Fest 2019 Issue 1

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FOX-TOT!

TOT-ALLY WINNING OPERA FOR BABIES

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6 – 8 August

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Inside: Milo Rau Catherine Cohen Susie McCabe Rosie Jones Rachael Young Tokyo Rose Ockham’s Razor The Black Blues Brothers

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Contents

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A Wee Mite at the Opera Our youngest correspondent puts the arrghh in aria for Scottish Opera's Fox-tot!

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You're Obsessed Comedy-cabaret star Catherine Cohen on life-goals

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Wall of Silence Theatremaker Duane Cooper on solitary confinement

The Scottish storyteller dishes out some home-truths

Theatre 40 The Red A full-bodied study of addiction with a strong note of jeopardy

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus 59 Ockham's Razor Four-stars for the multigenerational circustheatre four-hander

Cabaret and Variety 59 Christina Bianco The diva makes more than an impression

Musicals & Opera 62 SK Shlomo 72

Venue Map & Listings Time ordered listings and a handy map to help you make the most out of your festival

An experimental return to the Fringe exploring mental health

Kids 68 Valentina's Galaxy A space adventure arrives at the Botanic Garden

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Perfect Day You’ve arrived at the Festivals and you’re overwhelmed. We know how it feels. So just pop your reading specs on, turn your decision-making off, and just follow our pre-planned perfect day. Variations are acceptable.

Cult Espresso 9am

Featuring a wide selection of expertly crafted coffees, Cult Espresso is the place to go if you’re serious about your brew. Tucked away on Buccleuch Street, it’s also perfect if you’re wanting to ease into the day away from the hustle and bustle.

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104 Buccleuch St

Nightclubbing Burgerz

3.45pm – 4.45pm Summerhall

11am – 12.10pm

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In 2016, someone threw a burger and shouted a transphobic slur at performance artist Travis Alabanza. Over the course of Burgerz, Alabanza tries to comes to terms with the incident by literally making a burger onstage in this powerful and raw performance piece.

Inspired by Grace Jones’ seminal album of the same name, Rachael Young’s Nightclubbing highlights the discrimination Black women still face, and celebrates their strength through dance and an excellent soundtrack of 80s synth-pop and new wave.

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Troy Hawke Underbelly

After introducing him to the world last year with 1001 Moments with Troy Hawke, prolific character comedian Milo McCabe brings his foppish naif persona back to Edinburgh in this bizarre, engaging and hilarious hour.

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Tiles of the Unexpected!

Leo Mohr When I was Zorro 11.20pm – 12.20pm Heroes @ Dragonfly

The Mosque Kitchen 7pm 31 Nicolson Sq

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.

A carefully-structured, but unpredictable and spontaneous debut from this Swiss clown.

This special show is an exercise in self-degradation, with an anti-comic hero who never lets the mask slip. Excellent late night Fringe fayre.

A Wee Mite at the Opera If there’s one thing Scottish Opera have established over the past three years, it’s that babies are bowled over by opera. This year they are hoping to repeat the feat, so we send along the toughest—and tiniest—of critics ROSAMUND

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ion from Scottish fter BabyO and BambinO comes Fox-tot!, the newest product audience aged 1-2 years.

Opera providing multi-sensory entertainment for a toddler who recently Fest is lucky enough to send one plucky young reporter, Oran, with his primary carer—to passed the minimum age threshold. He is dispatched—along an old Victorian building near participate in rehearsals at the company’s Glasgow base in Charing Cross. work, inviting babies from Child development is at the heart of Scottish Opera’s new has evolved according to !

Fox-tot local nurseries to rehearsals to see how they respond.

Oran leads to the Fox restless a calm to attempt an there are these responses. While we says, “We’ll continue Haines tickling the children’s feet with his tail. As director Roxana the performance.” shape help can in comes who parent and learning as every toddler credits an initial This isn’t composer Lliam Paterson’s first baby rodeo. He “That process is really work. the to life giving with week ment research and develop the babies there so having actually At this point Oran important because it’s taking it off the page and to.” steals the dictaphone respond they what see and you can try stuff out and starts ‘singing’ Haines continues as Oran chimes into the conversation: *shout ing* into it “All of those things you can hear, when the children hear them. Their eyes go to the cello, their eyes go *loud bas to the percussion. Every time the shaker is used hing*, an accompli shed *exh every eye in the room is on it – they have a higher ale* acknowledgement of frequency than we do.

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*panting “A lot of that initial research has come ,a from what the sensor thrum as strange if the pho motory phases of this specific age grou ne is being p are so it’s about creating a dragged world where they can explore their bodie a lo n g a rubbe s. They can stretch their r sheet* arms, they can bang the floor as Fox bangs the floor, they can respond to themselves.”

The baby audience are invited to roam free on the tree trunk cushion-strewn floor; fabric leaves are dropped from above; a cool breeze is caused by a passing fox-butterfly puppet; a large fabric moon is rolled across the ground, while a fabric sun has heat pads stitched in to provide further dimensions of sensory experienc e. The children’s mobility has informed the physical space—the cellis t is elevated to escape curious hands, the percussionist is behind a protective set designed by Giuseppe and Emma Belli—and also the comp osition. Says Paterson, “The really interesting thing about writing this piece for this age group, toddler to 24 months, is of course you have really active kids who are going to be crawling and trying to walk and grab things.

“There’s a lot of music just for the percu ssion and the cello. So compared to the previous *muffled bashing opera there’s actually less singing as a whole – that noise, followed by a was to allow the crash, almost as if a two performers to be much more phys ically free to d bbe gra has r toddle actually deal with the situation of havin g an onslaught the dictaphone and of toddlers grabbing things or...” dropped it on the What is clear from the rehearsals is ground* that Fox-tot! offers an experience which is thoughtful, imm ersive and, crucially, not patronising. Haines confi rms: “It’s a real opera, it’s just tiny. And that’s what is beautiful about it. The costumes and the sets and the performances are still real – you can hear them, *Bashing. The sou nd She is in they’re not shying away from singing. terrupted of a microphone There by shouting are lots of things that we can’t plan that be ing rep eatedly will beaten* be joyful. We can’t plan the things that will resonate the most because it’s just abou t offering lots of different things” – Oh no!”

“He’s fine! You’re OK!” He is fine. He has a lovely time and *The sou is looking forward nd of a b to seeing Fox-tot! in full once they aby falling o ’ve taken on board all of his ver* notes. ✏︎

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Unconventional comedycabaret star Catherine Cohen talks to Arianna Reiche about goals, Alan Cumming, and why self-care is a pain in the arse

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n the 15 July, aficionados of New York’s ‘alt’ comedy scene were given a treat: Catherine Cohen appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, one of America’s most-watched chat shows. In a dazzling silver romper, she gave a taste of her addictive and hypnotic cabaret act that’s earned her the adoration of her both fanbase—who can be seen flooding into her weekly comedy night at Club Cumming in Manhattan’s East Village (Seriously, check Instagram – it’s like the Beatles in Munich)—and casting directors for the likes of HBO’s High Maintenance and Comedy Central’s Broad City.

But unlike other American comics who get their big breaks to a viewership of millions, Cohen has made some unconventional summer plans: notably, getting on a plane to Edinburgh to perform The Twist…She’s Gorgeous, and attempting to avoid any daytime fun.

“I’ve never done so many shows in a row!

And with my voice I just have to be really worried about stamina,” she explains while sipping an Aperol spritz underneath some bold rodent-art in Shoreditch’s Ace Hotel. “I have to take care of myself! It’s a pain in the ass.”

The Twist… indeed takes more physically demanding stage work than her shoe-gaze contemporaries might be capable of. Cohen sings and dances her way through ultra-high-energy autobiographical numbers – such as ‘All The Things That Are Wrong With My Vagina And All The Medicine I Need’, and the office holiday party anthem ‘Plus One’. (“I promise I’m fun, I’ll be nice and sweet, I love a good DJ, and filling my mouth with cured meats.”) The show has evolved over the years, and has been something of a lifetime in the making.

“ Alan Cumming has just been a really supportive mentor, and without him giving me that spot, this year would have looked very different. I love him.

He’s the kindest man.” continues

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“I’ve been performing in musicals since I was seven, eight years old,” she says. “I was always doing, you know, funny stuff, but I wasn’t a comedy nerd or anything.”

Through the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre, as well as a fateful 2013 Fringe she admits she spent “drunk in a field”, Cohen came to meet other performers with a similarly charming and anarchist take on conventional comedy forms. This included Patti Harrison (I Think You Should Leave, Shrill) and Mitra Jouhari. She and fellow stand-up Pat Regan (“Pat’s my favourite comedian in the world. He’s a genius. There’s no one like him.”) premiered their podcast Seek Treatment through the Forever Dog network in 2018, and the buzz for her weekly show at Club Cumming started to reach critical mass. “[Alan Cumming] has just been a really supportive mentor, and without him giving me that spot, this year would have looked very different. I love him.

He’s the kindest man.”

It seems oddly fitting that a Scotsman would have helped elevate Cohen’s thoroughly New York-ish show, and no doubt about it – the UK has a special place in her heart: “My family lived here for a year when I was three, and I came back during

college and did a programme at LAMDA. I’ve always just loved it over here, and felt connected to life here.” At some point between school musicals and Seth Meyers, she befriended transatlantic comedy darling Lolly Adefope; at her urging, Cohen flew to London last November to do a set in Hackney.

Her brief overseas debut was such a success that— despite her sudden late-night fame—her next step seemed obvious.

“Performing at the Fringe has been in the works for, like, a year, and I had no idea how things would shake out! But I’ve always thought, I want to do this!

I’m going to do this! And now I’m terrified.”

It’s hard to imagine Cohen, with a supernaturally quick wit and cool-as-a-cucumber keyboard accompanist Henry Koperski, fearful, and she’s quick to rethink this statement: “I think it’ll just be a learning experience. It’s scary but truly I’m at a point where I’m just confident in what I do.” ✏︎ Arianna Reiche SHOW: VENUE: TIME:

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Blues Brothers in Arms

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o mark a few points.

First, let’s get this right: I’m in Venice, to watch a group of five Kenyan acrobats perform to music from the American classic The Blues Brothers in advance of their Edinburgh run. We’re met by Alessandro Serena, artistic director of Circo e dintorni, the Italian company bringing The Black Blues Brothers to Edinburgh. He’s from an old and illustrious circus family – his grandmother was film star, trapeze artist, acrobat, elephant trainer Moira Orfei.

He’s a producer and academic, and it would be entirely accurate to describe his knowledge of the history of circus as encyclopaedic. He is, indeed, the editor of the circus section of the Dictionary of 20th Century Performing Arts. Most charmingly, though, he’s unable to tell me exactly where he’s from. “I grew up in the circus,” he laughs.

Circus is, pertinently, an internationalist, borderless art.

Second: Venice is an extraordinary, beautiful place. It’s hardly an original observation, but when expecting a touristic ordeal, the existence of quiet piazzas, the solace of narrow canals, the absence of engine noise, the outlandishness of a city built on 1000-year-old wooden pilings in the silt, all come as a delightful shock. It is also extraordinarily hot.

It’s 35 degrees this weekend, which, aside from meaning the local favorite, Aperol Spritz, becomes practically a first aid essential, also means that physical exertion is right out. The sight that evening, then, of the five acrobats executing three-level balances, handspringing over tables and, most spectacularly, tumbling from height in suit and tie

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They grew up in village on the coast of Kenya, travelled together to Nairobi to learn their art, and have since performed for the Pope. Evan Beswick talks to The Black Blues Brothers, a group of acrobats tumbling into Edinburgh for the first time

is, frankly, exhausting. And exhilarating. The muscle and the sweat comes as a sweltering reminder that the physicality of circus is the real deal. “It’s hard to jump in a suit,” explains the troupe’s flyer, Seif Mohamed Mlevi. “But now, after a lot of practice, I can do anything in a suit!”

Thirdly: oh sweet Jesus Italian food is great.

Over breakfast the next morning I sit down with the team: Ali Salim Mwakasidi, Bilal Musa Huka, Hamisi Ali Pati, Rashid Amini Kulembwa and Seif Mohamed Mlevi. We’re in Novento di Piave outside of Venice. It’s their home while working, between stints back in Kenya and also the site of Karakasa Il Laboratorio delle Meraviglie – the performing arts school where they now all teach circus.

In some ways, the Blues Brothers theme is a bit of a red herring. Indeed Serena, who devised the concept with them, is careful not to place too much emphasis on it. It’s intriguing, he explains, because of the origins of the blues as a black art form, coopted (in homage) by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, and now revived by five lads from Nairobi. But, the continues

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toe-tapping beats of songs like ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’ and ‘Let There Be Drums’ are sweet and meet for high energy acrobatics – and he’s not wrong. It’s helped by the fact that, after about 600 performances now, it’s slick as anything.

In another sense, though, the characterisation is spot on. If Jake and Elwood are too cool for school, these guys are—both in character as well as in person—unmistakably insouciant. “We had to learn how to dance in that style,” recalls Mlevi, casually mimicking the lame dad moves perfected by Belushi and Ackroyd. “It’s not easy!”. This cool restraint is all the more surprising given the journey they’ve been on. Born in Nairobi they trained together at Sarakasi, a project started by a UN officer to expand opportunities for kids in Kenya to become involved in performing arts.

Bilal Musa Huka explains: “We come from the same village, so we were friends before. There were some guys doing acrobatics when we were very young. They inspired us to do acrobatics and we saw them and started to do. Then after some years we travelled from Mombasa to Nairobi because at Nairobi there is a very big school called Sarakasi.

It’s a social school – some of the acrobats they come from slums.”

Spotted by Serena on a scouting trip, they began working as professional acrobats in Italy four years ago, training and performing for a proportion of the year and returning home to family for the rest. In a turn of events which seems both outlandish, and predictably Italian, they were asked to perform for the Pope. Though all five are Muslim they leapt at

the chance. “Wow! It was a great pleasure. They were proud of us, even in Kenya!” says Huka.

I’m curious as to whether the concept, The Black Blues Brothers, feels at all uncomfortable. As a white, western, relatively affluent man I’m torn between the idea that such a presention of strong Black bodies is insensitive, and the idea that the discomfort is mine alone to wear while a group of professionals get on with their job. It’s a tricky question to raise, and I’m more surprised by the answer I get.

“You know, in Kenya we do another type of show. It’s called a ‘jungle show’. Here in Europe, let’s say they can’t do the African show!” Mlevi laughs, incredulously. Huka is equally bemused, explaining what a great show it is: “It has non-stop music. Nonstop show. It’s a little bit different.”

Huka is pragmatic. He talks about sensitivities around the animal skins they wear for some of their African shows: “Some of the Kenyans also, they don’t like this costume. So we used to have three costumes and if they prefer the other one, we change!”

For Mlevi, if there’s cultural sensitivities to be overcome, it’s in the opposite direction: “In Kenya normally a lot of acrobats perform in African clothes, but for us we do it in suits! At home they were shocked! Mostly when we see people in suits they cannot do anything!”✏︎ Evan Beswick SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

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Theatremaker Duane Cooper talks about solitary confinement in American prisons, and how the practice has fed into his new mime show Solitary

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he question, for theatremakers Duane Cooper and Blake Habermann, is not “how long is a piece of string”, but how powerful. Their show Solitary has no words. Instead it uses physicality and a length of rope to explore the issue of solitary confinement in US prisons.

“Our initial intent wasn’t to explore solitary. We wanted to investigate the theatrical possibilities of a rope. But the theatre gods gave the theme of solitary confinement to us, because it chimed perfectly with what we were trying to do.”

A huge amount of background research has gone into the show, from working with charities that campaign to end the practice, to interviewing exprisoners – including one man who spent more than 10 years, on and off, in solitary. But the show itself is a mime piece. So how does Cooper convey all that information?

“It translates quite easily,” he explains, “because in solitary who are you talking to, besides yourself?

The lack of dialogue seems appropriate. And a lot of the psychological deterioration has physical manifestations, so it lent itself to mime. It reminded me how much we say without words anyway.”

It’s a sparse set consisting of two blocks, one chair and a length of rope. The playing space is the size of a solitary cell – 6ft by 9ft. On top of that there’s a soundscape of live foley, evoking what it’s

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like to be in prison. At points, though, that sound suddenly drops out. “You feel how lonely the space can be, and the need for you to try to create sound yourself, just to feel alive.”

All the research about solitary suggests that it’s extraordinarily damaging, and yet it’s become more common. The late ‘80s saw the rise of mass incarceration. Cooper explains one theory, that it was a means of getting cheap labour: “You get as many people in prisons as possible, have them make goods for pennies, so there’s a financial incentive to keep prisons packed.”

As the numbers of prisoners rose, the practice of solitary confinement was renewed. There are instances where solitary is used to protect a prisoner: “For members of the LGBTQ community who face a higher risk of abuse, sexual harassment, and things of that nature, they can be put in solitary confinement for their protection. You can also be put in solitary if there’s threat of violence from gangs.”

But that doesn’t mitigate the damage it has on a prisoner’s mental and physical wellbeing.

“Even a week can be detrimental, but a lot of people are spending upwards of a year in solitary confinement. All the research shows there’s no benefit. At this point, now, it’s purely punitive and not rehabilitative at all.”

Another huge injustice with the rise in mass incarceration was the disproportionate number of African-Americans who were jailed, even for minor misdemeanours. That’s something Cooper and Habermann thought hard about, particularly when it came to deciding who should perform the piece.

Cooper is African-American, Habermann is Caucasian. “We discussed what it meant if Blake was in the show compared to me. Politically, emotionally, it made sense that we reflect the numbers – minorities are disproportionately incarcerated.”

“ It translates quite easily because in solitary who are you talking to besides yourself?”

– Duane Cooper The big question that Cooper’s been wrestling with is whether prison should be about punishment or rehabilitation. “Ideally it should be for rehabilitation,” he says, “but I struggle with what it means to pay your debt to society, and what it means to forgive. Certainly there are a lot of people unjustly imprisoned, and

that’s an issue unto itself. But for the people who truly have committed crimes where the general population would say it deserves some kind of punishment, I don’t think the system supports them coming out and being able to function in society.”

There should be some type of punishment, Cooper argues, “but the extent to which it’s happening now completely ignores rehabilitation and it’s just...” he pauses, “abuse.”

There is no one way to tackle reintegration into society, he says, because there are so many facets to the problem. “It’s incredibly hard to get a job, your access to educational resources, to mental health support are lacking, there’s a high rate of homelessness.”

But that’s why he’s made the piece: to explore the complexities around the practice. It’s about “spreading the word, first and foremost. I’m not particularly political myself, and having been involved with this subject for so long I ask myself ‘am I doing enough?’ And I’m hoping that by creating theatre, by raising awareness, I’m doing my part.” ✏︎

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Milo Rau returns to that question in La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I) (4 stars), reflexive docu-theatre that scrutinizes the killing of Ihsane Jarfi: the 32-year-old BelgianMoroccan left a gay club in Liège in April 2012, got into a stranger’s car and was found, 10 days later, beaten to death. His murder made a mark – a symbol of a symptom of social disrepair: unemployment, xenophobia, homophobia. It was and it wasn’t. Rau sees its senselessness in light of its circumstances.

La Reprise is at once a reconstruction and a deconstruction. It builds to a re-enactment of real events: a silver Volkswagen rolls out onstage, three men inside. Another, playing Jarfi, gets in – warily but willingly. He lets his sexuality slip, makes a joke and gets hit, hit and hit again. He’s bundled into the boot, bloodied, then dragged out, kicked senseless, stripped, pissed on and left, laid out on the floor. The violence is appalling and unflinching: so sudden, so spontaneous, so clinically carried through to its end. A camera makes the action into a movie. Onstage, it seems forensic and fictional.

Rau frames the way we watch. Restaging a précis of its process, it becomes a treatise on theatre itself. Everything hovers between fiction and fact, as aware of its own artifice as its reality. Casting Liège locals (an unemployed forklift driver and amateur DJ plays one of the killers) alongside professional actors, shuffling Hamlet’s ghost and Purcell arias into the mix, everything onstage becomes sewn into the world it represents. It asks how and why we stage real violence and whether we can do so responsibly?

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Bible John «« Pleasance Courtyard, 3:30pm – 4:30pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 13, £7 – £12

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A true crime wave has swept across Edinburgh: shows about serial killers, mass murders, unsolved crimes; shows about hows about serial killers. Serial’s success spawned a copycat spree, content creators feasting on our morbid fascination, and artists are taking inspiration from, and issue with the genre. What is it to make art—entertainment— out of actual acts of violence?

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La Reprise is self-aware, arguably to a fault, and its motives blur. Is Rau out to make a show or to make a difference? The two are inextricably linked – but there are other ways to affect change. Even so, La Reprise feels like a gamechanger; a rewriting of the rules that avoids appropriating victims or perpetuating myths.

That scuppers more straightforward stagings.

The Incident Room (3 stars) works on its own terms—a staple police procedural charting the Yorkshire Ripper case—but in condensing its complexities into a brisk 90 minutes, it seems crude by comparison, even exploitative.

Set among the filing cabinets of West Yorkshire Police, Olivia Hirst and David Byrne’s script watches characterful old-school coppers struggling to spot patterns in a spate of sex workers’ deaths.

With the body count rising and tabloid hacks on the prowl, their exhaustive evidence trawl ultimately proves unhelpful. Peter Sutcliffe was only arrested by chance.

It’s a potted history with a dramatic pulse, but The Incident Room has all the purpose of a Penny Dreadful. When one of Sutcliffe’s survivors says she just wants to be forgotten, the show’s own complicity becomes abundantly clear.

Bible John was never caught. 50 years ago, three women were killed in Glasgow after dancing at the Barrowland ballroom. Each showed signs of sexual assault. Each had been menstruating when murdered. It’s a grisly case that still captivates crime nerds – including the four women onstage, all obsessives in spite of themselves. Poor Michelle theatre company précis a fictional podcast seeking to crack the case.

There’s a craft to true crime: building tension,

finding cliffhangers, laying false trails. Bible John (2 stars) blows them all, rattling through evidence at such speed that it’s impossible to keep up. The case blurs long before it’s left unresolved. Caitlin McEwan’s script attempts self-awareness, troubling at true crime’s lure, particularly amongst women, but it’s guilty of trading on the very same tropes: lurid sensationalism, digging up the past and reducing victims’ lives to the details of their deaths.

Anna Drezen (3 stars) is asking the same question in her Edinburgh debut Okay Get Home Safe! Why are women, herself included, so into true crime? She ups the stakes and the selfconsciousness. Stood before a police tape glitter curtain, the Reductress founder kicks off with footage of female Ted Bundy fans, crammed into his courtroom, coquettish and confused. She takes sharp shots at male violence, but Drezen is gunning after the source of that attraction.

Like Lena Dunham, Drezen’s upfront about often unspoken female urges – however twisted or taboo they seem. She goofs about the genre but she’s after something slippery and substantial: the way wariness is instilled in women, the tangle of sex and submission (“Open your heart but carry mace”) and the commercial exploitation of that. Any idea how much it costs to burn a bra, she shrugs.

It’s a restless hour still seeking its final structure and Drezen deliberately derails it to avoid detailing her own traumas or addictions too deeply. Each time emotion threatens to intrude, she cuts to a tensionbreaking podcast-style ad break – easy spoofs, yes, including the JonBenét Ramsey doll’s house, but a sharp éxpose of the commercial motives that lie beneath true crime and confessional comedy. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

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After bursting onto the Scottish comedy scene, Susie McCabe’s development as a storytelling comic has been incrementally steady.

Yet her potential is vast and she’s looking decidedly accomplished now.

Divorced after a 16-year relationship, the 39-year-old became an unlikely boomerang child and moved back in with her parents,

turning everyone’s life upside down.

Although she and her mother quickly reverted to rebellious teenager and over-protective, prying progenitor, the fact that McCabe is a lesbian adds an extra spin, with her mother’s hysteria about hypothetical rapists cut dead by McCabe’s brutal reality check.

Although she has great fun sending up her family and new girlfriend, with her father more concerned about her class aspirations—her mother’s doublestandards when it comes to the red carpet treatment visited on her brother and the personality shift in her partner since they moved in together—these characterisations are more than caricature. True, it’s the broader strokes of familial angst that elicit the big belly laughs of recognition, with McCabe’s

tendency towards sardonic incredulity affording real heft to the punchlines. Yet while she’s the eponymous domestic disaster, her father’s handiness around the house belies the working-class male stereotype, with her parents fighting an unacknowledged Cold War for recognition of their rival housework.

