:45

The Insignificant Life and Death of Colin McKenzie Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9

17:30 Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

¤ The Political History

of Smack and Crack

HHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £14–£15 Power Play: The Empty Chair HH Pleasance Pop-Up: Power Play HQ, 17–25 Aug, not 21, £12 Universal Dad Three Broomsticks, 17–25 Aug, FREE Shell Shock Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 A Hero of Our Time C venues – C royale, 19–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Bucket Men C venues – C royale, 17–18 Aug, £10.50 It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, £11 Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 24–25 Aug, £10 The Chore of Enchantment Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£10.50

17:50 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Everything Not Saved

HHH

Electrolyte Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £9–£12

Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £14

Playhouse Creatures Venue 13, 20–25 Aug, £10

17:55

Year Without Summer Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £8 Vox: A Fairy Tale for a New Age Central Hall, 17 Aug, £5

17:35 Eat Me C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 A Beginner’s Guide to Populism theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £9

17:40 ¤ Revelations HHHH

Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

Margo: Half Woman, Half Beast HHH Assembly Rooms, 17–18 Aug, £11 Maz and Bricks by Eva O’Connor Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £10

18:00 ¤ The Wedding Reception HHHH The Principal, 17–27 Aug, not 20, 21, £42–£45 Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe Blackwell’s Bookshop, 23 Aug, FREE

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眀椀琀栀 愀渀 攀渀琀椀爀攀氀礀 猀栀℀琀ⴀ昀愀挀攀搀 愀挀琀漀爀⸀

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Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 17–27 Aug, not 22, FREE Agent November Investigates: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £12 Rat Race theSpace @ Venue45, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 European Citizen Popsong Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 The Forecast ZOO Charteris, 17–26 Aug, £10 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 17 Aug, £24

¤ dressed. HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Clouds Lauriston Halls, 21–25 Aug, FREE Wu Song – The Tiger Warrior C venues – C, 17–18 Aug, £13.50 A Pickering’s Gin Jolly Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £10

I Am Not Your Woman Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 21–25 Aug, £8

F*ck Off. Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £5

Like Drowning theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £9

18:30

Blinded Venue 13, 17–25 Aug, £7

18:15

Bullingdon Revisited Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Dan Simpson: Worried Face Emoji Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 Nomad theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

¤ Ulster American HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50 Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50 Laugh Out Loud (Cry Quietly) The Royal Scots Club, 17–18 Aug, £12 Conchies!

Quaker Meeting House, 17–18 Aug, £8 Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 25–26 Aug, FREE In the Glare of the Neon Yak Bar Bados Complex, 17 Aug, FREE

¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH

Early Birds PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £11.50

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50

18:05

Nightmare Fuel Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, FREE

The Hollywood Effect theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

18:20

In Your Own Sweet Way theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

The Threesome Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10

Bulgarians, Buggery, Brokeback and Beyond theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 17 Aug to 24 Aug, £10.50

Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

18:10 [insert slogan here]

HHH

ZOO Charteris, 17–19 Aug, £12–£14 Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist ZOO Charteris, 20–23 Aug, £14 How to Do Acting (Properly) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 21–25 Aug, £8

From Today Everything Changes theSpace on North Bridge, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

18:25 Por Favor Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8 KillyMuck Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11 DollyWould Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £10

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1 The Basement Tapes Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 Medea Electronica Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £11.50

The Glass Menagerie Sweet Grassmarket, 17–19 Aug, £8.50 Lost in Thought Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Elsie Thatchwick Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10

O, FFS Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8.50

Twa Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £12

OTOSOTR Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

Queen of the F*cking World: The Second Coming The Street, 17–25 Aug, not 18, FREE

18:45

When the Friendship Has Sailed HH C venues – C aquila, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 The Gin Chronicles in New York artSpace@StMarks, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £12 Kill the Beast: Director’s Cut Pleasance Courtyard, 21–27 Aug, £10–£12.50 Nick and Nina Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Midsummer The Hub, 23 Aug, £32 The Way Out Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 20–25 Aug, £7 Extremism theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

18:35 Those Worrisome Sleeps Sweet Grassmarket, 20–26 Aug, £8.50 Volpone Paradise in Augustines, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £14

18:40 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Seven Ways to Calm the F**k Down Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

Neil Hilborn Summerhall, 23 Aug, £15

National Killing Day theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £8 Do You See What I Hear?

