Fest 2019 Issue 3

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RICHARD BLACKWOOD TAKES THE STAGE

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13 – 15 August

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An Atypical reinvention

A powerful show from “the patron saint of cat-called women”

A monumental moment in Richard Blackwood’s career, he talks to us about starring in Typical

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Black Sheep Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 14–25 Aug, FREE

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Scot Roast – Afterburn Scottish Comedy Festival @ CA Nightcap, 13–27 Aug, £5 ST

Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

Unladylike Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 14–25 Aug, £5

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10.50

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Jack and Barney Are in the Background Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5

The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £11.50

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BDSM + Bubbles...

Perfect Day It’s overwhelming trying to decide what to see. So let Fest decide for you. It’s okay, we know what we’re talking about.

Brew Lab 10am

A favourite of local students, Brew Lab boasts great coffee, superb sandwiches, soups, cakes and teas from some of Edinburgh’s best producers.

It’s also within walking distance some of the main Fringe venues. Start your day right.

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Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders 11.30am – 12.30pm

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Bystanders is a powerful, eye-opening polemic about homelessness that is always one step ahead of its audience. The play is an an urgent call to action that asks its audience if they could be doing more.

4.45pm – 5.45pm Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre

Cat Hepburn is well known in the Scottish spoken word scene and, watching her new show #GIRLHOOD, it’s easy to see why. A hilarious and heartbreaking deconstruction of the pressures girls and young women face.

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The City Cafe 6.30pm 19 Blair St

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This American-themed diner, with its chessboard-style floor and leather and chrome booths, is a true Edinburgh favourite. Featuring a wide selection of mouthwatering burgers and a full vegan menu, there’s something here for everyone.

Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders 7.50pm – 8.50pm Pleasance Courtyard

Fringe mainstay Adam Riches returns with The Beakington Town Hall Murders: a hilarious, extremely interactive whodunnit revolving around the murder of 10 innocent tortoises. As usual, Riches runs it all in character. Not for the faint-hearted.

Dreamgun: Film Reads 10.15pm – 11.15pm Underbelly – The Dairy Room

If you reckon the last thing the Fringe needs is another film pastiche, Dreamgun will set you straight with their hilarious pisstakes of classic cinema.

They do a different film each night too. You’ll be back.

Craig Angus talks to Richard Blackwood about his hardest project yet

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think this is my true baptism,” Richard Blackwood says, leaning forward intently to discuss Typical.

The 47-year-old has covered a lot of ground in the entertainment industry, from his origins in standup and a mainstream breakthrough with MTV, to his own Channel 4 show and a brief sojourn as a rap artist. He is, it’s fair to say, best known for being a specialist in light entertainment. Typical, the true story of Christopher Alder, a black man who died in police custody in 1999, is a far weightier work than you’d expect Blackwood to be involved in. “I always wanted to be an actor though,” Blackwood affirms.

“That was the dream. But I wanted to be a comedy actor like Eddie Murphy, I didn’t see myself as a serious actor. I didn’t know if I was good enough.”

Typical is a monumental moment in Blackwood’s career. After early exposure and mainstream success he filed for bankruptcy in

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Richard Blackwood’s Atypical Reinvention

2003, embarking on what he calls a “slow process of reinvention to wash away the memories of Richard as a comedian and presenter” since then. A three-year-stint on EastEnders as Vincent Hubbard that ended in 2018 “really amped things up” for Blackwood, but bringing Ryan Calais Cameron’s script to life on stage has been his biggest challenge to date.

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he exhales, explaining, “and not just because it’s a one man show with loads of different characters.

It throws so much at you... I’ve got a photographic memory, I can learn things quite quickly, but with this I’d still walk around all the time with the script.”

He talks of endless run-throughs with an emphasis placed on precision and absolute adherence to the poetry of Cameron’s work. “In rehearsals I’d get frustrated.” He laughs at the memory, adding with knowing understatement – “we’ve had arguments.”

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What came more naturally to Blackwood was an understanding of the man he plays. His portrayal of Alder is all about befriending the audience, cultivating the understanding that Alder was a man like any other, with a lust for life and a sense of humour, susceptible to loneliness and the weight of personal demons too. You feel the excitement within him as he looks forward to watching The Lion King with his children on their next visit, and when he carries his night on after the pub you understand that he’s desperately trying to ward off loneliness.

That, for Blackwood, was an important detail.

“His ex-wife had left him for another man,” he explains. “This guy is going out to party by himself, think about that. You’ve got to think of how sad your life is to make you want to do that. He just wanted to get out and have fun because he was so broken.

That’s the vulnerability I want to get across.”

“ He just wanted to get out and have fun because he was so broken. That’s the vulnerability I want to get across” I ask Blackwood how much he remembers of Alder’s death and his response is a telling one, indicative of how such violence had become normalised in his life. “I remember when it was on the news,” he says, “but the sad reality for me was, as much as I was hurt by it, he was just another continues

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black person that died in custody. I remember being a young teenager, being afraid of the police, afraid that they’d beat you to death. That was normal for us growing up in the ‘80s in South London, you’d always get nervous hearing about a black person getting arrested. I was so familiar with that kind of story already.”

The conversation turns to those responsible for Alder’s death. “They got off, they got paid,” Blackwood offers incredulously. “Thirty grand, sixty grand – not only was he beaten to death, they got paid for it.” We talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, the cases of Michael Brown, of Eric Garner and Freddie Gray and a common misperception: that police brutality is seen by many Brits as exclusively an American problem. Systemic racism is real and happens closer to home.

How was justice not served in the name of Christoper Alder? The harrowing CCTV clip that closes Typical is damning. “The white people who don’t live in that world,” Blackwood offers, “and don’t have to live with police brutality, will think ‘he probably did try and fight them’.” We want people to

see the video and realise that didn’t happen at all.

He could have survived, but was left choking, and the police had the cheek to say ‘he’s snoring, he’s acting’. How can you hear those sounds and think that?”

Blackwood’s love for the project is clear. Our conversation is characterised by extensive and passionate answers about delivering justice for Christopher Alder, and also about what the role means for his own career. “I believe this show has the strong potential to go all the way and be a serious moment in time,” he says, making an apt comparison with the Central Park Five-focused miniseries When They See Us. “We’re doing these shows, hoping people will see it and hoping people will talk.” The questions raised by Typical around the polarity of injustice and privilege are vital.

SHOW: VENUE: TIME:

Typical Pleasance Courtyard 4:30pm – 5:30pm, 31 Jul–25 Aug, not 13

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Feeling Sluggish?

Yasmin Sulaiman talks to Sam Caseley and Ruby Thompson as they slide into Central Library

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f you’re hoping to escape the hubbub of the Fringe with your wee ones, Slime might just be the show you’re looking for. Nestled in the heart of Edinburgh Central Library, you’ll find a mini foamy woodland where two tiny creatures­­­­­—a slug and a caterpillar—meet and weather a rocky start to become firm friends. With the help of a little bit of icky slime, of course.

“Everyone thinks that slugs are disgusting,” says playwright Sam Caseley from Hull-based The Herd Theatre, the company behind the show. “They kill them quite a lot, even people who are otherwise really lovely kill slugs. So we thought, what could we do with a creature that everyone thinks is disgusting? Then I read a bit about the slime that slugs produce, which is really amazing stuff. I don’t think there’s any other substance like it on earth, it’s sticky and slippery, and of course slugs have a role in the ecosystem.”

Of course, the slime in the show isn’t real slug slime; it’s a homemade, yellow plasticine-y ball of squidge and feels delightful. But Slime isn’t just about kids playing about with this bright, doughy toy. Designed for two to five-year-olds, it is a deceptively simple show about overcoming prejudice. First performed as a commission for Hull

Libraries last summer, accessibility is baked into the show’s DNA. Not only is there very little dialogue, for the Edinburgh show, the company worked with a disability consultancy so the words that are spoken are simultaneously told in British Sign Language as well.

“We worked with an amazing guy called Dan,” says Ruby Thompson, Slime’s director, “and Dan himself is deaf. He asked us during the process to put headphones on, put loud music on and watch the show, and see how it changes. It made me realise how much we can slow it down.”

And performing in a library space breaks down barriers for families as well. “One of our plans for this tour, which is our first,” says Caseley, “is focusing on audience development and maybe accessing families that traditionally don’t go to arts events, by doing it in these sorts of spaces. Firstly, more people are aware of [the library], and it feels less intimidating than a theatre.”

“It feels like more of a day out as well,” adds Thompson. “You can just go chill and read a book, rather than coming into town for one hour.” She’s right; my three and five-year-old friends who accompanied me to the show went along to the Central Library’s free Bookbug storytelling session

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“ Even people who are otherwise really lovely kill slugs. So we thought what could we do with a creature that everyone thinks is disgusting”

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beforehand, and already felt comfortable and settled in the library space before we were ushered into the show.

Slime is part of Hull Takeover, an initiative that supports five theatre companies from Hull at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Caseley and Thompson— who met at drama school—have gradually built up a name for themselves in their hometown as children’s theatre experts. But while their initial work was for older children, the early years age group that Slime is made for is their favourite audience.

“They’re so unrestrained with their logic,” says Thompson. “They’re naturally so playful and open, so they will just go with you. Like nothing in this garden looks real, it’s very abstract, there’s pink grass and a slug that’s dressed as a weird slimy raver.”

Designed by Rūta Irbīte, the set in Slime is almost a character in itself. Children and adults take their shoes off before stepping into the garden, which is a sensory treat. Almost everything is soft and squishy, encouraging the young audience to get involved, touch things and play. The relaxed vibe carries right through the show, so children can move around, talk and explore during the performance – particularly in the final 15 minutes, when they’re invited onto the stage area to play with the slime.

“When we performed in Manchester,” Thompson says, “it was a wild party. One kid was just so up for dancing, every time the music came on. For a lot of young people—maybe not at the Edinburgh festival, but where we usually work—it’s their first experience of a show, so they’re not coming with any preconceptions of what a show is. That’s really exciting, and we don’t want to tell them how to behave. We’re going against these stuffy forms of theatre where you sit down quietly and watch.”

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SHOW: VENUE: TIME:

Slime Pleasance Pop Up: Central Libary 11:15pm – 12:15pm, 2–24 Aug, not 4, 11, 18

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Desiree Burch: She’s Here

there, threaded through a show that’s essentially one long shaggy-dog story about Burch’s acidfuelled experiences at Burning Man. “Patricularly when something like LSD is involved, particularly somewhere like Burning Man, you find yourself in these loops, doing the Having started as a theatremaker, same thing over and over again,” she says. “And same thing happens culturally, the same Desiree Burch switched to comedy the shit keeps coming back around. And there was in 2015 and hasn’t looked back. She something about that idea that was sticky to me, talks to Fergus Morgan about why something that I wanted to investigate.”

Desiree’s Coming Early!, on one level is an she and the Fringe get on so well exercise in observing destructive patterns—in hallucinatory trips at Burning Man, in her own merican standup Desiree Burch would love life, and in society as a whole—and asking what to not talk about race. “Me and Nish Kumar, we can do to break them. For Burch, the answer as comedians of colour, we’d love to just do is not wholesale revolution, it’s slow, progressive, jokes about garlic bread and Pokémon,” she says. thoughtful change.

“But it’s always left to us to bring this stuff up. And “I’m not the most historically-informed human I feel like if you have a platform to say some shit, being, but it seems to me like revolutions happen then you should.” in one direction, then adapt into this fucked-up Her new hour of comedy, Desiree’s Coming thing, then the pendulum swings back the other Early!, isn’t explicitly about race—certainly not as way,” she observes. “There’s got to be something in much as her 2016 comedy debut This Is Evolution the middle, something we can build on. God Bless or 2017’s smash-hit Unf*ckable—but it’s certainly New Zealand, for setting some kind of example.”

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Does she think that pendulum will swing back at next year’s US election? “A lot of people are saying that this idiot will probably get re-elected,” she sighs. “They’ll narrow down the Democratic nominees, and I’m happy to vote for whoever the fuck it is. They’re getting my fucking vote, because we’ve got to get rid of him.”

Burch speaks at full pelt, onstage and off. She’s still winding down from her show, which finished about half an hour ago across town at The Hive – a venue that “smells like teenage pheromones” and puts Burch in her “own personal sauna” on stage every night. “Why are there fruit flies when there’s no fruit down there?” she asks. “Are there plague bodies buried beneath the place?”

This is her sixth Fringe, her third as a standup after three doing solo shows in the theatre section.

Having grown up in California, she studied theatre at Yale, then scratched out a living in New York for several years before moving to the UK in 2014 – and it was partly this festival that persuaded her to make the big switch from NYC-based theatremaker to UK-based standup.

At Edinburgh, she saw that British audiences were far more open to her brand of conceptual comedy than American ones. “Here, you see every different kind of standup performer,” she explains, “and it makes you realise that there is room for you too. It feels like there’s room for different kinds of comedy from different regions, especially when everyone just wants to go out and get drunk.

Alcoholism pays a lot of people’s rent.”

It’s a move that’s paid off. Burch won the 2015 Funny Women Award, has now performed three critically-acclaimed Fringe shows, and is a regular on TV and radio – Live At The Apollo, The News Quiz, The Mash Report, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. She’s 40 this year, and with a grin, she confirms that she’s starting to get recognised in the street.

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“ Here, you see every different kind of standup performer and it makes you realise that there is room for you too”

She puts her success in Britain down to several factors. One, the “exchange programme of exoticism” between the UK and the US (we send them John Oliver, they send us Burch). Two, having gone to a good university. “Over here, there’s a history of comedy coming from elite universities, whereas in the States it’s the thing you do if you can’t do any other job,” she says.

And three, there’s who she is. “I’m a woman of colour from the States, at a time when we are looking towards those voices and those stories more,” she says. “So I’m ticking a lot of boxes for people. But, you know, I’m hopefully actually being funny and talented at the same time.”

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Desiree Burch: Desiree’s Coming Early!

Heroes @ The Hive 7:40pm – 8:40pm, 1–25 Aug, not 13, 20 £10

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Fest Party

onday 5 August saw this year’s Fest Launch Party, and it always takes us until this edition of the magazine to pick up the pieces. Thanks in no small part to our smashing venue Old Tolbooth Market and their festival cohosts Gilded Balloon, who gave us space to both celebrate and serve drinks courtesy of Edinburgh Gin and Decagram Ales. And that’s for anyone not trying the venue’s own Bucky slushies.

Creative Edinburgh kicked off the evening, hosting lightning talks from festival industry figures. We heard inspiring words from Annie Marrs (co-owner of Sweet Venues), a hot-off-thepress peek at upcoming project Leith Comedy Festival from Rosalind Romer (owner of Punchline Comedy) and the journey from scrapyard to venue from Pianodrome’s Matt Wright. Joy Parkinson of Scottish Ballet revealed the not-always-glamorous truths of festival PR and Mara Menzies thrilled us

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with her storytelling as she gears up for her show Blood and Gold throughout August.

Then Fest’s own entertainment showcase rounded off the night, opening with some sketch tomfoolery from Aussie duo Two Little Dickheads and UK trio Sleeping Trees. Drag prince Alfie Ordinary followed by regaling us with a fabulous Spice Girls medley, before cheeky pals Double Denim goofed around with snippets from Adventure Show. Headlining the bill was newly annointed pop scientists Frisky & Mannish, mischievously deconstructing Ed Sheeran. And this is all without mentioning our tireless, smoky-eyed cabaret queen Bernie Dieter, MCing the night with a handful of original songs from the ever-popular Little Death Club.

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Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing

Halfway through the festival, and the end is in sight. Sorry: nigh.

The End is Nigh. I’ve never known a Fringe so full of apocalyptic anxieties. It’s as if every other show were underscored by a death rattle.

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ust a little joke while the world burns,” Jordan Brookes chirps, checking his watch. It’s a tic that recurs throughout his bewildering hour onstage, as this personable comic wonders exactly how long he’s got left. How long we’ve got left.

I’ve Got Nothing (4 stars) is a show for end times.

Climate catastrophe hovers overhead, Brexit burns in the background and Brookes’ own mental health (“the apocalypse up here”) bubbles away underneath. But for all it rattles with assorted anxieties, Brookes’ show still feels like a blessed relief. If anything, the backdrop of doom elevates his daredevil semi-structured, semiimprovised style into something oddly profound. It’s as if he’s killing time before it kills us all. The least we can do is play along.

His set is a sly mix of the catastrophic and the clownish. He imagines a cool head in a plane crash, finishing off Marley and Me while plummeting to death, and every 14 minutes, an average human attention span, he jiggles around like jelly just to keep us alert. An extended riff on instructions for seducing one’s own mum­—at gunpoint, in fairness—is squirm-inducing, but sharp. “It’s a metaphor,” he yells. “My mum is the earth.”

In fact, it’s sharper still: a nifty critique for humanity’s ability to imagine the worst and still head towards it. We shrug off warnings of our own devastation.

Two years ago, Brookes broke through with a load of beginnings. This time, he strings out a succession of false endings, dropping routines mid-sentence to dart full pelt at the exit or raising a hand, thanking us and striding offstage – only to return. He oversees more blackouts than Jim Callaghan and, indeed, loops so many finales back-to-back that, with a startling bravado, he lops off the last chunk of his show (or, seen differently, bumps off a third of his crowd.) It’s brilliantly uneasy—is that it, are we done?—but it lifts comedy to critical intervention: an evisceration of humanity’s inability to face facts.

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Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed are toying with the same territory in their new show. Like its palindromic title, Are we not drawn onward to new erA (4 stars), it mirrors itself down the middle: the second half undoing or erasing the first. It’s an improbable feat, if not an impossible one.

Its beginning doubles up as an ending: a woman and an apple tree; paradise or post-civilisation.

Hellos could be goodbyes; first kisses, farewells. A statue goes up only to come straight back down.

Is that progress or simple destruction? They set themselves impossibilities to overcome. Apples are consumed, trees stripped to the trunk. Plastic bags drop from the sky. Can we put the world back together? Can humanity clean up after itself?

No other company pushes the possibilities of performance like Ontroerend Goed and this picks at the very nature of theatre. An ephemeral artform, it leaves nothing behind and yet, it does; whatever happened onstage can’t be erased. The two entwine here, and elegantly so – even if the reliance on technological trickery feels, at first, like a cop out.

In fact, its meaning takes time to come through.

More than artful composition and a display of skill, whereby gobbledygook suddenly makes sense and concealed storylines are revealed in reverse, it also makes a virtue of ambiguity. As we watch the world go into reverse, that fuzzy feeling of hope contains a nagging doubt. Is it all an illusion or could technology get us out of this mess?

Time has a way of springing surprises.

Landscape (1989) (3 stars) looks back to the conclusion of the Cold War; that moment Francis Fukuyama declared “the end of history”. It brought with it a sigh of relief, as the threat of nuclear annihilation effectively dissolved. Nowadays, all that seems naïve. Emerging duo Emergency Chorus hop into that lull (before they were born) to watch the world ending almost unseen – not with a bang, but with a fever.

In a gentle, oblique hour, such ideas hang off a small science project-style study of mushrooms – nature’s hardiest survivors. Halfway through, they microwave a bunch of them for a full seven minutes to no effect, before cooking them up on a slow, sizzling hob in a quiet, post-apocalyptic woodland scene. What radiation can’t destroy, a little heat can.

It just takes that much longer.

To see that, we need to shift our sense of time.

Dwelling on the world’s largest living organism, the 2,400 year-old ‘Humungous Fungus’ of Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, Landscape (1989) tries to slide out of human time into mushroom time; to see the planet and its history afresh. It is itself a lull: an hour that passes, quietly and contentedly, without much going on: a few lists, an anecdote or two, a goofy dance routine. Like the mushrooms that sustained a young, homeless John Cage, Landscape (1989) offers just enough substance to sustain our attention. A real step-up from a very promising duo, Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit, this cute, offbeat piece watches on as the world winds to its end.

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Desiree Burch: Desiree's Coming Early!

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“Now that is a fact,” says Desiree Burch, as she closes the book on this show’s scripted, lecture-like introduction, before launching eagerly into the meat. “This is a story.”

And so begins Burch’s breathless tale of a day spent tripping at Nevada’s infamous

Burning Man festival, an epic shaggy-dog story that certainly involves some shaggy people. That would be enjoyable enough, but the LA-born comic has more to say. So much more.

Judiciously woven in here are history lessons about education and race, which eventually build to something euphorically personal, an illuminating takedown of the “magical negro” in Hollywood movies, and a heady lament for certain let-us-down heroes. In fact her bit about plausible deniability and Michael Jackson’s oeuvre might be the best routine you’ll hear this Fringe. Beat that.

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for preferring one of the longerestablished, higher-profile venues.

But Heroes is clearly home (and perhaps slightly more relaxed about this show overrunning), and her audience is happy to follow, up Niddry Street, to Nevada and beyond.

It’s one heck of a show. Burch’s background is in experimental theatre, and while the set-up here looks like traditional standup, this is as spectacular as it gets without costumes, props and fireworks.

It’s a mesmerizing performance, and somehow those myriad thematic strands all coalesce into one magnificent whole. There are hoots, hollers and, come the end, a very British attempt at a standing ovation. Quite right too. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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In order to become a priest, Ciarán Dowd’s Don Rodolfo needs to learn not to succumb to temptations, which means he must do everything in his power to avoid being tricked by the devil, who is set on preventing Rodolfo’s progress. What follows is a highenergy and chaotic race to the Vatican, where Rodolfo is to meet the Pope.

With a sassy flick of the eyes, Dowd has his audience under his spell. We are participants in this surreal world, and it isn’t a difficult task to embrace it. Though

this world is full of trickery and false appearances, the strength and simplicity of the character of Rodolfo holds everything together.

And while the story of Padre Rodolfo is ridiculous (there’s a talking owl with terrible memory and a giant wheel of cheese involved), it all somehow makes sense if you let it.

Dowd is smart embedding specific, modern day observations, and unformulaic ones at that.

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After a brief and perfect takedown of Boris Johnson, the focus of this show soon shifts from the semi-political to the fully personal.

Deliciously caustic Bathgate comic Fern Brady is more interested in the micro-incursions against her own agency than the macro nightmares happening on the world stage. Not that the topics she touches in an ambling hour aren’t significant—the etiquette of

They contrast deliciously against the priest’s flamboyant and rather grandiose demeanour, reminding the audience that this is a character, despite the (literal) smoke and mirrors (no actual mirrors).

Dowd has created a fastmoving, action-filled adventure that is thoroughly unpredictable and genuinely unsettling in parts.

Padre Rodolfo is a truly immersive experience. ✏︎ Becca Moody

blow jobs, self-diagnosed mental health issues, kids, lies and furry animals—it’s the stuff that keeps many of us firmly in our place.

She has particularly acute takes on class and sexuality – having learned the hard way, as a Scottish woman living in London. The highlight of the show is her very funny bid to become “the patron saint of cat-called women” by making the creepy men who deign to give her unbidden compliments regret the day they learned to wolf whistle.

Some of the show still needs a bit of polish, especially a finale featuring a cutesy YouTube clip.

But overall, this is an excellent hour for those who like their comedy with a good pinch of pepper. ✏︎ Stu Black

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London Hughes is hitting her 30s, and getting pressured by her family to find a man and settle down.

She’s reluctant. As a riposte this show recounts her sexual history, in all its bawdy glory. Filthy, frank and consistently hilarious, it’s an hour that transcends what in lesser hands would be boringly prurient and instead becomes a celebration of female sexual desire.

She’s an energetic and captivating performer. She works the crowd excellently, drawing out audience participation in an inclusive manner despite the risqué nature of the subject matter. A whirligig of energy, she dominates the stage, evidencing considerable

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With his usual disclaimer at the top that most of what follows is a pack of lies, Glenn Moore has erected another winning tall tale out of sublime one-liners and routines that whip away their own foundations. Previous shows have seen the milquetoast comic and radio newsreader sporadically erupting into pained spleen. But

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experiences with white men, she highlights aspects of privilege typically invisible to those with power.

What’s impressive here is how all of this sits comfortably with what is predominantly a whipsmart, breakneck, vital barrage of gag after gag. The atmosphere in the room resembles a party, with Hughes our bewitching host. She’s already a recurring presence on TV, and this fine hour suggests we’ll be hearing much more from her.

skill in physical clowning. And what might appear to be humour relying heavily on shock is instead more carefully honed than that.

Bubbling under the surface are pointed barbs about race, gender, contemporary sexual mores, and the expectations placed upon women. She rails against the double standards which mean that while male comedians are often understood as sexy, when women are comparably confident and funny they are seen as threatening.

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whether it’s his time working with Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins on LBC, which does appear to be the one kernel of truth in his disclosures, he delivers the show at pretty much full-throttle, affected fury from the start. And the bluster of his extended breakdown is sustained, in stark contrast to the calculated precision of the script.

An avowedly spineless, buttoned-up individual who subscribes to broadcasting standards of balance and impartiality in every aspect of his life, Moore has passively absorbed and internally ruminated upon all the slights, humiliations and petty irritations visited upon him by his ex-work colleagues and girlfriend.

That is until now, when Networkstyle, he’s mad as hell and not

about to take it anymore. Naturally, his spluttering petulance comes across pathetically. And he’s unable to even admonish Hopkins for her grasping, mercenary extremism in his parting shot from the radio station.

The reality of Hopkins and Farage casts Moore’s ex and his former boss into unsatisfying relief as mere empty vessels for his jokes. And there’s an underdeveloped theme contrasting Journalism Glenn with supposedly Showbusiness Glenn. But the callbacks and intricate circularity of his myriad top-notch gags are exquisitely arranged, the slowmotion crash of his relationship and his grandmother’s expiration in particular delightful to behold in the retelling. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Imagine the most embarrassingly middle-class, try-hard, drama-school graduate sketch show you possibly can.

Now cast that image from your mind, because Róisín and Chiara’s latest hour, Get Nupty,

is the complete opposite of what you may have feared. This energetic duo are satirising the very archetype you might imagine them to be, and it’s a dynamic whirlwind of an experience.

Róisín and Chiara are trying to define what love is. It’s a broad question to ask, what is love?, and so it’s unsurprising that their quest for the answer takes them, quite literally, all over the place.

Undertaking this gargantuan task involves the portrayal of a wide range of characters (some human, some not) and examining their personal relationships. This

is loud, physical comedy. Neither performer is ever still – every move, every facial expression, is a notable, bold movement.