A historical analysis of feminism two-thirds in seems an abrupt gear shift, with the section feeling like a gauche stab at making the show appear relevant. That notwithstanding, McCabe’s perspective is frank and challenges received wisdom about misogyny. When she can more seamlessly incorporate such cultural insights into her day-to-day frustrations, she’ll be unstoppable. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...?

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Catherine Cohen’s cabaret is as funny as her comedic routines, while her routines retain the energy of her cabaret. There’s a unity in her sequinned onstage persona, Manhattan attitude and point of view that makes The Twist... more than the sum of its parts. You remember the show more as a joyous night out, rather than simply a joyous Fringe hour with great individual tunes or punchlines. When she sings that she wants our attention, her naturally unfaltering glamour and verve ensures that she gets it – and for the full hour.

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A regular at New York’s Club Cumming, her first Edinburgh run arguably fits in with the musical comedy tradition Alan Cumming made his own here in the ‘80s as part of the duo Victor and Barry. Though more contemporary minds will draw parallels with Netflix’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the ‘voice of a generation’ given by Lena Dunham in Girls.

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Leo Mohr really is from Switzerland, but his performance here as an exaggerated Swiss man is nothing short of astonishing. This isn’t necessary due to his acting abilities—though his phrasing and physical ticks are nuanced and well-judged—but his consistency in maintaining character even as he strays into areas beyond his control. It’s thrilling to watch a clown dominate an audience in a seemingly unworkable space, all the while setting up and ultimately dodging traps for his

She explores the psyche of a woman flitting between the extremes of elated overconfidence and the insecurities of wanting Instagram likes. But it’s the human desire to be liked in a more age-old and aching sense—the need for approval—that makes her insight on modern life such ‘relatable content’. ✏︎ Ben Venables

own failure. Mohr reads the room and reacts accordingly, in effect delivering a bespoke version of his tirelessly inventive debut.

An exercise in self-degredation, When I Was Zorro (the title is never explained) sees Mohr set himself up as the ultimate straight man, destined to be dragged down by a jeering late-night audience and the inadequacy of the programme he has assembled for us.

Whenever he is met with a muted response, he politely digs himself deeper into the seam of anti-comedy he’s so adept at mining. When his material goes over well, he reacts with terrible petulance. The show feels spontaneous, but we recognise the very careful structure that allows it to take off in these very different directions. It’s a total joy to watch. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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Starting from the premise that he needs to be less selfish and show more empathy, Michael Odewale’s debut hour makes

functioning bus. We learn that the trip was interrupted by a children’s climate change protest and that this led to her having an epiphany.

But we also find out about all kinds of seemingly inconsequential bullshit relating to our host’s lifestyle and interests. It’s great fun.

In comparison to some other comics, Davis’s eccentricities come off as truly genuine. She’s unashamedly odd and inventive, but in full control of her craft. What she presents us with here is a an ingeniously constructed shaggy dog story which, for all its playful nonsense, will be best remembered for its unexpected moments of emotional clarity. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

the personal inherently political. #BLACKBEARSMATTER is essentially a vehicle for him to make assertions about race, and to a lesser extent gender and class, undercut with a nice line in self-deprecation. Dismayed that his mother’s well-meaning encouragement casts him in the mould of some decidedly dodgy black icons, and that his absent father not only fulfils a stereotype but advertises it on social media, Odewale implies that the world owes him more respect than viceversa. Even if he’s aware

enough to acknowledge that this might conceivably be self-interest.

Raised in tough Dagenham but privately educated, at least for a while, feeling both British and Nigerian but never fully fitting in with either, he’s a typical insideroutsider observational comic, seeing his own travails in the wider context of society and the oppressed.

His analysis of the media’s racial language profiling terrorists is hard to dispute, not least because it’s already so well-established. But he segues into a more inventive and conspiratorial train of thought about the capitalist opportunities of terror.

Rarely does he sustain this level of originality, yet makes a strong argument for wokeness being a luxury for the relatively affluent.

And he maintains a decent rate of laughs throughout, protesting the racial terminology of porn, less from a position of high-minded virtue than its negative impact upon him. Wry and periodically astute, he’s an engaging, promising act. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Laura Davis: Better Dead Than a Coward

When this outlandish Australian first performed in Edinburgh, she was booked into one of Underbelly’s lifeless, repurposed university venues. This year, we find her on the top deck of a stationary bus – the space and its pay-whatyou-want business model proving a far more sympathetic fit for the comic. Better Dead than a Coward isn’t for everyone, but the sort of people who might enjoy it are those who would be inclined to take a chance on something indescribable in a weird confined space.

It’s futile attempting to sum up this show. In a sense, it’s an account of a journey Davis—a long time fan of affordable public transport—recently took on a real,

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“Did you just hear a weird noise?”

So asks Lucy Beaumont after applause from next door’s show spills over into hers. She’s evidently unaccustomed to audiences showing enthusiasm on a similar scale, but this is testament more to a slow-burn, observational approach than any lack of ability on her part.

However, while it’s clear that the comedian isn’t trying to whip us into a frenzy, her agenda does

remain something of a mystery.

Though not yet in the big leagues, the performer has made several TV appearances to date, and is set to share a star vehicle with husband Jon Richardson next year. What’s strange about this afternoon’s show is that it feels like an audition despite Beaumont’s increasingly high profile. There’s lots of strong lines deployed over the course of its forty minutes, but she seems to be selling a persona rather than any material itself. Any casting agents in today?

Her turn of phrase is precise and uncluttered, though the opposite could be said of Space Mam, which drifts about in an aimless fugue, our heroine amiably muttering to herself as we await whatever routine she’s trying to guide us toward.

It’s satisfying whenever we arrive at our destination, but make no mistake, this is a lengthy open spot rather than a well crafted Fringe show. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

trophobic shipping container for a reunion. Parlour games and vulgar storytelling ensue, but everything feels forced, the performer having neglected to first earn our consent or interest. When she insists that two audience members engage in an arm wrestling match, some spectators crane their necks to follow the action and play their part by cheering along, but most eyes drift wearily to the floor.

There’s nothing on offer here, and

yet we’re immersed in it.

None of this is to say that the first performance of the run is met with total apathy. Cosgrove has friends from home in and they hoot with glee at every obscure New Zealand reference included for their benefit, while—puzzlingly—a British teenager is heard to remark “that was literally genius,” upon leaving the venue.

God help us if there’s ever a war. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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Shows like Aunty tend to be the safe bets of the Fringe, the international hits that haven’t previously made it to our wretched island. The material has been honed and lived in, so all that’s left is for the performer to gamely battle jet lag as the latest round of plaudits comes rolling in.

Unfortunately for us and New Zealand’s Johanna Cosgrove, something seems to have been lost in translation here, as her award winning hour amounts to a decidedly amateurish exercise in audience participation.

The premise is that we are her extended family and have gathered inside an unpleasantly claus-

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Joanne McNally The Prosecco Express

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Kevin McGahern Taking Off 10.50pm Underbelly Bristo Square Clover

Fred Cooke Fred Space

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Aidan Greene Did I Stutter?

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With 25 years of experience at the Fringe, the Lisa Richards agency is excited to showcase some of our new and established talent. A different Irish comedian each week including: Stephen Mullan: Son of a Preacher Man (31 Jul-3 Aug) Shane Clifford: Near Shane Experience (4 -7 Aug) Julie Jay: Julie Really Love Me? (8-11 Aug) Hannah Mamalis: Keeps Coming (12-15 Aug)

Gearóid Farrelly: Home Truths (16-20 Aug) Chris Kent: Work-in-Progress (21–26 Aug) 18:45 (60 mins) Gilded Balloon Teviot - Sportsmans

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"Disabled, gay, and a prick" is how Rosie Jones describes herself, and she wears that description with pride. She has ataxic cerebral palsy—the jokes touch on that—and her delivery’s paced carefully, luring into a false sense of security. A tale seems to be going one way, but she positively revels in subverting expectations, and she particularly loves a dirty joke. There are some stony faces in the front row, apparently hoping for cleaner language, and not getting it. They’re missing out, it’s not all played for shock value and some of the writing is wonderfully descriptive.

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Nath Valvo just wants to be left alone. He rails against social conventions, bemoans WhatsApp groups, and hates his partner’s friends. His is an everyman persona, bewildered by the need to be nice to other people, and bored by the inanities of conversation. It’s a misanthropic worldview, made more acute by

his disgust at seeing his friends— all in their mid-30s—suddenely making significant, long-term life decisions. The adult world is calling, and he wants no part of it.

But there’s an inconsistency between his demeanour and this comic perspective. He’s simply too pleasant to fully carry off this bitchy bitterness, and his barbs are never as acerbic as they need to be.

There’s some really interesting and thoughtful sequences where he reflects on his coming out, and the consequences of Australia’s 2017 referendum on same-sex marriage. This all hints at a genuine sense of grievance at his encounters of unwitting homophobia. Here

the comedy becomes truly personal rather than striving to be universal. Passing references to his relationship with his father signpost matter that could fruitfully be explored, but it remains frustratingly in the background.

There’s a confused running gag where Valvo asks if anyone likes jokes, and then, after some music, delivers a pithy one-liner. It points to a performer feeling the need to give shape to the show, but the gags aren’t strong enough.

It evidences a desire to please, when he’d be sharper if he instead focused on those experiences that, at the moment, sit enticingly just out of view. ✏︎ Brett Mills

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When she isn’t revelling in gags about masturbation and her sexual conquests, Jones uses Backward to challenge the worst elements of society, those who use archaic language and openly display hostility and animosity towards her. She flips the tone suddenly two-thirds in with, firstly, a deeply unpleasant reveal and then an extended meditation on the way we interact with one another. If you have a day filled with positive interactions that ends with one brutal putdown from a stranger, which is likely to stick in the memory?

Backward could benefit from some more rigorous editing; it’s ten minutes too long today, and while the end of the show is powerful and thought-provoking, it’d be more effective if it didn’t take so long to get there. Despite that excess, Backward is a strong show with a compelling narrative and some perversely imaginative punchlines. ✏︎ Craig Angus

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Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice HHH VENUE:

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In a world of Trump, Brexit and environmental catastrophe, what role is there for comedy? Jena Friedman insists she has hope for the future, while her show faces head-on the mess we’ve made for ourselves. But is the purpose of such humour to offer a cathertic salve, or simply express rage?

At the moment her show seems unsure, which means some of the bite is muted.

This is a shame as it’s a delight to see a comic so committed to insisting an audience confronts

contemporary horrors. During her extended sequences about the violence men inflict upon women, some in the audience look uncomfortable. Good. Comedy should sometimes discomfit.

On the other hand, there’s also a sense much of this is a case of preaching to the converted, and so there’s little suggestion that the disruptive nature of humour is being used successfully to change people’s world views. This might be because while the politics are sharp the jokes aren’t as fully

honed as they should be, and the show feels as if it’s still being worked through.

Friedman acknowledges she’s neurotic, and goes on to make a convincing case for the logic of such a world view. This is a bleak hour, with tales of racist police, a posthuman future, misogyny, and the patriarchy. It’s also a whole lot funnier than that makes it sound, without ever offering easy punchlines to let the audience off the hook. We need voices like this right now. ✏︎ Brett Mills

Esther Manito: Crusade

Defence League vibe, or when people are playfully tagging her into tweets and comparing the dumbass opinions expressed there to her comedy.

With a dad from the Middle East and a mum from the Geordie east coast, Manito has a sharp eye for both similarities and differences in cultures on everything from social attitudes to body hair.

Again, she’s adept at mirroring stereotypes back towards us; how we react to the misconcieved ideas we get in our heads. She can find the humour in the extreme Englishness of her husband or inlaws, but also how her dad’s side of the family responded to the fact that her partner happens to have a Spanish name.

She hurtles through some of her jokes and Crusade never

quite lives up to the punch the confident one-word title suggests.

But it’s a strong first show from a comedian with keen instincts and punchlines often delivered with a nice turn of phrase and vivid metaphor. ✏︎ Ben Venables

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Esther Manito has come to standup after becoming a mother.

Building on her routines about parenthood there is an arresting added dimension on how this material has been received by audiences and on social media.

Crusade offers a window into the reactions, or reactionary attitudes, now overtly back in fashion. This is whether Manito is playing to a pub with an English

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Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH VENUE: TIME:

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easygoing persona. If the show’s preamble feels poorly paced and awkward, the first musical number assures us that we’re in safe hands. Throughout the hour, these compositions serve as Long’s anchor, the dependably funny bits that allow the star to reach for something more elusive elsewhere.

Long is no master comic, but is clearly keen to uphold integrity and truth in his work.

With Planet-Killing Machine, he’s crafted something that he can be proud of, and even makes gentle demands of his audience, though something seems to be holding him back: it could be that his chummy everyman persona is at best a defense mechanism, and at worst a substitute for strong material. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

wasn’t lost on her that a crucial pull-back-and-reveal gag failed to fire because she’d forgotten to deliver the setup earlier in the hour.

Which is a shame because you intuit that she’s edging towards perfecting the science of her distinctive standup approach. She has a brilliant knack of taking a familiar concept, such as the moral quandary of a time traveller with the opportunity to kill a baby Hitler, but take it in unexpected directions, while keeping it relatable. The notion that time moves faster as we age is beautifully explored and of particular relevance to this

late developer, who only belatedly found herself sexually and as a standup, admissions that are appealing for the understated, witty ways in which they’re conveyed.

Contriving a nice take on the complaining-audience-memberwho-inspires-a-show cliché, there’s also some amusing critique of Back To the Future, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, with a fine slam of the late Professor Stephen Hawking.

Structurally though, Regan’s still tinkering with her show’s fluxcapacitor.

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Heidi Regan’s debut last year was a curate’s egg of enjoyable, nerdily goofy analysis of bad shark movies, appealing personal disclosure and some inexplicably, deliberately tedious graphs about international trade. And Great Scott, she’s done it again! In choosing to make her sophomore effort about time travel, the inventive Australian has come up with some tremendous philosophical and cinematicallyinformed routines that regrettably jump back, forth and wind over each other in a way that’s far too dense and confusing. In this first preview performance, the irony

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Jon Long considers himself too unremarkable to warrant autobiography, and too privileged to tackle broader issues of identity. By his own admission, the performer arrived at the decision to write a show with a socio-political message only after having discounted all other possibilities. Despite this, he’s followed through on the idea with conviction and wound up with a debut hour which, though too gentle to really captivate, feels like a necessary reflection of our times.

We enter the venue to find an acoustic guitar resting ominously on stage, but this isn’t musical comedy so much as an interrupted TED Talk, Long judiciously using songs to express a more caustic side to his otherwise

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Sukh Ojla isn’t the first standup to give an ayahuasca trip the posterity of a show, with Simon Amstell and Chelsea Handler only the most high-profile contemporary examples. Additionally, the likes of Carl Donnelly, Darren Connell, Myq Kaplan and Benji Waterstones have also reported back from the South American hallucinogen in recent times. Inevitably, there’s some overlap between a noble desire to expand one’s consciousness, a desperate requirement to counter negative brain chemistry and the comedian’s ongoing search for Fringe inspiration.

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Sukh Ojla: For Sukh's Sake

Ojla subscribes to the Amstell approach of crediting the experience with fundamentally changing the way she sees the world, her festival debut an acknowledged, happy by-product of her overcoming the depression that has dogged her since adolescence. She’s not close to Amstell’s match as a comic, with her storytelling straightforwardly chronological and matter-of-fact.

But if you can accept that For Sukh’s Sake is essentially extended therapy for her, there’s also plenty to enjoy in her account.

A warm, conversational act

with a habit of addressing the crowd as “my loves”, Ojla relates her mental health and vocational struggles as an actor with endearing candour, swiftly arriving at her suicide bid in her teens and long-time fear that it’s a path she might return to.

Inspired by the example of a more free spirit friend, she resolved to visit an ayahuasca retreat in Barcelona. And as is so often the case, hearing these drug experiences second-hand underwhelms. But in her analysis of her mental turnaround, Ojla is amusing and relatable. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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people who go to Butlins gains a particular piquancy because it is being told by someone for whom holiday camps are an aspect of Britishness that is incomprehensible, but it remains a vicious dig at working-class people that could come out of the mouth of many a comedian. He jokes about stereotypes of Asian parents as overbearing, but simply reinforces that trope rather than doing something disruptive with it.

It’s in his critique of Western bastardisations of others’ cultures that some grit appears. His anger at British people’s flawed cooking of rice gives the comedy some heft, as do barbs about the West’s nostalgia for manual labour. It’s to be hoped that in the future he uses his evident comic skill and appealing onstage presence to discomfit a little more. ✏︎ Brett Mills

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Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng’s slick hour centres on his experiences as a foreigner in the UK. In using this outsider status to highlight the absurdities of national norms, he invites his predominantly-British audience to find their everyday behaviours nonsensical. He hints at forms of racism, especially given how Western cultures throw multiple nations together under the baggy term ‘Asian’. But the show never foregrounds its politics, instead aiming to be inclusive rather than confrontational.

Ng’s a consummate performer.

Individual jokes are honed, and longer sequences are structured tightly. But in doing so it also feels a bit too wellmade, with little room for contradiction, messiness and for an individual comic personality to shine through.

An extended riff on the kind of

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It’s easy to see why Izzy Mant—a TV producer for a number of successful sitcoms—chose the pernicious side of politeness as a rich topic for her first Fringe show.

Far from being too twee or slight a theme for an Edinburgh hour, our British reserve is a rich source for poking fun at – as shown by the popularity of a lighthearted Twitter account such as Very British Problems. And it isn’t only in humour: in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker prize winning novel, The Remains of the Day, subservient manners are dysfunctional to the point where the love of your life can slip away

and the well-intentioned master you serve is appeasing Hitler.

Mant’s British upbringing contrasts to the Australian half of her genes; her dad doesn’t fumble for words and calls a shit a shit.

Can she capture her inner-Aussie or is she doomed to a life of polite British miscommunication?

As she moves onto areas such as how politeness is required while stripping to please men, it all seems primed for a compelling take on the dangers of avoiding confrontation. But regrettably Polite Club only hints at the issues it raises. Mant’s story about an ex and an estranged friend only gains edge towards the very end; the videos of talking heads showcase mildly amusing anecdotes; a tap dance routine is too fleeting to have much of a purprose or inject the show with energy. It’s a shame as it turns a thoughtful premise into one without a perspective. ✏︎ Ben Venables

great swathes of this show are dubious attempts to link disparate phenomenon.

Occasionally, she alights on something promising, such as her mash-up of ABBA’s winsome sparkle with the existential gloom of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

But here, as elsewhere, she betrays the limitations of her conceit. Knowing full well that most Edinburgh audiences’ knowledge of her nation will not sustain an entire hour, the self-styled “fact machine” leans too heavily on aspects of the other Nordic countries, indulging in rambling, generalised trivia.

Or it fails to promote Iceland as interesting enough. From her recap, Brits surely ought to know more about the Cod Wars our

two nations contested. Yet even with her family’s involvement and Britain’s heavy-handed aggression in the saga, she can’t elevate it comedically beyond potted history.

Several jokes linger in the memory, with an especially dark one about her mother’s breast cancer. And there’s fertile enquiry in her assessment of “Scandinavian Pain”, that Nordic oddity whereby the inhabitants of enlightened, socialist utopia commit suicide at unparalleled rates. But given that the second half of the show is largely padded with aimless act-outs of flimsy crime narratives, Haralds’ aforementioned unfamiliarity with the specifics leaves her uninspiringly going through the motions. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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A well-intentioned but misguided debut hour, Icelandic comic Laufey Haralds’ show never reconciles being an introduction to her, her homeland and a parody of Nordic Noir. Affecting cynicism that she’s jumping on the bandwagon of a popular export, it doesn’t help that she’s avowedly ignorant of the crime genre, ensuring that

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As a regional champion child magician, Jack Gleadow’s comedy heroes aren’t those most in Edinburgh have in mind. It’s as if the influence of the 1980s alternative comedy boom never reached Hull. He namechecks Joe Pasquale, and his hero—to the point of idolatry—is Bruce Forsyth.

It makes for a refreshing stance.

Gleadow’s delight in being here and knowing the kind of variety act he wants to be gives him a winning charm. He also doesn’t lack ideas.

But it’s this diffusion of material that hobbles Mr Saturday Night.

Instead of an hour of unapologetic end-of-the-pier entertainment, he tries to cover the waterfront.

The show unravels and can’t recover from wild tonal shifts.

At some points it’s like a family show; at others it’s a lads’ night out. His frenetic energy, which is reminiscent of Lee Evans, also turns against him. His strongest

jokes skim the surface with such speed they have little chance of leaving any ripples of laughter.

Both his energy and genrehopping may one day be an asset for Gleadow, if he can fold it all into his own style. He’s the kind of act where the line between great and shambolic is paper-thin. But for now, his freewheelin’ act seems to run away from him. ✏︎ Ben Venables

dashes of whimsical invention that explode unexpectedly like fireworks in the dark. The Brooklyn union bosses who stump for equal-ops cat calling, for instance.

Or an inventive and verbally oh-sodextrous description of snoring.

But it’s as if Patton hasn’t quite found a casual voice to keep things moving between these glorious highs. He trips over his words, and makes clunky segues into stories.

Speaking of voices, Patton (from Louisiana) delivers the worst Scottish accent you’ll hear

this Fringe. It’s probably worth the entry price alone. He gets away with it, though, as he does with his slightly jarring use of terms like “barren”, or his close-to-the-line impression of a Caribbean man (well, robot). He’s pretty loveable, and presents the believable persona of a man clumsily, kindly and genuinely trying to find his way through a complex world.

It’s just that, if there were a greater number of parts to add up, this whole would sum to a lot more. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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If there’s anything approaching a general rule in comedy, it might be this: if a guy embarks on a story about going to a strip club and developing a shared and genuine emotional connection with the actor at the pole, it’d better be going somewhere pretty special.

But that’s just the problem with Sean Patton. There are moments of real sparkle, but they’re high points in the low valley of an unfocused critique of gender politics.

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Loosely but crucially autobiographical, The Red is comedian Marcus Brigstocke’s theatrical directing debut.

Previously performed on Radio 4, he’s tweaked it slightly for the stage. But its clear-sighted immediacy, as a study of addiction, and straightforwardly gripping drama are enhanced by the live

setting. More than that, it’s an intimate meditation on love, convincingly performed by real-life father and son Bruce and Sam Alexander.

An alcoholic sober 23 years, Benedict has just buried his father.

In the old man’s magnificent wine cellar he reads the letter that John left him, his father appearing with a parting wish – that he drink the prized bottle of 1973 Château Lafite Rothschild bought for him at birth. Though Ben is thunderstruck by the suggestion, the pair argue the ramifications of him succumbing to temptation, back and forth over wine’s role as social lubricant and the relentless, numbing intensity

of addiction. Or sobriety. Despite having established a successful life since recovery, Benedict appreciates the lifeforce that wine imbued his father with. And John is never quite the Faustian figure he initially appears, his character decanted from his son’s memories, the love self-apparent, even if his parental role has been undermined by the recovery programme.

A scene in which Benedict struggles to list reasons not to drink truly crackles.

And the palpable jeopardy is ratcheted up as the bottle of red appears centre-stage, like Hitchcock’s bomb under the table or a grenade with the pin removed. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Grace Jones is a Black model, musician and actor known for expanding the western notion of beauty to include Black women.

In 1981, her album Nightclubbing garnered huge acclaim, further cementing her fame. Fast forward 34 years, and three young women are denied admission into a London nightclub because their skin is too dark.

Inspired by Jones’ work and the discrimination Black women still face, artist and writer Rachael Young celebrates their resilience with dance and music.

Two onstage musicians, Leisha Thomas and Mwen Rukandema, provide a sound bath of synth-pop

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and new wave music reminiscent of Jones’ album. Young, clad in a glitter leotard, stands out against a set of black vinyl and plastic sheeting. Her movement, accompanied by voiceovers and spoken text, add to the otherworldly design aesthetic by Naomi Kuyck-Cohen.