C venues – C too, 21–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Cezary Goes to War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £10

The Death of Edgar Allan Poe C venues – C too, 17–19 Aug, £11.50

Vivian’s Music, 1969 Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £7

18:55 Sugar Baby by Alan Harris Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–19 Aug, £15 1-2-1 This Sex Is Real C venues – C royale, 17–18 Aug, £10.50 Drip Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £14–£15

19:00

bad things happen here Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £8

Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6

Shakespeare in the Garden: As You Like It C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £21.50

¤ Ulster American HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20–27 Aug, £13–£14

¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH

¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Picasso’s Women The Fruitmarket Gallery, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £13

HHH

Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, £21.50

¤ The Greatest Play in

Meek Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50

Cock, Cock... Who’s There?

Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 the History of the World...

HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50 A Midsummer Night’s Dream theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–19 Aug, £5 On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50

18:50 Hysterical C venues – C, 19–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

¤ Queens of Sheba HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Cat’s Mother Underbelly, Bristo Square, 20 Aug, £9

I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller Le Monde, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

19:05 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Jennifer Lack: Narratively Satisfying theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17–25 Aug, £8 Love on Blue Canvas, 1890 theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £8

19:10 The Squirrel Plays C venues – C cubed, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 22–24 Aug, £11

HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50 Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 Brand-New Jew, a DNA Comedy Sweet Grassmarket, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 26 Aug, £7

The End of Eddy The Studio, 21–26 Aug, £11

Hatty’s Last Stand The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps, 24–25 Aug, £7

19:15

Up: Our NHS at 70

Deadly Dungeon Murder Mystery The Edinburgh Dungeon, 17–18 Aug, £17

The Poets’ Republic – Unleashed Scottish Poetry Library, 24–25 Aug, £5

Addiction: The Untold Story theSpace @ Venue45, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £10

¤ Mark Thomas – Check

The Midnight Soup Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15

Listings

Antigone na h’Éireann Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £10

First Snow / Première neige CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15

fest-mag.com

Sit With Us for a Moment and Remember ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £1

The Next Big Thing HH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 21, £10–£12 Entropy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12 Connected Lives Just Festival at St John’s , 17–18 Aug, £8 The Island Just Festival at St John’s , 22–23 Aug, £12

19:20 The Actor’s Nightmare theSpace on North Bridge, 21–25 Aug, £8 10 Steps to Happiness Sweet Novotel, 17–19 Aug, £8.50

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眀椀琀栀 愀渀 攀渀琀椀爀攀氀礀 猀栀℀琀ⴀ昀愀挀攀搀 愀挀琀漀爀⸀

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Thief Hill Street Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £12 Mistero Buffo Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13

HHH

Closed Doors Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

Midsummer The Hub, 17–26 Aug, not 21, 23, £32

Epiphany theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 22–24 Aug, £7

Am I F#*kable?

Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50

19:50

User Not Found Traverse at Jeelie Piece café , 17–26 Aug, not 20, £20.50

Glasgow ‘14 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £10

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 17 Aug, £24

How to Drink Wine Like a Wanker Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £10

When Is Lying Good?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10

La Maladie de la mort The Lyceum, 17–18 Aug, £17

20:15

The Front Page St Ninian’s Hall, 17–18 Aug, £12

Let’s Talk About Porn C venues – C, 19–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Uncanny Things Scottish Storytelling Centre, 22–26 Aug, £10

<3_Error 404_<3 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8

19:35

19:55

That’s So GCSE theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £7

Owen O’Neill: Ten Songs to Die For Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £11

19:30

You Only Live + Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £10

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Red Peppers theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £9

19:25 Extinguished Things Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50

Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Plaza Suite The Royal Scots Club, 20–25 Aug, £12 Legacy: The Story of Martin Luther Palmerston Place Church, 17 Aug, £10

Filth theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £10

Plucked theSpace on the Mile, 17–19 Aug, £7

Greg Byron: Wordshow Assembly Hall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Hotel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 20–25 Aug, £8

Why Even Bother C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Number, Please. theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £6

Thaw Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

Earnest & Wilde: Let’s Face the Music (and Franz) C venues – C royale, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Skeptics on the Fringe Banshee Labyrinth, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Cry for the Moon Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 17–27 Aug, not 18, 22, 25, £49.50–£55

Cepacia – Love Takes His Breath Away Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £10

Cambusdonald Royal Mayfield Salisbury Church, 17 Aug, £12

19:45

My Kind of Michael Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 17–27 Aug, not 22, FREE