They are visibly having a huge amount of fun, but Get Nupty doesn’t ever feel self-indulgent or as though the audience are being left out of some inside joke. In fact, the interaction is well managed, keeping us on our toes but never being overbearing or intrusive. Róisín and Chiara use the entire room’s space. They skip past seats and naturally draw each audience member into their ridiculous world. ✏︎ Becca Moody

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You will no doubt agree that what the world’s biggest art festival really needs right now is more film and TV pastiches. Honestly, the myriad improv groups and dinner theatre companies are doing their best, but at this rate it will be another two or three years before every single much-loved classic has been rubbished.

Thankfully Dreamgun take a more skilfully-aimed shot at the affectionate-parody format, having honed their craft via a popular podcast. Their flyer may not look wildly promising—the requisite wacky grins and worrisome jazz hands—but on stage this Dublinformed collective have a whole

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different tone. Rather than let variably-talented improvisers loose on a vague theme, Film Reads, as the title suggests, is tightly scripted and clearly laboured-over with love.

They take on a different movie each night—although some recur during the run—and this Wednesday evening the eight-strong cast tackle Jaws.

Consistently funny it is too, with particular nods to Ronan Carey’s dry narration, the many and varied voices of Hannah Mamalis (from

doomed valley girl to “exploding child”), and Ed Salmon’s excellent Quint impression, which adds an extra dimension. He even takes on the dramatic USS Indianapolis speech, which could backfire in lesser hands.

The feel is very much that of an old radio broadcast, and while the actors clearly have—go on then—a whale of a time, they manage not to slip into the back-slapping selfindulgence that undoes many gang shows of this ilk. May their unlikely voyage continue. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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A contrarian and even idiot savant, Eleanor Tiernan’s persona is that of a pity object for friends and family, but with flashes of wisdom that make her seem like the disregarded holy fools of yore. Achieved with brilliantly

original, logic-askew epiphanies, she grabs you with a laugh, then gradually starts to convince you that she’s the sane one and society is misguided.

When she bemoans the pointlessness and even negative impact of applying oneself to education, given that the only future with any prospects lies in reality television, it’s funny but a broad satirical brush. Yet when she rails against the dropdown box options for booking an airline seat, the consequences she ascribes to each choice seem both ridiculous but also clearly grounded in long-established, undeniable sexism.

She rather stumbles through the conclusion of a tale about being a chocolate ricecake expert at her

regular cafe. But the point, that staff turnover is so high in a decadent, gig economy culture that the customers know more about the business than the baristas, is solid. And it’s one she satisfyingly returns to.

As adept highlighting the mean girls-style motivations of Brexit, as she is mining her relationship status as a 40-something singleton deflecting questions about her broodiness, there’s feeling in Tiernan’s gags about being a substitute mother no-one asked for.

But what initially seems relatively throwaway, combines with her crime obsession for a rare, more personal closing account that runs the gamut from stupidity to sharp, humane to topsy-turvy hilarious. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

consequences of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements, Pauroso blithely dismisses conventional mores of audience engagement. The frisson is palpable, the spectacle voyeuristic. Yet the edges are superficially smoothed by her repeating and reconstituting playful patterns of behaviour, her attuned, spontaneous comic instincts and the overriding impression that she’s fully in control.

Ultimately, the story resolves itself into something more romantic, though not without

love’s dream encountering some complications and manic burlesque along the way, with an abiding erotic drive. Interestingly, the performance I caught benefited from Pauroso choosing an empathetic dupe to join her on stage, with the guy nevertheless repeatedly double-checking her consent to proceed as he was being told. Strikingly too, given that Gutterplum is essentially an hour of entrapment, there was something rather endearing about their relationship. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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Emerging out of the woods like a knock-kneed baby deer, Courtney Pauroso’s alter-ego Dale Ravioli is a shy adolescent who nevertheless indulges in some pretty Lolitaesque lunges and contortions with an exercise ball. Callow and lonely, she drags an audience member up to participate in some familiar childhood games, gently alluding to a troubled backstory as she approaches womanhood.

The show then emphatically flips and ratchets up the pace as it shifts through successive metamorphoses in Dale’s life, becoming all the more challenging.

Tapping into the pornification of culture and toying with the

It seems obvious when someone points it out, but there’s more boxing films than any other sporting film genre. And they’ve extraordinary structural similaries, too, which James McNicholas does a fantastic job of both dissecting, and adhering to in The Boxer. Why? Because his granddad, Terry “The Paddington Express” Downes, was world middleweight champion in 1961. McNicholas, flying solo from sketch troupe BEASTS, is very unlikely to achieve the same, and it’s in telling the story, through a sequence of acted segments, of this extraordinary granddad (and his extraordinarily straight-talking grandma) where much of the

comedy lies.

What elevates this beyond your average family history show, though, isn’t the emotional punch McNicholas ushers us towards – though, of course, it’s a hard-hitting one when it arrives. It’s the seriously heavy weight of jokes that he pummels into the hour. Like a volley of punches they slip though every conceviable opening. Far from mining a seam for comedy, McNicholas has strip-mined and laid waste to a continent. It’s so much fun.

It’s not all right hooks and roundhouses. McNicholas’ tonal switches between tough man Terry Downes and soft boy James aren’t at all convincing – a pair of specs and a momentary camp vocal lift make for a ropey character device.

And it’s fair to say that McNicholas’ jokes are of-a-kind, tending towards bathos or bait-andswitch, with a clear consistency of structure. The quantity isn’t the problem – it’s absolutely the show’s strength. But one can’t help but feel that the odd stylistic shift here might help kick it up a notch. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

relation to his straight-laced and perennially disapproving parents.

A large chunk of the show deals with this side of his life (there’s a photo of mom centre stage throughout), which is fine. It’s clearly important to him, but his demons do stymie the comedy somewhat, his energy submerged by sincerity and occasional schmaltz.

It’s when Zimmerman dumps the soul-searching and fully succumbs to his dirty dark side that the show truly begins to soar. And in full flight he is quite glorious. You can feel

the cathartic enjoyment as he re-enacts sexual encounters and the lowest of low-points. He’s especially good with voices – for example, an Austin Powers-like Brit he once shagged, and a council of sobbing seals.

And as we wind our way to the end—via mines of gaping buttholes and a groaning audio guide in Amsterdam—the show occasionally borders on genius.

It comes to a head (for there is no other way to describe it) in an extraordinarily tasteless finale which is hilarious, shocking and terrifying. ✏︎ Stu Black

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Maybe it makes sense that this is a somewhat uneven hour: Zach Zimmerman clearly has a lot to wrestle with. Born a Godfearing Virginian, he’s now a gay atheist, working through the later stages of being out, especially in

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Daisy Earl establishes a friendly tone right from the top; addressing the obvious heat of the room she notes that she has made us all fans. It’s a kind-hearted gesture that hints at her personable demeanour. It also serves to

establish a safe environment in which to chat about some pretty difficult issues.

Earl suffers from depression and anxiety and one of the ways in which her mental state manifests itself is by binge eating. During her twenties she put on a lot of weight.

The title Fairy Elephant comes from the ‘pet’ name her forthright Scottish mother gives he. It’s not really surprising that she feels the way she does if that’s her mother’s idea of affection. But it turns out her mum isn’t the bad guy here – there are worse folk in her life…

Given the ongoing discussion on women’s bodies from fat shaming

to body positivity, plus criticism of health campaigns that point out that being obese is a contributing factor to major diseases, it’s important to have this reminder: losing weight is not as simple as just consuming less and there are often complex reasons at play for over overeating.

She has an easy delivery through which she channels a gentle humour and populates the show with a range of nicely realised characters, displaying a talent for accents that even breathes life into the gruff Russian bear alter-ego she uses when things get really bad. ✏︎ Marissa Burgess

naturedly against the other.

There’s a game where two contestants have to collect coffees, controlling their onscreen characters simply by shouting into a microphone. There’s a game where you have to fire a sausage at a target—“a rocket at mars”— by aiming and deploying through your smartphone screen. There’s a quiz with stupid questions, which you answer online. If you want to applaud, you don’t actually whack your hands together – you

use Foxdog Studios’ tap-to-clap application.

Neither Henning—who spends half the show in a giant duck costume—or Sutton—who literally wears a drum-kit the entire time—are particularly charismatic comedians despite their attire, but there’s no doubting the invention and ingenuity of some of their concepts, and no doubting that their show is enormous fun to take part in. A short and surreal cybersports day. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

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Don’t switch off your mobile phones, Tomorrow’s Office relies on them. Lloyd Henning and Peter Sutton are IT consultants in Manchester during the day, but they moonlight as comedians, crafting entertaining, interactive shows that chaotically combine programming, music and more.

Tomorrow’s Office is their latest Fringe show of mayhem, most of which you experience via your smartphone. It’s not dissimilar to the sort of stuff Mat Ewins comes up with. Once seated in front of their enormous slideshow, you connect your phone to a WiFi network, log on to a website, and Henning and Sutton then set you a series of challenges, with one side of the audience competing good-

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George Fouracres has already seen success as one third of acclaimed sketch trio Daphne, but this is his first venture into solo standup. It is, appropriately enough, something of an introduction – a confident, clever hour of intensely personal comedy that’s not massively big on laughs, but is packed

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Anna O’Grady and Helen Cripps haven’t performed comedy in years, and were never a double act to begin with. The past decade has seen the pair keep their hand in mostly as writers, and while this is

with plenty of insightful chat, particularly about class.

Fouracres hails from a working-class family in the West Midlands—you can tell immediately from his broad, bandy Black Country accent—and was educated at Cambridge (“the university of the turrets”, as he terms it). He has, he reckons, seen life from both sides of the class divide, and most of the show is seen through that lens, whether it's childhood anecdotes about his dapper, down-to-earth Granddad (“He didn’t have a surname until he was nine!”) or his lessons in the twangy Willenhall dialect (“Y’ALL NAW THE GAME!”).

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squeezing in a few characters, too – ridiculously OTT, vulgar personas, the likes of which Daphne fans will be familiar with.

They’ll particularly relish his contorted impersonation of Mavis from Dad’s Army.

Dressed in a tweed jacket, Fouracres is a warm performer in more ways than one, entirely selfaware of his own nerdiness. “The best day of my life was A-level results day,” he quips, early on.

“That’s the sort of show we’re dealing with here.” But he’s an endearingly sentimental one, too: his closing bit, when he reveals just why A-level results day was the best day of his life, is a tiny bit tear-jerking. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

an inventive piece of work, a certain rustiness can’t help but show. Lines are recited in a kind of sing-song delivery presumably intended to ensure that every gag is audible, but which isn’t always adept at selling the humour contained therein.

The premise of the show is that we’re being subjected to a stilted self-help talk, so this style isn’t inappropriate, just a bit monotonous over the course of an entire hour.

Similarly, while there is clear chemistry between O'Grady and Cripps, they seem to be very much

in the process of exploring this.

It’s joyful watching both inhabit the roles of straight man and fool with real fluidity—a dynamic which prevents the show from ever stagnating—but there’s a sense that the characters’ relationship hasn’t yet been fully worked out.

Ultimately, Stuck in a Rat carries all the markings of a show that came together by accident, albeit one that turned out really well.

It’s far from an essential offering, though its off-kilter playfulness should strike a chord with early evening audiences. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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One of the more accessible graduates of the Gaulier school of clowning, Luke Rollason impishly plugs you into the matrix of an idiot in Infinite Content. Constantly delivering surprises and silliness for its own sake in this fun, early afternoon hour, he intitiates unthreatening audience interaction from the first knockings. Indeed, even prior to that, with the unusual suggestion for the crowd to connect to the venue’s WiFi and take pictures of what unfolds.

Rollason’s world is forged from the unpromising combination of online shopping, software upgrades and classic computer games. If you’re after a reference point, picture the daftness of Spencer Jones and

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Anyone turning up at the Box expecting the whimsical musical act Flo and Joan—who are also on at Assembly, which has caused a wee bit of confusion—might be slightly taken aback by the duo who actually bound onstage and all but take them hostage.

As quasi-kidnappings go, though, this is fairly agreeable: standard

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his rudimentary props updated for the internet age, facilitated by the communal, tech-enabled spirit of Foxdog Studios.

With his wiry frame, minimal speech and strikingly intense eyes, the comic enhances his avatar-like character with a magician’s sleightof-hand and countless accessories, some home-made, others more stateof-the-art. There’s an underlying sense of the show unfolding like a quest, of the audience unlocking puzzles. And when it briefly stalls, as when somebody fails to intuit exactly what Rollason is demanding of them,

it’s invariably more compelling.

Enjoyable too are those instances where his more quick-witted marks turn the tables and fire a curveball back at him.

Pitched at an adolescent level, rather than the sheer childlike excitability of Jones’ recent hours, there’s a more calculated, scripted path to Infinite Content that means it suffers by the comparison.

Regardless, it’s a quirky curiosity and stands apart from the vast majority of less ambitious and imaginative Fringe offerings.

Edinburgh-in-August stuff rather than full-on Stockholm Syndrome.

Now seasoned sketch-hour creators after a couple of successful Fringe runs, Lola Stephenson and Jo Griffin have gone high-concept this year, making full use of their shipping container base to launch a conceit in which we’ve all signed up for an escape room. That room is run by a couple of faux Scottish coppers, who dig for clues in a file of unfinished sketches by the seemingly-missing comedy duo.

It’s a nifty method for knitting sketches together—and for leaping out of them quickly while the audience do that very Britishpeople-at-a-sketch-show thing of wondering whether to clap—and

the skits are usually fun, if not fully realised: these are glimpses of promising characters, in truth, rather than strongly-written scenes.

Meanwhile the between-sketch bits feature some knowingly witty asides about comedy generally, and a burgeoning subtext in which the duo air deep-seated grievances about their offstage dynamic. These sometimes lengthy escape room sections can feel a little rushed and repetitive too though, rather than fully formed.

Which is a shame, as the hosts/ kidnappers are fine performers, and the concept is solid. Escape could just have done with a little extra care and attention before being let loose. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

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Michael Legge is an angry man.

In his new hour of standup, the London-based, Northern Irelandborn 50-year-old rants and rails at anyone and everything. From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Ian Paisley. From his ukulele-playing contemporaries, to the arthritis that has gummed up his left wrist.

He’s always an irate performer— his voice rarely dips below an infuriated roar and he’s constantly shaking his fist and slapping the wall—but The Idiot is a cleverer show than it sometimes seems.

There’s an awareness to it.

He never says anything really controversial, and he always punches up, not down. You sense that beneath the layers and layers of loathing, he’s actually an alright guy.

The show is half made up of Legge airing his many and varied grievances, plenty of which are pointed at other comedians (comedians that deserve it, though – Ricky Gervais, Louis CK, Graham Linehan, anyone that plays satirical songs on a ukulele), and plenty

of which are aimed at the “stupid, English cunts” behind Brexit.

The other half is something of an identity crisis. Why, Legge wants to know, isn’t he Iggy Pop? What does it mean that he can survive a medically-advised period of sobriety (“If I’m not an alcoholic, what am I?”), and why do people confuse his accent for a West Country one (“The IRA will never take me now”)? It’s a bruising, misanthropic hour – but a smart one, too. ✏︎ Fergus Morgan

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It’s difficult to tell if Tiff Stevenson is too good at standup, or just too good at everything else now.

Breezily dashing off an hour of comedy with a strong central message—around how motherhood is a much broader category of nurture than the act of giving birth—she does little to shake the feeling that the form is a constraint rather than an inspiration. Or is it the pressure valve that supports a much broader cultural and political life?

That’s not to say this isn’t a satisfying hour of strong jokes – Stevenson can write those in her sleep. In particular, she writes jokes which speak specifically to the experience of women, does so with complete self-awareness,

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As we leave his show, Philip Simon hands out business cards proclaiming himself a comedian, writer and actor. Clearly he sees himself as a jack of all trades, and is looking to drum up some work off the back of this offering. And why not?

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and then sells them, forcefully and winningly, to those to whom the experience does not speak. “Look me in the eye when I’d doing this bit,” she says to a guy in the front row, while mid-flow in a routine involving a wrong-size-tampon metaphor. If comedy is to pull people out of their comfort zones, this bit feels like lesson one in that endeavour.

But this isn’t a standalone piece of art. Dramatically, it lacks a bit of shape and structure, which is

fine – not every Fringe show need be a mini-feature film. But more than that, it frays at the edges. As Stevenson talks to the ridiculous trolling she receives online, we want to hear more from her as a cultural thinker. She talks of her writing and acting and we’re intrigued. FWIW, she’s also a fantastic musician. This feels like less than the full Tiff. Is it time for this talented performer to fully embrace the triple threat? ✏︎ Evan Beswick

Who’s the Daddy Pig? may be safe stuff, but it’s perfectly suited to its midday slot and elevated by association with a globally popular kids entertainment franchise.

The gist is that despite having played the porcine patriarch in an official touring stage production of Peppa Pig, Simon nevertheless found himself unequipped for the challenges that came with sudden, unexpected parenthood.

Cue a colourful dissection of his roles both on stage and off, and the hard facts he’s learned about parenting.

Make no mistake, this is a cute, fun show, but its execution is terribly hack. While we might

expect the performer to have a wealth of stories relating to his position of prestige in the eyes of thousands of children, most of the hour is devoted to pointing out the inconsistencies in the logic of the TV show. Peppa and her family are animals, but they themselves have a pet and have been known to visit the zoo.

The pigs live in harmony among natural predators, and so on. If these facts haven’t crossed your mind previously, Simon’s show will be a revelation to you. Otherwise, you’ll wonder why he’s put a huge amount of time, money and effort behind stating the obvious for a month. ✏︎ Lewis Porteous

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Conjuring a new sketch-show premise is an art form in itself these days. Gone is the era where character acts would just drily set up each sketch (“and I think that might go a little something like this”) – now your framing device needs lots of thought too.

Shivani Thussu has come up with a good one. The premise: we’re a focus group, which isn’t an original idea in itself, admittedly— Lola and Jo did a show called Focus Groupies last year—but this surveysession has something more sinister lurking. In the background

are a tech company called Grople, whose real motives gradually emerge as the show progresses.

So far, so promising: sadly the various characters that host this seminar then send the show off the rails. An appalling public speaker messing up a presentation is funny in theory, but the impact is lost because Thussu herself seemed a little bewildered beforehand.

Actually the hour’s biggest laugh is arguably earned by a foreign chap gamely getting on stage then mispronouncing a word from Thussu’s script, which is a bit awkward too.

The show does recover late on as Grople’s plan unravels, and you wonder if Thussu—who writes for TV as well as the stage—might rework that overall concept more successfully elsewhere. This group of characters needed more focus. ✏︎ Si Hawkins

house parties and one-night stands are likely to ring bells with many.

She’s warm and inclusive, working the crowd efficiently. But the comedy perhaps relies too much on straightforward recognition, with the tales not really taken anywhere unexpected and the comic structures, while efficient, lacking inventive spark.

A gallery of famous people’s mugshots aims to tie all of this together, and she takes glee in recounting the misdemeanours of Hugh Grant and Winona Ryder.

Just as it all seems this has settled into a predictable rhythm there’s a truly spectacular shocking and revitalising moment that rightly draws gasps from the crowd. If only the whole show had found a way to have the same clout and surprise. ✏︎ Brett Mills

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Maisie Adam: Hang Fire

Maisie Adam’s show is an exhortation for us to accept the mistakes we have made in our lives, and then move on. It also calls for us to be more accepting when others err, and critiques the simplistic kneejerk reactions of Twitter storms and righteous condemnations.

It’s an intriguing topic, but it’s stated rather than explored.

Furthermore, towards the end the whole begins to feel a bit like a lecture, the comic interrogation of the theme receding as she restates, again, the argument that’s been evident all along.

That’s not to deny there’s some good comic storytelling here. ‘Cheeky’ might seem like an overused word to describe certain standups, but there’s no denying it fits here. Adam is a relatable performer, whose stories of teenage

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Just as Richard Gadd’s awardwinning 2016 standup laid bare the sexual confusion and abuse that once lurked in his comedy’s subtext, Baby Reindeer directly reveals the stalker that has devastated his life and swept away the boundaries between performer and fan, private life and professional. Unfolding at the

same time as his greatest artistic triumphs, this is more than just a retelling, it’s a weighty dossier of evidence brought vividly to the stage, a defensive measure against a frighteningly credible, ongoing threat.

It started with a simple gesture of kindness in his bar job, a seemingly innocent flirtation from a naïve young man grappling with issues of self-acceptance, his past and the oppressive demands of masculine culture. Intermittently spinning in the round of his intimate stage, agitatedly pacing and hunkering down amongst the audience, Gadd relates his tale with visceral immediacy.

Supporting and sometimes undermining his testimony are

snatches of interviews with his former partner, parents, work colleagues and an uncertain police.

Yet the overwhelming majority, ominously projected, indeed flooding the ceiling, are a torrent of deluded, threatening texts, emails and voicemails from his tormentor.

With Gadd and director Jon Brittain drawing you fully into this modern, digitally-enabled nightmare, the comic is brutal and unsparing in his self-recrimination, his shocking, violent reprisals as impotent as his attempts to appease his stalker. The sheer crucible of hate and other raw emotions Baby Reindeer unleashes continue to disturb long after its conclusion. ✏︎ Jay Richardson

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There are several points watching Ryan Calais Cameron’s new play where you feel the urge to stand up and right the wrongs of what’s happening on the stage. There can be no better compliment. Typical is transformative piece of theatre, one that opens up a difficult dialogue and then asks the viewer a question: What are you going to do?

Based on a true story, Typical stars Richard Blackwood as Christopher Alder, a black British man of Nigerian descent who died at the hands of the police in his hometown, Kingston-uponHull, back in 1998. Blackwood is best known as a comic actor and, originally, a standup comedian, a skillset he utilises to full effect, bringing us into Christopher’s life and portraying him as another man

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Working on my Night Moves is a search for multiple feminist futurisms, breaking down the time/space continuum. It starts with the audience standing, performer Julia Croft obscured behind a star-covered curtain.

When she pulls the curtain down the set is largely in darkness

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with “typical” concerns. He wants to find work, to be a good father to his children, to meet people and enjoy life. The frequent deployment of the show’s title throughout the hour is significant. Innocuous at first, it becomes symptomatic of just how many elements can and will conspire against him. His concerns and desires are irrelevant, his portrayal as a novelty, a nuisance and a danger is out of his control.

The seemingly minor things all add up.

Cameron’s script is complex and highly poetic, the metre and rhythm shifting subtly throughout in parallel

with the unravelling of Alder’s tragic story. Blackwood accomplishes both the emotional heavy lifting and the mental gymnastics with aplomb.

There’s a telling remark that comes when Blackwood’s Alder, a former Paratrooper, recalls his service: “No greater honour,” he says, “than fighting for this country." He was betrayed not only by his fellow man but by British institutions, the police and the justice system. Typical is harrowing but vital, a timely reminder of the evils that will happen in our communities if we permit them. ✏︎ Craig Angus

with Croft manipulating lights throughout the performance.

Piles of chairs and ladders evoke images of barricades. Even the seating bank is made to look like a desolate landscape.

She performs with a singular focus, turning herself into a tinfoil-clad warrior, followed by one of the most beautiful moments of the show involving dancing tinfoil above a fan.

The fluidity of this and other dance moments contrasts mesmerisingly with the regimented way that Croft moves around the set, repeatedly moving furniture and creating new spaces. It becomes more urgent as the show progresses. Chairs,

lights and ladders are hung from the ceiling. Croft dresses herself as a nightmarish version of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, before hanging several versions of Dorothy around the set – gingham dresses with wigs attached.

Te Aihe Butler’s sound design builds on the eerie, unsettled atmosphere. Often the sound comes from a radio which Croft wears tied around her waist. It moves with her and crackles in and out, feeling all the more overwhelming when it does come from the speakers. The whole production places the audience in another world. And it is a world worth visiting. ✏︎ Emma Ainley-Walker

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Right-on outrage is easy to manufacture, but this sophisticated diatribe against society’s mistreatment of the people on its margins bides its time, carefully building the case for our collective failure on this issue.

Bystanders is always one step ahead of its audience: sometimes confusing as it weaves together its tapestry of six disparate stories, sometimes wrong-footing as it pokes at the problems with the very techniques it employs. You’re drawn in by the shifting puzzle, satisfied to see the threads come together by the end. For that reason we won’t spoil the tales the four

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Alannah Devlin is dressed in the same oppressive shade of pink as her kitchen, hair scraped back into an efficient bun and a toothbrush in hand to clean the already spotless sink. However, when she reaches for her shame cigarettes and inhales half a packet of what

besuited actors tell, suffice to say that they are all unusual, rippedfrom-the-headlines cases that have homelessness at their heart.

At times this show feels like journalism—with verbatim interviews sprinkled here and there; at others like fanciful drama—with pleasingly absurd points of view added to the mix. But the team circle their thesis with confident purpose and impressive energy until it is

impossible to dismiss. A stage, like a busy councillor’s office— whiteboards, screens and boxes— adds to the sense of research completed – the clutter testifying to the difficulty of keeping all the various strands and voices together.

Cardboard Citizens have been at this for 25 years – and it shows.

This is superior agitprop theatre and an urgent call to action.

she later calls her “sad crisps”, it is clear that something is bubbling below the immaculate surface.

When her sister Fianna Devlin crashes in back into her life with her filthy boots, it is only a hint of the mess that is about to ensue.

Set in rural South Armagh in 1989, Meghan Tyler’s black comedy cleverly becomes darker and more farcical in almost equal measure as it progresses, developing into a fever pitch of magical realism by the play’s end. You can never quite tell where the narrative is going to go next, which is down to Tyler’s writing and the excellent performances from Lucianne

McEvoy (Alannah) and Lisa Dwyer Hogg (Fianna) who bring endless energy to the stage. From burying their issues under discussions of the closeness of the night, to laying out 11 years of separation and a childhood of trauma, their relationship is one which only sisters could share.

By the final third, Alannah’s immaculate kitchen and living room is a spectacle of gore, the cleaning products long since thrown aside. Though it may be a gin-fueled, graphic destruction of the family home, it is undercut with true horrors. ✏︎ Emma Ainley-Walker

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It’s very simple. Walk into a shipping container. Lie down on a white, wipe-down bunk bed, only a little bigger than a coffin.

Make sure your headphones are on correctly. Now brace for terror.

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The most intimate and personal of human experiences are made grand and expansive in this captivating performance from company Theatre Re. Developed in partnership with academics and following research with those affected by its themes, Birth tells the story of three generations of women dealing with the evolution of family and life, and

Coma, a brief 30 minute sensory deprivation experience, doesn’t ask too much of its audience beyond that initial leap of faith, but it offers a great deal in return.

Once the lights come down the space is pitch black and the sinister drone from the headphones becomes overwhelming. Through almost flawless recordings played through the headphones, a deft, terrifying and bleak look at consciousness and conscience emerges. What do

all the love and loss that it brings.