She is a compelling performer with excellent physical skills that are further showcased by Nao Nagai’s lighting design.

The narration, broken into short sections, draws on Jones’ life and another unnamed woman’s

experiences of being Black in a predominantly white society.

There isn’t a linear story but the text, design and music juxtapose the reality Black women face with a world where they are goddesses.

Fitting for the name of the show and its inspiration, the performers create an all-consuming world reminiscent of a nightclub where Black women transcend racism.

Simultaneously elevating them to the status of celestial bodies, it demands white people give Black women the respect they deserve. ✏︎ Laura Kressly

Imagine a lo-fi version of The Princess Bride with every role performed by an increasingly sweaty lone thespian, and you’re not far from the hilarious and virtuosic Boar.

Lewis Doherty is the man of a couple dozen voices, rendering each scene vividly despite having nothing more than a two-step stool and a couple of rear bike lights on his middle fingers to facilitate the illusion of an epic.

The breakneck fantasy adventure begins at sea, with a ferocious pirate readying a raiding party.

Their pillaging of a small coastal village leaves only two survivors: a wild-eyed young boy and a baby girl. Seventeen years and some wavy hand effects later and these orphaned urchins are badass renegades out for blood.

Doherty’s physicality and tour-deforce voice work is the chief selling

point. His transformation from character to character tends to be accompanied by wooshing sounds, which both evoke a kid at play but also evince a cinematic quality.

During a Mexican standoff between title character Boar, his deadly ward Ylfa and two thieves who claim to be the greatest in the land, these whooshes suggest crash-zooms and whip-pans to sweaty close-ups. A chase on horseback from a bountyhunting bear with a Scottish accent, meanwhile, has the intensity of a James Cameron action scene and a battle with a misogynistic dragon would put Peter Jackson to shame.

The cinema comparison continues with a post-credit scene linking Boar to Wolf, Doherty’s 2018 Fringe hit riffing on ‘80s neo-noir. Forget the MCU: this is a cinematic universe we can get behind. ✏︎ Jamie Dunn

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In 2016, someone threw a burger at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge and called them a tranny.

They’re now trying to come to terms with this incident by analysing and making a burger over the course of the show, but Alabanza doesn’t cook. So they enlist the help of a white, cis male, audience member, effectively drawing on his privilege to highlight the vulnerability of trans and gender non-conforming people.

At the core of the piece, they confront the white colonialism that perpetuates violence against trans people in this emotionally revealing

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and moving show. Alabanza uses a range of performance and writing styles to achieve this, including comedy, storytelling, and frank accounts of the abuse and assaults they’ve experienced. Alabanza is a charismatic and witty performer, with a strong sense for what makes a dynamic and engaging piece of theatre. They are an excellent improviser able to react to anything that the audience member on stage comes out with. They also banter with the audience, but confidently steer the material from

jokes to to vulnerable monologues and back again.

The ending in particular holds cis people accountable for attacks on trans people. There’s a huge amount of power and talent in this show. The writing is raw and exposing, but often funny. Alabanza boldly draws the audience into their story and keeps them there with a firm grip. While it’s potentially uncomfortable, it reminds us that we have the power to combat hate crime and make meaningful change. ✏︎ Laura Kressly

30,000 feet above land, Jane and Toni exist to serve; preened, pliable, softening their edges and hiding behind facades. On the ground, we soon discover, not much is different.

Enough begins almost comedically as the two friends and cabin crew colleagues are introduced, all smiles painted on and emergency exits this way. But as we learn more about them the in-air motifs become something more sinister altogether, a symbol not just of the pressurised, claustrophobic environment on an aeroplane, but the one experienced by many women in their everyday lives. Jane feels trapped by motherhood and domestic life; Toni keeps returning to a bad relationship because she just wants to be held. Neither can quite be honest with the other about the reality behind the facade.

Intense and jarring as it jerks between air and ground, across timezones, and through countless soulless hotel rooms, Enough plays out in a sparse but clever set which provides a perfect stage for stylised, complicated dialogue hinting at something bigger than both women, a shifting in the ground beneath them.

This feels like the right moment for a play ultimately about female anger and our harnessing of it.

Powerful dialogue is brought to life through fantastic performances from Louise Ludgate and Amanda Wright who build complete and achingly recognisable characters in just 80 minutes. Between its theatrical accomplishment and contemporary relevance, audiences will leave feeling like Enough is as much a call to action as a Fringe show. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

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Iva Toguri was falsely convicted of treason in 1949. It took over 20 years for America to pardon her. Tokyo Rose is an intelligent, inventive new musical that tells a true story about how it feels when your country fails you.

by some American douche that Murphy lip-synchs to, this is a show kicking against the culture of female oppression. As if to demonstrate her clear indefectibility, Murphy will masterfully scale her rope after each tale of personal abuse at the hands of a man, ending each anecdote and climb with a defiant “what a cunt!”

Contra’s dark showstopper involves Murphy wrapping herself in rolls of cling film to the sexist jazz warblings of Joe Jackson’s ‘You’re My Meat’ before a melancholic rope display to The Internet’s ‘Girl’ and a blistering performance of Florence + The Machine’s ‘Big God’. Onstage nudity tends to evoke vulnerability. In the ferocious and funny Contra, it couldn’t be mistaken for anything other than strength, both physical and emotional. ✏Jamie Dunn

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Laura Murphy walks out on to the floor of Summerhall’s Demonstration Room naked as the day she was born. An apple is in hand and a corde lisse dangles from the ceiling. This apparatus will be dominated throughout by Murphy’s powerful acrobatics, but its first role in Contra is to play the purported source of all womenkind’s woes: the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Its end, puppeted by Murphy, eggs her on to taste the forbidden fruit. Murphy takes a bite alright, but the knowledge it provides only makes her more fierce.

Blending standup, confessional and circus performance, Murphy takes us on a tour of her own body and the misogyny it engenders.

From the man who comments on her armpit hair during a train journey to the lame standup routine

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Born in the USA to Japanese parents, Iva sailed to Japan to care for a sick relative just months before the attack on Pearl Harbour. The USA joined WWII and Iva found herself caught between two countries – Japanese officials pressured her to renounce her American citizenship and America refused to take her back. After the War, when she finally returned home, she was accused of broadcasting Japanese propaganda.

This is a lot of plot, but cowriters Maryhee Yoon and Cara

Baldwin have carved a deft, concise story. Tension tick-ticks for a breathless hour that’s part courtroom drama, part wartime thriller – with plenty of time left for vital conversations about xenophobia and civic duty. Maya Britto plays a luminous Iva, bringing depth and clarity to a complex role.

The ensemble (Lucy Park, Yuki Sutton, Hannah Benson and Baldwin) swing in and out of characters as easily as their slick set rolls between being a DJ booth, an ocean liner or a witness stand. Their energy is mirrored by a propulsive soundtrack: bass-heavy rap, on-point harmonies and moving, bluesy ballads are met with tight, creative choreo. At rare moments Tokyo Rose is a little too wordy, but that’s fitting for an ambitious new theatre company with this much to say. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne

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A tanked yellow Porsche, metal guts exposed. Magnums of Bollinger, sprayed into air. A Rolex glinting under UV lights, soaked in champagne. These are the pictures of excess—excessive excess— studded through Javaad Alipoor and Peyvan Sadeghian’s deep-dive into Instagram’s super-rich and Iran’s corrupt elite.

Diving down a digital rabbit hole—#RichKidsofTehran—the duo emerge in a world of designer swimwear and dollar wads that’s entirely at odds with a strict Islamic regime. That’s the point. These are the children of revolutionaries who

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Do you feel sexy? Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality opens with a simple question. Well, do you? Directorperformer Essi Rossi and musician Sarah Kivi perform an

overthrew Iran’s Shah to install a more democratic, religious order.

Corruption’s set in – sickeningly so.

But Rich Kids... is far more than a straightforward “j’accuse”. It spins itself into a dizzying cultural critique like a staged Adam Curtis documentary. The thinking darts around, making connections too fast to draw conclusions, as presentations on wealth-portraiture swerve into studies of Tehran’s evermore exclusive, expensive shopping malls. Geopolitics gives way to geology, sociology to Paul Klee. The form skips too: storytelling, slide show, lecture, live Instagram feed. The audience splinters as our phones lag. Our

attention spans short-circuit.

That’s the internet: its information overload is another form of excess.

In that, Rich Kids... hits a sweet spot – both grossly queasy and pleasingly bewildering. The conspicuous consumption turns your stomach. It feels like an affront – a “fuck you” from afar. The speed of thinking is exhilarating, like chasing down some global conspiracy, as it accordions across time and collapses space. In the end though, the show’s too content to confound. For all it conveys a very contemporary dis-ease, Rich Kids... stops frustratingly short of a diagnosis, let alone a cure. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

understated, often quiet show that probes, gently, at questions of desire, shame and knowledge.

Rossi’s first time on stage, she shares that she was driven to explore her body after realising that she hadn’t felt like a “sexual being” for a very long time.

Meandering and conversational, Rossi guides the audience through their investigations, while Kivi’s intimate a cappella soundscapes offer necessary interludes for musing on the results. Snippets of recorded conversations with mostly anonymous women about squirting, sex work and selfesteem play out from a laptop and prove that the only consistency is

inconsistency: everybody’s body is different, all of the time. The questions are concise—What is pleasure? How do you know?

Where do you find it?—needling at knotty unknowables with the caring bedside manner of a close friend.

A deeper exploration of Rossi’s own journey would have given shape to a show that seemed indecisive about its status as personal confession or public service announcement. It also has a narrower remit than its title would suggest; a brief nod to nonbinary and gender fluid identities does not disguise the cis, hetero leanings of the interviews. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne

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Laura isn’t doing well in school.

She is disruptive, her teacher says, unable to focus and a danger to the other children. Something needs to be done.

When we meet Laura, she is sweet and vulnerable: practicing dance routines, playing with her beloved doll Bear, and agonisingly questioning why the numbers won’t stop moving on her maths

worksheet. We can see immediately what her teacher can’t; that the problem is something deeper altogether that frustrates Laura as much as it does the adults around her. This is when Hindsight is at its most effective, giving the audience a direct view into the experience of a child with autism – a word only uttered once in a script heavy with its presence.

In the standout scene, Laura and Bear attempt to tackle a maths problem of the familiar format in which characters buy a particular volume of apples and walk a certain number of miles. “Apples don’t cost 10p anywhere”, Laura points out, somewhat reasonably. Where

is he getting these apples? Where is she walking to? What if she gets abducted? Suddenly the problem doesn’t make much sense to us either.

Between these creative triumphs, though, the script can be somewhat repetitive and the writing slightly rambling. Multiple scenes between Laura’s mother and her teacher retread the same ground. Scenes in school are rehashed without much new coming to light. Hindsight is a sensitive handling of an important issue.

While it could be tighter in places, audiences will certainly leave with increased empathy and understanding. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

vampish line-readings accentuate the verses' dark humour. A breakdown, partly described while Giles’ head is inside a filing cabinet, is followed by searches for serenity on secondment at a rhino sanctuary, through therapy and by watching It’s A Wonderful Life.

Accentuating the anxiety is Simpson’s electronic score and sound design, which snakes along with the drone’s innerturmoil to painfully high frequencies. It’s less clear where Jamie Wardrop’s

vaguely dystopian visuals, projected onto the back of the stage, fit in. Part of the reason is that it’s hard to take your eyes off Giles’ raw, humane performance, but when the visuals do catch the eye they rarely add to what’s onstage. The show is described as a “live cabaret band of a video jockey, an electronic musician and a spoken word performer”, and each night the multi-media components are shuffled anew.

Perhaps other configurations will prove more cohesive. ✏︎ Jamie Dunn

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You hear her before you see her. Once you take your seat for Drone, it takes a moment or two before you realise the faint whirring sound in the room isn’t emanating from Neil Simpson, the show’s composer, who’s sat in the corner behind a keyboard, but from the small metallic craft hovering centre stage. This is the story of the drone’s daily drudgery, low-level anxiety and growing depression, and, curiously, the melancholy of attending a multiarts performance about drones.

Giving voice to this machine’s existential malaise is Harry Josephine Giles. Reciting non-sequitur poems, which sit somewhere between Alan Bennett-like deadpan observations and dystopian sci-fi, Giles’

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If these walls could talk, the old saying goes, what stories they would tell. We might not hear from the bricks that built the old Ibrahim Ethem Efendi mansion on the edges of Istanbul in House of Hundred, but we do hear from the fittings and furnishings that kitted it out – witnesses to its heyday, its fall into disrepair and, ultimately, its demolition.

Embodying everything from a lethargic Persian rug, to a Chinese porcelain pot with stomach cramps stuffed with onions, Turkish actress Yesim Özsoy brings her old ancestral home to life. With it, she sweeps through her nation’s history: from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to Turkey’s transition to independence and on, through civil and world wars.

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monochrome films of the site, eerie in their emptiness, to a live local soundtrack by Kıvanç Sarıkus, House of Hundred builds a polyphonic portrait of the summer palace. Inspired by Turkey’s Meddah storytelling tradition, it splinters narrative. Every object has its own backstory, personality and journey.

Duvets are nailed to doors to keep out the cold. Kitchen containers are repurposed as table lamps.

But too often the text seems to talk in riddles—”I can’t be broken and I can’t be burned,” purrs a diamond ring like Rumpelstiltskin— and the history never comes into focus. A suicide swims fuzzily throughout. Women walk the halls as the house slides into ruin. Bulldozers move in. House of Hundred suggests something survives. It’s just not always clear what. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

contingencies of character. He wants his son to inherit the traits his great-grandfather showed saving his comrades' lives at the Somme, but lineage isn’t as straightforward as that.

It’s all Quite Interesting – like Professor Brian Cox popping round for tea. Armed with examples of genetically identical beings that nonetheless turn out different—cloned puppies and flowers that change colour with the soil—Bye argues that we are, each of us, products of our environment. That puts parenting both in and out of one’s control: a

single slip and you risk wracking your kid with anxiety.

Bye’s case never reaches its fullest height, but the form fits neatly enough. Arthur’s unpredictable presence adds an element of chance, risking a refund if he plays up, and watching Bye balance performing and parenting proves the impossibility of precision engineering a child.

We’re all complicit too, equally responsible for Arthur’s wellbeing. It takes a village to raise a child – though a month’s worth of applause will surely turn Arthur into an actor. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

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It’s every actor’s nightmare. You’re naked onstage, unable to speak.

Spare a thought, then, for Arthur Bye who’s been stripped off after shitting himself mid-show.

Arthur’s only five months old, mind. He’ll be fine.

Or will he? Daniel Bye’s living room performance lecture wonders—or rather worries— about the impact we all have on our kids. How do we shape them into upstanding adults? Turning up at your flat, babe-in-arms, daycare bag on his back, Bye delivers a delicate meditation on the nature-nurture debate and the

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Wild Swimming tracks the feminist tide. Set on a Cornish beach, Marek Horn’s slip of a short play follows a male-female friendship through the ages. As history shimmies past Oscar and Nell, corsets giving way to cozzies, male privilege is eroded. Women start making waves of their own.

Starting in the late 1500s, Oscar’s the sort of undergrad who reckons the world and its women are waiting for him – determined to take a lucky dip in the Hellespont like the literary greats. “All great men swim now,” he flounces. Being female, Nell’s banned from the water. But as the centuries skip past, she finds her stroke and Oscar, in turn, starts to sulk.

You know the historic trajectory already—the great Victorian

novelists and women that worked through the world wars – but Full Rogue’s debut sidesteps its slight lack of substance by piling on personality, and in spades.

Anachronisms do a lot of heavy lifting, from Zoe Brennan’s hooped skirt hooped earing combo to the swagger laced throughout Horn’s script (“Smash up some tunes on the lute!”).

Julia Head’s staging can be way too eager to please with its sugary handouts and fizzy pop soundtrack.

But for all that, Wild Swimming is a bit of a blast. Alice Lamb and Annabel Baldwin ricochet round the room and the chemistry between them is right off the charts. Wild Swimming’s sparky, but it marks Full Rogue as ones to watch. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

scenes offer armchair psychology explanations for the women’s crimes, racking up a lengthy list of serious traumas, including domestic abuse, sexual assault and addiction, that are only vaguely explored.

More developed are the power imbalances within the group.

There is some tension in if, and how, and when they might be discovered – as well as in finding where each of the women draws a moral line. Waldtraud Wagner is depicted as the manipulative (and possibly sexy?) magnet that

pulls together these vulnerable women. Is she traumatised and well-intentioned, or a cold-hearted monster? Neither explanation is particularly nuanced.

Monologues are delivered like talking heads on a true crime documentary, but this exposes the strange framing of the play more generally: from what perspective is this story being told, and to whom? Each of the nurses has since completed her prison sentence. This is recent, real history given unnecessarily distracting gloss. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne

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Vienna, 1991 – four nurses are convicted of killing 49 patients, with the suspected victim count rising into the hundreds. A manipulation of a true story, Drowning stages Austria’s most infamous mass murderers since WW2. This new play, written by Jessica Ross for Dark Lady Co. asks: can mercy be confused with murder?

There is surprisingly little at stake in a play with such devastating source material. The killings are dressed up in clichéd gallows humour, laced with slapstick—this one’s a tough one, why won’t he die!—and threaded together with an oppressive playlist of ‘80s bangers. Snapshot

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Ticker is about broken hearts, in every sense: organs that fail and relationships that fall apart. Tom Machell’s one-man play explores the territory of love, grief and rage, dwelling at the extreme edges of human emotion.

The play’s protagonist, Spencer, struggles to deal with his feelings.

Like so many men, his first emotional port of call is anger. In the face of loss, he denies and derails, telling the audience the meandering story of how he met, loved and lost his girlfriend Gabi.

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Binaural sound can mess with your head. The room you’re in seems to shift around you. You feel breath on your neck as a voice whispers in your ear, even though you know there’s nobody there. This uncanny

Information is released in fits and starts, with revelations either coming out of nowhere or slipping in like afterthoughts. This perhaps suggests Spencer’s distracted state of mind, but it makes for confusing and uneven storytelling. And the framing device, which has Spencer waiting in a café, slides in and out of focus. Is he talking to us, the barista, or himself?

Humour is another of Spencer’s coping mechanisms, but the impulse towards comedy begins to overwhelm the drama. Instead of serving the story, the lines seem calculated to give Machell as many juicy gags and funny voices as possible. While his skill as a performer is clear, tonally the script is all over the place.

Sure, he can land a joke, but not every situation demands a laugh.

Ticker has some nice moments, but the show—like its protago-

quality is the starting point for SHINE, which uses the binaural audio toolbox to take audiences inside the head of a desperate father.

The starting point is familiar: a young girl has gone missing. After five months, only her father Max still holds out hope, continuing the search after everyone else has given up. But as he pursues the truth, his mental defences begin to break down, to the point where it’s no longer clear what’s real and what’s not.

nist—is suffering from a personality crisis. Undecided between comedy and drama, love story and thriller, Machell’s play is trying to be too many things at once. ✏︎ Catherine Love

This story is told through often dreamlike physical sequences and an unsettling binaural soundtrack.

From the beginning, everything makes us doubt what we’re seeing and hearing. Uncertainty, though, stands in for plot. SHINE is billed as a thriller, but it has none of the genre’s carefully spun tension or complex narrative twists. Instead, storytelling dissolves into a mess of fantasy and delusion.

The show’s treatment of Max’s mental distress, meanwhile, often verges on offensive, physically manifests itself in frantic, overexaggerated movements. Even worse, his “inner voice” is staged like a pantomime baddie, with a grotesque mask and villainous cackle.

Binaural technology has so much potential for psychological exploration, but here it’s wasted on a flimsy story and a two-dimensional portrayal of mental illness. ✏︎ Catherine Love

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Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney, the key artists behind the estimable company Ockham’s Razor, are no longer the new kids on the block of British circus. Their latest show grew out of the fact that both recently turned forty and are the parents of a young child. Lasting

just over an unhurried hour, This Time is about taking stock of one’s self at whatever stage of life you may be, and about how our lives could almost always be said to be in a state of transition.

Mooney, whose presence is forthright and sturdy, and the muscularly rock-solid Harvey share the stage with Lee Carter and Faith Fahy. I’d venture to say that the limber Carter is possibly about sixty years young, while the coltish and wiry Fahy could be about 12 or 13.

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they are today. These stories are told with honesty, wit and clarity: Carter’s tale, about becoming a mother at the age of 49, is especially touching. But it is the cast’s mainly aerial movement— shared or solo and, note, on bespoke equipment, a company hallmark—that deepens their words. The foundation of their corporeal closeness is trust, and it’s enough to induce quiet joy plus an occasional catching of breath.

They cradle and balance each other, climb and clutch, tangle limbs and step on flesh and bone.

The net result—minus any literal nets—is gratifyingly physical food for thought. ✏ Donald Hutera

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Quebec circus means much more than Cirque du Soleil, as this freshas-paint show is here to remind us. It’s the clever, occasionally manic brainchild of Machine de Cirque, a company founded in 2013.

This light-hearted, high-concept

production neatly skewers art world pretensions while showcasing the accomplished and mainly acrobatic skills of a cast of eight (six men and two women, and one of the latter is a musician and vocalist).

This likable bunch of mischievous eccentrics happily play at being poseurs in a setting that goes increasingly topsy-turvy.

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juggling clubs plucked off plinths.

Things take an ever more surreal and baroque turn after the lone female acrobat gouges a hole in a canvas, literally entering the universe of a painting. Ultimately— and with the assistance of a moustachioed male counterpart who happens to have a comic addiction to popcorn—she herself becomes a sort of human canvas, a feat which ends the show almost on a note of apotheosis.

The director, Olivier Lépine, knows how to orchestrate chaos.

The ensemble seems very much at his disposal, entering into the show’s reckless spirit with attractive abandon. If it isn’t too much of an oxymoron to put it this way, the whole thing sometimes meanders a bit – albeit usually briskly, and with a guaranteed degree of zest. What’s the most apt word for La Galerie?

Enjoyable. ✏ Donald Hutera

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Occasionally a show crops up—like this earnest, artistically soggy and far-too-vague piece of South Korean dance-theatre about supposedly poignant human insignificance in an environmentally-conscious context—where you can’t help but feel sorry for the performers.

The trio in Modeun Company’s

production, two men and a woman, are certainly capable enough movers but they’re trapped in a concept that does them no favours.

Nor is the venue well-suited for choreography that sometimes requires cast members to roll about on the floor of the only slightly raised stage. It’s alright if you happen to have grabbed a seat in the front row. I didn’t, and thus missed almost all of a beleaguered female solo that occurs amid a slew of empty and identical plastic bottles.

Apparently inspired by a short novel, the performance is for most of its 50 minutes pretty unpliably heavy-handed. It doesn’t start out that way, what with the competent

dancers emerging separately and converging on stage. They shift about like smiling automatons to a recording of Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Sugartown’ that eventually turns as warped as their theatrical world.

Random bits of furniture dangle overhead as the players swiftly shuffle, or feign swimming through the space, sometimes in unison, or thrash while pretending to struggle for breath. Their mechanical twitchiness lacks the spark of originality, while the use of Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ seems facile and purposeless. The rest of the soundtrack is reasonably evocative, but not this tediously floundering work as a whole. It is, alas, dead in the water. ✏ Donald Hutera

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Assembly Checkpoint 6:20pm – 7:20pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12

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£13 – £14

Christina Bianco is who she is, she tells us – except when she’s an impressive amount of other people over the course of a packed hour.

Bianco is an effortless performer, as accomplished a technical singer as she is an impressionist. She races through impression after impression, each immediately recognisable and without a dud amongst them. Which is no mean feat when you consider their breadth – Jennifer Aniston becomes Barbra Streisand, transforming into Edith Piaf and even, when you least expect it, TOWIE’s Amy Childs. Alongside

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a talented band, Bianco deals with an improvisational section with ease, and makes clever use of recordings by other impressionists when she needs to catch her breath.

There is the slight sense of a longer show condensed for Fringe purposes – but then that’s exactly what this is. And when the result is a hit rate that must average an impression a minute, that’shardly cause for complaint. ✏︎

Eve Livingston

Ask a Stripper ««« VENUE: TIME:

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus 7:50pm – 8:45pm, 1–25 Aug, not 14, 21

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£5

If you ever wanted the chance to ask strippers a question, this is it. Like it says on the tin, this is a Q&A with two strippers about life, work and everything in between their legs.