Heather and Harry ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £8

De Fuut Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

The Steamie HHH Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17 Aug, £12 Overpriced Zeitgeist Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, FREE The Prisoner The Lyceum, 22–26 Aug, £17 Living With a Dark Lord Paradise in The Vault, 17–18 Aug, £10

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Amsterdam theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 17 Aug, £8 Crack/ed theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10

19:40

1902 Wee Red Bar, 17–27 Aug, not 23, £12

20:05

¤ Status HHHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £15

That’s What She Said Scottish Poetry Library, 17–18 Aug, £10

Henna Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–19 Aug, £10

Theatre

Aye, Elvis by Morna Young Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12.50–£13.50

Handfast HHH Summerhall, 19–26 Aug, £12

How My Light Is Spent Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £10

20:00 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Shakespeare Catalysts Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 20–26 Aug, FREE Enough Quaker Meeting House, 20–24 Aug, £10 Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–27 Aug, £12 The Last Burrah Sahibs Woodland Creatures, 20–21 Aug, £5 Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 The Rise of Donald in 40 Downfalls Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 21–25 Aug, £4

20:20

20:10

Fast theSpace @ Niddry St, 20–25 Aug, £9

#YesAllMen The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

Tabou Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £7

Big Boys Don’t Cry The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10

Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £15–£17

Freak theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £7.50

Antling theSpace @ Jurys Inn, 21–25 Aug, £10

Evren Venue 13, 17–18 Aug, £9

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress HH theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £10

Silence in the Archive The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10 We’re All Mental!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 26 Aug, £10 Science is F***ed The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £10 Bitter Paradise in The Vault, 20–26 Aug, £5

The Dame The Dome, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12

No Copyright, No Problem?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10

Janis Joplin Full Tilt

Moonlight On Leith Bar Bados Complex, 17–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

Suspect Confessions The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10

Assembly Rooms, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £16–£17.50

HOME King’s Theatre, 22–25 Aug, £17

Rainbow Baby theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £6

The Junkies Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–18 Aug, £15

A Sockful of Custard Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £10–£12.50

Abolish Childhood!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

HHH

To Have Done With the Judgement of God C venues – C too, 17–27 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Laura theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £9

Is Astronaut Food the Future?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

The Myth of the Singular Moment Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

Greyhounds theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £10

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Job-Cher PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, £11.50

Istanbul: You’ll Never Walk Alone Zoo Southside, 17–18 Aug, £12

War With the Newts Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

20:25 Bristol Improv Presents Story Slam BrewDog Lothian Rd, 17–25 Aug, FREE The Bacchanals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £12 Loving Monica C venues – C aquila, 17–18 Aug, £11.50

20:30 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Adult Orgasm Escaped from the Zoo C venues – C cubed, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Where It Hurts HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12 The Gin Chronicles in New York artSpace@StMarks, 17–26 Aug, not 20, 21, £12

You Remind Me of You The Royal Scots Club, 17–18 Aug, £12 Painted Love Valvona & Crolla, 21–22 Aug, £10

¤ Our Boys HHHH PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 22, £11.50 Famous Puppet Death Scenes HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £11

20:35 Frau Welt HHH Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, £12–£13 Fast theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £9 Aphrodite and the Invisible Consumer Gods ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10

20:40 The Time Machine theSpace @ Venue45, 19–25 Aug, £9 Sex, Drugs and a Cup of Tea Sweet Novotel, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £8 Lines Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8 The Conditioning C venues – C aquila, 17–18 Aug, £10.50 A Librarian theSpace on North Bridge, 20–25 Aug, £9

20:45 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Class HHH Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £20.50 In Pursuit of Andromeda Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10

❤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 26 Aug, £20.50 I Am Orestes and I Am Electra Too Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £10

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Fear Itself Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £9 The Cloak and Dagger Show Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, £10 The Fun Club Presents...