The story here is told physically, with small snatches of dialogue spoken without amplification. Its five performers move beautifully and fluidly around a bare but effective set: a simple wooden table becomes a bed; plates and glasses are set and tidied away; chairs are sat on and tucked back in. Most originally of all, a large white sheet billows across the stage to represent the passing of time, captivating in its own right thanks to skilful lighting and directing, but also creating the illusion of characters disappearing and reappearing in tableau as the sheet washes over them.

people say about us when we can’t hear, can’t see, can’t feel?

The darkness—which is firmly enforced, with no phones or smartwatches allowed to interrupt—proves a powerful tool in twisting the perception of reality. The man whose footsteps echo up and down the narrow corridor between the bunk beds may not be there, but without the evidence of your eyes and ears, it’s difficult not to flinch away from him.

The show could, possibly, be a little more frightening – there are a few moments of pure body horror, but they don’t build up enough intensity to provoke screams.

Still, those long, dark seconds are clearly enough to leave audience members shaken and delighted.

There’s an escape route provided for the faint of heart: simply take the headphones off and have a snooze in the dark. But you’ll be more energised if you keep them on. Coma is an injection of adrenaline that won’t leave you for hours. ✏︎ Frankie Goodway

Birth uses physical repetition and the device of a journal, written by grandmother and read by granddaughter, to pull together the most mundane of everyday domesticity with the biggest of life moments—births, engagements, deaths—creating full and sympathetic characters through movement and direction alone. Its musical accompaniment is also key: an evocative and delicate soundtrack performed live within the venue.

Moving, painful and uplifting in equal parts, Birth is a sensitive and beautiful exploration of humanity’s most universal experiences. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

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For Leyla Josephine’s Daddy Drag character, the controversial “Who’s your Daddy?” is a term of endearment. Drag king Josephine expertly plays a stereotypical version of her father with searing honesty.

In his dirty vest and Y-fronts, the manspreading Daddy Drag cuts a creepy yet affable figure. He repeats the same misogynistic jokes again and again, talks about fishing or “a wee BBQ” and revels in telling aimless stories that go nowhere.

There’s embarrassing dancing and music: Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams and Boston. And Josephine expertly turns an observational eye both inward to memories of her own dad and outward to a

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It started with a jut of the chin.

Then came the tics and the convulsions. One girl at first, then two, then four more. Within a month, 24 schoolgirls were glitching in sync across town.

Doctors could find no physical cause. Parents rushed theirs kids out of town. News crews swooped in.

Seven years after this mysterious outbreak, The Afflicted

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representation of the father figure whom the audience can relate to.

She focuses on the quality of the character rather than the quantity of material. And every so often a voiceover cuts through the comedy – Josephine and her mum talking about the man in their life.

With initially reverent tones, these interviews unmask the caricature gurning and prancing about on stage.

But Daddy Drag takes a sinister turn, one that showcases the

returns seeking some answers.

Jake Jeppson’s sly text, structured like a true crime podcast, has an unnamed narrator pressing Hope River’s residents for leads on the girls, scouring archive interviews and recounting the towns creepy history of witch trials, teen suicides and Jell-O factories. How does a rash of mass hysteria—the first of the social media age—set in?

Fusing mock documentary and dance theatre, groupworks’ debut is a deliciously eerie essay on contemporary American dis-ease and patriarchal pressure. Four baby-faced women in matching sport skirts and pigtails catch each other’s movements and finish one another’s thoughts. They share the same off-kilter stare. Vicki

real man behind platitudes and smokescreens. And as the drag king, Josephine adeptly masks the signs of a darker side for maximum effect.

Much of Daddy Drag is seen through the eyes of an innocent child. As a searing conclusion strips away the beard, clothes and the life to unveil an uncomfortable truth, it becomes apparent that “you can’t fit a person in a show.

You can’t even scratch the surface.” ✏︎ Daniel Perks

Manderson’s choreography borrows the spasms and flails of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker and Hofesh Shechter to enjoyable effect.

It’s super stylish: Finn den Hertog gets it jangling with atmosphere as plastic chairs scrape across linonleum floors, red cables snaking across green surfaces. His brother Lewis’ videos can dominate, but, backed by a synthy soundtrack, they instil a Twin Peaks vibe of unsettling placidity: still surfaces and set smiles. Slowly, though, a doubt starts to nag: a craving for metaphor or meaning. There, The Afflicted stops short, content to point at something strange and induce a shiver. ✏︎ Matt Trueman

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For many, the defining image of the Fringe is of absurd performances erupting randomly on street corners to the confusion and amusement of passers-by. This is exactly what Frankie Foxstone’s walking tour is, and it’s just as fun as it sounds.

Comprising of a literal tour round part of Edinburgh’s New Town, the interactive satire sees performer Amy Gwilliam take on the persona of Frankie Foxstone, perfectly-poised but unapologetically ruthless property developer. Over 50 minutes, she

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Shakespeare is the world’s most popular playwright, with his productions staged all over the globe. This particular version is a one-person adaptation of Macbeth that hails from Korea.

Pared down to an hour, it captures the key moments of the original play through movement and spoken text, which is translated back into English surtitles.

Using props and puppets to represent the other characters, the show has a heightened sense

guides participants through her plans to “make Edinburgh great again”, evading tax and loopholing her way out of providing social housing along the way.

The whole point of this performance is interactivity and Gwilliam involves participants throughout without ever leaving them too exposed. The concept is absurd and the games silly, but Gwilliam, in character as Foxstone, creates an environment where there is no reluctance or resentment about joining in.

Her performance is impressive, staying in character as the tour is interrupted by cars honking as they pass or children trying to join in, as is the risk with an immersive public show. While participants laugh throughout at the silliness of it all, the satire is also sharp, with Gwilliam embodying all the greed and single-mindedness of our money-obsessed society – a theme only too relevant in a city growing and developing with alarming pace. ✏︎ Eve Livingston

of artifice, like a child playing with toys that are easily disposable once they are bored of them.

Two performers, one man and one women, alternate the role nightly. It’s physically demanding with its constant movement, much of which is expansive or fast. Battles and lengthy journeys are depicted literally, whereas Macbeth’s aspirations are compared to a bird trying to take flight.

Four small boxes mark out the corners of the playing space, and the actor leaps from one to the other to mark scene and tone changes. Constant forward motion keeps the piece moving and draws attention to Macbeth’s unalterable fate.

There is a good use of colour on

the all-black stage. A set of silver goblets are the banquet guests, and red is a predictable choice for Duncan’s murder – though it's staged in a particularly creative way. The colour also punctuates the appearance of Hecate, making the small puppet stand out well. Lady Macbeth is similarly styled though her importance is lost within her small scale.

These visuals further support understanding and its simplified text is easy to follow.

This production showcases strong, physical storytelling and a well-considered concept, but some of its choices—like extended sections narration— prevent the audience from fully connecting with the story. ✏︎ Laura Kressly

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Blind dates are awkward and weird. Blind dates that are turned into a show and improvised in front of an audience by a French clown are no doubt even more bizarre, and that’s what happens in this longform improv. After Mimi chooses an eye-catching man from the audience and takes him to the onstage restaurant, anything can happen.

Tonight, Mimi and her date, an American divorcee based in Edinburgh, quickly hit it off. For an hour and a half, they negotiate the trappings and customs of a blind date and its possible future, thoroughly enjoying each other’s company. A “time

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In 2017, Will Jackson accidentally walked away from the Post Office with 300 second class stamps he hadn’t paid for. Recently graduated and not quite sure of his next steps he began a series of correspondences, with everyone from a childhood crush to his manager at work, and the John Lewis marketing department. Most

out” feature gives the audience member an opportunity to pause the action whenever they please, though expecting them to commit to participating in the 90-minute running time is a lot to ask.

Rebecca Northan is Mimi, a flirty and filthy clown with an infectious laugh. Her witty retorts and honest vulnerability are hugely entertaining, and she gives her full attention to her date. There are moments of

surprising intimacy between them, but it raises questions about audience care – how much of what Mimi shares is true about Northan and her life in moments of mutual vulnerability? There is potential for her date to think their connection could lead to something more. That said, this is a surprising performance with a lot of scope for variation from night to night.

people replied.

In Yours Sincerely, Jackson earnestly performs a selection of these letters, interspersed with lipsynced musical numbers that bolster the humour and break up the letter reading, which alone could become quite tedious over the course of an hour. Thanks to heartbreak and Cadburys, there are also chocolate buttons shared out among the audience, as well as some photocopied drunken sketches Jackson is particularly proud of.

Jackson is not the only character in the piece. Over the course of the hour you feel you get to know those in his life, in

particular his best friend, newly moved to London, and his new housemate, Jacob. Both are central to Jackson’s journey and he characterises them well, with unease coming through as some darker threads begin to appear in the letters – a dumping, a mugging, a worrying lump found after a sexual encounter.

At the heart of the play, it is about keeping in contact with those who matter to us, not being scared to talk about the big things and the power of blasting out Kylie. Jackson’s charisma carries through a narrative that could otherwise feel too twee. ✏︎ Emma Ainley-Walker

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shared telly time, tea and biscuits, conversations about job interviews – but the domestic rituals are rendered with an alien oddness that is equal parts dislocating, sinister and sad.

At some points, time stretches to become bewilderingly slow and wilfully boring, at others it fractures so that days pass in minutes. Dad’s friendly refrain of “hello love, come and sit down” strangles the last traces of sanity from the poky living room where the story takes place.

This is affecting experimental theatre that chooses to omit many of the questions that would clarify the narrative: Where is mum?

Where has the daughter been?

What exactly is the backstory they cannot confront?

As we wade deeper into this slow-burning nightmare, it becomes clear that music is a metaphor and that playing Ray Charles on repeat is a stand-in for something darker.

The show notes tell us this story is about addiction, but it’s left unclear exactly what kind, or what damage, it’s done. For the most part, this ambiguity is the play’s strength, though ultimately the mysterious mood proves frustrating, slightly undercutting the intense performances by Melville and Barrett. ✏︎ Stu Black

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charges of aiding a client escape inspired protests, and who continued receiving clients at his bed on the ward before his death in 2015, he comes across as an idealistic powerhouse.

His thoughts and journals permeate this tribute by his daughter, violinist and performer Catherine, and are both smart and poignant. His absolute commitment to institutional justice, and simultaneous awareness that they are fallable and must be fought for, are valuable sentiments right now.

But that’s not all it is. Far from being overshadowed by her father, it’s Catherine Graindorge who emerges as a sensitive, kind and loving translator of a life well-lived.

And translation it is, through an inventive collection of song, prerecord, live video and monologue.

She trips over her words— ”leeterature, it’s hard to say [with a French accent]”—drawing attention to the artifice of squeezing a life into an hour. An opening sequence where she sets text blocks under a camera is particularly effective. Is she a typsetter setting an obituary, or writing the news? Looking to the past or living in the present? Grief has a funny way of confusing that.

The music, created live with violin, effects, and loop pedal, is moving, expressing both optimism and grief. Overall the score feels a little one-tone – opportunities for solo violin to settle into more rhythmical forms are missed in place of a general synthy, reverby ambient swell. But there’s enough going on that this doesn’t detract from a gentle, thoughtful hour. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

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Were this a show solely about the late Belgium lawyer, Michel Graindorge, it would be plenty interesting enough. A man deeply committed to due process and human rights, whose arrest on

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Charlotte Josephine’s challenging new play is all about the faltering connection between a failing father (Nigel Barrett) and his semi-estranged daughter (Sophie Melville). It’s an elliptical piece that seems to exist in a closely neighbouring parallel universe.

Everything is recognisable—

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If Art Heist—Poltergeist Theatre’s follow up to last year’s playful Lights Over Tesco Car Park—were a painting, what would it be?

Definitely not a Mondrian, for there is nothing minimalist or restrained about this multimedia, multi-perspective sorta crime caper. Ostensibly, it’s about art and how we create, narrate, label and value it. So maybe a Hirst?

God, no: it’s much more fun than that. It’s obvious, really: who else could turn a chef’s hat into art, or toy with our perspectives with such glee? It’s definitely a Neil Buchanan Art Attack.

If nothing else, I’m sure Neil did one with kitchen sinks, and that’s exactly what Alice Boyd, Rosa Garland, Will Spence, Serena Yagoub and writer/director Jack Bradfield have thrown at this. At times it risks falling off the wall under its own weight. A series of audience interactions, for instance, feel pointless and over-done in the moment but, actually, haven’t acquired sufficient baggage to make them meaningful in the grand finale – however visually spectacular

that may be. That’s a tough one to resolve, but perhaps its ambition is its charm.

It also means it’s hard to describe – a comedy caper about an art heist gone wrong doesn’t come close. Easier to describe is the success with which they use different framing and narrative techniques—camerawork, voiceover, audience participation and, erm, actual frames—to studiously avoid the boring certainty of a single perspective.

“How a frame would contain it!” laments Boyd’s philosophical security guard, taking the time to explore the world one particular painting only partially reveals.

There is nothing contained here. ✏︎ Evan Beswick

characters’ differing motivations for their thrill seeking. Glasgow is described with vivid affection; the necropolis plays an important role, tying in with the themes of death and suicide, and what we leave behind when we die.

But the songs are detailed and evocative pop gems that contain marvellous stories themselves.

Hearing ‘Like Dylan In The Movies’ soundtrack a post-heist police chase is unbearably on the nose (“If they follow you / Don’t look back”).

Murdoch’s lyrics and wry sense of humour don’t work in the mouth of Kid, either. They’re both outsiders,

certainly, but Kid is a loud and extroverted stage presence, the songs comparatively timid.

Swire’s vocal is powerful and raw.

One moment her voice is pained and tortured, the next she’s sneaking a laugh in among the lyrics. The emotional delivery is a strange fit; the melodic, lyrically dense songs on If You’re Feeling Sinister are better suited to someone who’ll gently nativate the scales.

McHugh’s less showy vocal is more effective. A fleetingly uplifting but not entirely satisfying hour.

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Belle and Sebastian’s second album is a classic – arguably one of the best records ever made in this country. The problem with If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play With Songs is that those same beloved songs keep interrupting the story.

Eve Nicol’s script tells the compelling story of two art thieves: Boss, the married, middle-aged academic (Alan McHugh of Taggart and Limmy’s Show), and Kid, a depressed young woman trying to find her place in the world (Sarah Swire). The heist plot deserves more attention – it’s a clever narrative that explores the

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Like so many shows at this year’s Fringe, Leave a Message has its roots in lived experience. The tightly confined three-hander, written by Ed Coleman and James Mitchell, is based on the afternoon Coleman spent clearing out his dead father’s flat. Sorting through the detritus, Ed soon finds himself reflecting on his own life. Is he just repeating his father’s mistakes?

The first thing you notice about Sarah Mercadé’s detailed set is the mess. The small stage is crowded with junk – unopened letters, books, empty bottles, laundry. With his friend Sarah, Ed wades through this sea of stuff, looking for clues about his father’s final days. It becomes clear that he drank himself into an

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Apollo: Take 111 has a nifty premise.

An administration error sees Stuart, an office drone in a Kafka-esque government department, selected to spearhead the USA’s first expedition to the moon. Our hero, who has no aeronautical know-how of any kind, does what any true patriot would: he fakes it.

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early grave, dying in isolation and squalor – a fate that Ed fears he may also be hurtling towards.

All of this is clumsily uncovered.

An answering machine is the main conduit of information, a device that is increasingly contrived. It’s convenient that the messages are listened to intermittently, dripfeeding dramatic revelations, and that a crucial phone call arrives just as another character is walking back into the room. The play starts

to feel like a series of laboriously connected plot points rather than a convincing narrative.

There are some touching moments between the characters, but mostly Coleman and Mitchell’s script meanders, treading water until the next bombshell. And when Ed finally does confront his demons, it feels abrupt and unearned, as though the play were in need of a quick conclusion. ✏︎ Catherine Love

involves inviting the world’s finest auteur, the great Stephen Kosminski, director of sci-fi masterpiece 2011: A Space Iliad, to film the ruse in his basement. A trio of actors—a British stage luvvie, a Hollywood starlet and a low-wattage method actor named Brick—are assembled and chaos ensues, and not just on Kosminski’s set.

None of Apollo: Take 111’s cast is on the same page. Some appear to think they’re in a deadpan comedy while others seem to be channelling the rocket-fuelled intensity of John Belushi or Rik Mayall. The production has one decent, if laboured, pun, which involves method man Brick being given his “cue”.

But unfortunately, it’s repeated a second later in case we didn’t get the gag, killing it dead.

The play is full of intentionally fluffed lines, with actors sometimes jumping off stage to try again, which might have raised a smile if there weren’t so many unintentional cockups peppered throughout. If you were being generous, there’s a meta appeal to a play about a farcical film production being a shambles itself. The chaotic energy, haphazard blocking and dream logic plot suggest Apollo: Take 111 is being improvised on the spot, perhaps with the actors’ loved ones held hostage backstage. ✏︎ Jamie Dunn

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The Desk

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As beautiful as it is haunting, Reetta Honkakoski’s The Desk shines a light on the shady and unknown world of life in a cult.

Part of the From Start To Finnish programme, it is an honest and brutal portrayal of five female cult members, consumed by the power struggles, backstabbing, militarylike discipline and hierarchical

control of such a life. The end result is a performance that is a unique approach to a sinister subject matter.

The absence of words is both the strength and biggest obstacle for The Desk, one that it quickly overcomes. Honkakoski takes her real life experiences and produces something that leaves a lasting impression. The stage is laid bare for the performers and their desks, each containing only one book. In being promised with praise they compete in an endless array of tasks: a hypnotic and choreographic set of routines.

The use of space and movement is remarkable. As well as directing, Honkakoski plays the ‘leader’ of

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the unnamed cult. Both mocked and feared in equal measure, she is never positioned as one thing – the complex relationships are hard to decode.

Scored with precision, the brooding and menacing soundscape highlights the strength of performance. It is not an easy task to tell an emotional story through muted physical theatre. The Desk is a triumph for movement-based theatre, not only does it tell a fascinating story but it grips its audience for an hour without a single word said. It is able to convey complex themes with nothing but five desks, six performers and a powerful story. ✏ James McColl

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In order to better appreciate this modest 40-minute dance solo with music you need to know the back story. The veteran Finnish dance artist Alpo Aaltokoski was meant to create a collaborative performance with Ali Alawad, a virtuoso Iraqui oud lute player and singer,

D’Amico desperately seeking the connection and trust shared between his two co-performers.

The Cyr wheel becomes a symbol of emotional openness.

Feeling left out by the other two, Wheeler performs a fluid, and mesmerising solo towards the final third of the show, becoming a catalyst for the three men to become closer, less “bro-ish” in their relationship to each other.

The three interweave their physical performances with some comedy, both talking to the audience, and visual gags. They play up, too, flashing abs to the audience to great cheers. In the final, showstopping routine they perform trick after trick in only their shorts, but it is the talent and vulnerability in the performance that has made this show such a success. ✏ Emma Ainley-Walker

as a means of examining cultural similarities and differences. But the rejection of Alawad’s asylum application put a spanner in the works. Rather than accept forced repatriation, Alawad fled Finland two weeks before the premiere.

These events didn’t stop the men’s artistic aspirations. The result is, in effect, a subtle yet resonant act of political defiance.

Thin and wiry in casual clothes, Aaltokoski is a simultaneously silky yet twitchy mover. Initially he swirls his limbs and twists his torso, or sometimes jogs in place.

A third of the small, bare stage is fronted by a scrim onto which

looming video footage of Alawad is occasionally projected. His music is seductive and heartfelt. It alters how Aaltokoski dances, softening his innate angularity, slowing him down and transforming him into a more sensually undulant presence.

At one juncture Aaltokoski appears to mime hugging an instrument while, towards the close of the piece, he clutches his head and throws out his hands in a gesture of impatience, lamentation or disgust.

Visually the performance is handsome: Alawad is sharply filmed, while Aaltokoski is bathed in lowkey, lambent light. ✏ Donald Hutera

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Barely Methodical Troupe’s Bromance first opened at the Fringe in 2014, winning them the Total Theatre Award for circus, but this exploration of friendships between men and how they are expressed is still relevant five years on. It starts with an explanation of the handshake the three performers and co-creators, Beren D’Amico, Louis Gift and Charlie Wheeler, are comfortable with.

When it comes to more emotional expression, they’re not as comfortable. The circus skills spring out of these handshakes, back slaps, hugs and trust falls, mixing acrobatics and hand-tohand with b-boy and contemporary dance elements.

Circus is the perfect medium to explore the competitive edge to many male friendships. Wheeler in particular competes with

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Why should female circus artists be expected only to perform aerial silks and floor work? Why do men get to take the lead in strength skills, as the base of towers and lifts? Not so in YUCK Circus, a troupe that smashes industry tropes with a subtle nod and wry smile.

The seven women subvert these male-centric circus disciplines and highlight the double standards present within their craft. But YUCK Circus also brings these issues into a wider context. It highlights the injustice in a world that recoils at women on their

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period or categorises drunken behaviour as unfeminine, a sexually unbalanced society that still accepts how virginity—deflowering—is something to be taken, or where the new language of love is an aubergine emoji.

And while adeptly emphasising all these obstructions to equality, YUCK Circus also inject comedy into their show. Ella Norton performs cleverly observant clowning, Karla Scott smashes apart “man-mojis” with acrobatic prowess

and Georgia Deguara hammers nails into her brain to block out the noise of all those tasteless chat-up lines. The beauty is in those little details that aren’t woven quite so intricately into the other acts.

The performers are a reminder that misogyny is still an issue in this discipline. And for those who demand a circus show stuffed full of traditional trickery, Jessica Smart provides an impressive aerial show that keeps the purists happy. ✏ Daniel Perks

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Strong ensemble dance can be hard to find on the Fringe. Scottish choreographer Kally Lloyd-Jones’ Company Chordelia goes a long way towards filling the gap with this sextet, which is essentially about how to live with the knowledge of one’s own mortality.

The set is clean, white and spare. The sole furnishings are one silver cube for each dancer to sit or balance upon, or move about. The cast is initially sedentary until the sound of the surf begins, at which point they surge with it downstage and back up in waves.

They appear to be about the same age, maybe 30-something at the most, and all are white. For these and other reasons I am at first unsure about how interesting they are – not so much as dancers, but as people. A sequence alluding to the banalties of modern life doesn’t help, while another in which all were being perpetually anxious feels protracted.

But somewhere along the line I have a turning point, perhaps because the dancers themselves undergo something similar.

Collaboratively devised by LloydJones with them, The Chosen is demanding. The cast works hard.

What they do isn’t necessarily conventionally virtuosic, but it is intense and tests stamina.

As characters they collapse and rise up again, or twitch uneasily until solace can be found. Their moves might be pedestrian or

merely behavioural, but they’ve been crafted with rigour and intelligence. The result is abstract dance-drama primarily set to stirring classical music, grounded in the fundamentals of daily existence and with implications that are potentially profound. ✏ Donald Hutera

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In the past Australia’s Company2 cooked up the well-received circus shows Cantina and Scotch & Soda.

Their latest outing riffs on the atmosphere of an old-fashioned boxing tent, a shady-sounding form of public entertainment in which groups of professional fighters rock up in mining towns and the outback, pitch a tent and stage fights for cash.

Rather than trying to knock our socks off with a large-scale, highconcept extravaganza like some of their colleagues at this year’s Fringe, Company2 uses this fascinating

slice of dodgy showbiz history from Down Under to generate a fair amount of good-natured, neovaudevillian fun.

The cast play a clutch of contestants introduced to us by a tough, mouthy female ringmaster.

These working-class characters carry monikers like Ugly, The King, the Sisterless Twin and my favourite, Sally the Alleycat. (Runner-up: Barry, a cross-dressing builder.)

The performers are, no surprise, adept acrobats, aerialists and the like, thus guaranteeing a load of action of the spin, fling, balance and swing variety. The audience

is encouraged to root for their fighter of choice or, in the case of the turtle race (in which those competing squat low while wearing a half-barrel on their backs), to shout and, if seated at the front, bang on the stage. Such rabble-rousing is where this likeable, all-ages show is probably at its weakest. Certainly the overall premise isn’t strong enough to fully immerse me in the action, agreeable though it is. Le Coup (French for 'the blow') does, however, benefit from bluegrassrock music played live by, as billed, Father Grant and the Blunt Objects. ✏ Donald Hutera

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Watching Lulia Benze and Kurt Murray may lead to temporary sensory overload. Revelling in the seedy and grubby, Bubble Show for Adults Only is part physical theatre and part bubble artistry.

The show aims at an audience

45-minute five-act performance, standup soprano Delea Shand provides a crash course in some of the most-loved opera plots, performing her take on their best-known arias and providing anecdotes from her own life and opera career in between.

The arias are where Shand shines. City Cafe’s nineties room may be small, but she fills it with her voice, breaking between lines to give her take on the plot (The Magic Flute is from Mozart’s misogynistic phase), or asides about operatic technique such as the Queen of the Night’s “opera shouting”, while in La Bohème we experience “opera coughing”.

The two are not dissimilar.

Shand easily involves her

audience in the show, trusting some with instruments to accompany costume changes, playing an opera drinking game with “expensive cheap champagne” and ending with help from some spectacular backing dancers. Her open nature makes it easy to join in the fun.

What lets the show down is the moments linking the acts. The anecdotes Shand shares from her own life are not as slick, and the standup elements of the show do not come as easily to her as the music. She boasts a decade of classical music training, so with practice, the standup will come in time. Until then, there’s always a ‘Nessun Dorma’ sing along. ✏ Emma Ainley-Walker

willing to watch a BDSM fetishinfused kids show. More than street performance on stage, Murray and Benze use their blend of bubbles and physicality to trample through the lifespan of a relationship. It's kinky, hypersexual eroticism mixed with an absurd and childish form.

Death masks, babies and wearing engagement rings show a more telling side of the performers' relationship.

And they never shy away from any harsh realities. These are performers who showcase the technical prowess of bubble art, even when mixing it with the grotesque.

True, some bubble tricks don't work and the hits are as regular as the misses. However, there is always another trick on the horizon. The pair drive the show at breakneck speed, only slowing down to grab a wincing audience member to take part in this orgy bubble show hybrid.

In this environment, there are limitations for the form. But the right jaunty audience will have fun with the late-night Fringe vibe. There's nothing else like it, unless there is another pair of hypersexual hornies running around with bubble guns somewhere. ✏ James McColl

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It’s clear what the point of this songs-and-desserts cabaret is, because it’s spelled out to us in the plainest of plain English at the top of Just Desserts: modern life is tough; we’re held to impossible standards of success and beauty; be yourself and do what makes you feel happy. That’s hard to disagree with. But it’s less clear what the purpose of packaging the message like this is.