Morag and Stacey have 30 years experience in strip clubs. Morag was based in Edinburgh’s 'pubic triangle' before she retired, and Stacey works the Essex and East London clubs. They waste no time in getting their kit off, and no question is off limits, so this isn’t a show for the prudish or easily offended.

Stacey quickly establishes she’s a feminist and activist for sex workers’ rights. She’s even done a TED Talk about it, and speaks intelligently on legislation, stigma

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Assembly George Square Studios 12:50pm – 1:50pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 12, 19 £12 – £14

Rutene Spooner’s drama teacher once told him that charisma isn’t enough – you’ve got to work really, really hard. And so he does. This autobiographical, one-man cabaret leads a charmed audience through Spooner’s tough transformation from a young Maori boy obsessed with Hugh Jackman’s macho, mighty Wolverine to an all-singing,

and safety. Morag is the jokey one, and the combination makes for a great double act. They are funny, honest and warm. From tampon strings to labia piercings, weird clients to safety, the audience steers the show through the questions they ask.

Unfortunately in this performance, there are more than a few men there on their own who do not engage in the conversation,

giving a sense they are there to perv more than anything else. The space’s intimacy works well for this show, but more room would give the women a chance to fully demonstrate their physical skills.

Stacey can’t fully stand up in her heels, and Morag accidentally kicks the ceiling. But there’s little that needs changing in this friendly and enlightening conversation. ✏︎ Laura Kressly

all-dancing, high-kicking musical theatre star.

Playing to both Marvel and musical theatre fandoms, Spooner crafts a creative, crossover universe filled with plucky training-montage moments, excruciating auditions and soul-baring success. The plot rests on the supposed incompatibility between jazz hands and the haka, but as this warm, energetic show makes perfectly clear, Spooner doesn’t need to choose. Like the Greatest Showman himself, he can be both.

It’s an easily digestible message but one that’s heartfelt and emphatic. Spooner’s original songs riff on the soundtracks from Jackman's most famous performances on stage and screen, offering nuggets

of pub-quiz-winning info about the star's early career. He expertly navigates acoustic balladry, show tunes, dry ice and dance tracks, with accessible in-jokes providing the punchlines.

Spooner’s voice is bold and versatile, but sometimes an extra verse or two disrupts the pace of the proceedings. The momentum drops when Spooner’s own story isn’t driving the narrative, as it’s him—not Jackman—that’s the real star of this show. Still, patience is rewarded by a silly, winningly homemade pitch for a full Wolverine musical, replete with a Chicago-style tango. So convinced are his audience that it could easily be a stand-alone show next year. Jazzclaws at the ready. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne

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Scotland Bingo! with The Latebloomers ««« VENUE: TIME:

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Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose 11:15pm – 1:15am, 3, 10, 17 Aug £10

Scotland Bingo! with The Latebloomers does exactly what it says on the tin. Audiences are ushered in and given shortbread by the Latebloomers, who are decked out in tartan trews and ‘see you Jimmy’ hats. Bagpipe music plays across the room.

Irn-Bru and Scotland-themed books adorn the stage. And then you play bingo.

The bingo itself is straightforward and largely gimmick-free, punctuated a few times by Scotland-themed audience challenges. In the latter half of the night guest acts are invited on stage to break up the bingo calling but the pace is slightly confusing, with long periods of bingo and then multiple interruptions in quick succession.

At points, such as when winners are invited on stage, The Latebloomers display flashes of the comedy they have made their name with, performing

short physical skits with winners before presenting their prizes.

But for the most part this is an uncomplicated bingo game made Scottish by the set, costumes and soundtrack more than any particular content.

As a late-night offering only available on Saturdays, Scotland Bingo! will be a solid way for Fringe revellers to see in the wee hours, if only because the game itself will always be a hit and The Latebloomers are undoubtedly charming and funny. With more structure and sharper content, they could be onto a real winner.

For now, the possibility of a ‘full hoose’ and a can of Irn-Bru will suffice. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

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Underbelly, Cowgate 10:10pm – 11:10pm, 1–23 Aug, not 12 £10.50 – £12.50

SK Shlomo doesn’t need to prove his talent by this point. With a long career comprising international tours, dedicated fans, high-profile collaborations and beatboxing titles, we can expect him to deliver. But he has been away for a while, and in Surrender he wants to tell us why.

The audience are treated to all the

live looping and beatboxing one would expect, but parts of Surrender have an almost spoken word quality to them as SK Shlomo opens up about the struggle with mental health issues that saw him withdraw from touring and performing a few years ago before making this return.

Tracks from his new album, charting and celebrating his recovery, are interwoven with more upbeat experimental interludes amongst a narrative explaining what happened. The thing is, though, we still don’t quite know the full picture.

While Surrender aims for vulnerability and openness, SK Shlomo mostly talks in the abstract about experiencing depression and

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PTSD, hinting at elements of a story he doesn’t quite let us into. The show doesn’t get beyond snippets of personal experience and a plea to open up to friends and family. He doesn’t owe us every gritty detail, but after setting up the show as a tell-all interpretation of “my story”, we notice its absence.

As ever, SK Shlomo is strongest mid-track, effortlessly looping and beatboxing to an audience enthralled by his immense talent and creativity. While compelling and brave, his discussion of mental health doesn’t quite reach the heights of his production and performance. ✏ Eve Livingston

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Camino de Sangjaru HHH VENUE:

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Assembly George Square Studios 12pm – 1pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 12, 19

£10 – £12

The three men who make up the band Korean Gipsy Sangjaru travel the world seeking out experiences to influence their work. This concert draws on a trip they took to Spain, where they hiked through the hills to Santiago. Fusing traditional Korean music with global influences, video and animation, this is a heartwarming collection of songs with a sense of adventure.

The theme of exploration underpins their set. Their entrance is punctuated by gigantic, fluffy headpieces and energetic music.

Though unexplained, they evoke the cloudy skies in the later videos from their trip. A song inspired by Alice’s

Flanders and Swann HHH VENUE: TIME:

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Pleasance Courtyard 2:40pm – 3:40pm, 31 Jul – 11 Aug £12 – £13

For those not belonging to the generation familiar with the original Flanders and Swann, the pair were a comedic duo who achieved success in the postwar years with their repertoire of wry and rollicking comic songs, covering everything from domestic difficulties to animal adventures.

Those born after the baby boom

pursuit of the white rabbit follows, and is accompanied by pixelated animations reminiscent of early PC or Atari games. Surtitles remind us that chasing something we may never reach keeps us curious, and giving up on our goals, no matter what they are, is the quickest way to lose this important aspect of our humanity.

The rest of the music is lively and fun. Classical Korean instruments combine with acoustic and electric guitars, giving the drums and

stringed instruments a rock-y feel.

The ‘gipsy’ influence is unclear in this context, however. It could be understood to mean Romany music, but as the concert progresses it seems to mean a more generic sense of travelling and seeing the world.

They introduce their final song with a request to enjoy it without worry, which is a fitting summary of their work – find wonder in the world around you and be open to new experiences.

will, as many have pointed out, probably only know them only through Armstrong and Miller’s caustic parody-tributes Brabbins and Fyffe.

In contrast, Duncan Walsh Atkins and Tim Fitzhigham have no mockery in mind when representing their inspiration. This is a heartfelt, sincere performance that seeks to remind contemporary audiences of what entertained in decades gone by. In doing so, they certainly demonstrate the idea is sound – so much so, it raises the question of whether similar homages could have potential in a modern setting.

Recitals of old Goon Show episodes or Hope and Crosby routines might not do too badly at the Fringe.

In the meantime, Flanders and Swann are definitely up to the challenge, with their rich baritone and musical ability. The songs themselves are warm and inoffensive, if perhaps an acquired taste.

However, the routines linking the musical segments are where the real comedy lies, and the pair show themselves to have chemistry and improvisational wit, which is gratifying when the bulk of the material they cover is not exactly fresh. Even if you find the humour of the songs a little self-indulgent, or you’re not of a fan of the precursors Atkins and Fitzhigham pay tribute to, their enthusiasm is infectious.

✏ Laura Kressly

✏︎ Sean Bell

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Legally Blonde the Musical HHH VENUE: TIME:

Assembly Rooms 10am – 12:30pm, 2–24 Aug, not 12, 19

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£14 – £15

For those who haven’t done their homework, Legally Blonde is the story of sparkly heroine Elle Woods who gets into Harvard Law school in the name of love—what, like it’s hard?—only to ditch her dull ex-boyfriend and find her purpose in the courtroom. Performed this

August by graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the official musical is based on the novel and 2001 film of the same name. As the big number has it: Ohmigod, you guys!

Vanessa Campbell makes a fresh-faced, wide-eyed Elle with a strong line in physical comedy, and has the buzzy 10am audience wrapped around her impeccably manicured little finger. Some songs aren’t that memorable (no fault of the RCS’ capable band), but Campbell and her bubbly Delta Nu sorority sisters nail tough choreography to sell them to us – even if they are dressed in dubious denim pedal pushers that surely

Woods and co. wouldn’t tolerate.

The musical first opened in 2007 and although this version has a few updates (spot Trump stickers and Tinder gags) it could do with more.

The court case rides on a silly number called ‘Gay or European’ and lovably eccentric hair-stylist Paulette’s ballad about wanting an Irish husband is overwriting of an otherwise great part – although Eloise Runnette still makes the role her own. Elle’s big graduation ceremony is overshadowed by a proposal that waters down the film version’s feminist message, but none of these details dull this emerging cast’s shine. ✏︎ Katie Hawthorne

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Valentina's Galaxy Innes Clarke, age four, enjoys a space adventure in the Botanic Garden What happens in the show?

She went to space – it was the little girl. She just even did a funny dance...Her birthday cakes went into stone. We went under a blanket that went up and down.

Describe the show in five words Happy, funny, good, interesting, super-duper!

Who was your favourite character and why?

Both of them because they are both nice.

Kids

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

No. What did you like most about the show?

Eh, all of it! I liked when the stone fell down and we touched it. I got a star – we all got a star.

What didn’t you like about the show?

I didn’t like when the TV was being rubbish with rubbish things on it that we were watching. At the very start.

If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of it/them?

It was funny music.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

Mummy really liked the show. Liked the positive message that anything’s possible!

Would you tell your friends to come to the show?

Yes. Although my best friends came with me to see it already!

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Girl Scouts vs Aliens Lisa Elvin, age ten, reports on an alien invasion

What happens in the show?

There are four girl scouts and they get invaded by aliens but the aliens turn out to be family and friendly.

Describe the show in five words Good and funny for anyone.

Who was your favourite character and why?

I liked Olive the girl that liked food because she was funny.

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

No, I liked all of them.

What did you like most about the show?

That a single marshmallow could destroy an alien spacecraft.

What didn’t you like about the show?

I didn’t like that at the end one of them had to go but luckily they got to stay.

If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of it/them?

I thought they were cool because I knew some of them.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

She thought it was very funny.

Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?

Yes, because I think they would like it.

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Assembly George Square Studios 12:10am – 1:10pm, 31 Jul–26 Aug, not 13, 20

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Don't Mess with the Dummies David Koleola, age seven, loves silly string on safari What happens in the show?

Three girls go on safari.

Describe the show in five words Funny, fun, weird, acrobatic, fantastic.

Who was your favourite character and why?

They were all girls. I liked them all but my big sister, Ella, can do some of the acrobatics better. I can do the aerial things...when I’m on a swing.

If there were songs or music in the show, what did you think of it/them?

I wanted there to be real drums at the beginning. I like the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

I don’t know what Ben thinks. I covered him in silly string.

Would you tell your friends to come and see the show?

Yes, it was fantastic.

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

No.

Kids

What did you like most about the show?

The silly string!

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What didn’t you like about the show?

I know how the trick with the red light on the finger works but I still enjoyed it.

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Underbelly, Bristo Square 11:20am – 12:20pm, 31 Jul–25 Aug, not 12, 19

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11:25 Reality Sucks!

Paradise in Augustines, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £5

11:30 Daphna Baram: Cracking Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10.50 The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10 The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, FREE Unladylike Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 14–25 Aug, £5 Westdal and Hayward Need Work PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 Vampire Hospital Waiting Room Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50

Neighbourhood Watch Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, £8

11:55 David Callaghan: Dance Like No One’s David Callaghan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

12:00 Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Gethin Alderman is: Sublime Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Michael Legge: The Idiot The Stand Comedy Club, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £12

Harry Baker: I Am 10,000 Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–24 Aug, £10–£11

Stand-Up Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–26 Aug, FREE

11:45

Black Sheep Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £10 Tales from the Balkans Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–16 Aug, FREE Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–25 Aug, FREE Morgan Rees and Riordan DJ: Coming to Terms Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

11:50 Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £15 Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, £11.50 Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too) Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 17, 18, FREE This Is Your Trial (FF) Frankenstein Pub, 12–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7 Kaned Laughter Frankenstein Pub, 6–11 Aug, FREE Who’s the Daddy Pig? PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10 Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

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Let’s Get Tough Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £6 Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, £5

Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Babes / Pigs in the City Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Impulse Control PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 22, 24, FREE

A-Z Mental Health Atlas Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–14 Aug, weekdays only, FREE

Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

12:25

Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£12

The Moon Under Water Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–9 Aug, £5

Elliot Steel: Merked PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 6–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

James Harvey: The Bald-Faced Truth Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 11 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £8

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Paul Foxcroft: Debut Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE And They Played Shang-A-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12

The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Just These Please: Suitable Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

Joe Wells Doesn’t Want to Do Political Comedy Anymore!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 6–24 Aug, FREE

Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Deepu Dileepan: The Outsider PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–18 Aug, FREE

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

12:10

aah, It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Rachel Creeger – Hinayni!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, £9–£10

Tony Law: Identifies Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10

Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £10–£11

Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE

Don’t Bother Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 24, £9–£10

Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages) Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £5 The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5–£7

Amy Annette: What Women Want Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £9 Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6 The Golden Path Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

12:05 Cave Women: Work in Progress Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 15–25 Aug, £5–£6

Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 News@1066 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £6–£7

12:15 Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Camp Running-a-Mock Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 8–12 Aug, weekdays only, FREE Sir David and His Animals Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 7–18 Aug, not 12, 13, £5.50 Clash of the Tight Tens Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

12:20 Stuart Laws Is All In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Peeved with Peter E Davidson Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 18–25 Aug, FREE David McIver: Teleport PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

12:30

Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–26 Aug, not 14, FREE Jumping Off the Bandwagon Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE Final Cut Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Well, That Was Weird...

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, FREE Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch!

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8

Krystal Evans: Fishnets Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £3 Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5

12:45 Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £8 Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn’t, You Decide!)

Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £7–£9 Look Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5

Grave St Claire: Hard Bop Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50

Bargain Hunt and Gather PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 7–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

12:35 Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

12:40 Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Boycotted: Comedy from Israel Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 6–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £7.50 Big Wendy Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7

Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

12:50 Decree Absolute Vodka Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Edy Hurst: Hurst Schmurst Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8

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Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 10–16 Aug, FREE

The Silliad: Improvised Myths and Legends Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–11 Aug, £5 DCGK’s Chicken Box Pencil Case Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

12:55 Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

13:00 Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Generation Whyyy?

Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8 So Close Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, FREE MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, FREE Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

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Ross Smith: Crying/ Shame Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

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Community Circle Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Planet Bar, 6–11 Aug, FREE Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests) Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £6 An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £5 Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Jim and Dave Have Lost the Dressing Room PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–12 Aug, FREE A Little R and R PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–24 Aug, £9 Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £15–£17 I Think I Might Be... New Romantic!

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–17 Aug, £5

13:05 The Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Daniel Audritt: Better Man Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£6 Andrew White: Retirement Tour Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

13:10 Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £3

Peter Brush: Present.

Tense.

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

Rice and Chips Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 12–25 Aug, FREE

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Jamie Fraser and Maybe Someone Else, I Don’t Know PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE

13:15 Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Fat Roland: Seven Inch Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–13 Aug, FREE Blazers Presents Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Girl Stuff Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 11–20 Aug, FREE Ashes: A Comedy Showdown PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 7 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Jokes with Mark Simmons Podcast: Live PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, FREE Girl Code Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–25 Aug, FREE Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 11, 18, 21, FREE Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please!

Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 21–25 Aug, FREE

13:20 Obsolete Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10 MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6 Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5 Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £7 Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

13:25 Mix and Match Wine Package PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE The Dark Side of Research Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10 Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Dan vs Food Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £6 A Many Splendored Thing Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 8–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, FREE How To Not Die Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £12.50 Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, FREE Impromptu Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50

13:30

Not My Audience!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

Will Rowland: Cocoon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE

Ignacio Lopez: EspañYOLO Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–11 Aug, £5

Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12

Charmian Hughes: What-not Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Lord of the Game of the Ring of Thrones Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 15, 22, £12.50 Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10 Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–19 Aug, £15 Friend Pleasance at EICC, 6–17 Aug, not 7, 14, £12–£13

Richard Herring: RHLSTP The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £16 Laughing For Palestine with Seann Walsh The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £15 Will Penswick: Nørdic(k) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50 Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–18 Aug, £7 Jessica Fostekew: Hench Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 6–25 Aug, FREE Broken Toys Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 8–16 Aug, £12–£13 The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £16

13:35 I Can Cure... (With Subtext) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–24 Aug, FREE Shut It Down Carol Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–25 Aug, FREE

13:40 Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–13 Aug, £5–£7 Arthur Smith: SYD Pleasance Courtyard, 6–17 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Shappi Khorsandi: Skittish Warrior...

Confessions of a Club Comic The Stand Comedy Club, 6–10 Aug, £12 Character Building Experience Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

Alcohol-Free Craic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 6–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let’s Hope for the Best (Work in Progress) The Stand Comedy Club, 13–25 Aug, £12 In Conversation with Standard Issue The Stand Comedy Club, 11–12 Aug, £10

13:45 Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 6–25 Aug, FREE Interviewing Electric Frog Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE

It Takes Three to Tango Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£10

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50

West End Producer – Free Willy Assembly George Square Studios, 6 Aug, £14

Steff Todd: Reality Check Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Pindos Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Smashing Planet Bar, 6–17 Aug, not 12, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa rrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6 Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant!

Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 15–25 Aug, FREE Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical Parenting Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, £5

Mista Lorraine Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, 20 Aug, £10

Got a Text: A Musical Parody Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9

Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – Lightfoot James Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Ahir Shah: Dots Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £7–£8

13:50

Ed MacArthur: Humoresque PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 10, £9–£10

Am I Blue Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £5

13:55

The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE

Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Soup Group!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5 Stuart McPherson: Mr. November Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

14:00 Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 17, £5

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11 Georgie Morrell: Eyecon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 The Afterlife of a Soap Star Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6–7 Aug, FREE

Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, £5 Gummy Bears Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 8–14 Aug, FREE Good Morning Nation Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13.50

14:05 Everybody Be Cool, This Is a Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 6–9 Aug, FREE Mickey Sharma – Pervert!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12

14:10 Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 7–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Andy Field’s Funeral Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Internationally Unknown Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

14:15 Two Mums – One Cup Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 17–22 Aug, FREE

Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists!

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

14:20 Darius Davies: Persian of Interest Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Mawaan Rizwan: Werk in Progress Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 8–12 Aug, £5 Evil Queen Rules!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Russell Howard: Work in Progress (Afternoon) CANCELLED Heroes @ The Hive, Various dates from 6 Aug to 13 Aug, £5 Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Helen Duff Is the Tits Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 6 Aug, £6

14:25 Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–13 Aug, FREE SHTF – Stuff Hits The Fan Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–18 Aug, FREE

Classic Joke Club Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Robin Grainger: Dog Complex The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Nina Gilligan – Broad Shoulders Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Once an Emo, Always an Emo Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Vampire Hospital Waiting Room Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6

Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7

14:30 Plans Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Cyclopath Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Insane In The Men Brain Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12 Aug, £7 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE It’s All Going To Be OK – Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 7–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE My Uncomfortable Wardrobe Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10 The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE Worst Show on the Fringe – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, FREE BadFamiliar by Matt Davis Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–25 Aug, £5 Colin Chadwick: Quick Thinker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 6–24 Aug, FREE Agatha Is Missing!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

14:35 Improv On Demand PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 6–24 Aug, FREE I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10 Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 16, £5 A Booklover’s Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Gráinne Maguire: Guys...

It’s Problematic Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

14:40 Markus Birdman – Last White Christmas PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 6–16 Aug, not 10, FREE

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Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP) Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 19–25 Aug, £6

The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio Show theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £10

Axolotl: A Poetry Reading PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–26 Aug, £9

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77 Raul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

CANCELLED - David Ephgrave: Niche Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

Musicedy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 8–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, FREE

Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, £12.50

Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 7 Aug, £13

All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

I’m Here, All Weak Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Immigrant Diaries – Sajeela Kershi and Guests The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–12 Aug, £12

Rob Kemp – Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Madame Señorita: Espousa Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, £5 Audible Live Pleasance Courtyard, 13–24 Aug, FREE Alternative Comedy Cabaret PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

14:45 Cool Jokes/Hot Takes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50 The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, £7 Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–25 Aug, FREE Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 14 Aug, FREE Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Confessions of a Taxi Driver Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

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Socially Awkward Penguin Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

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Still Got It! Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, not 12, FREE Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12.50 Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Mistaken Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

14:50 Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–25 Aug, FREE Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50 100% Cotton Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10 Izzy Mant: Polite Club Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Rob Auton: The Time Show Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Lucy Frederick: Famtastic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 1,000 One-Liners in Support of MS Society The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £5

14:55 Common People (Again) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–9 Aug, FREE

15:00 Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 14, £5 Will Mars: Phoenix Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 10 Aug, £8 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Oxford Revue – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 14–19 Aug, FREE Sets in the City – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 11–18 Aug, FREE

Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I’ve Got? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–13 Aug, £6

Pottervision The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 17, £10

Fourth Cousin, Once Removed... Forcibly Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 7–11 Aug, FREE

An Evening with Savvy B The Stand Comedy Club, 12 Aug, £9

Children of the Quorn™ Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour The Stand Comedy Club, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £12

Could It Be Magic?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50

Sense of Tumour Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Random Bag Check PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12

2001: A Sketch Odyssey theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50

Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 10–25 Aug, not 14, FREE The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50

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15:10 Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

15:15 Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Will Duggan: Class Two Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8–£10 Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–24 Aug, not 16, £5

The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE

Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

Bloom Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Soup Group!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £5

Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE

My Finest Hour PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 6–16 Aug, FREE Stand-Up Philosophy – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

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Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £5

Glitter Business Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £5

Barely There Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6–25 Aug, FREE

The Hoovering Podcast Live with Jessica Fostekew Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug, £6

Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Emer Maguire: Hilarious Humans Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5

Christopher Bliss: The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–24 Aug, £7

Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £9–£10

Nik Coppin: Shark Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Shit Socialist Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8 Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7

Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Sarah Lee: Half a Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Jonny Pelham: Off Limits Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£7.50

Michael Fabbri: Rebooted Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE George Fouracres: Gentlemon Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 18, £8.50–£10.50

Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 21, £5

Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 21 Aug, £5

Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £5

15:30 Paul Savage: Shame Spiral PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 12–25 Aug, FREE Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50 Immoral Maze Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Motherhood: A Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Sh*t Hipsters Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–26 Aug, FREE

Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, £10 Cowboys, Country Music and Queers Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50 BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 20 Aug, FREE

15:35 Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10 Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–24 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, FREE Vince Atta: Massive Attack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

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Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE

15:40 Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber Echo Bravo Heroes @ The Hive, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 12, 20, £5 Limmy: Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–18 Aug, £16 Sundeep Bhardwaj: Father Figure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–25 Aug, FREE Adele Cliff: Undershare Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Omid Djalili: Work in Progress The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–10 Aug, £15 Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

15:45 99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE So What?

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, FREE Too Ugly for Love Island Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50

Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12.50 Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Science Idiot PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Oxford Revue – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–13 Aug, FREE Bart Freebairn: Maximum Delicious Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7 Nicky Wilkinson: Game On Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Dog Tales PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 18–23 Aug, FREE Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9

15:55 Myra DuBois: Dead Funny Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 22, 23, £10–£11 Punkanary Comedy Cinema PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 12 Aug, FREE Aboriginal Comedy Allstars Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, £11–£12 Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

15:50

16:00

Chris Betts vs the Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50

Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14

All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Emma Shaw: Help PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 6–9 Aug, FREE

Working Class Zero Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE

The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50

Dr Lara Love: Love Leans In Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £14 Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 BBC: Susan Calman’s Fringe Benefits BBC, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, FREE Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–24 Aug, £10 Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert Underbelly, George Square, 6–25 Aug, £9–£10 Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win Assembly George Square Studios, 6–11 Aug, £13–£15 Ruby Wax: How To Be Human Pleasance Courtyard, 18–24 Aug, £16–£18 Buffering Sweet Grassmarket, 6–11 Aug, £7 Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, £6 Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon Planet Bar, 12–25 Aug, FREE

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE The Latebloomers: Scotland!

Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 (L)awfully Wedded Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 6–18 Aug, not 10, 13, £8 Sketch You Up! Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£8.50 The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5

Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50–£10.50 Crybabies: Danger Brigade Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Glenn Moore: Love Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£11 BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 19 Aug, FREE Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 10, 11, £8 Greg Proops: The Smartest Man in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

Assembly George Square Studios, 12–25 Aug, £13–£15 Esther Manito: Crusade Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12.50

It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £5

Samantha Pressdee: Covered PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, £10

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase Gilded Balloon Teviot, 21 Aug, £8

Lucie Pohl’s Immigrant Jam Gilded Balloon Teviot, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £10.50

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 8–17 Aug, £14–£16.50

Alison Thea-Skot: TheaSkot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £6

Maureen Younger: Out of Sync PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

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2 Truths, 1 Lie Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5

16:05 Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–24 Aug, FREE Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–23 Aug, not 12, FREE

16:10 Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is? Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen: Get a Room Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50 Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Twonkey’s Ten Year Twitch Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

16:15 James McNicholas: The Boxer Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10 Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist With Dyspraxia 2 Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 11–18 Aug, FREE Borne of Chaos Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

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Ferris Bueller’s Way Of...

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 21, FREE

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Cerys Nelmes’ 80s Gameshow Mash-Up Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE Gay Not Straight Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6–11 Aug, FREE Talk a Big Game Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Adventures in Dementia – Steve Day Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–10 Aug, FREE

Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

Lola and Jo: Escape Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

We’re Sorry (Canadian Comedy Showcase) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Culture Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 18, FREE Christopher KC: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Rice Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10–£11

16:20 Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50 Auto-Correbt: Sight Unseen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £9

16:25 11+ theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9 Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£10

16:30 The Great Outdoors Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–26 Aug, £5 Giants Are Fjörd Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£11.50 Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

Dan Clark: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug, £6 Steve Rannazzisi – Please Forget Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, FREE George Egg: Movable Feast Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Sid Singh: American Refugee Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Lucy Pearman: Baggage Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 14, £8 AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7–25 Aug, £12–£15 The Three Deaths of Ebony Black Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50 Gusset Grippers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £10–£11 Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!

Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £8–£10

Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire – Blindfold Cliff-Edge Unicorn Brexit Britain Bogus Prime Minister Democrageddon American Elections Cricket World Cup General State of the World Specials The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12 Club Sets Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Thomas Green: Tweak Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18–25 Aug, FREE David Kay The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–12 Aug, £12

16:35 I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 18–25 Aug, £5 Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–17 Aug, FREE Lew Fitz: Chucky Egg (Work in Progress) Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–11 Aug, FREE Rosco McClelland – Magic Belly Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

16:40 Martin Pilgrim: I Write Jokes Not Tragedies Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Oleg Denisov: Russian Troll Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 6–26 Aug, £5 Google Me Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50 Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

Olga Koch: If/Then Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £7

Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–11 Aug, £9

Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 10, £11–£12

Lauren Pattison : Peachy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £8

West End Producer – Free Willy Assembly Checkpoint, 12–26 Aug, £12–£14

Miller and Salmon: Genesis Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad.

Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 10, £5 The Pushkinettes: We Must Live Heroes @ The Hive, 9 Aug, £7

16:45 Aaaaaaaaand Now! Roger Swift’s Machine Pun Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Haha Cool Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, FREE Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12 Hero Worship Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Mark Simmons – One-Linerererer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–24 Aug, FREE Rory O Hanlon – Confidence PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–24 Aug, FREE Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 17, £5 Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

16:55 Jane Hill: All I Want Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Cordelia and Dimple: Buffet Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–13 Aug, FREE

17:00 Maisie Adam: Hang Fire Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–24 Aug, £9

Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50

The Mars & Lee Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Lucy Farrett: Lois Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Bristol Revunions: Party Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12 Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, £6 A**Hole New World Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, not 16, £5 Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

16:50 Generation Whyyy?

Imagination Workshop, 16–22 Aug, £8

Age Fright: 35 and Counting PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, £11.50 Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow’s Office Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, £5 Ali Brice: Bin Wondering Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5 Irish Comedy Invasion Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE Dan Cardwell: Recall Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–25 Aug, FREE Geeks, Stand Up! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, FREE The Chronic Complainer PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13 Aug, £11.50 Working-Class Progress with Backenders PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 6–9 Aug, FREE

Pussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, FREE Joe McArdle is: Theo McCabe Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–25 Aug, FREE Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15 Skydive to Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE Lenny Sherman: Have Fun Frankenstein Pub, 6–26 Aug, FREE Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Planet Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE

Comedy

#Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Nobody Likes You When You’re 33 Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7

Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

17:05

Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 6–24 Aug, FREE

Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £10

Punkanary Comedy Cinema PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14 Aug, FREE

Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Shane Todd: Work in Progress Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £8

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

17:15

Ben Van der Velde – Fablemaker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Bumper Blyton Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £10–£11 The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £7 Jenny Bede: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–13 Aug, FREE

17:10

Al Murray: Landlord of Hope and Glory Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–11 Aug, £19.50

Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

BBC: Sara Cox BBC, 9 Aug, FREE

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Garrett Millerick: Smile Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7

Cally Beaton: Invisible Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11

ET The Extra Testicle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE Ian Smith: Half-Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12.50 Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 19, FREE Simply Filthy Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson Pleasance Courtyard, 12–25 Aug, £13–£15 Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep Assembly George Square Studios, 6–24 Aug, £12–£14 Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Jacob Hawley: Faliraki Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Hyper-Nice theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Alison Spittle: Mother of God Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8

HUB Fresh Pleasance Courtyard, 6–7 Aug, FREE Which Princess Are You? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Nicholas Parsons’ Happy Hour Pleasance Courtyard, 8–11 Aug, £15 Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 16, FREE Absolute Zero: Jez Watts Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s Sake Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50 Maria Shehata: Hero Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6

17:20 Stepdads: Step Up Heroes @ Boteco, 10 Aug, £5 The Pushkinettes: We Must Live Heroes @ Boteco, 14 Aug, £7 The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £11–£13 Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: WIP The Hands Have It! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5

Francesco De Carlo: Winning Hearts and Minds Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5–£7 Neil O’Rourke: Thump PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE James Barr: Thirst Trap Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Jimmy McGhie Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Privates: A Sperm Odyssey Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 14, £5 Goose: Ctrl+T Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, £12–£14 Jim Campbell: Beef Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £5–£6

17:25 Comedy Freak Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE How to Hide a Body in New York theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £8 Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

17:30 John-Luke Roberts: After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!!

Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12 The Explainers Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6–25 Aug, FREE Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Planet Verth Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Linda: Easy Killing Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Mark and Haydn: Llaugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50 Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Time Flies Underbelly, Bristo Square, 10–11 Aug, £9.50 Men With Coconuts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Juliette Burton: Defined Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE Andrew O’Neill – We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

83 Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 I’m Afraid of Americans C venues – C viva, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£9.50

Joel Dommett: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 18–24 Aug, £8

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11

BBC: Just a Minute BBC, 6 Aug, FREE

The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Witch Hunt Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11 Iain Stirling: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–17 Aug, £8 Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12 Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £10–£11 Made in Spain 2 Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 I’m Coming Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8 Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Stand Up for Your Planet Assembly Hall, 19 Aug, £19 Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£13 Ashley Storrie: Hysterical Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

17:35 Funny Women on the Fringe Assembly Roxy, 19–23 Aug, £11 Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50

Sam See: Coming Out Loud Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Sarah Keyworth: Pacific Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11 Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£13 Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£10 A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE

Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete’s Foot) Live!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11.50 A Time Slot with Ger Staunton PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 18, FREE

Jack Carroll and Friends Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 19–25 Aug, £5

17:55

arrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Luke McQueen: Bad Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Paul ‘Silky’ White: The Sound of the Baskervilles The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–11 Aug, £10 Jamie Dalgleish: Humans Are Evil The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £9 10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 15, FREE Mike Newall: Re:Newall Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

You May Also Like Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award Final BBC, 15 Aug, FREE

Hesitation Remarks PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, not 17, £8

Larry Dean: Fandan Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £12

Evers, Booth and [Name] Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 6–14 Aug, FREE Hayley Ellis: Nobody Puts Hayley in a Corner Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 9–18 Aug, not 12, £5

James Meehan – Never Better Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £15

Alexander Fox: Snare Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £8.50–£10

James Bran: Hack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 The Next Next Big Thing Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, not 10, £12–£13

17:40

Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £8–£10

Dave Fensome: ADHDave Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Monster Gay PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames Pleasance Dome, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12.50–£14

David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE

Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £8–£10

Pick of the Fringe The Sheraton Grand Hotel , 22 Aug, £190.50

Tom Parry: Parryoke!

Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£12.50

Will Adamsdale: Facetime Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12

Milton Jones: Milton Impossible Assembly Hall, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £15

The Great British Bake Offenders Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5

The Jam Society Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–8 Aug, £5

The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 6–26 Aug, not 10, 11, 17, 24, £10

Viking Millennials Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

18:00

Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10

Caitlin Cook: Death Wish Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

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Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock Supper With Salt’n’Sauce Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

17:50

Harriet Braine: Les Admirables Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Phil Ellis: Au Revoir Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, £5 Katie Pritchard: Storm Stud PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do? Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 Fern Brady: Power and Chaos Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£10 The Last Supper: 7 Deadly Sins Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 12–18 Aug, FREE Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £17

Nick Offerman: All Rise Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24 Catherine Bohart: Lemon Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11.50 Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £12 Justin Heyes – White Muslim Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–11 Aug, FREE Notflix: Originals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Terry Alderton: Bingo Bango Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £8 Michael Brunström: World of Sports Heroes @ Dragonfly, 12–25 Aug, £5 Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–20 Aug, £12 Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–24 Aug, FREE

18:10 NewsRevue Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £15.50–£17.50 Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12 Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Kelsey De Almeida: I’m Very Different People (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Bad Clowns: Cult Classic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Stand Up for Shelter Underbelly, George Square, 13 Aug, £13

18:15 Stephanie Laing: Quitter Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10 Trans Vision Scamp Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 18–25 Aug, FREE George Rigden: Spooning with Uri Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£6 I Predict a Wyatt!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 6–24 Aug, not 22, FREE

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£17

Dummy Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 13, FREE

Faking It Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6

Mark Cram: Centaur PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

18:05 For He’s a Jolly Goodfellow PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 6–24 Aug, FREE The Great Health Con theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12 The Sacrifice PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 15–24 Aug, FREE

Listings

Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10

17:45

Football, Feminism and Everything in Between: Live with Alastair and Grace Campbell Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 21 Aug, £15

The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50 Ed Gamble: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12–16 Aug, £5 White Collar Comedy Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–10 Aug, FREE

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The World’s Smallest Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ The World’s Smallest Fringe Venue, 10–11 Aug, FREE

Love/Hate Actually Imagination Workshop, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10

Annie McGrath: Shepherd PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Scott Gibson: White Noise Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE Jake Baker: No Success Like Failure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE

18:20 James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE The Fanny’s The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9 Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, £10–£12 Phil Kay: A Happening Heroes @ The Hive, 10 Aug, £10 Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, £5 Kate Lucas: Is Selling Herself Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 20, £8 Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–24 Aug, not 11, £10 Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Comedy

18:25 Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £13

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Never Again Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Yum Yum Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made Along the Way Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Mocking a Murderer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE

18:30

Gary Little – Kidding Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £5

Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15 Jay Lafferty: Jammy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–31 Aug, not 12, 19, 26, £12.50–£15 Comic Relief Live Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug, £16.50 Fred Cooke: Fred Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£9.50 Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Improvengers: Pretendgame Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £8 Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, £14–£16 Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £11.50–£14 Dead Ringers Live Pleasance at EICC, 6–13 Aug, £17 It’s Aboot Adam Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–11 Aug, £5 Aussiental Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Bad Aunts Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Richard Fry: O Starry Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10–£11 Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 Rhys James: Snitch Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £10–£13 Russell Howard: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 6 Aug to 13 Aug, £7.50

Kieran Hodgson: Lance Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £14–£15

Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care Pleasance Courtyard, 6–10 Aug, £14–£15 Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 16, 17, FREE 30 Minute Musicals Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 15, £11–£12 Imaan Hadchiti: Being Frank Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 Kieran Hodgson: Maestro Pleasance Courtyard, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15 Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked Before Bedlam Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10 Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £14–£15 Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

18:35 Stevie Martin: Hot Content Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 7–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Tom Lenk Is Trash Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12.50 Shane Todd: Work in Progress Assembly Roxy, 12 Aug, £8

18:40 Shattered Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £8.50 Liam Withnail: Homecoming Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5 Harry and Chris: This One’s for the Aliens Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–24 Aug, £10–£12 Siblings: The Siblinginging Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Alex Kealy: Rationale Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 6–24 Aug, £8–£11.50 Laurence Tuck: Expert in Failure Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–9 Aug, FREE Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...

The Stand Comedy Club, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12 Alison Thea-Skot: TheaSkot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6 Bananas Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Lucy Porter: Be Prepared Pleasance Courtyard, 6–17 Aug, not 12, £12–£16 English Speaking Comedy Borsch Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–26 Aug, FREE Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, £7 Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15

18:45 The Good, the Bad and the Irish Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Joy of Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Place, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Improvised Director’s Cut PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Eh? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10 Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £12–£13 Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman Assembly George Square Studios, 12–25 Aug, £12–£16 Lateef Lovejoy – Life, Times and Society’s Crimes Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–16 Aug, FREE Aunty HH Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 EdinBra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death) Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 15, £7 Catching Up Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Ticked Boxes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE MARVELus: Awww Snap!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50 Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £6

18:50 Jackman and Bones Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £5 Fraser Gibson: Self-ish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–25 Aug, £7

60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10 Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

19:00 Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11 BBC: Jazz Nights BBC, 11 Aug, FREE The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 7–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, 21 Aug, £8 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £8 Sarah Kendall: Paper Planes Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, £12–£14 Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy Punchlines PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Henning Wehn: Get on With It The Queen’s Hall, 8–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £16.50 Vikki Stone: Song Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50 Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16 Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14–£16

Chris Parker: Camp Binch Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14–25 Aug, £5

Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£11

Tim FitzHigham and Thom Tuck in Macbeth Heroes @ Black Medicine, 6–11 Aug, £5

Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £13–£15 Kai Samra: Underclass Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Rotten Randolph Cliff, 14 Aug, 28 Aug, FREE Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate Bastards Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Raymond Mearns – Confessions of a Control Freak!

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, not 12, FREE Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12 Aug, £20 Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 BBC: Just a Minute BBC, 6 Aug, FREE Spamalot Paradise in Augustines, 14–17 Aug, £13.50 Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Sophie Duker: Venus Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£9 Accessibility Gala Pleasance Dome, 12 Aug, £9 Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£12 Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14 BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour BBC, 21 Aug, FREE Rosie Jones: Backward Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10 Adam Flood and Blake AJ: Joke Boys PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 6–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Any Suggestions, Doctor?

The Improvised Doctor Who Parody Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£13 BBC: Jo Whiley BBC, 8 Aug, FREE

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

19:05 Shakespeare! The Panto theSpace on the Mile, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50 Business Casual Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50 Three Menopausal Maids theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Straight Outta Estonia PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–24 Aug, FREE James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

19:10 Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12.50 About Time / Bully Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Matt Hoss: Here Comes Your Man Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Where Are You Really From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Limmy: Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–8 Aug, £16 Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9–15 Aug, £15 Sasha Ellen: Pickle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Brain Rinse theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 11, £9–£10

Martin Bearne and Joe McTernan: Milk and Two Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, £5 Stephen Carlin: Pickwickian Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 18–25 Aug, FREE Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£11.50 Pierre Novellie: You’re Expected to Care Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12 Rob Copland: Strange Jam PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Martin Mor – Instigator Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Family Secrets PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £9–£12 Expelled from Eton Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–17 Aug, FREE Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

The 2 Mouthed Men Show Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–17 Aug, not 12, £8 Craig Hill: Bottoms Up! Pleasance at EICC, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12.50–£18.50 Drag Queen Stole My Dress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 15, FREE Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5 Drunk Women Solving Crime Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–11 Aug, £10–£11 Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Bring Back the 80s Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 18–25 Aug, FREE Jake Farrell: Limits Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5

19:25 Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

19:30

101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Adam Rowe: Pinnacle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, £5

Vir Das: Loved Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–10 Aug, £14–£15

Neil Delamere: End of Watch Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £11.50–£12.50

Eric Andre: The Legalize Everything Tour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20 Ari Eldjárn: Eagle Fire Iron Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£10

Steve Bennett – Everything is F*cked Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

So You Think You’re Funny? Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50

Harry Stachini – Tigers Don’t Cry Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Amy Howerska: Serious Face Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–24 Aug, FREE

19:40

Daniel Sloss: X Edinburgh Playhouse , 15–17 Aug, £20.50 Alex Black’s Record Collection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE Jokers in the Pack Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £15

Ew Girl, You Nasty Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

Hal Cruttenden: Chubster Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–14 Aug, £13–£15

Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £7

The Community Centre!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8

On It Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–26 Aug, not 12, FREE

Steve Bugeja: Single Mum Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6–£8

Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 11–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

19:15

BBC: Front Row BBC, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE

Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

19:20 Johannes Dullin Plays the Devil Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5

John Robins: Hot Shame Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £14–£15 David O’Doherty: Ultrasound Assembly George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £15–£16

19:35 Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

The LOL Word Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7

Christianity and Me Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £5

BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award Semi-Finals BBC, 7 Aug, FREE

The Secret Policeman’s Tour Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25

Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5–£10

Sad Acts Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Tommy Tiernan: Paddy Crazy Horse Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–24 Aug, not 22, £17.50

Jack Rooke: Love Letters Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £12–£14 I, Tom Mayhew Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Best Boy in Ireland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25

Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10 A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE This is Mark Ritchie: Honest to God Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £5 Andrew Maxwell: All Talk Underbelly, George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15 Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Desiree Burch: Desiree’s Coming Early!

Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Arnab Chanda: Boy From Earth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Live at the Fringe Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £17.50–£18.50

Arson in the Queen’s Swans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Listings

85 Ivo Graham: The Game of Life Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £8.50–£12

Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £7 Paul McCaffrey: Lemon Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 23, £10–£11

19:45 Liam Malone: No Limbits Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6

Catching Rainbows Paradise in The Vault, 6–9 Aug, £7

Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

Still Life by Noël Coward theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Acting Natural Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–24 Aug, not 13, 17, FREE

Andrew Roper – Break Point Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Langston Kerman: The Loose Canon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 17, 24, FREE Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be Less Racist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10 The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50 Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 Sean Patton: Contradickhead Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £11–£13

Comedy

Scummy Mummies Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£14 Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £11–£14

Brown Panther – Ruven Govender Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

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19:50

Jen Brister – Under Privilege Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£8 John Pendal: Monster Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 16, 23, £10–£11 Goddess Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50

19:55

Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50

Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£13 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, £8 Italian Stallion: Fake Hero Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 7–11 Aug, FREE The Dots Imagination Workshop, 8–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £8.50 Garry Starr Conquers Troy Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50 The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £12.50 Passport and Prozac Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

Dave Green: Guest Bed Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14.50

20:00

❤ Susie McCabe:

Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, £15–£16 Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Javier Jarquin is Boring AF Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 11–18 Aug, FREE Craig Ferguson: Hobo Fabulous Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Playhouse, 11 Aug, £24.25 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, Various dates from 9 Aug to 31 Aug, £15 BBC: The Now Show BBC, 22 Aug, FREE Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 8 Aug, £8 Australian Beauty PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 12, FREE Polenta and Sage Take to the Stage Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 6 Aug, FREE

Domestic Disaster

HHHH

Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £12–£15.50 Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14–£15 The Salon Sweet Grassmarket, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9 #Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’ Criminals PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–25 Aug, FREE Aaron McCann: Happy Enough?

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, £6 Lolbot Wars Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13 Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18–19 Aug, £17 Diane Chorley: Modern Love Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14

Manhunt 2: Big Mood Bedlam Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 15, £10

Tom Cashman – XYZ Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11.50

Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

Pants on Fire!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £10

Brown Guys, Grey Skies PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–9 Aug, £11.50 Godley on the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 22–26 Aug, FREE Insane In The Men Brain Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £7 Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now l’m Here Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £13–£14 The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9 Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Thunderc*nt Heroes @ Boteco, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £5 Ben Pope: Dancing Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£10 Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Boteco, 13 Aug, £5 Traitor Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

20:05 Beth Vyse as Olive Hands: WIP The Hands Have It! Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £5 Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £8 Naomi Karavani: Dominant Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 13, £7 Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

20:10 Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £11–£12 Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12

Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

20:15 Brodi Snook: Handful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Andy Barr: The Ruby Heroes @ Black Medicine, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £10–£11 Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £13–£14 Chris Washington: Raconteur Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12 Marc Jennings: Getting Going The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10 Eddy Brimson: Life Coaching for Arseholes Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 Huge Davies: The Carpark Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10 London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11 Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£10 Tami Stone – My Funny Bits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7 Tami Stone – My Funny Bits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7 Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10.50 The Pursuit of Happiness Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Half the Man – Michael Livesley Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14 Aug, £5

20:20 The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£16.50 Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE An Evening with Savvy B The Stand Comedy Club, 19 Aug, £9 Bitch and Nerd Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Viggo the Viking Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Josie Long: Tender The Stand Comedy Club, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Matt Parker: Humble Pi Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50 Max & Ivan: Commitment Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13

20:25 Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 6–24 Aug, FREE Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, £10–£12

20:30 Sleeping Trees: Silly Funny Boys Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 7–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12 Tony Cantwell: Live Feed Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

Lewis Costello x Hayden Dean Allmark Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, FREE Sunil Patel: White Knight Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John Pleasance at EICC, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £22.50 Megazoid Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £5 Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£11 Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10 Tiziano La Bella: Yes We Can’t Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 12–25 Aug, FREE Barnardo’s Big Comedy Benefit Venue150 at EICC, 7 Aug, £20 Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £14 Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Sara Barron: Enemies Closer Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £13–£14 In Poor Taste (in association with the Oxford Revue) Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 10–11 Aug, FREE The Human Show / Free Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 6–9 Aug, FREE

Concerning Bennet PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

20:35 Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 20, £7

Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’ Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Sam Lake and Chloe Petts: Household Essentials Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 15, £7

20:45

Pope’s Addiction Clinic Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, 20 Aug, £5

Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, £12

Headless Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, £5

Ian Lane – Paperweight Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5

20:40 Jimeoin: Ramble On! Pleasance at EICC, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12.50–£18.50 Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£9

Alice Fraser: Mythos Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12 Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices Frankenstein Pub, 6–25 Aug, £10 Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–25 Aug, FREE Daniel Cook and Rose Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE All-Star Comedy Cabaret Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, FREE Pete Heat: Massive Wizard Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 14, £11.50–£12.50

Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 6–24 Aug, not 11, £10

20:50 Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Tony Cowards: Stepdad Jokes Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 Phil Jerrod: Unrelatable Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Naomi McDonald: Copycat Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12

20:55 Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 Tony Basnett: 28 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Jack Barry: Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE

21:00

Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 6–24 Aug, not 14, FREE

Omid Singh: Beginning To End Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, £6.50

The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE

Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Andrew Sim: Am I Queer Enough?

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Gary Lamont: Fancy a Stiff One? Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£12.50

Ed and Joz’s Deleted Scenes Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 10, 13, £5

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5 Double Denim: Adventure Show Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Cool Story Bro Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

Dino Wiand – Half Trans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE Actually, Totes Amaze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 6–24 Aug, not 19, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £15 Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Foil Arms and Hog – Swines Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £14.50–£17.50 Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25 Aug, £20

Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14 Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £17–£18.50 Good Evening Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE Justin Matson: Try Harder Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 22, £11.50–£12.50 Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7–21 Aug, £12.50–£14 The Fannytasticals Sweet Grassmarket, 6–11 Aug, £10 Frank Skinner Live Assembly George Square, 6–18 Aug, £16.50–£17.50 Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £10–£11 (No) Money in the Bank Sweet Grassmarket, Various dates from 12 Aug to 18 Aug, £7 Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 6–25 Aug, £16–£18.50 Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE Phil Nichol: Too Much Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7 Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 17, 19, FREE Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9 Ronni Ancona and Lewis MacLeod: Just Checking In Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–17 Aug, £14.50–£15.50

Emancipation PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–25 Aug, £10 Tom Ballard: Enough Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £7–£10 A Long Time Coming Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £7 Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves Assembly George Square, 19–25 Aug, £16–£18 Matt Richardson: Imposter Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £5 Blindingly Obvious C venues – C cubed, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50 BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 19 Aug, FREE Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, £5–£10 Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £16–£17 The Glang Show Heroes @ The Hive, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £5 The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £16 There Will Be Cake Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–22 Aug, £14 Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge Monkey Barrel Comedy, 12 Aug, £10 Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £10

21:05 Goodbye Mr President PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–25 Aug, FREE Legs Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5–£8 Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 15, 19, £10–£11 Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

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Connie Wookey: Denied Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

Listings

87 Canadian Club Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Spring Day: When Push Comes to Shove – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

21:10 Standard Issue Stands Up The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 12–13 Aug, £10

The Adventures of the Bearded Lady Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £6

Laura Davis: Better Dead Than a Coward Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–25 Aug, £5

Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12

Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–20 Aug, £10

SalFunni Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 6–13 Aug, FREE

Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50

Micky Bartlett: Love It! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £10–£11

21:15 All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–25 Aug, FREE

The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12

Nick Doody: I Will Milk You PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–24 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE

Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£13

John Robertson: The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 BattleActs!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

Comedy

Needle Dicks Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE

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Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

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I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£13 Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof Underbelly, George Square, 6–25 Aug, £9–£10

Tiff Stevenson: Mother Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £10

Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50

Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2 Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 20, £11–£12

21:25 Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 10, 12, £10 Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8

21:30 Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£11 Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12–£15 Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £5 Johnny White Really-Really: Unending Torment!