Zoo Southside, 17–27 Aug, £8.50 Thrown by Jodi Gray Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–19 Aug, £11 Body Shop Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £9

20:55 Call of the Void Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 22–23 Aug, FREE Romeo and Juliet ZOO Charteris, 17–26 Aug, £10–£12 Until You Hear That Bell Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 This Is Just Who I Am Assembly Rooms, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£10.50

21:00 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £15

Pamela’s Palace The Principal, Various dates from 17 Aug to 27 Aug, £25

This Script and Other Drafts Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–22 Aug, £10

Upcastle Downcastle theSpace on North Bridge, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £7

A Ghost’s Tale Outside Johnston Terrace Nature Reserve (by the red telephone boxes), 17 Aug–2 Sep, not 22 Aug, 30 Aug, £12

Canoe theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, £8

(even) HOTTER Bedlam Theatre, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £10

21:05

21:10 An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE Shackleton’s Stowaway theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10

The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £12

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Valerie Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £12

Carmen Funebre Pleasance at EICC, 17–19 Aug, £15

Twelfth Night Paradise in The Vault, 17–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50

Silence HHH Pleasance at EICC, 21–26 Aug, £13–£15

A Midsummer Night’s Droll theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £15

21:35

Prehistoric Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10 The Island Just Festival at St John’s , Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £12

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 20–25 Aug, £15

On the Exhale Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £20.50

The Electra Legacy Paradise in Augustines, 17–18 Aug, £15

21:20

21:40

Onstage Dating Underbelly, Cowgate, 17–26 Aug, £10–£11

17 Days ZOO Charteris, 17–27 Aug, £10

Improvised Therapy Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8 East Belfast Boy Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £16 Body Shop Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £9

¤ What Girls Are Made Of HHHH

Underground Railroad Game Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21.50

2nd Coming. Again.

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–23 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £20.50

¤ Nigel Slater’s Toast HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £21.50

Monsieur Somebody Venue 13, 17–18 Aug, £10

You All Know Me, I’m Jack Ruby! theSpace on North Bridge, 17–18 Aug, £8

¤ Ulster American HHHH

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

21:15

¤ Coriolanus Vanishes HHHH

Forbidden Stories French Institute, Various dates from 17 Aug to 25 Aug, £14

How to Swim in Hollywood Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 22 Aug, £21.50

Traverse Theatre, 21 Aug, £20.50

Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15

22:00

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £20.50

Big Bird / Big Berg Double Bill La Vida, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience The Principal, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £55

Violet Zoo Southside, 17–18 Aug, £10–£12

21:25 Bitches in the Ford KA theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

21:30 Flight HHH Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, £6 Loud Poets: The Fantastical Game Show Spectacular Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–27 Aug, not 21, 22, £12 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Urban Death Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £8.50

21:45 Girl World theSpaceTriplex, 20–25 Aug, £5.50–£8 White Feminist Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE One Life Stand HHH Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £14–£15 Modern Horror Stories Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

21:55 There She Is Zoo Southside, 19–27 Aug, £6

¤ Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70 HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £21.50 Meek Traverse Theatre, 23 Aug, £21.50 Agent November Investigates: Major X The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £15 Drunk!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £6 Father of Lies Sweet Novotel, 17–19 Aug, £9

Two-Man, One-Man Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £8 Mr Saxon’s Excellently English Evening of Entertainment theSpace on the Mile, 20–25 Aug, £8

22:15 Carmen: A Gender-Flipped Film Noir Fantasy Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 20–26 Aug, FREE Nele Needs a Holiday: The Musical Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE The Shallow Entertainment Tour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £9–£10 The Charisma of Evil: Why Are We Obsessed by Serial Killers?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £9

23:00

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 17–19 Aug, FREE

A Gay and a NonGay Live! – Free Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s, 17–18 Aug, FREE

23:05 You Only Live + Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10

22:20 Hillary’s Kitchen theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £10

The Maids Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–18 Aug, £10

22:25

23:10 ¤ Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard! HHHH

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £9–£10

Frieda Loves Ya! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

23:15

Mr Saxon’s Excellently English Evening of Entertainment theSpace on the Mile, 17–18 Aug, £8

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

Midsummer The Hub, 23 Aug, £32

22:30

Very Blue Peter Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

High School English Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8

Contractions theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8

23:30

The West Port Bloodbath Fireside, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, FREE

22:40

Pangea Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8 Corydon Ovium Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE Care Not, Fear Naught Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £10

22:05 Talking to the Dead – A Séance Sweet Novotel, 24–26 Aug, £12 The Creation Myths of China Zoo Southside, 23–26 Aug, £12

Horror Show theSpace on the Mile, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £9 Death is the New Porn theSpace @ Venue45, 17–18 Aug, £10 Silence HHH Pleasance at EICC, 17–19 Aug, £15