It’s all set out so plainly that what follows, a trio of (albeit delicious) petits fours, served alongside a sequence of fairly samey, generally uplifting cover songs fails to surprise. There’s little development, nothing to

reveal, a dick pic set piece that trips over the very obvious hurdle that there’s no phone signal in the dungeon-like Underbelly, and no actual cooking from "singing cook" Michelle Pearson.

There is singing, and great singing at that. There’s no doubting Pearson’s vocal talent or charismatic stage presence.

She’s brought with her from Australia a tight four-piece band, too. But they’re at their best when

allowed to noodle jauntily between songs, and sound constrained by middle of the road pop-rock covers. Pearson and the band have a second show on at the Fringe, in which she cooks and sings her way through a three-course dinner. This, right from an opening jingle about a brand of jelly not even available in the UK, has the feel of a hasty add-on to make the finances stack up. ✏ Evan Beswick

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Yo ho, this is really stupid fun. To be clear, there’s nothing learned over the course of this hour and a half; nothing gained; nothing fought over and won. Except, that is, the love of a presumed sister as part of a weird and pretty dated plot line about not-quite-incest.

Basically, Piramania! is a daft

old romp in which everything is played for laughs. From warnings about mermaids with herpes, to meta-takes on the silliness of miming climbing the rigging, to a throwaway line about the “Cake Arse Islands”. Little is left to taste.

It’s all framed by an Imperial lounge-lizard narrator, played beautifully, suitably hammily

by Adam Elliot, whose drinks cabinet deserves special mention for its range and escalating oddness. Even more special mention, though, goes to MD Ben David Papworth, who keeps a surprisingly epic score together at the piano, and is clearly responsible for the high standard of live music and singing here.

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Musicals & Opera Reviews It’s as tight as a mainsail in a 40-knot gale, and it's this technical proficiency that gives the silliness a firm foundation.

The cast do extremely well to fit a lot of business into a tight but economical set, making use of barrels and boxes without ever making the blocking feel contrived.

Alex Howard has clearly directed with care, and there’s some very painterly ensemble moments. Our jolly crew sing and play live with confidence, energy and skill and totally sell this treasure. It just feels a shame that this careful revival didn’t rewrite the incest— oh, and sheep sex—sub-plots which could be thrown overboard as easily replaceable crew members. ✏ Evan Beswick

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Much has been made of Robert Burns’ reputation for philandering, but less is known about the women directly affected by it all. This is the premise from which Armour takes place, introducing us to the women in Burns’ life and asking us to remember them when we next

toast the Bard.

This concept is a clever one and allows for many moving moments when the impacts of his actions are seen fully and the strength of the women around him made clear. The script moves between emotion and humour delicately and with ease, echoing the man himself both in tone and through musical arrangements which use parts of his work throughout. Burns as a character does not appear on stage—he has already passed away by the time we meet his widow and granddaughter—so it is the women who dictate how his music and words are understood.

The performances in Armour are captivating, and its clever

direction sees many moments of humour or hurt communicated in small physical actions or through the basic but effective set. Its message is clearly conveyed— indeed, an explicit reference to the strength of women and remembering those associated with Burns feels slightly on the nose—and comes to stand in for a broader and very timely message about the erasure of all sorts of women from history.

Armour is an accomplished piece of theatre which finds originality in a previously saturated subject matter.

Audiences will indeed remember it when they next toast the Bard. ✏ Eve Livingston

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“There are no spoilers for a story that’s 100 years old,” Lindsay Sharman argues early in Jekyll vs Hyde, as her co-star and husband Laurence Owen attempts to get his high-art musical handpuppet adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde back on track. A quick show of hands proves the audience also think they know where this is going. Sharman and Owen make sure they don’t.

Jekyll vs Hyde isn’t one adaptation – it’s two, spliced together, with a jolt of Punch and Judy drama between Sharman and Owen to bring the Frankenstein to life. There’s the period piece with quick-witted, complex lyrics set to Gilbert and Sullivan-esque tunes – Owen’s passion project.

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And there’s the American high school musical, complete with a cameo from the good Doctor Frankenstein himself and a Nice Guy narrative, which Sharman argues has a better chance of entertaining their audience.

The result is a cobbled-together compromise helped along by the duo’s bickering. The conceit, if paper-thin at some points, is entertaining enough to invest in. It makes a virtue of the ramshackle production and lets the show’s assets shine – chiefly Sharman’s crude clowning charm and Owen’s

pipes and composing.

It is a slight shame that the comic interplay between Sharman and Owen out of character is so much stronger than the Jekyll and Hyde scenes. There are points where a couple of needlessly tawdry, borderline misogynistic jokes spoil the fun. But the pair throw themselves into the next bit of silliness with such vigour that any sour aftertaste can’t linger for long. “Indulge the dark shadowy part of you that loves stupid things,” Sharman coos. It’s convincing. ✏ Frankie Goodway

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In the grandiose Usher Hall, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform one of the most iconic pieces in the musical theatre canon. But despite the auspicious setting, West Side Story fails to live up to its reputation.

John Eliot Gardiner has been waiting 61 years to conduct this work – he even shared a taxi with Leonard Bernstein in the 1960s. And for a story that tells of first loves and warring gangs, Gardiner rightfully casts upcoming performers to add a youthful energy to proceedings.

But this show needs a stronger director to channel the raw potential into a more polished, focused creation.

Vocally, there are some powerhouse performances. Sophia Burgos’ Maria floats over the

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Advert composer and nervous musician Fran (Lindsay Manion) feels invisible, prefering to stay at home alone in her bedroom.

Until Robert arrives. A highly advanced piece of artificial intelligence created by Fran’s sister Alice and programmed with one purpose: to serve Fran.

Robert has a lot to learn and in this actor Laurence Hunt is

melody, with top notes so pure and controlled that they leave the mouth agape. Andrea Baker’s Anita has guts and gusto, a mezzo soprano that commands attention in the resonating space.

The men fare less well. Alek Shrader’s Tony lacks projection, and Dan D’Souza’s Riff is too intense. It works in his menacing acting, less so in the tremble of his vibrato.

Gardiner pushes the orchestra along at a whip-cracking pace—

brilliantly deadpan, asking what pornography is and showing Fran where to recharge him via his “butt plug”. It is not Robert, but Ian who convinces Fran to face the world. Introduced in one of the piece’s most accomplished musical numbers, ‘I Hit You With My Car’, Ian is the outgoing neighbour and love interest played charmingly, but on one note, by Will Taylor. Cara Withers and Martha Furnival, who also perform all other roles, round out the cast of five.

As Fran’s high-maintenance flatmates, their main purpose is to antagonise Fran and expose Robert, with little else put in to their characters. It is a shame to see these actors used mostly as

perfect for the prologue and dance numbers in this heavily rhythmical work—yet seems to hold back with the chorus.

‘America’ and ‘A Boy Like That’ are painfully slow, as if Gardiner doesn’t trust his cast to convey the requisite emotions at speed.

And for all the risk-taking in West Side Story, Gardiner’s vision and Stephen Whitson’s staging feel subdued and safe. ✏ Daniel Perks

a plot device. As Alice, heard mostly in voicemail, Withers shines.

The songs, from composer Cordelia O’Driscoll and performed by a live band, are funny and touching with beautiful melodies, though the sound is not always well balanced. Tom Williams’ narrative is messy, with a rushed ending that lands neither the emotion or the comedy required, though it sends Fran out into the world.

There is something in the concept, the songs and the performances, but what You and I needs is more time and development. ✏ Emma Ainley-Walker

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KID CRITICS

Lauren Hunter

I'll Take You to Mrs Cole!

Complicité and Polka Theatre's children's show has a better ska soundtrack than its story, says Lauren Hunter, age 13 What happens in the show?

In 1981, pre-teen Ashley lives in Coventry.

Her imagination is running wild leaving her hardworking mum, a nurse, at her wits' end about how to handle her.

story is not executed well enough for the whole thing to work. It kept setting things up that never felt properly finished. It was a rushed ending and it gets worse the more I think about it.

Describe the show in five words Stylish, rocksteady, realistic, repetitive, anticlimatic.

If there were songs or music in the show what did you think?

There was a whole ska soundtrack. It suited Ashley who was just starting to buy records.

Who was your favourite character and why?

Ashley's mum. The way she was portrayed was much more realistic than you'd usually see in a children's show.

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Were there any characters you didn't like?

The characters were the strongest part of the show.

What did you like most about the show?

The dynamic between Ashley and her mum and how they used props, the background and another actor to physically show how she gets carried away in her daydreams.

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

The story underneath is weak but it's worth seeing for the dancing, set-design and soundtrack – which creates a wonderful effect.

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What didn't you like about the show?

The production values are brilliant but the

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What did your grown-up think of the show?

About half-way through my dad thought the show was amazing – but he felt the ending let it down.

TICKETS:

I'll Take You to Mrs Cole!

Pleasance Courtyard, 1:45pm – 2:45pm, 31 Jul – 26 Aug, not 12 £10 – £12

Down with the Poetry King!

Lilac Hastings, age 10, waxes lyrical about the Poetry King What happens in the show?

Mark Grist explains how he became the Poetry King. Along the way he teaches you a few poetry tricks about rhyming and encourages you to have a go. There are a few fun games to help you think more creatively and Mark performs some poems that he has written.

Describe the show in five words Educational, fun, rhyme, different, inspiring.

Who was your favourite character and why?

Only Mark is in it, but I did really like him. He was very smiley and positive.

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

No. What did you like most about the show?

Everyone in the audience got to join in and offer suggestions. It was like being in a very fun English lesson. My sister liked being chosen to be his agent. My favourite poem in it was about apples, except it wasn’t really about apples.

What didn’t you like about the show?

I found the rhyming part hard and would have liked a bit more time to think of the answers.

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

No songs, but Mark does rap. I think he said he has won awards for it.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

My mum thought it was a show with a really positive message for children and teens. She thought he seemed to have quite a lot of tricks up his sleeve to keep his young audience captivated.

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

Yes – it was good fun and the poems were funny. I would probably recommend they practice their rhyming first though.

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Gilded Balloon Teviot 11:30am – 12:30pm, 31 Jul – 18 Aug £8–£9

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Brave Macbeth Even Lady Macbeth can't stop Honor Hastings, age seven, enjoying this comedic take on the Scottish What happens in the show?

They tell the story of Macbeth and how he was made to be bad, but didn’t want to be.

His wife forced him. There are lots of songs and funny dancing.

What didn’t you like about the show?

The story is quite hard to keep up with and they tell it really quickly. I think I managed to understand most of it, but I did need to concentrate when they were explaining it.

Describe the show in five words Brilliant, interesting, funny, exciting, silly.

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

The songs were good at making the story less complicated. They were all brilliant and very funny.

Who was your favourite character and why?

Banquo – he was so funny all the way through it. He really made me laugh when he was dancing.

Were there any characters you didn’t like?

Lady Macbeth because she wanted to kill everyone!

What did you like most about the show?

The songs were all brilliant. They really helped me to understand the story and they made me laugh. My older sister liked the bit with the puppets because they were all different Shakespeare characters from other plays.

What did your grown-up think of the show?

My dad thought it was a fun way to deliver some Shakespeare to kids. There was a lot of comedy in it, which wasn’t what he expected.

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

Yes. Everyone I know would enjoy this show.

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Pleasance Courtyard 11:50am – 12:50pm, 31 Jul – 18 Aug £8.50 – £10

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00:00 Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories VI Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 Project X – Alternative Comedy Collective Monkey Barrel Comedy, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £5 Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–24 Aug, not 18, 19, £7 The Wonder Jam Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14–26 Aug, £5 Late Show Great Show / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–26 Aug, FREE Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

00:05 Best of the Fest... Later Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 17 Aug to 26 Aug, £14–£16 Comedy Village Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–26 Aug, FREE

00:10 An Evening With Lee Trundle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 14–26 Aug, £5

00:15 Scot Roast – Afterburn Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–27 Aug, £5 A&E Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 18–26 Aug, FREE The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–26 Aug, FREE The Piece: Now More (Artistically) Accessible – WiP Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–26 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE

00:30 The Improverts Bedlam Theatre, 13–26 Aug, £8

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Amusical Club Night Pleasance Dome, 24–25 Aug, £10 Tree Fiddy Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–26 Aug, FREE Global Comedy Club Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–26 Aug, FREE The Darkness Distillery Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–26 Aug, FREE

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Peyton and Jared Stab Each Other in the Back Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–14 Aug, FREE Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We’re Out the House Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 15–26 Aug, FREE

00:45 Ghost Orgy Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–26 Aug, FREE Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–26 Aug, FREE Gaming Under the Influence Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

01:00 Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16–27 Aug, not 20, 21, 22, £14–£16 Late’n’Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 13 Aug to 22 Aug, £12.50 Currie and Brice: Kraudwerk Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £5 ACID! Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £5 LEGMEAT Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 13–14 Aug, £6

09:00 BBC at George Heriot’s School BBC, 13–23 Aug, FREE

10:00 BBC: The Afternoon Show BBC, Various dates from 13 Aug to 21 Aug, FREE A Comedy Brunch 3 Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 13–26 Aug, not 15, £5

Trans*Atlantic Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

10:40 Lee Kyle – ConQuest Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 15, FREE

10:50 Tales of Whatever Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

11:00 Rogue Two: Burns and Moore Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–16 Aug, FREE About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13 Aug, 17 Aug, £99 The Iceberg Effect Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Clothesline Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–18 Aug, £5

A Failuretale Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Comedy Auction Frankenstein Pub, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £0–£7 Ella Al-Shamahi and Susie Steed: Gold Diggers Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–18 Aug, FREE Mumblebrag Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Twat Out of Hell: Deluxe Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Attention, Seeker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 19–25 Aug, FREE

Snack Chat Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Meddlin’ Kids Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £8–£9

10:10

11:25

Selling Like Hot Takes Paradise in Augustines, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

Reality Sucks!

Paradise in Augustines, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £5

Rib Ticklers’ Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–16 Aug, FREE

11:50

The Best Show We’ve Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £11.50

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10.50

Amazing Adventure of Her Majesty at 90+ Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £7

Black Sheep Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Unladylike Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 14–25 Aug, £5

11:55

Let’s Get Tough Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–25 Aug, FREE

David Callaghan: Dance Like No One’s David Callaghan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8

The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

Who’s the Daddy Pig?

12:00

Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6

Westdal and Hayward Need Work PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–26 Aug, £8–£10 BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 16 Aug, FREE

Daphna Baram: Cracking Up Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

11:15

Karl Theobald Essentially: The Book Tour Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14 Aug, £6

Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £15

11:05 Rodgers with a D – The Tommy Rodgers Centenary Celebration theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £6

Morgan Rees and Riordan DJ: Coming to Terms Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £10

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £10.50

Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

Freshly Squeezed Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, FREE

Jack and Barney Are in the Background Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £99

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11:30

11:35 3’s Comedy – Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Long Man Doing Short Jokes, Short Man Doing Long Jokes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

11:40 Harry Baker: I Am 10,000 Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–24 Aug, £10–£11 Neighbourhood Watch Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, £8 Jamie Oliphant: The Oliphant in the Room Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

11:45 Robert Ross: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £10 Tales from the Balkans Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–16 Aug, FREE Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Eliott Simpson: (A)sexy and I Know It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 17–25 Aug, FREE

This Is Your Trial (FF) Frankenstein Pub, 13–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £7 Stand-Up Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–26 Aug, FREE

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PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

The Delightful Sausage: Ginster’s Paradise Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £5–£7

Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a Girlfriend Too) Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 18, FREE

Funny Feckers Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Gethin Alderman is: Sublime Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5

Amy Annette: What Women Want Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaah, It’s the One-Liner Show Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Michael Legge: The Idiot

Paul Currie: Release the Baboons (All Ages) Heroes @ Boteco, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £5 Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (in a Year) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 21 Aug, £10 The Golden Path Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Sarah Southern: Tentatively Tory PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, £5

Mimi Hayes: I’ll Be OK PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE

HHH

The Stand Comedy Club, 13–26 Aug, £12

Luke Rollason’s Infinite Content HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

12:05 James Harvey: The Bald-Faced Truth Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–14 Aug, £8 The Daft Show with Bony Tony theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8 Cave Women: Work in Progress Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 15–25 Aug, £5–£6 Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz – British Edition The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £10 Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

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

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 13–24 Aug, FREE

12:10 Rachel Creeger – Hinayni!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £9–£10 Don’t Bother Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, not 24, £9–£10 Matt Hobs BSc (Bristolian of Science) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 News@1066 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7 Tom GK’s Hearing Loss: The Musical Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

12:15 Elliot Steel: Merked PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Sir David and His Animals Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–18 Aug, £5.50

❤ Tony Law: Identifies HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £10

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

12:20 Peeved with Peter E Davidson Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 18–25 Aug, FREE David McIver: Teleport PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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

Impulse Control HHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 22, 24, FREE

Robin Boot’s Rockomedy: Punderstruck PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Stuart Laws Is All In Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Gráinne Maguire – What Has the News Ever Done for Me? Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

12:25 And They Played Shang-A-Lang Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12

Just These Please: Suitable Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10

Paul Foxcroft: Debut Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Clash of the Tight Tens Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Zane Helberg – Live from Rehab Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

12:30 Final Cut Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Rod Shepherd: Slacktivist – Free Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–26 Aug, not 14, FREE Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch!

Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £8 Grave St Claire: Hard Bop Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE A-Z Mental Health Atlas Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–14 Aug, FREE Jennifer Tyler: Ready or Not Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£12

Deepu Dileepan: The Outsider PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–18 Aug, FREE Krystal Evans: Fishnets Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £3 Well, That Was Weird...

Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Bargain Hunt and Gather PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE Cambridge Impronauts: Improv Actually Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Jumping Off the Bandwagon Laughing Horse @ The Place, 20–25 Aug, FREE

12:40 Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Big Wendy Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7 Boycotted: Comedy from Israel Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 13–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £7.50 The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5

12:45 Richard Stott: Right Hand Man Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

12:35

Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn’t, You Decide!)

Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £7–£9

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off! Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

Tom Short’s Wheel of Misfortune Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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Charlie Vero-Martin: Scrapbook Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6 A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–24 Aug, FREE Look Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £5 Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Accident Avoidance Training for Cutlery Users Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £8

Angry Boater Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

13:10

Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Community Circle Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £6

12:50 Edy Hurst: Hurst Schmurst Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

A Little R and R PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 18–24 Aug, £9

Decree Absolute Vodka Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

MC Hammersmith’s Magical Freestyle Factory!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, FREE

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, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Comedy

Daniel Audritt: Better Man Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5–£6

I Think I Might Be... New Romantic!

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

Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8

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So Close Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, FREE

13:00 Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests) Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 14–25 Aug, FREE Austentatious Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–25 Aug, £15–£17 Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Sketch Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 14–25 Aug, FREE Ross Smith: Crying/Shame Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5 An Audience with... That Never Was, but Is ‘An Audience with... Jimmy Whobblers’ (with Jimmy Whobblers) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 14–26 Aug, £5 Generation Whyyy?

Imagination Workshop, 22 Aug, £8

13:05 The Man Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 Andrew White: Retirement Tour Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

Peter Brush: Present.

Tense.

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE Amy Matthews: The Life Aquatic with Amy Matthews Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £3 Rice and Chips Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

13:15 Girl Stuff Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–20 Aug, FREE Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10 Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13–24 Aug, not 18, 21, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Ashes: A Comedy Showdown PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Blazers Presents Comedy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–24 Aug, FREE Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Old Jewish Jokes Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £10 Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect Heroes @ Boteco, 14–25 Aug, £7 Jamie Fraser and Maybe Someone Else, I Don’t Know PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE

13:25

Angel Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–24 Aug, FREE

Tom Toal in Mediocre Boy Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–25 Aug, £5

Fat Roland: Seven Inch Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13 Aug, FREE

The Dark Side of Research Paradise in Augustines, 20–24 Aug, £10

Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please!

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

Mix and Match Wine Package PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE

13:20 MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say HH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £6

13:30 Charmian Hughes: What-not Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Zahra Barri’s Special (Work in Progress) Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Aidan Greene: Eternal Sunshine of the Stammering Man PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!

Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11

Impromptu Shakespeare Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Girl Code Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–16 Aug, £12–£13

Jokes with Mark Simmons Podcast: Live PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 13–24 Aug, FREE

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Matt Forde’s Political Party Podcast Gilded Balloon Teviot, 20 Aug, £12.50

Obsolete Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain HHH The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12 Broken Toys Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Will Penswick: Nørdic(k) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6.50 The Third Annual Black Comedy Showcase PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 13–25 Aug, FREE 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, 13–25 Aug, not 15, 22, £12.50 Jessica Fostekew: Hench Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £5 Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–19 Aug, £15 Friend Pleasance at EICC, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £12–£13 Richard Herring: RHLSTP The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £16 Dan vs Food Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, £6 Raul Kohli: All My Heroes Are Dead, in Jail or Touched Up Your Nan Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 14–25 Aug, £5 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 Will Rowland: Cocoon PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE

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

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists!

Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 14–25 Aug, FREE

A Many Splendored Thing Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, FREE

Got a Text: A Musical Parody Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

Ed MacArthur: Humoresque PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Daniel Nicholas: Lessons in Nostalgia Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Ahir Shah: Dots Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7–£8

Not My Audience!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 Ryan Dalton: When Nature Calls Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £9–£10 How To Not Die Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6 Katie Mulgrew: Confirmation (WIP) Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 19–25 Aug, £6 The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £16

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

13:40 The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio Show theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £10 Arthur Smith: SYD Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Alcohol-Free Craic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 13–25 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 Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5 Character Building Experience Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

13:45 That Black Mirror Episode With the Two Lesbians Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 13–25 Aug, FREE Conor Drum: Solo Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Interviewing Electric Frog Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Board Game Smackdown Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Mista Lorraine Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–25 Aug, FREE

13:50 Saskia Preston: Ninety-Five Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

13:55 Soup Group!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £5 Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Stuart McPherson: Mr. November Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £5

14:00 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50 Maddie Campion: Truly Maddie Deeply Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–25 Aug, £6 Sarah Johnson’s Guide to (Im)Practical Parenting Heroes @ Dragonfly, 13–25 Aug, £5 Georgie Morrell: Eyecon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – Lightfoot James Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Ishi Khan: I’mMigrant!

Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 15–25 Aug, FREE Ben Target: Six Endings in Search of a Beginning Heroes @ The Hive, 13–23 Aug, not 17, £5 Am I Blue Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 13–26 Aug, £5 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Good Morning Nation Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13.50 CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 Steff Todd: Reality Check Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Daniel Downie: Hour of Scotland Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, £5

It’s All Going To Be OK – Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 14 Aug to 26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Agatha Is Missing!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

Classic Joke Club Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Two Mums – One Cup Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 17–22 Aug, FREE

Gummy Bears Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 13–14 Aug, FREE

14:20 ❤ Eleanor Tiernan:

Pindos Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5

Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly HHHH PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Smashing Planet Bar, 13–17 Aug, FREE Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir HH Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £8–£9

14:05 Mickey Sharma – Pervert!

Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £12

14:10 Andy Field’s Funeral Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

14:45 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, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Cyclopath Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Mistaken Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Tom Crosbie: Nerd World Problems Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

BadFamiliar by Matt Davis Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–25 Aug, £5

Gareth Waugh: Just Me...?!

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

My Uncomfortable Wardrobe Summerhall, 20–22 Aug, £10

Gareth Richards: 40 Years in the Wilderness PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–25 Aug, FREE

14:35

Socially Awkward Penguin Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Evil Queen Rules!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

I Want an Irish Passport The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £10

Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–25 Aug, £5

Darius Davies: Persian of Interest Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5

Improv On Demand PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 13–24 Aug, FREE

The Oxford Imps Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £7

A Booklover’s Comedy Show Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Cool Jokes/Hot Takes Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–24 Aug, FREE

Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, not 16, £5

a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption HHHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

14:25 SHTF – Stuff Hits The Fan Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–18 Aug, FREE Nina Gilligan – Broad Shoulders Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Action Figure Archive With Steve McLean PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Robin Grainger: Dog Complex HHH The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10

14:15

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13 Aug, FREE

Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–25 Aug, £6

Markus Birdman – Last White Christmas PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Gráinne Maguire: Guys...

It’s Problematic Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Internationally Unknown Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Colin Chadwick: Quick Thinker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 13–24 Aug, FREE

All That 50s, 60s and 70s Stuff Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Russell Howard: Work in Progress (Afternoon) CANCELLED Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5

Alan Shed’s Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £7

Once an Emo, Always an Emo Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 23–25 Aug, FREE

101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Vampire Hospital Waiting Room Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

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

It Takes Three to Tango Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–25 Aug, £9–£10

Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

14:30 Plans Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

14:40 Pete Nash: Where’s My Money?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 13–16 Aug, FREE Rob Kemp – Moonraker 2: Moonrakerer Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

❤ Isma Almas: About

Still Got It! Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, FREE Confessions of a Taxi Driver Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 14–25 Aug, FREE

14:50

Audible Live Pleasance Courtyard, 13–24 Aug, FREE

100% Cotton Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £10

Madame Señorita: Espousa Heroes @ Boteco, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

❤ Rob Auton: The Time Show HHHH

Alternative Comedy Cabaret PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE CANCELLED - David Ephgrave: Niche Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12

1,000 One-Liners in Support of MS Society The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £5 Lucy Frederick: Famtastic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

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Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 14–25 Aug, FREE

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Izzy Mant: Polite Club

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

Eric’s Tales of the Sea – A Submariner’s Yarn Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 14–25 Aug, FREE Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:00 Oxford Revue – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 14–19 Aug, FREE

AAA Batteries (Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 My Finest Hour PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5 The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50 Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12 Will Mars: Phoenix Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Stand-Up Philosophy – Free Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Elliot Wengler – Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

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

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

Sets in the City – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–18 Aug, FREE Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I’ve Got? Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6 Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Bloom Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Barely There Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 13–25 Aug, FREE Emer Maguire: Hilarious Humans Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5

Comedy

Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

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

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

Freya and Will in Discussion with ABBA Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6

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Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

15:05 2001: A Sketch Odyssey theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50 Random Bag Check PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:10 Flora Anderson: Romantic Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

15:15 Grace Campbell: Why I’m Never Going Into Politics H Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £5

Will Duggan: Class Two Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8–£10 Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £6 Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 13–24 Aug, not 16, £5

15:20 Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour HHH The Stand Comedy Club, 13–26 Aug, £12 Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?

Heroes @ Dragonfly, 13–25 Aug, £5 Pottervision The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, not 17, £10 Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, not 21, £5 Glitter Business Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £5 Sarah Lee: Half a Man Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE Dinner for One oder Der 90.

Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 21 Aug, £5

❤ Jonny Pelham: Off Limits HHHH

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5–£7.50

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 14–26 Aug, £5

15:30 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50 Michael Fabbri: Rebooted Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Children of the Quorn™ Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £5

Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 14–24 Aug, FREE

George Fouracres: Gentlemon HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 18, £8.50–£10.50

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

Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8

Paul Savage: Shame Spiral PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

I’m Here, All Weak Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Shit Socialist Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 13–16 Aug, FREE

Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £7

Stuart Goldsmith: Primer (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15–25 Aug, £5

Could It Be Magic?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8.50 Best in Class Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Shawn Jay’s Fun Guide to Nihilism Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Limmy: Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16–18 Aug, £16

BBC: Loose Ends BBC, 20 Aug, FREE

15:45

Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–24 Aug, £5 Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 13 Aug, £10 Sh*t Hipsters Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–26 Aug, FREE Motherhood: A Comedy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Gary Tro: The Greatest Superhero Movie Never Made Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6 Cowboys, Country Music and Queers Imagination Workshop, 20–24 Aug, £7.50 Immoral Maze Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:35 Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 13–24 Aug, not 15, 22, FREE 2 Truths, 1 Lie Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Danny Ward: Danny’s Got Talent PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Not Quite Mass Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–25 Aug, FREE So What?

Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE Musical Comedy Guide Showcase Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £6 Too Ugly for Love Island Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £5 Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50 Science Idiot PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Bart Freebairn: Maximum Delicious Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £7 Nicky Wilkinson: Game On Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Mitch Benn: Ten Songs to Save the World Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12 Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

Vince Atta: Massive Attack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6

Oxford Revue – Free PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13 Aug, FREE

Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10

99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

15:40

15:50

Adele Cliff: Undershare Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5

Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree HHH The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £9

Sundeep Bhardwaj: Father Figure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–25 Aug, FREE Tony Law and Phil Nichol: Virtue Chamber Echo Bravo Heroes @ The Hive, 13–24 Aug, not 20, £5 Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Chris Betts vs the Audience Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 14–25 Aug, £5 Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Pleasance Courtyard, 25 Aug, £14

Dog Tales PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 18–23 Aug, FREE Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog HH Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:55 Myra DuBois: Dead Funny Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 22, 23, £10–£11 Aboriginal Comedy Allstars Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12 Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived HHH Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

16:00 Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–24 Aug, £10 Ruby Wax: How To Be Human Pleasance Courtyard, 18–24 Aug, £16–£18 All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert HHH Underbelly, George Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 19 Aug, FREE Sad Tony the Rapper’s Sad Tonathon the Rapperthon Planet Bar, 13–25 Aug, FREE Stephen K Amos Talk Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £14 Patrick Spicer: Now I’ve Seen Anything PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 14–24 Aug, FREE The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–18 Aug, £8–£10 Greg Proops: The Smartest Man in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14 Aug, 19 Aug, £12 (L)awfully Wedded Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14–18 Aug, £8 Working Class Zero Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Joe Jacobs: Grimefulness Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5

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Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

The Artist Currently Known as Chris Chopping PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Tania Edwards: Don’t Mention It Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Njambi McGrath: Accidental Coconut Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–23 Aug, FREE

❤ Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos HHHH Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Glenn Moore: Love

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, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy

Matt Winning: It’s the End of the World as We Know It Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

11+ theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8–£9

Ferris Bueller’s Way Of...

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13–25 Aug, not 21, FREE

16:30

Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11 Paul Merton’s Impro Chums Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £14–£16.50

Des Kapital: I’m Loving Engels Instead Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, £8

Maureen Younger: Out of Sync PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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

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

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

Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

The Latebloomers: Scotland!

Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

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

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Dr Lara Love: Love Leans In Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Sketch You Up! Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£8.50 Mandy Muden: Is Not the Invisible Woman Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50 Crybabies: Danger Brigade Heroes @ Boteco, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson: That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6

16:25

Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £13–£15

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12.50 BBC: Susan Calman’s Fringe Benefits BBC, 17 Aug, FREE Samantha Pressdee: Covered PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £10 Esther Manito: Crusade

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

16:05 Tom Little – Chronically Underachieving Loser and Wasteman PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 13–24 Aug, FREE

16:10 Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen: Get a Room Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Wil Greenway: The Ocean After All Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Twonkey’s Ten Year Twitch Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Josh Berry: Who Does He Think He Is? Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

16:15 Christopher KC: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Rice

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Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6

Cerys Nelmes’ 80s Gameshow Mash-Up Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE James McNicholas: The Boxer HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10 Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

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Raul Kohli: The Greatest Hits Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 14–25 Aug, FREE Lola and Jo: Escape

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Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Culture Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Sid Singh: American Refugee Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Thomas Green: Tweak Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 18–25 Aug, FREE Gusset Grippers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Lucy Pearman: Baggage Monkey Barrel Comedy, 15–25 Aug, £8

Club Sets Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Susan Murray: How Not To Die In A Plane Crash PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11 The Great Outdoors Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–26 Aug, £5 Steve Rannazzisi – Please Forget Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, FREE AJ Holmes: Yeah, but Not Right Now Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 George Egg: Movable Feast Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

Giants Are Fjörd Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £14–£15

Talk a Big Game Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Dan Clark: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–14 Aug, £6

Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10

Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist With Dyspraxia 2 Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–18 Aug, FREE

Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

16:20

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

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

Ruby Carr’s Birthday Party (WIP) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 18, FREE

The Crown Dual Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50 Auto-Correbt: Sight Unseen Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £9 Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

The Three Deaths of Ebony Black Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

❤ Olga Koch: If/Then HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £7

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

16:35 I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 18–25 Aug, £5

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Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant

Rosco McClelland – Magic Belly Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £5 Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–17 Aug, FREE

16:40 West End Producer – Free Willy Assembly Checkpoint, 13–26 Aug, £12–£14 Oleg Denisov: Russian Troll Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 13–26 Aug, £5 Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12 Ryan Lane Will Be There Now in a Minute Heroes @ Dragonfly, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Martin Pilgrim: I Write Jokes Not Tragedies Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad.

Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, £5 Google Me Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6.50 Miller and Salmon: Genesis Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5

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Definitely Not Romeo and Juliet theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

16:45 A**Hole New World Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–26 Aug, not 16, £5 Aaaaaaaaand Now! Roger Swift’s Machine Pun Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 14–25 Aug, FREE

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Haha Cool Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–25 Aug, FREE Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 17, £5 Generation Whyyy?

Imagination Workshop, 16–22 Aug, £8

Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12

Rory O Hanlon – Confidence PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 13–24 Aug, FREE

The Mars & Lee Show Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 14–25 Aug, FREE

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Hero Worship Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

❤ John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–24 Aug, £9 Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 14–25 Aug, FREE Martin Angolo – Q: Is It Comedy? A: Well It’s Martin Angolo!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 14–25 Aug, FREE Isa Bonachera: The Great Emptiness Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6 Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £8 Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £12

16:50 Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Mark Simmons – One-Linerererer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Jane Hill: All I Want Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, FREE Nick Everritt: The Deconstruction Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Cordelia and Dimple: Buffet Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13 Aug, FREE

17:00 Nobody Likes You When You’re 33 Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7 Geeks, Stand Up! Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, FREE Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50 The Chronic Complainer PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13 Aug, £11.50 Ali Brice: Bin Wondering Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 14–25 Aug, £5 #Jollyboat: Bards Against Humanity (The Best of Jollyboat) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13–25 Aug, FREE Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow’s Office

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Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, £5

Bristol Revunions: Party Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £5 Joe McArdle is: Theo McCabe Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–25 Aug, FREE Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15 Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 13–24 Aug, FREE Lucy Farrett: Lois Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–25 Aug, £10–£11 Skydive to Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 14–25 Aug, FREE Age Fright: 35 and Counting PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £11.50 Pussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 24, FREE Garrett Millerick: Smile Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £7 Lenny Sherman: Have Fun Frankenstein Pub, 13–26 Aug, FREE Irish Comedy Invasion Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Darcie Silver – I Know You Are Planet Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE Maisie Adam: Hang Fire

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Dan Cardwell: Recall Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–25 Aug, FREE Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13 Aug, FREE

17:05 Ben Van der Velde – Fablemaker Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Bumper Blyton Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 The Yank is a Manc! My Ancestors & Me theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

17:15 Simply Filthy Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £5 Which Princess Are You? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £13–£15

Jenny Bede: The Musical Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–18 Aug, £8–£10

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Maria Shehata: Hero Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–25 Aug, £6

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £7 Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–24 Aug, £10 Despite Everything, Price Still Includes Biscuits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

17:10 Dominic Frisby: Libertarian Love Songs PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Punkanary Comedy Cinema PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14 Aug, FREE Shane Todd: Work in Progress Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £8 Stella Graham: Sneaky Little Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 13–24 Aug, FREE Cally Beaton: Invisible Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, £9–£11 Chris Betts: Dumb but Fair Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 14–25 Aug, £5

Alison Spittle: Mother of God Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE Hardeep Singh Kohli: It’s Hard to Be Deep Assembly George Square Studios, 13–24 Aug, £12–£14 Jew-O-Rama PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Sukh Ojla: For Sukh’s Sake

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Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Absolute Zero: Jez Watts Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

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Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 16, FREE

17:20 Jim Campbell: Beef Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–24 Aug, £5–£6 The Pushkinettes: We Must Live Heroes @ Boteco, 14 Aug, £7 James Barr: Thirst Trap Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 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, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12 Jimmy McGhie Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 13–24 Aug, not 19, FREE Goose: Ctrl+T Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14 Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £8

Iain Stirling: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–17 Aug, £8 Men With Coconuts Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Mark and Haydn: Llaugh Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6.50 Juliette Burton: Defined Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Ashley Storrie: Hysterical Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention HHHH Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

Planet Verth Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 14–24 Aug, FREE I’m Coming Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8 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, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

❤ Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

Privates: A Sperm Odyssey Heroes @ Boteco, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER

Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me HHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £5–£7

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Hyper-Nice theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Neil O’Rourke: Thump PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £11–£13

17:25 How to Hide a Body in New York theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8 Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–25 Aug, £5 Comedy Freak Show Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

17:30 Joel Dommett: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 18–24 Aug, £8

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Witch Hunt Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 Made in Spain 2 Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Daniel Lobell: Tipping the Scales Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 24, £10–£11

17:35 Funny Women on the Fringe Assembly Roxy, 19–23 Aug, £11 Jody Kamali Is Mike Daly – Darts and All Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50

17:40 Nick Helm: Phoenix from the Flames Pleasance Dome, 13–24 Aug, £12.50–£14 Bec Hill: I’ll Be Bec Pleasance Dome, 14–25 Aug, £8–£10

17:45

Robyn Perkins: Mating Selection Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12 A Time Slot with Ger Staunton PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 18, FREE Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete’s Foot) Live!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11.50 Dave Fensome: ADHDave Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Caitlin Cook: Death Wish Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 David Tsonos: Around the World With Flat Stanley PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE

Alex Cofield: Supernova Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £10–£11

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The Rat Pack Comedy – Anything Goes!

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Luke McQueen: Bad Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Flo & Joan: Before the Screaming Starts Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13 Fred MacAulay in Conversation Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–20 Aug, £12

Evers, Booth and [Name] Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 13–14 Aug, FREE

Notflix: Originals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £11.50–£12.50

Faking It Summerhall, 23 Aug, £6

Phil Ellis: Au Revoir Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, £5

Hayley Ellis: Nobody Puts Hayley in a Corner Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–18 Aug, £5 Alexander Fox: Snare Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 Nick Offerman: All Rise Assembly Hall, 24 Aug, £24 The Last Supper: 7 Deadly Sins Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–18 Aug, FREE You May Also Like Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18 Aug, £17

Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £11–£13

Jamie Dalgleish: Humans Are Evil The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £9

❤ Fern Brady: Power and Chaos HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7–£10

Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12

Mike Newall: Re:Newall Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £6

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David Tieck: What Would Bill Murray Do? Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It’s 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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

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

Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night HH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10

Linda: Easy Killing Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

Sarah Keyworth: Pacific

Ray Fordyce’s Six O’Clock Supper With Salt’n’Sauce Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

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

Micky P Kerr: Kerr in the Community Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

James Bran: Hack Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8

Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £9–£11

A Sense of Tumour Makes Everything Alt-Right PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Monster Gay PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 13–25 Aug, FREE The Rabbi Preaches – David Kilimnick the Honest Rabbi Champions of Festival @ The Scotsman, 13–26 Aug, not 17, 24, £10

Katie Pritchard: Storm Stud PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £13–£17

Sam See: Coming Out Loud Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £9–£11

Tom Parry: Parryoke!

Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Milton Jones: Milton Impossible Assembly Hall, 13–18 Aug, £15

10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 15, FREE

The Explainers Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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

Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12

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I’m Afraid of Americans C venues – C viva, 13–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Ray Bradshaw: Deafinitely Baby Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

Anuvab Pal: Democracy and Disco Dancing Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, £11–£13

The Great British Bake Offenders Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Aaron Twitchen: Can’t Stop a Rainbow...

Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £15 Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10 Hesitation Remarks PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, not 17, £8 Catherine Bohart: Lemon Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £9–£11.50

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Ian Smith: Half-Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12.50

Stand Up for Your Planet Assembly Hall, 19 Aug, £19

Terry Alderton: Bingo Bango Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £8 Larry Dean: Bampot Assembly Hall, 25 Aug, £12 Will Adamsdale: Facetime Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12 Larry Dean: Fandan Assembly Hall, 22 Aug, £12 Love/Hate Actually Imagination Workshop, 13–26 Aug, £10 Harriet Braine: Les Admirables HHH Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6 The Next Next Big Thing Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5 Michael Brunström: World of Sports Heroes @ Dragonfly, 13–25 Aug, £5 James Meehan – Never Better Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Jack Carroll and Friends Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 19–25 Aug, £5 Viking Millennials Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

18:05 For He’s a Jolly Goodfellow PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 13–24 Aug, FREE The Great Health Con theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £12 The Sacrifice PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 15–24 Aug, FREE

18:10 NewsRevue Underbelly, George Square, 14–26 Aug, £15.50–£17.50 Comedy in the Dark Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12 Kelsey De Almeida: I’m Very Different People (WIP) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

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Jacob Hawley: Faliraki Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £6

Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys’ Midlife Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Bad Clowns: Cult Classic Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Stand Up for Shelter Underbelly, George Square, 13 Aug, £13 Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £12

18:15 Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20–25 Aug, £10

Kate Lucas: Is Selling Herself Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5

Fred Cooke: Fred Space Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

Tom Glover – A Glover Not a Fighter PBH’s Free Fringe @ Carnivore Edinburgh, 13–24 Aug, FREE James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

❤ Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty HHHH

Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £8

Dave Chawner: Mental Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

The Kagools: Cirque du Kagool Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

The Fanny’s The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £9

Ed Gamble: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–16 Aug, £5 Dummy Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 14–25 Aug, FREE Annie McGrath: Shepherd PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Jake Baker: No Success Like Failure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 20–24 Aug, FREE Stephanie Laing: Quitter Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Scott Gibson: White Noise Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Mark Cram: Centaur PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 13–24 Aug, not 19, FREE I Predict a Wyatt!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 13–24 Aug, not 22, FREE Steve Hili: The Sexy Environmentalist Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 18–25 Aug, FREE

Comedy

Richard Fry: O Starry Night Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

Trans Vision Scamp Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE

George Rigden: Spooning with Uri Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5–£6

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Absolute Improv! theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–24 Aug, £10

Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE

18:20 Our Mums Wouldn’t Watch This Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, £5 AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

18:25 The Best of Irish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £13 Gabby Best: 10,432 Sheep PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14–25 Aug, FREE Joanne McNally: The Prosecco Express Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Never Again Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Josh Pugh: Maybe the Real Comedy Awards are the Friends We Made Along the Way Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

18:30 Rhys James: Snitch Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£13 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–31 Aug, not 19, 26, £12.50–£15 Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Improvengers: Pretendgame Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £8 Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 Dead Ringers Live Pleasance at EICC, 13 Aug, £17 The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–18 Aug, £8–£10

Russell Howard: Work in Progress Assembly George Square Studios, 13 Aug, £7.50

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18:45 The Joy of Jokes Laughing Horse @ The Place, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Aussiental Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Harun Musho’d: Dark Side of Harun PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress) Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 17–25 Aug, FREE

Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange Pleasance Courtyard, 14 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £14–£15

Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £12–£16

Eric Lampaert: Yum Yum Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Tom Lenk Is Trash Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12.50

Basil Brush: Unleashed Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13

Jay Lafferty: Jammy Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

❤ Stevie Martin: Hot

Harry Carr: Neighbourhood Watch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–23 Aug, not 16, 17, FREE Gary Little – Kidding Myself On Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, £5 Imaan Hadchiti: Being Frank Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 Kieran Hodgson: ‘75 Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 25 Aug, £14–£15 Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Comic Relief Live Assembly Rooms, 19 Aug, £16.50 Tom Rosenthal: Manhood Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £11.50–£14 30 Minute Musicals Roulette Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £11–£12 Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I’ve Blocked Before Bedlam Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10 Kieran Hodgson: Maestro Pleasance Courtyard, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 24 Aug, £14–£15 Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Bad Aunts Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6 Jessie Cave: Sunrise Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, £14–£16 Mocking a Murderer PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Kieran Hodgson: Lance Pleasance Courtyard, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 23 Aug, £14–£15

Content Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

18:40 Siblings: The Siblinginging Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Fast Fringe Pleasance Dome, 13–24 Aug, £8–£11.50 Lucy Porter: Be Prepared Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £12–£16 Bananas Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Harry and Chris: This One’s for the Aliens Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–24 Aug, £10–£12 Neal Portenza is Joshua Ladgrove in: Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar Heroes @ Boteco, 13–25 Aug, £7 Alex Kealy: Rationale Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Shattered Sweet Grassmarket, 14–25 Aug, £8.50 Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This...

The Stand Comedy Club, 13–24 Aug, £12 Alison Thea-Skot: TheaSkot Through the Heart and You’re to Blame Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £6 Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Pleasance Courtyard, 22 Aug, £15

Chris Parker: Camp Binch Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£11 60 Minutes to Save the World – Vladimir McTavish The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £10 Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters

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Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

MARVELus: Awww Snap!

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

Jackman and Bones Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–18 Aug, £5

Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked

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Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Josh Baulf: Boy Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £5

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Catching Up Laughing Horse @ The Cuckoo’s Nest, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £6 Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Aunty HH Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 EdinBra Fringe Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Piff the Magic Dragon: The Lucky Dragon Tour Pleasance at EICC, 21–25 Aug, £16 Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 21 Aug, £8 Jess Robinson: The Jess Robinson Experience Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £13–£15

❤ Kai Samra: Underclass HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

Vikki Stone: Song Bird Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£12.50 BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour BBC, 21 Aug, FREE

Improvised Director’s Cut PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Frisky & Mannish’s PopLab Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£16

Joey Page – Afterlife (An Idiot Considers a Series of Distractions Before Death) Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £7

Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10–£12

The Good, the Bad and the Irish Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Ticked Boxes Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE Eh? Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE

English Speaking Comedy Borsch Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–26 Aug, FREE

Lateef Lovejoy – Life, Times and Society’s Crimes Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–16 Aug, FREE

Liam Withnail: Homecoming Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £5

18:50 Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Fraser Gibson: Self-ish Just the Tonic at The Caves, 19–25 Aug, £7

Spamalot Paradise in Augustines, 14–17 Aug, £13.50

❤ Sophie Duker: Venus HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£9

Raymond Mearns – Confessions of a Control Freak!

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, FREE Loyiso Gola: Pop Culture Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£12 Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing HHH Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, £10–£14

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Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Live at the Fringe Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder

The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 14–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12

Brain Rinse theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, £9–£10

Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

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Rosie Jones: Backward

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Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10

Any Suggestions, Doctor?

The Improvised Doctor Who Parody Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, £10–£13

Sarah Kendall: Paper Planes HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14

19:05 Shakespeare! The Panto theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £7.50

Alexander Bennett: They Call Me Daddy Punchlines PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10

Aindrias de Staic; Shtax the LedgeHammer Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14–25 Aug, £5

Straight Outta Estonia PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Adam Flood and Blake AJ: Joke Boys PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE Jonny & the Baptists Love Edinburgh and Hate Bastards Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12 Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Ivo Graham: The Game of Life Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£12 Henning Wehn: Get on With It The Queen’s Hall, 15–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, £16.50 Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 Rotten Randolph Cliff, 14 Aug, 28 Aug, FREE

Three Menopausal Maids theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Business Casual Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

19:10 Where Are You Really From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE About Time / Bully Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Matt Hoss: Here Comes Your Man Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Sasha Ellen: Pickle Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–15 Aug, £15

Martha McBrier: Happiness Bully Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Susan Riddell: Duvet Day Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £5 The LOL Word Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £7 Martin Bearne and Joe McTernan: Milk and Two Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–26 Aug, £5 Martin Mor – Instigator Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Rob Copland: Strange Jam PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Family Secrets PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–24 Aug, FREE Ew Girl, You Nasty Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£11.50 BBC: Front Row BBC, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE Pierre Novellie: You’re Expected to Care HH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12 Stephen Carlin: Pickwickian Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Dan Soder: Son Of A Gary Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

AAA Stand-Up Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£12 Expelled from Eton Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–17 Aug, FREE Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 18–25 Aug, FREE Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10 Christianity and Me Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–24 Aug, £5 Arson in the Queen’s Swans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Sad Acts Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–25 Aug, FREE

19:20 Craig Hill: Bottoms Up! Pleasance at EICC, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£18.50 Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5 Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, £5 Bring Back the 80s Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Jake Farrell: Limits Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 18–25 Aug, FREE Johannes Dullin Plays the Devil Heroes @ Dragonfly, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Drag Queen Stole My Dress PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 15, FREE The 2 Mouthed Men Show Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–17 Aug, £8

19:25 Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

19:30 David O’Doherty: Ultrasound Assembly George Square, 14–26 Aug, £15–£16 101 Comedy Club – Free Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–25 Aug, FREE Alex Black’s Record Collection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 18, FREE Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10 Steve Bennett – Everything is F*cked Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–25 Aug, FREE Ari Eldjárn: Eagle Fire Iron Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £8 The Secret Policeman’s Tour Edinburgh Playhouse , 24 Aug, £25 Daniel Sloss: X Edinburgh Playhouse , 15–17 Aug, £20.50 Amy Howerska: Serious Face Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £15

Jokers in the Pack Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE I, Tom Mayhew Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only in It for the Parking Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50 So You Think You’re Funny?

Grand Final Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15.50 Steve Bugeja: Single Mum Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6–£8 Neil Delamere: End of Watch Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 On It Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–26 Aug, FREE Best Boy in Ireland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE Adam Rowe: Pinnacle Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 The Community Centre!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 22–24 Aug, £8 Eric Andre: The Legalize Everything Tour Gilded Balloon Teviot, 25 Aug, £20 Jack Rooke: Love Letters Assembly George Square Gardens, 14–24 Aug, £12–£14 Tommy Tiernan: Paddy Crazy Horse Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–24 Aug, not 22, £17.50 Big Value Comedy Show – Early Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5–£10 Hal Cruttenden: Chubster Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–14 Aug, £13 John Robins: Hot Shame Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £14–£15

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Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Various dates from 15 Aug to 24 Aug, £8

An Atlantic Disaster – Titanic PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 17–24 Aug, FREE Comedy Gala 2019: In Aid of Waverley Care Pleasance at EICC, 20 Aug, £25

19:35 Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £10 Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Harry Stachini – Tigers Don’t Cry Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Lewis Schaffer is Mr Diabetes – Free Laughing Horse @ 32 Below, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

19:40 Joby Mageean – Shanty Prince Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5 Andrew Maxwell: All Talk Underbelly, George Square, 13–25 Aug, £13.50–£15 Arnab Chanda: Boy From Earth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Jo Caulfield: Voodoo Doll The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Sam Taunton: It’s Nice, It’s Modern Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Paul McCaffrey: Lemon Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 23, £10–£11 Kate Smurthwaite: Bitch PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 14–25 Aug, FREE Carl Donnelly: Shall We All Just Kill Ourselves?

Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 14–24 Aug, £7

❤ Desiree Burch: Desiree’s Coming Early!

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Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Comedy

Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10 A Pessimist’s Guide to Being Happy Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 14–25 Aug, FREE This is Mark Ritchie: Honest to God Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £5

19:45 Comedy Boxing – Best of the Best Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE The Leeds Tealights: It’s Not That Serious Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–18 Aug, £8–£10 Jen Brister – Under Privilege Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7–£8 Matt Jones: Pandora’s Box – Free Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Andrew Roper – Break Point Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

19:55 Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 14–24 Aug, not 17, FREE Emmy Blotnick: Party Nights Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Dave Green: Guest Bed Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5

20:00 Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Tour with a Scottish Twist theSpace @ Niddry St, Various dates from 16 Aug to 31 Aug, £15

❤ Susie McCabe: Domestic Disaster

Jocks, Geordies and Aussies PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 24, FREE

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Sean Patton: Contradickhead HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £11–£13 Brown Panther – Ruven Govender Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Alistair Williams: How to Lose Weight and Be Less Racist Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £10 Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £8 Langston Kerman: The Loose Cannon Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Goddess Sweet Novotel, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £7.50 Liam Malone: No Limbits Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–25 Aug, £6 John Pendal: Monster Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 16, 23, £10–£11 Acting Natural Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 14–25 Aug, FREE

19:50 Scummy Mummies Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14

❤ Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £11–£14

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Still Life by Noël Coward theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11

Girlfriend from Hell – The Bitch is Back Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10

The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit Pleasance Courtyard, 13 Aug, £12.50

Lolbot Wars Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

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Alex Williamson: Sin on My Face Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–25 Aug, £10–£13 An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–18 Aug, FREE Edinburgh’s Pandas Are Just Weegies in Disguise!

Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, £8 Manhunt 2: Big Mood Bedlam Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £10 Australian Beauty PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Passport and Prozac Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

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Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £7–£10

Patrick Monahan: Started from the Bottom, Now l’m Here Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £13–£14

Tamsyn Kelly: Petroc Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Godley on the Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14.50

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13

Aaron McCann: Happy Enough?

Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6

Diane Chorley: Modern Love Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14

Ben Pope: Dancing Bear

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £8–£9

Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–24 Aug, £8 Naomi Karavani: Dominant Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 14–25 Aug, £7 Nath Valvo: I’m Happy for You HHH Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11

20:10 Daniel Connell: Piece of Piss Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–25 Aug, £11–£12 Tom Houghton: That’s What I Go to School For Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12 Tom Cashman – XYZ Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–25 Aug, £10–£11.50 Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

20:15 Huge Davies: The Carpark Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10 Brodi Snook: Handful Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 Chris Washington: Raconteur Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12

Steffan Alun and Support: You Can’t Escape Free Stand-Up PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE The Pursuit of Happiness Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Marc Jennings: Getting Going The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10 Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10 Simon Evans: Dressing for Dinner Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £13–£14 Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

20:20 Bald Man Sings Rihanna PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, not 19, FREE Bitch and Nerd Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

❤ Josie Long: Tender HHHH

The Stand Comedy Club, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 Max & Ivan: Commitment Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13 Matt Parker: Humble Pi Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£12.50

Insane In The Men Brain Gilded Balloon Teviot, 19 Aug, £7

Andy Barr: The Ruby Heroes @ Black Medicine, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

An Evening with Savvy B The Stand Comedy Club, 19 Aug, £9

Stewart Francis: Into the Punset Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£15

❤ Garry Starr Conquers Troy HHHH

❤ London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11

The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £13.50–£16.50

#Jollyboat: Pun Lovin’ Criminals PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Eurosceptic Song Contest Lebowskis Bar, 22–26 Aug, FREE

Eddy Brimson: Life Coaching for Arseholes Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5

Viggo the Viking HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Liberty Hodes – Hot Commodity Heroes @ Black Medicine, 14 Aug, £5

Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10.50

Jeremy Nicholas: What Are You Talking About? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, £10–£12

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £12–£15.50 Sarah Johnson: Mum’s Going to Ibiza Heroes @ Boteco, 13 Aug, £5 Lolly Jones: I Believe in Merkels Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 Adam Kay: This Is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) Edinburgh Playhouse , 18–19 Aug, £17 The Dots Imagination Workshop, 15–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, £8.50

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Javier Jarquin is Boring AF Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £15–£16 BBC: The Now Show BBC, 22 Aug, FREE Thunderc*nt Heroes @ Boteco, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £5 The Salon Sweet Grassmarket, 14 Aug, 21 Aug, £9 Traitor Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Half the Man – Michael Livesley Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Tami Stone – My Funny Bits theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7

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20:30 Rhod Gilbert: The Book of John Pleasance at EICC, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £22.50 Sunil Patel: White Knight Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Connie Wookey: Denied Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Lewis Costello x Hayden Dean Allmark Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–25 Aug, FREE Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Wheely Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Megazoid Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £5 Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone’s Watching Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£11 Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued by a Bear Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £14 Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£10 Tony Cantwell: Live Feed Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50 Gareth Mutch: The Old Man in the Carvery Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £6 Concerning Bennet PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar, 14–25 Aug, FREE Seann Walsh: After This One I’m Going Home Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, £13–£14 Joke Thieves Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 14–25 Aug, FREE Sleeping Trees: Silly Funny Boys Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 14–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12 Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Canadian Club Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller, 13–25 Aug, FREE Snjolaug Ludviksdottir: Let It Snow Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6 Tiziano La Bella: Yes We Can’t Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 13–25 Aug, FREE

20:35 Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £7 Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19 Aug, £12 Pope’s Addiction Clinic Monkey Barrel Comedy, 20 Aug, £5 Ian Lane – Paperweight Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 Simon Caine: Every Room Becomes a Panic Room When You Overthink Enough Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5

20:40 Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Cool Story Bro Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE Alex Hylton: Get Rich or Die Cryin’ Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Ed and Joz’s Deleted Scenes Heroes @ Dragonfly, 14–25 Aug, £5 Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £7–£9 Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 Andrew Sim: Am I Queer Enough?

Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, £5 Double Denim: Adventure Show Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Jimeoin: Ramble On! Pleasance at EICC, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£18.50 Dinner for One oder Der 90.

Geburtstag Heroes @ The Hive, 13 Aug, £5 Sam Lake and Chloe Petts: Household Essentials Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £7

20:45 Headless Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £5

Danny Posthill Is That Bloke Who Does Voices Frankenstein Pub, 13–25 Aug, £10 Dino Wiand – Half Trans PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Actually, Totes Amaze PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin, 13–24 Aug, not 19, FREE Improv Cage Match PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Eric Davidson: Across the Loony Verse theSpaceTriplex, 13–24 Aug, £10 Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13–25 Aug, FREE Daniel Cook and Rose Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 14–24 Aug, FREE Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your Beliefs Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 14–25 Aug, FREE Jacques Barrett in Boom-Jacqua-Laka!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s, 13–25 Aug, FREE Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Gary Lamont: Fancy a Stiff One? Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Pete Heat: Massive Wizard Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, £11.50–£12.50 All-Star Comedy Cabaret Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap, 13–24 Aug, not 14, FREE Alice Fraser: Mythos Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12 Johnny Irish Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 13–25 Aug, FREE

20:50 Tony Cowards: Stepdad Jokes Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £8 Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Steve N Allen: Better Than The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, £9 Naomi McDonald: Copycat Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 Phil Jerrod: Unrelatable Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

20:55 Tony Basnett: 28 Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Jack Barry: Alien PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It

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Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

21:00 Emancipation PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–25 Aug, £10 Nish Kumar: It’s in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves Assembly George Square, 19–25 Aug, £16–£18 Louisa Fitzhardinge: Comma Sutra Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £10–£11 There Will Be Cake Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 19–22 Aug, £14

❤ Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk HHHH Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £5 BBC: Fresh from the Fringe BBC, 19 Aug, FREE Cerys Bradley and Rachel Wheeley: The Unfortunate Bisexual PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 13–24 Aug, not 17, 19, FREE Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–21 Aug, £12.50–£14 Ronni Ancona and Lewis MacLeod: Just Checking In Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–17 Aug, £14.50–£15.50 Jason Byrne: Wrecked but Ready Assembly Hall, 13–25 Aug, £16–£18.50

Phil Nichol: Too Much Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7 Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £15 Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones – 52 Days Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Scotland’s Pick of the Fringe Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, £5–£10 Omid Singh: Beginning To End Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6.50

❤ Tom Ballard: Enough HHHH

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £7–£10

Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, £10 A Long Time Coming Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £7 Sex Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Justin Matson: Try Harder Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

21:05 Legs Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5–£8 Goodbye Mr President PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 13–25 Aug, FREE Werewolf: Live Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 15, 19, £10–£11 Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Spring Day: When Push Comes to Shove – Free Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

21:10 Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23–25 Aug, £17.50 Bob Doolally Live and Half-Cut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 19–20 Aug, £10 Standard Issue Stands Up The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13 Aug, £10

Good Evening Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 14–24 Aug, not 19, 20, £12

Ed Byrne: If I’m Honest Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, £17–£18.50

❤ Laura Davis:

Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real HH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 13–25 Aug, £5

Blindingly Obvious C venues – C cubed, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Foil Arms and Hog – Swines Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £14.50–£17.50

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£14

Frank Skinner Live Assembly George Square, 13–18 Aug, £16.50–£17.50

Tom Stade: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £16–£17

(No) Money in the Bank Sweet Grassmarket, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £7

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Dreamboat Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

The Bugle Live The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £16

The Glang Show Heroes @ The Hive, 14 Aug, £5

Dilruk Jayasinha: Cheat Day(s) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 22, £11.50–£12.50

Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?

Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8–£9

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 23–25 Aug, £20

Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Rob Oldham: Worm’s Resolve Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–25 Aug, FREE Matt Richardson: Imposter Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £5

Better Dead Than a Coward

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All Together Irish Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–25 Aug, FREE Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800 Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 BattleActs!

Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Tiff Stevenson: Mother

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Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £10

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Sara Barron: Enemies Closer Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12

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The Adventures of the Bearded Lady Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £6

Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13

Wait... Let’s Have Fun! Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7 Leo Kearse: Transgressive

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Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, £12–£13

Even More Twisted Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–18 Aug, FREE Nick Doody: I Will Milk You PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 14–24 Aug, not 20, FREE

❤ Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness HHHH Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7.50–£10 Needle Dicks Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 19–25 Aug, FREE John Robertson: The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–24 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 SalFunni Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 13 Aug, FREE Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE Micky Bartlett: Love It! Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

21:20 Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11 Laura McMahon and Will Hall: In Hindsight Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Len Blanco: Firing Blancs Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 14–24 Aug, £5 Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12 Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£14 Eli Matthewson – An Inconvenient Poof Underbelly, George Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

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Improvabunga! theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7 Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£13

Abandoman AKA Rob Broderick – Road to Coachella Underbelly, George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14.50–£15.50

21:35

The Death Hilarious: Razer Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

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Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2 Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £11–£12

Nina Conti: Work in Progress Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £12

The Living Room Assembly Rooms, 14–24 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Alice-India: Sorry I’m So Great or Whatever (WiP) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

21:25 Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £10 Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!

Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd, 13–25 Aug, £8

Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £12.50–£13.50 Tom Walker: Very Very Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

21:30

Best of Scottish Comedian of the Year Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele, 13–24 Aug, £12–£15

Spontaneous Potter Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14

Secret Dinosaur Cult Live Bedlam Theatre, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £10

Aidan Greene: Did I Stutter?

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Vote Dr Phil? theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 15, 20, £12

Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Johnny White Really-Really: Unending Torment!

Heroes @ Black Medicine, 13–25 Aug, £5 99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Better Than Dying Alone Sweet Grassmarket, 13–24 Aug, not 14, £7 The Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £7.50–£10 Craig Campbell’s Joyful Pain The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £10 A Mad Ron Rhodes Show Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5 Austentatious presents...

Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care Underbelly, George Square, 19 Aug, £12.50 Clive Anderson: Me, Macbeth and I Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £14–£16 Rose Matafeo: Horndog Pleasance Courtyard, 20–24 Aug, £14–£15

Rachel Fairburn: The People’s Princess Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Improvisers Assemble! theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £5.50 Falling with Style Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

21:40 ❤ Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum HHHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–25 Aug, £11–£12 Goodbear: Dougal Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£13 The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15.50–£17.50 Daniel and Ralph Won’t Talk About Brexit Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 14–26 Aug, FREE

21:45

Brown Guys, Grey Skies PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–21 Aug, £11.50

Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £8–£10

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin Pleasance Courtyard, 13–24 Aug, £12

Stephen Carlin: Post Rational Carlin Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up! Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–25 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

Anything F*cking Goes...

Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5

Jordan Brookes: I’ve Got Nothing Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £9–£11

Jordan Wistuba and Liam Farrelly: The Student and the Shoplifter Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6

‘Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn’t Your Fault Again?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, £5 Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine HHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy

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Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

John Hastings: 10 John Hastings I Hate About You Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £5

Big Value Comedy Show – Late Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, 21, £5–£10 Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12 Carte Blanche with Uncle Charlotte and Aunt Scott Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 13–18 Aug, FREE

❤ Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£12

Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Ben Clover – Smell The Magic, Daddy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–25 Aug, FREE

Jimeoin: Ramble On...

Some More!

Pleasance at EICC, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £17.50–£18.50

Nick Helm’s I Think, You Stink!

Assembly Roxy, 13–24 Aug, £12–£14

This Is Your Trial Frankenstein Pub, 13–26 Aug, £7

21:50 The Stevenson Experience: Takes One to Know One Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12 Dan AG: Sloth Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, £5 Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 Totally Plucked Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £9–£10 Karam Deo: Table for One Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–15 Aug, £9

21:55 Radical Honesty Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Ben Verth: Sh*tegeist Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, £5 Frank Foucault: Desk Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £8

22:00 The Nasty Show Australia Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE The Haunted History Bus Waverley Bridge (Bus Stop WA), 14–31 Aug, not 20, 27, £12

Comedy Striptease Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 19–20 Aug, £14 I’m OKayfabe Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £8 Holly Morgan: Is a Witch.

Get Her! Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50 Jayne Edwards Is Top Bodybuilder Brian Heroes @ Dragonfly, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £5 I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £5 Funny for a Girl The Stand Comedy Club, 13–25 Aug, £12 Shit-Faced Showtime: Alice Through the Cocktail Glass Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £11.50–£13.50 Comedy Shorts Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE Zeroko’s Teatime Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–17 Aug, £10

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show Heroes @ The Hive, 13–25 Aug, not 16, 17, 23, 24, £5

The Octopus’ Armpit and Other Songs I Stole from Parallel Universes Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £8

Grant Busé: Touché Busé Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

Marcel Lucont: No. Dix Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £11–£14

Bumble Me Tinders – Dating Horror Stories Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Simone Belshaw: Goblin and Fiends Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 15–25 Aug, FREE

Tone Death Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–14 Aug, FREE

Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £7–£9

Madame Komondor Will See You Now Sweet Grassmarket, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, £7

Potential: A Canadian Comedy Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 21–22 Aug, £14

22:05 Cülture Elité The Stand Comedy Club 2, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Hard Truths – An Improvised Play Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £8 The Shambles theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £6.50

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22:10 Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript! theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7 Best of Musical Comedy Awards Underbelly, Cowgate, 24–25 Aug, £11 Joe Sutherland: Sour PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE Free Footlights Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

22:15 Russian Roulette Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

The Antique Jokes Show Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–25 Aug, £6.50 Chubby White’s Variety Night Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

❤ Dreamgun: Film Reads HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–25 Aug, £10–£11

22:20 Séayoncé Déjà Voodoo Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Spa Day Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Danny O’Brien: Reformer Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Roast Battle Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Mr Thing Pleasance Dome, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £10

Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to...

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–26 Aug, not 22, £10.50–£11.50

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, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

Weegie Hink Ae That?

Presents: Nae Bother! theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £10

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Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

MOTHER Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£11.50

Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–23 Aug, FREE

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David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £9–£10

Scot Roast Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, £5 AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE So You Think You’re Funny?

Semi-Finals Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–14 Aug, £10

General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe Just the Tonic at The Tron, 13–25 Aug, £6 Stay Loyal to the Royals theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10

22:25 The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Omar Ibrahim: Awokening Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Whose Mind is it Anyway?

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

Bad Boys Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

A Gay and a NonGay Underbelly, Bristo Square, 17–25 Aug, £10–£11

Hate ‘n’ Live Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

Hell To Play: Dante Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

22:30 Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE The Best of Northern The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–22 Aug, not 16, 17, £10 Thrones! The Musical Parody Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, £15–£16 Daz Black Live Gilded Balloon Teviot, 22 Aug, £15 Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE Bobby Mair: Cockroach Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £5 JJ Whitehead: Five Times I Lied to Myself Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10.50–£12 Eilidh Hodgson and Katherine Plumb: Do Wap Art Flop Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 14 Aug, £5 Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar (Preview) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–14 Aug, £25

The Best of Red Raw The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £5 Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath 2019 The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 22 Aug, £17.50 Georgia Tasda’s School Of Magic PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 14–25 Aug, £6

22:35 Coconut The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–25 Aug, £12 Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Liza Treyger: In the Weeds Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11

Comedy Night at the Museum Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £11–£12.50

Medium Rare Improv theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £6

Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5

After Hours Mirth Meltdown Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes, 13–24 Aug, FREE

An Audience with Yasmine Day Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £7.50–£9.50 Andrew Doyle: Exodus Pleasance Courtyard, 19–25 Aug, £10–£14 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 13–25 Aug, £13

Princess Party Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

Never Heard of It Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 15, FREE

Laser Kiwi Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £13–£15

Imaginary Porno Charades Sweet Grassmarket, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £8

The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Alfie Brown: Imagination HHHH Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7–£10

Joe Zimmerman: Infinite Knowledge Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–15 Aug, £10

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Pamela’s Palace Assembly George Square, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12 Found Footage Festival: Volume 9 Underbelly, Cowgate, 15–24 Aug, £10–£11 Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!

Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August Assembly George Square Studios, 24 Aug, £15 Police Cops: Police Cops in Space Assembly George Square Studios, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £11–£13

The Lost Musical Works of Willy Shakes Assembly Rooms, 14–24 Aug, £11–£12.50 Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10 2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

22:45 Joe McTernan: What’s Up with My Head?

Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–26 Aug, £5

❤ Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous

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Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

Snog Marry Avoid Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 14–25 Aug, not 20, FREE Hancock and Hooper’s Excellent Adventure PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider, 13 Aug, FREE Tarot Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £8–£10 Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy HHH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50 Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom is Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Serena Flynn: Baubo Goddess of Filth Heroes @ Black Medicine, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £5 AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 Shaggers Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

79 Chloe Green and Ella Woods: VENN Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market, 13–14 Aug, £6

FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 25 Aug, £10

Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £13

Inside the Comedian Pleasance Dome, 19–23 Aug, £9

Becky Fury’s One Hour to Save the World (in 55 Minutes) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Francis Boulle and Friends Pleasance Dome, 14–25 Aug, £9–£12

The Paddock Stout, Pale and Bitter Pleasance Dome, 23–24 Aug, £10 Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 19–25 Aug, £5 WiFi Wars’ Video Game Santiago Sucks a Beautiful Takeover!

Assembly George Square Studios, Woman’s Cock (and Other 20–25 Aug, £10–£14 #1 Hits) Laughing Horse @ The Free Donald Alexander: The Great Sisters, 13–25 Aug, not 14, Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 21, FREE Aug, £5

Questing Time Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8 The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £12–£14 1 Chick, 2 Dicks: 3 Americans Get Too Personal Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, FREE Kevin McGahern: Taking Off Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–26 Aug, £9–£10 Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 14, FREE

AAA Stand-Up Late Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£12 Grant Gallacher: Making Europe Grant’s Again Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–26 Aug, not 19, 20, FREE Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–24 Aug, £10–£11 Murder She Didn’t Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery Pleasance Courtyard, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £12.50 Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang Pleasance Courtyard, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13 Revenge of the New World Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Gerry Carroll – Crock or Gold Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Berk’s Nest Mid-Fest Comedy Special Pleasance Courtyard, 13–14 Aug, £15

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians XX PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

Tim Key Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £8.50–£11.50

22:55 The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Niteskreen Sweet Grassmarket, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £7

23:00 Misspelled Youth PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £12.50–£15 Diane Chorley: Down the Flick Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £15 Spontaneous Sherlock Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 25–26 Aug, £11 Luka Muller’s Gong Show Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Colt Cabana and John Hastings Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13–25 Aug, £7

23:10 Dylan Dodds and Friends (Friends Not Included) Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £5 Divet Show: The Greatest Divas Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£13 Anxiety Club Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–20 Aug, £9–£10

23:15 Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–25 Aug, £5 A Night of Wikipedilove Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

Southampton Stand-Up Showcase Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, FREE BBC: British-Born Chinese

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Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show Pleasance Courtyard, 23–24 Aug, £16 Escaping Trump’s America Frankenstein Pub, 13–26 Aug, FREE Showstopper! The Improvised Musical Pleasance Courtyard, 15–16 Aug, £15 An Objectively Funny Night Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 15–16 Aug, £10 Cosmic Comedy Berlin Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

23:20 ❤ Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro HHHH Heroes @ Dragonfly, 14–25 Aug, £5

Nancy Clench: Agony Aunt Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–17 Aug, £8

Comedy Queers Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–24 Aug, FREE Amusical Pleasance Courtyard, 21–22 Aug, £15 Claptrap Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 15–25 Aug, FREE Ross Drummond and Harry Monaghan: The Orb Just the Tonic at The Mash House, 13–18 Aug, £5 Late Night Comedy Death Camp Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations Assembly George Square Studios, 16 Aug, 23 Aug, £12

23:25

23:35 The Russian Comedy Experience Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £6

23:40

23:45

Jay Light: Fake It Til You Make It Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Jay Handley – White Jesus 2: Resurrection PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Can You Throw This in the Bin for Me? Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys, 13–22 Aug, not 16, 17, FREE

3 Rule-Abiding Rebels Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, FREE

Sameer Katz: Amphibious Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Reeks of Desperation Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £5

FootDarks Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–18 Aug, £10–£11

23:30

The Stand Late Club The Stand Comedy Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £15

Political Animal The Stand Comedy Club, 13–22 Aug, not 16, 17, £12 Edinburgh Comedy Allstars Underbelly, George Square, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50–£15

Best of the Fest Assembly Hall, 15–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, £13–£15 Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop Underbelly, Cowgate, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £10 Andrew Sim’s Midnight Showcase Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 15–25 Aug, not 20, 21, £5 110% John Kearns and Pat Cahill Monkey Barrel Comedy, 13 Aug, 20 Aug, £5 Jonny’s Panel Show (Really Good) Underbelly, Cowgate, 18–19 Aug, £10 Stamptown Comedy Night Underbelly, Cowgate, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £10 The Spencer Jones 50 Minute Disco Experiment Monkey Barrel Comedy, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £5 Spank!

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £15.50–£16.50 Fright Bus Service Necrobus, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £13

Gavin Webster’s Comedy Results Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn, 13–25 Aug, £5

Conversation Garden on Love Sam Nicoresti: UFO Island (A Decide Your Own Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, Misadventure) 13–25 Aug, £5 Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 18–25 Aug, £5 Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre, 13–25 Aug, £6

23:55

Lydia Hirst: I’ll Be Your Dog Just the Tonic at The Caves, 13–25 Aug, £5

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22:50

Snort HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

Werewolf: Live – Charity Spectacular!

Underbelly, George Square, 15–16 Aug, £15

Listings

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding) Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

09:00 Breakfast Plays: The Future Is [...]

Traverse Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

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

09:55 Headhog Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £7 Gilgamesh – He Who Saw Everything theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

10:00 ❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Guys, Dolls and Pies Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £13–£15

Ladies Who Lunch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–16 Aug, £9

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, not 19, £13.50–£14

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Downton Shabby theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £8

Cherie – My Struggle Imagination Workshop, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

10:10

Borchert: A Life Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10

Skylight theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8 Painted Corners theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £5

10:40 The Wasp Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £12

The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £9

10:45

The Importance of Being Earnest theSpace @ Venue45, 19–22 Aug, £8

A Midsummer Night’s DROLL Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £8–£9

Where to Belong Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9

Words That I Never Tell C venues – C aquila, 13 Aug, £8.50

10:15

10:50 00 Pleasance Dome, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12

Qing Snake theSpace @ Venue45, 13–17 Aug, £12

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Happy Hour HH Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12.50

Post-Mortem Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Buzz Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Man Number Five Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Audacious Mr Astley Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£12

How to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £9

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

Love/Sick theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £7 CACW – Cony’s Collection The Old Dr Bells Baths, 14–16 Aug, FREE Shakespeare for Breakfast C venues – C viva, 14–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Umbrella Man Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Theatre

Choose Life, Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location Custom House, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £10

How Not to Drown

❤ Frankenstein:

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10:05 Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Where Do Fairies Come From?

Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £7 Hustlers theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7.50

10:20 Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £8

10:55 The Witch of Wall Street theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £8 The Zed Word theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9

11:00 ❤ Burgerz HHHH

Tales from the Garden Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10.50 Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, £21

Steve Richards Presents Rock’n’Roll Politics 2019 theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 13–24 Aug, £12.50 21 Futures by Olly Hawes Pleasance Dome, 13–17 Aug, £7.50–£9 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21 White Girls Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£9 The Shark is Broken Assembly George Square Studios, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£15 Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed Zoo Southside, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14 The Believers Are but Brothers Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12 The Trial PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–16 Aug, £11.50

11:05 Never None (but She) theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £10

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

Baby, What Blessings theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

10:25

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

Something Else theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £10

Status Assembly George Square, 17–24 Aug, £12–£13

Shadow of the Rose PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

10:30

Enough Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

Looking for Wolverhampton’s Latin Quarter theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8

The Yellow Wallpaper theSpaceTriplex, 20–23 Aug, £7

Arthur HHH Your Home, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £100

Great Grimm Tales Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Invisible Us Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £8

TalkFest – Anatomy of a Play: How Not to Drown Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £5

Dark Play or Stories for Boys theSpace on the Mile, 19–21 Aug, £6

The Lament of Dorothy Wordsworth Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £3.50–£7

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Heroin(e) for Breakfast Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

West of Frances theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Fear Here and Terror There theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £6 The Life of Reilly theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8 The Cat’s the Thing theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

11:10 Jammy Dodgers theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10

Chatroom theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £10

Hyde and Seek Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

She Shall Not Be Moved theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10

The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

11:15 ❤ Funny in Real Life HHHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10

11:20 On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £15 Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £10 Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15–£17

11:25 Ladybones Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £9–£11 Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 18, £9–£11 The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–17 Aug, £9 A Shadow of Doubt Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £8

11:30 ❤ Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders HHHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

The End Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £7 Harvey Greenfield Is Running Late Sweet Grassmarket, 13–24 Aug, £7 Back of the Head with a Brick Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£10 Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£12 Three, Two, One...

Sweet Novotel, 14–18 Aug, £7 Krapp’s Last Tape The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £10 Burns for Brunch Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 19, 21, £10 Jehovah’s First Witness Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10 How to Save a Rock Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 13–23 Aug, not 15, £8–£10 BBC and HighTide Radio Plays Assembly Roxy, 13 Aug, £5 Dalloway Assembly Roxy, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £12–£13

11:35 Red Herring ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 15, £10 Seasoned Professionals theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7

We Apologise for the Inconvenience PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–16 Aug, £12

Love (Watching Madness)

I Am Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

The Village Fate theSpace @ Venue45, 20–24 Aug, £7

Holy Sh*t theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8

HHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 18, £7.50–£10

11:40

Shadows ZOO Playground, 14–26 Aug, £10

One Starts in a Barber’s.

One Starts in a Bar. Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

You’re Safe ‘Til 2024 Pleasance Courtyard, 20–23 Aug, £10

Trump Lear Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

Fox Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £9–£11

The Empathy Experiment PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

I’ll Tell You This for Nothing Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£10

Shrew theSpaceTriplex, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£10

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11:45

Frog’s Legs Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

11:55

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–16 Aug, £12 A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–26 Aug, £10–£11

Theatre

11:50 Psycho Drama Queen ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 15, £9–£11 Nearly Human Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £9–£12 Ivory Wings Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

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The Merry Wives of Seoul C venues – C south, 13–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Being Norwegian by David Greig Venue 13, 13–24 Aug, £10

The Female Role Model Project Bedlam Theatre, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £11 In Conversation with...

Ian Rankin The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £12.50

The Mariner’s Song Paradise in Augustines, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Fires Our Shoes Have Made

12:00

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

Myra’s Story Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£14

HHH

C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Woyzeck C venues – C cubed, 13–14 Aug, £7.50–£8.50 Ian McKellen On Stage Assembly Hall, 22–25 Aug, £40 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 The Place You Once Forgot Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £10 In Conversation with...

Elaine C Smith The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £12.50

Morning Glory Planet Bar, 13–16 Aug, FREE

That’s How I See It PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–16 Aug, £11.50

Taiwan Season: Fish Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Dr Korczak’s Example Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £12

In Conversation with...

Patrick Harvie The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £12.50

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12.50–£13.50

Lobster Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10

In Conversation with...

Tom Devine The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £12.50

Qi The Old Dr Bells Baths, 13–16 Aug, FREE

In Conversation with...

Humza Yousaf The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £12.50

Lauren Booth: Accidentally Muslim Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50

Haggis, Neeps and Burns Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12

In Conversation with...

Barbara Dickson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £12.50

Birth Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14

In Conversation with...