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 6–25 Aug, £5 Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella Underbelly, George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14.50–£15.50 Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Spontaneous Potter Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12–£14 Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50

Nina Conti: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £12 Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 11–25 Aug, FREE 99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Tom Walker: Very Very Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin Pleasance Courtyard, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12 The Death Hilarious: Razer Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Galway Comedy Carnival Showcase Underbelly, George Square, 12 Aug, £12 Vote Dr Phil? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 7–24 Aug, not 14, 15, 20, £12 Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £10–£11 A Mad Ron Rhodes Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15 Better Than Dying Alone Sweet Grassmarket, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, £7 Brown Guys, Grey Skies PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–21 Aug, £11.50 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Moon: We Cannot Get Out Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50

Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10

Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£14

Austentatious presents...

Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care Underbelly, George Square, 19 Aug, £12.50

Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50

Angus Brown: Everest Imagination Workshop, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Len Blanco: Firing Blancs Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 13, £5

The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7.50–£10

Leo Kearse: Transgressive Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–25 Aug, £12–£13 Wait... Let’s Have Fun! Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7 Even More Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–18 Aug, FREE

Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7 Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 20, 21, £5 Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10 Aug, £11.50

Improvisers Assemble! theSpace on North Bridge, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £5.50 2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–25 Aug, FREE Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

21:40 Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £11–£12 Goodbear: Dougal Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£13 Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–26 Aug, not 13, FREE The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £15.50–£17.50

21:45 Anything F*cking Goes...

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Big Value Comedy Show – Late Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 21, £5–£10 Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 13, FREE Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12 Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£9

Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £14–£16

Stephen Carlin: Post Rational Carlin Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £10

Carte Blanche with Uncle Charlotte and Aunt Scott Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 6–18 Aug, FREE

21:35 Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£12

Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10 Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink!

Assembly Roxy, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12–£14 Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 6–25 Aug, FREE

21:50 Totally Plucked Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10 The Stevenson Experience: Takes One to Know One Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, £10–£12 Dan AG: Sloth Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Karam Deo: Table for One Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–15 Aug, £9–£10 Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £9–£10

21:55 Weegie Hink Ae That?

Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £10 Radical Honesty Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5 Poseidon’s Playhouse Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £7 Frank Foucault: Desk Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £8

22:00 I’m OKayfabe Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8 The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 7–31 Aug, not 13, 20, 27, £12 The Nasty Show Australia Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Madame Komondor Will See You Now Sweet Grassmarket, 6–24 Aug, not 14, 21, £7 The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show Heroes @ The Hive, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, £5

22:05

Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–25 Aug, FREE Bumble Me Tinders – Dating Horror Stories Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14 Grant Busé: Touché Busé Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, £10–£11 I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £5 Comedy Striptease Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Holly Morgan: Is a Witch.

Get Her! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10.50–£11.50 This Is Your Trial Frankenstein Pub, 6–26 Aug, £7 Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 19–20 Aug, £14 Shit-Faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Jimeoin: Ramble On...

Some More!

Pleasance at EICC, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50 Jayne Edwards Is Top Bodybuilder Brian Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 15, £5 Funny for a Girl The Stand Comedy Club, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12 Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE

The Shambles theSpace on the Mile, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6.50

Scot Roast Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, £5 Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Cülture Elité The Stand Comedy Club 2, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard, 12 Aug, £12

Hard Truths – An Improvised Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to...

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–26 Aug, not 22, £10.50–£11.50

22:10

AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7 Joe Sutherland: Sour PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Best of Musical Comedy Awards Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25 Aug, £11

22:15 The Antique Jokes Show Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6.50 Weegie Hink Ae That?

Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £10 Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–23 Aug, not 12, FREE Russian Roulette Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Spa Day Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Best of So You Think You’re Funny?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 7–10 Aug, £10 So You Think You’re Funny? Semi-Finals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £10

Comedy Shorts Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Chubby White’s Variety Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Marcel Lucont: No. Dix Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£14

MOTHER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£11.50

Dreamgun: Film Reads Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £9–£10 Funny Stories About Pain theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8

22:20 General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe Just the Tonic at The Tron, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6 Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Stay Loyal to the Royals theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10 Mr Thing Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

22:30 Daz Black Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15 Bobby Mair: Cockroach Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Hate ‘n’ Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Alfie Brown: Imagination Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £7–£10 Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–22 Aug, not 9, 10, 16, 17, £10 Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, £10–£11

A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

An Audience with Yasmine Day Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7.50–£9.50 Whose Mind is it Anyway?

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12 Andrew Doyle: Exodus Pleasance Courtyard, 19–25 Aug, £10–£14 Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Never Heard of It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 15, FREE Laser Kiwi Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13–£15

Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–15 Aug, £10

Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £8

22:35

Comedy Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 9–24 Aug, not 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £11–£12.50

Criminal Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–10 Aug, £10–£11

The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £11–£12.50

JJ Whitehead: Five Times I Lied to Myself Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12

Danny O’Brien: Reformer Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50

The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 14 Aug, £5

Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, £15–£16

Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Omar Ibrahim: Awokening Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9 Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–24 Aug, £10–£11

Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 8–22 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £17.50

Bob Slayer: Wrote the Copy for This Show in March When He Didn’t Have the Foggiest Notion of What Might Happen on Any Given Day in August, He Still Doesn’t Really, but At Least He’s Found This Snappy Title Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5

22:25

The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £5

Princess Party Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50 Bad Boys Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar (Preview) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 12–14 Aug, £25 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 6–25 Aug, £13 Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £6

Vegan Jesus – The Man, the Myth, the Legend The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–11 Aug, £8 Coconut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12 Liza Treyger: In the Weeds Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 Medium Rare Improv theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £6

22:40 Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 After Hours Mirth Meltdown Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 6–24 Aug, FREE 2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15 Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5 Police Cops: Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 6–17 Aug, not 9, 14, 16, £11–£13 Pamela’s Palace Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Improv, She Wrote theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £8

22:45 Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 13, 19, £12–£13 Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Snog Marry Avoid Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, FREE Tarot Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £8–£10 Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–26 Aug, £5 Hancock and Hooper’s Excellent Adventure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 6–13 Aug, FREE Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £13 Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50 Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE Serena Flynn: Baubo Goddess of Filth Heroes @ Black Medicine, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50

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Tone Death Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–14 Aug, FREE

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89 Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10

Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12

22:50 Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Sajeela Kershi: Fights Like a Girl!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–12 Aug, £10 Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3 Americans Get Too Personal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Kevin McGahern: Taking Off Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10 Questing Time Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50 Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

22:55 The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £9–£10 Niteskreen Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £7

Comedy

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Berk’s Nest Mid-Fest Comedy Special Pleasance Courtyard, 13–14 Aug, £15 Chloe Green and Ella Woods: VENN Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 6–13 Aug, £6 Misspelled Youth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE

Spontaneous Sherlock Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11

Anxiety Club Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–20 Aug, £9–£10

Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, £7

Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £8

Snort Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50 Francis Boulle and Friends Pleasance Dome, 9–25 Aug, not 13, £9–£12 Inside the Comedian Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug, £9 Crime of the Hour Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £11 Diane Chorley: Down the Flick Assembly George Square Studios, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £15 Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13 AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £9–£12 Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, £12.50–£15 Tim Key Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £8.50–£11.50 Julia Rorke Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, not 19, 20, FREE Luka Muller’s Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, FREE Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

23:10 The Duality of Man theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8 Divet Show: The Greatest Divas Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£13 Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £5

23:15 Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 9 Aug to 25 Aug, £10 WiFi Wars’ Video Game Takeover!

Assembly George Square Studios, 20–25 Aug, £10–£14

Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Nancy Clench: Agony Aunt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–17 Aug, £8

John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Assembly George Square Studios, 9 Aug, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

Conversation Garden on Love Island (A Decide Your Own Misadventure) Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 18–25 Aug, £5

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £12.50–£15

Fat Blast and Crackers: 101 Sketches in 50 minutes!

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–11 Aug, £8

23:35 The Russian Comedy Experience Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £6

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23:40

Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

3 Rule-Abiding Rebels Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE

Sam Nicoresti: UFO Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

The Paddock Pleasance Dome, 9 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

Jay Handley – White Jesus 2: Resurrection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – Late-Night Edition The Stand Comedy Club, 6 Aug, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 11 Aug, 12 Aug, £11

Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 6–26 Aug, FREE An Objectively Funny Night Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 8 Aug, 15 Aug, £10 A Night of Wikipedilove Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE BBC: British-Born Chinese Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, not 12, FREE Rob Deering’s Beat This Gilded Balloon Teviot, 8–11 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Southampton Stand-Up Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 6–25 Aug, FREE Donald Alexander: The Great Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5 Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 15–16 Aug, £15 Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Pleasance Courtyard, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £16

23:20 Blake Freeman and Dan Rath – Far From Home Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–10 Aug, £8 Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro Heroes @ Dragonfly, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £5

Reeks of Desperation Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5

23:30 Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!

Underbelly, George Square, 15–16 Aug, £15 Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Woman’s Cock (and Other #1 Hits) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

23:45 The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £15 Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE FootDarks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–18 Aug, not 7, £10–£11 Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog Just the Tonic at The Caves, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £5

Claptrap Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 14, FREE

Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me? Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 6–22 Aug, not 9, 10, 16, 17, FREE

Political Animal The Stand Comedy Club, 13–22 Aug, not 16, 17, £12

Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Comedy Queers Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–24 Aug, FREE

23:55

Stout, Pale and Bitter Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–25 Aug, £5 Cold Blooded Witch: The Sex Musical! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £6 Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22 Aug, £15 Ross Drummond and Harry Monaghan: The Orb Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £5

Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £10 The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £5 Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 8–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, £13–£15

Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 8–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 20, 21, £5 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £13 110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 6 Aug, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £5 Spank!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50 Jonny’s Panel Show (Really Good) Underbelly, Cowgate, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

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09:15

09:55 Headhog Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £7 Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

All in the Timing Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

10:00

ANTics Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5

The Patient Gloria Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Hamluke Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 8 Aug, £5 44 Days Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5

09:20 The Cult That Made Spoons: A Fork in the Road Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 7 Aug, £5 Tartuffe or The Hypocrite Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6 Aug, £5 The Winter’s Tale Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

09:45 The Brave Anthology theSpace on North Bridge, 6–9 Aug, £8

09:50 Chatroom theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £7 Rattigan’s Nijinsky theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18–24 Aug, £5–£10 Hustlers theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £7.50

Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Lum: And Other Colourful Tales theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £10

CACW – Cony’s Collection The Old Dr Bells Baths, 14–16 Aug, FREE Dark Play or Stories for Boys theSpace on the Mile, 19–21 Aug, £6 Wait Wait Bo Bait theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5 Crocodile Fever Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22 Love/Sick theSpace on the Mile, 6–17 Aug, £7

10:05

Buzz Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Downton Shabby theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £8

Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C viva, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50–£9.50

Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £8

The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6 Aug, £8.50

Ladies Who Lunch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–16 Aug, not 11, £9

10:10

Trying It On Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £9

Umbrella Man Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 20, £10–£12

Skylight theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Shakespeare on a Shoestring: The Comedy of Errors!

Paradise in Augustines, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, £8

Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £5

Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£22 How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22 West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £9

Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £5 Lord of the Flies theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £7 Where to Belong Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9 The Importance of Being Earnest theSpace @ Venue45, 19–22 Aug, £8

10:15 Hustlers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £5–£7.50 Qing Snake theSpace @ Venue45, 12–17 Aug, £12 Man Number Five Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8 Happy Hour Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12.50 Where Do Fairies Come From?

Paradise in Augustines, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7

10:20 The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7

50 Words Paradise in The Vault, 6–10 Aug, £6 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 19, £13.50–£14 Borchert: A Life Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10 The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £3.50–£7 Apollo 11 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £7

10:40 The Wasp Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £12

10:55 The Witch of Wall Street theSpaceTriplex, 6–17 Aug, £8 The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9

11:00 Great Grimm Tales Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, £10–£11 I Am the Horrible Thing Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 8 Aug, FREE Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7 Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

10:45

Rhinoceros theSpace on the Mile, 6–9 Aug, £10

10:25

A Midsummer Night’s DROLL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9

Enough Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

Status Assembly George Square, 17–24 Aug, £12–£13

Words That I Never Tell C venues – C aquila, 11–13 Aug, £8.50

Shadow of the Rose PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

10:30

The Misadventures of Martin Hathaway Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Until the Flood Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8

Invisible Us Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8

10:50

Arthur Your Home, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £100

Frankenstein theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8

Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Custom House, Various dates from 8 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

00 Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12

Cherie – My Struggle Imagination Workshop, 6–25 Aug, not 9, 19, £10 Heroin(e) for Breakfast Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12

Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, £9–£12 Post-Mortem Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

The Believers Are but Brothers Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12 Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed Zoo Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

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09:00

Tales from the Garden Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£10.50

Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

I Am Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 8 Aug, £5

Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £12–£13

You’re Safe ‘Til 2024 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10

The Shark is Broken Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 6 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£15

Mobile Phone Show theSpace on the Mile, 6–9 Aug, £6

Funny in Real Life Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Fox Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£11

The Life of Reilly theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

11:20

I’ll Tell You This for Nothing Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £9–£10

21 Futures by Olly Hawes Pleasance Dome, 10–17 Aug, £7.50–£9 Mugged PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6 Aug, £8.50 The Trial PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50 TalkFest – Anatomy of a Play: How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £5 West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9 Guys, Dolls and Pies Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £13–£15 The Terrible Tail of Adelaide Worthing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 7–11 Aug, £8 Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 12–24 Aug, £12.50 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

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Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, £21

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White Girls Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 8, 20, £8–£9

11:05 Never None (but She) theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £10 The Cat’s the Thing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

Looking for Wolverhampton’s Latin Quarter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £8 Something Else theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Hamlet theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £6.50 Fear Here and Terror There theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6

11:10 She Shall Not Be Moved theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10 Chatroom theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £10 Cry of the Gull theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £9 Jammy Dodgers theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10

11:15 Hamluke Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £15–£17 The Genius of Charles Dickens Sweet Novotel, 6–11 Aug, £8 The Giver Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £15 Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £10

11:25 Invisible Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8

Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late Sweet Grassmarket, 6–24 Aug, £7 BBC and HighTide Radio Plays Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £5 How to Save a Rock Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 10–23 Aug, not 15, £8–£10 Holy Sh*t theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Jehovah’s First Witness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10 Mustard Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £12 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

A Shadow of Doubt Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £8

Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£12

Ladybones Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11

Hyde and Seek Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–17 Aug, £9

We Apologise for the Inconvenience PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 9–16 Aug, £12

Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 9, 18, £9–£11

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Sweet Novotel, 14–18 Aug, £7

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream - CANCELLED theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £7 Krapp’s Last Tape The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £10 Back of the Head with a Brick Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10 Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 14, 19, 21, £10

11:35 The Village Fate theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £7 Love (Watching Madness) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 18, £7.50–£10 Seasoned Professionals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7 Red Herring ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 15, £10

11:40

11:30

I Am Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Trump Lear Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

The End Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

Shadows ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10

Gilgamesh & Me Paradise in Augustines, 6–10 Aug, £10

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Hangnail Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £8

Shrew theSpaceTriplex, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£10

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One Starts in a Bar. Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9 The Empathy Experiment PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

11:45 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, £7 A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10–16 Aug, £12 Dangerously Dark and Somewhat Spectacular Paradise in The Vault, 6–10 Aug, £10 The Humans theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5

11:50 The Merry Wives of Seoul C venues – C south, 11–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Psycho Drama Queen ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 15, £9–£11 Nearly Human Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£12 Uninvited Guests theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8

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Frog’s Legs Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

11:55 Never None (but She) theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £10 Being Norwegian by David Greig Venue 13, 10–24 Aug, not 12, £10 The Mariner’s Song Paradise in Augustines, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

12:00 The Female Role Model Project Bedlam Theatre, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £11 In Conversation with...

Barbara Dickson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50 Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12–£14

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Janey Godley The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 8 Aug, £12.50

40 Minute Classics: The Seagull Paradise in Augustines, 6–10 Aug, £8

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

Taiwan Season: Fish Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

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Michael Stewart The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £12.50 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 In Conversation with...

David Hayman The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £12.50 Ian McKellen On Stage Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40 Dr Korczak’s Example Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12 In Conversation with...

Kezia Dugdale The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £12.50

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Patrick Harvie The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50 Lobster Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 That’s How I See It PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50 Written With Crayons PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50 In Conversation with...

Ruth Davidson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6 Aug, £12.50 In Conversation with...

Elaine C Smith The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50 In Conversation with...

Shappi Khorsandi The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £12.50

Birth Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12–£14

In Conversation with... Val McDermid The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12.50

Stealth Aspies – Aspies Anonymous Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 6–9 Aug, FREE

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Humza Yousaf The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12.50

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Ian Rankin The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50

Qi The Old Dr Bells Baths, 13–16 Aug, FREE

The Norse Mythology Ragnasplosion PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6 Aug, £8.50

Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15

Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe Panmure House, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 14, 19, 20, 21, £12

Fires Our Shoes Have Made C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50 In Conversation with...

Tom Devine The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12.50

Illegal Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Woyzeck C venues – C cubed, 8–14 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

#HonestAmy Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Morning Glory Planet Bar, 13–16 Aug, FREE

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game’s a Foot, Try the Fish theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £9

Dangerous Adventures Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE

Sleeping Giant Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

Alice in Wonderland PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 7–11 Aug, £11.50

Best Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £7–£9

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Archie Macpherson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12.50

baby-go-round theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £10–£12

Haggis, Neeps and Burns Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12 In Conversation with…

Len McCluskey The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £12.50 In Conversation with...

John McDonnell The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 7 Aug, £12.50 Wingmen PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–21 Aug, £11.50 Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £12 (Can This Be) Home Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–19 Aug, £12

12:05 Marrow theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12 Cyst-er Act Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 Tröll Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £12 box. theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£12

Mengele Assembly George Square, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10–£12 Normaler Than Everyone Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11 COMPOST theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8 Her theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10 Judas Assembly George Square, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12

Avalanche theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9 Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10 Madame Ovary Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£12 Medea Speaks theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

12:15 My Mother’s Shoes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE BoxedIn Theatre Presents: From the Wind Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–12 Aug, £5 Testament of Yootha Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £8.50–£9.50 Lucrece theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

12:10

Me and My Doll Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£10.50

She theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £7

Mandy Picks a Husband theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8

Boulder Pleasance Courtyard, 6–17 Aug, £9–£12

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

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Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15 In PurSUEt theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £9 The Anxiety Experiment The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10 M.E.H Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50

The Fishermen Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £12–£14 Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10 Devil of Choice Assembly George Square Studios, 6–16 Aug, £12–£14

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Ivory Wings Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11

12:25 Parasites theSpace on the Mile, 7–23 Aug, not 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50 Bull theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50

12:30

Sad Eyes to Smile With Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s Life Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9 Bang, Bang, You’re Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–7 Aug, £8

12:40

The Perfect Body PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50

Wireless Operator Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11.50

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7

Rats’ Tales Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £7

A Table Tennis Play Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 10, £11–£12

40 Shades of Green Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

A Talking Therapist’s Blues Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Cicada 3301 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

The Pat Hobby Stories Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11 Peter Gynt Festival Theatre, 7 Aug, 10 Aug, £15 My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £10–£12 My Darling Clemmie Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 Sea Sick CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11 The Seven Second Theory theSpace on North Bridge, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £9 Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 12–17 Aug, £9 Dickens for Dinner C venues – C viva, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50–£9.50 Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 6–10 Aug, £7 Shaving the Dead Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£15 A Poet’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse Laughing Horse @ The Place, 15–19 Aug, FREE Sometimes, Just a Second theSpaceTriplex, 6–8 Aug, £5

Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Venue45, 12–17 Aug, £8–£10

A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, 6–23 Aug, weekdays only, £12.50 Bobby & Amy Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

12:50 Careless Love Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10 Forget Me Not Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Plebs Paradise in Augustines, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50 Body Box Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £8 F. Off Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12 The Claim Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15 Nazis Need Jews PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50 The Patient Gloria Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22 Life Is No Laughing Matter Summerhall, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £10 Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE Come Out from Among Them Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10 Trying It On Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22 Second Person Narrative PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6 Aug, £8.50 Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 16 Aug, £20 The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10 Madame George by Keir McAllister Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 19, £11–£12

Om Shaadi Om Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £10

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ZOO Playground, 6–17 Aug, £6

Gesso theSpace @ Niddry St, 9–11 Aug, £8

Eventide Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Rust Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

12:55

Fishbowl Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £14–£17.50

Black Dog theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8

Dream of a King theSpaceTriplex, 6–18 Aug, not 11, £9

Pearls theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20

12:45 Chasing Aces Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–8 Aug, £7 R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9 Algorithms Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11 SOLD Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 Cream Tea and Incest Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50 Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 12–25 Aug, £6–£10 Wild Swimming Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £10–£12

LUVU2 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7 The Man From Verona Paradise in The Vault, 6–21 Aug, not 11, 18, £5 The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie? ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10–£12

13:00 The Rebirth of Meadow Rain Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, £8.50–£11 Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £9 Almost, Maine theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

1:1 Sweet Novotel, 12–18 Aug, £7 MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life Drawing The Safari Lounge, Various dates from 6 Aug to 20 Aug, £10 Knock Knock Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £12–£14 Rose McGowan: Planet 9 Assembly Hall, 15–18 Aug, £19–£21 Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £16–£17.50 How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22 It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £11–£12 Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£13 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £24 CACW – Cony’s Collection The Old Dr Bells Baths, 18 Aug, FREE Alice in Wonderland PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 7–11 Aug, £11.50 Narcolepsy Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 EAST theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10 Crocodile Fever Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22 The Accident Did Not Take Place Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£13 Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 10 Aug, £8

Special Measures theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10 Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–18 Aug, not 11, £10

13:10 Beach Body Ready Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8–£10 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, £7 Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12 Orlando Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11 After You Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 In Loyal Company Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

13:15 Puppet King Richard II PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–14 Aug, £11.50 Unicorns, Almost Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 11 Aug, £21

Muse 90401 Zoo Southside, 6–10 Aug, £14

Flowers for Algernon Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

Vigil Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Until the Flood Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

Ripped Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Paradise Lodge Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

I Don’t Want to Talk About It PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–16 Aug, £11.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

Holy Land C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

13:05 Do You Ever Get Scared? theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10 Hoichi the Earless C venues – C south, 6–10 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Relational (or A Writer’s Misguided Guide to Loves Lost and Found) theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £4–£7 One Good Beating theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8 Chain of Trivia theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, £10

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50 Unicorns, Almost – An Audio Installation Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £5 Letter to Boddah C venues – C cubed, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£12.50 I Am Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6 Aug, £5 Fight Song Venue 13, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

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Fix Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

12:35 Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Landscape (1989) ZOO Playground, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Listings

95 You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE

(I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £12–£14 Mouthpiece Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5 BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters) Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10 Before the End Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

13:20 Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13 Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10 5 Stages Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 7 Aug, £5

Theatre

Piano_Play Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 The Stander Gang C venues – C aquila, 6–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?

Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £11 A Man’s a Man The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £14

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Collapsible Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

Not Quite Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£9

MOOT MOOT Summerhall, 8–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£12

Void PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–13 Aug, £11.50

Quintessence Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

How to Save a Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

Prefer Not To Say Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £7.50

Of Mice and Men Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10.50–£12.50

OK Computer or Paranoid Android?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £9

13:25

Fake News Kills World!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9

Has Your Phone Replaced Your Brain?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 8 Aug, £9

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9

Don’t You Smile at Me! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9

Walk the Oars Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Lucille and Cecilia Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 20, £10–£11

Don’t Believe Your Ears!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9

Pals Assembly George Square, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £13–£15

The Secret River King’s Theatre, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, £15

Jew...ish Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 20, £9.50–£10.50

Where Are the Walls Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9

Too Pretty to Punch Zoo Southside, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10 The Hollywood Summer Christmas Show Paradise in Augustines, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, £7 Romeo & Juliet Assembly George Square, Various dates from 6 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£15

13:30 Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £46.50–£62.50 For All I Care Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14 Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 She Sells Sea Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Brendan Galileo for Europe Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Daffodils The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £7 Do Cows Belong in Fields?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6 Aug, £9 Esther Rantzen: Everything I’ve Ever Done Wrong (According to My Daughter) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–7 Aug, £13 GEORGE Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11 Bear Pit PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–26 Aug, £11.50 Creative People Need Data!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £9

Call the Tooth Fairy!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £9 Are Children Wild Enough?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9 Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9 CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE You’re Going To Get Mentally Ill – Now What?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £9 This Show Will Make You Sharper!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £9 Build a Football Club, IRL! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £9 No Copyright, No Problem?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £9 Disgust for Dummies The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9

Getting Better The Royal Scots Club, 6–10 Aug, £10 Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21 A Sign of Contradiction: The Passion Story St Patrick’s Church, 10–11 Aug, £8 Reading Is Bad for You! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 12 Aug, £9 Awhile with Seamus Heaney The Royal Scots Club, 13–17 Aug, £10 Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10 Before the Wall Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13 Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21 Scotland: The Final Frontier?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 7 Aug, £9

Unveiled Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5–£8

13:40 The Good Boyfriend theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8 Mourning Overnight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10 The Grand Scheme of Things Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Death by Shakespeare theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–9 Aug, £8

13:45 Enough Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21 Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5 Atlantis Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8 The Presented Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–25 Aug, FREE A Very British Lesbian Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11

Can Google Really Translate?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £9

Ice Ice Iceland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE

Long Live the Cat Ladies?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9

Medea Electronica Pleasance Courtyard, 19–26 Aug, £12

13:35

Clowns, Lovers, Women in Pants and Shakespeare Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £9

Smoke ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £10

Catching Comets Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £9–£11 Vanity Airlines theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–9 Aug, £5 Hughie Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50 We Have Ways of Making You Talk Assembly Rooms, 7 Aug, £14

13:50 IvankaPlay Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50 Present/Absent Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £10 Hearts Like Fists theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5 Watching Glory Die Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £12–£14 Ben Hur Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8 The 27 Club theSpace on the Mile, 7–23 Aug, not 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50

13:55 Chalk (A Silent Comedy) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £11 Sense and Sensibility theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, £7 The Rubbish Show theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £7.50 This Thing in Here Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8 Votes for Women! theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £10 Art Heist Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12 I Run Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £8–£10.50

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14:00

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She Can’t Half Talk Bedlam Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £8 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

The Things I Never Told You Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 13, 19, £9–£11 The HandleBards: The Tempest Assembly George Square Gardens, 14–18 Aug, £15 Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50 Einstein Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £8–£10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15 Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 6–26 Aug, £52 The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15 Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £17.50 Sexy Lamp Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50 Blown Fuse theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £10 Alaska Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Blood and Gold Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

@SimCos3000 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7 Going Slightly Mad Bedlam Theatre, 6–16 Aug, not 12, £10 If This Is Normal ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10 Citizens of Nowhere?

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16 Tales of the Condemned Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £8 Pronoun Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker... and the Commentator Panmure House, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, £12 The Last Five Years PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £11 Wet C venues – C viva, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50 Piano Man theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £5 The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 8, 11, 15, £12 Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 6 Aug, 8 Aug, £8

Leave a Message Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

Churn Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

MARA Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

Just a Number theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

14:05

I, AmDram Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £7–£9 Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

Délicieux theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £5 Who Killed Bambi? theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8.50 The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £7 Level Up theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50

14:10 Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 6–24 Aug, not 10, FREE Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8.50 Top Trumps theSpace on the Mile, 6–9 Aug, £6 Moon Walk theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8 Narukami Thunder God theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12 Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8–£9 Knock Knock theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8 Dream of a King theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £9

Jc Says Finally 1951–2019 Paradise in Augustines, 19 Aug, £4 The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11 On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £15–£17 Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Broken Funnies Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, 20, £5

14:20 Goodnight Mister Tom theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £7 Loving the Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £8–£9

Chaika: First Woman in Space theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

10:31, MCR theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £7

Ane City Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12

Romeo and Juliet: A Capulet Soirée Argyle Cellar Bar, 6–10 Aug, £8

Black Holes Zoo Southside, 19–25 Aug, £14

My Mate Dave Died C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10.50

14:15 The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12 Manifesting Mrs Marx Paradise in Augustines, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £12 Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 8 Aug to 25 Aug, £15–£17 Like Animals Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 22 Aug, £11 The Happiness Project Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £10 The Mackerel Eaters Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19–23 Aug, £5 Before 30 Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

14:25

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15

Monsoon Season Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11

35,000 C venues – C south, 18–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Goodbye Charles – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–25 Aug, FREE

I’m Just Kidneying Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £7

The Snoopy Question theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7

Taboo Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £10

B’Witches PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 15–25 Aug, FREE

The Gray Cat and the Flounder Assembly George Square Studios, 6–22 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14

Animal Farm (Bond) Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £10

Murder on the Dancefloor Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£11

Butterbum, J theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £5

Steve Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10

The Experiment theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10 We Want You to Watch theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Fifty Shades of Shakespeare theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–9 Aug, £8 Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, £10

14:30 Drowning Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress) Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Mama’s Eggnog PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50 Tumours Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15 Passengers Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Hall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £17.50 Men Chase Women Choose Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £8 Antigone C venues – C cubed, 6–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £20 Spliced Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £21 I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 12–18 Aug, £9 Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12 Deer Woman CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £11 Victor PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–15 Aug, £10 Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17 Aug, £12

Toby Belch (Is Unwell) Sweet Grassmarket, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £10

Two of a Kind C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Bulldogs Paradise in The Vault, 6–9 Aug, £9

Anti-Depressed? theSpace on North Bridge, 14–17 Aug, £9

A Womb of One’s Own Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 22, £10–£12

Power of Music 1 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 19 Aug, £8

14:40

Do Our Best Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Power of Music 3 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8

When the Birds Come Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £9

Fake News Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11

Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 12–17 Aug, £7

Inka Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £10

Like Me Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8

Macbeth theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

Mémoires d’un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie) St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Late Lunch with Biggins Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£15

These Streets Paradise in The Vault, 19–21 Aug, £10 A Voice C venues – C cubed, 18–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Mythos: Heroes Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25 More Myself Than I Am PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £11.50 Beat Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£13.50 Suddenly Last Summer St Ninian’s Hall, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, £12 Limbo Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £10 Power of Music 2 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8

Bi-Cycle Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9–£10 Put Your Best Face On Zoo Southside, 6–11 Aug, £10

14:45 Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15.50

14:55 Alan Ayckbourn’s No Knowing theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12 The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £9

15:00 Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation The Studio, 10–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, £20 The Wrong Ffion Jones Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

The De Nova Super Assembly George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12

Happily Never After Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10.50–£11.50 Thunderstruck Assembly Checkpoint, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14

Salmon Assembly Rooms, 6–12 Aug, £10–£12

This Island’s Mine theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8

Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

Ideology and Hair Gel Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, £12

14:35

Spray Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, £12–£14

The Tartan Pimpernel Hill Street Theatre, 6–11 Aug, £12

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15

Ex-Batts and Broilers Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £10–£12

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

14:50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15

Surprise Package Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 10 Aug, £9

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl Venue 13, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

A Partnership Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£9.50

Shattered Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£11 CapeAbility theSpace @ Niddry St, 10–11 Aug, £9 beep boop Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11–£12 Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50 Jekyll and Hyde Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£13 Roots Church Hill Theatre, 11 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25 I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’ Caesar Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, 25, £13.50–£14.50 Raised Voices theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £5 Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7

A Holy Show Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 TalkFest – Ways and Means: Theatre in 2019 and Beyond Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £5 The Poetry of God and War St Vincent’s, 16 Aug, FREE Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7 Anything With a Pulse ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 17, £10 300 to 1 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE Oedipus King’s Theatre, 17 Aug, £15 Zombie Zoo Hill Street Theatre, 10–25 Aug, £12 a crown of laurels Paradise in Augustines, 6–10 Aug, £10 Myra Imagination Workshop, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 The Sinners Club theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £5 Anguis Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £12–£13 Wrestling Mania!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 10, 17, FREE The Penguin Tango theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £10 Jumping the Barriers Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE Johnny Depp: A Retrospective on Late-Stage Capitalism Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–10 Aug, FREE The Trial Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Buds of May Be Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £15 The National Trust Fan Club Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12–£13 Vessel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £15 TERRAtory Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £8

Sales Pitch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

A Grave Situation Pleasance Courtyard, 6–17 Aug, £7.50–£10

15:05

Nights at the Circus ZOO Playground, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Me and My theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8.50 The South Afreakins theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £9 Yerloo Underground Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10 Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9 The South Afreakins: The Afreakin Family theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £9 If It Didn’t Matter theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–9 Aug, £8 Chain of Trivia theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £10 Conscious theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £7 Bacon theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £11

All in the Timing Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7 Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE David Benson – Cato Street 1820 Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £8–£10 The Sensemaker ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10–£12 The Burning Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13 Definitely Louise Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £8–£9 Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 15, £9–£10

STYX Zoo Southside, 6–17 Aug, £14

Unicorns, Almost – An Audio Installation Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 6–10 Aug, £5

Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £5

I Am Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5

The Visitors theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8.50

Blodeuwedd Untold Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

15:10

FATTY FAT FAT Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£10

The Dandelion Patch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7 A Wake in Progress Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7

44 Days Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 7–8 Aug, £5 The Suitcase, the Beggar and the Wind PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE

15:20

All of Me Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15

The Professor Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £11–£13

Endless Second Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£10.50

Leopold Vindictive theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Roots theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8

The War of the Worlds Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15

15:15

Woman! Pilot! Pirate?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Naughty Boy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£9.50

Bike theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £5

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Real Eyes theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8

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The Cult That Made Spoons: A Fork in the Road Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6 Aug, £5 Hatch Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50 In Conversation with...

Nicola Sturgeon The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £15 The Giver Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry Tadlock PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 6–24 Aug, FREE In Her Corner theSpace on the Mile, 7–23 Aug, not 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, £9.50

15:25 The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–18 Aug, £9–£11 The Wind in the Willows theSpace @ Venue45, 19–24 Aug, £8 Tea?...(With Milk) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Forbruker ZOO Playground, 6–10 Aug, £10

15:30 Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 21, £10 Barry Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15 Worldwidewestern French Institute, 14 Aug, £10 All Work, No Play Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, £8 Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–18 Aug, £12 With Child Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 The Glass Elephant The Royal Scots Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £8.50 Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5 SWIM Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Three PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–11 Aug, £4.50 Cauliflower PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Pink House PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–26 Aug, £12 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 7–26 Aug, not 10, £24 Arrivals theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50 A Complicated Man Bedlam Theatre, 16–20 Aug, £10 Ugly Youth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £8

Portents Bedlam Theatre, 7–15 Aug, not 13, £10

15:35 Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8 Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–25 Aug, £14–£16 Toothbrush theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £5 Leverage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

15:40 The Struggling Life of an Artist C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £8.50–£10.50 Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £11 Speaking Out: A Conversation with John Bercow The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–14 Aug, £16 Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £15 Fulfilment Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Regeneration Game Workshop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 7 Aug, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £5

15:45 Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21

Pink Lemonade Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £10–£12 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–23 Aug, not 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, £15 Until the Flood Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21 BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 Almost, Maine theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5 Since U Been Gone Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12 Nightclubbing Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £12 How to Be Brave Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15 Medea C venues – C cubed, 6–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21 If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 12, £15–£16.50 A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin C venues – C cubed, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

15:50 Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12–£14

She Kills Monsters theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5 Under Milk Wood theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £8 Bible John Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Adolf The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11–12 Aug, £15

15:55 To Be or Not to Be? Purgatory Is the Question Paradise in The Vault, 12–17 Aug, £8 The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £9–£11

James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2019: The Award Ceremony Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £7 Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20 The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, 12–26 Aug, not 19, £13 DUPed Sweet Grassmarket, 9–10 Aug, £10 This Script Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–11 Aug, £12 (Ab)solution Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, £7

Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

16:00

Iain Dale: All Talk Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–11 Aug, £13–£14

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 The Patient Gloria Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22 Coma Summerhall, 8–25 Aug, £7.50 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£14 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15 Trying It On Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22 Well That’s Oz Venue 13, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Alfie and George CANCELLED Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12 Black Is the Color of My Voice Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 12 Aug to 26 Aug, £13–£14 How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22 Citizens of Nowhere?

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16 The Red Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£13 Mrs Shaw Herself Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC, 8–11 Aug, £10 Resurrecting Bobby Awl Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15

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Beyond: Sugar Mice Paradise in Augustines, 6–16 Aug, not 11, £8

This Time Will Be Different Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £10

Julius Caesar Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Brandy theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12 Home Just Festival at St John’s , 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £10 Crocodile Fever Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22 Miijin Ki Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10 Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand Panmure House, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

16:05 Moby Dick Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12 Trips and Falls theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £9 The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 6 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£12 LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre Summerhall, 6–17 Aug, not 12, 13, £10 To Move In Time Summerhall, 19–24 Aug, £10 The Feminazis theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8 Scottee: Class Assembly Roxy, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 19, 20, £12–£14 Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10 Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

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Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 11, £8

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E8 Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13

Getting to Know Katie Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

Mary’s Room theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, £8

Bleeding Black Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Boswell PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £11.50

Unknown Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7.50

Beyond Glory theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £9–£10

Such Filthy F*cks Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

16:25

Ticker Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12 Predictably Irrational theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10

Want Some More theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £10 Love and Sex and All Things In-Between theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, £10

PAMALA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £7

Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12

16:15

Unmeetables theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–18 Aug, not 11, £5–£10

Westminster Hour Part 2 Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

16:30

The Castle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50

Enough Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £15 Inflatable Space Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12–£14 The Djinns of Eidgah Sweet Grassmarket, 6–18 Aug, not 11, £10 First Time Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £14.50

Luminescence theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 9 Aug to 16 Aug, £5

Apollo: Take 111 Zoo Southside, 6–26 Aug, not 11, 18, 25, £10

Chagos 1971 ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 8, 15, 22, £10

8:8 Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £8

Typical Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10–£12

Bottoms Up! theSpace on the Mile, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Confirmation Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£12

Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 6 Aug to 17 Aug, £11

subsist Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9

Passion Perspectives theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £9

The Try-Hards Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £7

The Nights by Henry Naylor Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£14

16:10

Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, £11

Mirror Canon theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £5

16:20 Native Girl Syndrome Summerhall, 7–11 Aug, £10

The Legacy of William Ireland PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £11.50 Faultlines Palmerston Place Church, 9–10 Aug, £9 The Trojans Pleasance at EICC, 7 Aug, £15 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Akala – In Conversation – Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6 Aug, £16 Gone Full Havisham Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–25 Aug, not 18, 19, £10–£12 Everything I Do Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Yellow ZOO Playground, 18–26 Aug, £10 Bedlam Sweet Grassmarket, 6–18 Aug, not 11, £7

Faultlines Carrubbers, 12–17 Aug, £9 The National and ELT Short Play Winners Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12 Progress ZOO Playground, 6–17 Aug, £10 A Payment Unkind Sweet Grassmarket, 19–22 Aug, £10

16:45 Fragility of Man Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, £10–£12.50 Arguing On-Air C venues – C viva, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £7.50–£9.50 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 CONSPIRACY Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12 Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9–£11 Synesthesia the Musical Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 15–25 Aug, FREE Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£9

16:50

Ubu the King C venues – C south, 6–10 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Shit Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Northanger Abbey French Institute, 12–24 Aug, not 14, 15, £12

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Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £7

Honey ZOO Playground, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £12

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

16:55 The Kiss C venues – C aquila, 6–10 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Tartuffe Assembly Rooms, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15 Sary Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 Polaris Scottish Poetry Library, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 12, 18, 19, £8 Pathetic Fallacy CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11 Underwater PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–15 Aug, FREE Sharon Stacy Statue Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7 Fawk Paradise in Augustines, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 22 Aug, £15 Freak Show Paradise in Augustines, 8 Aug, 9 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15 CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE Candy Factory Wee Red Bar, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12 Morning Glory Planet Bar, 12–16 Aug, FREE

16:35

Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £7

Confetti and Chaos (Formerly The Wedding Reception) Imagination Workshop, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, 22, £45–£47.50

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7

Standard:Elite Bedlam Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11

Contact Light Pianodrome at The Pitt, 19–24 Aug, £10

16:40

Dorian Gray theSpace on the Mile, 19–23 Aug, £5

That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, 6–20 Aug, not 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, £15

The Incident Room Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £12.50–£14.50

The Last of the Pelican Daughters Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 17, £11.50–£13.50 Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £6 Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the House in the Forest theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8 Fags, Mags and Bags Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £13.50–£15.50

17:00 Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Drunk Lion Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 7–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Giant Wolf Theatre – Playback Leith Depot, 14–17 Aug, £5 Coma Summerhall, 8–25 Aug, £7.50 Attila the Stockbroker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE

Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors C venues – C south, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50

17:05 Parakeet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15 At This Stage theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8 I Pilgrim theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £10 Volpone theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £8

If I Die on Mars theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £8 Seasoned Professionals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7 Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 [BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8

17:10 Suffering from Scottishness Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £10–£12 Gun Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11 Not Black and White Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8–£12 Silence in Court Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12 The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch Ness Monster theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

17:15 Lest You Forget Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £8 Attila the Stockbroker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 19–21 Aug, FREE Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, £7 My Best Dead Friend Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Apologies to the Bengali Lady Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5 Keith Moon: The Real Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £11–£12 Unicorns, Almost – An Audio Installation Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 6–10 Aug, £5

8:8 Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £8 Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 9 Aug, £5 Macbeth theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £12 BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 Mouthpiece Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 8 Aug, £5 Mr Nice Guy theSpace on the Mile, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £6 The Dance of Hands Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

17:20 Conversations With Van Gogh Zoo Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £7–£10 Getting to Grips with Migraine theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £6 Belongings Venue 13, 6–9 Aug, £7 Wrath of Achilles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10 Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10 Adrift Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £7

Sunset theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £9

Souvenirs Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £10

Noise Boys Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £13–£16

17:35

Pan Breid theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £8

The Long Road theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £10

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10

Woyzeck Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10

Hello? Hello. theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £8

Numbers C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50

17:30

Isabelle C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Degrees of Guilt theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Crowned with Glory and Honour Carrubbers, 6–10 Aug, £5

18:00

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £19.50

Electrolyte Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 10, £13–£14.50 The Winter’s Tale Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5

17:25

Superstar Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 High Trees Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £5–£7.50 Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £10 Arthur Your Home, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £100 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 The Golden Fly Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10 I Am Mark Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–17 Aug, £10 Bryony Kimmings: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £15–£17

Tally Ho, Secret Several! theSpace on North Bridge, 15–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Order from Chaos Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 7 Aug to 23 Aug, £10

Shut Up, Helen! theSpace on North Bridge, 6–14 Aug, not 11, £9

My Mum’s a Twat Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Bull theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Checkpoint Paradise in The Vault, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10

Hallowed Ground – Women Doctors in War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Nemesis 2 – The Game Changer Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–8 Aug, £8 I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £10

CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 12 Aug, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE The Letter Pleasance Dome, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£12 Bowjangles: Excalibow Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–7 Aug, £10–£12

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree C venues – C south, 11–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 There Is No Problem (Here) theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £8

17:40 Electric Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 Pizza Shop Heroes Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £12

17:45 A Short Cut to Happiness ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £10 Mark Can’t Rap PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 6–18 Aug, FREE Daddy Drag Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Cruise to Hell theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £8 My Name Is Irrelevant Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 The Liar theSpace @ Venue45, 6–7 Aug, £5 Perfect Sweet Novotel, 18–24 Aug, £8 Can You See Where I’m Coming From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE

17:50 Hitman and Her PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 13, 20, £11.50

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13.50

Coma Summerhall, 8–25 Aug, £7.50

Uncensored Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6

A Short, Sharp History of the Olympic Games: Extracts from 1936 by Tom McNab Eric Liddell Centre, 8 Aug, £10

Questions for Quiz Shows Summerhall, 17 Aug, £6

The Red Hourglass Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–14 Aug, £13 Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1 Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, £10 Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£12 Everything I See I Swallow Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 A Khoisan Woman Summerhall, 8 Aug, £6 Garlands Summerhall, 19 Aug, £6 The Ladies Room Summerhall, 6 Aug, £6 The Grape That Rolled Under the Fridge Summerhall, 13 Aug, £6 The Making of Chariots of Fire Eric Liddell Centre, 7 Aug, £10 Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–25 Aug, FREE Alice Hawkins – Suffragette Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 12–16 Aug, £8 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 7–26 Aug, not 10, 13, £24

Dada, Surrealism, Bowie and Pop: The Puzzle of Avant-Garde Art Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £15 Pass Summerhall, 10 Aug, £6 Iain Dale: All Talk Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–11 Aug, £13–£14 Out of Your Mind Summerhall, 15 Aug, £6

18:05 The Good, The Bad and The Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–23 Aug, £11 Kurl Up and Dye theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8 Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £9 baby-go-round theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £10–£12 Dear Mr Dead Head theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £8–£10 Auto-Nation theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £8 Rock’n’Roll Girls theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8 Ghostly Tales theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug, £8 This Play Is Not About Me theSpace on the Mile, 23–24 Aug, £5

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Four Woke Baes Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11.50–£12.50

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Improv!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Listings

103 Do You Ever Get Scared? theSpaceTriplex, 6–10 Aug, £10

18:10

Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 6–25 Aug, £12–£14

In the Shadow of the Black Dog Assembly Rooms, 6–23 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

18:25

18:35

Grit Venue 13, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £7

18:15

Confessions of the Romantically Challenged Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Hitler’s Tasters Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £11

LARP ZOO Playground, 6–10 Aug, £10

Until the Flood Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

FemFringe Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, £5

Intolerable Side Effects Zoo Southside, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10

18:55

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £15

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£16

Low Level Panic The Royal Scots Club, 12–17 Aug, £10

Moby Dick C venues – C aquila, 6–9 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 11–17 Aug, FREE

If Mouth Could Speak ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £8

Liminality theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12 The Last Bread Pudding theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8

Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, £8.50 Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band) Frankenstein Pub, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21 The 900 Club Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £5 Grave Scottish Poetry Library, 6 Aug, £5 Word Jazzology Scottish Poetry Library, 9–10 Aug, £10

18:20 Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 14, 20, £10 Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9 Thief by Liam Rudden Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12

Theatre

Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9

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Who Cares Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12 30 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Civilisation Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

Heir Heads theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9 Pops Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

18:40 Trust the Teenagers theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £6 Losing My Mindfulness Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9–25 Aug, FREE

Gobby Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–15 Aug, £10–£11

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Love and Misinformation Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £12

Torch Town Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7

SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £7

Twice Over Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £12

18:30

Drawn and Quartered C venues – C cubed, 6–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Enough Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

18:45

Risk Assessment Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £8

Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

8:8 Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5

That’s What She Said Scottish Poetry Library, 15–17 Aug, £9 Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Quaker Meeting House, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £6 Last Life: A Shakespeare Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8 A(Poke)alypse Now – Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m Still Here PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 6–24 Aug, not 17, FREE

Between Us theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £9.50

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50

Subject Mater Paradise in The Vault, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £14

Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 19–21 Aug, £10

Minor Disruptions Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 17, 18, £10 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £5 Ashes Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 Miss AmeriKa Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13 Metamorphosis Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10 Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

18:50 The Graveyard Shift theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Unicorn Party ZOO Playground, 11–26 Aug, not 18, £10

Tokyo Rose Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

Dancing in the Moonlight – A Play About Phil Lynott PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–14 Aug, £11

Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Meatball Séance PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 13, FREE

Sex Education Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

19:10

Being and Nothingness theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8 Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12

Being Norwegian by David Greig Venue 13, 6–9 Aug, £10

St Mark Live! A Dramatic Presentation of the Gospel According to Mark St Vincent’s, 12 Aug, £10

Who Is Daniel King Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Just Like a Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Marie Lloyd Stole My Life theSpace on the Mile, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9

Jock Tamson’s Bairns Laughing Horse @ Ghillie Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE

The Silent House PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–11 Aug, £11.50

Macbeth C venues – C south, 6–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Gregory’s Girl Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13

Kemp’s Jig theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 6 Aug to 17 Aug, £9

Dead Equal Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 17, 18, 19, £12

19:00 Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £46.50–£62.50 The Patient Gloria Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22 Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50 Stand-Up Poet Imagination Workshop, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £11 Static ZOO Playground, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£10 Worldwidewestern French Institute, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 15, 19, £10 The Merry Wives of Windsor The Royal Scots Club, 6–10 Aug, £12 Trying It On Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22 Buzzing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–26 Aug, £10 Peter Gynt Festival Theatre, 6–9 Aug, £15 Songs in the Key of Cree CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £11

Unnatural ELREC Room, 6–14 Aug, £5 Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Green & Blue Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Courage Calls to Courage: The Suffragist Musical!

PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–9 Aug, £10 Marx in Soho PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50 Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15 Crocodile Fever Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22 Dr Faustus PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–7 Aug, £11.50 The Amazing Dyslexic Poetry Show Lauriston Halls, 6–10 Aug, £5

19:05 Jewbana theSpace @ Venue45, 8–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9.50 Bodily Functions and Where to Find Them theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7–£8 44 Inch Chest theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8 McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Drone Summerhall, 6–17 Aug, not 12, £14

19:15 Peer Gynt Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 HoneyBee Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11 8:8 Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8 Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 12–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Neither Here Nor There Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, £10 Coming Home With Me Sweet Novotel, 6–11 Aug, £8 The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 19–21 Aug, £11 Chameleon ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £9 Blockbusters Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10 The 39 Steps Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 Down It Fresher!

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 6–11 Aug, FREE Witches?! In Salem!?

Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

19:20 Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9 Oh Yes Oh No Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

Milkshake theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

Green Knight Scottish Poetry Library, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, £10

19:25

The Afflicted Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £14

Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £10

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae Sweet Grassmarket, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £10

Shadow C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50

Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22 Aug, £6

Pick Up theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50 Midges theSpace @ Niddry St, 12–17 Aug, £7

19:30 Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50 1902 Wee Red Bar, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £12 Roots Church Hill Theatre, 9–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £25

Confessionals Scottish Poetry Library, 6 Aug, £8 Tales of the Condemned Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 8 Aug, 12 Aug, £8 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 13 Aug, £24 The Long Pigs Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £14–£16 Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 19 Aug, £25

From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £10–£11

A Trilogy of Horrors: Volume I Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–11 Aug, £10

Rhythm of the Dance The Brunton , 7 Aug, £24.50

Suddenly Last Summer St Ninian’s Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £12

Pre-View Traverse Theatre, 12 Aug, £7 Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 6–25 Aug, not 10, 12, 19, £52–£57.50

The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £12 Surprise Package Saughtonhall United Reformed Church, 6–10 Aug, £9

Mythos: Men Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Stepping Out theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £15

Perfect Wedding The Royal Scots Club, 19–24 Aug, £12.50

19:35

The Wild Unfeeling World Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £9–£11 The Secret River King’s Theatre, 6–10 Aug, £15 Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £20 Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 6–16 Aug, weekdays only, £12 Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

2 Clowns 1 Cup Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 6 Aug to 17 Aug, £9 In Your Wet Dreams Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7 Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 6–31 Aug, £16 Stanley theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7 And Then They Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7

Bost Uni Plues Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 7 Aug, 9 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9

19:40 Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Purple C venues – C aquila, 6–10 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

19:45 America Is Hard to See Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

19:55 Clouds theSpace on the Mile, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Who Did I Think She Was? Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6–25 Aug, FREE

A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, FREE

20:00

20:05

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation The Studio, 7–25 Aug, not 12, 19, 21, 24, £20 Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50

Fudge Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Waiting for Godot The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20

Forbidden Fruit Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8

Girl Bully Laughing Horse @ The Place, 6–10 Aug, FREE

Sugar Sweet Novotel, 14–24 Aug, not 21, £7

Smut Slam: Where Sexy and Storytelling Collide The Safari Lounge, 7 Aug, 14 Aug, £10

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £19.50 SHINE Zoo Southside, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12 Digital Masks to Africa – Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5 The Pillowman theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5 Miles Behind Sweet Novotel, 6–12 Aug, £7

19:50 The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8 Being Frank About Sinatra Paradise in The Vault, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £11 Conversations With Myself C venues – C cubed, 6–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 The Canary and the Crow Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £14–£15 Unspoken (One Day in the Life of a Park Bench) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £6 leaves Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £10

2Elfth Night Paradise in Augustines, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £5

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £20 Oedipus King’s Theatre, 14–16 Aug, £15 The Examination Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£13.50 HOTTER Underbelly, Cowgate, 12–25 Aug, £9–£10 Yours Sincerely Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £10–£11 Son of Dyke Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–11 Aug, £9–£10 Hair of the Wild C venues – C at SESH Hairdressing, 9–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50 Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £12

Dumbing Down Trauma?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6 Aug, 21 Aug, £10

Butterflies ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £10

Traumboy Summerhall, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £12

Takin’ It Easy, 1916 theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Neglecting Midwives Gives Mothers PTSD The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £10

Serenity ZOO Playground, 6–10 Aug, £14

20:10 Sex, Drugs and Bilingualism The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

Move or Die! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11 Aug, £10

20:15

Art is Shit The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10

Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu

by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, 6–23 Aug, not 8, 11, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, £10–£11

Are Women Assholes?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 8 Aug, £10

The Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 18, £6–£8

Does Sex Still Sell?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

Up and Away theSpace on the Mile, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £6–£8

Is God a Psychopath?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 10 Aug, £10

ANTics Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

Who Owns History?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £10 Are You a Problem Addict?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10 Blame It on the Algorithm!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

There She Is PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £10

OK Computer or Paranoid Android?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 7 Aug, £10

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15

O Sister, Where Art Thou?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 9 Aug, £10

This Show Will Make You Sharper!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £10

The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

What Are You Wearing?

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE

It’s Beautiful, Over There Venue 13, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 12, 21, £10

Doubt ZOO Playground, 12–25 Aug, not 18, £7–£10

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 19, £12–£14

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15

Don’t Bank on the Bankers The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

Fake News Kills World!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10 Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10 Traumgirl Summerhall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 25 Aug, £12

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15 Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 8 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£11 The Brunch Club Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 7–24 Aug, not 13, 20, £9–£12 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50 School Gays theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £11 Cactus PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 15, FREE

20:20 Reservoir Dugs theSpace @ Venue45, 9–17 Aug, not 11, £10 The Good Scout theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £12

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Le Monocle theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–9 Aug, £8

Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 6–16 Aug, not 11, £12

Listings

105 Green & Blue Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £10

Hindsight theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £11 House of Hundred C venues – C aquila, 6–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Tuck Into Poetry – A Lite Bite of Cheese and Puns theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Section 28: The Legacy of a Homophobic Law theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8 Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

20:25 Nothing to Hide theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

A Family Affair Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 7–10 Aug, £12 Bitch, Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12

20:55

Contractions PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–18 Aug, £11.50

Honeypot Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8

20:35

Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality Summerhall, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10

The Life of Spies theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £10 Broken English theSpace on North Bridge, 19–23 Aug, £10

21:00

The Last Bubble theSpace on North Bridge, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

20:40

Coma Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, £7.50

Skylar MacDonald’s Fact Machine C venues – C aquila, 6–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

20:30

Hold On Let Go Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 7, 12, 20, £10

20:45

Taking Flight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–10 Aug, £7

James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship Summerhall, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15

The Collection of Professor Novak PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, FREE

Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 7–26 Aug, not 10, 13, £24 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15 The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

Paradise in The Vault, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £7 Consumers Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £7

20:50 Father Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12 The Bald Soprano Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, £12–£14

McNaughton Scottish Arts Club, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 12 Aug, 14 Aug, £15

Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, 22, £47.50–£52

Under the Floorboards PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 6 Aug to 13 Aug, £11.50

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15

A Rock’n’Roll Suicide!

Zoo Southside, 6–26 Aug, £10 Enough Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, £21

Employ Me, You Cowards!

Scottish Poetry Library, 13–23 Aug, not 18, 19, £7

James Rowland’s Team Viking Summerhall, Various dates from 6 Aug to 23 Aug, £12.50

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

Said and Done Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 19, £9

Wait, What?

ZOO Playground, 11–15 Aug, £6–£8

Blind Date CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11

Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–19 Aug, £16

I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £9

Playground Scottish Poetry Library, 6–9 Aug, £5

James Rowland’s Revelations Summerhall, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £12.50

Making a Murderer: Part 2 – Brendan Dassey’s Post-Conviction Lawyers Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin in Conversation The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 11–15 Aug, £19

Before Dance Base, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £13

Footnotes Summerhall, Various dates from 6 Aug to 24 Aug, £12

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15

A Trilogy of Horrors: Volume II Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–11 Aug, £10

The Taming of the Shrew The Royal Scots Club, 12–17 Aug, £10

The Rise and Fall of Patti Superb ZOO Playground, 6–10 Aug, £10

Theatre

The Passion of the Playboy Riots PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £12–£12.50

Unexpected Turbulence Paradise in Augustines, 6–9 Aug, £9.50

Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50

106

Seamonster, the Story PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 12 Aug, 19 Aug, FREE

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12 Akala – In Conversation – Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6 Aug, £16 pool (no water) The Royal Scots Club, 6–10 Aug, £12 Cadaver Synod Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £8.50 tEMPORARY sANITY PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, £11.50 The Staircase: An Evening with David Rudolf from Netflix’s The Staircase The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–10 Aug, £19 James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love Summerhall, Various dates from 7 Aug to 24 Aug, £12.50

The People’s Boat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8

Bullarena Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £10

21:15 Burgerz Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21 Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 7–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £15–£17 Peer Gynt Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5 Flowers for Algernon Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5 Until the Flood Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21 Faustus theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £7 The Grandmothers Grimm Paradise in The Vault, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £9 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15 BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 7–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £5 Witches?! In Salem!?

Central Hall, 6 Aug, £5

21:20 There’s Something Missing ZOO Playground, 6–26 Aug, £10

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 9 Aug to 24 Aug, £19.50 Homer to Hip Hop: A History of Spoken Word PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 12–16 Aug, FREE Time Please PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £11.50 Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10 Everyman theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £9 Punched PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 7–8 Aug, £11.50

21:35 Solitary Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £10–£11 Shakespeare Up Late!

C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £8.50–£10.50 amendments: A Play on Words theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

21:40 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £8

21:10

Sound Cistem ZOO Playground, 11–26 Aug, £10

Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place Pleasance Dome, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9–£11

Misfit Warrior theSpace on North Bridge, 6–24 Aug, not 11, £10

Musik Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £12–£16.50

The American’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

The Populars Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12

21:45

Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Nine Months theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10

Our Saviour theSpaceTriplex, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £8

Contra Summerhall, 6–11 Aug, £12

21:30

Brandi Alexander Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9.50–£10.50

Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8 More Fool You: Part I Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 12 Aug to 24 Aug, £10.50 Hearty Summerhall, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 More Fool You: Part II Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

Father of Lies Sweet Novotel, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9

Boxed Out Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

Coma Summerhall, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Wuthering Heights PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 12–15 Aug, £11.50

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Digital Masks to Africa – Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5 The Pillowman theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5

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Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8 The Last King of Porn Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10

21:55 zounds! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £10 Working On My Night Moves Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £12 Don’t Frighten the Straights!

Paradise in Augustines, 6–25 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9 How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 12–17 Aug, £8

Dan Webber – Genre Fluid PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–9 Aug, £5

Tang Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8

I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron Zoo Southside, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £10

Mojo theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster Traverse Theatre, 10 Aug, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22 How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 9 Aug, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15 Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, £15 Crocodile Fever Traverse Theatre, 7 Aug, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Bit of Sunshine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–23 Aug, £7

Absolutely Reliable!

C venues – C cubed, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9.50–£11.50

22:00

Pits Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger theSpace on the Mile, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £12 The Patient Gloria Traverse Theatre, 6 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

The Passion of the Playboy Riots PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 10–18 Aug, £11.50–£12

22:05

Mental Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

To Fall in Love Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £10

Trying It On Traverse Theatre, 8 Aug, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Die or Run Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £12

One Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12

22:10 No Fun and Games Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5

My Father the Tantric Masseur Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11

22:15 The Nana Schewitz Pass-Me-Over Party PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, FREE Searchers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10.50–£11.50 You Have a Match theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £10

22:20 Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £7 Warwick Improv Presents: Anything You Want theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £8

22:35

Tricky Second Album Pleasance Dome, 6–18 Aug, £9–£11

The Mannequin theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Don’t Be Terrible Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£11

Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace on North Bridge, 12–17 Aug, £8

The Ladies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

FemFringe Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5

22:40 Don’t Do It, Don’t Do It, Do It! theSpace on North Bridge, 6–10 Aug, £5–£7 Tess theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £12 Dissident Sausage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £7–£8 Redacted Arachnid C venues – C aquila, 6–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

22:25

Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Grave Concern theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £9

22:45

22:30

Boar Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £9–£11

TGIF theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £8–£9 Monogamy PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–26 Aug, £11.50 Steve Lamacq: Going Deaf for a Living Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–16 Aug, £15

23:00

Svetlana Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 13, 20, £12–£13

22:50 The Bacchae Paradise in The Vault, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £9

22:55 The Slinks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £10–£11

23:05

23:10 Murder Ballads Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Inferno, Kid Paradise in Augustines, 12–17 Aug, £5–£7.50 Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug, £17.50 Dead Parents Society Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 12–17 Aug, £8 Defying Logic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 A Clockwork Orange Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–22 Aug, £8.50 The Super Sad and Really Tragical Story of Analeise Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £10

23:15 O Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10 Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £9

Dissident Sausage theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–17 Aug, £3–£8

23:20 Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10

23:25 Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £9

23:30 Hot Flush Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

23:50 Beauty is Pain Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £8–£8.50

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21:50 Before the Revolution Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

09:15

10:30

Tales of Neverland (0+) Central Hall, 8 Aug, £5

Bambino Beats – Summertime Boogie Under the Sea (0+) Stockbridge Church, 6–9 Aug, £6

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

10:00 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (5+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £10 Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Microbodyssey (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, not 13, £9.50 Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 6–16 Aug, not 12, FREE A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Baker Street Irregulars and the Case of the Stolen Portrait (8+) theSpace on the Mile, 6–10 Aug, £8 Jo Jingles – Jo Tours Bonnie Scotland (0+) Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 7–10 Aug, FREE Science Adventures (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £10 The Stinky Cheese Man... and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (0+) theSpace @ Venue45, 7 Aug, £5 Window (0+) Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £6 Looking Down on Me (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7

10:10 Annie Jr (5+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £8

10:15 CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–13 Aug, FREE

Kids

10:20 Sparkle (3+) Summerhall, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10 Grimm Tales (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8

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Moonbird (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 20, £8.50–£10 Topsy and Turvy’s Twisty Turny Journey (3+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 6–10 Aug, £8 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (0+) C venues – C south, 9–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Flamenco for Kids (0+) C venues – C viva, 10 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50 Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8 Shark in the Park (3+) Assembly George Square, 6–18 Aug, not 14, £10–£12 So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs...?! with Dr Ben Garrod (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 9–17 Aug, £9–£11 Romantic Romeo (5+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11 One Duck Down (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10 Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 Celeste’s Circus (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 9–25 Aug, not 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, £8 Comète (5+) Assembly Checkpoint, 6–26 Aug, not 8, 13, £9–£11 Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8 Children’s Silent Disco (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 6–26 Aug, £10 Spec-tacular (3+) PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 6–18 Aug, £11.50 Little Top (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 6–17 Aug, not 12, £8 I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, 19, £8.50–£11

10:40 The Bubble Show (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 15–26 Aug, £10–£12 The Bubble Show (0+) Assembly George Square, 6–13 Aug, £10–£12

10:45 Hey Diddle Diddle (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–14 Aug, £8–£10 Monster School Jurassic!

(3+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 9–25 Aug, not 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, £7.50

Beauty and the Beast (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–11 Aug, £10–£11

Rhyme Marmalade (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Dream Machine (5+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 12–18 Aug, £10–£11

Princess Pumpalot: The Ghostly Farting Monk Hunt (3+) Le Monde, Various dates from 6 Aug to 12 Aug, £8

Little Wings (5+) theSpace on North Bridge, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5

10:50

The Tale of Hamlet the Viking (8+) The Royal Scots Club, 6–10 Aug, £12

Rocket Girl (5+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10

11:00 Jerry and the Adventures of the HMS Stargazer (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–10 Aug, £8 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE Sunshine (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 6–25 Aug, not 12, £9–£10 A Long Road Home (3+) Carrubbers, 12–17 Aug, £7

Games With James (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–18 Aug, not 14, FREE

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 6–26 Aug, £8 Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 6 Aug to 15 Aug, £9 Lost in a Book (0+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–8 Aug, £5 Ned and the Whale (3+) theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 6–18 Aug, not 8, 12, 13, £9 Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £14.50–£15.50

Rave & Behave (5+) Pleasance Dome, Various dates from 6 Aug to 26 Aug, £11–£12

Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £11–£12

Tappuccino (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 14, £7.50–£8.50

Treasure Island (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

A Long Road Home (3+) Palmerston Place Church, 9–10 Aug, £7

Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–23 Aug, not 12, FREE The Bureau of Untold Stories (3+) Museum of Childhood, 12–18 Aug, FREE The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (5+) Assembly George Square Studios, 7–17 Aug, £10–£12 Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

11:10

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 6 Aug to 15 Aug, £8

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–19 Aug, not 13, £10–£13

Doodle Pop (3+) Assembly George Square Studios, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£11

Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 12–24 Aug, not 18, £8

11:05 Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Olaf Falafel – It’s One Giant Leek for Mankind (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–11 Aug, FREE Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–23 Aug, FREE

11:15 Spontaneous Potter Kidz (5+) Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 10 Aug, £10 Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 6–17 Aug, FREE CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 6–25 Aug, not 15, 20, 22, FREE Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 6–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£9.50 Slime (0+) Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, £7–£8

Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 6–16 Aug, not 12, FREE Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £8.50–£10 Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show (3+) Imagination Workshop, 8–18 Aug, £10 Jo Jingles – Jo Tours Bonnie Scotland (0+) Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 7–10 Aug, FREE Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–23 Aug, not 13, £9–£11 The Greatest Magic Show (3+) Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £10–£12 Down with the Poetry King! (8+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–18 Aug, £8–£9 Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

11:40 The Fablesmiths (5+) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 6–17 Aug, not 11, £7

11:45

11:20

VIKING (8+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–18 Aug, £10–£11

Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+) C venues – C viva, 6–26 Aug, not 13, £7.50–£9.50

Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50

Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island (3+) Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 7 Aug, £5 Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+) Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 10 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

11:50 Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 6–25 Aug, not 10, FREE The Snow Queen (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6 Aug, £5

Joyce (0+) Assembly Roxy, 6–26 Aug, £11–£12

When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 6–24 Aug, not 11, 18, FREE

11:30

Brave Macbeth (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, £8.50–£10

11:25

First Piano on the Moon: Will Pickvance (5+) Summerhall, 6–18 Aug, not 12, £12

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The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 12–17 Aug, £11–£12

12:00 Chores (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–25 Aug, not 12, 19, £8–£10 Jelly or Jam (0+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 10–11 Aug, £13 Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE The Showstoppers’ Kids Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, £9.50–£11 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5 Wee Seals and Selkies (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–11 Aug, £9 Mr Fibbers Presents: Back in Tune (8+) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 6–18 Aug, £6 Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 6 Aug to 18 Aug, £9 Maths Madness with Kyle D Evans (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 6–12 Aug, FREE Little Baby Bum (0+) Assembly George Square, 6–18 Aug, £11.50–£13

12:10 I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–18 Aug, £11–£12.50 Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+) Assembly George Square Studios, 6–26 Aug, not 13, 20, £10–£12

12:20 ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 6–17 Aug, FREE

12:30 Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £9–£10

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8 The Maths Magic Show 2019 (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 6–25 Aug, FREE Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 6–26 Aug, £8 Shakespearience (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £9.50–£10.50

12:40 The Wizard of Oz (3+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 6–10 Aug, £9–£12

13:00 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–15 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Story Builders (5+) Lauriston Halls, 6–24 Aug, not 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, £8 Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+) Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18 Splash Test Dummies (5+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 6–24 Aug, not 12, 19, £11.50–£12.50 Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 6–26 Aug, £12

13:05 Legend of Shadows (0+) C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

13:15 The Happy Prince (3+) C venues – C aquila, 6–26 Aug, not 12, 19, £10.50–£12.50 Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

13:25 The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 6–24 Aug, £11–£12

13:30 Make Your Own Book Workshop (12+) White Stuff, 11 Aug, £15 The Listies: Ickypedia (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, £7.50–£10 Children are Stinky (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 6–26 Aug, not 7, 14, 21, £8–£10 Heat Transfer Printing Workshop (12+) White Stuff, 17 Aug, £15 Double Bubble Trouble (0+) Sweet Grassmarket, 6–18 Aug, £7 Jo Jingles – Jo Tours Bonnie Scotland (0+) Murrayfield Parish Church Centre, 7 Aug, 8 Aug, 10 Aug, FREE The Red Balloon (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £8 Funbox: How to Be a Superhero (0+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–7 Aug, £12 Feast of Fools (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 6–18 Aug, not 7, 13, 14, £8 Little Top (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 6–17 Aug, not 12, £8 Alice and the Little Prince (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, not 9, £7–£9

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Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 6 Aug to 15 Aug, £8 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5 Ned and the Whale (3+) theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 9 Aug, 10 Aug, 11 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £9 The Stinky Cheese Man... and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (0+) theSpace @ Venue45, 6 Aug, £5 Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

14:15 Captain Jake and the Search for the Red Queen (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, Various dates from 9 Aug to 18 Aug, £8 Junior Jungle Rave (3+) Underbelly, Central Hall, 17 Aug, FREE

Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 10 Aug to 17 Aug, £8 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 6–26 Aug, £12 Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 18 Aug to 24 Aug, £8 Circus Sonas Family Show (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

17:00 Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+) Lauriston Halls, 16–24 Aug, £4

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Wind in the Willows (3+) Inveresk Lodge Garden, 17 Aug, £10

Tales of Neverland (0+) Central Hall, 7 Aug, £5

15:05 The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12

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Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–25 Aug, FREE

Bambino Beats – Summertime Boogie Under the Sea (0+) Stockbridge Church, 6–7 Aug, £6

Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+) Assembly George Square, 6–25 Aug, not 21, £11.50–£12.50

Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5

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Mother Goose CANCELLED (3+) Hill Street Theatre, 6–9 Aug, £12

I Piano (5+) Pianodrome at The Pitt, 7–11 Aug, £12

A Massaoke Night at the Musicals (All Ages) (3+) Edinburgh Corn Exchange, 17 Aug, £18

I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–26 Aug, not 12, £10–£12

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Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

(3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 6–18 Aug, £7–£9

Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+) Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18

The Wizard of Winterbourne (8+) Quaker Meeting House, 6–10 Aug, £9

Our Teacher’s a Troll! (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £6

Me and the Mask – Commedia dell’Arte (5+) Italian Cultural Institute, 8 Aug, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £8

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £10.50

15:35 Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids (0+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 6–18 Aug, £10–£11

15:50 Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+) Assembly Rooms, 6–24 Aug, not 12, £10–£11

16:00 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 12–16 Aug, £5

16:10 The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 6–25 Aug, not 13, £9

16:30 ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 6–17 Aug, FREE

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17:20 Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island (3+) Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 6 Aug, £5

17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 6–24 Aug, £10–£11

17:35 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 6–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £10

17:40 Xchange (3+) theSpace @ Venue45, 8–10 Aug, £10

18:40 Alice in Wonderland (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 12–17 Aug, £8.50

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11:55 Danny the Champion of the World (3+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

The Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 6–26 Aug, £11–£12

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Edinburgh Festival #1: George Egg

My fridge is a bit boring so I’ve bent the rules and taken a photo of my freezer instead. There’s a bag of vac-packed tubes of rhubarb (for cooking sous-vide in an engine expansion tank), a pile of marinating chicken breasts (which will be cooked on the exhaust manifold of a 38 horse power engine) and half a dozen large mackerel ready for filleting and blowtorching with a flame thrower (one of those ones they use for getting the road-markings off). If you want to see what all that’s about you’ll have to come and see/taste my show! There’s also a lovely Cumberland sausage that I bought on the way up from the excellent Tebay Services, and a guilty pleasure – some cheese stuffed bung-in-the-oven chillis for those late-back-after-a-showand-can’t-be-bothered-to-cook evenings

George Egg: Movable Feast Assembly George Square Gardens TIME: 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 1–25 Aug, not 12 TICKETS: £8–£12 SHOW:

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