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 20 Aug to 26 Aug, £15–£16 The Dip theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£9 Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas (Work-in-Progress / Open Rehearsal) Summerhall, 25–26 Aug, £5 The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird, 21–26 Aug, FREE

22:45 Girl World theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £7.50

23:40

22:50 We’ve Got Each Other

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Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £9–£11

An Intimate Setting for the Devouring of Performance Art Cranston Caravan Club, 17–27 Aug, not 20, FREE

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10:00 Absolute Legends (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE BambinO (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 17–19 Aug, FREE Sing-a-Long a Musical (3+) Hill Street Theatre, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8 Finding Peter (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9 Woogie Boogie (3+) Summerhall, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9

10:05 Villain: DeBlanks (5+) theSpace @ Venue45, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10

10:15 Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–24 Aug, FREE The Big Balloon Singalong (0+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, not 21, 22, £8–£9

Better Together (5+)

The Gruffalo, the Witch and the Warthog with Julia Donaldson (3+) Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £10 Bubble Trouble (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £7

10:40 AnimAlphabet: The Musical (0+) HHH Pleasance Dome, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Eliza’s Big Adventure!

(3+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–25 Aug, £6.50

10:45 Penguinpig (3+) Assembly Roxy, 17–19 Aug, £9.50 Games With James (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–19 Aug, FREE

11:00

10:20 Tomfoolery’s Beans on Toast Show (3+) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20–25 Aug, £8

Brainiac Live! (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £12–£15

A Chinese Bestiary (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 17–19 Aug, £5

Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus (5+) French Institute, 17–27 Aug, £10

¤ John Hegley:

Morning Wordship (5+)

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Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £10 The Lion and the Mouse (0+) Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Cat in the Hat (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £12.50

¤ MamaBabaMe (0+) HHHH

Kids

The Showstoppers’ Kids Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £10

Kids’ Birthday Bash!

(3+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 17–26 Aug, FREE

10:30

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Wriggle Around the World (0+) HHH Stockbridge Church, 17–18 Aug, £8

Pleasance at EICC, 17 Aug, £8 A Cockroach and Furry Blurry Fluffy Things (5+) Venue 13, 17–25 Aug, £10

Bambino Beats Summertime Boogie – On the Farm (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, £5 Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, not 20, FREE The Puppets’ Orchestra and the Children’s Ball (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £7.50 What The Moon Saw (3+) Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £9 Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Meet the Little Prince!

(8+) Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9

11:05

11:20 Paddington Bear’s First Concert (0+) HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–26 Aug, £11–£12

11:30 The Lost Things (8+) Pleasance at EICC, 17–19 Aug, £10 BambinO (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 17–19 Aug, FREE Defrosted (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–22 Aug, FREE David Baddiel’s AniMalcolm (5+)

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–19 Aug, £12

11:35 Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band (0+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, not 22, £8

11:40 Balloonatics (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £10 Beowulf (8+) HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, £11

11:45 Romeo and Juliet (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10 The Adventures of Sam Swallow (3+) C venues – C too, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Poppets Adventure (0+) PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–27 Aug, not 22, FREE

One Giant Leap for June (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–18 Aug, £10

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower (0+) C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

The Snow Queen (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–27 Aug, £8–£9

11:10

A Dragon in the Family (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £10

Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Reach for the Stars (5+) Hill Street Theatre, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

A Good Enough Girl?

(8+) Assembly George Square Theatre, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £11–£12

11:15

12:00

Harmony – The Mumbai Experience (8+) Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 23–25 Aug, £7

The Bear (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £9–£12

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 21, 23, FREE

Show Up, Kids! (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE

Signor Baffo’s Restaurant (3+) The Principal, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £12 Around the World with Bessy – Part One and a Half: Bessy Goes Busking! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 Pee Paper Pizza (5+) Waverley Bar, 17 Aug, FREE

11:50

‘Signor Baffo held the kids’ attention like the Pied Piper’ MummyKimmy Blog, EdFringe 2018

Arr We There Yet? (5+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £10–£12.50 The Dragon and the Whales (3+) Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 20, £8–£9 Shakespeare for Kids: Under the Greenwood Tree (3+) C venues – C south, 17–27 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Singing Hands Summer Spectacular (0+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–19 Aug, £12 Chores (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £7–£9 Tales from the Fireside (3+) Fireside, 17–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Brave Macbeth (5+) Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 17–19 Aug, £9 Huggers (Free Festival) (0+) Fireside, 17–26 Aug, FREE Children’s Underground Ghost Tour (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 17–31 Aug, £7 Science Magic (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