Kezia Dugdale The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £12.50 Wingmen PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 17–21 Aug, £11.50 In Conversation with... Val McDermid The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £12.50 #HonestAmy Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 Illegal Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Written With Crayons PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £9.50 In Conversation with…

Archie Macpherson The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £12.50 Dangerous Adventures Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake, 22–25 Aug, FREE (Can This Be) Home Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–19 Aug, £12

12:05 Cyst-er Act Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 COMPOST theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8 Mengele Assembly George Square, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £10–£12 box. theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£12 Normaler Than Everyone Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11 Sleeping Giant Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 Marrow theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£12 Her theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10 Judas Assembly George Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12

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Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10 Boulder HH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £9–£12

12:25

Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Venue45, 13–17 Aug, £10

The Man From Verona Paradise in The Vault, 13–21 Aug, not 18, £5

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Parasites theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £9.50

40 Shades of Green Tour Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

LUVU2 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 20 Aug, £20

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

Wireless Operator Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£11.50

The Ship Sank. Where on Deck, Did My Captain Lie? ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12

❤ Trying It On HHHH

After You Assembly Rooms, 14–24 Aug, £10–£11

12:30

Madame Ovary Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £8–£12

12:15

A Talking Therapist’s Blues Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7 A Poet’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse Laughing Horse @ The Place, 15–19 Aug, FREE My Darling Clemmie Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Me and My Doll Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Sea Sick CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11

My Mother’s Shoes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE

❤ A Table Tennis Play HHHH

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 A Mother theSpace on North Bridge, 20–24 Aug, £7 Mandy Picks a Husband theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 13–17 Aug, £9 My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice Pleasance Dome, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 The Pat Hobby Stories Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11 The Perfect Body PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50

Rust HHH Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, £10–£12

12:45 Get Her Outta Here by Isabella Broccolini Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

Come Out from Among Them Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £10

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£11

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Wild Swimming HHH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

Bobby & Amy Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 R’n’J: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Roz and Jules Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £8–£9 A Play, A Pie and A Pint McSorley’s Irish Bar, 13–23 Aug, weekdays only, £12.50 Algorithms Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£11 Landscape (1989) ZOO Playground, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £10

12:50

How Not to Drown

HHH

Knock Knock Assembly Roxy, 13–26 Aug, £12–£14 Ripped Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 MUSE: An Experiment in Storytelling and Life Drawing The Safari Lounge, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, £10

Dream of a King HH theSpaceTriplex, 13–18 Aug, £9

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10

Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 13–24 Aug, not 19, FREE

The Seven Second Theory theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £9

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Plebs Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £7.50

Madame George by Keir McAllister HHH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 19, £11–£12

Will, or Eight Lost Years of William Shakespeare’s Life Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £24

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

Devil of Choice Assembly George Square Studios, 13–16 Aug, £12–£14

Narcolepsy Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Life Is No Laughing Matter Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £10

F. Off Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

Lucrece theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

CACW – Cony’s Collection The Old Dr Bells Baths, 18 Aug, FREE

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Dickens for Dinner C venues – C viva, 14–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Blighty, Broadway and Beyond! – The Private Lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

EAST theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10

I Don’t Want to Talk About It PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–16 Aug, £11.50

HHHHH

Eleanor’s Story: Home is the Stranger Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £9–£10

Nazis Need Jews PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man Sweet Novotel, 19–25 Aug, £9

Vigil Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The Claim Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

12:35

Almost, Maine theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £8

How to Make a Monster

❤ Frankenstein:

Shaving the Dead Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, £13–£15

Testament of Yootha Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£9.50

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Underbelly, Bristo Square, 16–26 Aug, not 17, £11–£12

Cream Tea and Incest Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £8.50–£9.50

SOLD Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

Fishbowl Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £14–£17.50

13:00

The Fishermen Assembly George Square Studios, 19–24 Aug, £12–£14

Cotton Fingers Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14

Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £10

12:55 Pearls theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

The Anxiety Experiment The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £10

Avalanche theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

One Good Beating theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8

12:40

Bull theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50

M.E.H Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

Cicada 3301 Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

You’re in a Bad Way by John Osborne PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms, 14–24 Aug, FREE

Medea Speaks theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

dressed.

Pleasance Courtyard, 20–25 Aug, £15

Careless Love Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

1:1 Sweet Novotel, 13–18 Aug, £7

Eventide Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends

Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ZOO Playground, 13–17 Aug, £6

Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £16–£17.50

The Accident Did Not Take Place Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £10–£13 Holy Land C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50 Rose McGowan: Planet 9 Assembly Hall, 15–18 Aug, £19–£21

13:05

HH

Do You Ever Get Scared? theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10

Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 16 Aug, £20

Chain of Trivia theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, £10

Special Measures theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Listings

12:10 In PurSUEt theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £9

12:20 Fix Us Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Sad Eyes to Smile With Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

13:10

Beach Body Ready Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8–£10 Alan Ayckbourn Double Bill theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12 In Loyal Company Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

❤ Orlando HHHH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£11

13:15 Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig Pleasance at EICC, 23 Aug, £17.50

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

Unicorns, Almost Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Paradise Lodge Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 Before the End HHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 (I)sland T(rap): The Epic Remixology of the Odyssey Assembly Checkpoint, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14 The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters) Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 Noir Hamlet theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £10 Letter to Boddah C venues – C cubed, 14–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Puppet King Richard II PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–14 Aug, £11.50 Fight Song Venue 13, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £12

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Best Girl Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £7–£9

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5

13:20 Have I Told You I’m Writing a Play About My Vagina?

Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £11 Phoenix Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £11–£13 Walls and Bridges theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Piano_Play Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 A Man’s a Man The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £14 Prefer Not To Say Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £7.50 Quintessence Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

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Collapsible

MOOT MOOT Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Daffodils The Royal Scots Club, 20–24 Aug, £7

Build a Football Club, IRL! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £9

How to Save a Life Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

❤ Coma HHHH

Are Children Wild Enough?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 18 Aug, £9

This Thing in Here Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £8

No Copyright, No Problem?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £9

Thinking Outside the (Penalty) Box The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £9

Votes for Women! theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £10

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

13:30 Of Mice and Men Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10.50–£12.50

❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

She Sells Sea Shells Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Creative People Need Data!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £9 Don’t You Smile at Me! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £9 Don’t Believe Your Ears!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £9 Fake News Kills World!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £9 Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 24 Aug, £25 Walk the Oars Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Ben Hur Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £8

@SimCos3000 Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7

13:55

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Going Slightly Mad Bedlam Theatre, 13–16 Aug, £10

The Gray Cat and the Flounder Assembly George Square Studios, 13–22 Aug, not 19, £12–£14 The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7 Level Up theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50 Who Killed Bambi? theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8.50

14:10 Moon Walk theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £8

13:35

Jew...ish Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £9.50–£10.50

Smoke ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

Brendan Galileo for Europe Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

Unveiled Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £8

Sense and Sensibility theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

B’Witches PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 15–25 Aug, FREE

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

13:40

Art Heist HHH Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£12

Tales of the Condemned Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 14 Aug, £8

Chalk (A Silent Comedy) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £11

The Things I Never Told You Assembly Rooms, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

14:00

I, AmDram Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £7–£9

Van Gogh Find Yourself #vgfy PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 13–24 Aug, FREE

If This Is Normal ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10

The Last Five Years PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £11

10:31, MCR theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £7

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 13–26 Aug, £52

Just a Number theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8–£9

Wet C venues – C viva, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50

My Mate Dave Died C venues – C aquila, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

HHH

Void PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13 Aug, £11.50

Too Pretty to Punch Zoo Southside, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10

The 27 Club theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £9.50

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £12

Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £17.50

13:25

Pals Assembly George Square, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £13–£15

Watching Glory Die Assembly Rooms, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £12–£14

I Run Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10.50

Disgust for Dummies The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £9

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21

Lucille and Cecilia Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 20, £10–£11

Theatre

GEORGE Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £62.50

Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12

Romeo & Juliet Assembly George Square, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£15

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Bear Pit PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–26 Aug, £11.50

For All I Care Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14 Can Google Really Translate?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, £9 Long Live the Cat Ladies?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £9 OK Computer or Paranoid Android?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £9 Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £9 Not Quite Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £8–£9 CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE Before the Wall Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17–26 Aug, £12–£13 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £21 Awhile with Seamus Heaney The Royal Scots Club, 13–17 Aug, £10 Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby Pleasance Courtyard, 20–26 Aug, £8–£10

The Grand Scheme of Things Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Mourning Overnight Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10

13:45 Ice Ice Iceland PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE Enough Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21 Catching Comets Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11 The Presented Laughing Horse @ The Place, 13–25 Aug, FREE Atlantis Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £8 Hughie Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £13.50 Medea Electronica Pleasance Courtyard, 19–26 Aug, £12 Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5 A Very British Lesbian Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11 Yolk: A Tale of Life, Told By an Idiot PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

13:50 IvankaPlay Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9.50–£10.50

The HandleBards: Much Ado About Nothing Assembly George Square Gardens, 21–25 Aug, £15

Narukami Thunder God theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12 Dream of a King HH theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £9 Shiver theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8.50 Mallets theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8–£9

I’m Just Kidneying Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £7

14:15

She Can’t Half Talk Bedlam Theatre, 17–25 Aug, £8

Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour

MARA Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12

Churn Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10

Sexy Lamp Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Arthur Conan Doyle – The Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, 26 Aug, £8

Blood and Gold Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12

Citizens of Nowhere?

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16 It’ll Be Alt-Right on the Night Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 Horror – Gothic Tales and Dark Poetry PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Agent November Escape Game: Major X Ploe-Shun The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 Alaska Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

The HandleBards: The Tempest Assembly George Square Gardens, 14–18 Aug, £15 Einstein Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £8–£10 Leave a Message HH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £9–£10 Pronoun Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

14:05 Délicieux theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £5

HHH

Like Animals HHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12 The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 Broken Funnies Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap, 13–26 Aug, not 19, 20, £5 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15 Jc Says Finally 1951–2019 Paradise in Augustines, 19 Aug, £4 Taboo Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 35,000 C venues – C south, 18–25 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Listings

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The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 24 Aug, £11 On the Other Hand, We’re Happy Roundabout @ Summerhall, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £15–£17

14:25 Goodbye Charles – Free Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, 19–25 Aug, FREE Animal Farm (Bond) Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £10 The Experiment theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £10

Manifesting Mrs Marx Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £12

We Want You to Watch theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Murder on the Dancefloor Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£11

Monsoon Season Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

Daughterhood Roundabout @ Summerhall, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, £15–£17

Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 18 Aug, £10

14:20

14:30

Before 30 Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–25 Aug, £10–£11 Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 22 Aug, £11

Deer Woman HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £11 Victor PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–15 Aug, £10

The Mackerel Eaters Heroes @ The Hive, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £5

A Voice C venues – C cubed, 18–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Loving the Enemy theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Mythos: Heroes Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25

Chaika: First Woman in Space HHH theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 17 Aug, £12

Black Holes Zoo Southside, 19–25 Aug, £14 Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 19–23 Aug, £5 Ane City Assembly Roxy, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 The Happiness Project Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15

Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £20

What Girls Are Made Of Assembly Hall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £17.50

Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 17 Aug, £12

Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-inProgress) Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Tumours Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Like Me Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £8 Mémoires d’un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie) St Cuthbert’s Church, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

Anti-Depressed? theSpace on North Bridge, 14–17 Aug, £9 This Island’s Mine theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £8 Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11

These Streets Paradise in The Vault, 19–21 Aug, £10

Spray HHH Assembly Roxy, 13–26 Aug, £12–£14

Beat Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10.50–£13.50

Two of a Kind C venues – C aquila, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

Passengers Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl Venue 13, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £12

I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 13–18 Aug, £9

14:40

Spliced HHH Traverse at Edinburgh Sports Club, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £21

Bi-Cycle Underbelly, George Square, 14–26 Aug, £9–£10

Suddenly Last Summer St Ninian’s Hall, 17 Aug, £12

When the Birds Come Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Toby Belch (Is Unwell) Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, £10 Mama’s Eggnog PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 16–18 Aug, £11.50

Talk C venues – C cubed, 13–17 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Men Chase Women Choose Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £8

Keep Your Chin Up Quaker Meeting House, 13–17 Aug, £7

14:35

Power of Music 2 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 21 Aug, £8

More Myself Than I Am PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £11.50

Little Rabbit Quaker Meeting House, 19–24 Aug, £9

Drowning HH Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12

Power of Music 1 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 19 Aug, £8 Power of Music 3 St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St, 23 Aug, £8

Macbeth theSpace on the Mile, 20–24 Aug, £8 Fake News Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£11 Late Lunch with Biggins Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £11–£15 Inka Zoo Southside, 17–26 Aug, £10

14:45 Thunderstruck Assembly Checkpoint, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14 Shattered Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£11 beep boop HHH Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11–£12 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15 A Partnership Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Westminster Hour Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Happily Never After Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £10.50–£11.50

❤ Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein HHHH Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

Ex-Batts and Broilers Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £10–£12 Ideology and Hair Gel Paradise in Augustines, 19–25 Aug, £12

14:50 A Womb of One’s Own Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, not 22, £10–£12 Do Our Best Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Give Me One Moment In Time by Doug Crossley Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

14:55 The Heresy Machine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £9

Alan Ayckbourn’s No Knowing theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £12

15:00 Sales Pitch Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10 The Wrong Ffion Jones Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Anguis HHH Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, £12–£13 Julius ‘Call Me Caesar’ Caesar Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 19, 25, £13.50–£14.50 The Poetry of God and War St Vincent’s, 16 Aug, FREE TERRAtory Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10 Full Consent to Speak on My Behalf Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7 Raised Voices theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £5 300 to 1 PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–24 Aug, FREE Jumping the Barriers Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE Roots Church Hill Theatre, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £25 Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £7 Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation HHH The Studio, Various dates from 14 Aug to 25 Aug, £20 Wrestling Mania!

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 17, FREE

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Steve Pleasance Courtyard, 22–26 Aug, £10

The De Nova Super Assembly George Square, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Oedipus King’s Theatre, 17 Aug, £15

Conscious theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £7

Myra Imagination Workshop, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

Twelfth Night theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £5

Zombie Zoo Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12

The South Afreakins theSpace on the Mile, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9

The National Trust Fan Club Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£13

STYX Zoo Southside, 13–17 Aug, £14

Buds of May Be Scottish Arts Club, 16–17 Aug, £15 The Trial Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10 A Holy Show Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 Vessel Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £15 Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 I Lost My Virginity to Chopin’s Nocturne in B-Flat Minor Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 Anything With a Pulse ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 17, £10

Theatre

Big Tam’s Kilted Shindig Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, £8 Jekyll and Hyde Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£13

15:05 Yerloo Underground Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10

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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 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £9 The Visitors theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8.50

15:10

Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7 Ricky Riddlegang and the Riddle Gang Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 15, £9–£10 David Benson – Cato Street 1820 Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £8–£10 Blodeuwedd Untold Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£11 FATTY FAT FAT Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8–£10 Definitely Louise Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £8–£9

Endless Second Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8–£10.50

The Suitcase, the Beggar and the Wind PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 17–18 Aug, FREE

All of Me HHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Naughty Boy Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£9.50

The Dandelion Patch theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7

The Burning Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £11–£13

A Wake in Progress Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Nights at the Circus ZOO Playground, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Echoes of Villers-Bretonneux Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7 Roots theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8

15:15 A Grave Situation Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £7.50–£10 The Sensemaker ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12

15:20 Woman! Pilot! Pirate?

Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11 The Professor Assembly Rooms, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £11–£13 In Conversation with...

Nicola Sturgeon The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £15 Encyclopedia of Kitchen Comedy Essays by Larry Tadlock PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 13–24 Aug, FREE

Hatch Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

❤ Coma HHHH

Leopold Vindictive theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Arrivals theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £9.50

The War of the Worlds Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£15 Beyond: Sugar Mice Paradise in Augustines, 13–16 Aug, £8 In Her Corner theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £9.50

15:25

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Supernatural: Wonder Tales from Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 21, £10 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 13–26 Aug, £24 Portents Bedlam Theatre, 14–15 Aug, £10

Bomb Happy D-Day 75 Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £11 Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19–25 Aug, £15 Speaking Out: A Conversation with John Bercow The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–14 Aug, £16 Regeneration Game Workshop Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, £5

Barry Bedlam Theatre, 21–25 Aug, £10

15:45

Tea?...(With Milk) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Cauliflower PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

A Fear and Loathing Actor in Dublin C venues – C cubed, 14–26 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £9–£11

All Work, No Play Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, £8

❤ Burgerz HHHH

The Wind in the Willows theSpace @ Venue45, 19–24 Aug, £8

15:30 The Glass Elephant The Royal Scots Club, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £8.50 Para Handy: A Radio Play on Stage PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–18 Aug, £12 Pink House PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £12 With Child Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £9–£11 A Complicated Man Bedlam Theatre, 16–20 Aug, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15 SWIM Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12

Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5 Worldwidewestern French Institute, 14 Aug, £10

15:35 Leverage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10 Toothbrush theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £5

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, £21

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5 Pink Lemonade Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £10–£12

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

Will Gompertz: Double Art History – The Sequel Underbelly, Bristo Square, 19–25 Aug, £14–£16

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–23 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £15

15:40

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Fulfilment Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 The Struggling Life of an Artist C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 24 Aug, £21

How to Be Brave Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £21

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If You’re Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs HH Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £15–£16.50

❤ Coma HHHH

15:50 Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds Assembly George Square Studios, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12–£14 Bible John Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £10–£12 Under Milk Wood theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £8

15:55 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7 To Be or Not to Be? Purgatory Is the Question Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £8

16:00 Woke Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £13–£14 Home Just Festival at St John’s , 16–17 Aug, £10 How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Alfie and George CANCELLED Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

Claire Dowie’s When I Fall If I Fall Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £10

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

Resurrecting Bobby Awl Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £15 Citizens of Nowhere?

Sweet Novotel, 16–25 Aug, not 19, £16 Black Is the Color of My Voice Gilded Balloon Teviot, Various dates from 15 Aug to 26 Aug, £13–£14 The Man Who Planted Trees Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £13 (Ab)solution H Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £15

❤ Trying It On HHHH

16:10

16:20

Confirmation Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, £9–£12

Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14–17 Aug, £11

Brandy theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8 Mary’s Room theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

The Try-Hards Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £7

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 24–25 Aug, £20

Unknown Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £7.50

This Time Will Be Different Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £10

Predictably Irrational theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £10

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

❤ The Red HHHH

Such Filthy F*cks Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£11

Pleasance Dome, 14–26 Aug, £11–£13

E8 Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£13

Well That’s Oz Venue 13, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £12

Julius Caesar Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

Chagos 1971 ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 15, 22, £10

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Miijin Ki Summerhall, 20–24 Aug, £10

Ticker HH Underbelly, Cowgate, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12

A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£12

PAMALA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £7

16:05

16:15

Trips and Falls theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £9

The Djinns of Eidgah Sweet Grassmarket, 13–18 Aug, £10

Give Me Your Love Summerhall, 25 Aug, £10 LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre Summerhall, 14–17 Aug, £10 To Move In Time Summerhall, 19–24 Aug, £10

Inflatable Space HH Assembly Roxy, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12–£14 The Castle Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £8

The Feminazis theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8

Enough Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

Voice of Authority theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

First Time Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14.50

The Ballad of Mulan Assembly Rooms, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10–£12 Teach theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, £8 Scottee: Class Assembly Roxy, 14–25 Aug, not 19, 20, £12–£14 Moby Dick Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12 Bottoms Up! theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £8 Luminescence theSpace @ Venue45, 13–16 Aug, £5

Apollo: Take 111 HH Zoo Southside, 13–26 Aug, not 18, 25, £10 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £15 The Nights by Henry Naylor

HHH

Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £13–£14

Bleeding Black Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13 Aug, £11

16:25 Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £12 Love and Sex and All Things In-Between theSpace on the Mile, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £10 Unmeetables theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £5–£10 Want Some More theSpace on the Mile, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug, £10

16:30 Honey HH ZOO Playground, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 The Legacy of William Ireland PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50 subsist Sweet Grassmarket, 21–25 Aug, £9 Bedlam Sweet Grassmarket, 13–18 Aug, £7 Everything I Do Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 The Incident Room Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £12.50–£14.50 Getting to Know Katie Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£11 Northanger Abbey French Institute, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 15, £12

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

❤ Typical HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 14–25 Aug, £10–£12

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Westminster Hour Part 2 Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

HHH

Mirror Canon theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £5

Faultlines Carrubbers, 13–17 Aug, £9

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

Boswell PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £11.50

Progress ZOO Playground, 13–17 Aug, £10 A Payment Unkind Sweet Grassmarket, 19–22 Aug, £10 The National and ELT Short Play Winners Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12 Yellow ZOO Playground, 18–26 Aug, £10 8:8 Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Gone Full Havisham Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–25 Aug, not 18, 19, £10–£12

16:35 Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

16:40 Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £6 The Last of the Pelican Daughters HH Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 17, £11.50–£13.50 Fags, Mags and Bags Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, £13.50–£15.50

16:45 Synesthesia the Musical Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 15–25 Aug, FREE Arguing On-Air C venues – C viva, 13–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

16:55 Standard:Elite Bedlam Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £11 Dorian Gray theSpace on the Mile, 19–23 Aug, £5 Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £7

17:00 Sharon Stacy Statue Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £7 Polaris Scottish Poetry Library, 13–24 Aug, not 18, 19, £8 Morning Glory Planet Bar, 13–16 Aug, FREE Tartuffe Assembly Rooms, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Underwater PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–15 Aug, FREE Freak Show Paradise in Augustines, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £15 Fawk Paradise in Augustines, 22 Aug, £15 Shakespeare in the Garden: The Comedy of Errors C venues – C south, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15 Attila the Stockbroker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, Various dates from 16 Aug to 24 Aug, FREE Pathetic Fallacy CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11

❤ Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD HHHH Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£9

Confetti and Chaos (Formerly The Wedding Reception) Imagination Workshop, 14–26 Aug, not 20, 22, £45–£47.50

Mighty Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £9–£11

CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 14 Aug, FREE

CONSPIRACY Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

Fragility of Man Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12.50

16:50 Shit Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10 Number, Please.

Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £7 Darren McGarvey AKA Loki: Scotland Today The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £12

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James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2019: The Award Ceremony Traverse Theatre, 19 Aug, £7

Candy Factory Wee Red Bar, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12 Contact Light Pianodrome at The Pitt, 19–24 Aug, £10 Giant Wolf Theatre – Playback Leith Depot, 14–17 Aug, £5 That Bastard Brecht Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 13 Aug to 20 Aug, £15

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Since U Been Gone Assembly Roxy, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £10–£12

Drunk Lion Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 13–25 Aug, not 20, FREE

Mr Nice Guy theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £6

I Am Mark Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–17 Aug, £10

Cruise to Hell theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £8

Sary Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5

❤ Coma HHHH

17:05

8:8 Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

Attila the Stockbroker PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans, 19–21 Aug, FREE

The Letter Pleasance Dome, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£12

My Name Is Irrelevant Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

❤ Bryony Kimmings: I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

Perfect Sweet Novotel, 18–24 Aug, £8

At This Stage theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8 [BLANK] by Alice Birch and NYTP theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £8 Parakeet Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15 Four Woke Baes Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11.50–£12.50 If I Die on Mars theSpace @ Venue45, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8 Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play C venues – C cubed, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

17:10 Not Black and White Pleasance Courtyard, 14–26 Aug, £8–£12 The Mystery of the Bonnie Sporran and the Loch Ness Monster theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8 Gun Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11 Suffering from Scottishness Assembly Roxy, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12 Silence in Court Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12

17:15

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My Best Dead Friend Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £15–£17

A Short Cut to Happiness ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10

Shut Up, Helen! theSpace on North Bridge, 13–14 Aug, £9

Checkpoint Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £10

17:50

Adrift Venue 13, 13–17 Aug, £7

CACW – Cony’s Collection Stockbridge Church, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, FREE

Conversations With Van Gogh Zoo Southside, 13–25 Aug, £7–£10

High Trees Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £5–£7.50

Electrolyte Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £13–£14.50

The Golden Fly Scottish Storytelling Centre, 21–25 Aug, £10

Hallowed Ground – Women Doctors in War Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £10

Tally Ho, Secret Several! theSpace on North Bridge, 15–24 Aug, not 18, £9 I Can Make You Fail Slightly Less ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10 Wrath of Achilles Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10 Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £10

17:25 Woyzeck Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10

17:30 Arthur HHH Your Home, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £100

Apologies to the Bengali Lady Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Order from Chaos Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £10

Choose Your Own... Improv!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Superstar Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11

Lest You Forget Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £8

And Before I Forget I Love You, I Love You The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £10

Keith Moon: The Real Me Gilded Balloon Teviot, 14–26 Aug, £11–£12

Mark Can’t Rap PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–18 Aug, FREE

Bull theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7

Scotlandsfest Quaker Meeting House, 19–23 Aug, £5

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Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

My Mum’s a Twat Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12 Yukon Ho! (Tall Tales from the Great White North) Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Souvenirs Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £10 Degrees of Guilt theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8 Numbers C venues – C aquila, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Hitman and Her PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £11.50

18:00

The Long Road theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £12

Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£12

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree C venues – C south, 13–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Aidan Goatley: Happy Britain Part 1 Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, £10

There Is No Problem (Here) theSpace on North Bridge, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Noise Boys Assembly George Square, 14–25 Aug, £13–£16

17:35

Isabelle C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Hello? Hello. theSpace on North Bridge, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8

17:40 Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 Electric Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

17:45 ❤ Daddy Drag HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Can You See Where I’m Coming From?

PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies Assembly Hall, 20 Aug, £16.50

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Everything I See I Swallow Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £13

Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside, 13–17 Aug, FREE

Dada, Surrealism, Bowie and Pop: The Puzzle of Avant-Garde Art Scottish Arts Club, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £15 Agent November Escape Game: Robyn Yew The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 14–26 Aug, £24 The Red Hourglass Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–14 Aug, £13 Garlands Summerhall, 19 Aug, £6 The Grape That Rolled Under the Fridge Summerhall, 13 Aug, £6 Our Man – Free Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull, 19–25 Aug, FREE

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £10 Questions for Quiz Shows Summerhall, 17 Aug, £6 Uncensored Summerhall, 21 Aug, £6

Low Level Panic The Royal Scots Club, 13–17 Aug, £10

18:20 Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor Assembly Rooms, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14

Subject Mater Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £14

Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £9

Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9

The Good, The Bad and The Brexit theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–23 Aug, £11

30 theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9

baby-go-round theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10–£12 Ghostly Tales theSpace on the Mile, 19–22 Aug, £8

Rock’n’Roll Girls theSpace @ Venue45, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £8

Sinatra: Raw Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £13.50

Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

This Play Is Not About Me theSpace on the Mile, 23–24 Aug, £5

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £19.50

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Paul Putner’s Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band) Frankenstein Pub, 14–25 Aug, £10

Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9

Out of Your Mind Summerhall, 15 Aug, £6

❤ Coma HHHH

A Game of Death and Chance Gladstone’s Land, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £15

18:05

Auto-Nation theSpace @ Venue45, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Alice Hawkins – Suffragette Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 13–16 Aug, £8

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21

18:10 The Last Bread Pudding theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8 Liminality theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £12

Thief by Liam Rudden Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12 Between Us theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £9.50 Gut Buddies Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 20, £10 Who Cares Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £12

18:25 Love and Misinformation Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £12 If Mouth Could Speak ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £8 Civilisation Underbelly, Cowgate, 16–25 Aug, £10–£11

❤ Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

18:15 The 900 Club Scottish Poetry Library, 20–24 Aug, £5 Rich B*tch – How to Make Money with the Power of Your Mind Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, £8.50

HHHHH

Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£16

Gobby Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–15 Aug, £10 FemFringe Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 17 Aug, £5 SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £7

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18:30 Enough Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, £21 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 13 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50 That’s What She Said Scottish Poetry Library, 15–17 Aug, £9 Last Life: A Shakespeare Play Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £8 Play Before Birth Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Quaker Meeting House, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £6 In the Shadow of the Black Dog HH Assembly Rooms, 14–23 Aug, £10–£11 Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 19–21 Aug, £10 A(Poke)alypse Now – Mamoirs of a Gieza; I’m Still Here PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Street, 13–24 Aug, not 17, FREE 8:8 Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8

18:35 Heir Heads theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £9 Pops HHH Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12 Intolerable Side Effects Zoo Southside, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10

Hitler’s Tasters Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £11

18:40 Losing My Mindfulness Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE Torch Town Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7 Trust the Teenagers theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £6 Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £10–£11 Drawn and Quartered C venues – C cubed, 13–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

18:55 ❤ Tokyo Rose HHHH

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

Marie Lloyd Stole My Life theSpace on the Mile, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9 Kemp’s Jig theSpace on the Mile, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9 Macbeth HHH C venues – C south, 13–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Who Is Daniel King Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

19:00 How Not to Drown

18:45

HHH

❤ Burgerz HHHH Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

❤ HHHH

Minor Disruptions Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 18, £10

❤ Frankenstein:

Miss AmeriKa Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £13 Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

The Patient Gloria

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

How to Make a Monster

HHHHH

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

Unnatural ELREC Room, 13–14 Aug, £5

Metamorphosis Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10

Songs in the Key of Cree CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £11

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5

18:50 The Graveyard Shift theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8 Grit Venue 13, 13–17 Aug, £7 Unicorn Party ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, not 18, £10

Dancing in the Moonlight – A Play About Phil Lynott PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–14 Aug, £11

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Dead Equal Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 17, 18, 19, £12

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 Buzzing PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 15–26 Aug, £10 Gregory’s Girl Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £13 Green & Blue Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

44 Inch Chest theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

19:10

19:25

Sex Education Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Pick Up theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £6.50

Just Like a Woman theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £8

Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £10

Drone HHH Summerhall, 13–17 Aug, £14

Marx in Soho PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £11.50

Man on the Moon Summerhall, 20–25 Aug, £8–£12

Static ZOO Playground, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

19:15

❤ Crocodile Fever HHHH

HoneyBee Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£11

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

Nancy’s Philosopher Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 22 Aug, £15

Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

Stand-Up Poet Imagination Workshop, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11

The Screwtape Letters Palmerston Place Church, 19–21 Aug, £11

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show The Fawlty Towers Dining Room at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton Hotel, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £62.50

Neither Here Nor There Summerhall, 15–25 Aug, £10

Jock Tamson’s Bairns Laughing Horse @ Ghillie Dhu, 21 Aug, 22 Aug, 25 Aug, FREE Meatball Séance PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 14–24 Aug, FREE Worldwidewestern French Institute, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 15, 19, £10

19:05 McNaughton theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8 Vinyl Encore theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9 Jewbana theSpace @ Venue45, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9.50

Oh Yes Oh No HHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Caliban’s Codex Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £10 Chameleon ZOO Playground, 14–26 Aug, £9 Blockbusters Palmerston Place Church, 22–23 Aug, £10 8:8 Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8

19:20 Trans Pennine theSpace on North Bridge, 19 Aug, 21 Aug, 23 Aug, £9 Milkshake theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8 Being Frank theSpace on North Bridge, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 24 Aug, £9

Midges theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £7 Shadow C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10.50

19:30 Faulty Towers the Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £52–£57.50 Mythos: Gods Festival Theatre, 19 Aug, £25 Roots Church Hill Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 21, £25 Mythos: Men Festival Theatre, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £25 Second Honeymoon Mayfield Salisbury Church, 13–16 Aug, £12 Jottings from the Queen of Sheba St Patrick’s Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £7 The Archive of Educated Hearts Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 14 Aug to 26 Aug, £10–£12 Nan Shepherd: From Flaneur to Fiver Scottish Poetry Library, 20–22 Aug, £6 Tartuffe Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre, 13–16 Aug, £12 Red Dust Road The Lyceum, 14 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £20

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Confessions of the Romantically Challenged Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Green Knight Scottish Poetry Library, 13–14 Aug, £10

❤ America Is Hard to See HHHHH

The Afflicted HHH Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £14

Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £11–£12

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William McRae Sweet Grassmarket, 13–25 Aug, £10 The Wild Unfeeling World Pleasance Courtyard, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £9–£11 From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old Hollywood Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £10–£11 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 13 Aug, £24 Suddenly Last Summer St Ninian’s Hall, 13–17 Aug, £12 The Brooklyn Scotsman Hill Street Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £12 1902 Wee Red Bar, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £12 Perfect Wedding The Royal Scots Club, 19–24 Aug, £12.50 The Long Pigs Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £14–£16

19:35

Conversations With Myself C venues – C cubed, 13–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50 Being Frank About Sinatra Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £11

Yours Sincerely HHH Assembly Rooms, 14–24 Aug, £10–£11

Don’t Bank on the Bankers The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 20 Aug, £10

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15

Traumboy HH Summerhall, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £12

Smut Slam: Where Sexy and Storytelling Collide The Safari Lounge, 14 Aug, £10

Who Owns History?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13 Aug, £10

Lucy McCormick: Post Popular Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12–£14

Are You a Problem Addict?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 19 Aug, £10

Waiting for Godot The Edinburgh Yes Hub, 22–26 Aug, £20

The Canary and the Crow Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £14–£15

20:05 Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £12

School Gays theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £11

19:55 Clouds theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £10 Who Did I Think She Was? Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13–25 Aug, FREE

20:00

Stanley HH theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation HHH The Studio, 13–25 Aug, not 19, 21, 24, £20 The Examination Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12.50–£13.50 2Elfth Night Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £5 Oedipus King’s Theatre, 14–16 Aug, £15

Butterflies ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10 Takin’ It Easy, 1916 theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50 Doubt ZOO Playground, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £7–£10

20:10 Dumbing Down Trauma?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 21 Aug, £10 It’s Beautiful, Over There Venue 13, 13–24 Aug, not 21, £10 Traumgirl HH Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £12 Neglecting Midwives Gives Mothers PTSD The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 15 Aug, £10 Fake News Kills World!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 22 Aug, £10

❤ Coma HHHH

Does Sex Still Sell?

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 24 Aug, £10

Arlecchino Torn in Three Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10

HOTTER Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

19:45

There She Is PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £10

Sex, Drugs and Bilingualism The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 16 Aug, 18 Aug, £10

Sugar Sweet Novotel, 14–24 Aug, not 21, £7 Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £19.50 SHINE HH Zoo Southside, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

20:15 Fempire: Cleo, Theo & Wu

by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, Various dates from 13 Aug to 23 Aug, £10–£11

What Are You Wearing?

Laughing Horse @ The Place, 19–25 Aug, FREE

19:40

Blame It on the Algorithm!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 25 Aug, £10

A Thatcher’s Guide to Dogging in Bungay PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, FREE

And Then They Died Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7

Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour Outside the Beehive Inn, 13–31 Aug, £16

Obesity Bankrupted Our NHS! The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 23 Aug, £10

leaves Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10

Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12

Bost Uni Plues Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 14 Aug, 16 Aug, £9

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19:50 The Convoluted Adventures of Batman and Robin – An Adult Panto!

Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

2 Clowns 1 Cup Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 17 Aug, £9

In Your Wet Dreams Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £7

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Fudge Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True The Lyceum, 19 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £20 Hair of the Wild C venues – C at SESH Hairdressing, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £8.50–£10.50

Art is Shit The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17 Aug, £10 The Very Well-Fed Caterpillar theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £7 This Show Will Make You Sharper!

The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14 Aug, £10

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, Various dates from 13 Aug to 26 Aug, £18–£19.50 Cactus PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 15, FREE The Domestic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £6–£8 Fempire: Mess by Kirsten Vangsness Assembly Rooms, 15 Aug, 18 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £10–£11

Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Hindsight HHH theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £11

20:25 Nothing to Hide theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8

20:30 The Collection of Professor Novak PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 13–25 Aug, not 19, FREE The Passion of the Playboy Riots PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 19–26 Aug, £12–£12.50 Only Fools the Cushty Dining Experience Imagination Workshop, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, 22, £47.50–£52 Under the Floorboards PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13 Aug, £11.50 Seamonster, the Story PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar, 19 Aug, FREE

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15 A War of Two Halves Tynecastle Park, 14–26 Aug, £24

20:45 Footnotes HH Summerhall, Various dates from 13 Aug to 24 Aug, £12 Said and Done Sweet Novotel, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £9 Before Dance Base, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £13 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15 Mouthpiece Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £21 Consumers Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £7 SAGA Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £7 Employ Me, You Cowards!

Scottish Poetry Library, 13–23 Aug, not 18, 19, £7

20:50 Father Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £12 The Bald Soprano Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–24 Aug, £10 Bitch, Antigone theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £12

20:55 Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality

HHH

Summerhall, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15

I’m Woman Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £9

21:00

The Brunch Club HH Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels, 14–24 Aug, not 20, £9–£12

The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

Paradise in The Vault, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £10

Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 17–19 Aug, £16

Wait, What?

ZOO Playground, 13–15 Aug, £8

Enough Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, £21

Contractions PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 14–18 Aug, £11.50

Cadaver Synod Sweet Grassmarket, 19–25 Aug, £8.50

The Taming of the Shrew The Royal Scots Club, 13–17 Aug, £10

James Rowland’s A Hundred Different Words for Love Summerhall, 14 Aug, 17 Aug, 21 Aug, 24 Aug, £12.50

Up and Away theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £6–£8

20:20 Reservoir Dugs theSpace @ Venue45, 13–17 Aug, £10 The Good Scout HHH theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–24 Aug, £12 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 House of Hundred

HHH

C venues – C aquila, 13–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

20:35 The Last Bubble theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8 Broken English theSpace on North Bridge, 19–23 Aug, £10

20:40 Hold On Let Go Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 20, £10 Skylar MacDonald’s Fact Machine C venues – C aquila, 13–17 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

James Rowland’s Revelations Summerhall, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £12.50

❤ Coma HHHH

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, £7.50

Tilda Swinton Answers an Ad on Craigslist Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, £12–£14 Blind Date HHH CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11

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Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, £21

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15 Bullarena Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10 Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 13–25 Aug, not 14, 19, £15 James Rowland’s Songs of Friendship Summerhall, 18 Aug, 25 Aug, £25 James Rowland’s Team Viking Summerhall, 13 Aug, 16 Aug, 20 Aug, 23 Aug, £12.50 McNaughton Scottish Arts Club, 14 Aug, £15 Making a Murderer: Part 2 – Brendan Dassey’s Post-Conviction Lawyers Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin in Conversation The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–15 Aug, £19

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £21

❤ Until the Flood HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £21

The Grandmothers Grimm Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £9 Square Go Roundabout @ Summerhall, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £15–£17 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, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £5

21:20

21:35 amendments: A Play on Words theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

❤ Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster

22:15

Traverse Theatre, 16 Aug, 22 Aug, £22

Searchers Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10.50–£11.50

HHHHH

Shakespeare Up Late!

C venues – C aquila, 14–26 Aug, £8.50–£10.50

One Summerhall, 22–24 Aug, £9–£12

Solitary Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £10–£11

Absolutely Reliable!

C venues – C cubed, 14–25 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

21:40 Ginger Johnson’s Happy Place Pleasance Dome, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 Musik HH Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £15–£16.50

21:45

Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10 Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger theSpace on the Mile, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £12

❤ Trying It On HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 14 Aug, 20 Aug, 25 Aug, £22

The Populars Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern, 20–25 Aug, FREE

The Passion of the Playboy Riots PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–18 Aug, £11.50–£12

There’s Something Missing ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15

Sound Cistem ZOO Playground, 13–26 Aug, £10

Our Saviour theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £8

Agent November Escape Game: Murder Mr E The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 13–25 Aug, £15

Misfit Warrior theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, £10

Brandi Alexander Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9.50–£10.50

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15

❤ HHHH

Crocodile Fever

21:50

Traverse Theatre, 13 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, £22

Before the Revolution Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

Mental Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £12

Glockenspielsexpartybavariagoodbye Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £8

Pits Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £10–£11

A Rock’n’Roll Suicide!

Zoo Southside, 13–26 Aug, £10

Trainspotting Live Venue150 at EICC, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £19.50

The Last King of Porn Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £10

21:10

Father of Lies Sweet Novotel, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12 The People’s Boat Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

Nine Months theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £10

21:30

I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron Zoo Southside, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £10

You Have a Match theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £10 The Nana Schewitz Pass-Me-Over Party PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

22:20 Ophelia Is Also Dead theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £7

22:30 Monogamy PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £11.50 TGIF theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£9 Steve Lamacq: Going Deaf for a Living Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–16 Aug, £15

22:35 The Mannequin theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Listen, You Can Hear the Sound of No Hands Clapping theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8 Svetlana Assembly George Square Studios, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £12–£13 Gigolo: Bold, Beautiful, Bizarre theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £8

21:55

22:05

❤ Coma HHHH

Bit of Sunshine Greenside @ Royal Terrace, 19–23 Aug, £7

To Fall in Love Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Surveillance theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £10

Wuthering Heights PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–15 Aug, £11.50

Don’t Frighten the Straights!

Paradise in Augustines, 13–25 Aug, not 18, £8–£9

Die or Run Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £12

Sherlock Holmes and the Conundrum of Conan Doyle theSpace on North Bridge, 13–17 Aug, £8

Night Walk for Edinburgh Around Edinburgh / The Milkman, 14–25 Aug, not 19, £15

❤ Working On My Night Moves HHHH

22:10

Redacted Arachnid C venues – C aquila, 13–17 Aug, £9.50–£11.50

Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £12

Mojo theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

Tess theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £12

How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 13–17 Aug, £8

Tang Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £8

Dissident Sausage theSpace on North Bridge, 19–24 Aug, £7–£8

More Fool You: Part I Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 14 Aug to 24 Aug, £10.50

Hearty Summerhall, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £8–£10

Summerhall, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50

Splintered Bedlam Theatre, 14–25 Aug, not 20, £10

The Words Are There theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £9–£11

Homer to Hip Hop: A History of Spoken Word PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth, 13–16 Aug, FREE

The American’s Dream theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £10

Time Please PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 22–26 Aug, £11.50

More Fool You: Part II Paradise in Augustines, Various dates from 13 Aug to 25 Aug, £10

Everyman theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £9

22:00 How Not to Drown

HHH

Traverse Theatre, 15 Aug, 21 Aug, £22

❤ The Patient Gloria HHHH

Traverse Theatre, 17 Aug, 23 Aug, £22

No Fun and Games Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–24 Aug, £5 My Father the Tantric Masseur Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

22:55 The Slinks Underbelly, Bristo Square, 14–26 Aug, £10–£11

23:00 Tricky Second Album Pleasance Dome, 13–18 Aug, £9–£11 Don’t Be Terrible Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, £9–£11 The Ladies Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

23:05 FemFringe Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 24–25 Aug, £5

23:10 Inferno, Kid Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £5–£7.50 Dead Parents Society Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £8 Defying Logic theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 19–24 Aug, £8 Eddie Izzard: Expectations of Great Expectations (WIP) Assembly George Square Studios, 19–20 Aug, £17.50 A Clockwork Orange Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 19–22 Aug, £8.50 Murder Ballads Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £10

23:15 Stoned, Stupid and Stuck (A Californian Fairytale) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

22:40

Dissident Sausage theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–17 Aug, £7–£8

Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

O Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £10

22:45 ❤ Boar HHHH

Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £9–£11

22:50 The Bacchae Paradise in The Vault, 13–17 Aug, £9

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tEMPORARY sANITY PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–26 Aug, £11.50

21:15 ❤ Burgerz HHHH

23:20 Within Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 19–24 Aug, £10

23:25 Pussy in Boots: The Adult Panto theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £9

23:30 Hot Flush Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, £9–£10

23:50 Beauty is Pain Paradise in The Vault, 19–25 Aug, £8–£8.50

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How to Mend the World (With a Student Play) theSpace on the Mile, 19–24 Aug, £8

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (5+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 13–17 Aug, £10 Moon Dragon for 5 and Under (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE Window (0+) Paradise in Augustines, 13–17 Aug, £6 Microbodyssey (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 14–24 Aug, £9.50 Looking Down on Me (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 20–24 Aug, £7 Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 13–16 Aug, FREE

10:15 CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13 Aug, FREE

10:20 Sparkle (3+) Summerhall, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10

10:30 Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 19 Aug, 20 Aug, 22 Aug, 23 Aug, 24 Aug, £8

Flamenco for Kids (0+) C venues – C viva, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £9.50 Celeste’s Circus (0+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £8 I Believe In Unicorns by Michael Morpurgo (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 19, £8.50–£11 Little Top (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 13–17 Aug, £8 So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs...?! with Dr Ben Garrod (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–17 Aug, £9–£11 Moonbird (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £8.50–£10 Spec-tacular (3+) PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court, 13–18 Aug, £11.50 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (0+) C venues – C south, 13–17 Aug, £10.50–£12.50 Comète (5+) Assembly Checkpoint, 14–26 Aug, £9–£11 Children’s Silent Disco (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 13–26 Aug, £10 One Duck Down (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 20, £8–£10 Shark in the Park (3+) Assembly George Square, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, £10–£12

10:40

Romantic Romeo (5+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11

The Bubble Show (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 15–26 Aug, £10–£12

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

The Bubble Show (0+) Assembly George Square, 13 Aug, £10

Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £8

10:45 Hey Diddle Diddle (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–14 Aug, £8 Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 14–19 Aug, £10–£13

10:50 Doodle Pop (3+) Assembly George Square Studios, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £10–£11 Rocket Girl (5+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10

11:00 Rhyme Marmalade (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar, 13–25 Aug, FREE Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £14.50–£15.50 Tappuccino (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, £7.50–£8.50 Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 13–15 Aug, £8 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, Various dates from 16 Aug to 25 Aug, £7.50 Rave & Behave (5+) Pleasance Dome, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, 26 Aug, £11–£12 The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (5+) Assembly George Square Studios, 13–17 Aug, £10–£12

Mr. Men and Little Miss On Stage (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12 A Long Road Home (3+) Carrubbers, 13–17 Aug, £7

Moon Dragon Babies for Under 1s (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, FREE

11:10

Grumpy Pants (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Dream Machine (5+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–18 Aug, £10–£11

Africa Weird and Wonderful (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–23 Aug, FREE

Little Wings (5+) theSpace on North Bridge, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7.50

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 13–26 Aug, £8 Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret (0+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–15 Aug, £9 Games With James (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, FREE Sunshine (3+) Underbelly, Cowgate, 13–25 Aug, £9–£10 Ned and the Whale (3+) theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 14–18 Aug, £9 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 13–16 Aug, £5 Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £8 Treasure Island (5+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–18 Aug, £8.50–£9.50 The Bureau of Untold Stories (3+) Museum of Childhood, 13–18 Aug, FREE

11:05 Sina – The Girl Who Cast Her Shadow (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd, 14–23 Aug, FREE Red Riding Hood: The Panto (3+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8

11:15 Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble (0+) Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose , 13–26 Aug, not 14, £8.50–£9.50 CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free! (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 13–25 Aug, not 15, 20, 22, FREE Slime (0+) Pleasance Pop-Up: Central Library, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £7–£8 Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 13–17 Aug, FREE

11:20 Shakespeare for Kids: Fools and Bottoms (0+) C venues – C viva, 14–26 Aug, £7.50–£9.50 Dexter and Winter’s Detective Agency (5+) Roundabout @ Summerhall, 17 Aug, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £10 Don’t Mess with the Dummies (3+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50

11:25 Joyce (3+) Assembly Roxy, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12

11:30 Fantastic Magic Show for Kids (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £8.50–£10 The Greatest Magic Show (3+) Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £10–£12 Fox-tot! (0+) The Edinburgh Academy, 13–16 Aug, FREE Down with the Poetry King! (8+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–18 Aug, £8–£9 First Piano on the Moon: Will Pickvance (5+) Summerhall, 13–18 Aug, £12 Mustard Doesn’t Go with Girls (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 14–23 Aug, £9–£11 Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show (3+) Imagination Workshop, 13–18 Aug, £10

11:40 The Fablesmiths (5+) Greenside @ Infirmary Street, 13–17 Aug, £7

11:45 Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ Bar 50, 13–25 Aug, FREE Beetlemania: Kafka for Kids (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–25 Aug, not 14, £10–£12 VIKING (8+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–18 Aug, £10–£11

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11:50 Brave Macbeth (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £8.50–£10 When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (5+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma, 13–24 Aug, not 18, FREE Walter the Wanderer, Book Reading and Colour-Along (3+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe, 13–25 Aug, FREE

Children’s Underground Ghost Show (5+) City of Edinburgh Tours, 13–26 Aug, £8 Ogg ‘n’ Ugg ‘n’ Dogg (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £9–£10 The Maths Magic Show 2019 (8+) PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms, 13–25 Aug, FREE Shakespearience (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–26 Aug, £9.50–£10.50

11:55 Danny the Champion of the World (3+) theSpace @ Niddry St, 19–24 Aug, £8 The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 13–17 Aug, £11–£12

12:00 Chores (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–25 Aug, not 19, £8–£10 The Showstoppers’ Kids Show (3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £9.50–£11 Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf (3+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 15–18 Aug, £9 Mr Fibbers Presents: Back in Tune (8+) The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4, 13–18 Aug, £6 Little Baby Bum (0+) Assembly George Square, 13–18 Aug, £11.50–£13 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 13–16 Aug, £5 Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

12:10 I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–18 Aug, £11–£12.50 Girl Scouts vs Aliens (8+) Assembly George Square Studios, 14–26 Aug, not 20, £10–£12

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12:20 ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree, 13–17 Aug, FREE

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Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

13:00 Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show (5+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–15 Aug, £11.50 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE Splash Test Dummies (5+) Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, 13–24 Aug, not 19, £11.50–£12.50 Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+) Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18 Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 13–26 Aug, £12 Story Builders (5+) Lauriston Halls, 13–24 Aug, not 14, 15, 21, 22, £8 Bessy Bass Band’s Munchtime Music! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 17 Aug, 24 Aug, £10

13:05 Legend of Shadows (0+) C venues – C south, 18–26 Aug, £10.50–£12.50

13:15 The Happy Prince (0+) C venues – C aquila, 13–26 Aug, not 19, £10.50–£12.50 The Amazing Bubble Man (0+) Underbelly, George Square, 13–26 Aug, £11–£12 Science Magic: Play with Your Food (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

13:25 Switch Witchetty’s Almanac of Everything (5+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, not 18, £8–£9 The New and Improved I Hate Children Children’s Show (8+) theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 13–24 Aug, £11–£12

13:30

14:30

Heat Transfer Printing Workshop (12+) White Stuff, 17 Aug, £15

Sail Away! (0+) Stockbridge Church, 13 Aug, 15 Aug, 16 Aug, 17 Aug, £8

The Red Balloon (5+) Sweet Grassmarket, 22–25 Aug, £8

Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 16–18 Aug, £8

The Listies: Ickypedia (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £7.50–£10 Little Top (0+) Pleasance at EICC, 13–17 Aug, £8 Double Bubble Trouble (0+) Sweet Grassmarket, 13–18 Aug, £7 Feast of Fools (5+) Scottish Storytelling Centre, 15–18 Aug, £8 Children are Stinky (3+) Assembly George Square Gardens, 13–26 Aug, not 14, 21, £8–£10 Alice and the Little Prince (5+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £7–£9

Wriggle Around the World (0+) Stockbridge Church, Various dates from 18 Aug to 24 Aug, £8 Junior Jungle Rave (3+) Underbelly, Central Hall, 17 Aug, FREE Circus Sonas Family Show (0+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE Children’s Haunted Underground Experience (5+) Auld Reekie Tours Police Box, 13–26 Aug, £12 A Massaoke Night at the Musicals (All Ages) (3+) Edinburgh Corn Exchange, 17 Aug, £18

13:45 I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole! (8+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–26 Aug, £10–£12

13:50 Our Teacher’s a Troll! (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £6

14:00 Valentina’s Galaxy (3+) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building, 13–15 Aug, £8 Ned and the Whale (3+) theSpace @ Symposium Hall, 17–18 Aug, £9 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 13–16 Aug, £5 Huggers (3+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:00 Me and the Mask – Commedia dell’Arte (5+) Italian Cultural Institute, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, £8 Bicycle Boy (5+) Pleasance Dome, 16–18 Aug, FREE Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

(3+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £7–£9 Wind in the Willows (3+) Inveresk Lodge Garden, 17 Aug, £10 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 13–16 Aug, £5

15:05 The First King of England in a Dress (5+) theSpaceTriplex, 19–24 Aug, £11–£12

15:50 Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show (5+) Assembly Rooms, 13–24 Aug, £10–£11

16:00 Soundplay Dome (0+) City Art Centre, 13–16 Aug, £5

16:10 The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen (8+) The Stand’s New Town Theatre, 14–25 Aug, £9

16:30 Morgan & West: Unbelievable Science (5+) Assembly George Square, 13–25 Aug, not 21, £11.50–£12.50 Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show (3+) Gilded Balloon at the Museum, 14–25 Aug, £10.50 ComedySportz UK (8+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–17 Aug, FREE

17:00 Amazing Prize Family Bingo (5+) Lauriston Halls, 16–24 Aug, £4

17:30 The Dark Room (For Kids!) (12+) Gilded Balloon Teviot, 13–24 Aug, £10–£11

17:35 Comedy Club 4 Kids (5+) Assembly Roxy, 13–25 Aug, not 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, £10

Baby Loves Disco (0+) The Jam House, 18 Aug, 24 Aug, 25 Aug, £9

15:15

18:40

14:15

Wallace & Gromit’s Musical Marvels (3+) Pleasance at EICC, 15–16 Aug, £18

Alice in Wonderland (5+) Greenside @ Nicolson Square, 13–17 Aug, £8.50

Captain Jake and the Search for the Red Queen (0+) Pleasance Courtyard, 13–18 Aug, £7.50–£9.50

Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It (5+) Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters, 13–25 Aug, FREE

15:35 Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids (0+) Underbelly, Bristo Square, 13–18 Aug, £10–£11

Edinburgh Festival #3: Reuben Kaye

SHOW: VENUE: TIME: TICKETS:

Reuben Kaye Assembly Checkpoint 9:30pm – 10:40pm, 31 Jul – 25 Aug, not 7, 21 £13–£14

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What’s going on at the Fridge?

Now this may look like the fridge of a paranoid crack addict with tin foil over his head so the voices stop. But in fact it is the fridge of an international cabaret star and part-time hood ornament under the influence of prescription meds and delusions of grandeur. A man whose self esteem rests at a notch above Kafka’s. A man who’s ready for anything and yet... nothing at all.

I’d show you my freezer but the £3k a month rent I’m paying in my AirBnB doesn’t include a freezer. Or running water. I have resorted to showering in my reviews and the love of the people of Edinburgh. I wouldn’t say I’m clean but I’m happy.

You can donate non-perishables at my venue Assembly Checkpoint.

People with good cocaine and the ability to make French pastry please come to the front. As should anyone with the contact details of the Argentinian Men’s Water Polo Team.

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