12:10 The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–26 Aug, £8

12:15 All Hail the Poetry King! (8+) Bourbon Bar, 17–25 Aug, FREE Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Little Musician (3+) Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

12:25 The I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–19 Aug, £11

12:30 Eaten (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–19 Aug, £9

Stick by Me (3+) Dance Base, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9 Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£11 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 17 Aug–1 Sep, £12

¤ FunnyHappyStuff. co.uk Presents String Theory (3+)

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Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–26 Aug, FREE

12:45 Andrew Roper’s Superheroes for Kids 3 (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE The Bean Counter (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 18–26 Aug, £9.50

12:55 Grimm’s Fairer Tales (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–19 Aug, £10

13:00 Children’s Underground Ghost Tour (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 17–26 Aug, £7 Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

¤ Splash Test Dummies (0+)

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Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 17–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

13:15 Fun Kids Radio’s Epic Roadshow Adventure (3+) HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–27 Aug, £10–£11

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Cauliflower and Marvin the Mischievous Moose (3+) HHHH Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, not 21, 22, £8–£9

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13:20 Doktor James’s Bad Skemes (5+) HHH Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £7

13:25 This Is Your Trial (FF) (5+) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17–26 Aug, £10

13:30 The Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 17–27 Aug, £11–£12

¤ MamaBabaMe (0+) HHHH

Pleasance at EICC, 17 Aug, £8

Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze (5+) Assembly Roxy, 17–27 Aug, not 21, £8–£9 Kaput (3+) HHH Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, not 22, £11–£12 Mr Fizzywigg’s Story Factory (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, not 22, FREE Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards , 17 Aug–1 Sep, £12

13:35 The New I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

13:45 Grandma’s Gonna Kill Us (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 17–19 Aug, FREE Dan the Man (Kidz Comedian) – All the Things I Want to Be When I Grow Up (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 20–26 Aug, FREE

14:00 Circa: Wolfgang (3+)

Shhh... The Elves Are Very Shy (0+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – John Hope Gateway, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £5

Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time (8+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–26 Aug, not 21, £8.50–£10

14:10

Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes (5+) St Patrick’s Church, 25–26 Aug, £5

Four Go Wild in Wellies (3+) HHH Dance Base, 17–26 Aug, not 20, £9

14:25 Waiting For It (8+) Sweet Grassmarket, 17–26 Aug, £7

14:30 Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 17–25 Aug, not 20, £12–£14

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The Lion and the Mouse (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, £8

Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

The Famous Five (5+) C venues – C, 17–27 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Wee MacNessie (0+) St Giles’ Cathedral, 21–25 Aug, FREE

The Time Machine (8+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 17–19 Aug, £10

Bambino Beats Summertime Boogie – On the Farm (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17–18 Aug, £5

Circus Sonas Family Show (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Nutty Noah: You Might Die! (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 20–27 Aug, £8–£10

14:50

The Garden of Delight (3+) Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens, 18–19 Aug, £7 Huggers (Free Festival) (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

Wilde Creatures (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 18 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, 26 Aug, £9–£11

15:00 The Lost Things (8+) Pleasance at EICC, 17–19 Aug, £10

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The Reluctant Dragon (3+) Inveresk Lodge Garden, 18 Aug, £9

15:15 The Story Beast: Myths, Monsters & Mayhem (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–26 Aug, FREE

15:45 Game On 2.0 (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 17–19 Aug, FREE

16:00 Bercerus the Blind Dog and Other Heroes (5+) St Patrick’s Church, 22–24 Aug, £5

16:10 The Battle of Frogs and Mice (0+) Assembly Roxy, 17–19 Aug, £10

16:30 Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 19 Aug, £8

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £10 Opera Mouse (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, £10

16:35 Denim: The Denim Juniors (5+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 17–19 Aug, £10

16:40 The Storyteller’s Apprentice (8+) theSpaceTriplex, 17–18 Aug, £9

17:00 Le Carnaval des Animaux / Un Gâteau pour Cubitus (5+) French Institute, 17–27 Aug, £10

17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11 I Have Always Been a Storm (5+) Tolbooth Market, 17–25 Aug, FREE

17:50 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 17–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

18:30 The Jungle Book (3+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17–18 Aug, £8.50

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